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“In the microbial world, there is no purity. That’s totally a human construct. In a lot of commercial winemaking, you might use little chemicals to sterilize the grape juice and then you can introduce the single strain of yeast that’s been propagated into that. But that’s a real departure from the long history of winemaking that just works with the large group of organisms that are there. And then also the contrasting concept is contamination. Everyone’s always freaking out with their fermentation, wondering: how do I protect it from contamination? But contamination’s everywhere. Everything is contaminated, so it’s really about encouraging enough growth of the organisms that are producing, let’s say, the acids which are going to protect it from the random growth of other organisms on it. So purity is impossible and contamination is inevitable. And even with those factors fermentation has been practiced in every part of the world for thousands of years.”

— Sandor Katz, for Emergence Magazine.

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"There's no hope for the future." And that's how they felt during the Atomic Age, during the World Wars, during the Enlightenment Revolutions, during thr plagues, during the Viking raids, during the fall of Rome.

Yet, we persisted.

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I’d trade you this Dr.Pepper for the cup

delete money from the game. back to bartering, bitchass

­Shit ok I have a cup and an old hat

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My Top Ten Music Groups of the Last Year

1.) Kneecap

2. Destroy Boys

3. Devil Makes Three

4. Heidevolk

5. Red Army Choir

6. Woody Guthrie

7. Sig Figs Collective

8. MF DOOM

9. The Wolfe Tones

10. Penelope Scott

Right below 10: Pete Seeger, Nxdia, Sorry Mom, The Crane Wives, Fit for Rivals, Toby Fox, Sylvaine, Dead South, DISEMBODIED TYRANT/SYNESTIA, Reverend Payton's Big Damn Band, TYR, Heilung, Warundra.

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"gambling addiction" is kind of like if people regularly opened pits with spikes at the bottom in public areas and made lots of money from people falling into the pit and so they started greasing the edges and putting these pits in every public space and lobbying to be allowed to install them in people's homes and when someone fell into the greased spike pit in their house they said "oh thats so tragic, they had an addiction to deadly spikes, we obviously support everyone having a safe and healthy responsible relationship with the greased spike pits we're building"

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not siobhan fully breaking brennan by solving this riddle over the course of mere minutes

bonus:

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Brennan: I'm gonna make a little code in a fake language and give them just the tiniest clue of how they might crack it and it’ll be a tantalizing little mystery for them

Siobhan:

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Orion

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they got tired and took a nap

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The top 10 games I’ve enjoyed the most in the last year:

1. Red Dead Redemption 2

2. Dungeons and Dragons 5e

3. Deltarune

4. Minecraft

5. Apex Legends

6. Team Fortress 2

7. Hellblade: Sauna’s Sacrifice

8. Battlefront 2 (2005)

9. Questioning my identity

10. AO3

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The Illusionist 💫 The Scoundrel 🍾 The Siphoner 🩸 The Performer 🎭

Happy Pride to The Hidden Isle’s character classes 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

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FLASHING WARNING

i know im the billionth person to do something like this but whatever!!! whatever !!!!

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dolly varden bear fish

𓆝 𓆟 𓆞 𓆟 𓆝

this thang is full of meat!!!! :P

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The inglorious mask

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Fig and Sandra Lynn in Heartache on the Celestine Sea

a.k.a. THE Complicated Women👆

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Ways I Show a Character is Emotionally Burned Out (Before They Even Realize It Themselves)

I love writing characters who think they’re fine but are actually walking emotional house fires with bad coping mechanisms.

They stop doing the things they used to love and don’t even notice. Their guitar gathers dust. Their favorite podcast becomes background noise. Their hobbies feel like homework now.

They pick the path of least resistance every time, even when it hurts them. No, they don’t want to go to that thing. No, they don’t want to talk to that person. But whatever’s easier. That’s the motto now.

They’re tired but can’t sleep. Or they sleep but wake up more tired. Classic burnout move: lying in bed with their brain racing like a toddler on espresso.

They give other people emotional advice they refuse to take themselves. “You have to set boundaries!” they say—while ignoring 8 texts from someone they should’ve cut off three emotional breakdowns ago.

They cry at something stupidly small. Like spilling soup. Or a dog in a commercial. Or losing their pen. The soup is never just soup.

They say “I’m just tired” like it’s a personality trait now. And not like… emotionally drained to the bone but afraid to admit it out loud.

They ghost people they love, not out of malice, but because even replying feels like too much. Social battery? Absolutely obliterated. Texting back feels like filing taxes.

They stop reacting to big things. Catastrophes get a blank stare. Disasters feel like “just another Tuesday.” The well of feeling is running dry.

They avoid being alone with their own thoughts. Constant noise. TV always on. Music blasting. Because silence = reckoning, and reckoning is terrifying.

They start hoping something will force them to stop. An accident. A missed deadline. Someone else finally telling them, “You need a break.” Because asking for help? Unthinkable.