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  • Of course after I ordered the stuff I remembered the other things I was meant to order. I’d Grr, but there’s free shipping, so it was irritating, rather than costly.

  • Onwards and upwards

    So, Kathryn and I are planning, in the marginally longer term (as in not this week) to start a business. This is partly scary because we’re planning to invest a chunk of the money we made on renovating our last house in it. It’s also scary because my last attempt at running a business was car-crash-scary-bad. I spent years afterwards paying off the debts and getting the bank to chase my business partner for at least some of the money.

    I’d only just reached the point where I could close the business’ bank account at the point I met Kathryn and had absolutely no desire to ever run a business again. But the concept that we’ve developed makes me want to try again.

    And today we ordered some bits to prototype our first product. To be fair, we’ve ordered equipment for the business too, that was a while ago… Just before we moved. But it’s not exactly a kickstarter, more a pre-order, and it won’t be here for a while.

    In contrast to the far-distant ‘will arrive eventually’ thing we’ve ordered, these bits should be here soon. As in, in a week or two.

    I also need to get my electronics head back on. Which is hard, because I think I largely left it at school.

    Also in the order is a LED bulb with a B22 base. Because it turns out Deal Extreme is the place to get stuff like that. Lord knows what the colour temperature will be, it says 3000K, which is fine for a household bulb, but I once got a ‘daylight drawing bulb’ for Kathryn and it was like having your eyes seared out by the sun in terms of bright-white-ness.

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    mysharona1987:

    Boom.

  • aideemoi:

    The photograph is as much about the person behind the camera as it is the one in front of it…

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    terriblerealestateagentphotos:

    The French Experimentalist school of architecture were notorious for what they called “extreme en suite“.

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    jenniferrpovey:

    reservoircat:

    captainscullyful:

    characterflaws:

    misslunasapphire:

    gerutha:

    phoenixaskani:

    If this woman was alive today, she’d have my vote. Shit.

    #she put frederick douglass on her ballot as v.p. too #unfortunately he didn’t know about it at the time #he read about it in the papers and was like ‘is this chick serious’

    Victoria Woodhull 2016

    This fails to mention that she was the first woman to run for US president, as well as being the first woman stockbroker on Wall Street alongside her sister Tennie Claflin, and their newspaper published the first English translation of the Communist Manifesto known to date

    @reservoircat HEY LOOK WHAT JUST POPPED UP ON MY DASH

    YES, I HAVE *OPINIONS* ABOUT THIS POST.

    Okay, for starters, Victoria wasn’t a sex worker. She wasn’t necessarily anti-sex worker in the manner of the time–she viewed it as a societal ill that occurred because of the inequality of women and the power structure which allowed and abused such sex work. But she very much wanted to destroy the structures that forced many women into sex work and sex trafficking.

    The claims that Victoria herself was a sex worker come from two things: her supportive stance on ‘free love’, i.e. the allowance for men and women to chose their own consensual sex partners outside of marriage, and her rise to power as a millionaire New York stock broker and newspaper owner. See, men of the time refused to believe that Victoria and her younger sister Tennessee Claflin could truly be such shrewd, ambitious and forward thinking businesswomen all on their own. So they spread the rumor that the sisters got their positions and fortunes from being sugar babies basically.

    She was also virulently anti-trafficking after her younger sister and business partner Tennie Claflin was kidnapped and sold into brothels by one of their business rivals. When this happened, Victoria and her husband Colonel James Blood tracked the traffickers down and retrieved Tennie at gunpoint from her captors. 

    Victoria was not well liked by her fellow suffragists either because she was an ardent supporter of Black suffrage and total equality of all races. She regularly told Stanton and Anthony to go fuck themselves.

    It was awesome. She was awesome.

    I just love Victoria Woodhull so much ;-;

    I forgot to mention last time I saw this.

    The Woodhull Freedom Foundation/Woodhull Sexual Freedom Alliance, named after this wonderful woman, affirms “sexual freedom” as a basic human right.

    They run the Family Matters Project, which not only supports same sex marriage, but helps polyamorous groups fight eviction based off of “single family home” zoning and otherwise fights discrimination based off of “family structure.”

    They collaborated with the Florida ACLU to end the shackling of female prisoners in labor in Florida.

    Their overall goal is to end “social and legal sexual oppression.”

    They give out “Vickis” to individuals who support the sexual freedom movement every year.

    Their bookstore includes books about male homosexuality and consent, pornography, abortion, bisexuality, trans people, the anthropology of menstruation… (I think I want to pick that one up when I have the money).

    IOW, this woman inspired a whole bunch of people to work on protecting your right to be a slut ;). (Or to not be a slut…the sexual freedom movement is not quite the same thing as sex positivity, which can tend to drift towards supporting promiscuity as “better” than chastity).

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    imkatandimawesome:

    castiel-knight-of-hell:

    jen-kollic:

    thejollity:

    jen-kollic:

    hobopoppins:

    manaphy:

    wow I didn’t know fuckin chocolate eggs were gendered

    OKAY LET ME TELL YOU A STORY ABOUT THE FUCKING PINK EGGS.

    I work at a concession stand in an ice rink. We sell a bunch of chocolate bars and snacks and shit including Kinder Surprise eggs.

