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Not to be that person, but if you remember this, how's that newfound back pain going for ya babe
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in happier pride news i actually found this deeply heartwarming
that's solidarity baybeeee
Further context: Durham city council (Reform UK) cut funding and support for Pride. The Durham Miner's Association and other trade unions raised enough money for Durham Pride 2026 to go ahead - a direct call back to when Lesbian and Gays Support the Miners (LGSM) raised money for mining communities when Margaret Thatcher seized union funding during the miner strikes of 1984-85.
At the 1985 Labour party meet, the motion to support LGBT rights as a party was passed due to a block vote from mining unions.
Stephen Guy, the chair of the Durham Miners’ Association, said that when it became apparent Durham Pride was under threat, he took it upon himself to “encourage the trade union movement to step up and do the right thing, and stand shoulder to shoulder with the LGBT+ community […] They not only raised funds for us, but came to our communities, uplifted our spirits when they were down, and showed their solidarity.”
The reconstructed face of the “Cheddar Man” (c. 7,000 BCE) compared to his living descendant, Adrian Targett
The Cheddar Man is a Mesolithic skeleton that was recovered from England’s Cheddar Gorge in 1903. At around 9,000 years old, the Cheddar Man is the oldest complete skeleton ever discovered in the UK, and has long been hailed as the “first Briton.” DNA analysis on the Cheddar man from 2018 indicated that he was lactose intolerant, had light-colored eyes, dark brown or black hair, and had a dark to black skin tone. Although the discovery of the Cheddar Man’s dark skin tone was surprising for both scientists and the public alike, it corresponds with recent research suggesting that genes linked to lighter skin only began to spread about 8,500 years ago - approximately 32,000 years later than what was previously believed.
In addition to the development on his skin tone, the Cheddar Man surprised scientists in 1997 when DNA analysis revealed that he had a living descendant - a retired history teacher named Adrian Targett. Targett and the Cheddar man share the same mtDNA, which is passed down from mother to daughter. In other words, they share a common maternal ancestor. What is even more remarkable is that Targett lives in Cheddar, only a half mile away where his 9,000-year-old ancestor was discovered.
Targett was not invited to the initial reveal of his ancestor’s new facial reconstruction, but he has since seen it and has commented on the family resemblance. “I do feel a bit more multicultural now,” he once joked in an interview “And I can definitely see that there is a family resemblance. That nose is similar to mine. And we have both got those blue eyes.”
The development of the Cheddar Man’s skin tone has generated resistance, especially among far-right and white supremacist circles. Targett, however, is unbothered by it, stating that it is “marvelous what scientists can reconstruct once they sequence the DNA.” When asked if he thought whether the findings affected the way people think about race, Targett responded: “Yes, I do think it’s significant. Not many people in Cheddar mind it. But the lesson is that we’re all immigrants, whether you’ve been in a place for 10 minutes or 9,000 years. We’ve all come from somewhere.”
Source! This is real wow
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2018/feb/09/hes-one-of-us-modern-neighbours-welcome-cheddar-man
I love it
The first brit is black
I’ve heard of staying in the same town your whole life, but this guy’s on another level.
This is cool for so many reasons, up to and including the fact that any fiction with vampires or other ancient immortals more than 8.5k years old is inaccurate unless all the Olds are dark-skinned folks with Opinions about the state of the world since all these pale upstarts showed up.
I haven't had the energy to log in and thank everyone personally yet (the weather in MN is killing me rn), but thank you to everyone who donated to my Ko-fi so we could get our dishwasher repaired.
The company I bought the unit from--and which I supposedly have an extended warranty with that they're refusing to cover, but that's another matter--quoted me 4-6 weeks to come look at the machine for a diagnostic, then warned me there was another 6-8 week wait for parts.
They also quoted me several hundred dollars for the estimated parts, which they were going to order pre-inspection (????), and told me it'd be $400 for some rubber tubing, which was the likely culprit. And then another $900 for labor, not including the diagnostic testing.
Well, thanks to the very kind people who donated, I was able to call another company that came out the next day, told me the problem wasn't with any tubing at all, but the water sensor at the base of the machine was busted, and then quoted me $700 to replace it. Bracing for the worst, I asked about the timeline for parts and how much everything would cost in total, including labor.
