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(Kirk voice) as I lay there, pinned to the ground, hot sands burning against my skin... nearly Crushed below the weight of my. Firstofficer. And the gravity of this...... Harsh, ruthless planet itself. Fading in and out of consciousness ... Struggling. Forbreath. ... I felt his hips Roll and I thought to myself........ oh my god . He doesn't want to Kill me
I was. Into it. To be clear ... I had already offered to . Assisthim. Inanywaythatican. But I don't suppose he wants to speak of this........ event
I could have sucked him silly right then and there... after he told me what he needed. And we could have avoided this whole mess.. Computer. Erase. That. Personal log
This is Kirk's "in the pale moonlight"
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It’s pretty much summer now and I wanna share my updated rosemary chicken recipe. I’ve tweaked and refined it a bit since I last talked about it.
Rosemary chicken ingredients:
5-6 cloves of garlic or like measure with your heart basically
Big handful of fresh rosemary leaves again measure with your heart
2 tsp course salt
1/2 tsp pepper
1/2 tsp onion powder
1/4 cup lemon juice
2/3 cup olive oil
A bit of corn starch or flour, maybe a tablespoon
Water as needed
Large package of boneless chicken thighs or whatever cut of chicken you wanna use but I use thighs
Method:
Mince the garlic and rosemary together very well. Don’t make a paste or anything but do mince it very fine if you can
Put your garlic rosemary mix, salt, pepper, onion powder, lemon juice, and olive oil in a sealable container and shake together really well to make your marinade.
Let your chicken marinade in this for at least an hour but up to 8 hours is fine if you wanna do this in the morning or something. I usually do this bit during lunch and let it go for four to five hours.
To cook the chicken get a large flat pan on medium high heat and sear your chicken on both sides. Once you’ve done this, add the remaining marinade to the pan, cover it with a lid and turn the temperature down to medium low.
Let the chicken steam in the marinade for 15-20 minutes or until it reaches an internal temperature of 165F. Set your chicken aside to rest while you make the sauce.
To make the sauce, leave the remaining marinade and chicken drippings in the pan and turn it up to medium high, whisking constantly.
Mix a bit of corn starch or flour with water to make a slurry and add to the sauce. Continue whisking it into the marinade constantly until it reaches the consistency you want. I usually go until I start to see the pan through the sauce a bit as I whisk and the sauce sticks to the back of a spoon.
You can serve the chicken in the sauce or you can serve the sauce on the side if you like. I’ve done both. I often serve this with roasted potatoes and sautéed vegetables but it also goes well with rice and other stuff. Up to you, really. It’s a great summer food though and once you’ve got the marinade done actually cooking it is usually pretty fast in my experience.
That sounds delicious but since we are on tumblr I fully expected something demonically out of place to be thrown in the mix
No, I just genuinely want to share my chicken recipes.
I think it's cute when depictions of our solar system include earth's moon. Like yeah sure the moon's invited. We just like her
Like simplified models that don't have Literally Everything just the planets. And our moon #OurMoon
Love that this alien arm is clearly just green bubblewrap. 70s prosthetics I love you
Classic SF once again betrayed by a clear, static-free signal and a flat digital screen
This is how I remember classic Who and Star Trek, folks, with signal ghosts and scanning lines (but usually with more static/snow)
Sharing this on my main because it appears from the notes that it's useful for some modern viewers.
You KNOW classic SF used the limited displays of CRT television and the static of transmitted signals the way theaters use stage makeup and lighting to make inexpensive props look great fine— take advantage of the medium! But it's hard to imagine how it looked if you've only seen Blu-ray HD restorations.
I swear to you, despite classic Who using bubble wrap for years as one of its go-to materials that reflected light in interesting ways, we never realized that's what it was.
“Musk talks about Mars as a lifeboat for humanity, which is among the very stupidest things that someone could say,” says Adam Becker, an astrophysicist and author of the book More Everything Forever, which outlines the messianic, sci-fi fantasies of the tech oligarchs. “There are so many reasons why it’s such a bad idea, and this is not about, ‘Oh, we’ll never have the technology to live on Mars.’ That’s not what I’m saying. What I’m saying is that Earth is always going to be a better option no matter what happens to Earth. Like, we could get hit with an asteroid the size of the one that killed off the dinosaurs, and Earth would still be more habitable. We could explode every single nuclear weapon, and Earth would still be more habitable. We could have the worst-case scenario for climate change, and Earth would still be more habitable. Any cursory examination of any of the facts about Mars makes it very clear.”
