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Soul Train was such a bad ass show. That's the only other show I'd watch after cartoons were over on Saturday.
I watched this movie for the first time today. It's been in my queue for a while. I'm glad I watched it this week. I knew nothing of what the story was going to be about. I remember when the tsunami happened in 2011. It was a heartbreaking tragedy. For me, as a New Yorker who lived 9/11, this week is always hard. This world sees no end to these events.
Seeing this movie reminded me of those days when people just helped people after a traumatic event. I wanted to see that coming out of the pandemic, and it just didn't really happen. But I will keep hope. This movie really captured that feeling of being helpful, even in the smallest ways, and I appreciate it so much.
I logged into my deviantart. I used to like perusing the main page for people's art. Everything I clicked was AI generated. I play with Midjourney every once in a while for curiosity and draft ideas, but I never thought to think what is generated is my own. I definitely wouldn't sell it as my own art either.
I didn't realize how disappointed I would be. I love seeing people's art because it shows talent and skill.
AppleSoft BASIC programming: high resolution graphics sine wave on the a...
YT algo sent me something neat. This guy has a collection of old computers and he just loves posting shorts of how they operate. Love it~!
About a year ago there was another school shooting and this was the front page of the school paper. I think about this every time there's another school shooting right along with The Onion article https://theonion.com/no-way-to-prevent-this-says-only-nation-where-this-regularly-happens/.
We need to reinstate the assault weapons ban. To anyone who still votes against it, you are a pathetic human being.
Went on vacation and hit up some book stores. Everyone in the family got something.
Physical books are the best. But I admit, I'm trying to move towards ebooks more. I just don't have enough shelf space for all the books we get.
I actually tried to sell some books to a used book store. Got some store credit, which was nice. But they didn't take all the books, lol. I had a copy of Chicken Soup for the Teenage Soul. I guess it's old, outdated, or they had too many copies, so they wouldn't take it. I admit I never read it.
Using Libby for borrowing books from the library is awesome. I have a Nook Glowlight 4+, and I fell in love with it some more over vacation. The backlight feature is key for nighttime reading. That's when I can get most of my reading in.
Unfortunately I have to side load from my computer and use Adobe tools. But for regular non-DRM epubs, I can download on my phone, use a USB cable between phone and Nook and sideload easy peasy. My now favorite feature of Android.
I don't know what the inspiration for this is, but I'm here for it.
Man, I haven't read Harry Potter fanfiction since livejournal days in over a decade lol.
The Rockstar Draco/Journalist Hermione brainrot persists. 💀📝
What is he whispering to her? In my mind he’s telling her about ALL his piercings…
NGL as a straight female, I'm in for the Debbie Harry too. Her look and persona is a total vibe that inspires me.
After years of following your blog (it's great, you're great, I enjoy the whole experience a lot)
I am left wondering (jokingly) one thing:
Does your wife know how much you like Debbie Harry? Lol cuz we do
She most certainly does.
Join the fight. Studios are making billions while stopping projects, haulting original ideas, and putting many artists on unemployment and fighting for survival in a field they trained their lives for. Creatives are being taken advantage of and it's only getting worse with studios looking to use a.i. to cheapen work and make things based only on algorithms.
It's bleak, but we're working to keep art in animation. Help get the word out and support creatives you like. Many of us are now working to get our own ideas off the ground without the blocks of studios, constant rejections from disappointments that we're pitching original ideas (A real complaint I've received from studios), and without the many notes to make our ideas fit into a generic format. Instead of looking to studio CEO's, were looking to you to help us. Show studios you stand with us!
#standwithanimation
Republican Canvasser vs. Progressive Voter
Inspiration on how to respond to a canvasser.
Losing the centricity of the main community sucks. But there are other groups starting something. I follow the reddit as the next big community and from there people post discords or other sites. I was actually hoping to find some community on Tumblr too.
I think after participating on and off every year since 2008, I'm OK growing out of it. Then getting into my daily word count year round phase to really embrace writing as a hobby.
This month has been a little weird, because in the past it's been the point of time where me and a few others ramp up for NaNoWriMo event planning.
I decided not to be an ML this year - I'm one of the many breakaway regions forging ahead with an independent event for our writers - but several people had been hoping to work with HQ again, and seeing the chatter around that is sad because it looks like NaNo isn't letting it happen.
Last year at this point, everyone who had volunteered to be an ML had been given instructions for this year, and links to order ML kits (usually the annual stickers). We'd get instructions in Aug on how to update digital spaces for the new year, and were encouraged to start scheduling events.
But it's Aug 1st and HQ has never even asked if anyone wants to volunteer this year. It's looking more and more likely that they have canned the entire Municipal Liason program, and if you don't have MLs what's the point of regions? If the community aspect of NaNo is going away, is it just a website now?
What made NaNo awesome was the other writers I'd hang out with on zoom or coffee shops.
I thought i had already grieved my time with NaNo, it had headed down a path I didn't want to follow and I had put so much energy into it. I'm building something new now even! But it's still so, so sad to think that it's just not my participation that has ended, but an entire program. And soon, I suspect, an entire organization.
