Brah...I Fix Em

Hawaiian Adventures in Construction and DIY

[st-pam]

[north-peach]

Please.

[thefringeperson]

From the depths of my depressed, unemployed, little black heart.  PLEASE.

[brahifixem]

That would be great… thanks.

[brahifixem]

Decolonized Thanksgiving supper: Three sisters salad w/ kidney & black beans, black-eyed peas, winged beans, roasted kabocha and acorn squash, red pepper and red onion w/ sesame ginger dressing on a bed of greens; Mashed ube; Saltimbocca. (at Big Island, Hawaii) https://www.instagram.com/p/CWubVz6FSad/?utm_medium=tumblr

[brahifixem]

Jalapeño tequila margarita and ube (purple sweet potato infused) lemon drop martini @forchawaii happy hour. Sooo ono!! (at FORC Restaurant) https://www.instagram.com/p/CP2HCgflzui/?utm_medium=tumblr

[lesbiansandgayssupporttheminers]

I wanna talk really quickly about beans on toast, because I know Americans like to make fun of it.

The thing about beans on toast is it's a nutritionally complete meal. It gives you all your essential amino acids, naturally low in fat, great source of fibre.

When I was at uni (and we were all skint, so beans on toast was a regular meal) there was a rumour you could survive on beans on toast indefinitely. I've no idea if that's true or not.

Anyway, the point is if you're making fun of a food that is affordable and healthy, then it sort of just makes you look like the arsehole.

It's not meant to be fine dining. It's comfort food. It's last few days before pay day food. It warms you up in the winter, is cheap and easy to cook, can be made using just a microwave and a toaster if you don't have an oven or a hob.

Also, unlike a lot of "skint" food, beans on toast tastes fucking lush.

[stevishabitat]

You want to know why a lot of Americans make fun of beans on toast - it has everything to do with the canned/tinned beans and the associations in the US.

The two most common types of canned beans in the US...

Baked beans/pork & beans - associated with ‘Southern’ cooking, aka Black people food, and poor white people food.

Pinto beans - associated with ‘Tex-Mex’ cooking, aka Latino people food, and poor white people food.

Now, of course there are gentrified versions of these, which involve slow cooking dried beans in an elaborate way with cuts of meat that most poor folks couldn’t afford. You can get these at gentrified BBQ and Mexican restaurants. And people who would normally not touch beans will fawn over it.

But the idea of using the canned version? That’s for rednecks, trailer trash, and all of THOSE people.

[lesbiansandgayssupporttheminers]

Yes, this is literally what I’m saying.

You’re sneering at people who are likely to be food insecure for eating a food that is nutritious and healthy.

Beans on toast in the UK will almost universally use tinned beans. Most people in the UK will have eaten tinned beans at some point in their lives.

But the idea that it’s ok to make fun of because it’s “poor people food” is utterly fucked.

[naturepunk-palace]

Also it tastes absolutely delicious? Like, beans on toast is actually one of my favorite foods. It's tasty. I didn't know it was nutritious too, that's really cool!

[lesbiansandgayssupporttheminers]

Yeah, beans on toast is lush. It just hits the spot sometimes.

See also jacket potatoes with beans and cheese.

Cheap and nutritious, what more could you want?

[connor232universe]

Flavor? Is flavor too much to ask for?

[dashaibo]

I eat canned beans and I make of beans on toast because it's a soggy disgusting mess, you're literally better off eating the beans and the bread separately, your wackos

[dashaibo]

We also make fun of your food because of your obsession with putting everything on toast

You literally have a chip butty

Starch on starch on starch

It has nothing to do with classism, Br*tish just eat weird shit

And you wonder why you're the fattest country in Europe

[lesbiansandgayssupporttheminers]

Chip butties are about the most working class food you can imagine. 

But sure, go off about how you’re not a classist dickhead.

There’s a massive association between obesity and poverty, too.

