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made an instagram for discussing sickness and disability on film. as if i needed more social media profiles to look after. excited about it as a little project though.
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Happy birthday to the movie that fundamentally changed my brain chemistry
anyway if this place does vanish you can find me on bluesky but that’s more namespacey so i don’t have as much fun. and i do have a dreamwidth although i haven’t posted on it for AGES. if tumblr is dead i guess i will have to start posting there again.
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i hope everyone is ready to celebrate International Down With Cis day on April 4th.
happy 9 years to the Down With Cis bus!
happy 10 years to the Down With Cis bus!
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I love the idea of a roomba topography map being the jumping on point for a liminal horror story. House of Leaves II: Roomba.
You assume it's just a software glitch - obviously some weird reflections or something confused the range finder, and the vacuum's mapping algorithm interpreted the data as a whole second room or hallway.
Sometimes the map shows that the vacuum has actually entered the non-existent space and is cleaning there, but obviously that's just the position tracking also screwing up, so it thinks it's somewhere far away and just maps it to the closest place it thinks exists.
The map keeps growing, though, and the vacuum's taking longer and longer to clean the whole house.
Eventually it's frustrating enough that you start setting aside time to watch it do the cleaning, so you can figure out what surface is confusing it and fix the problem.
Somehow the problem never happens when you're watching.
The vacuum seems more beaten up than you remember - scratches and small dents, nothing to stop it from working, but you're not sure where they came from.
Once, you look while it's cleaning and can't find it anywhere. The mobile app says it's cleaning the living room, but it's obviously not there. The app is often wrong, though, and when you hear it trundling around the dining room, which you just checked, you guess you must have just... missed it somehow?
When you empty its bin, there's strange, golden dust in it that you've never seen before.
You install a few cameras. Every time the vacuum malfunctions, it's always when it's behind something or in a dead zone between cameras. Even when you move the cameras. It's a different place every time.
Did you spill ketchup somewhere? There are desiccated flecks of brown and red in the vacuum bin.
You get a Bluetooth tracker - it's supposed to help you find your keys or your wallet if you misplace them - and you glue it to the vacuum.
That night, the vacuum has a new scrape on it, like it ran into something, and the tracker has been knocked off. You can't find it; the tracker app just says it's "out of range or turned off".
You look at your robotic vacuum. It's got more scratches and scrapes even than you remember from a few days ago. You check your camera footage and yeah, it's definitely gotten more beaten up. No footage of it running into anything, though.
One of the dents almost looks like a... bite mark? You must be imagining that.
You sit and think for a long time. You know it's just a machine; you know humans tend to anthropomorphize anything that moves (all the more so because of the googly eyes you attached when you got it), and you don't want to fall into that superstitious fallacy.
It's just a machine.
You look at the dents and cuts on its frame.
You sigh, turn off the cameras, and duct-tape a kitchen knife to the robot.
"Just don't scratch up the sofa." you mutter, feeling silly, and press the "clean now" button.
The startup beep is the same noise as always, and you tell yourself there's no way it could possibly sound 'excited'.
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THE GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL (2014) dir. wes anderson
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never forget the universal rule of the order of things: People Will Not Read It
signs at stores? émail? menu ?? instruction ? post online ? caption with andswer to question ? group hand outs ??? street sign ??? no. The Written Word Is The Enemy
The ability to occasionally Read A Thing will make you a hero in your workplace, especially if it is for example an error message that tells you what you need to do differently, or instructions on unjamming a printer.
how dare you say we put jam in the printer
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matt just fired half the remaining tumblr support staff lmao
from my sources adjacent to tumblr--from which i can spread rumors and insider information freely because i dont give a fuck about ever working in the tech sector--im hearing this round of firings was focused on purging the senior staff, and not just from support but from the entire remaining tumblr workforce. i'm hearing there are about 25 people left.
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Summary:
On Christmas Eve, 1966, Jim Hacker, a Reuters reporter stationed in Beijing, met Humphrey Appleby, the private secretary of the newly-appointed chargé d'affaires in China, Sir Basil Corbett, at a cocktail party.
Author's note:
Set during the Cultural Revolution, no particular update schedule, not posting inside the Firewall (cause I don't wanna get yelled at), posting here for fun. I didn't really do any research, just wanted to see Jim/Humphrey in a chaotic situation. But I did reference the '67 arson case at the British Office of the Chargé d'Affaires, the proceedings of the House of Commons on the question of Chinese authorities detaining British citizens in China, George Watt's China Spy (1973), as well as Anthony Grey's Hostage in Peking (1970). Basil Corbett has secretly been in foreign service the whole time and is Humphrey's boss, not a politician.
Holy shit lol
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Pan Haowen by Nick Yang for W China Magazine October 2024