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sisterpaw125

"Yar har, fiddle-dee-dee!

Being a pirate is alright with me.

Do what you want 'cause a pirate lives free.

You are a pirate!"

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bananahomo

I reblogged this last month, tagged it, and said “might as well see if it works.” I used this video as a reference to find all the forms that i needed (which is A LOT, especially if you’re a dependent) and sent them through the mail, not really allowing myself to hope.

dude.

$2,714 of medical debt from my top surgery - gone. im shaking this was such a weight on me for 2 years and it fucking worked. what the fuck.

puppylovesystem

re-reblogging and thinking about when i have another collection agency calling that i can just do this

secondmoredangerouseyes

Yo this is such good info to have

sorceress-foxgirl-ariel

Cheers Americans, have fun with this one

alexiaroselikethewine

Being recently disabled this is going to relieve a FUCK TON of weight holy SHIT

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erisenyo

Tagged by @xialiuyi please ignore how long ago you tagged me

last song: Intertia by AJR!

favorite color: Blue!

currently watching: other than playoff hockey and playoff lacrosse, I am finally caught up on Top Chef!

currently reading: Archangel's Resurrection by Nalini Singh - I'm a few books behind on the series, this one isn't the fastest going but its solid so far

current obsession: the NCAA women's lacrosse championship that's been happening all May! I need Northwestern to lose...

currently working on: nothing at the moment...I have four Hollanov ideas (a car sex fic, the next Cliff fic, my reverse big bang fic, and a 5+1 shane and the centaurs thing) and the Zukka fencing AU and the blue!Zuko longfic and also the La Possession AU and Zukki week is coming up too...gotta decide what I'm picking up first

last google search: can you mix sudafed and nyquil lol

Tagging @haroldtea @goldrushzukka @chiptrillino @wileycap @appleapplepeach @sword-and-stars @demondarakna @stupidcanadianwolfbird @shanehollandertwentyfour @verbam and whoever else wants to play!

demondarakna

Last Song: Tmrrw Woodkid - just put it on my Danceworthy playlist i use for tribal fusion drilling

Favourite colour: Green, most greens, olive green probably best

Currently watching: Alien Earth

Currently reading: Heated rivalry fanfiction + doing quotes out of Stray Souls from Kate Griffin which could count as rereading I guesss.

Current obsession: Heated Rivalry, local comic con (happening yesterday and today, social battery so low)

Currently working on: getting myself to the con, more longterm rewriting War of Wings (for the 5th time) and posting on ao3.

Last google search: na meji nevidnega program (con name program)

Tagging @anyone

autisticlittleguy

So, unlike Eridians, we discovered fire very early on and so our civilization kinda grew up with combustion right? We've had thousands of years to normalize it and get comfortable with the idea of using it casually for warmth or cooking etc.

In contrast, Eridians had to discover fire in a lab since their atmosphere doesnt have O2 like ours. So they dont have, like, an entire culture normalizing fire.

> Be me. Rocky the Eridian cosmonaut

> Tell Grace about Eridian space elevator design made out of Xenonite. Grace very impressed, says humans only dream about making space elevator.

> Odd? Ask Human friend Grace how humans got into space. Expecting some high tech solution since science humans clearly know more physics.

> Grace explains Humans strapped other Humans on top of Fire-Explodatron-9000 machines made out of weak human metal, basically Eridian cardboard, then shot them into orbit. Grace say the fire it makes is quite pretty to look at

cameoamalthea

I feel like the reaction would be similar to this.

autisticlittleguy

Can you imagine being rocky tossing over that capsule during first contact. Like oh yeah, theyll probably use their robotic arm to catch it. And then you see like. This horribly clumsy alien come out of the ship, flailing about, wiggling across the hull trying to catch the capsule. Like oh. Oh so thats the kind of species i am dealing with

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isuggestrevolution

i suggest using that powerful tool

9puppiesdrowninginapool

Ken was created from Barbie’s rib

romanceyourdemons

one of my favorite tropes in chinese literature is when a guy’s wife is clearly a ghost/demon/fox fairy and he just can’t see it. i’m reading a story where this guy keeps getting arrested because his wife will just magically steal steal shit out of sealed boxes and give it to him as a present, and whenever someone is like dude i think something’s up with his wife he asks her and she’s like i’m literally normal. so he turns around and says yeah guys she’s literally normal

lumsel

#hashtag Believe Women#feminism

teethwreath

god this tickles me

(OP's tiktok here)

jinjeriffic

The comments are sending me

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rogue-ai-cat

The thing is, even if you were lucky and your parents taught you how to clean, they probably didn't teach you how to clean the stuff you clean stuff with, like brushes, mops, sponges, rags, and so on. Or how to clean your cleaning appliances, like a dish washer, clothes washing machine, and clothes dryer and its ducts (if you have a ducted dryer), or a carpet cleaner, vacuum, Or how to clean up clean messes, like spilled bleach or detergent.