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I really like sci-fi stories where people have to go off and terraform a planet, or figure out how to rebuild civilization after some disaster, or ideally both. "The last ark-ship leaving Earth right before it becomes uninhabitable" sort of deal. But lately I've been coming around to this same idea, that it will always be more practical to try to save Earth than to try to start over elsewhere.
I was reading one story where the apocalypse was impossibly-rising oceans. Like, water is appearing from *waves hand* the Earth's crust or something, and literally all dry surface land on Earth is going to become underwater in X years. Part of the story was about a giant research project to invent FTL to send a few hundred humans to a nearby star which might have a habitable planet. You know what they were hoping to find? A planet with liquid water. Their plan was to descend from their starship and restart civilization using just the tools they brought with them, on a world with no life and no breathable air and the wrong gravity and the wrong temperate and the wrong sunlight and the wrong day-night cycle, just because it had liquid water. You know where else has liquid water? The flooded Earth you just abandoned. Instead of researching starship technology, you could have spent that time loading up all the same civilization-restarter tools into boats.
And this is really true of any futuristic apocalypse scenario. If you can terraform Mars to have a thick oxygen atmosphere, why not just do that to Earth? Even if you smash an ice comet into Earth and destroy basically everything, Earth will still be more habitable than Mars! It'll still have roughly the right atmospheric pressure, and magnetic field, and heat balance, and it'll still have whatever life the comet didn't kill... Same with a starshade to cool Venus. Same with excavating asteroids into city-stations. Same with abandoning Sol System entirely and heading to another star. If an ark-ship arrived in a new star system and found Earth-but-choked-by-climate-change, the crew would be ecstatic. They would never have thought to get that lucky. So why bother with the trip? Just stay and fix the damn Earth.
Hold on a second the Vulcans do what.
I felt I had to include the tags because WILLIAM SHATNER WROTE THIS.
okay so if you need more veggies/fruit, protein or fibre (bc most people do NOT eat enough) in your diet but you struggle to do so, hear me out:
look up recipes (especially snack recipes) that are child/toddler/baby-friendly
i can guarantee there is a woman with a cooking blog out there who has found away to pack a bunch of vegetables into a surprisingly delicious little snack for her kids. this process has never failed me when i feel like i am not eating enough fruits and veggies. my entire flat is eating spinach muffins at the moment, which doesn’t sounding particularly appealing to most people and yet somehow. they’re delicious.
putting some of my saved recipes under a read more for people to use as inspiration or a starting point ❤️
This healthy, gluten free recipe idea is a kid pleaser! Quinoa Pizza Bites make a nutritious meal or snack the whole family will love.
Carrot star bites are fantastic for baby-led weaning or as toddler snack. Also great for big kids too - a healthy lunchbox item.
These Green Smoothie Muffins are so easy to make, delicious and kid-approved! Perfectly sweet, soft and packed with healthy greens! Naturall
These carrot lentil protein muffins are a great kid-friendly snack, filled with sneaky lentils to add healthy protein, fibre and nutrients.
These Vegetable Fritters are perfect for kids of all ages. Packed with veggies for nutrients & eggs and chickpea flour for protein. Gluten f
This lentil bake is perfect for babies, kids and adults. Made with 4 veggies, lentils, sweet potato and egg. Great for lunch boxes.
