How long must I live till I'm healed

@dreaminsomnia / dreaminsomnia.tumblr.com

I want to survive. I am at a loss. Gently withering away. But until I show you my true self, I will not sleep.
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noctumsolis

Every household appliance should follow the same philosophy as GNU software: one thing well.

A toaster should toast things, without breaking down due to thermal cycling.

It should not make a table of what was toasted and when.

A refrigerator should maintain a low temperature, without burning out its motor.

It should not build an inventory and communicate it to a corporation.

An oven should maintain a user-specified high temperature, without starting a fire.

It should not measure the weight of its contents and give dietary advice.

But most of all, none of these things should connect to the internet [of things]. They should be as dumb and robust as possible. They should be future proof by virtue of having no compatibility requirements beyond

  1. energy source and
  2. physical dimensions.

There's a sewing machine in front of me that was built in the mid fifties. Its only compatibility requirements are the physical dimensions of needle and bobbin, and a 230VAC power supply. It is perfectly reliable after more than sixty years and should still be in another sixty. It's solid metal and might well be operable for centuries with very little maintenance. I doubt that the same could be said of modern machines full of plastic and microprocessors.

tl;dr I'm a tech person and I endorse OP's message.

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contact-guy

I never watched BBC Sherlock or engaged in the fandom and being into original Sherlock Holmes in the year 2024 feels like frolicking in a meadow that’s grown up over a battlefield. Occasionally a war weary veteran with shadows in their eyes will find me. “Don’t you know what happened in this place?” they ask me. “I literally don’t,” I reply, and go back to drawing guys from 1895.

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geeoharee

yeah that's gonna become a heritage post up there with "decay is an extant form of life"

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pomrania

[Image in the second post is a tag that reads "#the battlefield was a meadow first if you think about it".]

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lumsel

List of media where the title is significantly more accurate than you expect going in:

- Jojo's Bizarre Adventure

- Everything Everywhere All At Once

- The Thing

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da-mous

talking to people while holding a beverage is awesome because you don't have to know what to do with your hands and when you don't know what to do with your face you can just take a sip

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I love how supportive Vanessa is of his dad's relationship with Perry. She even gave Doof the card, meaning she and Perry had to "talk" about it before

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haystarlight

One thing about Heinz Doofenshmirtz is that he be getting divorced

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