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speculative fiction writers i am going to give you a really urgent piece of advice: don't say numbers. don't give your readers any numbers. how heavy is the sword? lots. how old is that city? plenty. how big is the fort? massive. how fast is the spaceship? not very, it's secondhand.
the minute you say a number your readers can check your math and you cannot do math better than your most autistic critic. i guarantee. don't let your readers do any math. when did something happen? awhile ago. how many bullets can that gun fire? trick question, it shoots lasers, and it shoots em HARD.
you are lying to people for fun. if you let them do math at you the lie collapses and it's no fun anymore.
YOU GET IT
Please Show Me Animals Living Deliciously
DOST THOU WISH TO EAT A TASTY??? WOULDSTNTVE THOU LIKE THE TASTE OF BERRIES???
Violet-backed Starling (Cinnyricinclus leucogaster), EAT A TASTY BERRY!!!, family Sturnidae, order Passeriformes, South Africa
photograph by Andre Botha
Great Blue Heron (Ardea herodias), EAT A TASTY FISH!!!, family Ardeidae, order Pelicaniformes, Florida, USA
The fish is a Black Crappie (Pomoxis nigromaculatus), family Centrarchidae, order Centrarchiformes
photograph by Matthew Paulson
Black-headed Parrot (Pionites melanocephalus), EAT TASTY FRUIT!!!, family Psittacidae, order Psittaciformes, Colombia
photograph by ruedacamara
Crested Honey Buzzard (Pernis ptilorhynchus) EAT A TASTY HONEY!!!, family Accipitridae, found across much of South and East Asia.
photograph by mikewang151
Ornate Cat-eyed Snake (Leptodeira ornata), famly Colubridae, EAT THE TASTY EGGS of a Reticulated Glass Frog (Hyalinobatrachium valerioi), family Centrolenidae, Costa Rica
photograph by Steijn Pulles
Limpkin (Aramus guarauna) EAT A TASTY SNAIL!!!, family Aramidae, order Gruiformes, Cillinan Park, Sugar Land, TX, USA
photograph by Allen Tsao
Coconut Lorikeets (Trichoglossus haematodus), EAT A TASTY MANGO!!!, family Psittaculidae, order Psittaciformes, found in part of Indonesia, New Guinea and some other Indian and Pacific islands
photograph by Meng Kuang Han
California Newt (Taricha torosa), EAT A TASTY WORM!!!, family Salamandridae, California, USA.
Poisonous (Extremely).
photograph byAnton Sorokin
idk what neurodivergent young adult needs to hear this but you are NOT supposed to give 100% at your job. I've gotten more promotions and raises since I started giving 40-60%, which my evil CEO uncle informed me is what bosses actually expect when they say 110%. My mental health has improved tremendously. I've spent 2 out of 5 workdays secretly writing my novel for the last 2 years and I've never been more respected and appreciated. Also--when you see glaring wasteful errors in the company's operating systems, say absolutely nothing! Embrace inefficiency. It is your friend in this capitalist hellscape.

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my hips are so wide and awesome i feel like mewtwo
i came to this realization in a grocery store aisle i literally felt like this
i'm a bit high but i was so enamored by grocery store mewtwo that i made more
what a way to kill your own site
needle/pin sharpener.
no really, squeeze it. Does it feel like itâs got sand in it? isâs sharpening sand. Stab the tip of your needle into it back and forth and itâll help put a sharp edge back on a pin or needle thatâs been blunted by use, or has a little bit of rust on it. It canât fix anything worse then a little of either, and wonât work on something REALLY blunted, but its a lifesaver.
also it is a pepper
It's not a pepper and it's not for sharpening!!
It may seem like it should be a pepper, since that would go better with the flavour of a tomato (and the mass produced modern ones are admittedly more pepper shaped), but it is and has always been a strawberry. Here are some antique emery strawberries, which are much more strawberry shaped, and some of them have seeds.
