Out of Touch
Out of Touch Thursday
OUT OF TOUCH THURSDAY
but im out of my head when you’re not around…
happy birthday.
this is the only out of touch thursday you can reblog this
Stranger Things
we're not kids anymore.
Jules of Nature
taylor price
trying on a metaphor
Cosmic Funnies
Cosimo Galluzzi
Monterey Bay Aquarium

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he wasn't even looking at me and he found me
cherry valley forever

祝日 / Permanent Vacation
"I'm Dorothy Gale from Kansas"
wallacepolsom

roma★

Kiana Khansmith
Not today Justin
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Sweet Seals For You, Always
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Out of Touch
Out of Touch Thursday
OUT OF TOUCH THURSDAY
but im out of my head when you’re not around…
happy birthday.
this is the only out of touch thursday you can reblog this
FUCK. honestly just FUCK. We missed a very important day yesterday.
what was yesterday, cat?
I’m not missing it this year.
FUCK. honestly just FUCK. We missed a very important day yesterday.
what was yesterday, cat?
I’m not missing it this year.
not the twitter migrants putting "reblog heavy" in their bios on here... like yeah. that's what we do here
reblog heavy
its thursday! reblog this post if you dont want to feel this way forever!
In these trying times, have a video that will comfort you make things worse
it feels really classless to say that remembering that charlie kirk died badly makes you smile and laugh but ill power through. ill say it
sometimes i think my default state is homesickness. i am always missing Something
I’ve been thinking a lot lately about how people frame crafting as more sustainable/ethical than buying. It can be! But you gotta do it right. The sustainable, ethical part of making is the control one has over the supply chain of the object they make. An object made carelessly by a business and one made carelessly by an individual are essentially the same because the individual often only replaces one step in the supply chain: eg., a crocheter making a hat from new polyester (petroleum) yarn has no control over the mining of the petroleum, the processing of it into fiber, or the labor conditions any step of the way.
All this means that we makers have a responsibility, and a great power to actually know our supply chains! We must make carefully. We have the power to use thrifted, scavenged, or ethically harvested materials, or to make sure the companies that we buy our supplies from are just as passionate about sustainability as we are. We can use newspaper, broken glass, and scrap wood to rebuild our little corners of the world.
I say all this as an artist by the way. A metalsmith, knitter, and illustrator—when I buy metal I have no fucking clue if it’s recycled or if its mining is wrecking some ecosystem on the other side of the world. This year I’ve made a promise to myself not to buy a single new art supply.
Some caveats:
1. I still work a job where I have no control over the materials.
2. I allow thrifting because I honestly don’t see the harm
3. I obviously don’t think this is easy for everyone (I promise I don’t piss on the poor), and
4. I’m also not perfect—I have made exceptions for reusable tools and one commission that allowed me to donate to renter relief in areas hit by ICE.
So far it’s been a lot of reusing junk mail (I looove paper mache), mending, and whittling down my yarn stash. I’m really excited about the spoon I’m carving from the leg of my old wrecked bed frame. If you have a large stash or if you don’t and you really want to challenge yourself, I hope you consider it. It’s opened up worlds of potential and honestly made me more creative.
The biggest upside of making things over buying them is the ability to starve evil corporations of your business, and keep money out of the pockets of the rich. Let every thing you make be something you don’t have to buy, made of things you don’t have to buy, and share your things with your community to exponentially increase their impact.
here is today's fun fact that will absolutely annihilate your ability to talk about politics without sounding insane
because like, you can say "okay i know a lot of news outlets said in january that iran was murdering all the iranians but where did that info come from?" and you go digging and find out it was mostly reported verbatim from a specific human rights ngo so you go to their website to check what their deal is and it says this
so you're like "huh that's kinda weird but i guess maybe it's nothing". then a few months later the us government starts bombing the shit out of tehran every day and you start remembering all that shit they were saying about saddam having wmds right before they killed a million arabs for oil. then today the president goes on tv and says the us government was supplying weapons to the iranian opposition in january, right before western media started uncritically reporting that iran was butchering thousands of peaceful protestors for no reason, primarily citing an organisation funded for the last 15 years by the national endowment for democracy. and even though every single thing i just said is absolutely verifiably true, you can't say it out loud without being written off as a raving lunatic.
