the ol razzle dazzle

to be clear fuck terfs i just like radishes

[milquetoaast]

source

[taffywabbit]

something I really enjoy is that I've now seen like 4 or 5 variations of roughly this same video, all slightly different in their angles and timing while obviously being the exact same bunny and room, implying that this is a consistent and frequent behavior for this bunny instead of just a funny thing it did once that got caught on camera. I wish I could have as much raw unfiltered enthusiasm for anything as this little rabbit has for its dinnertime

[the-king-of-beans-offical]

dont worry little password. I'm insecure too

[madnessofmen]

writing historical fiction is like was there coffee-to-go in 1916. and then getting sucked into a hole about the history of paper cups.

[redacted-metallum]

Was there?

[madnessofmen]

Short answer: No. From what I can tell, paper cups weren't definitively used for coffee until 1920. (1918 if you want to stretch it.) And you would have had to drink them quickly because they weren't very good for holding hot liquids, due to the temperature stripping the waterproofing wax from the paper.

But even after we got hot liquid paper cups in 1922, there's insufficient evidence to say that it was coffee to go. It could be that the normal thing to do was to drink your paper cup of coffee sitting down near the point of sale, or at least standing relatively still. (There's some evidence for it for other beverages.) Lids for paper coffee cups weren't invented until the 1960s (which is when coffee-to-go really took off), so traveling large distances would mean an increased spill risk. That said, it's not impossible that someone was walking around with an open cup of coffee, especially a less than full one, for relatively short distances.

More details and a lot of primary sources below, including a military cooking tournament and paper cup technology (yes that's real).

Coffee in paper cups

Earliest definitive proof of coffee in paper cups is from a newspaper article advertising a military cooking tournament (???) in 1920. Honestly bring this back. Less gun shows, more logistics shows.

There's also this 1920 article about how to organize a picnic, where they specify using paper cups for coffee and cocoa. You could reasonably extend this backwards a year or two as "it was known before being published".

While the luncheon is being eaten, coffee and cocoa may be passed in pots to fill the paper cups found in the baskets.

Paper cups as portable drinking implements

This collapsible paper cup set c1920 was distributed to travelers by Socony automotive service stations. The text indicates portable use of paper cups: paper cups / for picnics and motoring— / traveling, too.

Drinking milk from paper cups in the transit terminal in 1922. This indicates that it was common to stand while drinking from a paper cup, as opposed to sitting at the booth or tables near it, which was common for conventional dishware.

Paper cups marketed to concession stands, 1918

Paper cup technology

This bit is a speculative, but the vibe I get pre 1918 is that paper cups were mostly considered too low quality to actually sell beverages in. I think it was a matter of not seeming like a quality experience to be paying for, with people preferring glass over paper cups in 1911. But this changed with the Spanish flu in 1918, where health officials demanded that soda fountain shops either sterilize their glasses or switch to individual paper cups. By 1919, Dixie was advertising using paper cups for soda foundations.

Paper cup technology actually did not develop enough to withstand hot drinks until 1922. This is when many ads for heat resilient paper cups by F. N. Burt Co. show up in trade publications. Earliest is 30 Mar.

Luellen, the man behind Dixie Cup, filed a patent on 6 May 1922

[The previous paper cup] has been restricted in use primarily to cold drinks and liquids, and has been unsuited for hot drinks for several well-known reasons. The paraffin which is relied upon to retain the pleats or folds in proper position, is susceptible to melting under the heat of the hot liquid when poured into the cup, and which on account of its lighter specific gravity will float on top of the liquid and spoil the drink. Furthermore, the melting of the parafin permits the cup folds to open up, thus breaking down the walls under the weight of the liquid and destroying the usefulness of the cup.

My present invention eliminates the objectionable characteristics alluded to, and has for its object the construction of a one piece paper cup, that will be serviceable as a holder for heated or hot drinks or liquids, and which will, when filled therewith, retain its rigidity and shape for the time necessary for the consumption or use of the contained liquid.

This was a noted weakness in the invention in 1907. It could withstand cold or room temperature drinks indefinitely, but could only be used for hot drinks like tea or coffee once or twice. They were picked up for soda fountains very early on.

Note: there is one earlier ad in Billboard in 1920 for a hot drinks paper cup, but I assign it less credibility given that it's not a trade journal, and it didn't really catch on. Likely an overstated marketing claim.

