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Bonus: If I buy a book I get to keep it! The publisher can't turn up at my house at random and confiscate all the books I bought.
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The reason your snacks are unsatisfying is that you need both carb and protein.
Carb starts your engine, protein keeps it going.
No carb, engine don’t start. No protein, engine dies out fast.
Easy carb add on:
Cookie
Fruit (canned or fresh)
Chips
Piece of bread
Popcorn
Crackers
Easy protein add on:
Nuts
Spoonful of nut butter
Cheese
Roasted chickpea snacks
Glass of milk (dairy or non dairy)
Small canned sausages or similar
Sugar in there.
I am pleased by people messaging me telling me that after adding a carb or protein to their snacks or meals they feel more satisfied all day. Yes, my plan is working. People are getting through their days with less hangry.
Actually, fuck the myth of the Tower of Babel. The real beautiful utopia where we can all finally truly understand each other doesn't lie in sameness or uniformity, it lies in the giant and digital Rosetta Stone we are going to build and broadcast across the entire world
So, genuinely no hard feelings, I get where y'all are coming from, but that was actually kind of my entire point
The Rosetta Stone was and is real.
This is indisputable. You can go see the Rosetta Stone on display right now!! I'd say you could even it touch it, but there's museum glass in the way, so that the oils on human skin can't further degrade this 2,000-year-old stele, which is one of the most important surviving historical texts in the world.
The Tower of Babel is not real, and it never was.
The Tower of Babel is a millennia-old religious story about a mythological tower, which serves as a mythological explanation for the origin of different human languages. Yes, there are some religious historians who speculate that the myth was inspired by one or another physical tower, but no, that doesn't prove anything other than "this is how many people in this cultural explained or understood that sort of event."
The Rosetta Stone, on the other hand, is an object of translation that actually exists
Photo credit: By © Hans Hillewaert, CC BY-SA 4.0, retrieved from Wikipedia article "Rosetta Stone." https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=3153928
That picture is of a real object. It is not of a picture of a 3,000+ year old myth.
Our attempts to understand each other will not result in us being struck down by some force from on high!
And the true path to a world where we can all understand each other does not involve us all speaking the same language. That's racist bs
True understanding depends on ethical translation and language preservation, not on unity of language
In my on-going quest to stop buying stupid crap made with plastic by the military-industrial complex, I have made my own, extremely rustic, curtain rod.
Especially since I'm still learning how to sow. Very rustic. Also the wall needs repainting, but ignore that for now, thanks.
If you, like me, are mysteriously missing a curtain rod, it turns out you can cut a branch from outside and use a scrap of cloth to make loops to hang it from:
Fancy thumb tack courtesy of my housemate. Hazelnut rod courtesy of the hazelnut tree that I keep coppicing since it planted itself too close to my house. You should probably peel the bark off, unlike what I did.
If, like me, you're learning how to sew with a machine, you can make a nicer version:
If I actually knew what I was doing, this could look very cool. I was testing out some of the stitches too, which is why it's all chaotic. Also let me heavily emphasize, I'm learning.
But I now have a curtain rod, learned more stuff on sewing, and spent zero dollars.
Do you have any advice on coping with wildfire anxiety? I'm fairly new to Seattle and it's very saddening to see the sun grayed out by smoke today.
Not really, just get a good air purifier and stay indoors :/ I guess you can take solace knowing the sunsets and rises are pretty though the smoke.
Hope you don't mind me butting in here, but here's some things that can help with anxiety.
1. Get your news from reputable sources that don't sensationalize. So no news, not even NPR. Instead, as you're in Washington, check this site for info:
Smoke Increasing The most widespread smoke impacts of the season are being felt on Tuesday with smoke reaching the surface both east and wes
They have a blog which calmly lays out what's happening, and they also have a tab for current fire & air quality conditions and forecasts. Between that and Watch Duty, you will have all the information you need.
2. Do what you need to do to stay healthy during wildfire smoke events: get yourself some kn95s or n95s or even a p100 if you're very sensitive. Wear those while outside. Either buy a good air filter rated for wildfire smoke, or do one of the box fan + furnace filter(s) set ups (Corsi-Rosenthal is top tier, others are cheaper and easier in the near term), using filters rated for wildfire smoke. Run it 24/7 until air quality is back to normal.
