Purely Nicole

Blogger at PureGeekery.net

[warcrimesimulator]

[halles-comet]

things I love about my country, because it's the 4th of july and why shouldn't i get to love this country where i have lived for all my thirty years. he's the one who sucks

ice water

the common use of dryers for your clothes

carbon beach in malibu california

fall foliage in boston massachusetts

central AC

that thing where if you pump your arm at a passing 18 wheeler they'll honk their big loud horn just for fun

your ability to attend college/course of study/subsequent career isn't locked in by the results of one exam you take at 16 years old like in most of eurasia

that it's appropriate to wear blue jeans almost anywhere

rock music, and all its parent genres

these really beautiful string art earrings i bought on the agua caliente rez

mexican, italian, and chinese food all on the same street

no official national language or religion

how we smile too big and shake people's hands too hard and immediately give ourselves away in foreign countries by our gregariousness

broadway musicals

the james baldwin quote "i love america more than any other country in the world, and exactly for this reason, i insist on the right to criticize her perpetually." actually james baldwin in general. he was so fucking rad even when he got too drunk at parties and screamed at other guests about their systematic white privilege in a way that brought the vibe down. because that's also deeply american

[horce-divorce]

"I would never jeopardize the beans" pales in comparison to it's newest successor, "beans r not woke. How could u do this?"

[speedlimit15]

When youre a kid youre like wtf adults are making themselves sick with poisons and when youre an adult youre like i need more poisons ASAP

[speedlimit15]

Of all the tags on this post this is the one that worries me most

[homunculus-argument]

On tumblr, you can say "don't stick a fork in that electric outlet in the wall, getting electrocuted that way is really bad for you", and people will reply with "but what if I use a knife? Is that dangerous too or am I allowed to do that?" And another one is like "op is lying it's actually 100% safe fun and cute uwu" because they live in a house with the electricity cut off. A third one goes "oh my god I had no idea I've been risking my life every single time I poke a fork at the wall. I just like the way the wallpaper feels when I puncture it. No wonder mom yells at me every time I do it! D:"

And then it explodes into an argument concerning whether or not getting electrocuted is inherently, ontologically bad for you or not, because someone shared their story of how getting electroconvulsive therapy cured their depression and saved their life, and therefore OP is wrong for implying that going out of your way to get electrocuted is always wrong and bad in every situation.

[hylianane]

functionally suicidal character saying “I would die for you” to their significant other and its like. I get the sentiment, honey, but if a hot dog vendor told me he’d sell hot dogs for me, I wouldn’t feel very moved now would I

[maseratus]

Now a functionally suicidal character saying “I will live for you”. Now that’s a dynamic I can sink my teeth into.

[mousidy]

now how about a functionally suicidal character saying "I will sell hot dogs for you"

[mousidy]

[bisthefairy]

Hotdog vender lays down their life to protect their suicidal partner, who then takes over the hotdog stand to carry on their memory...

[maightymai]

[cipheramnesia]

It's like talking to a 2010 Old Spice commercial with you people

[redstonedust]

its actually easy to de-enshittify your digital experience all you need to do is install this browser extension and this browser extension and this browser extension and input this custom script into the advanced box and go into your system settings and reconfigure all these options you didnt know existed and change your entire workflow and switch to this alternative operating system and this alternative web browser and this alternative chat client and this alternative word processor and this alternative- sorry that one turned out to be malware delete that one okay now double check your task manager for unwanted background processes and element block these ads and invest in a good VPN and append all your searches with AI blocking keywords and wait a few years until everything you just did becomes shitty too so you can do it all over again okay kitten. its literally that easy.

[purely-nicole]

And have your own server and self host versions of all the apps you use.

[lesbianshepard]

One of the guys I worked with told us a story about how, when they were doing archaeology surveys in the woods they ran into a bigfoot hunter. Bigfoot guy asked if they had seen signs of bigfoot, and he was like "Sorry, nothing like that. We're archaeologists, so we're looking for human stuff." and the bigfoot guy was like "Oh! I saw some Native American cairns on my way out here. I can give you a general location." and when he was like "Yeah dude, that'd be sick. We're actually looking to document those." the bigfoot guy was like "Yeah, they looked pretty cool. I didn't touch them though, because Native Americans built them, not bigfoot."

[mikkeneko]

I apologize in advance for the "haha I misread this and thought..." but in all seriousness for two readthroughs I legit thought this was a story about an archeology survey team in the woods who ran into bigfoot and had a nice chat with him about his day and didn't bother to take pictures or document anything because they're only interested in human stuff, not in cryptids, but bigfoot was also nice enough to direct them to some native american cairns, which he did not build.

[lesbianshepard]

In all fairness,I have had lunch conversations in the woods where Bigfoot has been brought up, and we debated what we would do if we encountered him, and the consensus was “If he can communicate and expressed a desire to stay hidden, we wouldn’t narc on him”

[murkymarco]

Caught myself spiraling and then remembered it's just my body not wanting to exist in these temperatures

[theconcealedweapon]

Owning slaves was legal. Helping slaves escape was illegal.

Kidnapping immigrants is legal. Helping immigrants escape is illegal.

History repeats itself. If you support ICE, you would have supported slavery.

[tiktoks-i-enjoyed]

[shamebats]

[gaymingbinosaur]

My grandma told me she was happy I got the option to be single and unmarried once.

[l-resonant-l]

My grandpa ran out on my grandma and mom back when it was still harder for women to get jobs, I’m pretty sure it was before women could have bank accounts.

My mom told me stories about her childhood where my grandma would take her to a hotdog stand and they would buy a hotdog to split, and that was their meal for the day. My mom said grandma never complained in front of her and always made everything seem so fun, she never realized they were poor until she grew up.

