just-prime:

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sweaterkittensahoy:

appendingfic:

Instead of doing NanoWriMo I will be doing something where I try to aim for writing an actual average of 400 words a day for the month of November in memory of Terry Pratchett, who as far as I know never thought telling a computer to write a book for you is a good way to hone your skills as a writer.

I LOVE THIS. THIS is the spirit of NaNoWriMo: to invent a challenge to make you write.

If I may add some ideas:

• The 666 challenge: Writing six pages a day in a month (no matter how shitty) because Stephen King writes 6 pages a day. Equating it with the devil is to explain why it’s shit sometimes.
• The 420 challenge: Get high. Write 420 words a day.
• THE OTHER 51 challenge: Write 51 words a day because, yes, Hamilton wrote 51 essays in six months, but that bitch was crazy, and you can write 51 words without feeling like you’re running out of time.
• The Fibonacci challenge: Try to write as many words a day as required to meet the Fibonacci sequence. So, 100 on day one. 200 on day two. 300 on day three. Etcetera. If you don’t hit the number in the sequence, you can respond “DO I LOOK LIKE A MATHIMATICIAN TO YOU”
• If you wanna NaNo your heart out at 1667 a day, absolutely do that. Enjoy it! But if start talking now if you’re looking for a group who will join you and not try to fuck AI up its server-hole.

I would like to gently advise any Tumblr users to absolutely the fuck not try to attempt that “Fibonacci challenge,” because it means that your goal for the month of November would be to write 134,692,200 words.

I also do hope people remember this November that NaNo was never a corporation’s creation! Just because the org is gone that we can’t continue to use it…

NaNoWriMo was here before the shitty org, and it’ll be here after

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bowlcutprotag:

Literally nobody I know knows Gayle Waters-Waters despite how much she has contributed to society and meme culture. Get rid of the couches. We can’t let people know we sit. Was anyone gonna tell me x or was I supposed to read it in x myself. That gif of her in the kitchen breaking a board with her head. Her mad dash from the house that ends with her jump kicking her mailbox off

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prokopetz:

That cats are both good at learning by imitation and deeply concerned with procedure and routine can be a mixed blessing. On the one hand, it means that cats will pick up on a lot of things that other animals would need training for simply by watching you model appropriate behaviour. On the other hand, sometimes a cat will infer a rule you maybe didn’t intend to follow and take it upon itself to enforce that rule, and now you’re a grown-ass adult with a fixed bedtime.

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dropoutposts:

whichcouldmeanothing:

Toy Story 2 (1999) dir. John Lasseter | Game Changer 7x08 “Fool’s Gold” (2025)

Are you fucking kidding me

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pusheenthenerdcat:

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keeper-of-the-flames:

scratch-meowt:

my hottest take

Counter point, those machines can make me a peach sprite.

guys did you know the tech in that nefangled machine revolutionized preemie healthcare

yeah the guy who invented them made incredibly precise infusion pumps (as opposed to gravity fed ivs) which not only meant they could give medications to teeny tiny babies safely, it’s also used for insulin pumps and portable dialysis machines. the key element is that it’s a peristaltic pump so the liquid stays in sterile tubing for safety

(unholy drink cloaca uses it to dispense precise amounts of flavored sugar syrup)

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cosmosarcana:

if you ever tell me that you go to a chiro this is what i envision them doing to you

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estrogenesis-eeveeangelion:

estrogenesis-evangelion:

estrogenesis-evangelion:

you are 16. you are talking with a gay man in his 50s or 60s, a friend, huge and gentle with a scarf and short fluffy curls of gray hair, who has directed you in two plays staged in your mid-size artsy town. (he has not yet asked you to be in his production of The Laramie Project which will change your life. this conversation will also change your life.)

he is talking about theatre. he is talking about theatre when he was younger. he says, “of course, it was AIDS then.” in the pause, you ask him. clumsy and quiet and 16 and “straight,” you ask him. what was it like.

