#sliderule

[vacuous-truth]

Birthday hours going on!! Starting off with the coolest gift I’ve gotten in years of a 70 year old slide rule

Just need to figure out how to chain operations and I can break up with electric calculator. So while birthday could go better (intense gay sex) but getting to do maths and be high is already a pretty good combo

[hezigler]

Slide rules and book of mathematical tables and formulas. How we did math before the invention of the electronic digital calculator.

[janakaystl]

I #dread trying to find something in the #junk drawer 🤣🤣 #fms_dread #fms_junkdrawer #twofer #fmspad #toomanypens #sliderule #nerdsgottanerd #jksphotoaday https://www.instagram.com/p/Cpzmjx_O8ZQ/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[mrmikemichaelmichaels]

Trio of Japanese watches. A couple unclothed 😳 #Seiko #citizen #chronograph #bellmatic #bullhead #bradpitt #calculator #sliderule https://www.instagram.com/p/Coh9rkALnN4/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[bumblingwitch]

Let's talk about life for a minute

Hi - I'm Grim: an electric sliderule on the binary, head full of metaphorical demons, and struggling for air constantly.

I am a brittle type 1 diabetic after my pancreas failed a few years back, and I live with cptsd, type 1 bipolar, adhd, and an eating disorder that I struggle with. A lot of these things the reason why I have not been able to hold onto a job in a decade - despite trying and failing. (my resume looks atrocious...)

I've made a post or two offering services to try to help with my situation, but there have been absolutely no bites yet and I'm starting to become desperate. My partner can only shoulder so much, and I'm so tired of asking my mother in law for money. ("ask your own mom!" she's dead, Monica.)

Im looking to be able to save up $2000 for food/rent/bills, pay off debt, as well as to be able to get started on my Online Boutique and Witchery shop to steadily keep the flow coming in, as little as that might be. I need to help this family in some way and that's something i can keep up with.

I can offer:

❤️Bibliomancy divination readings at $5 for a simple reading

❤️Beta reading/editing for original and fanfiction stories priced out as linked above.

Please help me get out of this hole I am in. I accept CashApp and PayPal (message me for PP) and I'm more than willing to answer any questions you may have.

Thanks for reading.

💲GrimoireR

$0/$2000

[thefloatingstone]

Here's another banger if you want more punk rock music specifically about the plight of the minimum wage worker. This one's lyrics fucking FLOORED me when I heard this last year (extra points for making it historical)

Yeah, this one's for the workers who toil night and day By hand and by brain to earn your pay Who for centuries long past for no more than your bread Have bled for your countries and counted your dead In the factories and mills, in the shipyards and mines We've often been told to keep up with the times For our skills are not needed, they've streamlined the job And with sliderule and stopwatch our pride they have robbed We're the first ones to starve the first ones to die The first ones in line for that pie-in-the-sky And we're always the last when the cream is shared out For the worker is working when the fat cat's about And when the sky darkens and the prospect is war Who's given a gun and then pushed to the fore And expected to die for the land of our birth Though we've never owned one lousy handful of earth? We're the first ones to starve the first ones to die The first ones in line for that pie-in-the-sky And we're always the last when the cream is shared out For the worker is working when the fat cat's about All of these things the worker has done From tilling the fields to carrying the gun We've been yoked to the plough since time first began And always expected to carry the can

[quasi-normalcy]

I think that I should train myself to use sliderules and abaci in case I ever find myself in a dystopian future where personal electronics are hard to come by.

[10-billion-square-feet-of-lion]

im just like lyra belacqua (learned how to use my grandfathers sliderule)

[vaguely-problematic]

to all the workers

the workers song community project by the longest johns

first verse: oh come on all you workers who toil night and day by hand and by brain to earn your pay who for centuries past for no more than your bread have bled for your countries and counted your dead

chorus: we're the first ones to starve we're the first ones to die we're the first ones in line for that pie in the sky and we're always the last when the cream is shared out for the worker is working when the fat cat's about

second verse: in the factories and mills in the shipyards and mines we've often been told to keep up with the times where our skills are not needed they streamline the job with sliderule and stopwatch our pride they have robbed

chorus

third verse: and when the sky darkens and the prospect is war who's given a gun and then pushed to the fore and expected to die for the land of our birth though we've never owned one lousy handful of earth

chorus

fourth verse: and all of these things the worker has done from tilling the fields to carrying the gun we've been yoked to the plow since time first began and always expected to carry the can

chorus x2

[yr-obedt-cicero]

We're going through this whole FUCKING album because every single song IS about John Laurens and I am RIGHT

I'll cut this into multiple asks because if I don't it'll be way too fucking long and I'll also go insane <3 Also I will cut out unnecessary parts of songs (mostly parts that repeat for brevity)

And the songs are linked because. Dropkick Murphy has such a sound and I swear I lose my fucking MIND over them they have just such a SOUND you don't UNDERSTADN THEUR SOUND SIHPIWD AH XOEU DSAGVN IUEQWDTNG VUOYE

Walk Away:

So you say you fell in love

D o u b t . John is marrying Martha and says he loves her, but we, the audience, knows he doesn't, hence the "so you say." Alternatively, this could also be about Kinloch and their breakup.

