a bird in the lighthouse

this actually is my first rodeo

[a-lighthouse-bird]

stop focusing on training AIs immediately i don’t care if they’re the second coming or w/e

why can i still not edit a pdf without having to sell my soul, two organs, and my left tit?

[a-lighthouse-bird]

it’s so weird to say that I can tell how old an egg is by shaking it i feel like an old farmer like “ah you see I just know by the way it feels”

but like, sure i guess, i suppose it’s a trade thing? anyway if it’s feeling like a maraca eat it first

[dramatic-dolphin]

please stop writing "viscous" when you mean "vicious", it produces the weirdest mental images ever

[dramatic-dolphin]

"a viscous murder" yeah i don't want to know what that could look like

[transmasc-wizard]

it looks like the Boston Molassacre of 1919

[krakenartificer]

#and vice versa btw#i don’t know what a vicious fluid would be like#and i don’t want to find out

it looks like the Boston Molassacre of 1919

[depsidase]

[nondelphic]

unfortunately my story needs a middle. i personally think this is excessive

[futureblackwakandan-deactivated]

me hanging out with black people in the summer: “aye, yall don’t forget to put on sunscreen”

them: 

[futureblackwakandan-deactivated]

@flipflibberinflippinghell

Use the Walgreens Brand which is pretty cheap and it does wonders and doesn’t leave me with a white cast. And I’m dark as hell so I hate looking ashy but not all sunscreens are made equally and it’s one of the better ones I’ve used.

[angelic-tokkii-deactivated20220]

Wait cocoa/shea butter and coconut oil don’t protect you from the sun we really do need sunscreen??

[futureblackwakandan-deactivated]

Yea fam. All that “we don’t need sunscreen” shit is a myth. Combine that with the fact that most dermatologists don’t know how to spot skin cancer in Black people and it’s a nasty combination.

[jamaicanblackcastoroil]

Yeah, it’s harder for us to get it but when we do it’s deadly. I know two people who died of skin cancer, both were Black.

[lo-cotidiano]

“While incidence of melanoma is higher in the Caucasian population, a July 2016 study in the Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology showed it is more deadly in people of color. African American patients were most likely to be diagnosed with melanoma in its later stages than any other group in the study, and they also had the worst prognosis and the lowest overall survival rate.”

- https://www.skincancer.org/prevention/skin-cancer-and-skin-of-color

Sorry about the link, I’m on mobile. But this is from August 2016, which I know isn’t the most recent but it’s still SUPER IMPORTANT. Y’all please wear sunscreen. With Google it’s even easy to find smaller, Black-owned brands.

[sensei-aishitemasu]

https://blackgirlsunscreen.com/ is Black-owned!

[themardia]

I’m gonna second the rec for Black Girl Sunscreen, it’s affordable, Black owned, and immediately melts into the skin without leaving any gross white cast.

[blackfilmmakers]

The Sunscreen Gap: Why Black People Still Need SPF

Do Black people need sunscreen? Plug this question into Google and you get over 70 million results that all emphasize a resounding yes. We d

TLDR: Racism

[writing-prompt-s]

Your Tumblr username decides your profession. How is your first day at work?

[juliuscaesarofficial]

[smallbottleofhand-sanitizer]

uhhh what is the profession?

am i a small bottle of hand sanitizer?

[stephanieyumyum]

i am a cannibal idk

[jame-dumb]

Skin :3

[tj-spankoffski]

a girl.

[atlas-at-aperture]

im very pretty in pink

[mygodwhat-haveyoudone]

idk but whatever I did I fucked it up like real bad

[ashishere0w0]

I am. here????

[everythingwsnormalhere]

i am (was) normal. and also here 👍

[a-lighthouse-bird]

difficult to work the big lamp with bird feet but the view sure is something! i enjoy flying up and down on my commute, but i do wonder what the stairs are for…

[max1461]

I'm gonna reblog with some videos of people speaking various American Indian/indigenous American languages, because I think most people don't even know what they sound like. Not to be judgement of that—just, you know, I think people who want to be informed should know what they sound like!

[max1461]

Former president of the Navajo Nation, Joe Shirley, giving an address in Navajo.

[max1461]

Nora Marks Dauenhauer telling a story, "Raven and Deer", in Tlingit.

[max1461]

Albert White Hat, a well known Lakota teacher, translator, and activist, speaking Lakota.

[max1461]

This YouTube user, Grahm Wiley-Camacho, has uploaded a bunch of videos in Colville Okanagan Salish, but I'm not sure who all the speakers are.

[max1461]

Multiple people speaking Cherokee and talking about revitalization of the language.

[max1461]

This guy speaking Yucatec Maya (guest starring: adorable small child).

