Taste Life Twice

rileywrites:

Life Update (02/25/24):

@genyalinaa and I got married in October!

I was waiting to announce for a new chapter of Cross Promotion, but my muse took an involuntary sabbatical thanks to burnout.

I’m still an educator in a red state, we’re still both mentally and chronically ill, and money is still tighter than a Dolly Parton outfit.

If you’d like to help out a pair of queer disabled newly(ish)weds, my ko-fi is reactingcaptain. It’s in the source of this post.

I am eternally grateful to the people who have supported in the past!

All my love,

Riley

(Source: ko-fi.com)

transhuman-priestess:

transhuman-priestess:

transhuman-priestess:

transhuman-priestess:

What the “haha millennials can’t even make phone calls” crowd fails to appreciate is that making phone calls is a far more user-hostile and physically uncomfortable experience than it was 15-20 years ago.

It used to be you picked up a landline, which had physical buttons and at its smallest was still 3x larger than a smartphone, dialed the actual location you wanted to call (instead of a corporate call center) and you could actually talk to someone with access to the store computer/government records/dinner reservations that actually fucking applied to you.

You could also actually hold the phone with your shoulder without it hurting, which freed your hands up to cook or eat, or type on a computer, etc. it didn’t require an accessory you had to keep charged. It was built into the phone’s physical design!!!

It sucks more to do phone calls now! Like it just does!!!

The most mundanely dehumanizing experience I’ve had in the last few years was when I called a domino’s to troubleshoot a pizza order and they directed me to a call center in a different state.

“We had to automate it because nobody would do the job!”

PAY YOUR FUCKING WORKERS

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razielim:

victusinveritas:

oh i’m going to misusle and straight up fuckle this knowledge so badly

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depsidase:

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xena-wolfgang:

cursed-and-haunted:

cursed-and-haunted:

I know this is going to make me sound pretensions but I have to get it off my chest. I feel an unimaginable rage when someone posts a photo and is like “this picture looks like a renaissance painting lol” when the photo clearly has the lighting, colors and composition of a baroque or romantic painting. There are differences in these styles and those differences are important and labeling every “classical” looking painting as renaissance is annoying and upsetting to me. And anytime I come across one of those posts I have to put down my phone and go take a walk because they make me so mad

In case you’re curious here’s what I mean.

Renaissance(distinct lines, stability and the individual man):

Baroque (bold, chaotic, dramatic):

Romantic(romanticize the simple hard working life):

Do you see the difference?

this post has re-wired my brain in the best way

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pisshandkerchief:

iluvpirates:

socialistexan:

Cis woman confronted by police officers in Arizona Walmart restroom for looking too masculine speaks out (exclusive)

“The only men in the women’s restroom were the cops,” Kalaya Morton said.

Advocate.com

Daily reminder: Transphobia actively contributes to sexism. If you don’t fit the beauty standard and are seen as masculine in any way shape or form, you are seen as transgender and as a “problem”

I think it’s incredibly important here to not overlook the fact that she is a Black woman. Transphobia, racism, and sexism overlap significantly because of the incredibly eurocentric beauty standards women are judged on.

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blondebrainpowered:

Rick Astley’s father Ossie Astley celebrating “Never Gonna Give You Up�� making it to #1 on the UK charts in 1987.

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mercury-waters:

obsessed with how fixable society is, on a structural level.

obsessed with how all you need to do is throw money at public education and eliminate most standardized testing and you will start getting smarter, more engaged, kinder adults. obsessed with how giving people safe housing, reliable access to good food, and decent wages dramatically reduces drug overdoses and gun violence. obsessed with how much people actually want to get together and fix infrastructure, invent new ways of helping each other, and create global ways of living sustainably once you give them livable pay to do so. obsessed with how tracking diseases, developing medicines, and improving public health becomes so much easier when you just make healthcare free at point of use.

obsessed with how easy it all becomes, if we can just figure out how to wrench the wealth out of the hands of the hoarders.

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apricops:

mayleavestars:

u know someone’s about to get dragged through the mud when an academic uses the phrase ‘it’s tempting to assume’

“it’s tempting to assume” is academic speaking for “you might think, if you’re a fucking idiot,”

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escapismsworld:

“Do not draw me without reason. Do not wield me without valor.”

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sparrowsfallingfromthesky:

maykitz:

in bangkok my mom met a newlywed couple who were on their honeymoon with a third person, their gay best friend that they both like so much they took him along

Oh yeah, a few days after I first saw this post I got this recommended post on Facebook lmao

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eyes-alight:

once-a-polecat:

ALT

This is badass: Medieval Nubian Fashion Brought to Life. Click through to the link because there’s more replica clothing and it is all stunning!

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nudityandnerdery:

victusinveritas:

library-graffiti:

nudityandnerdery:

nudityandnerdery:

I want you to remember:

The fascists hate you too and they just will pretend otherwise until after they’ve killed the rest of us, before they turn on you.

Thanks to whoever tried, but I knew they’d never allow it.

Let’s do it the old fashioned way. Spread it far and wide.

Reminder: you can’t be the whole wall against stopping fascism by yourself. Nobody can. But you damn sure can be a brick.

There’s a lot of good comments and tags in the notes, but this one is very important, I feel like it deserves some emphasis.

Part of how authoritarianism works is telling you that you can’t stop it. And you can’t stop it by yourself. But it wants to stop the train of thought there and let you fall into despair.

You need to remember the next part: you don’t have to stop it by yourself.

You’re not alone. Take care of your community and let your community take care of you. Supporting each other is so vital.

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orphanedsource:

battlecrazed-axe-mage:

I’ve acquired a creature that stares at you no matter which direction you look at it from

I’m hypnotized 

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pitbolshevik:

pitbolshevik:

i love telling people that actually movies lied to them and sled dogs don’t usually look like purebred siberian huskies and instead look like wonderfully nondescript little mutty mutts

pictures that make you say “yep those sure are dogs”

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thedoubteriswise:

nothing funnier to me than when AI does math wrong. like I get why it happens, it’s a language model that’s treating the numbers you feed it as words rather than integers and then giving you an answer based on how those words typically appear in a block of text instead of actually performing a calculation. but the one thing computers are genuinely incredible at. you fucked up a perfectly good calculator is what you did, look at it it’s got hallucinations

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