gyroshrike

I don’t remember exactly which tags you already use, but I definitely think things for financial stuff, medical, gardening, cooking, and cleaning are all good ones that came to mind first :D Is that too general?

Nope! Thank you, I’ll do that!

Okay. Doing this.

I need your help, dears.

I really want to actually be active. Things have been crazy, I’ve been letting depression and real life kick me in the ass.

I want your suggestions.

What are some things you want to know/learn? What are some tags you would like me to use to go back and better categorize past entries?

Would vlogs be a format you’d be interested in? Or like a podcast? Or is this ultimately the best platform for us?

Askbox is open. I’m also on twitter @waywardbard.

I would like to start posting at least once a week. If it helps, I’ll list some of my subject matters and do a poll or something.

Postmates Fleet Thoughts + Recc

Been driving for a little while now. Not a lot, mind you, but enough to report back about it. I’ve earned a total of $493.28 since starting 7/8/18 and it’s now 8/26/18.

Honestly, at a guarantee of $4/order pick-up, it’s not a bad side-hustle. I would not suggest it as full-time work by any means, but if you want something to fill the gaps of employment or to have an extra $20/wk for gas, picking up 4-8 per day isn’t terrible.

I had attempted to join up once before in Seattle, and their orientation attendance was super rude to me so I gave up on them. This was probably when they first started as a gig?  Several years later, I didn’t have the same problems. On-boarding is literally signing up now. It’s super easy. There’s zero cost to get a bag and payment card sent to you in the mail.  I personally bought my own bag, because the one they send it cheapo and the zipper broke on it in a couple days.

Two cons: for me, I have to drive a small ways to get to the hot spots if I want constant work during my “shift”. I’m well within the delivery zone of my area, don’t get me wrong, but it’s a good 10 miles to the Regular hot spots.  

Second one is that their “Blitz Bonus” is not applied until after the guarantee. If you didn’t make enough to qualify for the base $4/delivery, but still qualified for a Blitz because you got on at the x1.25 rate instead of the x1 rate, all it’ll do is make their assistance to you a little smaller. Example: I end up with a base of $2.68, and Postmates automatically adds $1.32. With the Blitz time frame, I would get a bonus of $0.65 and then an adjustment of $0.67, which still brings me to $4 instead of a more-fair total of $5 guaranteed base per delivery during Blitz. 

Click here so I get referral points. Here is a more info-dumping breakdown. Here is my ko-fi if you liked my post but have no interest in joining Postmates (please do reblog though, and tag your friends).

rip Anthony Bourdain & Kate Spade

Depression isn’t always “looking sad.” It isn’t always napping in the middle of the day, bloodshot eyes from crying, hiding from the world. Sometimes it’s gritting your teeth and pushing through another day with a sliver of hope. Sometimes it’s laughing out loud. Sometimes it’s helping others instead of helping yourself. Sometimes it’s looking incredibly strong.

And sometimes it’s looking successful, but feeling like there’s nothing left so why keep going. Sometimes it’s reaching out but being told you’re being dramatic. Sometimes it’s finally giving up and allowing that urge to take hold.

Love people. Every day. Ask your strong friends if they’re okay. Remind your not-as-strong friends that you’re here for them. Talk about mental health. Take your mourning for the loss of such great minds, hearts, inspirations and use that energy to prevent further tragedy. I’ve walked to the edge twice in my life; I’ve talked two loved ones back from it. I have battled that stigma to those talking about how “they’re going to hell for it.”

Depression IS hell. Even more than that: it’s an illness of the brain. If you sincerely believe that a person, a soul, deserves to suffer further for that, that your God would allow eternal suffering for a sickness with no cure… please consider you’re part of the problem.

Be good to each other. That’s all you should ever do.

hey hi hello

I’m still alive.  I’ve just…

It’s a long story. I won’t burden you with it.

I’m in the process of (finally) relocating units.  We’ve been dealing with roaches and bed bugs.  It’s been hell.  I wish I had advice on how best to deal with them, but I don’t.  Maybe I’ll come back to it one day.

I did, however, decide to create a ko-fi account.  I’m adding the link to my Stuff Nobody Tells You About Getting An Apartment post, as well as in my description bar.  Don’t feel obligated to contribute, but if you’re able and would like to show the appreciation, well I will certainly…appreciate…it.

Blargh.

