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looks inside procrastination -> it's anxiety -> looks inside anxiety -> it's fear -> looks inside fear -> it's shame

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Robert Wun Spring 2024 Haute Couture

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a little painting inspired by Ophiuchus, a constellation sometimes referred to as the '13th Zodiac: the Serpent Bearer' ✨

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prints | tutorials | my artbook

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What if we were three girls and we were all bisexual?

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"exercise will give you more energy" gets said a lot as a common piece of health advice but I think it needs to be expanded into "exercising will make you tired while you do it, and you will continue to be tired immediately afterwards, sometimes even the next day too, but over months of consistent exercise, your muscles will get stronger and therefore get less tired out by everyday activities, making you feel like day-to-day life takes less physical energy than it used to"

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i think that killing a dragon should have catastrophic nuclear-fallout level environmental consequences tbh. their blood should scorch and wither the earth with fire and poison, the toxic fumes released as they decay should choke the land and all nearby living creatures, and the entire landscape where they fell should be transformed into a blighted wasteland where bleached leviathan bones loom upwards out of the ground as a warning that can be seen from miles away, the boundary markers of an exclusion zone.

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haunted by a ghost you can’t remember

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My love for you--the love we share--is sacred, in a secular way.

Sacred like a field or an apple orchard at dawn, blanketed with mist and birdsong and otherwise silence, a world still waking up, a peachy golden glow lighting the edges of the leaves and stalks with morning fire.

Sacred like an old growth forest, wet and cool and ancient, like moss hanging from branches signaling that here in this place the air is clean and safe and you can breathe deeply of the prehistory surrounding you.

Sacred like moonlight on freshly fallen snow in the pitch black of winter night, when all the world is muffled under the crisp hushed crunch and your breath is caught by starlight, and if you hold your breath and strain your ears you can hear the singing of the aurora borealis.

Sacred like towering mountains, wreathed in clouds and sunlight, roots running deep, teeming with life, echoing back the songs and sounds of life as they stand in silent living witness to the passage of time.

Sacred like the humming of bees in a flower garden under mid-afternoon sun with the scent of tomato leaves and sweet peas in your nostrils.

Sacred like giddy laughter shared after too much wine with your dearest friends and the way the world seems to glow and shine and beat back the encroaching dark.

Sacred like the inexorable hushing of the tide and the calls of the gulls, like the blow and breath of a diving whale an arm's length from your boat, like the world reflected back at you from an ancient eye shining up through light-dappled waves.

Sacred like the trust of a purring cat, who hates everyone and everything, but still curls up into a tiny soft croissant and passes out in restful sleep at your hip on the bedspread.

All those things and more; nothing to do with religion or faith or ancient systems of oppression, yet undeniably sacred all the same, and just as worthy--more worthy!--of dedicated and single-minded devotion.

That's what our love is, to me.

That's what loving you is.

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Dagger (42.5 cm) with skeleton/death hilt, France 19th c.[534x800]

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i think it's important to acknowledge that the reason why mastercard/visa has such a stranglehold on american society is because cash is not the main form of payment in the usa. the predominance of card has effectively privatized currency

in japan, one of the reasons why dlsite and other similar websites are able to just remove visa as a payment option instead of changing any of their merchandise (aside from the fact that visa doesn't have a monopoly here) is because cash payments for online transactions remain an option. even if you don't have a jcb credit card or paypay or whatever, you can still pay for your online purchases using cash by taking your barcode to a convenience store, and you can do this for essentially every online vendor, meaning credit card companies can't just impose their moral judgments on your purchases with much repercussion

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Bank of America is actually using the word “stagflation” apparently.

I do not under any circumstances “have to hand it to” Bank of America, but it’s interesting to see people actually talking about the obvious for once.

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why are so many canners so determined to get botulism 😭

"our great grandmas fed their entire families with their knowledge. they didn't need the government telling them how to do it."

great grandma also lost babies for want of vitamin k shots and antibiotics and would have had fewer babies to start with if she'd had the option to access birth control.

great grandma did the best with what she had and knew.

why can't we do the same 😭😭

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@princessxombie an excellent point!

the reason for a preference of bottled lemon juice over fresh squeezed for canning (as reported through the Iowa State University Extension and Outreach): "It is a USDA recommendation that bottled lemon juice be used.  And consistent with the recommendation, reputable canning sources will agree that the best source of lemon juice for canning is commercially bottled lemon juice, as opposed to the juice of a fresh lemon. The reason for the recommendation is that bottled lemon juice has been uniformly acidified or standardized per FDA regulations: “lemon juice prepared from concentrate must have a titratable acidity content of not less than 4.5 percent, by weight, calculated as anhydrous citrus acid.” With a guaranteed pH...there is a consistent and known acid level which is essential for the critical safety margin in canning low-acid foods and for making jams gel properly. "

as for resources:

the usda guide to canning (revised in 2015). you used to be able to find it on the usda website but for SOME reason (two guesses as to why 🙄) that website is now routing to a broken error 404 page not found. fortunately, it's available other places! here it is hosted on the internet archive! if you want it printed in color and spiral-bound, you can also purchase it for $25 from perdue university.

if you want more resources, the university of utah has a whole section of their preserve the harvest extension website dedicated to safe food storage practices including freeze drying, fermenting, drying, etc.

ball (the mason jar company) also has a section of their website dedicated to canning 101, including the basic process, recipes, a glossary of terms, and videos for their tutorials if you're a visual learner. they also offer free online recipes broken down in a way that's meant to be easy even for new canners.

go forth and enjoy canning without giving yourself and others botulism, friends.

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the major

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the cultural object of the black hole is kind of remarkable. It's almost an anti-God in a sense, a negative infinity. Yeah there's this kind of dead sun that's collapsed into an infinitely dense point, and if you fall past its event horizon you're fucked. Every schoolchild knows this. A black hole can be introduced in a superhero blockbuster without any explanation except for its established look and the name "black hole", and this will be understood as the ultimate natural disaster, which even superman could not hope to defeat. truly S-tier cosmic object

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Another rainy day by モモ