I think mid to late 1922 is a reasonable start date for when vendors could begin selling coffee in paper cups, as opposed to charitable organizations distributing it for free.

Sale of coffee in paper cups

There was a patent filed in 1953 for a paper cup that resembles a traditional coffee cup. The author comments on difficulty in public adoption of paper cups for hot drinks.

For the most part, the paper hot drink cup has been used only where dish-washing facilities are not available, as at outdoor picnics, the serving of emergency food rations and the like. Only infrequently, if at all, does one find a paper hot drink cup used in restaurants, cafeteries or similar public eating places. On the other hand, paper cups and dishes are quite commonly used in such establishments for cold foods and beverages. It is not unreasonable to suppose that the reason for this difference in usage is to be found in the tastes and preferences of the eating public.

The evidence I've been able to find throughout the 20s corroborates this. Nearly every establishment used ceramic cups and saucers: factory cafeterias, railway cars, even self-serve automats (like 7-11). I was only able to find two definitive use cases of paper cups for coffee:

Racetrack, 5 April 1930

The race-track lunchers, with paper cups of coffee in one hand and hot dogs in the other,

House republican cloakroom in 1929.

The Speaker conferred with his advisers, medical and otherwise, and it was decided that the lunch counter might be recommissioned on condition that it comply with modern rules of sanitation. Under the old order, the cloakroom dispensary used common drinking cups in supplying coffee and sandwiches were sold unwrapped. Now coffee is served in individual paper-mache cups and all sandwiches are carefuly encased in paper wrappers."

The wording here indicates that they were merely catching up on an established standard, rather than it being a new practice. Unfortunately, I could not find any earlier instances between 1922 and 1929 of it being standard practice to serve coffee in paper cups. I spent hours going through various image archives looking for people holding paper cups at coffee booths or concession stands, at sporting events and fairs/exhibitions, but they were all ceramic or enamel or indeterminate. So this is where the trail ends for me. If anyone wants to pick up the torch and continue this quest, I'd be very interested in where you take it.

[madnessofmen]

I actually ended up on this avenue of inquiry during my research. The wikipedia article for coffee culture is absolutely savage about it haha

[scienceoftheidiot]

Perfect picture tag, no notes. 🤣

Thanks for replying 😁

[tlirsgender]

Things people hate hearing:

You are capable of harm

You have some level of power and agency

Ergo it is your responsibility to communicate your needs and boundaries

If you lie to someone about something being okay when it isn't, that is on you

Something being a trauma response doesn't exempt it from harming your relationships and the other people in them

Enabling your trauma responses will not make them go away, and it is your responsibility to work on yourself for your own wellbeing as well as the people around you

Being A Victim cannot be a pillar of your identity forever, and being victimized does not make you incapable of harming other people (see above)

You are not a mouse in a jean jacket you are an eel with a gun / adult human being who can use your words even if it's Scary

Having a personality disorder doesn't make you evil but you have got to get off of Personality Disorder Tumblr (see above, re: enabling)

[tlirsgender]

Deep sigh. You want me to ~be compassionate~ here's the compassionate answer: your trauma will tell you you're a helpless child forever and you need to Not Think This Way for yourself (living under the assumption you're still in danger whether you actually are or not) and everyone else who has to tiptoe around your Sensitivity. That's how you break the cycle and you can only do this by accepting responsibility for your actions. And it seems like a small semantic thing but imo step one is calling yourself a survivor instead of a victim. Self identifying with your victimhood helps No One. You lived, now get up

[catfancyceo]

Let's kill this guy with mama.

[sapper-in-the-wire]

[animelionessmika]

[borg-collective-deactivated2023]

[whencartoonsruletheworld]

not to "trying to be chill but can't help noticing how misogyny bleeds through the cracks etc etc" but once you realize that almost none of the cute disney comic relief sidekicks are women you can't unsee it. like that thing only exists to do some slapstick and look cute for plushies. why can't it be a woman. why are ALL of them he/him. it's driving me fucking insane

[whencartoonsruletheworld]

I would like to formally apologize to everyone. I had no idea what consequences my actions would create but I should have been more careful anyway. I should have remembered this is a Genie Website and I should have clarified that when I want more female nonhuman comedic relief characters, I did not mean I wanted Olaf the Snowman to have an intensely heterosexual love interest in Frozen 3. I will do my best to go through each post with a team of lawyers going forwards to ensure this never happens again.