Anyway, I’ve got some posts to queue up soon enough. I want to become a bit more active.  Love and light to all of you.

redmensch:

redmensch:

jewishtransdyke:

redmensch:

holy shit i just learned about the “proxy strike” tactic in france in which radicals blockade or occupy a workplace, allowing workers to strike without losing their wages. that’s brilliant, wow

How does that work, exactly?

if you and your coworkers say “we’re striking” and occupy your workplace, your boss won’t pay you, but if your friends and your coworkers’ friends occupy it for you, you say “sorry boss shit’s occupied” and you still get paid because you’re not the ones striking

the 5,528 people who have reblogged this post as of right now could probably paralyze a decent chunk of a city’s economy using this tactic lmao

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Tips to learn a new language

amateurlanguager:

thepolyglotblog:

darasteine:

The 75 most common words make up 40% of occurrences
The 200 most common words make up 50% of occurrences
The 524 most common words make up 60% of occurrences
The 1257 most common words make up 70% of occurrences
The 2925 most common words make up 80% of occurrences
The 7444 most common words make up 90% of occurrences
The 13374 most common words make up 95% of occurrences
The 25508 most common words make up 99% of occurrences

(Sources: 5 Steps to Speak a New Language by Hung Quang Pham)

This article has an excellent summary on how to rapidly learn a new language within 90 days.

We can begin with studying the first 600 words. Of course chucking is an effective way to memorize words readily. Here’s a list to translate into the language you desire to learn that I grabbed from here! :)

EXPRESSIONS OF POLITENESS (about 50 expressions)      

• ‘Yes’ and ‘no’: yes, no, absolutely, no way, exactly.    
• Question words: when? where? how? how much? how many? why? what? who? which? whose?    
• Apologizing: excuse me, sorry to interrupt, well now, I’m afraid so, I’m afraid not.    
• Meeting and parting: good morning, good afternoon, good evening, hello, goodbye, cheers, see you later, pleased to meet you, nice to have met.    
• Interjections: please, thank you, don’t mention it, sorry, it’ll be done, I agree, congratulations, thank heavens, nonsense.    

NOUNS (about 120 words)

• Time: morning, afternoon, evening, night; Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday; spring, summer, autumn, winter; time, occasion, minute, half-hour, hour, day, week, month, year.    
• People: family, relative, mother, father, son, daughter, sister, brother, husband, wife; colleague, friend, boyfriend, girlfriend; people, person, human being, man, woman, lady, gentleman, boy, girl, child.    
• Objects: address, bag, book, car, clothes, key, letter (=to post), light (=lamp), money, name, newspaper, pen, pencil, picture, suitcase, thing, ticket.    
• Places: place, world, country, town, street, road, school, shop, house, apartment, room, ground; Britain, name of the foreign country, British town-names, foreign town-names.    
• Abstract: accident, beginning, change, color, damage, fun, half, help, joke, journey, language, English, name of the foreign language, letter (of alphabet), life, love, mistake, news, page, pain, part, question, reason, sort, surprise, way (=method), weather, work.    
• Other: hand, foot, head, eye, mouth, voice; the left, the right; the top, the bottom, the side; air, water, sun, bread, food, paper, noise.    

PREPOSITIONS (about 40 words)    

• General: of, to, at, for, from, in, on.    
• Logical: about, according-to, except, like, against, with, without, by, despite, instead of.    
• Space: into, out of, outside, towards, away from, behind, in front of, beside, next to, between, above, on top of, below, under, underneath, near to, a long way from, through.    
• Time: after, ago, before, during, since, until.    

DETERMINERS (about 80 words)  

• Articles and numbers: a, the; nos. 0–20; nos. 30–100; nos. 200–1000; last, next, 1st–12th.    
• Demonstrative: this, that.    
• Possessive: my, your, his, her, its, our, their.    
• Quantifiers: all, some, no, any, many, much, more, less, a few, several, whole, a little, a lot of.    
• Comparators: both, neither, each, every, other, another, same, different, such.    

ADJECTIVES (about 80 words)    

• Color: black, blue, green, red, white, yellow.    
• Evaluative: bad, good, terrible; important, urgent, necessary; possible, impossible; right, wrong, true.    
• General: big, little, small, heavy; high, low; hot, cold, warm; easy, difficult; cheap, expensive; clean, dirty; beautiful, funny (=comical), funny (=odd), usual, common (=shared), nice, pretty, wonderful; boring, interesting, dangerous, safe; short, tall, long; new, old; calm, clear, dry; fast, slow; finished, free, full, light (=not dark), open, quiet, ready, strong.    
• Personal: afraid, alone, angry, certain, cheerful, dead, famous, glad, happy, ill, kind, married, pleased, sorry, stupid, surprised, tired, well, worried, young.    

