Zero Gravitas

Polish/Canadian "bizarrely self-righteous septuagenarian", also: "bleeding heart squishy liberal from Europe", living curently in Ecuador

[historicity-was-already-taken]

(Yoinked this from LinkedIn, genuinely interested in seeing how responses align with demographics) (so far it’s those of us over 35 being indignant but I wanna see how those fully plays out) (it’s cultural and technological history/memory, bruh)

18

[bellisima-writes]

I am an old bitch - 20/20.

[everbright-mourning]

18

[shrewreadings]

Wow, way to show your age-ist screening test on social media, LinkedIn Person who posted this on @historicity-was-already-taken’s feed.

Because over 50 pretty much guarantees ‘20, and on a good day in HS, all of them in one day.’

So, when someone asks you this in an interview, remember to reply that ‘age is a protected class.’

Unless you’re applying for a job as an archivist and it’s actually a skills question.

[historicity-was-already-taken]

Oh geez

I’m such a dumbass

I just wanted to have fun with tech (and history thereof) rants

[middleagedandoutoftouch]

20/20

[middleagedbummer]

IMy wife @teacher-in-survial-mode and I are both 20/20

[justsayin59]

Done all that.

[cricketcat9]

LOL LOL LOL, nobody but me, all of it

[bowlby4]

[cricketcat9]

I'm sorry but your So-Called President is turning your country into Big Shithole Dictatorial one

[spin-the-wheel-polls]

you are now a cat in the warrior cats universe! Spin these wheels for your name!

Do you like it?

YES!!!

yes

eh it's okay

no.

IM MOON MOON

results/other

Remaining time: 3 days 23 hours

note: I (the owner of this blog and maker of wheels) am not into warrior cats! I just thought this would be fun to make

(prefixes and suffixes from @yarrowleef)

[spin-the-wheel-polls]

I DON'T WANNA BE DEAD WOLF

[gallusrostromegalus]

It's me. Football Cat.

[cricketcat9]

Prefix wheel is blank? I'm just Claw, that's it. It's fine. I don't know anything about Warrior Cats.

[kiisaes]

everyone eat more vegetables NOW!!! and mention the last vegetable you ate in the tags so we're all on the buddy system. I'll start: bok choy

[cricketcat9]

Cabbage, onion and carrots in the coleslaw form

[alittlegirlssuicidenote-deactiv]

[ashyminivet]

india is not a democracy anymore.

everyone needs to hear about the situation in india right now. the youth of this nation are going through hell and back to protect the foundations that our country was built on in the first place, while the adults who are supposed to actually be in charge try to silence our voices.

NEET, which is an exam taken by millions of students per year and is the ONLY gateway for medical admissions across the country, had its papers leaked. so many took their lives because this exam meant everything for their future. and NTA, the agency who conducts this exam, was not held accountable.

there was national backlash. cockroach janta party (initially a satirical political party formed by abhijeet dipke in retaliation to the remarks of the chief justice of india calling the youth "cockroaches" and "parasites of society") started protests at jantar mantar, demanding the resignation of the union education minister, dharmendra pradhan. the movement also asked for ten million inr (~100,000 usd) in compensation for the families of students who died by suicide and wanted NTA be held accountable.

sonam wangchuk, a climate activist and education reformer, also went on a hunger strike at jantar mantar to protest against this corruption in india's higher education system. his fast began on june 28, demanding the resignation of the union education minister. his fast lasted for 20 days until delhi police FORCIBLY removed him and admitted him to safdarjung hospital on july 18.

because of this, cockroach janta party announced "chalo sansad," a march to the parliament beginning on june 20th, 9:00 am ist. but the police seems to be responding with water cannons, mobile jammers, and baton charge. all of this, because of a peaceful protest led by people no older than 30.

and yet there has been absolutely no indian media coverage about a movement that spans the entirety of this nation. so, please, if you see this, keep talking about us. we will not let those old bastards stoop any lower than they've already had. we will not let them ruin our country any further. we will not be silenced

[your-mom-friend]

Please look it up. Students have been beaten bloody. They’re using electrified batons. They’re using batons with nails hammered in. They’re dragging people off and locking them up for no reason. People are being beaten, assaulted, and even molested by the police.

The government is doing everything it can except for actually having an honest dialogue with the protestors.

It’s important to note that despite all the police brutality, despite how the government has had extra forces airlifted to Delhi to help quash the protest, this has deterred no one.

Not only is the protest in Delhi going strong, the government closed down every metro station in Central Delhi in an effort to stop them and it still hasn’t.

There’s protests in most major cities in India in solidarity. Palakkad, Chennai, Mumbai, Hyderabad, Bangalore, Kochi, and probably more besides. There has been a protest in the UK as well in solidarity.

People who aren’t at the protest are donating so much food that the organisers have had to ask them to stop doing so because there’s more than enough. In lieu of that people are donating money for medicine, lawyers, cleanup, and umbrellas.

