honiden @honiden@mastodon.bida.im

New hero: Emil Zatopek, who won the golden medal for 5000m, 10000m, and the marathon at the 1952 Olympics, and set multiple world records. This was his diet.

I can't help but think how damaging it would have been to Tater and to our relationship with him if we had treated his inability to sleep on time as a willful disobedience, as lots of parents do including my sister-in-law. My mother-in-law has told me, approvingly, about how SIL's daughters were FORBIDDEN to be out of bed past nine and would stay in bed out of fear until they fell asleep.*

If anything though, our experience with the blanket shows the inability to sleep is a physical thing that children can't help, not a moral failing or their dastardly plot to make their caregivers' lives miserable. Sure we theoretically could have forced Tater to stay in bed, but he would have suffered from it because he would still deal with the underlying physical causes that kept him from sleeping. It's sad and angering how much children are punished and terrorized for things that could be much better dealt with by trying to help them rather than making them comply.

* I have, like, so many issues with SIL's childrearing in general--this is the woman who threatened to go to the cops because her daughters said a bad word, prompting hours-long tears and apologies. Perhaps even worse, she has a degree in early life education 😬

youtube-dl's most recent stable source and (some) binaries: https://polarisfm.net/mirrors/youtube-dl-2020.09.20.7z

DMCA'd git repository: https://codeberg.org/polarisfm/youtube-dl

Fuck yourself, RIAA.

Clone, share, and mirror.

You may stop this individual, but you can't stop us all... after all, we're all alike.

52 teatrale.
Leggendario re dell'antichità che, peccando di hybris, non istituisce in tempo la zona rossa e si becca il Coronavirus: Edipo a Codogno.

Le nanotecnologie, la manifattura 4.0, i materiali autoassemblanti, eppure non si riesce ancora a stendere omogeneamente (o almeno un po' più equamente) la marmellata/cioccolata nei cornetti e nelle bombe. Sembra quasi che alcuni non la sentano come ferita civile, come mangiare pasta in bianco e bersi un bicchiere di ragù verso metà piatto. È un problema di mancanza di concorrenza? È che l'idea franzosa di sac-à-poche ha ancora un valore simbolico spendibile sul mercato delle colazioni? Imprenditori, pasticceri, portatori di interessi: diteci cosa sta frenando il progresso.

The Giant Baobab Adansonia Grandidieri is only found in Madagascar.

Il manifesto

I never stop being amazed by the sheer _volume_ of human creativity that is available on the internet.

From billions of hours of podcasts and videos to enough beautiful art to fill a thousand museums to more music than anyone could ever listen to to the sheer breadth and depth of literature, both original and fanfics, as well as essays up the wazoo on all sorts of topics and even peer-reviewed or non-peer-reviewed research about almost every imaginable subject.

It's breathtaking.

The Hammer Rises.

Below it, the steel bends and shifts. Folding, flattening, folding again.

The Hammer Falls.

The steel gains shape. Idea becoming form.

The Hammer Rises.

The blunt tool carves a name into reality. Pain and prowess focused onto a single point.

The Hammer Falls.

Purpose becoming accomplishment. An act of creation.

The Hammer Rises.

May this thing bring justice. May it protect peace. May the wicked fear it.

The Hammer Falls.

#MicroFic #ShortStories #CreativeWriting