1909vintage

[1909vintage]

It’s driving me crazy that no one’s saying “fanny.”

I’ve consumed enough British media to understand that they’d all be saying “fanny.”

I’m also aware of “minge” and “gash,” but they literally just spent an entire episode saying VAGINA

I just want Tony Stonem to show up and fuck around with everyone and maybe be mean to Otis until the cultural markers stop being weird

(I know that that was an intentional stylistic choice but it’s jarring like I saw an American football wtf)

[1909vintage]

okay maeve IS kat stratford i have a phd in 90s high school comedy ok? sylvia plath? bikini kill? the framing of her on the swing outside of aimee's party? harsh exterior to hide internal pain?

she is british 21st century kat and i'm here 4 it

[1909vintage]

is jackson gonna hire the swingband to play maeve romantic songs while shes blowing off PE

[1909vintage]

oh damn he's actually doing it

[1909vintage]

okay maeve IS kat stratford i have a phd in 90s high school comedy ok? sylvia plath? bikini kill? the framing of her on the swing outside of aimee's party? harsh exterior to hide internal pain?

she is british 21st century kat and i'm here 4 it

[1909vintage]

is jackson gonna hire the swingband to play maeve romantic songs while shes blowing off PE

[1909vintage]

okay maeve IS kat stratford i have a phd in 90s high school comedy ok? sylvia plath? bikini kill? the framing of her on the swing outside of aimee's party? harsh exterior to hide internal pain?

she is british 21st century kat and i'm here 4 it

[1909vintage]

i started watching sex education. was expecting something between skins and inbetweeners.

instead it feels like a 90s teen movie (big ten things i hate about you/never been kissed vibes) with a dash of john hughes at a sixth form

i'm not mad about it

[1909vintage]

maeve looks like britta perry, but she embodies kat stratford

[1909vintage]

i started watching sex education. was expecting something between skins and inbetweeners.

instead it feels like a 90s teen movie (big ten things i hate about you/never been kissed vibes) with a dash of john hughes at a sixth form

i'm not mad about it

[1909vintage]

So I realize that nobody watched The Great North because that’s why it was cancelled, but Hulu noticed my constant Bob’s Burgers viewing and kept bothering me to watch it, so I did.

And ok, Judy Tobin? IS what happens if Leslie Knope and Erin Quinn were squished together into one person.

Also it’s a thoroughly delightful show.

[dduane]

The best "online-ageism" rebuttal I think I've ever seen

Check this out.

...Gotta adapt this for myself to include CompuServe and Fidonet. :)

[doomhamster]

Reblogging for "I have usernames older than you".

[1909vintage]

One of the elementary school kids I teach once a week got me sick

I am fatigued and congested and throat hurts but according to urgent care it’s not strep, and now I have a low fever and muscle fatigue

Another reason why I’m glad I’m not a mom. Being sick makes me useless. Being sick while having to still be a parent? Oh my god I can’t imagine anything more miserable.

[agentjackdaniels]

Wait, so you’re telling me today’s the 4th? What’s next, the 5th? The minor fall? The major lift?

[hometoursandotherstuff]

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cwydx34kzlvo

[1909vintage]

[moniquill]

[exxos-von-steamboldt]

[delicatefury]

I just googled this and… yes, it’s absolutely real.

And there are so many articles and videos and discussions. Like, the scientific community is buzzing about this.

So much research will have to be redone because the data was absolutely compromised, off by orders of magnitude, by using standard lab gloves.

The world is probably not horrifically contaminated by microplastics. Sterile laboratories, however, are contaminated by latex and nitrile gloves.

Thank God someone bothered to check.

[beardedmrbean]

>I just googled this and… yes, it’s absolutely real.

Sources beyond dude just trust me, for the skeptics.

Scientists shocked to find lab gloves may be skewing microplastics data

Scientists may have been unknowingly inflating microplastics pollution estimates, and the surprising source could be their own lab gloves. A

https://www.technologynetworks.com/applied-sciences/news/scientists-lab-gloves-may-be-causing-an-overestimation-of-microplastics-411138

Nitrile and latex gloves may cause overestimation of microplastics, U-M study reveals

Nitrile and latex gloves that scientists wear while they are measuring microplastics may lead to a potential overestimation of the tiny poll

Nitrile and latex gloves may cause overestimation of microplastics - Phys.org (it’s a pdf)

An Embarrassing Mistake May Have Skewed Microplastics Research All Along

Researchers discovered a standard piece of lab equipment has added thousands of microplastic ‘false positives’ per each square-millimeter un

Ordinary Lab Gloves May Have Skewed Microplastic Data

Ordinary Lab Gloves May Have Skewed Microplastic Data: That doesn’t mean microplastics aren’t a problem, though

That should be enough

[bauliya]

so women are supposed to grin and bear the books, the comics, the movies, the plays, the tv shows, the stories, the sci-fi, the translated ancient poems, the fucking millennia of men writing about their self inserts torturing women and it being declared as High Art by other men, we’re supposed to read it in our free time, study it in classrooms, include their styles in our own writing, accept their cultural influence as natural, watch it in the cinema, write about it, talk about it, accept it, aspire it, but men can’t tolerate three seconds of female wish fulfilment of a woman snapping the wrist of a creep without feeling personally kicked in the balls.