(For people not in Seattle/well-resourced urban areas around Puget Sound, skip to step 6 and then come back here)
3. Understand that regular fire is a natural and healthy part of many ecosystems around here, though what we're seeing is not. This is the result of 100 years of fire suppression of all types, which lead to a build up of burnable material, leading to bigger, hotter, more intense fires (and that's before the impacts of climate change). The fire itself isn't bad, but it is inevitable. It's better to do prescribed burns intentionally and safely. This is a brief explanation:
Washington Prescribed Fire Council is a collaborative group working to protect, conserve and expand the safe use of prescribed fire in our s
4. This talks about the westside prairie ecosystem, which is ecosystem dominated by Garry Oaks, a keystone tree species that is fire-adapted, and used to cover much of the I-5 corridor:
Prairies are one of the rarest ecosystems in Washington. Once common in the South Puget Sound region, habitats such as prairies and oak wood
These prairies have pretty much disappeared because of fire suppression, of both natural fires and intentional cultural fires by the native peoples of this area.
5. Realistically, it's very, very unlikely that you'll ever have to evacuate Seattle of all places due to wildfires. West side wildfires are not nearly what east side fires are, and they're much less common:
The geography, ecosystems, and resources of the two sides of the state are very, very different. Seattle itself is surrounded by water, meaning those planes can just dip into the Sound right there and almost immediately drop their load. All those multi-lane highways act as fire breaks, too. Seattle also has a lot of money and resources. In short, Seattle is the last place you need to worry about burning.
6. That said, you could do the level of preparedness suggested by the government in general:
Forest fires and wildfires threaten lives and destroy homes and natural resources. You can take action now that can help save lives and help
Knowing what you would do and having a plan can really help with anxiety.
7. Do what you can to help those directly impacted by wildfires. Donate to food banks, local non-profits, etc. Doing something about it tells your brain that you can do something, that you're not helpless. You can have an impact, you can help people who have been harmed by these fires.
8. Spread the word about the effects of total fire suppression and the need for prescribed fires. Also look into fire wise landscaping, if applicable. Or holler at your local cities to get on that. Some resources on that matter:
https://extension.wsu.edu/pierce/mg-home/gardening-resources/fire-wise-tip-sheet/
https://extension.oregonstate.edu/catalog/pnw-590-fire-resistant-plants-home-landscapes
https://dnr.wa.gov/sites/default/files/2025-03/rp_fire_resistantplants_in_nw.pdf
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These people are sexual predators.
If you are in WASHINGTON this is not yet law, this initiative will be on the ballot Nov 3 THIS YEAR. VOTE NO. You have the ability to prevent this from becoming law.
Dear fellow inhabitants who are over the age of 30:
Your joints are meant to be used. They are lubricated when you bend them. Ergo, if you don't bend them often enough, they get stiff and painful. It's good for your joints to go through their full range of motion under their own power.
(If you're hypermobile, building strength in your end range of motion but not trying to increase it is helpful. But also, follow your own doctors and physical therapists' advice.)
It doesn't have to be complicated, it doesn't have to take long, and if it hurts instead of feeling good, reduce the range of motion you're doing and/or focus on building strength in your range of motion instead. The more you move, the more you'll be able to move as you get older. There are lots of guides out there, but even just thinking about each of your joints and moving them as far as you can (without pushing with another part of your body or using gravity to do so) will help.
When I was a little boy, girls used to just do random cartwheels for no reason. Then one day, they stopped. Now that I am a man, no women randomly do cartwheels. This is because society is evil and killed the cartwheel impulse in their soul. They don't even spin horizontally anymore. It's fucked up.
I would love to see women my age do cartwheels. But they don't for the same reason I don't jump out of trees anymore. Our joints would never forgive us and our insurance would go up.
But I think we could all use some horizontal spinning.
I don't know, I'm almost 40 and I'm still doing cartwheels. And jumping out of trees, come to think of it.
But for people who haven't been maintaining activity, please start slow and small. Practice jumping off of steps first, for example. For cartwheels, start doing side reaches, a couple handstands against a wall, etc, and see how that feels before you try a cartwheel. If a handstand feels out of reach for you right now, that's OK, you can build up to it.
And if you're chest is big enough you're tempted to hold it in when jumping, jogging, etc, get a solid sports bra first so you're not throwing off your form while trying to do these activities.
A new study published online today, April 25, in the scientific journal Science provides the strongest evidence to date that not only is nat
From the article:
“If you look only at the trend of species declines, it would be easy to think that we’re failing to protect biodiversity, but you would not be looking at the full picture,” said Penny Langhammer, lead author of the study and Executive Vice President of Re:wild. “What we show with this paper is that conservation is, in fact, working to halt and reverse biodiversity loss. It is clear that conservation must be prioritized and receive significant additional resources and political support globally, while we simultaneously address the systemic drivers of biodiversity loss, such as unsustainable consumption and production.”
