I have a passion for history. I am also a cosplayer (usually crossplaying) and I'm also doing research on the community. I love animals, especially betta fish, dogs, and cats. I've fallen in love with the Batfamily. I'm also very interested in fantasy books, manga, and anime.
They mean that there’s a room in your house where the household’s single computer goes (no one has laptops or smartphones) and that is the “computer room” and if you want to type up a document or play a game or go on the internet you go to the computer room and use the computer in there.
Today is Rosh Chodesh Av- the first of the month of Av!
Today begins the Nine Days of Av, a period of mourning, repentance, and reflection which culminates in Tisha B’Av, commemorating the destruction of the first and second temples.
Observances vary but may involve from refraining from activities such as shopping or getting a hair cut.
Holidays to anticipate in Av:
Major Holidays: Tishah B'Av on 9 Av (July 26-27)
Minor Holidays: The Nine Days from 1-9 Av (July 19-27) Tu B'Av on 15 Av (August 1-2)
Special Shabbatot: Chazon on 4 Av (July 21-22) Nachamu on 11 Av (July 28-29)
I was thinking recently about how “alt” subcultures are so aestheticized now but they used to be much more about your societal views than the clothes you wore or even the bands you listened to, and my brain connected some dots. Idk if this is anything
I loved this book growing up, it had my favorite illustrations! I just found out the artist’s name was Sheilah Beckett. I’m pretty sure we had other books with her illustrations in them as well.
for the redditors coming here, this is how we spread news of important events in the world, with a Destiel meme
For everybody who’s been here a while and felt like Wiley E. Coyote just after running off the edge of the cliff when they scrolled down to find nothing below
Atsuko Nishida is one of the most underrated artists ever.
She created the mascot, some of the most iconic Pokemon ever but she doesn’t get much recognition and a lot of people don’t know about her.
This is just a little appreciation post for her.
#ThankYouNishida
She also turned an early design of Ivysaur when she joined Gamefreak during the development of Red/Green into the Ivysaur we know, then she created Bulbasaur from there (Bulbasaur and Venusaur were created after Ivysaur)
#ThankYouNishida
In a statement to The Post, a spokesperson for NBCUniversal claimed the tree work is simply an annual ritual at this time of year. “We understand that the safety tree trimming of the Ficus trees we did on Barham Blvd. has created unintended challenges for demonstrators, that was not our intention. In partnership with licensed arborists, we have pruned these trees annually at this time of year to ensure that the canopies are light ahead of the high wind season,” they wrote. “We support the WGA and SAG’s right to demonstrate and are working to provide some shade coverage. We continue to openly communicate with the labor leaders on-site to work together during this time.”
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If those trees were pollarded annually, the cut areas would NOT look like that. There would be big knobs of old growth at the trimming sites. Not seeing any of that here. The way those trees were topped (not pollarded, which is a very careful process that has to begin when the tree is immature) is excellent way to kill them due to loss of hydration, open sites to infection and parasitism during the best time of year for both, lack of nutrition due to so little greenery and new budding growth being left, sunburn and other exposure damage, and a myriad of other possibilities. Plus, if they were topped annually, they would not have the lovely drooping branches seen in the other picture but would have tons of vertical suckers instead.
This is what an annually pollarded mature tree should look like:
If this was done by the city, the public works arborists should be protesting in front of city hall and screaming their heads off right now. I’m not hearing about that, so… Tree law!
I’m still hung up on the fact that a lot of adults “don’t have specific memories” from when they were children, I keep fucking running into that lately, meaning THEIR OWN CHILD SELVES are no longer real people to their minds?! Just some different creature they know existed??? No fucking wonder they can’t comprehend this shit. I was a 6 year old boy when I started liking sexy ladies in the media I watched.
CGI animators should unionize next. normally, their jobs would be too precarious to strike, since studios would replace them without a second thought, but if it’s part of this larger general film strike, they might finally have meaningful power to better their working conditions
if CGI animators unionized, it would kill the MCU. straight up. the the entire business model is built on exploiting CGI animators
It’s already happening. Like guys I cannot emphasize this enough the studios are going to make content creators the deal of a lifetime because they have a void to fill and those content creators will then be on the do not work list for the rest of their professional lives.
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