might get shot and killed for this but allo people only being able to categorize platonic relationships as “parental” or “siblings” is actually so embarrassing. have you never had friends before
I made a mistake and read the comments on my own post sorry. allo people shut the fuck up and listen challenge (failed)
you go into the notes of posts like this and it very quickly turns into a bunch of people denying transmisogyny exists like try not to be annoying for like five fucking seconds
i feel the tags are worth including in a reblog
“they hate us all” should be a justification for putting extra effort in towards supporting the most marginalized and heavily targeted members of your community! when you tack on the word “equally,” it instead becomes a justification for prioritizing yourself over people who are in greater immediate danger, and blaming those people for their systemic oppression because their refusal to center you is “infighting”
do you ever have such a monumentally bad brain day that you just take away its mic?
like…… buddy, you are producing insanely bad thoughts today and believing them, I’ll take it from here, get off the stage
I don’t know if this is asked in earnest or just a thought but since I’m waiting for my therapy session, here it goes
The method I worked out for myself is to pretend that there’s this personal assistant (Barbara) to my brain. The thoughts and emotions are clients who either come to pitch an idea or to demand attention from the boss.
Most are important and relevant thoughts; but sometimes they come at the wrong time (if I wake up at night worrying about a task I just imagine Barbara in her pyjamas groggily telling the thoughts to come during office hours).
And some clients (mean thoughts, false beliefs, anxiety jabs) I just imagine as panicked or rude customers that need to be treated as such. You are not getting audience with the boss until you can state your purpose calmly and clearly. If you insist on being rude, I’ll throw you out.
It helps you separate yourself from the thoughts and gives you time to evaluate if they need to be acted on. My therapist loves Barbara
knew this woman who used to be a gay man and when he was a gay man he liked ‘ironically’ referring to himself as she/her and so when he came out as a woman he decided the next logical step was to also switch his pronouns to he/him.
Transcendentalism is a hard word to grasp, so it’s important to look at the etymology of it so you can parse its meaning. Trans - to be beyond or across Cen - one hundred Dental - Teeth Ism - the belief of So taken all together, transcendentalism means “the belief that one should have beyond one hundred teeth”
Hope this helps!
Reblog if you believe that you should have beyond one hundred teeth
i do get why ppl are kind of visceral about the idea that all art is political but like. It Is
people say this and someone goes “oh so even my [niche / absurd fetish porn ] is political ? and it’s like yeah man that’s pretty much one of the best examples of that actually
TiL (click to go to the thread, which probably has more interesting tidbits I missed).
Bonus:
These are my people.
Betting I’ve reblogged this before. Betting I’ll reblog it when it turns up again.
In addition to the print terminology stuff: the visual shorthand icons and ad graphics for something about writing are still often pen-nibs, fountain pens and typewriters…
…while graphics of a monitor, keyboard and mouse remain visual shorthand for computing…
…even though most writers now use monitor / keyboard / mouse or even laptop / touchpad.
In addition, headers for “this blog / website is about writing” are often in one of the many imitation typewriter fonts complete with smudges, or just Courier.
The start and end call icons on most / all smartphones is still the handset of a classic desk telephone, and sometimes the open-app icon is a complete phone.
The term “hang up” for “end the call” refers to something even older - one of these…
And of course the Save icon
is indeed a 3½ inch floppy disc.
Why it wasn’t a
5¼
floppy is a mystery. The icon version is just as distinctive.
Also, why various OP updates never changed “Save” to the graphic of a CD / DVD or flash drive is another mystery, and nowadays a Save icon should probably be a cartoon cloud.
Graphics and terminology are funny things.
reblogging this again for EVEN MORE information.
I’m mostly entertained by the guy who thinks you need to know that “case” means “box” in French as though that’s not what it means in English.
skeumorphism my beloved
It’s fascinating. This post alternately made me feel old and taught me something. Tumblr is amazing.
And because we continue to use signs of ancient hardware, youngsters come up with questions like “why is the icon for ‘save’ a vending machine with a can of soda?” (One day I’ll find that post and link it)
The reason the save icon is a 3.5" floppy seems to mainly be that 3.5" disks were the most common disk by the time graphical interfaces got popular on PCs. Earlier stuff was more text based so they didn’t have or need icons.
But there are always exceptions. Lotus 1-2-3 for windows uses 5.25" disks for the save and load icons!
Mysterious: your roommate says “im gonna take a shower” and they enter the bathroom. The sound of running water is heard for the next hour. Then they exit the bathroom totally soaking wet.
Friday, January 17th: Hello, everyone. I’m Gem, a bi, mentally ill, and disabled woman in desperate need of help as I’m struggling to pay off my debt and get groceries!!
I apologize for asking for help again; as most of you know from my previous posts, I have been struggling quite a lot to make ends meet while on welfare benefits and due to my rent arrears and ever-increasing debt. And 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, I desperately need that kindness again; as some bills came out early and fees were added to my account, this balance has been bouncing between my PP and my bank, accruing fees that I am struggling to pay. I don’t receive my welfare until the 31st and could really use some help!!
Again, I know this is a lot to ask, especially in January, but if anyone could spare any amount to help me, even if it’s just £1/$1/€1, it would save my life, and sharing helps just as much.
Lore-unfriendly companion who forcibly exits the menu screen to complain that they’re bored if you spend more than five seconds reading an item description.
