Giving posts Library of Congress Classifications

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[disgruntledturtle]

Why do witches like always wanna fatten kids up before they eat them?? fat is like the grossest part of meat

[equalistmako]

“Why hello there, little children~. Please follow me to my magical… FITNESS ROOM. NO P A N S I E S ALLOWED BEYOND THIS POINT. LEAVE YOUR WHINING AT THE DOOR BECAUSE IT’S LEG DAY AND WE’RE ABOUT TO GET R-R-R-RIPPE D.”

[seasonoftowers]

Because they’re always cooking said kids in cauldrons and ovens - aka long cooking times at lowish heat. If you do that to fatty meat, the fat melts completely and the meat gets tear-it-apart-with-a-fork soft. If you do it to lean meat, you get tiny little sad meat bits that bring no joy to anyone.

[people-are-garbage]

well you did ask

[defilerwyrm]

Also there’s wisdom in fattening them up on sweets and other carbs. A meatless, carb-rich diet makes for more tender and flavourful meat.

[mrtacomam]

you are arguing over the semantics of EATING CHILDREN

[kariachi]

Well yeah, you gotta get this shit right or it’s a waste of 40-80 lbs of meat.

[pulltheotheroneithasbellson]

plus if you feed them a high fat, low nutrition diet, they’re easier to subdue and less likely to run away, which would be a concern for an elderly crone.

[blueandbluer]

Thank you, Old Witch With Candy House side of tumblr.

[dduane]

…I don’t think it would be wise to add anything to this from any one of the multiple disciplines in which I have experience. :)

[makeitlc]

TX 749.5.V37: Variety Meats

[just-shower-thoughts]

The Greek story of Prometheus from 590–594 BC, whose main character’s liver was eaten out each day and regenerated each night, managed to identify the one organ that really can regenerate.

[makeitlc]

BL 820.P68: Prometheus And Or QM 351 Human Anatomy. Liver

[unheimlichemaneuver-deactivated]

[nebulations]

[ID: Image one is a screenshot of an article headline, and image two is an excerpt from the article. They read:

Hugh Jackman's Pursuit of Truth Taught Him Wolverines Are Real

Anyway, Jackman didn't know wolverines were real things. He thought it was a play on "wolf." According to Page Six, Jackman said at a panel, "I literally, embarrassingly did about two weeks of research on wolves. I was rehearsing for three weeks and I was shooting, so I was kind of on my own."

While on the set of 2000'S X-Men, director Bryan Singer noticed something was not right: "He said, 'Are you sort of walking funny, what's going on?' And I said, 'I've been doing this thing with wolves,' and he goes, 'You know you're not a wolf, right?'"

"I said, 'Well, there's no such thing as a wolverine, Jackman said, erroneously. He was instructed to "go to the zoo, dude." End ID]

[makeitlc]

QL 795.W4: Stories and Anecdotes. Weasels

[micro-usb-deactivated20230625]

[spyderqueen]

Oh it gets better, because this then happened on r/austin

[beeefy]

[makeitlc]

TX 770.B363: Banana Bread

[ID: A spotify playlist called 'Gonna Make Banana Bread' with the songs: Butter, Milk, Sugar, Flour, Big Banana, Baking Soda, Salt, Egg, Vanilla Extract, 360 Degrees, Mash Up, Stir It Up, Mix It, Pour It, Bake It, Remove, Banana Bread]

Playlist available here

[shoku-and-awe]

A Chinese Hershey’s bar! Chinese marketing has always been very interesting to me because, unlike Japan, where you can just render foreign words into katakana, any product coming into a Chinese-speaking region needs a proper Chinese name. Which means the pronunciation has to sound right, AND the connotation has to be a positive one.

One common example you hear is Coca-Cola, 可口可乐 (kĕkŏu kĕlè), roughly meaning ‘tasty fun’ or ‘let your mouth rejoice,’ depending on who you ask. And apparently Hershey’s is another good one too, with 好时 (hǎo shí), meaning ‘good time.’ Since I can parse that even with my extremely basic Mandarin, it really tickled me.

Also, I grew up hearing the story that Coke was first marketed in China under wild names like 蝌蚪啃蜡 kēdǒu kěn là [bite the wax tadpole] and 骒马口蠟 kè mǎ kǒu là [female horse stuffed with wax], but apparently that’s apocryphal! Those are actually jokey names that local business owners came up with for themselves prior to the debut of the official Chinese name.