Yeah, turns out that $700 included parts, labor, and diagnostic testing.
Oh, and ordering the official licensed parts took a week.
I told him the other place told me it'd be almost two months to order parts, and he asked who the company was, rolled his eyes, and said, "Yeah, they've been doing that. They're trying to get you to just buy a whole new machine."
Anyway. He showed up this morning at 7:30 a.m. and fixed it. I have a working dishwasher again. Thank you for helping with that <3
Basically the exact same thing is happening with me rn, but Whirlpool are evil and refuse to send the parts to our local guy so we have no choice but to buy a new one. Which we can't afford. So we're just stuck handwashing everything until something dramatically changes.
We had such awful luck with all of the “brand new” Whirlpool machines that were in this house when we moved in, so unfortunately, this doesn’t surprise me. It felt like every few months a different machine broke. The only thing that was solid was the refrigerator but that thing was built pre-enshitification of everything. It could have survived a nuclear blast. I actually regret not keeping it and moving it out to the garage or something.
I wish you luck trying to replace things when you can. I know for me the dishwasher is a major appliance I struggle without. My back just can’t handle standing/sitting at the sink like that anymore.
Hey Joy. Have you ever heard of an "apron sink"? Most of the problem with back pain and sinks is having to bend *over* the 2+ inch lip at the front to wash anything. Apron sinks don't have that issue. You also don't get the wet belly problem with them.
That's just a random example I googled ducked.
I know replacing the sink isn't an answer to the dishwasher problem, or even something you could probably consider doing anytime soon. Just figured I'd mention it for when you do the chance to do that kitchen remodel.
Oh, that’s interesting! I had been leaning toward that design purely for the aesthetics on the off chance we could ever afford to renovate the kitchen. (lol, lmao, even) But that’s good to know it actually helps with some of my issues.
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I think the thing that annoys me most about AI on a personal, day to day, level is what it has done to grammar checkers. If you've never done a lot of editing, or used to 5+ years ago but haven't really in the last couple years, I can't even begin to describe how fucking BAD this shit has gotten. And as an author it is EXHAUSTING.
I just want to catch spelling errors and accidental double spaces and repeated phrases and whenever I use the wrong too/to or affect/effect and shit. But no. They've shoved AI up the ass of every grammar checking software out there and now they all fucking suck and make the most random, obnoxious, nonsensical suggestions.
And yeah, I can ignore all the times it's trying to get me to cut out any semblance of my own voice, or shove things into the wrong tense, or make the most random suggestions on comma usage. But if it's getting all that WRONG, what is it just straight up missing that I SHOULD be correcting? What real spelling and grammar errors are still lurking in there?
"Use Libre Office."
I get why people keep saying this (and other versions of it like "Use Adobe alternatives" and "Use Google product alternatives."). But here's the problem: I do not create in isolation. Even my own 100% personal projects are getting sent to other people whether it's editors or printers or beta readers and unless every single person in that train is using the same products, things can get wonky.
Libre Office and Word handle formatting differently on the back end, which can completely break documents if you move them back and forth between the two. So if I write in Libre Office but my beta readers are still using Word, when I send them a manuscript for review there's a good chance things won't look right and my beta reader will not actually be reviewing what I sent them.
Industry standards are industry standards FOR A REASON. Having everyone on the same workflow can be crucial to getting things done effectively and correctly without creating a lot of extra work. And those things are not going to change overnight, as much as we might want them to.
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Yeah, Word, let me just leave this whole chunk of dialogue without the closing quotation marks. That's the thing to do. How dare I have two punctuation marks in a row. It's not like that's how closing quotation marks fucking work.
I am going to light something on fire.
And you know, for young writers, this has got to be so detrimental just from the perspective of opening your document and seeing a million corrections that, frankly, don't need to be there. If you're a young writer you're likely not going to have the background knowledge to know what is and isn't a good suggestion, you're just going to see a document that makes it look like you made every mistake possible so clearly you must be a terrible, stupid writer and should just give up.
i swear if the wizard doesnt let me out of his abandoned salt mine soon im gonna fucking LOSE IT
what did you do to be put into the salt mine
i MAY have eaten his special wizard meal. but i think he should let me out tbh
was it good? was it worth it? are you able to bear the weight of your sin?
im not gonna lie it was fucking delicious i would fucking do it again. wait shit youre the fucking wizard in disguise seeing if ive learned my lesson arent you. fuck.
