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#Reproductive rights #Abortion rights #Us politics #Abortion #Miscarriage mention #Systemic misogyny #Patriarchy #Christofascism #Conservatives

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#Words #Etymology #English language #Oooo

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I am not unaware of the negatives of Biden's presidency, and I am not trying to elide or forgive them. I'm reblogging posts about the Biden administration because I think it's really important that potential voters in the US realize that there is, in fact, a very big difference between the two parties, and voting for Biden is not just damage control--it actually does good. It's okay, you can actually feel a little excited about making meaningful progress, and not just hold your nose.

He's been very unflashy. He's not a great leader, he's not charismatic and he knows it, but he's an adroit politician and administrator, and he's been getting things done. Letting Trump win at this point would be tantamount to throwing the entire country on the bonfire. It's not a choice between bad and bad, it's a choice between meaningful, if imperfect, progress and fucking doom.

#Us politics #Biden

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you’re hearing it more and more

#Physical media #cds #Technology

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My latest quilt (from the Allison Glass Cozy Quilt Sew-Along)

It's a reverse applique quilt. I designed and pieced a rainbow bargello quilt top, then layered it between pieces of black jersey, stenciled and hand stitched the outlines of shapes, and carefully cut away the top layer of jersey so the rainbow showed through.

Here's what my middle layer looked like on its own!

#:o #Quilting #Fiber art #Art #Sewing #Colour #Sewing inspiration #Beautiful things #Thank you for sharing

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these are the best cards on the planet and no one can tell me otherwise

(etsy)

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there are 2 kinds of mangaka when drawing: the ones that hate woman and the ones that love woman

And, guys...

i think ryoko kui really loves woman.

#Dungeon Meishi #Art #Manga

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#I guess part of it (besides the obvious inherent misogyny disrespect) #Might be the land ownership thing #The farm or the Inn is owned by the man #So the wife is by definition a helper to the owner of the business #If they divorced then she would be the one to leave and she would have to physically leave #And thus find new work somewhere else #The work is a side effect of the marriage #But yes #Patriarchy #Misogyny #Historical misogyny #Systemic misogyny

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Maybe birthdays were exciting as a kid because it was basically your only way to get stuff. As a kid there’s very limited opportunities to get new stuff when you really think about it. I mean I like getting presents as an adult but I can also buy candy whenever I want and I don’t even like candy that much anymore

#... #This might be very true #I will file this away in my belief system for further examination #Consumerism #Psychology #Parenting #Children #Money #Gifts #Maybe this is part of #why i am like this #I.e. me and the sibling learned the lesson too well #So we learned to simply Not Want Things #And didn't question that til we were well into our teenage years #I'm only now experiencing Wanting Things now I'm in my late 20s and have a secure income #Didn't get to experiment with controlling our own environments and learn it as a process starting in childhood #I remember that vet clinic doll house I loved it so much #Man I need to make sure I play with my recent gifts so I can associate them with the same joy #Goals #To do #That is a brand new framing that came out of this pondering but I'm very glad I got there's #Life #Mundane joy #Ultimate favourite

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New episode of delicious in dungeon on netflix despite it saying another one wasn't due for a week

It started playing as I was heading out the door D: I have to go do things despite new episode waiting for me!

#Delicious in dungeon #NGL I'm enjoying the experience of being able to Engage in Current Media #With a degree of enthusiasm #TV shows #My posts #My life #Just having a thing I can unambiguously say I enjoy is nice

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the older I get, the more the technological changes I've lived through as a millennial feel bizarre to me. we had computers in my primary school classroom; I first learned to type on a typewriter. I had a cellphone as a teenager, but still needed a physical train timetable. my parents listened to LP records when I was growing up; meanwhile, my childhood cassette tape collection became a CD collection, until I started downloading mp3s on kazaa over our 56k modem internet connection to play in winamp on my desktop computer, and now my laptop doesn't even have a disc tray. I used to save my word documents on floppy discs. I grew up using the rotary phone at my grandparents' house and our wall-connected landline; my mother's first cellphone was so big, we called it The Brick. I once took my desktop computer - monitor, tower and all - on the train to attend a LAN party at a friend's house where we had to connect to the internet with physical cables to play together, and where one friend's massive CRT monitor wouldn't fit on any available table. as kids, we used to make concertina caterpillars in class with the punctured and perforated paper strips that were left over whenever anything was printed on the room's dot matrix printer, which was outdated by the time I was in high school. VHS tapes became DVDs, and you could still rent both at the local video store when I was first married, but those shops all died out within the next six years. my facebook account predates the iphone camera - I used to carry around a separate digital camera and manually upload photos to the computer in order to post them; there are rolls of undeveloped film from my childhood still in envelopes from the chemist's in my childhood photo albums. I have a photo album from my wedding, but no physical albums of my child; by then, we were all posting online, and now that's a decade's worth of pictures I'd have to sort through manually in order to create one. there are video games I tell my son about but can't ever show him because the consoles they used to run on are all obsolete and the games were never remastered for the new ones that don't have the requisite backwards compatibility. I used to have a walkman for car trips as a kid; then I had a discman and a plastic hardshell case of CDs to carry around as a teenager; later, a friend gave my husband and I engraved matching ipods as a wedding present, and we used them both until they stopped working; now they're obsolete. today I texted my mother, who was born in 1950, a tiktok upload of an instructional video for girls from 1956 on how to look after their hair and nails and fold their clothes. my father was born four years after the invention of colour televison; he worked in radio and print journalism, and in the years before his health declined, even though he logically understood that newspapers existed online, he would clip out articles from the physical paper, put them in an envelope and mail them to me overseas if he wanted me to read them. and now I hold the world in a glass-faced rectangle, and I have access to everything and ownership of nothing, and everything I write online can potentially be wiped out at the drop of a hat by the ego of an idiot manchild billionaire. as a child, I wore a watch, but like most of my generation, I stopped when cellphones started telling us the time and they became redundant. now, my son wears a smartwatch so we can call him home from playing in the neighbourhood park, and there's a tanline on his wrist ike the one I haven't had since the age of fifteen. and I wonder: what will 2030 look like?

#Technology #Time passes strangely #Generational differences #History #Nostalgia

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ABACUSYNTH by ELIAS JARZOMBEK [2022]

Abacusynth is a synthesizer inspired by an abacus, the ancient counting tool used all around the world. Just like an abacus is used to learn the fundamentals of math, the Abacusynth can be used to explore the building blocks of audio synthesis.

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being in love!! getting married!!! having chubby little babies!! decorating your home…!!!!

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#Protests #palestine protest #2024 #BDS

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#Nostalgia #I know the llama song and have fond memories #But that was before I was online