Safe Space

Nervous but always down to talk! she/her 24

[funnytwittertweets]

[dor-nu-fauglith]

Solid fucking point

[thridless]

Said this to my wife and she pulled out our vase with an octopus on it. She got me.

[halogalopaghost]

Idk I'm getting tired of emails that say "OMG THIS PRODUCT IS SO CHEAP!!!" Instead of "this product is so well made and it will last you several years to come!!"

[saiyanqueenreads]

Preach!!

Clothes are so flimsy now-a-days they’re practically see-through and they can’t handle washing more than like 20 times before they’re ruined.  Same with vehicles, same with phones, same with basically everything now.  Everything is flimsier and more breakable... 

Everything is made as cheaply as possible so that the company can save 1/8 of a penny producing it.  That pads the profit margin numbers and buys the CEO a new yacht because stock prices go up slightly for a few days, which makes millionaires buying stocks happy.  And that’s all a company cares about.  Fuck  30, 10, or even 2 years down the road! They can make a fast buck today.

Longevity, both in products and in corporate thinking, is a critically endangered idea.

[halogalopaghost]

You're 100% correct on all of this. Tbh when I made this post I should have added these, but I want to add them now at least to curb some despair. Because some manufacturers are just as fed up as we are!!

Buy Me Once is a website that sells products that, uh, you only have to buy once. They have razors, duvets, kitchenwear, hosiery, gardening tools—all that are designed to last as long as physically possible. Hell, they have a smartphone ($200, 4 year warranty) and a VACUUM, both made to never be replaced. A lot of these things are also self-serviceable (looking at you Apple).

There are other sites out there like this, but this is the one I know is reputable. There are also some clothing companies like Eddie Bauer, Uniqlo, LandsEnd, and Duluth Trading Post that all sell durable, reliable clothing. In Uniqlo's case, they're also recycling materials and creating innovative new ways to sew clothes, including just not sewing them at all.

So yes, the mainstream stores you see in the mall are USUALLY bad. But there are some out there that're still working on improving and doing better all the time. The next issue we have to hurdle is money. Because how many of us can afford to buy an actual wool coat vs a synthetic something or other that'll last two years?

[amgeforns]

y'all i know this is an issue but also please try to remember that cars crumple specifically so you don't crumple in a collision -- obvs companies cut corners in every sector but when you run into a tree or someone rear-ends you your vehicle is designed react to the force of that impact to minimise how much of it reaches you, that's very much done on purpose to save lives lads

[cumaeansibyl]

Yes very important! When they made cars out of rigid steel, the cars survived crashes a lot more but the passengers survived a lot less. Something has to be damaged in a crash and it's much better for that to be the car.

[everythingfox]

Strong bond

(via)

[mooniequeen]

Aww I’m feeling extra lonely now! These cats are goals!

[carfuckerlynch]

every bus should come every five minutes and every bus driver should make a million dollars an hour

[earlgreytea68]

The book I plugged before, Walkable City, said that a successful public transportation system should run at least every ten minutes. If people have to wait more than ten minutes for whatever they’re waiting for (bus, subway, etc.), then they’re more likely to decide to just drive to their destination. This is obviously more true for places with an entrenched driving culture, but anyway, the book said that almost no municipality wanting to start up a public transportation system wanted to pay to have it run every ten minutes, because that would mean having more buses/trains and hiring more drivers. So, instead, most of them decided that a 15-20 minute wait was their goal. And then, when the public transit system failed, the municipality would be like, “See?! People just won’t use public transportation! :-(” And part of the book’s argument was, well, they are indeed much less likely to use *bad* public transportation, yes.