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(Home Needlework Magazine, 1899)
And it's for cleaning needles, not sharpening them. I can't imagine how jamming a blunt needle point around in a bunch of loose grit could possibly sharpen it in any significant way, and all the historical sources I've seen only talk about cleaning.
"Every sewer's work basket or work box should contain an emery bag, as shown in Fig. 2, through which to push a needle when it becomes rough, squeaks, or sticks in the material. An emery bag is usually shaped like a strawberry and consists of a rough denim bag filled with emery powder, which is a very hard material used for polishing metals. Such a bag may be purchased for 5 or 10 cents in any store that sells sewing materials. Needles often become rusted from the perspiration of the hands or from being left in damp places. The beginner may use a small emery bag to remove rust; or, a small piece of emery paper may be used instead."
-Woman's Institute Reference Library, 1916.
"Use an emery whenever your needle does not slip through the cloth easily."
-The Improvement of Educational Administration in Massachusetts, 1916.
"An emery bag is inexpensive and is useful to keep needles polished and smooth. If the hands perspire and it is difficult to push the needle through the cloth, running the needle through the emery will relieve the condition."
-Boys' and Girls' Clothing Club, 1915.
"It was very hot to sit and sew. The needle would get sticky in spite of all the little emery strawberry could give it, and Beth's fingers had never felt so clumsy and uncomfortable."
-The Unitarian Register, 1908.
"She polished her needles to nothing, pushing them in and out of the emery strawberry, but they always squeaked."
-Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm, 1910.
This patent from 1873 mentions an emery slab for sharpening pins, which is quite different from a cushion, and which sounds like it actually would work for sharpening.
"C is a slab of emery or other sharp and fine grit, for sharpening needles or pins"
Then later down the page it also says
"E is an emery cushion, secured in the body of the holder A, and is used for polishing needles and keeping them smooth."
So. Strawberry for cleaning. Not pepper for sharpening.
Gentle reminder - modern sewing tools are made from treated or plated metal, or stainless steel. In terms of human civilisation, this is a wild advance of technology. Needles are some of our oldest tools; rust was formerly ubiquitous, and attacked every form of everyday metal. A rusty needle tears fabric, or worse, stains it. The luxury and technology of rustproof needles and pins - forgotten in a few generations of human memory - and yet it is remembered in the strawberry. Memory is stored in the strawberry!
memory is stored in the emery
Age verification for all.
Discord announced on Monday that itâs rolling out age verification on its platform globally starting next month, when it will automatically set all usersâ accounts to a âteen-appropriateâ experience unless they demonstrate that theyâre adults. Users who arenât verified as adults will not be able to access age-restricted servers and channels, wonât be able to speak in Discordâs livestream-like âstageâ channels, and will see content filters for any content Discord detects as graphic or sensitive. They will also get warning prompts for friend requests from potentially unfamiliar users, and DMs from unfamiliar users will be automatically filtered into a separate inbox.
Direct messages and servers that are not age-restricted will continue to function normally, but users wonât be able to send messages or view content in an age-restricted server until they complete the age check process, even if itâs a server they were part of before age verification rolled out. Savannah Badalich, Discordâs global head of product policy, said in an interview with The Verge that those servers will be âobfuscatedâ with a black screen until the user verifies theyâre an adult. Users also wonât be able to join any new age-restricted servers without verifying their age.

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There's a post going around about the most recent person murdered by ICE, and I'm not reblogging it because there is some fucking sinister work happening in the reposts that I'd like y'all to keep an eye out for.
It goes like this:
Post 1: [example of state propaganda claiming the victim assaulted a woman]
Post 2, same poster: "and even if he had, that wouldn't justify what ICE did"
Post 3, new poster: "yeah, someone said he deserved it because [long list of heinous and improbable criminal allegations] and that's wrong! no one deserves it!"
Multiple major news outlets have reported that his only "criminal" record was a couple parking tickets. Not even FOX is saying what the last poster's saying. And yes, this fucking matters, because MAGA really needs normies to think this guy deserved to die. The easiest way is to spread damaging misinformation about him, and the easiest way to do that is to bury it in a post that affirms other things you agree with.
