Europe is currently being burned alive and people still think climate change is a joke. It’s warmer in North Europe than in the middle eastern deserts.
Nearly all northern countries broke their decades old heat records this week.
Its only in the low hundreds in farenheit??? In America we get that for like a month or two straight every year??? Y'all need to deal is it really normally so cold over there that yall can live with a little heat???
If you’re gonna have an ignorant American attitude then please only stay on American posts. No one in North Europe has an AC in their houses. Stores, animal shelters, elderly houses, no one has AC. the houses are designed to keep the heat in. The people are not accustomed to the heat. A sudden climate shift like this is extremely dangerous to older people and babies specifically.
There are programs being run to inform elderly people what to do to not die in this heat. There was a heatwave in the Netherlands in 2010 in which approximately 500 more elderly people passed away than normally.
One thing people don’t often appreciate is that the southern US states are along the same latitude as the Middle Eastern deserts, rather than northern Europe. We’re not competing with Texas, we’re competing with northern Canada. If Saskatoon can’t handle Mexican weather, London can’t handle Middle-Eastern weather. It’s not built for it at all.
very helpful and informative graphic
My fellow Southern Americans, this is NOT the time to be a smug little asshole. Yes, we usually get weeks on end of MISERABLE 100+ F weather but we have A/C and infrastructure built to handle massive blocks of nasty heat.
Remember when we got a blizzard that nearly killed Texas and shut off all our power (except to rich people 🥴)? Remember how it was hurtful when people from cold climates we’re dismissive of the fact that we were literally freezing to death? Don’t turn around and be the same kind of asshole to the people currently burning up.
Here’s some tips from a Texan who has lived through miserable heat for 30+ years and always hated it, despite growing up with it:
Get a box fan and slap some ice on it. Makeshift A/C
I cannot stress enough how helpful wet washcloths on your wrists, ankles, back of neck, and inside of knees is for cooling you down.
Don’t be afraid to just lie on the floor in as little clothing as you feel comfortable in and have a fan blowing on you. When I was a little kid, the heat would blow our old and crappy A/C unit every year in mid July (right around now) and we’d either go swim in the pool to escape the indoor heat or go lie in the living room with fans in the least amount of clothes possible to still be decent
Drink fluids!!! Water is best but juice and soda, specially very cold, are good too if you have a hard time drinking lots of water. Ice in your drink is your new best friend.
If you have the means and are able to, see if places like elder care and animal shelters are taking box fan donations. Every summer in Texas places like that hold “fan drives” to get fans to people who don’t have A/C. Take care of each other.
I’m sorry some smug asshole American thought it was a good idea to make fun of y'all’s climate disaster. Stay safe!
“its okay that person does [weird thing] because they have [condition]” no its okay that they do the weird thing because its not hurting anyone and sometimes people just do things you might think are weird and it doesn’t have to be explained
Shinjuku Boys (1995). Tatsu, a transgender man, jokes with his barber about his changing appearance, and his newly masculine features.
TRANSCRIPT:
BARBER: So you go regularly to the hospital for your hormone injection? TATSU: [nods] BARBER: Does it hurt? TATSU: Not at all. BARBER: You have more facial hair. It must be the hormones. You’ll get a moustache soon. TATSU: I’ll look distinguished! They’ve made quite the difference. I never thought I’d change so much. Most customers say I’m like a man. BARBER: Really? TATSU: [laughing] They say, “You look like a man. You’re not cute.” BARBER: [laughs]
END TRANSCRIPT.
I love seeing this, because I’ve looked for many things about trans guys in Japan (in trying to understand how Japan views transgender people on the whole) and other than a few recent things, everything was exclusively about trans women.
They literally work every day with very ill cancer-stricken kids who can’t get the vaccine.
This makes 100% sense.
If you’re an employee of a world renowned hospital and are anti-vax, you didn’t deserve to be hired to begin with because that hospital tends to hire people who understand evidence-based medicine and apply that to clinical practice. If you’re an anti-vax healthcare worker, you aren’t practicing evidence-based medicine and are therefore a danger to patients.
Y'all should Google the article, it’s actually pretty neat. Basically, the Aldabra Atoll was once inhabited by the Aldabra Rail, a flightless species of bird that had diverged from the flying White-Throated Rail when a section of the population landed there and found they had no natural predators. However, the Atoll occasionally gets completely submerged, and all of the flightless Aldabra rails were wiped out. But then, after the Atoll re-emerged, a bunch of the EXACT SAME species of flying White Throated Rail decided to settle there again, and immediately proceeded to evolve into flightless birds AGAIN.
