I don’t have food stamps but I need to know how to eat well for $4/day. Thank you for this.
HOLY SHIT
This cookbook is really amazing. I’ve used a couple of the recipes and they are so easy to follow. And in the beginning there are a bunch of really great tips for saving on food stuff.
Some eaiser variations of push ups to help you build the strength to do a traditional one!
I don’t generally reblog ‘fitness’ stuff but gaddamn could I use some more arm strength.
Push-ups are my worst nightmare. I can only do 44 before I pass out on the floor.
“I can only do 44” hahaha omg I can’t even do one.
yes good
I was always frustrated how my P.E. teachers wanted all of us to go “all-or-none” and basically hurt ourselves without letting us build up from square-one like in the first gif. Then they’d fuckin yell at us for not doing it right >:|
Knee-pushups is not square-one.
When I got my first personal trainer, she had me doing push ups almost standing upright in the weight lifting bars so that I could do 15 reps and 3 sets of them. It’s more about the technique of the push up, and if you’re pushing too much weight, you can’t exersize the correct muscles within their tolerances. This post is pretty important tto know cause of that.
I was introduced to the knee push-up last year and it was such a fucking game changer. I had NO idea it was possible to work those same muscles just with a slight variation in position.
I wanna just verify that these are excellent for building strength, both as someone who took weights class in high school with a good teacher, and as someone who’s had a lifetime of physical therapy (not for my arms specifically, but I’ve spent a lot of time in sports medicine centers). And again, if the vertical one in the first gif is difficult, you don’t even have to lean into it like that. Start standing, and only lean as much as it takes you to lower towards the wall.
And remember, many exercises can be modified in this way! I did an image search for “modified pull up” and got exactly what I was looking for right away, which is this:
Doing pull ups on a lower bar, or from the straps with handles that gyms sometimes have (called the TRX - they can also be used to support yourself during squats and some balance exercises) is a lot easier than jumping straight into vertical pullups, and lets you build up that muscle with exercises that are still comfortable and safe for you, so you can do more sets of more reps.
As a general rule, always start with lower-strain exercises and practice good form before you work your way up. You don’t want to have to unlearn bad habits that could lead to injury later as the difficulty increases.
@imfemalewarrior I’m assuming you’ve seen this post but in case you haven’t—it seems like your kind of thing
Here are push up and pull up progressions!
-FemaleWarrior, She/They
Because I have serious issues with core strength and cannot do a sit up or a crunch without using muscles I shouldn’t and hurting myself, I looked up core exercises for beginners (because modified sit ups just have me ways to make it harder), and here’s what I found.
All from here, which also includes sit ups with the idea that you start up and don’t go all the way down.
This stuff on the bottom is some of the stuff I do for physical therapy, can vouch for it
Having done a few stints with PT myself, over the years, I can definitely vouch for that last set as ones I’ve incorporated into 2020 as “couch potato workout” to help get my core to recover from being out of work and less active. 👌
Hoshizuna no Hama is a beach located on the remote island of Iriomote in Okinawa Prefecture, Japan. The name roughly translates to “star sand beach” and was named aptly, due to the star shaped sand which calls this beach home. One-celled organisms called baclogypsina sphaerulata have pointed arms which are used to help them move. The other shell of these organisms is made from calcium carbonate and when they die, they leave their exoskeletons behind which make up this beach.
Going to start using this tumblr to keep my WIP photos somewhere organized so I can find them.
Started doing the gold work for Qifrey’s cloak clasp. Couched down fine gold thread for the background, then added felt padding and started couching down thicker threads for a raised effect.
And an update on Qifrey's robe-drafted pattern, sewed it up with French seams turning into hand sewn edges, gathered and bound the shoulders with twill tape. Reinforced the side seams with herringbone tacks and now I'm adding horse hair trim and running a hand stitch around to gather slightly
I don’t hate the concept of ebooks per se but what bothers me is how our society is shifting from actually owning entertainment in tangible forms like books and CDs and DVDs and game discs, to having to download everything so basically we’ll get to the point where everything is intangible and all of our property can be taken away by a website crash.
