Ramblings Of a Time Traveler

Dominican/Puerto Rican. 30s. Pan. She/He/They. Writing Degree. History Major. Back on my bullshit.

[systlin]

Getting down on my knees and thanking the humans who invented dishwashers and washing machines.

[ihonestlydontknowwhattocallthis]

InsNe that dishwashers are more efficient and easier than just washing them manually but they also use less water. It’s a win win situation

[systlin]

They ALSO sterilize dishes, due to operating at a far higher temperature than human hands could ever tolerate. It's a win every way.

[systlin]

Made this post about 15 minutes after the repair guy who fixed the pump on my dishwasher packed up his tools and left, as the dishwasher was whirring along doing my dishes from that morning.

He said the exact same thing, which I did not know before that, so spreading this knowledge.

[fairycosmos]

not only is it not friday it’s not even thursday. or wednesday

[annabelle--cane]

stop. analyse that text through the lens of its author's intentions and original historical context. okay now take the author out back and kill them dead and analyse that text as though it were published by your mutual yesterday and is in direct conversation with the contemporary discourse that's most relevant to your life. okay now pick your favorite angle of interpretation and come up with the strongest possible argument against it. now imagine that the text is your best friend and that it means you well and that you naturally give it every benefit of the doubt because you're on its side and you want the best for it. now imagine that the text wants you dead and it'll eat you if you don't eat it first. now pretend that you found this text locked away in a cave with no evidence of when or where it came from and you have to divine its meaning solely through its internal coherence and nothing else. okay now address the elephant in the room aspect of the text you've been ignoring because you find it boring or confusing or uncomfortable and become the number one expert on it. now spend forty minutes assigning all the characters dnd classes with at least three sentences of reasoning each. okay now do the cha cha slide.

[melodies-stereo]

living is very extremely worth it and if youre a transgender woman reading this post you should really consider continuing to live

[shegayonmygirl]

laying in bed alone thinking about all the ways I've disappointed others in the past

[shegayonmygirl]

which is good and healthy

[shegayonmygirl]

they're missing out though cuz I got banging tits and they don't get to see them no more.

[libraford]

Googled something about quick hydration and it suggested big jug of water, couple tbsp pickle juice, dash of lime juice.

Its surprisingly tasty????

[libraford]

Pleased to report that after a day of this i am not longer craving caper brine and my mouth is not dry as usual. There's some good suggestions in the notes too that I want to try.

-ancient roman posca: water, red or white wine vinegar, honey, salt, herbs (coriander, mint, thyme)

-switchel: water, ginger, vinegar, sweetener, lemon, salt

-ayran: yogurt, water, salt, mint

-Agua pepino: water, cucumbers, lime, sugar, optional mint.

[libraford]

I have been reminded of:

-shrub: vinegar, sida water, elderberry (or other berry), sugar.

[libraford]

I have now been informed of

-sekanjabin: honey, vinegar, mint, water.

[libraford]

"Wow, I wonder why this post was popular this week."

-sees the reports of the heatwave in Europe-

"... ah."

[sweetfirebird]

So I saw some people remarking that they didn't understand why "liberals" are focusing on the disaster of the Reflecting Pool paint job, and ok so when you see stuff like that, I need you to remember we are dealing with a wannabe strongman. Anything that makes him look ineffectual, wasteful, and incredibly stupid-- you get that between your teeth and you don't let go. Especially *especially* when it involves laughing at him.

Also... it is funny. Except for the poor ducks, it's funny. Man lost a war to algae. His "American Flag Blue" is green and slimy and the paint is peeling off, and all before his big 4th of July show that no musicians want to play. It's funny. Point and laugh. That is fighting fascism, actually.

[espanolbot2]

Like, this is the same guy who is trying to hide that a judge made him take his name off the Kennedy Centre by hiding the building with a great big tarp to obscure where his name used to be.

Any public slight, no matter now petty, no matter now little it matters to everyone else, gets under his skin like those screwworms he accidentally let Musk reintroduce to Texas (causing the government to call a state of emergency as it's trashing their beef industry).

