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I'm BACK with another Sherlock Holmes filk! This one goes out to @contact-guy whose latest Watson's Sketchbook installment inspired me to finish this one that's been sitting in my drafts. I JUST GOT A LOT OF FEELINS ABOUT THE BOYS.

Lyrics under cut!

#Sherlock Holmes #my music #songwriting #filk #original posts #shrock #kind of? remember shrock? Pour one out for shrock #Youtube #sh filk

blinddetective

every sherlock holmes fan i see on this site is a middle aged lesbian

#guilty as charged

slightly-gay-pogohammer

hey gang i got popsicles pick one as pass the box to someone else

mint

lemon

orange

strawberry

cola

pineapple

dark cherry

anise

Remaining time: 2 days 2 hours

"i cant believe you dont have this or that flavor" listen they had these ones okay

dragon-in-a-fez

does the body ALWAYS have to keep the score? maybe we could just have a friendly game this time. maybe we can just have fun without putting numbers on it

Don't get into perfumes because there are so many good ones out there for pretty cheap so it's easy to start collecting but then you'll start learning what you like and reading about them and you'll read about one you're pretty sure you'd adore and you look it up and it's One William Dollars Of Real Person Money. And this happens with any hobby but. crucially. You don't even get to know what it smells like.

#whatever my little bag of samples came today and it's making me very happy so it's time to close fragrantica #original posts

movementnudge

Movement nudge, back pain, tight hips

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mckitterick

hey writers, desk workers, and others who sit too much:

if you want to retain mobility and don't want a permanently stiff back, this is important!

hellyeahsickaf

I found an extremely dope disability survival guide for those who are homebound, bedbound, in need of disability accommodations, or would otherwise like resources for how to manage your life as a disabled person. (Link is safe)

How to have a great, disabled life.

It has some great articles and resources and while written by people with ME/CFS, it keeps all disabilities in mind. A lot of it is specific to the USA but even if you're from somewhere else, there are many guides that can still help you. Some really good ones are:

How to live a great disabled life- A guide full of resources to make your life easier and probably the best place to start (including links to some of the below resources). Everything from applying for good quality affordable housing to getting free transportation, affordable medication, how to get enough food stamps, how to get a free phone that doesn't suck, how to find housemates and caregivers, how to be homebound, support groups and Facebook pages (including for specific illnesses), how to help with social change from home, and so many more.

Turning a "no" into a "yes"- A guide on what to say when denied for disability aid/accommodations of many types, particularly over the phone. "Never take no for an answer over the phone. If you have not been turned down in writing, you have not been turned down. Period."

How to be poor in America- A very expansive and helpful guide including things from a directory to find your nearest food bank to resources for getting free home modifications, how to get cheap or free eye and dental care, extremely cheap internet, and financial assistance with vet bills

How to be homebound- This is pretty helpful even if you're not homebound. It includes guides on how to save spoons, getting free and low cost transportation, disability resources in your area, home meals, how to have fun/keep busy while in bed, and a severe bedbound activity master list which includes a link to an audio version of the list on Soundcloud

Master List of Disability Accommodation Letters For Housing- Guides on how to request accommodations and housing as well as your rights, laws, and prewritten sample letters to help you get whatever you need. Includes information on how to request additional bedrooms, stop evictions, request meetings via phone, mail, and email if you can't in person, what you can do if a request is denied, and many other helpful guides

Special Laws to Help Domestic Violence Survivors (Vouchers & Low Income Housing)- Protections, laws, and housing rights for survivors of DV (any gender), and how to get support and protection under the VAWA laws to help you and/or loved ones receive housing and assistance

Dealing With Debt & Disability- Information to assist with debt including student loans, medical debt, how to deal with debt collectors as well as an article with a step by step guide that helped the author cut her overwhelming medical bills by 80%!

There are so many more articles, guides, and tools here that have helped a lot of people. And there are a lot of rights, resources, and protections that people don't know they have and guides that can help you manage your life as a disabled person regardless of income, energy levels, and other factors.

