Fan of Star Wars and Astronomy

[mikkeneko]

PSA to fan creators who don't have a lot of regular contact with children: They are almost always bigger than you think. A 1-year-old baby may already be walking. A toddler is likely already hip-high. A 10-year-old may already be taller than at least one of their parents. A 14/15 year old may already have reached their adult height.

[amarguerite]

Via @watertightvines

[wildjuniperjones]

Here's the link. It was actually not immediately easy to find, so I thought this might help.

[anistarrose]

if you are a parent, or may become one, or you are otherwise likely to arrive in the situation of caring for a child while they eat, promise me this: if a child doesn't like a certain food or food group, you will ask them WHY. and specifically, you will pay attention to either confirming or ruling out "it makes my mouth itch" or "it makes my stomach hurt," both of which are medically important info that children may not provide unprompted. which i know because this PSA has been brought to you by "i spent my entire childhood and much of my early teens eating peas and lentils while wondering why everyone else liked the Violently Itchy Mouth Sensation so much, like were they a bunch of legume masochists or something, before i finally realized that Violently Itchy Mouth Sensation was in fact a sinister demon appearing only to me, and her true demonic name was: Legume Allergy"

[brainrockets]

Do not let your child suffer from spicy bananas!

[jedisixoftwelve]

Or Army of Angry Ants Orange Juice

[jedisixoftwelve]

I thought your profile was the transgender flag for a minute

I had to look at it without knowing what it was and I can see it.

For anyone curious it’s an almost two decade old artist’s interpretation of what Black Holes might look like based on collected data.

[margaretmcpoyle]

How many “followers” do you have?

0-30

30-100

100-300

300-500

500-1000

1000-3000

3000+

Voting ended onMay 24

[elbiotipo]

why bother caring about the environment when 1. It’s so obviously a lost cause and 2. There’s definitely going to be a nuclear war?

And what are you doing about it Anon? Learn about ecological restoration or get out of my way.

[elbiotipo]

If you read ecology books printed in the 70s and 80s, they were absolutely convinced that whales and tigers would not survive the century. There's a whole plot in Star Trek about how whales are extinct actually. Here in Argentina, we were sure that yaguaretés would have gone extinct. It was thought that rainforests would be forever lost, because there was no way that such complex ecosystems would be restored.

Now, you can go to Península Valdés and find that the whale population there is growing year after year, people can see them from their windows. In Iberá, where yaguaretés were extinct for over 70 years, there's now a population of 35 and growing, after being reintroduced just five years ago. As for rainforests?

We've becoming very, very good on restoring them. Natural environments, when given space and time to heal, can return to that they were. And after all, all natural enviroments are managed by human societies. It is up to us to implement a good management, un buen gobierno.

I firmly believe our children and grandchildren will see a restoration of Earth like never before.

Millions of people are working on this. You can learn about it, perhaps even become one of them. Or be a pointless doomer in my ask box. Your choice.

[elbiotipo]

[blackqueerblog]

[avellach-the-realmwalker]

Chik-fil-le sandwich

INGREDIENTS:

4 hamburger buns, split

1 head green leaf lettuce, leaves separated

1 beefsteak tomato, sliced

20 dill pickle slices

FOR THE CHICKEN

2 boneless, skinless chicken breasts

1 cup dill pickle juice

1 ½ cups milk, divided

1 cup peanut oil

1 large egg

½ cup all-purpose flour

1 tablespoon confectioners’ sugar

Kosher salt and freshly ground black pepper, to taste

DIRECTIONS:

Place a chicken breast on a cutting board. With your hand flat on top of it, carefully slice the chicken in half horizontally. Trim excess fat as needed.

In a large shallow baking dish, combine chicken, pickle juice and ½ cup milk; marinate for at least 30 minutes. Drain well.

Heat peanut oil in a large skillet over medium high heat.

In another large shallow baking dish, whisk together remaining 1 cup milk and egg. Stir in chicken to coat and drain excess milk mixture.

In a gallon size Ziploc bag or large bowl, combine chicken, flour and confectioners’ sugar; season with salt and pepper, to taste.

Working in batches, add chicken to the skillet and cook until evenly golden and crispy, about 4-5 minutes. Transfer to a paper towel-lined plate.

Serve chicken immediately on burger buns with green leaf lettuce, tomato and pickles.

[stardust-lightning]

Also if y’all are interested, I have the copycat recipes for the Frosted Lemonade and the Chicken Nuggets

https://www.tablespoon.com/recipes/copycat-chick-fil-a-nuggets/2b483ee0-a13e-4a3f-bf0b-9b26099c6e24

https://cincyshopper.com/copycat-chick-fil-a-frosted-lemonade/

[rvllybllply2014]

His sugar work is more impressive than his chocolate work at this point

[esmeralda-anistasia]

#sure just use lampwork techniques on sugar#you can do what you want forever

[justcuriouspolls]

Can you win against your pfp/icon in a fight (in the sense of asking which one is physically stronger)? Assume you both have the drive and the motivation to fight eachother, and both of you are unarmed (unless your pfp explicitly shows them with a weapon, or they physically cannot survive without their weapon).

