How about, instead of saying:
âMisery loves company,â
we start saying this, instead:
âVulnerability craves solidarity.â
???

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How about, instead of saying:
âMisery loves company,â
we start saying this, instead:
âVulnerability craves solidarity.â
???
So the other night during D&D, I had the sudden thoughts that:
1) Binary files are 1s and 0s
2) Knitting has knit stitches and purl stitches
You could represent binary data in knitting, as a pattern of knits and purlsâŠ
You can knit Doom.
However, after crunching some more numbers:
The compressed Doom installer binary is 2.93 MB. Assuming you are using sock weight yarn, with 7 stitches per inch, results in knitted doom beingâŠ
3322 square feet
Factoring it outâŠ302 people, each knitting a relatively reasonable 11 square feet, could knit Doom.
Hi fun fact!!
The idea of a âbinary codeâ was originally developed in the textile industry in pretty much this exact form. Remember punch cards? Probably not! They were a precursor to the floppy disc, and were used to store information in the same sort of binary code that we still use:
Hereâs Mary Jackson (c.late 1950s) at a computer. If you look closely in the yellow box, youâll see a stack of blank punch cards that she will use to store her calculations.
This is what a card might look like once punched. Note that the written numbers on the card are for human reference, and not understood by the computer.Â
But what does it have to do with textiles? Almost exactly what OP suggested. Now even though machine knitting is old as balls, I feel that there are few people outside of the industry or craft communities who have ever seen a knitting machine.Â
Hereâs a flatbed knitting machine (as opposed to a round or tube machine), which honestly looks pretty damn similar to the ones that were first invented in the sixteenth century, and hereâs a nice little diagram explaining how it works:
But what if you donât just want a plain stocking stitch sweater? What if you want a multi-color design, or lace, or the like? You can quite easily add in another color and integrate it into your design, but for, say, a consistent intarsia (two-color repeating pattern), human error is too likely. Plus, it takes too long for a knitter in an industrial setting. This is where the binary comes in!
Hereâs an intarsia swatch I made in my knitwear class last year. As you can see, the front of the swatch is the inverse of the back. When knitting this, I put a punch card in the reader,
and as you can see, the holes (or 0âČs) told the machine not to knit the ground color (1âČs) and the machine was set up in such a way that the second color would come through when the first color was told not to knit.
tl;dr the textiles industry is more important than people give it credit for, and I would suggest using a machine if you were going to try to knit almost 3 megabytes of information.
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Someone port Doom to a blanket
I really love tumblr for this đ
It goes beyond this. Â Every computer out there has memory. Â The kind of memory you might call RAM. Â The earliest kind of memory was magnetic core memory. Â It looked like this:
Wires going through magnets. Â This is how all of the important early digital computers stored information temporarily. Â Each magnetic core could store a single bit - a 0 or a 1. Â Hereâs a picture of a variation of this, called rope core memory, from one NASAâs Apollo guidance computers:
You may think this looks incredibly handmade, and thatâs because it is. Â But these are also extreme close-ups. Â Hereâs the scale of the individual cores:
The only people who had the skills necessary to thread all of these cores precisely enough were textile and garment workers. Â Little old ladies would literally thread the wires by hand.
And thanks to them, we were able to land on the moon. Â This is also why memory in early computers was so expensive. Â It had to be hand-crafted, and took a lot of time.
Donât underestimate the impact craft has had on our culture
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my friend is studying for the mcat and was just trying to explain to me about heat transfer and she said âyou know, like the reason you get cold when you go outside on a freezing day is that your tiny human body is trying to warm up the entire universeâ and i think thatâs the best thing i have ever heard
I kind of needed this today. Thank you.
Hey if you havenât noticed, nothing scares the bad guys more than solidarity. Like literally nothing. Thatâs why all they ever do is try and split us up. They try and turn the LGBT community against the Muslim community. They try and turn lesbians against trans women. Lauren Southern was just caught spreading Islamophobic pamphlets that were blatantly attempting to paint the Muslim community as homophobic and transphobic. TERFs are constantly trying to paint lesbians who support trans women as somehow fake or less than.
Every time you show solidarity and stand with your neighbors and friends, you do a serious frighten to the folks trying to kill us all. So always stand up for each other.
Disability is not an abusive roommate
Nondisabled storytellers often seem to think of disability as an abusive roommate coming and imposing its will on a disabled person. When they think about wheelchair users, they donât think about the mobility thatâs made possible by assistive technology. They think about how theyâd feel if someone chained them to a wheelchair and forcibly prevented them from walking.
