Stressed, but well dressed.

so, ways to get around this:

turn off AI results. they're literally nonsense to us

don't use pinterest because the sources/provenance is often hard to trace

a standard internet search can be okay, but museum collections are the top tier (list of collections below this list)

instead of broad terms like victorian, regency, tudor, renaissance etc. try using the decade you're looking for. if you're not sure of what decade it is but have a vague image in your head, look on the fashion history timeline and just jump around until you find it. but even changing to e.g. 19th century will give better results than victorian

including terms like womenswear/menswear, daywear, formal wear, evening wear, court dress should increase the value of your search too

including "fashion plates" in your search can give you a nice impression of the intended silhouettes of the era. some of these might be a little stylised but will show you what was considered in vogue

for pre-fashion plate eras or things like makeup and styling, you'll have to look at portraiture or manuscripts. these are harder to actually find what you're looking for, but searching museum collections and limiting results to specific date ranges will be your friend

when looking at art, do bear in mind sometimes artists would paint fabric extra flow-y to show off their skills. it might not have been exactly like that in terms of fabric weight or drape. so, a pinch of salt required!

if you find something on image search where the provenance is dubious, reverse image search and you might find a source! i've been able to trace random pinterest images to real sources, but this does take a lot of time and effort and is often not worth the headache

some online resources and museum collections:

fashion history timeline is an invaluable resource if you're trying to get a feel for everything and should be your first port of call. it'll also link to good examples

the met has a vast number of extant examples of clothing, as well as fashion plates

costume institute fashion plates is a subcollection of the met for fashion plates (1800s-1922)

v&a also has many extant garments, fashion plates, and incredible articles on clothing and aesthetics. read the details of the objects because they'll often reveal a lot about the piece

lacma is good for C19th-20th pieces

nypl digital collection for photographs

national portrait gallery or similar for portraiture, or literally any museum in your country that has historical art

national museums scotland can be useful situationally but might be oddly specific

stout style history is a great collection for finding image references for fat people wearing historical clothes. survival bias of a lot of museum pieces tends towards smaller clothing that couldn't be repurposed, but this aims to counter that. it's not sortable, but is still a really nice resource

wikimedia commons is surprisingly handy! and the images, if you should need to link/repost them, are public domain

auction websites sound like a funny one to recommend. some won't have mannequins and some will. just look up historical garment auctions and you'll find some!

This is about Markus Jones, convicted of being a felon in posession of a firearm in 2000.

In 2019, Rehaif v. United States, it was ruled that a person convicted of unlawful possession crimes must be aware of their status in order to be convicted.

Jones filed a petition because at the time he bought the gun, he believed his previous conviction had been expunged, and thus his conviction of unlawful possession was invalid.

The supreme court held that Jones was not allowed to challenge his conviction, becuase he had previously filed a petition in 2006. This also means that he has not officially been found retroactively innocent, even though the 2019 ruling would make him so.

Another important piece of context I haven’t seen enough people mentioning (because news stories are leaving it out): Adriana Smith’s family was forced to pay for this.

Adriana Smith’s family, while dealing with the grief of suddenly losing her and watching her body linger and knowing she would never wake up, watching her body being used as an incubator after being given no choice in the matter (and worth noting for so-called “pro-life” folks, Smith’s mother April Newkirk has said “I’m not saying that we would have chose to terminate her pregnancy. What I’m saying is, we should have had a choice.”), is also BEING BILLED for this indignity, this cruelty, this undoubtedly racially motivated miscarriage of justice.

And much of this at THE HOSPITAL SHE WORKED AT AS A NURSE - her coworkers, by choice or by “just following orders,” were the ones to perpetrate this disgusting removal of personhood and agency — after she went in (to another hospital) complaining of a headache and was dismissed with pain medication, with NO TESTS ORDERED BY HER DOCTOR. She was declared brain dead from blood clots the next day, and that’s also 100% the racism, sexism, and ESPECIALLY misogynoir of the American medical field at work.

