5k notes and I’ll stop putting off cleaning my room.
Alright! 7k notes and I’ll fight my doctors, put in genuine effort to improve my life and mental health and take care of myself instead of trying to ignore being ill
5k notes and I’ll stop putting off cleaning my room.
Alright! 7k notes and I’ll fight my doctors, put in genuine effort to improve my life and mental health and take care of myself instead of trying to ignore being ill
If you’re on Windows 11 like I am for my “main” computer (in my case for school purposes and because I can’t get Baldur’s Gate 3 to play on Linux), then you might’ve seen this annoying piece of AI shit show up on your taskbar:
This is Windows Copilot, and it’s fulled by the same shit ChatGPT is fuelled by. There is currently no way to uninstall it, but there is a way to deactivate it completely, which I’ve linked below. It’s very easy, and it took me like, 2 minutes to do.
My ancestors, watching me dump an entire stick of cinnamon, two cloves, an allspice berry, and a generous grating of nutmeg into my tea, sweetened with white sugar and loaded with cream, while I sit in my clean warm house surrounded by books, 25+ outfits for different occasions, and 6 pairs of shoes, in a building heated so well I have the windows open in mid-autumn:
Our daughter prospers. We are proud of her. She has never labored in a field but knows riches we could not have imagined.
I like this so much better than the idea that our ancestors would be embarrassed or ashamed of us for being “soft” or some crap like that.
My ancestors, watching me stuff my face with fried chicken while studying: She eats like an imperial concubine and can afford to study like am imperial scholar. WE MADE IT
She eats like an imperial concubine and can afford to study like am imperial scholar
My ancestors watching me use my stand mixer while living in a small apartment and attending university: Thou hast kneadeth bread in FOUR hail marys??? FOUR??? And thou ist poor as a churchmouse, yet liveth in a fine cottage with four pounds butter and fresh berries in thy larder!! And two featherbeds! And thou attendeth the King’s college, as a lord!!
My ancestors being like:
Look at this fine young lady! She can paint she can sew and embrody, she sings and read
And without a wealthy father to pay for that, plus she is florid in the body! She doesn’t know hunger!
We did it!
Me: /wearily studying/
My Ancestors: TRULY SH— what? They? A little unorthodox, but reasonable I suppose. TRULY THEY PROSPER, FOR THEY LIVE IN A DWELLING WITH MANY ROOMS AND ONLY THEIR SPOUSE TO SHARE IT WITH! THEY HAVE DOGS WHO DO NOT PERFORM A FUNCTION! THEY HAVE MANY BOOKS AND DO NOT HAVE TO SPIN THEIR OWN YARN! THEY BATHE AT A WHIM WITH GENTLE SOAP FREE OF LYE! OUR DESCENDANT BRINGS HONOR AND PRIDE TO OUR LINEAGE!
Me: /yawns and sips my coffee/
My Ancestors: /cheer wildly/
Me: *hunched over at my desk nursing a headache.*
My Ancestors: “Truly, we prosper; see here, our infirm descendant need not even work on her poor days, but has the luxury to rest as she sees need! A doctor attends to her illnesses; her clothes are warm and free of pests; she cares for exotic and dangerous animals within her own home! We have found the height of luxury!”
Me: *treats myself to a pineapple and a bunch of bananas*
My Georgian ancestors: ZOOTH SHE HAS BOUGHT A PINEAPPLE! NOT MERELY BORROWED ONE! TRULY SHE HAS ACHIEVED FAR MORE THAN WE COULD KNOW!
me: [puts on warm socks and a blanket, is now warm regardless of the weather outside]
My impoverished Russian Jewish ancestors:
Me:[learns to knit from youtube videos]
My ancestors: Our descendant, the heir to all our hopes and fears for a far-off future… She can buy fine clothes woven and knit by automatons, with but a fraction of a day’s earnings… and she does… she has so much free time to do as she pleases… and she uses some of that time to do what we did.
One woman from rural Poland, who died from smallpox in 1717 CE, a grandmother at 35: I knit roses and peonies into my and my children’s gloves… it wasn’t much extra work to dye the red, once I had already cleaned the wool and spun the yarn, and to knit in the designs… and I wasn’t a gifted knitter but I was a good knitter, and I thought, well, it might not make a difference to how warm the glove is, but it made the children happy and it made me happy. I liked to make things beautiful when I could.
