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[liberalsarecool]

Vaccines work.

[denverfarmboy]

[masonpowellposts]

And just in case you are too young to recognize this scene: those are Iron Lungs, and each one has a child in it, the device keeping the child in it breathing. It wasn’t just about being paralyzed and confined to a a wheel chair.

When you went back to school in the Autumn each year you looked around at your class to see how many of your school mates had been taken out by Polio.

[idontgettechnology]

Let’s talk about something else Polio-related! Post-Polio Syndrome. Do you know anyone who had it?

Probably not!

I do! My in-laws were in their forties when they adopted my husband and as such, my father-in-law was one of the lucky kids stricken with Polio was a child in the 30s.

Now, he really was one of the lucky ones because he survived the initial bout of Polio. However, he had permanent damage to his lungs, joints and muscles. As he got older, he was in constant pain. He had heart problems, breathing problems, he was exhausted all the time. His last few years were horrible, not just for him, but for his family and friends who watched him decline much more rapidly than his wife and others his age.

I’m telling you this secondhand, because I never got to meet him. He died in his early 60s because of the effects of Post-Polio Syndrome.

Most of us don’t know someone with Post-Polio. We are all going to know someone with Post-COVID Syndrome, or Long-COVID, as they are calling it. And the effects are going to be bad and they’re going to vary. A lot of people are going to be living lives that are much shorter and much less pleasant than they need to be because of this fucking anti-vax mentality.

Get. Your. Vaccines.

[bad-moodboard]

“Forest Sampler” - machine quilted paper, hand embroidery, paper sculpture, beading.  Displayed in an antique printer’s tray. by Lost Lake Studio

[knottybliss]

Y’ALL

[pattinsonsupremacy]

simu liu used to model for stock images and now he’s using them as reaction pics- THIS MAN IS TRULY SOMETHING ELSE I LOVE HIM

[thegreatpeanut]

love ur art!!! just a q about your brushes!!! do you always use your watercolour-esque ones, because in some of your pieces (namely the hunting dad reigen and his sons one) it doesnt have the texture as much??? i’m just curious because i love your style and can always tell its you, even when your rendering isn’t exactly the same in each of your delicious pieces, and honestly i’m in awe <3 thank you for sharing your art!

thank you so much! I switch around between rendering styles (ie. this vs this), but with the watercolour brushes I use the same 3-5 brushes for every piece. The textures vary depending on how I use the brushes haha sometimes I lose the texture if I overlap strokes too much.

With the matsutake hunting piece, you can see the texture up close!

especially here..

I am so inconsistent with style because I just want to try everything o(-( but I'm glad that you can tell it's me!! asdkljdsfh thank you!!! <3

[yehudah]

the noise she makes.....

[mohtz]

when you grow but the walls around you stay the same

[strifetxt]

during world war 2, “punk” was slang for an effeminate gay man, or the younger partner in a homosexual relationship

bucky affectionately calls steve the 40s equivalent of “twink”

[partytimexelent]

could we have a source for this because this is just too damn good. 

[chujo-hime]

Punk generally denoted a physically slighter youth who let himself be used sexually by an older and more powerful man, the wolf, in exchange for money, protection, or other forms of support.

From George Chauncey’s Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay Male World, 1890-1940, page 88

[partytimexelent]

Oh my god I just screamed out loud, this is fucking legit. *FREAKS THE FUCK OUT*

[historicallyaccuratesteve]

More on the history of the term “punk” (from the Online Etymology Dictionary):

punk (adj.) “inferior, bad,” 1896, also as a noun, “something worthless,” earlier “rotten wood used as tinder” (1680s), “A word in common use in New England, as well as in the other Northern States and Canada” [Bartlett]; perhaps from Delaware (Algonquian) ponk, literally “dust, powder, ashes;” but Gaelic spong “tinder” also has been suggested (compare spunk “touchwood, tinder,” 1580s). punk (n.2) “worthless person” (especially a young hoodlum), 1917, probably from punk kid “criminal’s apprentice,” underworld slang first attested 1904 (with overtones of “catamite”). Ultimately from punk (n.1) or else from punk “prostitute, harlot, strumpet,” first recorded 1590s, of unknown origin. For sense shift from “harlot” to “homosexual,” compare gay. By 1923 used generally for “young boy, inexperienced person” (originally in show business, as in punk day, circus slang from 1930, “day when children are admitted free”). The verb meaning “to back out of” is from 1920.

So yeah, it can mean “twink,” but it also has/had some other meanings in the 1930s.

[liberalsarecool]

We need to rethink the walking city.