[thelittleblackfox]

There was a survey a few years back searching for the definitive British meal, do you know what it was? Not chips, not beans, but a chicken tikka masala

Chicken tikka masala is not an authentic Indian meal, it was brought here by immigrants who used what was available in post war Britain to create a curry for British palates. Fish and chips, that British classic, was brought here by Jewish immigrants, as was chow mein, spaghetti bolognese, pizza, Thai green curry, burgers, Portuguese chicken and a thousand other things that are eaten here every day

We are lucky to be a melting pot of cultures and foods, and you're talking shite, chuck

[brahifixem]

Beans on toast is grand and America is the fattest nation in the world. I know this to be true as I am an American… but the beans have to be proper English Heinz blue can beans.

[brahifixem]

My collection... I may have a problem. https://www.instagram.com/p/CN_axbLldXN/?igshid=19ef9z3e8unuh

[song-of-the-spheres]

DEAR RESEARCHERS OF TUMBLR

You know what’s awesome?  Research.  You know what’s not awesome?  Not being able to get access to research because it’s stuck behind a paywall and you don’t belong to an institution/your institution doesn’t subscribe to that particular journal.

FEAR NOT.

Here is a list of free, open access materials on a variety of subjects.  Feel free to add if you like!

GO FORTH AND LEARN SHIT, MY FRIENDS.

Directory of Open Access Journals- A compendium of over 9000 journals from 133 countries, multilingual and multidisciplinary.

Directory of Open Access Books- Like the above, but for ebooks.  Also multidisciplinary.

Ubiquity Press- Journals covering archaeology, comics scholarship, museum studies, psychology, history, international development, and more.  Also publishes open access ebooks on a wide variety of subjects.

Europeana-  Digital library about the history and culture of Europe.

Digital Public Library of America- American history, culture, economics, SO MUCH AMERICA.

Internet Archive- In addition to books, they have music and videos, too.  Free!  And legal!  They also have the Wayback Machine, which lets you see webpages as they looked at a particular time.

College and Research Libraries- Library science and information studies.  Because that’s what I do.

Library of Congress Digital Collections- American history and culture, historic newspapers, sound recordings, photographs, and a ton of other neat stuff.

LSE Digital Library- London history, women’s history.

Wiley Open Access- Science things!  Neurology, medicine, chemistry, ecology, engineering, food science, biology, psychology, veterinary medicine.

SpringerOpen-  Mainly STEM journals, looooong list.

Elsevier Open Access-  Elsevier’s kind of the devil but you might as well take advantage of this.  Mainly STEM, also a linguistics journal and a medical journal in Spanish.

[brahifixem]

Reblog for later research.

[brahifixem]

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At the range with the witch and the wheelgun. Nickel plated .38 Lightning. Ammo from @cshuntingsupplies. #38lightning #wheelgun #cimarronfirearms #nickelplated #38special #cowboygun #sixshooter #cshuntingsupplies (at Big Island, Hawaii) https://www.instagram.com/p/CFQqsHolnyo/?igshid=vjcm2lmqgweb

[brahifixem]

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Lead down range. @wraithwitch @cimarronfirearms @cshuntingsupplies #armedwitch #38lightning #nickelplated #sixgun #wheelgun #shooting (at Big Island, Hawaii) https://www.instagram.com/p/CFQdqIeFEJC/?igshid=wj3e35r7ype2

[brahifixem]

@wraithwitch killin’ paper down range. @cimarronfirearms nickel plated .38 Lightning. Thanks @cshuntingsupplies for the ammo. If you are on the Big Island, D has all your hunting and shooting needs covered. #armedwitch #sixgun #cimarronarms #cimarron #nickelplated #38lightning #docholliday #johnhenryholliday #guns #firearms #targetshooting #bigisland #bigislandhawaii (at Big Island, Hawaii) https://www.instagram.com/p/CFOT3zDlgyn/?igshid=w5gq5wnc8q3r

[brahifixem]

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Out shooting with @808_lgt_focus and his new .308 rig. Had a fekkin’ grand time. Hoping to go out again soon with @wraithwitch and her @cimarronfirearms nickel plated .38 Lightning. #stagarms #ar10 #308win #tractoptics #cimarron #38lightning #nickelplate #sixshooter #docholliday #johnhenryholliday (at Big Island, Hawaii) https://www.instagram.com/p/CFI_LbiFDPY/?igshid=14ii39avcrmso

[brahifixem]

Roast veg and sausage. A staple supper of the Keetarian home. #keetarianhome #supper #roastedveggies #roastedsausages #lecreuset (at Waimea) https://www.instagram.com/p/CFIxyYCFpAU/?igshid=u00p6jymczxq

[homebrewcatalog]

[brahifixem]

For latter use.

