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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A German book about racism (called Exit Racism) addresses this and calls it „leaving wonderland“, you will probably never be able to go back there, which is hurtful but also an important.
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I respect the fuck out of this. The whole site is trying its hardest to go against every selling point the dog robots have as its selling points.
The dog robots are supposed to be autonomous, threehalves is explicitly only for being piloted by a human. The giant horns make it difficult for this machine to enter through doorways, and that is the point. Coupled with the built-in weak points, it is very easy to disable this thing, so it can't be used by the police or the military effectively.
OP alluded to how unsettling the machine looks, and I believe that it was a concious decision; the robot dogs have garnered sympathy due to their apperance, which makes it easier for the police to morally justify their use. This thing? You're not gonna get many people to sympathise with it. The only people who would are monster and-or robot fuckers, and I believe these circles generally understand that a machine cannot be trusted (though of course many would willingly approach it for pervert reasons (positive) knowing full well it's a bad idea).
oh yeah i saw everyone on tiktok freaking out about "if it can't harm humans why does it come with instructions to kill it" it's a safety feature in case of an emergency or malfunction where it needs to be quickly deactivated. "why is it so big and demonic why does it look like that" it's a safety feature so it can do dangerous labor and so you don't feel bad about killing it. "it was designed not to be able to follow you through doors?? why the fuck would it do that that's scary" it's a safety feature so you can't get cornered or have the person piloting it misuse it. "it doesn't have hands but it can attach CHAINSAWS to its limbs???" it's MADE TO WITHSTAND WILDFIRES IT'S NOT GONNA USE IT ON YOU "this thing gives me such bad vibes i do not trust it" GOOD!!! IT'S A ROBOT!!! IT IS A TOOL!!! IT'S A REALLY BIG AND COMPLICATED MACHINE THAT IS DESIGNED TO GO IN DANGEROUS ENVIRONMENTS WHICH WOULD MEAN IT COULD POTENTIALLY MALFUNCTION! USE YOUR BRAIN!!!
admittedly i do think that picture of it standing in the doorway with glowing white eyes is like comically frightening but it's SUPPOSED to be so you don't feel bad for it or approach it
For one thing, if the units become common and are up and running and very functional, it would be relatively trivial to harden them. Then all your good intentions go out the window and what has actually been done is that secretly aggressive, possibly malicious robots are now ubiquitous. If we get used to these and then they start making them so that they're not so vulnerable, how would most people be able to tell? They could become very dangerous very quickly.
Secondly, there is an appeal here, and it's to people like me. The fact that they're being made with all of these positive intentions and so forth is definitely attractive. So by making them intentionally look threatening to warn people about them, a sort of appeal is created among those who were hoping that robots would actually be a meaningful futuristic aid to humanity, instead of just another fascist play for power. The fact that they're being made to seem nonthreatening to people who actually know what they're about, people who will actually pay attention, is a different kind of disturbing from making them look really friendly.
And say they are intended to be operated remotely by humans. I believe this is probably true. But what's to stop them from creating a specialized AI that drives them remotely just as well as a human can? And then they simply become the same problem that we have with the autonomous robot dogs.
I was talking about Kris (from Deltarune) and the person said Kris is "obviously AMAB" (their words). I said it's weird to use AMAB and AFAB if you aren't intersex (I'm intersex for context).
Aaaaand they blocked me.
Very odd of them to do.
Begging people to be normal about Kris Dreemurr and their nonbinary identity...
Ah. I don't really write stories for anyone but me. I was just referring to conversations. This has become somewhat more urgent recently as I've met someone (we're both in our 50s, cishet binary people) and one of her kids is on T and uses they/them pronouns and I'm really trying not to make a stupid clumsy insulting linguistic error.
So should I describe her kid as (25, afab, transitioning)? Or what? Everybody literally thinks they're a girl, unfortunately for them. They just have one of those situations where they'll probably get carded until they're 45. Some people are just like that
Isn't nonbinary the broadest possible term? That's the way I've been using it. Am I mistaken?
Thanks for your help. I've know this woman for less than a month and it's amazing. We're so happy together. I just hope it doesn't burn out. And I don't want to make any mistakes, which is of course impossible
Well, if referring to a specific person in that case, it would likely be best to just ask said person.
But in general, unless genitalia is relevant, there's no need to use terms that are based on such. You can just call them nonbinary, you don't need to call them AMAB or AFAB.
I was talking about Kris (from Deltarune) and the person said Kris is "obviously AMAB" (their words). I said it's weird to use AMAB and AFAB if you aren't intersex (I'm intersex for context).
Aaaaand they blocked me.
Very odd of them to do.
Begging people to be normal about Kris Dreemurr and their nonbinary identity...
Ah. I don't really write stories for anyone but me. I was just referring to conversations. This has become somewhat more urgent recently as I've met someone (we're both in our 50s, cishet binary people) and one of her kids is on T and uses they/them pronouns and I'm really trying not to make a stupid clumsy insulting linguistic error.
So should I describe her kid as (25, afab, transitioning)? Or what? Everybody literally thinks they're a girl, unfortunately for them. They just have one of those situations where they'll probably get carded until they're 45. Some people are just like that
Isn't nonbinary the broadest possible term? That's the way I've been using it. Am I mistaken?
Thanks for your help. I've know this woman for less than a month and it's amazing. We're so happy together. I just hope it doesn't burn out. And I don't want to make any mistakes, which is of course impossible
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