[darkshrimpemotions]

This reminds me of something I observed in college while I was doing my honors thesis on women in modern horror films. I watched a LOT of horror during that time as part of my research, and sometimes that was done with my family around.

And my dad and brothers? Were deeply disturbed by the movie Jennifer’s Body. I was flabbergasted. It’s not scary! It’s not even that gory. But they were horrified by it. These men who grew up on 70s slashers were legitimately shook by 90 minutes of Megan Fox eating a few teenage boys, mostly off-screen.

Similarly, my all-male reading panel for my thesis? Were so disturbed by my synopsis of the film Teeth that they couldn’t even talk about it. One of them said he couldn’t look at his wife for a week after reading it.

Again, grown-ass men who study and teach media for a living. Who definitely watch and enjoy horror movies. One of whom was a huge Tarantino buff. We watched and read worse in his intro to mass media class! But one movie about a girl whose vag could bite was enough to haunt him.

Then of course you have things like the Gone Girl backlash–men yelling that Amy Dunne is evil and women clamoring to assure everyone that they know she is not someone to emulate–the backlash against Carol Danvers, and, more recently, the griping from MRAs against the upcoming film Hustlers, which is about strippers scamming their Wall Street clients.

My conclusion? Most men–at least most straight, cisgender men, who are both my sample population and most of the ones whining that Carol is a “villain”–are perfectly fine with, and desensitized to, media where men do violence to women (horror movies), or men do violence to men (horror and action movies). They’re even sort of fine when women do violence to women (“ooooo cat fight!”).

But they get intensely uncomfortable when women are depicted doing any kind of violence to men, especially in films that tilt the balance of power to the other side of the m/f gender binary beyond a single moment or scene.

So woman as flesh-eating monster with men as her preferred cuisine? Woman who responds to unwanted sexual contact by biting it off? Woman who frames her cheating husband for murder? Woman whose response to harassment–behavior that many of the loudest whiners know is both creepy and reflective of their own thoughts/actions–is to break something?

Too scary. Unacceptable. Disturbing. These men hate being presented with the idea, even in fiction, that their position of power is socially constructed, that it could easily be flipped the other way. It terrifies them.

In feeling that terror, they experience a tiny modicum of what living, existing, moving, being perceived as a woman in the world is like.

And they flinch every time.

[tzikeh]

Here have a newspaper comic from 1993

[velvetcloak]

[scarletjedi]

Can the written form be Computer-Rendered Artifical Prose?

[pollsforadults]

You get transported into the universe of the last media you consumed. How are you doing?

This is better than my real life

I'm doing well

I'm doing fine

I'm not having a good time

I'm absolutely cooked

There is nothing different about this universe and my own

Voting ended onMay 29

[1909vintage]

Bobs Burgers. Eating amazing burgers in a cute seaside town. That don’t suck.

[what-even-is-thiss]

I’m kinda surprised that nalbinding isn’t as popular as crochet and knitting tbh because it has an even lower barrier of entry tools wise and unlike crochet and knitting it makes fabric that you can cut.

I guess it’s because it’s slower or something.

[what-even-is-thiss]

Nalbinding aka needle binding is when you use yarn and a big sewing needle to make fabric btw

It also has a lot of different kinds of stitches you can do that make different densities of fabric.

Some people even make rugs.

[thewolfwaitsbelow]

I feel like part of it might be casual people are generally aware of the existence of crochet and knitting, even if they don’t know very much about either, but have never heard of nalbinding

[what-even-is-thiss]

Yeah I hadn’t heard of it until recently and I ordered a big bone needle for myself to try it out and that should be arriving soon.

I was surprised that I’d never heard of it though. It’s older than knitting and crocheting and even though it’s been done all over the world it’s super relevant to Nordic culture and my grandmother and I are both into keeping in touch with our roots a bit so I’m surprised I’ve never heard of it.

It seems like the sort of thing that would be popular even if not as popular as crocheting and knitting, considering the low barrier of entry.

[what-even-is-thiss]

You also don’t need a bunch of different sized needles for nalbinding or whatever. The size of the stitch is controlled either completely freehand or by pulling it against one of your fingers. Most people who have a lot of nalbinding needles seem to either have tried out wood, bone, and metal ones to see which kind they liked or they enjoy carving wood or bone and like making their own needles as an extra hobby.

It’s also a lot easier to freehand and adjust as you go than crochet or knitting and you mostly go by inches instead of rows and number of stitches so a large number of accessories like stitch markers or whatever isn’t really necessary.

Maybe the lack of accessories also makes it unpopular idk. People do like collecting things in their nests.

[the-color-of-sound-is-space]

I've been wanting to do so, I cannot find anyone who can teach me, and any books I can find on it are Ass in the Visual Learning department. Otherwise I'd be making the hell outta some nalbinded fabric

[what-even-is-thiss]

I found this channel by a nice man who makes up close tutorials

Happy Needlebinding

I create videos on YouTube to learn people how to needlebind using two fingers and your thumb. Needlebinding helps people to relax, relieve

[what-even-is-thiss]

I thought this would be kind of a niche post to make but I was quickly reminded that I’m on tumblr, the website full of gay people with one billion hobbies.