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ppl with really long queues amuse me, like, they will like your post and then you find out within 3-10 business days whether they also thought it worthy of reblogging

thingsofimportanceanddelight

It is me. I am the person with the really long queues.

#on all my side blogs too #about me #tumblr culture

enchantedbook

'Τhe Fairy's Birthday' by William Heath Robinson, 1925

rainyday-recess

goshyesvintageads

Eastman Kodak Co, 1968

adventurelandia

Bicentennial Disneyland Parade concept art by Sam McKin, 1976

dandyads

Sealtest, 1961

thingsofimportanceanddelight

I want to know why this is not still a flavor, because raspberry, vanilla, and blueberry ice cream sounds amazing, and it’s not like weirdly intense patriotism has gone anywhere anyway, plus there are many countries that have a red, white, and blue flag that this could be marketed to, so…?

thepopculturearchivist

Newspaper ad, July 4, 1921

thingsofimportanceanddelight

Cherry, French vanilla, and grape ice cream also sounds like an interesting combo; why do ice cream companies not still do this? Do they still do grape sherbet at all, for that matter?

nativenews

What, to the American slave, is your 4th of July? I answer: a day that reveals […] more than all other days in the year, the gross injustice and cruelty […] your celebration is a sham; your boasted liberty, an unholy license; your national greatness, swelling vanity; your sounds of rejoicing are empty and heartless; your denunciations of tyrants, brass fronted impudence; your shouts of liberty and equality, hollow mockery; your prayers and hymns, your sermons and thanksgivings, with all your religious parade, and solemnity, are […] mere bombast, fraud, deception, impiety, and hypocrisy—a thin veil to cover up crimes which would disgrace a nation of savages. There is not a nation on the earth guilty of practices, more shocking and bloody, than are the people of these United States, at this very hour.

Go where you may, search where you will, roam through all the monarchies and despotisms of the old world, travel through South America, search out every abuse, and when you have found the last, lay your facts by the side of the everyday practices of this nation, and you will say with me, that, for revolting barbarity and shameless hypocrisy, America reigns without a rival.

Frederick Douglass. (5 July 1852). ‘What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?’.

yesterdaysprint

The Lancaster News Journal, Pennsylvania, July 4, 1915

marauders4evr

“And that quote, “The only disability in life is a bad attitude,” the reason that that’s bullshit is because it’s just not true.” - Stella Young

[IDs: Screenshots from the late, great, Stella Young’s TED Talk: I’m Not Your Inspiration, Thank You Very Much. Stella is a wheelchair-user sitting up on the stage in front of a massive crowd. In these screenshots, she’s saying, “No amount of smiling at a flight of stairs has ever made it turn into a ramp. Never. (Laughter. Applause.) Smiling at a television screen isn’t going to make closed captions appear for people. No amount of standing in the middle of a bookshop and radiating a positive attitude is going to turn all those books into braille.]

I use this speech and the underlying theories a lot in my PhD, but Stella Young honestly had one of those voices that needs to be heard by everyone, so I figured I’d post my favorite part of the speech here. If anyone remembers that time I threw myself onto the floor For The Vine, you’ll know that I also hate the quote: “The only disability in life is a bad attitude”. Stella just conveyed the message with less pain.

Link to Stella Young’s TED Talk | Link to the transcript

marauders4evr

Happy Disability Pride Month 2022!

When corporations inevitably try to commodify disability in the same way they rainbow-wash queer identities, remember that toxic positivity and overly-inspiring videos do nothing to address the real inaccessibility and discrimination that disabled people of all intersecting identities experience!

saywhat-politics

President Donald Trump’s latest renovation to the White House involves its iconic, 200-year-old columns

President Donald Trump's latest renovation to the White House involves its historic, 200-year-old columns

A White House official tells PEOPLE it's a "standard restoration" to the stone in the White House North Portico

After maintenance crews were seen at the mansion's entrance, rumors began swirling that Trump may be changing the columns from their original Ionic style to a more ornate Corinthian style he's used at Mar-a-Lago

President Donald Trump's latest renovation to the White House involves its iconic, 200-year-old columns.

liberalsarecool

Every accusation is a confession.

wonderingwheretheleopardsare

The jokes write themselves.

liberalsarecool

Imagine dissenting to the plain language of the 14th Amendment and then pretending you’re not an activist judge.

shisasan

A month of mental apathy, July 1, 1925 Journals of Anais Nin 1923-1927 [volume 3]

shisasan

𝙹𝚞𝚕𝚢 𝟷, 𝟷𝟿𝟷𝟺, 𝚃𝚑𝚎 𝙳𝚒𝚊𝚛𝚒𝚎𝚜 𝙾𝚏 𝙵𝚛𝚊𝚗𝚣 𝙺𝚊𝚏𝚔𝚊, 𝟷𝟿𝟷𝟺-𝟷𝟿𝟸𝟹

[ID: July 1. Too tired. END ID]

bucketofdeltav

So my beta reader for the Big Fics is an astrophysicist, right. Who is currently also writing a hard sci-fi novel about the exploration of Phobos (more power to them, I cannot with the physics required for that, best I can do is soft sci-fi/fantasy and that reminds me I should finish that story).

Anyway I was bitching about how hard it is to come up with feasible planets in Star Wars because sometimes you need a new planet from scratch and sometimes you need to know more about a planet than the 'has jungles, is probably a moon technically' than Wookieepedia will give you, and they're like 'oh yeah I can do something about that'.

So they've written (in Matlab but they swear it will run as a .exe as well and I may be conscripted to embed it as a web tool at some point) a star system generator.

You input what you know about the planet (ecosystem, population, sun colour, does it have liquid water, does it have a moon or moons, is it a moon or moons, temperature averages, atmosphere, you get me) and it will give you the... everything else about the star system, in obedience to real-universe physics. And if you input nothing you get a randomly generated star system.

And I’m like oh I know people who will be into this with a vengeance, and they're not on Tumblr, so this is me seeing who exactly would be keen on, and I cannot stress this enough, a real-physics comprehensive star system generator.

It's still in the debugging phase (last error fixed: every planet wants to have a population of exactly 5000 regardless of other factors, turned out to be a missing equals sign somewhere), but I'm psyched for this and trying to gauge interest for how high a priority 'make this an accessible web tool' needs to be.