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you would receive the supply once a month

the brand/type will vary so you could

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Legendary pop singer Bonnie Tyler, best known for hits including “Total Eclipse of the Heart,” has died after weeks in the hospital, her family said Thursday. She was 75.

“Bonnie’s family and team are heartbroken to announce that Bonnie unexpectedly passed away last night in hospital in Portugal as a result of the illness that she was being treated for,” a statement said on her official social media accounts.

The raspy-voiced Welsh singer gained global popularity in the 1970s and 1980s for her power ballads including “Holding Out for a Hero” and “It’s a Heartache.”

[...] “Total Eclipse of the Heart,” came out in 1983 and made it to No. 1 on both the U.S. and U.K. charts. The bombastic ballad then became a karaoke anthem. It has had more than 1 billion streams, boosted by real eclipses in 2017 and 2024.

“I never get tired of singing it,” she once told BBC News. “I love it because everyone can’t wait to sing it.”

You know what's more ableist? (and racist) Those old "literacy tests" that were used to prevent black Americans from voting. You know how? By using sentence structures that allowed the (racist) examiners to decide what answers were accepted (White) and which would be failed. (Black)

The same issue exists in a plenty of technical fields, where accessibility should be ensured for everyone, yet aren't for whatever reason, but especially when the reasons are systemic. Especially when it makes the texts inaccessible to the groups who most need it. Eg: If laws that are supposed to protect people with intellectual disabilities are worded in such a way that they cannot read it? That's (systemic) ableism and an actual example of poor accessibility. (Same with a lot of other political, and law documents. There are so many texts that are written to be almost exclusively accessible to people educated in the specific field, but thereby also specifically exclude the subjects these texts are about. Which is also a form of classism, so we got the three down: Ableism, classism, racism.)

ONE "big" word in a sentence of a novel is NOT ableism. Especially if the text itself allows you to understand what's happening based on context. Yeah you'll miss out on the "true definition", but using a word like "scry" in the context that it'll most likely be used in? You would probably be able to glean it's meaning.

"He was a boisterous child, always getting into trouble, yet he had a good heart all the same." Even if you didn't know the word "boisterous" you could probably understand enough of the word from the context of the sentence.

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Honestly, my biggest issue with this kind of nonsense is that it reduces systemic problems to "It makes me feel bad".

Access and power are the issue.

Access to some random fucking novel is not a human right or even remotely a necessity. If the book is too hard, go back and read it later. This only happened to me once in my life. It was The Name of the Rose. I liked the movie when I was like 12, so I tried to read the book. Even in the English translation, it's full of random passages in French and Latin and a bunch of history I knew nothing about. It was just fundamentally too hard at the time. I remember being very annoyed about this. It was not a structural problem. It was a sign I needed to read some other novel.

People think they have a right to be perfectly comfortable and catered to in every situation. They are wrong.

The Far Meridian (Fiction Podcast)

Stories From Ylelmore (Fiction Podcast)

The Mistholme Museum of Mystery, Morbidity, and Mortality (Fiction Podcast)

The Tower (Fiction Podcast)

Skyjacks: Courier's Call (TTRPG Podcast) [You'll have to look this one up on your podcatcher. All podcasts listed here can be found on there too]

Urban Legend Club (TTRPG, 1+ players)

Apotheosis Janitors (Multiplayer TTRPG)

A Traveller in the City (Mapmaking TTRPG, 1+ players)

Keeper of the Silent Grove (Game)

Always Human (Webcomic)

Crow Time (Webcomic)

Forsythia (Poem)

Getting Started in Electronics (Non-Fiction Book)

The house of a thousand species: The untapped potential of comprehensive biodiversity censuses of urban properties (Scientific Article)

The Small Science Collective (Science Zine Collection/Archive)

How to make a moss jar terrarium (Tutorial)

Plush dogs (Sewing Patterns): Golden Retriever • Dalmation • Belgian Shepherd • Bull Terrier

Plush Pill Bug (Sewing Pattern)

Strawberry Shortcake (Recipe)

3-Ingredient French Onion Potato Bake (Recipe) [Personal note: you can as much as double the soup powder, also feel free to pad with milk. It might need to bake longer than listed but the ingredient amounts are very forgiving]

World Gone Wrong (Fiction Podcast)

Cryptonaturalist (Fiction Podcast) [Personally, I'd recommend starting on episode 3 and coming back to the first two once you've caught up]

Absolutely No Adventures (Fiction Podcast)

Monstrous Agonies (Fiction Podcast)

Where They Landed (Album)

The Norwegian Fjords - Life in the Twilight (Nature Documentary)

Mending A Rift (Short Comic)

