proof that apple’s aesthetics fucking suck can be found in the fact that airpods look like crappy little white sticks and not like turn of the century anime robot girl ears
I’ve been expecting some packages to arrive today and the sun is going down, but UPS still says they’ll arrive today. The current status is they’ll arrive by 9 pm.
And right now, I’m all “Dear sweet, beautiful, wonderful, amazing, lovable, precious UPS driver. Don’t do this to yourself. Babygirl, I can wait till tomorrow.”
The packages finally arrived about ten minutes ago. It’s pitch black right now and I had to walk a ways to actually pick them up. I got them armed with only a flashlight and hoping that there weren’t any deer in my yard.
And the packages are electronic components. I can’t leave those out over night. They might get damaged by the morning dew.
Anyway, I really wish UPS would have just delayed the delivery to tomorrow instead of making someone have to drive around here at night. They’re going to have to come back tomorrow anyway because of another package.
Another package just arrived from UPS and was sent from the same shipping depot as the ones from yesterday. It’s not even 3pm here. The UPS driver from yesterday should have been allowed to to end their shift early and just deliver everything today instead.
I hate how people will look at popular indie artists who had one or two songs go viral on TikTok and start making fun of anybody who listens to them. “Oh you listen to Lemon Demon, Will Wood, Jack Stauber, Glass Animals, and Mother Mother? Tsk, don’t you know that is stupid TikTok neurodivergent white transmasc preteen music? It’s so mid and bad you should listen to real music–” you are a pit of misery
People can’t just say “I don’t like this music” anymore they gotta call you gay and autistic for listening to a band that had one song go viral
Because I feel like kids of color don’t hear it enough: domestic abuse is not a part of your culture.
A lot of us were raised with the idea that “its normal for wives/children to get hit! it helps them learn– only white folk don’t get beaten when they misbehave”. That’s not true, white people aren’t the only ones who deserve a safe and abuse free environment. Black and brown people can and do have loving families.
If you’re in a situation where you are enduring abuse and people use your culture to justify it, I want you to know that what they’re telling you are lies.
The idea that nonwhite cultures are somehow based on abuse is so prevalent that my mandatory reporting abuse seminar had an entire section in it about how this is bullshit and we shouldn’t ignore abused indigenous kids.
His name was Charles Hatfield and I’m not saying that you shouldn’t make a deal with him, but I am saying that you should be very clear about the terms and conditions
I think we need to fully appreciate the fact that the reason he “looks like the Devil” is that many depictions of the Devil in American popular media are specifically caricatures of this guy. Like, imagine being a con man and fucking up your hustle so badly that for more than a century afterwards people start drawing the Devil to look like you.
Quarantine was a bad time for everybody, so far be it from me to imply I had it worse than anybody else. But man.
I was 3 years into college…. and I could tell it wasn’t working. Grades were getting worse, assignments were late, internship opportunities were looking dire. I was all set to become a failure. I was gonna flunk out, and unless I found a job, my dad was eventually gonna kick me out onto the street. But I got lucky. Quarantine hit. The world went on pause. I had an excuse. I had time. I could find a solution, and work my ass off to push it through.
I started streaming full time almost immediately when quarantine went into effect. Mostly out of desperation. If I couldn’t make this work. If I couldn’t take advantage of the meager audience I’d amassed by spending my entire teen years shitposting… I didn’t have a plan C. So there I was, for four years. In that room. As much as I could, as much as my health would allow, I’d be streaming. That tiny room, not even 80 square feet, with a single, tiny window. That was my entire world for those four years.
After a year and a half, it felt like I’d made it. I was making money. I was saving money. Deciding to stick with streaming, I formally quit college, and started looking for my own place….. It took me almost two years find one. The housing market was in the shitter. There were few addresses available, and prices were high. And nobody was interested in renting an apartment to some nobody with no degree and almost no provable work history. The only thing I could do was keep trying. Keep working. My income was all there: I was registered with the chamber of commerce so I was legally a self-owned company. I had a stable income. I just needed more time to prove it. It had to go through the system. It had to look stable. I had to look reliable.
Those last two years, I felt so hopeless, all the time. I had no idea when I would finally get lucky and find a place to live. No idea when I’d finally be able to be someone. No idea when I would finally get away from my dad, who I was fighting with more and more. Every time I went to a place for an interview but didn’t hear back afterward, I felt crushed. Every time I would get depressed and become sick. As long as I was living with my dad, I didn’t have any future to look forward to. Four birthdays had passed since quarantine started. My body was growing older, but I wasn’t moving forward. It seemed endless.
