"I have a mind amazed at its own discomposure." — Elizabeth Bennett, 1980 Pride & Prejudice mini-series (BBC)
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practicing self care less out of self love and more for the sheer logical reasoning of it’d be kinda stupid of me to expect myself to be able to function without proper maintenance
“oh i don’t deserve rest and relaxation, i haven’t done enough, i haven’t earned it” and my car’s breaks don’t deserve break fluid because they aren’t breaking well enough to earn it. that’s what you sound like!!!!!
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With google search officially switching to full AI model, now more than ever it's important to fact check and source everything back to the original books. Relying on wikis and other search results or poorly researched/unsubstantiated summaries was always a bad way to learn, but now it can't be trusted by any metric. Just return to the source.
yes, this - which is why it's (always perennially yesterday today tomorrow) absolutely vital to include sources when you share information, news, facts, claims, etc — including screencaps — here. If the OP didn't include a link and/or citation, and if you don't have time to add them, DO NOT REBLOG IT I BEG YOU.
Fuuuck I just loss 20000 dollars in adverisement revenue and potential sales when that guy over there didn’t look at my flyer because he was talking to the girl he was walking with. The sensible option here is to ban talking while walking since it’s literally theft.
alright I've got to do some quick math to explain attitudes towards AI to my boss.
we're looking to create an AI policy, and when we were talking about this, my boss (older millennial) was genuinely shocked to hear that younger people do not (seem) to view AI positively (a la the recent commencement speakers being booed)
please rb for larger sample size!
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What is your age, and do you feel AI is a net positive or net negative in our lives today?
Further context: Durham city council (Reform UK) cut funding and support for Pride. The Durham Miner's Association and other trade unions raised enough money for Durham Pride 2026 to go ahead - a direct call back to when Lesbian and Gays Support the Miners (LGSM) raised money for mining communities when Margaret Thatcher seized union funding during the miner strikes of 1984-85.
At the 1985 Labour party meet, the motion to support LGBT rights as a party was passed due to a block vote from mining unions.
Stephen Guy, the chair of the Durham Miners’ Association, said that when it became apparent Durham Pride was under threat, he took it upon himself to “encourage the trade union movement to step up and do the right thing, and stand shoulder to shoulder with the LGBT+ community […] They not only raised funds for us, but came to our communities, uplifted our spirits when they were down, and showed their solidarity.”
[Image described: a facebook post from Durham Miners Association that reads:
“We call upon all former miners and their families to join the Durham Miners' Association at Durham Pride UK from 10:30 am to march from Palace Green through the streets of Durham. Mike Jackson ,founder of Lesbian and Gays support the Miners, will march with our banner. We will never forget the support and solidarity the LGBT+ community gave us during the 1984/85 miners' strike. It is now our time to return that solidairty.
"United we stand, divided we fall".
"An injury to one, is an injury to all". “
The post also contains a picture of a diverse group of people marching in a Pride parade under a banner with the text “Men of Merit” and “History of Loyalty” surrounding portraits of two men associated with the Miners (I couldn’t find their exact relationship with a quick google). Their names are under their portraits: David Guy and David Hopper.
The reblog contains a photo of Stephen Guy, the chair of the Durham Miners Association]
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this site gets accused of being way too usamerican a lot but i wonder what the actual proportion is
are you usamerican
yes
no
some other nuanced answer (pls elaborate in the tags i’m nosy)
Voting ended onJun 5
[image ID : a picture of a burning American flag with text overlaid that reads “yes i understand i phrased that wrong / [in all caps] OP is not American or an anglophone / P.S. “usamerican” means the same thing as “american” but minus the US monopoly on An Entire Continent”. around the picture are two times the word “yank” crossed out in red. end ID.]
More images, a detailed description, and an audio description of this gorgeous work are available at the museum link in the original post.
According to the site, the piece was (unfortunately) intended as a monument to William Henry Vanderbilt because of his wealth and international influence. I like it much better separated from that legacy and imagine it as tribute to the beauty of the heavens and earth.
I spent about 15 minutes gazing at it on my last visit to the Met. If the museum gift shop sold a full-size replica (the top is about 1x1.5 meters), I'd sell all my other furniture to buy one.
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Elementary fans I need assistance. Does anyone remember the fanedit (I assume it was a fan edit) where all of the times Sherlock wakes up Joan are put together and there's voiceover & graphics that make it seem like a commercial for a pill or something that helps you wake up?
