Like Pearls Slipping Off A String

Haley | 25

[jennalouisecolemans]

Based on this post

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Apartment Dwellers on New Year's Eve (1948) John Falter

[felixcloud6288]

Listening to a podcast

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[felixcloud6288]

Oh we're all feeling this one aren't we?

[antoniabishop]

Drove to Colorado with my boyfriend and his dog

[pocket-dragon]

🦦

[thesiouxzy]

[the-enchanted-little-star]

[demeter1111]

Goodnight ✨💫🕊️

[godshaped]

Northern Lights paintings by Sydney Mortimer Laurence

[mlarayoukai-archive]

You show a cat something and they're like sniff sniff sniff sniff sniff sniff sniff ooooh I understand now. Don't care

[rotgospels]

girl help my womb is wandering around upsetting my balance of humours 

[sushigrade]

that’s hysterical

[catcrumb]

[teashoesandhair]

Oh how I yearn for a simpler time, when a young man would simply give his paramour an intricately crafted wooden spoon to show his affection and ability to provide for their future family, especially if they ever ran out of spoons

[teashoesandhair]

It has come to my attention that not everyone knows what lovespoons are.

This is a lovespoon. They’re found in several cultures worldwide, particularly in Scandinavia, but most famously in Wales (that photo is a Welsh lovespoon) and, from at least the 17th century, they were given as gifts by a suitor to his intended lady. They’re supposed to be carved from one block of wood, and decorated with various symbols which have slightly nuanced meanings, all basically a variation on ‘you’re rad, want to get wed?’

Because marriage in poor, rural parts of Wales was often more akin to cohabitation at the time (i.e. you didn’t really have a big ol’ legal ceremony, you just sort of said ‘we’re married now’ and shacked up together) a lovespoon could act as a wedding ring of sorts; you’d put your goshdarn heart and soul into carving it and you’d give it to the dame you sought, and if she accepted the spoon, then you were essentially wed, or at least bound together in a meaningful way. It’s assumed that they were initially supposed to be at least somewhat functional, because people did in fact eat with wooden spoons back in the day, but they’re now purely decorative. And hoo boy, can they be decorative. These are some of the ones on display at St Fagans Museum:

Nowadays, they’re generally mass produced, and tend to look more like this:

Brings a whole new meaning to the sheer romance of spooning, doesn’t it?

[jabberwockypie]

So I was looking at Biden’s plans to help people with disabilities. Here’s some stuff he wants to do that would make a big, measurable difference:

- Increasing SSI benefits to at least 100% of the Federal Poverty Line (at the moment, this would be an increase of about $3000/year. That would be REALLY HELPFUL.)

- Increase the asset limits for SSI and SSDI - which haven’t been increased in more than 35 years. Right now if you have more than $2000 at any time, you lose your benefits.

- Marriage equality for disabled people! - For people on SSI be able to get married without losing our benefits! (As it stands right now, you can lose your benefits even if they suspect you’re ACTING like you’re married - the “holding out as married” rule.)

I’m about out of spoons tonight, but go read it! If even SOME of it gets passed, it could be really good!

This is in contrast to the Republican position, which is *checks notes* “If they’re going to die, they’d better do it, and decrease the surplus population”.

(Seriously, if Trump gets re-elected, I, and many other disabled people, will be so entirely fucked. He wants to destroy Social Security, I would be homeless and starving in the streets.)

[beatrice-otter]

#joe biden#i know the bar he’s clearing is on the floor#but still better than the dude laying dynamite in the basement

-tags via dsudis

[yesterdaysprint]

The Philadelphia Inquirer, Pennsylvania, December 7, 1922

[dragonanarchist1155]

Me reading this in 2020, almost 98 years after this was published:

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[turnon]

we need a nintendogs app i am sick of living like this

[wordbean]

A mini babybel is a semi-hard cheese encased in a colored wax with an outer cellophane wrapper, placed in a netted bag. To reach the cheese you must unravel three layers; the netted bag, cellophane wrap, and colored wax. Tell me, Will…what shall I find when I peel back your layers? Will I find something satiating? A rewarding and delicious journey, inevitably leading to your demise, but my fulfillment?? Or am I to uncover your true self and set you free, unimpeded from that which binds you?