Derpetology

Uncurated odds and ends, occasionally 18+. No bigotry, TERFS, fascism, or any of that please!

[podcastwizard]

LIKES TO CHARGE REBLOGS TO CAST

[the-goddess-of-annoying]

you people aren't CASTING

[the-goddess-of-annoying]

NO

[daysleftofsecondterm]

[stares into the camera like I’m Jim from The Office] You know I wish people would stop coming onto my dash wishing for me and countless others to die because it would “be easier.”

[daysleftofsecondterm]

“No not you just your government!!” Then who would keep our hospitals open. Who would dole out social services. Who would enforce laws or fix things that get broken. Who would keep the various power grids operating.

“People would just do those things because they want to!” Maybe. I REALLY hope so. But I’m not ready to bet my life and countless other lives on it.

“Something ELSE could take over!” Unless you have a REALLY well-orchestrated plan, absolutely not. We are not creating a power vacuum in a country with nuclear weapons and seeing what rushes to fill it and just, hoping for the best.

“the americans are scaring me!” girlypop you think WE’RE not scared?

[daysleftofsecondterm]

[quantum-dragon]

[cherryhatter-deactivated2015072]

KICK THE CAN!

Let’s play the biggest game of kick the can on the internet.

To kick the can, reblog it. I wanna see how long this can go on for.

[lakemojave]

Until Salem is reinstated or remakes I figured I'd put up some links of his with his permission, spread these around to help support this ray of bunshine.

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[biologicalstepfather]

If you know who Emmett Till is please reblog.

I’m trying to prove a point to my dad.

[parliamentrook]

a stowaway

[desulto]

Potentially mature stowaways? On my jacket??? It’s more likely than you think

[jehovahhthickness]

Praying that $1500 randomly comes to you when you need it the most this year.

[jehovahhthickness]

Okay inflation is crazy.

We bumping up the price to $15,000 for 2026.

[formerlyluckymanticore]

Reblog if you will never. Ever. Use AI in your writing.

[sunflowers-and-scales]

“this character did not act in the most objectively logical way possible!” is not ! actually valid literary criticism

[sunflowers-and-scales]

i have trust that the media literacy enjoyers will find this one idk

[powerbottombrucespringsteen]

And the number one halloween costume amongst the youth of today is, for a record breaking 63 years in a row, Scout’s ham costume from To Kill A Mockingbird

[herssian]

"there is no way you're not using chatgpt for at least a few things here and there no matter your stance on it" what the FUCK are you talking about

[allykatsart]

[cranberry-branflakes]

BOOOO AI SUCKS

FUCK YOU AI

[coelii]

reblog to give your headache to elon musk instead

[kinkykinard]

[thebibliosphere]

2nd day of trying caffeine again and seeing how my heart does. Dear god I missed tea made with Scottish water.

[angrylittlesliceofpizza]

yay!

… wait what is special about scottish water

should we worry o_o

[thebibliosphere]

It's soft water vs hard water. The minerals in Scottish water (soft water) make it very good for making tea and coffee taste better.

The hard water I have in the US leaves a bitter aftertaste.

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

Sometimes I go to the city and sample the fancy teas in the tea shop made with nice filtered water and buy some and bring them home and make them with tap water and wonder "why do they taste gross now? They didn't taste gross before!"

And then I remember that I live on a limestone aquifer.

[rain-clouds-and-autumn-leaves]

Hard water is absolutely disgusting compared to soft water

[bewarethecircles]

although it’s probably indeed better for cooking and drinking and such, I find soft water very scary to shower with. Soft water makes a… film? slime? thing? reaction with the soap, and no matter how much I wash it feels like it won’t leave. Evil feeling. My beautiful home water that is 90% rocks would never do that to me

[jackironsides]

........ Very soft water absolutely does not do that, what the hell

[thebibliosphere]

I think, as some other people in the notes have pointed out, it's the difference between naturally soft water and softened water when you add a system into your house and it does adds salts or whatever to pull the minerals out.

And yeah , actually, while I have never experienced the above with naturally soft water, now that I think about it, showering at my inlaws where they have a system can make my hair feel a bit like there's a film on it.

Which I just assumed at the time meant their system needed changed, but now I’m comparing the sensation, it wasn’t the same weird brittle residue left over by hard water.

So I think that might be what people are complaining about.

[anotherdayforchaosfay]

I can confirm! I'm used to various ranges of hard water, the worst being in Bumfuck Nowhere, Oregon. You let a cup of water sit more than a minute and there will be stuff sinking and settling again the body. We lived outside that town for a few years, and up in the mountains we got our water from a private shared well. That water was silk and the town water was like a fishbowl. The well water gave made my showers soooo nice, and my eczema loved it. Everything i cooked and baked tasted better, and most especially tea.

I have also experienced installed soft water. It was weird how unclean I felt after showering. Everyone in the house (my parents and sisters) had the same opinion. Water tasted great, felt horrific. My oily hair never felt right. They had the thing adjusted so it would only impact the kitchen faucet. Immediate improvement. It's been over 20 years, and I can still remember how gross I felt. I was genuinely worried I would be dealing with this when we learned about the well. It was explained by our then-landlady that installed systems use chemicals or something to sorta pull the minerals from the water. It leaves something behind, though, which is what we feel. Naturally soft? Bliss.

The closest I'll get to soft water is my house is with one of those filtered water pitchers. We had one, and used it religiously when in Bumfuck Nowhere because the water was so terrible. Any water appliances, like a dishwasher, needed specialized cleaning due to mineral (namely calcium) buildup. That pitcher made it possible to cook without a funky aftertaste and tea tasted right.

[silurisanguine]

UK had a variation of soft/hard water. Welsh water is beautifully soft and makes excellent tea. (and as such Birmingham England, that gets the majority of it's water from the reservoirs in the Elan valley) Southern English water is hard as fuck, smells like chlorine at first and you HAVE to use filters to prevent it fucking up all your washing machines, dishwashers, kettles, showers, etc from limescale buildup. We have a mineral filter attached to our shower which i always know is running low when a film of lime appears when the shower dries and my hair does not get clean properly. That's not the filter, it's what's getting past the filter again.

[thebibliosphere]

Worst cup of tea in my life was in London because of the water. I had a friend who didn’t bother to use filters and the cup of tea she handed me had a chalky film floating on the top.

I remember opening the kettle and thinking I’d need a pickaxe to descale it.

[desulto]

I’ve lived in places with a decent variety of hard and soft waters in the pipes but right now my least favorite is the super-hard water that is caused by saltwater intrusion, which a family member has been dealing with. Basically the ocean is getting backed up into the well, making it so salty nobody can drink it. Even the houseplants. They had to come over to my place to fill water jugs all last winter when it started up.

[viaalterego]

[trishacollins]

Actually, my therapist has told me this is a healthy way of processing things. Because you can get the trauma out of your head And you can write the ending you wish it had. The trusted person rescue, the catharsis of getting to kill the one who hurt you.

It's good for your brain. It's healthier than bottling it up. Fiction is where we go for emotional release. That can be true with trauma too.

[erelierraceala]

so what you're saying is

character: NO

therapist: YES

[vmures]

Adding @dear-massacre's tags because they are so true:

#this is why it's important to remember that fictional characters are fake #they have no agency. they're made up #it hurts no one to make any character go through the horrors #it is healthy and cathartic

[yeahokayillreblogthat]

yeah okay ill reblog that

[cranberrybogmummy]

Yep I’m I’m doing that!

[loth-catgirl]

RB if you think CD drives in computers are not obsolete, but in fact still necessary, despite being artificially phased out