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I keep forgetting that this thing exists.

Everyone is jumping onto the new shiny toy socmed thing and I'm just going back to the old ones.

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Do we really have to monetise everything?

One of the many things that are different between my husband and I, are how we approach things.

He would look at something and think about how this can be monetised, or how you can get paid doing things.

Me, I just want to do it coz it's fun. Because I JUST want to do it.

For example, I've been going back to journaling after years of not doing it. Writing, with a touch of art thrown. And I do spend about 30mins to an hour almost every day on this thing.

To him, it's spending a lot of time and not on something that will bring in profits.

I just want to do this because it helps me destress, wind down, so that I don't burn out at work.

It allows my brain to quiet the noise so that I can actually think again.

Have you ever had so much things going on in your brain that it's like having a hive of bees in there? That's what my head feels like when I don't release all that tension.

I just want to do it because it gives me joy.

I did try to think about how to monetise what I do. Once. And I burn out. Horribly.

I have not touched that project in a long while because my brain has such a big aversion to even want to think about it.

So, I don't want this little piece of joy that I get every day, to turn into something I loathe.

I just don't get the thing about monetising everything. Can't we just do little things that we enjoy? If we just happen to get paid for it, then it's a bonus.

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I attempted #inktober this year and I enjoyed more than I thought I would.

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It me. I should just post to this account since everything is here.

I'd forgotten how much I love making coffee in the dripper. I prefer the cleaner taste of filtered coffee.

What I don't enjoy, is waiting for my grinder to finish grinding the coffee. I need a better one.

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Having or not having children is a choice. If you want to have kids, that’s cool. If you don’t, that’s cool too. But it does hurt a little when people call those of us who do want to have a family as breeders and are selfish for wanting to have kids. Maybe I’m more sensitive now that I’m expecting a little one of my own.

I don’t understand the hate. Is it because they’re worried about over-population and the reduction of resources? Is it because they’re worried that the children will be a burden to society later on?

I really don’t understand.

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WHEN SOMEONE ASKS WHO’S TURN IT IS FOR LAB CHORES THIS WEEK

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I really don’t believe Molly was capable of killing Bellatrix. Bella is a Dark Lord trained Death Eater who frequently is using dark spells. Molly has been a house-wife for most of her life. Surely in reality she wouldn’t know those spells, let alone have ever used them before. Bella knows more and has been practising her skills (even through Azkaban), and yet Molly wins? I cant believe it.

(Taiga’s note: never, ever estimate the power of a mother protecting her children.)

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More Ultrafacts (Source)

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Cats Who are Truly Happy with Their Careers (photos via reddit)

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WHEN THE SEQUENCING DATA COMES IN

credit: amaizing_phd

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butmattmurdock:

Amazing Doctor Who episodes - In no apparent order

The Doctor’s Wife

“I wanted to see the universe, so I stole a Time Lord and I ran away. And you were the only one mad enough.”

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Hacked printer error messages

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A recent cartoon for New Scientist magazine.

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wowowow

okay can we talk for a minute about Leverage and how Nate and Maggie are estranged at the beginning of the show

but there is just so little hostility and instead a lot of confusion and regret

but they wind up in a much better, closer place at the end

even get a little closure over the death of their son

BUT

them getting back together isn’t a plot thing at all

jealousy between her and Sophie is not an issue

Nate is never forced to choose between them

there is no regretful “i will miss you but i see how happy you are with her/him” scene at the end

the whole team rallies to save her butt when she’s framed for stealing that Faberge egg without question

instead of being bitter and trying to get in the way of the team, she helps the team out not just on the job that will allow her to get revenge on the guy whose policies led to their son’s death, but on a totally unrelated, earlier job

the script was so good and the character stuff so good we don’t feel like Maggie got shafted and Nate “got the girl”

i mean, unless i am forgetting about scenes or something, there’s all these really frustrating things they COULD have done, and they just didn’t

and the whole show was like that

it openly acknowledged the attractiveness of ALL their leads (Nate was a bit of a mess, but that’s Nate) and Eliot and Hardison (in that order) were the most casually sexualized (Sophie pretty much sexualized herseif, and it was almost always done as part of a con, on her own terms); Parker was not really sexualized at all, despite being cute as hell and even taking her top off in front of the boys – we believed she was sexy, we didn’t have our nose rubbed in it

the suffering of women was never depicted in a sexual way, in any way that made it look attractive

female incompetence was never a theme

“natural” female superiority was not a theme (those ”haha silly men can’t do anything right” sorts of depictions often come from a place of male insecurity, not female empowerment)

the boys on the team showed complete respect for Sophie, even though she was the “sexy one”

as the boys on the team came to understand how broken Parker really sorta was and how “odd” even aside from that, they rallied to supporther, not fix or take advantage of her, and they accepted her oddness even though it often aggravated them and sometimes led them to gloss over what she was saying as Parker weirdness (the jury episode where she tries to tell them that something is fishy and they dismiss her – actually very realistic but not done too painfully) Parker was never shown in a light that made her look inadequate because of her “shortcomings” which were really just the facts of her existence

the whole premise of the show revolved around righting the wrongs created by capitalism, even if not every episode explicitly went there

and the characters oh god my heart

every one of them was a treasure, someone i could fall in love with

Eliot was an Okie from a blue-collar background, and was a rough guy, but was never shown to be sexist in any way despite how attached sexism is to the trope of the tough southern dude who loves horses and beer and country music; he was violent, but his arc was not to unrealistically eschew that violence … rather, he channeled it into protecting, not destroying; he had very real feelings, not just caricatured reactions to things

Parker was not involved in a romantic tug-of-war between other teammates, she was never a narrative device to create romantic tension within the team; she arguably was the glue that stuck Eliot (protective big brother) and Hardison (darling loving cinnamon roll) together in that OT3 relationship that pretty much everyone who watched the show realized existed

Sophie was incredibly sexy and manipulative and this was never thrown in her face via slut-shaming or making her out to be an awful person or turning her into any of the unflattering stereotypes that sort of character often gets turned into; also, there was no running gag where she slept with every member of the team (no that it would have been bad if she had, just that sort of thing tends to get handled really badly)

Hardison, our beloved incredibly multi-talented genius with a heart of gold, was Black, but they didn’t write him like a white character or have him speak like a white character; he was also the most stable and gentle and soft-spoken member of the team, IMO, which is not how you would expect a show to depict the sole Black teammate

Nate was an alcoholic whose addiction was treated realistically and with respect, was not over-dramatized, was not magically “cured”, was acknowledged by the team without there being a major intervention plotline, didn’t function as a real liability team-wise, and was never played as a device to keep him away from Sophie by having her deliver an ultimatum he couldn’t meet; it was a part of his personality, not all of his personality, and while addiction recovery narratives are important, not everything about an addict has to be about that, any more than all gay love stories have to end in tragedy

it was just a really, really good show, you guys, grounded in real feelings and issues without being too dark, hilarious without being mean, and feelsy without being saccharine

i love it so much and sometimes i just have to gush about it