this may seem extreme but i think the incredible levels of drm people put into ebooks warrants execution
“PLEASE only read this book through our broken proprietary windows and smartphone application OR our broken browser reader do NOT open your ebook wherever you want in whatever you want. Because of reasons”
Friendly reminder that if you are ever tempted to not wear your seatbelt because it is bothering you, there dozens of affordable seatbelt accessory’s that make them more comfortable and even correct the positioning to make them more effective.
This reminds me of the seatbelts are sexist discourse I saw going around a few years ago
…the what
Yeah the basic idea was that seatbelts are uncomfortable/don’t fit well on boobs and therefore are sexist and shouldn’t be worn.
It was absolutely stupid
Somebody even said seatbelts have caused injuries in crashes to include breast amputation; which is technically true but is also a classic example of survivorship bias.
This!!! We rolled once when I was a kid. Because it was a low speed roll, I was the only one injured and it was because of my seat belt. Bruises from hanging from the “ceiling” by the seat belt, and I banged up and cut my arm on the rear view mirror glass (it was so low energy roll the ONLY glass that broke was the mirror) from when I landed after unbuckling… and I will still wear my seat belt every single time I’m in a car.
Because if that had been a normal speed roll, not even higher speed, I’d have been the only SURVIVOUR. I’d probably have been fucked up by it being a lap belt, but I’d be alive.
WEAR YOUR FUCKING SEAT BELT!
(And also, when walking your dog on country roads at night, have lights and visibility vest for both you AND your fucking dog. My poor mom, with two kids in the car, swerved to miss the dog, saw the person, had to make the call on person, dog, or ditch, and instead of taking out the fucking MORON in the middle of the road, she slowed as much as she could in the time she had and took the ditch. To this day, I don’t know how she didn’t beat the man to death after… I’d have pounded him into the gravel if that had happened to me with The Kid in the car.)
I’ve been in a rollover where the car blew a tire going 90mph and rolled 6 TIMES.
The seatbelts, which both people were wearing, kept us inside the frame. The frame held.
With the seatbelt, all I got was bruises and scared. Without it, my skull would have been basically an egg in a blender.
i really wish the Matt Mullenweg Meltdown was easier to follow and explain because his public career suicide is extremely funny and i think i only understand about ¼th of it fully
have to note here that none of the CURRENT matt stuff has anything to do with his trans woman banning rampage earlier this year. it’s a completely new, separate thing. the people mad at him about this current thing are, as far as I can tell, completely unaware of his earlier behavior on Tumblr.
I haven’t had the time or energy to comment on the reddit threads where this stuff is being hashed out/Matt is being yelled at, but I think the WordPress and WP Engine people and all their interested clients should probably be informed about the shit he did on Tumblr this year. i don’t expect it would alter the trajectory of events in any way, I just think it would stir shit and be funny to add it into the mix 😀
the reason wizards aren’t into cryptography and shit anymore is because of tiktok & cocomelon. embedding your mystery teachings in a 5,000 word substack article renders it as inaccessible to the modern reader as an alchemical rebus written backwards and upside-down in aramaic. you only get into trouble if you can argue your heresies in under 240 characters, in which case they’re probably not even worth persecuting in the first place.
normalize my 12th grade English teacher, who admitted that his favorite TV show was Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and when a male student suggested that it was because Buffy/Sarah Michelle Gellar was hot, wrinkled his face like he’d bitten into something rotten and dead, and said, “At my age (he was 53), there is nothing less sexy than a teenager. You’re all disgusting messes.”
It was 1999, I was 17, and I’d grown up in conservative Christian schools and churches. In my life I’d heard heard dozens of sermons from male preachers and teachers and even some older students, whining about how hard it was to be a dude and not commit the sin of thinking sexual thoughts, and how they needed women to wear long skirts and cover their bodies to not objectify them
and my bitter, misanthropic, atheist Brit Lit teacher, who hated my class because he was obsessed with teaching Tom Sawyer but got stuck with Shakespeare and Jane Austen, was the first, and this day the last man I have ever heard articulate a rebuttal from the depths of his soul to the idea that it was normal for teenage girls to be desirable to middle aged men
RIP Henry Dickerson, who passed away last night. I tried explaining to him once that he was a tumblr legend, but I’m not sure it took.