Lore-unfriendly companion who puts a real-time limit on NPC dialogue trees because if you try to explore every branch they’ll wander off and accidentally cause some sort of incident. No other character is able to act in real time during dialogue in this fashion.
Lore-unfriendly companion whose presence in your party prevents you from ever finding out what the game’s plot is about because the principal villain hates them so much they skip their monologue and fight on sight. What happened between them is never explained.
Lore-unfriendly companion who accidentally shoots the tutorial fairy while fiddling with their gun.
Lore-unfriendly companion that will constantly go “who the fuck is that guy?” to the DLC exclusive team mate
>be me >have anxiety disorder >first day of biology class >“break into groups” >fuck my stupid baka life >he gives us a paper with a list of terms on it >“everyone pick one to research and we’ll talk abt it thursday (casual) (dont get scared)” >gets scared >see one that looks cool >someone else takes it >see another that looks cool >someone else takes it >most of the rest of the terms are latin scientific names >dont know what they mean >choose least threatening one (it looked familiar) >professor asks which we chose >i say mine >he asks if i know what it means >immediately i think its something bad bc why else would he ask if i knew what it was (he had also asked other ppl who chose scientific terms. btw) >“i think so?” >class over >leave >making up worst possible scenarios in my head >what if its something embarrassing. like what if its an std. and i have to talk abt it in front of the class. what if its like. pseudoscience that my professor believes in for some reason. and ive trapped myself into sharing pseudoscience even though im ideologically opposed to it. what if >finish walking to library >sit down >pull out phone >hands shaking >google mus musculus >House mice.
Let us discuss house mice and how cool they are
Love those little guys. Will never forget that house mouse I found crawling up the outside wall of my middle school. We were 3 floors up and there were no other open windows bellow
trying to conceptualize the immense human costs of the US imperial rampage around the world is something that feels like it stretches the boundaries of comprehension. like it’s possible to read the numbers and know from personal experience or read accounts or what have you. but a single human life can only hold so much grief. how can any individual human comprehend the worlds upon worlds which Capital and its supplicants have tragedied day in and day out for decades? take a single human life, utterly and completely saturated with tragedy, grief, and heartbreak. magnify and multiply that life across countless millions. every individual grief itself a soul-tearing, monolithic, cosmological cataclysm. imagine every single person you hold dear murdered in cold blood in front of you. imagine being tortured, alone, with no hope of salvation, for years. now imagine that experience and multiply it by the populations of entire nations over entire decades. how can we begin to grasp the scale of this atrocity? how can any person who wishes to remain human hold anything but a seething, blinding hatred of this empire? it is a miracle of humanity that so much of the world chooses to stand up against this level of atrocity, that so many millions have been broken on this wheel and still millions more continue and will continue to fight for the cause of humanity. it is a horror, it is a sorrow unknowable, it is a miracle of miracles of resistance. the US empire must end and the world must be afforded the beginning of a long process of healing and grieving. there will be a day after all of this has passed. there will be a world after this, at all costs, because it is the only path towards a world after this. the US empire is an existential threat to not only all of humanity but to the essence of humanity itself.
Moreover, the United States Empire must be destroyed.
trying to conceptualize the immense human costs of the US imperial rampage around the world is something that feels like it stretches the boundaries of comprehension. like it’s possible to read the numbers and know from personal experience or read accounts or what have you. but a single human life can only hold so much grief. how can any individual human comprehend the worlds upon worlds which Capital and its supplicants have tragedied day in and day out for decades? take a single human life, utterly and completely saturated with tragedy, grief, and heartbreak. magnify and multiply that life across countless millions. every individual grief itself a soul-tearing, monolithic, cosmological cataclysm. imagine every single person you hold dear murdered in cold blood in front of you. imagine being tortured, alone, with no hope of salvation, for years. now imagine that experience and multiply it by the populations of entire nations over entire decades. how can we begin to grasp the scale of this atrocity? how can any person who wishes to remain human hold anything but a seething, blinding hatred of this empire? it is a miracle of humanity that so much of the world chooses to stand up against this level of atrocity, that so many millions have been broken on this wheel and still millions more continue and will continue to fight for the cause of humanity. it is a horror, it is a sorrow unknowable, it is a miracle of miracles of resistance. the US empire must end and the world must be afforded the beginning of a long process of healing and grieving. there will be a day after all of this has passed. there will be a world after this, at all costs, because it is the only path towards a world after this. the US empire is an existential threat to not only all of humanity but to the essence of humanity itself.
Moreover, the United States Empire must be destroyed.
fuck all philosophy except for whatever the hell Diogenes was trying to teach
direct action
How about just being polite & going into a debate with those who hold diffrent beliefs then you?
how about you eat my shit and hair
staying true to spirit
the OG of the vicious burn
Diógenes said you couldn’t spit anywhere but in the face of a rich man because once this rich dude invited him into his house and literally told him you can’t spit on anything that touches the floor so Diógenes spit in this guys face
here is a very good painting of Diógenes in his tub that i had the good fortune of actually seeing earlier this year
I love that Diogenes is making a comeback in the twenty-first century.
Beautiful. The composition. Colors. The lamp. The fact that the photographer managed to make the moon look GOOD (not all cameras and photographers can achieve that).