(I was also disappointed to learn that the mistranslation of “Come Alive! You’re In The Pepsi Generation” as ““Pepsi Brings Your Ancestors Back from the Grave” probably never happened either. Oh well.)

[makeitlc]

PL 1189: Transliteration from western languages to Chinese

[natalieironside]

Taxonomy is fucked up. You start out at "This is how our animal friends are classified and how they're related to each other :)" and then you dip one inch below the surface and you get "There's definitely no such thing as a fish and there might be no such thing as a reptile"

[makeitlc]

QL 351: Classification. Systematics and Taxonomy. Principals

[whywishesarehorses]

happy birthday to all the tbs in the southern hemisphere!

[randomencounters]

Special Event: All Horses’ Birthday (Southern Hemisphere only)

[m-eowdy]

Special event: All Horses' Birthday (Northern Hemisphere only)

[makeitlc]

SF 293.T5: Horses, Breeds and breeding, Thoroughbred

[id: A picture of horses running with the caption 'All thoroughbreds have the same birthday so that their ages can be standardized for comparison because of the historical lack of records of actual birthdays. All thoroughbred horses celebrate their birthday on the same dates, January 1 in the Northern Hemisphere and August 1 in the Southern Hemisphere.']

[marlynnofmany]

I knew that the eruption/explosion of Krakatoa was the loudest sound in recorded history, but I couldn’t quite grasp how loud until I got a couple details of perspective. This was in 1883.

The shock wave ruptured the eardrums of sailors 40 miles away.

The explosion was heard more than 3,000 miles away, and recorded all over the world.

It made tsunamis nearly 100 feet high.

Now picture this happening in modern times, with modern communications. Not only would there be uncountable videos and whatnot, but the timing is what really gets me. Imagine you’re going about your day, scrolling social media, and posts start pouring in about an apocalyptic volcano on the other side of the continent. The news are full of it. You spend ages glued to the screen; this isn’t remotely close to you, but it’s a big deal, and you know people who live closer to it.

Three hours later, something explodes outside. Propane tank? Car fire? Some jackass with illegal firecrackers?

Nope. That was the sound wave, finally reaching you.

[makeitlc]

QE 523.K73: Krakatoa

[aromanticduck]

Not all construction work is equally enjoyable. For example, enlarging a drilled hole is boring, but fastening pieces of metal together is riveting.

[makeitlc]

HD 9715: Construction Industry

[aeruh-deactivated20250615]

Rosemary? You mean spicy pine needles?

[malus-syl-vestris-deactivated20]

Are you insinuating that regular pine needles aren’t spicy???

[aeruh-deactivated20250615]

Regular pine needles are regular

[malus-syl-vestris-deactivated20]

Not by rosemary standards

[aeruh-deactivated20250615]

…Have you eaten pine needles?

[malus-syl-vestris-deactivated20]

We’ve been friends for like four years, do you seriously have to ask if I’ve eaten pine needles or not

[aeruh-deactivated20250615]

I mean I’m pretty sure you have but I don’t want to assume

[malus-syl-vestris-deactivated20]

Of course I’ve eaten pine needles. Various kinds. Singleleaf pinyon is weirdly the best

[aeruh-deactivated20250615]

Are they…

spicy?

[malus-syl-vestris-deactivated20]

You know, I’d love to tell you but I’m pretty unclear about what marks the difference between “spice” and “strong-tasting plant that isn’t considered a spice”

[aeruh-deactivated20250615]

I’ll have to eat some pine needles myself then to find out

[malus-syl-vestris-deactivated20]

Ok but it only counts if they’re PINE needles and not just any old needle-like leaf off a tree

[aeruh-deactivated20250615]

I’m going to eat every needle-like leaf I see

[malus-syl-vestris-deactivated20]

Please Don’t Do That

[aeruh-deactivated20250615]

Needle-Like Leaf Roulette

[malus-syl-vestris-deactivated20]

…I’ll accept this plan as long as you promise not to eat any yew leaves.

[aeruh-deactivated20250615]

I can try very hard not to

[malus-syl-vestris-deactivated20]

Pine needles are distinguished by the presence of a sheath-like structure at the base of the leaf, almost always holding bundles of two or more leaves. Yews don’t have the sheath thing

[aeruh-deactivated20250615]

It’s time for me to go out into the woods and stare at needle leaves

[malus-syl-vestris-deactivated20]

Finally you can gain real insight into my average daily life

[silverjirachi]

this conversation reads like two shakespeare characters who come out in the middle of the play to talk about something completely unrelated for comic relief and then are never heard from again

[mortimermcmirestinks]

god fucking dammit gimme a minute

[mortimermcmirestinks]

Enter AERUH and MALUS SYL-VESTRIS, a pair of JESTERS.

