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favorite genre of music lately has been blue collar man in the big city driving his shitty car to his hard but honest job with a contemplative look in his eyes and he’s so tired but the people he works with are like family to him
god bless david byrne’s solo albums
#david byrne#talking heads#wilco#music#web weaving#listen to one fine day by david byrne i’m begging you#the bear#art#booklr#books#movies#chicago#grown backwards#sufjan stevens#everything that happens will happen today#oh sufjan we're really in it now
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It was 20 years ago today: David Byrne's Nonesuch debut album, Grown Backwards, was released. Five years ago, the album was first released on vinyl, in a two-LP set of the original album plus six additional tracks, including a duet with Caetano Veloso on their song "Dreamworld." You can hear it and get it on vinyl here.
"It fits alongside the best of his career ... In 20 years, as we straighten our faces with botulism, braces, and stem cells, the album will stand up." —Pitchfork, 2004
#david byrne#grown backwards#caetano veloso#vinyl#rufus wainwright#nonesuch#nonesuch records#20 years ago#Youtube
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"the problem is men, not trans women!"
ok but what is a man? what is it about this group of people that makes them a problem? is it the identity of 'man' that's the problem? and if all men stopped identifying as men would the problem go away?
#self-id is rotting your brains#this also reminds me of the posts i used to see like 'i hate ALL men and YES that includes trans men!!" like lmao#what the hell are y'all even on about#breaking your backs bending over backwards to validate grown ass men as 'women'#and throwing actual women (afabs) into the oppressor class to keep the “logic” consistent. how embarrassing!#gender lunacy#self-id#radsplain.txt
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personal/professional anecdote related to my last reblog:
I remember when I was first starting out in my masters program back in 2014 and approached my advisor with my thoughts about how to affordably approach digital preservation of records, I received the most skeptical and condescending of responses, and it took the wind right out of my sails for the next two years.
my advisor: how interesting, can you demonstrate how this would work
me: well, no, but I can show you the website of a distributed digital preservation network in my home state that spreads the costs of maintaining the network across all participating member institutions, which lowers the barriers of access to small community archives and libraries
him: cool, can you bring up the website now?
me, getting out a pen and a notepad: no, I don't have a laptop, but I can write down the URL for you--
him, cutting me off: you don't have a laptop? you've enroled in a masters program here at [prestigious canadian university] and you don't have a laptop? you are going to struggle in my courses. you'll struggle in the whole program.
me, totally thrown off-balance and humiliated but trying not to show it: um, I have a desktop computer at my apartment. the graduate studies office said we could rent laptops from the faculty for completing coursework, and I've always taken my notes by hand--
him: if you are serious about this field, you really need to get a laptop.
me, wondering what any of this has to do with my ideas: I can't afford a laptop.
him, smiling and shrugging his shoulders: (:
it really bears mentioning that this guy's background and CV were why I applied to this program, put myself nearly $70K into student loan debt, and moved myself literally a cross a continent in the first place. (don't fret about the money; I have nearly paid it all off by now, but the me of 2014 certainly had no way of knowing that was going to happen.)
I just remember sitting across from this titan in the field while he smiled at me with this expression of pleasant condescension on his face, and I remember trying desperately to understand why my inability to be able to afford a laptop as new immigrant graduate student with barely enough money in the bank to buy groceries or cat food or make that month's rent had any bearing on the value of my ideas. (ideas which were, you'll note, about how to make digital preservation work when you don't have any fucking money.) what I can't remember is how I ended the conversation; I just know that I went home and shamefully begged my dad for help buying a laptop that neither of us could really afford to spend money on at the time.
it's been nearly ten years since I had that conversation with my advisor, and I am now what just about anyone would consider 'professionally successful' in my field, but that field is not digital preservation. because I was so shamed by this conversation, and I so completely internalized my advisor's attitude that my inability to afford this one piece of technology meant I was not 'serious' about the field. which is stupid, and I have the experience and self-confidence and success to my name now to know just how stupid that is.
anyway if I bump into him at an alumni reunion sometime, I think I'll tell him exactly how much his words undermined my self-confidence and changed my professional trajectory, and politely ask him to never say that to another poor, first year graduate student ever again.