#yeah this is mostly the problem#and stuff like. ebooks that can only be read on one companys app#music that can only be streamed from one place and doesnt let you actually download the files#stuff like that#like sometimes its like you cant tangibly have anything even your own digital file#idk where i was going with this but yeah its capitalism (via @ouidamforeman)
“Almost exactly ten years ago, you may remember, Amazon came stealthily along and deleted e-copies of 1984 (no seriously, they did) and Animal Farm from people’s Kindles — copies they’d already paid for and downloaded — because it turned out that there was a rights problem with the e-publisher. Jeff Bezos wound up apologizing all over himself and taking it all back and promising never to do that ever again, but the fact remains that Amazon has some kind of access to your Kindle files and can literally remove them, if they feel like it, which is downright creepy, and if it were your computer you would not like it one little bit.”
https://popula.com/2019/06/30/own-paper-books/
I’m sure that someone already said this in the notes, but you guys are aware that you don’t actually own e-books, e-movies, etc. Right? What you’re purchasing is a license to have that file on your device. Not the actual object.
I’ve also posted about it multiple times.
Plus, Amazon, Google, Kobo, B&N are all explicit in their user agreements that they have the right to terminate your account, seize your library, and delete anything and everything off of your account at any time, for any reason, without giving you anything in return, including paying you back.
Like, it super scary that they not only can do that, but are legally allowed to.
I’ve seen people suggesting using the program called Calibre to transfer and convert your files from whatever program you purchase them on, so that if one of those companies do decide to be a dick, you will retain your e-copies safe and sound on your hard drive. Just don’t be an asshole and post those copies to pirate sites.
So read your content agreements and digital ownership laws cause they’re not great.
Paper books still have their uses.
And that very fact, my friends, is why products like Epubor Ultimate DRM removal tool (my personal choice) are legal to write and sell and use.
Because yes, the terms of service sure say that. But every time they’ve /tried/ on a significant scale, they’ve been challenged and backed down. And every time they tried to stop DRM removal tools from being made and sold, they’ve failed. What they’re doing relies on keeping off enough toes that a significant bloc never gets pissed enough to push through a class action suit.
So, yes, absolutely, know this and, if you (like me) have book-gasms over having my library of 2000 books always at my fingertips to read whatever I like, get Calibre (https://calibre-ebook.com/) and then get one of the DRM removal applications. Jailbreak your library, back it up in at least three locations, and then pass this tip on in the joyful knowledge that all the major distributors are praying you don’t tell anyone else how easy this is.
You can remove DRM from audiobooks as well. If it’s not a downloadable file with an extension I recognize like mp3, saved locally on my drive and my backup, I work on it some more till it is. Worth it.
“In Russian, Baba Yaga’s name is not capitalized. Indeed, it is not a name at all, but a description—“old lady yaga” or perhaps “scary old woman.” There is often more than one Baba Yaga in a story, and thus we should really say “a Baba Yaga,” “the Baba Yaga.” We do so in these tales when a story would otherwise be confusing. We have continued the western tradition of capitalizing Baba Yaga, since the words cannot be translated and have no other meaning in English (aside perhaps from the pleasant associations of a rum baba). There is no graceful way to put the name in the plural in English, and in Russian tales multiple iterations of Baba Yaga never appear at the same time, only in sequence: Baba Yaga sisters or cousins talk about one another, or send travelers along to one another, but they do not live together. The first-person pronoun “I” in Russian, ‘ia,’ is also uncapitalized. In some tales our witch is called only “Yaga.” A few tales refer to her as “Yagishna,” a patronymic form suggesting that she is Yaga’s daughter rather than Yaga herself. (That in turn suggests that Baba Yaga reproduces parthenogenetically, and some scholars agree that she does.) The lack of capitalization in every published Russian folktale also hints at Baba Yaga’s status as a type rather than an individual, a paradigmatic mean or frightening old woman. This description in place of a name, too, could suggest that it was once a euphemism for another name or term, too holy or frightening to be spoken, and therefore now long forgotten.”
— Sibelan Forrester, from her introduction to Baba Yaga: The Wild Witch of the East in Russian Fairy Tales
I feel like this suggests that - with much dedication and study - you, too, could go out into the woods and be a baba yaga.
