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Ecobricking

Peat moss debate

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A question: in stereotypical, straight relationship, do the women get mad when the men watch porn?

I'm asking because I know straight women get mad when their man follows or even likes another woman's post.

#straight men #straight women #gay

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Can vampires be seen in cameras? Like if they were on a zoom call for school? Do digital crucifixes, like on a church website, keep vampires away or hurt them? Did you know Biola Univeristy, an evangelical university with a high level of remote students, boasts of an entirely Christian populous? This makes sense given they incorporate Evangelical Christianity into every part of their university, including their campus policies, but do you think they screen for your religion somehow?

However, if I had a lot of time and money on my hands, like a traditional vampire who happened to be atheist, I'd try to infiltrate Biola as a student and systematically poke holes in all their teachings while simultaneously getting a 4.0 and see if they'd kick me out.

#vampire #if i was a vampire #question christianity #infiltrate universities

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#poetry #dear lover

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I made my first video essay. It's horrible. I'm proud nonetheless. It's about Clarus the Dogcow, an inside joke the spiraled through the early days of Apple.

#clarusthedogcow #macintosh #susan kare #video essay #Youtube

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Radical gardening in mostly urban spaces. Not only is the history fascinating, but work is really important 💚

#green thumb #green guerillas #radical gardening #urbanart #community garden

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The similarities between "love" and "who (I am)"

There's this whole thing about how we, English speakers in modern day, use the word love for such a wide range of meanings. In comparison, you have the Greeks who distinguish between types of love (here's a link to a good description)

But for us English speakers, the ambiguity "love" provides can be a blessing or a curse. You can hide your true feelings behind friendly adoration or be stuck without a way to express how deeply you feel because all you have is a word that you also use to describe a yummy food.

I noticed something similar with "who (you are/I am)." The answer could be anything from "I'm a student/firefighter/veterinarian" to "I'm a soldier is a quiet war against the hopelessness caused by the inevitable furthering of the anthropocene."

Who a person is and what love they feel for any number of people or things encompasses a massive range and using either terminology can be akin to opening a can of worms.

But the sentence that combines these two incredibly broad words is rarely used because it somehow has a very specific meaning and connotation that makes it rare for people to truly feel:

I love who I am

#types of love #who i am #lexicon #english language #musings

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I need this on my dash. That is all.

Eva Noblezada performing "When I Look At You" from the Scarlet Pimpernel musical

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As I listen the music more critically (education is to blame for that), I'm actually finding that I enjoy more songs more. I find appreciable qualities in all songs because I've been (somewhat) trained to listen for them, and thus I will appreciate songs I might not have before hand.

And songs I already liked? Wow. It feels like I'm listening to them in the most beautiful, emotional way possible.

As someone for whom music makes life a lot more bearable, I am so excited to have rebooted my enjoyment of the medium.

#sound design #music #music is life

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Whenever I see ln(x) or whatever in math, I think "latural nog" in my head.

I also think "lam-o" for LMAO

#inner monologue #i cant be the only one

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Simply in love with the new emoticon slang for the ace/aro community

I <2 you flirtatious aros, I <2 you friends-with-benefits aros, I <2 you alloaros, I <2 you non-SAM aros, I <2 you loveless aros, I <2 you heartless aros, I <2 you romance repulsed aros, I <2 you aros who refuse to let your feelings and actions be defined by amatonormativity

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In a tumblr versus Wikipedia battle, I am not sure who would win tbh. But will someone please write a breakdown on the possibilities?

As of this writing, Goncharov has been added and removed from the Martin Scorsese filmography Wikipedia page 7 times.

#tumblr users work hard but wikipedia admins work harder #tumblr vs Wikipedia #goncharov

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*5-dimensional scientist squished me between a 5-dimensional piece of paper and now I'm used as a Rorschach inkblot to test how screwed up 5-dimensional teenagers are*

#rorschach #i dont want to be a psychological tool

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Harvard has 3D simulations of the pyramids and several temples on the Gaza Plateau and I really forgot that they just sealed the pyramids up after the pharaoh was buried. They'd post guards to deter grave robbers but...like....how did guards not notice more people breaking in???

Cuz the Egyptians didn't build any doors or stuff - the pyramids were meant to not be entered. Would a guard just walk by a human-sized hole, hear digging, and go "welp, guess I should lay out some mouse traps"

#king they are stealing your dead king

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You keep running away so I give you a stuffed animal backpack that is completely innocuous with no strings attached.

#we need more kids on leashes #i stole this joke from a friend #that friend wants to put me on a leash

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A couple of months after a production of Mamma Mia that I ran sound for wrapped, I found a roll of mic tape in one of my pockets and so of course had to return it to the tech director. Unfortunately, he was out at the time so I sent him the first picture and left the 2nd. Translation: this is a roll of adhesive

#treacheryofimages #theatre tech #im funny to me

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You can do the same with pants with fake pockets - just slit it open and sew those bastards on.

Make Some Pocket Extenders for Your Pants

So I don’t know about you, but I’m often frustrated by the ridiculous smallness of girls’ pockets. At a bare minimum, I need to be able to shove my cellphone in there - come on, pants companies! So what I started doing was making myself pocket extenders. I’ve done this several times, for pants and shorts. It’s great.

I just got this pair of jeans, so I thought I’d show you how to do it. I kind of feel like it just hasn’t occurred to some of you that this is an option, so maybe now it will. All you need is your pants, some fabric (I just took a random piece from a scrap bin), a needle, and some thread (thread doesn’t even need to match the fabric since literally no one will see it).

See? Ridiculous. Like, half a cellphone, or only 2.5″. Useless.

 So turn those inside out to expose the pockets.

Figure out how big you want your pockets to actually be. I kinda go by whatever looks like might be right. I didn’t really measure them. Fold the fabric in half, so you have a pocket, and then fold it in half again so you can have two equal ones.

Try to get the edges to line up enough, pin it in place, then sew up the sides! Are your stitches crazy uneven and wonky looking? Doesn’t matter; nobody’s going to see it. These are in the inside of your pants. The only thing that matters is that it holds up. So I double-did the corners, since those tend to get the most stress.

Cut open the bottom of the existing pockets.

Pin it in place, then sew around, joining the new pocket to the old pocket. I did this by keeping my hand on the inside, so I wouldn’t accidentally sew through the other side. Again, I reinforced the corners, and didn’t worry about what it actually looks like. Then I turned it in side out to make sure the inside was all joined properly.

Yay all done! And the pockets are so much bigger now!

Whaaaat I can fit my entire phone and entire hand and probably something else now, are girls’ pockets even allowed to do that?! Heck yeah they are.