#ray.txt#there's a lot I don't like about being in my 30s (all the aches and pains and not being able to turn my head all the way to the left)#but I love knowing who I am and what I'm capable of#and I will bend over backwards to help lift up other nervous young 20-something professionals#so that when they inevitably encounter a professor who has grown way too arrogant cloistered away in his ivory tower like this#they can bounce back from this bullshit
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Sometimes, often even, I wish I could channel who I was in highschool for short durations. Like *yes* I was that person because I spent literally all my waking hours afraid and believing the world to operate in ways that it didn't and doesn't- but because of those things I had *very* good perception and also a calm confidence that was contagious. I would like my hypervigilant powers of observation and paladin aura of courage back.
#It feels backwards. Like#oh i feel safe around you? I've grown as a person and learned more about the world around me?#Let me reward that by being heretofore unseen amounts of an insensitive jerk in your presence#with no reassuring words or answers to be had#personal#unfortunately so far the confident reassuring answers i've found are wrong#and i haven't found a workaround for inducing temporary hypervigilance other than occasionally channeling social anxiety into it#things i may regret posting
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black women who support other black women’s abusers are so nasty. we pretty much only have each other in this world and your dusty ass is sat in a courtroom crying over tory lanez or r kelly or whoever it may be? those men DGAF about you and they would hurt you too given the opportunity. stand the fuck up
#it’s so wrong and backwards and you have nothing to gain from it#grown ass women looking stupid on purpose#and for why?#megan thee stallion#tory lanez#r kelly#chris brown#wayyyy too many other people i could list#mine
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oh, now I remember why I stopped reading d.gray-man at volume 14.
EDIT; Actually, I'm going to elaborate on this, feel free to revoke your likes if you disagree.
D.gray-man fan "theories", especially the ones popular on the subreddit, drive me up the wall, some of them are in direct contradiction to the themes of the series, or came about because people only read fan translations/don't even read the official properly (here I acknowledge that Viz isn't helping by translating the names shittily, and yes I mean travesties like "Waiizurii".)
The most egregious one being the "Allen is a grown adult who got de-aged" thing, because literally the only persons word we have to go on is Nea's, and the fact that like 90% of the fandom choose to believe him is absolutely insane. Is it because he's popular for some odd reason? That's weird to me because, as a Sheril stan, I wouldn't believe a goddamn word Sheril says. Why do Nea's fans believe him?
Next, while at first I was skeptical of the idea, I now really really really hope Grave Of Maria actually IS Katerina Eve Campbell, because I hate "Road is Katerina" even more as a plot point.
And speaking of Road, I will be livid if "Road isn't a physical entity as we see her, but a dream being projected by someone sleeping somewhere" actually comes true. Road has done WAY TOO MUCH in the plot to not be a 100% real physical entity of her own, from the eye stabbing to the kissing to the action rescue, and her interactions with the other Noah, I will literally be so fucking angry about this one.
Anyway, sorry for tacking this onto an existing post, I didn't want to clutter the tags. Please react as you see fit!
#i love Hoshino dearly#But my favorite characters just straight up disappear#miranda lotto#arystar krory#sheril kamelot#and the fandom literally doesn't give a shit about them#every time I see someone say there's only a “main 4”#or main 5 with link#I go completely berserk#there's 6 main characters and i don't care who disagrees#and I'm still livid that people think Allen is a grown man who aged backwards#d.gray-man#d.gray man hallow#dgm#dgm theories#fan theories
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One & Only Bangkok Road Show - Part 1
Wang YiBo — Official Photo Shoot and Event Stills
(See Part 2)
(See Changsha) (See Hangzhou) (See Beijing) (See YueYang)
Bonus — One of Wang YiBo’s heroes, Thai star Tony Jaa:
2015 DD posing with Tony’s wax figure, and 2023 Tony asking for a selfie
Source: 无尽夏·博君一肖 // Destiny丨博君一肖 // 周末限定·0805x1005 // BX7268 // YBO
(See Part 2)
#THE TROUSERS#I love him your honor#How is this man full grown?#Please explain how he is AGING BACKWARD#every moment there is a smile on wang yibo’s face this timeline incrementally repairs itself#I’m so fucking proud of him#One and only movie#bangkok road show#Dancer wang yibo#actor wang yibo#Wang yibo
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Y’all ever see such a horrendous take you start rolling up your sleeves to write your magnum opus and then you realize OP is 17.
