Hilda by Duane Bryers

More Hilda!!

in this family we love and support Hilda.

Yes! Hilda!

What i love about this artist’s depictions of women is even the sexualized ones the woman is always genuinely happy and enjoying herself. Frolicking or making funny faces, she’s living her life and looking sexy while doing it, not sitting in a sexual pose for the audience’s view.

I always forget about Hilda and am so pleased when she randomly shows up on my dash. Always makes my day

I love Hilda so much and I want her to be happy

more Hilda!

I freaking love Hilda, there’s needs to be more art like this.

When ‘Sweater Weather’ and COVID-19 Collide

October 27, 2020, 2:15 p.m. — Winter is coming. While San Diegans generally don’t have to worry about snow and freezing weather, cooler temperatures and the end of Daylight Savings Time — earlier sunrises, but also earlier sunsets — will mean more time spent indoors.  

For many Americans, winter’s arrival means retreating indoors until spring arrives next year. Cooler temps also mean rising rates of seasonal colds and flu, which in a regular year wouldn’t raise undue alarm bells but, well, 2020 hasn’t been a regular year.

Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, recommendations for slowing or stopping the virus’ spread have remained constant: wear a mask, socially distance (6 feet or more), wash your hands and pursue physical and social activities outside, in fresh air.

Well, many of us are about to lose that last option. So what can you do to stay healthy when “sweater weather” and COVID-19 collide?

Here are some tips for staying healthy during the cooler months:

While all of these suggestions can help minimize exposure, the reality is that this is going to be a hard winter for many of us. Remember that we are all in this together. Each of us can do our part to help keep others safe this winter by wearing a mask, washing our hands, maintaining social distance and getting a flu shot.

— Melanie Peters

Ms. Codex 1038 - [Recipe book]

Is there a Julia Child inside of you? Let’s find out with this recipe book, written in England between 1765 and 1830 CE. It features recipes for desserts, meats, preserves, “soops,” and condiments, including Indian-influenced dishes such as curry and pickles. Some recipes are attributed: Paxton, Baker, Ward, Pridham, Simeon, and Sayer are surnames that appear repeatedly. Included among the recipes are a few preparations for household tasks such as marking linen and making a red dye. A few recipes written on scraps of paper and one printed recipe (“For Strains and Bruises”) are laid in.

Do you need ideas for the holidays? Click here to check the recipes on the facsimile, or here if you want to know more.

So cool.

In the US, a person’s wheelchair is viewed legally as an extension of their body.

1. If you touch someone’s wheelchair without their consent, that is Assault. In some states, this is automatically Aggravated Assault because the assault has been committed against a disabled person.

2. If you grab a someone’s moving wheelchair to stop it, lean on their wheelchair making it jolt or tilt, climb over their wheelchair to get past it, or move their wheelchair because you think it’s in your way, you are risking injury to an obviously medically fragile person and that is Reckless Endangerment.

3. If you grab or hold onto a wheelchair, block it or in any other way prevent the person from leaving, that is Unlawful Detention or Unlawful Restraint.

4. If you start pushing a person’s wheelchair without their explicit consent, that is Abduction.

This is not a moral philosophy or an opinion. These are legal definitions. If you do any of these things, you are committing a crime for which you can be prosecuted and do jail time, and you will have a criminal record which will follow you for the rest of your life.

These same laws are applied in the same way to any mobility device including canes, walkers, and scooters. If you kick someone’s cane, grab their walker, pull on the handlebars of their scooter or in any other way touch or manhandle someone’s mobility device you are committing a crime for which you can be prosecuted and go to prison.

(Source)

I support all of these ideas. Touching a person’s mobility device is tantamount to touching them.

But what struck me, reading it was this ~ my mom was in a wheelchair. First manual, then power. And if we were sitting close together somewhere, I’d put my feet up on her chair. The side of her footrest, on top of the front wheels, something. Considering it in a wider context, it’s not really like me, but I used to do that.

I asked her more than once if it bothered her, because of course I’d have stopped doing it immediately. But she’d always grin a little grin and say no, it didn’t bother her at all, put my feet up.

It occurs to me to wonder just now .. I wonder if she liked it. I wonder if it felt like being touched, like flopping down on the sofa and putting your feet in a loved one’s lap; closeness and intimacy and familiarity.

I wish I could ask her. I bet I’m right.

Too good not to post.  Thomas Dolby receives the Roland Instruments Lifetime Achievement Award and explains the origins of “She Blinded Me With Science.”

Performance included.

It’s not wrong.

It’s hard to believe this creature exists.

It has been suggested and encouraged by some of you to set up a campaign to help offset the anxiety and costs of starting over and finding a place to live. So I am going to try this.

I am anxious and unsure about this and don’t want to upset or bother anyone. But I have 7 weeks and I am in real danger of homelessness, even if I find a job today. And if that happened it would mean that I would possibly lose the one thing that matters most to me. Contact with my daughter. I want to be her daddy again and she wants to get to know the me I am today.  If you can help. Thank you. If you can’t than you for the love and support. I am humbled and grateful to all of you.

I set this up this morning. If you can help great. If not I get it. No problem. This will be the only time I reblog this so i promise it won’t be a recurring thing.

I got the Top 4.47% on this English Vocabulary test

I’m in the last 47.33% 

I shouldn’t have taken that test

Top 40.88%

Guess I’m not that good in English after all

top 39.58%

wow i’m beTTER THAN I THOUGHT

God damn.

Well, today is my 30th and I’m a high school English teacher, so pretty accurate?

I know some words.

I know a word.

Me too.