the mortifying ordeal of being thrown

Patience is a virtue.
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they don't sell ads, so no, it won't!

when they say "we don't want you folks here on this platform" they're not going to miss you. they want nsfw artists gone. leaving is not protest, this is pre-compliance. :(

In short, if you say “the death rate is down, so I don’t worry about Covid,” what you’re actually saying is “I’m not going to get hit by a train, so it’s fine if I get eaten to death by ants.”

Because that’s what the false narrative that Covid is over gets us. Slow, painful, gradual collapse.

So ok, you can go to restaurants now and your friends and co-workers aren’t being piled into morgue trucks. Good! But the population is rapidly gaining debilitating, sometimes permanent chronic health issues, people are still dying, life expectancy is down and health care is worse. Bad!

Studies across 14 nations show 25% to 30% rate of long COVID Among the 25% of participants in 1 study who said they experienced long-COVID symptoms, 13% reported sleep disorders.

Deaths from acute Covid are significantly down from the pre-vax days. But long Covid? Now topping 30% in 14 countries recently reviewed, a direct consequence of a vax and relax strategy that allows infinite reinfections. www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/stu...

What people consider “the pandemic” is the period when acute deaths were high and hospitals were overwhelmed. However, these are myopic definitions. First of all, hundreds/thousands of people die of acute Covid weekly, depending on where we are in a wave. But even that’s not the whole picture.

Zack Budryk @BudrykZack The single most important thing a man can do to be an ally is give his woman friends permission to give dudes at the bar his number so when they call he can angrily say that's not funny because she died 15 years ago that very night 3:28 PM • 2020-11-18

crying laighing

Lord alive, they want fictional characters in fictional sexual situations to model consent for literal adults like a patronizing early 2020’s sitcom where the point of the writing is to convey that the writer’s been to therapy at some point

Apparently the rapture is happening on Wednesday and now I'm like should I even bother folding my laundry if I'm going to be fighting to avoid eternal damnation on Thursday?

sadly this goes for pandemics as well.

covid isn’t over. it’s not over because everyone stopped trying to stop the spread 3 years ago. but covid is very bad for you. we can start to stop the spread again.

Frowning while at the Brownshirt rally I’m attending so that people know I disagree with it

INTRODUCTION Get a book-size (or paperback-size)d sketchbook. Write your name and date on an early page and maybe think of a name for it — and if you want, write the book’s name there at the front. Make it into your little painful pal. The pain goes away slowly page by page. Fill it up and do another one. It can be hard to get started. Don’t flunk yourself before you get the ball rolling. You might want to draw more realistically or in perspective or so it looks slick — that’s is possible and there are tricks and procedures for drawing with more realism if you desire it. But drawing very realistically with great finesse can sometimes produce dead uninteresting drawings — relative, that is, to a drawing with heart and charm and effort but no great finesse. You can make all kinds of rules for your art making, but for starting in a sketchbook, you need to jump in and get over the intimidation part — by messing up a few pages, ripping them out if need be. Waste all the pages you want by drawing a tic-tac-toe schematic or something, painting them black, just doodle. Every drawing will make you a little better. Every little attempt is a step in the direction of drawing becoming a part of your life. TIPS 1. Quickly subdivide a page into a bunch of boxes by drawing a set of generally equidistant vertical lines, then a set of horizontal lines so that you have between 6 and 12 boxes or so on the page. In each box, in turn, in the simplest way

possible, name every object you can think of and draw each thing in a box, not repeating. If it is fun, keep doing this on following pages until you get tired or can’t think of more nouns. Now you see that you have some kind of ability to typify the objects in your world and that in some sense you can draw anything. 2. Choose one of the objects that came to mind that you drew and devote one page to drawing that object with your eyes closed, starting at the “nose” of the object (in outline or silhouette might be good) and following the contour you see in your mind’s eye, describing to yourself in minute detail what you know about the object. You can use your free hand to keep track of the edge of the paper and ideally your starting point so that you can work your way back to the designated nose. Don’t worry about proportion or good drawing this is all about memory and moving your hand to find the shapes you are remembering. The drawing will be a mess, but if you take your time, you will see that you know a lot more about the object than you thought. 3. Trace some drawings you like to see better what the artist’s pencil or pen is doing. Tracing helps you observe closer. Copy art you like — it can’t hurt. 4. Most people (even your favorite artists) don’t like their drawings as much as they want to. Why? Because it is easy to imagine something better. This is only ambition, which is not a bad thing — but if you can accept what you are doing, of course you will progress quicker to a more satisfying level and also accidentally make perfectly charming drawings even if they embarrass you.