The question then becomes whether the chicken house just manifests when you achieve Baba Yaga-hood, or whether you have to find or construct one. …Definitely not asking out of any desire to own a house on chicken legs. Of course not.
Well now I want to know, too
Who says it has to be one way or the other? If you are baba yaga enough, the house will come to you; if you build the house, being baba yaga will come to you.
What worries me about the baba yaga’s house arriving when she has reached baba yagadom is that it means the houses are out there somewhere…feral…breeding….
This further suggests variety in both the architecture and galliformes of the chicken-houses, from bumbling top-heavy mcmansions on Butterball turkey legs to flighty studio apartment bantams.
my main criticism of solarpunk is why isn’t it happening
but like any revolutionary social movement it requires active involvement to achieve the change you want to see. Here are some handy resources for getting more involved:
Food Not Lawns - project to help communities feed themselves without capitalism
Food Not Bombs - same idea as above but less emphasis on growing food
The Buy Nothing Project - community resource pooling to combat consumerism
Demand Utopia - Rojava solidarity & social ecology activism - speaking of which, The Internationalist Commune of Rojava have their Make Rojava Green Again project.
Also, if you want your solarpunk social media then start looking to the decentralised non corporate sunbeam city mastodon instance (blend of tumblr and twitter without your data being sold) where you’ll find shit tonnes of information on making food, growing things, building sustainable technology yourself etc being shared - like this $3 DIY solarpowered USB charger or this $30 wind turbine made largely from salvaged parts.
In terms of building online infrastructure to actively combat capitalism, using and helping to develop open-source, community run software & websites like the sunbeam city mastodon instance should be a priority. This is a good alternative to google for searching.
In terms of building real world solarpunk infrastructure as resistance to actively combat capitalism, the organisations linked above are honestly invaluable - especially Food Not Bombs. I’d also add the Industrial Workers of the World (a democratic workers’ union for anyone in the world without hiring/firing power) as well as tenants’ unions - like ACORN in the UK. Finally, find or start a community garden.
It wasn’t until recently that I realized not many people these days know about the Freecycle Network but it’s totally a thing and you should totally know about it.
Finally details for a windmill
Heres… Maps. The primary goals in making these maps were:
Also, sorry about half-assing Antarctica; the distortion gets to be So Much I couldn’t figure out how to draw it, but I wanted a way for myself to remember the like… where it is… so I kept in that one island just floating by itself as a point of reference
Thoughts and such under cut
Okay, people asked for this, so here’s a zip file containing the following things:
Unzip them to the same folder and open “SAMPLEPAGE.html” in both notepad and your web browser, and it should teach you how to make “classic” style webpages as easily as you make tumblr posts! You don’t even have to fully understand any of it to use it! You can just keep copy/pasting the template file and changing its content to your own to make as many webpages as you like, then upload them to a service like neocities.org or hostgator or dozens of others, though neocities is currently the very best and easiest! With this template you can make your own articles, host your artwork, your webcomics, your stories, photo galleries, whatever you can think of; it’s the same templates @revretch made for me when I didn’t know how to do this stuff myself, and I’ve now used them for years to make my own content such as monster reviews!
This gives you more choices than just posting things to “communities” like wikia or tumblr, but you can also use these all in conjunction too, obviously. I could have started doing articles entirely on tumblr instead of my own website ages ago, but it doesn’t have the same level of personalization, flexibility, or, for that matter, permanence. Tumblr could die someday! Any service can! By making your own html/css pages, you can save them forever and move or re-upload them anywhere you may want to in the future without having to redo any of the code! You can make it look any way you want, control whether there are ads on it, never worry that it’s part of a bigger brand selling your reader’s info or making money off your work that you never see!
