Stuff and more stuff
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Copy of Mask pattern This is a Google Drive folder of some DIY mask patterns. I use the “Clover” pattern, as it lets me easily add an n95 filter and a wire to fit for the nose.
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Hey, PSA for my fellow disabled people: UPS workers are trying to negotiate a new contract, and it looks like it’s leading to a strike soon. Now, I am absolutely all for this, they need safe working conditions and should strike if need be, but for us?
Please contact your doctors and make sure you’re prepared in any way possible. This will affect many of you, whether that’s through med deliveries, oxygen tanks, or other one-use supplies. If you live in America, try to get in contact with an insurance case worker for resources and advice if you’re able.
Stay safe, and hope that the precaution isn’t necessary.
One of my meds has to be delivered overnight UPS premiere gold refrigerated… time to call up the company and get this sorted.
I fully support the strike, because I’ve been following the development and the conditions they work under are truly egregious (I don’t know why OSHA hasn’t cracked down honestly), but I’ve also literally seen the drivers about to collapse in the heat. But it makes me furious how fragile our medical supply system is that one strike like this could literally be putting so many people in grave danger. That’s on the medical supply and shipping companies, not the UPS workers OR the medical providers.
(via andhumanslovedstories)
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I still can’t get over the name Goldenloin
Like, he’s your main character’s lover and he’s named Sir Greatinbed? Sir Fucksalot?? Sir Sexhaver??? He’s the main gay love interest and his name’s Sir Longshlong??? 10/10 no notes oscar nomination in the mail
(via lord-heirop)
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Aldric awkwardly finds out he’s not getting the most of his painkillers because of his messed up constitution. Suddenly makes a lot more sense why it’s distributed under such shifty means…
(via lord-heirop)
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theblackknightofworcestershire:
Rewatching Truman Show for the first time in a long time, and the detail that’s stuck with me this time is the set design.
The characters drive modern cars and hock modern products, but it’s all presented with a veneer of 1950s wholesome applecheeked Americana. Truman’s life is presented as an escape for the audience from the drudgery of the modern day, and the aesthetic they’ve chosen for this is the post-war economic boom. This is the simple time, the movie says. This is the good time. Doesn’t the modern day suck? Let’s go back and see our friends from the days when life was good.
And it’s a lie. Truman’s life is a lie, and the image of white picket fenced suburbia they’ve presented is a lie. It’s an elaborate construction to recreate a false memory that’s comfortable for advertisers. The movie is a satire, but it’s also a very blatant statement against the nostalgia for a golden age which never existed. It’s a lie. It doesn’t exist.
I don’t know. I’m spitballing. I’m biased because I despise mid-20th century Americana and I naturally treat it with hostility, but it’s very gratifying to see a movie kind of agree with me.
Let me tell you a story.
Earlier in the summer, I went to Florida with my friend. We decided to visit a town nearish to where we were staying called Seaside, as we had heard it was a cute place. What I did not know at the time was that Seaside is the place where they filmed The Truman Show. It was a “master-planned community,” constructed in the 80s to be the perfect beach town.
Seaside, FL
Seahaven
And yes, it really does look Like That. Not just in their tourist-agency photos, in real life it looks like that. Arguably the irl Seaside is even prettier than movie Seahaven, because the the office buildings where Truman works don’t exist; the town is 100% cutesy homes and little shops.
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the furries have unionized. good
Genuinely. Join the union(s) in question.
You have the right to have your voice be heard. You have the right to have a say in how you and your fellow crafters & artists are treated.
The more folks join, the more folks care, the more power you all will have.
(via araceil)
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bonus(just an important image)
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If you love Tree Law, the beloved subreddit is open again. I highly recommend sorting by top/all time.
To clarify after some questions:
(American) Tree Law is very satisfying because the cases often involve someone damaging trees that don’t belong to them, usually for an aesthetic, mercenary, petty, and/or spiteful reason. However, American tree law comes down like a HAMMER on such people, and they will get mighty fines. If the tree dies, in fact, they’ll be on the hook to replace the whole thing, and as it turns out, trees ain’t cheap. As the article above summarizes one incident in Reddit terms:
To rephrase it as an AITA post: am I the asshole if I cut down 32 trees on my neighbor’s property, but instead of just charging me a $32,000 fine, now they’re going to make me build a road and find transplanted, equally mature trees to replant?
Tree Law is perhaps one of the few branches (I didn’t even mean that to be a pun) of American law where self-entitled wrongdoers WILL face consequences. NBC Universal wants to maul a row of city-owned ficus trees to deprive striking workers of shade during a heat wave? Oh boy.
(via dduane)
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Hello! I hope you're having a good day.
I was browsing Wikipedia at random when I decided to investigate fairy tales. That in turn led me to the phrase, 'Once upon a time.'
Right below the introductory section is a section dedicated to similar story starting phrases in other languages.
I was scrolling through the list when the Irish section caught my eye because of how long it was in comparison to the others. I was wondering if you might know if this is actually real or if it's someone just making it up?
I genuinely have no idea. Can anyone else around here who’s got info chime in on this?
(I have to say, though, that the ones after the first one all sound as if they came from separate individual stories, rather than being widely-used “template” openings [or endings].)
Have asked people who’ll know the answer to the above and will post reply when it comes.
Interestingly, in Old French prose romances (13th c onwards, the Arthurian legends, etc.), authors typically try to provide (largely false) authenticity to their narratives. They’ll refer to a previous version of the tale, or a (likely non-existent) book from which they’ve drawn it. And the formula they’ll use to introduce each branch of the story is “Or dit li contes que…”, which translates as “Now the story says that…” And, at the end of the tale, there’ll be some kind of concluding remark to the effect that “This is the one true version of this tale and any other is a pack of lies” 😆
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Listen to me. Listen to me. Listen to me. Listen to me.
I know there is a lot of discourse ™ around this right now but listen to me
sometimes you do just have to lie to children.
If, when my toddler is, you know, toddling around saying “mama? Big ball?”
If I were lean down and say “unfortunately the big beach ball for some reason fills you with such an unadulterated rage that is beyond human comprehension that you scream until you pass out, so mama had to remove the beach ball from the premises until you can better regulate your emotions” she would simply stare at me like I had 3 heads full of equal betrayal.
So, for now, instead “big ball went night night!”
Please understand when I say “removed the ball from the premises” I mean I popped it in a fit of exhausted confusion. I murdered the beach ball.
See I’ve lied to you all too and it was better this way.
you can’t just leave this in the tags etc.
You can’t be funnier then me on my own posts, I’m in tears from laughter
(via blowery)
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ITS DONE GO WATCH IT UWU
