General Pieces Of Advice For 2024:

General pieces of advice for 2024:

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Reblog stuff you enjoy for others to enjoy. Likes don't do much on this platform (I tend to think of them as tumblr bookmarks), but a reblog may make an artist's day

Cite your sources on images. The breadcrumbs you drop may lead to someone else's inspiration

Take pictures of the mundane, like your house -- never know when you will need to look back on that again for posterity or utility

Wear your face mask (KN95 or better, make sure it's a good seal) and keep up to date with you covid boosters. Not only do you not want to get sick, you don't want to be the reason someone else gets sick. It sucks, but getting long covid sucks more

Try to tag things accurately where you can

Install an adblocker

Ask questions (in general, not just on tumblr). Worst case scenario the answer is "I don't know"

Engage in good-faith discussions with your fellow user, you might find a new friend

Go to a Vintage Computer Festival if you can help it, there's cool stuff to see and things to do

Turn off "best stuff first" on your dashboard controls. It's your dashboard, you get to curate it, so might as well take full control

Take a moment to enjoy silence in your space

Take the old, original batteries out of your vintage computers so they don't burst and corrode the circuit boards within when you forget about them for a few years. You'll thank me later, mitigating a Varta meltdown is incredibly time consuming

Be good to each other

I think I'm more partial to the tag # singular mathematic, as # mathematic and # mathematics are a one letter difference that would be hard to catch when skimming a list of tags at the bottom of a screen.

I just had a completely random urge to test an assumption I'd held for a while. Mathematics implies the existence of an individual Mathematic and its fellows. I imagined these to be the disciplines of maths like Algebra, Calculus, Geometry etc. However, I never checked... UNTIL NOW!

Google mostly says that it doesn't exist and tries to correct you to mathematical (D;). BUT ENGLISH IS A DESCRIPTIVE LANGUAGE! Let's band together, my (checks followers) 0 friends and make mathematic a real word that will go on to confuse people into thinking 'math' and 'maths' don't mean the same thing!

I'm Australian so I'm used to geometric borders but there's something aesthetically pleasing about all of these natural flowing lines!

US state borders but they are based off rivers and mountains

I feel like an archeologist right now, what happened in this person's life? 2014 is a forgotten time, little is remembered about what happened or what humanity was like then.

repeat after me: i am a sexy bitch and no one ruins my 2014

Yay! Etymology!

I made a gargoyle in ceramics class when I was 12! It probably counted more as a grotesque according to this post but I put little holes in its mouth and under its wings to make openings into the hollow centre.

I might be hallucinating like ChatGPT but I'm pretty sure they defended castles by draining burning oil rather than water to set castle invaders on fire.

My gargoyle was a hippocampus btw. I'm pretty sure that it's disappeared permanently 😞 but I might have photos somewhere.

I'm so sorry to hear that. I'm sure you'll weather this trial. Don't let your faith get erroded, your precious sharp rock will be transported to you again soon. Don't suspend us in anticipation, update us soon!

has anyone seen my sharp rock? i left it in the river for 100 years for safe keeping and now i can't find it. its many uneven edges have sentimental significance