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(Icon src: McGill Library on Unsplash) | Rinus | he/him, 20, not gay as in happy but queer as in fuck you, Dutch. || 1st year Uni doing English Lang & Culture. || Attempting to study: Gaelic, Welsh, Python, Flutter, bits and pieces of random programming for my hubris fuelled projects, Godot, sewing basics, beekeeping theory, tarot, germanic/norse heathenry (fascists fuck off) || switching to as much open source as I can

[turtlesandfrogs]

Queuing this for January too.

[largishcat]

trying to find a new piece of media to consume like, it has to be new, it has to be familiar, if it stresses me out even a little i will die, i want there to be a specific kind of conflict but i don’t know what kind, i want to be utterly engrossed, i want to watch it in the background, i can’t concentrate, i am hyperfixated, i want to be challenged, i want to be comforted, i want to be disturbed but in a comforting way, maybe i’ll just watch the first three seasons of great british bakeoff again

[mhtyr]

"sorry English is not my first language" I say. As if I make any sense in my first language

[guerrillatech]

[bread-tab]

i KNOW the sleep tips, google. trust me, i know about the darkness and the light and evil screens and exercise and meditation and not napping. i know “”“how”“” to sleep. what i need you to tell me is how to convince my fuckass adhd brain that i need to give up on doing things for the day and that the hours between midnight and five a.m. are NOT secret free extra time that no one will notice if i steal

[gwydionmisha]

Even Health-Care Workers With Long COVID Are Being Dismissed

Medical professionals are used to being believed, but as patients, they found that their expertise didn’t matter.

[nessiemonster88]

@thebibliosphere I have no doubt you’ll have opinions on this?

[thebibliosphere]

Nothing I haven’t already said at length about the systemic gaslighting and abuse that goes on within the medical community toward disabled and chronically ill patients.

It is regrettable that they’re now experiencing the same things, but I’d be lying if I said I also don’t feel vindicated. We can only hope this leads to some sort of medical reform, but given the doctors who are experiencing this are also being gaslit and left to languish, I won’t be holding my breath.

Also, this is your reminder for anyone suffering from the effects of long Covid: Rest is paramount. Your body has been through a major viral trauma. You need to give it time to heal, and that requires time and patience. Recovery isn’t a sprint, it’s not even a marathon. It’s a bumpy road filled with hidden obstacles waiting to trip you up and set you back ten paces.

Move, but move slowly and with kindness toward yourself. Rest is not failure, it does not need to be earned. It is a fundamental need, even more so when you are sick. You will feel you ought to be capable of more, that’s the old you talking. It might even be some of your doctors who as you are swiftly learning, don’t actually know shit about managing this sort of condition. Take things slowly, sit with your emotions, seek therapy. Grief counseling is good.

Success is no longer measured in miles but by inches.

Be proud of every inch you win.

[breelandwalker]

Friendly reminder that if someone tells you that you need to connect to a "source consciousness" in order to be a "real witch" and ESPECIALLY if that person tells you to stop taking your medication in order to do so....

THAT PERSON IS A FUCKING LIAR.

You are not required to "connect" to anything in order to be a real witch. You are a real witch because you choose to be a witch.

Your meds do not prevent you from being magical or from exploring any kind of greater potential. They are there to keep your body and your brain as healthy and functional as possible. Do not let anyone shame you for needing medication.

Please keep taking your meds!

[chanceyknits]

every stitch, depicted and demonstrated

This database holds a ton of useful materials for embroidery! many different types of stitches in various difficulties, all incredibly useful!

[purple-fox-for-luck]

@wastelesscrafts does that look useful?

[wastelesscrafts]

[ID: an embroidery database showing 24 stitches of the chain stitch family (chain stitch, whipped chain stitch, double chain stitch, magic chain stitch, lazy daisy, Russian chain stitch, long tailed daisy, feathered chain stitch, Basque stitch, petal chain stitch, reverse chain stitch, heavy chain stitch) and the blanket stitch family (blanket stitch, buttonhole stitch, whipped buttonhole, double blanket stitch, closed blanket stitch, crossed blanket, buttonhole wheel, buttonhole wheel cup, rosette of thorns, buttonhole bar, barb stitch, mirrored blanket).]

That’s an amazing resource! Thanks for the tag.

[trans-mouse]

the phrase “No D&D is better than bad D&D” is something that people new to TTRPGs should REALLY know lmao

[kreetn]

I’d like to hear more about this! Does it refer to leaving toxic groups or GMs?

[trans-mouse]

It means don’t play when you’re not having fun. This can mean games, genres, groups, GMs, scheduling, stress, tone, or just not meshing with it. All TTRPGs are about collaboratively telling a story. If you’re not having fun, you’re spending time doing something that sucks for literally no gain. It sours you, whether on the hobby, the friends, or the specific game.

It’s a really popular saying when you talk to more enfranchised players of basically any RPG, because we ALL have a horror story, or at the very least know a thousand, about awful games. And they don’t even have to be awful! I have left games before they started because I got the sense that it wouldn’t be the kind of game I like!

And there’s ALWAYS another game you can join.

