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like the first signs of a flare up from stress/over exertion used to be red face + fever + rash on my hands

but the lines of my tattoo will become raised and then a little itchy before it progresses to that point

and im discovering that, yeah, if i just listen to the wizard and rest/recuperate/stop pushing myself when it starts acting weird, i can sometimes avoid triggering the other symptoms

So, in terrible news, Trump's trying to pull some strings to pass this massive internet censorship bill, featuring all the kinds of internet censorship we're terrified of, including mandatory ID for accessing basically any website, specifically to crush state regulation of AI, because apparently this man will always see the moral bottom of the barrel and start digging.

6/14/2026

Idk if it’s common knowledge how a nuclear energy is generated. But on the assumption it’s not, I had to learn a little in Environmental science A levels.

I shit you not, they are harnessing the power of splitting the fucking atom just to boil some water. It’s just a high tech kettle. When you boil your kettle you are doing the same thing these people are using Uranium for.

All these crazy energy generation methods and almost all of them revolve around boiling water to turn a turbine.

Earth is not just a Terrestrial World; it’s an Exotic Terrestrial: a Water World.

Water is weird, ok? Everything else that’s anywhere close to its molecular weight is very much vaporous gas at similar conditions to water’s triple point. It’s weirdly easy to make carry an electrical charge (we call it an acid or a base when it’s doing this). It’s polarized as fuck, so it’s squirrely, infiltrating all kinds of stuff you normally think of as being solid, like metal and stone.

Water bonds to itself really well, so the transition from liquid or solid to gas, and back, involves a really profound change in volume.

The Water Cycle, whereby Water goes from solid to liquid to gas in all kinda directions, runs a lot of our geologic and mineral cycles, like the nitrogen and carbon and silicone ones. Plate tectonics is partially enabled by lubrication from the ocean infiltrating the earth’s crust.

It kinda… makes sense? That we’d have Water-based technology? As inhabitants of a Water World? From a world-building standpoint I mean.

We hacked one of the driving forces of our world, and use that power to run our civilization.

This Tumblr post is the first time someone has explained to me *why* I couldn’t feed them before those instances.

every single time i have had to say, "i understand that if he had food or water, he could aspirate it into his lungs under anesthesia. i am not lying to you." THEN someone would make a little note and i would stop being repeatedly asked.

not a single time was that risk explained to me. the only reason it came up was because i already knew. i still don't understand why it isn't standard pre-op counseling or pre-op check information, when me as a parent acknowledging the actual risk also put THE MEDICAL STAFF at ease because i conveyed that i had informed understanding as reason to not lie about giving my kid food.

And ever since he was a kitten, when I first caught him peeing in the bathtub and he sae me use the shower to clean it out, he has been doing this whenever he wants a faucet turned on

Tub, sink, shower, whatever- he will climb on in. Scratch scratch scratch. LOOK at me. Then do it again

I learned this was intentional when I taught him the word "water", and after that whenever I caught him scratching I'd say "water?" and he'd stop to run over to the spigot and stare at it in anticipation like the strange little freak he is.

Well it's been a few years. I keep the bathroom sink filled when it's out of use because whenever it's empty he gets upset. I have learned to live around this

Tonight he didn't get to watch the bathtub drain because he was playing with a can downstairs. By the time he was done the bath was empty and I was getting dressed.

And so he began to scratch.

"No", I told myself. "I just got dry. I am not turning the shower on now. Not this time."

I saw him stop. Look back at me. Then resume scratching.

I left to throw my towel in the laundry.

Then I came back.

And I heard a plop.

My friends. Family. Compatriots.

I pulled back the curtain to find my son dropping STEAMING HOT LOGS in my MOTHER FUCKING BATHTUB