Jill Bearup (medieval history, armour, weapons…) www.YouTube.com/@jillBearup

karolina zebrowskax (historical fashion and design) www.youtube.com/c/karolinazebrowskax

Lady Emily (pop culture essays) www.youtube.com/@LadyEmilyPresents

Chrissy Marshall (deaf & hoh content, pop culture for, about and with deaf people) www.youtube.com/@ChrissyMarshall_

Strange Aeons (Tumblr “culture”, LGBTQ-focussed essays, internet Weirdness explored…) www.youtube.com/@STRANGEONS

Verity Ritchie aka Verily Bitchy (LGBTQ-Focussed pop culture video essays) www.youtube.com/@VerilyBitchie

Unfortunately, it has been a year since both SarahZ and Mia Mulder have last posted videos, but if anyone doesn’t know both of them, go check em out.

Auto tune you still have to be able to sing to make it sound good. Sampling can be an art form.

The difference here is that you could pay musicians if you don’t play an instrument. Using AI shit just means you’re taking art away from artists

i read this and nobody wrote about Shutter Island? it was so so bad i hated it. I hated how people said it was so clever. it was one of the only movies that I spotted continuity errors and mistakes on the first watch in the theatre. and I do NOT believe those mistakes were intentional. the movie was so obvious is the “clever bits” that it tried to do that these mistakes were just not in the same lane. the movie tried to be an Aranovsky movie, but Scorcese is not that director.

There’s more than one. I saw one of them lately, she’s doing good. We talked and hugged. That felt good, a little closure.

Mostly I don’t know since I am so bad with people and they stay the fuck away from me which, good for them.

There’s some I really grieve for. The things I couldn’t do. The things I was too bad at.

I hope all of them are better than I am.

Well there’s hope that it incentivices the American people to revolt or revolution. So…yay?

Just take the T

Maybe we don’t care about right-wing comments?

Can you get a standing desk? Or one of those sitting balls?

No it’s not. I’m going to be 40 in a few months. A job with lots of movement helps me a lot. Then I go dancing once a week. I need to do more. But I feel fine, I’m not fat and I can still play with the kids

I’m sad that you were made to think this way. That you don’t consider yourself important enough to care about yourself. You never need to “look good for others”. Fuck that BS. I’m going to be 40 this year. These last few years I’ve been really experimenting with my looks. Never standing still, never stopping. You’re not a painting to be put in a frame and stand still. You’re a living, feeling being. Take care

there’s something called “I-sense” which makes us humans aware of other individuals, you sense that an other person has an “I” (not in the Freud way). like you sense that a rock doesnt

Pen&Paper maybe? yes, i know you can go out and buy DnD modules and books, dice, stuff. but the cultural part of it seems to me to be just friends sitting together telling stories

my dude, how are shoes NON-commercial??!

And this person just doesn’t have an anus. That’s a thing.

What? What is this? Is it photoshopped or ai or what?

yeah no. i am WILLING duckduckgo to work as a search engine, but the results are so bad, it doesn’t do phrases well. i just searched “blue sign construction”, thinking i’d find infos about blue signs in construction sites. literally the whole first site is about “bluesign”, something to do with textile production. and the picture results are 99% just construction signs in all different colours.

True to the spirit of mandalas, destroy them. It’s not about the finished object, it’s about the process.

Or wrap presents into the paper. Or make greeting cards

i’ll be philosophical here: yourself. never be done. never stop changing. bever be finished. to be alive is to be in motion.

You make a < and the thing you want to quote

But just saying: I said the greed is a factor, not the only thing causing a disaster. But usually you’ll find someone has cut corners, didn’t do maintenance, didn’t follow regulations, didn’t employ enough people…

Mostly banks, oil and war machinery.

9/11 was a huge boost for the military suppliers, housing crisis got some financial institutions very rich for betting on the collapse. COVID mostly made medical suppliers rich, but also boosted weapons sales (more policing, border control…).

Usually it’s pretty easy to see, you just have to look for the interests. Also you can look at the laws and decisions that get passed after these events. Something like a plane crash or titanic sinking is more difficult. But you can usually say that people got rich before that happened and that’s usually one of the reasons it’s happening in the first place.

A fun and informative podcast for such information is “well there’s your problem” which talks about engineering disasters and the aftermath (it’s also very funny)