Elizabeth. She/They. High school English teacher. Psudo-Paleo eater by force. Here there be: jokes/puns/memes, literary analysis, current events, and random shit.
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i. favorite flower - stargazer lilies, but i never get them bc they're toxic to cats. also a fan of violets, they dotted the yard where i grew up and i loved to pick them.
ii. favorite season - fall for sure. the colors, the smells, the crunchy leaves, the breezes skirling out of nowhere.
iii. favorite soup - cheddar broccoli
iv. favorite anime - hellsing (original not ultimate)
v. favorite sport - uhhhhhhhhh. uh. uhhh. gymnastics? i admire the strength and coordination. it's a very powerful sport.
vi. favorite ships - graythrax, graydon and anybody really, bagginshield, daforge, jaime x brienne, johnlock, frostiron, joxer x ares
vii. favorite holiday - halloween still i guess. not really a holiday person but that one has the best aesthetic. thanksgiving if it's just me and my partner.
viii. favorite soft drink - diet coke
ix. favorite sea creature - manatee
x. favorite number - i don't think i have one. am i missing out?
1. Favourite flower? Lavender! Its my favourite scent too.
2. Favourite season? Winter! I'm now in my element with it having been winter officially for 4 days now. I'm wearing my hoodie to work and I'm comfortable and I only start sweating when one of the others in the office puts the heater on.
3. Favourite soup? Chicken. My grandma's chicken soup specifically (she's dead now, but i try and recreate it sometimes). Also pea and ham! Thats good shit. And mushroom!! OH ITS WINTER WHICH MEANS ITS SOUP SEASON :D
4. Favourite anime? I got a list, can't pick one. Fairy Tail, Assassination Classroom, Erased and Full Metal Alchemist Brotherhood. I peaked in the mid 10's.
5. Favourite sport? No. I used to be obsessed with soccer as a kid but I have a movement based seizure disorder and that really puts a damper on your enthusiasm for physical activity let me tell you.
6. Favourite ships? Pirate ships 😏. But no, in earnest I'm still on the Kit x Jade from Willow bandwagon. I haven't really shipped much for a long time.
7. Favourite holiday? As a working professional in Australia I'm a fan of Christmas. I get 10 days off and only have to use 3 days of my annual leave. Its good for a quick break.
8. Favourite soft drink? Vanilla coke! But also, very niche, the limited run of lime flavoured frozen fanta that Hoyts did back in about 2013. That was amazing. I think fanta did regular lime flavoured drink for a short time too, which was also delicious, but they took it away 😠
9. Favourite sea creature? I was a fan of dolphins as a child, now I'm a fan of crabs.
10. Favourite number? 13. I think it has a bad rep. But any uneven number thats not divisible by 5 is fine by me.
I'll tag @daemonmatthias and @phoenixfire-thewizardgoddess if you want guys :)
1. Favourite flower? Hibsicus, daffodils, and tulips
2. Favourite season? Honestly, I'm living somewhere with proper seasons for this first time so right now I'm still just really loving seasons.
3. Favourite soup? baked potato :)
4. Favourite anime? I uh..... really have not watched very many. SpyxFamily
5. Favourite sport? I figure skated competitively as a child, and my mom used to teach gymnastics, so I enjoy watching those most because I actually understand what it takes to be able to Do That.
6. Favourite ships? I don't really engage with content around ships the way most people do on here. I just am like "oh, this couple is interesting" while watching the media. So uh, Imogen/Laudna and Orym/Dorian are the two that come to mind first?
7. Favourite holiday? I like just about any excuse to celebrate or spend time with loved ones. Halloween is always fun, but also moving further from home has left us not usually able to visit parents for thanksgiving and the friendsgiving we've started attending is a lot of fun.
8. Favourite soft drink? I don't really drink soda anymore, but I do miss the taste sometimes of a real-sugar dr pepper, and my husband introduced me to Specher's and their cream soda is the BEST.
Copyright governs who has the "right" to produce and distribute "copies" of books/music/movies/creative works. This is where fair use doctrine applies, because most creative works are referential by nature.
Weird Al is allowed to parody everything because he's operating under copyright law, not trademark law.
Trademark governs who can "trade" under what "mark" i.e. the brand identity of a company. Companies don't own their trademarked word forever, but they maintain the exclusive right to sell things under that brand in their specific market sector. Patagonia doesn't own the name of a geographical region, they just own the right to be the only company using that name to sell clothing and outdoor gear.
A drag queen name can be a parody of a clothing and outdoor gear company.
A company's trademarked logo can be used in parody creative works, with more leeway if it's not for commercial purposes. Trademark parody is allowed! Patagonia has been aware of and allowed Pattie Gonia's trademark parody for years.
