Sad Pear On Mars

Holy fuck

If you live on the west coast of the United States, fire season is coming and this is vital.

We’ve been using one, and they’re great. Might try to make the double filter version this year.

I’ve personally used both the flat single-filter version AND the triangular two-filter version, and based on subjective personal experience I would argue that the benefits from the second filter, both in terms of airflow and filtration, are absolutely worth it. If you need a makeshift air filter and you have two filters to work with, build the triangle (if not the box, i have no idea how good that one works but based on the info here i presume it’s a fair bit better.)

This trick works. We use it in my house.

If anyone wants aesthetic inspo or design ideas check R/CrBoxes

I do think it's kind of funny how john green wrote a book about tuberculosis that brought a lot of renewed attention to the subject and he's since become the darling of the tb world, speaks at tb conferences, my dad and every other tb researcher I know is absolutely smitten with him, and they'll be like "we love this guy! have you heard of him??" and I have to be like well yes, I have. for other reasons

"You mean the guy who got cyberbullied off of tumblr by 14-year-old anarchomarxists but then triumphantly returned as a coffee company?"

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Article published July 14th, 2026

i love learning about animals ive literally never seen or heard of before. what amazing diversity of life on this planet earth. what the hell is a japanese serow

A sad and deeply fond farewell to Bonnie Tyler (1951–2026). May somersaulting ninja schoolboys sing you to your rest.

Damn way to read the assignment and go above and beyond.

the bleakness and sanitized feel of most American protestant churches really is an underused medium.

I really do love Claudia so much and I love that she broke the salt circle herself. That's my blazing inferno of rage and determination. I felt like her show stopping fuck you forever was a fair and true representation of her rage and grief but more of a tragic endpoint than a true encapsulation of everything she felt for the entirety of her life. There was a period of time when she was a kid and she loved them both fairly uncomplicatedly. I think she meant it in the moment when she said Louis was her favourite even though it wasn't true all of, or even most of the time. I don't think Claudia's unquiet ghost disproves or even diminishes that truth, it's just a reflection of the fact that she did actually grow up. She's frozen in a girl's body; she remains a girl in Louis' mind, but Claudia herself became an adult up and had to reckon with the reality of her situation even if Louis didn't, really, because he was much happier to have a permanent dependent than she was to be a permanent dependent. She hates him more because she loved him more, once, and because he let her down in ways no one else had the capacity to. She was publicly executed in a humiliating spectacle immediately after learning the truth about both her turning and the fact that he'd lied to her or evaded that truth for the entirety of their relationship. Perhaps most importantly she lost Madeline in death and honestly that's the thing I can't get over, just on a personal level. I think everything she said to both of them made sense and was well grounded in what we saw in seasons one or two but Claudia making it out, Claudia finding Madeline- a person she could trust, a person who put her first, a true companion- was one of the sweetest and brightest moments of the series and Claudia without her for eternity is such a bummer. They've made me so fucking sad without that one. I hope breaking the salt circle means something, in terms of both her ability to fuck shit up on the earthly plane and her ability to go find her woman.