Skaar's treasures

Shiny, pretty, funny, it got it all!

[skaars-treasure-trove]

Welcome!

This is Skaar's sideblog for (almost) everything that piques his interest.

A few things to know

— I'm an adult from Europe (he/him). — Bigotry and meanness will get you blocked — I delete hate mail without acknowledgment. — No callouts will be posted here, and I'll likely unfollow/block anyone who participates in one (either by posting or reblogging).

I'm also on Pillowfort!

Stuff you'll find often here

— Sciences in general — Photography, art, crafts and fashion — Stories — Cute/funny people and animals — Fandoms — Current events/politics (occasional, mostly outside the USA)

Hopeful news and environmental initiatives

Here's a few blogs/sites/channels who post hopeful news:

— reasonsforhope — hope-for-the-planet — mindblowingscience — sambentley (Tiktok) or itssambentley (Youtube) — Mossy Earth (Youtube, you can donate to the org too)

A few other good news providers (not blogs):

— Fix The News (weekly newsletter) — Good News Network (website) — Good News UK (subreddit)

Humanitarian work & politics

For the sake of making the links easier to share with people outside Tumblr, should you want to, I've created a Pagecord with:

— Humanitarian NGOs and initiatives to help Palestine, Sudan and Ukraine — Projects to help protect and better understand the environment without giving money — Links to EU, French and Swiss initiatives

You can also take a look at @/gaza-evacuation-funds if you wish to help Palestinian families. I don't reblog fundraising posts directly.

(I'm open to edit and complete those posts if you have any useful links on hand that you feel is missing!)

[inkskinned]

Every day I handle more money than I will ever make. Every day.

At the start of my employment, my boss showed me videos of people stealing, and we both had a chuckle about it. How silly they were! There was a camera overhead, and it’s not to watch the shoppers. See, we can’t actually stop shoplifters. They get away with it maybe nine out of ten times. But we, who are watched and tallied and witnessed? We are always caught.

At first it was hard to hold one hundred dollars bills. An amount I had never seen before. An amount that didn’t exist in my household. It’s normal now. Here is something that is not for me.

“What the hell, I’ll take another,” says the man, pondering our 200 dollar watches. What the hell. Total comes to 580 and not even a flinch in his face. I have been working for 11 hours today and made only 110 dollars. It will go to my rent. Today I work for free, it feels. When I get my check, I will have 35 dollars left for food and saving.

The six hundreds he hands me go into the cash register. For a moment, I imagine having money. Then I put it away, counting out his change.

I know for a fact we sell our products for double what they are worth. That I could be making commission. That they could hand me those 580 dollars and change my life and not even mark the difference in their checkbooks. He’s not the only sale they make today, but I am the reason they made it. He’s not the only one spending 600 dollars, but if I hadn’t spent two hours with him telling me about his life, he wouldn’t have spent any. I go home. I don’t own a watch.

I have watched and rewatched a video on how to make salmon four ways. My shopping list is always the same. Pasta. Rice. Tuna. If I can afford butter it was a good week. I dream of the world I will never walk in, where I can throw the best fish fillet in the cart with a shrug. I hold hundreds in my hand and look up at the camera. I put them under the cash drawer.

I go to work. I scrap together my savings. I eat my bowl of rice slowly. My manager takes a paid week off from work just for his birthday. He owns a yacht. 

I’m not worth the cost of a watch.

[inkskinned]

i wrote this while i was working at orlando’s walt disney world parks.

i was part of their college program. i moved to the state for it. they legally owned the building i was living in and still charged me rent. i ostensibly was being charged to work for them. it was a 2 bedroom apartment and they placed 6 adult women in it in forced triples.

as many as one in ten disney employees have experienced homelessness while working for the company. despite huge efforts to unionize, strike, or otherwise demand fair treatment; disney has refused to increase employee quality of life.

disney admits publicly that a good portion of their success is because the employees (“cast members”) are dedicated, passionate, and selfless. this is never reflected in pay. even “face” characters (ie those that are princesses etc) make barely above a minimum wage.

at the time that i worked there, i made $8.50 an hour. at one point i was asked to create a human shield around a bag because a bomb dog had alerted to it. for eight fucking dollars an hour.

i now work a very cushy office job. i have bought the salmon and cooked it all four ways.

i go to the store. i am nice to the person behind the counter. she looks up at the camera while she counts out my change. there is nothing fundamentally different about her and i.

we are both worth more than the watch, anyway.

[skaars-treasure-trove]

My personal pet peeve on Tumblr is commentaries where someone repeats something that was written in the post right above them. Usually the very last line.

If you have nothing to say, shut up. The last person who wrote before you dit it more eloquently than you anyway.

And more importantly... We know how to read.

[tea42]

My beloved sent me gold and I wanted to share it.

[princesssarisa]

Where did your first name come from?

I was named after one of my parents

I was named after a dead relative or family friend

I was named after a living relative or family friend

I was named after a religious figure

I was named after a historical figure

I was named after a fictional character

I was named after a place

My parents just chose a name they liked

Other

Remaining time: 4 days 14 hours

Having been named after a character in The Great Gatsby by my English-major dad, I thought I would ask about this.

[pmamtraveller]

vintage Italian "Fazzoletto" (handkerchief) low table from the late 1970s or early 1980s.

[kaelhasturn]

A Sky Full of Stars

[bellabs-dream-lab]

Just remembered I had this screenshot on my phone somewhere and had to post it here because it really speaks to me

[qin-shi-huang-di]

hi peons, when you speak of the ideal fandom, can you please include Qin Shi Huangdi as well?

1 irl friend, 10-15 mutuals, 5 amusing strangers, 2 artists and Qin Shi Huangdi, if thats not too much trouble, thanks :)

[qin-shi-huang-di]

or else

[emperor-gaozu-of-han]

just to be clear, if you do include him, you will be executed

[enba-and-luka]

[spaceshipsandpurpledrank]

[spaceshipsandpurpledrank]

@jorality

[jorality]

We know who has all the brain cells

[arsnof]

It makes the dream work

[naamahdarling]

Being smart enough to know when to consult and listen to someone more knowledgeable is in fact quite smart! Many humans cannot manage this!

[movementnudge]

Movement nudge, wrist excericses!

[the-big-mood]

This might be the greatest thing I have ever seen in my life

[apolladay]

When was your oldest grandparent (that you know of) born?

Before the 1890s

In the 1890s

In the 1900s

In the 1910s

In the 1920s

In the 1930s

In the 1940s

In the 1950s

In the 1960s

In the 1970s and later

I don't know when my grandparents were born/no grandparents

Remaining time: 5 days 10 hours

[lasaraleen]

rip to c. s. lewis, you would’ve hated ai

[lasaraleen]

[deadpowol]

[tahthetrickster]

[atrusovaartist]

acrylic, canvas 50*60 cm "memory from the past" 2025

[elodieunderglass]

Ohhh my! Thank you so much @andlightplay !!!

[mindblowingscience]

125-million-year-old fossil reveals 'pregnant' shellfish

An international team of scientists led by Dr. Graciela Delvene of the Geological and Mining Institute of Spain (CSIC) has uncovered the old

An international team of scientists led by Dr. Graciela Delvene of the Geological and Mining Institute of Spain (CSIC) has uncovered the oldest known evidence of maternal care in shellfish, revealing that some freshwater species were protecting and incubating their young more than 125 million years ago. Published today in Scientific Reports, the new research found fossilized soft tissues preserved inside ancient shells. This is a remarkable discovery because such tissues normally decay soon after an animal dies. Among these tissues were microscopic embryos and larvae preserved within the gills.

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