This misconception is dangerous. When people see disability-related limitations as similar to violent restraint, they donât know know to tell the difference between the innate limitations of someoneâs body and limitations being forcibly imposed on them by others. When people donât understand the difference between living with a disability and living with an abuser, they assume that abusive experiences are inevitable for people with disabilities.
In reality, thereâs nothing inevitable about abuse. Coming up against the limitations of your body is fundamentally different from being forcibly restrained by someone else. Whether or not you are disabled, having physical limitations is part of having a body. Being disabled means that you have a different range of physical limitations than most other people do, but they donât come color coded ânormalâ and âdisabledâ. When youâre used to the way your body works, the disability-related limitations feel pretty similar to those that arenât disability-related.
Using assistive technology is pretty similar to using technology for any other important reason. Everyone uses technology to do things that their bodies alone would be too limited to do. Most people use cars to go further than they could walk; some people also use wheelchairs to go further than they could walk. Some people type or use communication tablets to say more than they could with their bodies alone; some people use musical instruments; some people use both. People with disabilities have different limitations, and as a result, often benefit from technology that wouldnât be particularly useful to nondisabled people.
When technology is associated with disability, people tend to have the dangerous misconception that using it is the same as being restrained. This can very easily become self-fulfilling. When people prevent disabled people from doing things, their inability to do it is often misattributed to their disability. For instance:
Wheelchairs as restraints:
Anthony lives in a nursing home.
Anthony speaks oddly, and most people interpret most of what he says as meaningless. They say âAnthony doesnât communicateâ.
Anthony can walk and wants to walk, but the nursing him staff donât let him.Â
George, the supervisor, tells Sage, another staff member, âAnthony wanders. We need to keep him in his wheelchair to keep him safe. Just lock the seatbelt. After a few minutes, he stops resisting.â
Every morning, Sage puts Anthony in a wheelchair that he canât move, and ties him down so he canât escape.
Sage tells Marge, a new volunteer, âThatâs Anthony. Itâs so nice to have a volunteer - heâs been spending most of his time in the hallway lately. He doesnât walk or talk, but he loves visiting the garden! Can you take him there?â
Marge and Sage donât know what Anthony actually wants, and it doesnât occur to them that itâs possible to ask.
Anthony actually hates the garden and hates being pushed by other people. He prefers to spend his time in the library or with children in the childrenâs wing.
Marge assumes that Sage is the expert on Anthony, and assumes that Anthonyâs disability prevents him from walking and communicating.
Marge doesnât know that Anthony has stopped talking because heâs constantly surrounded by people who refuse to listen to him.Â
Marge doesnât know that Sage is tying Anthony to a wheelchair against his will to stop him from going where he wants to go.
Marge doesnât know that sheâs doing something to Anthony against his will.
When people see disability and restraint as the same thing, they fail to notice that people with disabilities are being violently restrained â and often unwittingly participate in physical abuse of disabled people.
The disability-as-restraint misconception also causes people to fail to understand that when they deny people access to assisstive technology, theyâre preventing them from doing things, eg:
Mobility:
Beck is an eight year old who canât walk.
Beck has a wheelchair, but heâs not allowed to bring it to school.
At school, heâs strapped into a stroller that others push around.Â
His classmate Sarah has *never* had a wheelchair that she can push herself.
At a staff meeting, Lee, their teacher, says âBecause of their disabilities, Sarah and Beck canât move around by themselves. Even though they stay in one place all day, theyâre so fun to have in our class!â
Lee is missing the crucial fact that the reason Sarah and Beck are immobile is because theyâre being denied access to assistive technology.Â
When people see disability and externally-imposed limitation as the same thing, they donât notice limitations being imposed on disabled people.
Communication:
Rebecca types on her iPad to communicate.
Clay takes away Rebeccaâs iPad.
Clay tells Sophie, âRebecca is nonverbal. Her disability prevents her from communicating, but weâre working on improving her speech.â
Sophie sees that Rebecca canât talk, and assumes that itâs her disability thatâs preventing her from communicating.
Actually, itâs *Clay* who is preventing Rebecca from communicating.
When people see disability and abuse as the same thing, they donât notice abuse of disabled people.
