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5 simple exercises to awaken dormant muscles
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I appreciate this video a lot--people don't realize how important it is to start slow if you're trying to come back from a completely sedentary lifestyle, and they get really hurt as a result. Straining your muscles too much, too suddenly can land you in the E.R. and the wrong joint injury can permanently affect your mobility, so please start with absolute basics and easy stretches!
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Movement nudge, hand mobility! 🙌
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1) do this even if you're under 40. seriously. I definitely should have been doing something like this for years and I only turned 40 a month and a half ago
2) if you're like me just now trying this going "oh god i've only done 15 and i think my hands are cramping" start lower than 30 and increase by 5 once whatever number you're doing no longer makes your hand cramp up. I can manage about 15 per exercise at the moment.
If you're hypermobile, be especially gentle.
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Heatwave Recipe Recommendations
The heat’s been brutal this summer but we still gotta eat! If you’re like me, heat might suppress your appetite, and the last thing any of us want is to sweat over a hot stove and oven when it’s already boiling outside. Here are some of my favorite hot-weather recipes to keep hydrated and fed with when the weather is unbearable! (All recipes should be un-paywalled).
NYT’s best gazpacho (lives up to its name!!)
Persian cold cucumber soup (if you like tzatziki you will like this!)
Eric Kim’s cold noodles with tomato (infinitely riffable Korean flavor profile — for a creamier and less brothy take, try these cold sesame noodles too)
Vietnamese chicken and herb salad (this is an excellent time to get a rotisserie chicken so you don’t have to turn the oven on)
Radish sandwiches with butter and salt (and in a similar vein, if you dig this flavor combo you should try this Polish cottage cheese dip on some good rye bread or even crackers)
It’s still a little early in the season, but you can never go wrong with a BLT (or, if you don’t eat bacon, try this tomato furikake sandwich in its place)
Infinite iterations of pasta salad! You can use anything you got but here is a template I like.
Assorted dense bean salads. This back pocket canned salad is a weird combo of jarred ingredients but it slaps, this hoagie-inspired one is super satisfying, and cowboy caviar is a classic for a reason.
Poke bowls! Canned tuna mixed with some kewpie mayo and sriracha is a budget-friendly riff on the usual ahi and makes everything taste like a spicy tuna roll, but use whatever proteins you like, this is more of a loose template.
Please feel free to add some of your own favorite summer recipes in the replies and comments! We’ll get through this together. 🤝🤝🤝
OP: How to Make Qingshui Zongzi. (cr佳佳妹)
Qingshui zongzi清水粽, literally Plain Water Zongzi, is the simplest traditional zongzi. It only uses glutinous rice and bamboo leaves as raw materials, without any sweet or savory fillings like red beans pastes, smoke pork or red jujube. After boiling, people usually dip the soft sticky rice zongzi in white sugar or honey before eating. It highlights the natural fresh fragrance of bamboo leaves and the mild sweet taste of glutinous rice. This plain version is especially popular in southern China like Hubei, Hunan, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Jiangxi, Sichuan and Chongqing. Guangdong doesn’t have plain water zongzi; they only make jianshui/lye water zongzi碱水粽. Neither has extra fillings, but they are two distinct varieties with totally different flavors.
Authentic plain water zongzi are made narrower and smaller at the tip than regular zongzi. They have a perfectly mild, easy-to-enjoy taste and are steamed until extra tender, making them gentler on the stomach.
OP: How to fold a paper bat plane with flappable wings (cr到车请故意，唛大叔)
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Hello!
i'd like to ask about how global the principles of Blackness are in a more theoretical sense; since i'm brazilian, a lot of the times, the Black-American framework of cultural theory differs (in nuance more-so, but still discussed nationally), from the Afro-brazilian theory due to the contextualization of slavery and colonialism in Brazil and it's different repercussions, and i was wondering if you've had any tools to analyze how racism (more-so american racism) affects the international perspective of both the theory that addresses it and it's own reinforcement.
Damn, I didn't study for the exam 😭 I have my theories that I've elaborated on somewhat in my AAVE lesson (on cultural hegemony), but I don't find myself confident enough (or really in the headspace) to explain them in a way that more qualified others couldn't do better at the moment.
So what I'll do is first tag @insertspanishhere because she's Afro-Latina and she enjoys deep diving into academia, so she can certainly find you resources. Wish I could be more of service to you 🙏🏾
Much appreciated. I’ll be sure to reblog and tag you with some good resources. The sociology book I got for my class on race relations was…good? And statistically sound? But it wasn’t great despite being extremely current. It was written by a white author who presents the white American Mea Culpa solution to world racism.
So I’ll absolutely get something going for you in terms of antiblackness in Latin America.