[creativerogues]

15 Bardic Insults...

You’re not a complete idiot, some parts are clearly missing.

I’d give you a helmet, but nothing that gets through your thick skull would be stopped by metal, and there’s nothing to damage anyway.

If ignorance is bliss, then why aren’t you happier?

Were you dropped on your head as a baby, or thrown against a wall?

I didn’t know they made ratbags this fat.

What left first? Your mother or your good looks?

Looking at you is the best excuse to drink I’ve ever seen.

I’d insult your parents, but I doubt you know them.

You’re as dumb as a brick and half as charming.

I would insult you, but it appears the Gods did it first.

Should I be using smaller words so you can understand me?

Everyone makes mistakes but you’re really abusing the privilege.

You’re like Rapunzel but the only thing you let down is everyone else.

You couldn’t pour water out of a boot with instructions on the heel.

At first I thought you were brave, but then I realised you’re just stupid.

[creativerogues]

25 More Bardic Insults...

If I looked like that I’d jump face-first into a pit of acid. Or did you already?

I don’t usually engage in mental combat with the unarmed, but I’ll make an exception for you.

We may both be assholes, but you’re also boring.

Did you brush your teeth with a hammer?

The best feature of people like you is that you die easily.

I’d whip out my longsword, but I don’t want to make you jealous.

Is that fat ass natural, or was your mom a drider?

To see things from your perspective I’d have to crawl around and sniff asses.

Growing up with such a pitiful package must’ve skewed what you consider an effective weapon.

It’s a real shame that your last words will be so small and simple.

Really I’m doing you a favour by smashing up that mouldy pile of rotten meat you call a face.

You look like your face was on fire and someone tried to put it out with a pickaxe.

Were you born or defecated?

I wish you were clean enough to spit on.

I’ve washed more brains off my weapon than you have in your head.

If being a moron was a crime you’d have already been sentenced to death.

You take after your mother. I ran her through as well.

You must work so hard to be such an arrogant prick.

All the magic in this world and none of it can make you smarter.

You aren’t nearly pretty enough to be this stupid.

Some people have a stick up their ass, you have the whole tree.

With thrusts like that it’s no wonder no one’s swooning.

This is going to end with that weapon sticking out of your ass.

If you were any more inbred you’d be a sandwich.

Did your mother cast Darkness every day to feed you?

[brahifixem]

Brilliant! I’m definitely going to use some of these.

[olcarcajou]

I don’t think a lot of people really understand that ecosystems in North America were purposefully maintained and altered by Native people.

Like, we used to purposefully set fires in order to clear underbrush in forests, and to inhibit the growth of trees on the prairies. This land hasn’t existed in some primeval state for thousands of years. What Europeans saw when they came here was the result of -work-

[feministdragon]

the east coast was all mature and maintained food forests. decades if not centuries of nurturing and maintenance. when the british arrived they were amazed that there were paths through the forest just “naturally” lined with berries and edible plants, like a garden of eden. then they tore that shit down to grow wheat. dumbasses

[queen-susans-revenge]