I have tried various times over the years to seat h for it but no combination of "elementary Watson wake up commercial" gets me what im looking for.
update: someone found the video (see notes). The original link doesn't work for me, but @glassfullofsass's reblog does: https://glassfullofsass.tumblr.com/post/818089846766796800/introducing-holmes-the-revolutionary-sleep-aid
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Sometimes I wonder if "Smoking is aesthetic!" people are just really young and don't remember what it was like when smoking in public places was far more common.
(Fair disclaimer: I lost close relatives to lung cancer and pneumonia worsened by long term smoking damage, so I was never going to like it. But I'm just talking about the aesthetic.)
The yellow cigarette butts everywhere, killing wildlife and making everything messy and ugly--it was the most common litter. The way nicotine coats furniture and windows in a sickly film. The stench of it, the way if you went to a nightclub Saturday night you would wash your hair three times Sunday morning and it would still stink from absorbed smoke. The way food tastes different/worse when the smell of people smoking fills the room. What it tastes like to kiss someone who has been smoking. Ash trays full of ash and butts. The way a smoker's perspiration smells funky, and then being on a bus or train on a hot day surrounded by people smelling like that.
It was all just really grim, and every now and then I am struck with how much cleaner and more pleasant it is to be in an outdoor mall or university campus or pub, places that used to be crammed with people smoking. God, even the relative lack of cigarette butts alone is miraculous.
Aesthetic my arse. But it's easier to romanticise something reasonably rare.
i wish there was an easier way to tell the difference between an "if it sucks hit da bricks" situation and a "sometimes being an adult means doing things that you dont wanna" situation
The best answer to this that I've seen is "You are free to do whatever you like. You must only live with the consequences."
"If it sucks, hit da bricks" is for when you realize that you actually definitely can live with the consequences of Not Doing The Thing.
"Sometimes being an adult means doing things that you don't wanna" is for when you've thought it over and it turns out you would strongly prefer NOT to live with the consequences of Not Doing The Thing.
That meme of posting gifs from your favourite movies without including identifying text makes no sense to me.
My dash shows me all kinds of posts from folks I purposely chose to follow because you all have interesting things to share here. Why would I not want to know what movies you enjoy especially if they happen to be films I have not seen and probably cannot identify from the gifs you carefully selected. Several folks on my dash have posted theirs and I don't mean to single out anybody specifically. (You've all annoyed me equally is what I'm saying, possibly sarcastically.)
And yes I could message everyone individually to beg for scraps but I'm too annoyed by the premise of the meme to do it. grumble.
the fact that "eco" and "ethical" are two separate concerns in the global north, and that "eco" is a much more popular concern, with many "eco" products being made in actual sweatshops, is a big part of why i am The Joker
if you think this is an exaggeration or splitting hairs where it doesn't matter:
i used to work at a Local Organic Produce store that's popular with the lefties in my city who are interested in food justice. i quit for a lot of reasons, mostly the boss, but something i will always remember is one of our suppliers coming in to drop off produce, being told her check wasn't ready, and her laughing and responding it didn't matter -- even a low bank account was more than enough to pay the migrants who picked her produce. i am not filling in any blanks here. she said this.
after quitting, this was a common story i told people about my time there. some then became annoyed at me, acting like i was a wokescold trying to undermine the store's "eco" mission with unrelated "ethical" concerns. but, like -- if food justice isn't for the people making food, who the fuck is it for?
like, don't get me wrong. my contention here is that the things go hand in hand, and that something which is unethical isn't actually eco. after all, humans are a part of the fucking ecosystem, and if a product can only be made by unsustainably exploiting humans, then it's unsustainable. doesn't matter which chemicals were used in making it, or whether or not animals were factory farmed.
they *cannot* be separated. a product cannot be either eco or ethical — it must be both. a product that is made through human suffering cannot be eco for the reasons you said; a product that causes human suffering by contributing to the destruction of the ecosystem cannot be ethical. it must be both and we must insist on both
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I love hobbies that get you out of doors. Did you know you can volunteer as a contributor on findagrave.com and you can take photographs of gravesites and memorials to help people track burial and geneaology records?
fun fact: debates about if being transgender is a choice or not are irrelevant, because the fundamental truth is of bodily autonomy - a right that should never be seen as conditional or requiring a suitable, immutable condition.
people who are trans deserve the right to transition, not because it’s a medical treatment or because dysphoria can be classified as a mental illness but because we’re human beings who should be allowed to do whatever the fuck we want to our own bodies! this is a basic human right!