Author: lebelinoria

kramergate:

kramergate:

not to get mad nerdy but I just discovered tabletopaudio.com and I’m fuckin losing it

this person (people?) goes about making 10 minute long loopable ambient noise tracks for every imaginable setting (docks, taverns, forests, airships, spaceships, office buildings, sewers, EVERYTHING) and has over a hundred tracks to offer, and on top of that if none of them suit you there’s a huge feature called soundpad where you can mix and match from their set of hundreds of individual sound effects and music clips to make your own ambient background track

holy shit dudes

I did a little further reading on his about and the guy running this is just a dad with two kids who like playing tabletops with him and he had the composition and musical training to start making soundtracks for his games then decided to spread that to the world for absolutely free, he even welcomes you to use his tracks in your works (podcasts, videos etc) and is open to being hired for custom tracks

I love him

iamthedukeofurl:

captainpeggy:

egobuzz:

egobuzz:

canada’s pride and joy is a

doughnut shop named after and founded by a hockey player in the 1960s 

for all you non-canadian’s who think I’m exaggerating: 

  • “Tim Hortons holds 62% of the Canadian coffee market (compared to Starbucks, in the number two position, at 7%) 
  • “Canadians eat more doughnuts per capita and have more doughnut outlets per capita than any other nation“ 
  • “The company [Tim Hortons] opened twice as many Canadian outlets as McDonald’s and system-wide sales also surpassed those of McDonald’s Canadian operations as of 2002”
  • “The chain accounted for 22.6% of all fast food industry revenues in Canada in 2005.”

there is more to this story and it actually gets better

tim horton the hockey player’s signature move was literally picking opposing players up and hugging them. the guy was like 6′5 on skates, built like a tank, would have come out on top in every hockey fight except that he absolutely refused to punch. someone would hit him and he’d just pick them up in a giant, angry bear hug. 

this one time he broke his jaw and leg in a collision and was off the ice for years, and this freaked him tf out, because dude bro do i like…….have value behind all this muscle? what if this like……happens again, bro? what if i can’t play hockey, bro? huh? bro. basically he broke his face and had an existential crisis. happens to the best of us.

so he started a donut shop because he figured he’d need something to do when the next injury rolled around, seeing as oblivion lurks around every corner and none of us have a purpose. he started it in hamilton, ontario. coffee was ten cents. 

anyways, when his face got better, he invited a police officer to come run his company so he could go play more hockey. which he did.

so: canada’s pride and joy is a donut shop named after and founded by a touch-starved hockey player in the midst of an existential crisis, that was later run by a cop when the aforementioned hockey player left to play more hockey, that then somehow ate up 62% of the canadian coffee biz. god bless.

A hockey player who hugs his way out of fights is perhaps the most Canadian thing I can imagine. 

gay-jesus-probably:

sonnetscrewdriver:

mollmaeve:

if you ever feel left out just remember that you weren’t the fifth gryffindor guy in the marauders’ dormitory

I don’t know if the timeline works even a little bit but my headcanon was always that that fifth dude was Kingsley Shacklebolt and that he immediately made a conscious decision to stay the hell away from whatever those four idiots were up to and everyone was like “Yeah, good kid, studies hard, probably gonna be Minister one day if he manages to last his entire school career without committing four murders”.

Kingley Shacklebolt is probably the best roommate ever. The reason he never gets mentioned as the fifth is because he doesn’t ask questions. The other five start disappearing all night every full moon during fifth year? He doesn’t care and doesn’t want to know. Walked in to find Sirius talking to a fucking deer in the dorm like it was James? Just keep moving and don’t make eye contact. James, Sirius and Peter leaving shit all over the floor? Combine forces with Remus to politely yet firmly remind them that we’re not living in a goddamn barn and your dirty underwear shouldn’t spend three weeks straight on the floor James.

Kingsley was, naturally, invited to the Potter-Evans wedding. The invitation was accompanied with a formal apology for the Everything, signed by the Marauders. Enclosed was a little trophy, with the plaque reading ‘best roomie ever’

It may or may not permanently live on his mantle. Kingsley Shacklebolt does not inform Harry Potter of any of this. He has enough people that knew his parents, Kingsley’s not going to make it weird. Keep moving and don’t make eye contact. Besides, he already gave copies of all his pictures of them to Hagrid to go into a photo album for Harry back in first year.

jumpingjacktrash:

c2ndy2c1d:

rjdrawsstuff:

A bunch of Samurai Jack/Johnny Bravo commissions for @c2ndy2c1d. She wanted to help me out with my crumbling financial situation and these were fun to do for her. Excuse me for the Predator and 13 Assassins reference.

WHUUUUUTTTTT OMFGGGGG HTIS AHHHHH 8 A 8 they’re so beautiful!!!! I really love how you drew Johnny! It’s perfect!

