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DEAR READER
Sweet Seals For You, Always
Andulka
Origami Around
Alisa U Zemlji Chuda
Today's Document
let's talk about Bridgerton tea, my ask is open
trying on a metaphor
PUT YOUR BEARD IN MY MOUTH
he wasn't even looking at me and he found me
Janaina Medeiros
hello vonnie
todays bird
❣ Chile in a Photography ❣
Cosimo Galluzzi
taylor price
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Another story collection :)
Second story collection I'm part of - "Climate Fiction in Poland" - 15 stories about the future. In case any of you are in Poland or read in Polish, this one will be also available as a free e-book (Here: https://magazyn.bialykruk.org/) from 11th of July.
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Office Hours: Who's the worst elected official in America today (other than Trump)? https://robertreich.substack.com/p/office-hours-whos-the-worst-elected
things I love about my country, because it's the 4th of july and why shouldn't i get to love this country where i have lived for all my thirty years. he's the one who sucks
ice water
the common use of dryers for your clothes
carbon beach in malibu california
fall foliage in boston massachusetts
central AC
that thing where if you pump your arm at a passing 18 wheeler they'll honk their big loud horn just for fun
your ability to attend college/course of study/subsequent career isn't locked in by the results of one exam you take at 16 years old like in most of eurasia
that it's appropriate to wear blue jeans almost anywhere
rock music, and all its parent genres
these really beautiful string art earrings i bought on the agua caliente rez
mexican, italian, and chinese food all on the same street
no official national language or religion
how we smile too big and shake people's hands too hard and immediately give ourselves away in foreign countries by our gregariousness
broadway musicals
the james baldwin quote "i love america more than any other country in the world, and exactly for this reason, i insist on the right to criticize her perpetually." actually james baldwin in general. he was so fucking rad even when he got too drunk at parties and screamed at other guests about their systematic white privilege in a way that brought the vibe down. because that's also deeply american
most of these are wild but
your ability to attend college/course of study/subsequent career isn't locked in by the results of one exam you take at 16 years old like in most of eurasia
is fucking sending me. this is the biggest attempt I've ever seen to spin a lack of standardised education as Good, Actually.
(also, op, most of the countries I can think of that base university entry on one set of exams base it in exams you take at 17 or 18. Highers, A-Levels, Abitur, AISSCE, baccalauréat, Japanese university entrance exams... I have no idea where you got 16 from, is my point)
I do believe OP is deleting comments.
Also you can become a "mature" student and go to uni through direct entry from 21 years old onwards over here, and I don't think that's unusual. You could fuck your exams as a teen so badly they burn the papers, and you can very much still go to uni
Like I get where OP was coming from with this post but it's amazing how quickly they used it to try shit on other countries to make America look better and they weren't even right about it.
In Poland you can retake the maturity exam (normally taken at 18 or 19, after 12/13 years of std schooling) as much as you need to get the needed grades. For 5 years after the initial exam you can request a new attempt for the specific subject you wish to correct. Once 5 years is passed, you need to re-sit the whole set of exams if you need the correction.
And you can actually start correction attempts in summer of the same year (so 2-3 months after initial go) and if you are lucky, still get accepted to uni that school year.
So no, one exam taken at 16 (we have none at that age) does not get you somehow doomed to never attending uni, definitely not in Poland.
“Teachers are often unaware of the gender distribution of talk in their classrooms. They usually consider that they give equal amounts of attention to girls and boys, and it is only when they make a tape recording that they realize that boys are dominating the interactions. Dale Spender, an Australian feminist who has been a strong advocate of female rights in this area, noted that teachers who tried to restore the balance by deliberately ‘favouring’ the girls were astounded to find that despite their efforts they continued to devote more time to the boys in their classrooms. Another study reported that a male science teacher who managed to create an atmosphere in which girls and boys contributed more equally to discussion felt that he was devoting 90 per cent of his attention to the girls. And so did his male pupils. They complained vociferously that the girls were getting too much talking time. In other public contexts, too, such as seminars and debates, when women and men are deliberately given an equal amount of the highly valued talking time, there is often a perception that they are getting more than their fair share. Dale Spender explains this as follows: “The talkativeness of women has been gauged in comparison not with men but with silence. Women have not been judged on the grounds of whether they talk more than men, but of whether they talk more than silent women.” In other words, if women talk at all, this may be perceived as ‘too much’ by men who expect them to provide a silent, decorative background in many social contexts.”
