Julia Skott

[quirkyburd]

I will never not love this

[astriiformes]

The polar opposite of corporate accounts trying to come across as hip and super friendly are the ones for libraries, aquariums, parks systems and the like, that are basically just trying to get people excited about learning and the wonder of history/science by posting things like this:

[dothepropaganda]

wow, what a gorgeous month to remember autism isn’t a disease and there’s no “cure for autism” and there shouldn’t have to be one just because allistic people can’t get the hell over themselves and realise other people experience the world differently and have different needs and require different accommodations. terrific.

[trilllizard666]

autism is literally a neurological and development condition but ok sure yeah keep with the feel good platitudes, you absolute tit

[werewolf-cuddles]

There’s a strong difference between a “disease” and a “condition”, you absolute tit

[sindri42]

Think of it this way. 83% of computers (laptop and desktop) use Windows. 13% use Mac. The vast majority of software is developed for windows, with another significant fraction developed for or adapted to mac, because that’s what most people use and it’s all most people understand.

Now imaging you’re one of the 1.4% of computers are running Linux. This doesn’t mean you’ve got a windows machine with a virus, it doesn’t mean your computer is broken, it doesn’t mean it needs to get replaced with a more common operating system. It’s not quite as good at some things most people take for granted, but it’s significantly better at a bunch of other things. But if you have a problem with your computer, the vast majority of people won’t have any idea what you’re talking about. They’ll give advice for how to deal with a similar issue on their own computer, and it will be worthless. The only people with any idea what you’re going through are going to be on linux forums. And you can mostly muddle through all the things everybody else can do with improvisation and lots of WINE, but it sure would be nice if the devs of that video game you were looking forward to would like, acknowledge the existence of your demographic.

Now imagine that on top of all that, the primary linux support system had been taken over by a bunch of assholes who’ve never so much as looked at a command prompt in their lives. but who have declared themselves the Voice of Linux Users and keep spending millions of dollars on campaigns “educating” everybody about how using linux makes you a fundamentally bad and stupid person so your laptop needs to be burned immediately to force you to get a correct computer.

[werewolf-cuddles]

i love that analogy so fucking much

[siblinghandgrenadeofqueerness]

As an IT person who uses linux and as a mother of one, possibly two autistic kids:

This is an excellent analogy.

[fuckyeahgoldbikini]

Bobbi Shaw Chance and Buster Keaton

[afatlittledog]

me, at home alone, chillin: *hears a door slam*

me, at full volume: WHAT’D I TELL YOU ABOUT SLAMMIN MY DOORS

the ghost that don’t pay bills or rent: that i don’t need to be slammin doors if i don’t pay bills or rent

me, the full volume: EXACTLY *a bit quieter* I left some dishes out on the counter if you wanna make em float or something babe

the ghost: okay thank you baby you’re so sweet

[cosplaytutorial]

We should all plant flowers 💖

[advanced-procrastination]

HELLO 911?

[anthology-of-interest-2-deactiv]

“When I see dirt, I plant a flower in it.” 

[beeftea78-deactivated20200113]

Girls don’t want boys girls want an adaptation of Pride and Prejudice starring Lupita Nyong’o as Elizabeth Bennet and Gwendoline Christie as Mr Darcy

[squidbroom]

homophobes are not allowed to use computers because the inventor of the computer was gay

[local-chibi-girl]

People think this is just a joke but Alan Turing was the inventor of the computer and his sexuality was illegal in his time (which was not even 100 years ago) and he was arrested. They put him on drugs that destroyed his genius brain and committed suicide a year after being covicted. He was gay and a war hero as well. He helped to break enigma which was a German code that they put all their messages through. He shorted WWII by two years and saved so many lives in the process.

[anticritical-lapis]

Friendly reminder that if not for Alan Turing you wouldn’t be reading this post and we might be ruled by the nazis

[addycted]

The Alan Turing statue on my campus

[thoodleoo]

i hate when people in movies/tv are reading ancient languages and they translate everything really smoothly and poetically, as if when people who study ancient languages aren’t consulting three different commentaries and sobbing profusely when we read

[quousque]

ok so like…. it says

“come you all into the deepest cavern, or maybe that’s fireplace, depends on usage, and having come may you give your…. treasures? Skin? Pants? I don’t know, something…. to the….. about-to-be-adored guy, that one who…. okay, he either causes earthquakes or sleeps a lot, I think this might be an idiom….”

[thoodleoo]

“ok, sorry that took so long and i hate to disappoint but i’m still not entirely sure what it means, like, it could be something about a religious ceremony or it could be a dick joke. leaning towards dick joke, might be both. knowing the ancients, probably both. this could very well be an ancient dick temple and we should probably leave.”

[rudjedet]

Funnest part is when you get shit like this:

Why yes that is a text comprised of almost exclusively crocodile hieroglyphs.

[thatlittleegyptologist]

We also can’t get a coherent translation because the grammar makes absolutely no sense. Participles and Participial statements all the way. Sobek who is Crocodile of Crocodopolis who advances the Crocodile for the Crocodiles….

