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Not really a french braid, but it does slay!

this website loves a fuck ass bob but stays silent about worf. the man with the most fuck ass bob out there.

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It’s art, it’s architecture, it’s whimsy, it’s —

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why did no one tell me quantum computers looked like that

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THE OLD GUARD (2020) - Yusuf al-Kaysani & Nicoló di Genova ~ everyone's favorite van scene ♥

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Ode to the frenchiest fry [x]

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So what I’m hearing is that Surak could conceivably have had to deal with the Vulcan equivalent of cancel culture. Which would be the stuff we do dialed up to Vulcan levels of drama; false accusations included.

Hello this is your seasonal reminder that Surak didn't roll up to the bronze-era Bodice-ripper shirtless nomad dessert culture that somehow became a fandom favorite. I can't help but cringe that somehow people heard "emotional savage illogical" vulcans and went "shirtless bronze age dessert nomads" like Y I KES. They didn't embrace logic and then become industrialized. They had literally been to space already. They had nuclear warheads. Pre-Surak Vulcan was supposed to be at LEAST on par with 1960s earth. Surak's cause of death was radiation poisoning. The next time you catch yourself reaching for/writing/drawing a "pre reform au" consider if it's not, at best, totally at odds with the canon meaning of pre-Surak, and at worst a weirdly common racist trope?

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Yeah, I remember unintentionally pulling off this fun trick where my coworker thought my chair was broken because he heard a loud crack sound several times a day as I turned it to get up. Then, one day I said, “Ah, my hip,” and he said, “…Excuse me? Your HIP?!” because he was actually hearing the sound of a tendon in my hip slipping back into place. Which it would do multiple times a day alongside Normal MovementTM.

Hypermobility will have you subluxating both your shoulders as a fun fact about yourself & then afterwards you're like. Maybe I shouldn't be doing that actually

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Watched Trials and Tribbleations today and… can I just say the comedic genius of having Sisko search through the grain storage for the explosive Tribble and just throw the safe ones down the open hatch which is then perfectly cut to show that same tribble falling down on Kirk?! Unparalleled! Haven’t laughed this hard watching Star Trek since I watched the og episode.

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This comic was inspired by a post that I cannot find [redacted rant about how much tumblr's search function is the closest there is tho pure evil]. So you know, if anyone has that post hand it I will actually make you a silly litltle doodle.

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The other day, I went down the rabbit hole of "cute donkeys" and came up with my head full of things I didn't know about mules (the hybrid offspring of a horse and a donkey), and why they were once so coveted as work animals.

Brace for info dump, while enjoying this lovely photo of a trio of draft mules.

The explanation is hybrid vigour, when hybrid offspring have enhanced traits compared to its parents:

Mules are stronger, hardier, healthier, have better enduranve, harder hooves, sturdier skin and can handle extreme weather better than horses or donkeys. They are also more patient, more intelligent, and easier to handle than either of their parent species. Horses may be faster, but that's about the single thing they're better at than a mule of the same size.

So mules, being all around nicer to work with and getting you more work for the same amount of feed, and with less hassle, were preferred for just about every job purpose.

Habby du Magnou, a Poitevin Mulassier mare, and her daughter Lady du Magnou, a rare Poitevin mule

But since horses have 64 chromosomes and donkeys have 62, mules end up with 63 chromosomes, which means they are almost invariably sterile. That's because biology gets very confused when trying to split an uneven number of chromosomes neatly in half to create germ cells. There are a few documented exceptions of fertile mule mares (never stallions), but they are very, very rare. So you have to keep crossbreeding the two parent species to produce them, usually by breeding a donkey sire (jack) to a horse dam (mare). This is because it's easier for a 32 chromosome egg to incorporate a 31 chromosome sperm into a viable zygote (fertilised egg) than vice versa.

Because of this, there was (and still is) in France a breed of absolutely massive draft horses, the Poitevin Mulassier, and a breed of big-ass donkeys (pun intended, but honestly, it's arguably the largest donkey in the world, and it's shaggy like Highland cattle), the Baudet du Pitou, two breeds whose main purpose was to breed the enormous and super-strong Poitevin mule.

The Poitevin mule

This absolute unit was the must-have work-animal for all kinds of farm and industrial work for centuries, and a significant French export, until mechanisation made these magnificent creatures obsolete.

With no demand for the Poitevin mule , its parent breeds dwindled, almost to the brink of extinction. Determined conservation efforts during the last few decades are slowly bringing their numbers back up, but they're very far from their heyday, when some 20,000 Poitevin mules were born annually.

