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The state of Alabama is seeking to execute a second inmate using nitrogen gas just weeks after becoming the first in the nation to use the controversial method.
The state's attorney general asked Alabama's Supreme Court to set an execution date for Alan Eugene Miller, who has been on death row since 2000.
He was convicted of killing three people in a workplace shooting.
The UN has condemned the nitrogen gas method as cruel.
In January, the state executed another inmate, Kenneth Eugene Smith, with nitrogen gas. According to reporters at the execution, Smith thrashed violently on the gurney before being pronounced dead 25 minutes later.
While advocates have opposed the method, the state argued it was "effective and humane" and says Miller, 59, will be executed the same way.
Miller was convicted of killing three people - Terry Jarvis, Lee Holdbrooks and Scott Yancy - in 1999 during workplace shootings in Birmingham, Alabama.
"It is once more the appropriate time for the execution of his sentence," Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall said in a statement.
Miller survived a previous execution attempt by lethal injection in September 2022 as it was called off when it could not be completed by a midnight deadline.
Following the failed attempt, Miller filed a federal lawsuit that alleges prison staff, trying to find a vein, poked him with needles for over an hour and left him at one point hanging vertically as he lay strapped to a gurney.
In November 2022, the state agreed it would not use lethal injection in his execution but instead nitrogen gas.
Ahead of Kenneth Eugene Smith's January execution, the UN, the EU and anti-death penalty activists condemned the use of nitrogen gas for the death penalty. Smith was convicted in 1989 of murdering a preacher's wife, Elizabeth Sennett, in a killing-for-hire.
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Turk, said he had "serious concerns this novel and untested method of suffocation by nitrogen gas may amount to torture, or cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment".
Inhaling pure nitrogen gas cuts off the oxygen supply to the brain. The procedure had never been used before in an execution, according to the Death Penalty Information Center.
Besides Alabama, only two other states - Oklahoma and Mississippi - permit execution by nitrogen gas.
Those states approved the use of nitrogen hypoxia as an alternative method of execution because the drugs used in lethal injections have become more difficult to find, contributing to a fall in the use of the death penalty nationally.
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All Marina Scenes || 4.06 Train in Vain 1/4
#i completely forgot how i used to hide text and tried other method but it completely messed up my gifs’ quality and it is bugging me 😖#anyway… i’m back to my all marina scenes#marina#maya x carina#maya and carina#maya bishop#carina deluca#station 19#station19#station19edit#danielle savre#stefania spampinato#4x06#train in vain#otp: you’re my home#tv: s19#marina scenes#mine
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DOOM POSTING CANCELED

DAGGER MOTH I THINK. I’m FREAKING THE FUCK OUT OHHHHHH
#IM SO HAPPY AAAAAA FIRST MOTH IVE SEEN IN. SO LONG.#and the first moth I’ve seen when I’ve had the knowledge to appreciate moths!!! this is so awesome#this week has been amazing for bugs#it’s very still I don’t know why. hasn’t moved an inch in a few minutes#not really sure why I’m not well versed on moth behavior#hopefully I didn’t fuck anything up by practically lunging at it with a camera and trying to find where it ran off too#I will fully admit to needing to work on giving bugs their personal space you don’t have to tell me#I don’t Think I did anything to it though….the most I did was give it a tap to see if it was still alive once it went still#so I don’t think I like. killed it. hopefully#it’s probably just cold it’s like 50f out and got down into the low 30s last night so this lil guy is probably real chilly :(#I’m guessing that’s the case bc when I saw it it was vibrating its wings a lot#which I Think is a method used to help them warm up for flight. source: I looked it up 5 minutes ago#not a moth expert I fear. just an enthusiast#not sure what to do with this lil dude. like obviously I should leave it be—#—but it’s right here out in the open with a ton of birds around in the cold. so like. not peak moth environment#but again I guess I shouldn’t mess with nature by keeping it as a pet. sad.#weird why it’s out during the day. I know moths aren’t strictly nocturnal but it’s weird the first one I see is out during the day#really feeling that meme ‘if you’re cold they’re cold too. bring them inside!#like….yeah…yeah I am kinda cold….I bet this guy is too…..#not moving…..hope it’s not dead…..
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Stupid silly question, do you take art commissions by chance?