[berniesrevolution]

[thisrobotbeatcaptcha]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_to_Blow_Up_a_Pipeline

[saydams]

From the entry on the above book:

He asks “At what point do we escalate?”,[1]:8​ stating that the modern climate movement has remained committed to “absolute non-violence” and avoided property destruction.[1]:22–23​ He criticizes what he defines as “moral pacifism” for failing to account for defensive violence[1]:30–32

He states that “property destruction is violence” but that “we must insist on it being different in kind from the violence that hits a human (or an animal) in the face,” distinguishing between violence against property and violence against people, but noting that violence “which hits material conditions necessary for subsistence” is violence against people.[1]:102–103

He quotes The Wretched of the Earth by Frantz Fanon, stating that Fanon wrote that violence “frees the native ‘from his despair and inaction; it makes him fearless and restores his self-respect’.” He concludes that “There has been a time for a Gandhian climate movement; perhaps there might come a time for a Fanonian one. The breaking of fences may one day be seen as a very minor misdemeanour indeed.”[1]:158–161

TL;DR

Property destruction (against oil industry, etc) is violence in self-defense. Because what they are doing, hurting the very environment we need to survive, is a violent attack on us.

[a-method-in-it]

I feel like this is such a perfect encapsulation of the difference between Twitter and Tumblr, because on Twitter you have to be all, like, “You know…” and on Tumblr there’s a post going around with 100k notes that is literally described on the post as a hit list for the 90 people responsible for climate change.

[ryan-sometimes]

COVID is slowly becoming a “third world” disease. While first world countries are hoarding vaccines, having doses for populations many times their size, third world countries can’t get any because pharma companies want to sell to the first world countries first. Even then, first world countries will receive them first. While rich countries recover from COVID, they will forget about the pandemic while many other countries live the absolute worst moment of the pandemic without being able to vaccinate their population.

[ryan-sometimes]

Watch also when some first world countries finish vaccinating their populations, they will turn to third world countries and “donate” or sell surplus vaccines. People in these countries will go “Oh how sweet! The government is donating vaccines to the poorer countries <3” when it was their hoarding that led to many, many third world citizens dying before they could even get vaccinated in the first place.

[comradesaucegay]

african and latin american countries are also pushed by pfizer to give up sovereign assets as part of their vaccine agreement

[nanalineni]

Yo europeans, sign the fucking petition, get the european commission to lift the patents

No Profit on Pandemic! Sign now!

Everyone deserves protection from COVID-19.

[nanalineni]

This is not a bullshit useless change dot org petition by the way this is an actual thing with legal consequences. If this petition gets to a million signatures, the european commission HAS to examine it.

[queerqueerspawn]

They need not only a million signatures but to pass thresholds in at least seven member states - which only Belgium has done so so far. Especially if you have Italian, Irish, or Cypriot citizenship, please sign. Sign it in general, but try to circulate if you can to anyone with those nationalities specifically.

[leosuncancervenus]

231,195 / 1,000,000 signatures as of 10/28/21

[hairasuntouchedaspartoftheamazon]

237,730  /  1,000,000  signatures as of 11/28/21 and the Signatory Deadline(it has to be signed by this date) is January 8th, 2022.

PLEASE sign, especially if you’re from one of the countries that has not reached it’s threshold. (France, Sweden, Greece, Germany, The Netherlands, Austria…basically every country except Italy and Belgium)

Minimum thresholds must be met in at least five more countries in addition to the 1,000,000 signatures requirement.

The countries closest to reaching their minimum threshold are Ireland(89% of required signatures), France(75%), The Netherlands (75%), Spain (69%), and Cyprus (46%). If you or anyone you know have citizenship in these countries, please sign it, encourage them to sign it, and pass it forward.

If the requirements are met, the European Commission will be forced to examine this and take legal action. Real change is a possibility if enough signatures are collected.

Spread this.

[miraculan-draws]

Some of the men yall tag as dilfs are SHAMEFUL. I was looking for dilf memes (it is not important why) and all I see is a parade of rosy-cheeked unblemished dandy men. Slapping a beard on a 26 year old in a suit is not a dilf, you are besmirching the title. There is a recipe, a Dilf Recipe. You do not need all these ingredients but you must have AT LEAST three: a child/ward/apprentice of some sort, crows feet, laugh lines/frown lines, sun damage, gray hairs, dark circles, Depression, intriguing battle scars/injuries/missing limb, Divorced, body hair, a look in the eyes that screams for A Moment of Relief, etc etc. Like the bar is low. Ben Barnes is not a Dilf. Harry Styles with 5 o’clock shadow is not a dilf. TIMMY CHARDONNAY IS NOT A DILF. You are all WEAK your blood is WEAK put that man BACK IN THE OVEN UNTIL HES DONE THESE DUDES ARENT AL DENTE THEY ARE CRUNCHY AND DUNKED IN WATER PUT THEM BACK LET THEM COOK

[fusdoq]

Princeton teaches Ge'ez for the first time

Ge’ez, or Classical Ethiopic, is one of the ancient world’s major literary languages, with two millennia of history in the Horn of Africa an

"Ge’ez, or Classical Ethiopic, is one of the ancient world’s major literary languages, with two millennia of history in the Horn of Africa and Arabia. The language appears in many ancient inscriptions and in Jewish and Christian writings, even shaping the language of the Qur’an and early Muslim religious texts. It continues to live on today as the liturgical language of the Ethiopian and Eritrean Orthodox churches.

And yet hardly anyone outside East Africa can read or understand it today."

Ge'ez is a classical language too.

[effyeffa]

feminine urge this masculine urge that let’s stop being weird about gender online for a second and focus on what’s important

[effyeffa]

the european urge to eat a whole loaf of bread

[medievalthymes]

you’re laughing. i told you i loved you against my better judgment, my family's expectations, the inferiority of your birth by rank and circumstance, and you’re laughing.

[curseworm]

(suffering the clear and obvious ramifications of my voluntary actions) once again god torments me for no purpose but sick amusement

[dankmemeuniversity]