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mood

shes in a cafe in amsterdam waiting for her date but she didnt show up, shes been waiting there for 30 minutes already and shes experiencing intrusive thoughts about being unlovable and is dissociating

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fuck that she’s just chilling

I journal like once every year and a half, but recently wrote in my journal twice in the last two months....literally just word vomit of a basic blow by blow of the sex I had with strangers. Left my journal in a place where my mother could read it by complete accident. Must've been an awful disgusting little gem of a read for her. Oh well.

To post or not to post

Fuck it who cares.

Hi. I'm just a girl. A woman actually. My name doesn't matter, though. It's whatever. I'm just another fucking meat bag on this rock flying through space.

I'm going though some shit.

This is cathartic. Just gonna write my way through shit. We'll see how it goes.

#personal #my writing #about me

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Geode Cake pops

Yields 2 to 4 dozen

The things you’ll need

Ingredients

1 1/3 cups all purpose flour

2/3 cup cocoa powder

1 ½ teaspoons baking powder

½ teaspoon cinnamon

½ teaspoon salt

1 1/3 cups sugar

2/3 cup firmly packed brown sugar

4 eggs

1/3 cup water

2 teaspoons vanilla extract

1 cup sour cream

¼ cup vegetable oil

½ cup cream

½ cup chopped chocolate

Dark chocolate coating chocolate

White & gold sanding sugar

Ro’s Sugar Gems

Equipment

Stand mixer with paddle attachment

Large mixing bowl

Medium mixing bowl

Small bowl

Whisk

Rubber spatula

Ice cream scoop

9 by 13-inch cake pan lined with parchment paper

Lollipop sticks

Brown & white royal icing in decorating bags fitted with #2 tips

Baking spray

Baking sheet lined with parchment paper

Let’s get started!

Preheat oven to 325°F.

In a large bowl, whisk together flour, cocoa powder, baking soda, baking powder, cinnamon, and salt. Add sugars and whisk together until well combined.

In a medium bowl, whisk together eggs, water, vanilla extract, sour cream, and oil. Mix together until well combined.

Pour wet ingredients into dry ingredients and whisk together until well incorporated.

Pour batter into a greased and lined pan and then tap the pan on the counter to remove air bubbles.

Bake for 35 to 40 minutes.

Remove cake and allow it to cool completely. Cut cake into portions and then mix portions in a stand mixer with a paddle attachment for 3 minutes.

Microwave cream for one minute and then pour over chopped chocolate. Whisk until well combined.

Pour ganache over the cake crumbs and then mix with paddle attachment on low speed for 2 to 3 minutes.

Roll cake balls smooth and then use your fingers to press a cavity in the center.

Place cake balls on a baking sheet lined with parchment and refrigerate for an hour.

Time to decorate!

Dip a lollipop stick into dark chocolate and then insert into a cake ball. Do this for the rest of your cake pops and then refrigerate them for 30 minutes.

Dip cake balls into dark coating chocolate and then allow them to dry.

Use brown royal icing to attach sugar gems to the inside of each cake ball. Allow to dry completely.

Pipe a thin line of white royal icing around the edge of each geode and then coat in white and gold sanding sugar.

TaDa! Rock the party with these amazing Geode Cake Pops!

I hate you so much

sciencenewsforstudents

Jupiter was an early bloomer. A close look at the ages of rock and metal fragments from the birth of the solar system suggests the giant planet formed early on. Probably within the solar system’s first million years. If so, Jupiter’s presence could help explain why the inner planets are so small. It may even be responsible for Earth’s existence, a new study suggests.

Previously, astronomers estimated Jupiter’s age with computer models. These simulations show how solar systems form in general. Gas giants like Jupiter grow by piling on more and more gas. This gas comes from spinning disks of gas and dust around a young star. The disks typically don’t last more than 10 million years. So astronomers inferred that Jupiter formed by the time that the sun’s disk disappeared. It had to have been born at least 10 million years after the solar system started to form.

