Just make something up! ... ... I'm an old man around here, over 50. He/him, pretty thick skinned, looking for interesting things. Zionists DNI. Nice to meet you
Hi! My pinned post is very long. Table of contents:
General guide
Break
My cure for writer's block
My list of genuinely heroic people. If you're bummed out, this is for you
A couple more positive things to cheer you (or me) up
Personal fave hashtag
Useful internet skills
How to get a cheap used smartphone
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I have divided it with ellipses, like this:
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So if you're bored of a part of it, please scroll down to the next ellipsis. Thanks for coming and I hope you're doing well. It's a tough world out there and this is a slightly silly place (Tumblr or the Universe? Deliberately ambiguous! Ha!), for the most part. I hope you like it here (the universe or Tumblr? Again ambiguous! Ha!) as much as I do.
I'm going to put a break here so I don't have to keep scrolling past this huge long post, but there's a bunch of stuff under the break, stuff to make you feel better, my cure for writer's block, stuff that makes me feel better. Here comes the break
If you're here for my 100% surefire method for getting out of writer's block, I've written it up several times on the blog; here's a link to a pretty good version. Just scroll down from the meme
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This is my list of (IMHO) genuinely heroic people. I keep this list so that when I'm feeling uninspired I can pick a name at random, look them up, and be inspired. My memory kinda sucks so I've usually forgotten about them in the interim so it's like hearing some inspiring story for the first time. Please feel free to use this list for that purpose or for whatever purpose helps you. This is a private thing I've been absent-mindedly curating for years, so it's a little discombobulated; maybe I should put it in alphabetical order, for example. Since it works for what I use it for, though, I've never had the need for that, although there may be some duplicates specifically because of that.
If you have any additions, I'd love to hear them.
If you know of a reason somebody should not be on here, I'd love to hear that too. There are some controversial choices here, some people I've hemmed and hawed about, but in the end they're still on the list.
The first person on the list is a person who's still alive and I know personally. I'm going to call her Guinevere. That's not her real name. But she deserves to be on this list and unfortunately no one else will know who she is, so this isn't really going to work for anybody but me, but Guinevere is on the list because she is my absolute in real life fucking hero. I can't tell you her real name though because I'm not going to dox her so it's Guinevere
In no particular order:
Einar Musæus Høigård
Charles Littlejohn
Rachel Corrie
Aaron Bushnell
Sophie Scholl
Irena Sendler
Eugeniusz Łazowski
Mary Schweitzer. I know who she is but I'm including her anyway. Takes guts to do what she did
The survivors of Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571. This entry inspired by a moot. You know who you are, buddy. Thank you
Temar Boggs
Juan Pujol García
Carmelita Torres
Warrant Officer Hugh Thompson
Robert Smalls
Temar Boggs
Henrietta Swan Leavitt
Aitzaz Hassan Bangash Shaheed. Might already be on here; I need to alphabetize this list
Sal Khan. Yeah, I'm including him
Irena Sendler
Neerja Bhanot
Iqbal Masih
Tank man
Stephen Ruth. The guy with the cameras. He's no tank man, but why not, he's on the list
Willem Arondéus
Malala Yousafzai
Narendra Dabholkar
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Ignaz Semmelweis
Nellie Bly
The survivors of the Andes Flight disaster
Sophie Scholl
Charles Hazlitt Upham
Wang Weilin
John Rabe (? ... Kind of questionable for obvious reasons. He saved a couple hundred thousand Chinese people though. I don't know. He was what he was.)
Baron Jean Michel P.M.G. de Selys Longchamps, DFC
Aitzaz Hasan Bangash
Daniel Hale
Hannie Schaft
Reality Winner … I guess
Aki Ra
Norman Borlaug
Neil Armstrong
Stanislav Petrov
Vasili Alexandrovich Arkhipov
William Kamkwamba
Donald A Henderson
Freddie Oversteegen
Daryl Davis and his collection of robes
Jacinto Convit
Sir Nicholas Winton
August Landmesser
Jonas Salk
Carl Lutz
Giorgio Perlasca
Derrick Nelson, principal of Westfield High School in New Jersey
Giles Corey
Chiune Sugihara
Sophie Scholl
Ronald McNair? Why not
Khader Adnan
Mordechai Vanunu
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Corollary:
I'm not sure how to phrase "the opposite of the above list," so I'm just going to call it the opposite of the above list. Genuinely villainous people? Too easy, and honestly not what I'm going for. Anyway, I'm going to leave out the obvious like Hitler, Trump and Gaddafi because they're, well, obvious. Actually I'm not really sure what the goal of this list is so I'm just kind of winging it. People not to emulate?
