I luckily haven't had to deal with much chronic pain or hand pain yet, especially with regards to baking (crochet is another story). That said, these look like some pretty solid tips! There's also some in the comments section.

As this link nears five hundred notes, I'm just... very quietly touched at how many people are sharing it. Whether they need it themselves (or think they will someday), or know someone else who might need it, the fact that all of them are sharing the sentiment of "I want the people who love doing this thing to be able to keep doing the thing that they love" is... yeah. It makes me happy.

“A kiss may be grand, but it won’t pay the rental, on your humble flat, or help you at the automat.”

Like literally the most famous song about how much girls love jewellry is just explaining the importance of getting jewellry for when your partner leaves you penniless and alone.

The founder of Girl Scouting in the US, Juliette Gordon Low, funded her first troop by selling her pearl necklace, which was her only belonging after her husband died and left everything to his mistress.

She founded Girl Scouts to teach girls self-sufficiency so they wouldn’t have to go through what she went through when her husband died and she didn’t know how to take care of herself.

the sheer offensiveness of rereading something you wrote, discovering that, hey, it’s actually pretty good, and then reaching the end, wherein you realize that if you want more you actually have to write it

fuck’s sake 

writers will look at their own WIPs and be like “is anyone gonna finish that” and then close the tab

damn i know everyone’s been saying twitter is tumblr five years ago but some people are having an argument in my mentions about how the wellerman sea shanty is problematic because it references sugar and tea and rum - all products of the british empire’s slave trade

gang if we’re gonna ban songs that reference unethical consumption we’ll be left with like: crazy frog

Wait wait, wait wait wait wait

Are you telling me these are

*blinks* Okay, I know the context of the song is long lost, but the Wellerman isn’t a South Seas Santa or some shit, bringing presents to all the good little whalers; he was a company employee who was integral to keeping the whalers trapped and in debt to their employer – in this case, the Weller Company, operating out of New Zealand in the 1830s and ‘40s.

Even though the song is about a ship, it’s actually a shore-whaling song, sung by employees of the Weller Company who were dropped on various islands to hunt whales from shore. The whalers were all paid in goods (“sugar and tea and rum”) and generally never made enough cash to be able to repay their debts to the company. That line about “someday… we’ll take our leave and go” was pure wishful thinking, longing for a day that would (probably) never come.

For example, this is what Songs of New Zealand - Songs of a Young Country (ed. Neil Colquhoun) had to say about the song: “Shore whalers, unlike the whalers on ships, could not return to their native land. Even if there were a ship, they couldn’t afford the passage; for they saw no money. Whaling companies such as Wellers’ of Sydney, sent agents across the Tasman to collect the bone and oil; and to pay the men in sugar and rum.”

The impossibility of ever being free of whaling is reflected in the full run of verses (cut off in the original TikTok):

For forty days, or even more, The line went slack, then tight once more. All boats were lost (there were only four) But still the whale did go.

As far as I’ve heard, the fight’s still on; The line’s not cut and the whale’s not gone. The Wellerman makes his regular call To encourage the Captain, crew, and all.

The shipboard whalers in the song will never capture their whale, just as the shore-whalers singing the song will never make enough money to pay back their debts to the company and leave their island. Meanwhile, the Wellerman keeps coming by, bringing sugar and tea and rum, encouraging them all to keep working just a little while longer…

In short: yes, the Wellerman is problematic! He’s the company stooge running the company store, paying everyone in just enough goods to keep them going until the next time he calls. And that’s rather the point of the song.

Honestly while the context of this particular song was news to me, I thought everyone knew that work songs are working class songs and hence 75% bitching-about-untenable-working-conditions by volume…

@fruitchinpo Tag için teşekkürler!! Biraz (baya) geç kaldım, kusura bakma…

My handwriting is a mess bc I can’t pay attention to the lines (my head is a mess rn, too, so it’s symbolic, really)

And i couldn’t settle for the German or Turkish letters, so i wrote both

And the lyrics are from a turkish song that’s stuck in my head for a couple days now (translation, bc I like to translate lyrics and stuff: “ask the summers about me, the freezing colds, ask these dirty whites [about me]” )

I’m tagging @rangergirl3 @havetoomanyfandoms and @goldkirk (it’s a first, but I love you’re writing and I think this is the way to make new friends, so… Just in case you like tag games:) )

As always, feel free to join or ignore, and thanks again @fruitchinpo, it was fun!

