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NOW WITH EVA:

Evangeline (Eva): friendly to everyone, naughty, pranks all of the students and ESPECIALLY the teachers, confident, but also goofy. She has a chronic health condition but she doesn't let it stop her "criminal activities", and she is also decently popular and can make people laugh even if she didn't mean something to be funny. Has no grace and falls off surfaces constantly, definitely sleeps in class. Her grades are so-so because she doesn't use a lot of brainpower for school.

new meme: describe your pet(s) as a high school student

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A jackal showing off 🔥 for someone on bsky

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Motherfuckers on TikTok will be saying "If trans men can be lesbians trans women can be gay" as a gotcha to me saying trans men can be lesbians and like ....did you think that was a valid gotcha moment? Because obviously I also support them?? Why would THAT be crossing a line for me? It's just the opposite version of lesboys.

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A good example of the problem with what YouTube is doing by pushing "an experiment to improve video quality with traditional machine learning".

It fundamentally changes how the artwork actually looks and makes it's own decisions on how to "improve" it.

bonus for a laugh

A brief list of fun things YouTube has done in the past for their users:

Make videos harder to monetize,

make videos easier to get demonetized for saying certain "adult" words (like suicide, rape, or pedophilia, making legitimate videos discussing these topics into a clown show because they have to censor the words or god forbid say "grape" and "unalive"),

make it easy for false companies to instigate copyright takedowns of things they don't own,

censoring (just refusing to post/show) comments that mention certain topics like 'feminism' or other 'hot topics' even if it's a serious and legitimate discussion,

don't allow people to block channels or users,

demonetizing and unlisting videos posting LGBTQIA+ topics [https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/lgbtq-youtube-lawsuit-censorship-877919/],

forcefully change how media is categorized (Someone's video was changed to 'for kids' simply when it has 'mickey mouse' in it and youtube would not let them change it back),

most recently the AI AGE VERIFICATION

auto dubbing

This AI "upscaling" horseshit

Rolling out a whole gen AI shorts program that will flood youtube with garbage.

I can't imagine that all of these changes they keep making that NO one can opt out of that use even more resources are somehow more efficient or improve quality of life. I have zero faith that YouTube is doing this as an 'oopsie my bad' when their track record has been garbage for about 10 years.

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fanart so upsettingly good it makes you get up and pace around your room in shellshocked silence

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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 😭😭

edit after

@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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I am begging the FDA to require that companies CANNOT just put "spices" as an ingredient but have to label the spices.

"Spices" can mean "this has some oregano and black pepper in it" or it can mean "this has cumin cayenne and paprika and if you eat this you will be sick in bed in pain for a week" for me.

Seriously, this is an allergy issue and a huge oversight on the part of corporations.

Require detailed labeling of spices used in packaged foods NOW.

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sorta funny how many cis people seem to think being an ally just means like. not actively commiting hate crimes. "i'm an ally i'm just worried that hrt is dangerous and i dont like when they shove pride right in our faces and i think all this sjw stuff in movies is unrealistic and im worried about the children-" okay. so i dont think you know what that word means,

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Nothing is funnier to me than ppl with rly wild jobs still just being people and having long tired mornings like everyone else. Just heard a doctor in the lab say “I have to go do some cloning” with the same level of enthusiasm I use to say I’m gonna do the dishes.

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Ricky Potts with these

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3x winner of Scotland’s Strongest Woman contest and first woman to ever lift the Dinnie Stones, Emmajane Smith

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People who complain about how the internet used to be so wild and free and interesting are too young to remember that clicking on any link used to come with a 50% chance of blowing your eardrums out as a dozen pop-up ads all started blaring "YOU WON!" at you while auto-downloading malware that would brick your computer

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normalise saying ''what the fuck is wrong with you'' to mean people

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like thunder over the mountains

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everyone, meet the horse that gave me advice in my dream. advice horse, everyone.

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at some point you have to realize that you actually have to read to understand the nuance of anything. we as a society are obsessed with summarization, likely as a result of the speed demanded by capital. from headlines to social media (twitter being especially egregious with the character limit), people take in fragments of knowledge and run with them, twisting their meaning into a kaleidoscope that dilutes the message into nothing. yes, brevity is good, but sometimes the message, even when communicated with utmost brevity, requires a 300 page book. sorry.

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my advice to you is to never waste your time trying to fit into a club or hobby or any community who makes you beg for acceptance and approval just to participate when you could do the alternative—get involved in a niche and endangered hobby run primarily by old people.

i wanted to learn how to hunt ruffed grouse and train bird dogs so i sent an email to my local chapter of the ruffed grouse society explaining that getting into wildlife groups is intimidating to me because I’m trans

and all they saw was that someone under 60 wanted to learn to hunt grouse & several months into my mentorship I was told that like 7 old guys argued over me until they had to pick a number between 1 and 100 to decide who got to personally mentor me.

imagine vying for the acceptance of some gatekeeping weirdos when your mere interest could be inciting verbal combat among retirees