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@onlythegeste
Me, on the welcome desk in the library: Good morning, how are you today?
Customer: I have welcomed Jesus into my heart and so I am well today and every day.
Me, a little unnerved: Okay then! Is there something I can help you with?
Customer, digging around in his bag and pulling out an iPhone in a box: Unfortunately, Jesus can't help me with this fucking phone, so I came to the library.
The Library!
For When Not Even God Can Help You!
I am still pretty sketchy at stopping (ie. I can manage a one-foot plough if I'm going fairly slowly, but that's about it), but I'm getting to the point where I can maintain pretty solid balance on my skates about 85% of the time, which is a significant improvement on where I was at in the previous skates.
I still need to work out how to do crossovers. And hockey stops. And ideally some amount of backwards. But I am getting there slowly.
the best part of the princess bride is how it says that love is the number one motivation in life but! a close number two is spite.
Let's ambush mama! 😼
@mustikoita
Y'all ever open a book on a new subject, read a little bit, and have to put it back so you can process the way in which your mind was just expanded?
The textile book: okay here is some of the ways that textiles are important to human life
me: Okay!
The textile book: Clothes separate the vulnerable human body from the conditions of the outside world, and in doing so absorb the sweat and debris of human existence, accumulating wear and tear according to the lives we live. In this way, various lifestyles and professions are represented by clothing, and the clothing of a loved one retains the imprint of their physical body and their life being lived, as though the clothes absorb part of the wearer's soul
Me: ...oh
The textile book: The process of weaving a garment and the process of a child being formed in its mother's womb are often referred to using the same language. Likewise, when a baby is born, a blanket or other textile material is the first material object it encounters and protects it. Textiles can create the idea of two things being inextricable, as with being "woven together," or can create the sense of separateness, as with a curtain or veil that separates two rooms or spaces, even separating the living from the dead, or separating two realities, such as a performance ending when the curtain falls
Me: ...oh God
The textile book: Odysseus's wife Penelope undid her weaving in secret every night to delay the advances of her suitors. In this way she was able to turn back the passage of time to allow her husband to come home. Likewise the Lakota tell a story of an old woman embroidering time by embroidering a robe with porcupine quills. If she finishes the embroidery, the world will come to an end, but her faithful dog pulls out the quills whenever her back is turned, turning back the clock and allowing existence to continue.
me: ...is...is...is that why we refer to the fabric of space and time?
The textile book: The technological revolution of textile making is sadly underappreciated. The textile arts are possibly the most fundamental human technology, as once people created string and rope, they could create nets for catching fish and small animals, and bags and baskets for carrying food. In the earliest prehistoric times, the first string or cord perhaps came from sinew, found in the body of an animal. Because of this perhaps the body of a living being could be understood as made of a textile material. Indeed textiles have the function of preserving life, as with a surgeon stitching back together the human body or bandages being placed on a wound. Textile technologies are being used to create life-changing implants to restore function to injured parts of the body, as though a muscle or tendon can be woven and made in this way. Cloth can be used to create a parachute that will save a human's life as they plummet out of the sky. Ultimately, the textile technologies are used to enter new parts of the universe. [Photo of an astronaut and details explaining the astronaut's suit]
Me: STOP!! MY MIND IS NOT STRONG ENOUGH FOR THIS
The book is "Textiles: The Whole Story" by Beverly Gordon
:D this is it! The post that got me to borrow this book from my library! This book is constantly rewiring my brain and parts of it constantly slap me in the face when I am going thru daily life and notice textiles.
Like, fiberglass ANYTHING can be considered a textile! Paper? Textile! Chain link fence? Textile!
And more than ever now when I see something like fabric on a couch or mosquito netting I wonder just how much work it would have taken if it was non-factory made. How many people have still had their hands in making it now.
I never understood why so many cultures placed such importance on textile gifts as ritual, like many native americans gifting blankets. I get it now.
Tons of other stuff too and it's all the time!
And I'm only halfway through!
Anyways OP thank you for bringing this into my life it's literally reshaping the way I think in a way I'm constantly in awe of <3
(the book if anyone was curious)
Here! I found it in an online archive!
It functions as a digital library, so you have to sign in and wait your turn. I'm not sure why you have to do that with a digital book, but it's free so i don't care.
304 p. : 27 cm
Happy Pride Month!
