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Reblog this photo of a käpylehmä to have a käpylehmä in your blog
It's a trick! If you reblog you get TWO käpylehmäs in your blog!
They're traditional Finnish toys, little cows made out of spruce cones, on their way to see the world from one tumblr blog to another
abstract and modern art haters are sooo snobby like klein literally Created an entirely new pigment and then painted a canvas in a way where the brush strokes wouldn't be visible. the insinuation that people with no skill could reproduce that is so annoying because unless you are skilled at color mixing and painting you definitely couldn’t lmao
i hope it's okay to add this because i think it hits the nail directly on the head
Honestly, it's like picking up a book and saying "I know all these words, I can type, I could have written this" like there's no middle step between the technical ability and the finished work.
It's saying "I could write this exact book" while holding a copy of the book in your hand. Like yeah shit you could, it's substantially easier to copy words that are already there than to create something from nothing.
Hm
Almost like left, right, and center, have constantly been devauling the importance of art and artists and keep withholding support or removing existing supports.
if you've never engaged with a creative art on a regular basis you need to understand that it requires concerted effort to get into "the groove" to make something and every second that it takes to get into that groove causes physical pain, but the only thing worse than doing it is not doing it.
it’s never a normal temperature anymore it’s always some fucking bullshit
I need you young people to know it was almost never this hot when I was a child. Millennials and Gen Xers are all nostalgic and excited about summer because it was about ten to twenty degrees cooler to experience it back then!
I cannot express to you how FAST it has gone. I grew up in a world that does not exist now. We're starting on the path to reverse it, globally. You might not know how much solar has EXPLODED in the last decade or two. It's gone from a side thing, a weirdo novelty that was just Not Viable... to whole countries investing in infrastructure. but we have to keep fighting big oil and fascism everywhere we can in order to keep on this road to a new better less scorching burning earth.
But any time you wonder wtf the weather is doing- THIS IS NOT NORMAL, NO. THIS IS NOT WHAT IT WAS EVEN TWENTY YEARS AGO.
MAGA boomers SHOCKED by 20y/o commie speaking fluent hog
Hog 201 for anyone interested in trying this:
Bodily autonomy (like abortion, anti draft, etc) -> “The government shouldn’t be able to force anything on my body I don’t want.”
Anti surveillance -> “I don’t trust big government/big tech (big brother if you’re feeling frisky) with the ability to spy on me and my family.”
Immigration -> “Next to all of us immigrated at some point, I don’t see why the elites get to decide who’s allowed to be where. What’s to stop them coming for me?”
Climate Change -> “Big oil shouldn’t get to determine whether or not I get to go places. I don’t want to be dependent on some big business to survive.”
State Violence -> “I don’t want the goddamn secret police breathing down my neck! I trust my community a whole hell of a lot more to help me than I do the state!”
The vast majority of conservatives think of themselves as underdogs being repressed by the government/the elite, and they value personal freedom (specifically their personal freedom, they don’t care about other people). The will almost always agree with leftist points if you can find a way to blame the problem on their vague enemies (useful, since rich people are the root of most problems), and tie it back to their ability to say fuck everyone else. NEVER appeal to science, theory, logic, or human goodness. Make it seem as if you are a paranoid lunatic who trusts no one. They love it.
#you need to tailor your arguments to people's existing values and priorities if you want to convince them #the flip side is that it's every bit as easy to tailor conservative arguments to convince a leftist audience #so don't get smug #you're not immune to this either <- prev extremely true
I do think the Hank Green AI thing makes it abundantly clear that if you have ADHD or any other mental illness and/or you are prone to addiction you need to avoid AI at all costs. This shit will rope you in, and if you have a mental illness that say, starves your brain of dopamine, you're gonna be extra susceptible to that. I won't use AI for a lot of reasons but one of the big ones is knowing how it would fuck with my ADHD and bipolar. Like yes, it's bad for the environment and giving money to rich scumbags and runs on plagarism, but even more than all that, it's straight up not safe at all and you really shouldn't use it if for no other reason than to protect yourself from whatever the fuck it might do to you.
Report from Northern Colorado Community Mutual Aid and Defense on suggestions for ways to build community and support around mutual aid programs.
An important part of building sustainable mutual aid projects, especially those survival programs that seek to redistribute expensive gear that cannot be easily appropriated, is a consistent effort to reach out to new people who may have excess supplies and are willing to give them but have not given them away yet.
In light of this, members of our mutual aid committee and close comrades developed what we believe to be a novel system of soliciting materials for mutual aid drives that delivers large quantities of survival goods on a short time frame with minimal cost and time commitment. This method, based on a project many Scout troops engage in, resulted in the collection and redistribution of hundreds of pounds of food, clothing, toiletries, and survival gear for unhoused people in our communities, and can be replicated by any mutual aid group.
The project itself can have its work divided into three types and we found each to take roughly the same amount of time, with the final steps taking the longest. The timetable for the project was a few days longer than a week, including the wrangling of friends to participate in distribution and securing a place to store the goods after we learned how much was donated.
