ice water is awesome because you get more water in your water
you think youre out of water but then you check back in five minutes and woah! theres more water! the world is so beautiful
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ice water is awesome because you get more water in your water
you think youre out of water but then you check back in five minutes and woah! theres more water! the world is so beautiful
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Enough weird scandals have happened at pro chess tournaments that you could get 4 or 5 seasons out of a procedural where a weary old grand master and a tech savvy twenty-two-year-old chess wunderkind catch competitors trying to cheat
#i think youd need something a little more than that#but its a solid concept#like i can see it getting a bit too repetitive unless theres something else
Oh I'm not saying you should get 4 or 5 seasons out of this.
This concept very very clearly should be a passionate 1h 35m movie where the protagonists vaguely allude to their previous cases, and the audience just sort of intuitively understands they're seasoned detectives with all sorts of wild adventures.
I'm saying you could stretch this into a 4 or 5 season procedural TV show, an art form famous for deteriorating into repetitive slop somewhere in the middle of season 2.
"Wait, oh my god, do you hear that?"
"I don't hear anything."
"Its a distinct 157hz hum, the exact frequency of the LovePlug remote controlled buttplug!"
"My god! We've got him!"
Today I was in a room where some kids put on Jaws ostensibly as a fourth of July movie and...look I've never seen jaws. Obviously, I know the theme music. And I still haven't watched jaws all the way through to be clear because we left maybe 30 minutes in.
But like, by the time the shark ate a second person, I was baffled how this movie was going to continue.
The shark is hungry. The shark is willing to eat human flesh.
The solution to this is so simple?? Stop going into the shark's home!!!! You can't just waltz into the hungry shark's house and then get upset when the shark eats you! You offered yourself up on their buffet table! Get out of the shark's house!!! Problem solved???
look all I'm saying is I get they covered up the first death, but the second one?
You're on the beach, you see the blood wash ashore because somebody got eaten? Okay great! I've just remembered I'm a land mammal who is going to mind my fucking business as far away from the ocean as possible for the rest of summer!
You know what body of water doesn't have things that are gonna eat somebody lurking inside them? The fucking public pool. I can see the bottom of that bitch.
like, bye I'm going to sun splash with napoleon
Today I was in a room where some kids put on Jaws ostensibly as a fourth of July movie and...look I've never seen jaws. Obviously, I know the theme music. And I still haven't watched jaws all the way through to be clear because we left maybe 30 minutes in.
But like, by the time the shark ate a second person, I was baffled how this movie was going to continue.
The shark is hungry. The shark is willing to eat human flesh.
The solution to this is so simple?? Stop going into the shark's home!!!! You can't just waltz into the hungry shark's house and then get upset when the shark eats you! You offered yourself up on their buffet table! Get out of the shark's house!!! Problem solved???
This is what 4th of July is really about. When Gaga and Beyonce posioned all those people in that restaurant for our freedom to dance. Let us never forget.
I am about going to gripe about something that's been really annoying me lately.
First let me start with a disclaimer that I am speaking generally here. Of course both the U.S. and Europe are both massive and diverse places containing hundreds of millions of people, and a lot of regional differences. Neither the U.S. or Europe are a monolith (although a lot of people on the internet speak of both places as a monolith, which I wish people would stop doing, since neither are).
I could be wrong about this, since I don't live in the U.S., and haven't visited everywhere in Europe. But between where I have visited in the U.S., and where I have visited / lived in Europe, and from what I know from my friends in the U.S. and friends in other European countries, I get the feeling that overall the U.S. has stricter disability access laws than a lot of places in Europe do, especially in regard to building codes.
Of course there are exceptions, I know New York city is abhorrently hostile in its design towards anyone elderly and/or disabled. Although when I visited New York city it really just felt on par with a lot of major European cities with how abhorrently inaccessible it was.
One example of this is that recently I saw a Reddit discussion where a USAmerican vacationing in France was surprised at how many staircases didn't have handrails, because according to this man handrails are required by law in the U.S.
The comments were all Europeans having an absolute field day with this. Pretty much all of the comments were some variation of "I can't believe Americans are too stupid and lazy to use the stairs without a handrail 🤣🤣🤣 what's wrong with you fat lazy stupid Americans that you can't even use stairs without a handrail 🤣🤣🤣 thank GOD I was born in Europe where I was just taught how to walk up and down the stairs on my own and don't need a handrail like a lazy fat stupid American 🤣🤣🤣"
A few people tried to gently point out that this was about accessibility for elderly and disabled people, and it's not cool to laugh at building codes that are about accessibility, but those commenters were usually shut down with some variation of "yeah well in MY European country if someone is disabled or becomes elderly we either move to a more accessible building or we modify our home to be more accessible, we don't sit around whining like a bunch of Americans that our building isn't already accessible 🙄"
Which is, such a cruel way to talk about accessibility. Why wouldn't disabled and elderly people deserve the same access to a building as anyone else? Are elderly and disabled people not allowed to visit friends and family? Anyone could get hit by a car today, and after that struggle with going up and down stairs without the use of a handrail for the next several months, years, possibly the rest of your life. It's so easy to feel smug when you can easily trot up and down the stairs without a handrail, but so cruel to be unwilling to consider anyone who struggles with stairs should maybe be allowed access to the same places as you.
Honestly when I go on vacation abroad with my elderly + disabled mother, it's often easier to go to the U.S. with her than other places in Europe, because the U.S. does tend to be more accessible (in my experience, and except for New York city ofc) making going around to different public places with my mom generally a lot easier than somewhere like France or the Netherlands.
