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Self-Reblog Saturday

I know it can sometimes feel awkward to reblog your own works, but if you’ve spent time making something- a vid, a fic, picspam, meta, rec list, graphics, art, anything- boost it!

If you made it, share it! Doesn’t matter if it’s something you made years ago or just last week, give it another moment in the spotlight and revel in your own creativity.

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Does sawdust have a distinctly different smell from the wood it came from?

Yes

No

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Help me settle an argument with my brother please

waltzingbi

i already know there wont be anywhere near enough options but

what is your favourite tree🌲🌴🌳🪾

pine

oak

maple

redwood

palm

cherry blossom

willow

olive

birch

sycamore

cypress

other/not listed/say in tags

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bliss-bliss-bliss-bliss

I'm talkin bout THIS ANCIENT AND MIGHTIE BEAFT:

GINKGO!

GINKGO

GINK LET'S GOOO

Here are some fun facts about ginkgo biloba:

The species is over 270 million years old. So old that it predates dinosaurs. It even survived the mass extinction event called the Great Dying that ended the Permian era

It shares the title of Living Fossil with the noble coelocanth

Originally from China - well, the part of Pangea that would eventually become China - it can live in 90% of the habitats on Earth, making it a super-survivor species like tardigrades

To my knowledge, they are the only tree species to survive being within the blast radius of a nuclear bomb

Individual trees can live for 2 to 3,000 years, that we know of

It hasn't just outlasted every other species in its original ecosystem, it's also outlasted every other member of its genus. Ginkgo biloba is the last man standing

Or, depending on the individual tree, the last woman standing! They're dioecious! Which means they fuck. They fuck using wind

Ginkgo trees don't change sex, but if they're isolated enough, they can grow just a couple of branches of the opposite sex. I don't know of any other organism that can do this

Female plants don't produce flowers, because they're much older than the invention of flowers; they produce ovules that turn into seeds. The odor can be kindly described as "pungent", and unkindly described as "like if you could make cheese out of dog poop, and then that cheese went rancid, and then a buffalo ate that rancid dog poop cheese and then farted itself to death"

The nuts are edible, and tasty and small quantities, but the fruits contain the same chemical as poison ivy and even just brushing up against them will mess your ass up REAL good.

This, plus its ability to laugh off everything from pollutants to pests to climate change to nuclear explosion, plus the aforementioned "dog poop cheese farts from a buffalo" smell, coupled with the "check it out y'all I can make just one limb trans" trick, helps explain why it keeps dodging extinction.

And here are some boring facts about ginkgo biloba:

People have made every possible kind of medicine out of literally every part of this plant, and its healing properties have been credited with curing literally absolutely anything that has ever plagued any human being ever. Some of which might actually be true

macgyvermedical

When Drugs Became Available

Have you ever been writing some historical fiction and wondered "hey, I wonder if my characters would have been able to pop an ibuprofen in 1977?" Well, you're in luck, because this post is all about when common medications became available:

Acetaminophen: 1950

Albuterol: 1969 (UK) 1982 (US)

Allopurinol: 1966

Alprazolam: 1981

Amitriptyline: 1961

Amlodipine: 1990

Amoxicilin: 1972

Amphetamine/Dextroamphetamine (together as Adderall): 1996

Apixiban: 2012

Aripiprazole: 2002

Aspirin (first NSAID): 1899

Azidothymidine (first antiviral): 1987

Barbital (first barbiturate): 1903

Bupropion: 1985

Buspirone: 1986

Calcium Carbonate (TUMS): 1930

Captopril (first ACE inhibitor): 1981

Chlordiazepoxide (first benzodiazepine): 1960

Chlorothiazide (first thiazide diuretic): 1957

Chlorpromazine (first antipsychotic): 1952

Cyclobenzeprine: 1977

Diphenhydramine: 1946

Furosemide: 1959

Fluoxetine (first SSRI): 1988

Gabapentin: 1993

Glipizide: 1984

Hydrochlorothiazide: 1959

Ibuprofen: 1969 (UK) 1974 (US)

Insulin: 1923 (though many types of insulins would become available over the next century)