Another woman, a peasant from what’s now France, who died from getting kicked by a mammoth in 8995 BCE:[Patting her on the back] I made my family’s clothes too. Every day my sister and I wove and wove and tended our children. We went out of our way to make the cloth lovely. Not a trace of it remains anywhere on earth now… But it mattered to us. And she might not know our names, or know it was us, but evidently, it matters to her too. She has so much beauty available to her, in every direction, and she wants to make it where we once made it.
[everyone sobbing and high-fiving each other.]
A man from Britain, 1104 CE, sitting at the trans-temporal telescope, reporting on my doings: She’s stopped knitting and now she’s playing minecraft.
The other ancestors: Ah, yes, the dream of building. We know this one well. What vision doth she design now?
Telescope man: Looks like… Some kind of floating temple?
Everyone: [Goes completely apeshit]
Me: studying Marine Biology, out in the middle of the Elkhorn slough absolutely fucking covered in the most foul-smelling mud and swamp scum you can imagine, deliriously happy as I spot a tell-tale bubbling in the mud. I jump off the small dock and drive my entire arm into the mud like a Mortal Kombat Character ripping someone’s heart out of their chest, and pull out a 4lb, two-foot long Geoduck Clam and hold it aloft, triumphant.
My Homminid ancestors, who were doing exactly this with much smaller clams 900,000 years ago: *going absolutely literally apeshit over my flawless technique and the marvelous size of my quarry*CLAM! CLAM! CLAM! CLAM! CLAM! CLAM! CLAM! WHOOOOOOOOO!!!!
I owe a lot to that vanished group. Were you in it? I miss you. Made this short comic for Dirty Diamonds #4- breakups. If you missed it at MICE and SPX this year, it’ll be at Asbury Park Comic Con in 2014, and fingers crossed for TCAF.
this comic is ten years old!!!! The obfuscated forum was a matrix fanfic/RP guild on neopets around 2000-2001 . I’ve never been able to find any of the people in it, but I still think a lot about the slightly older mod who ran it and the folks I bumped into in fandom spaces who helped me figure out how to survive online; I owe a lot to them.
you just kind of seem that way, idk how to explain. it used to be that your posts would just kind of fill me with general dread, but that doesn't happen anymore. it's fine to be a bit scary, don't worry.
This is not a war; what Israel is doing to Palestine is genocide. Do not sit idly by and do not stay quiet. Now more than ever is the most important time to not look away.
In the early 70s Sesame Street was created with an eye towards educating poor, inner-city children for free, and became a massive hit with all children. In 2016, faced with going off the air forever after facing conservative efforts to destroy public broadcasting since basically its beginning, new episodes became a timed exclusive for premium cable network HBO. In 2022 HBO Max, newly merged with and taken over by reality TV channel Discovery, removed Sesame Street episodes and spin-offs from streaming as a tax write-off and scheme to avoid paying residuals.
Sesame Street’s official YouTube channel is uploading the episodes for free, btw. A lot of creators are rebelling against this bullshit.
As always, America, PBS has you and your kids’ backs.
I also want to put in a plug for the American Archive of Public Broadcasting, spearheaded by GBH in Boston to preserve and make available public funded programming from around the country. More than 7000 public television and radio programs are available to stream through the website, with more than 40000 hours of programming archived and available to researchers and educators through the Library of Congress and GBH itself.
I never really thought about this before but “suffer in silence” is a Christian thing? It’s supposed to be a virtue and you’re generally criticized for complaining. Even the Pope called complainers “whiners,” and said we should suffer in silent endurance (in a homily on May 7th, 2013).
I grew up soaking in that attitude, and I know I’ve internalized it a great deal. I’m working on recognizing it, but I still catch myself thinking that way all too often.
I’m reading Why Be Jewish? by Edgar Bronfman, and he takes a different view. Complaint is a Jewish pastime, he says, with biblical roots, and he points out that it’s both natural and necessary: “…complaint arises from a sense of deep dissatisfaction. Without complaint, there is no criticism, there is no vision of the way things can be. Complaint is the beginning of the vision of a better world. It rejects complacency and it rejects the status quo.”
It occurs to me that the social enforcement of “suffering in silence” serves the ends of capitalism quite effectively. I’m going to make a point to complain a little more and a little louder in the service of change.