Edit: forgot to write rules, oops!

Rules:

1. write the letters of the alphabet in upper and lower case and the numbers from 0 to 9

2. write your url

3. write ‘‘the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog’’

4. write a quote or something that comes to mind (song lyrics, excerpts from books…)

5. write the urls of the people you tag

Thanks for the tag, @jpnpr​! :-) Here is my handwriting (it is definitely not the easiest to read, haha, especially near the end, where I realized I was getting short on space. I tend to scribble.)

Here are the rules: 

1) Write the letters of the alphabet in upper and lower case and the numbers from 0 to 9 

2) Write your url

3) Write ‘‘the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog’’

4) Write a quote or something that comes to mind (song lyrics, excerpts from books…)

5) Write the urls of the people you tag

I tag: @callaeidae3​ @arwenride​ @justheretobreakthings​ @haleykim84​ @sunshine-hime​ @zenthisoror​ @avidbeader​ and anyone else who wants to join in! :-)

The quote I wrote down is this:

“Before you can kill the monster, you have to say its name.” - Sir Terry Pratchett

Near on forgot I’ve had this sitting in my drafts for a few days!

I’m tagging @zolanort​​, @the-goose-ferret​​, @chocolatechip-master​​, @postcardsfromtheoryland​​, @knittyninja​​, and @yelmor-boots​​

I really appreciate that tumblr failed to tell me about this notification for nearly 3 weeks. Way to be a functioning website, tumblr.

Anyways. Please ignore the fact that my handwriting consistently trails down the page.

Tagging @silver-boots​ @coolfuffles​ @mcreynne​ @renegademegs​ and anyone else who wants it!

Quote: "It's only forever. That's not long at all." From David Bowie's 'Underground', Labyrinth ost

Tagging @simpleanddestructivechemistry @urbanhymnal @amythe3lder @ ALL OF YOU (if you wanna)

Thanks for thinking of me, @postcardsfromtheoryland ❤❤❤

The National Aviary in Pittsburgh

Me first thing in the morning

This is my every day state of being TBH

1. Tea is so pretty

2. I’m going to make a deduction. The person making this tea is not British and/or not an experienced maker of tea because they put the milk in after the tea.

1. Tea is indeed very pretty. And the aesthetic of this post is very magnifique.

2. I am afraid I have to disagree. First tea, then milk. It’s the easiest way of getting the ratio just right. Also, tea needs to unfold its aroma uninfluenced by milk. I have been to a Food Engineering lecture about how to make the perfect cup of tea. So, this I my well informed opinion.

3. Speaking as a quintessentially English and hardcore tea drinker, the colour of this tea is very unsettling. Taking the 50 shades of tea as a framework, anything from 33-42 is acceptable in my opinion. Personally, I like it in a nice 40 toffee shade.

An eye-opening perspective (Source)

THERE. IT. IS.

I am 1000% honestly grateful and thankful to everybody out there keeping the world moving. You should be getting 2X pay base, hazard pay and a LONG list of other things to compensate every single person who puts themselves out there in the line of fire of COVID.

Those who are at high risk of mortality,  have family at risk, just don’t want to (we’re talking literal life and death, as in YOU CAN DIE ) - all should be given paid time off for at least a huge % of their pay, 2K/month like Canada, or something like that.

Anyway, back to the U.S. “late capitalism deathmatch stage” and we should “honor the dead and fight like hell for the living.” 

the posture of a man

he wears. a t shirt

PSA: DON’T DO THIS SHIT

This is a terrible idea for a few reasons.

