We may not be murderers but we're no angels either

Hiker, skiier, crafter, reader, theatre and movie buff, chronic snooze button hitter. INFJ. Bisexual. Fluid, but usually femme. She/Her or They/Them pronouns.

[eventually--darling]

The zipper merge requires a level of cooperation and goodwill that the citizens of this great country have never once displayed

[necrophilologist]

okay i'll bite. who's taylor swift

[eyesonjupiter]

Found that over at mastodon

[depsidase]

[lolastung]

Why me? Because you saw me when I was invisible. THE PRINCESS DIARIES (2001), dir. by Garry Marshall

[segamascott]

[miametropolis]

and what if I told you nine was less afraid of love than ten. what then.

[miseria-fortes-viros]

for a moment i lived in a beautiful world where doctor who didn’t exist and this was simply a seven-ate-nine joke too layered for me to understand

[bloodraven55]

[andalusiapunk]

so my brother was telling me about this human resources certification he attended a while ago. in a panel, the panelist asked a bunch of people in attendance, “who here knows if an applicant for a job is right for it in under 60 seconds?”

hands shot up around the room, people smug about their ability to “weed out the riff-raff” when it came to hiring for their fortune 500.

“you should all be fired and probably in jail,” they said, waiting for the whole room to get uncomfortable, then continued, “because the only things you can really learn about a human being in under 60 seconds are all things that are fueled by prejudices and biases covered by american law. so now, i will teach you how to stop being racist, sexist, judgmental assholes and hire people that will better your company of employ.”

[sourcedumal]

I need this to be force taught at all companies

[elodieunderglass]

Thank you so much for reblogging this at EXACTLY the right moment because this exact post is what I was thinking of when admiring this magnificent post about Shackleton’s polar expedition recruitment methods

[just-shower-thoughts]

Somebody had to actually dig the holes in the movie ‘Holes’.

[coffeekenzie]

that’s what interns are for

[journie]

Builds character

[roxxydoubleexes]

His name is Tim Everett.

He plotted all of the holes in “Holes” using 3D modeling. He also supervised the production of all the lizards in the same movie.

He built the storm in “The Perfect Storm” and now he’s the Hollywood go-to guy for water effects. The whirlpool in Pirates of the Caribbean? Tim fucking Everett. They asked for him by name.

He’s the man who taught me how to model mountains and light caves. He showed me how to frame a scene in classical 3-field vignetting. He is a hard ass when it comes to lazy work, and he is one of the most amazing artists I have ever had the pleasure to present my work to.

That someone believes some poor intern had to dig all those holes is a testament to his work. Tim Everett is an environmental guru.

Someone did dig all of those holes.

His name is Tim Everett.

[a-redharlequin]

Holy crap. Now that’s dedication.

[adriofthedead]

[danwithouttheplan]

People only like the idea of trickster spirits. "Oh, I could deal with them, easy." But once they meet one in person it's suddenly "wow, this guy sure is annoying."

[quarks-pussy]

[lemonskittlesofficial]

me, watching my mutuals post ceaselessly about a fandom i’m not in:

[californiastatelibrary]

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[rainbow-femme]

“To protect their copyright, streaming sites do not allow for screenshotting of any kind.”

Hey remember VHS where you bought a box to plug into your tv and you could legally record whatever was playing and then own it for free forever

[angelofthemornings-deactivated2]

I cannot emphasize enough that you not only COULD, it was ENCOURAGED. Blank video tapes for recording whatever you wanted were available everywhere and it was hard to miss the record button on the machines. They also deliberately designed stuff like VHS players that you could tell when to start recording things - as a kid I'd tell the player to record the cartoon channel beginning at 6 or 7 and then sleep in and watch the tape later - and then they would tell you how to do it in the owner's manual, this was no secret. You were SUPPOSED TO record shows you wanted to keep or that you wouldn't be home for to watch later.

[dukeofankh]

The essential piece of information missing here is that the people who made the VHS machines and the people who made the TV channels were, and I cannot stress this enough, different people.

Like, of course Disney didn't used to want you to record their stuff for free and watch it forever. When VHS home recording came out, the companies that invented it were...sued! Of course they were!

It's just that the TV companies lost the lawsuit. It was deemed that once the signal got to your house legally you could do whatever the hell you wanted with it as long as it was for personal noncommercial use. It would have probably gone differently if the TV companies had the ability to detect whether you were recording them and then shut the signal off.

Like, I am 100 percent on the side of "you should be able to keep and own stuff permanently, I just also think there's a limit to how much breathless mythmaking about the halcyon days of the early nineties I can handle before it starts drifting into low-key misinformation.

[kedreeva]

Small addition: it's VCR. A VHS is the tape. A VCR is the player/recorder. They weren't called VHS machines (I mean, maybe they were somewhere, but not that I heard ever), they were VCRs- videocassette recorders. You put a VHS into a VCR, and recording stuff to VHS was literally in the name, not just a function, not even a side function honestly. It was a main function. That's why the button was not hard to miss.

[ovur]

When its your birthday month you should be able to do whatever you want and spend as much money as you want throughout the month and it doesn't count since your birthday is on that month so it's okay

[rollaroundincompliments]

"It's fun and easy and important and good to dunk on Harry Potter and J.K. Rowling. But keep going and what you get at is: What about this story type and story telling resonates with you? Can you keep that while dropping all the things you know now cannot be maintained and should not be venerated? And is that a part of growing up?"

- Aabria Iyengar

[samreich]

HE SWEARS THE LOOKING AT HIS HANDS THING IS NOTHING BUT I DON'T BUY IT