Maybe that poster's just repeating shit without verifying, but it feels really sketchy to me that someone would leap in with poison in a pill pocket. Be really, really careful reblogging unsourced claims, folks.
In general, spreading posts with reblogs that correct misinformation is one of the big ways that misinformation spreads, because repeating a lie makes that lie more prominent in people's minds, and therefore more believeable, even if you're only repeating it in order to refute it. This is called the Illusory Truth Effect.
Try to focus on and boost posts that state the truth with little or no reference to the lie. Repeating the truth, and only the truth, will make it stick better.
Correcting false claims often backfires. Here's how to fight back against false claims without spreading them further.
This is another cherry-picked, garbage comparison.
They just took bright exposures from the old movie and compared them to darker exposures from the new movie. And then they heavily cropped the compositions, removed all context from the scene (time of day, light sources, desired mood) and declared the new movie looks terribleâdespite only a minute of footage existing.
These examples are in completely different environments.
They could have at least matched scene for scene.
Wait a goddamn second...
Something is awry.
THE TWEET IS FULL OF LIES.
Someone cranked up the exposure of the original movie to 11.
As if someone was trying to create nostalgia rage bait for internet points.
They were correct about one thing, exposure is an artistic choice. A lot of photographers fall into the trap of "correct exposure." You should always trust your eyes over a light meter. And a brighter exposure is not always better.
Contrast is a ratio, not an absolute.
There is a concept called "scene white." Your eyes adjust to different exposure levels and the brightest white in the scene is your brain's reference for contrast. And because contrast is a ratio and not absolute, your eyes will adjust to the exposure of the scene.
You can have two scenes with very different white levels, but the amount of perceptual contrast could be very similar. Your brain goes, "what is the brightest thing and what is the darkest thing?" If the difference is small, you will perceive low contrast. If the difference is vast, you will perceive high contrast.
This looks like a bright exposure on its own.
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And so does this.
The "scene white" in the old movie was actually a *tad* brighter. But your eyes adjust and perceive them both as bright.
And if you put them side by side, the brightest white wins and your perception is skewed. If you compare two different compositions with different scene white levels, your eye is going to gravitate to the brighter exposure. Even though, in isolation, you may not notice how much brighter one scene is over the other.
The original movie had plenty of darker exposures with a lower white ceiling.
And not every frame of the old movie was a visual spectacle.
It's actually a bad thing if you make every scene a spectacle. The visuals need to serve the story and if they are constantly overwhelming, that can actually hurt the immersion.
If I cherry pick, I can make the old movie look bad and the new movie look great.
Boy, the old movie sure looked bland.
But look at how much depth the new movie has!
Look at this squished subject composition in the old movie.
The new movie has much more balance and symmetry.
Visual spectacle should be used dynamicallyâjust like music. If music doesn't have quiet parts, the loud parts will have less impact. And sometimes the quiet parts allow you to hear important detail that the loud parts obscure.
The trailer had several spectacle moments.
That looks great!
I have no idea if the new movie looks better or worse. I literally do not have enough information.
But if we're going to edit images for rage bait...
LOOK AT HOW LIFELESS THE ORIGINAL WAS!
The movie needs to be judged holistically. You can't take extreme crops of single frames, edit them to be 200% brighter, and compare them to make any kind of determination.
All they proved is that when people see brighter exposures next to darker exposures, their brain goes, "Ooooh, that one is brighter! I like bright things!"
Why You Don't See Wheelchair Users in the Workplace [Repost]
Iâve been asked why we donât see wheelchair users in specific jobs. I wanna expand on that, and talk about why we donât see wheelchair users working in general.
