This is a stupid conversation! and I'm not going to continue it! literally so fucking correct

What I’m really proud of is the fact that he made SURE the audience understood why the caller was being an idiot. He made a PERFECT comparison, gave the caller an honest chance to re-evaluate and change his mind. His point landed, everyone knew it, even the caller (note his pause and almost hesitancy after being asked).

But when the caller decided to bulldoze on anyway, because god forbid actually listen to the other person in the conversation, the expert cut him off and refused his time. And good for him.

[VD: A tweet by @ g33kgurli, tweeted at 9:47 PM on Dec 17, 2021. It reads, "Perhaps the best clap back to antivaxxers and antimaskers." Attached is a video from The Thom Hartmann Program, where Hartmann is talking with a caller. The conversation goes as follows:

Caller: Hey Thom. Uh, I was listening to you for the last hour so, um, I heard survival of the fittest. Um, you know some of us choose not to vaccinate and uh--

Hartmann: You're nuts, Nicholas.

Caller: --because we work very hard about staying fit, eating healthy, and our natural immune system.

Hartmann: So Nicholas if you're so healthy, would you have unprotected sex with somebody who has syphilis or gonorrhea?

Caller: You're missing the point.

Hartmann: No, I'm not missing the point. They're contagious diseases. Would you have unprotected sex with somebody who has syphilis and gonorrhea and not worry about it because you're so healthy?

Caller: [pause] No, I wouldn't do that.

Hartmann: Okay, then why would you expose yourself to covid without having some protection?

Caller: Because the protection is my natural immunity.

Hartmann: No, it's not. Tell that--

Caller: Yes, yes, my natural immune system--

Hartmann: Tell that to eight hundred thousand dead Americans. Nicholas, this is- this is a stupid conversation and I'm not going to continue it.

/end VD]

Everyone who’s ever died of a disease had an immune system

Knitted Shirt

1650s-1690s

Norway

Nasjonalmuseet

I couldn't find that exact piece in the collection, but I'll chalk that up to my not speaking Norwegian and my browser starting to freeze when I tried to set the time period to only the 17th century.

I did, however, find this other piece by searching for anything they had made of silk.

After dropping the "Materials and techniques" into a translator: "Hand-knitted from silk thread in pattern knitting, hand-embroidered with metal and silk thread, partly in relief over hand-woven woolen fabric sewn down with linen thread, metal sequins, hand-sewn, tied in silk floss on the wrong side"

So that's still pretty awesome. Plus, on the museum's page, you can zoom in pretty close and soak up the detail.

I HAVE LESS THAN 24HRS TO PAY MY OVERDUE RENT AND I'M STRUGGLING!!

**PLEASE READ/SIGNAL BOOST**

Tuesday, April 30th: Hello everyone, I’m Gemma, a bi, mentally ill, and disabled woman in desperate need of help, as I'm struggling to pay my overdue rent of £218.76

As most of you are already aware from my previous posts, I have been struggling financially these past few years due to COVID-19 and my welfare benefit (Universal Credit) being under continuous reviews, which is due to my worsening mental/physical health and the UK’s controversial changes to how benefits are assessed and assigned. After a lengthy health assessment, I was declared unfit for work and received the basic ADP, which I won't receive until the end of the month, but will most likely be taken by my rent arrears.

To be quite honest, these past few months have been absolute hell for me, and with no other income, I've been relying on the kindness of others to get by. However, due to my outstanding debt, a majority of the welfare I received last month went to paying my rent and bills. I paid off what I thought was my remaining rent balance, only to receive a letter over the weekend, stating that I still had unpaid arrears.

My goal is £219. However, if anyone could spare any amount to help me, even if it’s just £1/$1/€1, it would save my life, and sharing definitely helps just as much.

Thank you so much for all your help!! ❤

£0/£219!!

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From the book Organizing Solutions for People with ADHD:

Reblog and say what project you currently have spread on your dinner table in the tags

just wanted to post about the books unbanned initiative — it allows teens/college students to get library cards in the following cities:

brooklyn public library, seattle public library, boston public library and la county library all use libby, whereas the san diego public library uses cloud library.

there's also the queer liberation library, which is a free digital library you can sign up for here. anyone with a US mailing address can apply for this one, and there's no age limit!

hell yeah 🌈 📚

Apparently there was some kind of race scheduled at a local park or something so I've been trying to avoid the main trail but a little while ago when I had to cross near it I overheard the following shouted exchange

And goddamn if that didn't rewire my brain a little bit.

Last place is still a place, baby.

