I'm Convex
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“I’m still kicking” is such a funny way to say “I’m still alive”. Like lol. I’m still thrashing. Flailing. Writhing even. The violence remains.
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50 years ago, on November 9th, 1975, the SS Edmund Fitzgerald left Superior, Wisconsin on a beautiful and unseasonably warm autumn day carrying 29 men and 26,116 long tons of taconite. It was to be the Fitzgerald’s last run of the season before putting up for winter repairs, and it was to be Captain Ernest McSorley’s final run before retiring to spend time with his wife.
The crew was aware of an inbound storm due to roll in overnight, but no one had predicted how two storm fronts, one from the southwest and one down from Canada, would clash over Lake Superior, causing what would be remembered as one of the worst storms of the century. McSorley was respected as one of the best captains on the Great Lakes, a heavy weather sailor who knew how to handle storms. McSorley rarely opted for cautious leeward routes but as this storm began to unfold he chose to keep close to Isle Royale and the Ontario shore. Our last communication from them was a message from McSorley to fellow freighter Arthur M. Anderson at 7.10 pm.
“We are holding our own,” they said.
It’s haunting to know that at this very moment fifty years ago they were probably in great spirits in good water, bringing the ship back on the last run of the 1975 season, looking forward to spending the winter at home.
Tomorrow, on the 50th anniversary of the sinking, the Detroit Mariners’ Church bells will ring 30 times — once for each of the souls lost to the lake and once for Gordon Lightfoot, who brought a somber remembrance and immortality to them all.
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If you were never allowed to eat one of these foods ever again, which would you sacrifice?
Eggs
Cheese
Bread
Cake
Biscuits/Cookies
Chocolate
Ice-cream
Cereal
Peanut butter
Marshmallows
Fruit
Potatoes
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This is very cool and will have an immediate positive impact for families. Idea very much originated in Finland but great to see it spreading.
Baby boxes contain everything from clothing, nappies/diapers, books, thermometers, baby wraps, muslins, a changing mat, nursing pads, information for new parents, and condoms.
The box itself acts also as a bed for the baby to sleep in.
This is so important to me. I have always been in favour of the idea, but getting one of these baby boxes really reinforced to me how good a thing it is.
I’d been living in the US and Germany for over a decade before moving to Scotland in 2018 when I was 30 weeks pregnant, and not settling into a home and getting signed up with a GP until like 35 weeks. I thought there was no way I’d get one, but they made it happen.
I used everything in it SO MUCH. The play mat. The toys. The portable changing kit. The carrying wrap. The clothes. The EAR THERMOMETER (invaluable in 2020, as it turned out). And immediately I had several observations about it:
1. It was a big equalizing and bonding factor between new parents. Almost everyone I saw was using the baby box gear, so there was no visible differentiation between parents with lots of money and parents with very little. We all had the same stuff. And you’d share a smile with fellow parents when you both had your baby in the same outfit or tucked into the same carrier.
2. Seeing charity shops full of those items and realizing no one needed them because everyone with a baby already had their own. This was a real reminder of the success of the program, making sure everyone had what they needed, but I wish I’d had the wherewithal to organize something—since those items don’t need to be passed on or handed down within Scotland (since everyone has them), I remember thinking it would be good to collect them up and send them on elsewhere afterwards. Baby gear has so much life still in it after it’s used, especially things like play mats and carriers.
3. It made me feel INCREDIBLY welcomed and included. I’d been in Scotland for a handful of months when my baby was born, but I was treated like someone who’d lived here for years. I remember feeling deeply emotional about it. They included a poem in the box which to this day I can’t read without BAWLING. It sounds stupid but the poem was one of the most impactful inclusions for me as a newcomer. https://www.nurseryworld.co.uk/media/lnbjz4ok/welcome-wee-one-poem.jpg
Everyone deserves this. It’s such a simple way to give all babies a good start. I hope parents in NYC are able to get it.
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This is what happens when you’re still on tumblr as an adult, you start reblogging shit like this
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you have to be a weird little freak or the world will eat you alive
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ALTStrange haunted photo where Winifred looks like she’s a painting
I have placed her in a more fitting setting
For the first time in my tenure on tumblr, it’s “THAT’S A PHOTOGRAPH?” and not “THAT’S AN OIL PAINTING?”
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WYLE IS NOT PROTECTABLE has me in tears omg
Framing “Wyle is Not Protectable” on my wall.
Watch out, Wyle.
Lmfaooo, I fucking love him so much. This is amazing!
