Scuttle

Anxious Artist | Silmarillion for life. Zelda. Pokemon. Skyrim. Dragon Age. Indigenous. Currently human. Illustrator lost in the layers. Procreate. Soft pastel | Charcoal. Crablor 🦀 | tag: my art WoW has crab pets you know where i am

[mold-muriel]

[hanfugallery]

Chinese hanfu inspired by The Northern Wei dancing and music figurines from Luoyang Museum (photos by 落池)

[fuckyeahchinesefashion]

Cnetizens on Xiaohongshu DIY their own curtains. Some piece together patterned fabric and lace. The upside is great value for money—they cost way less than ready-made curtains you buy in stores. The downside is poor light and heat insulation.

Others just hang up Hanfu skirts as curtains, inspired by the Tang Dynasty tradition of lawn picnic gatherings. Back then, when people went out for picnics, they’d drape their long skirts around the lawn to make makeshift canopies. （cr cunkouyeren，悦风雅 Joy with Grace，林夕kiki，梦还草，卷卷小羊毛，曾寶珠，是张可爱，王星星）

[glowcowboy]

we’re gonna be ok btw

[glowcowboy]

it’s ok if you’re scared. or tired. or unsure. or one million billion other complicated emotions at once. but i’ve decided things are going to be ok anyway. and i will hold that belief close to my heart no matter how scared or tired or lonely or depressed or one million billion other things i am. i will hold onto that. and if you’re scared, you can hold onto me. we can carry each other through

[tgatbc]

[bigbigtruck]

ngl this is the only way i can see a comic through to completion, just do it how i want rather than trying to make anybody happy

[tzikeh]

Maryland to Become First US State to Ban Surveillance Pricing That Charges More After Mining Personal Data

Maryland will become the first US state to ban surveillance pricing in retail stores, after passing Protection from Predatory Pricing Act.

Jesus fucking christ that this exists in the first place

[boyslit]

I WAS FUCKING WONDERING WHAT THOSE DIGITAL PRICE TAGS WERE ABOUT SUDDENLY i had hoped they were so the workers didn't have to finagle those little papers into the slider part anymore 😭

[eclipticasolaris]

Hi, yes, that is the OFFICIAL excuse made to me by the guy replacing the paper tags with digital ones at my local Walmart, but the end goal is to remove the numbers off the shelf entirely, replacing them with QR codes that you have to scan with the app…. Which requires your login information….. and also stores your card information so even if you didn’t use your Walmart account at the physical checkout, if you used a card they recognize, they assign that purchase to your Walmart account purchase history.

I explained very clearly to the manager my issue with the meat section not having the price tags listed, and they claimed it was only going to be for the meat, since meat is by weight, and the price of each item is printed on the packs of each item.

Sure. That’s how they get their foot in the door. Fast forward not even two weeks, and here we are:

Bar codes. No prices, no item descriptions. No price stickers on the individual items. Heck, not even the name of the item that is SUPPOSED to be there.

No. The only way to see the price is to scan it on your phone app, which is also recording what you looked at recently, as a way of gauging what you might be looking for in the future.

So here’s what we’re gonna do gang:

Every time you go into a store that has implemented these price-less tags:

Take 1-3 items up to the cash register. Ask the cashier for the price, or hit the price check item on the self checkout, which will likely call over the attendant.

Express that you didn’t actually want it, you just couldn’t see on the shelf how much it was.

POLITELY, AND WITH A THANK YOU FOR THE PRICE CONFIRMATION, Give the items to the cashier or attendant to put back.

When they inevitably try to push the app, politely decline. If pressed for why not, say you don’t want to have to carry your phone in-hand the whole time you are shopping in order to see how much things cost. (Not having cell service or data to use the app is NOT a valid excuse, as stores already often have complimentary WiFi AND more stores will provide WiFi rather than give up on this push for surveillance pricing)

If it’s a shelf-stable item, the cashier will have to set it aside, taking up room in their limited operating space, and eventually pass it off to someone to put in a holding area to put back later. If it’s a fridge/freezer item, it might have to get tossed due to food product sale regulations.

In either case, you are making it a pain in the ass for them to have these digital bar codes. Tie up the checkouts. Give the employees more busywork that the company has to pay them to do. Hurt their bottom line having to toss the pint of ice cream you carried around in your cart for 20 minutes before giving it back to the cashier.

Yes, call your reps. Yes, push for more legislation like this in more places. But also take an extra minute out of your shopping trip to MAKE IT HURT for companies to pull this shit.

[antisocialxconstruct]

I've seen some people in the notes express (very fair) concern that this is only going to inconvenience already under-paid laborers, and not have any impact on corporate. While I can't speak for every company or every store, I do work in a grocery store and I can tell you this is precisely the kind of thing that would have an impact, especially if people are doing it en masse. Stores absolutely track their shrink numbers, and they do draw distinctions between what gets stolen, damaged, or wasted for other reasons. If people are making it clear that the reason they're bringing things to the cashier is that the prices are not adequately represented on the displays, and rather than improving business it's wasting product, slowing down transactions, and causing confusion and mistrust in customers, that is a language that shareholders speak.

[materassassino]

If there is enough widespread complaint about it at store level, it WILL get back to corporate. You can also make complaints online.