I know of a trail racing company that gives the slowest racer who finishes every race a DFL award: Dead Fucking Last. I was a little taken aback by this until I had it explained to me that those last-place finishers are pretty much uniformly people for whom finishing at all was an accomplishment: people undergoing cancer treatments, absolute beginners, runners in their eighties, extremely pregnant people, you get the idea. Moreover, what you see as this person crosses the finish line is all these sporty trail racers, many of whom finished the race literal hours earlier, cheering their hearts out because they respect that, yes, DFL is still a place, baby.

a lot of races that these kinds of people run are some type of marathon, and those races are literally longer than almost any other mammal on earth can run, and the point isn't to finish first, the point is to feel like you've go so little left to in you that you have to accept failure and then not give up.

seriously, in Wales they have a horses vs humans race, and the standard length of a human marathon is a little more than 26 miles but the human vs horse marathon is only 22 miles because they had to shorten it to make it fair for the horses

and some years a human wins anyway. Because we are either the best or the second best long distance runner of all the mammals. Possibly of all animals that have ever existed. Wolves are a close second, and certain sled dog breeds are the only ones that can do better than humans.

So first of all, it's crazy that anyone is making that run in the fist place. And second of all, first place isn't what's important. FINISHING is what makes you mighty. I've never met a single distance runner who would disagree.

"I cant draw" then do it bad who gives a fuck.....

Partake in the joy of creation just for the fun of it. Just for a laff.

Me @everyone in the notes

a blue jay taking a bath 🛁 | source

it's so nuts these guys are real like LOOK it's a BLUE (appearing) BIRD. All over vivid blue look with white and black accents.

I took my nephew and niece to their first event when they were… five and seven? They each picked out a heavy and a rapier fighter to cheer on (we made favors for them to give as part of the Plan to Keep Little Kids Entertained™). They interpreted this to mean that they were to LOOK AFTER these fighters and spent the remainder of the day taking them water and sharing goldfish crackers with them.

You don’t know happiness until you see a little kid hand a Knight an Uncrustable and have him devour it gratefully.

#congrats your children reinvented squires (via @roach-works​)

I have no idea what an Uncrustable is but it sounds suspiciously magical and along the lines of Incorruptible and I hope the knights are more grateful than shocked when they begin to realise they’re no longer ageing

Uncrustable

Okay now that sounds like a superhero team

Uncrustable is just if you are friends with hippies and don’t end up owning at least 1 pair of harem pants

I am both an hyppie and immune to harem pants because I can’t stand elasticated ankles, so I’m not sure where that puts me on the spectrum - perhaps I’m crustablequeer

Also now I picture a disappointed child turning to a knight who has behaved in a manner unbecoming to the code and refusing them treats, murmuring “sirrah, you have proved yourself uncrustworthy”

Finally watched the Addams Family Values recently! and honestly. my main takeaway is

Debbie slays. And Joan Cusack is a QUEEN

Joan Cusack has never appeared in a film that she did not steal.

And as for Debbie, I will always repost my stance on her end.

they would have been such good friends

Cat Pins // Glitter Punk

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Trump Sets Himself Up For Election Denialism 2.0 In Wisconsin This Fall

I’m going to keep saying this until someone in the press does, and people who can do something about it start taking it seriously: Trump is not running a campaign to convince voters he’s their guy. Trump is laying the groundwork to use violence and corruption to stage another coup.

Don’t listen to what he says. Watch what he does.

I am trying to figure out options if I have to jump ship on a job, and I think this might be the niche thing I can offer on the platform!

Some of my past knit amigurumi:

Whatchya think, would you join me to puzzle out some shapes with yarn and entirely too many knitting needles? We could do some gamer related type knits?

I was thinking that the chargers from Hell Divers 2 look like they might be knitable 🤔

Ok, so the job thing went up in flames. Like, sneak all my shit out of the office on Friday and send a resignation email during the weekend bad.

I guess I need to work out some details, like how OBS works, and actually moving my good computer to my desk instead of the literal dumpster computer, and a schedule...

I do have thoughts on what to make! Thinking Chargers from HellDivers II, the companion plushies from Hades, mayhaps Demon Cleric from Dark Souls, I think it would be cool to do something from From Software.

SOMEONE HYPE ME UP

@bunjywunjy brought up this Lugia I made for my now partner like... Guh, like 10 years ago!

😬 I have come so far.... So many structural issues...

Rewatched DnD Honor Among Thieves and god I'm so obsessed with whatever the hell these two had going on

Somebody tell these fucking warblers to stay still!!! 

i agree but i swear to GOD i thought this was going to be a mario joke