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new invention idea. apple sauce squeeze tube
#are you tired of bending over backwards tryingto get the apple sauce to sludge down into your mouth?#try new squeeze tube technology. it's like baby food for your grown up apple sauce needs
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oh my god i wanna puke. my boss just texted me, he’s inviting everyone to a going away party for my coworker, probably the one i get on with the best, who is the most like *my peer* who i try so hard to be normal and sociable with. i didn’t even know she was leaving for good, i can’t do such a last minute thing, my autism assessment with the psychiatrist is the day after that and then im going away for multiple days without my family to help me and i need so much time to prepare OH MY GOD i can’t do any of these things. at least i don’t think i can do this stupid dinner but i just feel so awful about it somehow. she’s literally not even my peer she’s seventeen she won’t remember me in a year so why do i CARE. it’s also the first opportunity to bond with my coworkers I’ve gotten which i have been saying i wanted, becuz i cannot make enough small talk when i’m working like everyone else to become as friendly as i’d like to be with them all. i’m just catastrophizing this all but like. grrrrr. i wish i was normal. i want them to like and respect me so bad and i know that saying yes and going to this dinner will abet in that. but also if i did go, what if i’m insufferably awkward and awful and unlikable, strange, off-putting. stupid and annoying and too confusing or muddled or dull to bother with. why must everything happen all at once. why is it that everyone wants to go out to restaurants to socialise. it’s literally horrible.
#just a small tantrum that’s all#i just feel so DIFFERENT to everyone else. why is this happening to me now. i swear it never used to be this bad.#i don’t understand how i used to cope. how did i have better social skills as a toddler than as a twenty two year old#or even as a teenager. literally i feel like i’m going backwards like i was born a whole grown lived person and now i’m shrinking#how is it possible to go so steadily downhill all your life. so steady no one around you really seems to notice. or care.#i’m just so endlessly disappointed in my self 😿 all the time
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watching kakkegurui twin followed immediatly by cyberpunk edgerunners was so bonkers, like i watch an incredibly visceral unique sexy gory no bars hold depressing commentary on capitalism that still manages to be fun anime of ever, but before i could do that, i sat through an anime that failed to make me feel a single emotion
#maybe ive just grown out of kakkegurui now that i kno my tastes abit better and have a lot more anime under my belt#but still its. like. backwards impressive that i didnt feel a single thing. the show emded and i was just like. yup. i sure watched that.#rambling
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aight peace out y'all I have no energy left and I'm done the movie. So much for a restful experience after a long day. All I wanted was something fun to watch while folding laundry but apparently this was not the movie to watch for that. I should've just stuck with Rebels
#i kept going out of sheer rage and it is now half past two so i DO need to hit the hay xD#tomorrow i shall wake up and regret losing my temper so many times#but i take comfort i knowing that the level of vitriol expressed in these posts comes nowhere near kylo ren's level of RAAAAAAGE#i get scared quite easily irl even by sudden noises and movements but i think my body's stress reactions and impulses have adapted#to kylo ren's screams of fury. to the point where if a grown man were to kick up such a fuss in my face now i'd be as cool as a cucumber#contemptuous even#i was TERRIFIED of kylo for half the film and spent the other half so angry and indignant on behalf of the people he yelled at#i don't know if i can handle the last movie this one was unlike any viewing experience i've had in a while#i have been spoiled for many things so yes i know that there is Redemption yes i know there is Good Stuff i know there is Good in kylo#yes i know there's as much fluff pointless meandering and terrible lines in the next one as there was in this one#but life is short and this movie just took 2.5 hours out of my life so i Think Not#and i Know that y'all who watched tros and loved it (at least loved the ben/rey parts of it) love ben too#however i haven't the energy to endure another 2.5+ hour star wars movie without any of the original stuff's magic and wonder and fun#and the tlj kylo ren literally ticks all the boxes on my Men You Ought To Avoid At All Costs list#ticks 'em twice crosses out the lines and scribbles all over it in a sudden wild frenzy of fear apprehension and reproach#characterization is all over the place the plot is like riding a dollar store plastic toboggan down mt olympus backwards blindfolded#and handcuffed to a rabid horse's hind leg#tlj liveblog
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Wear a mask 😷
#me#my face#wlw#lesbian#queer#LGBT#nb#andro#my hair is a grown out mess and currently hiding it under a backwards cap#it was hotter than expected so i had to walk around the city with my guns out for a bit#i noticed a few eyes on me which was weird#i feel more comfy in baggy clothes#wear a mask
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