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Remember Luigi is currently innocent
Couldn't Be Any Conflict
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you ever have situations that make you want to take people by the shoulders and go "you are not 15 any longer. this behavior is no longer quirky and cute. it is exhausting for you and everyone else to act like a teenager you haven't been in a decade or longer. knock it the fuck off"
lots of ppl making this about adults who have interests they find cringe but let me be clear this is about emotional immaturity. idgaf if you're 35 and like goku okay but can you have an adult conversation without making yourself the victim is the matter at hand here
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i am still in absolute disbelief that i managed to capture this moment
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Thinking about how wild it is that enshittification starts as a way for the rich to squeeze the populace for more money but ends up infecting everything so even luxury products decline in quality. They’ve got more money than fucking God now and for what? Literally they can’t even buy fun nice stuff for themselves because they killed craft.
Anyway this post is about Dhaka muslin but it’s also about everything.
guess it's time to post agha shahid ali's poem about dhaka muslin
Fun fact! Revival of Dhaka Muslin has been ongoing for quite some time. The headline of the above article is very very misleading, we know exactly how Dhaka Muslin was made. The process was very well documented. We know how it was made, but colonialism ruined the fabric's production area and devalued the skills needed to make it such that they no longer existed. But the process itself was not lost.
That being said, efforts to bring it back are underway, and they have been making amazing progress, and succeed in creating Dhaka Muslin yet again.
This is a pretty good updated article, it has a lot of the same info as the BCC one (which also discusses some of the revival efforts) but with more of a focus on that process, an update to the story, and it details some of the other ongoing projects working on the revival!
Here's the first weaver to manage to produce a finished piece in nearly 200 years, Al Amin.
His first piece was 300 threads, according to the article they have now been able to get into the 700s for thread counts, which is absolutely incredible.
Several projects are actually underway now each with different weavers and slightly different methods, producing fabric intended to meet or best the original!
And if you're curious, "okay but can it pass through a ring" yes! Yes they can!
All three of these photos are of pieces made in the modern century, photos by Wasiul Bahar!
It's a very time consuming process, and a very expensive fabric to purchase, but love and passion for it have been steadily bringing it back!
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Star Trek: Deep Space Nine "Past Tense, Pt. 1"
Reblog if it's the same year as it was yesterday, 2024
this post has a very specific day you CANNOT reblog it on Jan. 1st 2025
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Since everyone seems to love my sex shop stories, here’s another one.
Phone calls were literally a game for us. Not all phone calls, but there was a specific brand of call where guys would creep on us. 90% of the workforce at the sex shops was women. So we’d get dudes calling jacking off or trying to get their jollies from us.
The game: make them hang up. We could have hung up. On a few occasions I did, but for the most part we made a sport out of getting creeps to go flaccid. It really depended on a caller.
You couldn’t just go in for belittling them straight off- some guys wanted that. You had to tailor your strategy to the perv. Overall it was pretty fun and it turned an aspect of the job that could’ve become a major bummer into a fun sport. We’d get excited when the phones rang.
So one day the phone rings. I pick up and it was very clearly a young teen who was putting on a deep voice. I was utterly delighted, I’d never had a crank call before. He said, “I have a dildo emergency! Can you deliver 5 boxes of dildos to my home?!”
It took everything in me not to crack in that moment. It was so funny. It was like three kids had walked through the door in a trench coat and the phrase “dildo emergency” was one of the funniest things I’d ever heard.
But I kept it together. In smooth customer service tones I replied, “Oh, I’m sorry to hear you’re having an emergency, but due to the nature of our product we do require people to come pick it up themselves.”
The caller audibly deflated. Some of the deep voice he was putting on bled away when he said plaintively, “But it’s an emergency…”
“I’m sorry, sir, rules are rules.”
He hung up. I burst out laughing and told my coworker what had happened. She said, “I will buy you lunch if you call back and pretend you can deliver something.”
This sounded like an all around win for me, and the kid hadn’t used anything to block his number. So I called back.
“Hello!” This was before caller ID was common for home phones and so he picked up in his totally normal voice, several octaves higher than before.
“Hello, I’m calling regarding your dildo emergency?”
“Oh! Hem hem,” he coughed, getting his voice back into character for me. “Yes! The emergency!”
“Well I’ve spoken to my manager and it’s your lucky day. We’ll be able to make a delivery after all. Five boxes you said? We can swing it by later, we’ll just need your name, address, and credit card number.”
He was thrown by needing to provide info and was silent for a moment then said, “Well how much is it for five boxes?”
“About five hundred dollars, sir.”
He slipped out of his character voice to exclaim, “Five hundred dollars?! What kind of dildos are they?!”
“Just standard six inches with balls, sir.”
This was his breaking point. He started wheezing with laughter trying to repeat the phrase “six inches with balls” incoherently.
“So your address and card info?”
He hung up and I broke down laughing too. We both got a kick out of it, and I won the game twice in one day.