I get that the person who made this post had good intentions, and all they wanted to do was find ways to help the protesters fight back against cops, but that doesn’t make this okay. There are probably a bunch of people who have read this post and are planning on pulling this stunt at the next protest they go to. Every single one of those people will at best get beaten within an inch of their lives and thrown in jail, and at worst get beaten to death. To quote @sam_kriss on twitter: “Don’t give advice that will kill people.”

One of my worst uncles is an ex-Marine, ex-police, ex-prison guard, who since his back went out and forced him to retire sits around all day watching Hoarders and trying to terrorise the people around him into giving him “enough respect”. When I was about 14, and he thought he was detecting the signs of a “future protest attendee” in me, he got out the riot shield he still kept in the garage, stood behind it and braced himself, then challenged myself, my two brothers, and two of my cousins to try to shift him even a little bit. All five of us did our best to turn it over, break it, or kick it hard enough (three of us regularly broke boards at our taekwondo classes, which we foolishly thought might help) to budge him even a little bit. None of it worked. We failed to even get a grip on it without him immediately turning the shield into a blunt weapon to shove us off, hard enough for us to be left on our backs in the dirt. The intended lesson was “even in a group, you will never be stronger or better defended than even a very restrained riot cop, so don’t even bother going to protests”.

Of course, there are other factors in why he laid all 5 of us on the floor using only a riot shield, the biggest one (besides being a grown man and all 5 us all being teenagers or preteens) being real combat experience. You get good at fighting by getting into real fights. The cops may be ex-military or involved in prison security. If you do not regularly, seriously, physically fight people, you will not beat someone who has been in a whole bunch of real fights, especially not someone with a riot shield. Especially not with a tactic like “just lift from the bottom”. “Five cool hacks to get good at fighting cops” do not exist. What does exist is plenty of resources for recognising cop tactics, things like “earliest warning signs police are forming a kettle”, that do help you to make the best tactical retreats you can when the time comes. There are further resources - look up the most local ones possible - for supplies to have on hand and contacts to make, to survive being kettled and/or arrested, and resources for helping provide first aid in the field. They are not as sexy and cool as the idea of ending up in a viral video of someone decking a cop, but as a general rule, the less “sexy” the tactic the more likely it is to be something people are saying because it’s actually useful. Real protest advice is not likely to make you look cool! If something seems like it will bring you personal glory in a protest, it’s 99% likely just a stupid idea that will get you and others hurt, and probably being deliberately spread for that reason.

I’m surfacing from the depths of No-Internet-In-My-Apartment-Land to drop off this:  the tampon/pad paper is under a cut here, if anyone wants it. Be warned it’s very short (we wrote a paper every week, they were only about 500 words each) and it’s missing the powerpoint that shows the commercials themselves, but the paper is here should anyone be intrigued enough to go looking for it.

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Don’t judge her, she probably couldn’t afford adoption papers

I work at a humane society shelter, and this does happen occasionally. usually cats won’t “steal” the kittens, they’ll hear them crying and stick around and if a momma doesn’t come around they’ll take them somewhere safe and try to care for them

we recently had a very confused lady who called that her cat was trying to take care of an astounding 8 kittens and brought them in

the kittens were obviously malnourished, and we looked around her neighborhood and sadly found the dead mama, she got hit by a car

it’s a really useful thing that cats will do

sometimes the mom will just have gotten lost and will come back to try and find her kittens and so that can be frustrating, but considering how rough it is for stray kittens, it’s a lot better for them to be in a household and cared for where the parent cat can get guareenteed food and shelter

I can’t tell you how many abandoned kittens we find that can’t make it

it sucks a lot

anyway tangent done

I just 😭😭 I love cats a lot

@lynyrdwrites

i jumped on the personality quiz bandwagon. enjoy.

“On Wednesdays we wear pink.”, but it’s 1830s and the Romantic era is in full bloom.

If cats knew what sin was they wouldn’t even care

I don’t care either fuck trigonometry