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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omg i missed the anniversary of me joining tiktok, hitting 35k, and then quitting after 2 months bc i'm not built for any social media that isn't tumblr LMAO
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sometimes i think about the fact that when stratt finally gets ahold of the video diaries, her hair is of course already graying, her skin looser, eyes wiser but much more exhausted.
just like everyone else around her who knew grace.
carl’s hair is gray, there are bags under his eyes. the agents and the engineers have prominent lines on their faces. the diplomats are balding.
but she watches grace. she hears his laugh that doesn’t have the strain that hers does nowadays.
he is as young as the night, as warm as the sun. just as witty as she remembers.
as brave as the day he ran away.
as soft as the day she killed him.
at least i never have to hear you say, “i told you so.”
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This month people have been tearing Flock cameras off their poles.
This month people have been tearing Flock cameras off their poles. Perched above public streets, they are birdlike things, weatherproof, and they photograph every passing car and file it in a searchable national database.
Somebody cut two of them in half at Washington Avenue and Westcott in Houston, spray-painted the wreckage, and left an American flag on one of them. Police were notified on the morning of the Fourth of July.
Somebody severed a camera in Rutherfordton, North Carolina. The police department posted the photograph itself and collected more than twenty thousand comments. “Not all heroes wear capes.” “Give them a medal.”
Here is what the cameras do when nobody cuts them down. Cops use them to hunt immigrants and to follow ICE targets across state lines and to find women who ended pregnancies in states where that is a crime and to watch exes and to watch women they want, without a warrant and without a judge. A cop types a reason in a box and the box does not check.
A man in Burleson, Texas, told deputies his girlfriend had taken abortion pills. He showed them the photographs, the FedEx envelope, the instructions. Deputies opened a death investigation into a non-viable fetus, and the district attorney told them the state could not charge her, and they searched anyway: 83,345 cameras across 6,809 networks, a month of everywhere she had been. The reason they typed was had an abortion, search for female. The search reached Illinois and Washington, where what she did was legal. They found her in Dallas.
She came into the sheriff’s office a week later, and they thought she had come to explain the fetus, and she had come to report that the man who called them had put a gun to her head.
A sheriff in Jerome County, Idaho ran his wife’s plate more than seven hundred times in three months. He typed the same reason every time. Test. The attorney general found nothing to charge him with. He retired in April.
The Institute for Justice counts at least twenty-two officers who used the system to track people they were romantically interested in, and calls that almost certainly an undercount.
And the cameras keep falling.
maybe i’m crazy but i’m not actually convinced you care about human dignity and inalienable rights if your outlook on the world is primarily about who should die and suffer
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the thing about Tangled is that this is a story geared towards little girls (even if it's "fun for the whole family," it's a disney princess movie, it's geared towards little girls), and it says, "here is a girl who is naive and doesn't know anything about the 'Real World' or how to navigate it safely and correctly. now pay close attention: the good guys are the ones who help her grow and explore new things while still respecting her own perspective and feelings, not making her feel stupid. the bad guys are the ones who tell her that she is too weak/immature/naive to do the things she wants to do, because she is fragile and needs protecting." and I watched this when I was nine years old and it resonated deep in a part of me that I couldn't articulate with words yet.