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just saw a fanfic on ao3 have a dedication for chatgpt... that section is meant for your horny perverted mutual who proofread your work, you violated sacred law and you will be torn apart and laid bare btw
anyways, if you feel the need to use ai to do your work for you, consider this: get a new hobby because this one isn't for you
Consider this. Not everyone has that time, or energy. Again, I just don’t understand this whole thing of “effort is important”
if it were, capitalism wouldn’t work.
not to point out the obvious but capitalism doesn’t work or people would have the time and energy to sit down and put effort and even enjoy their hobbies?
ai gets trained on real people’s effort and most of these companies are stealing content that was posted online, for you to just sit there enter a shitty prompt and bam, you get a picture of a big titty girl with 8 fingers or a story that is made up of cliches and patterns.
answer me this what do you get out of doing nothing to achieve a mediocre result from ai when the joy of creating comes from the act of figuring it out and doing it yourself, honing your skills?
“Not everyone has the time or energy to” ok that’s a you problem my favorite author posted a 30k word chapter after their house burned down and then got the bubonic plague. ur just not built for it
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I hate hate hate hate how dog friendly everything is in the city now. Barring medical necessity, there is no reason to bring your dog to a restaurant, there is no reason to bring your dog to the grocery store, there is no reason to bring your dog to the nail salon. Dogs do not need to go everywhere you go why am I being forced to be around dogs all the time
The worst part is the degree to which city people will aggressively fearmonger about crime while also bringing their dog everywhere. Bestie you're more than twice as likely to get sent to the hospital by a dog bite than you are by anything a human does the danger is coming from inside the house
Statistically speaking, homeless people are far less dangerous than dogs but the average city liberal would kill a dozen homeless people to save a single stupid french bulldog it's so bleak I can't stand dog people
Based on the replies to this post I am now convinced that "keep your damn dog at home" is a very much a silent majority position
#also tell me why all the luxury buildings that popped up in my area over the last decade#constantly have dog poop outside them on the sidewalks. everywhere. why. why.#these people don't care to pick up after their dogs. but they also don't care to keep the street they live on clean?#make it make sense. do you people not have to weave through poop like i do? do they just step in it?!#there's a 2 block stretch of like 3 or 4 'luxury' buildings and it's directly across from a large housing project#guess which side of the street has more poop#no really take a quick guess which side respects the block they live on more.#so add 'people don't know how to pick up after their dogs' to the annoyance of dogs being allowed in places they shouldn't.#shoutout to the toxic costume designer i worked with in january that i keep sprinkling details about in tag rants#because it took almost a full year for me to truly process some of it. but yeah she had an 'emotional support' dog#that was allowed in the theater when normally animals aren't allowed. he was allowed because he supporsedly helped her ptsd and anxiety.#but THIS DOG. did nothing. as far as i could tell he didn't actually serve a purpose. i comforted and calmed her down more than him.#(she legit had gone through a LOT in the prior months. the toxicity came from her taking it out on me and her assistants)#(and yet i still calmed her down through multiple panic attacks and in return i'd get yelled at for other stuff)#in fact. on the last day i ever saw her in person. she popped into the dressing room unannounced to watch part of the show#and said 'i'm gonna leave him here' and closes the door and this dog HAD SEPARATION ANXIETY so he scratched at the door#then an actor came into the dressing room. to change. aka the room's literal purpose. and he TRIED TO BOOK IT through the open door.#i had to grab him before he got out. then when the actor had to go back out to make their entrance i had to keep a hold of him.#i'm not a dog person. i never even picked up a dog until the moment i had to keep him from RUNNING AWAY DURING A SHOW.#and he had a habit of going to places he shouldn't and walking where people were walking and stuff. i almost stepped on him daily.#so i started joking he had a death wish and she chewed me out over that. and i'm like girl. your dog. is not trained.#we LOST him one day. she was literally out on the street calling for him. i don't know where he was but he wandered back in eventually#if he's your emotional support animal why is he not staying with you? why is he wandering? why is he trying to get stepped on?#this was not an emotional support animal that was able to exist in public. i remember describing his behavior to my therapist#during one of many sessions and my therapist was like 'yeah i'm not sure that's an actually certified trained support animal'#so let's add that to it. that people are taking advantage of certifications and even fake service dog harnesses. (not her case at least)#it's 4am i gotta stop before i can't sleep from the memories of the stress
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I don't know what those '90s sci Fi TV writers were putting in their shows but I wish they'd start doing it again
(via @lalibertalia)
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God i prayed for the tide to turn for her. i’ll never forget for the rest of my life how she was treated
SNL: Here's Hozier!
My Dad: Never heard of the guy.
Me: ...What. He did Take Me To Church
Dad: Ohhh... he's changed his look.
Me: Not even REMOTELY.
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Fun story. When I was actively being stalked (both online and IRL), I contacted the police exactly one time. I showed them the physical notes that had been left under the wiper blade on my car after I blocked the man on social media. I showed them the previous Facebook messages this man had sent me that described, in detail, what he wanted to do to me.
The police said they couldn’t help me because the man had not actually physically done any of those things to me. He’d just talked about his desires. They even made excuses for him. He’s awkward. He’s lonely. You’re pretty. It’s a compliment.
So friendly reminder that when a man with a record and weapons makes verbal/written threats against a woman, there’s nothing police can do.
But when a frustrated woman being denied medical coverage with no record and no weapons makes a “verbal threat” against a corporation, she’s arrested immediately.
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1963 Refrigerator 🤔
Look what they took from us 😭
I am drooling
This gets me more excited than anything smart refrigerators can offer. I want to learn refrigerator repair just so I can buy one and maintain it for all eternity.