missionlameturtle

nonegenderwithleftbees:

bihet-dragonize:

nutheadgee:

synclaires:

witchythirteen:

Looking at this makes me so tired.

Every year, multiple times a year, they convince ppl to fork out thousands of dollars and….literally nothing changes. There’s no doubt in my mind they’re pocketing most of this money lol

Yep

That’s what’s so wild to me. They’ve made exactly 0 changes other than adding the ‘Exclude’ tags and that def doesn’t take 130k.

You know if any of you actually bothered to click the link it’ll take you to their budget update and break down exactly what the spend the money on, over 70% of which is spent on server expenses, monitoring tools and system licences.

They also spent a good amount of the rest of the 30% budget on significant server overhaul costs. 

AO3 is literally a service you get for free and the audacity you’d have to not bother reading the very open budget plan they have, but to then bitch and whine about people donating to keep the site running is wild. 

https://archiveofourown.org/admin_posts/11192

I firmly believe that mustard is the make-or-break ingredient in potato soup, and I say this as someone who doesn’t even particularly like mustard.

A lot of times humans’ reaction to encountering something scary is to slow down or even stop. Take your time, evaluate, assess the situation and proceed carefully and cautiously. Let’s say you’re out hiking and your path forward is down a steep ravine that’s filled with scree and guarded by boulders at the bottom–you’re probably going to go down the ravine as slowly as you can, watching your step. Or you’re driving down a deserted highway and after turning a corner you see there’s all kind of debris in the middle of the road up ahead–you’re probably going to slow down and try to figure out what’s there and how to get around it. This is a natural reaction and, nine times out of ten, a good one.

It just so happens that my outdoor activity of choice is whitewater rafting. 

You see, unlike hiking, or driving, or rock climbing, there’s another force at work, pushing you forward, when you’re on the water, and as counter-intuitive as it may seem at some point you have to be able to accept a certain level of risk in order to be safe. There’s risk inherent to getting in a boat, there’s risk inherent to deciding to run a rapid. Eventually you reach a point where turning back is impossible and continuing to hesitate will only make things worse. The current is pushing you forward; your chance to turn back has long since passed; but if you don’t act you may well drown. 

This is, I think, a good philosophy, and one I wish I had an easier time applying more broadly to my life in general. You can only get through the rapid if you row hard enough to pull through the hydraulics–refusal to accept the risk and act is more dangerous than throwing caution to the wind–and I am sure I have similarly put myself in worse situations than I needed to be in simply by hesitating for too long. 

People look at me like I’m speaking tongues when I say that accepting a certain level of risk is a necessary part of being safe, but that’s okay. The reminder’s more for me, anyways.

kimbergoat:

verycooltrash:

ceramicshoesforsalecantwear:

the problem with this site is bloggers will call a cask a barrel even if it doesnt hold a volume of one hundred sixty litres

most of you won’t reblog this!!!

hey op I have a cask.. in my basement… can you.. can you come verify the volume of this cask. I plan to put some fancy wine in it. don’t.. don’t ask questions.