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Et tu Blathers?

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i can't remember if i have posted this before but the coffee shop by my house has my favorite hand-washing sign in the world

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It shouldn’t be surprising that writers have some of the best strike signs in existence

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You're gonna have to trust me on this but Maximilien Robespierre from French Revolution gives off the same energy as this picture of my cat

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Made this for convenient use

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Made this for convenient use

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happy international women's day

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the presidential sash for the first time ever was handed over by the people of brazil

the ex-president bolsonaro ran away from brazil and refused to participate in the ceremony, breaking one of brazil’s democracy’s staple traditions that is to hand the presidential sash to the successor. lula received the presidential sash from individuals representing the brazilian people.

this going to be a long post, but it’s really important for us.

francisco, 10 years old, swimmer of corinthians, a brazilian sports club. he lives in a outskirts of são paulo. after watching a movie about lula, he saw that he could be a president too.

aline sousa, 33 years old, garbage collector since she was 14 and the 3rd generation of collector in the family. aline is a mother of 6 boys and 1 girl, in 2012 she was elected director secretary of the CENTCOOP-DF (a central of work cooperatives of collectors in distrito federal, brasília) and 3 years later the first president of the entity.

chief raoni metuktire, 90 years old, dedicated his life to the defense of the amazon and the peoples of the forest. he is recognized by indigenous and riverside communities as one of the main representatives of the struggle to preserve the forest and the amazonian peoples.

weslley viesba rodrigues rocha, 36 years old, metallurgist from ABC region since he was 18 years old. married and father of two boys, cauã, 18 years old, and apolo, 2 months old. he graduated in Physical Education with the help of fies (a program of the ministry of education for funding the higher education of the undergraduate students). weslley is also a DJ in the rap group ‘falange’. 

murilo de quadros jesus, 28 years old, teacher, graduated in portuguese and english languages (UTFPR) and lives in curitiba.

jucimara fausto dos santos, cook born in palotina. she dedicated her life to cooking and it was in a cooking contest at vigília lula livre (a civil movement supported by several brazilian social movements and union entities to help free lula from the prision) that jucimara was called to make bread. today she cooks for the employees’ association of the state university of maringá.

ivan baron, 24 years old, he’s from rio grande do norte and at the age of 3 had viral meningitis, a disease that caused his cerebral palsy. ivan is a reference in the anti-capacitist struggle and considered one of the ambassadors of inclusion in an exclusionary society and he’s also part of the lgbtqia+ community

flávio pereira, 50 years old, from pinhalão - paraná. he is an artisan and was at the vigília lula livre for 580 days helping with daily activities.

aline sousa passing the sash.

this was honestly one of the most beautiful moments in brazil’s history.

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(/lh .. im just infodumping for fun)

obsessed with watching behind the scenes clips of hyper-realistic cgi movies like lion king 2019 or avatar 2 and the director or whatever is talking about how since they used mocap or a fancy virtual reality camera the expressions and movements are extremely realistic and better than anything before, , and then on-screen it shows the most absolutely dead-eyed character i’ve ever seen lmao . like these side-by-side comparisons …man 

its like theyre ashamed of it being animation so they have to try get it as realistic as possible, especially the d*sney remakes have this vibe*, .… and then everything looks absolutely soulless. also like immediately dated somehow?

and then you compare that to cgi animation like in arcane or spiderverse that isnt trying to be hyper realistic and its extremely expressive, like huge attention to micro-expressions and faces that are absolutely full of life., like look at this!!!! ⬇️

shaking n crying please realise that realism and cgi as close to live-action as possible isnt the final purpose of animation in cinema 

(*sidenote, remember when lion king 2019 came out and the guy who made it was going around saying it was live-action for some reason.. that was wild . girl it is fully 100% animated)

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finally read through Wonder Woman: Historia Book Two today now that Book Three is out and HELLO??? Gene Ha, can I talk to you about your absolutely insane Golden Ratio Hera spreads???

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‘I’m pretty sure that the majority of my sexual experiences in my teens and 20’s were done out of politeness’ says Maya, 28. ‘You end up in a situation where you’re worried about offending someone if you don’t go ahead – whether you’ve led them on or what they’ll think about themselves if you back out at the last minute. And in relationships, I’ve had sex when i definitely did not want to but just kind of felt bad about not doing it – what if the other person thought that i thought they were crap in bed or didn’t fancy them anymore?’

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My god... Mom was right all along about her handknit scarves!!

The sardonic, reductionist headline here could be "Scientists finally figured out why you get more colds in winter: bEcAuSe iT's CoLd!"—but the actual science involved here is both interesting, and potentially very relevant to everyday life and especially the immunocompromised:

It turns out the cold air itself damages the immune response occurring in the nose. [...] In fact, reducing the temperature inside the nose by as little as 9 degrees Fahrenheit (5 degrees Celsius) kills nearly 50% of the billions of virus and bacteria-fighting cells in the nostrils, according to the study published Tuesday in The Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology. “Cold air is associated with increased viral infection because you’ve essentially lost half of your immunity just by that small drop in temperature,” said rhinologist Dr. Benjamin Bleier, director of otolaryngology at Massachusetts Eye and Ear and an associate professor at Harvard Medical School in Boston.

Want to avoid catching or spreading respiratory viruses like CoVid-19, RSV, influenza, or a common cold? Mask up, please, but also bundle up! Wrap up in a scarf, wear a balaclava, and just generally keep your face warm. There's no single magic solution, but that's not a reason to do nothing. Rather, it's a reason to take several simple precautions that help avoid the spread of disease and protect those around you. (I can't tell you how much "this isn't 100% effective so I shouldn't do it at all" frustrates me.)

Oh, and #knitblr? This is your time to shine.

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I absolutely hate it when I hear that my name gets brought up at publishing meetings as an example of "authors who made social media work for them." Like fuck you, the lesson you should've learnt from my case was "take a chance on a book an editor is eager to acquire even if it's in a genre that hasn't been selling well" (Iron Widow got shot down at every major American publisher for market reasons even though many editors wanted it), not "LET'S PUSH AUTHORS TO BECOME INFLUENCERS." The skillset someone needs to be popular on social media is completely different than what's used to write books. Why would you force the average author to shake their ass on TikTok instead of DOING THE MARKETING THAT IS YOUR JOB and letting authors write in peace

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Diamonds and Lemons (Minecraft special) title card brainstorm/thumbnail, title card design, and a few storyboard panels

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The idea was for me to expose about vision and the problem of the observer (according to Jonathan Crary) but my professor really miscalculated the time of the class, so I was left with a full presentation sitting in my desk that no one has seen (⁠ ⁠⚈̥̥̥̥̥́⁠⌢⁠⚈̥̥̥̥̥̀⁠)

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Fui a ver las pinturas de Kandinsky y mi parte favorita fueron los libros :v Went to see some Kandinsky paintings, mi favourite part were the books :B #Kandinsky #books #libros #booknerd https://www.instagram.com/p/BqLS47glv5C/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=urhr5ptkolw9