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dating profiles

thx @boniatoto for the idea

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moving on up in the world

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checking emails at 5 am

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I will be there beside you through The lonely nights that fall So close your eyes, remember my embrace I will be there like mercy; I will find you through it all This do I swear, I will be there

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I will glow right into you

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more isterik, if you're interested 🖤🤍

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a public reunion.

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Locus sub sole - kcd2 comic

I hope you enjoyed

I wanted to draw a cozy one to calm myself down :)

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would zuko give the blue spirit a full pardon after the war is over or do you think he would mess with everyone and raise the bounty even higher

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—Andrea Gibson, "Good Light," Lord of the Butterflies

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Two Women Teaching a Child to walk by Rembrandt.

Circa 1640, sketch

British Museum, London

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The mussel mommy I’ve been trying to hit up: When I was a youngster this stream had never been dammed before! Am I happy that after 50 years brown trout like you can once again incubate my babies :)

Me [heard “incubate my babies” and got so hard I feel nauseous]: I think I hauve glochidia

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real and fake

[ID: A two-panel "pills that make you green" comic, showing two crudely drawn stick figures, one plain black, the other green.

Panel 1 shows the plain figure has their hands in the air, saying, "I mean, of course I support real green people, but-" and is interrupted by the green figure, who says, "Bullshit." The plain figure says, "what". Green continues, "Bull. Shit. I don't believe you. You don't support any green people.".

Panel 2 zooms in on the green figure's face as they say, "Every time you creeps start trying to decide who's a 'real' and 'fake' green person, it eventually boils down to the ones you like being 'real', but always at risk of being downgraded to 'fake' if they get sick of your shit".

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do you recognize this cassava flour?

if you eat anthony's cassava flour regularly, lead safe mama says: stop eating it immediately and try to get to a doctor to get your blood lead levels checked. put the cassava flour in an additional bag, mark it as unsafe to eat, but do not throw it out. the lead levels are so high that there might be a recall and there might be a major lawsuit.

some of you may have seen my post about bob's red mill cassava flour containing a LOT of lead. anthony's cassava flour has lead levels several times higher.

consumer reports tested bob's red mill cassava flour at 333 ppb. lead safe mama tested bob's red mill cassava flour at 303 ppb of lead. anthony's cassava flour tested at 1,178.5 ppb of lead. the proposed action level for children is 5 ppb of lead. anthony's organic cassava flour also tested high for arsenic and cadmium.

The amount of Lead found in this Anthony’s Organic cassava flour product is incredibly alarming and we are filing a report with the FDA to request a formal investigation and recall of this product. Children (and even larger humans) who have been consuming this product on a regular basis will likely test positive for Lead in their blood. We encourage anyone who has been consuming this (or any other Lead-contaminated product) to ask their doctor about getting a Blood Lead Level (BLL) test as a baseline immediately, especially if you have not had one recently — more on that here. If you have some of this product in your pantry, please set it aside in a separate baggie clearly marked DO NOT EAT and find your purchase receipt (if possible) to put in the baggie as well. Please also stand by for any potential formal recalls or potential litigation against the company. Do not throw out this important evidence as it could be helpful to others. Thank you.

lead safe mama posted these results on april 30, 2025. as of july 23rd 2025, I (rune) have still not seen any recalls of any anthony's products.

more information, what you can do to help, and how to find lower lead options here.

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Archival Horror

I keep coming back to this concept in my head that is both a story and a concept for how a story could be told.

Part of the idea is that a collection of archival material is used as a framing device. Found footage horror is not new, and there would be some of that, and I also think of things like the SCP Foundation where the framing device is a collection of documents that are nonfiction in-universe.

But with my idea, the key concept is that the medium is an archive: it is a sprawling collection of material, the reader's questions are the only direction for how to navigate it, most of it is mundane or boring, and the sheer amount of material makes closely reading or consuming all of it impractical.

Originally, the idea was a collection of video footage shot by a person apparently wandering alone through the woods. I was interested in the idea of telling a story through video footage that was too long, and mostly too boring, for a single person to completely watch. Imagine something like 30 hours of footage, mostly showing the forest floor as the person holding the camera walks through the woods. The viewer would have to skip through the footage, or let it play in the background while they were doing other activities, and this would inevitably lead to an understanding of the footage that was incomplete, possibly leading to different interpretations as different viewers paid attention to or simply happened upon different parts of the videos.

But then I started to think of other things found in archives: photographs, maps, objects, interviews, letters, reports, newspaper clippings, audio clips. Collections can be digitized in an infinite number of ways, allowing a story told in this format to be as close as I wanted to the experience of exploring an actual archive.

And then I started writing up some mock "archival materials" for another WIP of mine, and I started thinking of the "archival horror" concept again.

In an epistolary novel, the "materials" are arranged in an order that causes them to tell a specific story. I am thinking of something closer to the experience of actually doing research in an archive: coming in with an inquiry, being brought a bunch of nondescript boxes, leafing through a dense, poorly organized collection of mostly irrelevant material.

I don't want there to be any obvious plot hooks, or a single "plot" at all. There are characters, settings, and events, but the "plot" is the series of revelations the reader comes to as they explore their inquiries, about "what happened" and "what narrative is this document trying to present, and why" and "what is not being said" and possibly why the documents are organized or presented in the way that they are in the first place.

The "beginning" of the story could be a mock encyclopedia/"wikipedia" type article explaining a key event or setting, and then there could be like a search bar or box that returns different materials, or a directory of different topics and formats, or both.

some thoughts on the story

There is A Bad Thing that happened. That fact is out in the open: there was an evil science organization that did human experimentation, something along those lines. There are grisly details of the Bad Things as well, if you dig. The mystery is not "what happened." The mystery is "where is What Happened hiding in all these nice normal photographs and articles about things and people that are nice and normal? How is What Happened connected to the dull, mundane contents of 99% of these boxes?"

a lot of the materials are completely worthless in terms of answering concrete questions, but literally everything has ideological implications in the fact that it was recorded at all.

a possible way to navigate the story is to find the names of people and hunt down all materials that pertain to that person, discovering the story of a "character." some characters will have a wealth of information, and some almost none. A lot of stories that ARE told are totally vapid. A lot of stories that AREN'T told say everything.

early on, you start to think you're figuring everything out. then, further on, you start to realize that the reality has to be 10 times worse and more evil than you were told starting out. But there are no articles and papers clearly acknowledging this, there is just you and your theories pieced together from fragments of documents in a dusty basement