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PBS: Language as Prejudice - Myth #6: Women Talk Too Much (via misandry-mermaid)
Every EVERY women’s studies class I’ve been in has had this problem and failed to address it.
(via iamayoungfeminist)
it’s never a normal temperature anymore it’s always some fucking bullshit
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it's literally the evilest thing in the world to finally have time to write but then be tired. like wow you're telling me these two hours before going to bed are completely free but my brain is just Not Feeling It? fuck off
Please beware of "Robert Reich" impersonators https://robertreich.substack.com/p/please-beware-of-robert-reich-impersonators
listening to CDs in the kitchen i always brace myself for the ad between songs but then it just keeps rolling. skipping around how i like without interruption feels heavenly. we're in such a commercial angst prison that books and CDs are luxury now 😭
protect, pass on, thrift, gift, and store physical media, it's worth it
Google AI Overview court loss in Germany could spell doom for AI search industry.
"Google AI Overview court loss in Germany could spell doom for AI search industry."
It fucking better.
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The best "online-ageism" rebuttal I think I've ever seen
Check this out.
...Gotta adapt this for myself to include CompuServe and Fidonet. :)
Reblogging for "I have usernames older than you".
This username is older than a lot of people on Tumblr. I've been vaspider online since 1998.
My username can not only vote and drink, that bitch can rent a fucking car.
i got my first hotmail account in 1999. one of the usernames i still use (not on tumblr dear god) i've had since i started going on chatrooms made with iframes in 2001. it's a word i got from the dictionary, which was a physical object in my home that i frequently referenced.
i see kids being like "why are you still here?" like man this is where i've always been? i was here for IRC and AIM and Windows/MSN Messenger. i was here for dialup and desktop PCs that lived in cabinet-like desks. i had a GeoCities website before my school friends had email.
my dad worked for IBM, but he also taught me piracy before it was commonplace. i learned how to download music and burn it to CD, which took over my prior hobby of recording songs on cassette from the radio to make mixtapes. i had photoshop 7 which you could pirate with a keygen, and i made covers for my mixes.
so no, actually, i think i'll fuckin stay, thanks
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some people will be like “I wonder why fanfic writers don’t share their works anymore😔” and then this is them when a writer is kind enough to share something they write — as a hobby, for their own enjoyment — with them for free.
some people really don’t realize how privileged they are that they get fanfics for free. imagine having access to something for free because someone is kind enough to share it with you… and then being rude, entitled and an ungrateful pos to that person who was kind enough to share their creation with you for free
“almost 1 year is a lil too much for me” fuck off. fanfic writers don’t owe you anything. one of my favorite fics was updated after 13 years, and what I did is that I thanked the author for choosing to continue the work, I didn’t act like a spoiled toddler by asking why they didn’t update sooner. and even if a writer chooses to abandon their fic permanently with no explanation, that is their choice, their hobby, their decision. they don’t owe your entitled ass anything.
you people let tiktok rot your brains to the point you see everything as content farm and engagement. not a piece of art created by the artist’s love and passion. it’s dystopian.
Lol, i had to wait 3 years for a new season of sherlock, and 5 years for dan and phil to come back from their joined channel hiatus
"Many's the one has been seven years parted
seven years parted and did return again
but I have only been two years away, love--
two years away, and love, and did return again."
In my painting phase again.
mr. green? how do you deal with people trying to Perceive You and make assumptions about you based on the writing you share with them?
i just had a professor read the first chapter of something and go on and on about how i must relate a lot to a character, because her disability resembles mine (i had not been injured at the time of writing it), and i get this dreadful feeling like people are going to make assumptions like that again and again.
I kind of hate it!
But it's very difficult to be like, "The author is dead! Do not pay attention to the author! Do not interpret the text into the author's life! But do follow the author on tumblr!"