[thisisnotmyhomeplanet]

[doubleca5t]

the funny thing about the whole "no one wants to work" trend is that this is, hypothetically, how wages are supposed to go up naturally under capitalism. When wages are too low, workers refuse to work, so businesses raise their wages. The problem is that american companies are so used to paying people scraps and so far removed from the idea of workers having any kind of power or demanding some degree of dignity that they're just completely dumbfounded by this. When everyone refuses to work, their first instinct isn't "oh, our wages are too low" it's to post signs complaining about kids these days and begging people to pwease pwease come back to work I pwomise you won't get the cowonaviwus whiwe being yewwed at by a woman who compwains they made hew food wrong and demands a comped dessewt befowe leaving you a $2 tip

[academic-ana]

“As early as the 1920s, researchers giving IQ tests to non-Westerners realized that any test of intelligence is strongly, if subtly, imbued with cultural biases… Samoans, when given a test requiring them to trace a route form point A to point B, often chose not the most direct route (the “correct” answer), but rather the most aesthetically pleasing one. Australian aborigines find it difficult to understand why a friend would ask them to solve a difficult puzzle and not help them with it. Indeed, the assumption that one must provide answers alone, without assistance from those who are older and wiser, is a statement about the culture-bound view of intelligence. Certainly the smartest thing to do, when face with a difficult problem, is to seek the advice of more experienced relatives and friends!”

— Jonathan Marks - Anthropology and the Bell Curve (via leofarto)

[tiktoksthataregood-ish]

[arsnof]

1-800-ARE-YOU-GENTLY-SLAPPIN

[whitepeopletwitter]

[luntfontanne]

you have a problem with minor making boundaries on who they want to interact with? like seriously the purpose of carrds is to establish boundaries, like cranky that you couldnt interact with someone?

i have a problem with minors willingly placing so much incredibly personal information in a single place on the internet where literally anyone can see it and especially with the culture that has normalized this to the point where it is expected and anyone who doesn’t want to share that information is automatically viewed as suspicious.

you have 13/14-year-old kids listing all sorts of information that makes them vulnerable to predators (including the fact that they are 13/14!!! that makes them vulnerable!!) and that can make it easier to narrow down their real life identity. that specific tweet didn’t talk about location but i have seen children list their location and what school they go to, and that genuinely terrifies me. i’ve seen lgbt teenagers making public tweets about how they’ve been kicked out by their homophobic parents and need a place to stay in a specific city—you are literally broadcasting the fact that you are young and vulnerable and your family isn’t looking for you!! ANYONE can see that! that’s fucking dangerous!!!

and the idea that you should list your triggers all in one place is also incredibly dangerous, like i know the point is to let people know what to avoid but what you’re actually doing is giving potential bullies or predators a ready-made list of things they can use to hurt and harrass you. all of the things that that person listed as “basic info” is stuff that can be used to target you. it lets other people know you’re part of an in-group, yes, but it also puts a target on your back. i’ve gotten racist hate messages, homophobic hate messages, rape and death threats, and i’m fine because i’m an adult and i’m not online that much, but it still takes its toll and i cannot IMAGINE being 13 and opening yourself up to those things online because everyone is now expected to list their race and sexuality and fucking trauma and medical diagnoses for everyone to see as soon as they click their profile.

the problem with saying “xyz people dni” is that only the polite and respectful people will actually listen and not interact with you. the people who you should actually be worried about, the people who actually actively want to hurt you, will use the information that you have willingly provided them to target you. do you think putting “terfs and fascists dni” on your carrd is actually going to stop terfs and fascists from interacting with you? if they want to hurt you they will hurt you, expecting them to respect boundaries just because you have publicly stated them is leaving yourself extremely vulnerable.

make boundaries by using the block button liberally, or like i don’t know setting your fucking profile to private. protect yourself by valuing your own privacy and not actively providing people who might harm you with the exact tools and ammunition they can use to do so.

the idea that i could only be upset by this trend because i ??? want to disrespect people’s boundaries???? is so fucking bizarre. i made that post because i am legitimately terrified for these children’s safety. not to be all kids these days, but LITERALLY kids these days are sharing their face, their identities, their entire lives, with the entire internet on a public platform without a second thought, and expecting their peers to do that as well, and it has real repercussions.

[jeza-red]

“ like cranky that you couldnt interact with someone? “

This part of that anon ask genuinely fascinates me. Because, in their head, how does it work? Wat’s going to stop that ‘interaction’ from occuring? How is providing personal information going to stop someone form interacting with a *gasp* minor on, say, tumblr.com? 

I mean, as stated above, it will only stop people who are already morally sound enough to politely respect the dni - but these are not the people anyone should be worried about. They are already safe and doing their own thing. It’s the people who ignore the dni that are the issue.

so, basically, anon is insinuating there that PM is a morally unsound person by expressing their moral soundness by respectfully heeding the warning? 

This is some space logic right there Oo  

[whitepeopletwitter]

[datasoong47]

“A collection of common glyphs of the poorly understood Memeorite civilization of the Second Silicon Age. Memeorite glyphs possess multiple conflicting interpretations and a complexity of meaning impossible to capture in a few short words. These are rough translations only.”

Source: https://twitter.com/beach_fox/status/1325668490431246336 (which include more “memeorite glyphs”

[lazorsandparadox]

[lazorsandparadox]

Beach_fox made a second one

Beachfox on Twitter

“I had no idea how much interest there was for studies on the languages of the lost Memeorite civilization. I’ve pulled together some additi

[lazorsandparadox]

And the decoded version. Fuck joseph ducreax for having a hard to remember name

[asiaraymonet]

Surya Bonaly, world renowned French skater whose trademark move is her backflip, where she only lands on one blade in order to keep the move legal. She’s amazing!

