Oh man it’s Bike-Learnin’ Seasonlisten I

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Oh man it’s Bike-Learnin’ Season

listen I don’t know any of my neighbors because I am a gremlin who lives exclusively in a car culture but

there are some tiny moppets in my driveway being taught the Ways of the Bike-Learnin’

and it sounds painful, there’s a lot of crashing and crunching and tiny high voices (someone literally three seconds ago as I was typing this shrilly and distantly yelled “I’M OKAY”) but I’m just gonna stay out on my back porch out of the way because I am not getting involved in the Bike-Learnin’

(but secretly I wish I were a friendly person who knew the neighborhood moppets because they are probably very cute)
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esteefee: bylillian: esteefee: how much am I enjoying Artificial Condition (book 2 of The...

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esteefee:

bylillian:

esteefee:

how much am I enjoying Artificial Condition (book 2 of The Murderbot Diaries)?  let’s just see:

When constructs were first developed, they were originally supposed to have a pre-sentient level of intelligence, like the dumber variety of bot. But you can’t put something as dumb as a hauler bot in charge of security for anything without spending even more money for expensive company-employed human supervisors. So they made us smarter. The anxiety and depression were side effects.

In the deployment center, when I was standing there while Dr. Mensah explained why she didn’t want to rent me as part of the bond guarantee agreement, she had called the increase in intelligence a “hellish compromise.”

[Wells, Martha. Artificial Condition: The Murderbot Diaries]

st ory o f my liiife. 

You took a perfectly good robot and gave it anxiety!

aaaaaaaa my heart!  ART is OVERLY INVESTED in the characters of Wormhole X-Treme Worldhopper.  *am ded*

Are all constructs so illogical? said the Asshole Research Transport with the immense processing capability whose metaphorical hand I had had to hold because it had become emotionally compromised by a fictional media serial.

<3 <3 <3
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walburgablack mentioned you on a post “fell down

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walburgablack mentioned you on a post “fell down several stairs and bruised my ass pretty badly. tell me…”

@bomberqueen17 I’ve had a lot of sprained ankles (though rarely two together) but this is my first encounter with this sort of injury and ugh. :(

Well I hope you never do encounter having both ankles sprained at the same time because it was among my least favorite things. 

I had an assortment of serious bruises during my roller derby career and I’m gonna tell you, if it’s very hot and/or very swollen you’re gonna want to get that looked at. Two of my teammates had to have bruises drained because they were putting deep pressure on tissues and joints. One of them lost so much blood internally that she was in serious trouble and nobody realized for a while because it was “just a bruise” so like– it can be serious!! 

I hope you have a zillion icepacks. If you get tired of ice melting everywhere you can also soak a sponge in a mix of isopropyl alcohol and water, and freeze that in a sealable bag, and that holds cold a good long while but can still be bent to follow the contours of a body. 20 minutes on, 20 minutes off, until the swelling goes down. I also discovered during derby that there’s no virtue in being “tough” and not taking anti-inflammatory painkillers because their whole point is to keep the inflammation from happening in the first place, thereby reducing the damage done to your various tissues and letting you heal faster. 
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Listen whether you like Iron Maiden’s 1982

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Listen whether you like Iron Maiden’s 1982 classic “Run To The Hills” or not you have to give this a listen because they changed literally no lyrics but–

well, Tanya Tagaq is an Inuk (Aboriginal Canadian) throat-singer and experimental vocalist who I’ve been a fan of for a little bit, not long, I just discovered her in the “related” tags from Buffy Sainte-Marie, she’s weird but cool and her twitter is [fire emoji] and well

I never really realized what this song was about until now, ok. 

White man came across the sea
He brought us pain and misery
He killed our tribes killed our creed
He took our game for his own need

We fought him hard we fought him well
Out on the plains we gave him hell
But many came too much for Cree
Oh will we ever be set free?

Riding through dust clouds and barren wastes
Galloping hard on the plains
Chasing the redskins back to their holes
Fighting them at their own game
Murder for freedom the stab in the back
Women and children are cowards attack

Run to the hills, run for your lives
Run to the hills, run for your lives

Soldier blue in the barren wastes
Hunting and killing their game
Raping the women and wasting the men
The only good Indians are tame
Selling them whiskey and taking their gold
Enslaving the young and destroying the old

Run to the hills, run for your lives
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your turn in the field with the god - toujours_nigel - Hadestown - Mitchell [Archive of Our Own]

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your turn in the field with the god - toujours_nigel - Hadestown - Mitchell [Archive of Our Own]:

Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Hadestown - Mitchell, Greek and Roman Mythology
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Hades/Persephone (Hadestown)
Characters: Hades (Hadestown), Ἁδης | Hades (Hellenistic Religion & Lore), Περσεφόνη | Persephone (Hellenistic Religion & Lore), Persephone (Hadestown), Ἡρη | Hera (Hellenistic Religion & Lore), Δημητηρ | Demeter (Hellenistic Religion & Lore), Ἄρης | Ares (Hellenistic Religion & Lore), Αθήνα | Athena (Hellenistic Religion & Lore)
Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - 1920s, Implied/Referenced Child Abuse, Past Child Abuse, Uncle/Niece Incest, Uncle-Niece Relationship, Patricide, Sibling Incest
Series: Part 1 of Hadestown works
Summary:

“Hades,” she says, “if I came with you I should never leave again.”