Like, there is something fundamentally out of whack with the entire affair, which is kind of what my new book HOLLYWOOD, ENDING is about.
For a hot minute, a lot of people had opinions about me who did not actually know me, which was extremely disorienting and much less pleasant than I'd assumed famed would be. So I spent the last eight years writing about that.
I wish you well in your writing--and promise not to overly read you into your stories.
being late getting into a piece of media or joining a ‘dead’ fandom is not that bad actually cause even if it seems like the party is over there will always be people still celebrating and the decoration is still up and there’s a piece of cake reserved especially for you in the fridge you just have to come and enjoy it.
I hope I'm online when it happens. I want to see a sudden flood of crab rave memes right after refreshing my dash, and in the middle of it all, the Castiel news meme. That's how I want to learn of it; not through anything solemn or serious, but via overwhelming silly celebration.
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A little calm palace by the sea. What will happen now? A tentacle creature from the deep? A storm?
As night fell, storm and the monsters showed up together to torment the island and the inhabitants of the palace.
The many tentacled monster tore the palace off the ground and pulled it into the churning waters of the sea. The queen was left on shore. Should she weep or get up, board a ship and go after the culprit?
She set out on a ship full of brave warriors, not sure which way to seek the monster.
The queen sailed to the ice north, where ghostly bears watched her with unblinking eyes, where islands floated over a bottomless ocean and where breath froze before they it could leave her mouth properly.
Her soldiers begged her to stay on board but she was mesmerised by smooth walls, showing crooked images of their ancestors, drawn towards the gate in the ice.
What shall she find?
Despite the protests of her brave knights, the queen ran towards the entrance to the ice cave. The darkness inside was inky.
What does the cave look like?
The queen wandered along corridors full of wacky reflections in icy mirrors, smaller, bigger, some turning her upside down. Finally in the highest corridor - or maybe in the lowest one - she found a scroll with a map written in a foreign alphabet. She froze. She was in a completely wrong place!!!
Map showed her the way to the southern seas, where sandy islands were growing only weird trees and nothing can save you from the merciless sun.
But Something dwells in the deeps.
She sang the loveliest lullabies she knew to pacify the writhing tentacles on the bottom of the sea, but nothing helped. The monster watched her with its sole eye and for sure was not going to give the stolen palace back.
She sang until she started croaking, but when she finally looked into the water, the abyss Looked Up At Her With One Weird And Big Eye, surrounded by tentacles and seaweeds. Her hand shaking, she threatened it with her sword.
"Hand over the palace, you blaggard! Now!"
The tentacles wiggled around dismissively. It was an insult.
What should she do now?
Despite cries, protests and objections, she jumped overboard, her sword aimed at the great EYE.
Who will blink first? The queen or the monster from the sea bottom?
The monster didn't BLINK. The monster fled - the big one, and the small monsters that accompanied it. As they swam away, they uncovered a cave full of... things. Buildings. Ruins. Pieces.
She.
Slowly.
Dropped.
To.
The.
Bottom.
She dropped to the sandy bottom and knelt over her palace, discarded amongst other buildings. They were old and covered with algae.
"Mine!" she cried out, reaching for it through silt and sand. She pulled it out and looked it all over. "We're going home."
She pushed off the bottom, but the seaweeds wrapped around her ankles and HELD firmly.
She.
Reached.
Up.
"How was the afternoon?" "I recovered my palace." "So, the journey was successful?" "My subjects are safe now" "Of course, your highness. Tea?" "With honey?" "From the royal bees." "Thank you." "Be careful, it's hot" "I defeated a monster. I'm not afraid of some hot tea." "Of course, your highness. Was it a big one?" "Humongous! It had tentacles, and an eye, and it stole entire buildings...!"
my phone isn’t charging even though i plugged her innnnn dramatic ass bitch. YOUR PUSSY IS FILLED! WHAT MORE COULD YOU WANT
Can you stop bouncing and moaning on it 😐 please for the love of god
i see now that i shouldn’t have made this post on tumblr. specifically.
