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my bank account's been empty for upwards of 2 weeks, no word on when i'm getting paid for an art commission i did, i could not even get tissues, aluminum foil or coffee filters this week

it's so hot today, too hot to cook and too hot to walk to the store, im so sorry to ask, i know others have it harder, im disabled and cant walk in the heat and currently dont have AC

can anyone please help with $30-$40 so i can get a meal and maybe some other basic needs delivered? mutuals, friends?

v: twinrivers

paypal.me/8donnie8

dm for zelle

thanks if you can help me ❤️‍🩹

The important thing about wool is that it continues to keep you warm even when it’s soaking wet.

Other natural fibers don’t do this. In fact, quite the opposite. Campers and boaters are usually familiar with the phrase, “cotton kills.” If you’re wet in cotton or linen, your clothes actually sap heat from your body.

If you sink in a lake in late October like I did today, staying warm is important. I was rescued long before I would’ve actually died, but cold makes your muscles seize up, which isn’t good if you have to swim to land.

Which brings me around to life jackets. If the water’s cold enough, you may only have five-ten minutes until your muscles seize (today I probably had 40-60, more than enough time to get to land if I hadn’t been picked up), and you’ll drown.

In a life jacket, even in extremely cold water, you can float semi-conscious for perhaps another 30 minutes or so before you actually freeze to death, which is usually when someone rescues you.

What’s more, you probably know that moving around on land warms you up. Jumping jacks, jogging in place, etc.

In water, moving actually makes you colder. You need to stay still curled up in a ball, which you can only do in a life jacket.

In wool AND life jacket, you’re warm, and your head’s above water, which is pretty much your only and entire goal.

Yep! A really simple “experiment” I learned as a kid and now use in my own courses is sticking your hand in ice water. Compare moving it around in the water to curling it up in a fist. The contrast is stark!

To increase your survival time in on cold water, you want to curl up! If you’re with others, you want to huddle!

Alright there's this. Now back to drawing undead gay dog men in love.

Those on mobile are experiencing issues with reading this due to tumblrs compression, so here is it cut up for easier reading!

But first, HERE IS A LINK to the plain text for those who use screen readers or would prefer straight text.

You can read about it here: https://minds-africa.org/fabric-map-of-africa-the-art-of-storytelling/

Chinese giant salamander (娃娃鱼) a.k.a ‘baby fish’ due to the sound they make that sounds like a baby crying.

The Chinese giant salamander is one of the largest salamanders and one of the largest amphibians in the world. It is fully aquatic and is endemic to rocky mountain streams and lakes in the Yangtze river basin of central China.

The Chinese giant salamander is considered to be a "living fossil". Although protected under Chinese laws, its population has faced severe declined over the last 70 years and is currently (2022) listed as threatened. There are evidence indicating that the Chinese giant salamander may be composed of at least five cryptic species, further compounding each individual species' endangerment.