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1) Book of Delights: Essays by Ross Gay (2019) // 3) Paul Eluard, āGabriel PĆ©riā, Selected Poems (trans. Gilbert Bowen) // 4) This Post <3 // 5) āSmall Kindnessā, a poem by Danusha LamĆ©ris // 7) āEvery day as a wild field, every pageā a poem by Naomi Shihab Nye // 8) āSomewhere there is ...ā a poem by Anna Akhmatova
sometimes you listen to an orchestra and youāre like maybe the magic i stopped believing in when i was eleven does exist in some form
A new mode of production arises out of the newly networked masses.
Fanartists:
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Royalty free sounds
Flash games
Productivity has always been there
Because shockingly when people enjoy what they do (you make it enjoyable instead of just hammering on them) people WANT to do things!
Fanfiction authors!!
Where is the button to shout this from the rooftop?
Black Friday does not exist.
Controversial shitboxing time: Black Friday isnāt real.
Well, okay. It exists. Itās a real name affixed to a real name on a real shitshow of a calendar system used by Western civilization. (Iām using the term civilization loosely here.)
But: Iāve been watching. I am a paranoid shopper, mostly because I hate shopping, so Iām not going to spend my money on something unless I know Iām getting a deal. This means I price-watch, even on things Iām not currently in the market to buy. The only market I donāt do this on the regular for is cars, because we already know the prices are inflated. Thatās what haggling is for. (Always. Play. Hardball. Be willing to walk away. If you need financing, get it before you go to the dealership. You want to be in control, not them.)
Anyway.
Black Friday isnāt fucking real and hasnāt been for at least the last five years. This week in particular has been fun: Iāve been watching them advertise sales for their early Black Friday specials, and the prices that are the āsaleā price are the same or higher than they were the week before, or the month before. Hell, one year I think pretty much everyone and their neighborās dog raised prices prior to the sale and then lowered them back down to normal in the name of Black Friday. In fact, I think that was the first year I really noticed the trend.
Now, donāt get me wrong. There USED to be Black Friday sales. Legitimate ones. I worked in those fucking stores, so I knew those prices, and I knew if theyād been legitimately dropped or not for Black Friday. Toystore and retail, your primary Black Friday offendersāI walked those trenches, my dudes. I saw true Black Friday prices for items whose prices had been lowered just for that day.
This year, I have seen exactly ONE Black Friday deal where the price was legitimately lowered $100 below its normal going price.
Just. One.
None of the others. They have claimed price dropsā¦except these price drops? Yeah, the items in question were already that price. Nothing changed except the advertising. Iāve been looking for BF deals, tooāyou never know when you might see something that other people are in desperate need of, yāknow?
Yāall, there aināt shit except a one-day sale on a pair of Apple earbuds that are still hella overpriced. Just let it go. Maybe if we all refuse to fucking participate, theyāll either bring legitimate BF deals back, or ditch the idea entirely. Itās stupid and itās gotten people killed and encouraging greed is a sin in like a lot of religions, so maybe we can step back a little.
This isnāt to say donāt buy shit. I mean, the way our society is set up, some of this is shit we actually need. But donāt be fooled by the bullshit. Shop around. Price-watch. Donāt leap for the fancy bold print, because just like the cake, itās probably a lie.
Anyway. Stay home on Friday. Youāre not missing anything this year. If you see an honest-to-fuck Black Friday deal, buy the damned thing online at 3am and then go the fuck to sleep.
Origins of Black Friday:
First use of the term referred to September 24, 1869, and a huge stock market crash caused by a couple of rich assholes trying to buy up all the gold and corner the market.
First use of it to refer to the day after Thanksgiving was in 1951 (and again in 1952) - Factory Management and Maintenance journal used it to describe workers calling in sick the day after Thanksgiving to get themselves a 4-day weekend.
Around that time: The Army-Navy football game was traditionally held on the Saturday after Thanksgiving, which resulted in a huge rush of tourists (and frantic sports fan activity everywhere else) - and of course everything was closed on Thursday, and Saturday they were watching the game; Friday was the big shopping day.
A little after that, the āred to blackā narrative took over - possibly because for a lot of struggling businesses that were āin the redā most of the year, one big day of sales could push them āinto the blackā and out of debt/expenses covered; the rest of the yearās sales were pure profit.
When I was growing up, there were two kinds of Black Friday sales: Honest one-day sales bargains, and āitās the start of the Christmas buying seasonā sales. Many of these were weekend-long sales, sometimes longer - normal sales, but all starting on the same day to get people to rush in and start their holiday shopping early, and give the stores a good sense of what was selling like crazy this year so they had time to get in another order or two before mid-December.
