God-Emperor Delilah Mayor of Dogtown

the last time I reblogged this post right before I got a great job, in a permanent work-from-home position, with benefits, retirement, and a salary literally 3x what I was making before, doing something I really like. 

So you know. 

Jonathan Joss was an Indigenous, gay man who was murdered on the first day of Pride month as well as Indigenous History Month. He died protecting his trans husband. Homophobia and racism aren’t marks of the past, and this is a heart breaking reminder of that.

I was trying to track down a non-soundcloud version of Chords of Humanity, the song he wrote that when he was 17 was used by Doctors Without Borders, and instead found that it was used in a Fallout New Vegas mod that he may also have made at 17?

which is a sequel to another mod that's also credited to a Dylan Hollis, which I'm not necessarily assuming is him. Could have been a different Dylan Hollis who happened to have found the song by searching his name--oh, wait, there's a video of game play (with the song as background), and there's a tiny bit of voice acting...yeah, that's him.

So ok look. The point is not the flared leg by itself. These cannot be yoga pants. These are, and you have to understand this if you are too young to have worn them, BLUE JEANS. And this was the last years before all jeans were 70% spandex.

They were denim, and they weren't bell bottoms. They hung loose from the knee in a way that would make a wizard envious. We all walked around like we were wearing hakama. And they dragged on the ground. That was important. Ragged cuffs. If your jeans weren't so long that they had ratty cuffs, they were embarrassingly short.

And the thing about denim is that it's a twill weave and it's cotton. So not only does it hold a lot of water, it wicks. Walking around in these suckers on a wet day could get you wet to the knees even if you never stepped in a puddle.

Then you'd go inside and take off your shoes and try to avoid letting your freezing, wet, filthy pant legs touch your skin.

SURE DID!!

EVERYONE GO SEE UTENA IN THEATERS

https://www.regmovies.com/movies/adolescence-of-utena-sub-ho00021610

nature is healing

I don't know the regulations elsewhere, but in some countries, including the United States, where I am, your type & screen "expires" after a few days, and it will need to be repeated before you get another transfusion. We also will never, EVER, UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES, transfuse type A or B or AB blood into your body going only on your word (or anyone else's word, or an ID card) that you know what type you are. We test you. Every time. And until we test you, we will only give you type O, because that's the only type that won't kill the other types dead if they get the wrong one. This is why for us there's not really any point in knowing your blood type ahead of time in case of an emergency; the testing will still need to be done before you get anything but O. And then, 3 days later, the test will expire, and if you still need blood, you'll get tested again.

We do all this because Shit Happens - someone screwed up your test the first time, the wrong patient's blood got labeled as yours, you were carrying a fake ID when the ambulance brought you in, you developed a new antibody since your last transfusion, your blood type CHANGED (rare, but can happen), etc, etc - and the blood bank is the only department in the lab where if enough errors go unnoticed, we can directly kill a patient.

So, depending on where you live, this is possibly why you don't know your blood type - whoever treated you never ordered it because they didn't expect you to need a transfusion (a surprising number of surgeries are pretty light on blood loss these days, actually), so there was no reason to test you at that time. It's also possible it's suppressed/not visible to patients in whatever system they use.

Hello everyone!

Last year I started designing a series of Coat of Arms, themed in the spirit of Pride Month and using different mythological creatures as heraldic animals. I now aim to turn these designs into wearable pins and will be running a Kickstarter in Julyto fund this endeavor!

In addition to these 5 designs I wish to be able to crowdfund enough to be able to also manufacture the following pins and identities:

I have found a very trustworthy local manufacturer, who has already shown the quality of their craftsmanship with the first batch of test pins I received, just look at the detail they were able to produce!

Since I try to support local manufacturers, which produce pins with fair wages and are more ethical than outside of Europe, the pins are more expensive to create than through the usual pipeline via Asia.

I therefore seek to crowdfund the expenses since they would be more than I can afford. If you are interested and look forward to support this little endeavor, please follow the link below to sign up for a mailing list. People who signed up on the email list and pledged during the campaign will receive an exclusive sticker set by the end of a successful launch consisting of the following designs:

SIGN UP ON OUR PRELAUNCH WAITING LIST TO GET THESE LITTLE GUYS FOR FREE

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Today it’s mostly famous for what it looks like on the inside.

It has an equestrian staircase though it’s so smooth it’s really just a gentle slope more than a staircase. It was build like that so our lazy bum king could ride his horse all the way to the top (king not in photo)

And naturally people have also driven cars up the tower

And held a bike race

For a while it was just sort of abandoned by the authorities and became a sloping marketplace

But today it has been restored and become a tourist spot as well as a popular destination for school trips. And yes, you can still watch the cosmos at the top.