Is “America First” truly among the priorities of the US government today?, he asked. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstime
letter behind the read-more
In the name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful
To the people of the United States of America, and to all those who, amid a flood of distortions and manufactured narratives, continue to seek the truth and aspire to a better life:
Iran – by this very name, character, and identity – is one of the oldest continuous civilisations in human history. Despite its historical and geographical advantages at various times, Iran has never, in its modern history, chosen the path of aggression, expansion, colonialism, or domination.
Even after enduring occupation, invasion, and sustained pressure from global powers–and despite possessing military superiority over many of its neighbours – Iran has never initiated a war. Yet it has resolutely and bravely repelled those who have attacked it.
The Iranian people harbour no enmity towards other nations, including the people of America, Europe, or neighboring countries. Even in the face of repeated foreign interventions and pressures throughout their proud history, Iranians have consistently drawn a clear distinction between governments and the peoples they govern. This is a deeply rooted principle in Iranian culture and collective consciousness–not a temporary political stance.
For this reason, portraying Iran as a threat is neither consistent with historical reality nor with present-day observable facts. Such a perception is the product of political and economic whims of the powerful – the need to manufacture an enemy in order to justify pressure, maintain military dominance, sustain the arms industry, and control strategic markets. In such an environment, if a threat does not exist, it is invented.
Within this same framework, the United States has concentrated the largest number of its forces, bases, and military capabilities around Iran – a country that, at least since the founding of the United States, has never initiated a war.
Recent American aggressions launched from these very bases have demonstrated how threatening such a military presence truly is. Naturally, no country confronted with such conditions would forgo strengthening its defensive capabilities. What Iran has done – and continues to do – is a measured response grounded in legitimate self-defence, and by no means an initiation of war or aggression.
Relations between Iran and the United States were not originally hostile, and early interactions between the Iranian and American people were not marred with hostility or tension. The turning point, however, was the 1953 coup d’etat – an illegal American intervention aimed at preventing the nationalisation of Iran’s own resources. That coup disrupted Iran’s democratic process, reinstated dictatorship, and sowed deep distrust among Iranians towards US policies. This distrust deepened further with America’s support for the Shah’s regime, its backing of Saddam Hussein during the imposed war of the 1980s, the imposition of the longest and most comprehensive sanctions in modern history, and ultimately, unprovoked military aggression – twice, in the midst of negotiations – against Iran.
Yet all these pressures have failed to weaken Iran. On the contrary, the country has grown stronger in many areas: literacy rates have tripled – from roughly 30 per cent before the Islamic Revolution to over 90 per cent today; higher education has expanded dramatically; significant advances have been achieved in modern technology; healthcare services have improved; and infrastructure has developed at a pace and scale incomparable to the past. These are measurable, observable realities that stand independent of fabricated narratives.
At the same time, the destructive and inhumane impact of sanctions, war, and aggression on the lives of the resilient Iranian people must not be underestimated. The continuation of military aggression and recent bombings profoundly affect people’s lives, attitudes, and perspectives. This reflects a fundamental human truth: when war inflicts irreparable harm on lives, homes, cities, and futures, people will not remain indifferent toward those responsible.
This raises a fundamental question: Exactly which of the American people’s interests are truly being served by this war? Was there any objective threat from Iran to justify such behaviour? Does the massacre of innocent children, the destruction of cancer-treatment pharmaceutical facilities, or boasting about bombing a country “back to the stone ages” serve any purpose other than further damaging the United States’ global standing?
Iran pursued negotiations, reached an agreement, and fulfilled all its commitments. The decision to withdraw from that agreement, escalate toward confrontation, and launch two acts of aggression in the midst of negotiations were destructive choices made by the US government – choices that served the delusions of a foreign aggressor.
