This is perhaps my new favorite video

I would like to state for the record i’ve ignored this post the last 50 times i’ve seen it bc i thought it would be some hyper cutsie anime girl voice and i’m overjoyed to report it is instead Weapons Grade Miku complete with war horns that fuck

shit man tomorrow is christmas eve i swear yesterday was June 2010

As is tradition in tumblr culture the locals unearth the corpse of a long deceased figure and drag it across the streets merrily, laughing at what is preserved of the person’s words. This custom, seen as morbid in other cultures, is instead done gleefully and with an unmatched enthusiasm

In an incredible reversal, Builder.AI just declared bankruptcy after admitting that they were faking their AI tool with 700 humans

Holy smokes it’s true

way too good to leave in the tags

My name is cow

And wen is cold

I stand outside

To lik the snow

I imagine some trans person or enby changing their name like.

-> Goes to Wiktionary.org -> Clicks "Random entry" -> My name is now ጭምብል

click on this link and find your new name

i got:

THEY NUKED MY HOMEBOY

I normally just put things like this in tags but.

My name is 'girl who gets plowed full'

The entire Women’s Advisory Board for the IFPA just resigned in protest.

Update; the IFPA finally responded, and they still won’t desanction the event

...this is a very weird way to get an update on what my cousin is up to. Kudos to her and the rest of the women's advisory board, though. Sort of the opposite of how hearing about a relative's politics on Thanksgiving stereotypically goes, y'know?

A customer contacted our team with questions, and then finished their email with: "I am daunted by the complexities and unknowns." I haven't been able to stop thinking about it since.

Reblog if you are daunted by the complexities and unknowns

man how the hell is this stupid ass sport legal. why do we funnel HIGH SCHOOLERS into this

jesus christ????

what the fuck.

#the worst is when a kid fucking dies #and his parents try to raise awareness that your kid could fucking die #but all they get is other parents telling them their kid died because he was bad at football

I wish there was a better cultural shorthand for enjoying a work for it's badness while also making it clear that it comes from a place of deep love, and a recognition of the self in the other. Consider the relationship one has to the art they made in middle school.

It's often poorly constructed, embarrassingly revealing, poorly aged, etc. You don't want to denigrate it, because it's good and necessary that amateurish art exist. But also sometimes it sucks in ways that are funny and genuinely charming.

For example, I love the Backrooms Wiki. It is clearly a bunch of early teenagers doing their own spin on the SCP format. It is objectively not well written, fails to understand what made the original greentext interesting, etc, because it is made by literal children experimenting with flash fiction for the first time. So many of its entries are The Evil Smiler Who Fucking Gets You. Which rules. I want the backrooms wiki kids to keep writing forever. I remember being at that point in my writing career! I hope these kids continue to write!

But sometimes I mention the backrooms wiki and people say "why are you hating on these kids?" and I struggle to explain that I am not hating, I genuinely love it. Sometimes it feels like people don't believe me! I feel like people have grown so used to kiwifarms behavior that an offhand expression of love for amateurish art is interpreted as malicious hazing. That makes me sad! I wish there were better words for this sort of thing.

Some thoughts:

Camp is adjacent to this, but it is not this. Camp to me is always in conversation with the gaudy and banal. There is a deliberate exaggeration of "mainstream" ugliness present in camp that is not present in my enjoyment of the Backrooms Wiki.

Additionally, the badness is essential to enjoyment. I do not like the backrooms wiki in spite of its poor writing, I enjoy it BECAUSE of its poor writing. I find it's embarrassing roughness charming and genuinely inspiring.

It's also not quite outsider art. The child authors of the backrooms wiki are, I think, generally aware of the conventions of good writing. They want to produce good writing! But they are 13 and unpracticed! They attempt to meet standards of art, and fail to meet them in artistically interesting ways.

dick cheney dead at 84

I think Hornet would love woolly bears

Sometimes the rats in my brain come together and start yelling “YEARNING” and in trying to appease them I ask “FOR WHAT” but they are too small so all they can say is “YEARNING” which is a very big word for such a tiny creature, even collectively

I loved this visual so much I had to doodle it.

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The thing is, even if you were lucky and your parents taught you how to clean, they probably didn't teach you how to clean the stuff you clean stuff with, like brushes, mops, sponges, rags, and so on. Or how to clean your cleaning appliances, like a dish washer, clothes washing machine, and clothes dryer and its ducts (if you have a ducted dryer), or a carpet cleaner, vacuum, Or how to clean up clean messes, like spilled bleach or detergent.