Most crucially, hopes aren’t broken. Spirits aren’t broken. People with bruises and broken bones are still showing up. People are showing up cosplaying as freedom fighters and super heroes and a dinosaur. People are doxxing goons who show up trying to incite violence. People are making reels. People in Mumbai literally opened a moving police detainment van to allow arrested students to escape.

*all links lead to Instagram posts or reels showing the same. Almost every major Indian news network has been bought and either ignores the protests or depicts them unfairly. All honest news comes from people on the ground and smaller independent news outlets.

[cricketcat9]

PLEASE READ 🤬🤬🤬😭😭😭

[muddypolitics]

(via MAGA America Now Needs Conspiracy Theories to Explain How The Odyssey Could Possibly be a Box Office Hit)

these whining incels are really fucking annoying…

[cricketcat9]

STUPID OF THE DAY

[thedankmemes]

[cricketcat9]

Me, after getting into something interesting on AO3

[lesbianswift]

FOOD DISCOURSE: reblog with ur opinions on guacamole, olives, mango, hummus, tomatoes, and cannolis

[cricketcat9]

All are great if/ when properly prepared and condiments used, for ex. mango ripe but not overripe, and slightly salted. I'm not an expert on cannolis tho.

[cisarovna]

[archaeo-geek]

I’ve read that Agatha said she loved being married to an archaeologist because the older she got, the more interesting he found her. And I think that is one of the best quotes about love that I have ever heard.

[cricketcat9]

I did not know this, and I ❤️ it! You go, Agatha! 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

[cricketcat9]

WHY IS THIS MOVIE NOT MADE YET?!

I haven't got the whole century to live and wait

[sunanthrope]

"But what if people will pretend to need this accessibility option so they can be lazy! People who don't need it will use it!!" I don't actually care

I dont care if 9/10 of the people who use the wheelchair ramp arent actually in wheelchairs. As long as the 1 person who needs it has access to it.

I dont care if 9/10 people who use the automatic push button on the library door can actually push the door open themselves. As long as the 1 person who the door is too heavy for gets to use it.

I dont care if 9/10 people who buy the can tab opener, or the little guitar clamp that holds the chords for you, or the hand grip that helps you hold chop sticks, don't need any of it and just get it to "be lazy". As long as the one disabled person who needs it gets access to it.

I do not care. Oh my GOD I do not care. As long as there's a disabled person on this planet who the accessibility device will benefit, the accessibility device is necessary.

Also, if you're so worried about people being "lazy" by using accessibility devices, MORE worried than you are about disabled (visibly or not) people not having access to them, you have unchecked ableism you need to work through.

[cricketcat9]

Agree 100%. It is ableism and ageism. I know people with arthritic hands who can't open a jar or even hold scissors. Who can't push heavy doors. Old people are here and want to still have a life. Preventing people from "being lazy" - such a puritanic, assholic concept 🤬

[foodffs]

Chinese Beef Meat Pie (Xian Bing, 牛肉馅饼) Chinese meat pie has a juicy beef filling with onion, carrot and aromatics in a crispy crust. It’s like a giant dumpling.

Recipe => http://omnivorescookbook.com/chinese-beef-meat-pie/

[cricketcat9]

Oh. I thought these are PIEROGI.

[drdougdouglass]

New York sculptor spent $100,000 to make a Charlie Kirk statue no one wants to buy

Sergio Furnari said he thought the lifesize sculpture – which no one commissioned – would raise ‘millions’ of dollars

Sergio Furnari hoped the statue , which he intends to display in Times Square, would raise “millions” of dollars.

Instead, he has been inundated by messages from people... saying they intend to urinate on it.

[cricketcat9]

A noble intention. Of the people, not Sergio Furnari.

[famylee83]

This man needs to be hunted for sport.

[gremlinzeeeeeero]

WHAT DO YOU MEAN HE MADE HIMSELF ONE TOO

[cricketcat9]

PLEASE UNMUTE!

[akreon]

Here is the cover I had the pleasure of illustrating for the Polish edition of "The Husky and His White Cat Shizun" Published by Wydawnictwo Czarna Owca

[cricketcat9]

OMG THIS IS GORGEOUS! ❤️

Will pester my family not buy it and somehow ship it to Ecuador 😍

[ultrafacts]

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[cricketcat9]

A herd of goats passes regularly by my house on the way to or from the pasture. The young ones are a delight, bouncing like a pingpong balls. All of them get on top of the trees is seconds, I don't know how. Would get goats instead of the noisy and smelly lawnmower any time. Although, to be fair, some are smelly too...

[deepetch]

This is awesome on so many levels.

Ladies and Gentlemen i present to you John Carpenter’s The Thing, as performed by the claymated, Antarctic cast of the hit children’s animation Pingu. Directed by Lee Hardcastle, in under 3 minutes. Noot, Noot.

[junkyardddog]

Oh my fucking god.

[queerkreep-deactivated20161009]

JESUS CHRIST

[sixthrock]

I’m still amazed at how they got a “noot noot” to sound so much like a “fuck you”

[cricketcat9]

It is my sacred duty to reblog...and so is yours 😱