Kiri's Stuff

Sims 2 on the Tumblr. Who knows what evil lurks in the heart of Sims?

[weirdsimsinhistory]

Had a debate with another friend who plays Sims about this:

Do you prefer Sims CC that is default replacement?

Yes!

No, I prefer CC that adds to and does not replace Maxis defaults.

Voting ended onAug 11

I am staunchly in the camp of wanting CC that does NOT replace Maxis defaults. I like having the option to have both (one example comes to mind is Sims 2 CAS stuff like eyes and hair).

But I have a friend who likes when CC replaces defaults. I feel like I see a lot of CC these days that are only offered as default replacements and that kinds bums me out.

So I was curious to know if it's actually more popular with Sims fans to have default replacements! Maybe I'm an outlier here!

[chiimeramanticore]

do me a favor and reblog this and put in the tags what time it is for you and what you're currently doing/thinking about

[celebkiriedhel]

I 100% agree with this take.

Purity culture on people's world views, and gate keeping the right way to think, doesn't change people's minds.

By all means, unfollow people who are not safe, and sometimes argue with them on their views. You curate your own space.

But do consider why you are arguing and unfollowing.

I think it is important to change people's minds, because we want more kindness in the world and less hate. And we're not going to get that by shaming the people who do change their minds, or treating haters with hate.

Its a nuanced response that all people need including ourselves.

But like I said - keep yourself safe as well.

[libraford]

I belive that Mitch McConnell can do anything Lindsay Graham can do.

🦀

[starlightxraven]

Nobody needs AI to search the Internet, court says in ruling against Google

Google AI Overview court loss in Germany could spell doom for AI search industry.

[appalachian-werewolf]

"Google AI Overview court loss in Germany could spell doom for AI search industry."

It fucking better.

[mrsjdavis]

Like to charge, reblog to cast?

[pollsforadults]

Spin the wheel. Now, imagine you're on a first date with someone who says they`re a [result]. How does this affect the odds of a second date?

100% guarantee I'll want a second date

It's significantly more likely

The odds don't change

It's significantly less likely

There wont be a second date. Absolutely not

Voting ended onJun 13

Picker Wheel - Spin the Wheel to Decide a Random Choice

Picker Wheel is a wheel spinner for a random picker. Various functions & customization. Enter choices or names, spin the wheel to decide a r

(anon submission)

[incognitopolls]

How much of the time do you wear prescription glasses or contacts?

All the time, they only come off if they'd be in the way for certain things

Most of the time, but sometimes I just don't wear them

Whenever I go somewhere, but not when I'm at home

Whenever I'm at home, but not when I go somewhere

Only at school/work/another specific span of time

Only to see particular things (e.g. to read a sign, then I take them off again)

Sometimes, based on some other criteria

Never, but I probably should wear them

Never, I have vision problems that can't be corrected with prescription lenses

Never, my vision is 20/20 or better

Voting ended onMay 23

We ask your questions anonymously so you don’t have to! Submissions are open on the 1st and 15th of the month.

[borealing]

news about pcos today

‘Unprecedented’ global effort gives new name to polycystic ovary syndrome – and new hope to millions of women

Decades-long campaign powered by patient perspectives results in switch from PCOS – a name that caused confusion and undue suffering – to PM

a health policy paper has been published saying the name is officially updated to polyendocrine metabolic ovarian syndrome (PMOS)

polyendocrine= multiple endocrine factors

metabolic = affecting/affected by metabolism

ovarian = from the ovaries

essentially, instead of using the symptomatic term (many people with PMOS do not develop cysts) the new term widens the diagnostic area and makes it easier to diagnose, treat, and do research on people with PMOS (even atypical types, such as no cysts).

it may seem like a waste of time to change a name instead of focusing on research, but for a lot of medical professionals a name can be associated with a hard set collection of symptoms, so the name needs to change to acknowledge that the disorder is not well understood and has a broader, subtler, and often missed set of symptoms. for example ADD is considered an antiquated/unused term, and now comes under the ADHD umbrella. in healthcare names and terminology changes all the time, and this is a positive change. your local healthcare professional may not know about this unless theyre really up on the news though!

in case you want to read about the name change process that was published in the Lancet (one of the most impactful and well respected medical journals):

Polyendocrine metabolic ovarian syndrome, the new name for polycystic ovary syndrome: a multistep global consensus process

Polyendocrine metabolic ovarian syndrome (PMOS), previously named polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS), affects one in eight women. However, the

[celebkiriedhel]

This is excellent! This will help women to get diagnosed easier.