My nana met the man who raised my mom with her some years later. He’s always been the one I called grandpa, but we were never that close. My mom described how my grandma still saved every penny she could even after marrying my grandpa who made plenty of money. She went to work events with my grandpa while wearing second hand dresses she repaired herself, while the other women wore dresses worth thousands of dollars. My nana suddenly started voting conservative like my grandpa, but she never actually participated in political conversations or defended right wing politicians. She stayed silent, and acted constantly liberal in her every day life. My grandma suddenly became very depressed after my grandpa started staying much later at work and traveling for work more. The doctor said she needed more vitamin b. My mom once said she wondered if my grandma really was deficient, or if that grandpa cheated on my grandma like the first one did. Either way, she still smiled. She still kept the kids happy. She still spent all her time teaching kids in schools or volunteering at women’s shelters.

Her and my grandpa always got along, and I’m sure my grandpa loved her based on how he reacted after she passed. And I would feel wrong to assume my grandma changed herself for or just stayed in a marriage out of financial need without any proof. But the truth is- I’ve thought about it. I’m not sure. The truth is it would have been reasonable, it would have made sense. The truth is she lived in a world where that wouldn’t be rare at all and there’s no way to know for sure. She lived in a world where that’s just as likely, if not more, than staying with someone because you love them.

Because of will shenanigan my mom didn’t get all the inheritance my grandma saved up for her, but she got a fair chunk. My mom owns her own house, she’s financially stable and can soon get her teachers pension. She’ll be okay for the rest of her life even if her husband doesn’t support her. That’s something my grandma never had. She has it now because of my grandmas work and planning for that for my mother’s entire life until my grandma passed.

We are much more recently out of that world than many people realize, in fact I’d say we’re still in the doorway. I try to be like my grandma in some ways still. I stay alert, I pay attention. I give to others when I can- because someone has to. Because you’re only ever a bad day away from being them, and you’ll need someone’s kindness when that day comes.

[frenchtugboat]

A financial advisor friend of mine occasionally has older (women) widows coming in asking what the hell they need to do to ...exist (manage their household finances) because:

they've still never managed their own bank account;

they don't know what banks they are with, what bank accounts even exist, how much is in them, how to access them;

they don't know all their assets and liabilities;

they don't know the overall typical income or outgoing expenses;

they don't know who their utilities are with, whose name they're actually in (husband or joint), how much they cost, or how the bills are paid (direct debit, BPAY, etc.);

they don't know the pension and/or superannuation details.

They may know all the shit and they may even balance the household books, but the accounts are in only the deceased husband's name, none in hers or as joint accounts which may complicate some things with the estate, especially given that there's often no bank branches to visit and it's almost impossible to just call the banks and speak to a person

Can you imagine dealing with the loss of your husband and having close to zero idea about or simple-ish access to any of that?

Some people still live like this, is my point. Even if the couple had more modern attitudes, they may never have bothered to reorganise their finances (maybe because doing that fucking sucks!)

[thebibliosphere]

The kid next door (talking toddler age) is playing outside and just wiped out in his Fisher Price car, and I just heard the babysitter say, “oh no, your insurance premium is definitely going to go up!” And the kid who had only been mildly sniffling before made the most confused, but startled sound you’ve ever heard.

Just very clearly an attempt at saying, “my what?”

He straight up forgot about his scraped knee and is now worried about whatever the fuck an insurance premium is.

[paper-mache-stars]

been thinking about grace and adrian being alike

[smoke-in-the-winds]

I think it would be fun to go full out with “1001 Arabian Nights” orientalized fictional New York setting. It’s somehow always the 20s, and 80s and also contemporary. There’s depression era gangsters and Wall Street finance bros. Spider-man or the Teen Aged Mutant Ninja Turtles might show up. The Mayor is never named but is a constantly felt presence. Sometimes the World Trade Centres are there, sometimes they’re not.

[importantangeldefendor]

Batman the animated series

[luna-azzurra]

Took me years to understand that boredom is not the enemy of writing. It is the raw material. Every good idea i have ever had arrived during a walk with no podcast, a train with no phone, a shower where i just stood there. The moment i fill every silence with content i stop generating anything of my own. I am just processing other people's thoughts instead of having mine. The empty space is where the work comes from. Protecting the empty space is the actual job.

[not-poignant]

Boredom is the place where you finally become desperate enough to generate interest from your own thoughts and imagination, and in that space, is the genesis of nearly every single idea in human history, across every single art form and type of science.

In the unpleasantness of boredom, we teach ourselves how to fly to escape it, and even learned how to share that gift with others.

[marxisforbros]

Conversation with a Native Son: Maya Angelou and James Baldwin

[talesfromtreatment]

Please.

If your dog or cat is vomiting multiple times in a short time span, please go to the vet. This is not normal.

If they can't keep food down, please go to the vet.

One of my favorite patients died yesterday because the owners just thought her stomach was upset for the last few days.

I don't want ANY hate directed at them. This is a common mistake, and one that doesn't always end this way. But it ends this way frequently enough that the risk really isn't worth it.

So please, learn from this tragedy.

[roseowlia]

My dog almost died a couple weeks ago from a severe allergic reaction. The only super obvious symptom was vomiting. I knew she'd been stung by a bee, but I didn't know the vomiting was a sign of anaphylaxis until I got her to the emergency vet. Thankfully she's back to normal now, but there's a world where I waited to see how she was in the morning and I'm very glad I didn't wait.

[talesfromtreatment]

Ah, yes. This is something I tell clients to watch for with their puppies and kittens after they get vaccines

One of, and often one of the first, major signs of anaphylaxis in animals is sudden, profuse vomiting and/or diarrhea, typically within the first hour after contact with the allergen.