10 YEARS IN THE ABANDONED SALT MINE.
My liege, the people no longer know the steps to Cotton-Eye Joe.
Indeed, the olde wayes are lost, for they no longer know that it is electric (boogiewoogiewoogie).
Is it true that kangaroo can only move their legs at the same time, like they can’t move them independently leg humans or dogs do?
yes with an exception: when kangaroos are on land, they use their legs together for hopping, but when they swim, they alternate which leg is kicking just like humans and dogs do!
so they CAN, they just don't unless they think they need to.
This has not always been the case however! Australia used to have another group of kangaroos called the sthenurines, also known as "short-faced kangaroos" (skeleton A below). They were proportioned quite differently, with larger bodies and shorter legs, feet and tails:
They were so differently proportioned, and some species grew so large, than hopping like a modern kangaroo was probably physically impossible for them, so researchers have proposed that they walked bipedally instead!
Members of Sthenurinae – an ancient family of kangaroos that lived until 30,000 years ago - likely preferred walking to hopping.
There are multiple delightfully cursed reconstructions of this behaviour which makes them look more like a person running around pretending to be a dinosaur than anything else
Interestingly, there was a very recent study on these same giant sthenurines (as well as a bunch of other gigantic kangaroos like Protemnodon and Macropus titan) looking at various indicators of jumping abilities that found that they were in fact capable of hopping, even if they'd likely prefer to walk on two legs Jones, M.E., Jones, K. & Nudds, R.L. Biomechanical limits of hopping in the hindlimbs of giant extinct kangaroos. Sci Rep 16, 1309 (2026). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-025-29939-7 (paper is open access!)
So they'd have been the opposite of modern kangaroos, prefering to walk by moving their legs independently but bounding with their legs synchronized if necessary like when a predator attacked.
Also Sthenurines kangaroos likely employed an almost human like walk with an upright trunk, using their long clawed forelimbs for grabbing at branches to feed on. They actually have a number of convergent traits with humans like a broad sacrum to support their vertical trunk, an enlarged femoral head for the same purpose, as well as enlarged muscles for balancing the body when supporting their weight on one leg at a time. Janis CM, Buttrill K, Figueirido B. Locomotion in extinct giant kangaroos: were sthenurines hop-less monsters? PLoS One. 2014 Oct 15;9(10):e109888. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0109888. PMID: 25333823; PMCID: PMC4198187. (also open access!)
Oh and I should also add that modern tree kangaroos can actually walk on two legs, which looks very silly
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I think the best way I've been able to communicate to people who have no idea what fatigue actually is actually like is this:
Your energy for the day is like a bag filled with marbles. And when you sleep, your bag gets refilled. Your bag isn't damaged, and so can be reliably refilled.
When you have chronic fatigue, your bag has a hole in it. When you sleep, the bag fills, but marbles keep falling out the bottom as it fills. So it takes longer to fill, and may not be full by the time you wake up. Trying to use too many marbles at once makes the hole bigger, and you may not be able to fix it. So your bag holds even less now, refills slower, and empties faster.
That's the difference. If a typical person without chronic fatigue overdoes it, maybe it just takes a few more days of rest to refill their bag. Maybe there's a little hole now, but you can fix that no problem.
But someone with chronic fatigue overdoes it? They risk permanently ripping a huge hole in that bag that they can't fix, or even destroying their bag altogether.
And there's no replacement bag.