As a wheelchair user (to be clear here Iâm talking about full-time wheelchair users), thereâs a massive list of things you cannot do:
Walk
Stand
Step over anything
Crouch
Climb
Operate any machinery with foot pedals
Keep your hands clean enough to handle food or work in a sterile environment (your hands touch the wheels and the wheels touch the floor)
Carry an object with both hands and move at the same time
See over a standard counter top
Make yourself narrower to work in narrow spaces (i.e, turn and move sideways)
Given this list, what jobs are available to wheelchair users? Iâm sure you can sit here and find âreasonable accommodationsâ or creative workarounds for some of these, but thereâs one thatâs impossible, and itâs the one that blocks most forms of employment for wheelchair users: you canât step over anything.
And I know this seems ridiculous, but really think about it. If someone spread a thin line of dog shit across a hallway and then lined up 10 non-wheelchair users and 1 wheelchair user to go from one of end of the hall to the other, only one person is going to get shit all over them. Not being able to step over anything is a massive disadvantage in the workplace. Any obstacle - broken flooring, cables, or a spill make a space impassable to wheelchair users. Would you hire a forest worker who canât step over a few fallen branches? When it comes to labor, the only reason companies hire anyone is because they havenât found a robot who can do it better yet. Why would any company hire a worker who can only do part of the job?
What about office jobs? Surely a wheelchair user can handle a job that (notoriously) requires sitting all day? Yes! Wheelchair users are very well suited to traditional office work. But a lot of office jobs require some kind of degree in order for you to qualify; and a lot of colleges are notoriously inaccessible to wheelchair users, to say nothing of the cost.
Additionally, a lot of office jobs (still) require you to commute into a fucking office (despite years of proof showing thatâs not needed). How does a wheelchair user get to this office? By car? What car? Itâs not like they could just borrow friends car or get a cheap used one they can drive right off the lot. No, it has to be a special car, heavily modified so it can be driven with hand controls and large enough to hold a wheelchair. These modifications cost a lot of money. Money that one would usually get from a job. But without reliable transportation, a lot of places wonât even consider hiring you in the first place.
So now youâve got a situation where, as a wheelchair user, youâre underqualified for even the most basic labor job; you canât afford the education to get the skills needed to do a more accessible job; even if you can pay for the education, a lot of colleges and universities are physically inaccessible; and if you manage to snag a job where you can use your mind more than your body, youâre still denied affordable access to reliable transportation to get to the office.
Are there exceptions to all of these rules? Sure. I knew a paraplegic who worked at McDonaldâs. I worked retail jobs in high school even though I could only stock the bottom 4 shelves. I myself have worked in tech and had a steady office job for 20 years. Just because you can find exceptions, doesnât mean the system isnât still shit.
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why bother caring about the environment when 1. Itâs so obviously a lost cause and 2. Thereâs definitely going to be a nuclear war?
And what are you doing about it Anon? Learn about ecological restoration or get out of my way.
If you read ecology books printed in the 70s and 80s, they were absolutely convinced that whales and tigers would not survive the century. There's a whole plot in Star Trek about how whales are extinct actually. Here in Argentina, we were sure that yaguaretĂŠs would have gone extinct. It was thought that rainforests would be forever lost, because there was no way that such complex ecosystems would be restored.
Now, you can go to PenĂnsula ValdĂŠs and find that the whale population there is growing year after year, people can see them from their windows. In IberĂĄ, where yaguaretĂŠs were extinct for over 70 years, there's now a population of 35 and growing, after being reintroduced just five years ago. As for rainforests?
We've becoming very, very good on restoring them. Natural environments, when given space and time to heal, can return to that they were. And after all, all natural enviroments are managed by human societies. It is up to us to implement a good management, un buen gobierno.
I firmly believe our children and grandchildren will see a restoration of Earth like never before.
Millions of people are working on this. You can learn about it, perhaps even become one of them. Or be a pointless doomer in my ask box. Your choice.
if there are people who care, it's never a lost cause. at one point, kÄkÄpĹ, a nocturnal flightless parrot species from aotearoa, were thought to be entirely extinct for decades. until 1977, where booming calls from males were heard on the small island of whenua hou. now, thanks to people who care so much they dedicated their lives to caring, kÄkÄpĹ numbers are close to 300. despite the setbacks. despite the small gene pool causing infertility and health problems. people cared so fucking much that they survived. this is one of COUNTLESS, countless similar stories. I'm studying ecology so that I can go into conservation and all around me, every day, I see people who care enough to put years of their lives into learning about and solving environmental problems. I don't know man. hope isn't just some nebulous thing. it's tangible if you do something with it.
