questions for plants

are you sweet fern?

[ethanmaldridge]

"The America I loved still exists, if not in the White House or the Supreme Court or the Senate or the House of Representatives or the media. The America I love still exists at the front desks of our public libraries."

-Kurt Vonnegut, A Man Without a Country

[hatikvah-shalom]

I think one of the saddest parts of the last few years is how much respect I’ve lost for librarians. The only way you promote authors like Khalidi, Masalha, Pappé, and Kern, is if you either don’t know anything or are genuinely trying to mislead people. There are excellent books at these same libraries that predate the political orthodoxy of 2023, but I’ve never seen a single one of them showcased, recommended, or read in book clubs. Every book club I was a part of chose to read the books that engaged in Holocaust denial, Temple denial, Khazar theory, the Protocols, and all manner of historical revisionism and conspiracy. I’m not upset that the library has these books; I would never have read them otherwise. I am upset that they’ve selected the narrative of these books as the only one worthy of conversation, and I’m disappointed by their dishonesty.

[republicansaredomesticterrorists]

[truth-has-a-liberal-bias]

According to the charges filed in April, the Uintah County clerk-auditor flagged as many as 165 of the 305 signatures the man turned in as potentially fraudulent.

[x]

[subliminamilly]

First time dad Fëanor interpreting infant Maedhros’s inarticulate utterances with great certainty:

Maedhros: nnnng AHHHH g g g

Fëanor, plucking him from his cradle: SO! You want your blanket refolded into a triangle and not a square. Admirable aesthetic judgement. It shall be done.

(With his other arm he refolds it with unnecessary geometric precision)

(Maedhros grabs for Fëanor’s circlet while drooling on his collar)

Fëanor: Ah! An eye for keen workmanship over fine raiment.

Maedhros: bBbbbBb (wriggling and kicking)

Fëanor: you desire to be borne aloft that you may inspect the proportions of the room by every angle!

(He grasps him under the arms and banks around the room a few times like a great eagle)

(Maedhros shrieks in delight)

Fëanor: as I perceived. You and I understand each other, my son.

[snailkites]

imagine you're a chat and you ditch your chat spouse to go to the chat nightclub to have a hot chat date and you see your chat spouse there who is also ditching you. wyd

(from the Yellow-breasted Chat account in Birds of the World)

[gemsoflasgalen]

caranthir poses for fëanorian picture day. maedhros told him if he doesn’t, he will impose taxes on thargelion. he is not happy about it.

oh, and, gold jewelry is tacky, maglor.

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[noldclante]

MAGLOR, second son of Fëanor.

loving brother, highborn Noldor, tragic artist forced into bloodshed, KINSLAYER.

[gingerswagfreckles]

Lefties really treat the words "white" and "colonizer" as get out of jail free cards for excusing rape and hate crimes and being pro racial segregation and a lot of other shit that would have 1920s KKK members crying with joy.

[hiddurmitzvah]

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[ryan-sometimes]

One of my favorite things about having a degree in biochemistry is going undercover at a store like Sephora. I can read the composition of the cosmetics and actually understand them. There’s no words to describe how great it feels. It’s like being in on an inside joke or secret

[ryan-sometimes]

The main thing I observe is that a lot of employees recommend makeup that is chemically incompatible. For example, if you ask them to recommend you a foundation and concealer, a lot of times they’ll pick two products that are chemically immiscible, so they’ll NEVER blend together successfully.

Generally foundation/concealer is either water or silicone based. There are upsides to each based on your needs. However, water and silicone are immiscible, and so if your foundation is water based but your concealer is silicone based, you will never get a good blend between these products. You’ll have to go back to switch to something that works.

[ryan-sometimes]

If you want to test for this in-store, mix the two on the back of your hand. If they form a uniform mixture, they’re miscible. If they separate, they’re chemically incompatible, and should not be used together. You can do this for any number of skin products. Primers, moisturizers, foundations, concealers, contour sticks, etc etc. Anything that comes in liquid or paste form.

You don’t need to understand all the chemicals on the label to run this experiment!

