Somebody around here hath murdered sleep

Hey there! I'm a 35 year-old Canadian dude. My blog is: Landscapes, Architecture/Cityscapes, Food, Tolkien's Legendarium, History, Cars, Books/Libraries, Retro Sci-fi & Fantasy Art, Hockey (Isles & Avs mostly, some Bruins and others, also fights), and more

[sometimecynic]

Welcome to my blog!

I’m a 35 year-old, geeky, Canadian, leftist, history buff, hockey fan, neurodivergent, stoner, introvert dude who tries not to take life too seriously. I'm poly and partnered.

In case you missed it in my header, my blog is mostly me reblogging posts of/about: landscapes, architecture/cityscapes, food, Tolkien's Legendarium, history, cars, books/libraries, retro Sci-fi & Fantasy art, and hockey

I’m using this post for advisories and a tag directory

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Advisories

- I’m a leftist. I believe in a Free Palestine, that Black Lives Matter, in a woman’s right to choose, that trans women are women and trans men are men, that sex work is work, that LGBTQ+ rights are human rights, and that all cops are bastards. I’m anti-xenophobia, anti-capitalism, anti-fascism…you get the picture. This list is not exhaustive.

- I will often check blogs that follow me out of curiosity. If I see posts that I feel promote/perpetuate the harmful views outlined above on a blog that has followed me, I will block them.

- I will also block blank blogs, blogs I think are run by bots, or blogs I just don’t like the vibe of

- I have a sideblog for more melancholic, visceral, explicit posts, and spicier pictures of myself, @pollutedshores. You might see it pop up in your activity feed. Since I've had people ask, you're welcome to follow and interact with that blog

Tag Directory

"#me.jpg" for pictures of me

"#things to learn/remember" for life advice etc

"#future home" for interiors that I would love to have in my dream home

"#pffft hahah" for dumb jokes, play on words, etc

"#dayyyum" for tasty food or drink

"#maximum cozy" for pictures/posts that give cozy vibes

"#unfff" for cars I especially like

"#what a neat colour" for cool vehicles that are colours outside of what you normally see

"#what up hometown" for pictures of the city I live in

"#what up home province" for pictures taken in the province where I live

"#fight" for videos I post of hockey fights. Players and teams are also tagged and can be searched by #insert name

[inferior]

[nerdisma-deactivated20171202]

It’s a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don’t keep your feet, there’s no knowing where you might be swept off to.

[petaltexturedskies]

One day you’ll have whatever it is you’re now so confusedly seeking. That kind of calm that comes from knowing oneself and others. But you can’t rush the arrival of that state of mind. There are things you only learn when no one teaches them. And that’s how it is with life. There’s even more beauty in discovering it for yourself, in spite of the suffering.

Clarice Lispector, from “Gertrudes asks for advice” in The Complete Stories

[nostalgiaforinfinity]

above the clouds | boca da corrida, madeira | may 2026

[ohlivee]

chloé

[expressions-of-nature]

by Olga Musienko

[dajo42]

need a polite way to say "im not engaging in a discussion on this topic with you because the conclusions you have reached are based on so many interwoven layers of misconceptions it would be easier to just like, hard reset your whole brain, just start over as a baby and try again"

[ltwilliammowett]

Perilous Position of H.M.S. Terror, by William Smyth, 1850

[memories-of-ancients]

Fun Fact

The #1 purchaser of the Tesla Cybertruck is SpaceX. In Q4 of 2025 they purchased 1,279 cyber trucks for over $100 million.

[thirdity]

“Mankind has gone very far into an artificial world of his own creation. He has sought to insulate himself, in his cities of steel and concrete, from the realities of earth and water and the growing seed. Intoxicated with a sense of his own power, he seems to be going farther and farther into more experiments for the destruction of himself and his world. For this unhappy trend there is no single remedy — no panacea. But I believe that the more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe about us, the less taste we shall have for destruction.”

— Rachel Carson, Lost Woods

[taylornprice]

somewhere in angeles national forest

[apolladay]

Imagine you are offered a job where you would have no memory of your work day. As soon as you step through the door of the generic office building, you find yourself walking out exactly 8 hours later. You do not know what you do for those 8 hours, except that you don't leave the building (since doing so would cause you to "wake up"). You work five 8-hour shifts per week. Your employer guarantees that nothing you do will put you in physical harm, and that you can quit at any time, either during your work day or outside of it. You may not bring any writing into or out of the building, and any attempt to do so will result in termination. They offer good benefits, vacation time, and so forth.

What is the minimum salary you would accept to take this job? (Wages in USD)

I would do this for free just to pass the time

$7.25/hr or $15,000/year (or less)

$15/hr or $31,200/year

$25/hr or $52,000/year

$35/hr or $72,800/year

$50/hr or $104,000/year

$75/hr or $156,000/year

$100/hr or $208,000/year

$200/hr or $416,000/year

$500/hr or $1,040,000/year

There is a price, but it's even more than that

I would not do this job for literally any price

Imagine you are offered a job where you would have no memory of your work day. As soon as you step through the door of the generic office building, you find yourself walking out exactly 8 hours later. You do not know what you do for those 8 hours, except that you don't leave the building (since doing so would cause you to "wake up"). You work five 8-hour shifts per week. Your employer guarantees that nothing you do will put you in physical harm, and that you can quit at any time, either during your work day or outside of it. You may not bring any writing into or out of the building, and any attempt to do so will result in termination. They offer good benefits, vacation time, and so forth. What is the minimum salary you would accept to take this job? (Wages in USD)

I would do this for free just to pass the time

$7.25/hr or $15,000/year (or less)

$15/hr or $31,200/year

$25/hr or $52,000/year

$35/hr or $72,800/year

$50/hr or $104,000/year

$75/hr or $156,000/year

$100/hr or $208,000/year

$200/hr or $416,000/year

$500/hr or $1,040,000/year

There is a price, but it's even more than that

I would not do this job for literally any price

Remaining time: 6 days 13 hours

[stonerparty]

[6-4s]

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[judestims]

[boringkate]

You listen to music regularly? Why? Have you even tried quitting? Could you quit? You get music stuck in your head? Wow. You're so ruined and music brained. I bet you make your partners listen to music with you when you have sex. Music addiction has really ruined a whole generation. You know it's not realistic to expect reverb in real life, right? You're probably so desensitized that you don't even feel anything anymore when you hear a bird singing that it wants some fuck.

[paradigm-adrift]

I don't have a problem with people listening to music per se, but I do have a problem with the music industry exploiting & mistreating artists.

Personally, I abstain from all music in order to keep my hands clean but really music should just be illegal outright to protect musicians from abuse.

[terramythos]

holy shit this person in the notes

[discodyke-dogthing]