[elalmadelmar]

Mocking the Reflecting Pool is Springtime for Hitler.

Many neonazis and their ilk are okay with their icons being portrayed negatively as long as that negativity takes the form of a powerful and threatening figure. They like identifying themselves with Big Scary Destroyer. It's a power fantasy for them.

That's why, for instance, Trump's incoherence when speaking doesn't bother them. His incoherence is taken, by and large, very seriously. The man opens his mouth and drops a bunch of verbal turds - and the world panics, or at the least gets very, very nervous. Not unjustifiedly, it's true, but the power fantasy of being able to say whatever they want and get taken seriously is still vicariously fulfilled.

But the Reflecting Pool? The Reflecting Pool wasn't supposed to be broken. It's not something Trump destroyed for the sheer pleasure of destruction, which is how Trump's base experienced his gutting of the government via Musk. The Reflecting Pool is something that was supposed to be improved, which he boasted about improving, and instead it's clearly turned to muck. There's no power fantasy there. There's nothing to gloat over; it's just a damp gross failure. It isn't even a catastrophic failure! Tearing down the East Wing of the White House was dramatic, and had the value of making a big, indelible change to a national icon. No matter what happens, the East Wing as we knew it is gone. Power fantasy. By contrast, the Reflecting Pool? It's just fuckin dirty. It's gross. It's your neighbor's neglected cheap pool that's full of dead leaves and slime. An entirely pedestrian, grody, pathetic failure. It would literally be more salvageable as a PR thing for Trump if it got hit by a meteor and turned into a smoking crater.

And that's why we're riding that fucker so hard. This is what's under the power fantasy. Deep down, he's just pathetic. And that's what Mel Brooks understood with Springtime for Hitler. You don't fight the Nazis by making them big bad scary evil guys. You fight the Nazis (when actual weapons aren't a present option) by making them a laughingstock. There is no way to derive a power fantasy from being the object of derision.

[anglaised]

white tumblr liberals if this site existed in 1800s america: idkkkkk i know slavery is bad but like uh i dont like when slaves say they want to kill plantation owners thats kinda icky like….uhh wheres ur empathy..? they are giving you a job…no seriously i know slavery is bad but like if you do a revolt and kill them for raping your women and using your children as alligator bait and skinning people alive to use their body as furniture you will just continue the cycle like you’ll be even worse than them! you cant hate them! wheres ur compassion dude they probably feel rlly bad about whipping you it probably gives them bad vibes

[jackdawwhat]

how I love Boston

[massachusetts-official]

Official Post of Massachusetts

[the-cheshire-cat-grin]

Lil nas x coming back during pride month to tell us hes been taking care of his physical and mental health, finishing rehab and getting treatment for bipolar disorder, and telling us that he is excited to not only make new music but also just to live his life???? And during mens mental health awareness month????? Oh i missed him bad

[homunculus-argument]

A sick wizard castle with a nondescript van painted on the side. A gothy pin-up girl with the portrait of a random trucker tattooed on her thigh. A bathroom-themed beach vacation. A beautiful brightly coloured cupcake that tastes like soap.

[quite-possibly-haunted]

Jesus with a portrait of my grandma on his wall. A scimitar-wielding fantasy protagonist reading about the adventures of sixth-grader Kelsey. A National Park with a framed print of somebody’s living room.

