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Mike Driver
Lint Roller? I Barely Know Her
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Kaledo Art
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macklin celebrini has autism
Andulka
@theartofmadeline
JBB: An Artblog!
I'd rather be in outer space đ¸
#extradirty
trying on a metaphor
art blog(derogatory)
Not today Justin
Cosmic Funnies
shark vs the universe
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@fox-in-the-library
Haunted Books
Official ominous book
Goth librarian allowing haunted books to torment schoolchildren from time to time as enrichment.
Based on that Dewey Decimal number, it's a book about miscellaneous marine and seashore invertebrates let's take one good guess at how and why it became haunted.
agonizing over all the time you wasted or lost is useless. itâs gone now. you survived in the only way you knew how. doesnât your survival deserve some recognition too?
like toni morrison said, âsometimes you don't survive whole, you just survive in part. but the grandeur of life is that attempt. itâs not about that solution. it is about being as fearless as one can, and behaving as beautifully as one can, under completely impossible circumstances.â
BBC Ends Longwave Radio Broadcasts After Decades on Air
The BBC has officially ended its longwave radio service, bringing one of its oldest broadcasting platforms to a close. The final Radio 4 Long Wave transmission aired on June 27, marking the end of an era for a technology that has served listeners for generations. According to the BBC, the decision was driven by the rising cost of maintaining aging broadcast equipment. The Droitwich transmissionâŚ
Overlock Stitch by @clothes_reetzy
Damn, that's useful
Finally a hand sewing tutorial on a hemline that isn't just the ladder stitch! the ladder stitch disappears when you tighten it, but it's not meant for hemlines because it breaks really easily! The overlock stitch is more stable, so it holds much longer, and it won't pucker or warp the fabric!
Making exercises more accessible to the disabled? Fuck yeah!
Hill House, not sane, stood by itself against the hills, holding tasteful and expensive servingware within; it had stood so for eighty years and might stand for eighty years more. Within, dishes continued glossy, napkins creased neatly, knives were straight, and forks were sensibly laid to the right of the plate; silence lay steadily against the rattan and linen of Hill House, and whatever walked there, walked alone, except when it was throwing a garden party.
Congratulations to Chief Mouser Larry the Cat for outlasting yet another Prime Minister
Truly the last pillar of stability in the United Kingdom and its government
stop what you're doing right now and watch a 33 year old bat get help with flying
@gothiccharmschool
Years before the covid pandemic began, author Naomi Kritzer wrote the charming, emotionally genuine short story "So Much Cooking," which was a pandemic log through the eyes of a cooking blog. The premise is that the author is a home cooking blogger raising her kids, and then a pandemic hits--and bit by bit she's feeding not only her own, but her sister's kids, some neighbors' kids, and so on, in a situation of pandemic lockdown and food shortages.
It's very good, and was prescient for a lot of the early days of the covid pandemic. I found myself returning to it often in the first couple of years because of how steadfast it was in its hopefulness.
Last year she wrote a novelette, "The Year Without Sunshine," which attacks a similar problem in a similar way; instead of pandemic, this one is about the aftereffects of a distant nuke or a massive volcano explosion (it doesn't say), which has churned a great deal of dust into the air, causing massive damage to society and agriculture. The story covers one neighborhood, pulling together to keep each other alive--not through violence, but through lawn potatoes and message pinboards and bicycle-powered oxygen concentrators.
I recommend both stories. They're uplifting in a way that a lot of what I see lately isn't. They're a bit of a panacea for constant fearmongering about intracommunity violence and grinding hatefulness. We can be good to each other, if we try.
These are both excellent stories, and I also heartily recommend her story "Better Living through Algorithms."
schedule for the week
Absolutely spectacular dragging of King John - 10/10, lasses.
Were you allowed to leave the house on your own before 16?
Were you allowed to leave the house on your own before 16?
Yes
No
My best friend lived across the street and we were running about up and down the block and going to the corner park on our own at ages 7 and 5. By the time I was 10, I was going to the downtown library and mall, and my grandparents' house on my own, and taking the city bus half an hour away to a different town to get to school. Along the way, the bus picked up friends who were 8 and 9. Looking back, because it was a small one room alternative school, our parents probably all got together and figured that collectively we were capable enough to make it to school safely in a group, but yeah. Long gone out of the house on my own before the age of 16. ETA: And totally forgot that when I was 16 I took a two day train trip from Ontario to Nova Scotia on my own to go visit my best friend. This was also pre-cell phone, so it's entirely possible my parents spent those two days worrying about me being stranded somewhere in New Brunswick before I phoned from Halifax to let them know I'd made it.