Firefox with build in tracker protection

Ublock Origin adblocker for Firefox

Adguard adblocker for firefox, for everything that gets past Ublock

Mullvad VPN, one of the most reliable, cheapest and safest VPNs at the moment

DuckDuckGo android app that blocks trackers for every app on your phone

DuckDuckGo for firefox for blocking trackers and the likes

SponsorBlock for firefox, skips the sponsor segments of youtube videos

Adaway Adblocker for android (works much better with root access but doesn't require it)

Is there any benefit to using multiple ad blockers at once? I honestly don't know, but I haven't seen a single ad on the internet in ages and I get to use this image:

the average human lifespan globally is 70+ years

taking the threshold of adulthood as 18, you are likely to spend at least 52 years as a fully grown adult

at the age of 30 you have lived less than one quarter of your adult life (12/52 years)

'middle age' is typically considered to be between 45-65

it is extremely common to switch careers, start new relationships, emigrate, go to college for the first or second time, or make other life-changing decisions in middle age

it's wild that I even have to spell it out, but older adults (60+) still have social lives and hobbies and interests.

you can still date when you get old. you can still fuck. you can still learn new skills, be fashionable, be competitive. you can still gossip, you can still travel, you can still read. you can still transition. you can still come out.

young doesn't mean peaked. you're inexperienced in your 20s! you're still learning and practicing! you're developing social skills and muscle memory that will last decades!

That is to say, there is a certain subset of gamerbro who interacts so rarely with real women, that his primary touchstone for how women look is fiction: often video games and anime. So when a video game woman looks too realistic--too close to having traits that one might find in real flesh and blood women--this is foreign to them. This is unattractive. They have been jacking it to hentai and blender animation porn for too many years, and have inadvertently conditioned themselves to only be sexually aroused by the exaggerated cartoonish traits of animated women.

Two years ago, we got this update on the life of this roachfucker:

> borrow

> click read with epub

>download the acsm file

>de-drm the acsm file with calibre (make sure you have the acsm plugin installed first)

Calibre

Calibre ACSM plugin

Calibre NoDRM plugin

Download all of the above, run calibre, go to "preferences" and scroll down to plugins

Select "load plugin from file" (you will need to extract the NoDRM zip but not the ACSM) and load the zips

For DeACSM you'll need to log in using Adobe (you can use a free account for this). To log in, find DeACSM under "File types" in the plugins window and double click on it and log in with your Adobe credentials

Restart calibre

Also me: Heehoo pupper

BABY?

BABIES?

park ranger who has seen people spread bacon grease on their campsite in the hopes of seeing a bear

British person who is appalled that North American national parks kill people

people who lure bison calves away from their mothers to photograph them

a lot of it involves bison

a LOT of it involves people trying to swim in the yellowstone thermal vents

woman who tried to retrieve her dropped cell phone from a pit toilet and FELL IN

Lots of people reminding me that caves are a problem too. I know, I just try to forget that caves exist because I hate them.

Guys who tried to hike the entire length of Florida in flip flops

Someone who approached a bear cub because they thought it was a raccoon

Someone who works at an unspecified national monument and says dead bodies keep turning up at the picnic area (Hello???)

A few Alaskans laughing at everyone

Scottish person who wishes their parks were as effective at killing tourists as ours are

A few NPS staffmembers saying the NPS is far, far too incompetent to wage any sort of large scale conspiracy about disappearances

Several death threats against David Paulides

People accusing me of being Bigfoot (I plead the fifth)

A group who got on a raft in a river assuming it would loop back around... like at a waterpark

Person recalling a time they saw a hiker "saved by monkeys" but did not elaborate on that

In my time there, multiple people forgot heat can kill you and developed severe heatstroke. Multiple moms rushed kids with allergies to hospitals because wasps exist in nature. Whole families who seemed otherwise street smart legit panicked at the idea of coexisting with rattlesnakes and bears. People with mobility issues or with handicapped relatives were flabbergasted that accessibility cannot be enforced on nature (this one was a constant and ridiculous argument, I'm sorry to say).

Dog owners who, illegally, let their beloved "friendly" pet off leash only for it to attack another dog/person on the path, or simply never return from the woods at all. One guy watched his dog get swept away in the river and nearly died trying to rescue it. Another couple asked for emergency assistance because their dog developed heatstroke (fyi, emergency medical personnel are trained and paid to save human lives, not correct your terrible animal ownership decisions).