My mom is an ethnobotanist and getting people to understand this is literally her life’s work. A lot of native tribes just had a whole different way of looking at agriculture. Instead of planting orchards in tidy rows near their villages, they went to where the trees were already growing and tended them there. They would girdle trees by stripping the bark in order to stop the spread of disease or thin out badly placed saplings. And they would encourage the companion plants they wanted and weed out the ones they didn’t, so that in the end the whole forest would be productive while remaining an ecosystem and not a monoculture. It is still agriculture, but it is a form of agriculture that is so much gentler on the landscape that, as OP says, the European settlers could not recognize what they were seeing. To them the natives must have seemed to magically live in abundance while they starved. They did do controlled burns, but so-called slash and burn agriculture was never a primary farming strategy in North America. They were just way more subtle than that. They also made the amazing Mississippian mound structures so it’s not like they couldn’t do dramatic reshapings of the landscape when they wanted: but they changed their minds about that, walking away from Cahokia and the dense, farming-supported urban structure they had build there in the 13th century, well before any European contact. My mom says it wasn’t a collapse, it wasn’t a war, it wasn’t a natural disaster; the farmers in Cahokia just voted with their feet. They just gradually left, dispersing in different directions but generally not very far, and it was probably because they’d gotten tired of men’s bullshit. See, agriculture was a female domain in pretty much all the native American cultures. The specifics differed by tribe, but often they had gender-specific age-grade societies: for example, the Hidatsa Goose Society was composed of married women of childbearing age. Not only did they physically plant the fields, they also had responsibility for conducting the social and ritual events around ensuring the harvest. This included things like digging the storage pits, and organizing feasts in order to bring the whole community together to plant plots for families who were suffering illness or disability, and could not do it themselves.  So, as Cahokia urbanized (at its “height” it was a population center of  between 10,200 and 15,300 people), it is very likely that the traditional, informal systems of land use-right allocations–again, always the women’s domain–became stressed by top down political pressures from the rulers (who were men). And as my mom puts it in her book Feeding Cahokia: “If rights to land ever became highly restricted as a result of a top-down, centralized process of allocation, the likelihood of poorly informed and unfair decision making is extremely high.” So basically, the farmers took their families and they moved away. Not all at once, no mass exodus, just…gradually, they decided that they’d tried doing things the urban way, and they didn’t like it. They went back to living in smaller villages sustained, not by intensive farming, but by more garden-style plots and the traditional, sophisticated management of “wild” lands that they had never stopped practicing. It takes a shift in thinking to recognize that was a deliberate choice on their part. Not a failure: Cahokia never collapsed, not dramatically–it just gradually wound down. They were perfectly capable of feeding themselves and they did for well more than a century. They went back to the old way because they liked it better.

And again, different tribes had different specific ways of doing it, but farming was always the women’s domain–and there are also important spiritual figures who occur under different names in different tribes. One of these is Grandmother/Old Woman Who Never Dies: giver of all plant food, protector of children, bringer of summer, and rejuvenator of living and dying things. I’m just gonna end by dropping this passage from my mom’s book because it’s amazing: “I think it likely that the female flint-clay statues from BBB Motor and Sponemann represent an Earth Mother personage in a manifestation known to all early Cahokians, and that their Woodland ancestors had sought her powers and favors for centuries preceding the Mississippian period, just as Siouan speakers continued to protect her sacred bundles and conduct rituals focused around them long after Cahokia was abandoned. She never died. Several years ago, I accompanied a traditional Hidatsa farmer named Amy Mossett from New Town, North Dakota, to the Cahokia Mounds Interpretive Center [in Illinois]. When we came to the display case containing a cast reproduction of the Birger figurine, Mossett froze, took a step backward, put her hand on her chest, and said, ‘That’s Grandmother. And the snake is her husband.’“

[probablyasocialecologist]

“By 1492 Indian activity throughout the Americas had modified forest extent and composition, created and expanded grasslands, and rearranged microrelief via countless artificial earthworks. Agricultural fields were common, as were houses and towns and roads and trails. All of these had local impacts on soil, microclimate, hydrology, and wildlife.”

William M. Denevan, The Pristine Myth: The Landscape of the Americas in 1492 http://jan.ucc.nau.edu/~alcoze/for398/class/pristinemyth.html

[brahifixem]

This is the way.

[j0jin-deactivated20210309]

Scotland is not boring

[redpinejo]

When I say I love bagpipes, this is what I mean

[mahigxn-deactivated20200629]

Absolute banger

[rinhkitty]

WHERE’S THE SOURCE, OP??????

