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Not sweets, not dried mushrooms, and definitely not vegan, despite Swizzels's recent recipe changes.
Is actually a skull. Specifically the sheep skull I found and cleaned in April and haven't had the chance to hand over to my goth collector friend until now.
Just noticed the sweets making a crossbones and quite like that actually.
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One of my favourite recurring things the Master does is presumably just... actually doing the job that comes with whatever disguise they've chosen.
Like when they don't just show up five minutes before the Doctor arrives.
Holding staff meetings.
Signing paperwork.
Attending mandatory training.
The Master's greatest superpower isn't hypnosis or tissue compression.
It's an unparalleled commitment to workplace roleplay.
Prime Minister of the UK is NOT a directly-elected position! We don't have a president! Instead we'd have:
Harold Saxon being a godawful student union politics hack at university
Harold Saxon getting work experience in the public or NGO sector wait no he's evil he'd probably lobby for the private sector
Harold Saxon as a local political party activist delivering leaflets and trying to avoid getting his fingers bitten off by dogs in the process
Harold Saxon starting out with elected positions in local government or as a Member of the European Parliament to build up his credibility
Harold Saxon standing as an MP once a constituency becomes available or he convinces the local party he'd be better than the incumbent
Harold Saxon working his way up through junior ministerial posts up to the Cabinet
Harold Saxon running for leadership of a party and then doing a successful general election
That's what I call a long and fucking exhausting con. But also one hell of a work ethic. The Doctor just had to punch through a wall for billions of years.
Yeah so this heatwave ya gal ordered several pairs of shorts and a crop top version of the uniform jersey, age 42, after playing in leggings and XL t-shirts for 15 years.
Okay, you know what? Given that over the last week I have seen at least one of the common myths of "things you should not do in the heat" come over my dashboard, let us quickly go over this:
If it is hot, you will need to drink more than normally because you are sweating. You can drink too much, though usually your body knows how to regulate it.
Yes, if it is liquid and not alcoholic it counts to your drinking intake. Yes, drinking lemonades, coke and whatever counts. All of it is still mostly water with some sugar and flavors added. It is fine. Be careful about taking in too much caffeine though, as it is a mild diuretic (means it makes you pee more and hence lose more water).
Yes, you also need electrolytes as you sweat them out. But you do not need to drink sports drinks. Eat some yoghurt with fruits, or some watermelon with salt, or maybe cold soup. It will refill your electrolytes.
No, it is not dangerous for you to sleep in front of a ventilator. This is a complete myth that has absolutely no basis in science whatsoever and literally originates with an Urban Legend. Especially with the recent heat wave in Europe for a lot of people the alternative is the possibility of heat stroke. It is fine. Sleep in front of that ventilator. Just make sure you are not getting too cold.
No, using sunscreen does not stop you from taking in Vitamin D, unless you are permanently using super high standard sun screen and are reapplying it every 6 hours as intended. And let's face it: you are not. Your skin gets enough UVB to make Vitamin D, don't worry about it. Skin cancer is worse.
Yes, switching between a very hot outside and a very cold context (be it super high AC or just jumping into cold water) can be a danger for your cardiovascular system, though unless the weather is very hot or the water very cold making the contrast very extreme, it is normally not a danger to people who do not have otherwise issues with their cardiovascular system. Though being a bit careful and allowing yourself to acclimatize is not a bad idea in general.
Yes, you should definitely not leave any living thing in a car while it is hot. Just don't. Cars heat up while standing very quickly and will become a death trap. If you leave an animal or a child alone in the car for even just 5 to 10 minutes, they might die. Don't do that shit.
Yes, you need to be extra careful about your medications. For once, most medications are not meant to be stored at above 25°C (don't ask me what this is in American units). But also a bunch of medications - especially psychoactive medications - will make your body worth at temperature regulation. So be careful.
Yes, you need shadow. Ideally the shadow of trees, because there is indeed a difference between that and the shadow of a building. But any shadow is good, especially during extreme heat.
In the same vein: be also careful about drugs during heat waves - like, the recreational type. Some of them work differently when your body is warmed up like that. Just... ideally read up online on possible side effects that might occur/be worse if taken during the heat.
Generally speaking: stay hydrated. Stay cool. Try to do it as well as you can in your respective situation. Stay safe.
"Yes, switching between a very hot outside and a very cold context (be it super high AC or just jumping into cold water) can be a danger for your cardiovascular system, though unless the weather is very hot or the water very cold making the contrast very extreme, it is normally not a danger to people who do not have otherwise issues with their cardiovascular system. Though being a bit careful and allowing yourself to acclimatize is not a bad idea in general."
FWIW the main danger with this in cold water is what we call 'cold water shock'. (Which I don't love because it's not proper physiological shock, the kind where your cells and organs aren't getting enough oxygenated blood and start dying.)