Friends, it’s Friday and you need to escape for a little while, so here. This doesn’t actually require any knowledge of any canons; vaguely knowing Greek mythology is helpful, as it’s a retelling of the Abduction of Persephone more or less, but all it really gives you is a vague click of realization now and then as you figure out who all the nicknames are. (Also, it sort of… explains the incest tags, as that’s just… how Greek gods work.)

This is a lovely, dense, absorbing little piece to lose yourself in for a little while this afternoon. I’ve read it twice now and I keep finding more things in it.
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ionno, folks. yesterday i came in and it was 65 outside and the a/c was set to 72 and yet the...

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ionno, folks. yesterday i came in and it was 65 outside and the a/c was set to 72 and yet the temperature inside was 79. There was frost on one of the pipes, and I thought well, it’s real sunny, maybe the a/c is just overloaded and froze up. (Last year we had a problem, with the A/C set to 69 and the ambient temp being 78, it was too much, it froze, etc etc., now I really try to start it off being close to the target temperature.) So i turned the system off, opened the doors, and put on a box fan. I sweated my ass off all day, but the rest of the store was okayish. (I work in an airless cubicle within a room within the store, so.)

when i left, at 5pm, i turned the a/c back on, and set it to 80 (it was 82 in the store), asked the guys to turn it down to like, 77 when they left.

I came in this morning. It’s 60 out, it’s almost nippy really. The a/c is set to 77, like I asked. It’s 78 in the store. That seems like… well, it’s not too much to ask that it be 77, but I could see the system just not being that precise. Fine.

So I turn it down to 75. And I open the back door, to pull in some of that sweet 60 degree air.

And so in the back of the store it’s 65 now, real pleasant, almost too cold. 

The thermostat still reads that it’s 77 in the store, and the thermostat is still trying to struggle and get it down to 75.

I don’t even know, guys. We spent like $30k having it repaired three years ago or so, and it just… doesn’t work. There’s no insulation in this joint, even after they added a whole second styrofoam storey to this building last summer. I don’t know, I just don’t.

Apparently the furnace/ac system is not the landlord’s responsibility. This is kind of nuts to me but I don’t know much about commercial real estate. 

I guess I’m glad I don’t work somewhere that keeps the heat at 80 all winter and the a/c at 60 all summer. .. … 
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Did u kno that you can buy Japanese curry in little blocks you...

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Did u kno that you can buy Japanese curry in little blocks you can just reconstitute in water? ? Game-changer.
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today in “things i’m disproportion

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systlin:

pipcomix:

the-thrill-be-damned:

it’s facial reconstructions of prehistoric humans!!

like, look at this part-homo sapiens, part-neandertal man from well over 30,000 years ago:

doesn’t he just look like a dude you’d wanna hang out with? like he probably washes dishes in the kitchen with you, and has excellent weed

what a charming fellow. what stories he probably has to tell. i’d definitely go shoot the shit with him on Contemplation Rock after i’d finished my day’s work carving a bone flute for the autumn hunting ceremony, or whatever

people have been people ever since people first became people, i tell you what

they all had lives and histories and families and friends and dumb gossip and games they played and total bullshit in which they believed wholeheartedly

they all argued about the nature of the world, and of themselves

they all sang songs

they all drew pictures

they all buried their dead in graves, and they buried their dead in graves well before they did a lot of that other stuff. they buried their dead with flowers, with panther claws, with the bones of animals they’d killed, with the bones of family members who had died at the same time or earlier. they buried their dead with their arms folded across their chests

they fell in love

they took care of their old and their sick and their disabled, even when it cost them

they made new things, and worried about what the new things meant for people everywhere, as a whole

Oh I like him he looks like he would appreciate my jokes

This dude would have great stories at a get-together and would bring some really great homemade dip. 

I kept thinking this guy reminded me of the recent Cheddar Man reconstruction and the reason is that it was done by the same artists.

Kennis & Kennis: look at their amazing gallery of humans and proto-humans. What a neato body of work!!!

(Also, since the OP didn’t mention it, the person they’re discussing above is a reconstruction from Pestera cu Oase, a Romanian cave bear den containing a number of remains ca 35,000 years ago exhibiting a mixture of modern and Neanderthal features.)
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