Just to start you off, because this one is a massive undertaking, I will ask that you go in this order:
Latin America
The Spanish Caste System (most of Latin America still subconsciously follows this)
The Treaty of Tordesillas (to prove to the Brazilians that, yes, you are part of Spain, you always were, up until Portugal decided it wanted out).
Any and all issues related to the Code Noir, a 17th century decree from France that established treatment of Black people in the French colonies
The Hatian Revolt (and after the Haitian Revolt, I suggest you look at Black poets at the time in South America, the Caribbean, and Europe)
English Colonies Outside the USA
The history of Southwark, or the London Docks in general
sugar empires (you may find something similar in Spain—these two nations competed, A LOT.)
The Quaker Abolition movement of the 1720s. Seriously look at how and why the Quakers valued (or didn’t) Blackness when it came to advocating for freedom.
Black Canadians and Caribbeans from other powers...
Speaking of
Piracy era Denmark and the Netherlands
Islamic-era (medieval) Egypt
Edwardian era Belgium
I also want to mention Eastern Europe and Roma chattel slavery (the Roma are ancestrally South Asian)
And Australian policies on internalized ethnic cleansing of the Aboriginal Blak population.
These are ALL “must read, but read with knowledge that there will be gore” situations.
This is just a SMALL reading list. It’s not even sourced because I want you to form your own conclusion as to what the rest of the world thinks of Blackness.
Within these periods I also want you to find what the affected Black people were saying. What was Blackness’s concept of itself at the time? How are Black minds similar if they’ve never met and have never been influenced by The Murica?
Movement nudge!
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Making exercises more accessible to the disabled? Fuck yeah!
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hopping on facebook to check up on my sca friends/groups and having to wade through all of meta's algorithmic suggestions and genAI garbage, just to find posts from people i actually know, feels like playing in sewage. thank you for being on tumblr
At the risk of being old...
Facebook works well enough without all the garbage and AI if you:
Use it in a browser, not the app (seriously, people, stop using apps for everything use browsers instead if you can)
Use it in a browser that you can add the Facebook Purity (Fluff Busting Purity) module to control ads and stuff (it works): https://www.fbpurity.com/
ONLY go to this URL for your facebook feed: https://www.facebook.com/?sk=friends (this still has suggestions for people to follow, and it's still not a basic chronological order of people's posts, but it's better than without it). Facebook no longer offers this as a link you can click, you have to go to the URL directly.
I have a number of groups and organizations I work with whose only online presence is on Facebook. The org I volunteer for has Facebook because it's the only place we can reach a big chunk of the local people. I only get into Facebook once a day for maybe half an hour to keep tabs on what folks are doing, share some of the material from Black and Indigenous activists that I follow, and check on orgs.
So if you're using it to keep up with people there because it's the only option for them, do yourself a favor and uninstall the app completely, and at least only use Facebook in a browser and only that URL.
OH. MY. GOD. This is so much better.
Thank you
Guys, it's time to drop Google.
Google isn't the only search engine in the whole internet, there are others! And we need to diversify our search engine usage or we're gonna end up where we were a decade and change ago with the Internet Explorer issue. We can't let a single brand monopolize everything! This is why Google Search can afford to suck so hard: because people use it regardless! And there are alternatives.
A little bit about search engines, there are 3 types: crawlers, which work by scraping the web and developing their own indexes; metas, which get their results from the crawler-type search engines and therefore depend entirely upon them; and mixed, those which have their own (small) index but also pull results from the crawlers.
Right now, there are a couple of independant crawlers apart from Google, Bing (from Mycrosoft) and Yandex (the Russian one): this are Mojeek and Wiby.
Supporting independant crawlers is the easiest way to fight the shittyfication of the internet.
Mojeek.com is an independant british search engine with its own growing index commited to fighting internet censorship. It's small, and therefore it's usability isn't as good as that of the Big Three, but it doesn't censor, it's fairly respectful of people's privacy, and it doesn't drown you in adds. For those old enough to remember, it's a lot like early 2000s Google: you can find what you need, but if you write "dig shelter" instead of "dog shelter", that's what it's gonna search for. That said, please try to use it and support it as much as you can before we end up entirely dependant on Google, Bing and big corps adds. [click here to go to Mojeek]
Wiby.me is a new indie project that is literally dedicated to bringing back the old-school web. It's goal is to index as many personalized websites as possible, and NOT commercial sites. So, for those of you who can't find any answers to technical questions beyond highschool level because Google buries them under a gazillion commercial sites and other meaningless shit, keep an eye on this project! It has a lot of potential. And, if you know of any personal websites that have great stuff but have been murdered by Google, you can go over to Wiby and submit it to their index. [click here to go to Wiby]
Aside from those, there are also meta search engines you can use to ween yourself off Google and search for random, day to day stuff.
Qwant.com is my go-to here—it has its own index and pulls from Bing, has relatively little censorship, and is fairly private. This is the one I use on my phone for everyday stuff. [click here to go to Qwant].
