Why am I doing this?

It had to happen eventually. Wish I could stop being so stupid. Header source: http://anglaisrose.co.vu/post/140904181656/commission-for-viscen-vas-arlesburgh-ive-always Permission was given before I used this piece

[herainsorcia]

[fox-bright]

That is DIABOLICAL museum design, A++, no notes

[l0stvegas]

Some time ago (I think in 2021) I had to go see a neurologist over really scary symptoms that resembled seizures. I was a nervous wreck about what I was feeling and had barely slept all week, which seemed to be apparent to the doc’s assistant when I sat down in the exam room for questioning or whatever. Dude was pretty young and soft spoken, around my age. He was laser focused doing something on one of those tablet-laptop Surface things as I spoke, presumably writing down my symptoms.

Midway through talking about my symptoms my voice audibly started shaking as I was describing them, clearly upset.

In the middle of my monologue he turns the tablet to face me, closes whatever program he has open and the wallpaper is this fucking collage of pictures of lord farquaad from shrek, lovingly decorated. Dude just sat there placidly smiling at me until I noticed and stopped dead in the middle of a sentence. We sat there in silence like this for like a solid minute before I started wheezing laughing. Before I could even say anything else or process it he picked up the tablet and wordlessly left the room, and I just sat there dumbfounded until the doctor showed up. 10/10 doctor experience tbh

I didn’t own a cell phone at the time to get a photo so this rendition from memory is all I can provide you

[snow-nose]

ID: a digital drawing of a man in scrubs sitting on a wheeled stool, serenely smiling with his elbow on a rolling cart, where a tablet is flipped open to show an approximation of the Lord Farquaad screensaver. end ID

[enigma-absolute]

[l0stvegas]

Reblogging this bc it’s making rounds again

[shadeslayer]

its so fucked that not only did they erase our languages and beat and kill our people for using them but they stole the words of important tribes and important people and used them for the military and for trees and for food and for summer camps. average native american name is seen by non ntvs as a joke or something to use or consume, not a human being

[shadeslayer]

i like that ppl r thinking abt town names and things thats very good to be aware of but just to be clear this is actually specifically about other things actually, the things everyone but those looking up their nation forget about

sequoyah was the man who created the tsalagi syllabary before it was ever a tree

if i try to look for apparel or crafts to show off my chickasaw pride, i get results for chickasaw plums which is just a specific species of plum before i get results about human beings

others have mentioned if they google their nations name they get boot companies before their nations website!

theres a tweet that still haunts me that was about a Quirky Quasi American Restaurant in europe or somewhere that was being funny by being cowboy themed and their steaks were named after native american nations. even outside the usa we are nothing but literal dead meat for others consumption

"blackhawk" "apache" - fuck theres a whole wikipedia page for the way weve had our names used for weapons used to colonize and kill us and others!

yes talk about town and location names but you need to look farther than that. it gets so much worse, i promise

[mxjackparker]

This kind of response to things I say about sex work, which isn't always phrased like this but almost always focuses on me being male or a man or my pronouns, shows a fundamental misunderstanding of why mansplaining is bad.

I am a sex worker. I have been for a decade. The majority of people I know are sex workers and I'm embedded in sex worker community. I started before 18 and have done it in brothels, cars, my own home, clients' homes, saunas, and hotels.

It's absolutely reasonable to criticize men who speak on issues they don't experience like an authority, especially when they speak over women to do it. It is not reasonable to raise someone's gender (or in this case, pronouns) as a reason their thoughts aren't worth hearing when the issue is one they do face.

[mxjackparker]

I see people bringing up that I'm trans in response to things like this, as a way to legitimize my speech. The reason I refuse to do so, despite many of my experiences selling sex being pre-transition, is that I equally do not want cis men who have done sex work to be silenced on the topic.

We need more active and former sex workers to speak out. That won't happen if we're dismissing those who do.

[ratbastarddotfuck]

read that again:

It is not reasonable to raise someone's gender (or in this case, pronouns) as a reason their thoughts aren't worth hearing when the issue is one they do face.

[bobdylanyaoi]

its interesting how the people who say "my trauma made me funny" are never actually funny just uncomfortably self-deprecating

[thememedaddy]

[audhdspacewizard]

I'm dating myself but

[the-faultofdaedalus]

actually fuck you worldbuilding

world where lines of succession and first-born are extremely important (not just for royalty, but also for common folk, but more emphasis is placed on royalty) because when you die, you can choose to stay behind as a ghost. except only your firstborn child can see and hear you.

royal families are built on this, with long lines of ghosts standing behind whoever the current ruler is. craftspeople who always have their parents in their ear telling them exactly how to be perfect.

this is consistent; a ghost can only see the ghosts it would have been able to see in life, so passing information from generations past is always a game of telephone.

of course this whole thing can be bluffed and exploited in a variety of extremely fun ways.

[the-faultofdaedalus]

of course this causes Complications for murder plots: if you kill someone you better be damn sure that your victim either doesn’t know it was you or doesn’t have a kid, or else you can also kill the kid.

of course, if you kill the lord of a particular region and his first born says that reluctantly his father had not seen his killer and has no information, you feel great. you did it! scott free!

until some fucker from across the sea (from a country the lord had, unfortunately, visited and was fond of in his youth) shows up to point the finger squarely at you and unearth roughly 60 years worth of lineage drama

[the-faultofdaedalus]

firstborn twins (or triplets ect) are a special case because all children born at the same time will be able to see the ghost. this gives twins an incredibly gift for communication — they can be very distant, physically, and their ghost relative can communicate between both of them. the only downside is that the ghosts do need to travel from one twin to another, which takes time, but absolutely no one can stop them as they do