4. Most people (even your favorite artists) don’t like their drawings as much as they want to. Why? Because it is easy to imagine something better. This is only ambition, which is not a bad thing — but if you can accept what you are doing, of course you will progress quicker to a more satisfying level and also accidentally make perfectly charming drawings even if they embarrass you. 5. Draw a bunch more boxes and walk down a sidewalk or two documenting where the cracks and gum and splotches and leaves and mowed grass bits are on the square. Do a bunch of those. That is how nature arranges and composes stuff. Remember these ideas — they are in your sketchbook. 6. Sit somewhere and draw fast little drawings of people who are far away enough that you can only see the big simple shapes of their coats and bags and arms and hats and feet. Draw a lot of them. People are alike yet not — reduce them to simple and achievable shapes.

7. To get better with figure drawing, get someone to pose — or use photos — and do slow drawing of hands, feet, elbows, knees, and ankles. Drawing all the bones in a skeleton is also good, because it will help you see how the bones in the arms and legs cross each other and affect the arms’ and legs’ exterior shapes. When you draw a head from the side make sure you indicate enough room behind the ears for the brain case. 8. Do line drawings looking for the big shapes, and tonal drawing observing the light situation of your subject — that is, where the light is coming from and where it makes shapes in shade on the form, and where light reflects back onto the dark areas sometimes. 9. To draw the scene in front of you, choose the middle thing in your drawing and put it in the middle of your page — then add on to the drawing from the center of the page out. 10. Don’t worry about a style. It will creep up on you and eventually you will have to undo it in order to go further. Be like a river and accept everything.

Posting GARY PANTER'S SKETCHBOOK TIPS to save a life -- the site that used to host these took em down years ago, and they are as useful a list about this kind of thing as you will ever find.

They are like a favorite dogeared paperback to me.

wallstreetbets post reading "Game over fml" showing a stock chart plummeting Investing ~ $0.01 • $39,154.69 (down 100.00%) All time

you still got one cent, get back in there king

remember in the early 90s when china was cutting down centuries old protected panda forests with the excuse that they were "overmature" and people were rightly critical even without the internet

"the land is better off cos we took some of the yucky oil out" ok pal

honestly i can't tell. yes? i'm still alive and housed, for now?

hey i just want to remind you of this massive fucking lie you told, as if "balanz budgy" somehow cancels out him raping women and ushering in a new, brutal era of murderous carceral white supremacy, targeting Black children

deregulation isn't balance, and temporary liquidity isn't "prosperity."

i feel like "number of opportunities that is a topical moment to share this video" directly correlates with "the absolute decline of the united states and my mental and physical well being"

testosterone, amphetamines, earl grey, and sativa vape pens

I see "We are going to sue the government to seek a temporary restraining order to protect you from this clearlly illegal act" is not in the guidance.

Incorrect! The pandemic is being *treated* as if it’s over, and a lot of people don’t know what the word means.

100% agreed. I got rid of a LOT of my tension when I realized that it's ok to suck at something and do it anyway, because you like doing the thing. Or to be mediocre and not improve a whole lot. You can just do a thing! And bask in whatever you like about it!

it becomes this insufficiently dizzying spiral where you just become Aware Of Being Aware Of The Horrors, Forever, It's Just Awareness All The Way Down

ahhh, a half-penny's worth, but WE'RE TOO BUSY TO SAY ALL THAT, MOVE MOVE MOVE

Rarity does not make something a more powerful ingredient or reagent; rarity itself is not indicative of more power. It's indicative of *overuse/overharvesting*.

Hoarding rare plants for bragging rights hurts all of us, they should be allowed to grow wild, to proliferate; it would benefit everyone

"y'all'd've" is the ungendered version, in case you need it

I literally warned against exactly this in my dissertation and i am very tired of eugenicist fascist authoritarians using all the things we've warned about as a fucking shopping list

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