[connieboldheart]

I love making these - let me know in comments/reblogs where you'd sit! :)

[do-not-u-dare]

9. 3 is the worst choice btw

[teaboot]

1-Any of the 3 seats around 1 WILL have bare Gollum ass foot and taint on them at some point. Those seats appear empty but are in fact occupied by his various alternate identities

2- Seems innocent enough, and Frodo will mostly keep to himself, but Sam will absolutely be waking you up getting him granola bars and shit out of their carry-ons. Will also meanmug you if you try to get up to use the bathroom. Gollum will also be leaning in and hanging over your shoulders whenever he takes a break from kicking the seat.

3- Out of the question, unless you are 7-19 year old extrovert and/or have nothing to lose. WILL clap when the plane lands. WILL eat your crackers if you’re asleep when the flight attendant comes around. Very little consideration for personal space.

4- It’ll be a long silent flight and they’ll both be courteous and polite but there will absolutely be a heavy third-wheel sort of tension, like they’re too nice to say anything but would be way happier if you weren’t there. Your only chance is to offer to switch seats so they can hold hands, but Aragorn WILL take a nap at some point and he WILL talk in his sleep. Also, if you switch for the aisle seat you will need to keep in mind that Legolas is absolutely going to recline his own chair directly on top of you.

5- Faramir is a sleep mask and headphones type of guy, and the window will remain closed. Eowyn’s longing glances to the right may be overlooked, but she’s also the type to monologue at increasing volume if you get to chatting and reach a topic she’s passionate about. Seat 5 is my personal choice, as it presents the lowest possible chance of waking up to a makeout sesh on either side OR a missing eyebrow.

6- Depending where the relationship dynamic is at at this point, it’s a coin toss between “Grandpa’s War Stories” and 8 straight hours of “I’m Not Touching You”, “Stop Hitting Yourself” type shenanigans on both sides. Also, putting the Dwarf in the window seat was a bad idea. You KNOW he gets airsick, and placing him in a corner directly between the only three elves was an act of direct biological warfare on the side of the airline.

7- Not the worst choice, as long as you don’t ask any questions about the family. Boromir is the type to share his political opinions at length unprompted, though, and responding in any way will only make it worse.

8- You are not cool enough to sit here.

9- This is an aisle seat, which is good, because you can get up to fake a bathroom visit when the vibes get too bad. Feels like going on a road trip with your dysfunctional parents only for them to announce their turbulent and resentful impending divorce mid way through. When it’s good, Galadriel and Gandalf will lean around you for a catty bitch sesh without you, which will also be bad, but at least you can listen in on the hottest gossip. Only gets worse when the edible Gandalf pops at take-off finally kicks in.

[help-help-i-need-an-adult]

3 because we’re going to make this flight everyone else’s problem

[celebkiriedhel]

Thoughts as a soon to be 64yo who doesn't have patience for much on a long haul anymore.

1 - agree with above. Also my precious every 30 seconds will get old very quickly.

2. The problem with this one is that they are the middle seat between people who are pining for each other. Not a good time.

3. You will not get any sleep, but it could be a good time.

4. Middle seat between pining people. Not a good time.

5. Middle seat between pining people. Not a good time.

6. Middle seat between pining people. Not a good time.

7. Middle seat between two brothers with sibling rivalry. Also not a good time.

8. Spending time between these two, will make me feel small very quickly. Conversation will be esoteric and filled with meaningful pauses. Not a good time.

9. Aisle seat is good. Sitting next to 2 wizards trying to convince the other that their behaviour is the righteous one, will get old quickly. Even less fun if it turns into wizardly violence. Suspect that Galadriel and Celeborn would get involved at that point.

Summary - Headphones, sleep mask, and a sleeping tablet will make most of these ok, but hell if you don't have them.

3 would be my choice just for pleasant conversation.

[afellowgoodsir]

Which almost useless power will you accept?

Always knowing exactly what time it is

Being able to precisely date memories

Automatically knowing the legal first name of everyone you see

Perfect balance

Able to remember all of your dreams

Control of your body temperature

Slightly, noticeably bioluminescent

Voting ended onApr 4

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[quill-of-thoth]

Started thinking about how fucking weird L'Engle's books are.

So you probably know about A Wrinkle in Time, AKA 50's girl and her baby brother go save their dad from the mind control planet. You may know about "Meet the Austins" a sweet slice of life book about a large family.

these two books take place in the same universe, where, canonically:

Telepathy is real and dolphins can do it but not with words

There are two completely different types of time traveling unicorns

Time travel also occurs via both computer programs and tapping an ancient aquifer

A fake bishop has decided to take over humanity by controlling them with an endorphin beam and his henchman pretends to be a genie

Tessering (Teleporting) can also take you inside a specific mitochondria,

Beings of Annihilation called Ectheroi are trying to turn earth (and other planets) into hellscapes of death or suffering and they can turn you into one of them with their hate beam attack

Experimental starfish research can regenerate human limbs

Clergymen are regularly embroiled in international cold war intrigue

Mammoths the size of dogs lived contemporaneously with Noah, of Ark fame, and

Nuclear armageddon was canonically averted by a kid doing quantum leap shennanigans to change a dictator's ancestry, and therefore the morals he was raised to have.