Quinoa Cakes are an easy way to pack in nutrients! Make in advance for a fun, healthy side or snack during the week! {Gluten Free, Vegan}
here’s a few more:
Healthy Chocolate Zucchini Muffins are moist, tender, mixed in one bowl, made with whole wheat flour, naturally sweetened with a little mapl
Baked sweet potato zucchini tots made with 3 key ingedients are nut free, vegan and paleo. Healthy baked veggie tots perfect for school lunc
This super veggie pasta sauce for babies and toddlers is delicious on top of all kinds of pasta! With over 7 different oven roasted vegetabl
Flavorful & full of veggies, these mini meatloaves are a great twist on a classic family dinner recipe. Easy to make, perfectly portioned ou
Looking for a quick, protein-packed snack or breakfast that’s both delicious and nutritious? These Cottage ... <p class="read-more-container
UPDATE: I happened to have all the ingredients for the spinach muffins on this list and made them today, and folks, they're GOOD. They have a very nice mild flavor and don't actually taste like spinach at all
#i like to think data took him all the way to the brig tossed him in and left#and then came back 60 seconds later and was like ‘i believe i have successfully played a ‘practical joke’ on you :)’#riker loses it & claps him on the back like ‘wow. good job u rly had me going. dont ever fucking do that again’ Perfect.
Actually it’s 73 seconds. Data, knowing something of how human minds work, estimates that Riker will give him 60 seconds to come back (because humans prefer “round numbers”, however arbitrary the units). After 60 seconds it will take 4 seconds for Riker to fully process the conclusion that Data is, in fact, not coming back after all, and an additional 9 seconds to build to the optimum level of anxiety.
After all, comedy is timing.
americans are sooo desensitized to guns and sometimes it manifests in ways that affect your media literacy. like remember in the first episode of sherlock when john watson opens up his drawer and you see a gun in there and youre supposed to understand that this is narratively significant and conveys his suicidality as well as his willingness to skirt rules and laws but the first time i watched it i was like oh well theres his desk gun. lots of people have those
I’m kinda surprised that nalbinding isn’t as popular as crochet and knitting tbh because it has an even lower barrier of entry tools wise and unlike crochet and knitting it makes fabric that you can cut.
I guess it’s because it’s slower or something.
Nalbinding aka needle binding is when you use yarn and a big sewing needle to make fabric btw
It also has a lot of different kinds of stitches you can do that make different densities of fabric.
Some people even make rugs.
I feel like part of it might be casual people are generally aware of the existence of crochet and knitting, even if they don’t know very much about either, but have never heard of nalbinding
Yeah I hadn’t heard of it until recently and I ordered a big bone needle for myself to try it out and that should be arriving soon.
I was surprised that I’d never heard of it though. It’s older than knitting and crocheting and even though it’s been done all over the world it’s super relevant to Nordic culture and my grandmother and I are both into keeping in touch with our roots a bit so I’m surprised I’ve never heard of it.
It seems like the sort of thing that would be popular even if not as popular as crocheting and knitting, considering the low barrier of entry.
You also don’t need a bunch of different sized needles for nalbinding or whatever. The size of the stitch is controlled either completely freehand or by pulling it against one of your fingers. Most people who have a lot of nalbinding needles seem to either have tried out wood, bone, and metal ones to see which kind they liked or they enjoy carving wood or bone and like making their own needles as an extra hobby.
It’s also a lot easier to freehand and adjust as you go than crochet or knitting and you mostly go by inches instead of rows and number of stitches so a large number of accessories like stitch markers or whatever isn’t really necessary.
Maybe the lack of accessories also makes it unpopular idk. People do like collecting things in their nests.
I've been wanting to do so, I cannot find anyone who can teach me, and any books I can find on it are Ass in the Visual Learning department. Otherwise I'd be making the hell outta some nalbinded fabric
I found this channel by a nice man who makes up close tutorials
I create videos on YouTube to learn people how to needlebind using two fingers and your thumb. Needlebinding helps people to relax, relieve
I thought this would be kind of a niche post to make but I was quickly reminded that I’m on tumblr, the website full of gay people with one billion hobbies.
So my bone needle actually came this evening (yay!) and I’ve started trying this for real. It clicks in my brain way easier than crochet does. I’ve gotta work up the muscle memory but I think I can do this.
The downside as a beginner is that undoing mistakes is more time consuming than with knitting or crochet. You’ve gotta like sew your mistakes out backwards. Disadvantages of making a really sturdy fabric I guess.
I like the feel of this bone needle though and don’t think I’ll be trying the wooden or metal ones.
Also I think I’m gonna have to get good at doing Russian joining if I decide to get good at nalbinding because I don’t have wool yarn and the ends won’t felt together if it’s not at least 50% wool. A small price to pay for using big bone needle though.
Anyways curse of new fiber craft be upon ye.
