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#Tumblr #memes

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#MEEEEE #abuse made me a stronger person but I'd love to not have been abused 🙃 #gpoy

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the older I get, the more the technological changes I've lived through as a millennial feel bizarre to me. we had computers in my primary school classroom; I first learned to type on a typewriter. I had a cellphone as a teenager, but still needed a physical train timetable. my parents listened to LP records when I was growing up; meanwhile, my childhood cassette tape collection became a CD collection, until I started downloading mp3s on kazaa over our 56k modem internet connection to play in winamp on my desktop computer, and now my laptop doesn't even have a disc tray. I used to save my word documents on floppy discs. I grew up using the rotary phone at my grandparents' house and our wall-connected landline; my mother's first cellphone was so big, we called it The Brick. I once took my desktop computer - monitor, tower and all - on the train to attend a LAN party at a friend's house where we had to connect to the internet with physical cables to play together, and where one friend's massive CRT monitor wouldn't fit on any available table. as kids, we used to make concertina caterpillars in class with the punctured and perforated paper strips that were left over whenever anything was printed on the room's dot matrix printer, which was outdated by the time I was in high school. VHS tapes became DVDs, and you could still rent both at the local video store when I was first married, but those shops all died out within the next six years. my facebook account predates the iphone camera - I used to carry around a separate digital camera and manually upload photos to the computer in order to post them; there are rolls of undeveloped film from my childhood still in envelopes from the chemist's in my childhood photo albums. I have a photo album from my wedding, but no physical albums of my child; by then, we were all posting online, and now that's a decade's worth of pictures I'd have to sort through manually in order to create one. there are video games I tell my son about but can't ever show him because the consoles they used to run on are all obsolete and the games were never remastered for the new ones that don't have the requisite backwards compatibility. I used to have a walkman for car trips as a kid; then I had a discman and a plastic hardshell case of CDs to carry around as a teenager; later, a friend gave my husband and I engraved matching ipods as a wedding present, and we used them both until they stopped working; now they're obsolete. today I texted my mother, who was born in 1950, a tiktok upload of an instructional video for girls from 1956 on how to look after their hair and nails and fold their clothes. my father was born four years after the invention of colour televison; he worked in radio and print journalism, and in the years before his health declined, even though he logically understood that newspapers existed online, he would clip out articles from the physical paper, put them in an envelope and mail them to me overseas if he wanted me to read them. and now I hold the world in a glass-faced rectangle, and I have access to everything and ownership of nothing, and everything I write online can potentially be wiped out at the drop of a hat by the ego of an idiot manchild billionaire. as a child, I wore a watch, but like most of my generation, I stopped when cellphones started telling us the time and they became redundant. now, my son wears a smartwatch so we can call him home from playing in the neighbourhood park, and there's a tanline on his wrist ike the one I haven't had since the age of fifteen. and I wonder: what will 2030 look like?

#oof #i felt ALL of this #i too have used floppy disks and a dot matrix printer #my first car could play tapes and CDs #my current car has neither #i started with a discman and proceeded through a couple iPods and now my phone doesn't even have an audio jack #and I'm STILL salty about that #i remember using a computer that was still orange text on a black screen #though i wonder why orange instead of green #we have lived through multiple tech revolutions and we'll see more still #millennials #gpoy #technology

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Oh, I looked this up just now because that's wild - "industrial cooperative," translated too literally as "work together".

And this is a perfect example of why translation is WAY more complicated than just looking words up in a language dictionary and using the first definition it lists!

When people get a little too gung-ho about-

wait. cancel post. gung-ho cannot be English. where did that phrase come from? China?

ok, yes. gōnghé, which is…an abbreviation for “industrial cooperative”? Like it was just a term for a worker-run organization? A specific U.S. marine stationed in China interpreted it as a motivational slogan about teamwork, and as a commander he got his whole battalion using it, and other U.S. marines found those guys so exhausting that it migrated into English slang with the meaning “overly enthusiastic”.

That’s…wild. What was I talking about?

#this post sounds like something I would post #language #etymology #reference #translation

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#pffft #humor #favorite #advice

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By Don Mexlar

#poetry #don mexlar

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Homage To My Hips by African-American poet Lucille Clifton (1936-2010) … Mrs. Clifton was Maryland’s Poet Laureate and twice the Pulitzer Prize finalist for poetry.

