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Images work a powerful effect on the mind. If we question in our hearts who we are, our minds throw up to our vision an image of ourselves. We seek a picture, a word, a name. We feel we do not know our own feelings unless they are named. And we inherit through culture the very names we give to feelings.

This power of culture over our lives is a power we study and recognize. Kenneth Boulding, a philosopher in the sociology of knowledge, writes: "persons themselves are to a considerable extent what their images make them." And he follows this with another insight, which should be terrifying when we consider the images of men and women in pornography and in the pornographic sensibility. He writes: "people tend to remake themselves in the image which other people have of them."

The philosopher of language Wittgenstein gives us a similar insight. He writes: "The child learns to believe a host of things, i.e., it learns to act according to these beliefs. Bit by bit there forms a system of what is believed, and in that system some things stand unshakably fast and some are more or less liable to shift. What stands fast does so, not because it is intrinsically obvious or convincing; it is rather held fast by what lies around."

This relationship between culture and event has tragic consequences in our lives. In 1972, for example, the surgeon general's report on images of violence on television suggested that a causal relationship exists between an exposure to television violence and a child's participation in more aggressive behavior. For culture and event become one another. In the early twentieth century, a magazine publishes a photograph of a real event, a photograph of a woman political activist being tortured by the czarist police. Now this event, through its publication as a photograph, has become culture. And a young man buys this photograph. He stares at it. He becomes obsessed with it. Later he imagines that he is torturing a woman who has rejected him in the same fashion as this photograph depicts. Finally he actuates these fantasies in ritual tortures as a sadomasochist. (We read of his life after he becomes a patient of Wilhelm Stekel.) He makes culture actual.

By this transformation from image to act and act to image, we become imprisoned in a world of mirrors. For we cease to be able to tell illusion from actuality or to distinguish our own natures from the nature we are imagined to have. Thus if we are unhappy, we can find no way out of our dilemma, no door leading us into another world than this world of mirrors. In one mirror we see a photograph of a woman who is tortured. This may be a fictional pose. Or it may be a newspaper reporting an actual event. Or we may witness this event in our own lives. So, gradually, we cease to be able to imagine ourselves as otherwise. Every reflection we see tells us that only cruelty is possi-ble. That violence is inevitable. We are trapped by our own minds.

In this way culture becomes like a web that is invisible to our eyes, made up strand by strand of image and word, each strand becoming more powerful through the existence of the other strands. But we do not see any of the strands. We do not examine our assumptions, our choices, our decisions: Rather, they fade into the background for us. And we confuse them with ourselves and with nature.

So if an image turns into an act, we do not perceive this transformation as having taken place. Rather, we say to ourselves that the image has accurately predicted the future. And if a pornographic fantasy becomes an event, we say that pornography has truthfully portrayed sexuality. And finally, when we read that a man is convicted of kidnapping and "brutally" murdering an adolescent girl "to fulfill a bizarre sexual fantasy," we do not come to understand that the pornographic imagination can lead to actual murder. We do not suspect, as we ought to suspect, that pornography endangers our lives.

-Susan Griffin, Pornography and Silence: Culture’s Revenge Against Nature

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(photos by Bill Watterson and an octopus)

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“It’s literally impossible to be a woman.

You are so beautiful, and so smart, and it kills me that you don't think you're good enough. Like, we have to always be extraordinary, but somehow, we're always doing it wrong?

You have to be thin, but not too thin, and you can never say you wanna be thin. You have to say you wanna be healthy, but also, you have to BE THIN.

You have to have money, but you can't ask for money because that's crass.

You have to be a boss, but you can't be mean.

You have to lead, but you can't squash other people's ideas.

You're supposed to love being a mother, but don't talk about your kids all the damn time.

You have to be a career woman, but also, always be looking out for other people.

You have to answer for men's bad behavior, which is INSANE, but if you point that out, you're accused of complaining!

You're supposed to stay pretty for men, but not so pretty that you tempt them too much or that you threaten other women because you're supposed to be a part of the sisterhood, but ALWAYS STAND OUT and ALWAYS BE GRATEFUL. But never forget that the system is rigged, so find a way to acknowledge that but ALSO, always be grateful!

You have to never get old. Never be rude. Never show off. Never be selfish. Never fall down. Never fail. Never show fear. Never get OUT OF LINE. It's too hard! It's too contradictory, and nobody gives you a medal or says 'thank you!' And it turns out, in fact, that not only are you doing everything wrong, but also, everything is your fault.

I'm just so tired of watching myself, and every single other woman tie herself into knots, so that people will like us.

And if all of that, is also true for a doll just representing a woman, then I don't even know." -Gloria the barbie movie

this is it. this is exactly it oh my god.

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Day 9/100 of Productivity

I keep swinging between feeling very on top of everything and feeling wildly unprepared. I'm sure the coffee jitters don't help.

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Currently reading Acts of desperation by Megan Nolan. I don't think I have read such an intense yet heartbreakingly relatable book in a while, perhaps the last such read was 'Tell the wolves I'm home'..... I started reading acts of desperation without any expectations of whether it'd suit my taste or not, or how it'd turn out. But so far in.... I've not been disappointed.