Consumerist rush, but one that tied to normal expected consumer habits.
Now, Iāve seen āEarly Black Fridayā sales start in OCTOBER.
And āBlack Friday Salesā that areā¦ 5% discounts on 4-item bundle purchases. Black Friday Sales that are indistinguishable from the year-round sales habits. Black Friday Sale that are clearance sales. Black Friday Sales that are āweāve lowered the price to almost as low as our competitors offer.ā
And of course, the āBlack Friday Salesā that are āsuggested price is $80 but itās $50!!ā ā¦ only, itās always offered at $50 or lower.
They are all, technically, sales. But if you donāt shop regularly, you donāt know how many of those items can be purchased at that price - or lower - somewhere else, or by waiting a few weeks. You donāt know which ones are the Shiny New Version which differs from Last Yearās Boring Model in having different colored buttons, but costs 30% more (but itās 10% off this week!!!).
Look for the stuff you actually need, thatās actually on sale this week. Donāt buy anything just because itās on sale.
It's so wild how many grown adults can't grasp such a basic concept like "if you are nicer to strangers they will usually be nicer to you in return"
someone in the notes on thatĀ āstop fetishizing old housesā post commented that builders before the 1970s were too concerned with elegance and grandeur, and that was all really just wastefulness
and I think about my apartment, a duplex from 1912, surely built for a middle- or working-class family. spartan, really; quite basic and no-frills. not much to look at from the outside. just like a thousand buildings of similar provenance in the Boston area.
there are flowers molded in the chunky, cast-iron radiators
thereās a design of concentric circles in the carved door-lintels
many buildings of this type have a little stained-glass window somewhere
Ā I think about ornate door hinges in the staff wing of a country estate from 1878.Ā think of patterned wallpaper in a mansionās kitchen, from 1797. I think about purely functional spaces someone looked at and said,Ā āthis needs beautyā
the past was certainly guilty of waste in many ways. but I cannot call making a house more than just a box to live in one of them
Minimalism is just propaganda to make people accept souless surroundings
you know what else is pretty amazing about those older houses from ābefore the 1970s?ā No. Engineered. Lumber.
Gonna put my firefighting hat on and lecture for a minute here. Engineered Lumber is that shit made of wood chips that have been laminated together with glues and epoxies to make new boards out of waste material. Thatās a good thing, right?
No. It really is not.
See, thereās other things that āwaste materialā could go to make or be used as, that do NOT include filling them with toxic chemicals that reduce the burn time of a piece of wood. Also, those pre 70ās boards were real, full, complete boards. So not only do they not off-gas massive quantities of toxic fumes when burning, it takes a lot longer than 2-4 minutes to burn through one. More like 15-20 minutes to burn through one. Also, yeah, there was waste in the way they built those old houses. It was called OVER-ENGINEERING. So when ONE of those boards burned through, you werenāt at risk of losing the entire roofing or flooring or ceiling SYSTEM because the materials to construct a structure have been pared down to the absolute minimum and even less in places.
Roof trusses were nailed together with NAILS, not āgusset platesā. Nails penetrate INCHES into the wood. Gusset plates? Ā¼ of an inch usually. Know how quick Ā¼ of an inch can char and cease holding onto the teeth of those gusset plates? Iāll give you a hint: itās measured in a couple hundred seconds, rather than the tens of minutes a nailed truss gets.
TL;DR? Yeah, there was waste. They used thicker wood and a lot more of it, not even taking into account all the beautiful little embellishments like molded plaster reliefs and tin ceiling panelsā¦ But that thicker wood saved lives. It didnāt burn toxic, and it burned for a LOT LONGER before it became unsafe to be in.
Modern house like your typical McMansion? By the time we arrive on a typical structure fire, itās already too dangerous to enter, because too many of the engineered lumber pieces will have been compromised, thus endangering entire building systems. Weāre talking if itās been burning for 5 minutes or so, 10 at the outside, we KNOW itās not safe to enter. (If thereās someone in there, we will anyway - risk a lot to save a lot - but we also know to be a thousand times more careful about putting weight anywhere). That 1900 farmhouse thatās been burning for 30 minutes? Itās still plenty strong enough to go in and do what we gotta do. And we donāt have to be paranoid about breathing the smoke in outside, either.
Long story short, not only does minimalism kill the soul, it KILLS REAL PEOPLEāS LIVES.