The Poitevin Mulassier

Both the parent breeds are still endangered, which means most of the current effort is directed into bringing up the numbers of Poitevin horses and Pitou donkeys. This means breeding horses to horses and donkeys to donkeys, with very few breeding opportunities allowed to produce the Poitevin mule. Only about 20 of those are born each year.

The Baudet du Pitou

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@stvksn on ig

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happy PRIDE i’m here i’m queer and i believe the land should be given back to the proper indigenous stewards.

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when it takes you a while to process what someone is saying and you realize they asked you a question

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This reminds me of the assumptions other students made in college when I said I didn’t like my biology teacher. Every time I said something, the other student would respond, “Oh, yeah, because of his accent? It’s so hard to understand him sometimes.” Sometimes they would sheepishly add that there should be some sort of standard to pass for positions like a college professor. As in, if you want a job where you have to talk to people, then you should only be allowed to have a slight accent.

The teacher was Chinese, and yes, he had an accent. I understood him just fine, and I often have to read lips to understand people born and raised in the same place as me. Honestly, I’ve noticed people who have notably different accents tend to over enunciate(presumably because so many people are assholes about their accent) and I find I DON’T have to read their lips.

Anyway, I would always tell the other students that no, his accent was fine. My problem was that he had an insane amount of errors on his tests! Like, multiple choice questions where the correct answer wasn’t there. Blatantly! As in stuff like, “Which of these is an example of a hydrogen bond?” and none of the answers would have hydrogen in them. The answer would be shit like NaCl, which is a prime example of an ionic bond! Also, WHERE’S THE HYDROGEN?! I’m still mad about it.

The other students would become mortified when they realized my complaint had nothing to do with the guy’s race. One would hope they would examine why that was where their minds went first. Some of these students were in the same class and would still make the same assumptions. To reemphasize the point of the original post, yeah, the majority of bigotry is insidious.

Thoughts on Lena

The first time I played through Disco Elysium, I talked to Lena right after Kim joined my party and immediately got the dialogue option where she says something racist.

Because of that, I was iffy on her from the beginning. But I’ve seen a lot of people say that they actually didn’t know about this dialogue or that they didn’t get it on their playthrough. Whenever I see this dialogue mentioned, there are always a lot of people saying how disappointed they are that she would say something like that because she seems like a nice old lady.

I think that this moment is actually one of the most important depictions of racism in the game. Besides this one instance, Lena is friendly toward you and Kim. If you call her out on the implication that Seolites are a different species than her and Harry, she basically says that being a different species isn't a bad thing because white people have earwax that smells and Seolites don't.

The whole interaction is such a small moment within the game, and a small part of her character. It’s so easy to miss. And that is exactly how racism works.

I can’t tell you how many times I’ve been talking to an older person who seems kind and then all of a sudden they say something extremely bigoted out of the blue. I actually got the idea to write this after the nice old lady who is a custodian at my job said something transphobic in front of me and it totally broke my heart.

It’s easy to condemn a cross-burning KKK member or a homophobic preacher who says that all LGBTQ+ people will burn in hell. It’s a lot harder for people to condemn bigotry when it comes from people that they otherwise see as kind.

But most bigots are not like Gary the Cryptofascist or Measurehead. Most of them are like Lena. They are the uncles who think that “if people just cooperated with the police then they wouldn’t be shot.” They are the classmates who make fun of the professor’s accent. They are docile old ladies who think that Seolites are not as human as white people are.

And that makes it harder for people to see the bigotry within themselves. People can easily tell themselves things like “I don’t want all trans people to die, so I’m not transphobic. I’m just worried for the children.” When the media only portrays bigotry in its most extreme forms, it is hard to see that being a little bit racist is still being racist.

And this is even more interesting because of her and Morrell’s friendship with Gary. He is a self-proclaimed fascist with an extensive collection of racist mugs, but Lena and Morrell still keep him around, presumably because they are willing to overlook his “differing political opinions” because they think that he is a good person in other ways. And because his fascist ideas do not affect people that look like them.

So yeah, I want to see more people talking about how fascinating Lena and Morrell are as depictions of racism in Disco Elysium.

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Also put it in your tuna salad. Yes, with the mayo. And some lime juice too.

my advice to you; put a little dijon mustard in any cheesy beige food. whisk it into your cheese sauce just before u add the cooked macaroni. spread a thin layer in your cheese toasties. add a spoonful to your mashed potatoes with the butter. anything thats gonna be heavy on rich dairy and starches will benefit enormously from the hint of warmth and acidity that dijon mustard will give it, even if you don't add enough to make it Taste Like Mustard (which, ideally, you shouldnt). itll cut through the richness and stop your tastebuds getting fatigue from too much fat&starch, which is important for the overall enjoyment of a dish. ur welcome. take this knowledge and change the world