Basically if you plunge your whole torso and/or head into cold, you will start gasping and panicking and hyperventilating. And that's counterproductive in a situation where you have to actively control your breathing or drown. It's not the sudden cold that kills you; it's the gasping uncontrollably when surrounded by and potentially under water.
Me: it's just a little hat how hard can it be?
Universe: lads lads lads this clumsy newbie who's scared of her sewing machine is trying to construct a 3D shape by sewing straight slippery little bits of lycra to curved slippery little bits of lycra. She's using the 'I dunno, the only one I could find that looked about normal' foot. The cat thinks he's helping. It's gonna be hilarious.
I made a hat for running and swimming in the sun. There's a lot wrong with it but it fits and it's got dinosaurs on. I used the correct needles for the type and density of fabric and only broke two of them.
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The Great Goodreads Diss List (Part 3)
[Part 1] [Part 2]
This is the last of the list, at least at present. I'm not quite sure when I started saving these, but it's been somewhere around 6 years!
"I think we should thank this book for finding us a new source of renewable energy: Jane Austen's corpse spinning in its grave."
"DNF @ 30% and I'm embarrassed to have made it that far."
"was written solely because the author received a thesaurus for her birthday."
"This book was so horrible that my friends and I started a Terrible Book Club where we passed around a copy in which we wrote snarky comments in the margins."
"If I wanted to hear endlessly repetitive justifications of bad decisions, I would go reread my journals from 2003"
"I can’t believe I’m expected to care about these two people who have the collective personality of a chair"
'This is one of those books that makes me feel that, even though I had heterosexual parents and a heterosexual family and grew up in a heterosexual world, I will never understand heterosexuals.'
"isn't so much a cliche storm as it is a cliche monsoon, a tsunami of platitudes, a tornado of concepts that have been Done Before."
"someone PLEASE give [author] a bag of commas (or at least give them to his editor)"
"I am reading this For Science."
"This book could be the perfect door stop, but the cat sprayed it."
"This book is fine for people who enjoy chewing sawdust."
"[Title] was my first husband's favorite book, and he used to quote from it all the time. When we got divorced (it wasn't amicable), my lawyer asked how I'd feel about using that fact in court."
"If the main character were an instrument, she'd be a cowbell."
"There's a metaphor that has been beaten to death and will never bother anyone again."
"The characters [...] were flatter than frogs hit by all eighteen wheels of a semi. Even the dogs were underdeveloped."
"It's the OJ Simpson trial! But with an extraterrestrial! This will never get dated!"
"about as exciting as an uncooked Brussel sprout"
[Author is] "Someone you'd sit behind in a 100 level philosophy class and maybe secretly want to choke a little."
"I read this book while locked in a psych ward against my will. I would have rather stared at the wall for five days instead of reading this."
"[...] a metaphor so blunt I am surprised it did not injure me"
"It takes a certain and rare kind of writer to make a story about civil war, genocide, and a refugee crisis boring and unreadable."
"Use this book to stuff an old mattress."
"I cannot honestly say that [book] is the worst novel ever written, but I grant [author] the benefit of this doubt solely because I have not read every novel ever written. (In private, however, I maintain my suspicions.)"
"disintegrated in my hands, which felt like a blessing."
[Part 4]
These are all very funny, but I'm afraid none can beat Dorothy Parker:
"This is not a book to be tossed aside lightly. It should be hurled with great force."
Okay now I'm sad again.
We used to visit Sherwood Forest on the way to my granny in Lincolnshire. Got the child-size bows and safety arrows and green hats and everything. I didn't realise the Major Oak was that old - someone told me it was only 400ish.
Nottinghamshire tree, one of Europe’s oldest and largest, fails to produce leaves after being stressed by series of hot, dry summers
Maybe this is just me, but whenever I heard about the lost Franklin expedition and Finding The Northwest Passage, I always had the impression that it was actually there to find. Like it was a definite thing they'd somehow misplaced. Not that they were just hurling themselves against ice and scurvy and lead poisoning and zinc deficiency for something that wasn't even there and had no plausible reason to be there.
But yeah. The closest we will come to a viable commercial shipping lane in those waters is in the 21st century, because of anthropogenic climate change melting the ice. And that's bad actually. The idea that there'd be a nice wide thawed bit in the middle of the Arctic ice, just because it would be really useful for colonial business interests if there were, is utterly bananas when you stop and think. Why. Why would there be. Well, God and Providence, I guess.
I am also torn because the song is a banger and it's beautiful and it's stuck in my head and the writer died tragically young in circumstances that show safety regulations are written in blood. And he also wrote Mary Ellen Carter. But for fuck's sake Stan, these explorers weren't going across an empty and untamed land. People were already living there. People who'd figured out how *not* to die from mineral deficiencies.
