Out Of Mana

The Great OOM. DnD Nerd (1e). Old Cars. Random Shit. IT Professional. Gardening: http://tickledpink1994.tumblr.com Witchcraft: http://oldsunshineysoulwitch.tumblr.com Fiber Crafts: https://stitchnknit.tumblr.com Writing: https://a-writer-that-never-writes.tumblr.com

[freedominthedarkmp3]

One time this man approached me in a bar talking in Spanish. So I assumed he was Spanish and we started speaking, we had a whole ass conversation and at some point he was like. So what part of Spain are you from? And I said well I’m Italian actually. What part of Spain are you from? And he was like. I’m Greek.

[pastelpinkcheeks]

One time I was in Argentina and I was so tired of trying to speak Spanish because I’m not very good at it lmao so I broke into exasperated English and the retail seller girl quickly understood me and engaged me in conversation. We talked for a while, she introduced me to a makeup brand, and then I decided to buy it. While she was packaging the purchase, she asked me if I were from the US or perhaps the UK and I just said “oh no I’m Brazilian hahah” and she looked me straight in the eyes and said, in clear Portuguese, “I’m Brazilian too”

[ex-evil-genius-deactivated20220]

When my dad went to China on a work trip, his Mandarin speaking wasn’t great but his listening was fine (his first language is Cantonese) and he encountered a German guy who had moved to China to work. My dad knew how to speak German because he studied it in university (but wasn’t great when it came to listening to new vocab he hadn’t studied before), and the German guy knew Mandarin because he lived and worked in China, so they had a conversation where my dad spoke to the German guy in German and the guy responded in Mandarin. I’m sure it confused a lot of their coworkers who just saw the Asian guy speaking German and the white guy speaking Mandarin.

[theriversdaughter]

Some years ago, I worked for a manufacturing company that had a service depot in China.  One of the engineers from the main office here in the US spent most of his time at the depot.  The problem was that he didn’t speak *any* of the various Chinese languages, and no one at the depot spoke any English. They all, however, spoke Spanish.

[1stsana]

I love the world

[thanosthedadtitan]

The channel is here

Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood

Welcome to the official Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood YouTube channel! For more than 30 years, Mister Rogers created a relationship with mill

An official channel dedicated solely to the beloved program will offer viewers of multiple generations the chance to watch full episodes, livestreams, clips, and compilations all in one place.

Let's gooooooooo!!!

[nitpickspot]

They should make a channel like that for Sesame Street.

I'd watch it...with my students!...yes, yea, that's the ticket...

(All my students are at least 17)

[peach-pot]

being anti-amatonormativity in a romance centered world is like watching half the people you know put all their eggs in one basket and then drop the basket and all their eggs break and they’re crying and swearing they’re never gonna do that again and then a month later they have all new eggs in a new basket and they tell you the problem was they didn’t have a strong enough basket or fresh enough eggs and then they drop the fucking basket again.

[peach-pot]

I think some people on this post don’t know what the phrase “don’t put all your eggs in one basket” means… or why it means that.

[hyenaswine]

based based based based based based based based based based based based

[headspace-hotel]

It's very sad to think this idea is shocking to someone...

[alexseanchai]

[image: paragraph by an unspecified Tumblr user: "There are legitimately fat activists out there who say you should eat whatever you want whenever you want wherever you want and however much you want."]

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tags by headspace-hotel: #cravings 4 specific foods for me usually mean i need something either mentally or physically #can be hard to interpret when ur surrounded by food that Doesnt Have the nutrients u want #but i dont think ppl need Rules to eat according to unless theres like. a specific reason

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oh right there's probably a reason I'm longing for orange juice. which I can't have without my body hating me, even with multiple antacids, and my throat already feels like I took sandpaper to it, so I guess it's vitC supplement time

[megpie71]

Oddly enough, it's only by giving myself the freedom to eat whatever I fancied as often as I wanted that I was able to give up needing to binge eat as a form of self-soothing. I've found if I have sweets or chocolate in the house all the time, I don't need to eat large amounts of them in one go - they're not going to be taken away, I'm not going to be punished for eating them, so I can just have (for example) five red frogs, and stop.

It's only by giving myself the freedom to eat whatever I want when I want, that I learned I actually like eating vegetables, and that I'm partial to snacking on salad veges. While I was dieting, salads were an act of penance for the sin of being hungry. They weren't enjoyable, they couldn't be - they were something you consumed to apologise to the world for taking up space in it.

It's only by giving myself the freedom to eat as much (or as little) of whatever I wanted, whenever I wanted it, that I learned I didn't actually want to eat an entire cake in one sitting. That I could be happy with just one piece of toast.

It was only by giving myself the freedom to eat as much as I wanted, of whatever I wanted, whenever I wanted it, that I was able to even start to rebuild a functional relationship with food after ten years of weight-loss dieting.

(Oh, and the weight-loss dieting didn't work, same as it still doesn't work for about 95 - 98% of people who try it. I lost weight, sure... but it always found me again, and it brought friends).