[nonny-moose-writes]

As a kid, I thought I was weird, for not 'getting' L'Engle's books... They really used to just let you do anything in genre fiction.

[quill-of-thoth]

So a couple things which, as an adult, make Maddy L'Engle make (slightly) more sense is:

I read some of C.S. Lewis' christian sci-fi. L'Engle was probably influenced to some degree by it, given that she was born in 1918 and so could have read Perelandra in her 20's. (And also because Christian Science Fiction was a THING at this time.)

Psychic stuff was considered way more plausible in the 50's and 60's. Scientific enough for science fiction, at least!

The tropes of modern Sci-Fi were literally being invented during her writing career, which didn't become successful until '62 but which she was working on throughout the 50's. She apparently wanted to play with all of them

Cold war stuff.

Which is very funny because IRL the answer to "why is there a dictator in latin america and why the hell does he have nukes" is universally "The CIA put him there and a US president gave him nukes" not "A string of greedy, cruel and ambitious people are his current ancestors."

[celebkiriedhel]

I loved madeleine L'Engle. It all made sense to me, I think because my ability to suspend disbelief if it was cognitively sensible. As long as I wasn't pulled out of the book because it wasn't internally inconsistent.

Also, for Wrinkle in Time - I too was an intelligent though ostracised girl in school, so I identified with Meg Murry, very strongly and that counted for a lot.

@quill-of-thoth

Just some word vomit as I read through your response. Basically I agree with you, and I'm thinking a bit more about what you've brought up.

I too have read all of C.S.Lewis' sci-fi, and most of what he wrote sci-fi wise was as a response to other writers and philosophers which is why the bulk of his sci-fi books are a discourse between people rather than a lot of action.

For M. L'Engle I don't think you can discount her own interpretation of that via her own religious paradigm which was not the same as C.S. Lewis although I can see the parallels.

I read her books when they came out, so as a child of the times I understood where she was coming from I think. None of us at that time knew that the CIA, KGB, Russia and USA were interfering in Latin American politics to the extent that we understand it now. I think most people then were naive when it came to the machinations we take for granted now.

Also, given that it was the cold war, I expect that even if she did think it was USA, it wouldn't have been wise to include that in a children's book to make her be noticed by governments and politicians. A lot of writers were investigated in the cold war due to perceived biases.

[im-fostering-it292]

REblog if you are Asexual, support Asexuals, or spend most of your time actually thinking about Superheroes.

[snapcracklepop-myjoints]

making the radical claim "11 year old children should be taught how to make extremely simple food" has resulted in people making arguments like "I wasnt allowed to plug in electronics until I was 16 and I think this is super normal actually" and "children dont know what ratios are so its unfair to expect them to be able to comprehend the idea of adding equal amounts rice and water to a rice cooker" and I gotta say originally I thought maybe I was being too judgy but now I feel very secure in my opinion because what the fuck

[celebkiriedhel]

WTF???!! When I was young (and I'm 63 now) we made cakes with grandma, I had to help out with cooking dinner, and that was normal, and by 8 I had to get dinner prepped when mum was running late for the evening. And occasionally put it on.

And this was completely normal throughout my neighbourhood.

When did not cooking with/by children start to be a thing??

[defilerwyrm]

Let people grow.

When I was younger I was very right-wing. I mean…very right-wing. I won’t go into detail, because I’m very deeply ashamed of it, but whatever you’re imagining, it’s probably at least that bad. I’ve taken out a lot of pain on others; I’ve acted in ignorance and waved hate like a flag; I’ve said and did things that hurt a lot of people.

There are artefacts of my past selves online – some of which I’ve locked down and keep around to remind me of my past sins, some of which I’ve scrubbed out, some of which are out of my grasp. If I were ever to become famous, people could find shit on me that would turn your stomach.

But that’s not me anymore. I’ve learned so much in the last ten years. I’ve become more open to seeing things through others’ eyes, and reforged my anger to turn on those who harm others rather than on those who simply want to exist. I’ve learned patience and compassion. I’ve learned how to recognise my privileges and listen to others’ perspectives. I’ve learned to stand up for others, how to hear, how to help, how to correct myself. And I learned some startling shit about myself along the way – with all due irony, some of the things I used to lash out at others for are intrinsic parts of myself.

You wouldn’t know what I am now from what I was then. You wouldn’t know what I was then from what I am now.

It distresses me deeply to think of someone dredging up my dark, awful past and treating me as though that furiously hateful person is still me. It distresses me to see others dredging up the past for anyone who has made efforts to become a better person, out of some sick obsession with proving they’re “problematic.”