My parents threw away all of these things (even the vacuum cleaners and the dryer) when they got too dirty to function, because no one even told them THAT they could be cleaned. Cost them thousands of dollars over the years.

All I'm saying is that cleaning is not intuitive, and not knowing how to clean is not a moral failing, but it is something you can learn.

I'm going to reblog this post with resources for learning how to clean things and how to clean cleaning things (I'm not at my desk at the moment). If you have any favorites, please feel free to add them in too!

rogue-ai-cat

I like this video because it does a great job of introducing the basic foundations of house cleaning (and because he doesn't use bleach, which is a common allergy in addition to being awful to inhale). He also talks a little about how to clean a vacuum. And why you shouldn't put grease from your pots and pans down the sink drain. I also love that he mentions that different houses and different people have different needs and different versions of what clean and cleaning looks like.

He doesn't mention though that the toilet seat comes off. I take my toilet seat off to clean under the hinges and clean the seat more thoroughly once a quarter.

rogue-ai-cat

This is another video from the same guy about cleaning and depression. This advice, especially at the beginning, can feel really really difficult and oppressive to hear. However, I find that it's generally pretty solid. But I'm autistic and so is he, so that gets a massive Your Mileage May Vary stamp on it.

I have a favorite part of this video. It's from 10:52 to 12:36. I think we could all use to hear that. There's a HEFTY pause after that one. I promise the narration does come back.

I'm also going to recommend KC Davis' book "How To Keep House While Drowning"

rogue-ai-cat

This is a pair of videos about how to correctly load and use a dish washer.

The first one is a quick 1 minute 30 second overview on loading. I can't find the exact video I'm looking for, so consider this a substitute for that. If I can find the one I'm looking for, I'll swap it in.

The second is a half hour deep dive on dishwashers and detergents. The short form of that is you shouldn't need to pre-rinse anything, detergent pods are overpriced and can cause problems, some dishwashers have a filter in the bottom that needs to be cleaned (but most don't), run your sink until the water is HOT before starting your dish washer, and put a little detergent in the pre-rinse dispenser when you're washing extra dirty dishes (or on the inside of the door if your dishwasher doesn't have a pre-rinse dispenser).

rogue-ai-cat

Favorite Scrub Brushes + How to Clean Them. The right tools for cleaning tasks make all the difference! Scrub brushes are great tools and it

Here's a blog post about scrubbing brushes and how to clean them.

And a video for all cleaning tools, including scrub brushes. This video does use bleach. I'll try to find some alternatives to that.

rogue-ai-cat

How to clean a front load washer (with bleach). This should be done monthly or every time you wash really soiled clothes.

With expert tips and tricks for all types of washers.

How to clean a top loader (without the removable agitator thing). This should be done every 1-3 months depending on you unit, or every time you wash really soiled clothes.

Regular cleaning of a top-load washing machine will prolong the life of the appliance and leave your laundry cleaner and brighter.

How to clean a top loader (with the removable agitator thing). This should be done every month, or every time you wash really soiled clothes.

rogue-ai-cat

This video is for pet owners.

These carpet brushes are a LIFE SAVER if you have dogs. This thing allows me to go from vacuuming about 4 square feet before my vacuum is full to vacuuming half the living room (I don't vacuum often enough. You should vacuum weekly, and I just can't.). I have to unclog the vacuum less often. It fluffs up some of the flat spots in the carpet. And I also use the brush to shampoo my rugs in the spring.

A spot cleaner (or a carpet cleaner with a spot cleaner attachment) is another life saver, ESPECIALLY if you can afford to splurge on a heated one. I see them at Goodwill or at yard sales occasionally, and they're worth picking up. The shark one in the video is great too.