Yes please! If you have a burning commission you’ve been wanting to be drawn for you, he’s definitely your guy! He’s in a rough patch right now so go support him!

i… love this?

thebibliosphere:

lizardtitties:

withasmoothroundstone:

robstmartin:

titleknown:

Blogging this tweet because this explains SO MUCH about the mindset of pretty much all the folks I’ve known who’re against single-payer, it’s not even funny…

This….

This never occurred to me. Not once. That Americans are against Health Care because they think it actually costs tens of thousands of dollars for a broken arm, hundreds of thousands for a complicated birth, millions for cancer treatment.

Because they’ve never known anything different. The idea that a broken arm is only a couple hundred bucks; a complicated birth a couple thousand; cancer treatment only tens of thousands; all easily covered by existing tax structures.

This explains a lot.  And it’s a good example of what I was talking about in my post on scarcity being used to prop up ableism – always question the idea that a resource is genuinely scarce.  Even if it seems obvious that it is, quite often that’s the result of careful manipulation and misconceptions that you’re not even aware of.  

And never think you’re too smart to be fooled by that kind of thing, it doesn’t work like that.  Similarly, don’t think people who are fooled by something are stupid.  Nobody can have all the information about everything, and nobody has the time and energy to investigate and put together conscious conclusions about every piece of information they’re given.  It doesn’t take being stupid, or even just gullible, to believe something like this.

I currently live in a country without free medical care and still, it’s enormously cheap compared to the USA. An American expat wrote a piece for our English language paper about how she paid more for parking at the hospital than giving birth to her baby that’s pretty interesting:

https://grapevine.is/mag/articles/2016/01/06/healthcare-in-iceland-vs-the-us-weve-got-it-so-good/

Yesterday I had to go to the hospital cause I injured my eye, I’m frankly dreading what the bill is going to be, but what made me balk was being told in the pharmacy that my insurance was denied for the antibiotic eye drops and it’d be over $100 out of pocket. So I didn’t get my eyedrops.

I’ve had these same drops before living in the UK. They cost me seven GBP.

It’s the exact same drug, same steroid, same strain of antibiotic. But somehow the US gets away with charging $100 for a generic non brand version of a drug which is easy to create and widely used. It’s downright robbery, but also a form of eugenics through poverty and class warfare. You keep the poor poor by making sure basic necessities remain unattainable and then you make it seem like the norm so no one fights it.

The rest of the world is not like this.

Eat the rich. Resist.

Hi this is probably pretty random, but how did you know you wanted to go into welding? I’ve been looking a little into more hands-on careers like that lately (i am very unsure about pursuing academia like my parents want) but I’ve never done it before so idk. Do places have like open houses for stuff like that? Or info sessions?

roachpatrol:

roachpatrol:

oh my god DO NOT GO INTO ACADEMIA IF YOU ARE AT ALL UNCERTAIN ABOUT IT, holy shit. holllllly shit. red alert, do not pass go, do not feed the animals, do not do not do this. cannot stress enough how bad an idea that is. especially if you’re american. 

people who benefit from academia are passionate, driven, and totally in love with their subject: psychology, history, biology, whatever. academia is emotionally and physically destructive: in any field, you are required to pour an absolute fuckton of time, energy, dedication, and MONEY into your education. you will be required to live an extremely unhealthy, high-stress lifestyle. at the end of it, you’re going to be scraping desperately for a job that probably won’t pay you enough to live comfortably for years, if ever. tenured positions are disappearing, unpaid internships continue to proliferate, etc etc. sexism, racism, and classism is still rampant. 

do not go into academia unless you love something so much you are willing to sacrifice your financial, emotional, physical, and social well-being for it. a lot of people are, and we as a species are probably better off for it. but jesus fucking christ don’t put yourself through that meat grinder because your parents think you’re too smart for the trades, dude. the days where academia was a fast track to a cushy life were gone forty years ago, and only existed for white dudes, anyway. these days you are looking at a life of constant, crushing stress and poverty. 

welding classes can take four months of training, and are often subsidized or low-cost or free, and you can be making 20-30$ an hour within a year if you’re good. starting pay is 11-15$. some welders make 60$. some welders make hundreds. look for a Women In Trades program, or start calling your local community colleges, or run a search for ‘trade schools’.  look into construction jobs, carpentry, masonry, or CNC operation. a lot of manufacturing and construction jobs are still hiring and still paying a living wage. you can pursue academic interests on your own time, debt free. 

oh also personally i was interested in welding because it’s a hands-on manufacturing discipline i haven’t done before! i’ve done woodworking and ceramics, and cnc operation works with metal but involves programming machines to do the work for you– it’s just the right thing for a lot of people, but i much prefer to get my hands dirty. 

i’ve been thinking, career-wise, about starting with welding, then moving on to carpentry, plumbing, and finally air-conditioning, before ultimately saving the world from the fire nation.