AERUH I tell thee, rosemary is like a pine but with a spicy taste.

MALUS                         Art thou to claim that needles base of pine have not a spice?

AERUH A needle base of pine is merely base.

MALUS ‘Tis not when held, comparing, to anthos.

AERUH My dearest Malus, needles thou'st eaten?

MALUS How many moons have we as friends seen rise? How many suns have we as friends seen set? Thou sixteen seasons in my heart I’ve held, and hope that I in thine hast been the same. With brotherhood as rich and old as this, thou needst not ask me such frivolities.

AERUH I know thou likely has, to tell the truth, but I would not assume.

MALUS                       Well, yes, I have. A multitude of types I’ve eaten too. I’ll tell thee now: the best (though it is strange) is single-leaf pinyon.

AERUH                     And it has spice?

MALUS I truly wish that I could tell thee this, but now, i'faith, I cannot fully tell, the difference in classifying thus: to say “has spice” or merely “herbal strength”.

AERUH To tell this tale most clearly it would seem that eating needles from a pine’s required.

MALUS Aye, it would seem that that’s the task at hand, but caution tells that this is what’s to do: eat only needles of the honest pine, and none of lying leaf with pinelike shape.

AERUH I’ll eat them all.

MALUS                   I prithee, stay thyself.

AERUH Roulette with leaves.

MALUS                     At least restrain from yew.

AERUH I’ll do my best.

MALUS                That is all can we do. The scholars tell that needles true of pine can be distinguished from the lying yew by sheathlike clothing all along the base; the yew has no such guard.

AERUH                          With this new truth I now will venture out into the wood and seek the pines and pinelike fakes alike to stare them down and learn their secret truths.

MALUS With this thou canst at long and weary last Discover for thyself my life’s own path.

Exeunt.

Enter MACDUFF.

MACDUFF. Yo dudes that king there’s dead. Like dead as FUCK.

[makeitlc]

QK 97.5: Plant Identification PR 2877: Shakespeare. Imitations, paraphrases, adaptations

[nathanielthecurious]

gotta give anaxagoras credit, the sun is indeed larger than the peloponnese

[nathanielthecurious]

i posted this 3 hours ago with no tags how did y’all find this

[makeitlc]

QB 523: Solar Mass, Diameter, Rotation, Etc. [ID: A wikipedia excerpt saying 'Anaxagoras (5th century BCE), Claimed that the sun was "A fiery mass, larger than the peloponnese"']

[netherworldpost]

Because I will never be able to eat lava… (I pause to look pleadingly at a volcanologist, they sternly, subtly shake their head no. It is clear this is an old, ongoing argument.) …. my prevailing theory is it has a texture of very thick honey.

[netherworldpost]

Thank you @bowlofworms

[makeitlc]

QE 527.73: Lava Flows

[id: an ask from bowlofworms that says: about your post about eating lava and that you think it would likely have the texture of very thick honey: I emailed the USGS. They said lava would probably taste like rocks however, it would likely have the texture/consistency of tapioca or rice pudding because “each of those has the little solid blobs mixed in which would be analogous to the just newly forming minerals.” Just thought you’d like to know 😊

And the response: this is one of the greatest moments of my life]

[gaysie]

do u think omegaverse acknowledges covid-19 and the generation of people who permanently lost their sense of smell like how are they all scenting each other now is the omegaverse economy in shambles

[gayagendaofficial]

actually pheromone sensing works differently from normal olfaction, since humans in our world don’t have a functioning vomeronasal organ (VNO), we don’t have any data on how covid-19 would affect a functioning VNO in omegaverse AUs

[gaysie]

Actually there is evidence that covid probably would affect the VNO and it stands to reason would accordingly impair its function. Briefly:

SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes covid, can only infect cells expressing a certain protein called ACE2

ACE2 is expressed widely in nasal cavity epithelial cells but not in olfactory sensory neurons. 

