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What do you call them?
Yard sale/lawn sale
Yard sale (it's not a lawn sale)
Lawn sale (it's not a yard sale)
Garage sale
Tag sale (I love you and I know where you live)
Junk sale
Something else
I have no idea what you're talking about
Reblog for a bigger sample size ::::))) Don't tell me where you live though, I'm a stranger on the internet, what is wrong with you? (Do tell me if you're outside the US though, is this a thing anywhere else?)
Team "rummage sale" make some noise~
Also, everyone on this webbed site is ridiculous
We might as well just post our zip codes at this point.
[image id: a four-page comic. it is titled “immortality” after the poem by clare harner (more popularly known as “do not stand at my grave and weep”). the first page shows paleontologists digging up fossils at a dig. it reads, “do not stand at my grave and weep. i am not there. i do not sleep.” page two features several prehistoric creatures living in the wild. not featured but notable, each have modern descendants: horses, cetaceans, horsetail plants, and crocodilians. it reads, “i am a thousand winds that blow. i am the diamond glints on snow. i am the sunlight on ripened grain. i am the gentle autumn rain.” the third page shows archaeopteryx in the treetops and the skies, then a modern museum-goer reading the placard on a fossil display. it reads, “when you awaken in the morning’s hush, i am the swift uplifting rush, of quiet birds in circled flight. i am the soft stars that shine at night. do not stand at my grave and cry.” the fourth page shows a chicken in a field. it reads, “i am not there. i did not die” / end id]
a comic i made in about 15 hours for my school’s comic anthology. the theme was “evolution”
I think I just met my hero.
Baby bird season is incoming and I’d like to remind everyone that birds do not have a significant sense of smell. Bird parents will not reject birdlets because you have handled them.
If you see smol birbs with few or no feathers on the ground, you can safely put them back into their nest, bird parents will still care for them.
If you see smol birbs with some or most feathers on the ground, please leave them there, as bird parents are probably nearby watching and feeding.
nakey bird = accidentally fell out, is cold and scared, put back in nest! if you can’t reach the nest, try to put it on a wide branch or fork so predators can’t get at it as easily.
scruffy feather bird = starting to try the fly thing, not very good at it. only put in nest/branch if predators abound, i.e. you have four outdoor cats and they’re licking their chops.
fluffy feather bird = smol fly guy! do nothing. can probably get away from predators and will flip its shit if you pick it up.
Reblogging this because I’d always heard the ‘Don’t touch a distressed bird its mom will reject it’ thing treated as fact before now, I didn’t realise it wasn’t true…
Spring is coming, time to reblog this again.
an equally friendly reminder to not let your cats and dogs near downed woodland animals. The bacteria they carry can be very harmful and a dog that’s gentle and sweet with you is likely to consider a baby bird as a tasty mouthful.
Love logging on to tumblr dot com and seeing posts about why libraries should be Cancelled because they don’t pull problematique books
Also let’s be real, Problematic Books are one of the strongest arguments for libraries’ continued existence?
Let’s say you need an outdated queer theory textbook that uses biphobic and cissexist rhetoric for your gender studies thesis, but you don’t particularly want to own that book.
Let’s say you need a primary source to strengthen your argument to your college as to why a certain political figure does not deserve to be a speaker at your graduation because they perpetuate hate speech.
Let’s say you and your friends want to hateread a book by your least favorite author but you don’t want to give him your money.
You deserve the ability to access that content legally without having to purchase and own it. And so does everyone else, no matter how suspicious you might be of their motives for reading a Problematic book.
When I was doing my masters in library science, they reiterated over and over: there should be something in a library to offend everyone. Believe me. There are books in my library that I find offensive. But my job is to provide access. Not to question WHY people need stuff or to judge them. Libraries should function as a neutral space. We are providing information, which in and of itself is neutral. It’s what people DO with that information that matters. And even then, it’s not my place to judge.
When I was in college, I was doing a paper for an African-American Studies class, and I found myself suddenly in need of info on exactly what sort of self-justification white people were using during the days of slavery.
And I found one in the college library. An original slave-owner’s apologia from eighteen hundred or so.
Nasty stuff. But studying the mechanics of evil is a useful pursuit. One that has relevance in today’s world, certainly.
(My African-American Studies professor thought so too; he gave me an A.)
The point being, no matter how bad a book is, there is value in preserving it—if only to demonstrate, “This, this right here, this is a bad thing.“ Mein Kampf? Worth picking through to note the psychology of a depraved leader. (Did you know that Hitler framed every damn thing as a war, including farming, which he characterized as wrestling food from an unwilling land, or some such bullshit? Might be a characteristic worth paying attention to. Be cautious about leaders who use “war” rhetoric for things that aren’t actually wars, such as … oh, to pull an example out of a hat, how about “drugs.”) Slavery apologia? Leans heavily into Biblical justification, from the one I read, so maybe, just maybe, we should examine Biblical justifications very carefully. Even the worst stuff teaches us things.