[the-faultofdaedalus]

also like. of course the ghosts can fucking lie to you. of course they will lie to you. they’re also people with their own goals and agendas and motives and opinions and there’s nothing more maddening than watching the construction of your legacy after you’re too dead to be able to do anything about it. the ghosts are in no way passive figures here

[the-faultofdaedalus]

you (trying to avenge your father by finding who murdered him) vs your father’s ghost (who is TELLING you who killed him except you’re pretty sure he’s full of shit)

[the-faultofdaedalus]

the differences in grief/mourning between firstborn and other children. you will always have your parents with you and your siblings will never see or hear them again. some of the people you love will stay with you but not nearly enough of them. your best friend’s child looks at you with solemn eyes and tells you that your friend misses you and you are deeply, burning jealous. your older sibling always has their head cocked like they’re listening to your parents give them advice that you will never get. it’s not for you. it’s never been for you.

and on the flip side. you estrange yourself from your parent but it’s not enough because they get to die and haunt you forever. their parents get to die and haunt them forever. you adopt a child who listens more to the ghosts in her ear than you and you never have a child of your own and your ghosts scream at you until after the day you die

absolutely horrific system i deeply enjoy it

[iamemeraldfox]

Your parents die but don't both come back as a ghost. And you can't be sure if they chose not to come back, or you are not a first born to one of them

[the-faultofdaedalus]

EXACTLY YOU GET IT

[iamemeraldfox]

The disparity of culture between firstborns and all other humans, I cannot

Being a second child that can never be sure if the message your older sibling passes over to you from your parents is fake or real.

Inheritance fraud would be rampant

[trishmishtree]

Your shitty abusive parent finally kicks it, and you only find out because you haven't spoken to them in decades and now here they are in your living room gloating that they wrote you out of their will. Exorcists being hired as professional hitmen to kill said shitty parent from beyond the grave

[ghostinthebathroom]

I had a dream about Columbo at a drag show. This is what came from it.

[somewhere-south-of-neutral]

I'm waiting for him to explain to me how his newfound love of drag allowed him to prove I killed my business partner

[unhappytogekiss]

a new reality tv show called So you think you can write Doctor Who

twelve episodes, twelve contestants - a mix of annoying middle aged sci fi authors, fan fic authors and random people off the street

a variety of against the clock writing tasks, big finish scripts, ability to interact with actors without shouting at them and challenges where you have no budget or doctor for an episode

judged by solely by christopher eccleston

this is how you find the new doctor who showrunner

[beardedmrbean]

Next up someone is going to claim that the Narnia series isn't kids books.

Kids books is probably not the best way to word it, you can enjoy them at every age, including your childhood, as you get older you may find new truths in them, but they're still good for any age.

[joshuaballsett]

[babbhad]

[cipheramnesia]

[marseny]

[joasakura]

[blondebrainpowered]

Cat paw prints in the medieval floor tiles of the 12th century CE St Peter Church in Wormleighton, England

[ickaimp]

So this is not a plea for money. This is something that surprised me, and chatting with people on discord, they were unaware of as well.

Discovered last year I couldn’t look at my 2015 MacBook Air without it triggering nausea and migraines, and figured the screen died. Have been getting by on my phone, but concluded I really need a laptop again.

Saved up, realised I could afford a brand new MacBook Neo, and got one.

-And I couldn’t spend more than five minutes looking at the screen without massive eye strain, nausea, vertigo, and if I pushed it, I-need-to-lie-down-in-a-dark-room-for-hours migraines.

Looking up MacBook and Eyestrain explained what is going on. The liquid retina displays that Apple currently has uses Pulse Width Modulation or PWM. In order to give the screens a deeper depth of colour and contrast, PWM flickers between several hundred to thousand times a second.

And there is currently no way to turn it off. There are settings and apps to reduce it, but there is no way to stop the screen from flickering. Checked Apple forums, called Apple Support, and the time I could look at the screen kept shrinking. Got the laptop Tuesday, returned it Friday, today is Sunday and I’m still dealing with a vertigo migraine.

For MacBooks, it seems to vary on the computer model and the software it uses. In retrospect, the issue with my MacBook Air started after a major software update.

And it’s not just an Apple thing. Current Windows and Android screens do the same thing. There’s even a Reddit for people who are sensitive to PWM flickers to help find computers and screens that won’t trigger eyestrain and headaches.

So, yeah. This week has been a learning experience. But for those who are prone to headaches and migraines, this may be something to be aware of, cause I was not.

[kaleido-matic]

@winampskinmuseum

[beardedmrbean]

Periscope up

[birds-in-posts]

Green heron (Butorides virescens)

[flareonfloof]

birds have secret bones we're not allowed to know about

[petrichara]

Love, grief, and magic in the mundane

1- @Bluewmist on Twitter / 2- Roly Poly is Taken on Twitter / 3- About Time (2012) by Richard Curtis, image from Mita Park on Unsplash / 4- Sherri Turner on Twitter / 5- Cold Solace by Anna Belle Kaufman / 6- The Anthropocene Reviewed by John Green

[suppermariobroth]

An extremely minor and easily overlooked detail in Super Mario 64 is that one of the four pillars in Shifting Sand Land actually has a different texture from the other three, being more visibly covered in sand. This is the pillar that is located in the quicksand near the Tox Box maze; it is also the only pillar that is lower than the other three, presumably due to having sunken into the quicksand.

While this may at first appear to be an oversight, it must be deliberate since the texture used for that pillar is unique and not used by any other object in the level. It seems that it was supposed to indicate that this pillar is less well-maintained than the others, with it being sunken into the quicksand, but the difference between the textures is so subtle that very few players would actually notice it during gameplay.

Source: its_mirrors

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