Pia and the Little Tiny Things (Webcomic)

Here There Be Dragons (Webcomic)

And Another Lovely Day (Webcomic)

Bean Quest (Solo LARP)

The Last Tea Shop (Solo TTRPG)

Sentience (Interactive Novel)

Podvodsk (Puzzle-Adjacent Game)

Plush Manta Ray (Sewing Pattern)

Soft No-Knead Dinner Rolls (Recipe)

My Favourite Orange Sherbet (Recipe) (note: an icecream maker is NOT required: if you don't have access to one, you can instead put the liquid in a sturdy container, put that in your freezer, and just open your freezer every 45-60 minutes to give the freezing mixture a stir)

How to Make Yogurt (Recipe)

How To Make Jam (Recipe/Tutorial)

How to Make a Ginger Bug Starter for Natural Soda (Tutorial)

Desert Skies (Fiction Podcast)

InCo (Fiction Podcast)

Starfall (Fiction Podcast)

The Vesta Clinic (Fiction Podcast)

Wolf Island Master - Little Pepper (Short Animation)

Memorial Engine (Animation)

Kuroiru (Anime Database) (Note: extremely convenient for finding new things to watch (and where))

Cornell FeederWatch Cam (Birdfeeder Livestream)

All-Purpose God (Short Comic)

Tailwind (Short Comic)

Death and the Maiden (Webcomic)

Seb & Spice (Webcomic)

Tiny Islands (Puzzle Game)

Making Stuff & Doing Things (Book/Zine Collection)

Paper Mache Sailboat (Instructional)

Leather Waist Bag/Belt Pouch (Sewing Pattern)

Myrtle the Turtle (Sewing Pattern)

Little Knit Pumpkins (Knitting Pattern)

Easy Soy Sauce Pan Fried Noodles (Recipe) (Note: I like to add ¼ tsp garlic to the sauce. This recipe will work with basically any noodles, and is also easy to customise with whatever you have in the house)

Sweet Shortcrust Pastry (Recipe) (Note: you don't actually have to pre-bake the dough if you're feeling particularly lazy. This is my FAVOURITE for making sweet pies and tarts, gets heaps of compliments)

And below the cut, four of my favourite pie fillings to go with it:

Something like Breaking Bad, for example, has low squiggability (that’s what I’m calling this quality). It’s tightly written, the characters are consistent, there’s little left to interpolate or extrapolate. Obviously, people DO write fanfic of Breaking Bad, but it still has a low squiggability score. Whereas something like Supernatural has a high squiggability score. Fantasy and science fiction often have high squiggability scores. This suggests squiggability could also be related to worldbuilding and potential for people to borrow a premise or setting.

apparently, cats' kidneys tend to be the thing that takes them down, something about their bodies being unable to self-clean their kidneys, and the vaccine is supposed revitalize the body's ability to do just that. It would be very VERY fucking cool to have cats suddenly reaching 30 years of age be the normal thing.

dude cracked the case about WHY kidneys fail, across the board as far as i can tell. turns out there's a specific molecule whose job it is to attach to waste and signal macrophages to come eat it. it remains inactive in cats for some reason, but the molecule is still there. basically what he's done is found the switch to activate them. this will be profound not only for our domestic babies, but for big cats too - especially cheetahs!

although his research was focused on cats, it's already being used to develop drugs for humans too!

on top of that, since these molecules are tags for waste, this could also dramatically lower the rate of fatty liver disease, liver cancer, urinary crystals, rheumatoid arthritis, and even some neurological cases! like, they're hoping it may have an impact on parkinson's and alzheimers, but it DOES have an impact on stroke recovery. like. holy shit.

furthermore, he's insisting that the feline drug be affordable if and when it rolls out onto the market. he wants this to be something anyone can get for their cat!! idk how much sway he'll have over the human drug, but hopefully enough that it, too, won't be that expensive.

annnnnd in his research that he's still doing for the human side of things, he's found a potential link between this molecule and estrogen. in the 20,000 samples he's tested, women between ages 10 and 29 had the highest amount of this molecule present in their blood (a higher amount means Something Fucky is going on, essentially. There's a higher amount of waste the body is trying to clean out) but it drops down to be almost equal amongst men and women after menopause. it hasn't been looked into yet, but fuck, just the fact it's noted and known and probably WILL be looked into soon??? imagine if this is what leads to figuring out all the various ways the ovaries and uterus fucks with people and how to fix it. or even like, maybe there's something about estrogen that makes it work better. who knows! but it's rad the link is there to be researched :D

As for the study itself, the 360 day follow up on stage 3 kidney failure kitties showed that the control had a survival rate of about 20%, while the test group had a survival rate of 80%