Which is part of what a library is there for.
Also, remember… any justification you can come up with for banning a book and erasing it from existence can be weaponized to ban important books– either by applying it blindly or by expanding the definition.
Not to mention the definition of what is acceptable and what is not acceptable changes over the course of time, and depending on who is in power. When “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” came out, people wanted it banned because it challenged racism. Now, people want it banned because it contains racism (or, more accurately, shines a big honkin’ light on the subject, which is the real problem).
1984 was banned in Communist Countries because it was considered anti-communist propaganda. It was denounced, and in some places banned, in the US as communist propaganda.
Then there’s the whole problem where History is inherently problematic as fuck. I’ve known my whole life that my white ass doesn’t need to be using the N-word, but, like, for my parents’ generation it was just another word. And I’ve only learned in the last few years that the name commonly used to refer to the Roma people and to the aesthetics that has been appropriated from (or assigned to) them is a slur. (I’ve known it was the wrong word for a while, but I didn’t know it offended them.) Same for the name commonly used for the Inuit. Hell, there was a movie in the eighties which portrayed an Inuit kid positively (although almost certainly unrealistically, it was the eighties) that has the slur right in the title.
You. Right Now. You hold an opinion, have a belief, or use a phrase that it has never occurred to you is problematic. In a hundred years, people will be appalled that you were so casual about it. (There’s a very good chance that there are people RIGHT NOW who are appalled.)
Every book I’ve avoided because I was horrified has turned out to be more horrifying in my head than on the page. Because I know what frightens me most.
And yeah. It BAFFLES ME when people say we shouldn’t study evil people. Of course we should! We need to know the warning signs, unless we just want to blunder from one genocide to the next. Nah, man. Nah.
Having one of those days where I just miss getting new episodes of The Hidden Almanac three times a week. For… well, for Reasons.
you ever just sit and realise u can’t remember 80% of your childhood? like … what happened? who am i ..?
Many people in the comments are saying “trauma”, but this is actually a very normal occurrence. It’s called Childhood Amnesia, and it’s a process which, as the brain reorganizes itself for cognitive thought that is developed in late childhood, it changes the Accessibility of those memories during recall. Many childhood memories are available to the person, but they will not be remembered during regular recall activity, you have to “trick” your brain into remembering with different tactics.
This is because there are two parts to memories - their encoding and their recall. The encoding determines their availability, their recall determines their accessibility. The reason why trauma memory and childhood amnesia are different is in this distinction. Trauma memory is often encoded differently, bypassing to the limbic system where it is stored as intrinsic memory. It can’t be recalled because it was never encoded. Childhood amnesia, however, seems to indicate that the memories are encoded, but we lose access to them as we age. This is most likely due to the development of brain structures that fundamentally change our encoding and recall of memory as we get older.
This is an important distinction, because trauma memory is “stored in the body”, i.e. you get triggers that send your body into a cascade of uncontrollable feelings, sensations and reactions. Whereas childhood memories won’t generally do that, they are just recalled at odd times with odd associations.
reblogging this because I’ve legit seen people freaking out when they realised they can’t remember some of their childhood, thinking they might have some repressed trauma.
So you mean my brain literally looked at my whole childhood and said “sorry that file type is no longer supported”
I got floppy disks full of .kid files but all I can read is .old???
Shit dude, I don’t even think I have a floppy drive any more.
Also, repressed traumatic memories (as in, something that happened to you and you have “blocked it out”) is kind of…not a thing. Modern research has shown that it’s not a real phenomenon and was mostly invented by the Satanic-Panic era psychiatrists who were not so much uncovering memories as planting/inventing them.
I know this is going to make me sound pretensions but I have to get it off my chest. I feel an unimaginable rage when someone posts a photo and is like "this picture looks like a renaissance painting lol" when the photo clearly has the lighting, colors and composition of a baroque or romantic painting. There are differences in these styles and those differences are important and labeling every "classical" looking painting as renaissance is annoying and upsetting to me. And anytime I come across one of those posts I have to put down my phone and go take a walk because they make me so mad
In case you're curious here's what I mean.
Renaissance(distinct lines, stability and the individual man):
Baroque (bold, chaotic, dramatic):
Romantic(romanticize the simple hard working life):
Do you see the difference?
op is a vampire who painted works in all of these times
I really hate that photo of Chief Spotted Elk (commonly known as “Bigfoot” but pls don’t call him that bc it’s not his name) lying dead on the snow at Wounded Knee. Unfortunately, that’s the only one people ever seem to use of him, so when I did a history training on those events I went looking for a different one, and:
Look at the size of those hoop earrings. Look at that choker. Look at the horse fetish, and the intricate plant pattern on his chest below it. Look at those braid wraps.