This channel is gold. There's tutorials for cleaning EVERYTHING on there. Just go subscribe!

fivekoboldsinacoat

Gonna throw another potential resource at the end of this very long list, which may be potentially helpful for others like me who loathe videos. It's... the weirdest thing that has genuinely been helpful to me in housekeeping. Absolutely full of useful advice, and bizarrely still relevant in large part. (Though, caveat, research ANYTHING to do with chemicals or cleaning products more complicated than vinegar + lemon + water for modern information.)

It's America's Housekeeping Book (1941). Available for free download on the Internet Archive. (Large PDF file at the link here).

The LISTS y'all. The step by step lists. The emphasis on efficiency and arranging spaces for the least resistance possible. The basic concept of "take a tray or basket into a room when you are tidying up so you can put things that belong elsewhere on it and take them out LATER in ONE GO".

My ADHD-having ass could cry.

gorbling

Im enjoying the longevity of tumblrs recontextualization style of humor. a seemingly innocuous post followed by like "posts that a gnome would make" or like "are you a phone"

gorbling

hapalopus

More from the notes:

vexwerewolf

I love this post

karifaevt

The horse thinks as it scratches an itch

#tumblr #tumblr heritage post

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saxifraga-x-urbium

I know people don't like having the blindingly obvious suggested to them but the following do have to regularly be said to people I know so:

Have you tried turning it off and then on again?

Is it plugged in properly?

What does the manual say?

You can probably Google that

Have you eaten?

I know you remember making the food but did you actually eat it?

Well do it sitting down then

You're probably having a reaction to one of the ingredients, read the label and see if there's anything in there that you recognise

Okay did you actually tell him that? With your mouth? Using words?

The painkillers only work if you take them

Cool had has self-flagellating actually made this work before or?

Yeah okay you 'must remember to' but you remember to NOW so do it NOW

Put it in your fucking calendar

Do you want me to show you how to set up reminders

So use BOTH hands then

... the suggestions of the blindingly obvious will continue until people demonstrate consistently that they don't need it.

saxifraga-x-urbium

did you take your fucking meds

pjharvey

we have to start running a massive PSA campaign to young gay people so everyone understands there is a difference between being a dom and being a top and between being a sub and being a bottom. and also that sometimes you are neither a sub nor a bottom and you're just like shy. we need to be handing out flyers we need ads at every train station spreading the word

chekhovs-raygun

also those things are roles related to sexual preference, not facets of your gender. look at me. write this down. bottoming or topping is *something you like to do.* it's not a diagnostic of your gender. being a dom or a sub is a position you take in a sexual roleplay. these are preferences you might have and it's normal to like many different things. stop treating it like a cosmo personality quiz.

lizardlicks

They're also not mutually exclusive. You can be a submissive top or a dominant bottom or switch it around depending on partner, mood, etc. You can have no preference at all, or prefer a more balance and equitable exchange during intimacy, and none of this is set in stone.

just have fun and be yourself

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weirdtranssexual

wikipedia is fucking bullshit

weirdtranssexual

there’s a REASON all your teachers said not to use wikipedia as your source. it’s not properly peer reviewed or verified.

weirdtranssexual

if it’s not coming from peer reviewed sources that are independently verified as factual and unbiased it’s useless as a source

if anything, you can check wikipedia’s sources and figure out if those are proper sources before you use anything from wikipedia, and see how often those sources turn out to be shitty

weirdtranssexual

“zionists wanted israel to have as few arabs as possible” — sourced from an article that’s obviously not biased against jews. nooo that’d be absurd! /s

weirdtranssexual

and let’s not forget what that one brat did to the entire wikipedia on scots english

pusheenthenerdcat

every time wikipedia is brought up i think about the fact that a TEENAGER nearly exterminated an entire language by vandalising articles for years and years and arguing with actual scots speakers

this still comes up in linguistic circles because people used those articles he wrote in fake scots as evidence for what the language is like! im not even sure if the dialect vs language debate would be this widespread if there hadnt been a fake version of scots on such a widespread internet resource.

theres been major vandalism issues for a bunch of indigenous tribes as well but ive not heard of any that is quite this large scale or quite this bonkers (he started doing it as a 12 year old!)

entomologist-of-abraham

We actually can tell if someone used Wikipedia in my discipline because one of my colleagues tried an exercise one year where their student’s had a project to make a Wikipedia page on a forensically relevant insect.

