Life's a bitch and so am I

Julia. 26. She/her pronouns. Canadian. Pansexual. Virgo. INFP. Horse lover. Cat enthusiast. Jewish. Sort of grown up, I suppose.

[yeris]

LEGALLY BLONDE (2001) dir. robert luketic

[youreonyourownkid]

so called free thinkers when h-o-t t-o g-o you can take me hot to go

[youreonyourownkid]

amazing work thank you

[ethanhunt-deactivated20230911]

“I love you! From the moment I saw you trying to go over the wall… I have loved you desperately. I cannot breathe when you are not near. I love you, Charlotte. My heart calls your name. I wanted to tell you. I wanted you to know. This madness has been my secret my entire life. This darkness is my burden. You bring the light.” Queen Charlotte & King George III in Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story (2023)

[sabrinaacarpenters]

#queen charlotte is a comedy (sometimes)

QUEEN CHARLOTTE: A BRIDGERTON STORY (2023)

[ethanhunt-deactivated20230911]

“I was born prematurely and everyone thought I was going to die, but I did not. I am a fair fencer, an ever better shot. My favorite food is mutton. I will not eat fish, it is horrible. I like books and art and good conversation. Most of all, I like science. Chemistry, physics, and botany, especially astronomy. The stars in the heavens. I’m quite the farmer. Probably would be a farmer if I were not… already occupied. I have a scar here from falling off my horse. A scar here from just being incredibly clumsy with a paring knife. And I’m very nervous… about marrying a girl I’m only just meeting minutes before our wedding. But I cannot show it and climb over a wall because… I am the King of Great Britain and Ireland, and that would cause a scandal. But I promise you, I’m neither a troll nor a beast. Just George.” Corey Mylchreest as King George III in Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story (2023)

[ceremonial]

Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story 1.02 ‘Honeymoon Bliss’

[ethanhunt-deactivated20230911]

“When I was an infant, my colic was never just colic. My colic was a disaster. An ill omen. The potential ruin of England. When I was a boy, refusal to eat my peas was the potential ruin of England. An incorrect sum at mathematics, the potential ruin of England. I have lived my entire life in terror of acting incorrectly because every incorrect action threatened the ruin of England. That terror nearly broke me. I found places to hide. My farms, my observatory. My madness. I thought that terror was the price of being royal. Now, I have met a woman who is never terrified. Who does as she pleases. Breaks rules, courts scandal. Commits unthinkable impertinences. And she is the most royal person I have ever known.” Corey Mylchreest as King George III in Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story (2023)

[scramratz]

Did you know it’s legal in the USA for mattress companies to put fiberglass in their mattresses? They don’t even have to label them! So if you wanna commission me so I can buy a new bed I won’t stop you

[dancing-salamanders]

Hey I had this happen!! I felt my elbows getting pricked with sharp and itchy, turned a flashlight on, and my entire bed was sparkling. Those "foam mattresses in a box" are all full of fuckin fiberglass and contained with a shitty mattress cover that breaks down over time. I had to put my mattress in a vinyl mattress cover, then put a padded mattress cover on top of that, and then my sheets. I'm so sorry OP. You don't really know until it happens that lotta mattresses are cheaply made and FULL of that shit.

[ashenprincx]

If this happens to you, you should immediately be putting on some kind of face covering like an n95 or respirator (or striping off your contaminated clothes and washing your skin with warm soapy water if you came into contact with it, then putting on clean clothes that fully cover you along with a mask and eye cover)! fiberglass is very easily made airborne and very damaging to your lungs, nose, throat, and eyes because they are micro shards of glass.

