The Biking Barista

My Life at the moment consists of music, art, coffee, and biking. I used to maintain a music only blog but I think that was too narrow so here I'm going to be taking a much more freeform approach.

[xtcstuff69]

[chavacoffee]

by mas_fotokopi

[weaver-z]

Obsessed with Eartha Kitt’s absolute power move of risking her entire career to drag Lyndon B. Johnson’s bitch ass so hard that his wife started crying

[batmanbeyondrocks]

[caramelgoddess28-deactivated202]

𝕃 𝔼 𝔾 𝔼 ℕ 𝔻

[amodernrenaissanceman]

[kremlin]

this is so fucking funny

[kremlin]

i can't stop thinking about this. this kind of shit is not like milsim plane nerds with their own super-expensive desktop cockpit recreations. that kind of hardware makes sense to exist.

this does not. they're playing world of tanks which is like the "call of duty" of tank games (casual, players only slightly bad-smelling). it also doesn't have support for tank peripherals. no game does. no trainers do afaik. which means that (assuming this isn't just a video editing) all of that shit they are fucking with translates into mouse/keyboard inputs that the game understands. that's weird/hard and perplexing, uh, and considering that "tank peripherals" aren't a thing that exist i can only guess they built them theirselves

which is fucking hilarious because why are they so good. why does the fucking cannon breech have a little dry ice smoke effect when the breech opens like they just shot a shell. what. manual turret traverse crank?? did they build a fucking ready rack!! they're even using the correct phraseology which means one of these mofos read a PDF file

[kremlin]

oh yeah i almost missed the BIG RED CARTOON BUTTON for firing the cannon. which is a very funny choice in the context of all the rest of it. there is nothing that uses big honking red button except emergency stop buttons and that button. let alone firing a tank (trigger on gunner's stick + pull string mechanical backup)

[blackxxnation]

Re-Blog this…. if you know it too.

[gorjessnicole]

🫶🏽💋

[deathstaaar]

Where are the black tumblr users that are still active on here at? please REBLOG

[poisonemerald]

👀

[tarynel]

Would you try Klingon pussy?

[amodernrenaissanceman]

I mean if she got cakes, that what happened to Quark in DS9

[whysoseven]

Okay so I'm tired and bitchy and I've had a rough morning, and because of that I'm probably about to drop an unpopular opinion here, but I really dont care.

Narcissist is starting to become the new sociopath/psychopath/psycho, and I am really, really concerned with where this is heading.

It's the exact same thing I've been seeing for years with my own diagnosis. You say you're a sociopath, and immediately you're now an asshole. I've had people actually ask me if I have ever hurt someone/wanted to hurt someone because I'm a sociopath, and I've had to explain over and over again that no, that's not what that means, it just means empathy is not something that I can experience like everyone else. I can still be compassionate, I can still be a kind person, I can have no desire to hurt anyone ever, but I still get treated like a ticking time bomb. Even though my disorder actually helps me in a job that saves lives (I work in tissue donation, so not feeling empathy makes handling donor tissue from a 15 year old a lot easier), I still get asked by people at that same job about my "secret dark side" and if I ever did/do things like torture animals.

The same thing is happening to narcissists. You say you're a narcissist, and now suddenly you're an abuser. You want to paint someone as a bad person? Call them a narcissist, then everyone will understand how mean and evil they are. I am so sick and tired of seeing tiktoks, tweets, and Tumblr posts going on and on about how horrible narcissists are and how much people hate them. As if narcissists aren't people! As if narcissists aren't people experiencing a personality disorder! Y'all are all about "neurodivergent/mental illness solidarity uwu" until you bring in the "undesirable" mental illnesses and personality disorders, and then suddenly it's "All x people are mean and evil and abusive blah blah blah they can't get better/better themselves blah blah blah here's how to argue with them except I'm not going to actually talk about that I'm actually going to just say how horrible they are and how they're bad people blah blah blah" and it's like shut up! Shut the fuck up! Those are people! Those are real people with real feelings and you're just out here saying they're inherently bad, and for what? For likes? For clout? Do you have any idea how hard it is to come to terms with a diagnosis like that when your view on it is so incredibly skewed, when you think you're being assigned the Bad Person Disease™️ after you've tried so hard to be a kind person and uplift those around you? And now you're left thinking it was all for nothing, because now you can never be a good person no matter how hard you try because you have Bad Person Disease? Do you have literally any idea how damaging that is, and how much that hurts? But hey, ableism isn't ableism when it's against the "bad" people, right?

Anyway, if you're a sociopath, psychopath, narcissist, have bpd, are bipolar in the "wrong" way, are schizophrenic or psychotic, are the "wrong" type of autistic, or anything else, I see you and you're doing amazing. Your diagnosis doesn't dictate who you are and, even though some things are harder for us than they are for others, that doesn't mean you're a bad person.

[jam-etc]

…I want to just draw a fashion zine of just Miss Piggy, oh my god. she is so underrated and underutilized, where is my succession-like muppets satire thing LOL I want it so bad. let me do it disney call me pls

[amodernrenaissanceman]

Or a Miss Piggy keeping up with the hogdashians.

[this-is-cool]

The astonishing sci-fi themed 3d creations of Gal Barkan - https://www.this-is-cool.co.uk/the-astonishing-3d-creations-of-gal-barkan/

[embodiedfutures]

Black is not a dirty word.

Click here for 200+ free social justice and mental health resources. Follow @bfpnola for more!