No, but I want to in the future! I might test the water with something small like icon or sketch commissions, and then jump into being open to full pics when I have time
#main thing bugging me is which method of payment I want to use#I have a lot of options but keeping my anonymity the best would be nice
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i really want to make isat friends…
#in this moment…#but i’m too scared ;-;#you guys all seem rly fun n cool n sweet#i love seeing tags on my art n everyone is so so nice!!! i’d love to reach out n make friends so bad#but i’m. terrified.#my usual method of making friends is starting a private discord server#n it usually goes amazing - it’s how i met my current family and how i’ve made so many friends!!!#but i’m petrified right now. something in me broke a while back and i don’t know if it’ll fix…#i hope that… i can make one soon. maybe after i get back on my meds i’ll be okay.#but!! like. in the meantime#if anyone. wants to try ? i may be slow and scared and overly guarded bug i want to make friends#and i’ll Try if anyone feels up to reaching out? ;-; i’d appreciate it tbh!!! but no one has to!!!#i wrote myself a lil script tfgvu for a comic maybe. itll be so annoying but it’ll be a very person piece n i think it’d b good for me to#make ngl… a good look into my Twisted Mind (/s/s/s thats a joke!!!!!)#SORRY THIS IS REALLY REALLY VENTY JGUGGUG#i have difficulties my whole life with feeling like a perpetual outsider <3 i need to work on that somehow
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hockey gloves are sooo much fun to draw its like 10 squares stacked on top of each other
#when i first started doing hockey art they bugged me but now that i have my squares method it all makes sense#they’re literally greebled its awesome#the only truly evil part of hockey art is the skates. fuck skates…#sometimes helmets but i love drawing helmet straps so even that has a w
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Man, writing is time-consuming. One day you're doing a little surface-level research, three days later you're looking up how to make a scale model of a colonial settlement
#i have a little bug in my ear that tells me if my fics aren't as historically accurate as possible then someone is going to nitpick them.#and someone always does lol so it's valid#even if they don't leave comments. nitpicky history fans... you know who you are.#i love that i write everything as if i'm going to post it now though?? i should stop doing that.#i should also mention that i'm having fun with this and i love the research phase of writing#but PLEASE don't give me advice lol i have my own method
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I’m really sorry this next chapter is taking so long guys aksjjsj I’m going on a trip next week but when I get back I’ll be able to work on it :]
#you’ve all been lovely btw no one has complained or bugged me about it so thank you <3#should be worth the wait though!! we’ll get to see the watchers questionable training methods#raven rambles
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More stellar canning advice from the UK: "Your rowan jam will keep for up to a year in a cool cupboard and like all jams once opened should be stored in the fridge and used up within a month. Please Note – We do not usually do water bath or other canning methods here in the UK. Our preserves keep perfectly well without this."
Just as their cats are uniquely able to dodge cars & mean children and so must run free, their insects uniquely disinterested in entering open windows and thus no need for window screens, so too are their jams uniquely impervious to spoilage and thus require no proper canning. I wish I could think that this person was an outlier, but unfortunately this is the state of food preservation in this country. There's a lot of similar advice in Germany as well, though I don't know about the rest of Europe.
#I can't imagine sticking an unsealed jar of jam on a shelf for a year & hoping for the best#unsurprisingly UK canning advice also includes a lot of very cavalier suggestions about scraping away mold when you open a jar of jam#I am not a stickler for food safety nor am I overly concerned about a spot of mold#the thing about this that bugs me is the implication that UK 'method' -- ie doing basically nothing -- is somehow superior or even adequate#and that steam/water bath canning are neurotic & unnecessary activities performed by foreigners#just because your jam never killed anyone doesn't mean it's not causing other mysterious and unpleasant GI issues#which might be better avoided#plus no way am I giving someone else jam that might later show mold#have some personal dignity & pride in your preserves folks#earlier I observed Delia Smith's official website telling people to just scrape the mold off non-heat-processed jam#like lady are you _trying_ to get sued or what
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“Children have a natural grasp of the dialectical method; whether it arises from obstinacy or playfulness, the sudden declaration of “Opposite Day”, and an insistence that thenceforth all immediate paradigms must be turned on their head, is a common rhetorical device found on playgrounds or in classrooms…”
- Ignus Nilsen, A Guide to Raising Revolutionary Children
#am I joking or not#actually when I was a kid I made up this game I really wanted to play with people#and would bug my family about it#where they would say a statement that’s true and I would try to find a way that it wasn’t#and then we would have to make it more true and thus harder for me to find an exception#like: the sky is blue - the sky is sometimes gray or black - the sky is blue on a clear day - but not on other planets#and that feels at the very least adjacent to dialectic#maybe i was just a freak#also maybe it isn’t adjacent to a dialectic but it’s just my own weird ass method that also works somehow
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having a tremendously bad time with the "I'm useless and my friends think I'm annoying and dumb" thoughts today, so on all levels except physical I am scooping my brain out of my head with an ice cream scooper and dropping it in the trash and then going about my day
#just tryna mind my business but the irrational fears are like a swarm of bugs around my head#and my usual coping methods are not working. augh#maybe i will take a nap and that will disperse the cloud of Bad Thoughts#anxiety disorders stop making me anxious challenge 😤😤😤😤
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The strange and alien can be found amongst the mundane and small. Little wonders can be found everywhere.
