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ujtumblinev

My sister’s roommate is an architect. Check out their suspended tree.

10knotes

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#christmas #christmas tree #ornaments #this is cool

omigodyall

#wine #christmas #christmas tree

ri-science

LEVITATING PUMPKINS!

“And the cursed pumpkin rose up from the earth, carried to the sky by the spirits of All Hallows’ Eve.” Or in other words, Andy put a superconductor in a pumpkin and levitated it on a magnetic track.

Watch the full video here!

did-you-know

I know, Halloween is done. But Ri Science did some pretty amazing things with pumpkins that I thought you needed to see. If the levitation wasn’t enough, here’s some more:

Exploring Pumpkins and Thermite

In the top pumpkin, the reaction between iron oxide (rust) and aluminium powder, set off by a strip of magnesium to provide enough heat, produces iron and aluminium oxide.

The reaction is incredibly exothermic, occurring at about 2000 degrees Celsius. At this temperature, the iron melts and is spewed out in a rain of fire, and flows out as a river of molten metal into the poor head below. This is more than enough to set off the gun cotton in the second pumpkin, which bursts into a healthy fireball.

Guncotton in a Pumpkin…

and the decomposition of hydrogen peroxide catalysed by potassium iodide.

maeamian

@editorincreeps

mslorelei

Science for Halloween. I love this in so many ways.

#pumpkin #science #halloween

pickleston

#rugrats #gif #gif set #feminism #self-esteem

theunitofcaring

A lot of the advice I got about learning to enforce my boundaries was framed as an adversarial thing. Like, ‘yes, it might upset and disappoint the people around you, but you have to learn to tell them ‘no’ anyway.’ At best, ‘good people will still like you if you enforce your boundaries’.

What I wish I’d been told is that good people will think it’s awesome that you enforce your boundaries, that there are people who will respect the hell out of you for it, that there are people who will admire you not despite you telling them no, but because of it. That most people don’t want to make you do something you don’t enjoy,and so they’ll actively be happier and more relaxed around you if they know they can trust you to decline to do things you don’t enjoy and to ask them to stop things that bother you.

It helped me a lot, personally, to stop thinking of ‘enforcing my boundaries’ as something I did for me and more as something I did to empower the people I was close with, to build a situation where they and I felt sure everything that was going on was something we all wanted.

Most advice isn’t good for everyone and this advice seems maybe bad for people in abusive situations, because sometimes you do need to learn to enforce boundaries against people who will try to violate them. But if there are other brains like me out there: your partner will be really happy you can say no to them. your friend will be really happy you change the subject when you hate it. your roommate will really appreciate that you tell them to turn down the music. most people will feel safer and more comfortable around you if they know you’ll reliably express your needs, AND they’ll feel better about voicing theirs.

tumbleaboutit

Tru fax.

I had a friend tell me that they really admired me for going “hey, I love you guys, but I need to go sit in a room by myself and read for an hour”. So yes, don’t be afraid of setting your boundaries!

actuallyclintbarton

And for people like me, who are very very VERY bad with things like unspoken clues to the fact that someone wants me to do/not do something or whatever? It is such a relief not to have to be constantly worried that I’ll do something that will make them not want to hang out with me anymore.

I’ve lost friends because they never tried to enforce their boundaries and as a result I had no idea I was trampling right over them until they got to a point where they couldn’t handle it anymore, and it is an AWFUL SHITTY FEELING knowing you’ve done that to someone.

Please please please enforce your boundaries with me. I promise I will love you for it.

tradedsymmetry

Also I think it’s important to ask people about their boundaries. Make sure they know that you’re stoked to accommodate.

#life #boundaries

chapmangamo

archiemcphee

Game of Thrones is back and James Chapman is here to illustrate how the autocorrect on his phone is having fun with the names of characters from the show. Hooray for Hodor!

chapmangamo

A collection of alternate Game of Thrones names that my phone has decided to invent, taken from my twitter account today.

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#I dont watch GoT but this is great lol #Hooray!#game of thrones #GoT #comics #pop culture #illustration #comic

onlytwitterpics

#praise #alexa #abuse

antsmakelifeharder

#pokemon #judgemental #lapras #seel #shellder

maybelline

Jourdann Dunn’s look at La Perla’s A/W 2017 show is Valentine’s Day makeup goals.

#valentino #makeup #beautiful #model #jourdann dunn

crippleperks

Good disability politics

Is not: “what happened?” “Why are you in a wheelchair?” *opens door you were opening yourself* *grabs your bag from you to carry it*

Is: *giving you a canned drink at no extra charge as it’s easier to carry than a cup* *asking “do you need help” before barging in* *intervening when witnessing ableism* *making your work install a ramp* *moving out of the goddamned way while holding a door open*

urbancripple

YES. THIS! FOR FUCK’S SAKE THIS!

#disability #ableism

dimetrodone

Sea otters and giant river otters are like if someone got two artists to design a giant otter, but ended up with two very different ideas on what they should look like cause one draws hello kitty fanart and the other was a nihilist.