Be The Light

Also Audrey was a humanitarian until her death, though ill with cancer, she continued her work for UNICEF, travelling to Somalia, Kenya, the United Kingdom, Switzerland, France and the United States.

Here’s another nice one.

Sometimes I think about how insane the ATLA plot is for a children’s show…like???

And I feel like I should clarify: This post is not a complaint; it’s a celebration of the intense elements.

getting into the shower: evil evil evil

Now, see, if you were talking a $10,000 sedan, sure. I would not be shocked if it were low quality.

So I recently started working as a Vehicle Condition Report Writer. I’ve been on the job for a short enough time that I’ve only done one actual tesla, But they sell a lot of cars through my company. Fucking worst car I have ever CR’d. The superficial damage that is most of my job was minimal, but just navigating how to make the car work was the fucking worst. Nothing on the smart key is fucking labeled so I just had to guess until things worked. And one of the things I have to do is take a picture of the engine. Guess how you open the hood. If you guessed go through like 3 separate menus on a 2′x4′ touch screen, you would be correct. Unlike every other car, where you only have to find a lever sometimes hidden around the driver’s side door. What even are you supposed to do if the battery dies because the electronics go bad. Can’t jump it because you can’t pop the hood. Can’t pop the hood because the battery is dead. And if that touch screen goes bad, you’re just fucked so bad you can’t even use the car.

Everything Musk’s company produces looks like it was designed by science fiction fans who stopped at “wouldn’t it be cool if...” and never took an engineering class in their life.

i learned about Marion Stokes, a Philadelphia woman who began taping whatever was on television in 1979 and didn’t stop until her death in 2012.. The 71,000 VHS and Betamax tapes she made are the most complete collection preserving this era of TV. They are being digitized by the Internet Archive. (x)

i feel like this is selling her a bit short tbh.  It’s not like she was a random woman who decided to tape ‘whatever’ was on television.  She was a civil rights activist and archivist, who was extremely concerned about preserving history.  She believed that, by taping television, she would be preserving history EXACTLY as it was perceived at the time; she didn’t want the detail in the news to disappear with time.  And she was RIGHT.

The Marion Stokes Movies and Video Collection may be found on the Internet Archive here.