when e.e. cummings said “i’ll live my life if it kills me”
when andrea gibson said “i suppose i love this life, in spite of my clenched fist.” & when ellen bass said “to love life, to love it even when you have no stomach for it”
when the mountain goats sang i’m gonna make it through this year if it kills me
Something that I think should be an important part of solarpunk aesthetics is screws.
Look at your smartphone. No screws. You’ve got to have specialized tools to get inside your phone to repair something. There are certain pieces of tech that are glued in place and glue can’t be undone without permanently breaking the bond.
But screws!
You can take apart a broken old radio, repair what’s broken, and, if you were careful in taking it apart, you can put it back together and have a fully functioning radio and all you need is a common screwdriver!
It’s hard to build screws and other mechanical fasteners because it requires more planning than clamps and glues, but isn’t that what solarpunk is all about‽ It’s about care and sustainability and and a radio or a computer built carefully with repair in mind is a sustainable computer that stays out of landfills and in use.
Screws are proof that God loves us and wants us to fix shit
Screws are proof that god loves us and wants us to fix shit
Awesome!
Y'all, I work for a solar battery company. Screws are THE WHOLE POINT. You wanna be able to pop out that thing that’s fucking up and replace it with a new thing, and you know what helps with that??? SCREWS.
Hey yeah in the midst of all the hype and the strikes, can we PLEASE fucking talk about this
“Forgot”
So I looked into this and the source appears to be a Far Out Magazine article which claims Nolan has been accused of omitting VFX artists’ names from the credits of the movie. However, their only source for that claim is a tweet by Hugo Guerra which notes that it’s an unusually small team and appears to only have been compositing work. He does say in a follow-up tweet he hopes everyone was credited for their work but doesn’t make any accusations so as far as I can tell this has actually just been made up by Far Out Magazine.
Why would they do that? I can only speculate but Christopher Nolan has been outspoken in his support for the WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes and trade magazines tend to be aligned with AMPTP so running misleading stories about this type of thing could be an attempt to create division between workers in the industry especially considering VFX artists are attempting to unionise themselves and this could be viewed as an attempt to alienate them from other groups of workers in Hollywood. As for the VFX in Oppenheimer, it’s been an ongoing source of controversy because Nolan’s remarks are being reported in a way which plays into a “practical vs. CGI” narrative but as far as I can tell what he actually said has never been reported. It was actually Collider which reported that in an article where the only direct quote from him was the single word ‘zero’. So I think he’s kind of being set up here to take the blame for a narrative being pushed by these publications. That said, I think he could stand to make a statement about it himself to clear up the confusion.
I hope he does make a statement because Nolan is well-known for practical effects, but he is NOT against VFX, and the reason I did not reblog any earlier stuff I saw about this article was because I hadn’t had time to research myself. But I knew that Nolan said ON THE RED CARPET AT OPPENHEIMER that he has no plans to make another giant movie until the WGA strike was settled (the SAG strike happened during the screening, and the actors walked out).
So, no, I’m not surprised that this seems a bait piece meant to 1) make Nolan see anti-credit and 2) try and draw a divide between a major director and VFX artists.
Because, you see, the animators are unionizing. And that’s fucking scary to the studios because if the animators unionize, the VFX artists can’t be far behind (as of the time I write this, the VFX industry does not appear to have taken steps to unionize). But if they plant a few stories about how a big name director doesn’t respect VFX artists, perhaps they can turn the workers against each other.
And if VFX DOESN’T unionize, the studios still have a way around paying union workers to work union hours on union shoots. And that’s to abuse the fuck out of VFX artists.
we need to make mainstream horror inhospitable for children again can we PLEASE get more gore and titties back in horror im so sick of blumhouse pg13 horror
SEE X
IT’S NOT JUST GORE AND TITTIES IT’S GORE AND TITTIES WHILE PEOPLE FILM A PORNO ON A FARM OF THE OLDEST COUPLE IN THE WORLD IN 1979.
IT IS SO FUCKING GOOD BUT ALSO TITS AND GORE
Mrs. Taylor: Can’t have a birthday without gifts. ::hands Shauna a gift on Jackie’s birthday::
This is what happens when management is terrified of another strike. They saw the collective action happening around the country and the fear that it could happen to them brought them to the table open to making this incredibly lucrative offer.
Make no mistake: UPS didn’t do this because they woke up last week and suddenly discovered human decency and a burning desire to be fair. They did this because they are terrified of a strike.
The symptoms to look out for are fever, rash, headache, body aches, swollen lymph nodes, general GI symptoms and a crusty nasty looking area around the bite. Not all of these symptoms may be present but if you were bitten by a chigger in North Carolina and you don’t feel well, go to the doctor. Antibiotics can clear it right up but if left untreated, the fatality rate can be 40% for some strains.
Here’s a map of the places tested and the places where chiggers were found to be infected:
(Also, because I saw this in the notes, typhoid and typhus are radically different diseases. Typhoid is caused by salmonella and usually transferred through contaminated food and water while typhus is caused by several different bacteria and typically transferred by insect bite.)
Are you fucking kidding me
Warning for non North Carolinians. Stay off North Carolina beaches!
The beaches are the only part of the state that seems safe LMFAO
i have naturally acidic sweat. it’s a family thing
we have already. They don’t know exactly what is up with it, other than the sweat being slightly more acidic than normal and the acidic mantle being thicker and Way more acidic than normal, but it doesn’t seem to have anything to do with acidosis. As far as we have tested, our family has had this since at least my great grandpa, and the guy lived to be 93 years old.
What the fuck.
op is a xenomorph descendant from that one time ripley fucked the queen
This is very funny, and I want to note this can also happen in your mouth! I have acidic spit in the same way. It actually keeps tarter build up way down, but it’s also not the greatest for your teeth, so I brush with pure baking soda to help slowly turn it around.
I'm here. I'm queer. My gender is unclear. Bisexual enby. They/Them. Erotica, smut, and porn depending on one's definition. Not a minor by a long shot. If your feminism excludes women, you're not a feminist; you're an asshole assisting the patriarchy.
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