Be The Light

27 | INFJ | Feminist | Bisexual | Nerd | Liberal

[nativenews]

[nativenews]

[mariusu]

cat at the window (by * Patrícia *)

[alamangoes]

🌞 sunrise, sunset 🌞

[feministism]

[kiwianaroha]

She took up acting because the malnutrition she suffered under the nazis permanently damaged her health and prevented her from pursuing her dream to be a ballerina. During the war, she danced to raise money for the resistance - even though she was literally starving, she used what strength she had to make sure more nazis got shot. 

[neveria]

She and her mom also denounced their royal heritage because of the Nazis in their family

[antiracistfeministanarchy]

Also Audrey was a humanitarian until her death, though ill with cancer, she continued her work for UNICEF, travelling to Somalia, Kenya, the United Kingdom, Switzerland, France and the United States.

[abbeydoesthings]

These are things I literally never would have known about. I’m tired of women being painted as just being pretty.

[belleandwhistle]

I’M SO HAPPY TO SEE HER AT AN OLDER AGE I SWEAR!

[kittiesatemypronouns]

Here’s another nice one.

[witchaj]

For the longest time I assumed she had died really young because I never saw any pictures of her at an older age. She was an amazing woman.

[guerrillatech]

[lierdumoa]

"If stuff was just handed to me I'd have no motivation to do anything! That's human nature!" No, babe, that's depression. Psychologically healthy people are still motivated to do things even when their survival isn't being actively threatened.

[percyfraser]

BRENDAN FRASER accepts the award for ‘Best Actor’ at the 28th Critics Choice Awards (January 15, 2023)

[metautske]

FUCK YEAH BRENDAN FRASER

[hustlemeanokay]

YES

[bundibird]

X

[aanakin]

Bad news first, always.

[shortvideosandstuff]

[fluoresensitivearchived]

oh to be a bear … get fat, go to sleep n wake up in spring

[guerrillatech]

[quasi-normalcy]

If you’re going to talk about “Russian oligarchs” (which you should, because public life in Russia is dominated by corrupt billionaires), then you need to also normalize use of the term “American oligarchs”, since the USA has a higher Gini coefficient than Russia does.

[quasi-normalcy]

Going to bring this back since apparently the infamous American oligarch Michael Bloomberg is pitching a hissy fit about people pointing out that he’s an oligarch.

[boychic-deactivated20230922]

reminds me of seeing this article and thinking… we already live in a constitutional oligarchy? it’s already not a democracy.

[azularedemptionarcwhen]

Sometimes I think about how insane the ATLA plot is for a children’s show…like???

“Okay so our main character experienced the genocide of his entire culture and is constantly running from the pain of it, and he’s traveling with two siblings still grieving the loss of their mother, who was killed during a colonial raid.”

“Sure…but how do we convey that the Big Bad antagonist is Evil for our 9-15 year old audience demographic?

“I know! We’ll have him horrifically burn off half the face of his young son for telling him that he should not kill child soldiers.”

“And how do we raise the stakes from that later in the show?”

“He’ll um…attempt mass ethnic genocide again while he psychologically torments his other young child to the point of insanity?”

“Brilliant. Let’s air it between SpongeBob reruns”

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

That’s a perfectly acceptable show for children but it is a funny contrast to Spongebob reruns.

[azularedemptionarcwhen]

And I feel like I should clarify: This post is not a complaint; it’s a celebration of the intense elements.

I really love that a children’s show was willing to go there. I adored & never missed an episode of ATLA as a 9yo child in part because it never shied away from portraying the kind of problems experienced by me & people my age (e.g. physical abuse, racism, sexism, disconnection from culture, alienation from family, grief, etc).

….but it’s still very funny that ATLA, a show with the kind of intense elements that adult shows wouldn’t even touch, used to air between reruns of SpongeBob and Catdog.

[azulasnailtech]

[chamacafeahorrible]

getting into the shower: evil evil evil

being in the shower: there is no past and there is no future, there is just the here and now, i am alone but i am not lonely, i am calm and one with the universe, existence is sublime

getting out of the shower: evil evil evil (wet version)

[only-tiktoks]

[hasufin]

Now, see, if you were talking a $10,000 sedan, sure. I would not be shocked if it were low quality.