VERBS (about 100 words)    

• arrive, ask, be, be able to, become, begin, believe, borrow, bring, buy, can, change, check, collect, come, continue, cry, do, drop, eat, fall, feel, find, finish, forget, give, going to, have, have to, hear, help, hold, hope, hurt (oneself), hurt (someone else), keep, know, laugh, learn, leave, lend, let (=allow), lie down, like, listen, live (=be alive), live (=reside), look (at), look for, lose, love, make, may (=permission), may (=possibility), mean, meet, must, need, obtain, open, ought to, pay, play, put, read, remember, say, see, sell, send, should, show, shut, sing, sleep, speak, stand, stay, stop, suggest, take, talk, teach, think, travel, try, understand, use, used to, wait for, walk, want, watch, will, work (=operate), work (=toil), worry, would, write.    

PRONOUNS (about 40 words)

• Personal: I, you, he, she, it, we, they, one; myself, yourself, himself, herself, itself, ourselves, yourselves, themselves.    
• Possessive: mine, yours, his, hers, its, ours, theirs.    
• Demonstrative: this, that.    
• Universal: everyone, everybody, everything, each, both, all, one, another.    
• Indefinite: someone, somebody, something, some, a few, a little, more, less; anyone, anybody, anything, any, either, much, many.    
• Negative: no-one, nobody, nothing, none, neither.    

ADVERBS (about 60 words)

• Place: here, there, above, over, below, in front, behind, nearby, a long way away, inside, outside, to the right, to the left, somewhere, anywhere, everywhere, nowhere, home, upstairs, downstairs.    
• Time: now, soon, immediately, quickly, finally, again, once, for a long time, today, generally, sometimes, always, often, before, after, early, late, never, not yet, still, already, then (=at that time), then (=next), yesterday, tomorrow, tonight.    
• Quantifiers: a little, about (=approximately), almost, at least, completely, very, enough, exactly, just, not, too much, more, less.    
• Manner: also, especially, gradually, of course, only, otherwise, perhaps, probably, quite, so, then (=therefore), too (=also), unfortunately, very much, well.    

CONJUNCTIONS (about 30 words)

• Coordinating: and, but, or; as, than, like.    
• Time & Place: when, while, before, after, since (=time), until; where.    
• Manner & Logic: how, why, because, since (=because), although, if; what, who, whom, whose, which, that.   
  

Oh i love this concept!

I love it too! I love it mostly because it makes me feel less overwhelmed. When you break it down like this, everything seems so much more manageable. Like, hey, I could memorize 20 words at a time (even if ‘at a time’ varies wildly for me), and just do that like ten times. That’s a HUGE chunk of a language.

(And since I have the habit of doing languages that are similar to ones I’m already familiar with, the grammar part usually comes pretty easy, too.)

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The neural network is more of a foodie than you are.

copperbadge:

nubpher:

squimble-the-slug-witch:

lewisandquark:

I’m training a neural network to generate recipes based on a database of about 30,000 examples, using the open-source char-rnn framework. It sometimes hallucinates ingredients that it’s quite sure definitely exist and you desperately need them for your recipe.

Try asking your foodie friends if they know where to find the following:

2 oz fresh coriander liqueur
1 cup perchymarrange
8 oz chocolate mustard
4 oz picking oil
1 cup conding beans
2 tablespoon nomained beans
¼ lb lime jean meat
2 cup pickling kee thyme
1 cup water (heeped or fipetsscarn/sneas)
2 oz pkg ground pumpkin sprigs
2 cup stem bread
2 cup walnut tomatoes
1 sand ginger
1 can cracked bread strips
½ cup wripping oil
1  lecture leaves thawed
6  squares french brownings cream
1 cup italian whole crambatch

my husband does not have a tumblr, but he got really inspired when i showed him this and said, ‘i’m gonna make up these foods so you can reblog and add them’ and so here they are:

coriander liqueur: infuse 80 proof vodka with coriander seeds (enough to cover the bottom of the vessel) for one week, or up to two weeks for more ‘bite’. strain until clear, add simple syrup to taste.

