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martio64 lover

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people: tarantulas are so scary how can you keep them as pets, aren't you worried they'll attack you?

my tarantula, who's been sitting in a stress pose for 6 hours because I filled her water bowl and it scared her:

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Bearded Dragon

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Xena Warrior Princess 3.05 Gabrielle's hope

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i think the near-extinction of people making fun, deep and/or unique interactive text-based browser games, projects and stories is catastrophic to the internet. i'm talking pre-itch.io era, nothing against it.

there are a lot of fun ones listed here and here but for the most part, they were made years ago and are now a dying breed. i get why. there's no money in it. factoring in the cost of web hosting and servers, it probably costs money. it's just sad that it's a dying art form.

anyway, here's some of my favorite browser-based interactive projects and games, if you're into that kind of thing. 90% of them are on the lists that i linked above.

A Better World - create an alternate history timeline

Alter Ego - abandonware birth-to-death life simulator game

Seedship - text-based game about colonizing a new planet

Sandboxels or ThisIsSand - free-falling sand physics games

Little Alchemy 2 - combine various elements to make new ones

Infinite Craft - kind of the same as Little Alchemy

ZenGM - simulate sports

Tamajoji - browser-based tamagotchi

IFDB - interactive fiction database (text adventure games)

Written Realms - more text adventure games with a user interface

The Cafe & Diner - mystery game

The New Campaign Trail - US presidential campaign game

Money Simulator - simulate financial decisions

Genesis - text-based adventure/fantasy game

Level 13 - text-based science fiction adventure game

Miniconomy - player driven economy game

Checkbox Olympics - games involving clicking checkboxes

BrantSteele.net - game show and Hunger Games simulators

Murder Games - fight to the death simulator by Orteil

Cookie Clicker - different but felt weird not including it. by Orteil.

if you're ever thinking about making a niche project that only a select number of individuals will be nerdy enough to enjoy, keep in mind i've been playing some of these games off and on for 20~ years (Alter Ego, for example). quite literally a lifetime of replayability.

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Posted by Steven Payne to Facebook group British Medieval History:

People in the Middle Ages valued sweet smelling breath and bodies, seeing them as desirable, so there is a great deal of evidence from the period of tooth pastes, powders and deodorants. Contrary to the typical Hollywood depiction of medieval peasants with blackened and rotting teeth, the average person had teeth which were in fairly good condition, mainly due to the rarity of sugar in the diet. Most medieval people could not afford sugar and those who could used it sparingly. Archaeological data shows that only 20% of teeth had signs of decay, as opposed to 90% in the early twentieth century. The main dental problem for medieval people was not decay but wear, due to a high content of grit in the main staple, bread. For deodorants, soap was available for the wealthy, but a variety of herbs and other preparations were also used. Soapwort is a plant native to Europe and Asia which, when soaked in water, produces an effective liquid soap. Mint, cloves and thyme were also extensively used by simply rubbing into the skin, and alum (hydrated potassium aluminium sulphate) was an effective deodorant. I am trying to keep to 14th century technology on my pilgrimage to Canterbury, which gives me various options when looking at hygiene. In the middle ages people generally cleaned their teeth by rubbing them and their gums with a rough linen cloth, or the chewed end of a stick. There are various recipes for pastes and powders that could be put on the cloth to help clean the teeth, but I have chosen simple salt to whiten them and to aid fresh breath. I will also be using the stick method, and will be taking along a supply of liquorice root sticks for that purpose. I also have a few blocks of alum, which when rubbed into wet skin has a deodorising effect. Alum, like beeswax, was used extensively in the middle ages for a variety of purposes, also being useful: * in the purification of drinking water as a flocculant * as a styptic to stop bleeding from minor cuts * as a pickling agent to help keep pickles crisp * as a flame retardant * as an ingredient in modelling clay * as an ingredient in cosmetics and skin whiteners * as an ingredient in some brands of toothpaste The photograph shows my wash kit including home made olive oil soap, salt for the teeth, a block of deodorising alum, cloves, a boxwood comb made for me by Peter Crossman of Crossman Crafts and some liquorice root sticks, all on a woollen ‘towel’. Note that the cloves are kept in a ventilated box….this is because insects hate the smell of cloves and so a perforated box will keep them out of my kit and food bag when I am sleeping rough. TIP: If you steep some cloves to obtain the oil and put the liquid around the doors and windows of your house, it keeps spiders and insects out.

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Bots!

They seem to keep finding my posts and attaching comments with links or silly things. I won't be the only one obviously but it's new for activity on my account.

I'm making sure I report and block them asap so hopefully they're not bothering anyone! I might be being presumptive that people will read posts/comments, but I just wanted to let anyone who might know who does, know that I'm trying to make sure it's not impacting you as much as possible.

Boop for anyone who made it this far or just for anyone who is here x3 hope you're having a good day!

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Collected diagrams from the first volume of The Luminance of Explication and Mysteries of Proof in the Understanding of the Paradigms of the Science of Weights and Measures, a 14th century text on cosmology and metrology by Arabic alchemist and polymath Aidamur Ibn Jaldakī.

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Still, I whispered amen against the lips of the devil

- Luna Rae Duvall | MyMourningMoth 🥀

Found on Pinterest

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The original plan was to color this one, but I wanted to see how it would look with "a little hatching" and things got out of control. I still plan on coloring it, though it might take a while.

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Muxe 💕

Zapotec culture in Oaxaca, Muxe means a person born male behaves and dresses associated with women.

Most commonly seen as the third gender but most Muxe see the term to identify themselves differently in defiance of western culture since there is more than just being the third gender.

It is highly respected in the Zapotec community and celebrated for three days call Vela de Las Intrepidas.

Even though they are highly respected in the Zapotec culture, they still have struggles because of history tracing back to the conquistadors setting up European standards that still affect the indigenous people in the Muxe community today.

Dispute the struggles they still celebrate their identity and never give up there Zapotec language/Culture.

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For my Zapotec Oc, which his name is Gozio, identifies himself as male but always pays homage towards the Muxe community by publicly wear his traditional dress and make up during ’La Guelaguetza’ and the annual celebration of ‘Vela de Las Intrepidas.’

Not only that, his long hair braid tied with a red ribbon represents the Muxe community.

Gozio always defied forced gender roles and has taught his daughter when she was younger weaving, (which is typically a woman roll to teach young girls to weave).

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Friend group chats are fun. Today one of my friends, who keeps pet crayfish, found babies in a tank that was supposed to be a males only. No choice but to empty out the whole tank to fish out the babies of unknowable origins. But lo and behold, there was a culprit: one teeny tiny little female had somehow escaped containment, evidently specifically going out of her way to break into this all male tank to get railed by like 15 males twice her size. Possibly completely different breed, too. Monsterfucker supreme.

So for a good solid hour or so, the whole group chat was focused on. slutshaming this one specific little crustacean. With like 300 babies.