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A novel. By Beef Biltong.

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Yeah, it’s like this letter to Ask a Manager, where the commenters definitely got into the question of what “cleaning” the tank involved. (The official answer to the question stuck to the interpersonal issue, of course.)

“Amy pays a teenager, Jake, who is the son of one of our longtime teachers, to clean the tank at regular intervals. Jake is polite, friendly, and seems to care about doing a good job. Except … multiple times now, fish have died within a few days of a tank cleaning.”

One scentence horror story, aquarium version:

"My fish are acting sick after I deep cleaned their tank and I don't know why."

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Sometimes I think about Paya in TOTK because. Holy shit. POV your grandma suddenly makes you the leader of your entire village and skips town. Already a stressful situation, but on top of that you were already an anxious wreck who overthinks everything, so you are currently experiencing catastrophic levels of panic. But you will adjust! Your grandma believes in you and you won't let her down!

And then the fucking sky falls onto your damn village.

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Enamored by this picture of a legless lizard from georgian reptile fb group

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For the longest time I opted on the side of "no coffee, potatoes, etc" in fantasy writing, on the argument that if I was writing a pseudo-european medieval story, featuring elements brought to Europe by colonialism would imply the existence of colonialism, and if I was going to include that kind of elements, I could not just mention them casually, it would have to be a major theme of the story.

Then I scrolled past a post on tumblr specifically about "can you have potatoes in a fantasy setting for no reason" that had pics of Peruvian potato farmers and asked "are you really too much of a coward to not write these people into your stories?" (the tone was probably not that accusative, I paraphrase from my own perspective of this), and something clicked in my head, and this epiphany manifested in my head as Gordon Ramsay yelling

"IT WAS NOT THE FUCKING COLONIALISM THAT INVENTED THE FUCKING POTATO."

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okay i have to show everyone my favorite tiktok.

you don’t understand. i could recite this from memory.

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100 year old Galapagos tortoise with a few weeks old Galapagos baby posing for a new family photo, and its own baby photo from 100 years ago.

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Shout out to that guy from Florida talking to my coworker about wanting to take his sail boat through Lake Superior in November. He was planning on a little trip and my coworker was like hey man I don't know how to tell you this but you will Actually Die

*Lake Superior, in the far distance*: yes yes yes yes yes do it yes yes

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Honestly part of the problem with this obsession with only consuming unproblematic fiction is that people are less likely to acknowledge when something is harmful. If you so much as say hey this one joke in this one episode was offensive fans will write you an essay on why it wasn’t. Because they’ve created a world view where this is basically accusing them of being a bad person who has committed an unforgivable sin.

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stuff like this is awesome! it’s a great way to help a charity and let people know your tattoo shop is trans friendly! and a fuck you to jk rowling of course.

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cell bio professor closed out today's lecture on free-radical oxidation in mitochondria and programmed cell death by saying "you've probably all seen those commercials for fruit juice that says it's got antioxidants, which are said to prevent this sort of thing from happening, or at least slow it down. well, they don't work. this is an inevitable fact of life— this process that lets us live is also the thing that kills us, and it's why all of us will die someday. there's no escaping that. it's been with us since the dawn of eukaryotic cells; our pact with mitochondria is to the death. anyway, enjoy the rest of your friday, and remember, exam four is next week!"

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It should be illegal to have a bus stop without a bench I am 1000% serious rn

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Remember "Reduce, Reuse, Recycle" ? I feel like there's been a distancing from the "reduce" and "reuse" part and a favoritism towards "recycle" by corporate American.

Capitalism can still thrive with recycling in the mix. You buy Plastic Thing 1, throw it away after one use, and they take that and recycle it into Plastic Thing 2 and sell it back to you. All while continuing to harm the environment.

Reusing puts a damper on things. They can't sell you Plastic Thing 2 when you're still using Plastic Thing 1. Plastic forks, for example- there is literally no reason why you can't reuse plastic forks more than once (aside from maybe microplastics, but it's too late for that)

Reducing is the one everyone wants to ignore. Just don't buy Plastic Thing 1. You don't need Plastic Thing 1. Pick up a set of metal forks and use those for years. Convenience is killing the planet

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I love the concept of stocks. I make a big batch of pea and ham soup every couple of months and I love that step 1 is "make a big ole pot of Ham Water".