Itâs important to be clear on the difference between disability and abuse. Disability is not an abusive roommate; people with disabilities are only abused if someone is abusing them. When people with disabilities are restrained against their will, this is not caused by their disabilities; itâs caused by the people who are restraining them. Restraint is an act of violence, not an innate fact about disability. When wheelchairs are used as restraints, the wheelchair isnât the problem; the violence is the problem. When people are denied access to assistive technology, itâs not their disability thatâs limiting them; itâs neglect. When we stop conflating disability and abuse, weâre far less likely to see abuse of people with disabilities as inevitable.
disabled adults who are still living at home with their parents because theyâre unable to live on their ownâwhether itâs temporary or permanent, whether theyâre working or not workingâdonât deserve to be looked down on or made to feel like theyâre not doing enough or arenât good enough. what they deserve is support, love, understanding, and respect. đđ
Oh god thank you so much for this post
Okay can yall reblog this to share something thatâs actually helpful? There are two websites that can assist people with triggers to know whether or not a movie is going to be something they should avoid. The first one is:
https://www.doesthedogdie.com/
Originally created to list whether or not the animals in movies were harmed, it has expanded to list a number of triggering things like people being cut, jumpscares, strobe effects, vomit, deaths of children, and many more. For some categories it links to:
https://www.unconsentingmedia.org/
which has a similar format to Does the Dog Die but deals with a variety of sexual themes. It even elaborates on some of the checked categories just to let you know how serious or in what way the category is expressed in the movie.
I donât like the environment of tumblr scaring people into thinking they donât have the help or resources they need to live happy and without anxiety unless the right PSA floats across their dash. If there are any other databases anyone knows of that provide more info about media or elaborate upon MPAA ratings, please comment. Let 2018 be a year of empowerment.
some other sources:
common sense media is a generalized and well updated site that gives content warning as a guide to parents, but is also relevant and very helpful if youre looking for your own uses
also all IMDB movie pages have a âparents guideâ section that is extremely thorough and gives a description of all potentially disturbing scenes grouped by sex, violence, drugs/alcohol, etc
and wheres the jump is great for horror movies, it gives an exact timestamp and description of any jumpscares in the movie
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I just. I donât like this view of âmillennials vs Gen Zâ. This is NOT supposed to be a competition of who got fucked over the most and whoâs âactually fighting backâ.
Millennials are fighting back just by surviving in a job market where the minimum wage doesnât cover the living cost. Millennials are awesome at âkillingâ the diamond, golfing and napkins industries. Millennials are using the internet to make sure things that corporations want to keep in the dark are exposed. Theyâre open LGBTQIA-friendly business, theyâre supporting each other with online donations so everyone can survive this shitty economy.
And the Gen Z kids? The Gen Z kids are rad. I remember a post about something like the millennials making a collective promise to never become a disenchanted generation that only criticizes the next one and I want to point out that this âmillennials vs gen zâ trend is trying to do exactly that: split us apart. Prevent millennials from being the older siblings that teach the younger siblings to throw a good punch and turn them into the annoyed adult complaining about âthose kidsâ on their lawn. We are the two groups that grew in a connected world of information. We are two very unique generations.
I think that itâs our duty for us millennials, as a disrespected, underpaid, very angry generation to stand up by our younger siblings, and fight together the oppressive systems that brought us all to this point.
Theyâre trying very hard to pit Millennials and Gen Z against each other because I honestly think theyâre terrified of what the two will accomplish together.
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As I said, fuck it up kids.
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GenX, circa 1990: Shit, organizing is hard work. My parents just want me to study and âget a good jobâ like they did, and I canât get my message out beyond these zines I keep leaving at the coffee shop. 300 people at a protest is a big deal. *studies developing tech, starts building communication and information exchange platforms, settles down to a day job but doesnât stop trying to change the world, takes up blogging. Eventually figures out self-care*
Millennials, circa 2001: OK, thereâs got to be a better way to communicate and network to organise. Emailing everyone is just so damned tedious, and I canât really share blogs . I try to talk to my family about whatâs important, and theyâre busy with their own shit. *works on developing social media, builds more collaborative communities, gets into encrypted apps and communication platforms. Canât get day jobs in field, so ends up in high-turnover employment like teaching*
GenZ: This shit canât stand. OK, everyone, put the word out on social media that weâre walking out of class to protest. Start making videos and putting them out there. We have shit to say.
Millenials respond: We have spent the last decade becoming strong and active voices for justice and activism. Now we have millions of followers and weâll amplify you and support you.
GenX responds: A lot of us are your parents. We raised you on a steady diet of hero and heroine stories about faith and perseverance, and many of us never gave up our quiet rage. Weâll pack you a lunch, make sure youâre wearing good shoes for the protest, and remind you to wear sunscreen and not to use swears in news interviews.
