The wildfires in Maui aren’t natural disasters, they are colonial disasters and a direct result of both the fossil fuel industry and the military industrial complex.
Realtors preying on property in Lahaina- while Kānaka Maoli who resided there for generations are now houseless- is a result of greed and disaster capitalism.
Citizen journalists on the ground are reporting on the devastating cost these fires have on their communities and the untold stories in the media about the tourists still actively extracting land and from already limited resources.
Living alone leads to habits that you don’t realize are weird until you stay with someone else and have to suppress them.
I’m staying with family right now and I can’t just go “AUGH” like a peanuts character in the middle of the night just because I feel like it. I also can’t lick cooking utensils anymore because other people are gonna be eating that. And I can’t rant to my Swedish horse because I left that at home and also ranting to an inanimate object in the middle of the house would make me look insane.
I was talking to my aunt about this because she also lives alone and we agree that when you start living alone you need to start making more noises when you do things like grunting when you get up and yelling at annoying inanimate objects because you need to fill the space somehow. But when suddenly other people are around you’re now in the habit of whistling whenever you open a cabinet and people who have never lived alone don’t understand what you’re doing.
If you ever stay with somebody who lives alone for a few days and they start randomly doing squats in the middle of the kitchen and clicking their teeth or making noises at birds outside, just let them. Believe it or not those are methods of preserving sanity. Shaking the fridge and demanding it give you answers is a shield against the impeding darkness.
(psst reblog and spread this so it can get to who needs it )
update :hi besties both xkit rewritten and stylus are available for chrome too!
FYI for readers who requested it! This is what I’m currently using to unfuck my dash.
It seems as though most fixes for the new dash involve a combination of XKit Rewritten and the installation of one of a few varieties of script. The XKit fixes linked in this post helped a lot, but I was struggling with the idea of installing a script, because notoriously that kind of shit either doesn’t work for me or is significantly beyond my skill level.
Fortunately the page at the “this script” link has a button you can just click-to-install once you’ve installed Stylus, so it went pretty easily once I stopped panicking about having to run a script I didn’t understand. Anyway, it’s working for me for now, so passing it along for those who want to implement it.
I had this idea for a looping animation in which a single dot has a pretty long loop, but the animation as a whole is much shorter. Because of the repetition this animation is only 1 second long!
i’m gonna start gently bapping my mutuals with the newspaper emoji when they’re mean to themselves 🗞🗞🗞 be nice to my friend goddammit, stop putting yourself down
But the Crowley and Aziraphale energy is off the charts
“Look, I’m just saying, it wasn’t my fault if he decided to commit suicide by threatening you.”
“Do you really think our respective offices are going to care?”
“Well, no. I’m just saying it’s not my fault. Anyway, he was a saint to his parish and a demon to his housekeeper. Makes him a double agent. So we’re both doing the right thing.”
“And both doing the wrong one.”
“Well. I suppose you could make that argument.”
“How deep do you think we need to put him?”
“I wouldn’t know, I’ve never hidden a body before. I still don’t see why we can’t miracle him away.”
“Audits, my dear. I’m not sure how your side is about it, but my side audits miracles. Unless you’re really sure about that “both doing the right thing” argument.”
“Whatever. Hold your end higher, would you? He’s heavier than he looks.”
WTF, I love this fandom
As a medieval art scholar and an obsessive GO fan, this made my whole week.
Today I introduced my sister to “the problem of Susan” and I had to explain to her that Susan was left out of Narnia cuz she liked boys and lipstick now and without missing a beat she said but what about Peter? Does Peter not like girls? And I knew she was pointing out the inherent misogyny at the center of the “the problem of Susan” but the implications of that question are a source of much hilarity to meeee LMFAO like Does Peter not like girls? Does he like boys? Is he Gay? Is Narnia really just a homo-utopia where Lucy is also a lesbian and Edmund is a bisexual disaster and Susan was kicked out cuz she was too straight??? Can I make CS Lewis turn over in his grave with this new reading?
[ID: A tweet by @/JohannesTEvans, tweeted at 7:01 AM on 29 Aug 21. It reads:
person in charge: hey do this
child: why?
person in charge: ARE YOU QUESTIONING MY AUTHORITY
child, who was literally just asking the purpose of what they were about to do: well i fucking am now, jesus, what is your damage
/end ID]
I work with little kids and it is actually quite effective when you explain the why to them, even when you think the why is obvious
Telling a little kid something like “don’t stand on that bike” is generally ineffective, especially if they’re in one of those stages where they defy adults on purpose to establish a sense of independence
Following it up with, “the bike has wheels and may roll out from under you and cause you to fall and get hurt, and I don’t want you to get hurt” makes it far more convincing, especially if you give them another option, like “but if you want to stand on something, I can grab you a step stool”
Kids are little people, they don’t like being ordered around any more than adults
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