therotund:

excentricyoruba:

moniquill:

muertosvivientes:

Oh my, I can’t even begin to explain how much I want this machine. 

Singer: Has realized that steampunks exist and that it’s an extensively DIY culture.

Want

Ooooooooooooh.

**drools**

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I take a stand against fat hating weight discrimination messages aimed at kids and resulting in nothing but bullying and unhappiness. Thanks to such messages (that are pervasive in our society, not just on billboards in Georgia, USA) I have disliked sports and exercise (with the exception of cycling, which I however regarded as transport) all my life. Now I practice HAES, I have discovered Nordic Walking and will take part in my first event for that next April. Imagine that — little fat 45-year-old me, taking part in an official charity walk, being fat and fit and cheerful with my Nordic Walking sticks! I’m already training up for that (the distance is no problem, but I’d like to get a bit faster) and will not be deterred. That’s why my stand, when I finally found what I wanted to say, is about taking joy in movement, and that is why I pose with my Nordic Walking sticks.- stand4kids.tumblr.com

I take a stand against fat hating weight discrimination messages aimed at kids and resulting in nothing but bullying and unhappiness. Thanks to such messages (that are pervasive in our society, not just on billboards in Georgia, USA) I have disliked sports and exercise (with the exception of cycling, which I however regarded as transport) all my life. Now I practice HAES, I have discovered Nordic Walking and will take part in my first event for that next April. Imagine that — little fat 45-year-old me, taking part in an official charity walk, being fat and fit and cheerful with my Nordic Walking sticks! I’m already training up for that (the distance is no problem, but I’d like to get a bit faster) and will not be deterred.

That’s why my stand, when I finally found what I wanted to say, is about taking joy in movement, and that is why I pose with my Nordic Walking sticks.-

stand4kids.tumblr.com

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red3blog: I am the 95% of dieters who regain the weight. I didn’t try to be part of the 95%. When I gained weight in college, I was struggling with accepting my changing body but also knew that dieting wasn’t an answer. But then one summer I got very ill with a drug-resistant Strep infection and was basically on an extreme diet for 4-6 weeks when I could barely keep down food. After putting on about 50 lbs over a year, I lost it all in a month. When I recovered, though, the weight came right back on and then some. My weight stabilized after about a year and remained fairly stable for the next decade with a natural fluctuation of about 15 lbs up and down. There is an old saying in Fat Acceptance that losing weight is as easy as holding your breath. Keeping it off is as easy as continuing to hold your breath. Dieting has breed a myth of its success off the fact that its not hard to induce weight loss. This period of “success” is what convinces dieters that its their fault when the diet fails. The truth is that the diet failed and was always going to fail. When I did might sound extreme, but its actually tame compared to some commercial diet plans. Even the most pseudo-reasonable “lifestyle change” relies on a fundamentally unsustainable formula. Sooner or later, we need to breathe. The diet industry, though, thrives on sustainability. Every time a diet fails, that’s just a new customer. More billions to make off of peddling fat stigmatization. I am the 95%. I did not fail. A culture of fat shame and fat hate has failed me. I put this on Pinterest, and people there are repinning it for self-hate and thinspiration. I usually don’t stgart discussions with people, but in this case, I’m commenting with the advice to click through to the original article, as they have it all backwards. Seems there is only one way most people can understand the words ‘diet’ and ‘weight’ — diet more, and lose weight regardless. It’s as if the original 99% of Occupy Wall Street were really only aiming to become rich exploiters themselves and join the 1%, instead of more social justice.-

red3blog:

I am the 95% of dieters who regain the weight.

I didn’t try to be part of the 95%. When I gained weight in college, I was struggling with accepting my changing body but also knew that dieting wasn’t an answer. But then one summer I got very ill with a drug-resistant Strep infection and was basically on an extreme diet for 4-6 weeks when I could barely keep down food. After putting on about 50 lbs over a year, I lost it all in a month. When I recovered, though, the weight came right back on and then some. My weight stabilized after about a year and remained fairly stable for the next decade with a natural fluctuation of about 15 lbs up and down.