Me re-entering society after shutting myself off for 3+ years
why do i only have mosquito bites on the left side of my body. is the right side not good enough?? does my blood taste weird on that side?? what am i doing WRONG??
Unique tumblr experience is that if you’re here long enough you will inevitably be accused of making a Homestuck reference.
You give your OC a birthday and someone in the tags will be like “#I see you OP #July 12th? Same day as David Karpet’s first time loop death #I see what you did”
You reference blueberry pie in a post and it turns out that’s Vegeta Nupita’s username you spell a word funny and happen to nail Rose Landslide’s typing quirk you make some post that YOU think is incomprehensible like “don’t listen to them bro your muscles are huge and your hamster is GNC as fuck” and someone in the tags will be like “#OP you’re not slick #Homestuck” bro the HAMSTER?????
One time in 2015 I wrote a fanfiction and I needed a random date for the fic to happen on and by luck of the cards I chose 4/13 and I Janskjsjenbd doohhwhyhwsddfffff
The real meta is the half-dozen people in the notes accusing me of being a Homestuck purely on account of having made this post.
I can’t even add to the joke I can’t even add anything this is just 100% nail-on-the-head what I was parodying in the original post just turns out I need to try HARDER with the parody part because I accidentally perfectly distilled reality.
English speakers: did you know that when you learn English, you get a FREE bonus language? Due to mutual intelligibility (when two languages are closely related enough that you can understand one if you know the other), if you are fluent in English, you can read literature in Scots. Because of the colonization and disenfranchisement of the Scottish people, it isn’t very popular to write in Scots and authors get told nobody will read their books, so I HIGHLY suggest you do. Support colonized people writing in their own language! Support Scots!
Suggested Scots lit:
Trainspotting (cult classic about the life and times of heroin addicts, mostly known for the movie adaptation, but it was a book first. Probably the easiest to read on the list for people who know English but don’t know Scots.)
Be Guid Tae Yer Mammy (a darkly comic family drama, involves interesting topics like invisible disability, is in fact very funny)
But'n'Ben A Go-Go (Scots cyberpunk! Suggest you start with one of the other books above and get used to Scots before tackling this one though. This is written in “What if Scots, but it’s the future so it evolved some?” so reading it is definitely hard mode. But if you’re up for the challenge, it’s some solid SF.)
These are just three. Please add on with other books in Scots if you have any recommendations.
Lastly: Here is an online Scots-English dictionary to help you out, should you need it. Happy reading!
if you want to try hearing scots instead of reading, a good place to start would be with comedy - shows like Scot Squad, Burnistoun, Gary Tank Commander all use scots language in the same way as it’s used by people, which can be a nice break from purely reading, as well as a good laugh. all three shows mentioned have clips on youtube
moleskine makes people hate pens and is probably a huge part of why so many people give up on good pens.
to folks who might not know, moleskine is extremely famous AND infamous. they are hardcover notebooks with elastic enclosures. they are expensive, and sold everywhere from pharmacies to bookstores, and does collaborations with a variety of brands including james bond and pokemon. moleskine has tried to establish itself as a luxury notebook, which it technically is.
as long as you do not write in it.
moleskine paper is wholeheartedly shit. it is complete fucking garbage. you might wonder, what makes good paper? well the first thing is how well it can be written on. good paper can handle ink well. good ink handling means clear, solid lines without any feathering (fuzzy spreading), not bleeding through the page, and not ghosting. basically, you want paper that can do crisp lines with a variety of different inks and be used on both sides.
moleskine does not do that. anything more than a ballpoint or pencil will look fuzzy and gross and bleed right through the fucking page. the paper is shit. and that makes people think their pen is shit. and ballpoint pens can be seen on the other side of the page.
common knowledge is that fountain pens, rollerball pens, gel pens, felt pens, and more work better on good paper. good meaning good with ink. but when many people think good paper without knowing any better, they will reach for a moleskine notebook. because moleskine is expensive and advertises itself as good and is widely available. so people try out actually good writing implements on this shit paper, see how bad it works, and then blame the pen.
fountain pens, gel pens, and rollerball require much less pressure than ballpoint pens. they are ergonomic. easier on joints, easier for chronic pain. and moleskine makes people give up on them. nobody wants shitty bleeding feathered lines.
