obsessed with this costume

does it still count as qwerty if you change how many letters are in each row 🤔

[image: a device says "Please enter your password...] The keyboard shown is a six by six grid, except that switch to lower case, backspace, and space bar take up two squares each. The letter keys are in the same order as in the qwerty keyboard layout, except that the ten letters Q W E R T Y U I O P that take up the top row of an ordinary keyboard take up one and two-thirds rows of this grid; the nine letters ordinarily in the home row finish row 2 here, fill 3, and start 4; what is ordinarily the bottom row finishes row 4, with N and M overflowing to row 5 between switch to lower case and backspace; row 6 has space bar at the center, then left and right arrows, with switch to numbers and symbols at far left and enter at far right.]

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observe please that the original qwerty layout was designed to slow typing speed so the mechanical typewriters it was designed for wouldn't jam and then inertia kept it popular: even now, multiple technological improvements past the point of needing each keystroke to be long enough after the last that each inked stamp bit avoids colliding with the next, mobile device keyboard apps for the Latin alphabet invariably include a qwerty layout option. touch typing isn't possible on most mobile devices, for the similar reason of one's fingers getting in each other's way, but especially for people who only know qwerty, keeping the familiar keyboard layout makes it much easier for users to find each letter quickly. that is, random as the layout may seem, it was designed using user-friendly logic and its use still centers on user-friendly logic today.

contrast whatever the fuck this is.

this is definitely NOT the moon girl episode with a trans character that disney shelved and has no plans on airing and i am definitely NOT advising you to spread it around like wildfire in retaliation to this stupid-ass chickenshit coward decision. i repeat, i am DEFINITELY not encouraging you to spread this episode around like crazy to show disney that trans people will not bow down to the whims of the people that want them dead. definitely DON'T do that. definitely

Here is the archive link in case the video gets claimed by copyright and taken down from youtube

Decadence

Tragically it's 2 in 1 conditioner/shampoo. I know, I know, it's a holdover from Boy Days and I'm trying to use the last of it now when I'm on the road.

I use both their shampoo and conditioner. They're both okay. I use the volumizing ones, which are berries and cream scented, which I don't like. Not my preferred brand but target stopped carrying my exact preference.

aw man they went and turned me into an aesthetic text post border

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Aro/ace flag color picked from 9/11

”WHAT DOES THIS MEAN!?!?!?!?” I color picked from an image of 9/11, I thought that’d be obvious

cats be like damn we are cuddling 😳 what if I bit you for no reason

girls be like damn we are cuddling 😳 what if I bit you for no reason

It's interesting to me that growing up Jewish seems to have given me a fundamentally different understanding of religion from my Christian friends. For me, I think that your religion (or ethnicity, since Judaism is an ethnicity) is not something you can get rid of. You can convert to another religion, but I never understood friends of mine who said that they weren't Christian, but Atheist.

"But you celebrate Christmas, right?" I asked them.

"Well, yeah," they said, "but we don't celebrate Christian Christmas. I'm atheist."

That didn't make any sense to me. Sure, maybe the version of Christmas they celebrated in their house looked more like treats and presents and less like nativity scenes and prayers, but it was still the same holiday.

So, I came up with the concept of the difference between "Not Christian" and "non-Christian". Which of course my "not christian" friends didn't understand. But my idea was that there are people who are "not christian" - mainly culturally christian atheists - and people who are "non-christian", like Jews, Hindus, Muslims, or others.

Because while both groups generally don't identify as Christian, we have different experiences. As a Jew, my experience as a religious minority is not the same as that of a culturally Christian atheist. They're not Christian, and I'm not Christian, but in different ways.

What is "your religion"? If that's the religion you're born into, then no, you absolutely can get rid of it. Because religion is most importantly a set of beliefs and values. Of course, due to its nature, it influences culture, it is a part of it, yet nothing says you can't change your culture.

When atheists celebrate Christmas, they don't put the same meanings and values in it, as christians do. What they celebrate is different, so it cannot be the same holiday, despite sharing common themes.

I don't see any reason to make the distinction you make. The difference in experience is cultural and we already have all the words needed.

See the above for a perfect example of a cultural Christian upholding Christian hegemony.

Just completely dismissing the experience and ways of knowing of every other culture in the world.

“We already have all the words needed.” You couldn’t come up with a more perfect encapsulation of the colonial mindset.

Frame it and hang it in a museum.

God god, this shit is fucking exauhsting.

Look, people who grew up culturally Christian: That's not a bad thing. You did not do something wrong by being born into a particular culture, and you are not doing anything wrong by still being part of that culture. (Frankly, if you're thinking about things in those terms, that's the cultural Christianity talking.)

Point is, no one is asking you to stop giving presents and putting up a tree at Christmas. No one is asking you not to go on egg hunts at Easter.

All we are asking is that you stop trying to tell those of us from non-Christian cultures that, because you personally don't do those things for religious reasons, they are religiously and culturally neutral.

Because, again, the very fact that you think your personal beliefs about a practice are the primary determination of what that practice means, culturally and religiously speaking, is something that Christianity taught you.

(And, yes, people's culture can change, but it requires time and effort, and becoming a part of a different culture, because there is no such thing as being culturally neutral. And if you take it for granted that December 25th is a day off, a day to spend with family; that Sunday is the weekend, even that New Years is January 1st, then guess what? Your culture is Christian.)

This discourse is so incredibly frustrating. No matter how patiently it's explained the vast majority of culturally christian atheists seem incapable of grasping the idea that if you drop Jesus but still: celebrate christian holidays, apply christian conceptions of justice, apply christian views of religion, apply christian views on the nature of knowledge, and follow christian norms of modesty and sexuality, to the rest of us YOU ARE STILL A CULTURAL CHRISTIAN and that's perfectly fine. There is nothing wrong with being an atheist who culturally engages with their religion. If you are actually so traumatized by christianity that you want absolutely nothing to do with it you need to either seek therapy to get over your trauma or unlearn the christian worldview you were taught by your culture. The christian worldview isn't the only one, it isn't the default one, and if you're really invested in self-interrogation you can absolutely leave it behind but it takes a lot more than just dropping Jesus off at the street corner.

Yup.

Here’s a post I did a while back on this:

Shibari

where is that cat with the kind and reassuring face

he?

thank you…..

I needed this today

Reblog to be kind and reassuring