Everyone talks about the wonderbread guy but nobody talks about how the wonderbread isn’t necessarily the fetish object - it’s supposed to symbolize like overcommodification or something. Like wonderbread is such a synthetic suburban concoction it implies wherever it is, that area has become gentrified and mown over by capitalism and this like caricature of commodification. That’s why all the other pics the dude commissions are women (typically white and blonde) chopping down forests and stuff. The fetish isn’t the bread. The fetish is this extreme caricature of earth and culture being consumed by the unstoppable force of like. Sterile Kroger marketability and commerce. That’s why the women are always BUYING the bread and not like, fucking it. Its not about the loaves people. It’s about Karen Bad End TF.
Thank you for the additional information!! And also this is so much more succinct than my rant
Everyone talks about the wonderbread guy but nobody talks about how the wonderbread isn’t necessarily the fetish object - it’s supposed to symbolize like overcommodification or something. Like wonderbread is such a synthetic suburban concoction it implies wherever it is, that area has become gentrified and mown over by capitalism and this like caricature of commodification. That’s why all the other pics the dude commissions are women (typically white and blonde) chopping down forests and stuff. The fetish isn’t the bread. The fetish is this extreme caricature of earth and culture being consumed by the unstoppable force of like. Sterile Kroger marketability and commerce. That’s why the women are always BUYING the bread and not like, fucking it. Its not about the loaves people. It’s about Karen Bad End TF.
Thank you for the additional information!! And also this is so much more succinct than my rant
Everyone talks about the wonderbread guy but nobody talks about how the wonderbread isn’t necessarily the fetish object - it’s supposed to symbolize like overcommodification or something. Like wonderbread is such a synthetic suburban concoction it implies wherever it is, that area has become gentrified and mown over by capitalism and this like caricature of commodification. That’s why all the other pics the dude commissions are women (typically white and blonde) chopping down forests and stuff. The fetish isn’t the bread. The fetish is this extreme caricature of earth and culture being consumed by the unstoppable force of like. Sterile Kroger marketability and commerce. That’s why the women are always BUYING the bread and not like, fucking it. Its not about the loaves people. It’s about Karen Bad End TF.
Thank you for the additional information!! And also this is so much more succinct than my rant
Everyone talks about the wonderbread guy but nobody talks about how the wonderbread isn’t necessarily the fetish object - it’s supposed to symbolize like overcommodification or something. Like wonderbread is such a synthetic suburban concoction it implies wherever it is, that area has become gentrified and mown over by capitalism and this like caricature of commodification. That’s why all the other pics the dude commissions are women (typically white and blonde) chopping down forests and stuff. The fetish isn’t the bread. The fetish is this extreme caricature of earth and culture being consumed by the unstoppable force of like. Sterile Kroger marketability and commerce. That’s why the women are always BUYING the bread and not like, fucking it. Its not about the loaves people. It’s about Karen Bad End TF.
Thank you for the additional information!! And also this is so much more succinct than my rant
Everyone talks about the wonderbread guy but nobody talks about how the wonderbread isn’t necessarily the fetish object - it’s supposed to symbolize like overcommodification or something. Like wonderbread is such a synthetic suburban concoction it implies wherever it is, that area has become gentrified and mown over by capitalism and this like caricature of commodification. That’s why all the other pics the dude commissions are women (typically white and blonde) chopping down forests and stuff. The fetish isn’t the bread. The fetish is this extreme caricature of earth and culture being consumed by the unstoppable force of like. Sterile Kroger marketability and commerce. That’s why the women are always BUYING the bread and not like, fucking it. Its not about the loaves people. It’s about Karen Bad End TF.
Thank you for the additional information!! And also this is so much more succinct than my rant
For even older recipes, check out Gode Cookery. They list medieval and Renaissance cooking instructions and translate the recipes for you into measurable amounts and all.
I have have have to mention Miss Leslie. I learned so much about cooking from that book, even if a lot of it is outdated.
Also, Forme of Cury is great fun, if you can muddle through the Middle English (Gode Cookery has translations and adaptions of some of the recipes from this).
When getting housing for a pet, please remember to get the homes of an adequate size. This is abuse
knights need at least a 5x5 enclosure in order to keep their stress levels manageable, and honestly that’s pushing it. 10x10 is a much more humane minimum, and you should allow them more if you can spare it, as knights enjoy “touring” around their enclosures and more space means a longer tour. if you don’t have the space a knight requires, consider adopting a bishop or a rook instead
I hate this because a chessboard is 8x8.
Chessboards are torture for knights!!