    So one day this woman comes up to the counter with her two little kids, a girl who’s probably about 6 or 7 and a little boy, maybe 3 or 4. The mom asks what they want, the little girl points at the Kinder eggs and says “One of those!”. I asked if she wanted the white or the pink egg. She said pink. The little boy pointed to the Kinder eggs and says “One of those!”. I asked if he wanted the white or the pink egg. He said pink. HOLY SHIT IT WAS LIKE I OPENED THE GATES OF HELL. The mom absolutely FLIPPED and was like “YOU ARE NOT GETTING THE PINK EGG IT’S ONLY FOR GIRLS. YOU CAN GET THE WHITE ONE OR NOTHING AT ALL”. The little boy looked at his mom and said “But I want the same as ______ (whatever the sister’s name was)”. The mom completely ignored him and turned to me and gave me a death glare. “He can have the white egg.”

    I had to give a little boy a white egg when he wanted the pink so that he could be the same as his big sister and he started crying. The mom just reiterated that the pink egg was for girls and told him that boys don’t cry.

    And this is why we shouldn’t gender fucking chocolate eggs.

    This is actually a relatively new thing, originally Kinder Eggs were all white like the ones on the left. I don’t know at what point they decided to make ‘girl’s’ Kinder Eggs, but I do not like it.

    Holy shit do not even get me started on how moms constantly police their sons’ masculinity. I’ve seen mothers do it WAY more often than fathers.

    I used to work at a bakery that specialized in creating custom cakes. We had this feature where we could print out any image off the computer and put it on a cake (with rice paper). One day this lady comes in and asks for an image we had of the baby Sesame Street characters. They’re all together with cake and confetti, and she asks, “Oh, well since it’s a boy, can you please change all of the little pink confettis into blue confetti? I mean, he’s a boy, you know.”

    Confetti.

    The fucking confetti.

    It barely covered 5% of the image.

    Another instance was when a lady asked me for an image of four superheroes to put on her son’s cake because her son was turning four. She admitted to not knowing any superheroes, so I offered the most obvious choice—The Fantastic Four. I pulled up a picture of them and she goes, “Oh no no, we can’t have that. Let’s do another one.” Confused, I pulled up a Justice League one with Batman, Superman, The Flash, and Wonder Woman. Again, she said no. I asked her if she needed anything specific (she didn’t know superheroes, why was she so picky?), and she just said, “Oh, it’s just that he’s a boy, you know? We can’t have a girl superhero on his cake.”

    I nearly lost my shit. I did temporarily lose my customer service face and ask why, women have been superheroes all the time, Wonder Woman is iconic, etc etc and she was like, “It’s just that my son has been playing with Barbie dolls lately and I really don’t want him to end up… well, you know.”

    This shit has got to stop. When you teach boys that certain things are only for girls, you’re limiting them and you’re teaching them that girls or “girly things” are bad. If you want gender equality as an adult, you better make DAMN sure that you’re teaching the same thing to your kids.

    So this woman did not want her son to turn out ‘you know’ and her plan for that was to get him a cake with spandex-clad manly men AND ONLY MEN on it? I don’t think she thought that one through too well…

    in sociology class we were talking about gender being assigned to objects and one of the male students started saying how forward thinking he is because he buys his daughter sports equipment and “boy toys”. I asked if he’d do the same if he had a son and he said “Of course I’d buy my son sports equipment”. I clarified “No, would you buy him dolls and other toys that are thought of as being for girls”. He turned around and didn’t answer.

    Parents will pat themselves on the back for letting their little girls play baseball but a little boy with a Barbie is still considered an affront to society

    Patriarchy is it’s own biggest problem.

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    Modern choke cables lack the mechanism to keep the choke pulled out. Fortunately, 4mb of RAM from an ancient digital printer does the same job… on Flickr.

    Modern choke cables lack the mechanism to keep the choke pulled out. Fortunately, 4mb of RAM from an ancient digital printer does the same job…

  • Habseligkeiten

    (noun, plural) Voted the most beautiful German word, the concept of Habseligkeiten is stunning yet, difficult to explain. Literally defined as belongings, Habseligkeiten are the small treasures and property, which define our happiness and sentiments. Although these possessions hold a dear place in our heart, they are useless to another person, such as a gold coin a child found during a treasure hunt in the woods. Overall, Habseligkeiten is characterized as beautiful personal belongings, which evolve from personal meanings: compassionate or sad attachments.  (via wordsnquotes)

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    yukaryote:

    femhype:

    realgirlsgaming:

    refinery29:

    Yet Another Stat That Proves The Male Gamer Stereotype Is A Farce

    With new data from a Pew Research Center survey, we know that women play an even bigger role in the gaming community. Of the 40% of Americans who own a video game console, 42% are women and only 37% are men.

    READ MORE

    Fun with stats!

    I love it. In the article, it emphasizes that mobile devices don’t count as consoles, because literally the immediate comeback of male gamers who are confronted with stats like this is “lol but that includes candy crush right?”. I just choose to downplay my gaming in most social situations because I just don’t want to deal with that kind of condescension, gate-keeping, and/or being treated like a magical unicorn (which is arguably the worst part of it).