fyi i reblog nudity/porn without tagging sometimes. Hey this is my personal blog. BLM. Cars are lethal, don't forget, be careful and stay safe. I do reblog political stuff on here.
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Part of thrifting is that you have to be willing to pick up something that’s dirty and/or damaged and figure out how to clean/repair it. Googling while in-store is a good idea so you can see if the item can be cleaned or repaired and how difficult that process will be so you can make and educated decision on if it’s worth it to buy this one, sometimes things are a simple fix sometimes they’re not. With some things the way to clean or repair it is obvious and with others it takes a lot of research, and you may need to seek advice from an expert or pay an expert to do the work. If you come across something you absolutely love and have no idea how to repair it then seek out people online who also love those items, collectors have a wealth of knowledge and they’re always generous with it, there will be someone who can tell you how to repair your item - you just have to find that someone. Sometimes you can bring something fully back to life, I adore wooden treasures because it’s just a matter of a bit of elbow grease and patience to make them glow. I collect seashells, and little wicker peacock chairs that I sit my plants in, and they both often arrive at the thrift store covered in decades worth of dust in all the tiny crevices, again elbow grease and patience work wonders. Or can you live with the damage? Does it matter? Does it actually add to the object? I’ve got a beautiful Italian brass tortoise trinket box, the hinge is broken, the shell lifts off completely rather than swinging open as it was designed to. But you can’t tell that from looking at it and it still functions as a trinket box, I’m happy to live with the damage. I’ve got a lovely figurine of an elephant with a monkey riding on her back, her tusk is broken but I don’t care because that just tells me this old lady has lived a life before she came to me, it feels right that she’s missing a tusk. Sometimes wear and tear doesn’t affect the beauty of an object and sometimes it just adds to the history and gravitas of an object. There are times you know you’re never going to be able to repair something, it’s just a matter of preservation. I’ve spent ages researching the right kind of leather treatment to safely preserve the covers of my lovely antique books. I know I’ll never get them looking perfect but it’s not about making them look new, it’s about treating them before they crumble to dust and the spine cracks if anyone tries to look at the pages, and preserving them so they survive for another hundred years. I’m also teaching myself how to repair fabric spines that are pealing away and reattach loose covers. There are times when you need to educate yourself in order to become the custodian of an object and learn to take care of it properly so that future generations can enjoy it too.
You are inevitably going to find things in a thrift store that are dirty, broken, scuffed, stained, damaged. People have gotten rid of them for a reason but that doesn’t mean they’re junk. They just means you need to do a little work in order to own something truly special.
I just went on a rant about plungers, how’s your day going?
“go off bestie”? Okay, I will.
This is a plunger.
Classic red cup with a wooden stick. We all know it, love it, and have seen a cartoon character using it to unclog a toilet. Right?
WRONG.
The image above is actually a drain plunger, used on sinks, showers, and baths. Not on toilets.
These are a toilet plungers.
Take note of the variations. Each of them have a flange of sorts at the bottom, either connected via a cup or more accordion-like tube. These are designed to actually get down into the toilet bowl where it flushes down, giving it more space and leverage to unclog blockages. See the example below:
Notice how the flange allows it to go deeper into the toilet to provide more power to the plunge. Sink/drain plungers are far less efficient and effective at the task.
Sink plungers can also have an accordion shape to help with power in plunging, but crucially do not have or need the flange that toilet plungers do.
To recap: cup plungers are for sinks, showers, bathtubs, and other drains. Flange and accordion plungers are for toilets. Notably, accordion plungers are slightly harder to use, but are more powerful when used correctly than their flange counterparts.
So the next time you see a cartoon, video game, or stock art depicting a cup plunger being used on a toilet, you can feel the same levels of anger and emotion that I do!
why does this have nearly 100 notes
Because with this level of passion, containment is futile 
The real question is why does this not have a million notes? This is information that will very likely, at some point, be incredibly useful to anyone who has indoor plumbing. Which is, you know, probably, 99.99% of this website’s user base. (I’m sure there’s someone out there using Tumblr who lives in a house built in 1850 which never got upgraded and they still have an outhouse rather than toilet.)
I find it so funny/sad when people say, “I cant believe the respawn devs refuse to make titanfall 3 just because apex is a cash cow” like dude the devs are DYING to make titanfall 3. They are frothing at the mouth at the thought of it. They want nothing more than to make another game. They have tried 3 times now to do it (or maybe just 2 I forget). You AND the devs should be mad at the exec’s for deciding that it’s a waste of time. Team up and kill them. Make titanfall 3 a reality.
it’s not that I have a massive dislike for the soulmate trope - I choose not to read it because it makes me uncomfortable - but what I do have a massive dislike for is that whenever an aromantic person brings up the fact that the soulmate trope isn’t inclusive to aromantic people suddenly 1483949585 people burst out of nowhere saying “soulmates can be platonic” “it could be with a pet!” or whatever ‘exception’ they create to the rule.
not everyone experiences platonic attraction or feelings. not every aro is partnering or wants a qpr. not everyone wants a pet.
so even these caveats to the trope aren’t even inclusive. it isn’t about trying to make soulmates inclusive, it’s about getting people to realise that a fictional scenario where you are destined to have a long term monogamous relationship with a specific person doesn’t apply to many people, and that it is based on a cultural structure where romance is prioritised as the best, most important type of relationship.
[“We live in a society based on disposability. When we feel bad, we often automatically decide that either we are bad or another person is bad. Both of these moves cause damage and distort the truth, which is that we are all navigating difficult conditions the best we can, and we all have a lot to learn and unlearn. If we want to build a different way of being together in groups, we have to look closely at the feelings and behaviors that generate the desire to throw people away. Humility, compassion for ourselves, and compassion for others are antidotes to disposability culture. Examining where we project on others and where we react strongly to others can give us more options when we are in conflict. Every one of us is more complex and beautiful than our worst actions and harshest judgments. Building compassion and accountability requires us to take stock of our own actions and reactions in conflict, and seek ways to treat each other with care even in the midst of strong feelings.
It is not surprising that most of us have distorted relationships to work, including work in mutual aid groups. The conditions and systems we live under make work coercive, create severe imbalances in who does which kind of work and for what kind of compensation and recognition, and make it hard to feel like we have choices when it comes to work. Working to change the world is extremely hard because the conditions we are up against are severe. We cannot blame ourselves for having a difficult relationship to our work, even though we understand that learning to work differently is vital for our movements and for our own well-being and survival. We must be compassionate to ourselves and each other as we practice transforming our ways of working together.
We need each other badly to share what is hard about the overwhelming suffering in the world and the challenge of doing work for change in dangerous conditions. Even in the face of the pain that being awakened to contemporary conditions causes, all of our work for change can be rooted in the comfort and joy of being connected to one another, accompanying one another, and sometimes being inspired by each other. Reflecting deeply about our own orientations toward work—what it feels like to participate in groups, what ideas we are carrying around about leadership and productivity—is crucial to building a practice of working from a place of connection, inspiration, and joy. This means intentionally creating ways to practice a new relationship to work, and diving into the psychic structures underlying our wounds from living and working in brutal, coercive hiearchies.”]
fighting sexism in gaming by making sure everyone hears me say “Or her!!!!” when someone in the discord call refers to the dipshit teabagger on the enemy team as he/him
