#cracklander

[deerydear]

[allthebrazilianpolitics]

Brazilian politician’s move to investigate a priest sparks outpouring of support for the clergyman

A right-wing Brazilian politician’s push to have the Sao Paulo government investigate a city priest has prompted a strong defense from Roman Catholic leaders and government leaders who praised the clergyman’s work with the homeless.

The Rev. Júlio Lancellotti, 75, ministers to the homeless in one of the roughest neighborhoods of Brazil’s largest city, a crime and drug-ridden area of Sao Paulo commonly known as Crackland.

But Sao Paulo council member Rubinho Nunes alleges the priest also illegally works on behalf of an unnamed non-profit organization to promote Brazil’s leftist President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva — an allegation Lancellotti denies.

Nunes needs the votes of a majority of the 55-member council in two votes to launch the probe and gathered the support of 24 of his colleagues as of this week, ahead of their next session in February.

But the effort has now drawn vocal pushback from the Roman Catholic archdiocese, Lula’s administration and celebrities — and four of those council members had withdrawn their support by Thursday.

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[youghostandyoutrick]

WIP Wednesday: You know I love PYKG, but I'm really curious now what Lynne x Death OTP is about.

OKAY. So.

Lynne x Death OTP, aka “Can’t a girl have a date with death in peace?”, is pure, unadulterated crack that I started writing not long after beating the game for the first time.

Premise is, in the new timeline, Death itself is attempting to woo Lynne, either in admiration of just how many times she’d escaped its clutches or just as a ploy to try to finally lock that girl down after more conventional methods had failed, I don’t think I ever decided. Either way, though, Lynne was totally head over heels, meanwhile Sissel is doing his damndest to utterly wreck the date and save Lynne’s life.

(I can’t remember for sure and I didn’t write a lot of brainstorming, but the planned tags I had in the doc included Lynne/Sissel, so I’m assuming there was also an element of jealousy involved from Sissel, lmao, he was Not trying to wreck the date purely out of the goodness of his heart. I knew full well at the time he was a cat but this is crackland, where nonsense reigns supreme :P)

Being crack, it is ofc 98% dumb bullshit, but I think that was the point for me lol I get self-conscious about my writing and it’s honestly hard to be embarrassed about writing quality when the fic in question is so patently absurd

[cracklands]

not an April Fools joke, this ain't a scene, welcome to✨CRACKLANDS✨

Unofficial hub for (almost) all possible crackships present across the Borderlands franchise! We're here to spread love around and share your most obscure crackships imaginable.

First, we want to differentiate crackships and rarepairs so there's no confusion:

CRACKSHIP - a ship between characters who have never met in canon. For example, Maya/Sasha have never interacted in canon, thus making them a crackship

RAREPAIR - an unpopular ship between characters who did meet in canon. For example, Handsome Jack/Krieg, though an unpopular ship, have interacted in canon, thus making them a rarepair

Got it? Now let's get into the rules!

We accept all kinds of ships! No matter if they're wlw, mlm, m/f or ot3s, they're welcome on this blog. Additionally, we also accept platonic relationships, as they will be tagged as #platonic

What we don't allow, are ships which go against characters' canon sexualities. So absolutely not shipping Athena with men or Hammerlock with women

We don't allow ships with underage characters and incestous ships. There are only 2 underage characters in Borderlands (Pickle and Ava), but our experience in fandoms have verified to us that we need to be clearly against it

We are not proshippers and we are against proshipping

As of Borderlands , Tina is an adult (she's 20) but we won't reblog romantic art of her during BL2 or Wonderlands

Gaige is 18 in Borderlands 2 and 25 in Borderlands 3. She's an adult

Angel is also an adult. As infantilization of her is extremaly prevalent in this fandom, we want to state, we're against it and we won't reblog any art which will portray her in such way

We will also not reblog any art that will misgender neither Zer0 nor FL4K. FL4K canonically uses only they/them pronouns and as for Zer0, we will only refer to them as they/them

Ships with Timothy, Rhys and Jack are welcome! But within each other, the only ship that is a crackship is Rhysothy, so we will only reblog them

The only characters who aren't allowed are Vaughn and Katagawa Jr. Just because

Crossover ships, as in from different franchises like Portal or Postal, are welcome!

