#location independent

[retireyoungtravelsmart]

Budget Slow Travel: 20+ Things You Need to Know

Budget Slow Travel isn’t just about seeing the world; it’s about experiencing it at a pace that allows you to truly connect with the places you visit. It’s about trading rushed itineraries for immersive cultural experiences. And the best part? It doesn’t have to break the bank! Jeff, and I have spent the last eight years mastering the art of budget slow travel, exploring over 100 countries. We…

[themoderatespeaks]

America needs MAX PARTICIPATION for the economic blackout this Friday. This thing is snowballing fast because so many reasons are popping up for why people are doing it (including some "what it's really about" lists). A short list:

-inflation/the egg thing

-protesting the trend of corporations getting bigger and richer and more powerful while normal people are finding it harder and harder to keep up with the cost of living

-protesting corporations who heard Trump say diversity is out and went "Oh thank God" and immediately dropped (sorry, "didn't renew") their DEI policies, their support for the LGBTQ+ community, all of it

-protesting consumerism/huge corporations in general

-Trump giving a giant chainsaw of power to Musk and they are literally having fun with it

-the giant, reckless cuts Trump is making in general

-Jon Schwarz started a grassroots movement for government accountability and corporate reform and is going to make a million bucks this week selling Tshirts of his Blackout Tour

-moderate Republicans, Trump leavers, and even Trump supporters are starting to realize that Trump needs reining in from every angle possible because wow.

IT DOESN'T MATTER, at least not on Friday. The point is that the energy this has gathered is part of a wider pool of protests, boycotts, spending freezes, etc. that are gathering steam fast. And that's a good thing, because this Friday, Feb 28th, has become a productive, nonviolent flashpoint. There is so much anger and fear building right now in America and this is a good, healthy way for it to emerge. But if participation is too spotty, it will lead to absolutely nothing.

So please, less gatekeeping and more welcoming. Honestly, for the sake of max participation, if even one of these reasons matter to you, or matters to people that you care about, please participate.

Tl;dr: What is Friday really about? It's about momentum. Please, participate.

[alwaysbewoke]

Did you know that the famous line "And what the hell is that smell?" from 'Independence Day' was improvised by Will Smith? While filming the scene on the salt flat near the Great Salt Lake in Utah, nobody warned him about the strong odor caused by billions of decomposing brine shrimp in the lake.⁠

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[vulpinesaint]

kind of unfortunate that so many fantasy epics are also war novels because i will be honest i just do not like war novels that much... the grand clashing of forces is compelling obviously but it requires characters to talk about so much practical battle strategy and while i can get my brain to comprehend all these fantasy maps and kingdoms and borders and battalions and front lines and army movements it takes up. so much space in the book. feels like i'm fighting a war of my own trying to get through it sometimes

[queenlua]

The crisis of the last year with student protests has made even the richest institutions aware of how much of their presumed wealth can be yanked away from them by a donor class who are increasingly inclined to exert their influence and authority in openly oligarchic ways. The obsession with safety—and the contradictions of that obsession—is as much about financial management as anything else. But that also is a wider sociocultural formation: the American upper middle-class is generally an asset class now who think about safety in the same way as universities both because all institutions with asset-based wealth have to and because they personally have to safeguard their assets in the same fashion, and face some of the same risks from liability exposure. [. . .] Moving away from the caretaker era can’t just be a matter of exposing students to risk and dismantling systems that make safety the mandatory product of an intrusive regime of surveillance and correction. If the people in charge inside the university and outside of it aren’t equally exposed to the natural consequences of their actions and decisions, all this means is forcefully communicating to students—or perhaps all young people—their relative powerlessness and vulnerability. It means deciding that the lesson you really want to teach is that it’s bad to be powerless and thus you should strive in life for power and wealth in order to be beyond consequences. Arguably, if the caretaker era and the bystander era were both aligned with a wider social ideology that was broadly shared across a generation, then this in fact the new ethos of our time—that there is no safety but in power, and that where power believes people are not being sufficiently punished for the things that power disdains, it will find a way to make consequences where there have been none.

bleak essay that nonetheless collects a lot of idle thoughts i've had in one place & puts them together with more coherence than i've ever managed

[steinbit]

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[cranberrymoons]

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[whileurmine]

open to: m/w/nb.

