A gift for my amazing discord moderator Sabina, who has been helping me moderate my online communities for almost 7 years now and has a soft spot for magpies. I do too 🖤
Quietly losing my mind over the fact that Elon Musk has straight up orchestrated a coup of our executive branch and like….I don’t even know what, if any, system we have in place to fix this. Like… He’s just taken control of the money and locked out the actual appointed officials. What the fuck.
Nazis are taking over my government, and like, not even just the Nazis we fucking elected! And I’m…making hamburgers? Because somebody has to make dinner? I just feel completely unhinged.
I think that’s how random civillians generally feel in these situations. Someone’s gotta make dinner.
“I mixed my bread last night with tears coming, for I feared I should have no husband when the next mixing came.“
- Anna Munroe, April 19th, 1775, Lexington Massachusetts
there’s a certain type of image I enjoy finding in old flickr albums from the 00s which is like a completely unknown picture that feels like a meme from an alternate universe
ok but the sight of that giant lint block does not make me want to clean out lint more. imagine how good that shit would feel to touch omg
You can just gather that shit. And then if you’re only drying cottons or something you can take it camping and use it as firestarter
Some other things a person might not know, especially if nobody ever taught them because their parents assumed that men don’t need to do house maintenance:
Washing machines have filters to catch large debris; you should check these periodically and remove anything stuck in them. If you don’t, it affects the machine’s efficiency and eventually can lead to the filter getting clogged and flooding your laundry space.
Washing machines also need to be cleaned from time to time, generally by running them on hot with nothing in them except cleaning chemicals (you can buy washing machine cleaner, or google it for various diy solutions that probably involve vinegar or bleach). If you don’t they’ll start growing mold, and then all your stuff will come out of the wash smelling bad.
Dishwashers also generally have filters to catch large chunks of food and whatnot. Boy howdy can they smell bad if you don’t ever check them.
There are dishwasher disinfectants as well, or you can do things with vinegar; either way, it’ll prevent mold buildup and also hopefully rinse away buildup from soaps and whatnot.
If you have a reusable water bottle, wash it weekly. Otherwise you’re probably drinking mold, the effects of which can be widely variable but almost always bad.
Vacuum cleaners often need their filters cleaned or replaced. If you vacuum a room and it smells worse than it did before, you probably need to change the filter or the vacuum bag.
To clarify, the reason you have to clean the lint out is 1) it makes your clothes not dry well and 2) it fucking CATCHES FIRE
Y’ever read something and have understanding that has eluded you interminably suddenly stop, curl up, and snuggle neatly into a fold in your brain because a new way way opened to it?
I’ve seen this passed around a few times, and I have one thing to say:
It’s online. The book was carefully and wonderfully recreated online by hand. You can find it here. The entire book is this easy.
Y’ever read something and have understanding that has eluded you interminably suddenly stop, curl up, and snuggle neatly into a fold in your brain because a new way way opened to it?
I’ve seen this passed around a few times, and I have one thing to say:
It’s online. The book was carefully and wonderfully recreated online by hand. You can find it here. The entire book is this easy.
btw if you are friends with someone and you have the kind of dynamic where you can tease each other you also need to be nice. just so we’re all aware. you also have to be nice with your words on top of it. like with your words. use your words. you should tell them with your words when you like something about them. if you are scared of being too sincere or vulnerable that is not an excuse to not be nice to someone. also you should work on that. ok are we all on the same page
You also need to be aware of how that trading affects those around you. If you have a young spawn around they will learn from and mimic your relationship dynamics but Also do not have the wisdom to judge wh e n is OK to behave in a teasing way. You could accidentally end up raining a bully.
“So let me get this straight. We’re here to rescue a princess.”
“That’s right.”
“At the request of a princess.”
“Right again.”
“And you, who will be leading the expedition, are also a princess.”
“You’re very perceptive.”
“How big is your royal family, again?“
“We don’t have one.”
“But–“
“We overthrew our monarchy centuries ago, but we kept most of the titles around. The rank of ‘princess’ is held by the directors in charge of various civil service branches.“
“Huh. And the princess we’re rescuing today is in charge of…?”
“Public sanitation.”
“The Lord of Death’s Dominion kidnapped your public sanitation director?”
“We think he’s a little confused.”
I laughed too hard not to reblog this.
I mean. If your goal is to cause maximum death, letting trash, sewage, tainted water, and biohazardous waste pile up in a populated area with zero oversight is a pretty efficient way to go about it
See, the idea that taking out the appointed head of the government department in charge of public sanitation oversight would cause the day-to-day business of public sanitation to immediately cease is exactly the sort of confusion we’re talking about here.
If I had a dick I’d be nutting all over everything all the time the floor the walls the ceiling every object I own it would just be awful soldiers would enter my house guns drawn years after I die and find multiple bodies in a pile so encrusted they believed them to be a natural formation in the landscape until one of them leaned on it and it cracked in on itsself mummy dust flying out theyd be screaming and the sound would cause stalactites to fall on some their lucky heads and when the survivors look down they watch the fresh spurting blood seemingly vanish upon touching the ground like invisible ink, one tries to carry a body off but finds that he can’t pull away after touching it, he’s stuck, theyre both dissolving cause the blood squirting out provided a point of contact, its burning, there’s tears in his eyes, he flailed, both arms are stuck, the pains making him thrash, his face is stuck, the body he touched is already unrecognizable as a body, now its just him, and the soldiers shoot him. They shoot him in the head and he was just a boy. He was just a boy. Then the men carry on deeper and deeper and their numbers dwindle, and as the last one looks around he realizes something, that the walls of the cave have been closing in on him, almost imperceptively, but definitely so, with each member of his platoon be loses, as he backtracks he can’t find the bodies of his people that were landmarks, just piles of gear,
We joke and all but some of you really forget that people hate women.