[meburgers]

adrian’s “mate of the week” ranking board

[kuttithevangu]

Instead of doomscrolling lately I have been reading my PDFs and it turns out if you do this you learn a whole bunch of stuff. I’m afraid I must recommend it

[critter-of-habit]

They're just silly

[dr3amoon]

“you look sad today”

bro im sad everyday I just didn’t have the energy to hide it today

[thememedaddy]

[chirasul]

we got a full redbox and now we're playing go fish with the redbox movies

[chirasul]

I would never pay money for a redbox. if you ask politely and are very very persistent (i.e. annoying) they will let you take it away

here's my dad and i taking it away

a redbox makes a wonderful addition to your patio

[fishmech]

for those wondering why they're free to take now, it's because the company that made those "chicken soup for the soul" books bought them a few years ago and then completely collapsed so bad they couldn't afford to dispose of or even take the blu rays and dvds out of their kiosks all over.

so any of them is free game because they're all located on other business' property and they usually don't want to have to pay to get rid of them either. so asking the store manager usually gets you the ok to pull it out and keep it.

[chirasul]

there was a period of time right after their bankruptcy where you could put in any debit or credit card and it would spit out movies without charging you. you could even put in like an expired or deactivated card, or a visa gift card with a $0 balance, didnt matter, they'd just start spitting discs out. a lotta people raided redboxes for movies for a couple months, with some people doing what me and my brother and my dad did here, taking the whole box and signs and marquees as well. because managers sure as hell don't want a big abandoned piece of trash on their sidewalk disappointing customers. BUT they're also often too cheap to pay someone to remove it. so they just sit there.

luckily there are no shortage of freaks like us who will just take them away on our own volition. we did it all "by the book", too: we set up cones and caution tape, disconnected electricity properly, used an angle grinder to grind down the bolts in the concrete so nobody would trip on them, then cleaned everything up afterward and sealed off the electrical panel so the store would know everything is safe and tidy. though they were hesitant when we were first contacting them, they were honestly very relieved and grateful when we finally took it away, especially once they saw that we "knew what we were doing" (we don't) and look like we've "done this before" (we haven't).

the fun part: the reason why this redbox, in particular, was completely full and unraided is because the computer hardware inside had failed some months before the bankruptcy, and a failing company sure as hell wasn't gonna send a tech out to our podunk dipshit city to fix it, so it was impossible to rent movies or take any discs out. plus, for who knows how long, people were returning old redbox discs to this machine and not taking any out, leading to a much higher variety of movies than your average redbox.

there is a thriving community of redbox hackers and modders out there, as well, creating open-source software for repurposing the machines and not letting their very interesting and robust disc-management hardware go to waste. this one belongs to my brother (who was very annoying persistent and did all the legwork of contacting managers and securing permission) who is a programmer by trade and will be hacking it into a family-access movie library, with whatever discs we want. i mean the machine is completely weatherproof and has a built-in AC unit, it would be such a waste to not try to turn it into something cool.

if we get another one, i'm gonna try to mod it into some sort of art or zine vending machine. the disc boxes are just the right size for small print art or stickers. would make a great "little free library" too.

remember: the rules are made up. act like you belong there and you can get away with anything. this applies to your own life

[animepopheart]

★ 【Jolseon】 「 Frieren teaches Richeh Zoltraak 」  ✔ republished w/permission  ☆ follow our YT interview show! 

[anattmar]

[spankerella]

@ perfectunion

[massachusetts-official]

Official Post of Massachusetts

[knighthearts]

happy pride month for it/its users, polyamorous people, xenogenders, non-transitioning trans people, and other "weird" identities. btw

[wholesome-animal-images]

[teaboot]

My first time operating CCTV cameras I was handed control over what was essentially 50 independently moving eyes that collectively covered an area about the size of a football field and from that experience I now know that

Suddenly having 50 moving eyes can make you disoriented and barfy and the adjustment period sucks ass

It takes both more and less time than you’d think to figure out what the structure as a whole looks like and where those eyes ARE

After you get used to it the entirety of the structure itself and all of the eyes you can see from feels like an extension of your nervous system in a very bizarre way. Like I have dreams now from the perspective of A Building and I’m not sure how to describe that.

Once you are aware of an unreachable blind spot it nags at you constantly and you can feel it like a hard little lump under your skin you need to poke and scratch at and it’s ardghgguychgghhbhhhbhhh

[teaboot]

And on top of that, having operated CCTV at multiple locations now- my favourite and most comfortable one having excess of 60 cameras- it can be REALLY hard to suddenly jump to a different operating interface and display configuration, because all the muscle memory is wrong

On my COMFORTABLE system, the one I spent the longest time on, I never had to think about what code I needed to punch in. If I needed to watch a specific person, I could follow them all over the site without thinking about it.

Now at a different location, all the manual equipment and codes and lag and resolution are different, and it feels like going from playing the piano to driving stick shift on the left side of the road with my feet

The closest I imagine I can equate it to is like. Getting really really good at painting with a pair of prosthetic hands, and then suddenly having them swapped out with someone else’s

[teaboot]

Not the best depiction, but. Feels like this

[teaboot]

I love how many people read my work posts and tag it “body horror”, “eldritch”, “science fiction”, “Murderbot”, “Magnus archives”, “OP is a cyborg”

While all the people with security & surveillance experience are chilling in the notes like

To be clear I love it. I love that we’re all living in our own little adventures

[gayvampyr]

lmfao