However, we won't reblog art of OC/canon and self ships. We realize that some people might not like this term and calling their OCs like so and we don't want to be disrespectful. We will only reblog the art, if OP will send it to us and give us permission to post it

This blog will run on queue but we're happy to receive art for this space and discussions of crackships

Thank you for reading, now go forth and enjoy the crackships!

[pawsimses]

Admittedly Stupid Headcanon from Crackland

Plaga Vampire Leon has led to thoughts of "Vampire Leon Needs Blood to Keep New Instincts at Bay" to "Leon Needs Blood To Survive" to "Hey Doesn't Blood Wine Exist in RE?" to "Wait what if, like it's creator, the reason for Leon's off-branch Plaga mutations leading to Blood Requirement is due to a similar genetic factor?"

To eventually

"Leon Kennedy being distantly or close related to Alcina Dimitrescu"

Leon being a part of the Dimistrecu lineage is all I'm saying

[shibainu2006]

Made a discord server for the first time.

Moots have permission to join said server.

@love-thanatopsis

@killersweetie

@vtoriacore @vtoriacore-rbs

@leonasdoll

@the-dumber-scaramouche

@moonsforher

@h3apm3ch4n151m

@strawberrymilk-sunshine

[transingthoseformers]

So here's the first draft of the map for the cyberforming au! Now, I'd imagine the ex-human MC wouldn't know of what the hell happened yet, so they'd make up their own names for stuff. Such as calling veins and deposits of energon lakes/ponds/rivers, and not knowing who the Autovots/Decepticons are quite yet. I diiiid use some natural and unnatural barriers in order for me to remain within the square, as of areas where the currently unnamed MC would have trouble exploring.

The "Tainted sea" is more reminiscent of an estuary, but instead of saltwater and freshwater mixing it's liquid energon and dark energon. The "Cracklands" are large deposits of crystallized Dark Energon that have been brought to the surface as of the canonical geological shifting brought by the Unicron arc of s1, aaaand by the forces of the Omegalock. Theoretically speaking, quite a number of ex-humans could have interacted with dark energon. And we know what happens when dead Cybertronians, whether they've been dead for an hour or a millennia, come in contact with Dark Energon. Thus, the very dangerous "Cracklands". The "Acid Bogs" would likely be formed from Pyrite oxidizing, causing well sulfuric acid to well up (it's only colored green on the chart to be symbolic, in reality it would look a pretty damn clear) Now the reason the Northwesters' (Autobots) border is messy is because of conflict with the MC, making it hard for the MC to properly discern the boundary

[artoperations]

THE SWITCHBOARD METHOD OF PROJECT-BASED, SERIAL ART PRODUCTION

"Work Efficiency At The Speed of Thought"

2023-11-29 12:10:08

The Switchboard Method:

Take n number of tasks;

Choose one task at a time, work on it for approximately 15 minutes, then SWITCH TASKS;

Continue doing this continuously throughout the day, switching tasks every 5-10 or 15 minutes;

Switch tasks pseudo-randomly, that is, choose whatever task is most immediate;

Choose whatever tasks is most relevant to the given time;

Choose tasks that are more ready-to-hand either physically proximate or else close to you in your cognitive space, emotional space, your Fields of Experience or Fields of Discourse;

Act as though you were a MECHANICAL TURK at Amazon;

You will achieve more efficiency this way;

Take an example. Say someone writes 1 novel in 1 notebook;

Now you write 12 novels in 12 notebooks, except you use the SWITCHBOARD METHOD;

The other person might finish their 1 novel in x amount of time;

You will finish in x+y amount of time, y being a constant;

It will take you a little more time to write 12 novels across 12 notebooks instead of 1 across 1, but at the end of x+y time, you will have written 12 NOVELS INSTEAD OF 1;

The SWITCHBOARD METHOD is essentially a NON-LINEAR METHOD OF WORK ORGANIZATION and can provide Great Efficiencies in Time (awaiting mathematical proof);

2023-11-29 19:45:22

I am told this is the assignment problem in theoretical computer science, but usually you have n agents to whom you must assign m number of tasks;

In my case, there are only n tasks and 1 agent;

All that's really important here is the decision problem and efficient allocation of resources;

You would normally look at costs and so forth, cost functions, etc.;

Thats not my problem, though; I got rid of the decision problem and saved at least 1 bit;

It might not seem like a lot, yet computationally, with over 100 projects still actively running in my Art Operation, I needed to save as many bits as possible;

I don't decide what task to work on; I tackle whatever is most proximate/immediate/ready-to-hand;

