Aimee Pepper
@artbypep
Artist, designer, and crafter of all sorts of nifty things. ✨✨✨ Support me on Patreon! http://patreon.com/artbypep/ ✨✨✨ http://twitch.tv/artbypep
If someone is giving you the secrets of their success, make sure you're judging their success relative to their underlying attributes and starting line I see lots of people handing advice out here who are doing fairly well, but underperforming relative to expectation
Is there a way to solve for this (keeping women safe) that doesn’t end up getting weaponized by retributive people and then blowing up and harming the people if was meant to protect in the first place?
the timeline: - tea app is created to protect women from real abusers - the app goes viral and a flood of women join it to spread less relevant gossip (the tea app’s name and branding kind of made this inevitable) - many people, both men and women, get rightfully worried that…
"thank you for choosing amtrak" no problem there are no other trains
android earthquake alerts are actually cool in how they work i assumed that they were just getting reporting data from the USGS or similar services and sending notifications out based on that data but they are actually interpreting accelerometer data each phone samples…
“Cheese on the beach” was prescription medicine back the 1700s to heal all varieties of maladies. Bring back cheeses on the beaches.
Okay so... I want to elaborate: I am currently in a very weird place in life. Less than three months ago the "stable" vision for my future was utterly shattered. I found myself living in another state, with family I typically see 1x/year, unemployed, single, etc.
advice to self I am slowly integrating: others’ goals are not yours, and only yours matter.
This is phenomenal. Whoever convinced the board “No seriously, this is how you play it” is an all star I want to know: -Who was the agency that pitched it? -Was the board all in or did it take work? -Did they already have Coldplay Ex-wife Paltrow onboard when they pitched?
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They don't make them like this anymore.
Kind of obsessed with Switzerland’s postage stamp made with cement pigments that’s a tribute to concrete.
Acetaminophen/paracetamol (tylenol) is much scarier than we give it credit for.
This came on after a video I watched on purpose but actually it’s really cool? Pretty low hanging fruit out there to increase connection in the world, for those w disposable income and this kind of time
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Thread of basically magical things it is actually possible to teach yourself: (I definitely want to add to this thread, please send me more!!) (Also if anyone has permanently improved their working memory plz tell me about it)
yepp. the number of learnable skills described as genetic is obscene
The STATUESQUE pose in the last frame…🪡
Nadja Auermann & Kristen McMenamy in ‘The Two Tall Women’ for ✨Atelier Versace✨ Spring/Summer 1995 in the lens of Richard Avedon. 🪡
My house caught on fire when I was like 12 on vacation and I remember my dad getting the call, listening, hanging up then telling me and fam and saying “i guess we better enjoy the rest of this vacation!” Incredible power move, massive impact on my life. Still grateful
Not disagreeing, shit is hard but I always think of that tweet that was like there’s a world of a difference between people who grew up with parents who just handled things vs parents who treated every inconvenience as a tragedy because it rewired my brain 💀
You’re going to want to read this if you haven’t yet
"Okay, so imagine a magic button." "I'm imagining the button." "If you press the button—" "What color is it?" "It's the only button. It doesn't matter what color it is." "Nah, I ain't falling for that again. Last time there was a red button and a blue button—" "That's a…