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I FUCKING LOVE INFORMATION!!! I WANT TO LEARN EVERY THING AND KNOW EVERYTHING!!!!! I WANT TO UNDERSTAND EVERYTHING ABOUT LIFE, THE UNIVERSE, AND EVERYTHING!!!!!! I AM UTTERLY CONSUMED BY MY THIRST FOR KNOWLEDGE!!!!!!!!!!!!

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this is how I find out that the l in caulk is silent. goddammit.

Ace hardware store guy: "Anything I can help you find?"

Me: "I need caulk"

Ace hardware store guy: "Sorry, I'm not really into women, or anyone actually, so I can't help you with that. Tracy over in the pipes section can though"

Me: "What?"

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Turning your back can be a very effective technique!

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Good looking out! But we're following the noble tradition of old men looking at construction workers Rififi (dir. Jules Dassin, 1955) and Thief (dir. Michael Mann, 1981) etc, and we adore long takes, and don't need no silly montages to pull off a heist. :)

My casino has new top-of-the-line technology to stop heists: a montage detector. If those bastards want to break in and steal my money, they’re doing it as part of one, long take

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Writing Reference: Poisonous Plants

Belladona - sweet but poisonous; its black berries can be deadly

Castor oil plant - each spiny capsule has 3 beans inside

Hemlock - all parts are toxic; the seeds contain the most poison

Lily of the valley - this pretty plant is highly poisonous

Manchineel - its dangerous leaves can cause blisters if touched

Oleander - its poisonous leaves are very bitter

Pong pong - its fruit contains a poisonous seed—eating it can kill a human in 2 days

Rosary pea - a single seed contains enough poison to kill an adult human

White baneberry - its bitter, white berries look like the eyes of a doll

White snakeroot - its toxic leaves poison the milk of cows that feed on them

Wolfsbane - its purple, helmet-shaped flowers give it its other name, “Devil’s Helmet”; the deadly sap of its leaves may cause a rash if touched

Yew - its toxic leaves can kill within hours if eaten; its harmless red berries hide poisonous seeds

NOTES

Many plants produce poisons to prevent them from being eaten. While some will cause only a stomachache, others can kill. You should never eat any part of a plant, unless an expert can confirm it is safe.

Throughout history, humans have known about the poisonous properties of certain plants and used them for deadly ends:

Belladonna was used to make poison-tipped arrows.

Hemlock is said to have been used to kill the great philosopher Socrates in ancient Greece.

Wolfsbane was rubbed on arrows for hunting wolves, and during Roman times, it was commonly used for murdering enemies.

Ricin, extracted from the castor oil plant, remains one of the most deadly poisons known today.

Although all the plants shown here are toxic to humans, some are harmless to animals. For example:

Birds can eat the berries of the white baneberry plant and yew without any ill effects. The birds then spread the seeds in their poo.

Iguanas are known to feast on the fruit and leaves of the toxic manchineel.

Source ⚜ More: Notes & References ⚜ Poison Ivy & Oak ⚜ Food Poisoning Poison ⚜ Fictional Poisons ⚜ Worksheet: Fictional Plant ⚜ Pain & Violence

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The Grand Complication Job (S03E05) LEVERAGE: REDEMPTION (2021—)

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Yeah, I’d watch Muppets Lord of the Rings

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planescape artwork by johan grenier

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HEEELPPP a six year old just came into the nature center and she had SO many questions. it's pouring rain and nobody else is here but her family so non-stop for an hour she had my full attention. by the end of it i had half my field guides open to various insects and mammals and birds and she just kept going.

she became extremely fixated on bigfoot and asked about the ways people try to prove its existence until I was explaining DNA to her, and she asked such thoughtful questions! she said, "what if someone found a skull they thought might be bigfoot, and there was hair left over. could we use DNA from hair to prove it's bigfoot?" but before i could answer, she said, "but if you don't have a living bigfoot that you KNOW is bigfoot, to take hair from, how could you know this hair from this dead bigfoot is really bigfoot hair?" !!!! what an awesome question!!

so this 6 year old and i started discussing control groups in scientific studies and she was so engaged!!

then the bigfoot talk led to discussions of extinction which led to dinosaurs, and she said, "what I don't understand is why people say dinosaurs are extinct, but they also say that dinosaurs became birds. how could they all be extinct if they became something else?"

she asked questions that really challenged me in that figuring out how to answer them on the fly in a way that's digestible wasn't totally straightforward.

a few minutes ago, the adult with her said it was time to go and get ice cream and she said, "can't you see I have 1,000 more questions to ask? i have to just bloooowwww them all out now so you don't have to answer them later."

I saw my younger self in her so much LOL. They said they're coming back tomorrow and I said, "I won't be here, but my colleague knows even more than I do!" And she said, "Well, I hope so. He's gonna need to."

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The 1780s slang dictionary has only one f-bomb that I know of but GOD do they use it well

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as a teen I was such an expert gaslighter it's insane one time a friend sent me a prank file saying it was an Ocarina of Times rom hack. It shut down my computer while we were on Skype. Now the thing is, my connection was shite and I was known to disconnect out of nowhere already. When I got back up, instead of acting angry or anything I thanked him and said that it was fucking amazing. I even shared screen and it showed a completely black screen because of course, I'm a black cat with technologies and it wasn't the first time either. The guy was trying to convince me I was pranked so fucking hard and I was like "...no???? It's literally just a game?????" and he ended up opening the file himself to see what was up, shutting down his computer

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"ohh my god you can't just-"

Am I yours to command? Does the collar 'round my neck have your name on it? I kneel to no king nor god, and I see no crown on you.

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Calgary Herald, Alberta, Canada, September 2, 1954

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dracula after bdsm (bat dracula sex monster): and now i vill perform the afterscare