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♡ Little Programmer ♡ Just a confused human in a very confusing world ~Lala

[m--ood-deactivated20181217]

Firefighter demonstrates how to put out a kitchen fire

[chronotriggerwarning-deactivate]

Reblog to actually save a life

[khaldurahm-kal-el]

To explain. The latter works because you’re cutting off the supply of oxygen to the fire and suffocating it

as opposed to slapping oxygen inside the pan with the downward motion

[norealdestination]

Reblogging, because this is so important. When I was learning how to cook for myself in my tweens, I had at least a five years of fire safety seminars from school drilling this into my head, and I STILL had that instinctive put-the-fire-out-with-water reflex. Didn’t even think. I saw our oily burner catch fire after frying eggs, whipped around towards the sink for water, and my brain immediately screamed NO!!! NO WATER! I mean that fire safety stuff straight up bitchslapped me out of REFLEXIVELY setting my house on fire. I found a pot lid and inched it over the burner before turning off the heat. Even if you think you know this stuff, panic is powerful shit. Make knowledge more powerful.

[postcards-from-absurdland]

“Even if you think you know this stuff, panic is powerful shit. Make knowledge more powerful.”

[jonny-r217]

Also NEVER TRY TO EXTINGUISH A GREASE FIRE WITH WATER. It will make things worse.

[petermorwood]

Reblogging because this is VERY IMPORTANT.

Read more about kitchen oil / grease fires here, with impressive videos of what happens when you use water OR flour.

WATER: throwing water onto burning oil (a) splashes the burning oil around and (b) causes a steam explosion which throws burning oil into the air.

FLOUR: throwing flour onto burning oil (a) splashes the burning oil around and (b) adds fuel as inflammable dust which flashes alight above the pan.

Baking soda or salt will extinguish a small fire (skillet / frying-pan, not deep-fryer) but needs a lot to be effective and needs POURED; if thrown - the usual panic response - there’s the same risk of splashing burning oil around.

When frying, especially deep-frying, always keep a bigger-than-the-pot lid or a couple of dampened kitchen towels handy.

Never ever leave the pot heating unattended.

If it gets too hot (starts producing wisps of smoke) turn off the heat at once and if possible move it off the burner.

Never overfill it.

Despite the amusing silliness of most Dylan’s Kitchen TikToks, at 0:46 in the one about Potato Doughnuts he gets out a CO2 fire extinguisher because Playing Silly doesn’t stop him Playing Safe.

[andstuffsketches]

[comic of a twitter exchange between @/locallystupid and @/bootleghinata as Fakir and Duck from Princess Tutu.  Fakir says, “you ever get so tired you start seeing spiders?” Duck responds thoughtfully, “Me after I take 17 Benadryl and start seeing the hat man”. She points at a jpeg of Drosselmeyer overlaid in the background. Fakir incredulously asks, “THE WHO” and Duck, annoyed, says “Oh this not a safe space suddenly?” end id]

They can’t get anything done in ballet class

[uneryx]

psst @teal-deer

[deanu]

If you’re a real human person still using the default tumblr avatar, consider changing it.

why should you change it?

When you guys pop up in our notifications, most seasoned tumblr users will suspect you’re a bot and block on sight.

why do we block immediately?

tumblr has a history of bots trying to infiltrate and establish a connection to a valid, existing blog in order to populate google searches. Simply liking or reblogging a post, not just adding a scam link to it, establishes this connection. Tumblr users don’t want this to happen, especially if it’s a scammy p*rn bot. So, we often block on sight.

So now I have to reblog stuff AND change my pfp?

Well, of course that’s up to you! I just want to explain why you may have been already blocked by an artist/blogger you may have discovered recently, and how you can avoid it in the future.

Reblogging does help creators more than likes because your reblogs will show up on the dash of those that may follow you. Plus, reblogging puts that post on your own blog, and in case the original gets deleted or edited by the OP, it’ll be on your blog like that–forever (or until you delete your blog). Nice.

Here are some free icons created by catalyststuff on freepik. Highly recommend their art for a simple replacement!

[afeelgoodblog]

Thanks for this.

[bloosemood]

this blog may contain sensitive content (its me im sensitive)

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happy stimming

[transhuman-priestess]

This is one of my favorite comics of all time.

[laurakbuzz]

Autistic stimming needs this, more representation of stimming a positive, pure, happy thing.

