stuff

there is uh definitely stuff and things here

[hotvampireadjacent]

Reading a book about and called Enshittification and this is the opening page

[weerd1]

I cannot recommend this book enough.

Enshittification by Cory Doctorow | Madison Street Books

Enshittification: It’s not just you—the internet sucks now. It’s been enshittified. That was no accident, and it’s not gonna fix itself. Her

It also references another book I strongly recommend: "Technofeudalism."

Technofeudalism by Yanis Varoufakis: 9781685891244 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books

“Blending intellectual memoir, history, and economic and technological history, Varoufakis creates an intimate atmosphere that is a genu

These two books are the best argument for building guillotines you're going to find (outside of just, you know, watching the news).

[tackminyard]

affirmations for my printer:

you are not out of paper

you have so much paper

it’s okay to function as intended

you are not out of ink

i just refilled that cartridge last month

you can connect to that computer you’re supposed to connect to

you’re allowed to print things

[thulium]

[alphacrone]

writers and artists everywhere all the time

[ladylingua]

it just occurred to me how funny this is, like

when the terrified villagers showed up raving about mythical beasts, George was all willing to go along with it in terms of providing them shelter and food, but he had to draw the line at sending soldiers because he fundamentally did not believe them that a griffin had popped out of legend to attack their village (understandable)

and that just makes me picture a monty python-esque scene where like some village leader is like "IT WAS A MONSTROUS BEAST! IT HAD CLAWS LIKE SABERS! YOU HAVE TO SEND MEN" and George is just like "Mmm, mmm, yes, I hear you...but like, are we sure that maybe it wasn't just...a bird?" and the leader is like "IT HAD THE HAUNCHES OF A LION! THE HEAD OF AN EAGLE! IT WAS NO BIRD MY LORD!" and George was like "Like maybe a really big, kind of aggressive, scary bird though?" and the villagers were like "MY LORD, TWAS A GRIFFIN, YOU MUST SEND SOLDIERS!" and George was like "Yeah...no, I'm probably not gonna do that...but hey, how about we all go have a nice dinner, my treat, everyone get a good night's rest here...and then tomorrow when everyone is feeling more relaxed we can circle back on that bird idea again, see how it strikes you then."

[afemalesebastian]

"Sewing is a gateway drug to thinking through complex problems. It seems really simple; culturally, we make it women's work. Let me tell you: real sewing at any kind of level of proficiency is a bloody magic trick. Sewing, like mold making, involves mental frames that require one to think inside out and backwards. It requires one to work on an order of operations that is often taking into account the reverse. It's a really, really important skill, and if you learn how to sew, you're mostly on your way to carpentry and welding and sheet metal work. I'm not kidding: these are planar forms meeting under rules and conditions. And if you can make a sleeve work, I swear to God, you could build a house."

--Adam Savage

[ooppo]

Idk why but as a kid I used to get hysterically upset everytime I would imagine a gif of a rotating cow because I could never stop the cow from rotating no matter how hard I tried and I would be crying and no one knew why

[ooppo]

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[chetungwan]

This is probably an unnecessary addition, but OCD is missed in cases like these because it's deeply misunderstood by most people.

It's talked about like being obsessively neat or repeating pointless tasks is the main part of it, when really those are just potential symptoms.

The main thing behind OCD is not being about to turn off a thought. There's a thing where most people can just stop thinking about something. If it's over, it's not relevant, it doesn't matter anymore, people can turn their attention away. For OCD, that mechanism can get stuck. And some thought that was supposed to just temporarily pass through your head just stays there. An image of an object rotating. An anxiety about something bad happening. A wish that you made on a dandelion. These are all things that have at some point gotten stuck in my head, sometimes for years at a time.

The compulsions, the rituals, are the person trying to address the thought so it can go away. After all, if you're worried about the door not being locked you can check the lock. But for someone with OCD, that doesn't make the stuck thought go away. So they check it again. And again. And they made a ritual, maybe if I check it exactly five times, I'll know that it's locked and I can let this worry go.

It helps a little. It feels like you're doing something. But it doesn't solve the problem. Actual therapy for OCD involves not doing the compulsion. Instead, you ignore the thought, move around it, try not to give it space in your life. Your mind won't let the thought go normally, so instead you fill yourself with other thoughts. Other parts of your life.

It's not easy at first. Your mind fights you on it. But as you get practice, it gets easier. You learn tricks around your own mind, ways to look at the thought and go, hm. I guess I'll go distract myself now. It does get better. I promise

[ocdheritageposts]

OCD Heritage Post

[imaginarygolux]

I was nattering at Best Beloved earlier this morning about how one of the more amusing parts of the Wild Magic series, for me, is how long it takes Ozorne to realize that Daine is actually a threat.

Because sure, Daine is at Pirate’s Swoop, but so are Numair and Alanna, and she doesn’t do anything flashy…except summon a kraken, and then it’s Numair and Alanna who send the kraken away, so it’s reasonable to assume they summoned it in the first place.

And then sure, Daine is at Dunlath, but so is Numair (and later Alanna), and it’s Numair doing all the flashy things like ringing the shield like a bell and turning people into apple trees.

And also Ozorne has a bit of a fixation on Numair, so it’s probably pretty easy for him to disregard reports on weird squirrels.

And then when she gets to Carthak, she’s this shy little bird-healer who rescues drowning marmosets, and Numair and Alanna are right there and much flashier, and I’m pretty sure Ozorne thinks of Daine as being sort of…mildly entertaining. She’d make a good pet.