That tiny room was all that existed. I had the feeling I would die there. It was my coffin.
It’s been six months now, since I moved out. I’m very happy with my apartment. It’s pretty large. At least five or six times larger than that room I spent those years in. I have a large bed. I have a large corner where I work. Work is going pretty well. I’m going out more. I’m trying to find out who I am. My therapist says I’m doing very well.
Cavemen didn’t have clocks yet, so it was a mystery to them why the sun suddenly started setting and rising an hour later or earlier when daylight savings changed over. Now we know.
the most important way to achieve gender liberation is to do what people have already been doing for thousands of years without pause /s
you can’t call something “true gender liberation” and make it this fucking lame
While this statement does seem a bit pointless out of context. Let’s not forget that part where it says ‘the queer community’.
This is clearly a statement against misandry within the queer community which according to many, does happen.
Of course society at large sees masculinity as said there, but this is not about the whole of society, this is about the queer community and all the dumb infighting within it.
Sometimes as a European you play an American game and even though you speak fluent English and culturally there’s not too much different you can Tell you’re missing some kind of cultural context
I had no fucking clue what a mormon was when I played the New Vegas DLCs
This post is not an invitation for you all to explain mormonism to me I am fine not knowing about this
I can’t put this in tags like a normal person because apparently Tumblr no longer lets you do long tags which is dumb and I hate it but ok. Long time ago when I was but a wee 14 years old kid living in a sleepy town in Northern Ukraine, one day my bestie told me: hey, have you heard about this new English speaking club at the city library? They say it’s run by two guys that came here on a mission all the way from America. And I was like: what mission? And she told me they were supposed to be Mormons. I didn’t believe her. I was convinced she was fucking with me because at the time I didn’t think that Mormons were real. I honestly thought they were fictional and only existed as a gag in South Park. And then a couple of days later those two missioners actually showed up to our English class to promote their little conversion club. Those poor men stood in front of a bunch of 14 years old and told us they were Mormon and several of my classmates said: wait, Mormon? Like in South Park?, and from their pained expressions you could clearly tell that it wasn’t the first time they had been asked that here.
there’s a post on tumblr about like. if you could do something to bring people a little relief, why wouldn’t you do it? which has unironically informed my practice as a nursing student and patient care tech
i’m glad no one made any unpleasant comments on this post that might distract from the message because that would really suck
You should only write in present tense with extreme caution.
not because it’s bad or anything but because if you do it even once you’re going to be editing the bits where you shifted tenses out of your writing for the rest of your life
if u write in present tense enough times in a row, you can switch this problem around & get confused when your present-tense narrator is talking abt something that happened in Their past. I recommend this bc it keeps u on ur toes
Posting faggot and queer like 2am gunshots to keep property values on my blog low and scare away assimilationist LGBTs who want to replace my empty lot full of native wildflowers with a 5-over-1 because they’re too traumatized by their upbringing to accept the reality of our diverse marginalized community
The dykes and trannies in the notes have informed me they would like to be included in this commentary on the homogenizing forces of gentrification within the queer community as represented by language discourse around “slur” reclamation
Dudes shouldn’t have to prove themselves by having spartan greyscale homes with dollar store rubber shower curtains and a mattress on the floor. Do you know what life is like with linen
Being a dude raised with a certain level of socially enforced traditional femininity has imbued my ass with great wisdom and powers
Sleeping naked is fine but pajamas protect your sheets better from your body’s natural sweat and oil and dead skin and junk so if you wear clean jimjams to bed your skin won’t break out as bad and your sheets will stay cleaner longer
On the topic of sheets, dirty bedsheets don’t ventilate as well as clean bedsheets so washing them regularly (once every 1-2 weeks) will keep you warmer in the cold season and cooler in the hot season
If you can get your hands on linen sheets- new, second-hand, pass-down, whatever- they’re incredibly sturdy, get softer and softer over time, and will last longer than your lifetime. They also wick sweat so you don’t wake up wet if you’re a night-sweat guy and are, again, pretty great for your skin
Getting a proper bedframe extends the life of your mattress, will keep you warm in the winter and cool in the summer, offers additional storage space, and is easier on your back.
A boxspring under your mattress will make it softer, too
You can get mattress protectors that zip over your mattress to keep it clean and bedbug-resistant, too
Your entire house will feel bougie and cozier if it smells good. Consider a reed infuser, or a plug-in wax melt. Trust me on this it turns a shitty studio apartment into a 4/5 hotel
Stick some plants around. If you can’t sustain them, get fake ones. New ones are kind of expensive at home decor places but dollar stores and thrift shops have some pretty decent options usually. The human brain responds well to seeing plants around, you get depressed without plants. Stick one in your bathroom for that ritzy feel
I know you’re tempted to go all black but dark colours will make your spaces feel smaller and bleak. Again, try thrifting a shower curtain in an interesting pattern, it brightens shit up
Wash your face. You don’t have to do anything crazy you can just scrub some water on with your hands if you want but it feels really really good.