Soy Sauce Noodles (阳春面) My soy sauce noodles recipe, yang chun mian, is a classic Chinese noodle soup with thin wheat noodles in a savory broth seasoned with soy sauce and sesame oil, ready in just 8 minutes. This is one of the simplest and most comforting Chinese dishes you can make at home.
Recipe: https://omnivorescookbook.com/soy-sauce-noodles/
For anyone who wants an easy copy-paste into their favourite recipe keeper:
Pumpkin Pudding Pie w/Orange Zest and Cardamom Whipped Cream
(makes ~3 pies)
Ingredients:
Pie:
2 ½ cups sugar
15oz can pumpkin puree
2 eggs
½ tsp baking soda
2 cups flour
2 tsp baking powder
½ tsp ground cinnamon
¼ tsp vanilla
pinch of salt
2½ cups milk
4 TBSP butter (melted)
1 orange
1 tsp powdered sugar
Whipped Cream:
1 cup heavy cream
2 TBSP powdered sugar
1 tsp cardamom
pinch nutmeg
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Instructions:
Pie:
Preheat the oven to 325°F
Prepare the pie crust (that's another recipe's job- either find a scratch recipe or buy a pre-made dough or graham cracker crust)
Blend 2½ cups sugar, pumpkin puree, eggs, and baking soda in a large mixing bowl (if using a mixer, blend with a paddle attachment)
Add the flour, baking powder, cinnamon, vanilla, and salt; blend until well mixed
Add the milk and melted butter, whisk until well mixed (if using a mixer, blend with the whisk attachment)
Pour your batter into the crust, filling right up to the edge (the mix will be more liquid than solid, but it will rise/solidify in the oven)
Bake at 325°F for 55 minutes
Remove from the oven and let it cool
Top with sifted powdered sugar
Zest an orange over the top of the pie (microplane if possible but regular zester is fine; have found that the most aesthetically pleasing version is to peel the orange and then finely dice the peel but that's a hassle!)
Whipped cream:
Put your metal mixing bowl and whisk in the freezer for at least 15 minutes
Whisk powdered sugar, cardamom, and nutmeg together in bowl
Add heavy cream; whisk until stiff peaks start forming
Serve on a cooled pie :)
two things I don’t love about Persephone discourse:
1.) the idea that just because forced marriage was normal in Greek society, there must not have been any cultural anxieties about women’s consent, and that being kidnapped and married off would not be a source of trauma or violation for the women it happened to. “It was not seen as rape” yeah, and marital rape wad legal in all US states until the 70’s. Why do we assume that women would not have understood Persephone’s story as traumatic?
2.) a lot of the desire to establish Persephone as a consenting girlboss comes from a discomfort with “bad” victims. Persephone can’t have been raped because that would make her a victim, and she can’t be a victim because she attained power and relative happiness without first getting revenge. only a bad victim could go on to love her rapist and become a formidable queen of the underworld! there’s this idea that victimhood is cheapening and at odds with complexity or agency.
What Mythology Actually Means in Celtic Reconstructionism
Celtic Reconstructionism starts with a claim that sounds simple: the gods are real, distinct beings, and the primary way to know them is through the historical record. That claim has practical consequences that separate CR from most modern pagan approaches to the same material.
Lore First
The CR FAQ divides sources into primary, secondary, and tertiary.1 Primary material is the manuscripts and folklore recorded directly from living tradition. Secondary is scholarship: translations, academic analysis, critical editions. Tertiary is books and articles that use on primary and secondary sources.
The hierarchy is about traceability. If you’re working with the Dagda, your understanding of him comes from direct translations of texts like the Cath Maige Tuired and Lebor Gabála Érenn. Secondary scholarship like Gods and Heroes of the Celts by Marie-Louise Sjoestedt is useful for context.
Much of the written record, including Lebor Gabála Érenn, contains internal contradictions. CR treats this as evidence that the tradition was always alive and contested, not a fixed revealed truth.
How CR Differs from Neopagan Approaches
Most modern pagan traditions treat the gods as archetypes: aspects of a larger divine principle, interchangeable across cultures, selectable based on the practitioner’s need. CR rejects this.1 The Dagda and Zeus are not different masks on the same face. The Morrígan is not a stand-in for any other war goddess. These are specific beings with specific relationships to specific places, texts, and expectations.