…And then of course he kills “Numair.” But Ozorne doesn’t actually know Daine can cause a zombie dinosaur rampage, mostly because Daine didn’t know that either, and so I suspect he doesn’t figure out it’s Daine behind all of this until pretty late in the hyena scene, honestly.

His assessment of her threat level must go from “1/10, rather amusing” to “11/10, extremely fucking dangerous” in about 30 seconds.

I don’t know why this is hilarious to me, but it very much is.

[obserbolisk]

Wikipedia most webbed site of all time.

[tatters-the-bat]

Reports say Windows 15 will be "a transparent pane of glass" that will be installed into frames on a wall; Lead developer comments, "finally, we got it right. Somehow we kept making operating systems instead and it was getting really frustrating."

[libertineangel]

It is implied through gameplay mechanics that the two kingdoms at war in chess both formally permit regnal polygamy, allowing the King to take at least nine wives of equal status, and that marriage can be bestowed as a military honour, but curiously that honour - in stark contrast to the conventional attitudes of the aristocracy - can only be bestowed upon soldiers of the unlanded class, leaving great questions to be asked of the material interests and stability of these kingdoms' aristocracies

[libertineangel]

Unless, of course, it is gameplay abstraction that we see soldiers as individuals and we are in fact commanding representations of whole units, in which case the King already has up to nine wives but only one is in command of her own company at the onset of battle, and unlanded regiments are largely self-directed (which would explain their limited effective range, lacking proper leadership coordinated with the objectives of the ruling class) with further members of the aristocracy taking charge of those which excel in the field, presumably in large part so they can take credit for the soldiers' successes and advance their own social and political standing as is often the way of things

[libertineangel]

Several people in the notes by now have brought up the mobility of the castles, and there is simply no explanation for that I can think of beyond the drift between original and translated forms of the game. The original pieces occupying that role were heavy war chariots, with some later replacing them with war elephants carrying an archers' tower, and when it spread to Europe (a continent notably lacking in elephants) the elephant part began to be omitted and the tower reshaped into a European-style fortification. There is no gameplay justification for its retaining the war elephant's moveset, it is merely a cumulative translation issue.

[libertineangel]

STOP CALLING IT A SIEGE TOWER!!!!!

It is very obviously not a fucking siege tower, like 1) in the majority of cases their designs are round and crenellated in the style of western European post-Norman fortifications, which is not remotely what a siege tower looks like, 2) why the fuck would a siege tower be in a pitched battle such as that depicted by the game, what the fuck do you think they're besieging, and 3) do you think a fucking siege tower can cross a battlefield at speed???

Like please think about what you're saying, the role and construction of a siege tower, for one fucking second, instead of leaping to the first piece of medieval military engineering you can think of that's related to the concept of towers. A siege tower unit is not going to be in the middle of a battlefield actively hunting down mounted cavalry and providing a rearguard screen to the frontline infantry, is it, like come on that is ridiculous and if you think that's a remotely reasonable thing to say you clearly have no fucking clue what a siege tower is actually for; furthermore, if you're in a pitched battle where the king himself is on the field like why are you even gonna bother besieging anywhere nearby, you have an opportunity to end this war here and now (as demonstrated by the rules of the game!!) so why on earth would you bring your expensive, cumbersome siege equipment along instead of leaving it back at camp, if the king retreats (and you can't take him in the rout) then sure then you go and grab your siege equipment but y'know it would just exhaust your troops and put it in harm's way for no reason to drag it into a battle where no siege is taking place.

[libertineangel]

It is implied through gameplay mechanics that the two kingdoms at war in chess both formally permit regnal polygamy, allowing the King to take at least nine wives of equal status, and that marriage can be bestowed as a military honour, but curiously that honour - in stark contrast to the conventional attitudes of the aristocracy - can only be bestowed upon soldiers of the unlanded class, leaving great questions to be asked of the material interests and stability of these kingdoms' aristocracies

[astercontrol]

I'm also interested in the armies depicted within checkers... both of which seem to be utopian anarchies in which all citizens have exactly equal rights and abilities, and follow all their rules without the presence of any leader at all

and the jarring shift whereby this transforms into a monarchy, when one citizen becomes successful enough to crown himself "king," though the position conveys nothing except greater military resources for that individual in personal battles

[phantomrose96]

Gosh I’d love to give it a try. It’s just so hard to find the time with all the *describes a daily schedule that is 65% dilly-dallying*

[autistic-crunchwrap]

Fiber Artist Affirmations

✨I will weave in the ends as I go✨

✨I will not wait until the end of my project to weave in all the ends✨

✨I am capable of weaving in the ends of my yarn✨

[ifthisislifewheresthemanual]

@butlookatthestars

[skarabrae-stone]

[allthingswhumpyandangsty]

sending love, support and appreciation to Archive of Our Own and all of their volunteers for everything they have been doing for the site, writers, artists, fans, readers, fandoms, everything. they deserve all the praise ♡

[twoblogger]

It kind of fucks with me that somebody killed ötzi the iceman because ötzi himself is like whatever but the silent presence of human hands that drew back the string of the bow that shot the arrow that killed him is crazy. the idea that there were various people involved in that situation and while one of them has had his last hours painstakingly reconstructed and studied to no end, the others now only exist insofar that an arrowhead had to get into his shoulder somehow. imagine killing someone and then suddenly your entire existence is only a vague shadow implied by the fact that you killed them. much to consider

[twoblogger]

Testing the mummified bone marrow of ötzi to figure out his ancestry whole time there’s definitely another person, maybe more than one, standing in the room with us but I can never see or speak to them because I only know them through the assurance that they were there too in the form of one single arrowhead. I hate prehistory so much it’s unreal

[angel-derangement]

I hate it too tbh