Please boost!

rosie-tyler

Don't tell me you're not the same person

You're always my husband and I've been waiting, waiting

For you

#MY HEART #star trek #spirk

sunderwight

Every day I am haunted by the fact that Jupiter Ascending was not based off of a million word space opera fantasy book series and that I cannot go to the library and take out like six door-stopper sized volumes of sheer unhinged gendervibes-y space werewolf bee queen batshittery where every new freudian space eugenicist villain talks like he's trying to eat the scenery's pussy out harder than the last guy. 😔

#god this is so real #Jupiter ascending

I kept forgetting my nighttime antidepressant so I set an alarm where the sound was a recording of me saying "HEY. TAKE YOUR FUCKING PILL" because I thought it would be funny. It was funny about three times, and then it started making me mad and I'd dismiss it right away to make it stop. So I handed my phone to my partner, who made another recording sweetly saying "Okay Shira, it's time to take your medication" and now I don't get mad anymore and I take my pill. The "compassion over punishment" camp has gotta get something wrong one of these days

#original posts

hightown-funk

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brehaaorgana

Okay people are going to relentlessly argue about "Japanese FIFA tourists get excited by bottomless chips and salsa," and allow me to clarify some things for everyone!

If you saw THIS tweet/story:

By @japan_nobunaga, it's fake! It's made up! You're right besties, it's completely fictional! And the over the top writing is the "character" of the account which we can all rightfully criticize!

We know this is fake because the writer said so to the New York Times:

Nobunaga, the Japanese wanderer whose reverential written meditations on X about bottomless baskets of chips and salsa at a Mexican restaurant in the United States, isn’t quite what some observers have taken him for, either. He is a pseudonymous character. He isn’t on his way to any World Cup games, either.

In response to a direct message, Nobunaga’s creator said the premise of the account is that an ancient samurai had traveled through time and space to land in the American heartland. When he wrote that “the trust of a nation is in that salsa, and I intend to honor all of it,” it was meant in a spirit somewhere between parody and cultural commentary.

Okay? Great. Fantastic. Treating this as real or legitimate is incorrect and also yes it's fair to criticize the characterization of Japanese people vis-a-vis an exoticizing ancient time traveling samurai. (I mean spoiler, samurai aren't an ancient thing to begin with.)

Now, SIMULTANEOUSLY, this tweet by @kamone_tv?

This is REAL and they were interviewed by the Wall Street Journal about it:

@kamome_tv has been at the games in Texas, posted loads of videos of fan/game content to their YouTube account, and has been regularly tweeting about it. They ALSO even posted some highlights/guide for folks based on their time in Texas!

We know they're a real person, it's not all made up BS, they're a huge Marinos fan, and CRUCIALLY the auto translation of the tweet shows me they referenced a SPECIFIC aspect of Japanese dining culture:

Tweet [image of chips and salsa]: I didn't order this, but it was here from the start

Is stuff like this paid?

Like the otoshi you get in Japan?

Key word here: Otoshi. Keep this in mind.

Maybe I just have not been to enough restaurants in Japan but everyone insisting that Americans are being gullible idiots because there *are* free bottomless small appetizers in Japanese restaurants that are both abundant and common is...stating something I have never really seen in any restaurant in japan? I could be wrong! Maybe I just didn't go to the right places! I'm not an expert!

That being said, the things I HAVE seen and experienced in Japan:

My meal is a set and I didn't realize that set included this specific appetizer item (ex: got a small mug of French onion soup with my omurice set)

or you paid a flat dining fee for your time/experience of a number of courses. (Like a lot of meals are not necessarily a specific set meal price, you could instead be paying for a time slot or minimum amount of courses of something that may also go over that amount).

That free thing isn't free at all, it's otoshi (also known as tsukidashi) and it's being added to the bill whether I ordered it or not.

Yes, Japanese restaurants often provide small appetizer dishes you didn't order when you sit down. No, those aren't always free! You pay for otoshi, like @kamome_tv says.

Many a visitor to Japan has been bewildered when they go out for food and drinks and receive a dish that they didn’t order—and then are charged for it too. In Japan, this dish is called “otoshi”, also known as “tsukidashi” in the western Kansai region, and it’s a sort of indirect cover charge for bars and places that serve alcohol, similar to the “coperto” service fee charged in Italy.

Otoshi are a widely accepted practice in Japan and is even written into Japanese law.

Rakuten - Gurunavi: Otoshi

So yes, an actual Japanese person visiting Texas for FIFA games tweeted asking if chips and salsa were truly free, or if they were "like otoshi," which you get a small added charge for on the bill in Japan. It's usually a really negligible fee (and it feels kind of like giving a tip or seeing a small gratuity fee) so if you don't know Japanese or don't realize otoshi adds a charge, or if you didn't closely examine your receipts...you might totally go to Japan and assume the little bowl of edamame was completely free!

The first tweet got memed because it's over the top and written to be intentionally ridiculous as a mock-samurai and it's not real. That account is questionable and has some propaganda and hateful things on that account. People who read the story's voice as having an intentional affect to sound completely over the top in exoticizing the experience were correct.

The second tweet however IS a real Japanese fan remarking on an actual cultural norms difference between Japan and the US — where in Japan the small amount of food you get whether or not you ordered it *is* commonly charged on your bill (otoshi), and in the US the food you get when seated that you didn't order is typically completely free and not charged anywhere on the bill.

Not always! Not all the time! But like, typically, this is indeed a cultural difference! And Americans aren't stupid if they believed this was a cultural difference that is real, because it....is....

One example being fake garbage doesn't mean anyone talking about this is mindlessly consuming American propaganda.

Likewise, I saw a comedian make jokes about excitement over American free refills where he was being over the top about it on purpose. Him intentionally spoofing something by exaggerating it does not mean that there were not actual non-americans being pleased with getting a free drinks refill while being tourists.

Not everything is propaganda or made up or being infantilizing. Some things ARE made up, and some are totally made up and other things are only exaggerated for comedic effect, and some people are being infantilizing, and those things existing doesn't mean there weren't also true experiences being talked about.

hope that gives everyone a better picture ~

What is it about bittersweetly passive pining from a character who would voluntarily identify as The Sidekick? What is it they put in it that makes it hit so hard? They consider their love for this person a valuable treasure even if it aches. They don't really intend to do anything about it. They're lucky just to be here. They're lucky to be able to help where they can. I'm gonna reach down my throat and turn my lungs inside out

#original posts

natalieironside

I like this picture. I really really like this picture.

As you can see, George Foreman is approximately 12 times bigger than God, making 6'3" Muhammad Ali look like an itty bitty little guy by comparison. And Foreman has the facial expression of an athlete doing a sports whereas Ali is making the face most of us would make if George Foreman were trying to beat us up. The poor guy looks so terrified. He looks like he just shit hisself from it.

Muhammad Ali then proceeded to mercilessly clobber the ever-loving shit out of George Foreman in what was ultimately a pretty one-sided match, scoring one of the greatest wins of an already legendary career.

Do it scared.

aprilbrowines

THIS IS IMPORTANT!!!!

KOSA IS MOVING FORWARD IN THE HOUSE!

It's part of a package called the KIDS Act, filled with digital ID and age verification and censorship!

MAKE THOSE PHONES RING!! CALL YOUR HOUSE REPRESENTATIVES ALL WEEK

202-224-3121 i HIGHLY encourage everyone to read the bills in the KIDS Act, because you will be doing more than 95% of people who read and introduce these bills

thisrobothasnosoul

All of the bad internet bills. One website.

nothorses

Crucially, this is being led by a lot of Democrats. This is not just Republicans sneaking bullshit in while they have the power to simply not listen to anyone; your democratic representatives will continue to co-sponsor and speak in support of this unless they know you, their voters, do not want them to.

behaviornerdwithahat

In case anyone finds it helpful because mobility aids are horrifically expensive and inaccessible…

And for those people who have access to mobility devices but might benefit from a second chair they can abuse without risking expensive damage…

Erik Kondo has made a website, Open Source Innovations, that details plans for DIY wheelchairs. These wheelchairs can be made from common materials like wood, plastic, and pvc. They are lightweight and can be custom fit to the user allowing from the same degree of movement you would get from a custom chair. And they are durable and easily repairable. (he has been stress testing his latest design by dropping it down stairs, dropping it out of a car, launching it across a driveway, and throwing it off a deck). Its 12lbs and I think he said its was in the $200 ish range for parts.

He also is working on cheap, open source, accessible designs for beach chairs, off road chairs, motorized attachments (think smart drive), and so on. Plus he skateboards in his wheelchair. Cool dude, helpful info, pass it on.

sumi-sprite

It's incredibly sad people have to resort to this, but it's a damn good resource. Use it. Spread awareness. Maybe one day people with physical disabilities won't need DIYs like this. But until then, reblog and share.