It doesn't matter what it is,it will absolutely be an enriching,learning experience;

Randomized task assignment just seems optimal to me; I'm able to maintain over 100 complex, interdisciplinary art-research projects, and I'm a One-Man Shop, a single art operator at the Art Operation @ The Historiotheque;

More on this later; this is based on the research for a new project, and series of series, I started earlier in the year, called NOISE IN THE WORKSPACE;

The first series was called SPACE NOISE INJECTION and, you see, while the first series is still only beginning, I started the second series of experiments, called RANDOMIZED EXPERIMENTAL PARAMETERS;

After just a few months, I have enough research and experimental data to write a PhD thesis in interruption science;

2023-12-04 03:17:26

One of the ways this Method works is by removing waiting-times;

One does not spend any significant amount of times either Deciding what tasks to tackle OR any significant amount of time building up complex mental abstractions, which software developers often have to do in the course of any given period of Deep Work;

I merely look at the Surface of the Workspace and choose what is most proximate/immediate;

This literally means looking around the Studio Space @ The Historiotheque and choosing whatever is nearest in time and space;

I realize that the 3D Surface of the Workspace is where I get most of my new ideas, from actually working in the Historioteque AND in the Archive;

It's where I came up with the concept of Geogrammar or Geogrammatical Forms, as floating land-masses, as portrayed in my novelistic phenomenology The History-Project as Crackland, the Land of Fissures and as Antiface-Cloud in my sequel The Archives-Project;

The so-called land-masses or fragments are really the exposed surfaces of the Stacks (SEE: The Stacks-Project);

Each of these "Stacks" are built-up over time as sedimentary layers or through a sedimentation process;

I continuously Survey the top-post surfaces of these many Stacks and make mental links or REFCARDS which I file in my Inner Refcards-System, my DATABASE-OF-IMAGES (SEE: Database Arts);

SEE: Images below, of the 3D Workspace as Abstract Cartography (seen from above) and two diagrams of THE SWITCHBOARD METHOD as well as one for The Stacks-Project;

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[googiesita]

Drawing the proxies rn and masky looks on crack his mask looks wierd and his hair is from a different universe maybe crackland.

Help me google

HELP, maybe see some references on how ppl draw them? I do that sometimes... idk how to help u anonsito

[cnwnoticias]

Nelson de Sá: Financial Times conta o que vê todo dia na 'Crackland'

Em mídia social, o correspondente do Financial Times na cidade, Michael Pooler, escreveu em tom pessoal: “Eu amo morar em São Paulo. No entanto, desde que me mudei para cá há dois anos e meio, parece que a decadência de seu centro só piorou”. Num texto que compartilha, que publicou no jornal com a foto acima, ele ouve comerciantes, a prefeitura se defendendo, mas não escapa do relato mais…

[cinnabons-treasure-trove]

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Keruki rode on her lil horsey dreaming of all the cakes and yummy pastries she would eat, pawing away the slight drool from her chin, "Yeeesss me precioussss, wait for meeee."

Keruki grinned widely quite like Cheshire cat from Alice in crackland...uh wonderland the narrater meant.

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[allthebrazilianpolitics]

Sao Paulo’s ‘Crackland’ Reflects Brazil’s Rising Role in Drug Trade

Brazil, once a minor player in drug trafficking, now ranks among the world’s top sources of cocaine and the main transshipment point of narcotics to Europe. And in Sao Paulo, South America’s largest city, the illegal drug trade has turned entire neighborhoods into wastelands. For VOA News, Sao Paulo correspondent Edgar Maciel visited one of those neighborhoods.

[worpho]

Consumatori di Crack in Brasile (24 Foto) Si tratta di foto tragiche e tuttavia i... - Guarda tutte le foto di questa galleria su worpho.com

[mo-nighean-rouge]

Looks pretty fetching to me.

[screencaps courtesy of Outlander-Online]

[convivialcamera]

Medical Doctor Attempts to Make Penicillin | Outlander Makes

CLAIRE: Hey everyone, I’m Claire, we’re on Fraser’s Ridge and today we’re making .... penicillin!

PART ONE: WHAT IS PENICILLIN?

CLAIRE: Penicillin has been on my list for Outlander Makes for a very long time, almost since the beginning. It’s one of my favorite medicines. I just love that it can kill bacteria and save lives. It has that unique property of being made from mold, and I think it will be a cool learning opportunity for me because I just love penicillin.

