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it’s fall remember you’re going to go nuts from the decreased sunlight.

“I honestly can’t believe it’s even real,” the drag performer said...

Country music star Dolly Parton has gifted a custom rhinestoned and autographed acoustic guitar to Brigitte Bandit, a nonbinary drag performer in Austin, Texas who made headlines in 2023 for protesting her home state’s drag ban. Bandit has previously performed as Dolly Parton at live shows.

Bandit (who uses she/her and they/them pronouns) opened the gift box, wrapped in shiny pink paper, during her live performance in Austin last Friday evening. Inside was an acoustic guitar covered in white and pink rhinestones. The guitar also had a personalized handwritten message with an autograph that read, “To Brigitte. Love, Dolly Parton.” [...]

#dolly parton #not all heroes wear capes

turtlesandfrogs

Listen to me: You get good at things by being bad at them. You learn by failing. You gain competency and a sense of mastery by failing at something many times and in many interesting ways.

The sooner you are able to laugh at your own failures, to enjoy the process of messing up, the easier life will be. Because you'll no longer be afraid of learning.

And once you're no longer afraid of failing, you can learn anything.

kestrelsandcentipedes

Not socialist in a “I won’t have to work” type of way but socialist in a “I’ll still be working but I won’t be worried I won’t make the rent” type of way. In a “billions won’t be hoarded by one person” type of way. In a “janitors, fast-food workers, child care workers, preschool teachers, hotel clerks, personal care and home health aides, and grocery store cashiers, will live comfortably” type of way. In a “the sick and elderly will be cared for” type of way. In a “no child should work” type of way.

thumping-whumper

Love going to bed with a new, good daydream scenario fresh in my mind. Like yes girl, movie night!

googledocsdyke

remember when you were 10 and you would hang out with your friends in order to Look At The Computer together like you went to their house and experienced the information superhighway together. and then leave

mostlybats-partiallyrats

How fucking old are you people?

googledocsdyke

normal amount

legitimately

*sees a beloved mutual in the notes* hi honey

batsarebetterthanpeople

Think about how much you love the little gay people in your phone. It's nice right?

You are the little gay person in someone else's phone. Peace and love ect.

imsobadatnicknames2

The fact that there's an actually functional website for the library of Babel is one of those things that fucks me up more and more the more I think about the implications.

imsobadatnicknames2

So, if anyone hasn’t encountered the concept of the library of Babel, the idea comes from a story of the same name by Jorge Luis Borges, which is set inside a seemingly infinite library which contains every possible combination of letters, periods, commas and spaces that fits within 410 pages.

So like... It isn’t THAT out there that someone was able to make a digital version of it. Making an algorithm that randomly generates every possible combination of those 29 characters within that space and making a website that lets you explore those combinations are things that are pretty squarely within the scope of things you’d expect someone to be able to make a computer do.

But it begins to get pretty out there when you start thinking about all the things that are technically contained there (and that someone randomly browsing it could THEORETICALLY stumble upon) just by virtue of being one of those possible combinations of letters, spaces, commas, and periods.

Somewhere in that website there IS a book that specifically mentions me by full name before giving an accurate, excruciatingly detailed, 410-page long physical description of me. There’ also many more books that SEEM to be that but are actually factually inaccurate. There’s also versions of all of those containing every possible combination of every possible typo, spelling mistake, and grammatical error.

Somewhere in that website there IS a book that’s a perfectly accurate prediction of how and when I will die narrated in third person over the course of 410 pages. There’s also a book that contains the exact same events narrated in first person. Not only for me, but for every person in the world. There are many more that claim to be that but are actually inaccurate.

Somewhere in that website there IS a book that’s completely blank except for the world’s funniest dick joke written right at the end of the very last page.

But chances are no one browsing that website is EVER going to see any of that because for every book we would consider useful, interesting, or even intelligible there are millions upon millions upon millions more that are just completely full of gibberish from cover to cover.

imsobadatnicknames2

Every single thing I will ever write (barring punctuation marks that arent periods or commas and the letter ñ) is already contained somewhere on that website.

sevensmallsphinxes

I have a volume from the Library of Babel! it's one of my most treasured books.

on the second to last page, about halfway down it reads "OH TIME THY PYRAMIDS" a singular grain of order in the sea of chaos.

The library of babel contains every book to ever exist and moreover it contains all information that can be encoded in a finite string of characters from its alphabet.

I cannot overstate how much I love the Library of Babel. it's wonderful, it is my heart and soul.

fipindustries

at last we created the perplexing nexus, from the novel "wouldnt it be weird if there was a perplexing nexus?"

sazandorable

yeah it would be weird wouldn't it

djpaulyd

crazy how we are all in this groupchat called the tumblr dashboard

sketchesinstillness

unicornspwnall

THE MARVELS (2023) dir. Nia DaCosta IGN Exclusive Deleted Scene

intosnarkness

We’re traveling for work this week and a coworker discovered that I’m ticklish. I had to take him aside and say “yes, I am ticklish. But I also have an exaggerated startle from my childhood trauma and I will react violently if you walk up behind me and grab me. Feel free to tease about other stuff, but being grabbed isn’t fun or funny for me.”

And he just nodded and said “thanks for letting me know” and then didn’t touch me again. Without asking any invasive questions or changing anything else about joking around and chatting. When you travel a lot with people, boundaries get blurry but it’s very nice to be around people who don’t get pissy about being told to back off.

intosnarkness

Thinking about it, this goes hand in hand with the time in February when Peri was sick and I was at a conference and another guy started to tease me and I just told him "Hey, I can't play today. Can we be cool?" and his first response was "Of course, what do you need?"

My upbringing was pretty devoid of boundaries, especially with my mother, but most adults react really well to being told where the line is before they cross it. Boundaries are not an adversarial thing. Boundaries are the best way to teach people how to love you.