Trademarks are specific to market sector. Actress Chase Infiniti could start a makeup line named after herself and her trademark would not infringe on the Infiniti car brand because they are different markets and there is no risk of confusion. Pattie Gonia could probably trademark her name to sell frozen veggie burgers and Patagonia would not care.
Drag queen Jan Sport did a collab with JanSport bags. What Jan Sport almost certainly did not do is independently apply to register "Jan Sport" as a trademark in order to sell bags on her own, because that would infringe on JanSport's own trademark in the bag market sector.
What Pattie Gonia is not allowed to do -- the thing that Pattie Gonia actually did do and is being sued for -- is apply to register "Pattie Gonia" as a trademark to sell clothing, because apparently Pattie is in talks with North Face and HydroFlask to sell "Pattie Gonia"-branded gear. These companies probably won't finalize anything unless Pattie shows that she actually owns the trademark. Unfortunately, "Patagonia" is already a registered trademark in the clothing market sector, and these two names are too similar to exist in the same sector (see: "likelihood of confusion" legal standard).
Your drag queen name can parody a clothing company. You can parody the trademarked logo of a clothing company. But you cannot use the same name to then go on to also become a clothing company.
In order to maintain their own trademark, Patagonia must sue for trademark infringement. If they don't sue, and Pattie Gonia gets her own trademark, Pattie could sue Patagonia for infringement on her trademark. You can see why Patagonia won't be dropping this suit no matter how much you harass them.
Yes, Pattie's legal fees to fight this will cost more than the $1 she's being sued for. Pattie could also not fight this, withdraw her trademark application, not spend any money, and carry on being an environmental activist drag queen named Pattie Gonia. She would probably be better off making nice with Patagonia in the hopes of a Jan Sport-esque deal where Pattie designs an exclusive fabric and Patagonia maintains the trademark, but apparently Pattie's legal team has been sassing off to Patagonia in their communications for years, has applied for a trademark they should 100% know they'll never get, and has now decided to play the victim on social media just in time for Pride month, so I don't know how likely that is. I guess we'll see!
This is mostly correct, but I’d like to offer a small correction. The product deal with Hydroflask and North Face apparently occurred in 2022, and HydroFlask got Patagonia involved to make sure everything was in the clear. It seems like Patagonia was very agreeable about everything at the time, and only asked that Pattie Gonia and her partners avoid using the Patagonia logo and font or similar images, and to avoid putting the words “Pattie Gonia” on any products. This is the email exchange from 2022, from the recent Patagonia trademark complaint, including Pattie Gonia apparently agreeing to the limitations.
The new conflict is from Pattie Gonia using the Patagonia imagery and the Pattie Gonia name on her own merchandise. This is the email Patagonia sent, with the images they feel conflict with the 2022 agreement.
Pattie responded to that by disagreeing that she had broken any agreement, and also obliquely threatening to expose Patagonia for making tactical gear for the US military?
It’s possible that Patagonia understood the terms from 2022 to be a good-faith ongoing agreement about keeping the brands separate, and Pattie interpreted it as an agreement limited to the now-ended North Face and Hydroflask collaboration. It’s also possible that Pattie Gonia didn’t believe she was actually agreeing to anything at all, since her responses were very neutral, though positive in tone, up until 2025. The email chain does, however, show what I think is a very clear effort on Patagonia’s part to protect their trademark while also showing support and goodwill towards Pattie in her use of the Pattie Gonia stage persona.
Reblogging this because I think it provides an interesting explanation of the legal side of this whole mess, but to be clear the Only Correct Reaction here is to understand that copyright and trademark are Fucking Stupid, not to get out your torches and pitchforks to defend teh poor innocent cowpowation from a scawy yucky-wucky dwag queen.
Pattie selling shit with her stage name on it Really Obviously isn’t going to have any negative effect on the continued lining of Patagonia CEO pockets, as if that even fucking matters, and no amount of waxing poetic about “well they have to 🥺🥺🥺” is going to make me say anything other than “fucking stupid if true then”.
Y’all gotta stop jumping to defend corpos just because blah blah trademarks blah blah copyrights. As the famous post implies y’all are not temporarily embarrassed vivzipops.
You will struggle to defend Pattie Gonia with the argument that "trademarks are fucking stupid" when this all started because Pattie applied for a trademark of her own.
In terms of whose pockets are being lined:
Rather than selling the company or taking it public, Mr. Chouinard, his wife and two adult children have transferred their ownership of Patagonia, valued at about $3 billion, to a specially designed trust and a nonprofit organization. They were created to preserve the company’s independence and ensure that all of its profits — some $100 million a year — are used to combat climate change and protect undeveloped land around the globe.
The unusual move comes at a moment of growing scrutiny for billionaires and corporations, whose rhetoric about making the world a better place is often overshadowed by their contributions to the very problems they claim to want to solve.