Seeing people wonder “how can people say stuff like this” and “why does [x misogynistic thing] keep happening” is a bit disorienting because when you take a five second pause to think about it you can realize quite immediately that it’s because people hate women. Like guys… people HATE women.
let me put this in terms you understand. our pet liberal, Stephanie Bethany Grace Smith Ruth Tyler, is visiting the DNC in the sky because you let her pokemon go to the polls across a 10-lane motorway while you were meant to be holding her accountable and pushing her to the left. hand side of the pavement
Just realised that “-ass”, when used as a suffix after a noun, has kind of the same meaning as “-esque”. Gonna start using them interchangeably. Kafka-ass dystopia
i’m so obsessed with this guy who just makes weird hand-stitched footballs. this video has millions of views on ig and tiktok but w/e look at this reference orange immortalized forever through the medium of Ball
Nope now it’s at the point that i’m shocked that people off tt don’t know what’s going down. I have no reach but i’ll sum it up anyway.
SCOTUS is hearing on the constitutionality of the ban as tiktok and creators are arguing that it is a violation of our first amendment rights to free speech, freedom of the press and freedom to assemble.
SCOTUS: tiktok bad, big security concern because china bad!
Tiktok lawyers: if china is such a concern why are you singling us out? Why not SHEIN or temu which collect far more information and are less transparent with their users?
SCOTUS (out loud): well you see we don’t like how users are communicating with each other, it’s making them more anti-american and china could disseminate pro china propaganda (get it? They literally said they do not like how we Speak or how we Assemble. Independent journalists reach their audience on tt meaning they have Press they want to suppress)
Tiktok users: this is fucking bullshit i don’t want to lose this community what should we do? We don’t want to go to meta or x because they both lobbied congress to ban tiktok (free market capitalism amirite? Paying off your local congressmen to suppress the competition is totally what the free market is about) but nothing else is like TikTok
A few users: what about xiaohongshu? It’s the Chinese version of tiktok (not quite, douyin is the chinese tiktok but it’s primarily for younger users so xiaohongshu was chosen)
16 hours later:
Tiktok as a community has chosen to collectively migrate TO a chinese owned app that is purely in Chinese out of utter spite and contempt for meta/x and the gov that is backing them.
My fyp is a mix of “i would rather mail memes to my friends than ever return to instagram reels” and “i will xerox my data to xi jinping myself i do not care i share my ss# with 5 other people anyway” and “im just getting ready for my day with my chinese made coffee maker and my Chinese made blowdryer and my chinese made clothing and listening to a podcast on my chinese made phone and get in my car running on chinese manufactured microchips but logging into a chinese social media? Too much for our gov!” etc.
So the government was scared that tiktok was creating a sense of class consciousness and tried to kill it but by doing so they sent us all to xiaohongshu. And now? Oh it’s adorable seeing this gov-manufactured divide be crossed in such a way.
This is adorable and so not what they were expecting. Im sure they were expecting a reluctant return to reels and shorts to fill the void but tiktokers said fuck that, we will forge connections across the world. Who you tell me is my enemy i will make my friend. That’s pretty damn cool.
the world is running out of glassblowers and yet you want to become a fucking doctor
One of the most jarring moments of my university education was in a physics class when I was given a device that measures gravity and was told “this cost the university sixteen thousand dollars, but the only glass blower in the world who could make the glass springs inside it died so it’s literally irreplaceable. If you drop it those springs will shatter. Go fuck around with it for a day and take some measurements”
In the UK there’s a thing called the endangered crafts list which I highly recommend if you fancy discovering some crafts you never even knew existed. Scientific and optical instrument making is considered ‘critically endangered’ and glassworking (scientific glassware) is just considered endangered, which is for 'crafts with a shrinking market share, an ageing demographic or crafts with a declining number of practitioners.’ There’s some other crafts in that category which are easier to teach yourself or go to classes on that list, like lithography, marbling or block printing on fabric, so it might be worth considering those if you’re looking for something to try.
In the future after the model collapse people dig around for any pre-2020s text and images they can salvage, like raising pre-1945 battleship wrecks for low-background steel…
i appreciate the intricate meanderings of the usual Simpsons plot. an oil spill happens and therefore as a logical consequence Bart starts work at a brothel
It’s so funny every time reality butts up against these guys’ fantasies of a glorious war, they get upset. They can’t handle what Hemingway said all the way back in 1935:
“…In modern war there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason.”
The worst thing to happen to modern warfare was modern warfare. Nothing has fundamentally changed in a hundred years. War is not the noble meeting of champions in the arena, it is murder.
Anyone who tells you different is trying to sell you something.
It’s so funny every time reality butts up against these guys’ fantasies of a glorious war, they get upset. They can’t handle what Hemingway said all the way back in 1935:
“…In modern war there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason.”
The worst thing to happen to modern warfare was modern warfare. Nothing has fundamentally changed in a hundred years. War is not the noble meeting of champions in the arena, it is murder.
Anyone who tells you different is trying to sell you something.
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