And please remember, Black is good is a radical concept, but radical concepts are what create change. Keep fighting.

[honest-xpression]

One of the best dance routines I’ve ever watched.

The Nicholas Brothers

[catherine-siena-dr-of-the-church]

I believe these gentlemen are scientifically classified as a liquid.

[southernsassysub-deactivated202]

Diagnosis: sick liquid fire

[schemer-the-goat66]

Didn’t they use these dudes to help animate some of the dancing in Betty Boop?

[lordkevington-deactivated-deact]

Correct!

Even more, they utilized Cab Calloway (the band leader) and used the same rotoscoped piece of him dancing in almost 20 of their shorts!

[allsortsoflicorice]

Amazing

Tap is such an exciting form of dance. 

[hypnospilot]

It gets better. These are the Nicholas Brothers. They did this unrehearsed, in one take.

https://mymodernmet.com/cab-calloway-jumpin-jive-nicholas-brothers/

Legendary Nicholas Brothers Dance Routine Was Unrehearsed and Filmed in One Take

This is one of the best dance routines in history, and it was all done in one take without any rehearsals!

[killerchickadee]

1. That saxophone player who kept leaning out of the way lol

2. These guys must have had thighs of steel!

[mx-malice]

I’ve watched this like a thousand times and I’m so glad it popped up again

[naamahdarling]

UNREHEARSED WHAT IN THE

[coughybean]

HOW THE HELL?

[capricorn-0mnikorn]

How? Well, it helps that they were actual brothers, their father was in Vaudeville, and they’d been dancing together since they were almost bebbies:

Here’s a clip of them from seven years earlier:

[saturnineaqua]

Im so happy i got to meet the younger brother, when i was kid, he visited my dance class at Dance Theatre of Harlem and was just thee coolest mannn i have ever met  !

[weaver-z]

So I found the letter that the Animorphs author and trans ally K. A. Applegate wrote after the series ended and I’m FLOORED

I mean

[frenchroasted]

You want something even crazier? Animorphs ended in May 2001.  She didn’t know what was coming, but damn if she didn’t give her readers a much needed dose of reality about the horrors of war right before we were really going to need it.

[becuzitisbitter]

If you enjoy easily-digestible sci fi, and can get your hands on the animorphs books, I really recommend it. They’re fucking great and thoughtful in a lot of ways you might not have picked up on as a kid. I’ve read the first dozen or so books over the last couple of years and they’ve literally changed the way I look at the world.

[impling]

Not to butt in since the series came along when I was in high school and thus a bit after my time, but I am a librarian and as such I am ALL ABOUT matching people to the books they need in whatever format is available.. You can download the entire series. It’s free.

Applegate’s statement on the piracy subject is quoted from an AMA here for those that have moral issues with it. for those that don’t want to click, she says: “We do not take them down. Or ask for them to be taken down. I think once the books are available to buy—paper or e—it would be nice if people who could afford it would buy. (our kids have very expensive tastes. You know: food and whatnot.) But for years they’ve been unavailable except by ‘pirated’ means. These men and women kept the series alive. They kept the books available. So no, we did NOT take these books down.”

Go forth, and read.

[bitchesgetriches]

Oh hey. The Animorphs books just keep getting more and more relevant to our present circumstances:

Why Animorphs is Frighteningly Relevant in Contemporary Trumpian America 

[amodernrenaissanceman]

No wonder law enforcement is so fucked. I feel like this is how all police departments handle recruiting.

[rocktheholygrail]

Happy Columbus Day!

[allthingsfern]

Call to Action (again)

We got Tumblr’s attention with our past peaceful protest campaigns

Protect the Creators

Bring Back Reply

Protest against hate speech

Bring Back Arch Atlas

Maybe it is time we use our beloved Tumblr to protest this sexist policy that marks female nipples as porn. Tumblr is being extreme in what its decision and policies, and is using a useless algorithm that sees Rothko paintings (see @dailyrothko) and flowers and all kinds of non-porn images as porn.

So, on Monday, 12-17-18, we should not post anything on Tumblr, except the above photo, which is available here. NOTE: You can also add these to your avatar to let anyone who visits your site know about this.

As this post suggests, if we have a queue with images, we should add this one to 12-17-18. As part of our protest, we should not do anything on Tumblr for the whole day: no dashboard, no posts, no comments, chat, replies. We should also, as recommended by @jtmportland, we should also completely log out to show a physical drop in traffic/use.

Nothing on Tumblr, all day, M, 12-17-18. Even log out completely for the day so there is a drop in traffic/use.

Also, please think about putting @staff & @support​ on any and all reblogs of this and any on any posts about this, since this will send them a direct notification of each and every post about this. We need to flood their dashboards so they see we are upset.

Also, please use the staff and support tags.

Again, here is the link to the above sign: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1CWHndyT6EUu1ZKzS_CCUZ4yEJlS6vhcI

[luxlit]

@staff @support

[archatlas]

ARCHatlas supports this!

[freddieardley]

For the basis of freedom alone. Otherwise, this site shouldn’t continue to exist.

[chaosophia218]

Vintage Fringe Science Illustrated Prints. 1. Dark Matter 2. Cryonics 3. Parallel Universe 4. Nano Technology 5. Mutation 6. Psychokinesis 7. Reanimation 8. Hive Mind 9. Transmogrification 10. Hypnosis

[fierceawakening]

These are great. The hive mind graphic is brilliant and I love it.