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science

megaquarterlifecrisis-blog

I've seen this on tumblr for yeeeaaarrrssss. Why is this not something I've ever seen in any store after all these years?

surprise-adoption

Bottle rocket under ice

overtheunderpass

rad

edwardspoonhands

I’m pretty sure that the reason the ice fractured into six slices is the same reason snowflakes are often six sided and it has to do with the shape of a molecule of water and I just think that’s so freaking cool.

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How would it even stay lit though?

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!!!!! it IS actually because of the structure of water molecules! Water molecules are fuckin weird, as are lots of other liquid substance molecules, because theyre shaped like fuckin HEXAGONS! hexagons are those weird, six-sided shapes that re very sturdy, but they dont tend to sit very well when stacked together. thats why, when you fill up a glass of water to its full capacity, it can go OVER the brim a little and not spill over. It’s also why water beads.

anyway, so since water is essentially made up of a gazillion little hexagons, it tends to gather into larger hexagons as it shapes together. this is not visible unless the water is in a solid form, aka ice. when the water is split, it tends to crack around the established hexagons. that bottle rocket exploded in the PERFECT place to show this phenomenon and its geeking me out.

ALSO! the bottle rocket stays lit because the fuse was definitely waterproof and made with magnesium and an oxidizer of some sort. this means that they will burn underwater because they dont need the oxygen from the air to stay lit. thats so fucking weird isnt it. im tipsy and its the 4th of july. sorry for the science haha

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Don’t you dare apologize for science

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Water molecules actually aren’t hexagonal themselves, but they form hexagonal crystals when they freeze! This is because the hydrogen atoms have a positive charge and the oxygen atom has a negative charge, so a hydrogen on one water molecule is attracted to the oxygen on another water molecule. This difference in charge across a molecule is called a dipole.

This hexagonal crystal shape is the lowest energy organization, so it forms at low temperatures and creates solid ice. In the image above the black lines are covalent bonds (electron sharing, very strong) and the white ones are polar bonds (positive/negative attraction, not very strong). The red circles represent oxygen atoms and the blue circles represent hydrogen atoms. The reason water can stay above the brim of a glass isn’t necessarily because of the shape of the water molecules, but again because of the different charges on different parts of the molecule. In liquid form, water molecules make very brief associations with each other as they move around. They are constantly switching polar bonds from one neighboring molecule to another, forming very short-lived tetrahedral (four-sided pyramid) shapes. Even though they are moving, this creates surface tension - a force that ‘holds’ the water together. For small amounts of water, like the amount above the brim of a glass or in a drop of water, this is strong enough to oppose the other forces acting on it (like gravity). Water has a lot of unique properties because it’s polar! The hexagonal organization of ice makes it less dense than liquid water, so it floats to the top and insulates the rest of a lake or pond from the cold. This prevents it from freezing solid, which is very important for aquatic animals. It’s also very good at dissolving ionic compounds like salt, and has a high specific heat which means it can absorb a lot of heat without it’s temperature increasing very much. If water didn’t have these properties, life might not have evolved on Earth, because cells rely on these properties to function. That’s one commonality between all life on Earth - requiring water. So that’s pretty neat!

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Interlayered Coal Seams and mudstones from Alaska Range | #Geology #GeologyPage

Geology Page www.geologypage.com

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I’ll never stop telling you how amazing you are, even if we disagree on certain things you’ll always be my favourite person.

Tenari Ioapo // To the one I love (via tenari-ioapo)

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Extremophile (noun, “Ex-STREEM-a-file”)

This is an organism that can live in extreme conditions most other forms of life can’t tolerate. The word “extremophile” combines the Latin word for “extreme” (extremus) and the Greek word meaning “to love” (philia).

Extemophiles can be found inhabiting all sorts of inhospitable real estate. This includes environments that are very hot, very cold, very dry or very acidic. For example, most animals can’t handle the heat and pressure near undersea hydrothermal vents. This is where hot water emerges into the ocean from deep inside the Earth. But giant tubeworms, shrimp and crabs can tolerate the conditions there and happily call these vents home.