[thesummoningdark]

This is Clanadonia

What the video doesn’t quite capture is that when you’re this close, their drumming feels kind of like being punched in the chest. When they’re playing on the street like this, every other busker in a 500m radius just goes and has a tea break, because there’s no point in trying to be heard over Clanadonia.

[a-krogan-skald-and-bearsark]

What the Summoning Dark says. They used to play outside the Thistles in Stirling when I was at Uni there pretty regular like, and you could basically hear them anywhere in the old town center.

[felren13]

I love this thread because I’ve been reading pratchett like, a lot, and I keep seeing the immortal all powerful THING hanging around and listening to this music and commenting.

[brahifixem]

Brilliant!

[hail-lucifina]

TRAYVON MARTIN (Walking home with iced tea and Skittles. Shot by George Zimmerman, who was found NOT GUILTY)

KEITH SCOTT (Sitting in car, reading. Shot by police officer, who was NOT CHARGED)

ATATIANA JEFFERSON (Looking out her window, shot by police officer, who is STILL UNDER INDICTMENT for murder)

JONATHAN FERRELL (Asking for help after auto accident. Shot twelve times by police, case ended in MISTRIAL)

JORDAN EDWARDS (Riding in a car. Shot in the back of the head by police officer, who was found GUILTY of murder ⭐)

STEPHON CLARK (Holdng a cel phone. Shot 8 times, 6 in the back. Officers NOT CHARGED)

AMADOU DIALLO (While taking out wallet, officers fired 41 shots by four officers, who were all ACQUITTED)

RENISHA MCBRIDE (Auto accident, knocked on door for help. Homeowner was found GUILTY of second-degree murder ⭐)

TAMIR RICE (Playing with toy gun, shot by police officer arriving on scene. Officer was NOT CHARGED)

SEAN BELL (Hosting a bachelor party, 50 rounds fired by police officers, who were found NOT GUILTY of charges)

WALTER SCOTT (Pulled over for brake light, shot in the back by police officer, who pleaded GUILTY to CIVIL RIGHTS VIOLATIONS *NOT* MURDER)

PHILANDO CASTILE (Pulled over in car, told officer he had a legally registered weapon in car. Officer ACQUITTED of all charges)

AIYANA JONES (Sleeping, accidentally shot by officer in a raid on wrong apartment. Officer CLEARED OF ALL CHARGES)

TERRENCE CRUTCHER (Disabled vehicle, shot by police officer, who was found NOT GUILTY of manslaughter.)

ALTON STERLING (Selling CDs, shot at close range while being arrested. NO CHARGES FILED)

FREDDIE GRAY (Beaten to death by officers while being transported in police van. All officers involved were ACQUITTED)

JOHN CRAWFORD (Shopping at WalMart, holding a BB gun on sale, police officer was NOT CHARGED)

MICHAEL BROWN (Shot by twelve times by officer, including in the back. NO CHARGES FILED)

JORDAN DAVIS (Killed because he was playing loud music. Shooter found GUILTY of first-degree murder ⭐)

SANDRA BLAND (Pulled over for traffic ticket, tasered and arrested. SUSPICIOUS SUICIDE while in jail. NO CHARGES)

AHMAUD AUBREY (Jogging, shot by two men who claimed they suspected him of burglaries. Both men charged with murder and aggravated assault ⭐)

BOTHAM JEAN (Shot at home, which police officer mistook for her own. Officer found GUILTY of murder ⭐)

OSCAR GRANT (Handcuffed and face-down, officer shot him in the back. Officer found GUILTY of involuntary manslaughter ⭐)

COREY JONES (Waiting by his disabled vehicle, was shot three times by police officer, who was found GUILTY of murder ⭐)

Remember them all. ✊🏻✊🏽✊🏾✊🏿

Also note, these are only the stories caught by the media and/or on video.

[bird-bat]

This is horrible

[brahifixem]

This cannot continue.