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hometoursandotherstuff

From an Australian design page. Why would you put a net “floor” in front of a tub? This is the ridiculous.

That’s it, I’m architecture shaming group post

h-nry

Here is a link to the architects website featuring this house, located in Fitzroy in Melbourne, Australia. The website has a few videos, including a home tour with the architect himself which gives a few key insights that are not readily apparent from the photo:

There is another entrence to the bathtub from the closet that does not require olympic level dexterity to access, and there is a pocket door to close it off from the rest of the room. The whole loft is also up a spiral staircase, so it was never very accessible in the first place unfortunately.
Lying there ass naked and sopping wet is absolutely the intended use case for the netting.

#architecture

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boringkate

Remember: When god closes a door you just have to meow at her unrelentingly untill she opens it again and then you can casually confirm that you aren't interested in being on the other side of it.

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feotakahari

kitstacean

The Cruel Fantasies of Well-Fed People

The astonishing story of how a movement’s quest for rural simplicity drifted into a formula for mass death By George Monbiot, published on m

George Monbiot

An important read, I think, to start really thinking about aesthetics vs practicality in politics

kitstacean

Assorted excerpts, semi out of context

kitstacean

a handful of my own summary thoughts:

This author / journo is relatively unusual in that he is an environmentalist who is also a techno optimist, or a futurist, rather than the much more common Retvrn To TradLife sort of environmentalist.

He does have a book, Regenesis, which is pretty widely hated among a lot of "sustainable local farming" enviro-types for this specific reason:

He thinks globally. He thinks about the billions of people who, in all likelihood, are never going to afford Gold Star Grass-fed Maximum Ethically Reared Steak, or Organic Certified Apples
If you go down a lot of these organic hippie agriculture routes, at the end of the day... they just don't have a high enough yield to feed billions of people without chewing up much, much, much more land than we already do (and we already chew up a LOT of land)
artificial fertiliser is really important in global food production. We can't go 100% organic, we can't stop using the synthetics, because people will freaking starve, or we will clear so much more land than we already have
(I mean, unless you veer into the ecofascist train of thought of "we have to go back down to 1950s population numbers" which, um, are you suggesting murdering a billion people?? Ick.)
i do have my own take on this where we need to stop worrying about the falling fertility rates and just let em fall, like, at the moment it looks like women in developed countries have an average preference of 2.3 kids each, which is just a smidge over replacement (the real achieved fertility tends to be below 2, sometimes below 1). It may turn out that if people are free to make reproductive choices, they will settle on a natural rate that keeps the population pretty much plateau'd, and we won't need so much food.
He's very uncompromising about meat. Livestock farming is an ecological disaster, in terms of land use and efficiency converting inputs into food on a plate. I tend to agree on this - humans are not cats, we aren't obligate carnivores, and some of the healthiest and longest lived humans today and historically only had meat like, once a month tops. He's vegan, but I think that's a bit extreme (eggs and milk are pretty important, they don't kill the animals involved and they are probably a smidge more efficient than meat).
In addition, meat comes from living animals and intensive livestock farming is kind of.... Not great, so it's kind of massive moral catastrophe as well as an environmental one
Other moral catastrophe is that the grain used to feed cattle means less grain for humans. We could be making globally available food much, much cheaper
so this is convincing me to eat less meat, and more legumes and tofu. I won't be going full vegetarian / vegan, but I think making the conscious decision to eat the Fancy, Extremely Expensive Ethical Meat instead of the cheap stuff while staying within my existing budget (meaning I get meat way less often but it will be the Fantastically Great Stuff whenever I do get it), that could be a moderate compromise
I mean, maybe I'm a bit of an outlier but I'm convinced that plants are fantastic and meat is a nice to have.
Even dialling meat back to like, 1/week rather than 1/day would probably help a lot.

robustcornhusk

So the question – one of the key questions of our time – is how we can feed a population likely to rise to 9 or 10 billion by the middle of the century before starting to decline, reliably, equitably and at a much lower environmental cost. In other words, how we might feed the world without devouring the planet [...] There are, as I found, plenty of possible ways forward. But there are no ways backward. If we were to seek to restore the agricultural systems of, say, 60 or 70 years ago, a time, remember, when many people were deeply pessimistic about human nutrition and expected global starvation as the population rose, their grim predictions would materialise. Why? Because productivity was much lower than it is today. In 2023, a world of 8.1 billion people suffers far less hunger and famine than the world of 3.2 billion did in 1963, the year of my birth. Let’s pause to consider this for a moment, because it is one of the most remarkable (and, bizarrely, least celebrated) transformations of our time.

huh.

data up until 2016; it might've gotten worse since then

huh!

It is the great indulgence of those who never miss a meal to celebrate the times and modes in which people missed plenty.