I can easily win against them with no issues

I can win against them, but it wouldn’t exactly be instantaneous

I can most likely win against them, but I would be struggling

I can juuuust barely beat them in a fight

We tie

They will win against me, but it would be a very close match

They will win against me, but they would be struggling

They will win, but at least I would have survived the first few moments

They can easily win against me with zero issues

I can’t imagine my pfp in a fight*

Infinite many nuance

Show answers

Voting ended onApr 14

*Not being able to conceptualize the idea of what a fight against your pfp would even look like, e.g. if your pfp is just a solid blue circle with no inherent meaning behind it

Is this a regular fight or a fight to the death? I don’t know, but odds are it wouldn’t make much of a difference

[voyagers-stone]

btw if youre young and scared of doing adult things without your parents ive learned that like 90% of the time you can just tell the doctors office or the dmv "haha sorry ive never done this without help before... can you show me how to do this?" the employee will not care. if that means anything to you

[mercurialkitty]

The above is true.

Also, if you feel like you need information before you go, ask a public librarian first.

"haha sorry ive never *gone to the dmv before* *made a budget* *selected a primary care doctor* *planned meals* … can you tell me how to prepare for/research this?"

A good librarian will ask you more about what you need to do, and guide you through the websites or other resources with you try to understand it, print/email a copy for you, and also draw on personal experience as much as possible -- falling just short of giving you actual legal or medical advice.

Plus you are helping the library by using resources and adding to their stats.

[ao3org]

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[strangeandrandompolls]

Doing this poll again

You have been turned into this animal

How you feeling about that?

I love it!

I like it

Indifferent

I don't like it

I hate it!

Voting ended onFeb 26

[a-silly-poll-side-blog-yay]

you're a magical girl now, the last thing you ate is your magical girl name is it good?

yes

no

it's perfect

it's awful

it's funny, i love it

results

Voting ended onFeb 25

[a-silly-poll-side-blog-yay]

you have to explain the nearest item on your left side to a mediaeval peasant, can you do it?

yes

no

way too easy

way too hard

they call me a witch

results

Voting ended onFeb 17

[baronfulmen]

Oh man this is a perfect one for this question.

Could I explain what a fidget spinner is and how it works? Yeah, no problem.

But what is that strange lightweight metal that has such amazing colors? What do you mean you made metal balls that are so perfect that this thing can just smoothly spin like that?

Where can I get that metal? Can you teach me? What else can you make out of it?

Like, this might be the perfect item to be simultaneously SUPER easy to understand and TOTALLY BAFFLING.

[headspace-hotel]

Wool pants. Very explainable, but the color of the dye might give some pause

[jedisixoftwelve]

A wood panel door with a metal handle and a metal coat hook.

[bonefarm]

Get rid of your fucking Ring cameras holy shit. That was one of the most chilling ads I’ve ever seen

[creekfiend]

😰😰😰😰😰

[knitmeapony]

[outlaw-monarch]

For anyone confused about why this "sweet ad" is actually evil:

ring is passing the surveillance they collect to ice

ring is using these ID features to search for/identify people that ice wants to deport/kidnap/disappear, & using it to spy on Americans in general.

This ad is the company's gross & sneaky attempt to appeal to humans' kindness [ I'll be helping people find their pets!" ]

They are trying to trick more people into buying this tool that will be used as surveillance on people living in the USA

AND~!!!

also probably trying to trick people into turning on features/settings that will make it easier for them to pass information to ice and other hostile governmental authorities

[bobbyjean]

How many of letterboxd’s 10 all time most popular films have you seen?

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1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

10

not sure/results

Voting ended onFeb 5

titles in alt text

[espanolbot2]

‘Sesame Street’ Delivers the ‘Knives Out’ Muppet Mystery the Internet Has Demanded

Benoit Blanc is rendered in felt to solve a culinary crime.

[heydocverdant]

I FREAKING CALLED IT

[fuckyeahfightlock]

I feel like I'm the last person alive writing in Word, but wanted to share this because it might save someone some heartache.

I am used to Word autosaving relentlessly; for the last few years it didn't really even have a "File>Save" command that I could see--it just autosaved like every five seconds or something. It took me a long time to get used not clicking File>Save at the end of every writing session, and I never really trusted it--with good reason, it turns out.

Apparently, when you turn off Word's new ai features, AutoSave is disabled and cannot be turned back on. There is toggle button in the upper left for it, but when I try to toggle it on, it says "Autosave is not available because of your privacy settings." I worked in my document yesterday, put my computer to sleep with the doc still open on the taskbar (my usual habit), and when I opened it today, the new work I did yesterday was gone.

This time I only lost about 300 words, which I had typed into my document from my longhand-writing in a notebook (so I guess I kind of autosaved them that way!), but if I'd really been on a roll, this could have been a disaster.

Be careful out there. Everything is terrible!

[helloliriels]

Yeah, they're baking it into essential compontents now so we'll stop turning it off. Noticed that in several programs. FFS I hate all of these tech bros.