A Life Well Used

hallo! I'm a college student studying French. I want to travel. I have no money to do so. I write, I draw [sometimes and not well], and this is my blog where I talk about myself and the things I like. That's all I got. my old blog is here!

[mycove]

I saw this documentray on Leonardo da Vinci and (I don’t know if this has been mentioned before), the inspiration for the automaton comes from this brilliant mind !!

Look closer

In the middle of the picture is a cylinder, like the one we see on the automaton Varian sends to the castle of Corona. This one has a broken line to make the robot move its arms alternatively. It’s a bit different on the show, but I have the feeling the 2 are connected.

I also happened to see an expo a few months ago and I took so many pictures thinking : “oh wow, this is definitely a contraption Varian could come up with” XD

[westernlariat]

cashier: that’ll be $4.20

me: bruh

cashier: bruh

[softwaring]

[mushroomhedgehog]

[killowave]

[square-adox]

[islandvibes]

[bodyglitter]

i mean obviously you’re allowed to be sad over the whole notre dame thing but like no offense ive seen some of you mourn more over a building than like. actual peoples’ lives

[terukie-deactivated20190831]

fashion is all we have but yall dont act like it. i take one look at some of u and i can tell youre demiromantic and have a dan and phil furry blog. at least dress like you plan on getting some coochie

[yars]

[ishtarbtch-deactivated20200428]

I think about this everyday…

[beynons]

this is scripture

[ihatecispeople]

Jerusalem's Al-Aqsa Mosque burns at the same time as fire engulfs Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris

A fire broke out at the revered Al-Aqsa Mosque compound's Marwani Prayer Room in Jerusalem just as flames ravaged the Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris.

Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem, built 1035 C.E (the first recorded holy building on the site built in 705 C.E) has also been a victim of fire today as the Notre Dame in Paris burns. 

[ihatecispeople]

It’s important to note that the Al-Aqsa Mosque is the third holiest site in Islam, so I beg you to keep Muslims, especially Palestinian Muslims in Jerusalem, in your prayers (and if you’re not religious, keep Muslims in your thoughts). 

[sunflorally]

your relationship doesn’t have to be toxic to be a bad one. it can be unfulfilling, exhausting, loveless. and someone doesn’t have to be terrible to you for you to leave them. if you aren’t primarily happy in your relationship, you have a valid reason to not be in it. don’t beat yourself up because your situation “could be worse.” if it isn’t what you want, you don’t have to stay in it.

[gemstonedgoddess-deactivated202]

This is great advice for all kinds of relationships.

[catchymemes]

[anachronic-cobra]

This was so ridiculously drawn out and the conclusion was so obvious yet still I couldn’t tell where this was going

[loneozner]

me: *waits patiently in a line in a busy establishment with limited employees who can only work so fast

every 40+ person in the vicinity: OHHHHHHH MY GOD THIS IS RI-DIC-U-LOUS why is the space time continuum not being broken to IMMEDIATELY ACCOMODATE me, The Most Important Person In The World,

[rembrandtswife]

As a person of 40+10, I think some (not all, certainly) of that behavior is due to our remembering when retail and food establishments were sufficiently staffed. Picture the supermarket you go to most often: How many registers are at the front of the store? How many of those are staffed on a weekday afternoon? On a Saturday morning? As a teenager, I worked as a supermarket cashier; out of half a dozen registers, I would say four were open at any given time, and all of them were staffed on Saturday, which was still the primary shopping day for a lot of full-time homemakers whose husbands got paid on Fridays.

Same thing with banks; my bank branch has at least six teller stations, but I’ve never seen more than half of them occupied at one time. The library where I work: My unit once had four people and now there’s only two of us. The Periodicals Department had fourteen employees when I was hired for it in 1994; now it has less than half that many people. Every single library department has lost staff as people retired and were not replaced because the budget would not permit it.

And the fault for that lies not with the impatient older customers nor with the Millenials or whoever may be behind the service counter; it lies with the 1% who won’t hire enough staff, won’t pay decent wages, don’t offer benefits, and basically sit on their wealth like a dragon on its gold. Our economy is basically at the mercy of Smaug.

[justgot1]

You know … I hadn’t thought of it like that. The *most* impatient people in line, in my observation, aren’t the 40s – it’s the baby boomers. They’re from a time when stores weren’t open past 7 pm, OR on Sundays, and the jobs were full time jobs, not a revolving crew of part-timers – only so many of whom can be on shift at any given time because Corporate only allocates so many total hours for the store per week, and, only a few of them are authorized to run a register. They’re expecting a level of attention that doesn’t exist anymore.

[ashiftchange]

This is a damn good point.

[notcisjustwoman]

I notice this along class lines more than anything else. Bougies can’t stand not being catered to.

[cliteralviolence]

I have to admit I can’t stand waiting in the ridiculously long lines at my local Walmart but I’ve never been mad at anyone except the people who force their employees to handle a ridiculous amounts of customers all at once because they’re too cheap to be properly staffed.

Me, after angrily waiting in a line, finally talking to the cashier: “Geez, shouldn’t they have more people working here? It’s so busy!”

Cashier, frantically bagging, looking stressed af: “Yeah. I was supposed to leave an hour ago.”

I’m always angry on behalf of both the employees and myself lol.

[actuallyhashtags]

People over 40 caused this though. They are the ones who voted to pay people less and work people more.

[savedonthatday]

Saved on June 18th 2015.

Brotherhood.

[thecryptkeeper]

here’s my hot take

[strawbebbynya]

[tinynebula]

can we stop only blaming british people for colonialism and how they don’t take any responsibility today? because hi, spain massacred the entire center and south america. france? destroyed entire civilizations and ruled the worldwide slave market. european countries literally sat down and divided africa to themselves. y'all don’t get blame free just because it’s more trendy to be after british people on tumblr.

[visibilityofcolor]

my god, spain and italy were some of the worst. britain was bad but spain and italy were right next to it. 

let’s not forget christopher colombus was an italian colonizer commissioned by the spanish monarchy to fuck up the “new world”.

[cephalophor]

Portugal too is guilty of it and should be hold accountable

[fronsay]

Let us also not forget how the US literally colonized Hawaii and is currently colonizing Puerto Rico

[captainsblogsupplemental]

[ruffboi-mags]

i would like to dedicate this to literally every cat we have ever had custody of, however long or briefly.

[weltenwellen]

“Withholding love distorts reality. It makes the people who do the withholding ugly and small-hearted. It makes the people from whom things are withheld crazy and desperate and incapable of knowing what they actually feel. Don’t be strategic or coy. Strategic and coy are for jackasses. Be brave. Be authentic. Practice saying the word “love” to the people you love, so when it matters the most to say it, you will.”

— Cheryl Strayed, Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar