Running and Writing and Fandoms OH MY!!

[sioltach]

YOU DID NOT COME INTO THIS WORLD. YOU CAME OUT OF IT, LIKE A WAVE FROM THE OCEAN. YOU ARE NOT A STRANGER HERE

[amygdalae]

still fucks me up what a bad rap coyotes get in peoples eyes. like ive talked to people who  see em as like. gross pests who should be culled. theyre literally just as cool as wolves just a lil smaller and less confident. i love them with all my heart to balance out all the coyote haters out there, coyotes rule theyre doing great

[amygdalae]

imagine having hatred in your heart for this beast

[amygdalae]

this post was so fucking funny I literally was just like “I like coyotes I think they’re cool” and so many people fucking hated it. Shut up I’m trying. To enjoy animal

[ingydars]

God the 11 year old girls you put on this earth to climb trees and play with plastic animals are buying foundation at the drug store

[manisthebastard]

for a second i thought you meant foundation like, a building foundation. not makeup

[cognitohazardous]

God the 11 year old girls you put on this earth are building something great and terrible on the edge of town

[animentality]

[memewhore]

[fuckblast]

They're opening the largest one from 1975 in like 19 months.

[dragonessmiralis]

They’re opening the largest one from 1975 in like a month

[starryvioletnight]

They're opening the largest one from 1975 in like five days

[warden-draws-sometimes]

Theyre opening the largest one from 1975 in four days

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so guess who went to the time capsule

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photos of the inside (part 2/?)

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photos of the inside plus some of the items from the time capsule (part 3/?)

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items from inside the capsule. guy on the Capsule Team (event volunteers, i imagine) said that this old beat up car was in the pyramid part of the capsule rather than in the underground chamber. iirc, you could pay a dollar to dent the car and then write your name on it— but window breaking was off limits! (part 4/?)

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items inside the capsule. these were all stored in the house of davisson (another community project by the guy who made the time capsule). there were masks provided for anyone with health issues and it was super hot inside (part 5/?)

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items inside the capsule. the paper has a list of some of the items in the capsule— the parking ticket for the car is a personal fave. had to take a short break from posting images because some kids blew up the park port-a-potty again. such is life (part 6/?)

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more shelves of time capsule items! there were a lot of company donations. in the last pic, you can see the original groundbreaking shovel (part 7/?)

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still more items from the capsule! ft. my purple shoe and the old car from part 4 (part 8/?)

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finally, the pièce de résistance: the brand new 1975 chevy vega (as brand new as a car from 1975 that was buried underground for 50 years can be). near the car was a little tent with souvenir items and another tent where people who had placed an item into the time capsule (or whose relatives had done so) could fill out forms to retrieve their items. (part 9/?)

[inariedwards]

This is such a beautifully perfect illustration that museums don't just store stuff. Because this is what happens when you just leave stuff sitting somewhere for 50 years. It gets fucked. But the museum I work in has stuff that was collected between a hundred years ago and this year, and that stuff hasn't got fucked.

The difference is the active work of preservation that goes on in museums.

[mango-habanero-autism-deactivat]

I have a lot of feelings on how indigenous groups who didn’t build permanent structures like cities aren’t seen as being as sophisticated as ones who built large cities, without accounting for the fact that maybe it’s in our values systems to leave as light of a footprint as possible and it’s important that our structures are easily taken down or fade with the passage of time because it’s easier on the landscape, but ya know.

[uunaksiivik]

This made me think of the story one of my Coast Salish acquaintances tells of how her family would travel from the Puget Sound up Mt. Rainier every year and, sure, following herds but also they had berry bushes and trees and prairies (with camas is the one she always talks about but I'm sure other foods) that were in the care of specific families so they also followed the plants through the year. They cultivated and cared for them, not just coming to gather and move on to the unknown. They came back and to the same places, the same plants and trees every year.

I think a lot of people mistake what a huge connection that is to land and territory. They hear "nomadic" and dismiss it without realizing. It doesnt mean you dont have roots in the area. It means your roots are so ingrained in the area outsiders dont even see them there.

[mango-habanero-autism-deactivat]

!!!!!

[toweringclam]

Source @drawerbread

[margarettherelentless]

Unreliable Narrator: Not Paying Attention

Unreliable Narrator: Actively Hallucinating

Unreliable Narrator: Six month old Infant

Coming soon in the Unreliable narrator series! Ancient Rage Barbie!

[cutetanuki-chan]

I couldn't put it as a thumbnail so here's just Gideon seperatly

this is the dumbest thing ever but I had so much fun with it

[manicpixistonergirl]

my dealer: got some straight gas 🔥😛 this strain is called “le morte d’arthur” 😳 you’ll be zonked out of your gourd 💯

me: yeah whatever i don’t feel shit

5 minutes later: dude i swear i just saw the questing beast in the forest

my buddy agravain pacing: queen guinevere & sir lancelot are having an affair

[sic-semper-hominibus]

i'm not the praying sort, but i'll probably always have a soft spot for the astronaut's prayer

[sic-semper-hominibus]

for those who aren't familiar with it, it's a possibly-spurious quote by alan shepard (and is thus sometimes referred to as the shepard's prayer) on the launchpad of Freedom 7, immediately before he became the first american in space. it goes like this:

"Dear Lord, please don't let me fuck up."

[serial-unaliver-deactivated2024]

"not being allowed to sit at work is bad for disabled people" true statement but like. you do know it's inherently bad for literally everyone right? like it kills your joints. what's crazy is I saw someone in the notes of that post being fucking SHOCKED at articles saying it's not good for you to never sit at work. idk it pisses me off that low wage workers are so disposable no one even acknowledges this by default, it is an issue of disability as well but you never fucking thought it could possibly be a problem until this issue is brought up, are you dumb?

and i'm saying this as someone who IS disabled and has gone from work to the hospital several times <- only clarifying that for people on this site who will call me ableist otherwise although I should stop caring atp because you aren't entitled to SHIT about my medical issues as a stranger online

[luesmainblog]

Disabled people are usually canaries for bad enviornments. spending 8 hours with no chairs is bad for you. your friend with bad knees will be the first to show why. spending hours lying down in a less ideal position is also bad for you. your friend with a bad back will be the first to show why. spending 12 hours seated at a desk is ALSO bad for you. your friends with hip, back, or energy problems can show you why pretty fast. getting no regular exercise is bad for you. your friend with a muscle problem is at a faster rate of how bad than you are; pay attention. never seeing the sunlight is bad for you. ask your friend with a vitamin D deficiency. getting too MUCH sunlight is bad for you, even if you don't get skin cancer. ask your friend with sensitive skin, or your local albino pal. total boredom and monotany can drive a person insane over time. just ask your autistic coworker, or the guy with adhd who wasn't allowed to listen to music. they can also tell you what it feels like to be Overwhelmed, and what might be doing it.

breathing in smoke and chemicals is REALLY fucking bad for you. your friend with asthma or emphysema will sound off when you might be in a danger zone.

if your grandpa's bad knee is going all wonky, check the weather, there might be a storm coming. that's not an old wives' tail, that's bad joints reacting the pressure changes in the atmosphere.

If your disabled friend or coworker is having trouble in an environment, that's usually a sign it's not great for YOU, either. pay attention and stand up for their accessibility and accommodations. when the coworker with mild cerebral palsy gets a chair, it becomes infinitely easier to convince the manager to let everyone have a chair.

[knightofleo]

[luetta]

idk if people on tumblr know about this but a cybersecurity software called crowdstrike just did what is probably the single biggest fuck up in any sector in the past 10 years. it's monumentally bad. literally the most horror-inducing nightmare scenario for a tech company.

some info, crowdstrike is essentially an antivirus software for enterprises. which means normal laypeople cant really get it, they're for businesses and organisations and important stuff.

so, on a friday evening (it of course wasnt friday everywhere but it was friday evening in oceania which is where it first started causing damage due to europe and na being asleep), crowdstrike pushed out an update to their windows users that caused a bug.

before i get into what the bug is, know that friday evening is the worst possible time to do this because people are going home. the weekend is starting. offices dont have people in them. this is just one of many perfectly placed failures in the rube goldburg machine of crowdstrike. there's a reason friday is called 'dont push to live friday' or more to the point 'dont fuck it up friday'

so, at 3pm at friday, an update comes rolling into crowdstrike users which is automatically implemented. this update immediately causes the computer to blue screen of death. very very bad. but it's not simply a 'you need to restart' crash, because the computer then gets stuck into a boot loop.

this is the worst possible thing because, in a boot loop state, a computer is never really able to get to a point where it can do anything. like download a fix. so there is nothing crowdstrike can do to remedy this death update anymore. it is now left to the end users.

it was pretty quickly identified what the problem was. you had to boot it in safe mode, and a very small file needed to be deleted. or you could just rename crowdstrike to something else so windows never attempts to use it.

it's a fairly easy fix in the grand scheme of things, but the issue is that it is effecting enterprises. which can have a looooot of computers. in many different locations. so an IT person would need to manually fix hundreds of computers, sometimes in whole other cities and perhaps even other countries if theyre big enough.

another fuck up crowdstrike did was they did not stagger the update, so they could catch any mistakes before they wrecked havoc. (and also how how HOW do you not catch this before deploying it. this isn't a code oopsie this is a complete failure of quality ensurance that probably permeates the whole company to not realise their update was an instant kill). they rolled it out to everyone of their clients in the world at the same time.

and this seems pretty hilarious on the surface. i was havin a good chuckle as eftpos went down in the store i was working at, chaos was definitely ensuring lmao. im in aus, and banking was literally down nationwide.

but then you start hearing about the entire country's planes being grounded because the airport's computers are bricked. and hospitals having no computers anymore. emergency call centres crashing. and you realised that, wow. crowdstrike just killed people probably. this is literally the worst thing possible for a company like this to do.

crowdstrike was kinda on the come up too, they were starting to become a big name in the tech world as a new face. but that has definitely vanished now. to fuck up at this many places, is almost extremely impressive. its hard to even think of a comparable fuckup.

a friday evening simultaneous rollout boot loop is a phrase that haunts IT people in their darkest hours. it's the monster that drags people down into the swamp. it's the big bag in the horror movie. it's the end of the road. and for crowdstrike, that reaper of souls just knocked on their doorstep.

[sadclowncentral]

we had a true lost in translation moment with flag signalling today

some background: the international code of signals is used as shorthand for communicating important information between vessels until this day. everyone carries a flag alphabet for this purpose and you can raise flags separately or together to indicate conditions and requests.

so when my crew mate informed me that the navy boat we were passing had two signal flags up i asked him to relay me the message because i was busy downstairs.

here is what he saw through the binoculars:

the flag on the left is Alpha (I have a diver down; keep well clear at slow speed) and the right one is Bravo (I am taking in or discharging or carrying dangerous goods.) the vessel most likely had clearance divers out to remove underwater explosives and wanted other's to steer clear.

however, my beloved crew mate only vaguely recalled that Alpha stands for divers and Bravo stands for dangerous. so imagine my surprise when they hesitantly relayed that

"the navy...wants us to know that their divers know how to fight?"

[samwisethewitch]

Homemaking, gardening, and self-sufficiency resources that won't radicalize you into a hate group

It seems like self-sufficiency and homemaking skills are blowing up right now. With the COVID-19 pandemic and the current economic crisis, a lot of folks, especially young people, are looking to develop skills that will help them be a little bit less dependent on our consumerist economy. And I think that's generally a good thing. I think more of us should know how to cook a meal from scratch, grow our own vegetables, and mend our own clothes. Those are good skills to have.

Unfortunately, these "self-sufficiency" skills are often used as a recruiting tactic by white supremacists, TERFs, and other hate groups. They become a way to reconnect to or relive the "good old days," a romanticized (false) past before modern society and civil rights. And for a lot of people, these skills are inseparably connected to their politics and may even be used as a tool to indoctrinate new people.

In the spirit of building safe communities, here's a complete list of the safe resources I've found for learning homemaking, gardening, and related skills. Safe for me means queer- and trans-friendly, inclusive of different races and cultures, does not contain Christian preaching, and does not contain white supremacist or TERF dog whistles.

Homemaking/Housekeeping/Caring for your home:

Making It by Kelly Coyne and Erik Knutzen [book] (The big crunchy household DIY book; includes every level of self-sufficiency from making your own toothpaste and laundry soap to setting up raised beds to butchering a chicken. Authors are explicitly left-leaning.)

Safe and Sound: A Renter-Friendly Guide to Home Repair by Mercury Stardust [book] (A guide to simple home repair tasks, written with rentals in mind; very compassionate and accessible language.)

How To Keep House While Drowning by KC Davis [book] (The book about cleaning and housework for people who get overwhelmed by cleaning and housework, based on the premise that messiness is not a moral failing; disability and neurodivergence friendly; genuinely changed how I approach cleaning tasks.)

Gardening

Rebel Gardening by Alessandro Vitale [book] (Really great introduction to urban gardening; explicitly discusses renter-friendly garden designs in small spaces; lots of DIY solutions using recycled materials; note that the author lives in England, so check if plants are invasive in your area before putting them in the ground.)

Country/Rural Living:

Woodsqueer by Gretchen Legler [book] (Memoir of a lesbian who lives and works on a rural farm in Maine with her wife; does a good job of showing what it's like to be queer in a rural space; CW for mentions of domestic violence, infidelity/cheating, and internalized homophobia)

"Debunking the Off-Grid Fantasy" by Maggie Mae Fish [video essay] (Deconstructs the off-grid lifestyle and the myth of self-reliance)

Sewing/Mending:

Annika Victoria [YouTube channel] (No longer active, but their videos are still a great resource for anyone learning to sew; check out the beginner project playlist to start. This is where I learned a lot of what I know about sewing.)

Make, Sew, and Mend by Bernadette Banner [book] (A very thorough written introduction to hand-sewing, written by a clothing historian; lots of fun garment history facts; explicitly inclusive of BIPOC, queer, and trans sewists.)

Sustainability/Land Stewardship

Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer [book] (Most of you have probably already read this one or had it recommended to you, but it really is that good; excellent example of how traditional animist beliefs -- in this case, indigenous American beliefs -- can exist in healthy symbiosis with science; more philosophy than how-to, but a great foundational resource.)

Wild Witchcraft by Rebecca Beyer [book] (This one is for my fellow witches; one of my favorite witchcraft books, and an excellent example of a place-based practice deeply rooted in the land.)

Avoiding the "Crunchy to Alt Right Pipeline"

Note: the "crunchy to alt-right pipeline" is a term used to describe how white supremacists and other far right groups use "crunchy" spaces (i.e., spaces dedicated to farming, homemaking, alternative medicine, simple living/slow living, etc.) to recruit and indoctrinate people into their movements. Knowing how this recruitment works can help you recognize it when you do encounter it and avoid being influenced by it.

"The Crunchy-to-Alt-Right Pipeline" by Kathleen Belew [magazine article] (Good, short introduction to this issue and its history.)

Sisters in Hate by Seyward Darby (I feel like I need to give a content warning: this book contains explicit descriptions of racism, white supremacy, and Neo Nazis, and it's a very difficult read, but it really is a great, in-depth breakdown of the role women play in the alt-right; also explicitly addresses the crunchy to alt-right pipeline.)

These are just the resources I've personally found helpful, so if anyone else has any they want to add, please, please do!

[evilscientist3]

the two fundamental truths of historical and contemporary mankind:

we were just as smart then as we are now

we are just as stupid now as we were then