At the same time, Mr. Chouinard’s relinquishment of the family fortune is in keeping with his longstanding disregard for business norms, and his lifelong love for the environment.
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Since 2022, 100% of Patagonia's profits have gone to climate and environmental causes. They have completely restructured the ownership of the company so that this will continue in perpetuity.
I like Pattie Gonia and I admire her environmental activism, but Patagonia's $100 million toward climate causes every year forever has orders of magnitude more impact. I support Patagonia maintaining its trademark however necessary to continue this work, and it is actually deeply distasteful to me that Pattie is willing to spin this routine trademark suit as "a corporation trying to erase an activist" when there is very obviously no path to legal victory and the only possible outcome is reputational damage to the only major corporation literally ever that has been singularly, intentionally, innovatively, and against all odds structured to give a fuck. Patagonia is a unicorn among corporations and we are starting a smear campaign against it for what. Selling slightly different t-shirts? Crab bucket ass activism.
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when a government bans young people from using social media, and then categorises messenger apps like Signal and WhatsApp as "social media", they are pushing those young people toward using text messages, a fundamentally insecure form of communication. texts are not encrypted in transit and can be read by both the sender's mobile carrier and the recipient's. that also means they can be leaked in data breaches, subpoenaed, or just handed over willingly to law enforcement at the carriers' discretion.
this is not JUST about destroying kids' privacy by the way, although that is bad on its own! but think about it: if you can push everyone to spend their formative social years communicating through an insecure protocol, most of them are not going to do the work of moving to a secure one the moment they're legally allowed! banning everyone under 16 from Signal and WhatsApp creates a whole population of people more likely to continue, for the rest of their lives, to communicate using a tool the government can access at the drop of a hat
azune having the craziest 36 hours ever like investigate the site of a massacre, watch a partial resurrection, get lightly flirted with by the heavily grief-stricken guy you do not like after lightly blackmailing him, go to work, watch like 70% of your coworkers get fired, accidentally make your new fascist boss interested in you, tell your friend said fascist boss might know your history as a child soldier and so you might die, before you can even process also find out the man who you followed into battle that was kind of your father figure may have intentionally not tried to escape at his public execution, realize it’s a non-zero he did that to spare your life, try to hold it together, get called out by all your clearly worried allies for looking 2 seconds away from a mental breakdown, see something you should not be able to see but can due to your magical powers, manipulate a religious fascist into liking you, have a sobbing emotional breakdown about your father figure’s death in the home you once stayed in because he sent you there, start building the beginnings of a mercenary spy network, go back to work, find out you have to investigate that same massacre but this time it’s because your new fascist boss is asking you to, realize you have built your entire life around the fires set by your father figure and he’s now dead, start getting the kindling to set some fires of your own.
i think the key difference between george lucas’s star wars and disney’s star wars is that lucas is a man with an ideology. someone with a point of view, and all that entails. which comes with ideas of revolution, anti-imperialism, challenging the status quo, cultural appropriation and racist stereotypes. complex and contradictory ideas because that’s how artists are: complex and complicated people. disney is not. disney is a corporation. a corporation can’t have ideology, because ideology defeats the purpose of profit. and when the only thing you do is to turn on the movie manufacturing machine before you sit down and plan what ideas are you trying to convey to the audience, then your results are going to be washed out corporate garbage. and because when you’re a giant corporation who only cares about selling to the widest audience possible, you can’t take sides. you can’t decide on an idea. because you want to sell your product to people who are on the entire political spectrum. which results in movies without ideology, without purpose, without soul.
I have been looking for this post for years after I came across it and it’s finally here and I need to reblog this because it is absolutely and entirely accurate.
#as I always say: lucas was making a samurai film and a ww2 flying ace film and a western film and adding laser swords#because he fundamentally LIKED samurai films and dambusters films and westerns and 40’s adventure serials#but disney are making a ‘star wars film’ and adding nothing because it already had laser swords and they have nothing else to say#xerox of a xerox baybeeeee (via harrietvane)
Okay but imagine being the team of Eridian scientists tasked with keeping Erid's Only Human alive for as long as possible while the whole planet's environment is literally trying to kill him. And then Rocky shows up and is like:
“Grace says he would like half of dome to be water.”
“Oh, is necessary for humans to have large amounts of water question?”
Small Eridian equivalent of a sigh. “No. Not needed for life. In fact Grace will die if he falls in water and does not get out.”
“Tell him we give him water in containers that won't kill him. Lots lots lots of water on Erid for Grace to drink.”
“No. Grace say he want water on ground. Also want it with excess sodium chloride compound so it will be unhealthy for drink.”
To celebrate Erid getting their sun back on track, Grace asks for some alcohol. There's a small amount left from the Hail Mary and Rocky offers to take it to the science Eridians to see if they can synthesise more.