plot: profoundly toxic married couple decides to add a third person to their bed and/or dynamic. this will in no way cause future problems and drama, why would u imply that?

characters: sebastian de la fuente. 51. very important corporate job man, with a fake sounding job title like director of client liaison within high net worth portfolios. charming womanizer who regularly cheats on his wife, but actually would love to quit his job and become an english professor or something. alejandra de la fuente. 50. hot shot corporate lawyer with her own law firm. would love to crush people under her heel like they are little bugs, actually. secretly soft lovergirl who wants chocolate and flowers.

possible connections: someone who has (secretly) hooked up with sebastian before, random stranger at a bar, someone who works with her or him, someone who works for him or her, someone who works for them in rich person thing and knows of marriage troubles. idk anything you can come up with.

"god, you are pretty, you know that?" sebastian asked. his arm around the back of their barstool, his thumb tracing absent circles on their back. a sly smirk on his features as his free hand brought the whiskey glass to his lips. "i can't be the first one who told you that tonight, right? or am i just the first one with good taste?"

on the other side of them, ale couldn't help but roll her eyes playfully, a smirk of her own mirrored on her features. when she spoke, it was letting her fingertips graze their arm absentmindedly. "oh, i think they heard it, seb, at least a few times." ale chuckle. her own drink abandoned on top of the bar. "there's no way we aren't the last in a long succession of people with lines like that. you should try to come up with something better."

"like what?" seb laughed. "did it hurt, angel? when you fell from heaven?"

[pathetic-gamer]

the thing about cigarettes after sex being like a trope or something is that one time in college I joined a poetry club at a local bookstore and, as one often does when they are a college student in a poetry club, I hooked up with one of the other guys in the club and afterward he offered me a cigarette (my favorite type and everything) and I was like "yes absolutely, but I thought you don't smoke?" and he goes "oh I don't, but you know how it is with poets."

[arachnicas]

It'd be really cool if Miles pulled a Hobie and learned how to make his own gizmo before the events of ATSV. Maybe it's not a watch but a bracelet of some kind, or he pulls a Rick & Morty and creates a little portal gun. Through trial and error, Miles successfully travels between different universes/dimensions/realities, exploring with wide-eyed wonder and geeking out like the adorable nerd he is.

[mariocki]

Inspector Morley, Late of Scotland Yard, Investigates: The Case of the Scarlet Letters (1.3, WGN-TV, 1952)

"Mr. Mullins, I have in my possession sixty-eight letters, none of which has begun to outlive its usefulness. I'm quite prepared to admit that blackmail is risky, but then murder has its disadvantages too - that is why I gave up murder."

[theseraphimangel]

★ 𝐇𝐔𝐍𝐆𝐑𝐘 𝐃𝐎𝐆𝐒 𝐀𝐑𝐄 𝐍𝐄𝐕𝐄𝐑 𝐋𝐎𝐘𝐀𝐋

-pinned by 𝐋𝐈𝐓𝐓𝐋𝐄 𝐋𝐀𝐃𝐘

[flippantfoe]

additionally - when it comes to respecting boundaries, especially with the things that follow a sudden explosion of popularity and fandom for one person's works. if you're going to be disrespectful to content creators and directly try to breach their privacy; i suggest minding your own business and listening to what a creator says regarding their projects.

you're not entitled to do whatever you'd like with characters you don't own or demand a rapid downpour of content.

you're not entitled to a creator's identity.

you're not entitled to anything.

clown is one person and not a goddamn corporation. welcome home is their project and these are his characters. nobody here is entitled to a goddamned thing they're creating and you sure as hell shouldn't be horny about their characters in public.

not to mention: the rampant reposting of other peoples' fan-art (and uncredited, too) in the tags. can people stop doing that? i've noticed the resurgence of fan-art reposters in various tags ever since the tiktok and twitter folks migrated here & it's also quite disrespectful.

[aidenwaites]

I'm not saying the Watcher streaming thing is their best idea but man some of you really don't know how much money a production on that scale can take

[izroulia]

Izroulia location mood boards:

Styxx (and Zags) cabin on the lake

[theramenphase]

There are many types of freedom, but if we chase them all at once it's likely to be overwhelming and unsuccessful.

With that in mind, which of these four is your main priority?