Out of all the things you could clown on the U.S. about, why you gotta go for accessibility of all things? It's disgustingly ableist and ageist, and I have to wonder if these people actually just hate disabled people / accessible design, and are using the U.S. as an excuse to hate on disabled people and accessible design.
I’m a Canadian. Our disability access is probably better than much of Europe (although I haven’t visited a lot of different European countries). But it’s definitely worse than the USA.
The USA has something called the Americans With Disabilites Act (ADA), and apparently it works fairly well. An American in my WhatsApp group went to a figure skating championship in Toronto a while back and was stunned that the arena didn’t have wheelchair access for spectators. Because an American arena would have.
Not everything about the USA is awful. Not everything about Canada and Europe is great.
Also, I live in Vancouver. We didn’t have a subway system until 1986, that’s when the Skytrain was finally built. Several of the Skytrain stations were originally built with no elevators. People with wheelchairs were expected to enter or exit the system at a different station that did have wheelchair access. In 1986.
The system wasn’t built in 1896 or 1926, when wheelchairs were a newfangled idea. It was built in 1986. British Columbian Rick Hansen’s Man In Motion world wheelchair tour started in 1985 (in Vancouver).
Or well, the Skytrain was opened in 1986. Let’s say the plans for it were finalized by 1983, since it would’ve taken a few years to build. In 1983, there was already a substantial disability rights movement in Canada, but several Skytrain stations didn’t have elevators anyway, presumably because it was cheaper.
Naturally, it eventually became politically unacceptable to make wheelchair users (and people with strollers, and people with canes or walkers, and people with suitcases) skip a station because they hadn’t bothered to put an elevator in that station.
So those stations had to be retrofitted at vast expense to make them wheelchair-accessible. It probably would’ve been cheaper to just build them accessible from the start, in retrospect. But we didn’t have a Made In Canada version of the ADA, so it didn’t happen.
Also, wheelchair accessibility does not only help wheelchair users. It also helps people with babies or toddlers in strollers, people using walkers, crutches, or canes, travellers with heavy suitcases, elderly people, etc, etc. I take the Skytrain several days a week, and I see all those people taking the elevator instead of the stairs or escalators.
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You know I'm really not used to being grateful to live in the US especially now but uh. Huh. Jesus fucking christ.
Also, bluntly, clowning on the USA for having comparatively good disability rights is spitting in the face of all of the disabled activists who made that happen. The USA didn’t just wake up with the ADA one day, and we sure as fuck didn’t just up and decide to enact it become so many of our non-disabled citizens were lazy and fat.
The fight for the ADA was long, and bitter, and every single line of it is thanks to decades tireless activism work. Evangelical religious groups widely opposed the ADA because they believed that disability (and especially particularly disabling conditions, such as being HIV+) was God’s will, and wanted disabled people to be reliant on (religious) charity. Most large corporations and business interest groups opposed the ADA, because complying with accessibility requirements might hurt their bottom line. The US Chamber of Commerce came out swinging against it. The National Federation of Independent Business called it "a disaster for small business" and fear-mongered about it shutting down mom & pop shops and throwing hard-working American out of work. Greyhound Bus Lines literally testified before Congress that they were ~so concerned~ about the costs of requiring disability accommodations that they believed that passing the ADA would be tantamount to denying all rural people access to any buses, because apparently having to install a few fold-out ramps and fold-up seats would instantly bankrupt every extant bus company.
The bill was trapped in limbo for months. It looked hopeless. A lot of people thought it couldn’t happen – that the lobbies against disability rights and the disabled were simply too strong.
And in response, hundreds of disabled protesters showed up in Washington, DC and crawled up the steps of the Capitol.
Meet the protesters who crawled their way into history—and changed how all Americans live.
How dare anyone call the USA “lazy” for our disability rights laws. We had second graders with cerebral palsy drag themselves up 100 stone steps in order to win those rights. Get the word out “lazy” out of your fucking mouthes.
Most of the pictures I have seen of the Capitol Crawl Protest are in black and white, which is bizarre because it happened in 1990. Here's a couple pics in full colour.
Pictures were probably in black and white in 1990 because they were being printed in newspapers. The New York Times was one of the last newspapers to adopt printing with color photography, and they only printed with color photography on the front page in October of 1997.
I would say like, 98% of the time for the question: "why are all the photos in black and white? They had color photography then, it wasn't that long ago!" the answer is: "the photos were probably primarily intended for black and white newsprint, or were primarily circulated in newsprint."
Guys I'm experiencing bunny snuggles and living my best life right now
you are not immune from propaganda but also some of y'all literally do not know the definition of propaganda
What an embarrassing thing to admit in public rather than in your personal diary that no one sees but you.
Too far in the other direction, babe! Maybe work on anger management and emotional processing rather than opting into willful ignorance about the world you live in.
Update on trying to buy a painting: I got told to call, called the number given, and then got uh...hung up on?? Or disconnected. I wonder if I accidentally went too hard on my call center voice or something. :(
I sent an email back with my number and then he called me back but this was just not addressed at all lmao. I'm going to assume I was using too much call center voice, lmfao.
It’s Fourth of July Eve so make sure to leave some milk and cookies out for Captain America
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Update on trying to buy a painting: I got told to call, called the number given, and then got uh...hung up on?? Or disconnected. I wonder if I accidentally went too hard on my call center voice or something. :(
I'm gonna be honest I'm super surprised there's no good digital artist themed keycap set I've found. Idgi. Why is there no illustrated set like "fill, paint brush, color wheel/picker, mask," etc?
I have found my favorite keycaps which are hot pot themed on Etsy. Look at them. They look delicious!!!
SOMEDAY...
This shop has so many good themes like: ramen, omakase, plant lover, red apples, white and blue porcelain my beloved, and also if you like NGE then a lot of those.