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Want to co-sign my UK petition?
Using metric for everything except long distance is nonsense.
Edit: I forgot that the website wouldn't show you the full text of the petition because it hasn't been approved by moderators! So, here it is:
Switch the UK to using kilometres (metric) instead of miles (imperial)
The majority of the UK population are happier with the metric system. One of the last things left to switch is from miles to kilometres. We should switch to kilometres, because using two different sets of units is more work in the long run, and because metric distances are easier to work with.
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l'waxana troi had the hardest game in the entire galaxy. name a smoother pickup line i'll wait
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Avery's right, and also, "Indian and Chinese takeaway" is not really Indian and Chinese food, it's a weird Britification of them that contains uniquely British ingredient combinations. The stuff we have here in takeaway menus is not really available in India or China.
So, it definitely counts as British.
I humbly submit to the list some regional and national dishes and ingredients:
Black pudding (as delicious as it sounds, i.e. horrendous to my vegetarian sensibilities)
Welsh rarebit (yum)
Laverbread (seaweed! yum)
Haggis
Trifle (yum, fond memories of trifle made by my aunt)
Cucumber sandwiches (soft on the outside, crunchy on the inside, and so nice on a hot, sunny day)
Porridge with cold milk and honey/jam (yum)
Pancakes, which here are not really served like crepes, and are definitely nothing like American/Canadian pancakes
Stew and dumplings
Cauliflower cheese (exactly what it sounds like and it's amazing)
British biscuits: Jammy Dodgers, Bourbons, Custard Creams, etc.
Savoury pies (whenever I talk about pies on the internet, all the Americans are like, "WHAT, why would you put meat and vegetables and gravy in a pie????" Dude, why WOULDN'T you, pastry is neither savoury nor sweet, it is simply a neutral vehicle for flavour, it's like asking why anyone would want to make a savoury sandwich)
Tonnes of our traditional foods are just from a few decades ago, and you can kinda tell from the vibes that it's from (or evolved from) wartime rationing kinds of stuff. Like, that's what cultural foods are, they're dishes that grew out of a societal situation. And even if you think they're rubbish, there's a bunch of people that love dishes you think are rubbish, but it's still our culinary culture so you just kind of have to deal with it.
"I dislike British food"
Oh so you admit British food exists then
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Hey, if you're a minor and you're following my blog, I just need you to be aware:
You have been on this earth for fewer years than my cat has.
She turns 20 this week, everyone please say happy birthday 🥳💖
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Sylvia Rivera at the 1983 Christopher Street Liberation march. Her banner features the S.T.A.R (Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries) Logo, and reads "And God Created He and She But He Also Created Me!"
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You can tell when someone’s frame of reference for “normal people” is more “people at the church sponsored ice cream social” and less “people on the bus”
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Here's a little bit of visible mending that I did today. I started it at our makerspace's open day, whose theme was "hand stitch", and finished it this evening. It's a patch on the inside of the jeans, so it's quite subtle. I like how the stitching goes inside the back pocket.
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I would like a button to press that says "I am already part of Marginalized Community X and active in Political Issue Y, please do not show me all the posts about horrible things happening to people like me and my loved ones that are directed at Dominant Group A to raise awareness, because I have already cried about Horrible Thing Z twice today, I do not need to be more aware."
That probably wouldn't fit on a button, huh.
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Wait, so you said that you can learn to trust others by building friendships, but how does one go about doing that? Wouldn't someone I don't know be creeped out or annoyed if I suddenly walked up and started talking to them?
Friendships are built of repeated low-stakes interactions and returned bids for attention with slowly increasing intimacy over time.
It takes a long time to make friends as an adult. People will probably think you're weird if you just walk up and start talking to them as though you are already their friend (people think it's weird when I do this, I try not to do this) but people won't think it's weird if you're someone they've seen a few times who says "hey" and then gradually has more conversations (consisting of more words) with them.
I cheat at forming adult friendships by joining groups where people meet regularly. If you're part of a radio club that meets once a week and you just join up to talk about radios, eventually those will be your radio friends.
If there's a hiking meetup near you and you go regularly, you will eventually have hiking friends.
Deeper friendships are formed with people from those kinds of groups when you do things with them outside of the context of the original interaction; if you go camping with your radio friend, that person is probably more friend than acquaintance. If you go to the movies with a hiking friend who likes the same horror movies as you do, that is deepening the friendship.
In, like 2011 Large Bastard decided he wanted more friends to do stuff with so he started a local radio meetup. These people started as strangers who shared an interest. Now they are people who give each other rides after surgery and help each other move and have started businesses together and have gone on many radio-based camping trips and have worked on each other's cars.
Finding a meetup or starting a meetup is genuinely the cheat-code for making friends.
This is also how making friendships at schools works - you're around a group of people very regularly and eventually you get to know them better and you start figuring out who you get along with and you start spending more time with those people.
If you want to do this in the most fast and dramatic way possible, join a band.
In 2020 I wrote something of a primer on how to turn low-stakes interactions with neighbors and acquaintances into more meaningful relationships; check the notes of this post over the next couple days, I'll dig up the link and share it in a reblog.
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Apparently there's an influx of people on the Fediverse because of something dodgy going on at Tumblr relating to... a transphobic something-or-other involving, the boss? What's the latest, tell me the gossip
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this discord server could have been a support forum
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Embroidery Tumblr, recommend me the best cross stitch kit shops [UK-based]! I have a GRANT to spend. *rubs hands together evilly*
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What do you do when your ADHD brain wants stimulation and your autism brain finds that painful/overwhelming?
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