There is an old saying in Fat Acceptance that losing weight is as easy as holding your breath. Keeping it off is as easy as continuing to hold your breath. Dieting has breed a myth of its success off the fact that its not hard to induce weight loss. This period of “success” is what convinces dieters that its their fault when the diet fails. The truth is that the diet failed and was always going to fail. When I did might sound extreme, but its actually tame compared to some commercial diet plans. Even the most pseudo-reasonable “lifestyle change” relies on a fundamentally unsustainable formula. Sooner or later, we need to breathe. The diet industry, though, thrives on sustainability. Every time a diet fails, that’s just a new customer. More billions to make off of peddling fat stigmatization.

I am the 95%. I did not fail. A culture of fat shame and fat hate has failed me.

I put this on Pinterest, and people there are repinning it for self-hate and thinspiration. I usually don’t stgart discussions with people, but in this case, I’m commenting with the advice to click through to the original article, as they have it all backwards. Seems there is only one way most people can understand the words ‘diet’ and ‘weight’ — diet more, and lose weight regardless. It’s as if the original 99% of Occupy Wall Street were really only aiming to become rich exploiters themselves and join the 1%, instead of more social justice.-

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Reblog if you legally purchased something BECAUSE you saw it on YouTube or downloaded it.

athousanderrors:

watertightvines:

And without the so-called piracy, you would never have discovered or gotten into it to begin with.

Over the past 3 weeks, I’ve bought the boxsets of s3-6 of Supernatural…because I downloaded s1, really enjoyed it, but never got around to dl-ing the rest….illegal downloads have encouraged me to buy half the dvds in my collection, and introduced me to shows I never would have found otherwise.

Half my music collection came that way. Somebody posted, say, one song to a playlist for a theme, and I went all ‘Ooooh shiny’ and bought the album. Or several. Most extreme examples: my extensive ‘Abney Park’ and Emilie Autumn collections, each because of one single YouTube video linked in a Milliways Backroom post to make a point.

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SOPA EMERGENCY LIST.

therotund:

meghanalefae:

aprilstar-dance:

SOPA Emergency IP list:         

So if these ass-fucks in DC decide to 
ruin the internet, here’s how to access your favorite sites
 in the event of a DNS takedown

        tumblr.com 174.121.194.34
        wikipedia.org 208.80.152.201

        # News
        bbc.co.uk 212.58.241.131
        aljazeera.com 198.78.201.252

        # Social media
        reddit.com 72.247.244.88
        imgur.com 173.231.140.219
        google.com 74.125.157.99
        youtube.com 74.125.65.91
        yahoo.com 98.137.149.56
        hotmail.com 65.55.72.135
        bing.com 65.55.175.254
        digg.com 64.191.203.30
        theonion.com 97.107.137.164
        hush.com 65.39.178.43
        gamespot.com 216.239.113.172
        ign.com 69.10.25.46
        cracked.com 98.124.248.77
        sidereel.com 144.198.29.112
        github.com 207.97.227.239

        # Torrent sites
        thepiratebay.org 194.71.107.15
        mininova.com 80.94.76.5
        btjunkie.com 93.158.65.211
        demonoid.com 62.149.24.66
        demonoid.me 62.149.24.67

        # Social networking
        facebook.com 69.171.224.11
        twitter.com 199.59.149.230
        tumblr.com 174.121.194.34
        livejournal.com  209.200.154.225
        dreamwidth.org  69.174.244.50

        # Live Streaming Content
        stickam.com 67.201.54.151
        blogtv.com 84.22.170.149
        justin.tv 199.9.249.21
        chatroulette.com 184.173.141.231
        omegle.com 97.107.132.144
        own3d.tv 208.94.146.80 
        megavideo.com 174.140.154.32

        # Television
        gorillavid.com 178.17.165.74
        videoweed.com 91.220.176.248
        novamov.com 91.220.176.248
        tvlinks.com 208.223.219.206
        1channel.com 208.87.33.151

        # Shopping
        amazon.com 72.21.211.176
        newegg.com 216.52.208.187
        frys.com 209.31.22.39

        # File Sharing
        mediafire.com 205.196.120.13
        megaupload.com 174.140.154.20
        fileshare.com 208.87.33.151
        multiupload.com 95.211.149.7
        uploading.com 195.191.207.40
        warez-bb.org 31.7.57.13
        hotfile.com 199.7.177.218
        gamespy.com 69.10.25.46
        what.cd 67.21.232.223
        warez.ag 178.162.238.136
        putlocker.com 89.238.130.247
        uploaded.to 95.211.143.200
        dropbox.com 199.47.217.179
        pastebin.com 69.65.13.216


Here’s a tip for the do-it-yourself crowd: 
Go to your computer’s Start menu, and either go to
 “run” or just search for “cmd.” 
Open it up, and type in “ping [website address],” 


Once you have the IP for a website, all you really 
need to do is enter it like you would 
a normal URL nd hit enter/press go. Typing in
 “208.85.240.231” 
should bring you to the front page of AO3,
 for example, just as typing “174.121.194.34/dashboard” 
should bring you straight to your Tumblr dashboard. 
Since we’re obviously bracing for the worst case scenario 
which would involve you not being 
able to access the internet regularly, you should,
 save this list.