#george monbiot #environmentalism #farming

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contact-guy

I never watched BBC Sherlock or engaged in the fandom and being into original Sherlock Holmes in the year 2024 feels like frolicking in a meadow that’s grown up over a battlefield. Occasionally a war weary veteran with shadows in their eyes will find me. “Don’t you know what happened in this place?” they ask me. “I literally don’t,” I reply, and go back to drawing guys from 1895.

geeoharee

hollyevolving

yeah that's gonna become a heritage post up there with "decay is an extant form of life"

#sherlock holmes #tumblr goes hard

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supreme-leader-stoat

I feel like at some point somebody should do an adaptation of Hamlet involving a zombie outbreak as a major part of the plot, if only because "something is rotten in the state of Denmark" as the tagline is too good an opportunity to pass up.

cheezitthefuzz

i mean it's already got ghosts, what's so crazy about zombies

supreme-leader-stoat

Oh yeah, Hamlet's father is a zombie in this version, no question.

rohirric-hunter

It's been forever since I read Hamlet but something something his thirst for vengeance leading Hamlet down a road of destruction in the original paralleled and magnified by his thirst for vengeance leading to an out of control zombie outbreak in Denmark in this version? Something something the contagious nature of zombies used to draw attention to the cycle of careless violence that ends up destroying everyone involved? Is that anything?

supreme-leader-stoat

#shakespeare #hamlet #zombies

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lizardsfromspace

2010. A Japanese woman sits down to take photos of her shiba inu dog for her blog. Suddenly, a man leaps out of a time portal. "Sorry, I can't let you do this. I cannot tell you why." She asks: "Is it forbidden knowledge from the future?" He sighs: "No, it's just too fucking stupid to explain."

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comedownstairsandsayhello

something has gone deeply wrong when "focusing pragmatically on issues you can influence and working to make life better for yourself and your community" is considered an unserious distraction while "endlessly exposing yourself to media about distressing situations you can't control" is considered political engagement

#failure modes of the left

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thefingerfuckingfemalefury

@brookietf Black Phillip is now able to travel across the sea!

He is unstoppable <3

philomonstrum

A moooood

thefingerfuckingfemalefury

The VVitch 2: Black Phillip's Big Day Out

#goat #black phillip

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sp00kysh4rk0

i would just like to point out it is EXTREMELY funny imagining all the silly shit Turbo granny does as a stupid cat thang in her og form (WILL MOST LIKELY MAKE MORE)

#dandadan #turbo granny

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boardwalkghost

tumblr please stop telling me to wd40 a mouse

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penny-anna

I'm not really a HanLuke shipper but I can imagine them hooking up early in their friendship & then Han later after various revelations having a personal crisis over whether or not it's weird to have sex with both halves of a set of twins

penny-anna

& like he can't ask anyone if it's weird without admitting that he's already done it. he could talk to Luke about it bcos obviously Luke already knows but he's kind of avoiding the subject with Luke in case drawing attention to the fact that he's dating Luke's sister prompts a shovel talk. he's pretty sure Luke can kill people with his brain now and he doesn't want to have that particular shovel talk if he an avoid it.

cipheramnesia

If Han came to me with this kind of question, I would be very supportive and make sure he didn't uncomfortable about having to ask the question because most of all this is about his feelings.

However, I would also desperately need to know if Luke used the force on that thang, and Han also knows I would ask, which is why he never brings these problems to me.

penny-anna

#star wars

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gjjuddmk2

#mythbusters

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mikkeneko

I am real tired of having to see people clarify that lovecraft tried to become a better person later in life. How the fuck did “I like your shoelaces” permeate the general knowledge sphere of tumblr but this hasn’t yet

I’ve been told that Lovecraft trying to become better later in life is completely made up with no accredited source backing it.

salvrun

"I can better understand the inert blindness & defiant ignorance of the reactionaries from having been one of them. I know how smugly ignorant I was. . . I really had thrown all that haughty, complacent, snobbish, self-centred, intolerant bull, & at a mature age when anybody but a perfect damned fool would have known better! . . . It's hard to have done all one's growing up since 33—but that's a damn sight better than not growing up at all." —HPL in a letter to Catherine L. Moore, February 7, 1937

He died a month later.

#hp lovecraft #better late than never

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fourofdaggers

Feelings tonight

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realmyth

#dandadan #momo ayase #ken takakura #momokarun

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paper-lilypie

something something just my luck

#dandadan #momo ayase #ken takakura #momokarun #someone please get this boy his balls

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museeeuuuum

Did you know that some museum collections hold combustible negatives, radioactive dentures, and poison tipped weapons? Collection managers, curators, conservators, and exhibit technicians need to take extra care to ensure their own safety.

#museumd