@averixus / averixus.tumblr.com
i.e.: abbreviation for id est, Latin for "that is", which means "that is to say" or "in other words". For example: "Sam is from London, i.e. Hell."
e.g.: abbreviation for exempli gratia, Latin for "for example", which means "for example". For example: "There are many places in the UK you don't want to visit, e.g. London."
Question: do you like London?
can't get enough of it
Hate it when TikTok farm cosplayers and cottagecore types say stuff like "I'm not going to use modern equipment because my grandmothers could make do without it." Ma'am, your great grandma had eleven children. She would have killed for a slow cooker and a stick blender.
I’ve noticed a sort of implicit belief that people used to do things the hard way in the past because they were tougher or something. In reality, labor-saving devices have historically been adopted by the populace as soon as they were economically feasible. No one stood in front of a smoky fire or a boiling pot of lye soap for hours because they were virtuous, they did it because it was the only way to survive.
Taking these screenshots from Facebook because they make you log in and won't let you copy and paste:
Anyway Discord is running a survey on future AI integration. Bring the heat.
i couldn’t track down the actual source for the survey, as there doesn’t seem to be any official public release that i can see. but on further research it does seem legit, and perhaps something released privately before being spread word-of-mouth:
so unless someone has something to say otherwise, it should indeed be safe.
Little cat learns that one act of love will kick off a beautiful domino effect
fun little hack is that if you're the only one at a suburban pedestrian crosswalk and a car is coming, oftentimes the way to get where you're trying to go fastest is to step back a little and look around/at the scenery/at your phone.
because otherwise you have to do the "driver waves you to go, you wave driver to go, driver waves you to go again" dance, where you're scared they'll start driving while you walk and they're scared that you'll start walking while they drive.
when instead you can signal from the outset that you're not walking, allowing them to drive on without fear of running you over and saving you both a pointless negotiation on "who goes first" which benefits no one.
#strategy
Please enjoy this ridiculous thing I made for my new bathroom. My self-assigned brief was:
It's a dispenser which is open at the top to load in the rolls in bulk, and with a gently sloping bottom that leads down to a single-roll-sized hole at the bottom corner where you can safely remove one at a time.
It is not neat or polished but it DOES work.
Sci-fi short stories are so efficient; they take 15 minutes to read and then you think about them for the next 5 years
Hey guys, what if *puts the most horrifying mindblowing concept into your head with about 15 pages*
don’t abandon joy because it is brief. don’t commit to solitude because happiness is fleeting. it’s okay that good things do not last forever. it’s okay to simply enjoy a thing for as long as you have it.
You know something I’ve figured out in the past few months as someone who 1. Doesn’t have a lot of friends and 2. Actually finds it very hard to make friends is that the fastest quickest route to befriending people is to engage with them like they’re already your friends
What do I mean by that? I mean, show up places and do things and talk to people. I joined the amateur theatre group in my city and a creative collective and I forced myself to go to meetups when I was tired and nervous about it but even moreso— I met a couple very cool people while working on a theatre project and I forced myself to ask for their numbers
And then I forced myself to text them! It felt so cringy and lame but that was just a fucking lie in my brain! I invited them to see movies and I sent them book & video game & movie recommendations and you know what? They appreciated that! They texted me back! I sent messages like “hey! How’s school?” Or “do you have any advice on grant applications?” And “you wanna get a beer sometime this week?” And every single time it felt like I was flinging myself off a big dark precipice into nothing and every single time I got a friendly response back
So like, the cringe is fucking fake, if you want people want to be your friend sometimes you literally just have to decide that they’re your friends and talk to them as such
a little reminder! by anna-laura art
HELL YEAH!!!!
hey sorry if this isnt true i forgot exactly where i read it but this person should be brutalised and subjected to some of the most horrific acts of cruelty humanity has ever seen. it might be nothing though i might have the people mixed up
wow i didn't know this. i always thought they should be unpersoned though. spreading this so that others can be informed + to protect minors
Damn, I already had a feeling about them since... I’m not sure when. Their fashion sense really threw me off and I hated their takes on video games. I’m glad that my impulse to find out their identity, uproot their career, and destroy their life was justified after all, at least based on what I can remember!
you want proof that it happened? well, check this out, after we filled their inbox with accusations, they didn't immediately roll out a full PR statement on why they're sorry for doing the things I said they did and how they'll do better in the future. they acted as though they had never even heard of any of the people or events involved, and they even got angry once I insisted they were actually the scum of the earth and deserved to be hunted down and shot for the rumours I kinda half heard about them. why would they double down like that if they WEREN'T guilty?
They turned off anonymous asks after posting responses to fifteen anons, which is good enough evidence for me that they know they have done indefensible things and are facilitating crime. If they were innocent they would take the abuse and respond to every accusation with a unique acknowledgement of every bad thought they have ever had and abject apologies for ever having dared to be on the internet, where countless people have been harmed by their 1,000-follower blog.
never heard of this person before, but all the previous posts must be right! people wouldn't try to mislead others on the internet, especially knowing how easy it is to start a dogpile!