Dear Tumblr-ers, -ites, ettes, and whatever other things you may prefer,

Please reblog the crap out of this. Add to it if you feel there is stuff necessary but missing.

P.S. Thank you to the lovely who wrote this up.

C prompt

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getoutoftherecat: get off of there already cat! you are not an ornament and the tv is not a radiator to warm your behind in a cold night. wait until I finally get around to buying myself a flat screen one and then try sitting on that! you’re on borrowed time there with your favorite perch cat! And Mephi by himself, taken with my new camera (which is neither new nor mine), without a flash — you can see his eyes, and me mirrored on the TV screen!

getoutoftherecat:

get off of there already cat! you are not an ornament and the tv is not a radiator to warm your behind in a cold night. wait until I finally get around to buying myself a flat screen one and then try sitting on that! you’re on borrowed time there with your favorite perch cat!

And Mephi by himself, taken with my new camera (which is neither new nor mine), without a flash — you can see his eyes, and me mirrored on the TV screen!

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It’s very windy today, but I am snug and warm inside, with a vanilla soy latte…

It’s very windy today, but I am snug and warm inside, with a vanilla soy latte…

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WTF???

Tumblr just kind of forced me to uninstall Missing-E.

Scale up, people, don’t force your users to scale down! Tumblr is so big, it should be able to handle those requests.

Well, bleargh.-

getoutoftherecat: get off of there cats. that’s a slightly old-fashioned tv not a cat stand. anywayproper couch potatoes park their butts IN FRONT of the tv not ON IT so you got it all wrong. and aren’t you glad i didn’t update to a sleek flatscreen yet? try sitting on that! The flatscreen is already on order at the River — will just take a while, and then their TV sitting days are over. Also, I have a better camera at my disposal now. Still, my cats on a busy and popular cat picture aggregator AGAIN — I like that!

getoutoftherecat:

get off of there cats. that’s a slightly old-fashioned tv not a cat stand. anywayproper couch potatoes park their butts IN FRONT of the tv not ON IT so you got it all wrong. and aren’t you glad i didn’t update to a sleek flatscreen yet? try sitting on that!

The flatscreen is already on order at the River — will just take a while, and then their TV sitting days are over. Also, I have a better camera at my disposal now.

Still, my cats on a busy and popular cat picture aggregator AGAIN — I like that!

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HAES is all around you… After all that Christmas, and the two ducks (instead of one goose, as is traditional in Germany — my family prefers duck) and all the cookies and giggling around with the kids, I went for a long walk with my Nordic Walking sticks (and my mum) yesterday — here is me with my sportsy sticks, at the very far end. Before that, I gave my mum the HAES talk. It went surprisingly well. She’s the keeper of the records in our family, and she remembered about a fat great-grand-aunt of mine, of which she’ll find me pictures before I go home. So, she easily understood how being fat is part of your genes (as we can clearly say who in our family has those genes for deathfattie-ness, starting with that aunt), and the rest just followed. Up next: swimming, and shopping at the Ulla Popken factory outlet!

HAES is all around you…

After all that Christmas, and the two ducks (instead of one goose, as is traditional in Germany — my family prefers duck) and all the cookies and giggling around with the kids, I went for a long walk with my Nordic Walking sticks (and my mum) yesterday — here is me with my sportsy sticks, at the very far end.

Before that, I gave my mum the HAES talk. It went surprisingly well. She’s the keeper of the records in our family, and she remembered about a fat great-grand-aunt of mine, of which she’ll find me pictures before I go home. So, she easily understood how being fat is part of your genes (as we can clearly say who in our family has those genes for deathfattie-ness, starting with that aunt), and the rest just followed.

Up next: swimming, and shopping at the Ulla Popken factory outlet!