Dreamer's Bend

Happily married, soon to be mom. Don't have as much time for reading or writing or astronomy as I'd like. But that's adulting, so I'm told... Harry Potter fan for life, English nerd always.

[livelovecaliforniadreams]

[lostintheworldofpages]

This is going to be me when I finish watching it.

[girlgirl89]

[parkchanwoohoo]

Me: There’s nothing I respect more than the diversity of thought and expertise among people in a community, and there is no field that does not contribute significantly to the fabric of society

Me, earlier that day: I don’t care for business majors

[tomsmusictaste]

I think I’ve found the perfect songs for John Mulaney

(What The Hell Is A Gigawatt // Four Year Strong | It’s Complicated // A Day To Remember)

[trashmouth-lostmyshoe]

Feel that

[killing-hannibals-body]

[shirleyjacksons]

i know this will make me sound old and boring but once i’m home for the night i’m home. i don’t like upsetting my plans even when i don’t have any. yes it’s only 8pm but i spent the whole evening believing i’m not going anywhere, i cannot perceive or be perceived right now, try again later

[paxamericana]

[f1rstperson]

Glad to see my lifelong disinterest in golf is paying off

[princekarkat]

let me tell you about golf

i grew up in a little desert valley called Tucson, Arizona, where it only rains 2 inches a year on average. the majority of the city’s water is pumped from an underground aquifer, which took millions of years to fill. one of the biggest conservation efforts in our city was for water, naturally, and i spent a lot of time learning about low flow toilets and 5 minute showers. i learned that filling your sink basin and washing your dishes in that water is less costly than running the tap. i learned that it only takes 2 days without water on the desert for someone to die

the city was sinking as the aquifer drained. neighborhoods fell into flood zones that didnt exist 10 years ago

there’s a road called Golf Links in the city and it is lined with golf courses. miles of green grass where grass doesn’t grow, in a valley where it doesn’t rain. why? because the rich white retirees who moved there to stop the aching in their joints decided they should also get to play golf. meanwhile our public schools taught small children like me that taking long showers would kill the world

let the golf industry burn

[ralfmaximus]

There are 15,500+ golf courses in the United States alone. 

Each one consumes ~312,000 gallons of water per day.

That consumption is equivalent to 55+ million humans per day in the United States… roughly 1/6 the entire population.

We simply cannot sustain this frivolity, especially for something 99% of us will never use.

[zooophagous]

Destroy golf courses and plant wild grasses and butterfly bushes in their place.

[ravenclawravings]

Ravenclaw Headcanon

Ravenclaws will think about all the things they need to do in a day, becoming more anxious about it, all while laying in bed for hours.

[lostintheworldofpages]

I have never been more convinced that I am a Ravenclaw.

[lonelykamui]

[crashstack-deactivated20210611]

Me: “My Demons is sort of overrated now, it’s all you hear when Starset gets on main.”

My Demons: plays

Me:

“SAVE ME IF BECOME MY DEMONS”

[starwarsfilms]

Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (2016)

[onyxmoonstone]

[argumate]

seems that Chrome has around 60-65% market share, so it’s not totally dominating the market yet but it’s worrying that we’re basically reliant on Apple and Microsoft to hold the line.

[th4nkyoub3n]

Does Firefox not count for anything?

[argumate]

about 10% and falling, but perhaps that can change, I just don’t see how.

[argumate]

Chrome edging towards 70% on desktop, Microsoft has thrown in the towel, Safari obviously rules iOS, Firefox exists only as insurance for Chrome.

[ms-demeanor]

Please, please I’m begging you, use firefox.

PLEASE install firefox as a mobile browser and then run adblock on your mobile browser it’s so good I promise.

Look.

Look.

I know I’m a total grind about open source stuff but browsers are the PERFECT place to learn to love open source software and for so long FireFox was a major part of the browser market and sometimes if you want to see what kind of fuckery google is up to it helps to see the kinds of things they block in firefox and just

There’s an organization that makes free, excellent, safe software that doesn’t collect and market your data but for some reason two thirds of the world uses a google product and most of the leftover population uses apple and just

I promise, firefox is so good - the extensions are incredible look - I can use lightbeam to see what sites I use and how they connect to other sites (bottom right should give you an idea how much time I spend on tumblr)

or I can look at ublock origin and see that it’s blocked over 2 million requests since I installed it or I can run the facebook container extension and stop facebook from tracking me and you know what I bet you can do a lot of that on chrome too but you’re doing that while chrome itself is tracking you and gobbling up your activity for google and

firefox is so fuckin great and it’s such a great ambassador for other open source projects please be a big old fuckin nerd with me and use firefox and run a bunch of funky extensions and customize the fuck out of your web experience.

Wanna be a hacker? Firefox.

Wanna use instagram on desktop? Firefox.

Wanna be a killer researcher? Firefox.

Wanna properly credit artists? Firefox.

Wanna read a whole shitload of books? Firefox.

Wanna make video responses to shitlord youtubers?

Wanna shoot cat lasers at bugs?

Wanna use youtube as a music streaming service?

FIREFOX.

I just love firefox okay.

[bookloveranddesigner]

[whitepeopletwitter]

[thatmadhatter]

Okay, but THIS.

My therapist only recently understood that when I said, “I don’t know how to make this phone call or make this appointment.” I very literally meant I didn’t know what to do. I can dial the phone, but what do I say EXACTLY? What questions are going to be asked? What do I need to have on hand? What if they ask me something I don’t know the answer to?

I’m one of those people that needs very specific and detailed instructions if I’m doing something for the first time.

[dovewithscales]

Be patient with people. We all have our struggles. Sometimes it can make all the difference in the world knowing someone can spare a few minutes to care about you and walk you through something that’s hard for you.

[nunjournal]

we would be so lost without garlic

[stream]

[mess-inside-and-out-deactivated]

People are deliberately starting fires in the amazon rainforest to illegally deforest indigenous land for cattle ranching and the president of Brazil comes today and says that this is work from NGOs, listen what a indigenous woman have to say, from the tribe Pataxó:

Pataxó woman:

“These assholes came in and burned down [our reservation]... I want all of the media here to see this”

For 2 years we’ve fought to preserve [our reservation] & these assholes came in & burned it down.

They are killing our rivers, our sources of life, & now they have set our reserve on fire. Tomorrow we are closing the roads & I want all the media here to see this.

We need action, we need now, we need to take those ones to justice and take President Jair Bolsonaro to respond to this too, we need people to wake up that being a conservative it's not the same as being a stupid retrograde

Indigenous people, animals and nature are screaming in pain for help

Video and photo original from "Quebrando o Tabu" and Sunrise Movement on Twitter

[wes-stoodis-deactivated20201231]

This absolutely breaks my heart.