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the assholes of the current admin removed the incredible, thorough, scholarly research study that was sponsored by the NPS about LGBTQ+ life in America and American LGBTQ+ history from the NPS website. Suspecting that they would, in fact do this, I downloaded a copy of it, which you can now find (and download) here.

Fuck them for deleting this important piece of scholarly research and writing about LGBTQ+ history in America. We're here and we're queer (as in fuck you). We have ALWAYS been here and no matter what they do, they can't change that.

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18.03.2025

• Finally finished reading through all the theory. I’m going to spend tomorrow solving exercises and I really hope I manage to do everything I need to.

• I’ve been having trouble sleeping and functioning in general cause I’ve been so anxious about everything. But things are looking up and I found a temporary fix for sleeping.

• I haven’t really been putting my heart into studying recently and now the exam is staring me down lmao. But there’s hope for me yet.

🌳: 6hrs 32mins. This took everything out of me.

☀️: Called a friend cause it’s her birthday, talking to her is always super motivating. My sister talked me through some stuff too. Woohoo.

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💌 spring productivity log // march 18th

went on a walk by myself around the posh part of town, got a coffee and listened to music. trying to be more appreciative of my life and my city! i struggle a bit with daily routines but if i get out of the house and go for a walk in the morning, i always feel better.

called my friend for an hour or so, and did some crosswords with my sister.

booked a solo trip in may :) i cannot wait but also a little nervous to be travelling alone.

cleaned my kitchen - boring but essential.

read my book and worked on my short story. the draft is coming along nicely, i already feel quite proud of it.

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Also Github pages!! Tutorial: https://pages.github.com/

In the wake of the TikTok ban and revival as a mouthpiece for fascist propaganda, as well as the downfall of Twitter and Facebook/Facebook-owned platforms to the same evils, I think now is a better time than ever to say LEARN HTML!!! FREE YOURSELVES FROM THE SHACKLES OF MAJOR SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORMS AND EMBRACE THE INDIE WEB!!!

You can host a website on Neocities for free as long as it's under 1GB (which is a LOT more than it sounds like let me tell you) but if that's not enough you can get 50GB of space (and a variety of other perks) for only $5 a month.

And if you can't/don't want to pay for the extra space, sites like File Garden and Catbox let you host files for free that you can easily link into NeoCities pages (I do this to host videos on mine!) (It also lets you share files NeoCities wouldn't let you upload for free anyways, this is how I upload the .zip files for my 3DS themes on my site.)

Don't know how to write HTML/CSS? No problem. W3schools is an invaluable resource with free lessons on HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP, and a whole slew of other programming languages, both for web development and otherwise.

Want a more traditional social media experience? SpaceHey is a platform that mimics the experience of 2000s MySpace

Struggling to find independent web pages that cater to your interests via major search engines? I've got you covered. Marginalia and Wiby are search engines that specifically prioritize non-commercial content. Marginalia also has filters that let you search for more specific categories of website, like wikis, blogs, academia, forums, and vintage sites.

Maybe you wanna log off the modern internet landscape altogether and step back into the pre-social media web altogether, well, Protoweb lets you do just that. It's a proxy service for older browsers (or really just any browser that supports HTTP, but that's mostly old browsers now anyways) that lets you visit restored snapshots of vintage websites.

Protoweb has a lot of Geocities content archived, but if you're interested in that you can find even more old Geocities sites over on the Geocities Gallery

And really this is just general tip-of-the-iceberg stuff. If you dig a little deeper you can find loads more interesting stuff out there. The internet doesn't have to be a miserable place full of nothing but doomposting and targeted ads. The first step to making it less miserable is for YOU, yes YOU, to quit spending all your time on it looking at the handful of miserable websites big tech wants you to spend all your time on.

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3/17/25

It's been awhile since I've posted an update here. Life has been a bit busy and very good and I haven't been using tumblr much in general. I've recently read Tomorrow's Table by Pamela Ronald and R.W. Adamchak, A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf, and A Psalm for the Wild Built by Becky Chambers, which have been three great reads in a row. I'm slowly working through my Spanish workbook. Things are moving along at work, sometimes more slowly than I'd like but that's alright. I'm happy.

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good morning from all this light and all the books i have not read but am using for zoom set ups

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16/03/25 || Sunday

Have I ever shown my desk during the day? It looks really cozy today haha.

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At the risk of sounding anti-intellectual, I think that college should be free and also not a requirement for employment outside of highly specialized career fields

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Women have another option. They can aspire to be wise, not merely nice; to be competent, not merely helpful; to be strong, not merely graceful; to be ambitious for themselves, not merely for themselves in relation to men and children. They can let themselves age naturally and without embarrassment, actively protesting and disobeying the conventions that stem from this society’s double standard about aging. Instead of being girls, girls as long as possible, who then age humiliatingly into middle-aged women, they can become women much earlier – and remain active adults, enjoying the long, erotic career of which women are capable, far longer. Women should allow their faces to show the lives they have lived. Women should tell the truth.

— Susan Sontag, from “The Double Standard of Aging”

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Source

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By: blessthemessy on Instagram :)

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2/10/2025🍃🍃

Linear algebra and Discrete math homework!!

Follow me on rednote @ citrusmint too :3

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one of the biggest things I can advocate for (in academia, but also just in life) is to build credibility with yourself. It’s easy to fall into the habit of thinking of yourself as someone who does things last minute or who struggles to start tasks. people will tell you that you just need to build different habits, but I know for me at least the idea of ‘habit’ is sort of abstract and dehumanizing. Credibility is more like ‘I’ve done this before, so I know I can do it, and more importantly I trust myself to do it’. you set an assignment goal for the day and you meet it, and then you feel stronger setting one the next day. You establish a relationship with yourself that’s built on confidence and trust. That in turn starts to erode the barrier of insecurity and perfectionism and makes it easier to start and finish tasks. reframing the narrative as a process of building credibility makes it easier to celebrate each step and recognize how strong your relationship with yourself can become

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Bought some native milkweed seeds today because it's western monarch day!

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JOMP Challenge | February 1 | February Goals

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Have you ever spotted a fairy lantern? Members of the genus Thismia, these plants don’t use chlorophyll to photosynthesize. Instead, they feed on fungi in the soil. Growing just a few centimeters tall, their unusual-looking, vibrant flowers bloom briefly to attract pollinating insects—like fungus gnats. There are more than a hundred known species of this elusive plant around the planet, ranging from parts of Asia to Australia to the Americas.

Photo: Matheus Moroti, CC BY-NC 4.0, iNaturalist (Thismia mantiqueirensis pictured)