Acquired Stardust
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Mike Driver
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let's talk about Bridgerton tea, my ask is open
Monterey Bay Aquarium
Not today Justin
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Jules of Nature
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cherry valley forever
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@seofford
Made a portrait of Strahd in a more classic style 🖤 I was thinking, shouldn't I make a real oil painting out of this? 👀
And, I guess I'll always keep the Ukrainian-stylised Slavic embroidery for him from now on 😅 should make some special patterns
as a person who lost a loved one to addiction, i would rather have them be able to use safely in a sterile environment with safe equipment, where they can 100% know the drug is not laced with something deadly, and live- than them dying because they didn’t know what the drug contained, or because no one was there to make sure they weren’t ODing, or because they used dirty equipment in a dirty environment.
again more simply put, i would rather have my dead loved one continue using drugs in a safe manner and stay alive, than die the way they did because the stigma around substance use is not only dangerous, but lethal.
harm reduction saves lives.
Narcon saves lives, too. And if someone is unresponsive and you suspect an od, it won't hurt them!
Also public needle disposal sites do not encourage drug use. What they do is prevent needles from endangering others.
Without proper support systems (which most places lack), people with an addiction illness will use. I would much rather them do so as safe as possible. There's no recovery in death.
whats everyones first video game (criteria can be whatever you want but im going for the first game i remember playing as a kid) mine's harvest moon friends of mineral town
i distinctly remember the first time i went to a holiday inn free breakfast bar while on a family trip to the border and i got so fucking upset and confused that the food looked like this 💀
the distressed mexican parents of a melting down undiagnosed autistic 8-ish year old: don't worry white american breakfast food isn't real and cant hurt you
white american breakfast food:
What else would you fucking eat for breakfast???
as someone who can't eat eggs and has a lot of sensory/texture issues, eating out at an American diner as a kid meant ham and OJ. When I moved to Peru, it blew my mind. What do you mean I can eat fruit, bread, and cheese? That's WAY better. Like, they still very much have eggs but they have so many more /options/ that you can skip them.
One of the most important things I’ve learned as a Real Adult™ is the importance of a job half done.
Today I did a load of dishes, wiped off my stove, and swept the kitchen floor. Did I do the best job, or finish every dish? No! My stove still has that caked on caramel that I need to bust out an SOS pad to take care of, one of our big pots is still sitting in the sink, and somehow a kitty kibble unearthed itself while I was wiping down the stove (?? how??).. but the kitchen looks a LOT better. It’s once again an inhabitable, usable space.
Parents, bosses, teachers, even my own self, harp upon absolute perfect completion of a task as the be all and end all of a job well done, but god damn, my kitchen isn’t terrible because I took the time to improve it. Little steps, especially when you’re struggling, are important. They mean a LOT. They are a sign that you won, if only in that brief moment, and they make getting all the other stuff done so much easier later on down the road.
I…need to remember this. Thank you.
I saw a quote a few years ago and I can't remember where or who but it said something along the lines of "brushing your teeth for 30 seconds instead of the recommended 2 minutes is better than not brushing your teeth at all' and that's always stuck with me. A little here and there is better than nothing. You're making progress. Don't beat yourself up.
*wokely* tell me what genitals you have, stranger i just met
"neither. Why, did you get one of the common ones? I rolled a legendary."
Watch out you might get skin cancer from how hot I am
Haha I'm just kidding
I'm actually able to produce ultraviolet light that contains radiation
Suck right :/
is that why in the 80s they had giant sunglasses and fried hair?
Mike Prysner, Iraq War veteran and anti-war activist.
The New American Gothic (2017) by Criselda Vasquez
“As the American-born daughter of two Mexican immigrants, I illustrate their plight and the plight of many in my community with my art. I want to expose the heart-breaking pain of what a Mexican immigrant’s family goes through. I focus on bringing my family’s world into the light and out of the shadows. My paintings are best described as visual comments on the hidden daily reality of the Mexican-American experience. These portraits and still lifes reveal my family in their own authentic environment and expose how I live in two worlds. My paintings layer the American culture over the Mexican world. I feel society needs to be aware of the humanity on the other side of the door. The two most important people in my life, my parents, are also the two who motivated me to develop such a strong concept. When my parents pose for these paintings, their faces are reduced to extremely raw and somehow vulnerable expressions. Sadly, they strive to be invisible every day. They don’t have to pretend to illustrate the invisible. They have dealt with constant rejection, suspicion and fear so long, that it seems now that it comes naturally to them. I strive to capture how their expressions deliver that sense of tiredness, resignation, and quiet acceptance. It seems relevant to show that underneath all the politicization and underserved labeling this community receives, these are regular people just like all of us. In the long tradition of immigrants that come to the United States, they have made homes here and they are just trying to live a simple life with a bit of security and hopefulness for their children.” — Criselda Vasquez
Jokes about metals are way to ironic for me
oh wow. that was so fucking hilarious. I’m on the floor laughing and crying. haha. haha.
