another millenial blog

Q (they/them) animist 33 unionist feels like returning home

[robertreich]

Understand what's going on here.

[caringcoffeechats]

controversial opinion but unfortunately you are your actions and what you say. if you are mean to people, it doesn’t matter if you sometimes have secret kind thoughts. fortunately you are your actions and what you say. if you are kind in your actions and your words, it doesn’t matter if you sometimes have mean thoughts. the power is in working against inner negative thoughts and being a better person despite it. you have the ability to cultivate the person you want to be.

[lat-ino]

whenever the mutuals post

[pokemon]

Origins of Astonishment (circa, 1997). Digital-medium

[metal-autistic-coven]

All of us when we realize this is the official Pokemon account

[whitmanifesto]

Ok I know I'm new return to Tumblr but DAMN so many ads!

[whitmanifesto]

Trying out my eyeshadow palette then jumped into the shower.

[obriy]

NEAT FREAK!

[whitmanifesto]

Social media used to stimulate me, and now I feel sedated.

Can we talk about how radically different it is being on a text driven platform vs photo vs video. When I was at the height of my Tumblt addiction I was also an avid adv rpg player. I toggle between envisionfree websites, essentially co-writing pages of fan fiction with dozens of other people, and reading mini blog posts on a wide range of topics intermixed with fan edits & artwork. I always felt like I was learning and more importantly I was information seeking.

Now I have a bad TikTok addiction. And while I do make content as well (about 13k followers, but my interaction peak is long gone) I am primarily doom scrolling. I'm not even that good at curating and collecting anymore. And that which I do curate doesnt inspire me. I am overwhelmed with creation paralysis. And when I do have a sprinkle of inspiration, I dump them into a 30 sec to 2 minute video which I really should bottle up. Mull over. Gather enough juice to write a small blog or at least a journal entry.

Social media used to feel like a spark. Now it feels like what my professor warned about the ease of social-media fueled protests: letting steam out is short-sighted catharsis that prevents pressure from building. That pressure used to lead to brain dumps in notebooks and sketchbooks.

Im not ready to go cold turkey. But I really need to reevaluate my social media consumption.

[whitmanifesto]

Some spoils from my garden, which I've mostly abandoned this year. I over planted early on then got too busy with work and FNB. Ill be giving plenty away at the free fridge. The peppers I plan on keeping for myself. I've already collected and dried enough for seeds. I need to focus on a more sustained way to grow veg at home. I'm good at growing tomatoes but they are too easy to get in tins for me to take up space. I need to focus on greens, roots and peppers for next year. And to build the soil. I've been too sick to really throw much more energy into it.

[whitmanifesto]

I haven't posted on Tumblr since probably my masters program. But im trying to shift away from relying too much on video form content. Need to get back to reading and writing! I never posted photos of myself in my hay day of Tumblr, but Instagram has changed that.

I hope to return to this little place. Ease my mind, read more, and look back at how different I was years ago.

[whitmanifesto]

I've been away for years. Time to be reborn!

[highlandvalley]

どいてくれないネコ https://twitter.com/kyuryuZ/status/1273812918467887104

[hashtagleh]

Idk what the captions and speech bubbles say but I still completely understood everything and I have determined that a valid point has been made

[cosamanda]

Who Sigyn was

Loki is mischievous. Loki breaks the rules. Loki is complicated.

Sigyn is simple.

Sigyn is kind. That is all. And yet not.

If Loki is the outcast crouching under the bridge with a sleepingbag and a waggon full of scraps, Sigyn is the one who opens a new inclusive shelter in town. If Loki is the protester marching in the streets and getting himself arrested, Sigyn is the one who bails him out. Loki's spirit is in the guy who gets in trouble at school for punching bigoted classmates in the face, Sigyn's spirit is in the friend who turns up at the principals office to defend him.

Loki rebels, Sigyn defends. Loki suffers, Sigyn protects. Loki organises a secret after school club to take down capitalism? Sigyn is the one who bakes them cookies.

Loki is a trickster, a rebel, and an outsider. Loki lives on the edge of society, all societies. He breaks the rules he thinks needs to be broken, he refuses to be boxed in, he bends the rules he thinks are wrong. Loki is one with the outcasts. Loki is one with those up-turning their lives, changing the world, refusing to bend to societies norms.

Sigyn is the only who protects the rebels, the outcasts, and the ostracised. So many times I see Loki described as their protector, but he is not. Loki marches with them in the streets, he screams for justice and a place to be diffrent in peace just as loudly.

But when you've come home from a march, exhilarated and exhausted, don't you need someone who'll sit and listen to everything you saw and did, and order some takeout? That is Sigyn. When you log of the internet, crying, after arguing with some bigot online, don't you want someone to rant to, to cry to, someone to hold you and comfort you? That's Sigyn. When you are desperate and alone, cast out, you need someone to take you in, to accept your differences and love the non-conforming parts of you? That is Sigyn.

