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deckdancer · 3 hours ago
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Just got to do some woodworking for the first time in a long while, and I am once again reminded of why I enjoy my favorite type of word to work with: Purpleheart.
Why’s it called purpleheart?
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Muthafuckin’ purple wood. How cool is that? It’s brown when you cut it, but due to oxidization, eventually turns to a beautiful purple color. (if you don’t seal it at this stage, it’ll eventually turn red, I believe, which is still pretty, but you buy purpleheart for purple, damnit!)
And everything you make with it turns out amazing.
Purple floors?
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Nice.
Purple stairs?
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Fancy.
Purple table?
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Sweet.
Purple guitar?
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Awesome.
Purple whatever the hell is going on here?
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Epic.
It’s just such a cool wood to work with, and it’s sturdy enough to be used for just about anything. If I ever get a house, half of it might just end up being made out of purpleheart.
Anyway, that’s enough nerdery for one post. I will now return to reblogging stupid pictures and recipes.
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deckdancer · 9 hours ago
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deckdancer · 19 hours ago
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I'm up to the "I dunno maybe children working 13 hour shifts is bad, guys" part of Capital and it feels important to inform people that haven't read it yet that capitalists in the 19th century were not by any means wringing their hands and twirling their mustaches about employing children to squeeze out profits, they were hiring "experts" to write newspaper articles for them, explaining how "well, the socialists have these big demands about an 8-hour work day, and taking Saturdays off, but it's actually just so complicated, it's too complicated for most people to understand, we just NEED to hire children for night shifts because the stamina of their strong, youthful bodies is the only way we can survive as a business! It's science, you see. Economics doesn't work like that, just ask our economics professors at Oxford. You CAN'T turn a profit only working people 8 hours! Trust the experts, they know. It's just so complicated..."
That exact infuriating cadence that you read in New York Times articles, in the Atlantic Monthly, in the WaPo and all the other bourgeois rags where "everything is so complicated, and it's actually a lot more complicated than you think.." that has been around since the beginning. It is nothing new. So the next time you see some op-ed from Matt Yglesias or any of those other guys huffing their own farts about how "complicated" everything is, and how "unrealistic" a 30-hour work week is, remember that Marx was dealing with that exact class of "intellectuals" "explaining" how working 13 hours at age 10 was "vital" to the "moral fibre" of those poor kids.
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deckdancer · 4 days ago
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#Elmo's so real
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deckdancer · 5 days ago
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deckdancer · 5 days ago
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Crank position I am slowly coming to believe: I think theosophy actually subsumed romanticism. The romantics did not carry us into modernity. They made it to about 1870, and then Blavatsky took the reigns.
Like William Blake was awesome but without Blavatsky, there are no Hippies. Without Blavatsky, George Harrison never learns to play the sitar.
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deckdancer · 5 days ago
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Overwhelm...
We actually only know this term from the emotional or mental realm. That is, when someone is overwhelmed by their feelings. But originally it had a different meaning.The term comes from the middle english word whelven, which means to turn upside down, a vessel is said to be overwhelmed when she has capsized or has turned upside down in the water. 
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In the 17th century, the term capsized appeared more and more, until it finally replaced overwhelmed in nautical terms and this term slipped into the emotional world.
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deckdancer · 5 days ago
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some notable catchphrases of 2013:
bitch I might be
do she got the booty ? she doooooooooo ! 
swiggity swag
the D
wen u mom com home and make hte spagehti
“ hello______, im dad “ 
AYYY LMAO
W R I T I N G  I N T E N S E  W O R D S  L I K E  T H I S 
 perfect _____ don’t exis-
And now, the weather
at least 2 potato
we’ve come full circle ! 
life hack :
[ __________ INTENSIFIES]
so many
such doge. much wow. very smile. 
mahogany 
*sweats nervously*
same. 
spooper hot choclety milk
#SHERLOCKLIVES
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deckdancer · 5 days ago
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deckdancer · 6 days ago
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BE MAD BE SAD BUT DONT U DARE GIVE UP
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deckdancer · 7 days ago
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This is a double batch of meringues--8 eggs total. And this is Jane.
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deckdancer · 7 days ago
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deckdancer · 10 days ago
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Has a worm ever gotten struck by lightning
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deckdancer · 10 days ago
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deckdancer · 10 days ago
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(full article here)
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deckdancer · 10 days ago
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Oh, I didn’t know that.
I was listening to Gordon Lightfoot’s “The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald” on youtube, and browsing the comments several people mentioned …
Okay. The song is about the real sinking of the freighter the Edmund Fitzgerald on Lake Superior in 1975. And there’s a line in the song:
“In the Maritime Sailor’s Cathedral,
The Church Bell chimed till it rang twenty nine times,
For each man on the Edmund Fitzgerald”
Which references something that the actual Maritime Church in Detroit did in honour of the ship’s crew. And I just found out in those youtube comments for his song that when Gordon Lightfoot died in May last year (2023), the Maritime Church rang those bells again, this time 30 times. Once for every man on the Edmund Fitzgerald, and once more for Gordon Lightfoot.
That’s … That is a memorial I would be proud to have earned. And proud to give. I do like that. A lot.
Apparently, the Split Rock Lighthouse on Lake Superior also lit its beacon in honour of him.
Sorry. I’m having … extremely maritime sort of feelings over here. Songs and memorials, bells and beacons, and the ways we carry memory forward. That’s … that’s a good memorial. I like that.
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deckdancer · 10 days ago
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uh oh this pronunciation of polycules is gonna stick in my head for a long while
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