Some people of course already know how to do more advanced than all this and will find these files total no-brainers, but everything on social media is now so automated that a lot of people really don’t know these basics and don’t know they can just go out and do this themselves!
i see many many people on this website reblogging punk aesthetic pictures of work boots, and you all need to be aware of lace code. if you see ladder laced black boots with white laces, don’t reblog it! inform the person who reblogged it of what it means!
as for information not included in the article, pink laces indicate gay basher/killer, checkerboarded laces stand for racial unity, and yellow laces are actually a symbol for SHARP (skinheads against racial prejudice)
if any of you intend on being involved in any real life punk subculture, learn the dogwhistles used by fascists in that community to protect yourself and the minorities around you. not to advertise any organization, but if you’re gonna be a punk, be a SHARP.
Also, Michael’s ring (in first pic) had to be resized at least thrice as apparently he kept getting smaller?
Courtsey Danegold Historic Jewelry
Alright folks I’ve finally gotten around to compiling all the names and species of the various Splatoon side bands’ members, in the order they appear in the book so I don’t accidentally miss any.
Keep in mind that these are very likely to be stage names. Don’t mind the exactly one instance of comic sans, and please for the love of christ don’t comment on the Bottom Feeders’ names, because I am uncomfortable. Make your own post for that so I don’t have to see it. Here we go under the cut b/c this is long:
for other people who are being affected hard by the new, terrible color palette staff thought would be “more accessible”, i highly recommend downloading a chrome extension called dark reader. it can either have a “dark” mode which will invert and change colors, or a “light” mode where you can leave the colors the same but put down the contrast.
these are my settings:
this is what it looked like originally
this is what it looks like now, with light mode on and -30 contrast
so, yeah! feel free to spread this, ive had this extension for a while and im glad it finally came in handy bc staff is fuckin Stupit
Sprinkle in some tears, maybe sobbing, and you’ve nailed it.
Alright guys. Title advice coming at you today.
The title will often be the last thing you come up with because it takes knowing your story and the core of your story to really give it an awesome title. So until you finish it’s okay to title it ‘that story with dragons and stuff’ or ‘project that is personally trying to kill me’. Something like that. Then, when you’re done, ask yourself the following question.
1. Who is the most important character?
2. What is the climax/penultimate moment of the story
3. What is the most significant or symbolic object?
4. What are some particularly memorable lines that encapsulate the story’s theme
5. What are the primary emotions of the story
Now you have building blocks. So let’s look at some titles. (Note you can use this for chapter titles too)
The Harry Potter series is named after its main character but ALSO the most important object in the book. JK picks the mystery that needs to be resolved and puts it right in the title. The philosophers stone, the chamber of secrets, the prisoner of Azkaban etc. they’re just vague enough to intrigue was but also interesting
Other works title it by a character’s nickname/title like ‘the great gatsby’ or ‘the princess bride’ or ‘the hunchback of notredame’
Still others title books based on the major plot events/climax. A game of thrones is titled that because it’s where people start fighting over the throne. A clash of kings reflects the war of five kings. A storm of swords represents the peak of the war. Etc. etc.
Some titles even tell you what happens in the climax (though vaguely). One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest tells us the fate of our lead and we read to see how it happens.
Then we have our significant object titles. This is especially great for episodes/chapter titles. I’m Attack on Titan there’s an episode called ‘a small blade’. It seems unimportant but it’s a blade that a character asks to be left with so he can off himself if necessary (the character is very depressed at this point). His friend tosses it away and refuses to leave him behind. The message here is: keep fighting. So that’s the object that message represents. Another example is ‘to kill a mockingbird’ we don’t know yet but this is symbolic for the death of an innocent. Symbols are great of titles
Then there’s emotions. A lot of times you get punchy one word titles out of this and I use them for chapters a lot: grief, rage, joy etc. but they can be used in full books too. Like: ‘beloved’ or ‘doubt’.
Then there are book titles taken from famous book quotes. “As I lay dying” comes from the odyssey. “Children of men”, “clouds of witnesses” and one million other titles are plays off bible verses.
But Kallypso, you might say. That’s so much information. How do I choose? Well you can think about your genre. If you’re writing a fluffy love fic, a quote or emotion or symbol is the way to go. If you’re writing character driven fic, a play off of a name. If you’re writing plot driven fic, describe the plot vaguely.
Or try them all! Write a title for each category and see which one fits best. And that is your advice for the morning