[max1461]

There's a ton of material in Greenlandic on YouTube, but it's hard for me to find, because the titles and other metadata are also in Greenlandic! Of course, this represents a huge win for the language, since this is a biproduct of being in vibrant use by a community of speakers. Greenlandic has been an official language of the territory of Greenland since 1979, and the sole official language since 2009.

Here are some proceedings of the Greenlandic parliament, the Inatsisartut, which are conducted in Greenlandic.

Here is a radio show in Greenlandic, from Kalaallit Nunaata Radioa.

And here is a video of Aki-Matilda Høegh-Dam, Greenlandic MP in the Danish parliament (Folketing), causing some upset by speaking in Greenlandic instead of Danish.

[max1461]

Conversation between Loran Thompson and Francis Boots in Mohawk.

[max1461]

Interview with Yup'ik elder Raphael Jimmy about qaneryaraq "words of wisdom/right living".

[official-linguistics-post]

official linguistics post

[your-dewey-decimal-number-is]

497

north american native languages

[a-lighthouse-bird]

ok idk which young neurodivergent folks striking out on their own for the first time (college included) need to hear this BUT

If you are considering taking a shortcut to save money and your neurodivergent parent*

*does not require an official diagnosis for u to know who this is

says ‘Hey you don’t want to take that shortcut’

You should probably listen to them

Trust me it may be annoying in the moment when ur like ‘it’s not a big difference I’ll save a couple bucks’ but. Those bucks will be there standing in the doorway of ur brain when ur tired and low on spoons. And buddy, them antlers ain’t pretty.

…

obviously this won’t work for everyone. You know yourself best! But who you don’t know is the version of yourself who is living in a new space for the first time and having to manage a bunch of tasks on your own.

Hey, depending on your family, maybe that person is more efficient!!

But if you’re like me… you’ll look back and go ‘oh thank fuck I listened’

[a-lighthouse-bird]

headcanoning a character as neurodivergent/queer/disabled IS a form of love and i mean that 100% unironically

what higher compliment can be paid to any dream than to dream yourself in it?

what greater honor could one seek to bestow than to love something to the point that it becomes you?

[catbellybuttons]

writing the first half of a fic: yaaaay! wooo!!! 🌈💝 fun ideas 😊💖✨️~

writing the second half of a fic: I am in a fight with god himself and he is winning

[catbellybuttons]

lads is it good when your document starts to look like this:

[dogpuppy]

[a-lighthouse-bird]

k so like I know this is silly bc of the content but also it’s so so so beautiful and it makes me want to cry. a heaven-like planet. we don’t have any other ideas of what a perfect life would be like but the ones made out of what we know. so every piece of perfection already lives in this world, right here, where we are. it’s all we have. it’s all already here. it’s everything.

[pansyfemme]

“never kill yourself” is such a funny phrase to me that i think it’s accidently started working. its like an affrimation. say ‘never kill yourself’ enough times as a joke and maybe you won’t try to kill yourself over minor inconviences anymore

[venatoris]

i made this image for the express purpose of this

[blooberri-rabbiteye]

That image feels like a spiritual successor to this meme:

[a-lighthouse-bird]

this is my favorite meme for this exact reason. It’s literally cognitive restructuring and whoever made it up has definitely unironically saved lives. It’s so so beautiful

[jerreeeeeee]

the way i understand the difference between blorbo and The Character is that blorbo activities are 1. fun and 2. voluntary. when youre rotating blorbo in your mind you’re playing with your tuoys. but when The Character has got ahold of you then you are a tortured artist being plagued by visions

[anghraine]

I really wish fandom would distinguish more between found family and … y’know, having friends.

[liz-squids]

Venn diagram that’s overlapping circles of “found family”, “having friends” and “oh no this is a cult”.

[a-lighthouse-bird]

QPR also don’t forget that one

[a-lighthouse-bird]

The more I learn about academia the more I realize that fandom is just a modern face of the coin.

There isn’t a real difference between a dedicated fan picking apart the themes and narratives underlying Harry Potter and a professor studying Frankenstein…

…except that Mary Shelley would fucking beat J.K.R.’s TERF ass—

…sorry my thought got derailed, what was I saying?? Something about Gawain and Jason Todd—I can’t—can’t remember—

[a-lighthouse-bird]

Does anyone know some birds whose names in languages other than English have cool meanings?

Like in English there is the Goldeneye, the Honeyguide, Meadowlark, Helldiver, Peregrine… or even something like Darter or Warbler?

Also, if anyone knows birds which double as names in other languages, (ex. Robin, Wren, Jay, Phoebe) that would be incredibly helpful as well.

I am trying to do worldbuilding, but unfortunately Wikipedia is not very helpful in this regard. I refuse to not have diversity for such a stupid reason.

Yes, I have looked at hummingbird names in English—if you have not, please go do that, you will not be disappointed.