I have a laser pointer and you have eyes
Watch your tone *side eye*
i dont know what they're talking about, that joke was Au.
The United States Senate has voted last night 51-49 for a motion to proceed with the reconciliation “One Big Beautiful Bill” Act.
Reconciliation means the House versions and the Senate versions of the bill have been reconciled into one and is now on the Senate floor to be debated in preparation for a final vote.
The One Big Beautiful Bill Act will:
Cut over $900 billion dollars from Medicaid pushing over 16 million Americans to lose health insurance coverage.
Increase the national debt by $1.1 trillion dollars due to skyrocketing tax cuts for the wealthy.
Massive funding cuts for programs such as food stamps, and head start
This bill will be the biggest transfer of wealth from the poor and middle class to the rich in American history.
CALL YOUR REPRESENTATIVES
ESPECIALLY if they are a republican. You can use 5 calls to make it easy. It will find your representative and provide a script. Republican reps still want to get reelected, show them they won't be if they vote in favor of this bill. Even if you think they won't care, and TRUST ME I get it, do it just to annoy the fuck out of them. They deserve at least that much.
They have an app and a website, link below
https://5calls.org/
Spend 5 minutes. Make 5 calls. Make your voice heard.
Time shifting
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I wanted this but the original poster is transphobic
This is called the "analog loophole" and there's nothing anyone can do to stop it. They can encrypt and copy-protect all they want, but eventually the file has to be sent to a speaker and/or screen, and it has to get there in a human-readable form because that's the whole dang point
The simplest way to exploit the analog loophole is just pointing a camera at a screen or a microphone at a speaker, but direct recording is also always possible and always will be. Anything that can be displayed can be saved and displayed again
Back in the day, people also used to share software over the radio with this technology. Because computer programs and files are really just sets of binary code, and that code can be turned into audio tones.
The resulting audio file can be played over the radio (sounding a bit like the old dial up noise, as it's just two quickly oscillating notes) and recorded to a cassette tape, which you can then give to your computer to "decode" back into 0's and 1's, which gives you the program file. You can then run it as if you'd installed it from a disk.
NPR did a very cool podcast about this.
Lads. We used to put phones on computer peripherals.
This is hella cool information, but something nice about audacity is that you can just lie to it from the get go and tell it that the audio stream from your computer is a normal microphone.
Tape recorders are rad, yes, but you can get really high quality recordings by skipping the middle man in this case. Any audio your computer can play, you can directly record to digital without wasting or wearing out audio cassettes.
There should totally be a movement called “Sleep in Public” where people defend their right to sleep on public property. Sleep in your cars. Sleep on benches. Sleep at the park. Just make it a mundane and regular part of life to see someone napping in the library. It would make it much harder to single out the homeless for harassment if everyone else is doing the same thing and much harder to argue that it’s a “threat to public safety” when it’s so clearly harmless.
“But homeless people commit crimes!” I have a very hard time believing they commit crimes while asleep.
You know who do commit crimes in their sleep? Billionaires
I'm far more likely to be accosted by a cop than a homeless person while walking home at 2am.
You have 14 to 28 days 🫵🏻
for..........
…….teen to twenty-eight days
What if I take 7 to 35
I absolutely understand why people love simple slice-of-life gay romance where homophobia is not a plot point whatsoever. But personally that is so far removed from my experience as an intersex gay man who grew up in an Appalachian hick town with the literal actual KKK present, and has dealt with years of religious trauma, conversion therapy, external & internalized homophobia, being disallowed to speak to my boyfriend by my parents, and being bullied at school for my gender presentation & intersex appearance.
I just do not feel represented by gay media that doesn't acknowledge the gay experience specifically in a setting where queerness is punished.
I want to see my pain reflected back at me too, it's part of my life. The fact I've lived through so much and I'm still here is an integral part of my queerness.
"they're happy despite being queer" - boring, promotes queerness being an abnormality, wtf
"they're happy in spite of the difficulties queer people face" - exciting, inspirational, relatable
"but if trans men/mascs can identify as lesbians then does that mean that cis men can identify as lesbians"
yes
its almost like however someone identifies is ok and you should just be just be happy for them and support them