[strawberryraviegutz]

i will never understand the hate towards “quirky Disney female characters” as if there aren’t women and girls that behave in similar ways irl and may relate to these characters.

same mfs who scream about “we need more cringe and or neurodivergent coded female MCs” and then complain about her “quirkiness”. i think there’s a lot of internalized stuff that a lot of yall may need to unpack there.

and i understand being upset about the owl house but u guys also need to remember that there are REAL PPL who create these projects. Disney is just the one that OWNS them. imagine being the creator of hexed who worked extremely hard on their creation and finally ready to release it out into the world, only for ppl online to tear apart the female mc for being “quirky” or “cringe” and not giving it a chance before ur full creation is even out yet.

what happened to supporting real artists over ai??? plus the only resemblance to the owl house that is shown so far is that the female mc is an outcast at school due to being the weird kid, is a poc, discovers she has magical powers, and goes to another magical world.

the owl house doesn’t own that concept and there are plenty of stories that have done this exact thing long before hexed and the owl house and there will continue to be more in the future.

luz never had any magical powers while she was in the human world unlike Billie who discovered that she had them in the school bathroom. also are we gonna ignore/forget the way ppl treated Luz when the owl house first came out?

ppl talked about her the same way ya’ll are talking about Billie, slapping on the “quirky Disney female character” label on her and calling her “annoying” and “cringe”.

Disney sucks for how they treated the owl house,but don’t take ur rage out on this movie and the creator of hexed who most definitely had nothing to do with it.

also..u do realize that Dana Terrence is not the sole creator of Knights of Guinevere right? not only that but it was already confirmed that the message of KoG was not to poke fun at ppl who still like Disney nor to poke fun at the human creators behind Disney projects.

it’s about still having love for all these different characters from these different IPs from since u were a child and still continuing to love them, while ALSO recognizing and being sad about the monster the company behind these IPs have become thanks to corporate greed.

yall wonder why we never get any original ideas out of Hollywood and or animation and get nothing but remakes and sequels(even tho nothing is ever completely original), and yet this is how yall react to anything original that comes out..

[byjove]

Everyone makes fun of the millennial overpriced burger restaurants but the worst part is that they got you hooked on some bullshit and promptly shut down because their polycule broke up or whatever. You’ll never get to eat the caramelized onion apple parmesan sex bomb burger again. And it was $23 and good.

[kvothes]

a good thread

[this-is-trans-joy]

i’m watching the backrooms movie on a sketchy website and it took me a full 45 minutes to realise that the grainy audio and footage and occasional soft laughter and the shadows of people moving in the foreground every so often was not a stylistic choice by the director and is in fact because someone ripped the whole thing directly from their cinema.

i was genuinely sitting there thinking “holy shit this is such a unique creative decision i think it’s so awesome that the director prioritised cinema goers by referencing the theatre itself in the movie in order to confuse people and emphasise the weirdness of liminal spaces” until it dawned on me that having a watermark across the screen the entire time probably wasn’t a conscious choice by kane parsons.

i do still believe i’m watching the ideal version though because there’s something about watching found footage of the backrooms and a random shadow of a man appears on screen only to disappear a moment later and quiet nonsensical voices coming from somewhere inside your headphones and camera work that always looks like it was filmed on a camcorder that really works for this movie and I’m devastated to find out that this isn’t Normal.

(It is weird that this is the only movie I’ve ever watched on this site that has been a direct rip though like… of all the movies to have strange, altered footage….)

[knighthearts]

happy pride month for it/its users, polyamorous people, xenogenders, non-transitioning trans people, and other "weird" identities. btw

[slewfootwitch]

The thing about radical kindness (or any kindness, for that matter) is that there are going to be times when someone or something makes you regret it. There are going to be times when you show someone empathy and grace that they don't "deserve". There are going to be times when someone takes that kindness and uses it against you. The world doesn't magically transform into a perfect place when you decide to choose kindness and people will take advantage of it. People will continue to be shitty.

But the thing is...that's not a flaw of kindness. That's not a you problem. That's a them problem. People who are happy with themselves and their lives don't go out of their way to misuse someone's kindness or grace. The "normal" response to kindness or empathy is not to find a way to exploit it. People who are happy with themselves don't look for ways to hurt people for no reason. Kindness will never be the problem. No matter what some shitty person decides to do with it. It should go without saying not to be a doormat, yes. Don't allow people to treat you badly just for the sake of being kind. But also don't let shitty people make you bitter because of how they treated you when you were kind.