[nobrain-nothoughts]

As someone in pharmaceutical sciences I also experience similar things, so a hint from me: collagen is useless. In a cream it will not penetrate the skin, so doesn't do anything. As a food supplement, lemme tell you a secret: collagen is a protein. And when you eat protein, your stomach thinks its food and chops it up, so it can be used to make your own protein. Collagen is just expensive protein powder, and doesn't do anything meat or a veggie substitute does.

[oakandgumtrees]

Every so often I’ll see posts from people trying to work out whether they ‘count’ as something - usually some type of LGBTQIA, sometimes neurodiverse, sometimes disabled

And as they talk about it, it’ll become clear that they’re thinking about that label because there’s something in their life that’s uncomfortable, and they can see people with that label NOT doing that thing, and they’re wondering if they have a right to also not do it.

So this is me, giving you permission. Label or not, YOU ARE ALLOWED to:

Stop dating people (of a particular gender or in general)

Start dating people (of a particular gender or in general)

Have less (or no) sex

Have more sex (or with more people)

Get married

Not get married

Plan to never get married

Have a friend more important than people you date or have sex with

Wear skirts

Not wear skirts

Wear make-up

Not wear make-up

Cut your hair

Grow your hair

Try new pronouns

Wear a binder

Use a cane

Use fidget toys

Use noise-cancelling headphones

Take painkillers (or other over-the-counter medication)

Ask for help

Not eat that food

Ask for food alternatives

Not drink alcohol

Avoid that location with the crowds and the noise

You are allowed.

You are allowed to do these things some of the time, or all of the time, or only once.

If they make you feel better in yourself, maybe someday you’ll decide to take on the label that applies to many people who do them. But you don’t NEED a label.

You are allowed.

[shamebats]

The OP uses he/him pronouns.

[only-tiktoks]

[kawree]

Y'all for real please do these. Even if you're certain your posture doesn't suck. One day you will wake up with impinged shoulder pain like I did and let me tell you it fucking HURTS. Do these exercises even just once a week and it will make such a difference. Especially my fellow creatives out there, stop shrimping over your work and go do these right now. RIGHT NOW.

[symptomesper]

Also, if you’re even a little concerned about getting a hump or having trouble standing fully upright in your old age, this is how you prevent that. If you want to be up and about when you’re old you have to start when you’re younger. And keep in mind there is no bad time to start and it’s never too late. Starting today is way better than never starting at all.

[tanoraqui]

William “I have destroyed my honor in betraying England; I may as well drag what remains of it through the muddy blood of near-innocents in its name” Laurence oh god someone hug him and stop him I can’t stand this

[tanoraqui]

Ironically, this is helping the local people, the common people of the country, appreciate dragons as possibly nothing else could have, because here they are, helping materially when the wholeaemy is biding it’s time in Scotland. Here they are, landing close and talking like people, the little ones flying courier her and thereand everywhere without a human captain in sight. The townspeople go hungry to give them food. These dragons are heroes.

It’s just clawing Laurence’s insides out day by day.

[tanoraqui]

basically, thank god for Tenzing “you and I both know that I deliberately offend and disappoint people so they judge me harshly openly and for valid reasons rather than quietly for racist ones, so despite what I say my objection to these actions are wholly personal, moral ones; I think I’ll follow you to Australia so you don’t try this slow suicide of the soul bullshit again” Tharkay

[holespoles]

Black cat & Irises by Elizabeth Blackadder (1931-2021)

[robertreich]

Just an evergreen reminder...

[lessmouse]

day 6 / ???

[bakurapika]

this is really interesting in how it frames disability/low spoons/etc as not being a series of internal symptoms, but specifically a situation in which daily tasks increase in complexity. for example i used to be able to wash the dishes normally. but now mental and physical issues combine to make that situation have a lot of prequalifications (do I have time, energy, how long can I do it without being sore the next day) that means many more steps are involved in getting that single physical act of washing a dish to be done.

[rockshitty]

I’m trying to remember the quote. “On a good day, doing laundry is three steps. On a bad day, the first step is getting out of bed.”