Day: September 6, 2017

rubyvroom:

mendelpalace:

postapocalypticflimflam:

The greatest part of this greatness is that it’s a “family adventure”.

For those that don’t know, this is cover for an awful dub of Miyazaki’s Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind. It gave everyone 80’s-riffic names, cut out about a 1/3 of the running time, and largely dropped the ecological elements of the story.

This is the reason Miyazaki didn’t let us bring his films stateside until they made a deal with Disney.

note how in the US release Nausicaa herself got pushed into a back corner of her own movie poster so they could put some boys in front

Source: madddscience

avatar-dacia:

avatar-dacia:

rhazade-waterbender:

theshriekingsisterhood:

isabelknight:

immunity cat also shelters you from coercive “reblog this or you aren’t a real X/you’re a terrible person” posts. It is OK to not emotionally blackmail your followers.

Relevant to my dash

So that one fucking post crossed my dash again.  I invoke Immunity Cat.

And this is because I knee-jerk reblogged one of those damn things.  Mea culpa.

And this is because another of those bedamned posts crossed my dash.

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makingqueerhistory:

Alan Turing

Will Bradshaw

Will Bradshaw is a writer and English language teacher living in the North of England. He regularly writes on political matters and will begin a Philosophy MA this autumn. You can follow him on Twitter at @_WBradshaw, and see his personal work at Angry Meditations on WordPress.

There are a myriad of accounts about Alan Turing’s life. You can read biographies, watch films, and browse entire websites dedicated to the man dubbed ‘the father of artificial intelligence’. But many of these accounts fail on a number of fronts. Some downplay his sexuality, others ignore it outright, and only a handful recognize that Alan Turing’s achievements are as much down to his early romantic experiences as they are to his intellectual prowess. (Read Full Article Here)

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Yay, properly seasoned cast iron.

The plan this evening: turn out some beef stew for tomorrow, since I just about have the spoons available. (And probably eat a little of it when it’s done.) Less stress later with it taking forever to cook and my terrible sense of time, plus that should actually be improved by sitting in the fridge.

Anyway, I was just browning the floured meat to go in the pot, and it did leave some bits looking thoroughly stuck on the skillet. Automatically dreading trying to clean that up without messing up the surface and maybe having to reseason the pan. But, a little simmering with water to put in the pot too, and it totally came loose.

I went without having any cast iron here for long enough that I keep getting surprised sometimes by how much better it is to work with for a lot of jobs.

Is it an adhd thing to know I need to get up to do something but I. Just. Can’t. Seem. To do it. I can’t stop scrolling on tumblr or reading a book or even doing homework. I just can’t seem to get up. Even when i know I need to. Even when I’ve stopped to do it. When I’m not completely distracted. I can’t. I just can’t. Is this adhd or am I just a lazy bum?

actuallyadhd:

This is executive dysfunction. It seems like either initiation or inertia, or both. I struggle with this as well. It’s just really hard to get started on something, and really hard to change activities once I do get started!

It’s SO hard, because it definitely looks to other people like we’re just being lazy or unmotivated, when we really aren’t. And OMG I would expect “experts” to understand this aspect of ADHD and executive dysfunction, but I have been told that it’s a fear of failure and stuff like that by people who should know better!

Sometimes I can trigger myself to get started by getting up to get some water or go to the bathroom. Then when I come back I can sometimes (not always) start on the new thing.

-J