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girl dad not as in a dad with daughters but as in a girl who shares the tastes habits and personality traits of a middle aged father
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i wish every engineer a “try going around your building in a wheelchair”
#me walking in my building first day#ok all the doors have steps my office is up a flight of stairs with no elevator#looks like the only way for someone in a wheelchair could get into the building is by using the heavy freight lift#welp hope my chronic illness doesn’t get any worse#then my boss froze his femur and straight up could not go to any meetings in our building#it’s great
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Crybabies
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Mechanical snencils
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Happy New Year! Josef Lada, 1928
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Japanese Emperor caterpillar bus !
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Weevils are heavily underrated in my profound opinion.
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scone butch... The person for all your pastry and lesbian needs
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"You should be at the club" Direct exposure to the club would kill me instantly
"You should be at bar trivia night" This I cannot deny
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worst thing about free time is deciding what to do with it. it is a travesty that it is impossible to knit, draw, write, read, watch a movie, listen to podcasts, and play a video game all at the same time
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science fiction as a genre was invented specifically to show lesbians some greasy sweaty women in tank tops fixing machinery
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when you're out of balsamic vinegar & rice vinegar & all you have left are red wine vinegar, apple cider vinegar, white vinegar, & malt vinegar
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MORE LESBIAN BUGS
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I've had a hard time articulating to people just how fundamental spinning used to be in people's lives, and how eerie it is that it's vanished so entirely. It occurred to me today that it's a bit like if in the future all food was made by machine, and people forgot what farming and cooking were. Not just that they forgot how to do it; they had never heard of it.
When they use phrases like "spinning yarns" for telling stories or "heckling a performer" without understanding where they come from, I imagine a scene in the future where someone uses the phrase "stir the pot" to mean "cause a disagreement" and I say, did you know a pot used to be a container for heating food, and stirring was a way of combining different components of food together? "Wow, you're full of weird facts! How do you even know that?"
When I say I spin and people say "What, like you do exercise bikes? Is that a kind of dancing? What's drafting? What's a hackle?" it's like if I started talking about my cooking hobby and my friend asked "What's salt? Also, what's cooking?" Well, you see, there are a lot of stages to food preparation, starting with planting crops, and cooking is one of the later stages. Salt is a chemical used in cooking which mostly alters the flavor of the food but can also be used for other things, like drawing out moisture...
"Wow, that sounds so complicated. You must have done a lot of research. You're so good at cooking!" I'm really not. In the past, children started learning about cooking as early as age five ("Isn't that child labor?"), and many people cooked every day their whole lives ("Man, people worked so hard back then."). And that's just an average person, not to mention people called "chefs" who did it professionally. I go to the historic preservation center to use their stove once or twice a week, and I started learning a couple years ago. So what I know is less sophisticated than what some children could do back in the day.
"Can you make me a snickers bar?" No, that would be pretty hard. I just make sandwiches mostly. Sometimes I do scrambled eggs. "Oh, I would've thought a snickers bar would be way more basic than eggs. They seem so simple!"
Haven't you ever wondered where food comes from? I ask them. When you were a kid, did you ever pick apart the different colored bits in your food and wonder what it was made of? "No, I never really thought about it." Did you know rice balls are called that because they're made from part of a plant called rice? "Oh haha, that's so weird. I thought 'rice' was just an adjective for anything that was soft and white."
People always ask me why I took up spinning. Isn't it weird that there are things we take so much for granted that we don't even notice when they're gone? Isn't it strange that something which has been part of humanity all across the planet since the Neanderthals is being forgotten in our generation? Isn't it funny that when knowledge dies, it leaves behind a ghost, just like a person? Don't you want to commune with it?
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HAPPY 28TH BIRTHDAY THRESHOLD‼‼‼ here are the salamander babies celebrating
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Here comes a new challenger: Orchid Mantis!!!
