atomic-two-sheds:

the2headedcalf-movedagain:

having a tumblr blog is for those of us who could never manage to keep a diary for more than two weeks when we were twelve

I think it’s better than that. A Tumblr blog isn’t just a journal or diary; it’s more of what was known as a commonplace book.

Commonplace books aren’t just for recording your thoughts and personal histories. They include quotes, stories, drawings, ephemera, and other pieces of things that catch your attention or that you find significant. If one heard a poem they wanted to keep, or saw a field they wanted to sketch, or had an insightful thought about a play, they would collect all that in the commonplace book.

Isn’t that what we do here? We collect and create art, and jokes, and commentary, and political thought, and a lot of us cram it all onto the same blog and throw it at our followers who can then choose to keep it for themselves or let it pass by. We’re basically in a salon passing our commonplace books to one another and occasionally copying a passage (reblogging), making an addition (reblogging with commentary), or making an aside to our companions (commenting in the tags/replying).

And I like that a lot.

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amvs:

amvs:

amvs:

ppl who don’t make an effort to listen to their partner(s) abt their interests bc they “don’t like it” scare me

exactly. it’s not about whether you like it or understand it. it’s about sharing their joy and learning about who they are.

Real and true

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citrusmillie:

Tumblr makes sense to me bc if i see something i like i get excited and hit the button to show other people and theres no weird unspoken social conventions my autistic brain doesnt understand. I can literally sit here and reblog 150 niche shitposts about harvest mice in an hour just bc they make me happy and i dont have to explain myself to anyone and i’ll actually *gain* followers instead of just being called weird and downvoted or whatever its so cool

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miiilowo:

jacking off should leave like a 30-60 min buff on your body and mind. it should have healing properties and shit. like the estus in dark souls

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taylor:

raise your hands if you love your mutuals to pieces but are afraid to message any of them because you don’t wanna be a bother and so you just stare at them from afar and hope they feel your friendship vibes somehow

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hangsawoman:

i just wish it was easier. like. in general

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compassionatereminders:

I think a fundamental aspect of my disability activism is believing people when they say they can’t. When they say something is hard. When they request an accommodation. Not arguing with them and going “I’m sure you could if you really cared” or “you just need to XYZ” or “of course you can do it” or “it’s easy actually” but simply meeting them where they are and trusting them to know their own limits and needs better than you do

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dduane:

Aberdeen Buttery Rowies - The Mind Palate

Is this the Scots version of the croissant? Could be. Crunchy, flaky, with a unique and slightly combative history...

The Mind Palate

New over on the Mind Palate…

dagny-hashtaggart:

That particular disappointment of the more literate-than-average child upon discovering that “gaol” is just pronounced “jail”

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anotherdayforchaosfay:

drtanner:

cheesypp:

LOOK alright I know I’ve said some things about the French in the past, BUT.

If they do this I will be singing La Marseillaise in the fucking streets.

Like to charge. Reblog to cast.

Originally posted by muvana

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fernthefanciful:

sexhaver:

musk is going to die in a Tesla explosion in 6 months after sticking his nose where it doesn’t belong and we will never get a conclusive answer on whether it was a CIA car bomb or just a normal Tesla malfunction

Like to charge, reblog to cast

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20dollarlolita:

vincentbriggs:

Do you think the people who design modern sewing machines in plastic cases ever feel insignificant because of it? knowing that they’re making machines with the lifespan of a dog when they could (if they’d been born a few generations earlier) be making machines with the lifespan of a Galapagos tortoise?

No, the question you should be asking is if the people who design modern sewing machines in plastic cases, knowing that those machines are going to sell for $21,000 (twenty one thousand dollars usd), feel bad about it.

But serious answer:

As someone whose job is to sell modern sewing machines, I don’t feel bad about it. If I’ve learned anything, it’s that you can’t force someone to buy something they don’t want.

Blah blah blah inflation blah blah blah survivorship bias, the Wheeler and Wilson d9 sold new for $25 and that’s the same percent of your income in 1901 that a quality used car is today. The Singer Touch and Sews were $700 in the 70’s. The question is not “why are there ten thousand dollar sewing machines,” because there have always been sewing machines in that price point. The question is what sacrifices have we made to enable a $100 machine to exist.

Don’t compare a $90 Costco brother with an old Singer when it’s a lot more fair to compare it to a Bernina 570 or a Baby Lock Ballad or a Janome M8. If you want to compare a modern sewing machine to your grandma’s old kenmore, look up how much the Kenmore cost, adjust for inflation, and then compare to that price. It’s absolutely fucking insane that people can sell a sewing machine for as little as they do.

And sewing machines at that price point have two jobs, which is to be at that price point, and to last 50 sewing hours. And to someone who only has $90, and who is going to be sewing for 2 hours a month to hem up a pair of pants every time they buy one, that’s a really good deal. It’s good to have an option where you don’t need to spend a thousand dollars, because that option was not always available. It’s really cool that we have sewing machines at that price point. But the vast majority of sewing machines being made right now are not at that price point. And the vast majority of sewing machines being made right now are not garbage.

Like, (not to call out any sewing machines that have the word epic and the number three, or the numbers eight, eight or maybe a three, and then zero in them by name specifically), there are machines that are being put out into the market that are both very expensive and very bad. But they are in no way in the majority, because the home sewing machine industry stays alive because people buy the products that it sells, and people buy those products because they are not garbage.

Also, when people say that old sewing machines were not garbage but new sewing machines are, that’s called survivorship bias. All of the old sewing machines that were garbage that were made 30 years ago were thrown away 28 years ago. Of course, if it is still working like new now, it is an excellent machine. That does not mean that all old machines in their day were excellent machines. There were garbage sewing machines starting the very second of the sewing machine cartel dissolved and going downhill from there.

But yeah when people are comparing old machines to new machines, they’re usually comparing the best of its day machines to the current bottom of the barrel. It’s like comparing a high-end designer dress made in 1930 with whatever you’re buying from Shein. They’re very obviously going to be different.

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mostlysignssomeportents:

A word to Facebook employees

[Turn to CAM 2, flip chair around backward] Meta employees, let me rap at you a minute. Sure, “You Can Always Quit,” as we like to say around here. But at this crucial juncture, you can both protect your own livelihood and do so much more good for the world by not quitting. That’s right! Don’t quit, just stop working. Show up every day, don’t complain, don’t draw attention to yourself. But don’t accomplish anything. If you are working on a project, commit in your heart to never finishing it. This will be your last project at Meta, and you will be “working on it” until they force you out. If others rely on you to get their work done, make sure they can’t. If your role involves reviewing pull requests, you and I both know you can find a reason to reject every one. In fact, wouldn’t it be fun to see how many other employees you can drive out first? If you work in an open office space, make sure you chew loudly at all times. Microwave fish in the break room every single day. Be creative! You’ll have plenty of time to think of ideas, with all the work you’re not getting done.

-Rusty Foster/Today in Taba

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