As noted above, I'm an archivist by trade, dad by calling, and a 51 y.o. cishet man. I've been using Tumblr on & off since circa 2009 but I started this blog in 2022. I mostly reblog stuff with an effort to share posts that don't have many notes or are cool things I find from years and years ago.
My fandoms: Star Trek, Doctor Who, Star Wars, The Muppets
Mostly though I post about great books, great movies, and great music as well as photography, birding, cats, theater, dance, Boston and New England things, women's hockey, and left-leaning politics.
My Tumblr side blogs:
MetroSoxual - my baseball blog where I mostly post about the Mets and Red Sox (hence the name)
Pod-the-Mts - where I share the best podcast episodes I'm listening to.
Tumbl-Reference Shelf - where I reblog all those really informative and helpful (and sometimes silly) Tumblr posts so I can find them easily later on.
Other places you can find me on the internet:
Panorama of the Mountains - my Wordpress blog
Street Archivist - my Instagram collection of street art, graffiti, and sticker art
LibraryThing - catalog of all the books I've ever read!
Letterboxd - catalog of all the movies I've ever watched!
Bluesky - where I share my mostly random thoughts
O-the-Mts means "of the mountains" although I've never actually lived in the mountains.
Profile picture: a mosaic I photographed at a subway station in the Bronx
Header: Vote mural by Lady Pink, 2014, at the New-York Historical Society
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Doctor Who Television Review: The Hungry Earth/Cold Blood
Episode: The Hungry Earth/Cold Blood
Story Number: 209
Series: 5
Screenwriter: Chris Chibnall
Director: Ashley Way
Thoughts:
Uh-oh, it’s a Chris Chibnall two-parter! And while it’s quite Chibnall-y (ex. The Doctor uttering all the exposition in monologue), it also feels an awful like a spruced-up version of a Third Doctor Era story when the Silurians were first introduced. Unfortunately, the…
Even in a post-capitalist, post-consumerist world, you still need to produce goods, as a result of this, you need factories because it is more effective to have a few people making a lot of clothes in a factory than every woman being forced to sit down and spin wool all day.
The issue with factories is poor wages, unsafe working conditions and environmental impact, all of which can be fixed through things like regulatory bodies and unions, the issue is not the fact that goods are no longer all made at home
you can have a guild-owned, guild-run, sustainable and ethical small- to mid-size clothing factory. or laundromat. or kitchen. all of these once-domestic tasks can become industrialized without the capitalism and greed.
the factory isn't evil. it's a building full of machines and materials.
Likewise, automation is a good thing, because it keeps humans from doing tasks that humans do not like to do and which cause them harm. The evil is not the touchscreen for ordering your food, the evil is the owner of the quick-service restaurant hoarding all the wealth that restaurant generates and not giving it to the community. The evil is not the soda machine replacing the soda jerker, it's that the owner of the soda machine does not contribute to the community and capitalism saying that people must earn the right to live.
You have to completely rethink what "work" means for this to change. You have to redesign it so that it is based on what is needed in the community rather than what can be exploited. If we don't need a soda jerker anymore, she is free to pursue what she enjoys to do. Maybe that is blacksmithing, or glassblowing. Maybe it is sculpture or dancing. These things are always needed by every community. She is not "out of work" she is FREE TO PURSUE.
the usmnt are but a sacrificial lamb offered up every four years to remind americans that there will be no international glory unless three or more gay women are gathered to bring it home
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Episode: Amy’s Choice
Story Number: 208
Series: 5
Screenwriter: Simon Nye
Director: Catherine Morshead
Thoughts:
This is one of the stranger episodes, although effectively done as this is the store around which the series’ story arc pivots. The Doctor, Amy, and Rory find themselves sharing a dream of Amy & Rory living in a quiet village five years in the future when Amy is pregnant. But when…
it does suck that the government defunded PBS but it's also so fucking funny that now that they don't take uncle sam's slavery dollars they're running videos like "How america's foundation was built on genocide"
Also forgot to say anything last night bc was watching with friends but was so cool to see Gotham fc on citi field and grass didn’t look too bad. Was very fun to have them raise the apple when rose scored And for Kerr to make her return in such a big stadium. Still hard to fully enjoy tho with the air quality out bc I don’t really think they should have played in that…
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Do you think in the toy story universe the sex toys are also alive? Do you think they have opinions on the matter
No, because the Toy Story universe was made by Disney, so sex toys don't exist there. For that matter, sex doesn't exist in Toy Story. Much like Pokemon, two adults stand next to each until a baby spontaneously appears.
A less Doyleist take is that, in Toy Story, only those objects subjected to children's imagination, effort, and affection (however twisted it may be, like with Sid from the first film) become alive. A sex toy wouldn't be conscious in Toy Story anymore than a crystal or wooden tchotchke in your parent's shadowbox would be.
Point of order: if my girlfriend spends 3 hours using her dildo shaped like Johnny Sin's cock imagining she's being railed by Hugh Jackman in a tasteful little just-too-tight sweater after I fail to please her for the 6th time that month, would that not fulfill the requirements listed above?
If an adult digs a hole with a shovel, and fantasizes about digging a great big hole while doing so, does that make the shovel a toy? I would say no. The shovel is not a "toy", it's merely an instrument to accomplish a task outside of pure play.
In the case of sex toys, the sex toy is purely instrumental for masturbation. By your reasoning, a pickup truck could be a "toy" and would be conscious in the Toy Story universe, provided whoever's driving it has strong enough fantasies.
Now, where things get interesting is if a child discovers a sex toy and (being unaware of its intended use) uses it as a tower or space ship while playing. Perhaps then the sex toy would become conscious.