Tim Wong saw the decline of the pipeline swallowtail butterfly, and dedicated himself to providing habitat and raising babies, and it worked.
Spix's Macaws were extinct in the wild for 70 years, and now captive breeding and conservation groups have reintroduced a small population (with more on the way) and there are babies being successfully raised in the wild again.
And what else is there, but hope? We exist for the grace of hope. Those who have lost all hope don't stay here. If you are here to send an ask like this, it is not because you have given up, it's that you are hoping someone will show you that that hope is worth having.
It is!! It always is!!
There will be good things and if you cannot find them, make them! The time will pass anyway, you can choose what to do with it, and so many, many people are choosing to try to help.
The Lord Howe Island rodent eradication project never fails to make me cry, itâs so beautiful.
The population of an entire island working together to eradicate every last rat and mouse to save the native bird populations. They had to trap a bunch of the birds and keep them in captivity so they wouldnât be hurt by the rodenticides, and released them after the rodents were gone. Normal residents helped by phoning in tips whenever they saw rodents. And they did it. Lord Howe Island, last I read, remains rodent free, and the native bird populations are rebounding!
Acid rain and the hole in the ozone layer, both of which were terrifying specters of my childhood, have been largely dealt with. Ecosystems devastated by acid rain are also recovering.
We are making a difference!
In 1979, an audacious, expensive conservation project was begun to try and breed california condors in captivity toward being released into the wild again. This was considered useless and hopeless by many people, but many more people said we had to at least TRY.
In 1991, the first captive-raised condors were re-introduced to Big Sur, Pinnacles, and Bitter Creek.
In 2006, three months before I turned eighteen, the first wild pair of condors was seen nesting in Big Sur in over a hundred years. A hundred years.
We did that. We fixed it.
How about another example.
When my mom was small, in the 1960s, there were many, many days of the year she was not allowed outside. Days and days they had recess indoors, because the air was so poisonous to breathe. Here's an article about it, with some good pictures.
My mom was 13 in the picture on the left. She was 50 in the picture on the right.
In 1987, there were 27 California Condors in the world, all captive.
In 2024, there were 566.
369 of them fly free.
That happened within my lifetime, and I'm not even 40 yet.
When you lose hope, think of our stories we're telling you. Recount them to yourself like a prayer. That's what I do.
There are 369 California Condors flying free in the sky right now.
There is no more acid rain.
There is an ozone.
There are wild tigers.
There are still birds on Lord Howe Island.
There are 369 California Condors flying free.
Black footed ferrets were considered completely extinct in 1979. Then we found a single den in Wyoming in 1981. In 1996 it was classified as extinct in the wild.
By 2013, there were approximately 1,200 living wild, across 18 dens. Their numbers increase regularly, and while the face challenges due to habitat loss, climate change, and their limited genetic diversity, they're in a much better place than they were.
Because people cared, and they worked, and they fought to make things better.
@hopepunk-humanity

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there IS actually a reason why seconds and minutes (and degrees for geometry) are in base 60 instead of base 10, and if you want to blame someone for that, blame the very specific way Babylonians counted with their fingers.
The way Babylonians finger-counted was by using their thumb to tap each phalange of the fingers in the same hand the thumb was in, in the order of proximal to distal phalanges and index finger to pinky finger (for a total of 12 taps), and lifting a finger on the other hand every time they counted up to 12, resulting in each finger in the second hand representing 12 taps, with 5 fingers representing... 60 taps.
thats actually spot on.
yes. a gross is defined as 12 dozens.
I might start counting on my fingers like this now
Fascinating