[geeghosttrash]

and adhd as well! but yes, stimming needs to be understood as a positive helpful thing because it’s amazing

[theadhdgoblin]

[y-that-crazy-five-foot-two-chick]

Why does this make so much sense

[iamthekarmapolice]

thinking about how all the adults were absolutely bullshitting when they said that school days are the best days of your life???? like whatever issues i have going on now, i can buy myself little treats like a book or food whenever i want. i feel like im stagnating in my current job so im looking for a new one. imagine if i was bored of school, no one would let me go to a new one. I don’t have to hang out with anyone I don’t want to. being an adult is fuckjng amazing and i was so right to feel trapped as a kid

[administrative-archivist-deacti]

This gives me hope

[krakenartificer]

#the most validating shit my mom ever told me was 'being a kid sucks because you have exactly the same problems but none of the experience'#'once you're forty you still have the same problems but either you already lived through them or you know someone who did'#'and also you're allowed to buy yourself treats for dealing with them'#and you know what???? she was right - via @words-writ-in-starlight

[kyraneko]

adulthood brings new and different problems in addition to most of the old ones but also more freedoms in how you react to them. yes you have income tax returns but you can reward yourself with a margarita and a chocolate cake for completing them. yes the whole cake.

[fennopunk]

I have said for years that the best thing in adulthood is that I can make myself hot chocolate even in the middle of the night if I want to and no one can stop me.

[schizoauthoress]

Today I learned that Van Halen have that rider in their contract about “a bowl of M&Ms with all the brown ones removed” in order to know at a glance if the promoter read the entire contract.  And the reason they do THAT is because they once had a stage collapse because a promoter hadn’t read the proper way to set up all the specific technical stuff.

So if the band goes in the dressing room or catering and sees brown M&Ms, they know they have to double-check the stage setup for safety.

[darkfrog24]

I heard about this on Freakonomics Radio.  Turns out the bit about no brown M&Ms is HUGE, in BIG font, bold, underlined and quotated like they’re on the Group W Bench.

The band was all, “We have fifty-pound lights hanging over our heads and fire being shot out of cannons.  We had to know whether they read our safety regs so we didn’t flamebroil any roadies.”

[gobbochune-deactivated20241018]

interesting how this has become a meme in the music industry about divas. i’ve always heard jokes that amount to “this stuck up celebrity hates the green gummy bears!! they’re refusing to perform just for that???” and its reading stuff like this that i realise how that joke might have come about. people get grumpy that the band refuses to play but cant admit its because THEY’RE incompetent, so they make it all about the M&Ms. another example of artists using a creative method to ensure they have a perfectly reasonable request fulfilled that is then bastardised by lazy people who wanna make money off them. 

[thesylverlining]

…this is like the music industry version of hearing the truth behind the McDonalds hot coffee lawsuit

[giggle]

you dont wanna mess with me i cry easily

[kropotkindersurprise]

January 26 1988 - Burnum Burnum plants the Aboriginal flag at the cliffs of Dover, claiming England for the Aboriginal peoples of Australia, exactly 200 years after Arthur Phillip claimed Australia for the British. [video] The full Burnum Burnum Declaration:

I, Burnum Burnum, being a nobleman of ancient Australia, do hereby take possession of England on behalf of the Aboriginal people. In claiming this colonial outpost, we wish no harm to you natives, but assure you that we are here to bring you good manners, refinement and an opportunity to make a Koompartoo - ‘a fresh start’. Henceforth, an Aboriginal face shall appear on your coins and stamps to signify our sovereignty over this domain. For the more advanced, we bring the complex language of the Pitjantjajara; we will teach you how to have a spiritual relationship with the Earth and show you how to get bush tucker.

We do not intend to souvenir, pickle and preserve the heads of 2000 of your people, nor to publicly display the skeletal remains of your Royal Highness, as was done to our Queen Truganinni for 80 years. Neither do we intend to poison your water holes, lace your flour with strychnine or introduce you to highly toxic drugs. Based on our 50,000 year heritage, we acknowledge the need to preserve the Caucasian race as of interest to antiquity, although we may be inclined to conduct experiments by measuring the size of your skulls for levels of intelligence. We pledge not to sterilize your women, nor to separate your children from their families. We give an absolute undertaking that you shall not be placed onto the mentality of government handouts for the next five generations but you will enjoy the full benefits of Aboriginal equality. At the end of two hundred years, we will make a treaty to validate occupation by peaceful means and not by conquest.

Finally, we solemnly promise not to make a quarry of England and export your valuable minerals back to the old country Australia, and we vow never to destroy three-quarters of your trees, but to encourage Earth Repair Action to unite people, communities, religions and nations in a common, productive, peaceful purpose.

Burnum Burnum

[tired-fandom-ndn]

So many anti friend groups are just straight up cults and it's genuinely terrifying to see and be part of.