Penicillin is effective against staphylococci and streptococci bacteria, some of the most common bacterial infections seen on the Ridge. It was the first modern antibiotic, which I suppose is relative. But penicillin itself comes from a secretion of molds in the genus Penicillium.

I can’t believe how much Outlander Makes makes me think about my university science classes.

It’s time for my favorite part: reading the ingredients. And wow, this is a short list: benzylpenicillin.

Time to go do some research. All of which is stored in my brain because it’s 1771 and penicillin won’t be officially discovered for 157 years.

Anyways, molds have been used to fight infections since ancient times. There’s evidence ancient peoples in Egypt, Greece and India used certain fungi and molds in their medicine, according to my Uncle Lamb’s research. But penicillin as I know it, in the future, was first discovered in a bread mold in 1928 by a Scot named Andrew Flemming, but then it wouldn’t be used in human medicine until 1942.

So, I think I’m going to start with bread. But the mold spores are just in the air, and there’s no reason another food couldn’t be a growing medium. So we’ll just have to see what works best. I’m excited. I think this is going to work.

PART TWO: HOW DO YOU MAKE PENICILLIN?

CLAIRE: I’ve got a whole bunch of extra bread, so I’m going to tear it up and leave it out and see what it grows. Marsali is also out collecting food scraps from the other settlers, things destined for the pig trough, that we’ll test as well.

I’m tempted to put my samples under glass cloches to keep mice and bugs and other pests out, but I’m concerned that they will prevent mold spores in the air from getting to the bread, so we’re going to try both.

MRS. BUG: She’s gone mad, she has. Up all night baking more bread than the Lord when he fed the multitudes with the loaves and fishes.

BRIANA: Woah. You’re not planning to eat all that, are you?

CLAIRE: No, I’m going to let it go moldy.

MRS. BUG: What a terrible waste.

BRIANA: Please tell me you’re being sarcastic.

CLAIRE: What, me? Never. I’m making penicillin.

BRIANA: Then Mrs. Bug is right, you have lost your mind. You can’t do that.

CLAIRE: Yes, I can. And not just with bread, we’re going to test other food scraps too. Then, we’ll find the right strain.

BRIANA: This is dangerous. What if it messes with some cosmic balance? Or breaks some rule of space and time? Isn’t this playing God?

CLAIRE: I change the future every time I save a life here. And now I’m going to do it even better. So, time, space, history be damned.

See, now all the bread is set up. Marsali will be back soon, and we’ll set up her scraps the same way, and then we wait.

THREE DAYS LATER

CLAIRE: It’s a little dark in here because I wanted to keep the samples out of the sun. The bread and other samples have been left to mold for three days, and now we’re going to check and see how it went. I’m in that delusionally optimistic headspace where I think this might work on the first try.

I’m looking for a blue-green mold, maybe with a white outer ring. I’ve got my microscope and candles ready, so I can examine the mold more closely. What I don’t want is Aspergillus, another type of mold that grows under similar conditions but is very toxic and instead of curing infections would actually … kill my patients faster. So, if we see any fuzzier molds that are green, gray or black, that would be bad.

So, on a few of these samples I very clearly lost the battle against ants and some mice. The ones under the cloches fared better, but there’s not yet anything that looks like mold yet. This is going to take longer than I thought.

In the meantime, I’m going to work on the incubation medium that I’ll use to make even more penicillin once we grow the mold — which, we absolutely will. And for that I need Jamie.

JAMIE: Yes, Sassenach?

CLAIRE: Could you go kill me something I can make into broth?

JAMIE: You canna slaughter a chicken yourself?

CLAIRE: I can, but could you just help out for the common good? And if you don’t want to kill a chicken you could go hunt something else, right?

JAMIE: Claire, what if you waste all this food and you don’t get your medicine?

CLAIRE: I want you to know I can accept zero criticism right now.

JAMIE: Then I’ll be back with some meat for your broth.

FOUR DAYS LATER

CLAIRE: It’s day three! Well, it’s been a week but it’s day three of work. No, there’s no curse. Stop trying to make a day three curse happen.

Jamie shot a goose, and Bree plucked it for me, and Mrs. Bug made it into this broth. I’ve got to check out our bread and food samples and see if any Penicillium molds have grown. And … there are a lot of molds here! Turns out more than one mold can grow on bread. I’m looking for the classic blue-green color, and there is more than just blue-green here. This pie crust did a little better — see the white outer ring, and there’s no black, like on this bread sample. This is promising.