My parents threw away all of these things (even the vacuum cleaners and the dryer) when they got too dirty to function, because no one even told them THAT they could be cleaned. Cost them thousands of dollars over the years.

All I'm saying is that cleaning is not intuitive, and not knowing how to clean is not a moral failing, but it is something you can learn.

I'm going to reblog this post with resources for learning how to clean things and how to clean cleaning things (I'm not at my desk at the moment). If you have any favorites, please feel free to add them in too!

I like this video because it does a great job of introducing the basic foundations of house cleaning (and because he doesn't use bleach, which is a common allergy in addition to being awful to inhale). He also talks a little about how to clean a vacuum. And why you shouldn't put grease from your pots and pans down the sink drain. I also love that he mentions that different houses and different people have different needs and different versions of what clean and cleaning looks like.

He doesn't mention though that the toilet seat comes off. I take my toilet seat off to clean under the hinges and clean the seat more thoroughly once a quarter.

This is another video from the same guy about cleaning and depression. This advice, especially at the beginning, can feel really really difficult and oppressive to hear. However, I find that it's generally pretty solid. But I'm autistic and so is he, so that gets a massive Your Mileage May Vary stamp on it.

I have a favorite part of this video. It's from 10:52 to 12:36. I think we could all use to hear that. There's a HEFTY pause after that one. I promise the narration does come back.

I'm also going to recommend KC Davis' book "How To Keep House While Drowning"

This is a pair of videos about how to correctly load and use a dish washer.

The first one is a quick 1 minute 30 second overview on loading. I can't find the exact video I'm looking for, so consider this a substitute for that. If I can find the one I'm looking for, I'll swap it in.

The second is a half hour deep dive on dishwashers and detergents. The short form of that is you shouldn't need to pre-rinse anything, detergent pods are overpriced and can cause problems, some dishwashers have a filter in the bottom that needs to be cleaned (but most don't), run your sink until the water is HOT before starting your dish washer, and put a little detergent in the pre-rinse dispenser when you're washing extra dirty dishes (or on the inside of the door if your dishwasher doesn't have a pre-rinse dispenser).

Here's a blog post about scrubbing brushes and how to clean them.

And a video for all cleaning tools, including scrub brushes. This video does use bleach. I'll try to find some alternatives to that.

How to clean a front load washer (with bleach). This should be done monthly or every time you wash really soiled clothes.

How to clean a top loader (without the removable agitator thing). This should be done every 1-3 months depending on you unit, or every time you wash really soiled clothes.

How to clean a top loader (with the removable agitator thing). This should be done every month, or every time you wash really soiled clothes.

This video is for pet owners.

These carpet brushes are a LIFE SAVER if you have dogs. This thing allows me to go from vacuuming about 4 square feet before my vacuum is full to vacuuming half the living room (I don't vacuum often enough. You should vacuum weekly, and I just can't.). I have to unclog the vacuum less often. It fluffs up some of the flat spots in the carpet. And I also use the brush to shampoo my rugs in the spring.

A spot cleaner (or a carpet cleaner with a spot cleaner attachment) is another life saver, ESPECIALLY if you can afford to splurge on a heated one. I see them at Goodwill or at yard sales occasionally, and they're worth picking up. The shark one in the video is great too.

This channel is gold. There's tutorials for cleaning EVERYTHING on there. Just go subscribe!

Gonna throw another potential resource at the end of this very long list, which may be potentially helpful for others like me who loathe videos. It's... the weirdest thing that has genuinely been helpful to me in housekeeping. Absolutely full of useful advice, and bizarrely still relevant in large part. (Though, caveat, research ANYTHING to do with chemicals or cleaning products more complicated than vinegar + lemon + water for modern information.)

It's America's Housekeeping Book (1941). Available for free download on the Internet Archive. (Large PDF file at the link here).

The LISTS y'all. The step by step lists. The emphasis on efficiency and arranging spaces for the least resistance possible. The basic concept of "take a tray or basket into a room when you are tidying up so you can put things that belong elsewhere on it and take them out LATER in ONE GO".

My ADHD-having ass could cry.

“average person eats 3 spiders a year” factoid actualy just statistical error. average person eats 0 spiders per year. Spiders Georg, who lives in cave & eats over 10,000 each day, is an outlier adn should not have been counted

#tapping the reblog button with utmost care because i’m handling a historical artifact (via @malarkiness)

holy shit OP is not only still active but is still making absolutely banger posts in this exact style 11 years later

A 2025 update