1. Eating meat is morally neutral 2. There are many ethical ways butchering has been practiced for a long time 3. factory farming is unethical due to the abuse faced in the animal's life, not bc it results in the animal's death 4. Ethically raised and sourced meat is expensive and/or hard to find in many places 5. *there are people who CANNOT subsist on a plant based diet* for varied reasons, largely disabled folks - (allergies/GI disorders that already limit what a person can eat, people in recovery from restrictive eating disorders, people with ARFID and other sensory processing disorders) and people with little money and time on their hands to cook. 6. Vegans who are adamant about animal rights often have a major blind spot as to human rights abuses; the meatpacking industry is terrible for those who work in it, yes, but people are laboring hard for your grains and produce too, often in unethical conditions and for little pay, and Vegans will treat you like you're doing some kinda "gotcha" and spit vitriol at you whenever you point this out 7. It is not Wrong to eat only plant based certainly but when people start acting like it gives them a moral highground it shows starkly how little regard for fellow humans these people have 8. Just because YOU are disabled/broke/etc and can sustain veganism does not give you permission to harass somebody who says their disability or finances prevent it 9. The most ethical way to eat, if you can achieve it, is by buying things with a short supply chain that were grown locally by properly-paid laborers
10. there is currently no way to get vitamin B12 in a vegan diet without supplementing, and vegans have increased risk of nutrient deficiencies unless they meticulously plan their diet and/or take other supplements as well. I don't love the idea of advocating for a wholesale switch to a diet reliant on vitamin/supplement companies' products
11. leather, which is a very useful material for many purposes, is a byproduct of the beef industry. all currently available leather alternatives are plastic, which causes large-scale environmental destruction including but not limited to animal habitat loss (yes, even the "pineapple" and "cactus" leathers- they're processed with so much plastic that they are essentially just plastic by the end). no beef = no leather = increasing plastic dependence. ditto wool, but this is about materials related to eating animals, so. leaving that out for now
adding tags from previous also. All good points!
13. if you have eaten vegan for a long time and then suddenly eat meat again you will probably get sick this is not a sign that veganism is the next step of evolution or a sign from god its a sign that your digestive system has adjusted for a purely plant diet and you need to slow down 14. a farmer eating a former herd or flock member is normal and morally depends on if the animal suffered during slaughtering, not the fact that the famer saw the animal alive
Okay, I am really obsessed with this joke. I literally reblog it every time I see it.
I would too ngl
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Explaining homestuck isn't hard and doesn't take ten thousand paragraphs to do y'all just don't know how to summarize things.
Homestuck is a webcomic where there is a multiplayer video game called Sburb which is a standard component of reality itself. Sburb, when played, destroys your original universe and transports you to a liminal place called a Land where the goal is to create a new universe and reality. Because all the realities are made by previous players of the video game, there's a large cast that follows multiple timelines/realities. Because all of this is also a video game, there are some bugs/hacks/glitches. Much of the later plot of Homestuck revolves around trying to glitch reality in a way to kill an unkillable glitched final boss to save and fix the timelines/realities which were all glitched to being unplayable/unwinnable because of it. There are a variety of mediums in which the story is told and the guy from Undertale did a lot of the music for it.
Yes, because that's not explaining Homestuck, that's writing a book report. This is what I mean when I say people don't know how to summarize.
I don't think I'd call that "explaining homestuck" then, though. There is more to a story than the world it's set in.
You don't need to explain the concept of Jujus, galaxy frogs, classpects, and x2 planar defenestration combos to explain Homestuck. Overexplaining is actively counterproductive to what an explanation should be, which is to make someone understand the bones of something.
Also, I don't want to spoil people! Homestuck is a genuinely cool webcomic that I think handles itself really fascinatingly well and I would rather give the above explanation which doesn't immediately overload them with shit like ectobiological theory and lets them come across it at their own pace.
Explaining the narrative is an entirely different ballpark than explaining the concept of Homestuck. And explaining the narrative isn't explaining Homestuck: it's giving a book report.
lost me in the first sentence homie
That's your problem with reading comprehension then my dude, not my problem with clarity.
"Homestuck is a webcomic where there is a multiplayer video game called Sburb which is a standard component of reality itself," Isn't as digestible as you seem to think it is. I mean, I'm sure it makes perfect sense to someone who has read Homestuck, but to anyone who hasn't, that's a huge suspension of disbelief to come right out the gate with.
My dude, I have some real bad news about any and all stories ever told and suspensions of disbelief about them. This is literally a you problem.
That initial summary is pretty informative and succinct. Just one question, what is it like tonally? Upbeat, downbeat, exciting and exploratory or despairing and bleak?
Tonally, it’s mostly a long series of silly jokes
Baby name of the day is Utility, given to a baby girl born in North Carolina in 1868. She had a brother named Mount Vernon and another brother named Wheatly. I am perplexed by the naming convention
She named her daughter Flaura. Not Flora. Not Laura. Flaura. That’s a goddam Tragedeigh.
which name is worse?
utility
flaura