First, we collected brown grocery bags from a local “woke” store. Calling ahead and explaining the project yielded a few hundred bags we were able to pick up within an hour. To these bags, we attached a single sheet of paper explaining the project, our organization, and the purpose of mutual aid, with our contact info bookending.
After determining the neighborhoods we deemed most likely to have and share survival gear, teams of two or three spread through a local city. Leaving the bags, with their attached notes, on door handles and in door-jams, teams were able to cover between 50 and 100 houses per hour. Most of this work was done in one go the Saturday before collection, though a significant amount was done on Tuesday and Wednesday of that week.
Copy of our outreach flyer.
On the day of collection, groups of two and three drove around the neighborhoods where bags were left and collected the donated items. This step took many trips, as the goods collected surprised us in terms of quantity and we had to frequently unload our full cars to fit more supplies. We took what was gathered, sorted them into food (canned and otherwise), clothing, survival gear, and toiletries, then stored them.
In total, about twenty hours of work – with many opportunities to streamline the process – yielded monumental results. We intend to repeat the process in the communities we serve and are keeping a map of whatever neighborhood we visit so as to not repeatedly hit any one place.
Some tips and ideas for improvement:
Leave thank you notes when picking up bags. This will give you a clear number of places that donated and will build good will with your neighbors. Remind them why their help matters, they may choose to become more involved in mutual aid because of your labor.
Experiment in the sorts of neighborhoods you leave bags in. We found success in neighborhoods with mid priced rentals and cheaper homes, as well as in older neighborhoods. We did not find as much success in student neighborhoods. These are local conditions, though, and hitting a variety of communities can give you a better idea of where your labor is best spent.
There are plenty of easy ways to compartmentalize tasks in this, which may be useful in guaranteeing safety of participants while also bringing newer/less known people in. Distribution of bags comes to mind first.
Turn around time should be quick, but not too fast. Anecdotally, it seems like neighborhoods we hit on Tuesday and Wednesday donated at higher rates, but not enough data was collected to test this. Collecting goods any more than a week after leaving bags seems like it would lead to worse results, as may collection within a day or two of distribution.
Incorporating local events or referencing the season may be a good way to increase donations. A supply drive around Christmas may be more bountiful than one in mid-January, for example. In cities where anti-homeless persecution is well known, this information can be used to drive home the need for those extra goods a household may have.
Be aware of the weather. We distributed during a windstorm and this blew away a number of bags, decreasing donations in that neighborhood.
A project like this is easily to replicate and has shown results. With some small changes, it can provide a covid-safe, easily expandable and labor saving method to mass gear collection. Let us know how things go, if you try this method: [email protected].
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How to draw folds
Notes on how to draw folds back when I was teaching manga classes back in 2006. From the book “Drawing people” by Barbara Bradley.
http://www.amazon.com/Drawing-People-Portray-Clothed-Figure/dp/1581803591
This book has a very detailed description of 6 types of commonly seen folds and I think is one of the most educational resource on how to draw folds(Besides Vilppu and Bridgeman).
這是我以前教漫畫課程時給學生看的講義.來源是芭芭拉布莱德丽的”着装人物素描”«上海人民美术出版社出版».
書裡講解了皺摺形成的兩個主要原理(拉扯與擠壓)以及因兩種作用力下形成的六種常見的皺褶類型.
This a a reminder to not fall victim to the sunk-cost fallacy. Just because you invested time and energy into something, does not mean you should indefinitely waste more time and energy on it, if you decide it’s not what you want anymore. This goes for anything, from books, to relationships, to jobs, to hobbies, etc.
If it’s not serving you anymore, move on.
This is honestly one of the places I find Marie Kondo's advice most helpful. I stop, look at the thing I've spent time and money on only to realize I dislike, and I say, "Thank you for teaching me something about myself and my preferences. I think I've learned this particular lesson and we can part ways now."
And then I don't feel like I "wasted" things or made a mistake. I just tried one path of learning about myself, learned something, and now it's time for a different path. Works a lot better for my brain.
The time Marie Kondo said "you can thank a a shirt you've never worn for teaching you about your taste", thereby making it NOT A WASTE literally rewired my whole brain. Acknowledge the thing and move forward, even if that means leaving the thing behind.
it's official!
The Three Graces by the late photographer Leonard Nimoy (yes, Spock from Star Trek!) from his Full Body Project
The reason your snacks are unsatisfying is that you need both carb and protein.
Carb starts your engine, protein keeps it going.
No carb, engine don’t start. No protein, engine dies out fast.
Easy carb add on:
Cookie
Fruit (canned or fresh)
Chips
Piece of bread
Popcorn
Crackers
Easy protein add on:
Nuts
Spoonful of nut butter
Cheese
Roasted chickpea snacks
Glass of milk (dairy or non dairy)
Small canned sausages or similar
Sugar in there.
I am pleased by people messaging me telling me that after adding a carb or protein to their snacks or meals they feel more satisfied all day. Yes, my plan is working. People are getting through their days with less hangry.
UNMUTE!!
POV u are delicious
me trying to convince myself that the whole spectrum of human emotions is a good and necessary thing to feel even if its not comfortable while im actively experiencing emotions that make me feel like my bones are being dissolved in acid