Loki may be on the front lines of cultural change, rebellion. He may be the one supping with outcasts, but Sigyn is the one who cooks the meal.

Sigyn's compassion is the cogs that keeps the machine of rebellion working. If Sigyn had not stayed with Loki in that cave, and held that bowl over his head to catch the poison, would Loki have ever made it to Ragnarök? Was it not for Sigyn's compassion, would Loki and his children have ended/changed the world?

I don't think so.

Sigyn is fighting alongside Loki and the rebels, but she fights with different means. Calm, caring means. Soft means. Patient means. Compassionate means.

Sigyn is the comfort we come home to when exhausted after fighting the world.

[did-you-know]

Scientists invented fabric that makes electricity from motion and sunlight. To create the fabric, researchers at Georgia Tech wove together solar cell fibers with materials that generate power from movement. It could be used in “tents, curtains, or wearable garments,” meaning we’d virtually never be without power. Source

[fridjitzu]

[scarletgoldenthorn]

Y'all are fucking idiots. Clean energy will NEVER be enough to replace the energy we have now. We’d have to tear down DOZENS of forests just to fit enough windmills and solar panels to get even a QUARTER (probably less, tbh) of the energy we can produce now.

[deniedmysign]

Yeah, sure, when they’ve already calculated that a few square miles of panels in the empty ass Arizona desert could power the whole nation. But ok, fracking and the diminishing petroleum supply is worlds better.

[inushiek]

Nevermind that windmills are often most efficient off the coast. There they take up no land, impact no trees, don’t pollute the water, and are conveniently located where winds are often strongest anyway.

And solar panels can literally be built into roofs of buildings and in empty areas like deserts. The sun strikes the Earth with the same amount of energy in an hour that our civilization uses in a year.

But yeah, it would be impossible for us to ever have enough energy from clean sources.

Durr hurr technology is bad and I would rather light shit on fire than have clean energy

[mllemusketeer]

I can also testify to the Arizona desert being empty ass. And the California desert. And the Nevada desert. 

[greaseonmymouth]

also…no forests were cleared to make space for Denmark’s windmills and yet they regularly produce so much power that it covers almost all of the country’s power needs. Oh, and then there’s the times when the windmills generate 140% of Denmark’s power needs. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/jul/10/denmark-wind-windfarm-power-exceed-electricity-demand

[aspiringwarriorlibrarian]

Friendly reminder that oil pipelines are a scam.

[blackwoolncrown]

The fact that anyone can believe a limited amount of dinosaur oil is more plentiful and efficient than moving air or fucking sunlight is proof that entire populations can be completely brainwashed.

[mckitterick]

And don’t forget wave and geothermal power.

The best place to install solar? Parking lots! Here’s the Community Mercantile in LFK:

Not only can it supply almost all the power needed for stores that build these, it also reduces ambient heating from the roasting pavement and keeps cars covered from the elements.

Everyone wins!

[solarpunkcast]

The ways we can produce sustainable, renewable energy grow by the year. There is zero reason to keep maintaining oil and natural gas industries!

[thepunkprophet]

The only reason we still use fossil fuels is that rich people are selfish.

[ladyacadementia]

The only reason we still use fossil fuels is that rich people are selfish.

[mishi-mish-mosh]

My uncle, Greg Nielson is one of the people who made fucking SOLAR PANELS into the size of GLITTER. I think I remember him saying they could go in paint, meaning you can paint CARS and BUILDINGS with them. Do you understand how much energy we could get some only a few square feet alone?

Here are some articles about them!

Brilliant 10: Greg Nielson Shrinks Solar Cells To The Size Of Glitter

Glitter-sized solar photovoltaics produce competitive results

Sandia National Laboratories scientists have developed tiny glitter-sized photovoltaic cells that could revolutionize the way solar energy i

[mishi-mish-mosh]

I would like to politely add that these glitter solar cells have been around since about 2009. So about 11 years. Just sayin.

[spooky-ghost-bubbles]

Grimoire- Finally another zodiac page, there’s two more I can post, and then I’ll be showing colour correspondents :) if you want any of the resources I use in these pages feel free to ask🌊

Also feel free to give me your opinion on my work :)

[bringiton]

LOVECRAFT COUNTRY: PHOTOGRAPHY TO VIDEO

DEPARTMENT STORE: Mobile - Alabama (1956), by Gordon Parks UNTITLED: Shady Grove - Alabama (1956), by Gordon Parks THE LOUISVILLE FLOOD: Louisville - Kentucky (1937), by Margaret Bourke-White

[snootyfoxfashion]

Embroidered Backpacks from Julia Linen tale

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[one-of-the-birds]

These are stunning!!