When Firefox adblocks and VPNs work, maybe. Until then I’d rather use Explorer than shitty firefox.
What do you have against Firefox??
It doesn’t work. Every Firefox VPN is shitty and allows sites to not let you in if active, adblocks fall and don’t work. Not even talking about how user unfriendly Firefox is.
Adblock being blocked or not working?
I don’t know, for me it’s totally fine, but I guess you probably have different use cases so you notice problems I don’t.
Also I do notice some problems and bugs with the browser itself, only little things really, so they aren’t a deal-breaker but they are there.
On the user friendliness side, Mozilla has made some decisions I do in fact disapprove of, but it’s nothing major or a deal-breaker.
(I use Firefox and uBlock Origin with pretty much every blocklist enabled. I also don’t use browser level VPNs.)
just to be completely clear, the amount of military power and political influence Israel has has NOTHING to do with its settlers being Jewish. Israel is a force for American & European interests in the region and they’re just doing what America does and allows/encourages its close allies to do.
war crimes aren’t considered war crimes when someone America finds useful is doing them. european and american pushback against anyone criticizing Israeli apartheid & genocide is 100% because these crimes are useful to American & European hegemony.
Governments that are deeply antisemitic, like France, aren’t suddenly caring about Jewish people. Jewish people, persecuted the world over, don’t hold some kind of hegemonic power outside of Israel.
The state of Israel and its attendant brutal treatment of the locals are both incredibly useful to the US, and American hegemony means we’re expected to celebrate both.
not bc they’re Jewish. this isn’t a break in the pattern of western antisemitism and it’s not evidence that antisemitism doesn’t exist.
it’s just like how you could get fired for saying shit against the US war in Afghanistan when i was growing up. it is 100% about US military and political interests (ok slightly western europe too but lbr)
It was never about Jews to begin with. I said it before and I say it again:
Prior to the Holocaust, Hitler “offered” Germany’s Jews to Western powers. It was a scam offer, of course; he knew too well nobody would accept approximately 400 000 refugees (which is the estimated count of German Jews in ca 1936). When the West refused, Hitler twisted it into “nobody wants the Jews” rhetorics and used it to justify the horrors of the Holocaust.
Fast forward a decade ahead. It’s 1946/47. The ashes of the War are setting in and the West struggles with the population explosion due to millions of Jewish refugees who fled the Nazi terror. Instead of proper war reparation and returning the refugees to their homes if possible, the West heed Hitler’s “nobody wants the Jews” motto and follows the Medieval Europe trend of ghettos. So, they create a giant ghetto in Britain occupied Palestine and force the Holocaust survivors and their own Jewish populations there. Note that it’s not a land back project, because 99% (if not all) of these survivors are Ashkenazi Jews who have no ties to Palestine. Creation of “Israel” is literally a nod to the justifications of the Holocaust.
Now, fast forward to modern zionism. I will not talk about the fact that zionism per se is against the Torah, you can find the video of a rabbi explaining it on my blog. Modern zionism
1) equates “Israel” to Jews and vice versa, erasing the complete history of Ashkenazis and other non-Palestinian Jewish diasporas,
2) furthermore, by equating “Israel” to Jews, it claims that Jews are these genocidal maniacs. Saying “‘Israel’ = Jews” is saying “it’s Jews who are currently dropping white phosphorus on babies” which is no different from medieval “Jews caused the plague/cholera/typhoid epidemic by poisoning your wells”. “Israel” is literally reviving medieval antisemitic tropes.
3) “Israel” is actively silencing the antizionist Jews. Zionism silences Jewish voices to spread it’s one-sided bullshit view. If you don’t see how antisemitic it is, you’re blind.
4) The last weeks gave us Netenyahu and other zionists compare Palestinians to “animals”, calling for the utter extermination of Gaza and cheering on children being literally torn apart by the bombs. Zionists at this point are literally copying the behaviour of Nazi Germany in 1940s. I don’t have to explain to you how antisemitic it is unless you’re a total fuckwit.
Zionism and “Israeli” Nazis are antisemites and if you care about the Jews, you support Palestine and combat the Nazi scum.
I think the only person I’ve met in real life with 100% career satisfaction was this gal I knew who was a presenter at a children’s science museum and delivered every line like she was running a WWE match. Every time you passed the room where she was giving a presentation, you’d hear something like “WHO’S READY FOR CEPHALOPODS?!?” and the kids would go absolutely nuts cheering.