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this is the best thing to happen to twitter
it is. so weird to me that I'm having to say this again after a real-life cartoon supervillian already once ran for president on a platform of hatred & fascism and won, but.
it's November, please fucking vote
vote because the Supreme-ly fucked-up Court plans to destroy as much progress as possible. vote because we are in FULL BLOWN DAMAGE CONTROL MODE. vote because we still haven't recovered from 4 years of trump, and if we don't show up at the polls it is possible and probable we will get another 4 years. vote this November to protect basic human rights. and vote in November 2024 so we don't have to survive another 4 years under a festering fetid fascist-leaning tower of garbage. because in all seriousness: many of us--the most vulnerable of us--won't survive. and many more will suffer. vote to protect yourself and your neighbors. vote to protect those who most need protection.
vote because it is the right thing to do. vote out of KINDNESS. and vote out of SPITE--because billionaires are spending insane amounts of money to discourage you from voting.
so tell them to get roundly and soundly FUCKED, and vote anyway.
vote out of spite and vote out of heart and vote out of rage and vote out of love.
vote because it is the biggest most immediate FUCK YOU available at this very moment in time. Because marking a ballot is the most heartfelt way possible to say: "Fuck you, you fucking piece of shit"
I have to add the tags of @biggest-gaudiest-patronuses. They are AMAZING.
#vote because love for your fellow human being sometimes means stomping the heel of your combat boot directly on top of a billionaire's nose
#no who am i kidding. love for your fellow human ALWAYS means exactly and entirely just that
#become a humanitarian
#break a billionaire's nose
#just JAM that nasal bone right on up there
#or you know. do your part to make sure he spent 1.8 billion dollars on lobbyists & PACs for zero results
#on an emotional level this is equally satisfying
#think how much TIME and EMOTIONAL EFFORT he would have wasted
#i want elon musk to cry like a little bitch because the geopolitical world won't do his bidding
#can't put a price on that
#i want to watch his snot drip down his little muskrat nostrils in 1080p
#THAT is the service i demand of a streaming platform
Why is LARP so much more taboo than historical reenactment why is pretending youāre a wizard less socially acceptable than pretending youāre a confederate
Thisā¦isā¦a decent question.
I agree. Iād much rather have wizards running around than confederatesā¦
Lauren Boebert defeat could cost Republicans the House. Colorado voters: You have 8 days to see if your ballot was rejected and correct issues with it. Spread the news!
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The only thing that could make me happier than this worthless nazi cunt losing this election would be if her loss also meant that the disease that is the Republican party as a whole utterly failed in something they were attempting to achieve so I am keeping my fingers crossed here :D
Like to charge, reblog to cast, check your ballot if you are in that area!
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HOW CAN SOMETHING BE THIS CUTE
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Self explanatory sadnessā¦
Happy N7 Day
I feel so sad and yet Iām laughing so hard. This gif is a paradox.
And thatās what makes it so great!!!!
That feel when you know exactly what song itās going to be before you turn on sound
Ya know? I didnāt need this
equal rights for women will never truly be achieved until we have more female noir detectives
and i don't mean some badass woman who doesn't need a man and can kill someone in 6 inch heels without breaking a sweat or smudging her perfectly set makeup or chipping a nail. she looks like she grew up in a soggy cardboard box on the side of the road all alone. she monologues dramatically to herself while looking over the corruption-riddled city she works in because she has no friends or hobbies and will literally do anything except go to therapy. she gets beat up in alleyways so blood and rain drip sexily from her nose and chin but when she gets to her feet she looks like a sad wet cat. women want her but they also pity her. instead of perfume she smells of coffee, whiskey and cigarettes, which are also more or less all she lives off of. her voice is more gravelly than aĀ pit of rocks as a result of said diet. she hasn't slept or showered in at least 3 days and it's increasingly obvious. she's either divorced or feels like she should be.
yeah okay gimme a sec
ok first off some of yall missed the entire point and gave gorgeous, put-together women, when op explicitly stated that she is "a sad wet cat" this is the type-a woman who Does Not have her shit together and Does Not care.
therefore, i give you: Female Noir Detective
this lady's so much of a mess she's smoking the damn cig backwards
I read "until we have more female black noir detectives" and I was like YEAH!!! and then was surprised to see a white woman fdsjkhfjkds
The point 100% stands as is but also woc as noir detectives is a GOAL
ANYWAY I drew a female noir detective of my own <3
She doesn't have a name so feel free to suggest!! and make up anything about her cos I think i crashed my brain drawing this lmao
Constructive crit welcome!!
Constructive crit welcome!!
p.s. would be neat if this got similar attention