NaNo is running on fumes, spiraling down and alienating so much of its old user base due to poor management and communication. Will it even run in November, I'm not entirely sure. I don't know if the donations they've received coverage servers fees.
Writers might have to do NaNo, or just write a draft in November, solo and that sounds so sad. I've only ever won because of my community (my region had at least 20 events scheduled in November).
I'd encourage people to reach out to old regions if you can - see if there's a grassroots community it morphed into. Or just any writing community - mine is hybrid now and all our writing events in November will have zoom options.
I hoped maybe the new HQ would build something that would work for someone, but i have a sneaking suspicion that it won't. NaNoWriMo might just become something like NoShaveNovember or Dry January. A thing you do, but no official community.
Feeling real bummed about this, because i volunteered with NaNo for 5 years and wrote for 12.
Parenting and family relationships are not that simple as saying "don't do this". People are complex and more often than not, one theme does not equate to one result.
If your kid makes a mess, you tell them to clean it up, they will perceive it as a punishment. But it's also a lesson in responsibility and should be explained.
Any relationship requires efforts of communicating beyond what we merely assume. Being family doesn't change that. It would be the responsibility of the parent to explain and communicate reactions to actions if they are trying to establish "eff around and find out" lessons.
Honestly, the best parental strategy is not use the same approach all the time. Not to be surprising but some things aren't effective used over and over. So, don't be lazy and get to know your kids to figure out the lessons you need to impart on them.
for the love of god, do not use chores to punish your kids!!!! it's just going to make them struggle deeply to keep their houses tidy as adults since you made them associate necessary chores with punishment and suffering, and it's going to take years of therapy to undo. don't use chores as punishments!!!
One Giant Leap for Mankind
Millions of people around the globe will come together for the Paris 2024 Olympic Games later this month to witness a grand event—the culmination of years of training and preparation.
Fifty-five years ago this July, the world was watching as a different history-changing event was unfolding: the Apollo 11 mission was landing humans on the surface of another world for the first time. An estimated 650 million people watched on TV as Neil Armstrong reached the bottom of the ladder of the lunar module on July 20, 1969, and spoke the words, “That’s one small step for [a] man, one giant leap for mankind.”
While the quest to land astronauts on the Moon was born from the space race with the Soviet Union during the Cold War, this moment was an achievement for the whole of humanity. To mark the world-embracing nature of the Moon landing, several tokens of world peace were left on the Moon during the astronauts’ moonwalk.
“We came in peace for all mankind”
These words, as well as drawings of Earth’s western and eastern hemispheres, are etched on a metal plaque affixed to a leg of the Apollo 11 lunar lander. Because the base of the lander remained on the Moon after the astronauts returned, it is still there today as a permanent memorial of the historic landing.
Microscopic messages from kings, queens, and presidents
Another artifact left on the Moon by the Apollo 11 astronauts is a small silicon disc etched with goodwill messages from leaders of 74 countries around the world. Each message was reduced to be smaller than the head of a pin and micro-etched on a disc roughly 1.5 inches (3.8 cm) in diameter. Thailand’s message, translated into English, reads: "The Thai people rejoice in and support this historic achievement of Earth men, as a step towards Universal peace."
Curious to read what else was inscribed on the disk? Read the messages.
An ancient symbol
The olive branch, a symbol of peace and conciliation in ancient Greek mythology, also found its way to the Moon in July 1969. This small olive branch made of gold was left on the lunar surface during Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin’s 2.5-hour moonwalk. The olive branch also featured on the Apollo 11 mission patches sewed on the crew’s spacesuits. Designed in part by command module pilot Michael Collins, the insignia shows a bald eagle landing on the Moon holding an olive branch in its talons.
We go together
As NASA’s Artemis program prepares to again land astronauts on the Moon, including the first woman and the first person of color, this time we’re collaborating with commercial and international partners. Together we will make new scientific discoveries, establish the first long-term presence on the Moon, and inspire a new generation of explorers.
Is aerospace history your cup of tea? Be sure to check out more from NASA’s past at www.nasa.gov/history.
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Hey. Why isn’t the moon landing a national holiday in the US. Isn’t that fucked up? Does anyone else think that’s absurd?
I used to love writing magical girl stories. Discovering powers and figuring out how to use them.
Mysterious side characters. Could they be enemies? Could they be friends? I usually don't know until we get there lol
Writers/Authors, what are your favorite tropes to write and why?
There are days where I feel this sense of standing on the edge. Not so much a cliff, but the boundary of something to another thing. I spin around a bit looking for a direction to move in, but it's just not obvious.
The feeling subsides when I get out of my head and need to get something done, be it work or family stuff. But it will come back in a strange quiet moment to myself anywhere.
I'm just going to leave this here, because this woman said what I've been trying to articulate for ages much more effectively and succinctly than I've been able to
I'm a fan of this story and this art right here.
Fated Scribe, destined to be a Rider. 🐉