Who d'you suppose decided the birds are free?

The Kremmit - like a super hero, but with more nerd. Forever spamming: Black Widow, Digimon, animals. Current obsession: Critical Role. Tagging is fairly consistent.

[scutellatebooted]

I got myself a puppy for my birthday. His name is Garrus and he is a Beauceron. I made him a blog if you wanted to follow along with my dog ownership journey or just wanted to see a bunch of puppy pictures:

[flagellant]

everyone on tumblr knows about Catholic guilt but i think a lesser known variant that deserves just as much awareness is Protestant irritation

[flagellant]

Protestant irritation is what happens when someone does something that is like 99% harmless, entirely without stakes, and at most just kind of makes you feel a little bit miffed and then you forget about it in 5 minutes. But the thing is that Protestant irritation will stack up on you like microaggressions until suddenly your friend is 15 minutes late to something and you're convinced that when they arrive you have to kill them about it. Do not listen to the Protestants. You have also been 15 minutes late to something a lot before. Allow yourself one (1) kvetch in the group chat and then accept the wisdom that people around you deserve just as much graciousness and patience as you do

[flagellant]

Protestant Work Ethic is what happens when you let the Protestant Irritation convince you that a person for any reason whatsoever not constantly doing 120% at their 9-5 is basically a sin.

[flagellant]

The Baptist equivalent is "Baptist groveling" where you're absolutely certain that if you need to go to a food bank because you have 2 slices of moldy bread and a can of pinto beans in your pantry to last you until payday you need to apologize to God and also everyone in your community for being an incalculable burden on good honest folk.

[flagellant]

Orthodox Dilemmas are what happens when no one is certain about whether something is actually as important as everyone is making it out to be but they're all about to kill each other over it because admitting that either they were wrong or someone else might have a point would get them called a heretic.

[flagellant]

I can't even frame this as a joke, I have a genuine appreciation for Quakers as an organization being actually willing to own up that they were hypocritical pieces of shit to BIPOC for longer than they had any right to be and then doing a hell of a lot of work to actually meaningfully fix that shit and listen to us when we say something is wrong. I resent that they still have an evangelical missionary branch but I can't even pretend this is "well, if I had to pick a least bad denomination", it really is no contest. If I bring up concerns about racism baked into Christian principles and practices to a Quaker I'm far more willing to bet they'd actually hear me out than a Lutheran would.

[flagellant]

Calvinist Hell is the fucking timeline I am forced to exist in without my consent let me OUTTTT

[flame-cat]

in light of that recent post i reblogged, lets do a poll

if universal basic income were implemented tomorrow, i would...

immediately quit my job and never work again, because I don't want to

immediately quit my job and never work again for medical reasons

immediately quit my job and search for a different one

keep my current job, but search for a new one

keep my current job

stay unemployed because i want to

stay unemployed for medical reasons

be able to start working when i can't currently

nuance (elaborate in tags)

Voting ended onJul 20

please reblog for more answers! and elaborate in tags even if you didnt pick nuance

[monstermonger]

All day the stars watch from long ago my mother said I am going now when you are alone you will be all right whether or not you know you will know

look at the old house in the dawn rain all the flowers are forms of water the sun reminds them through a white cloud touches the patchwork spread on the hill the washed colors of the afterlife that lived there long before you were born see how they wake without a question even though the whole world is burning

Rain Light - WS Merwin

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[beardedmrbean]

Periscope up

[birds-in-posts]

Green heron (Butorides virescens)

[flareonfloof]

birds have secret bones we're not allowed to know about

[scutellatebooted]

Trying to come up with a backup camping plan is profoundly disappointing... What I want are:

Secluded campsites

Tall trees +/- big rocks

Quick access to water from camp (FUCK PORTAGES)

No cell service

Having a hard time finding a place within driving distance that checks all those boxes.

And I realize that I simply cannot be normal about camping. I am a back country girlie. I will try very hard to accept a "primitive campsite" at a state park but, homies, you should not get to use that term when you have a pit toilet bathroom.

[welovegamingz]

[theinfamousdoctorf]

The only way this shit will ever go away is if you DON'T BUY IT.

[paintedhorses]

Hair Day

most carousel companies had their own individual style when it came to their horses manes but some shared common labels

today we’ll be talking about the different kinds of manes used on carousel horses

Windswept

also known as wind blown manes, carousel horse carvings were all about showing a horse in motion! this was the perfect mane to do the job

Peekaboo Mane

just as it sounds, this mane has a gap that you can look through!

peekaboo manes were an incredible flex in the carousel world, it proved that a company could carve thin pieces of wood without the risk of it snapping

Trojan Mane

also known as roached or chopped manes, this style of hair was given its name for its trojan-helmet resemblance

allan hershell is my personal favorite when it comes to trojan manes. sometimes they blend the trojan mane & peekaboo mane as seen in the first photo below

Side Swept

these manes bring a softer/elegant side in contrast to their energetic counterparts

it also brought great emphasis to the romance side, the side of a carousel horse that always faces the crowd

Flying Mane

similar to the windswept mane but with more volume and exaggeration

sometimes carvers such as parker would combine the peekaboo mane with the flying mane as shown below to the left

Top Knot

this mane is styled as if the bangs are floating or curled into a knot on top of the horses head, giving an energetic appearance

introduced in the 1920s, this style was used by the dentzel/muller company the most

remember that many carousel companies differ from eachother! some may share terms while others do not, thank you for reading!