The crocodile hieroglyph is also used to write sovereign and an adjective meaning power…so the text is suuuuuuuper confusing.

[beautifultoastdream-deactivated]

I can’t help but wonder if the crocodile hieroglyph text (which I never knew about, that is AMAZING) is the ancient equivalent of a sestina or another complex poem form. With the crocodile symbol meaning so many different things, and the result being so difficult to translate, it might make more sense as a poem or some other stylistically rigid text.

Either that, or it was the Egyptian equivalent of a student being made to write lines on the chalkboard.

[systlin]

I will not take the name of Lord Sobek in vain

I will not take the name of Lord Sobek in vain

I will not take the name of Lord Sobek in vain

I will not…“Shakes out chiseling hand” Take the name of Lord Sobek in vain….

[bold-sartorial-statement]

Looks like an ancient shitpost to me.

[midnightmindcave]

mai nayme is hep and wen i wryt upon the wal so smooth and wite i bless the kynnge commend his akh but then get tyred and carve the croc

[digitaldiscipline]

It’s the equivalent of “Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo.”

[captainlordauditor]

this is making me think of that story that was written in order to explain why simplifying Chinese characters to one character per syllable is a really bad idea

[fantasiawandering]

Sobek Sobek Sobek Sobek Sobek Sobek Sobek Sobek Sobek Sobek  Sobek Sobek

Hathor, Hathor

Sobek Sobek Sobek Sobek Sobek Sobek Sobek Sobek Sobek Sobek Sobek Sobek

Hathor, Hathor

Sobek Sobek Sobek Sobek Sobek Sobek Sobek Sobek Sobek Sobek Sobek Sobek

Hathor, Hathor

Sobek Sobek Sobek Sobek Sobek Sobek Sobek Sobek Sobek Sobek  Sobek Sobek

Ahh Set! Ahh Set!

Set! It’s Set! Ooooo, it’s a Set!

[katzedecimal]

Did you just

[approximate-ritual]

@smarmykemeticpagan, can you pass this around your end of the community?

[odinsblog]

ONCE AGAIN: We are not having a full discussion about gun violence if we fail to acknowledge that police brutality targets black people. When the police become a part of school campuses, the arrests of Black students only increases, as do physical assaults.

If you need a refresher, please recall how “School Resource Officer” Ben Fields body slammed a teenage black girl for the “crime” of being on her cell phone.

Arming school teachers is an incredibly bad idea. And placing Black students in proximity to police officers needlessly puts innocent Black children at risk. We need a better, more nuanced solution. “More police” fails as a solution for nearly the same reasons that “more guns” does.

Police officers on school grounds is an integral part of the school-to-prison pipeline.

[delphinidin4]

[angrybeanfrog]

@macaronic-marz ed

[beebrainz]

accurate

[cryptid-ril3y]

Aaand I know what my next embroidery project will be

[novelty-gift-ideas]

[therebloggening]

Best friends.

[thehighpriestofreverseracism]

Things you may not know about the legendary South African actor John Kani, who play’s T’challa’s Father/King T’chaka in Black Panther.

He lost his left eye to a beating he received from Apartheid Police and wears a glass prosthetic eye.

in the mid 1980′s, he performed in a play called “Miss Julie in Cape Town” Half of the audience walked out of the production when he kissed a white woman on stage – an act that resulted in death threats and an assassination attempt, in which he was stabbed 11 times.

in 1985, he lost his brother who was killed whilst reading a poem at a funeral when Apartheid police started shooting up at the mourners.

all of this happened in a minority ruled white supremacist country formed ON land where his people where the natives and the majority, apartheid “ended” in 1994.

sources:

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/journalists/dominic-cavendish/4589941/The-Tempest-How-a-legend-of-African-theatre-was-stabbed-11-times.html

http://www.sahistory.org.za/people/bonisile-john-kani

https://www.gauteng.net/pages/page/john_kani

[kingmaktub]

History for yo ass

[futureblackwakandan-deactivated]

I kinda thought he had a prosthetic eye when I was looking at him in BP but didn’t want to assume

[audreynical2]

I think I’ve said it before, but I want an all plus-size season of Project Runway.

No forewarning in the casting call, just a dozen of the best aspiring designers chosen and when they meet the models, they happen to be size 12 and above.

Of course they’ll cry at first, but Tim Gunn will tell them to get over it and maybe we’ll have some amazing original designs for people the industry usually ignores.

[adampascalfan]

With Christian Siriano as the first guest judge giving everyone single designer who complains the what for

[simonsays-no]

Please let this happen, I only have two dollars, but they are yours if I can have this

[bemusedlybespectacled]

ashley nell tipton as the second guest judge who utterly destroys them

[electracopes]

if they do this, then they must increase the budget for each designer because larger sized models means more fabric needed means the designers need larger budgets. that’s why the show will never go for it.

[audreynical2]

@electracopes

Yeah… no.

