On Cosmos (the original), Carl Sagan goes through a lot of the names for the part of the galactic spiral that we see at night in places without light pollution. A lot of them revolved around milk, but one that really stuck in my mind was ‘the backbone of the night.’ I think it might have been from an Aboriginal Australian culture, but it’s been so long I couldn’t say for sure.
Reminder that cookie dough kept above 40 F/4.4 C but below 190 F/88 C is in the bacterial danger zone that allows bad bacteria to multiply and give you food poisoning.
There’s also some amount of risk from raw dough, but I’m not gonna pretend I don’t ignore that when it comes to cookie dough.
Jesus, it must have been a severe hit if the bird shit itself. This being on the side of a building and not a window is really curious, though! Usually you only see this on reflective surfaces that the bird thinks is open sky. I wonder if a predator was chasing it, for it to collide so strongly with the wall.
Edit: fuck, I’m dumb, there is a window there, it’s just facing a wall. Reminder that bird window stickers exist!
The spider corpse is an important piece of the art! It adds a memento mori aspect to what is otherwise just a cool place a web was spun.
You can’t teach kids mnemonics about straight sex anymore, because of woke.
The important thing to remember with trans kids is that there isn’t a ‘do nothing’ option if they want HRT. ‘Nothing’ is actually ‘force them to undergo puberty for the wrong gender,’ which is traumatic and has effects as permanent as taking HRT.
Going through puberty with HRT as a trans person isn’t any more inappropriate than going through natal puberty is for cis kids. Natal puberty is having permanent, unpredictable effects on their bodies as well, except we just call that growing up. Trans teens also deserve to grow up like their peers, without spending most of their waking hours managing their dysphoria because some third party who’s never met them is uncomfortable.
“Shut up or I’ll give you my anxiety” has now become a threat that is possible to follow through on.
It looks like a set up for a “suqma DICK lmao” joke, but it’s actually just a store.
I think a lot of body language analysis is vibes based BS, but sometimes the vibes sure are vibin’.
What’s the joke about every generation thinking they invented sex? That, but with cum cooking, I guess: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5830947-natural-harvest---a-collection-of-semen-based-recipes
Even with transition lenses it’s so, so bright 😩
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This isn’t just doomerism, this is ahistorical and unscientific. Changing course in 2005 or earlier would have us in a completely different world.
Feeling despair when the planet is burning is understandable and normal, but this is a prime example of a cognitive distortion. Every ton of greenhouse gases that doesn’t enter the atmosphere is harm reduced. 2.9 degrees C is better than 3.0, which is better than 3.1, and on and on.
Most importantly, the message being given out by actual climate scientists in this very article is that action is most important now, in the next decade, not that everything is already over. Insisting we’re already cooked is like laying down to die when you can see the end of the tunnel.