“Grace want this liquid for celebration.”
“Of course.” They scan it. “You have wrong liquid. This contain compounds which are poisonous for humans.”
“Yes yes yes. Grace say humans like feeling of being slightly poisoned.”
This is the first time I’ve lived somewhere that I do not have any type of covered parking.
Like 1-2 weeks before we moved up here, they had a horrible hail storm. Not quite record-breaking, but wide-spread and large enough to cause pretty significant damage. And since then we’ve had tiny hail maybe twice? And we’re approaching two years of living here.
It’s extremely unsettling to have to just sit here in my 3rd floor apartment and pray the hail does not actually reach the up to 2” mentioned in the warning. There’s nothing I can do! There is not one single thing I could do rn to protect my car or any of these windows.
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Also, another important purpose of this mission was to test new spaceflight technologies. They sent some people up and around before bringing them back down to prove that certain new technologies work/are safe before future, longer Artemis missions.
Just like it wasn’t until Apollo 11 that we actually landed on the moon— this was only Artemis 2. There was 10 other Apollo missions before the “big important one that everyone remembers/still talks about”, and there were 6 more after (Apollo 17 was the last of the Apollo missions).
Artemis 2 was only a stepping stone mission to test out new technologies and baby-step our way back into crewed missions to the moon. There is much more to come out of the Artemis missions!
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. Hippie church moms donating quinoa chips to my local food bank have done more for me materially than any internet idealist ever has.
People get pissed at me for being a pragmatist in my political ideals but I’ve been in the position where I was out of food right now.
And who helped me with that? Not people calling for some nebulous revolution. Not people telling me that the system was useless. Not people preaching at me to grow my own food. It was a church food bank partially funded by the state of Texas that some southern hippies donated a bunch of Whole Foods nonsense to.
And you know what? I’m sick and tired of defeatism. What can we get done right now, huh? Are you gonna accept something a bit better to help people right now or are you waiting for your perfect utopia to come to you?
Yeah, UBI is better than the quinoa chips. Sure. But right now the quinoa chips are stopping people from going hungry and if all we can do is get the food bank quinoa chips to more people, then I say so be it. That’s something. I’ll almost always take baby steps over nothing.
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The slimy strings from okra and the gel from fenugreek seeds can trap microplastics better than the slightly-toxic synthetic polymer in use.
"The substances behind the slimy strings from okra and the gel from fenugreek seeds could trap microplastics better than a commonly used synthetic polymer.
Texas researchers proposed in 2022 using these sticky natural polymers to clean up water. Now, they’ve found that okra and/or fenugreek extracts attracted and removed up to 90% of microplastics from ocean water, freshwater, and groundwater.
With funding from the U.S. Department of Energy, Rajani Srinivasan and colleagues at Tarleton State University found that the plant-based polymers from okra, fenugreek, and tamarind stick to microplastics, clumping together and sinking for easy separation from water.
In this next stage of the research, they have optimized the process for okra and fenugreek extracts and tested results in a variety of types of water.
To extract the sticky plant polymers, the team soaked sliced okra pods and blended fenugreek seeds in separate containers of water overnight. Then, researchers removed the dissolved extracts from each solution and dried them into powders.
Analyses published in the American Chemical Society journal showed that the powdered extracts contained polysaccharides, which are natural polymers. Initial tests in pure water spiked with microplastics showed that:
One gram of either powder in a quart (one liter) of water trapped microplastics the most effectively.
Dried okra and fenugreek extracts removed 67% and 93%, respectively, of the plastic in an hour.
A mixture of equal parts okra and fenugreek powder reached maximum removal efficiency (70%) within 30 minutes.
The natural polymers performed significantly better than the synthetic, commercially available polyacrylamide polymer used in wastewater treatment.
Then the researchers tested the plant extracts on real microplastic-polluted water. They collected samples from waterbodies around Texas and brought them to the lab. The plant extract removal efficiency changed depending on the original water source.
Okra worked best in ocean water (80%), fenugreek in groundwater (80-90%), and the 1:1 combination of okra and fenugreek in freshwater (77%).
The researchers hypothesize that the natural polymers had different efficiencies because each water sample had different types, sizes and shapes of microplastics.
Polyacrylamide, which is currently used to remove contaminants during wastewater treatment, has low toxicity, but its precursor acrylamide is considered toxic. Okra and fenugreek extracts could serve as biodegradable and nontoxic alternatives.
“Utilizing these plant-based extracts in water treatment will remove microplastics and other pollutants without introducing additional toxic substances to the treated water,” said Srinivasan in a media release, “thus reducing long-term health risks to the population.”
She had previously studied the use of food-grade plant extracts as non-toxic flocculants to remove textile-based pollutants from wastewater and thought, ‘Why not try microplastics?’"
-via Good News Network, May 10, 2025
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