#it’s cool how varied life here is#trees with unique seed pods#bugs of all shapes and sizes and colors#variations on a theme in a competition for survival#and some of those methods appear otherworldly#and some of those otherworldly things are just outside your home#I love sci fi and I love speculative evolution#I love making up my own imaginary creatures and plants#but honestly#earths got me beat#there’s a tree outside my apartment building#it just started shedding its seed pods and I’ve never seen anything like it#and it’s not like I’m from another part of the country or the world#I’m an hour away from my parents house#but I’ve never seen those things before#I’ve found out that weevils live around me#and that tent caterpillars are mosaiced in lovely pigments down their sides#there’s a lot to the natural world#big and small#It’s nice#I’m glad I live here#I like it here#nebula rambles
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Im so frustrated trying to learn kanji literally nothing I've tried gets it to stick in my head
#shut up me#even learning characters when I was studying mandarin was easier than this#its so hard. its so so hard#theres so many ways people online talk about learning it#''this way is stupid learn it like THIS''#''this other way is ineffective you have to study it like THIS''#but nothing i do works!!#I still know like 0 kanji despite all my effort!!#The kanji I know the best are characters I remember from mandarin in elementary school#and kanji that comes up repeatedly (like watashi)#and the kanji that ive looked up on jisho.com on a whim because i see it a lot in relevant fan art (like the kanji for the word Bug)#I know those better than any ive tried to learn through actual methods#ughhhhh
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My daughter invented a new version of, "Would you still love me if I was a worm?", this morning. Fresh out of bed with sleep still in her eyes, she asks, "If I was a little mouse, would you flush me down the toilet and get rid of me?" To which I reply, no, of course not. She then asks, voice filled with wonder, "You'd still love me??" Yes, of course, I say. "Thank you!" She cheers with a big hug.
#the real question#is why does she think toilet flushing#is the ideal method for disposing of a mouse#we dont even kill bugs#we let them go outside#would you still love me if i was a worm
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#so i'm halfway getting my autism diagnosis#got the opinion and honestly? fucked#insane the neurotypical mind. some parts that made me laugh:#"The subject did not make adequate eye contact. Eye contact was also not associated with other methods of communication. -#The subject did not direct appropriate facial expressions to the diagnostician to communicate emotional and cognitive states.#i apparently lack emotional and emphatic gesticulation too#there's also one about my expressions being 'varied but sometimes limited in some way'- could you be more vauge??? what tf does that mean?#fascinating. im observing myself like a bug under a microscope.#looking for jobs is. a nightmare. so far the only ones that reached back out to me were some charity-scam. so i obviously didn't take it#i need to do some editing for uni but can't bring myself to start. also the program im supposed to use only started working today#my nails are absolutely fucked. again. i keep biting that shit like crazy then im surprised when theyre short/uneven#im still trying to b vegetarian but i end up just not eating.... so i had chili today. not thrilled about that. it was good tho
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insert rant about the devs only caring about discord here
#lightkid rambles#some of us are unable to use discord and it would make sense for a company to be able to be contacted through ways other#than social fucking media#you don't see Kroger sending you a help form from their instagram. you don't see amazon funneling help services through twitter#but yeah let's make the only method of really communicating with the people in charge of running the game. a way that only some people have#access to#fuckin stupid if you ask me#how the fuck am I supposed to get updates. the support tickets don't do SHIT (took them a literal year to get to the first one I ever sent)#'follow them on social media' you know. most games. have their own websites. with updates and news and bug reports and help forms. most#games have a modicum of professionalism#'oh but kids these days only use social media' WHOSE FAULT IS THAT. FIX IT. ACTIVELY. MAKE THAT SPACE FOR THEM/US#I swear if I wasn't on Reddit I'd be so goddamned confused. I imagine moths that stay away from socmed for fear of spoilers are#having a Bad Fucking Time
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