[danskjavlarna]

Source details and larger version.

Foxy: my collection of vintage fox imagery.

[woodsdyke]

once i was in the TSA line for a flight and it was SO LONG that TSA decided to just drop all the security protocols. leave everything in the suitcase including electronics. keep your shoes on. don't go through the fancy 360 scanner, just the metal detector. get out of here. and i was like ohhhh so you admit this is all just your stupid community theatre production that you've made me be a part of for all this time and it doesn't actually mean anything real. okayyyyy

[scutellatebooted]

Hi Minnesota mutuals :) The rest of you, keep scrolling :)

I have to get in contact with the DNR to confirm, but it appears that I could probably build a 3-season cabin at my family woods property. It was something my mom dreamed of doing but had to give up when she got sick.

So anyway if this is a legit option, if anyone wants a cabin getaway, I am your person.

[gonzocoded]

don’t ever kill your self because maybe someday you will get brunch with your tumblr mutual

[keatxu]

abandonware should be public domain. force companies to actively support and provide products if they don't wanna lose the rights to them

[omikronsoul]

Game companies hate emulation, but none of them seem to understand that a lot of us would just buy ROMs from them directly if we could. I don't want a fifth remake of Final Fantasy IV, I want to pay five bucks for the 3MB file you already made bank with thirty years ago. Nobody who wants to play something for the purpose of retro gaming is going to consider a $40 remake as the alternative option, and we're certainly not going to let the original dissappear. They're crying about opportunity cost for a product they're not even selling.

[justletmeremember]

op i know you're probably talking about like, video games, etc, but this is also critical for research science - my lab has so much abandonware, either because the company's out of business, or the company decided to not maintain it, and it's a fucking nightmare. we have two windows 95 computers that are CRITICAL for performing experiments/data analysis because the software needed is abandonware. one of the main roles for a guy in my lab is to maintain these little dinosaurs because if they go out, we lose access to ~20 years of raw data for research. part of why is that these companies also make their own file types, and make it difficult-to-impossible to convert those file types without their specific software. by habit, i convert all research files to more generic versions (txt, pdf, tif, etc) so that i minimize risk of losing my shit, but some stuff can't be converted.

for example, we have a microscope that is perfectly functional, good microscope, but its software is abandonware because the company refused to maintain it. the company is still in business, still makes essentially the exact same software, but they made all of the old tech incompatible with new software to force people to buy the new microscope tech. it would cost a quarter million dollars to replace this microscope. this perfectly good microscope.

so like, i know a lot of people look at the original post here and go "well op just wants old video games to play" (which is valid! games companies should not be able to push shit to abandonware and then close it off) but also this is critical for like. biomedical research. if y'all had any idea how much basic infrastructure built on science relies on shit that is technically abandonware, you would probably be horrified.

[jollysunflora]

#there is so much abandonware just...out there being used and carefully maintained#because nothing quite replicates the functionality

[iliothermia]

i wish everyone following me made enough money to not feel like they were being boiled alive and had the time and energy to clean their room at their own leisure

[yeehawllywood]

Jeepers got his #teviscup shoes this morning! Ready to go 100 miles in one day on 8/1 🕺🪩

Backseat farriers beware: Joe Novy is a real big dawg who completely tranformed Jeepers’ self-carriage and has kept him sound for hundreds of competitive miles this year. What I am doing is right for Jeep. And his price is standard for what I’m getting. (+ a tip because he rushed out to see me by myself first thing in the AM so we can resume Tevis conditioning, which we only have a week left to do before Jeepers must rest for the big ride)

[byjove]

anti-doomerism has actually improved the way I handle my depression. I’ll think something like “I have nothing to look forward to, everything is getting worse and it’s not getting better” and then I’ll be like “whoa, cringelord. you sound like an emo 14 year old. you’re not helping anyone or anything with that misanthropic hopeless attitude. grow the fuck up.” and I bully myself back into participating in life, because depression and the associated dark thoughts are so cringe

[catmask]

the thing that always gets me about the US and jobs it considers 'essential' is those roles are always treated like/expected to be temporary, and you both get talked down to and it is made extremely difficult to live if you don't want them to be (temporary, that is).

i frequently miss previous food service jobs, not because i don't enjoy what i do now, but because i did genuinely enjoy those jobs too. the reason i left is because the expectation was that i either sell 40+ hours of my week to the job, regularly be physically injured with no support, either no or abysmal workers comp, inconsistent scheduling so it meant i had little to no life outside of work... and still, the actual labor of the job, i enjoyed. i enjoyed the people. i liked working with my hands and making people happy.

and you know, people often bring up customers as the reason to leave food service - this was part of my reason as well, but how much of that - like the unsustainability of working food service itself, bodily and monetarily - is manufactured? many of the people who were terrible to me working food service were often people working office jobs only marginally 'above' mine in pay and support, miserable with their own work, looking to exert some level of power they could over someone else.

this is a bit long winded, but i think its a perfect cultural example of how capitalism does not actually incentivize 'progress' or 'growth' as much as a constant state of desperation, discomfort and dehumanization - you arent actually encouraged to do what it is you excel at, but whatever you can just barely tolerate, all at the risk that at the current stage your body might give out and you will not have worked hard enough to have 'earned' the right to be care for when it does. and someone will be right behind you, desperate enough to immediately replace you.