[primarining]

Post gandalf big naturals

[gay-pippin]

what else do you command of me

[stealing-your-wife]

@jackalspine

[jackalspine]

Yes this is my favorite post I made another one

[jaubaius]

Watch for 60 seconds, then you gonna like it!🔉

[tungpilled]

God I wish that were me I love little obstacle courses

[showing0resultsforsanity]

the clear parts? ingenious. also,

this

[redrobin-detective]

I’m so glad ‘rotating X Favorite Character around in my mind’ came into fanon lexicon because !!! It’s so true. I love my favs but sometimes I’m not actively fic planning or character analyzing or whatever. Sometimes you don’t do anything with them but fiddle with their general vibe like one rolls a coin between their fingers. Sometimes you just, rotate them in your mind while thinking absolutely no thoughts about them

[theglitchywriterboi]

I hope every writer who sees this writes LOADS the next few months. Like freetime opens up, no writers block, the ability to focus, etc etc you’re able to write loads & make lots of progress <3

[yandereleorio]

okay op i just wanna say this worked, you made me write 4 thousand words in one day.

[cartoonbrew]

Toonz Software Used by Studio Ghibli and 'Futurama' Being Made Free and Open Source

Studio Ghibli’s animation software will be made available via open source this month. 

That’s right…💯% free.

Read more on CartoonBrew.com

[kithandqin-deactivated20220918]

This is a BIG DEAL, folks.

Animation software is, by and large, very expensive and out of the range of most people seeking to get into animation.  As of March 26th, this software will become open source and available to all prospective animators!

Spread the word!

[amuseoffirebane]

Here’s a direct link to the Toonz website.

[iguessweallcrazyithinktho]

Beautiful

[floofe-trans-doggie]

Kellogg’s is making a Twitch channel for Tony the Tiger as a vtuber. It is the moral duty of everyone who can spare the time to do so to spam the most vile, repulsive, unabashedly horny nonsense in the chat, such that this cannot be maintained. Hold the line against the continual corporate takeover of our media. Become unprofitable.

[were--ralph]

no WAY this is real no WAY

[were--ralph]

FURRIES YOU KNOW WHAT TO DO

[were--ralph]

i’m going to be THE horniest fucking little goblin on twitch its time to drive them out

[klaasje]

my kitty cat was wandering around going ‘mrrph?” so i was like “in here!” he goes “mrrph!” shoves open my bedroom door with his big round head and FLOPS on me. as in hard enough that he made a little “oof” noise when he did it. followed by a category five purring event. there’s good in this world mr frodo etc

[herssian]

i’ll say shit like i’m working on my novel!!!!:) and what i mean is i wrote a single sentence two weeks ago

[tricktster]

it’s so hot here that last night i discovered my trader joe’s chocolate wedges, one of which was meant to be my cheeky before bed treat, had fully liquified

in their normal form, they look like this

alas i thought to myself, setting the small round circular tin down on the far side of the bedside table. none of this for me this tonight, i thought, applying my nightly coat of working hands hand cream

in its normal form it looks like this

i woke up at 4 am and went to the bathroom. had to wash my hands obviously. had to moisturize them afterwards, in the dark, too.

needless to say, the first thing I appreciated when it was, at last, bright enough to see this morning was an

absolute

fucking

calamity.

[ampervadasz]

[abtheb]

SHUT

[mist-the-wannabe-linguist]

[thenatsdorf]

Mistah Lovah Lovah (via)

[creekfiend]

Ok so the thing about reading like books which are “predictable” is that I, a story enjoyer, go completely bonkers about it bc its like Enrichment in my Enclosure. A scene parallels another earlier scene between different characters thus serving to highlight the differences in their views and priorities???? A line makes me think “hmmm I bet that’s gonna be relevant later” ends up being relevant later????? I am a tiger chewing ice cubes out of a pumpkin. I’m so so happy. Please foreshadow more things. Throw the completely anticipateable plot beats at me like catnip mousies!!!!!

[creekfiend]

YEAH!!!!!!

[gayahithwen]

When I see a rifle on the wall, I want to see that rifle being fired! I’m literally on the sidelines shouting “Chekov! The gun! Get the gun, Chekov!”