Purity culture tells you that once someone says or does something, they can never go back on it. That’s a goddamn lie. While it’s true that some remain unrepentant and never change their ways and continue to harm others, it’s important to allow everyone the chance to learn from their mistakes. Saying something ignorant isn’t murder. Please stop treating it that way. Let people grow.

[got-zayn]

Still call it out and question it ….

[defilerwyrm]

Bruh. No. Listen. Call out what people do now, absolutely. If they haven’t changed, call them out on their record. This post is explicitly not about people who HAVEN’T changed. What this post IS saying is, if someone is making an effort to be a good person, don’t go digging around in their past for evidence that they were once for what they’re now against, or once against what they’re now for, as “proof” of what they “really think,” because people’s opinions and beliefs can change. 

The obsession with finding shit in someone’s past and then claiming that a questionable or even sordid past negates all possibility of a good present needs to become extinct. Gold-star activism and purity culture are bullshit and we need to collectively reject the fuck out of them.

If someone has changed for the better, don’t harass them about what they were like before they fuckin’ changed. That’s shitty and it needs to stop.

[sepdet]

We can’t change the world if we decide people can’t change.

[sarasa-cat]

Gold-star activism and purity culture are bullshit and we need to collectively reject the fuck out of them.

We really need to start asking where this purity bullshit came from. I’m not  Christian and was not raised Christian but there has been a lot evidence that much of gold star activism and purity culture originated in of evangelical youth movements and then infiltrated progressive left-wing and center-left politics when those youth left their churches but failed to leave behind the black-n-white puritanical “you’re going to hell if you stray one inch from the righteous path” style of thinking they were taught.

I distinctly remember some conversations I had in the late 00s and very early 2010s with long time social justice activists who were baffled and disturbed by the new crop of youth activists who were practicing something that was decidedly NOT social justice despite stealing that phrase from us.

In the decade and a half that has passed since then, all of this gold-star activism and purity culture has done exactly what I predicted back then: empowered the far-right while sowing division everywhere.

Folks. This shit needs to stop.

[celebkiriedhel]

The thing that I find so scary as a christian - is that in christian history - everyone was given a second chance. None of this you're going to hell if you stray one inch from the righteous path. In fact, the "Judge not less you be judged" comes straight from Christ's mouth, as does the fact we are called to be endlessly forgiving. (I can quote the verses if you like). Jesus canon was right up against the self-righteous who condemned others.

Saul who was the biggest killer of Christians, became Paul on conversion who then went on to work for Christians, and died for being a christian. He wrote a lot of stuff some of which feels dodgy for nowadays, and some which is spot on. But christians had to forgive their murderer Saul and let him become part of the family.

Purity culture seems to be a primarily American thing, although I'm not denying that it happens elsewhere. What I do know, is that Purity culture at it's heart is NOT christian.

This is why I have a LOT of problems with the way some people treat Ex-Maga. They are changing, they will change, they understand more than most how wrong it is. If you give them room, they will continue to change. If you don't - then they end up going back to Maga because Maga has been proved right.

Ex-Maga will ALWAYS be welcome on my tumblr.

I'm not trying to convert anyone here - I'm explaining why so many of us Non-US christians are horrified about what Christian Nationalists believe and are doing, and how it's seeping into mainstream culture.

I'm saddened and appalled that purity culture is so insidious.

[stuckinapril]

I’ve had tumblr for 4 years but some of you bitches have had it for a decade. It’s time to seek penance

[stuckinapril]

wait I’m curious now . Reblog this with how long u’ve been on tumblr for. Dating back to ur oldest blog ever !!!

[jollygreengiantdick]

For anyone who wants to see the exact date and time you started on tumblr:

Tumblr is a place to express yourself, discover yourself, and bond over the stuff you love. It's where your interests connect you with your

[queerforscience]

How long have you been on Tumblr?

< 1 year

1-2 years

3-4 years

5-6 years

7-8 years

9-10 years

11-12 years

13-14 years

15-16 years

17-18 years

Since the beginning (19 years)

Voting ended onMar 25

Round to the closest year! I couldn't figure out the best way to succinctly communicate, for example, >10 but <=12 in a way accessible to people with varying degrees of comfort with math notation.

[celebkiriedhel]

What's happening with GoS? I haven't been there for a long time, and went to go look at some stuff - and discovered that it's getting an error on loading?

[bobakick]

inspired by a post i read yesterday which contained the beautiful the words "Hanya Yanagihara's The Long Game"......

pick an author and a title!

how's the book?

5 stars (a masterpiece)

4 stars (pretty good)

3 stars (meh)

2 stars (pretty bad)

1 star (awful awful awful. Awful)

too insane to even quantify. what the fuck

nuance/results

Voting ended onMar 4

(no "idk" button! if you get a title or an author you don't know enough about to make a judgement, keep rolling until you do!)