If I remember my textbooks correctly, Penicillium will look like a stalk of wheat with a branched end under the microscope. If the end is more like a fuzzy ball, it’s the killer Aspergillus mold that I talked about earlier. I’m going to make slides and see if I can positively identify any of these as penicillin.

TWO HOURS LATER

CLAIRE: OK, I’m down to the last two slides, and so far it’s a big fat nothing.

ROGER: What is going well right now?

CLAIRE: Nothing. This whole thing is a disaster. If these don’t have the right mold, I’ve wasted this whole week and all this food and will have to start over.

ROGER: Oh.

CLAIRE: Say a prayer, Roger. And…. got them. I was right about the pie crust — that’s definitely a Penicillium colony growing. I love it when I’m good at stuff.

ROGER: We all knew you could do it.

CLAIRE: Bree thinks I’m breaking the time-space continuum, but there it is! That’s penicillin!

So, my next step is to prepare the incubation mediums. I’ve got the broth Mrs. Bug kindly prepared, and I’m going to strain it and then boil it. I also need to sterilize the bowls, so I’m boiling some water for that. And then I have these muslin cloths that I’ve also boiled and air dried as best as I could, which will keep things like insects, bugs, mice and other critters out. It’s nearly impossible to achieve true sterility in these conditions, but it’s important to try.

And then I’m going to use these confirmed Penicillium samples and use a sterilized knife to put them into the broth to incubate. The thing about penicillin is that the mold itself isn’t antibiotic, but the mold’s secretions, so that’s what I’m trying to produce and capture.

So, I’ll leave this to do its thing. We’ll check back in a few more days.

ONE DAY LATER

CLAIRE: WHAT DO YOU MEAN ONE OF THE CHILDREN GOT IN HERE AND KNOCKED OVER ONE OF THE BOWLS?

THREE DAYS LATER

CLAIRE: ADSO! GET AWAY FROM THERE! NO, STOP DRINKING IT!

JAMIE: Are you done with your experiment, Sassenach?

CLAIRE: Noooo. I can’t believe that you can’t sense right now that I am not in a good place.

JAMIE: Oh.

CLAIRE: I guess it’s time to check the remaining bowls and see how incubation went. Like with the bread and food samples, I’m looking for Penicillium’s distinctive blue-green coloring with a white ring around the outside. So, the first bowl: nope, that’s not it. See those hairy, green clumps that look like submerged sea beasts? It could be another mold, bacterium, or maybe a colonial alga, but it’s not at all what I’m looking for.

But this second one, yes, this looks promising. See the colony in there? Looks like Penicillium to me. And, it’s worked in two more of these bowls. Three out of six isn’t a terrible average, even if two of my bowls got canned.

I’m going to have to check under the microscope again to be sure, but I’m, like 98 percent sure that’s it. I’ll strain the broth once more, to get the solid mold parts out. It’s the mold’s secretions you want, not the mold itself.

JAMIE: So what you’ve got there is broth that the mold has pissed in, is that right?

CLAIRE: Well, if you insist on putting it that way, yes. This was so much work, and it’s so unsure. This is a huge advancement in medicine for this time. It was way easier to mix up gentian ointment, or to set up the beehives, but maybe it was less satisfying. Is it better to not work that hard and not be that satisfied or to work really hard and be exhausted and somewhat more satisfied? I don’t know. Basically, there’s no way to win.

PART THREE: HOW TO MAKE PENICILLIN

CLAIRE: Here’s how you make penicillin.

Tear up pie crust and other food scraps, including bread, and leave them out to mold under glass cloches for five to seven days, keeping the cultures out of direct sunlight and away from pests. When the food starts to mold, identify Penicillium by its coloring and then under a microscope, looking for the mold’s distinctive branching pattern. Use a sterilized knife to distribute samples of your Penicillium into sterilized bowls of strained and boiled broth that has been cooled. Cover with sterilized muslin cloths and leave to incubate for several days. To use, check that broth has grown more Penicillium mold, by both the mold’s coloring and by shape under magnification. Strain the mold out of the broth, and use it to treat infection.

[wafflesetc]

Bossbalfe posted this on Twitter about Claire in S5. (Idk if she’s on Tumblr...)

@convivialcamera @drunklander didn’t one of you two want to see this in S5?

Either way, that tweet, A+.