[shencomix]

My Fitness Coach is a Dark Wizard [Complete]

[messsssmer]

"Whimsy" is truly a wretched term. What maketh thee so carefree?

[fireknightqueelign]

thy mother

[messsssmer]

Art thou for fucking real

[bunjywunjy]

Oh goldfish of the webbed site, today tell us an animal fact that YOU want to tell us.

if you cook a penguin egg, the egg white just kind of. stays transparent.

apparently they taste pretty good, but I don't know if I could get past the look if I'm honest

[do-not-go-gently-42]

[nadjasnandor]

consuming media like

[a-silly-poll-side-blog-yay]

the last food you ate is your nickname now how is it going

good

bad

great

awful

results

Remaining time: 4 days 12 hours

[asinoeiv]

Idk if you're still doing little sketch requests, but have ya ever done something with Mahtan? Or have any hc's for Nerdanel's mother? I think they're so underrated

I don't know why, but Nerdanel's mother is a black hole in my head ... I can think of something for the wives of the lords of the Edain but not Nerdanel's mother. 🫠 I sometimes just think he went to Aule and asked for a child. 😂

But I can add that in the Crusader Kings III mod Realms of Exiles she is the daughter of Rúmil which is certainly an intriguing idea. While I like the idea I hc Nerdanel as 'lowborn'. Mahtan owns land and maybe a lord title but it was given to him in honor of his achievements and not by coming from an important house

Ignore the very very rough Aule, besides flaming hair and a very long beard I lack ideas.

[enba-and-luka]

[gothhabiba]

“If a society puts half its children into short skirts and warns them not to move in ways that reveal their panties, while putting the other half into jeans and overalls and encouraging them to climb trees, play ball, and participate in other vigorous outdoor games; if later, during adolescence, the children who have been wearing trousers are urged to “eat like growing boys,” while the children in skirts are warned to watch their weight and not get fat; if the half in jeans runs around in sneakers or boots, while the half in skirts totters about on spike heels, then these two groups of people will be biologically as well as socially different. Their muscles will be different, as will their reflexes, posture, arms, legs and feet, hand-eye coordination, and so on. Similarly, people who spend eight hours a day in an office working at a typewriter or a visual display terminal will be biologically different from those who work on construction jobs. There is no way to sort the biological and social components that produce these differences. We cannot sort nature from nurture when we confront group differences in societies in which people from different races, classes, and sexes do not have equal access to resources and power, and therefore live in different environments. Sex-typed generalizations, such as that men are heavier, taller, or stronger than women, obscure the diversity among women and among men and the extensive overlaps between them… Most women and men fall within the same range of heights, weights, and strengths, three variables that depend a great deal on how we have grown up and live. We all know that first-generation Americans, on average, are taller than their immigrant parents and that men who do physical labor, on average, are stronger than male college professors. But we forget to look for the obvious reasons for differences when confronted with assertions like ‘Men are stronger than women.’ We should be asking: ‘Which men?’ and ‘What do they do?’ There may be biologically based average differences between women and men, but these are interwoven with a host of social differences from which we cannot disentangle them.”

— Ruth Hubbard, “The Political Nature of ‘Human Nature’“

[icarusinfreefall]

reminder that adhd medication isn’t a luxury or preference, but a lifesaving medication. a 10 year long study in the usa showed that, when properly medicated, the rate of car crashes people with adhd get into goes down significantly–men’s rate drops by 38%, and women’s by 42%. the med shortage, denial of meds by doctors, rising prices, and war on drugs has killed–with such a car dependent society, not driving frequently isn’t an option, which means we need better healthcare and need it now.

https://shorturl.at/8VD8B

edit because i forgot to explain: short link is to an article by the washington post, it should be free to read

[icy-moons]

I’m pretty sure there’s also been a study that unmedicated ADHD increases the risk of developing dementia in old age. I’ll get back to yall when I find the study

[icy-moons]

Found it and here’s a Washington Post article if you don’t want to read a medical journal.

[icarusinfreefall]

@icy-moons thank you for this incredibly important addition!!! People with adhd are almost 3 times as likely to get dementia, and the way to prevent that is stimulant medication–more people need to know this

[azcrowleyfell]

Not to mention being properly treated and medicated for ADHD reduces the likelihood of developing an addiction or substance use disorder.

The articles below are free to access, they cite their sources if you wanna check out the studies themselves.

The Truth About ADHD and Addiction

ADHD medication is not a gateway drug. In fact, teens and adults who seek treatment for their ADHD symptoms are much less likely to abuse dr

Treating a Child with ADHD Medication Diminishes His Future Risk of Substance Abuse

To reduce the risk of substance-use disorders, treatment with stimulant medication should begin prior to 9 years of age, according to resear

[frogofthemonth]

If you're reading this you have been DRAFTED into the frog war. The frogs cannot agree on who gets to nap on the good lily pad that floats tranquilly in a sunbeam, so we're all going to get real big and mad and croak real loud at each other until someone wins.

[frogofthemonth]

Update: Frog War has been cancelled, as during the battle all the frogs fell asleep in a big pile on the same lily pad. Please be courteous to the napping frogs if you swim by as all that croaking and being mad has tired them out.

[novanillacake]

Dís serving cunt, as she should🔥