Imipramine (first tricyclic antidepressant): 1959

Iproniazid (first antidepressant (MAOI)): 1952

Levothyroxine: 1927 (though desiccated pork thyroid was used for the same reasons as early as 1890)

Lisinopril: 1987

Lithium: 1949

Losartan (first ARB): 1995

Lovastatin (first statin): 1987

Naproxen: 1976 (Rx) 1990 (OTC)

Nitrogen Mustard (first chemotherapy agent): early 1940's

Methotrexate: 1947

Methylphenidate: 1954

Metformin: 1957 (France) 1995 (US)

Metoprolol: 1978

Montelukast: 1998

Morphine: early 1800's

Omeprazole: 1989

Penicillin: 1945

Phenbezamine (first antihistamine): 1942

Prednisone: 1955

Propranolol (first beta blocker): 1965 (UK) 1967 (US)

Sertraline: 1990

Spironolactone: 1959

Sulfanilamide (first modern antibiotic): 1935

Tolbutamide (first oral anti-diabetic drug): 1956

Tramadol: 1977 (Germany) 1995 (US)

Trazodone: 1981

Valacyclovir: 1995

Verapamil (first calcium channel blocker): 1964

Warfarin: 1954

Zopiclone (first "Z-drug"): 1986

macgyvermedical

Someone asked for this list in date order, so here it is!

Morphine: early 1800's

Aspirin (first NSAID): 1899

Barbital (first barbiturate): 1903

Insulin: 1923 (though many types of insulins would become available over the next century)

Levothyroxine: 1927 (though desiccated pork thyroid was used for the same reasons as early as 1890)

Calcium Carbonate (TUMS): 1930

Sulfanilamide (first modern antibiotic): 1935

Nitrogen Mustard (first chemotherapy agent): early 1940's

Phenbezamine (first antihistamine): 1942

Penicillin: 1945

Diphenhydramine: 1946

Methotrexate: 1947

Lithium: 1949

Acetaminophen: 1950

Chlorpromazine (first antipsychotic): 1952

Iproniazid (first antidepressant (MAOI)): 1952

Methylphenidate: 1954

Warfarin: 1954

Prednisone: 1955

Tolbutamide (first oral anti-diabetic drug): 1956

Chlorothiazide (first thiazide diuretic): 1957

Metformin: 1957 (France) 1995 (US)

Furosemide: 1959

Hydrochlorothiazide: 1959

Spironolactone: 1959

Imipramine (first tricyclic antidepressant): 1959

Chlordiazepoxide (first benzodiazepine): 1960

Amitriptyline: 1961

Verapamil (first calcium channel blocker): 1964

Propranolol (first beta blocker): 1965 (UK) 1967 (US)

Allopurinol: 1966

Albuterol: 1969 (UK) 1982 (US)

Ibuprofen: 1969 (UK) 1974 (US)

Amoxicilin: 1972

Naproxen: 1976 (Rx) 1990 (OTC)

Cyclobenzeprine: 1977

Tramadol: 1977 (Germany) 1995 (US)

Metoprolol: 1978

Captopril (first ACE inhibitor): 1981

Trazodone: 1981

Alprazolam: 1981

Glipizide: 1984

Bupropion: 1985

Buspirone: 1986

Zopiclone (first "Z-drug"): 1986

Lovastatin (first statin): 1987

Azidothymidine (first antiviral): 1987

Lisinopril: 1987

Fluoxetine (first SSRI): 1988

Omeprazole: 1989

Amlodipine: 1990

Sertraline: 1990

Gabapentin: 1993

Losartan (first ARB): 1995

Valacyclovir: 1995

Amphetamine/Dextroamphetamine (together as Adderall): 1996

Montelukast: 1998

Aripiprazole: 2002

Apixiban: 2012

#your post reminded me i needed to go take my levothyroxine thank you!#i knew it wasn't a new one but i didn't realise it was from the 20s

i-amusemyself

UK government just used the emergency alert system for the first time to warn us not to have any fires bc it hasnt rained in 2 months and the plants are so dry theyll ignite if you look at them wrong.

Meanwhile the same government is chill with us drilling for more oil and gas in the North Sea apparently.

Make it make sense.

