Sufficiently Antique

A few items indistinguishable from magic.

[vulcartist]

I translated the Ea-Nasir complaint into vulcan and engraved it in on a cooper plate

[tournevis-real]

The tumblrest sentence I have ever seen

[prokopetz]

Team “not actually oblivious to flirting, just terrified of appearing presumptuous” represent.

[prokopetz]

“Yes, in the balance of consideration this person’s behaviour could certainly be interpreted as flirtatious, but it would be purest arrogance for me to just assume they actually meant what they said. I should gather more evidence. Forever.”

[sufficientlyantique]

Reblogging because true

And valuable insight.

You could ask.

In that delightfully direct way you ask every other question? Oh, you were taught or learned not to speak because it freaked others out and you don't like it when people spiral around you? Or perhaps some other psycho sexual cognitive dissonance?

Yeah. Better do some more research.

[sufficientlyantique]

jack rabbit in early morning light

Northwest New Mexico, USA

[loveridden1999]

"this too shall pass" sure but have you considered the fact that i don't like the way it's passing

[curioscurio]

If "this too" could stop passing like a kidney stone that would be great thanks

[the-haiku-bot]

If “this too” could stop

passing like a kidney stone

that would be great thanks

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

[ryebreadgf]

once I snorted a fat line of nuance and everything started depending. watch out

[kosmogrl]

[sufficientlyantique]

Have good days!

[sufficientlyantique]

Desert flower, New Mexico, USA

[ameliaace]

[thefingerfuckingfemalefury]

HAVE THE BEST PRIDE MONTH!

[anxiety-thyme]

Happy Pride to the Aces!

[sufficientlyantique]

It's Juneteenth as I post this!

In remembrance of June 19th, 1865

aka Jubilee Day, Emancipation Day, Freedom Day, and Black Independence Day

[anarchistmemedistro]

AI haters build tarpits to trap and trick AI scrapers that ignore robots.txt

Attackers explain how an anti-spam defense became an AI weapon.

[megaceros]

love that energy

[sufficientlyantique]

Advice for those who manage or host servers, web services, and the like.

[henk-heijmans]

Donkey getting some shade on a hot sunny day in Greece - photographer unknown

[chippyyyz]

Donkey about to get the fuckin drop on father konstaninos - photographer unknown

[stephendann]

Prelude to an ass kicking

[catchymemes]

[sufficientlyantique]

And kept going, with nary a backward look.

[sufficientlyantique]

You can't take it with you

And no one wants your stuff

One of the things I've learned through bitter experience is a corollary to the adage "you can't take it with you." Indeed, the dead (will, us peons, there are always folks like the old emperor class who tried to set themselves up with material possessions for the afterlife (sic))don't need and don't use material possessions.

So yeah, the dead not only can't take their material possessions with them, they don't take them with them.

Which means some poor schmuck or group of schmuck had to take care of the dead one's possessions.

Which is tedious, time consuming, and somewhat annoying.

<Personal anecdote > A relative lived in a one bedroom apartment in an institution. After his death, my sister and I were responsible to clean out his place before the end of the month. We were both coming from far away on our own some. It took us ten days to organize his things, empty his place, arrange for trash removal, and sell off large or valuable items at fire sale prices. <End anecdote >

The hard truth is that no one, but no one, wants your generic stuff. Either they already have that thing because everyone does (e,g. Flatware, mugs, table and chair), or it is too big/tall/heavy/expensive to move.

[ratbastarddotfuck]

you have to forgive the printer because it's one of the most machine-ass machines we interact with on a day to day basis. that thing says kerchunk. hardly anything says kerchunk these days. you can't get mad at her when she kerchunks up a little.

[digitalsymbiote]

Crazy that tech has gotten so bad that we're doing printer forgiveness now

[sufficientlyantique]

It's a sign of how bad the rest of our tech is that cranky, greedy, paper shredding, flimsy, always breaking, airways disappearing your file, cheaper to buy a new one than repair, pRiNtErS. Printers are now counted among the least objectionable tech.

[lemonsharks]

HE'S BACK, BABY

EA-NASIR IS HERE FOR US, RIPPING OFF CAPITALISTS

AS PER MY LAST TABLET

[aussieroborous]

Ea-nasir coming to be regarded as the new god of amusingly dishonest business practices is such a glorious illustration of human nature. I love it!

[krindor]

[sufficientlyantique]

[sufficientlyantique]

In celebration and recognition : Christine Jorgensen

Christine Jorgensen

(1926-1989)

American entertainer whose highly publicized gender change in the 1950s first brought widespread mainstream attention to transgender issues

Sidewalk plaque near 18th & Castro, San Francisco

[andthepeople]

always funny to remember darth vader is anakin skywalker. the adrenaline junkie chucklefuck who used to dive head first out of speeders and built a pod racer in his yard when he was like six is now upper-middle management for the evil empire. half of his appearances in the original trilogy are Meetings. vader spends like 80% of his time dealing with bureaucratic bullshit. status updates. team meetings. holo-Zooms. budget rundowns. anakin betrayed the jedi and caused the fall of the republic and his punishment is being CC'd on every email forever. and you know what. he would hate that. the punishment fits the criminal

[sufficientlyantique]

Hence his need for frequent time outs in his fortress of solitude.

The one power Palpatine would not teach him was the power of delegation.