This massive meta analysis (for those not familiar, a study analyzing the results of many studies on similar topics) found that the vast majority of conservation efforts show much much better results than doing nothing. In many cases, biodiversity loss was not only stopped but reversed.
This shows that conservation efforts really work and money invested is put to very good use. Legally protecting endangered species really works, restoring habitat really works, removing invasive species really works, returning land to Indigenous communities works. All of the blood, sweat, and tears being poured into protecting the natural world has been making a real, big, tangible, difference on a global scale.
I know we talk a lot about the literacy crisis and the horrible anti-intellectualism happening rn but I think we need to talk more about how much of an entitlement complex the stupidest among us have developed
Dear readers,
Please read more books. Please read a wide range of enjoyable books, including both fiction and non-fiction. Please don't be afraid to learn new words and concepts. Please have a dictionary handy, or a tab open to Merriam-Webster or Wikipedia. Books are amazing because they open doors to things we'd never get to access otherwise. It's a good thing to learn new words; you're building your brain and making it stronger.
Yours truly,
A fellow reader and former elementary teacher.
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my most Millennial trait is that i want big screen to think properly. to compose my thoughts. app exists for your thing but no website? bad bad bad not good for think, need big screen for think. i wrote this post on the small screen btw
the thing about getting the world changed for the better is you gotta learn how to make your ideas sound appealing and positive to people who might not agree otherwise.
But on the internet people describe their ideas in the most shocking and extreme way possible as a way of sifting out people who are "really" on their side
That is bad for forming a movement or sparking any kind of action
it's gotten so outrageous that people will have an idea like "we should have a strong public transportation system that is accessible to everyone" but they will express it like "FUCK CARS! WE SHOULD BAN CARS! IF YOU LIKE TO DRIVE YOU'RE A FASCIST! NO ONE NEEDS A CAR!"
This causes everyone to get into arguments about whether it is true that no one needs a car, and whether banning cars would make places inaccessible for people with certain disabilities.
The whole time we don't need to "ban cars" to have public transportation and it makes no sense why we are talking about it
We're never going to get accessible public transportation like this.
okay but what if I do sincerely believe that cars are fucking evil things that've destroyed the infrastructure of major cities, pushed us apart from each other, and polluted the enivronment while offering no benefits? what if I do think we should ban cars for the vast majority of people?
your belief isn't wrong. but if your focus is genuinely on improving public transit infrastructure so fewer people have to rely on them, rather than just yelling about how much you hate cars, then you should realize you're not gonna get your next door neighbor who loooves working on his old hotrod on the weekends as a pastime to get on board with funding more bus lines.
it's about learning how to talk to people who aren't ready to jump to supporting YOUR stance to get on board with something that makes the world better, like a form of harm reduction. and/or, it's about learning how to reframe something from "I am AGAINST this" to an actionable invitation like "I am *in support* of this other thing, and here's why I think it is *good* or *better than what we are currently doing* and why you should buy in to thay belief with me"
that way, you get more people on board and thinking about how to improve stuff whereas the other approach can be kinda alienating and/or just make people focus on how they feel about your delivery ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ it's how human brains tend to work, for better or worse, and we should understand what kinds of appeals actually work if what we're focused on is actionable change rather than just expressing our feelings.
also, it is a widely-noted feature of high control groups (e.g. cults and the like) that they will use more extreme ideas to push more 'reasonable' people out, and then hold up that exodus as proof to the remaining members that they are the only true and righteous believers and that they can only rely on being part of the in-group because everyone else in the world will so thoroughly reject them. there's so much to unpack here tbh
the thing about getting the world changed for the better is you gotta learn how to make your ideas sound appealing and positive to people who might not agree otherwise.
But on the internet people describe their ideas in the most shocking and extreme way possible as a way of sifting out people who are "really" on their side
That is bad for forming a movement or sparking any kind of action
it's gotten so outrageous that people will have an idea like "we should have a strong public transportation system that is accessible to everyone" but they will express it like "FUCK CARS! WE SHOULD BAN CARS! IF YOU LIKE TO DRIVE YOU'RE A FASCIST! NO ONE NEEDS A CAR!"