Historically, DuckDuckGo has always been a go-to for those who want a search engine that respects your privacy and doesn't censor. Personally, I've never been a fan, and there have been a LOT of scandals in recent years. It supposedly has its own index and pulls from Bing, much like Qwant, but I don't know. I just don't like it. Still, I've added it here for completeness' sake.
If you have Firefox Mobile browser, you can set any of these search engines as your default search engine and you can also add the others as secondary search engines and switch quicky from the navigation bar. If you don't have firefox mobile though, what are you doing with your life??? Go get it!! It is So. Much. Better. You can have add blockers and watch YouTube add free, for free! You can have reader mode and dark mode add-ons! You can have the world oh my goshhhh, drop Chrome!!
4get.ca is my last recommendation: it works a lot like SearX, but honestly better. It doesn't have its own index, but pulls from many others. I think it's the best for reaserch, since it allows you to search for answers from different indexes, is easy to configure, add free, and avoids censorship as much as it can. It's also very privacy conscious, so that's an other plus, and it has that late 90s / early 2000s vibe that I totally dig. [click here to go to 4get]
If you wanna learn more about the topic, you can over to the Search Engine Map [click here] which shows you a bunch of Search Engines and how they relate to each other. Or you can also go over to this one dude's personal website whose done A Lot of reaserch into the topic (way more than me) and seems to be pretty legit, if a little extra. [click here to go to digdeeper.neocities.org] Hope this infodump is useful to someone =D
PS: here's to hoping all the links work!
EDIT: eliminated the "read more". Figured there are enough mega long posts in tumblr, one more won't make no difference lol (tho the version w the read more has been reblogged already, in case you'd rather)
bro i LOVE indigenous fusion music i love it when indigenous people take traditional practices and language and apply them in new cool ways i love the slow decay and decolonisation of the modern music industry
I WILL !!! I WILL DO THAT
some of my favourite indigenous artists, in no particular order:
Inuit artists:
the jerry cans (esp their album Inuusiq)
beatrice deer
twin flames
Māori artists:
jordyn with a why
Indigenous australian artists:
tilly tjala thomas (i particularly love ngai yurlku nhiina)
kardajala kirridarra (srlsly check out ngajabu (Grandmother's Song))
i've also heard good things abt Baker Boy, but i haven't checked out his stuff yet
Another one for Inuit artists is Piqsiq! Two sisters who’ve been doing traditional throat singing since they were kids. They make some really gorgeous, eerie, atmospheric stuff. Highly recommend watching this video of them performing live a cappella using a looping machine, because they might be the coolest people on the planet actually
(Jo March nearly in tears voice) women,,,,
For anyone into North Asian and Central Asian folk music, there's this incredible Siberian folk-pop band called Otyken! The group is mostly women and they're from multiple indigenous groups in Siberia, with songs being sung in their range of different languages. They're so much fun and their music videos are amazing!
i'll go ahead and recommend The Halluci Nation (formerly known as A Tribe Called Red), an EDM group from First Nations Ontario that do really cool fusions of First Nations music with dubstep, moombahton, and hip hop.
I really really really appreciate people who share videos on posts like these, because almost without a doubt every time I love the music but I’ve never got the spoons to click on links and look through a bunch of music or worse google the artist I always end up too overwhelmed to start and I hate that
Haven't seen Belle Sisoski here yet so here we go: she's the current Artist of Year for BURO impact Awards. She's from Malaysia and knows how to play an insane amount of ethnic instruments and mixes them with her own voice. She does covers and her own songs, mixes ethnic instruments with Techno and shows the process. And she's also a live DJ at 19!
And one of her own:
Oh and of course there's also the HU and Bloodywood for people who like more rock and metal mixed in:
1876 is a Pow Wow punk rock band from Portland, Oregon
Alien Weaponry is an awesome Māori metal band
Darkaside is a Papuan metal band
Shepherds Reign is a Samoan metal band
Ts'msyen (pacific northwest coast) black metal
I also want to recommend King Stingray here! They describe their work as Yolŋu surf rock
Lenin Tamayo, Quechua pop singer.
And of course I can't not add Mari Boine (Sámi) to a post like this:
And Arvvas, who I think have moved on to other things but did mashups of Sámi traditional singing and jazz:
Gotta add the rapper Renata Flores, also a Quechua artist—singer-songwriter. Her album Isqun is an homage to several women in Tawantinsuyu/Peruvian history. Best 10$ you'll spend this week.
Flores has not just great music, but she's also got an incredible team behind costume & makeup, casting, cameras, and just overall production that bring her lyrics to life in every music video. Where language creates a barrier, she uses visuals to carry the story. Her magic lies in mixing tradition with modernity to envision the future of Peru.
Also, she's just plain good at what she does.
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