Keep DIFFERENT SHOWER SCRUBERS for your FACE and your ASS this one is NOT OPTIONAL I will fucking find you
Three in one shampoos are fine but it’s just shampoo mixed with conditioner. Having shampoo and conditioner separate lets your hair get moisturized before the final rinse and your hair will feel silkier. Scrub your scalp a lil too bro you get sweaty during the day. Shampoo for the whole head, when conditioning focus on the ends and let it sit a sec.
You don’t HAVE to do a bunch of fashion research but in general sticking to clothes you Like The look Of, not just “whatever was on sale at target”, and spending some time planning out your appearance will make you feel better about yourself.
What haircuts look best for your face shape? What glasses make your cheekbones stand out, or make your head look taller, or whatever? What are your options for facial hair? What’s your body shape, and how do you estimate flatter it? You don’t gotta, but it’s fun. It can be so so fun
If you can see your veins, green means warmer skin tones and blue means cooler skin tones. This can help determine what colours look best on you. Your skin may also come off as cooler or warmer-toned in neutral light, too, if you can’t shortcut
Stop buying white light bulbs for your house. It feels cold and depressing and washes you out so when you look in the mirror you feel sick. Stop it. Get warm-tone or yellow lights and feel warm and cozy. I want this for you
There’s nothing illegal about using a lil concealer if you wanna cover up discolored spots.
Skin products with salicylic acid kill off zits and junk. Like not 100% but definitely a game changer
Nobody in the world has naturally bleach-white teeth, that’s a marketing lie, but you DO still have to brush regularly and toothpaste comes in a bunch of flavors now not just nasty mint. I personally am fond of strawberry
This was a post for dudes but it’s actually for everybody now so if you weren’t raised with girl rules have at er
i just want to say that nobody should ever feel shame for the state of their living space, no matter how unclean or unsanitary it might get. if you’re in a situation like this, you know that if it was just so simple as to “take care of it”, you would have. nobody is happy or content living in squalor, and you’re not less of a person for whatever circumstances have led you to having to live like that. whether is because of mental health, physical health, grief, neurodivergency, lack of time, whatever - you are a person deserving of empathy, respect, and dignity. and an unclean space is never a reason you should be deprived of that.
I know the Star Wars extended universe treats “spice” like it’s this big scary drug, but I kind of like to imagine that it’s basically just space weed, and the only reason Han got in trouble with the Imperials over Jabba’s cargo is that he was evading import tariffs.
If we’re just looking at mentions in the original trilogy, is there evidence it’s even a drug and not something you put on bland food to make it taste like something? What if Han was just carrying a cargo of like cilantro, mint, etc, none of which grow on Tattooine and are thus highly expensive and heavily taxed commodities?
I am fully prepared to believe that the infamous Han Solo ended up in a life-or-death vendetta with the most notorious crime lord in the galaxy because somebody didn’t want to declare taxes on three thousand kilos of cilantro.
Every who pays a certain amount of attention to Star Wars knows this story already, but I was lucky enough to hear it recounted first-hand last year, so I’m gonna give it yet another retelling.
So The Husband and I were at Sci-fi Weekender (a British based annual Sci-fi and Fantasy convention) last year, and one of the guests that year was Kevin J Anderson, one of the very notable Star Wars Expanded Universe writers. During one of the events, a quiet little interview in a cafe on the event site, he fielded a question from an audience member about what it was like to write for a franchise like Star Wars which often had lots of cooks working on one broth, and he had the following to say (wording recounted as best as I can from memory):
“So in one of my stories, Han Solo, he, he travels to this asteroid planet called Kessel, which is where a lot of Spice comes from, these Spice Mines of Kessel, and I got to really describe the effects of this Spice, this terrible drug and the addiction and all this and before publication I get this call, I get this call from the lawyers, and they say “Kevin, you say in this story that Spice is a drug, you can’t say that, you can’t say that Spice is a drug”, and I say “What? What do you mean it’s not a drug, of course it’s a drug”, and they say “Han Solo used to smuggle Spice, and you cannot, let us be clear, you cannot imply that the Hero of Star Wars used to be a drug dealer”. And I just stood there, at a loss for words, and I eventually said “So what is it then?” and they said to me, very sternly, “It’s a food-additive”. Now, now obviously this is ridiculous, and I won’t back down, and they won’t back down, and none of us will back down, and the book is very close to getting pulled, which I don’t want because I worked hard on it and they don’t want because they already paid me the advance, and eventually, with this great air of superiority they say “OK Kevin, we’ll take this to the top. WE’LL TAKE THIS TO GEORGE”. And they go to all this trouble, this was a long while ago when such things were not so easy to arrange, they go to all this trouble to set up a conference call with all of them and me and with George Lucas and they say “George, Kevin is trying to say in his new book that Spice is a drug, it’s a food additive, tell him it’s not a drug, George”. And there’s this long silence on the other end of the line and eventually George says “It is a drug, though. It’s, it’s a drug, it’s a food-additive? What? Of course it a drug, it’s space heroin, what else would it be? What?” And that was then end of that.“
jesin00 said: some weird ideas of what “good” is, here
consider China before the CCP took power, torn asunder by rival warlords and plundered by foreign states: the party definitively conquering the entire country and establishing a monopoly on violence was a necessary first step to any further development, land reform and centralisation that reduced the power of local elites created a better incentive structure, and basic health programs like vaccination and deworming campaigns combined with the end of the civil war gave a huge boost to life expectancy.
however while communist ideology played a big part in achieving victory, the actual gains were all orthogonal to that and mostly just followed from having a strong centralised state: the collectivisation experiments were counterproductive, and the fear of liberalisation holds the country back to this day.
history demonstrates that communism makes an excellent transition stage between feudalism and crony capitalism / oligarchism, but questions remain about how to build truly democratic institutions afterwards.
I know the Star Wars extended universe treats “spice” like it’s this big scary drug, but I kind of like to imagine that it’s basically just space weed, and the only reason Han got in trouble with the Imperials over Jabba’s cargo is that he was evading import tariffs.
If we’re just looking at mentions in the original trilogy, is there evidence it’s even a drug and not something you put on bland food to make it taste like something? What if Han was just carrying a cargo of like cilantro, mint, etc, none of which grow on Tattooine and are thus highly expensive and heavily taxed commodities?
I am fully prepared to believe that the infamous Han Solo ended up in a life-or-death vendetta with the most notorious crime lord in the galaxy because somebody didn’t want to declare taxes on three thousand kilos of cilantro.
Every who pays a certain amount of attention to Star Wars knows this story already, but I was lucky enough to hear it recounted first-hand last year, so I’m gonna give it yet another retelling.
So The Husband and I were at Sci-fi Weekender (a British based annual Sci-fi and Fantasy convention) last year, and one of the guests that year was Kevin J Anderson, one of the very notable Star Wars Expanded Universe writers. During one of the events, a quiet little interview in a cafe on the event site, he fielded a question from an audience member about what it was like to write for a franchise like Star Wars which often had lots of cooks working on one broth, and he had the following to say (wording recounted as best as I can from memory):
“So in one of my stories, Han Solo, he, he travels to this asteroid planet called Kessel, which is where a lot of Spice comes from, these Spice Mines of Kessel, and I got to really describe the effects of this Spice, this terrible drug and the addiction and all this and before publication I get this call, I get this call from the lawyers, and they say “Kevin, you say in this story that Spice is a drug, you can’t say that, you can’t say that Spice is a drug”, and I say “What? What do you mean it’s not a drug, of course it’s a drug”, and they say “Han Solo used to smuggle Spice, and you cannot, let us be clear, you cannot imply that the Hero of Star Wars used to be a drug dealer”. And I just stood there, at a loss for words, and I eventually said “So what is it then?” and they said to me, very sternly, “It’s a food-additive”. Now, now obviously this is ridiculous, and I won’t back down, and they won’t back down, and none of us will back down, and the book is very close to getting pulled, which I don’t want because I worked hard on it and they don’t want because they already paid me the advance, and eventually, with this great air of superiority they say “OK Kevin, we’ll take this to the top. WE’LL TAKE THIS TO GEORGE”. And they go to all this trouble, this was a long while ago when such things were not so easy to arrange, they go to all this trouble to set up a conference call with all of them and me and with George Lucas and they say “George, Kevin is trying to say in his new book that Spice is a drug, it’s a food additive, tell him it’s not a drug, George”. And there’s this long silence on the other end of the line and eventually George says “It is a drug, though. It’s, it’s a drug, it’s a food-additive? What? Of course it a drug, it’s space heroin, what else would it be? What?” And that was then end of that.“
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