Seo et al. (2021) studied potential nasal targets for SARS-CoV-2 using golden hamsters as a model organism (commonly used as a proxy for humans in virology studies)

They found ACE2 expression in the main olfactory bulb epithelium (MOE, your “normal” nose organ) as well as the vomeronasal organ (VNO)

Several cell types in the VNO were able to be infected and they also found significant inflammatory activity (macrophage activation, apoptotic cells, etc) 

The specifics of how covid actually causes dysosmia are not known for sure but epithelial damage by local inflammatory immune responses likely plays a role, especially because sensory neurons themselves are not affected (Bilinska, & Butowt, 2020). Therefore I would suggest a potential similar effect of VNO dysfunction as we see in the main olfactory bulb

From Seo et al.: “Considering the function of the VNO, infection and subsequent pathologic changes may affect the behavior of Syrian hamsters”

If it stands to reason that omegaverse individuals have functioning VNOs similar to members of the animal kingdom, then it is more than reasonable to conclude that covid may cause them to lose not only their main olfactory function, but also their VNO function as well

 References: (1) (2)

In conclusion the omegaverse economy IS in shambles.

[mahalidael]

OP this is very well-written but im still hung up on how you came onstage dressed as a clown only to tear off the costume and reveal yourself as a biologist

[makeitlc]

QR 399: Coronaviruses

[severalowls]

Under sea ecosystems are bullshit.

Like imagine you’re a little rabbit and you go to nibble on a tree sapling but as soon as you go to take a bite it takes off like a fucking helicopter and disappears over the horizon.

Then, before you can process what just happened, the entire patch of grass you were standing on turns out to be a fox who had turned itself inside out and you die.

[somecunttookmyurl]

are you okay do you need to talk about it

[severalowls]

Look I’m just saying I’m glad I exist in a place and scale where the main form of getting dead is just something trying to make your blood fall out.

I couldn’t handle being a crab. I would register a formal complaint but crabs can’t write.

[makeitlc]

QH 541.5.S3: Sea. Marine ecology. Ocean ecology

[tanadrin]

all calendrical systems are fucked up because they’re trying to do too many things at once, the prototypical example being keep track of important agricultural scheduling matters and also divide time into equal segments, which is a problem when your principle timekeeping methods like the sun, moon, stars, seasons, and so forth don’t quite line up (and may indeed vary slightly wrt one another)

Some ancient societies solved this by resetting their calendar based on an empirical observation, which works well enough when your principle concern is local agricultural matters. Others let their calendar drift with respect to the year, but periodically reset it. Yet others added consistent leap days or intercalary days. Modern timekeeping methodology has things like “Unix time,” which is a fixed number of elapsed seconds since a particular moment, and “UTC,” which has leap seconds and other nonsense so it consistently tracks astronomical data, for day-to-day scheduling purposes. Some countries simply split their civil and traditional/religious calendars (or whatever), which is honestly a pretty good idea even if it introduces another layer of complexity into your society.

Me, I think we’re not thinking big enough. I think if astronomical phenomenon do not adequately serve our calendar-making purposes, we should make them. To that end, I propose we blow up the moon, and use it as reaction mass to halt the rotation of the Earth. Sure, billions will die. Possibly the whole species. But our children–direct or via whatever offshoot of life manages to survive in deep ocean hydrothermal vents–will inherent a more orderly, well-managed world. And in the end, isn’t that what matters?

[sufficientlylargen]

The real problem with a lot of natural phenomena is that they *change*. A few hundred million years ago days were around 21 hours long. Then the climate changed and the atmospheric tides stopped cancelling out the lunar tides and we’ve been spinning more slowly on average ever since. But also the 2005 earthquake in Indonesia reshaped the earth slightly, and and made days shorter by a couple microseconds. And filling the Three-Gorge reservoir in China shifted enough mass to make the day a few nanoseconds longer. And also every 27 years or so the days get a few milliseconds longer for about five years, then go back, and nobody knows why. 2020 we spun faster than in 2019, and 2021 we’re faster still.

The point is that reality is imperfect, and decaying around us always, even if only at timescales we can barely comprehend. Things like standardized units of time are just our feeble attempts to impose organization on the swirling chaos that surrounds and controls us; we create mental models and call them “seconds” and “hours” and “days” and “years”, while dedicated scientists work tirelessly to keep them in sync with the utter impermanence of the universe.

tl;dr: We should destroy the universe, after which standards can safely and accurately be imposed at all scales.

[makeitlc]

CE 73: Reform of the Calendar

[parliamentrook]

My sleep cycle and the tides do not align and it makes me very sad. Want to go find teeths. Awake in morning. Morning high tide, teeth are hiding. Low tide, sleeping.

[parliamentrook]

this is a whole different post if you don't know I'm talking about going to the beach for fossilized shark teeth

[makeitlc]

QE 846: Fossil teeth