frozen Cokes before blokes

if you are in a public building and you see a fire start, leave. that's it.

do not wait to see if someone puts it out with an extinguisher. do not spend time gathering your things.

the very second you see flames, move quickly and calmly to the nearest exit. you don't have time to do anything else.

i see comments on articles about mass casualty/fatality fires, and people are confused about how so many people died despite having available exits and the fire starting small. many people don't understand what a 'flashover' is. when objects burn in a room, they emit toxic gases, which can themselves ignite.

at a point (even within minutes of the fire starting), the entire room reaches such a high temperature that everything (and everyone) simultaneously and spontaneously ignites. even things that are not near to/directly in contact with the flames.

this is an extremely unlikely scenario to survive. even before/without a flashover, the heat and toxic smoke are already lethal (this is what killed my father. the room he was in never even caught fire. he suffered no burns). it is not like in movies where there's fire in door frames and on ceilings that you can maneuver around on-foot.

You can watch demonstrations of flashover events to truly understand the urgency of evacuating when you see an indoor fire.

This is a fire when it starts in a small waste bin in the corner of the room:

this is Three Minutes later:

How long is three minutes, really? How long will it take you to get to the exit? You don't have time to grab your things, to take a video.

You don't have time to look around and wait to see what everyone else is going to do. Exit. Quickly. Calmly. If you see someone near you who may need assistance that you can offer, bring them with you. Move.

If the fire is brought under control, you can easily go back inside once the situation is safe. You're not overreacting. People do and have died because they underestimate small indoor fires. They wait to see what will happen, whether it can be put out, what other people will do. Then it's too late.

When you go somewhere new, take a moment to locate the nearest exits. (in older buildings, if the emergency exit doors aren't alarmed, I sometimes even check to make sure they actually open, if I have the chance. sometimes they're locked.) If you or someone with you is disabled in a way which requires extra time moving and exiting (I sometime use a wheelchair), consider this in your exit route as best as you can.

Above all: Know your way out. Have a plan. Both help you stay calm and escape.

xoxo 📸 💋

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I love not farming

I respect the hell out of farmers and I'm glad that's someone's dream. because it's sure not mine

I would not be taken in by the tradwife influencer grift about milking a cow in a sundress. I have been around cows. my uncle was a dairy farmer. I love not milking a cow. I love getting milk from a store. I love getting vegetables and fruit and meat and bread from a store.

would I rather it be a local farm's store or a local bakery or butcher shop? yes! maybe when I make more money!

Next are various drawings: two show how fat on the front of the torso is drawn, with it following an inward, downward direction. Another shows fat on the back moving away from the spine, with text saying: "the way fat hangs is like it's sprouting from the spine and flowing towards the front of the body".

Text continues: "even once fat covers the dip of the spine, the fat behaves like it's being cleaved into two". Below is a stock image of the back of a fat person, with the described "cleaving" indicated with two arrows on either side moving down away from the spine in the middle of the back. Another drawing shows the side view of the torso, with the fat moving down away from the spine also reaching the side of the torso.

Like the red footed boobie who has a surprisingly colorful beak:

The masked booby and his close cousin the nasca booby who look like they came from home alone 3 with that mask of theirs:

The Peruvian booby who didn't want to wear the same clothes as everyone else in the family photo:

And the emo cousin the brown booby who was very excited to hear about mcr:

And of course everyone's favorite, the blue footed booby:

Note that mate wahine is a more commonly used phrase for menstruation than mate marama, but it also implies that menstruation is the sole domain of women.

Mate marama ties it to a monthly cycle and does not have the same strongly gendered connotations.

Of course, if you want to describe your own period with mate wahine, that’s totally fine! But here I try to use language that isn’t so gendered.

Owen Norton former director of West Coast business Westland Snowflake Ice Cream Ltd talks to Radio NZ National programme host Bryan Crump about producing uranium-flavoured ice cream in the 1950's: https://ehive.com/collections/202148/objects/1516763/oral-history-uranium-ice-cream