#megan nolan #acts of desperation #reading contemporary literature #reading #read in 2023 #bookblr #studyblr #study aesthetic

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Turning TumblrTextTint Into An Extension - Part 2

I finally did it!

I told myself around a month ago when I completed my TumblrTextTint web app that I would make an extension so it would be easier for users to access the text formatter since using an extension is better than going to the actual page everytime you want to get the code!

It was difficult at first because I just thought "I'll just use the same HTML, CSS and JavaScript code I used for the webpage verison, now for the extension!"... but that didn't work properly so I had to take time to alter the code everywhere so it could fit in a small little box... and then the JavaScript code wasn't working so I had to fix that too 😅💔

Overall an unique but not so unqie experince! Now I will try and figure out how to upload for other people to use on Firefox's Add-ons!

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@hezalife I wanted to make a post about this because my answer was longer than what I could put in a reply comment! The comment was about this post I made about the project ideas I have saved in my notes app on my phone!

Okay to answer the question, I get a bunch of ideas from literally everywhere. Here are some of the ways I come up with ideas:

Hobbies/interests I have and think of a way to make a web app/program/web page out of it. E.g. I like playing Minecraft, Pokemon, Stardew Valley, The Sims etc so I would thing of ideas around those games and create a programming project out of it.

Get the stereotypical “beginners” project ideas and expand on that. Calculator? How do I make it better, more advanced! To-do list? Don’t like basic, add more and more features to it. Text-based RPG console game? Make it more complex. Stuff like that.

Same with the other point above but add a theme to it. Hello Kitty version (my go-to theme since I started programming…)

I follow people on GitHub and Twitter that share their projects and I think of something similar or get inspiration from them and think “Okay, how do I make myself and better?” Sometimes not even better but how would I tackle that project myself.

What would make my life a little bit easier - I made TumblrTextTint generate the code needed for formatting colours in text for me. I coded it and I use it. Don’t care if someone in the past did it already, I sat down and coded my own one. It’s all experience and a good feeling in the end~!

Since I’m all for experimenting and gaining experience with programming, I also follow some tutorials on YouTube and from that’s programming blogs online. I don’t like following the instructions exactly, I like to add my own twist!

Get stuck? Use those online generators to give you a prompt on a theme or a whole idea for a next project.

I have a blog and I like to add pages and changes to the theme a bit so I make a whole ass project out of it. “Build a navigation page”, “Build an About Me page” etc.

Things I use a lot and create a project idea from it e.g. I have a lot of Tumblr-related project ideas because I use Tumblr a lot. Find something you use and do a lot and create an idea from it to work on.

Hope this answers your question!! Sorry, it’s a long post!

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10 Free HTML Projects Examples with Source Code

10 Free HTML Projects Examples with Source Code

10 Free HTML Projects ,HTML is the middle of your full web. Regardless of content material materials we see on-line relies on HTML. What to Anticipate from HTML Initiatives? Along with HTML, it is advisable to be successful to understand a bit (or heaps) of CSS and JavaScript. All three utilized sciences go hand in hand, and for the duties beneath; although you wouldn’t need any prior experience…

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subject aesthetics: computer science + math

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ENTP, Slytherclaw, Nerd culture, Late night productivity, ADHD Moodboard for @liamhastea

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CSS Background Generators | Resources ✨

I am literally one of the laziest people with making backgrounds - either manually or looking for a good image, so I looked online for some generators and thought I would share them here!

haikei - LINK

bgjar - LINK

coolbackgrounds - LINK

meshgradient - LINK

mesh-gradients - LINK

gradienta - LINK

svgbackgrounds - LINK

SVG patterns - LINK

pattern monster - LINK

Hope this helps someone! 💗

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More Tutorials~

welcome to my tutorials I have updated EVERY single tutorial making it a hell of a lot easier for you guise. Please before you ask me any HTML question check these tutorials as it will most likely help I’m hoping. If there’s a tutorial here you want/need or want me to put up message me a request and I will put it up for you. other than that enjoyyy. xo

basic codes.

- changing font colour of a particular word~

pop up tutorial/etc.

- pop up links and etc.

- pop ups faded and etc.

sidebar related.

- Adding a side/picture image on the corner of your blog

- Adding a sidebar quote.

- Rainbow links.

- Adding a corner sidebox quote.

- Hover over picture tutorial, so it changes pictures.

Html/other codes.

- Online script users tutorial.

- Disable right click tutorial.

- Blogroll tutorial.

- Infinite scrolling.

- Unfollower tracker.

tutorial requested by the anon

- tutorial for the sidequote : this tutorial could also be used for the pop ask thing too the title like mine.

- tutorial for gradient background/scrollbar/desc.

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SCM music player costumized

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Tutorials

Please like this post if you think it’s useful. I’ll keep adding new tutorials

Basics Basic codes Online users Scroll box Google webfonts Disable right click Tags and tagged pages  Change post size Put something higer/lower or more left/right Photosets don’t show?

Add pages Add new page Create selfies page Ask box + optional FAQ

Music Hypster music player Flash mp3 music player Music player in a bubble

Social Twitter follow button  Dropdown network logo 

Other White follow button Change cursor (tiny, cross or custom) Slide down menu Disco background Quote Vertical Quote Change your favicon (pixel in tab) Snow effect Turn posts transparent 

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