If you're scared of your friends for whatever reason, it you're scared of liking being in a specific fandom or liking a specific ship because you think you'll lose all your friends over it, if your friend group is essentially built on the idea that you're all good and everyone else is bad, if your friends use social ostracization and online stalking and harassment campaigns as threats and weapons, if your friends use fear and moral panic to keep people in line. . . . .

Please get out of there. This isn't even about shipping or fandom or whatever, it's about staying safe and not getting sucked into a literal cult. Cut them off, block them on all your social media, remake accounts if you need to, and make new friends who don't leave you feeling like you're walking on eggshells around them. Just stay safe.

[stillwaterseas]

Having to reblog the right call outs, memes, and discourse at the right time,  or come under suspicion or attack yourself? Getting scolded or called out for delay in responding to messages, even if you were away from your computer? New friends must be vetted by powerful members of the group? Private discussions may be screenshotted and shared at any time? Behavior control.

Extensive block lists with social consequences if your friends find you still follow any of those people? Mainstream books or news sources with conflicting opinions dismissed as “problematic” or out of touch? Information control.

Being expected to adopt the newest language, positions and targets without explanation even if they rapidly change? Any concerns or objections dismissed as evidence of incurable stupidity at best, unforgivable moral corruption at worst? Lumping wide varieties of info and theory together in simple good and evil categories? Thought control.

Effusive praise for complying with group demands, including and especially behavior that may make you uncomfortable, like bullying others? Seeing your friends send dissenters death threats? “Hot and cold” treatment, favoritism, competition for attention by powerful or BNF members of the group? Guilt trips about spending time and attention elsewhere? Emotion control.

Remember.... BITE!

[tired-fandom-ndn]

This is an amazing breakdown, thank you so much.

[queeranarchism]

If you don’t recognize all of these things but recognize some of them, still take it seriously. Not every abusive relationship will look the same. Start with the question “Am I afraid to express that I disagree with this person or people in anyway?” and if the answer is ‘yes’, something is wrong and it’s worth examining that further.

[theliteraryarchitect]

Just remember: If all writing fiction ever does is keep you from losing your goddamn mind during this pandemic, it has served you well and needs no other justification for consuming hours upon hours of your time. It does not need to be good. It does not need to be finished. It does not need to get published or praised. It only needs to soothe you, to hold you, to occupy your mind, to amuse you, to tether you to this world, to keep you from going mad, to keep you company, to keep you alive.

[altocello]

the same is true for art

[i-will-help-you-swim]

Reblog if you think asexuality is a legitimate sexuality.

I’m trying to prove something.

[cmoon-rabbit4-blog]

Reblog if your blog is a safe place for asexuals.

[onelittlekingdom]

BDSM 101: Subs - Stop Leading With The Pussy

Let’s see how this one lands. This post is a little twist on people who talk about men leading with their dicks.

Recently I’ve spent a little time adopting a community predator, and creating a post designed to keep others watchful and wary about his presence within it. In the process, one of his little minions came to let me know what she thought about me attacking her favorite blogger. I let her know she missed a few things, and that I though she needed to pay better attention to what was right in front of her. 

The amount of red flags one can see on his blog is staggering. The only reason you can miss them, is either because you don’t know what red flags to look for, or because you’re letting the pussy lead. 

Don’t let a man who talks to you in a way you’ve dreamed to be talked to turn your brain off, because he makes your pussy wet. Don’t let that stop you from asking prudent questions. Don’t let that stop you from making prudent observations. All the best internet predators, the ones that really get good at it, and do it over and over again, will know how to talk to you. They’ll know how to disarm you, or make you question yourself. They will get you to give them things, without offering you anything else in return. One day you wake up and realize you don’t know shit about who you are talking to, while he has a phone full of your nudes and way more personal information than you have about him. When he finally hurts you, or things become difficult, or challenging, he’ll be out the door. Gone without a trace.

That’s the nicest version of what you get when you turn your brain off for an internet predator. Turn it off harder, and we open the book on ideas like consent violations, abuse, and rape. I get it… it’s fun… it’s exciting… but brains first people…please. Stay safe. 

JD

[heywriters]

[yespolkadotkitty]

LOUDER

[narcicious]

I think the mentality of "why bother doing something if you're not good at it?" feeds directly into "if you're good at it why aren't you monetizing it?". At its core I really think its about commodifying every last shred of labor and experience.

[teacuphuman09]

THIS

[cheese24k]

[muppetmayhem]

Friendly reminder classic moments like these with the kids are entirely unscripted.

[321redlightt-deactivated2016010]

my heart exploded