Spotted Elk had so much style. I never want to see that photo of him in the snow again, knowing this is who he actually was.
Reminder on the anniversary of the Wounded Knee Massacre, please don’t share the photo of Spotted Elk frozen and dead.
The Nutcracker dance you’ve NEVER seen before!
fuckin amazing 👏🏾🔥
this is the kind of art I want to see in the world
watch it without sound and you still know when every note falls. That’s some Damn Fine choreography!
OMG, the smile on the guy in the middle. LOVE.
They can’t stand us haha
Her name is Nia Dennis and she’s all this and more. Why stop at excellence when you can hit perfection.
I’m her teammates in the background losing their minds because this woman straight up modified the laws of physics
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Excuse me?! I am going to need a full version of this shanty from these two IMMEDIATELY.
*UNHOLY SHRIEKING* Seriously it’s like if Darth Vader sang, plus a SEA SHANTY, this is absolutely amazeballs, listen to it!
Here, have a soprano voice added:
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Hey. LIVING COSTS MONEY! How about giving more money to the companies that employ me and MAYBE I MIGHT BE OK
This is such a funny thing to me because in Thai culture, it’s completely normal to live with your parents when you’re an adult. In fact, most people live in their family home until they’re married ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Saaaame in Pakistan dude and being abroad for grad school is really fucking me up I am not built to be even slightly independent 😂
In Western culture (including America!) it was completely normal for people to live with their parents in adulthood–sometimes until they married, sometimes longer. In America, that changed (for men) in the 1940s and 50s, when it was really really easy for an 18 year old to get a good job that paid more than enough to live a comfortable life on, or to afford college which would then practically guarantee you an even better-paying job. Women joined the trend of moving out at 18 in the 1960s and 70s.
And now those jobs don’t exist, or are few and far between, and guess what! People are living with their parents again. But that 70-year span was just long enough that it fell out of common memory, and now people are seen as “failures” because the economics have changed.
A very great deal of Western culture, ESPECIALLY America, is actually still based on a memory of the 40′s and 50′s as the baseline of normalcy despite them being a total fluke at the time. World War II and McCarthyism created a massive shift towards rabid patriotism, Christian fundamentalism and the ideal of the “nuclear family” that resembled nothing before it and we’re still recovering from as the majority of our most powerful politicians are old enough that this period of sudden fanaticism is their “nostalgic good old days” and the way they think things are “supposed to be.”
I love when these posts randomly become tiny history lessons, it soothes me
I’ve got this theory percolating that 1) mass cultural/behavioral changes happen due to changing needs, 2) those needs tend to sit discomfortably unmet or undermet for awhile before either a new option appears or the discomfort of enduring overcomes the discomfort of rebelling and then significant changes are made, and 3) conservative forces become their own enemy by failing to acknowledge, respond to, and accommodate changes in the status quo and make things worse in their attempts to preserve that part of the status quo they can see.
In this case, part of the issue is that living with parents/family as an adult can interfere with one’s sense of independence, one’s freedom, and one’s privacy, and strict behavioral norms (that sometimes get stricter over time and with increased economic prosperity (this is a whole thing)) become first annoying and then infuriating to the point where one might prefer living in a car if it meant you could come and go when you pleased and wear what you wanted. And so there’s a rebellion, and people create both their own separate living spaces AND their own behavior standards, which calcify over generations into their own strict standards and develop their own problems and, at the same time, slowly become untenable as the profit motive exploits every opportunity, capitalizes on every excuse, and shakes down every margin it can find.
It looks very much like we’re in an end stage of the nucleated way of living, with our options for avoiding it limited by economic circumstance, zoning, and cultural conventions to the thing we most previously escaped—adult children living with their parents. And the pandemic has only turned the tension up, in multiple ways—socially as well as financially, as standard means of socializing outside of one’s household have been cut off by quarantine procedures, to say nothing of the existing generational political differences.
As to what will happen, that could go many ways. I think the ideal result would be a downgrade in housing size, complexity, and cost, as demand for something simple and affordable meets the realization that for most of human history people have been living in small, simple, often handbuilt structures and now we have electricity, indoor plumbing, and better insulation materials to improve on them; also ideal would be social groupings of multiple households to form an unhierarchical “found family” variant of the standard extended-family model. However, all of this will face stiff resistance from entrenched building, zoning, rental, and real estate interests, and it will probably take drastic measures like large percentages of the population “choosing” tent cities over apartments they can’t afford, or unapproved sharing of single-family houses with multiple adult roommates, for sufficient pressure to reshape the social environment by which our definitions of acceptable means of living are held.