A Tudor salt dish, made between 1530-1550. The item itself is made using salt-glaze pottery, where salt was thrown into the kiln during clay firing to create a glossy, orange-peel-like texture. Formed into the shape of a woman in Tudor clothing, it was glazed with polychrome brown with some yellow to highlight the decoration. Measuring 16.9cm high, salt would have been held in the little dish coming out from the dress of the lady. Salt was a very valuable commodity in the Tudor period, and ownership of it was often a status symbol. Henry VIII had multiple salt holders in his possession upon his death, and his daughter Elizabeth I granted a patent for a new type of iron pan in the 1560s intended to increase salt production in Tyneside. Much salt at this time was imported to London from France, but during the 16th century there was a boom in salt production in Scotland. This salt dish was found in Cardiff's High Street in 1892 when workmen were digging the foundations for a Lloyd's Bank. It was broken and the base has since been heavily restored with plaster of paris. It is held today at St Fagans Gweithdy gallery, Cardiff.
Oh, I love her! So I drew her.
I love that Leverage really goes out of itâs way to show us that just because you break the ârulesâ, it doesnât mean youâre breaking the rules. Rules and laws and society are all made up, at the end of the day, and all you really have is your own moral compass and sense of justice; is this just to you? Is it right? Should it be OK for companies to put people in insurmountable debt for the rest of their lives just because our medical care is so expensive in this modern day and age? No law or rule should change what you know in your heart is right and wrong, and I think thatâs the key thing that makes someone a good person in my eyes.
#there was a time when parker wouldnât have noticed, #not because she lacked the capacity to care, #but because she had narrowed herself, #to stay alive she cut off as many unnecessary things as possible, #watching her get them all back, #is one of the glories of this show (via @seananmcguire)
Leverage hands down has the best character development Iâve ever seen.
This scene hit me like a brick. My parents were hundreds of thousands of dollars in debt when I was 16 bc Iâd had cancer the year before (my treatment ended up being free but the initial ER bills and such were not).
But somewhere along the line they just⌠Disappeared. My mom says theyâre not being paid and theyâre not in collections. Itâs almost as if someone out there didâŚexactly what Parker did.
Ever since I saw this the first time, Iâve imagined it was Parker doing it. That she and Hardison had a free weekend and decided to take it out on a collections agency. That I was one of the lucky ones who got a little Leverage.
Okay but like yeah, that is actually a thing that happens, albeit not exactly like this. I donât remember the exact process but basically thereâs a booming industry to sell peoples debt - the business you owe money to sells it to someone else for a fraction of the money owed, wipes their hands of the whole affair, and now whoever bought your debt is riding your ass to get you to give the money to the. But itâs also entirely possible for people to just⌠buy up massive amounts of debt for pennies on the dollar, and then just. Forgive it. Because capitalism is a living nightmare, but the system is broken enough that itâs possible to exploit it for good sometimes.
Like, the main reason I know about this is because John Oliver did a piece on debt buying a few years ago, and ended it by revealing that heâd bought 15 million dollars worth of medical debt just so he could forgive all of it. Both to expose how broken the system was because some random fucker like him could buy millions of dollars in peoples debt with zero regulations, and also just to take the record for biggest TV giveaway in history.
A charity where you can do this, right here.
Be Parker! Be somebody elseâs Leverage!
Reblogging for the website.
yes! if you want to help with the medical debt crisis in the US and have some extra money please donate to RIP Medical Debt if you can. Theyâre completely legit and really do what they say - you really CAN relieve an incredible amount of debt for the needy with even a small donation. Iâm a monthly donor and receive a quarterly report of the debt theyâve abolished, and it truly is amazing. Based on those reports the average amount of debt abolished per person is actually I would say about $600 - which means, if youâre doing the math, that with a $6 donation to RIP Medical Debt, you can potentially pull one person out of a poverty spiral - maybe even one family. For six dollars. thatâs a pretty good deal, I think.
RIP Medical Debt is now called Undue Medical Debt!
Undue Medical Debt makes it easy for donors to make an impactful difference in the lives of those struggling with medical debt.
A circulating video of sisters who bought the same clothes for their husbands đâ¤ď¸
this gag NEVER fails to make me laugh. watching them all file in one by one and collectively laugh harder every time the next guy walks inâŚi could watch videos of this practical joke all day
Their faces as they collectively realize theyâre married to the funniest women on the planet
whenever people say âitâs just a prankâ about minor cruelty, remember: the people laughing hardest here are the people being pranked. youâll notice that they arenât hurt, or upset. theyâre enjoying it. they feel loved and included.
thatâs how you make a good prank.
I keep putting this back in my queue because it means I restumble upon it and it always makes me laugh. So delightful
God, can you imagine someone from Finland (or wherever) heading to a Midwestern state fair and eating every variety of fried thing imaginable?
I can, and arguably I must.
I always think that sport events, especially international ones, are primarily about fun and cultural exchange and hanging out together; it gets lost sometimes when people pay too much attention to keeping scores, but joy and building bridges should be more important. So glad this seems to be happening right now!
I donât follow soccer at all so I have no feelings on the World Cup, but Iâm loving seeing people discover the US for the first time and finding joy here.
