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i was working at a little cafe where I could deny service over bad behavior, harassment etc. & mask mandates had just ended a week before & already people were being weird about me still wearing mine—an N95, the kind shaped kinda like a duckbill.

so this man walked in, looked at me sooo scathingly, laughed at me, and said “damn. never known a woman to choose…practicality over looks.”

And I just said, “oh. you can go, you’re not getting a drink.” And he said, “what???”

I said, “sir, you just walked in at 6 am & called women impractical and me ugly in one sentence.”

MY internal monologue: I’m being kicked out. He doesn’t care if I stay or go. This is terrible.

@crithir​ GREAT news, we do get to see this moment a few pages later!

The entire court is looking for presents, and at first they try to get Fengqing to make recommendations, but those two are completely convinced that every question is from a spy acting on behalf of the other to get them to reveal their present so they can plot to get something better and so of course they will not say shit. At some point, a random official remembers he’s a Sword Guy and a freaking Martial God, so they finally chill like, oh yeah, we know what to do with those kinda guys.

Xie Lian: well it is from when i was 17

Flamingos can survive in low oxygen, high altitude, high temperatures, low temperatures, high alkaline, they can and will drink boiling water and they can be completely frozen at night and still get up the next morning

(animal death) this is a real undoctored photograph (*though the body was stood up for the shot) of a dead flamingo on the surface of lake natron, a lake so salty and so alkaline that it’s naturally carbonated like soda and would eat through your stomach lining if you drank from it.

When this photo went viral years ago, most people assumed this poor flamingo must have been killed by the lake.

It is actually the lake where 75% of its global population are hatched. This is a photo from the same lake:

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Flamingos can survive in high altitudes, hypersaline conditions, and caustic lakes.

Source: ‘All flamingo species have evolved to live in some of the planet’s most extreme wetlands, like caustic “soda lakes”, hypersaline lagoons or high-altitude salt flats.’

They can survive water so alkaline it burns human skin.

Source: ‘More than a million lesser flamingos breed in Tanzania’s Lake Natron, for instance, a lake fed by hot springs with water so alkaline that it can strip away human skin (one pioneering flamingo researcher named Leslie Brown spent months in Nairobi General Hospital after burning his legs wading out to observe where the birds nested).’

They can drink water at near-boiling temperatures.

Source: ‘They can drink water at near boiling point to collect freshwater from springs and geysers at lake edges. If no freshwater is available, flamingos can use glands in their head that remove salt, draining it out from their nasal cavity.’

The lakes they inhabit can freeze overnight, and the flamingos can survive once it thaws in the morning.

Source: ‘The birds may seem to epitomize the tropics, but they also live in the Andes, 15,000 feet above sea level, where they rest on lakes that freeze around them overnight.

“You’ll see them sitting there like snowballs, frozen on ice,” Dr. Arengo said. “And as the temperature warms up, they thaw out, fluff themselves up and go about their business.”’

The photo is indeed from Lake Natron, taken by photographer Nick Brandt. The content of the lake chemically preserves animal corpses that die there. You can see more photos of this here.

It is also true that 75% of Lesser Flamingos are hatches on Lake Natron.

Source: ‘The lake’s landscape is surreal and deadly—and made even more bizarre by the fact that it’s the place where nearly 75 percent of the world’s lesser flamingos are born.’

Some species of Flamingo eat cyanobacteria or algae.

He's the oldest son of a mob family but Kinn the middle child is the heir since Kinn is the most skilled and the most fit to rule that empire of a family.

Tankhun isn't cut out for the mob live- he's a spoiled prince who wants to feed his fish, watch his dramas, sing karaoke and have a fun time- he's very smart and good at coming up with stuff but he's not a heartless killer.

His personality is that of those rich girls from eighties, nineties and two thousands tv shows the ones who carry a dog in their purse-his personality is rich valley girl but in the body of a gay Thai man, the kind of person who owns at least one tiara and one item of clothing or necklace that has their name or initials on it.

Which could be a stereotype but he's not dumb, he's not weak and people do respect him not just the people who are assigned to protect him but also his family- granted both of his brothers and his cousin are both gay but it's different, they all are straight passing while he's loud and dramatic.

Usually characters like him in the past only existed to be mocked, made fun of or be a stereotype.

But he's smart- he knew how to work the controls to control of that little car they were using to make smoke appear he didn't needs help from Arm to control that thing he did it on his own- he took the controls from Arm because he knew he could control it on his own.

Need Aang to get captured by Zhao? Make Sokka sick.

Need to make Toph and Aang struggle to communicate? Sokka's stuck in a hole.

Need the Gaang wandering aimlessly in the desert? Sokka's tripping on cactus juice.

The show had to make Sokka the comic relief character because that was the only way to justify him being subject to absolute nonsense just to take him out of the plot.