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
π¬ 24Β Β π 4637Β Β β€οΈ 9815Β Β·Β Ok. It's pretty simple. This generalizes to other forms of artistic expression as well, like graphic art, sketching
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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 MusΓ¦us HΓΈigΓ₯rd
Charles Littlejohn
Rachel Corrie
Aaron Bushnell
Sophie Scholl
Irena Sendler
Eugeniusz Εazowski
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 GarcΓa
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
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 β¦ 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.
π¬ 2Β Β π 22026Β Β β€οΈ 59497Β Β·Β the shit you do to make a dying phone work when you dont wanna buy a new phone is amazing. my phone no longer charg
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Last year I met a retired lawyer and went on some long walks with her. She's an interesting person.
I think she was in her late 50s, just a little bit older than me. She retired for mental health reasons, but she was also kind of close enough to retirement age (and she had a pretty lucrative career) where she could afford to do it.
Anyway, we were walking on a dedicated walk path that was effectively a sidewalk going through a curated lawn, and she began throwing worms back into the grass. There had been a lot of rain, and the worms ended up on the concrete, as they often do.
I do the same thing, so I understood the impulse ("it matters to the starfish"), but I was surprised that she would bother, and we had a small conversation about it, and it developed that she was completely unfamiliar with the concept of worms leaving the grass after a rain and then drying out and dying on the concrete. She was very surprised. A woman in her late 50s. She'd truly never seen this before.
It makes me wonder about what kind of life you can lead where you don't know about such a mundane phenomenon. What have I missed? What are my dessicating sidewalk worms? I hope I find out before I'm gone
wish everyone could perceive the Vague Concepts in my head because i just know you would looove my Vague Concepts. you would think im so smart if you saw the misty clouds of Vague Concepts floating around in my head. #MyVagueConcepts
Hit us with some concepts, please, my... oh. Deer. Maybe an impact metaphor like "hit us" is poorly chosen, sorry. But I am honestly curious about your vague concepts
the BEST THING about America is that one of their timezones is called mountain time. i cannot tell you how funny that is to me. it sure is always time for mountains in one fourth of america
ok I gotta admit that when reading the ewc/ehc comics I sometimes skip to the last panel because the letters taken completely out of context can be even funnier. I know part of the joke is how the eridians justify what they said, but I love just being hit with βDo NOT touch yourself. We will do it for you <3β or some bs, itβs like going from 0% to 100% in a split second.
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recently when im tempted to say 'i'm gonna kill myself' i try to correct it into saying "im gonna walk into the river and become a trout" or some other form of that. this is my new thing
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Why are there just blobs of fake rubber meat that a bunch of unrelated microbes can build in the dirt but they've only ever been found in china and can't be classified any further than "biological objects"
The "virgin blood" is not blood of a virgin, but rather new, unprocessed blood. Whether or not the person has had sex does not make the blood un-magic.
Similar to virgin olive oil, virgin metal, or virgin hair.
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finally hopping on this trend! the creator of this template in particular has mentions off i think but their name is on the template right there. i dont remember who started the trend tho T-T
this one honestly isnt that good but i just liked the idea of the eridan neutral committee that sends messages that dont technically have anything wrong with them but are still kind of threatening with no context.
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