Reichelt, G. P. View of Orchard Road area near Dhoby Ghaut. Taken between 1982-1997.

祝日 / Permanent Vacation
Alisa U Zemlji Chuda
KIROKAZE

@theartofmadeline
wallacepolsom
RMH
"I'm Dorothy Gale from Kansas"
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JVL

blake kathryn
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occasionally subtle

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Product Placement
Jules of Nature
he wasn't even looking at me and he found me
taylor price
Three Goblin Art
let's talk about Bridgerton tea, my ask is open
Claire Keane
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@bed-lam
Reichelt, G. P. View of Orchard Road area near Dhoby Ghaut. Taken between 1982-1997.
wood engraving today
This whole project was heavily inspired by the work of Lina Shamoon/ Mirrors by Lina (website here, check out her very cool and much higher quality work). My spin on things is definitely not made as well as her stuff, but I'm still loving the effect.
This thing is still bringing me a great deal of joy. It's usually the last thing I see on my way out of the house in the morning and it's very good.
a fossilized keyboard in norwich city centre
What does one do with the weight of memories? Still thinking about how a near-stranger biked and picked us up one at a time because the taxi didn't go into the alley for some reason. The Grab biker whose bike I hopped on in order to get across a flood, who scooted off when I tried to pay him. It's already so tough living in Vietnam, but everywhere people are kind, despite what the locals say about themselves. It was very hot, but then it became cool, and the last night was like a dream. I didn't take pictures at all, but I think I'll remember it for a long time.
If we wanted to engage in nuance (lol, lmao) on the "are audiobooks reading" debate, we really do need to bring literacy, and especially blind literacy, into the conversation.
Because, yes, listening to a story and reading a story use mostly the same parts of the brain. Yes, listening to the audiobook counts as "having read" a book. Yes, oral storytelling has a long, glorious tradition and many cultures maintained their histories through oral history or oral + art history, having never developed a true written language, and their oral stories and histories are just as valid and rich as written literature.
We still can't call listening in the absence of reading "literacy."
The term literacy needs to stay restricted to the written word, to the ability to access and engage with written texts, because we need to be able to talk about illiteracy. We need to be able to identify when a society is failing to teach children to read, and if we start saying that listening to stories is literacy, we lose the ability to describe those systemic failures.
Blind folks have been knee-deep in this debate for a long time. Schools struggle to provide resources to teach students Braille and enforcing the teaching of Braille to low-vision and blind children is a constant uphill battle. A school tried to argue that one girl didn't need to learn Braille because she could read 96-point font. Go check what that is. The new prevalence of audiobooks and TTS is a huge threat to Braille literacy because it provides institutions with another excuse to not provide Braille education or Braille texts.
That matters. Braille-literate blind and low-vision people have a 90% employment rate. For those who don't know Braille, it's 30%. Braille literacy is linked to higher academic success in all fields.
Moving outside the world of Braille, literacy of any kind matters. Being able to read text has a massive impact on a person's ability to access information, education, and employment. Being able to talk about the inability to read text matters, because that's how we're able to hold systems accountable.
So, yes, audiobooks should count as reading. But, no, they should not count as literacy.
Finally, a good fucking take.
“Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson, Journals (1822–1863)
Friedrich Nietzsche, from Thus Spoke Zarathustra
"Now I know something you don’t", Mt Hope Cemetery, Rochester NY
I’m in love with this sentence:
“Don't let someone ruin your peace just because they can't find theirs.”
Miserable people just want to make you as miserable as they are.
I've been using this tool called tumblr-utils to back up my tumblr blogs. it creates a locally navigatable archive of a given tumblr url's posts, which is more convenient than the post soup you get from tumblr's native blog export feature.
what that means is that I have a folder on my computer with the name of my url with an index.html file in it, and when i click on that file to open it in a browser I get a simple page with a list of years and months. selecting a specific month will send me to a list of the posts i made or reblogged in that month, similar to tumblr's own archive page. the contents of the post including images are stored locally on your machine.
It can also make a separate index file that organises posts by tag, which is great if you're a consistent tagger, but it will list every single tag you've ever used so it can take a while to find the tag you're looking for in the list if you're a habitual tag commentator. generating the tag archive also takes a while depending on how many posts have to be processed.
you can make it back up any blog as long as it's not set to private. I have backups of both my main and sideblogs and it keeps them in separate folders.
it's had some trouble going all the way back to the start of my main blog in 2012 just by sheer volume of posts, but by making it fetch posts from one month at a time I've been able to go back to 2015 (that's tens of thousands of posts), which was good enough for my purposes.
it might be a little scary to use if you've never touched the command line before, but there's both text and video instructions to set it up and using it is just a matter of typing the command and letting it do its thing in the background.
This document has a really good guide for setting it up, along with some other options for backup. I've been using tumblr utils for a while myself, and I run an incremental backup once a week.
Luca Ponsato - Does Anyone See My Suffering
Engraved Zippo lighters from the Vietnam War.
~ Cowan’s Auctions
i have too much joie de vivre for this
i’m so serious when i say excessive fear of being annoying/creepy/taking up people’s energy etc holds us back. it seems like it’s just little things but they add up. over the past month i’ve ordered food and drinks almost exclusively by asking “do you have a favorite?” and i know if i said that on twitter or wherever ppl would dogpile me for demanding emotional labor of servers or w/e but every single person i’ve asked has seemed genuinely psyched to answer! i don’t ask if it’s busy obvi, and use a phrasing that gives them the easy out of “i don’t have one”— but no one has taken it! the girl at the cafe confessed to me with something like conspiracy in her voice how everybody raves about the gluten free chocolate chip cookies and sure, they’re great, but the delicious, fluffy homemade waffles are RIGHT THERE. the barbera the bartender recommended was actually kind of awful but it broke the ice and we ended up talking for like 45 minutes. the bodega guy declared that he usually makes himself a burger but tonight was “a breakfast sandwich night” and tbh he was totally right. it WAS a breakfast sandwich night
thank you tumblr user @saw5. tumblr user saw 5 gets it
Chai tea bag + lil but of brown sugar + apple cider packet + 16 oz. mug of hot but not quite boiling water
it will not Fix You but like. maybe. maybe.
tags by @eridan-ampora
Update: this is the best post I've ever made because everyone is sharing their Warm Beverage recipes in the notes. Go check the notes for more Warm Beverages That Will Fix You.
Reblogging to stay on Warm Beverages
@bonsoir-oiseau
The recipe I want to remember, by @dariattic-reblogs:
Warm spiced drink.
Take a pot (about 4-5 liters big) and put in at least 300 grams of frozen berries; you can try any mix of cranberry/raspberry/lingonberry/blackberry/black currant. Cranberry in particular is great for this.
Add one whole orange, sliced somewhat thinly, and sliced fresh ginger, however much you think is reasonable.
Then add one cinnamon stick, one or two star anise, some cloves and some cardamom pods.
Fill the pot with water and put on medium heat. Bring to a boil, reduce to low heat and boil for 30-40 minutes, add sweeteners to taste, turn off the heat and done.
Usually we just let the pot sit on the stove and ladle the drink into our mugs throughout the day. If it's too strong, diluting at 2/3 drink to 1/3 water ratio works.
Image illustrating the natural hue indicated by the phrase "the wine-dark sea"