"tumblr's the only social media without algorithms!" "you can still be anonymous on tumblr!" "tumblr's so nice because you don't have to show your face!" WRONG tumblr is special because you can have 3000 followers and still get an average of seven likes a post. i'm doing stand up comedy at a packed venue and one person is laughing
youre right im sorry beautiful
Anonymous asked:
A person looking at a piece of Second Empire jewelry shouldn't be thinking about craftsmanship, they should be thinking about sugar plantations.
marzipanandminutiae answered:
a person looking at a piece of modern jewelry by an American or European artist should only be thinking about global northern exploitation of the global south
a person looking at a piece of Japanese jewelry from 1910 should only be thinking about the violent colonization of Korea
a person looking at a piece of Aztec jewelry should only be thinking about their wars for the purpose of conquering various neighboring city-states
a person looking at a piece of medieval jewelry should only be thinking about state anti-semitism and the stranglehold of the Catholic church on Europe
this may surprise you, but:
A. it’s possible- encouraged by museum workers including myself, even! -to talk about and think about multiple aspects of the world that created a historical object. including blood-soaked systems by which their owners made money and from which their creators benefited AND also the labor, skill, unique human vision, and talent that went into their creation
B. there is no morally pure aesthetic place or period including the one you’re living in. so if people are only allowed to appreciate art from eras/place without sin…nobody is allowed to appreciate any art, ever
brown works so hard and does so much and everyone is so mean to her. coffee chocolate hair leather tea wood eyes broth a warm coat autumn leaves caramelized onions the crust on a loaf of bread. all things good and warm and kind are brown. bitch!
walkable cities also means sittable cities send tweet
some people are responding to this like its a joke and im going to assume u are the type of people to say "its only a 3 minute walk" when i tell them the nearest bench is too far away
also anyone who thinks "3 minutes isnt THAT bad" you will be old one day. and you will wish the bench was closer
walkable cities also means cities with free accessible public bathrooms whilst we're at it
@squidong A+ tags
And wheelchair accessible!!! including for wider chairs!
godmybackhurts asked:
If I may inquire, how exactly did you come to realize Mayhem's hips are nonexistent at best? I know you've had her x-rayed, but what caused you to think that there might have been an issue?
hellenhighwater answered:
Honestly if I didn’t pay very close attention to her, I probably would have missed it. Not to pat my own back, but a less cat-obsessed owner probably would not have realised anything was wrong with her, because she’s adapted astonishingly well to her lack of hip joints. To the point where every vet that’s seen her x-rays has said something along the lines of “I wouldn’t believe she could move so well if I wasn’t watching her do it.” This was not an obvious problem that could have been picked up by casual observation.
What caused me to have concerns was just that she would take indirect routes. I’ve had Mayhem (then Jane) since immediately after she was weaned–she was a bottle baby, and her original foster passed her litter along to me as soon as they were eating mostly solid foods, at about 4 weeks old. So I have seen her through very nearly every stage of development. There was nothing observably wrong with her through most of her ktitenhood, but around the age where she should have been starting to put together the coordination to try high jumps, she wasn’t–not only wasn’t succeeding in making high jumps, she wasn’t trying high jumps. And as we all know, Mayhem will try to cause any problem she is capable of, so the fact that she wasn’t getting into high spots and having to be instructed not to was, by itself, notable.
Instead of jumping to countertop-height, she would instead make intermediate leaps–floor to chair to table, and if there was no chair, she wouldn’t just jump onto the table. She ran fine. She climbed fine. She took stairs fine. But it seemed like she just didn’t have the back-leg torque to do vertical jumps, and she should have. Also, her hips felt ever-so-slightly-off from the outside–just a teeny bit of strangeness in the shape of her pelvis when I put my palm on her back hips. So I followed up with my vet–first a preliminary appointment to see if they had a quick answer, and then x-rays (and then when the x-rays showed the utter lack of hip sockets, another vet for a surgical consult.)
This is a problem that would probably be more obvious later in life, but for now, she continues to move (mostly) fine and her quality of life is fantastic. It’s good that I caught it, because the recovery from her future hip replacement will be easier on her, and she’ll get full use out of her cyborg leggies.
Thankfully, cats are generally not very prone to joint problems, so in most cats, it’s not a thing you’d have to worry about. But it is worth bearing in mind that if your cat seems to be unable–not just unwilling, but unable–to engage in some form of movement that cats can normally manage, it’s worth a conversation with your vet.
having the Aviation Accident Investigations Autism™️ has actually done wonders for the way I process and respond to my own fuck-ups
And I don't just mean "oh, my little work mistake is actually nothing compared to a fiery crash that kills people," either. The reason commercial flight is so many orders of magnitude safer than any other form of transportation is because after every accident and incident, an independent regulatory body investigated it with the express goal of figuring out exactly what happened, why, and how to prevent the same thing from ever happening again—not to root out which person deserved the blame or the liability.
It's a simple, shockingly effective idea. It's also worlds away from how most people approach their own mistakes and the mistakes of others.
Because it’s never just one person’s fault. And even when it is, it still isn’t.
The sharpest, best-trained pilots make worse decisions when they're tired or sick or stressed out, so there's two of them. The most dedicated and experienced air traffic controllers garble an instruction over the radio sometimes, so pilots are trained to always repeat clearances back to catch misunderstandings quickly. The best and brightest maintenance mechanic still overlooks a screw or misconnects a wire once or twice in her career, so aircraft systems are built with two or three or four layers of redundancy, and pilots are exhaustively trained to deal with failures safely.
Everyone eventually has a bad day. Every component breaks down. Every computer gets a bad a Windows update and spirals into a reboot doom loop. If it’s possible for one person’s mistake to domino into a mushroom cloud of a fuckup, then that task is too critical to be one person's sole responsibility. The accident sequence starts with the design of the system—so how do you improve the system to keep it from happening again?
oh yeah. The “modern commercial aviation is the safest form of transport” thing only applies to planes, btw. A helicopter is a beautiful metal horse that wants to break its legs and die so so so badly
purity politics
(reposting this because tumblr deleted my blog funny enough for nsfw)
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