Thereâs not a contest between the generations for who the âreal activistsâ and the âreal voices for justiceâ are.
Weâve been waiting for you, kids. Not to save us. To join us. ]
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A comma splice walks into a bar, it has a drink and then leaves.
A question mark walks into a bar?
Two quotation marks âWalk intoâ a bar.
A gerund and an infinitive walk into a bar, drinking to drink.
The bar was walked into by a passive voice.
Three intransitive verbs walk into a bar. They sit. They drink. They leave.
THANKS FOR TEACHING ME THINGS THAT ENGLISH CLASS HAS FAILED TO ACKNOWLEDGE
More, please.
An Oxford comma walks into a bar. It orders a pint of beer, some snacks, and a shot.
A split infinitive used to often walk into a bar.
There is a bar which a preposition-ended sentence walked into.
An emphatic copula did walk into a bar.
A present subjunctive walked into a bar hoping that he be able to order a drink.
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Immigration minister says he has to consider impact on provincial budgets
Immigration Minister Ahmed Hussen said today he will present a plan by April to kill an outdated policy that excludes immigrants based on their medical conditions â but the NDP wants quicker action to end the âdiscriminatoryâ clause.
NDP immigration critic Jenny Kwan held a news conference today calling on the government to repeal a section of the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act that allows applicants to be rejected because they could impose an âexcessive demandâ on the health care system.
She said the issue has been on the governmentâs radar since 2016, yet the âdiscriminatoryâ policy that causes âheartache and hardshipâ remains.
âStill thereâs no action,â Kwan said.
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âImagine having a child that refuses to hug you or even look you in the eyesâ
Imagine being shamed, as a child, for not showing affection in a way that is unnatural or even painful for you. Imagine being forced, as a child, to show affection in a way that is unnatural or even painful for you. Imagine being told, as a child, that your ways of expressing affection werenât good enough. Imagine being taught, as a child, to associate physical affection with pain and coercion.
As a preschool special ed para, this is very important to me. All my kids have their own ways of showing affection that are just as meaningful to them as a hug or eye contact is to you or me.Â
One gently squeezes my hand between both of his palms as he says âsquish.â I reciprocate. When he looks like heâs feeling sad or lost, I ask if I can squish him, and he will show me where I can squish him. Sometimes itâs almost like a hug, but most of the time, itâs just a hand or an arm I press between my palms. Then he squishes my hand in return, says âsquish,â and moves on. He will come ask for squishes now, when he recognizes that he needs them.
Another boy smiles and sticks his chin out at me, and if heâs really excited, heâll lean his whole body toward me. The first time he finally won a game at circle time, he got so excited he even ran over and bumped chins with me. He now does it when he sees me outside of school too. I stick out my chin to acknowledge him, and he grins and runs over and I lean down for a chin bump.
Yet another child swings my hand really fast. At a time when another child would be seeking a hug, she stands beside me and holds my hand, and swings it back and forth, with a smile if Iâm lucky. The look on her face when I initiate the hand swinging is priceless.
Another one bumps his hip against mine when he walks by in the hallway or on the playground, or when he gets up after Iâm done working with him. No eye contact, no words, but he goes out of his way to âcrashâ into me, and I tell him that itâs good to see him. He now loves to crash into me when Iâm least expecting it. He doesnât want anything, really. Just a bump to say âHi, I appreciate youâre here.â And when heâs upset and we have to take a break, Iâll bump him, ask if he needs to take a walk, and we just go wander for a bit and discuss whateverâs wrong, and heâs practically glued to my side. Then one more bump before we go back into the room to face the problem.
Moral of the story is, alternative affection is just as valid and vitally important as traditional affection. Reciprocating alternative affection is just as valid and vitally important as returning a hug. That is how you build connections with these children.Â
This is so goddamn important.
I verbally express affection. A LOT.
My husband⊠doesnât. I donât know why. For the longest time part of me wondered if it meant he loved me less.
At some point I told him about a thing I had done as a kid. Holding hands, three squeezes means âI Love Youâ.
Suddenly heâs telling me I Love You all the time.
Holding my hand, obviously, but also randomly.
taptaptap
on my hand, my shoulder, my butt, my knee, whatever body part is closest to him, with whatever part of him is closest to me
All the time.
More often than I ever verbally said it.
Itâs an ingrained signal now, I can tap three times on whatever part of him, and get three taps back in his sleep. Apparently I do the same.
Itâs made a huge difference for us.
People say things differently.