These are very normal 8am thoughts that are also had by people who weren't raised on folk music I'm sure.
So many people hate their own body so much and are so casually fatphobia toward themself and the thing is, when you're not, when you've healed yourself enough that you can look at yourself and say "my body is just a body that does body things" it becomes nearly impossible to be around people who openly hate their bodies. It feels like they're flinging their muck all over you, and you gotta shake yourself out so it doesn't stick. And misery really does love company. They'll talk about how fat they are and how they can't eat this or that or wear certain clothes or cut their hair short, and they want you to lament with them. And you gotta not, okay? You gotta not. You gotta walk away from that shit.
And you HAVE to pay attention to the things you say about your own body in front of other people, lest you become the person flinging your muck onto others.
What she says: I'm *sniffs, sobs* fine
What she means: 91 kākāpō chicks have fledged this breeding season, and should take the official population total over 300.
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everyone eat more vegetables NOW!!! and mention the last vegetable you ate in the tags so we're all on the buddy system. I'll start: bok choy
After every game we choose one skater to be the Champion of Moo Deng, the one who most embodied the spirit of our furious hippo god.
Not to worry anyone, but this one works in nuclear safety.
I don’t care if Monday’s yuck
Tuesday, Wednesday tread through muck
Thursday maybe eat a duck
It’s Friday, Flat as Fuck
Izzy Hands may be a kinky little freak but none of y'all seem to acknowledge that Blackbeard's entire fucking crew is a floating leather bar!! Which gives CONTEXT not only to Izzy being a kinky little freak, but to their dynamic as a whole- Blackbeard is not just Ed's persona as a pirate, Blackbeard is his persona as a dominant. Send post.
Did I fucking HALLUCINATE the bit where Roach (depraved omnisexual too kinky to torture) and Fang (gentle giant) try to have a scene and it goes wrong and they just like... have a spa day instead? Please tell me somebody else remembers that. It was simultaneously a quick throwaway and the most wholesome thing in the entire show.
Please reblog and add in the tags your most recently read non fiction book - or currently reading if applicable.
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TFW you listen to a three-part podcast (‘Behind the Bastards') about the Belgian Congo and one of your special interests is horrifying zoonotic diseases and that's why you can't ever be happy.
Yes we all know (I hope) that King Leopold II of Belgium was a straight-up monster who stole land and people to create a country so he could enslave it for his own enrichment, and killed millions of people in the process. And while Leopold finally died to much rejoicing in 1909, colonial rule would last until 1960.
I did not know that the newly-independent First Congolese Republic had a perfectly good leader in Patrice Lumumba. Who was then just straight-up assassinated by a combination of the Belgian government and the CIA in 1961. And that following a few years of civil war, dictator Mobutu Sese Seko was installed in a CIA-backed coup in 1965. He would then rule for over 30 years.
The narrative we get is that as soon as Belgium moved out, the country immediately fell to civil war and dictatorship. Implication: colonialism wasn't that bad actually. Implication: see the savages really can't rule themselves.
No. Bullshit. Belgium and the CIA did that. Belgium because they were actively funding and encouraging at least two factions in the multi-way civil war. They'd promised not to re-conquer the Congo. They hadn't promised not to re-conquer anyone who split off from it. The CIA because once the UN failed to restrain Belgium, Lumumba turned to the Soviets in desperation. And there was a slight Cold War happening at the time.
So far so bad but I can make it worse. The other big thing that was happening in the Congo around that time was the start of the global outbreak of HIV-1-M. Twelve different strains of HIV have jumped to humans from other primates on twelve different occasions (that we know of). HIV-1-M jumped from Congolese chimpanzees to humans around 1920ish, but really started exploding and going international in the late 1950s and early 1960s. The earliest HIV samples we have are from then-Leopoldville at this time. HIV-1-M is the strain responsible for about 90% of the ongoing AIDS pandemic and deaths.
Now maybe all the political stuff is completely irrelevant. It's not like ANYONE dealt well with the emergence of HIV. But I have a hunch that it's harder to notice and contain a new disease when the people dying from it are people you see as disposable (see also: Ronald Reagan, gays and homeless, 1980s), or when Belgium and the CIA just set the country on fire. And the movement of people in and around Leopoldville was definitely a factor in the spread; people tend to move more when a) you're using them as slave labour in your country-sized rubber plantation and b) you started a civil war.
(And THAT'S how you get to "The CIA did AIDS to keep the Africans down" but in a way that is actually accurate to history and virology.
So much shit that ACTUALLY HAPPENED in the Cold War kind of explains why conspiracy theorists are Like That. But also HIV came from SIV and causes AIDS, take your antiretroviral medicine if you can please. And everyone should have free healthcare to make that possible.)
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