I just let my cat sniff a saltine cracker and she bit off the corner and ate it???
This is a cat who won’t even eat CAT TREATS because she finds them too suspicious. Eating a cracker???? What could a cat possibly enjoy about a saltine cracker
They say all cats are autistic but yours is the most autistic I think
I wonder how much of the movie theater for FNAF is going to be clueless parents/guardians taking their horror-obsessed kids to go see it. Good thing I’ve gotten the lore explained to me 68385 times by my sister so I’m better than all of them. There is a purble guy.
For the record, this is not just shitty for anyone who needs wheels to get around.
This would be HELL for my cane.
I don’t use forearm crutches, but I suspect it would also be hell for that type of mobility device.
Same for walkers.
Same for anyone with limited vision.
Almost every single instance of hostile architecture meant to gentrify a place or keep out “undesirables” ends up hurting disabled folks too.
And that’s intentional. Because disabled folks absolutely fall under the “needs extra time/care”, unless the companies can get away with it
Wtf is the problem with skateboards to begin with
Skateboards let people have fun outside without spending money (except occasionally on upgrading the board). Oh, and some people just hate teens congregating for any reason.
Adults complain that “kids never go outside nowadays”, meanwhile the reason is because adults would harass them whenever they do.
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Hey so this post is actually extremely inaccurate.
Thanks to a follower of mine pointing it out it was discovered/shown that those latticeworks are actually for water retention placed in key parts of the park, Scissortail Park in Oklahoma City. They are not meant as walkways and as can be shown in the above picture there are clearly accessible pathways which are the actual paths.
While hostile architecture is always very much a thing to be on the lookout for, sadly sometimes we just gotta remember the ancient texts:
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Reblogging because I’m fairly certain I blogged this previously and the new info ABSOLUTELY needs to be shared! We really need MORE architecture like this in concrete jungles to help allow water to return to the ground instead of into the sewer system.
The utter relief when you see something inaccurate and you’re scrolling going no…no! And then just when you’re about to have to resign yourself to writing a response or pretending you never saw this you see it’s already been handled.
I love that the internet saw people comparing women and other alienated groups of people and went, “they’re dating,” and, “they support each other.” We’re improving as a society.
Does anyone know who these artists are?? They’re brilliant and I’d like to credit them!!
THIS IS HOW TO TAKE A TRASH OPINION COMIC AND MAKE IT BETTER. THANK YOU.
The best genre to ever have existed
These improved my day
GAY RIGHTS
these are the only things in the world i find worth crying for becayse it’s so fcking cute and wholesome wtf
I WOULD LIKE TO ANNOUNCE THAT THE OG ARTIST GREW OUT OF THEIR I’M NOT LIKE OTHER GIRLS PHASE
AND NOW THE GIRLS ARE CANON
The “guys I respect” artist also came out as non-binary, generally got more accepting. It’s growth.
I think more creators should openly tell their fans to fuck off and stop being weird
We can’t. If you seem a bit mean to someone then somebody lies that you’re a pedophile in a callout post and you start getting death threats everywhere.
dude, this happens anyway. you might as well tell people to fuck off while you’re at it
Part of the issue is that it’s not just callout posts, though.
Ages ago now, I had someone ask me a question about a character death, and the only accurate answer I could come up with was stolen from Stephen King–“I didn’t kill her. She just died.” This had the benefit of being 100% true! I didn’t kill that character out of malice or to be hurtful. The story, which had me so tightly by the time she died, told me she died, and so I dutifully wrote it down.
The person I answered did not like this. And after calling me a flippant cunt whore and various other nasty things which hurt my feelings but did no damage, went around one-starring all my books, claiming that they contained things they didn’t.
This hurt my overall ranking, and may very well have cost me readers. And that was one person, who decided I was being disrespectful, not even mean!
Quite frankly, neither my career nor my constitution can handle the consequences of being sincerely mean.
This.
And—I’m just going to whisper it—if you’re a female writer and you dare speak your mind too loudly, the blowback is twice (or three times, or ten times) what you’d get if you were male. The inevitably gender-linked descriptor “meltdown” comes to mind.
So forgive us for mostly staying as publicly courteous as we can, and only sharing what we’re actually thinking with those already committed to causing us no more difficulty than we already deal with on a day-to-day basis.
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