For those who are considering enrichments for their knights, here are some ideas you may consider if you:
Wish to add long roadtrips to your knight’s daily excercise
Need them to develop some muscle mass and increase their stamina
Want to introduce more knights to the herd
Or just feel like redecorating their standard size enclosure
bingewatching will never come close to bingereading. there is nothing like blocking out the entire Earth for ten hours to read a book in one sitting no food no water no shower no bra and emerging at the end with no idea what time it is or where you are, a dried-up prune that’s sensitive to light and loud noises because you’ve been in your room in the dark reading by the glow of a single LED. it’s like coming back after a three-month vacation in another dimension and now you have to go downstairs and make dinner. absolutely transcendental
A customer contacted our team with questions, and then finished their email with: “I am daunted by the complexities and unknowns.” I haven’t been able to stop thinking about it since.
Reblog if you are daunted by the complexities and unknowns
Hey, cis women who say “I wish I was a man but definitely not a trans way, haha! I would never be a man :)”
I say this with all the gentleness in my heart: It is okay for you to be a man. If you want to be a man, you can just be one. You also don’t have to stop being a woman to be a man. Multigender people exist. You can be a man and a woman at the same time. Or you can be just a man, or a non-binary man, or non-binary, or something entirely different. You can do and be whatever you want and whatever makes you happy.
Becoming a man is not a betrayal of womanhood and feminism. And everyone who makes you feel like it is an absolute asshole, and you should not ever listen to them. You do not have to push your own happiness aside for other peoples’ comfort.
If you want to be a man, try it out! See where it gets you. Maybe it turns out that you really weren’t trans, or not a trans man but something else entirely, and that’s fine, too. Maybe it turns out you are a trans man. In any case, following those thoughts might get you to a happier and better place in the end. And if you turn out to be happier as a man than you were as a woman, that is wonderful.
Please don’t feel forced to stay a cis woman for feminism - any feminism that mistreats or hates trans men and transmasculine people is bad feminism. Being a trans man or transmasc is not a moral failure.
Trans manhood and masculinity are wonderful, and you deserve happiness. And if you find that happiness in manhood/masculinity, you don’t deserve to be shamed or harassed for it, and you should not be made to feel the need to put yourself down for it, either.
Saying this because I used to be this “cis woman/girl” a few years ago, and felt exactly the same about myself. I did believe the “every woman feels like this! You’re not trans!” shtick for years, and forced myself to stay a girl and a woman because that was “the right thing to do” according to the “feminists” I was around.
I know what it feels like. It can get better.
All of this also goes for trans men and transmasculine people who still struggle with such thoughts, of course. It doesn’t just go away the second you realize you are trans.
What sparked this post, however, was a video I saw made by a cis woman lamenting that she was a woman and wishing she was a man but she couldn’t just be a man because she “wasn’t trans” and still liked being a woman, and a lot of other cis women in the comments agreeing. And I just feel so bad for them. If you feel miserable being a woman and wish you were something else, try this “something else” and see how it feels. See if you’ll be happier. Because sometimes, the grass is greener on the other side, and you don’t have to keep suffering in your own body or mind.
And being a trans man or transmasculine is not giving up, or taking the easy way out (fucking lol), and it doesn’t mean you are less of a feminist or that you will become an outsider to feminism. Your relationship with your life as a girl/woman and the misogyny you’ve experienced is yours alone. You are allowed to be a man in ways that cis men do not understand. You are allowed to have a relationship with misogyny and womanhood that cis women do not understand.
Hell, you can just decide one day that you are a man and change nothing about your life if you want to. The possibilities are endless. Transmasculinity is not a loss, a lessening, a closing of doors. It does not mean you are boring or traditionalist or falling in line with the status quo. It’s cool as fuck, actually, and takes a lot of bravery and determination.
Surround yourself with revolutionary transmasculine feminists; let yourself realize how many doors can open when you stop defining transmasculinity by everyone else’s metrics.
Some of y’all think you are doing a good thing politically when in reality you are just being mean.
Why did I get an ask saying that actually the “trans man music bad” joke is really important to calling out intercommunity bigotry or whatever. Like be honest with yourself. It doesn’t. You are just trying to find an excuse to be mean.
You are not some politically progressive freedom fighter. You are going to random trans men’s posts and telling them you think their art is worthless. You are just a classic high school bully.
alright this is a test, do not like this post. i see you hovering over that like button, don’t do it. i can see who likes this post as can everyone else who looks at the post, do not like it.
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