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Hey don't cry, okay? We just found Attenborough’s long-beaked echidna, a species thought to be extinct for the past 60 years.

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im a bad person who thinks bad thoughts like ‘ew what is that girl wearing’ and then remember that im supposed to be positive about all things and then think ‘no she can wear what she wants, fuck what other people say damn girl u look fabulous’ and im just a teeny bit hypocritical tbh

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Haunted Books

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“Rent prices have exceeded income gains by 325 percent”

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Hi! I have every disease! Do you want one?

How about you follow me to this special room

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saying ao3 needs to censor certain content is like saying a museum can't have still life art that includes strawberries because you don't like them.

these are not real strawberries. you do not have to, and in fact cannot, eat them. no one with a strawberry allergy will be harmed by looking at them. no migrant workers were exploited in the picking of these strawberries. there were no questionable farming practices or negative environmental impacts from growing or transporting them.

because - and i cannot stress this enough - they are not real strawberries.

if you don't like strawberries, you don't have to look at the paintings. in fact, you can get a map of the museum that lists what works are in what rooms and just. not go in there. if you see one by mistake, you can look away. just keep walking. there's plenty of other stuff to see.

yes, real strawberries can cause real quantifiable harm to real people.

but again. these are not real strawberries.

you may have whatever feelings you like about strawberries, and so can i. you can draw and write about whatever fruit floats your boat, and so can i, even if that happens to be strawberries. and we can hang our art side by side in the same gallery, provided you understand that my strawberries are not about you (and your kumquats are, shocker, not about me) and that - and this is true - neither are real.

and when the fascists break down the doors and grab all the strawberry paintings and heap them in the street and set them on fire, please know that they are coming for your kumquats next.

so if you want a place where you can show off your beautiful kumquat art safely, you're gonna have to tolerate having some strawberries in the next room.

and that's okay. because the strawberries aren't real.

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I also think a really important part of working with omens is outlining for yourself what does count.

Don't just make guidelines for what discredits/discounts potential omens.

Also make guidelines for what validates them! If you're going to make The Powers That Be play frogger with your discrediting hammer, also give them a path to success. Give your omens win conditions.

Your omen is "black oak tree". What counts?

"I accept this omen is true if..."

I see the black oak species of tree referenced in everyday life (*not native to my area)

I see artwork of a black-colored deciduous tree that at least looks like an oak

I have at least 1 serendipitous** encounter where the word/color black and the word/tree oak are both featured

If partial omens are received that I'm unsure about, it will be validated if I also dream about a black oak, or a striking combination of black things combined with oak trees

**serendipitous: strangely fortunate, unusually lucky, surprisingly coincidental

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sorry if i’m being a party pooper but because rabies is apparently the new joke on here ??? please remember that rabies has an almost 100% fatality rate after symptoms develop so if you’re bitten or scratched by an animal that you aren’t 100% sure is vaccinated then GO TO A DOCTOR. it’s not a joke. really. 

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Hey, this is important and I'm gonna use up spoons I maybe shouldn't to spread awareness of this because it's that important! There is a wide-reaching heat dome expected over the next 3-5 days (as of 6/20/2025). Especially if you and your loved ones are immunocompromised, elderly, pregnant, or disabled, take precautions to stay safe. Stay inside with the AC on as much as you can. If you don't have AC, look now for a library, cooling center, or another community space that has it where you can spend as much time as possible in over the next several days. If you do have to be outside, limit your time outside, hydrate well with electrolytes, wear sunscreen and reapply it as needed, and wear loose fitting and light colored clothing so it doesn't absorb as much heat. Check on your friends and loved ones, especially those who are at high risk. Familiarize yourself with the symptoms of heat exhaustion and heat stroke and what to do about them.

Also, Dr. Rubin (and his wife, who's really cool and smart too) is on multiple platforms, including Instagram and Substack spreading awareness of health issues and what's going on with public health in the US. I've found them both to be good sources of reliable information in an accessible manner. He also has a book on allergies and allergic diseases coming out, if that's something you'd be interested in learning more about. People like @thebibliosphere, I'm not sure if it's going to talk about MCAS, but he does talk about it in some of his videos.

"Signs of heat stroke

High body temperature

Hot, red, dry or damp skin

Fast, strong pulse

Headache

Dizziness

Nausea

Confusion

Passing out

Heat stroke occurs when the body is unable to regulate its temperature. This happens when the sweating mechanism fails and the body cannot cool down, according to the CDC.

Having a heat stroke can cause the body temperature to rise to 106°F or higher within 10 to 15 minutes.

How to treat someone with heat stroke

If you see any of the listed signs, call 911 immediately because a heat stroke can be life-threatening. Then move the person to a shady area and cool them off with something, but do not give them anything to drink.

Signs of heat exhaustion

Heavy sweating

Cold, pale and clammy skin

Fast, weak pulse

Nausea or vomiting

Muscle cramps

Tired or weakness

Dizziness

Headache

Fainting

How to treat someone with heat exhaustion

Move the person to a cool place, and give them some water to sip. Some cooling methods include wetting the skin, soaking clothing with cool water, or giving them a cold shower or ice bath if possible.

Call 911 if symptoms last more than an hour, if they get worse or if they are throwing up."

(The emphasis is mine.)

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Wizard worm just emerged from a wizarding hole! Lucky you!!!✨🪱🪄🍀

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EMMA (2020)

dir. autumn de wilde

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I can't do much but maybe this will interest someone. This cookbook is by a classically trained autistic chef, made for people with sensory issues. It's sold 1/6th of its initial run because apparently no one wants to have an autistic person interviewed on TV.

Apparently it's also very funny.

Spread this around! I bet someone here can use this.

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the whole "lipstick on a pig" thing makes no sense because the second we gave a pig access to makeup she became god's cuntiest soldier

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Any time I see someone defending GenAI in academics I'm reminded of a video Oz Media made a bit ago about a guy studying to be a nutritionist who realized they fucked up once he got to having to do labs. The TL;DR of it is the person used ChatGPT to cruise through foundation courses and through nutrition coursework, but realized as labs were looming they didn't actually *know* jack-shit. Direct Quote from their post: "LABS START NEXT MONTH. AI CANT PIPETTE LIQUIDS. i have to measure nutrient densities IN PERSON. what happens when i blank out and cant explain the krebs cycle to my professor's face???" Even the basics made no sense to them; tried to brush up on chemistry but couldn't understand page 1. And it was a couple of years worth of STEM they needed to learn.

And the whole time I laughed at their suffering because they put themselves in this boat. They didn't study, they didn't learn, and now they have to deal with the consequences.

That's the fundamental problem with cheating on your courses as a whole. Eventually you will have to actually do stuff and you're either going to be prepared for that or you aren't.

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i just woke up after 3 hours of sleep & as i was slowly waking up, someone in my dream called me a "sleep tourist". and like. how do i even refute that. i literally got called a fake fan of sleep.