#this is lovely #body positivity #feminism #poetry #lucille clifton

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#oh #poetry #favorite

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a medicinal herb!

I just finished the lord of the rings movies and I almost forgot how much i love that world <3 elves and dwarves are so cute help. i love how legolas and gimli went on adventures together after the war like how adorable is that like honestly

#cute #fanart #lord of the rings #legolas #gimli

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Imagine going on a cross country trip to share the (mildly embarrassing) news with an adjacent king that your guards lost a prisoner, but when you get there- there’s actually a huge crowd of people who all get called into a massive Super Important Meeting. And the prisoner (who you thought wasn’t like That Big of a deal) gets brought up, and everyone’s talking about how great your kingdoms security is, and how important it is that he’s locked up, and you’re just sitting there sweating buckets. And you have to stand up in front of Everybody and tell them ‘actually he escaped and had been gone for months’. While everyone looks at you with the most disappointed faces you’ve ever seen. What a loser.

And Then you have to go on an even Longer trip with all of these people who’s first impression of you was some cringefail sweaty loser who can’t even keep track of one (1) guy.

No wonder Legolas was showing off every chance he got, he was trying to bring his reputation up from like -100

#i still wish they had that snow scene in the movies #it made me love legolas #lord of the rings #legolas #humor

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#0300, #0301

Skitty, Delcatty

#oh i love these #skitty #delcatty #Pokémon #fanart #favorite

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bronzong for @robotjuice, snom for @ophanimon and galarian ziggy for @oculae :) thank you for commissioning me!

#LOVE the zigzagoon buddy #fanart #Pokémon #bronzong #snom #zigzagoon #galarian zigzagoon

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If a worker who isn't the owner says ANYTHING similar to "I'm not really supposed to do this but-" and then does something that helps you, under no circumstances inform the business, including through reviews. You tell them that the worker was polite, professional, the very model of customer service and why you like to go there. You do not breathe a word of the rulebreaking.

#it irritates me that this has to be said

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#... amazing #humor #language

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Oh my god. I screencapped the EXACT same moment and sent it to my roommates:

If i knew nothing about warframe and you showed me this and told me to guess which one was the CEO i would guess wrong

#love these dorks #warframe #digital extremes #Rebecca Ford #Steve Sinclair

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Bakura Chart 9.0: yami bakura derives joy from my misery. 100 colors.

im actually about to lose my mind why does this keep happening i was so convinced i was finally done but no. i feel like god is mocking me. what was meant to be just a silly little comparison while i was bored literally once has spiralled out of control. what is wrong with this little white-haired freak. not even the merch stays consistent. i hope he explodes and fucking dies. i hope the boiled one gets him. i hope the locust gets him. i need to run him over with a steamroller i cant do this anymore. him and his fuckass colored eye contacts are the bane of my existence. the agony this chart brings me is indescribable and insurmountable. we've reached 100 colors i might actually just combust and die.

theres just no need theres absolutely no need for all these colors. i could stop, sure, but then there'd be colors people don't know about. i keep pressing on despite my hatred for this chart. this is just my legacy now i dont even fucking know anymore. ill just be bakura eye chart guy for the rest of my days.

also people keep reblogging versions 1 + 3 and occasionally 5 and honest to god it feels like this

i dont know how to feel about this anymore. mostly its just "wow. you guys havent seen anything yet." i wish i could go back to like whenever i started making this stupid fucking chart just to shoot myself before it got to this point. is this how frankenstein felt upon releasing his monster to the world. how pandora felt upon opening the box. neither old age nor sickness will be what takes me, bakura eye chart will be the thing that kills me. i hate this fluffy white anime boy in ways words cant describe

color count for ver 9.0: 100. one fucking hundred. i can't say anything anymore

#on the one hand: this is fucking hilarious #on the other: there are a LOT of reference pics here that I don't recognize #and this BOTHERS ME #I want to know what all this merch/official art is and where it came from #reference #yugioh #Bakura #Ryou Bakura #Yami Bakura #Thief Bakura

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#i both love and hate this #the last line broke my brain way too much for a dumb meme #humor #memes