But a Tesla Model 3 - the cheapest of the Teslas - is $45,000. That puts it in the price range of most luxury cars. And let’s not talk about the S and X models, which are around $100,000, putting them in the price range of... a house, in a moderate cost-of-living area.

For that price, I would expect laser-perfect precision. Not janky construction. I mean, calling them “affordable” is already one hell of a conceit. The initial outlay on a Tesla is ridiculous. Even with them being supposedly free to charge forever, even if you assume you don’t have to spend money on maintenance, their TCO is still worse than most equivalent vehicles on the market.

I want an EV, truly I do. But I don’t think it’ll ever be a Tesla.

[landvaettir-deactivated20221007]

So I recently started working as a Vehicle Condition Report Writer. I’ve been on the job for a short enough time that I’ve only done one actual tesla, But they sell a lot of cars through my company. Fucking worst car I have ever CR’d. The superficial damage that is most of my job was minimal, but just navigating how to make the car work was the fucking worst. Nothing on the smart key is fucking labeled so I just had to guess until things worked. And one of the things I have to do is take a picture of the engine. Guess how you open the hood. If you guessed go through like 3 separate menus on a 2′x4′ touch screen, you would be correct. Unlike every other car, where you only have to find a lever sometimes hidden around the driver’s side door. What even are you supposed to do if the battery dies because the electronics go bad. Can’t jump it because you can’t pop the hood. Can’t pop the hood because the battery is dead. And if that touch screen goes bad, you’re just fucked so bad you can’t even use the car.

Also the engine isn’t underneath the hood so I got confused and just took a picture of the storage space under the hood. Nobody corrected me.

Teslas are just bad cars y’all.

[theclockworkjudas]

Man trapped in new Tesla barely escapes after car erupts in flames

A Pennsylvania man out for a drive earlier this week in his brand new Tesla Model S Plaid found himself trapped as the car burst into flames

People have literally been trapped (and killed in at least one case) due to a battery fire causing the door electronics to malfunction and lock them in a burning vehicle

[yourneighborwiththecutedog]

Man burned "beyond recognition" inside Tesla after defective doors turned car into "death trap," lawsuit alleges

Lawsuit said doctor died after handles failed to "auto present" to those trying to save him after he crashed into tree.

Ohio mom of five killed in Tesla crash: Battery kept reigniting

Christy Corder, 41, died after crashing her car into a pole and tree, which caused the car to overturn and catch fire. She was pronounced de

keep in mind he wants these things in tunnels.

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

Everything Musk’s company produces looks like it was designed by science fiction fans who stopped at “wouldn’t it be cool if...” and never took an engineering class in their life.

And then outsourced construction to the lowest bidder with no quality control.

[i-was-today-years-old-when]

i learned about Marion Stokes, a Philadelphia woman who began taping whatever was on television in 1979 and didn’t stop until her death in 2012.. The 71,000 VHS and Betamax tapes she made are the most complete collection preserving this era of TV. They are being digitized by the Internet Archive. (x)

[followthebluebell]

i feel like this is selling her a bit short tbh.  It’s not like she was a random woman who decided to tape ‘whatever’ was on television.  She was a civil rights activist and archivist, who was extremely concerned about preserving history.  She believed that, by taping television, she would be preserving history EXACTLY as it was perceived at the time; she didn’t want the detail in the news to disappear with time.  And she was RIGHT.

Like I said, she didn’t just tape ‘whatever’ was on television.  It was extremely targeted towards news stations.  There were 8 VCRs running at all times in her home.  Her life—-and her family’s lives—-were centered around 6 hour blocks, since that was the amount of time that a tape would record for.  Her collections were also extremely organized. 

[archivlibrarianist]

The Marion Stokes Movies and Video Collection may be found on the Internet Archive here.

Wikipedia’s article on Marion Stokes may be found here.

A documentary of her life, Recorder: the Marion Stokes Project, was released in 2019, and seems to have good reviews, though I have not yet seen it.