Many of them were poorly done and to this day are factually incorrect. No one has taken the time to fix them or gotten their fixes approved.

weirdtranssexual

the average person thinks of wikipedia as the modern library of alexandria meanwhile i’m here thinking to myself that information literacy is dead

nochd

Wikipedia editor here. We try.

Don't get me wrong; you should never use Wikipedia as a source for any paper for school, college, or scientific or scholarly research.

There are a number of reasons, but the key one, even if all the accuracy problems were to be ironed out, is that this causes information to flow in the wrong direction. Information should come from scholarly and scientific papers to Wikipedia, never the other way around.

School Wikipedia editing projects are (speaking for myself) frankly a nuisance. We had one on the Phoenicia page a year or three ago. None of the students added any information that wasn't already there, and none of them knew how to write in an appropriate style for an encyclopaedia; they all mimicked those children's information books that seem to need to make everything sound breathlessly exciting in order to outrun their readers' attention spans. I waited until after their class assessment date and reverted it all.

Ideally any given Wikipedia page should be curated by a combination of experts and interested laypeople; bad things happen when either of those is missing.

Articles edited solely by experts tend to become an impenetrable morass of uselessly precise terminology. Non-experts, on the other hand, may be very careful about sourcing everything properly, but there's a limit to how representative the sources are of their field.

Very often it's easier to find sources challenging the expert consensus on a particular topic than sources documenting the expert consensus, simply because the sources are all written by experts for experts and the experts already know what the consensus is.

And there are thousands of subjects -- minority languages, for example -- on which there just aren't enough people who are both aware of the topic and active Wikipedia editors to maintain balance.

I am, as far as I can tell, the only person in the world who is simultaneously (a) a New Zealander, (b) a Wikipedia editor, and (c) a naturist. Consequently all discussions of naturism or social nudity in Aotearoa are inevitably biased towards my point of view. I try to be as neutral as I can but it's not the same as having someone else to counterbalance me.

But we try.

segamascott

otteroflore

alright everyone is being sassy but nobody has brought up the actual reason why scientists are interested in the titanic in the notes

Per wikipedia:

The Titanic was made of steel, presumably to resist corrosion (i mean. thats why boats are made of steel i assume) but even when iron/steel rusts people did not expect to find like. decomposition. bacteria are EATING the titanic.

and there's wood furniture from the titanic that isn't decaying. hell, there are wood ships at the bottom of the ocean that archaeologists study. so the expectation people have for the titanic is not that the steel would decompose at the bottom of the ocean. Even in 100 years, since there are much more ancient preserved wooden ships iirc.

(im not particularly knowledgeable about ships, i just had heard about the science going on around the titanic so i wanted to clarify that on this post for people)

shoresoftheshadowlands

sailor-arashi

The Titanic is an exceptionally weird whalefall basically.

claraschaos

Not a marine biologist but biologist enough to weigh in on this. The reason we have iron eating bacteria but not wood eating bacteria at the bottom of the ocean is simple. Hydrothermal vents release a cocktail of different mineral ores into the ocean. And bacteria and other organisms evolved alongside those so they evolved to digest these, like iron or other metal ores

Wood however does not exist at the bottom of the ocean since it basically never sinks down, even when logs are flushed out into the ocean they basically never end up at the ocean floor. So there's no bacteria that evolved to decompose lignin, which is already complex enough to decompose on the surface. And that's why wooden ships or the furniture on the Titanic stay intact for hundreds of years or longer.

lobo-cansado-de-ojos-rojos

Okay, but I remember reading a magazine stating that the titanic would basically be gone by now because of the rust eating the ship.

The sister ship HMHS Britannic is still perfectly preserved because of the way it sank, and partly in due to the coral that has grown around it keeping the structure in tact I believe was the reason.

theminingdwarf

Coral acting like a living fossil specifically for sunken ships is the coolest thing I've ever heard

kyraneko

So lemme get this straight, the Titanic is a whalefall, the Britannic is a biological mummy, and all the wood ships that sink into the deep ocean are preserved incorrupt because nothing can eat them.

Zombie, mummy, lich, respectively.

#titanic #bacteria #interesting #interesthings

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