This causes everyone to get into arguments about whether it is true that no one needs a car, and whether banning cars would make places inaccessible for people with certain disabilities.
The whole time we don't need to "ban cars" to have public transportation and it makes no sense why we are talking about it
We're never going to get accessible public transportation like this.
okay but what if I do sincerely believe that cars are fucking evil things that've destroyed the infrastructure of major cities, pushed us apart from each other, and polluted the enivronment while offering no benefits? what if I do think we should ban cars for the vast majority of people?
your belief isn't wrong. but if your focus is genuinely on improving public transit infrastructure so fewer people have to rely on them, rather than just yelling about how much you hate cars, then you should realize you're not gonna get your next door neighbor who loooves working on his old hotrod on the weekends as a pastime to get on board with funding more bus lines.
it's about learning how to talk to people who aren't ready to jump to supporting YOUR stance to get on board with something that makes the world better, like a form of harm reduction. and/or, it's about learning how to reframe something from "I am AGAINST this" to an actionable invitation like "I am *in support* of this other thing, and here's why I think it is *good* or *better than what we are currently doing* and why you should buy in to thay belief with me"
that way, you get more people on board and thinking about how to improve stuff whereas the other approach can be kinda alienating and/or just make people focus on how they feel about your delivery ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ it's how human brains tend to work, for better or worse, and we should understand what kinds of appeals actually work if what we're focused on is actionable change rather than just expressing our feelings.
also, it is a widely-noted feature of high control groups (e.g. cults and the like) that they will use more extreme ideas to push more 'reasonable' people out, and then hold up that exodus as proof to the remaining members that they are the only true and righteous believers and that they can only rely on being part of the in-group because everyone else in the world will so thoroughly reject them. there's so much to unpack here tbh
But why that color for the curtains in that meme about English Literature teachers?
Or, to ask it another way: would it be as convincingly ridiculous to ask why the curtains are electric pink with yellow polka dots? Or if the curtains were traffic safety cone orange?
Is it only possible to present "Why are the curtains blue?" as a superficial question looking for a deep answer because blue is categorized as a mundane color in our culture?
Okay, Capri, now you're just being silly.
What color are your curtains?
Blue
Red
Yellow
Green
Orange
Purple
Black
White
Grey
Psychedelic Rainbow
No curtains. I live in a fishbowl
And would you like a word with The Management Author about them?
Quoted tags:
#mine are red and sort of velvety and I don't think what they say about me is particularly mysterious #(they also sold themselves as blackout curtains but uhh that is NOT true so my room is bathed in red light every afternoon and evening)
Okay. So if I were writing a story and included that detail about your curtains, I would choose that to illustrate a frustrating / oppressive living situation for my protagonist (Someone who wants and needs to moments of shutting out influence from Society, in order to get some respite and peace, but their best attempt only leads that sanctuary to be bathed in the color of anger).
That sound about right?
Ray Bradbury’s short story “There Will Come Soft Rains” that was written in 1950 is set on the day of August 4th, 2026 (tomorrow)!! Now’s your chance to read it around the time it’s based in!
Audio: A recording of Leonard Nimoy reading it on Internet Archive.
Text: A PDF version.
Graphic Novel: On Internet Archive.
I used to set this one for second year undergraduate creative writing seminars on writing science fiction on a double bill with Octavia E. Butler's "Bloodchild" and no-one here gets out alive.
!!!! Today is the only chance we’ll ever have to listen to this absolute banger of apocalyptic fiction on the very day the story is set 😲✨
Nemoy’s voice is PERFECT in this!
(A content warning if you do listen - the dog dies, though it’s not super graphic)
I paused the robot vacuum so I could listen to this 1950’s story predicting the robot vacuum.
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If the trash pickup people stop doing their job for two weeks you'd be throwing a fucking tantrum. Same for the janitors who keep your office spaces and bathrooms clean. (And that's before the various illnesses start to spread all over your city from the build up of pathogens.)
The people responsible keeping our spaces clean (and thus, mostly disease-free) should both be paid more AND thanked more.
Garbage service is one of the ten deadliest jobs in the United States.
And police work isn't even on that list.
saw an ad outside a local restaurant that said "have a star-crossed dinner this valentine's day"
do...do people not know being star-crossed is bad?
"come here and have a dinner that's cursed by fate"
everone in the replies going "no it isnt" and "ive never heard it used that way before" take a look around at what and who you are surrounding yourself with. ignorance is contagious, never just assume you know the actual literal meaning of anything, look it up