To begin clean up, you will need air filters (p100) as well as a filtered vacuum, as well as a way to cover/contain your mattress so it doesn't keep spreading. it also will not really come out of clothes or fabric by just being washed, and there's a good chance you will have to throw anything covered in it away. you will want bags to bag up the contaminated materials either way, so they don't keep spreading fiberglass as you run your air filters and vacuum. There are professional services who clean up fiberglass, but those are often very expensive.

more info here on how to deal with a mattress leaking fiberglass

if you are going to try and keep the mattress (NOT recommended but mattresses are expensive as fuck), you will need something thick and durable to completely seal it all the way around, otherwise it will keep leaking fiberglass into your living space, and endanger your health, as well as the health of any pets or housemates.

and if you are mattress shopping- LOOK UP THE BRAND AND FIND OUT IF IT HAS FIBERGLASS BEFORE BUYING. an absolutely insane number of mattresses have it, and you have to specifically dig to find the answer most of the time. if you can't find a definitive answer, assume it's not safe.

if you're wondering why so many mattresses have fiberglass- it's because (at least in the US) mattresses are required to have some level of fire protection, and many mattress sellers (especially cheaper box mattresses) achieve this by just putting a layer of fiberglass in it, since the material is both fire retardant and cheap.

[micro-usb-deactivated20230625]

[opalescent-potato]

[german-enthusiast]

In my L1-acquisition class two weeks ago, our professor talked about how only 9% of the speech a baby hears is single words. Everything else is phrases and sentences, onslaughts of words and meaning!

Thus, a baby not only has to learn words and their meanings but also learn to segment lots of sounds INTO words. Doyouwantalittlemoresoupyesyoudoyoucutie. Damn.

When she talked about HOW babies learn to segment words our professor said, and I love it, "babies are little statisticians" because when listening to all the sounds, they start understanding what sound is likely to come after another vs which is not.

After discussing lots of experiments done with babies, our professor added something that I already knew somewhere in my brain but didn't know I know: All this knowledge is helpful when learning an L2 as well:

Listen to natives speaking their language. Original speed. Whatever speaker. Whatever topic.

It is NOT about understanding meaning. It is about learning the rhythm of the language, getting a feeling for its sound, the combination of sounds, the melody and the pronunciation.

Just how babies have to learn to identify single words within waves of sounds, so do adults learning a language. It will help immensely with later (more intentional) listening because you're already used to the sound, can already get into the groove of the languge.

Be as brave as a baby.

You don't even have to pay special attention. Just bathe in the sound of your target language. You'll soak it up without even noticing.

[clockworkcrow]

thinking about harvey stardew valley and being a rural country doctor with a caseload like:

guy who won’t accept any diagnosis except “you have consumption and need to go to the seaside for your health”

woman who asks what gemstone he would prescribe for her UTI

guy who spends half the day trying to give himself a concussion and the other half trying to blow out his hearing on his guitar

two people who have struggled with alcoholism for years but reject all of his resources for it UNTIL someone gifts them alcohol biweekly for a year straight and suddenly their lives turn around

guy who will not stop mailing people bombs but in a friendly way and like this just isn’t on the PTSD screener??

guy who won’t stop asking him vague but increasingly bizarre questions about the safety of truffle oil

woman who EATS ROCKS

and also there’s a fucking wizard. what’s up with that. how often do you think the man goes “why did i get an MD why didn’t i just train to be a wizard i didn’t even know that was an option” while performing emergency surgery on this one farmer who won’t stop picking fights with ACTUAL MONSTERS

[kineticpenguin]

[oleathe]

Acab because the people that made this meme thinks the cops should just kill someone like this

[cornpopwasframed]

Cops having a chuckle because they’re too cowardly to take a beating in order to save a life. All cops are cowards.

[imaredshirt]

Have you ever met somebody (unrelated to you/not a family member) with the same first name as you? Add embellishments to the tags (yes but spelled slightly different, no but I know a friend of a friend, yes and im named after them, etc)

Yes

No

My answer is neither yes nor no, fool

Voting ended onAug 24, 2024

[kindahoping4forever]

AshtonIrwin: Breakup. Right now. You should be with me now.

[shentheauthor]

I support Sidon x yona

I support Sidon x link with wingman yona

I support Sidon x link x yona

I do NOT support people hating yona just bc she “got in the way” of sidlink. She is a sweetie pie, leave her alone

[sidlink-filth]

If not boyfriends then why are they on a date at the heart-shaped pond

[lonlonranching]

historians will call them “best friends”