#uk politics

mathematical-cheese

Genuinely radicalising that we literally had an emergency alert about the risk of wildfires and Westminster aren't having an emergency meeting about how to rapidly and sustainably reduce the UK's contributions to the climate crisis. Absolutely ridiculous that the best we got was this alert and a ban on disposable BBQs

#uk politics

birdsthatsingaftermidnight

Meanwhile, In UK Politics

Delightfully, Laurence Fox came 6th and lost his deposit, which is always nice to see. Nothing like starting your own day with the knowledge that a complete dickhead had a bad start to his. Shame we can't say the same about Farage.

Anyway, Binface got nearly a quarter of all total votes, which is nice. Here we see the BBC using their hyperlinks to really emphasise the bits you need to know - like the police telling the Beeb that no, they didn't tell Farage it was too dangerous for him to go to the vote count. Because Farage desperately, desperately, wants someone to try and kill him (but not actually kill him, of course!) and if he can't get that he'll take trying to convince us that someone wants to give it a whirl. Alas, milkshakes only, everyone.

Also, Clacton. Really? 22,239 votes?

But anyway -

It was revealed just the other day that he may well have been under the impression that he Parliamentary Standards Committee would not resume their investigation, which was he resigned to try and get out of in the first place. This is because he is apparently stupid and so are his advisors.

#uk politics

oneofthosecrazycatladies

Hey if you only get 63% in an election where most of your opponents are joke candidates…that doesn’t seem like an overwhelming victory to me

#uk politics

a-blessing-of-ravens

It's so refreshing to see our new prime minister treating the climate crisis with the urgency it requires

#uk politics

@writersmonth day 14: wise

(A silly little poem below the read more)

#writersmonth2026 #look i wrote a thing #attempting some poetry #*

evergreen-femme

had to share this

wizardshark

In every way this is set up to be a joke like any other short video, it even uses the trope of main character in a wig to represent their mom, but it isn't funny at all. It's just sweet and nice

homunculus-argument

I fully understand why describing a character of an unclear ethnic background as "ambiguously brown" is Not Good, but I started thinking about how the more you narrow it down, the funnier it gets to describe a character as "ambiguously" something.

"Ambiguously brown" - frankly that's just lazy, that could be anywhere. Just say "brown" if you really have to.

"Ambiguously African" - okay you have a vague guess of a continent

"Ambiguously Central Asian" - plausible to narrow down on sight if you're very familiar with people from around this region

"Ambiguously Baltic" - this mf is either Latvian or Lithuanian, and I am intrigued by the fact that your estimate is this precise but you still aren't confident enough in your assessment to guess which one

"Ambiguously Grevenan" - if you can tell greeks apart that closely, then frankly you're just flexing at this point

iteratedextras

writer: "he was ambiguously American"

reader: "so wait, was he white? black? hispanic? Samoan?"

writer: "in the low light and dense fog, it was impossible to make out, but he was definitely eating a burger."

bitchfitch

Ok, Have you in real life ever seen a bathroom that had its light switch Outside of the bathroom. Not like one of those fancy giant bathrooms where the toilet is in its own little room, but a normal sized bathroom where you could be in there doing your thing and someone Outside could just turn the light off on you?

This is so normal to me

Yeah but it's weird

Maybe? normal though.

Maybe? weird though.

No but I'm pro this being a thing

no and what the fuck why would that be a thing

Other

Button.

Voting ended onAug 14

In Real life. not in a videogame or movie because I've Only seen it in videogames and a friend has spotted it in a movie.

#yeah that's a very normal place for a light #or you can have a pull cord in the bathroom #but you aren't allowed a switch in the bathroom

caressthosecheekbones

nasa is using a 3D world graphic for the solar eclipse thingy today where germany is still devided in east and west adjfglkafdhgadfg. buddies, it's been almost 40 years.

chthonion

So I showed this to a physicist and they were like "Oh! Yes! It's a figure from Fred Espenak's very old paper where he did a bunch of eclipse graphics! I've been looking at these my entire internet life, basically, for every solar eclipse! They called him Mr. Eclipse. He just passed away recently 🥺"

Anyway apparently Mr. Eclipse made 5000 years' worth of solar eclipse graphics, which you can find the simpler versions of here

So now instead of laughing at NASA for their outdated graphics I'm emotional about Mr. Eclipse and his hard work