1. This is a sponsored television program where designers routinely buy/waste more fabric than they’ll ever need on challenges and it’s all on the show’s dime. And it’s all for the art and show of it. They’ll never even be worn again. Cost is a ridiculous reason to reject creating plus size season… money is irrelevant here.

2. Also, not every type and print is fabric costs the same. Some are cheaper than others. If designers can deal with restrictive budgets on the regular PR challenges in order to create something unique and beautiful there’s absolutely no reason why they couldn’t take the same budget and make adjustments to do the same thing for plus size women.

3. At the industry level, the idea that plus size clothes cost SO MUCH MORE than straight sizes has been debunked time and again. It simply doesn’t… especially at the quantities at which they are purchasing fabric for mass production.

4. Costs can also be brought down by cutting patterns out of fabrics in a conscientious way to reduce waste (which designers on PR already do when working with expensive fabrics or limited budgets).

5. The costs of men’s clothes do not vary as drastically as women’s do regardless of their size. If the fabric cost excuse were genuine, you would expect the same exorbitant price hike reflected there. Big and tall clothes for men are generally within a reasonable range of the lower sizes.

6. Plus size women’s clothes cost more and designers refuse to create plus size clothes not because of cost or any other reasonable difficulties, but because it’s a punitive measure against fat women and because they thus far been able to get away with it.

[kaylabliss]

My little sister (she’s 13) and I had a discussion recently about the cost of plus size clothes.

We both noted that we get a really good fit wearing maternity clothes. Sometimes a better fit than “plus size” clothes.

So it’s quite interesting that buying a plus size shirt costs us significantly more than a maternity shirt. Presumably they have the same amount of fabric, or they wouldn’t fit us.

[audreynical2]

You’re exactly right.

And the style of maternity clothes is so much better as well, because it’s not socially acceptable to make punitive fashion for pregnant women.

If I’m at Target I can tell when I’ve accidentally wandered from the Plus section and into the Maternity section because the clothes start looking suspiciously cute all of a sudden.

[twodotsknowwhy]

“Plus size clothes just cost more because of fabric” is such bullshit when a string bikini costs more than a one piece because they sell the pieces separately. It’s all fake, it just that companies know they can get away with it.

[moved-to-korrigantsionnach-deac]

I want a story about a king whose son is prophesied to kill him so the king is like “whatever what am I supposed to do, kill my own kid wtf is wrong with you” so he just raises him as normal, doesn’t even tell him about the prophecy, and instead of some convoluted twist of events that leads to the king’s murder the son grows up and when the king is very old and dying and in excruciating pain the kid is just like alright I'mma put him out of his misery.

[femonologue]

The king’s son becomes the new king, and is prophesied to defeat evil and bring an age of prosperity. His generals and knights all crack their knuckles but he pretty much ignores them and focuses on strengthening the infrastructure of his kingdom. Forty years later he is old and sick but still hearing his subjects’ grievances, and a general’s like “how will you defeat the prophesied evil now? You’re old and weak.” Another visitor, a teenager fresh out of the kingdom’s public education system, looks at the general like he is an ignoramus. The king eradicated poverty, housed the homeless, taught the ignorant, ended class exploitation by abolishing the nobility and imprisoning the corrupt, and established a highly respected guild of doctors that recently figured out how to cure the plague. There are no brigands because there is enough wealth for everyone to live comfortably; hiding in the woods and taking trinkets from people simply doesn’t make any sense for anyone but the desperate, and the people are not desperate. Evil is a weed, explains the teenager. It grows in cracked roads and crumbling houses and forgotten corners, rooted in indifference and watered by suffering. But the king demands that broken things be mended and suffering people be made well.

No evil lives in this kingdom, says the teenager. It starved to death before I was born.

[femonologue]

Every once in a while, when I’m feeling down, I go and look at the notes on this post and they make me feel a lot better. This is the energy I want to carry into 2018.

[aunt-mimi]

When somebody says that “a man likes to feel like a man,” all I hear is “A man likes to feel superior to you and it’s your job to make him believe it.” 

[geekandmisandry]

Someone said this to me once, that a man needs to feel like a man, I replied “well I’m not stopping him” and had to watch this fragile creature try to explain to me that my strong personality could demean men.

Like, if I have to pretend you are a strong man and cater to that then clearly you’re not that strong dude.

[keltic-moon]

“if I have to pretend you are a strong man and cater to that then clearly you’re not that strong dude.”

bolded for those in back

[smittenstrawberry]

consider: adhd immortal people

“what was it like 400 years ago?” fuck if i know. i don’t even remember what it was like last week.

[strangehorse]

catch me procrastinating basic tasks for twenty times longer

“oh yeah, I’ve been meaning to get around to fixing that window, but I’ve just been so busy, y’know?”

“you’ve lived here since 1740″

[honey-sunny-bee]

MMMMEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

[rockpapertheodore]

Walking through a museum and seeing some old things of yours and just going “FUCK. FUCK GOD DAMN IT, I’ve been looking for this forEVER” and then trying to haggle with the curator to get your shit back