[ethniccrying]

Yoooooo

[lesbian-moon-gf]

it always amuses me when I remember the ice skating community banned this phenomanal move because a black person literally had raised the bar and white people were too bitter to do better so they banned a move that would add progress to the sport.

and then she raised the bar again 

someone make this into a movie. fuck it, i’ll do it

[jinlinli]

ok ok so every time this post shows up on my dash, i get a little miffed because it presents this narrative that isn’t consistent with reality. it misrepresents surya’s career. first, there seems to be this implication that the isu banned the backflip because surya was the first skater to perform the backflip, and they didn’t like that because she’s black. 

i mean, surya did not pioneer the backflip. she herself stated that her coach suggested that she start doing backflips on ice because of a skater named norbert schramm who was performing them in europe at the time. scott cramer pulled off 10,032 backflips over the course of his career, and he retired seven years before surya even began competing. surya is THE FIRST AND ONLY skater in history to perform a backflip and land on one skate in competition, but the most important part of it wasn’t the feat itself but WHY SHE DID IT. 

and ok, the first person to successfully do a backflip on ice was skippy baxter in an ice show in the 1940s. there has only been one legal backflip performed in actual competition by terry kubicka in 1976. immediately after he pulled it off, the isu banned the move from competitions. please note that yes, terry kubicka was a white male figure skater. and for context, surya was born in 1973. i sincerely doubt that the isu was banning the backflip because of a THREE-YEAR-OLD. 

the isu had very good non-racism related reasons for banning the backflip because well, figure skating is fucking hard. i think we frequently underestimate just how difficult it is because of how easy they make it look. i mean top figure skaters are still working on consistently landing quad jumps in competition. it’s so easy to flub a jump and get injured, and it’s super common for skaters to spend huge chunks of the off season not training because they’ve injured themselves.

SO DO YOU HAVE ANY IDEA JUST HOW FUCKING DANGEROUS IT WOULD BE IF BACKFLIPS WERE ALLOWED IN COMPETITIVE SKATING???? if you mess this move up, you’re not just going to break an ankle or fuck up your muscles, you’d break your neck on the ice. you could FUCKING DIE. and this is by no means the first or last move to get banned by the isu for being too dangerous. (the one that comes to mind is the head banger death spiral because seriously what a name).

the reason why this is just so upsetting to me is because i feel like you guys are really simplifying surya’s narrative. yes, surya was a FUCKING BADASS. LIKE HER FIRST SEASON IN SENIOR COMPETITIONS, SHE LANDED A BACKFLIP DURING PRACTICE RIGHT IN FRONT OF MIDORI ITO, THE FAVORITE FOR THE 1992 OLYMPICS. IN THE SAME COMPETITION, SHE BECAME THE ONLY WOMAN TO EVER ATTEMPT A QUAD TOE LOOP IN COMPETITION, and the first time anyone had even successfully pulled that off was a mere three years earlier. 

and yes, surya had to deal with A LOT of racism. because of her skin color and her build and her athleticism and her style, she didn’t fit into the “ice princess”. they pegged her as a rebel, and they treated her as such. the judges were constantly nitpicking her skating style and criticizing her artistry because she wasn’t this light and graceful skater that they thought female figure skaters should be. (black ballerinas suffer from the same plight). she was constantly pushing the boundaries, but she consistently got lower scores than her white counterparts. and despite that, she was A THREE-TIME WORLD SILVER MEDALIST, A FIVE-TIME EUROPEAN CHAMPION, AND A NINE-TIME FRENCH NATIONAL CHAMPION.

in the 1994 world championships, surya’s final score tied for first place with yuka sato’s. it came down to a tiebreaker vote, and the judges picked yuka because she fit in better with the ice princess image. surya knew why she the judges didnt pick her. during the awards ceremony, she refused to step onto the medals podium and took off the silver medal. she was crying, and the crowd was booing at her.

the 1998 olympics was going to be surya’s last hurrah. she knew that the 97-98 season would be her last. when the judges gave her a low score on her short program for surprise surprise racist reasons, she knew that there was no way that she could win. 

so surya decided to make a point. 

she hadn’t planned to do this from the start because she knew that the move was illegal and doing it could get her disqualified, but after seeing her short program score, surya basically on the spot decided to replace the triple in her free skate with the backflip landing on one skate. she hadn’t been training for this move specifically, she just pulled it off right then and there on the olympic stage. and while the backflip was banned for being too dangerous, another reason for it to be banned was because the skater would land on both skates, and jumps are always landed with one skate.

surya pulling off this banned move was basically her last FUCK YOU to the judges because they’d been screwing her over since the start of her career. she was challenging them by making a previously illegal move technically legal. the judges didn’t disqualify her, but they didn’t accept the move as legal either, and they deducted points from her score, so surya placed 10th overall. BUT THAT DIDNT MATTER. when surya finished her program, she turned her back on the judges (a huge no-no because it is highly disrespectful) because she didn’t care about their opinion at this point. SHE’D MADE HISTORY. their decision wouldn’t change that.

(surya performs the backflip at 3:28)

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[ineffectualdemon]

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