And you're gonna get married Raise yourself a family How simple life can be

Self explanatory

Somewhere it all went wrong And your plan just fell apart And you ain't got the heart To finish what you started

Ngl there's a few ways I like interpreting this. Either it starts when Jemmy dies, when John and Francis breakup, or when the war breaks out. But no matter which, the ending lines are talking about John leaving Europe to fight.

The ones that you loved The ones that you left behind The ones that you said you tried to find They tried to find you

This is. About his family. His siblings, his wife and daughter, whichever, both. Like. Idk what to say here because *clenches fists* It's about his family you don't understand IT'S ABOUT HIS FAMILY

Somewhere it all went wrong And your plan just fell apart And you ain't got the heart To finish what you started You walked out that door To find out where you belong To fulfill your own selfish dreams I think you might have forgotten

The ones that you loved The ones that you left behind The ones that you said you tried to find They tried to find you

Okay again this is about John leaving his family behind to fight in the war, and perhaps the underlying reason of getting away from Martha 'cause y'know. he doesn't love her. Which I do think could historically be a possibility, but certainly not the main reason why he left.

Worker's Song:

First of all. I'd like to say I have two interpretations of this song. The first one is it's about the aides, which I'll detail below. The second is it's just about the Culper Ring. It's Woodhull complaining he gets no credit and that's it that's the song and it works so well especially because of "Who's given a gun and then pushed to the fore/And expected to die for the land of our birth/Though we've never owned one lousy handful of earth?"

Yeah, this one's for the workers who toil night and day By hand and by brain to earn your pay Who for centuries long past for no more than your bread Have bled for your countries and counted your dead

Okay like??? I swear half the time I don't have to even explain what I mean here likglj,gul. It's THEM. It's the AIDES. They're so UNDERAPPRECIATED. DO YOU UNDERSTAND.

In the factories and mills, in the shipyards and mines We've often been told to keep up with the times For our skills are not needed, they've streamlined the job And with sliderule and stopwatch our pride they have robbed

More meta but like. Do you understand. Aides won't be needed one day. They'll be replaced by technology. Do you understand.

We're the first ones to starve, we're the first ones to die The first ones in line for that pie in the sky And we're always the last when the cream is shared out For the worker is working when the fat cat's about

They WORK. So MUCH. Do you GET IT. And they're FORGOTTEN. IJYGFLYUOBYRJGTFB&OYUTFHFJYBGLHKJ

And when the sky darkens and the prospect is war Who's given a gun and then pushed to the fore And expected to die for the land of our birth Though we've never owned one lousy handful of earth?

they're FORGOTTEN. WE DON'T CARE ABOUT THEM. CRYING SCREAMING THROWING UP DO YOU UNDERSTAND UYTBUKYTBUKJVTGKUJUBTGB

And all of these things the worker has done From tilling the fields to carrying the gun We've been yoked to the plough since time first began And always expected to carry the can

THEY. DID SO MUCH. THEY FOUGHT AND THEY HAD LIVES AND THEY DID THINGS KYTHDYLKHMRVNBFIVTHRCVFJVTHRGFJ

I'm normal :)

Especially with the last lyrics of Worker's song, they all fit quite well!

[charlestownladyposh]

Check out this listing I just added to my Poshmark closet: Sanforized VTG Cost & Selling Price Indicator Retail Advertising Plastic Slide.

[sleepycatmama]

Woo, he caught the Banned from Argo reference!

[graywyvern]

( via / via )

This is the map of the rezhns of Kcymaerxthaere.

"For to offer Rosettian tosh as poetry 1911 was not to stride into eternal realms but to misconceive 1911."

--Hugh Kenner

No Escape.

"table full of dead soldiers"

finish-the-old-container-start-a-new-one days try-not-to-get-honey-on-your-fingers-or-anything-else days

news story about an evicted woman defending herself with bees use-the-word-steal-get-put-in-facebook-jail days

Graywyvern knows a trick but you need to find a sliderule for it packages-that-never-open-the-way-they're-supposed-to days

Was trying to make Yokai pictures.

"Enfold the scanty grey serge scapular"

--Sordello

Karaoke Night.

[mrmikemichaelmichaels]

Seiko 6138-7000 'Calculator' chronograph #seiko #6138 #sliderule #calculator #Chronograph #Japan #watch #wristwatch #wristcheck https://www.instagram.com/p/ClWF00xLv0D/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[relogioserelogios]

New Hamilton Khaki Aviation Converter Automatic Chronograph, pilot’s watch with circular slide-rule. 🔥🔥🔥 The model has a 44 mm steel or PVD steel case and is equipped with the H-21 caliber, ETA7750 base, with silicon hairspring and 60-hour power reserve. 💰 From 1,845 Dollars . Novo Hamilton Khaki Aviation Converter Automatic Chronograph, relógio para pilotos com régua de cálculo circular. 🔥🔥🔥 O modelo possui uma caixa de 44 mm em aço ou aço PVD e é equipado com o calibre H-21, base ETA7750, com espiral de silício e reserva de marcha de 60 horas. 💰 A partir de 1.845 Dólares • • #hamilton #hamiltonwatch #hamiltonkhaki #pilotwatch #hamiltonkhakiaviation #sliderule #sportwatch #relogioserelogios https://www.instagram.com/p/CFmjn3SFKjN/?igshid=ybk243j89bt1

[nelc]

The Pirates of Erstaz by Murray Leinster, cover by Frank Kelly Freas