[mvtk42]

#I think the fact that all female nonhuman comic relief sidekicks are sequel-introduced love interests just proves your point tbh @aro-narcissus

[sunsetbuddie]

when you say something awkward and stupid in a social situation that probably no one will remember except you for the rest of time

[disuse]

hate it when people call ada lovelace the first female programmer, when in reality she was the first programmer ever. she wrote programs for a machine before it was ever constructed

[freshcuntgrass]

Ada Lovelace was the first programmer and Charles Babbage was the first male programmer.

[napoleononthebellerophon]

the amount of lawsuits these exploited children are going to be filing 20 years from now is going to be crazy and im all for it

[prospitianescapee]

Source is Instagram user thatmodernlife. Per Reddit, this post was deleted quickly, and was captioned:

[ahighlyfunctionalfangirl]

content team? does she mean her kids? i hate mom creators already but oh my god

[godlessondheimite]

extra level of grotesquerie is she wrote this with ai

[olderthannetfic]

I was at a meetup, and someone was bitching about thrift shopping. They wanted somewhere where clothes are like five bucks and not total trash, etc. etc. I found myself more annoyed than it really warranted. The villain here isn't them, but the total straight faced "Recommend me somewhere that has the 90s thrifting experience" as though people had just not given them the right rec yet was so headache-inducing.

Wake up! It's not the one thift shop you went to! The entire sector has turned to shit as other things have and for the same usual reasons of economic hardship, new clothing production all being rancid trash so that nothing good is even available to become secondhand clothing, and a thousand types of social media-driven side hustle where people instantly snap up the good shit and either resell it online for 5x the cost or chop it up for fugly upcycles.

The 90s US thrift shopping experience is dead. If you want to recapture it, you have to look very hard for the right shop, probably not somewhere super accessible and convenient, or you have to explore the vast quantity of local yard sales run by people who don't know what they have. I've seen Shein trash offered for $20 at my local thrift store and cashmere sweaters in the free box at the curb. Most of my wardrobe came, for free, from somebody's dead grandma's closet after the official estate sale was done and they just needed everything gone. The landscape is simply different now.

In other news, I'm reknitting the cuffs on my Halloween/fall sweater, and we're having freeeezing weather that makes it not only finally wearable but one of the most useful pieces of clothing I own.

[mikkeneko]

This is why I feel people really need to understand that thrifting, while worthwhile to do for a number of reasons, is not and cannot be a systemic solution to the problem of high clothing costs/meeting clothing needs for low-income populations.

The secondary economy depends on the primary economy. If no one is buying new clothes, no new clothes will go into the thrift pool. If clothes are poor quality enough that they disintegrate within a few years of manufacture, then the clothes in the thrift pool will not be wearable quality.

You cannot 'just thrift it' your way out of manufacture collapse.

[damejoansutherland]

side benefit of communal all-gender restrooms is that they may be our best chance to shame cis men into washing their hands

[wizardarchetypes]

I’m lying on my belly beneath birch trees, talking to my long distance best friend on the phone, absentmindedly picking up fallen pieces of bark and peeling them apart. then i picked one up that has a poem written on it?!

… / first summer after the divorce / … / waiting in the park / my teenagers on their phones / roses still in bloom / … /

[thestuffedalligator]

“Toymaker” as a job description in fairy tale fiction is one of my favourite bullshit occupations. “Dollmaker” is fine, “carpenter who makes wooden toys as a side hustle between jobs” is fine, but so many stories have a character whose entire occupation is described as “toymaker” and is heavily implied if not explicitly confirmed to have made all of the toys in their shop, from wood boats to plush animals to porcelain dolls to music boxes to tin soldiers, all made under the tiny hammer of one person.

And it’s not impossible for one person to be at once a highly talented seamstress and tinsmith and carpenter and clockwork engineer and every other talent in the world that would allow you to build everything from china dolls to rocking horses, but to be all that and then single-handedly supply the whole stock of an entire toy store? In a rural whimsical little fairy tale village?? By themselves???

[thestuffedalligator]

#toymakers are in many ways the van helsings of whimsy. (via @mordredsheart)

[thedorkdionysia]

i think it would do a lot of people good to remember that Mormons are white supremacists, no nuance, no debate, no arguing how they've gotten "more diverse", their whole belief system is fundamentally rooted in white supremacist ideals

[beardedmrbean]

[hometoursandotherstuff]

[beardedmrbean]