Faust is back for the 5th time! If you want to use the flag of your choice as an avatar, they're under the cut. They're free to use as long as it's for personal use only.
So I thought y'all would like this too This great white comes to the jersey shore every year and this year they named her and have been tracking her hella so this is Mary Lee and she decided to show herself under this rainbow for pride month A true gay icon
#This is the representation I’ve been looking for
in happier pride news i actually found this deeply heartwarming
that's solidarity baybeeee
Further context: Durham city council (Reform UK) cut funding and support for Pride. The Durham Miner's Association and other trade unions raised enough money for Durham Pride 2026 to go ahead - a direct call back to when Lesbian and Gays Support the Miners (LGSM) raised money for mining communities when Margaret Thatcher seized union funding during the miner strikes of 1984-85.
At the 1985 Labour party meet, the motion to support LGBT rights as a party was passed due to a block vote from mining unions.
Stephen Guy, the chair of the Durham Miners’ Association, said that when it became apparent Durham Pride was under threat, he took it upon himself to “encourage the trade union movement to step up and do the right thing, and stand shoulder to shoulder with the LGBT+ community […] They not only raised funds for us, but came to our communities, uplifted our spirits when they were down, and showed their solidarity.”
Just finished reading Game Changer (because I did enjoy the Heated Rivalry TV series, for all I would have liked it to have more hockey in it), and yeah, I'm absolutely reading the rest of these books, because there are so many absolutely hilarious one-liners and snarky moments. Also some genuinely emotional parts, which are equally well-written, but slightly less quotable than "in front of god and Ilya Rozanov", which will be spinning around in my brain for probably the next three to five working days.
I mean, I still think it needs more hockey, and I'm probably a bit too ace to fully appreciate the smutty bits, but there's some delightful character-establishing conversations that happen during the sex scenes, which is always nice.
Ooh, CCM have added base layers to the FTW line (though weirdly they're under Tacks when the rest of the line is Jetspeed).
I mean, I need to get more confident stopping before there's any point in me buying any more kit (beyond maybe gloves for the sake of stickhandling practice), and the only place I could currently order them from looks to be in Sweden, which seems excessive (women's kit is not impossible to get hold of near me, but a lot of places only carry a limited amount of options and take a while to get new lines in).
They're a bit less lethally expensive than Aycane, though, and actually have proper size charts available, which is always useful (though bizarrely not a given when buying ice hockey kit online).
The sheer energy. The beauty of this woman. The women hugging in the background. The man in rainbow parachute pants. This whole video is art.
XXI. The World
This is what world peace looks like
My illustrations the most based poem about tigers by Nael, age 6
Every time I read it I feel space inside my chest expand in very *emotion* way.
sometimes instead of a horrid little monk, divine visions of lesbians dance in my head dispensing wisdom
The Danish training ship “Georg Stage” (1934) dresses in rainbow colour, 2021
not the kind of gay ship I’m used to seeing on tumblr but cool
ship georg is an outlier but SHOULD be counted
I get that sex and drugs are fun but even im like. at least have a 3rd thing. at least one more hobby. you can have a 3rd hobby. this isnt a purity thing this is a some of u are fucking boring thing.
rock & roll
girl i just walked into that one like a coyote with a painted tunnel
Which MacGyver episode is your favourite, and why?
This is a really evil question - there are far too many good episodes; why am I only allowed to pick one?
That complaint being made, I think at the moment it's probably Back From The Dead, because it has a high concentration of the elements I really enjoy in an episode of MacGyver, and it's probably the most believable writing of Mac getting shot that happens across the entire show.
Although, am I allowed to combine that with The Eraser, given the character overlap? Because then we have Mac getting up to ice hockey shenanigans as well, which is another square off the bingo card.
My stick arrived yesterday, which is cool. It is longer than expected, but the advantage of it being wood is that I was never going to be able to flex the fucker anyway so cutting it down is not a major issue - there's a wood saw in the garage somewhere. I feel like I may be in the minority for intending to shoot right as a right-handed person, but broom test says that's the correct way round and it's how I always used to play field hockey (not that handedness is an option for that, admittedly).
The other bits and bobs I ordered at the same time are not here yet, which is slightly irritating, but given the stick arrived in undamaged packaging with no sign of possible escape points, it seems likely they're just in a separate parcel and will show up in the next couple of days.