Attacking Iran’s vital infrastructure – including energy and industrial facilities – directly targets the Iranian people. Beyond constituting a war crime, such actions carry consequences that extend far beyond Iran’s borders. They generate instability, increase human and economic costs, and perpetuate cycles of tension, planting seeds of resentment that will endure for years. This is not a demonstration of strength; it is a sign of strategic bewilderment and an inability to achieve a sustainable solution.
Is it not also the case that America has entered this aggression as a proxy for Israel, influenced and manipulated by that regime? Is it not true that Israel, by manufacturing an Iranian threat, seeks to divert global attention away from its crimes toward the Palestinians? Is it not evident that Israel now aims to fight Iran to the last American soldier and the last American taxpayer dollar–shifting the burden of its delusions onto Iran, the region, and the United States itself in pursuit of illegitimate interests?
Is “America First” truly among the priorities of the US government today?
I invite you to look beyond the machinery of misinformation – an integral part of this aggression – and instead speak with those who have visited Iran. Observe the many accomplished Iranian immigrants – educated in Iran – who now teach and conduct research at the world’s most prestigious universities, or contribute to the most advanced technology firms in the West. Do these realities align with the distortions you are being told about Iran and its people?
Today, the world stands at crossroads. Continuing along the path of confrontation is more costly and futile than ever before. The choice between confrontation and engagement is both real and consequential; its outcome will shape the future for generations to come. Throughout its millennia of proud history, Iran has outlasted many aggressors. All that remains of them are tarnished names in history, while Iran endures–resilient, dignified, and proud.
WHO WOULDVE GUESSED THE KIDS GETTING DETAINED BY SEX OFFENDERS WOULD END UP GET ASSAULTED!!!
there have been a disgusting number of minors reported pregnant in detainment facilities (concentration cramps) who are now being scheduled to move to a more secluded facility and we all fucking know they were raped by the agents they were kidnapped by
we don't just need to be angry we need to stick together and show them they can't get away with this!
there's another no kings protest for March 28th and please, PLEASE if you have the means attend and show the fuckers ruining lives how you feel and that you won't stand with them
This is admittedly a very specialised peeve, but it annoys me tremendously how "transmit the HTML that will actually produce the web page the user is supposed to see" is regarded as, like, a cutting-edge optimisation in modern web design. Like, no, you don't get to send an empty page, then max out the client's CPU puzzle-piecing together the results of 150 separate AJAX calls browser side. If I type an address into my web browser and the HTML structure of the resulting page isn't deliverable in a single HTTP request, you have fucked up. Start over.
If your framework simply assumes that all 150 of those AJAX calls will succeed every single time and has no graceful degradation path when that's not the case, I should legally be allowed to kill you.
@cdarklock replied:
I mean to play a LITTLE devil's advocate… the first time you make a web page that has nothing in it and asks the server to put this over HERE and that over THERE and checks the user's browser configuration to reflow and reorganise the page to look good in multiple situations, it is MASSIVELY COOL and you feel AWESOME and you just want to do this ALL THE TIME and you really, really need someone to step in and put their hands on your shoulders and look you in the eye and say "this is a terrible, TERRIBLE user experience when your server is not IN THE NEXT ROOM." Because it's so much fun! As a web developer when you can go "I WILL CONTROL THE ENTIRE PAGE, ELEMENT BY ELEMENT, IN REAL TIME" you just want to laugh like a cartoon villain and demand that the user kneel before you. Someone has to stop you. Someone has to tell you "DON'T BE EVIL" because it's just so ATTRACTIVE.
Sure, but you can do real-time manipulation of a page's HTML structure after a static initial render, and the end result will be indistinguishable from the user's perspective apart from the fact that said initial render doesn't fail half the time and set their computer on fire even when it succeeds. This is very much one of those situations where you can have your cake and eat it too.
You need to understand that this is my moderate position on this matter. This is me trying to meet people halfway. My actual opinion is that websites and web-based apps should retain the ability to deliver their core functions when the user has both CSS and Javascript turned off.