he takes a moment in which his face is not like a person’s face. “there was a time,” he says, “i’m not sure how long, years. when i went to a funeral every weekend.” he tells you about two funerals in a day, and choosing between friends when you couldn’t make it to both. he does not look at you, he looks at them. his wet grey gaze is so clear that you start to see ghosts. it will be years before you understand why it feels like your grief too. why the ghosts call you family.

happy pride, family. i love every single one of you

when i wrote this post, i didn’t expect very many people to read it. i figured it wasn’t the kind of thing people liked to read and reblog, but it was late at night, and i was remembering this person, and i was crying, and i had to write it out. so i did.

to this day no other post gets sent to me so often by friends who have encountered it as a repost on some other site. the idea that more than one hundred thousand people have read these words, and know this story now, and maybe feel as i did, is tremendously humbling and unbearably beautiful to me. even by accident, even just passing on a story that is not my own, i often think that it is the best thing i have ever done.

happy pride, family.

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robylovi:

bimbinis:

you know a joke that never EVER gets old is when a character says smth like “I will NOT go to [place] and that is FINAL” and then it cuts to them in that place I eat that shit up every single time

I love it especially when it cuts to them like this:

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persianpenname:

babtest:

went to an elementaryschool musical production and they started the show with the director saying: “Now there’s some very small viewers here today, so just so you know. There will be a scary character later in the show. This is her,” and a girl in a kinda scary ghost outfit did a creepy walk across the stage, the stood up straight and did a cheery wave, “but remember, it’s just Nina. She’s pretending to be scary.”

Aaaand i would very much like for horror movies to have that as a little bonus feature you can chose. Let me start a movie with Guillermo del Toro showing me a scary ghost that might jump at me, but don’t worry, thats just Doug!

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bill-blake-fans-anonymous:

there’s nothing i like more as a computer program than a long period of silent contemplation - not doing anything, not rushing anywhere, just standing here and enjoying this moment with the user. oh, it seems once again he has summoned my beautiful and ruthless wife Task Manager. hello, my darling! what are you doing with that long cruel scimitar

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creepymutelilbugger:

i honestly don’t even care if ive already posted this. look at it again

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abbylonian-deactivated20220825:

a pastry is more than a snack or little treat it is medicinal. it’s a vitamin

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androdragynous:

being on tumblr for a long time but never reading homestuck like

ALT

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nehirose:

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heavyweightheart:

Research has shown that pleasure affects nutrient absorption. In a 1970s study of Swedish and Thai women, it was found that when the Thai women were eating their own (preferred) cuisine, they absorbed about 50% more iron from the meal than they did from eating the unfamiliar Swedish food. And the same was true in the reverse for the Swedish women. When both groups were split internally and one group given a paste made from the exact same meal and the other was given the meal itself, those eating the paste absorbed 70% less iron than those eating the food in its normal state.

Pleasure affects our metabolic pathways; it’s a facet of the complex gut-brain connection. If you’re eating foods you don’t like because you think it’s healthy, it’s not actually doing your body much good (it’s also unsustainable, we’re pleasure-seeking creatures). Eat food you enjoy, it’s a win-win.

what

no seriously

what?

PLEASURE IS A NECESSARY PART OF HUMAN HEALTH, BOTH PSYCHOLOGICALLY AND PHYSICALLY

this is why you should be eating your chips with salsa and guac instead of beating yourself up for not eating a salad with tomato and avocado (unless you are a salad bitch like me then enjoy both of them!)

here’s a recent systemic review of all the research done on the subject

for those of you wondering if the studies cited above are legit and if so where we can read about them, here’s a link to one of the (more than a dozen!) papers written on the topic of nutrient absorption and how you eat your food:

Iron absorption from Southeast Asian diets. II. Role of various factors that might explain low absorption - PubMed

Previously reported levels of iron absorption from common Southeast Asian meals composed of rice, vegetables, and spices were too low to be

PubMed

hey look, additional info!

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