in the united states, our ideas of good paper and good stationery in general are extremely warped. so much of this is because paper here fucking sucks. a lot of paper performs like moleskine. there is shit paper at all price ranges. but you can pick up caliber brand paper (the ones that say made in vietnam) from cvs and have infinitely better performance for pennies. even though it looks low quality, caliber paper (vietnam) can even handle calligraphy ink clearly. bad paper makes people hate good pens and bad pens make people hate writing.
another thing really important to mention, a lot of people think thick paper is always better. this is extremely wrong. in terms of being able to handle a wide variety of inks clearly and cleanly, some of the best paper in the world is tissue thin (tomoe river).
do not buy moleskine. even if the stand is right there. they have some of the worst paper you can get at that price point. expensive paper is not always good paper, good pens need good paper, moleskine paper makes good pens seem awful, and moleskine is something you should only give to someone you loathe.
There are so many great options:
- Leuchtturm;
- Rhodia;
- Clairefontaine;
Notebooks made by pen manufacturers.
Seriously, there are so many options, just ask other pen buffs.
Also, if you have to use shitty paper (besides Moleskine, bc Moleskine sucks), then mind nib size and ink.
I could correct copies with a M nib TWSBI Eco with Iroshizuku ink and no bleedthrough. (On moleskine, though… yes.)
I feel like book piracy has become so normalized now and its honestly so ugly and disappointing. Like I totally understand that some people in other countries have straight up no library access but for people in the US/UK?? saying that pubs are their 'free trial' without even trying to use a library??? I truly think younger readers using them don't realize how badly it could fuck an author over
i think book piracy comes down to people not understanding the differences between the film industry and the book industry. i don’t fully understand the film industry bc it’s not my focus, but i do know that pirating movies or shows is not going to directly impact the actors and/or the little people behind the movie or show. (if someone wants to elaborate on how, please do! i’m not really sure.)
however, pirating books is going to directly impact authors, not publishers or CEOs or any other bigwigs. an author is paid thus: they sign a contract for a certain amount of money, say, $100,000 for a two-book deal. that means that each book will be (technically) worth $50,000. depending on the contract, a check will be written for $25,000 upon the author turning in the version of the manuscript that the editor bought. that check will go to the author’s agent, who will take their 15% commission, which will be $3,750. then, the agent will send the remaining $21,250 to the author, minus taxes. with that same scenario, a check with the remaining $25,000 will be written upon the author turning in the final copy of the manuscript, aka the version that will go to the printer, and the process repeats (the check is sent to the agent, the agent takes their 15%, the author gets the remaining $21,250, minus taxes).
that’s not where this story ends, though: in every contract is a thorough section detailing royalties, aka how much the author will receive per sale of a copy of their book in the book’s entire lifespan. if an agent is good, this will be one of their most important areas they focus on during negotiations. it’s imperative that people know that royalties can make or break an author’s career. it’s better to have larger royalties than a larger advance, bc an advance is only once, whereas royalties will continue as long as the book continues to sell (hardcover, paperback, audiobook, ebook, etc). the higher the author’s advance, the more pressure there is for the author to break even, aka for the author to make back the $50,000 spent on that first book. in a worst case scenario, if an author doesn’t earn back their advance (a big turn of phrase in publishing), they could have book 2 canceled, or they could possibly never be able to sell another book to a publisher again due to a poor sales record. in that case, it’s likely the author will have to re-debut under a pen name so the publisher backing them can treat them like a debut author. or, you’ll see an author’s first printings tank between book 1 and 2 or book 2 and 3 etc etc. for instance, Enchantee by Gita Trelease had a first hardcover printing of 175,000 copies (which is big for a debut!), while book 2 of that series, Everything That Burns, has a first hardcover printing of 75,000 copies. now, i can’t see the sales numbers, but it seems likely a lack of sales is the culprit here.
so when people say that pirating books will directly influence whether or not your favorite author gets to publish more books, they really mean it. it won’t affect the publisher (who has massive protections in place) nearly as much as it will affect the author (who doesn’t have those same protections), and it could mean that your favorite author never gets to finish that series you love or can never publish another book again. in conclusion, don’t pirate books, kids.
ash shares his social media account with pikachu. mostly its posts from ash about his pokemon but occasionally pikachu will make his own posts. these consist of extremely blurry pictures of ash from low angles with descriptions of absolute gibberish like “djdhdhdjd sjsjajsj ekwowiwysh sjsd soup x skdjsks s jsjssj”
pikachu’s posts get more likes than ash’s every time without fail
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