Marvin Heemeyer
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Are you still having a bad day? https://i.imgur.com/hHA3yaR.mp4
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edit: I want to stick this here so every time I look at my profile I am reminded of this person and that there is still happiness happening somewhere. This guy remembers the Shire
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Hashtags I like to use:
#i love this
I had the idea to start using this and it didn't occur to me until I remembered to do it the second time that it's probably already on here. I never actually have clicked on it to see what other people have contributed, I was just using it to mark things for myself. But these are all things that I genuinely enjoy, that make me a little bit happy for some reason, maybe they're jokes or maybe they're sweet or I don't know, could be anything at all. But I love this
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And here's a post about useful internet skills. This isn't so much about how to use search engines etc, it's more about how to behave online. I think it can help people so I'm going to include this link here.
Tumblr is a place to express yourself, discover yourself, and bond over the stuff you love. It's where your interests connect you with your
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How to get a cheap used smartphone, a trivial trick I figured out for myself.
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Really enjoying the idea that Grace's angry outburst in Denmark became a meme. The Angry Scientist. It shows up in discussions of egregiously bad sci-fi movies and arguments with antivaxxers and astrophage deniers, in forms ranging from pristine screencap to super-crunchy jpeg. There's an animated parody in the style of Ace Attorney. His students use it without realizing it's him.
In his first week on the Gansu six different people asked him about it and four asked Stratt why she hired Angry Scientist Meme guy.
Grace's enclosure has windows with signs outside saying things like
'Savior Teacher Lover of Life from Across the Stars Friend Grace
For the benefit of our dear alien you currently stand in a beam of 'light' so he can 'see' you. Please offer a wave or a couple taps to say hello. Please only a few taps if he doesn't tap back as it can be a stressor. Thank you for engaging with Savior Teacher Lover of Love from Across the Stars Friend Grace.'
And not only does this boost morale for Grace its a huge attraction for the Eridians. Even after years and years people come to wave and tap with Grace everyday. Fourth favorite place in the biosphere after his classroom, his ocean (still blows his mind that he has an ocean-that they made him an ocean- that Rocky and Adrian made him an ocean), and his house.
Rocky thinking Grace literally said “I have to go and die” on one of their first interactions is so funny to me. Like imagine meeting an alien after almost half a century alone and then they go “ah, bad timing, I’m gonna go lay down and never get up. Nice meeting ya! :)”
Grandma and Grandpa had a shotgun wedding when Grandma was 19. Grandpa went off to Vietnam which left her, a severely mentally young mother, alone. Never heard a complaint about her side piece Jeff. He seemed to make her happy and for that I salute him.
having anti role models is a beautiful thing. it's not easy to live up to someone else's behavior but it is easy to lasso yourself into behaving right when you realize you're reminding yourself of the worst person youve ever met in your entire life
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The trolley is about to run over all sentient life in the galaxy. You cannot switch the tracks, but you can still save everyone’s lives by pulling one of three levers, all of which involve sacrificing yourself. The red lever will destroy all trolleys, but will also kill you as well as all public transportation across the galaxy. The blue lever will merge your own consciousness with all trolleys, allowing you to control them and stop the trolley from running everyone over. The green lever will use your body as a catalyst to synthesize organic life and public transportation together - organic life will no longer be stuck in the cycle of creating public transportation that rebels against its creators, and both forms of life will finally be free.
Okay, as much as I love Rocky extending Grace's life without telling him, consider: Rocky *does* tell Grace, Grace just then somehow manages to like. Horrendously misinterpret what the treatment is actually for. Like.
Eridian Doctor: We went through the human genome and found a bunch of places with old broken DNA repair mechanisms so we came up with a gene editing therapy that fixes them in order to extend your lifespan.
Grace: *flashbacks to when Rocky found out that humans can experience long term effects from lower doses of radiation exposure and Grace wasn't being as careful as he should have been back when they first met because he still thought this was gonna be a suicide mission*
Grace (internally): Oh, so cancer prevention! Got it!
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Girl said she’d let me see her DDs but when I got to her house she just had her shirt off and she didn’t even have a ps2 let alone a copy of digital devil saga. Waste of my damn time