perchymarrange: an archaic delicacy of england’s west midlands, similar to meringue custard. the perchy-pear, known for its strange growth pattern which made it appear to ‘perch’ on the branches of the tree, died out due to unsustainable farming practices during the height of its popularity in the 1500s.

chocolate mustard: mix ½ cup dark dutch-process cocoa powder, ½ cup water or dark beer, 3 tbsp cider vinegar, 2 tbsp raw honey; add salt and tumeric to taste. blend until smooth.

picking oil: another word for shea butter, used liberally on the hands of farm workers during harvest season, for the purposes of combating dryness and softening work calluses. when using in a recipe, be sure to get the food-grade variety! cocoa butter is a decent substitute, but the resulting flavor will be slightly more chocolatey than nutty.

conding beans: another term for black-eyed peas, short for ‘absconding beans’. a superstition in the deep south states that if this food is served at a wedding, no one will steal the bride’s affections during the first five years of marriage.

nomained beans: butter beans prepared in the style popular in nomain, france (braised in butter and dry white wine). popular in the american south.

lime jean meat: beef tenderized with lime juice, as prepared in genoa, italy. citrus is used to begin breaking down the proteins in a poor cut of meat, making its texture more palatable. popular in the american south.

pickling kee thyme: a spice blend of thyme and dill, particularly tasty on fish.

heeped water: water that has been frozen and then melted in the sun. this process is said to imbue it with magical properties.

fipetsscarn water: water purified by an appalachian process of pouring it through clean white gravel, then through the train of a wedding dress. given to ailing children or those with mysterious illnesses.

sneas water: mountain spring water collected during the early summer, with yellow pine pollen still present. often strained in the same manner as fipetsscarn water to remove particulates, but the resulting liquid still has a slightly golden tint.

pumpkin sprigs: the first shoots to grow from a pumkin seed, technically ‘soaks’ rather than 'sprouts’, as the seeds never produce a root.

stem bread: bread made from roughly-milled grains, still containing some husks and other roughage typically removed during industrial processes.

walnut tomatoes: big, heavily-creased tomato varieties, such as the big zac hybrid tomato.

sand ginger: finely grated, dehydrated ginger root. one sand ginger typically means the gratings of one 'knob’ of the root, about the size of your thumb. a tasty addition to cookies, pies, and sauces.

cracked bread strips: wholemeal bread crust cuttings (stem bread is good for this!) baked to a crisp like croutons and partially broken up. produces a very sturdy crumb, good for breading fried chicken. one can would equal approximately 15oz.

wripping oil: flax (or linseed) oil. from 'wrapping oil’; strips of muslin would be dipped in linseed oil and wrapped round the body and limbs, a popular skin treatment used in new zealand spa towns in the early 1900s. the application of such oil wraps was purported to have cleansing properties and to draw impurities out of the body.

lecture leaves: the leaves of the kudzu vine, boiled until tender. typically stored frozen to be used throughout the year for various applications. in the american south, there’s a phrase along the lines of someone talking your ear off for so long that kudzu grows over you, hence the name.

french brownings cream: brownings cream (similar to devonshire cream but with a subtle nutty flavor), cooked to a caramel, soft but sturdy enough to hold together in individual pieces. why this style of preparation is called 'french’ is uncertain, but many people (even in professional culinary spheres) hold to the idea that anything prepared in a french manner is automatically 'fancier’. a square equals approximately one square inch.

italian whole crambatch: a thick, sugary concoction made with walnuts, boiled milk, and melted butter, used to fill shortcrust pastries similar to mince pies. the 'italian whole’ style indicates the use of a touch of fennel and lemon zest, and that the chef should refrain from mincing the walnuts, using them in larger broken pieces instead. the word crambatch is a badly anglicized pronuncuation of krumbach, a market town in lower austria, known for its fine pastries.

(for reference, my husband is both southern and a former professional chef)

@copperbadge not sure if you’ve seen this, but the chocolate mustard especially made me think of you

I think I saw a recipe for real chocolate mustard recently, I’ll have to cast about and see what I did with it.

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gnarlywals:

corduroy-jackalope:

The brain is an organ. Mental illnesses are illnesses of that organ. Brain scans show that there is a physical difference between a healthy brain and a sick brain. Telling someone “You’re not really sick. It’s all in your head.” is like telling someone with asthma “It’s not real, it’s all in your lungs.” The brain is an organ that can malfunction as much as any other organ.

PLEASE READ THIS OVER AND OVER AND OVER

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