You can’t build a CR practice by pulling a Celtic deity name from a list and pairing it with Wiccan or ceremonial magic ritual structures. The theological and cultural context is part of what you’re working with.1
CR also resists pan-Celtic practice, treating Irish, Welsh, and Gaulish material as interchangeable because they’re all “Celtic.” The traditions are related but distinct. Irish CR works with Irish sources and Irish context.1
Where UPG Fits
UPG (Unverified Personal Gnosis) is spiritual experience that can’t be substantiated by historical sources.1 CR doesn’t dismiss it, but requires that practitioners label it clearly so personal experience doesn’t contaminate the shared record.
The lore takes precedence because it represents the accumulated, tested framework of a tradition. Personal gnosis is individual data. It might be genuine communication from a deity. It might be projection. There’s nothing wrong with having UPG in your own practice, but you shouldn’t expect others to adopt it as well (unless you’re able to back up your position with evidence).
Relationship and Reciprocity
CR practice requires no fixed liturgy and no priestly intermediary. Practitioners develop ongoing relationships with specific deities through prayer, offering, and sustained engagement with the lore.1 The model is closer to a relationship built over time than to a ritual system: you show up consistently, learn what the other party values, and maintain your obligations.
The reciprocity framework comes from Irish culture directly. Altar inscriptions from the early period show offerings made in fulfillment of vows, payment for services rendered.1 Relationship with the divine involves mutual obligation: the gods have responsibilities toward those in relationship with them, and practitioners have responsibilities in return. Hospitality and keeping your word are the structure of the practice, not courtesies layered on top of it.
Offerings in CR are participation in an exchange that sustains the relationship.
Sovereignty Theology as a Practical Lens
The Irish sovereignty goddess concept is usually presented as historical background: a goddess personifies the land, the king marries her symbolically, abundance follows.2 That framing treats it as a political metaphor the medieval Irish used to justify kingship.
CR practice goes further. The theological principle is that legitimate relationship with land requires reciprocity, proper conduct, and acknowledgment of the land’s divine character. A just king produces abundance, a false king produces blight. That causality isn’t limited to Bronze Age political arrangements.2
For practitioners in the diaspora working with Irish tradition outside Ireland, this generates real questions about obligation and place, questions the CR community is still working through.1
Working with Ériu or the Morrígan in their sovereignty aspects means engaging with that framework. The mythology is the record of the theology, and the theology generates the practice.
What Belief Looks Like
Whether the ancient Irish wholly believed their myths the way a modern person believes a news report is unanswerable. Their literary tradition was sophisticated and self-conscious: the filid reworked myths across generations. Paul Veyne’s Did the Greeks Believe in Their Myths? offers a useful framework for how ancient peoples could hold myth as simultaneously sacred, historical, and poetic without contradiction.
For CR practitioners, the question isn’t whether you accept the Lebor Gabála Érenn as historical fact before approaching the gods. The myths provide a framework for knowing who these beings are, what they value, and what a right relationship with them looks like. That framework is what CR asks you to engage with.
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fucks me up that by total coincidence the sun and moon's size difference is exactly matched to their difference in distance from us, thus making our beautiful total solar eclipses where you can see the silver threads of the sun's corona possible because the moon just covers the sun completely
The stars (literally) aligned just right for this experience to be possible. It's likely that aliens don't have this
The moon is also absolutely gargantuan by moon standards. It isn't the largest moon in the solar system, but it is BY FAR the largest in comparison with its planet. Ganymede is the largest satellite of Jupiter and the largest moon in the solar system. Its diameter is only about 3.8% of Jupiter's. Titan's radius is 4.4% of Saturn's. Callisto and Io are the next largest in the neighborhood, with 3.4% and 2.6% the diameter of Jupiter respectively.
Our moon is number 5. It is smaller in direct comparison to the above moons. The diameter of the moon is 3475 km. That is a full 27% of the diameter of the Earth. More than a quarter. That's ridiculous. It's unheard of. The universe is large enough that the word unique probably doesn't mean a lot, but this might be about as close as you get.
This has had a huge impact on our planet. Other things aliens might not have are significant tides. One of Mars's dumpy little potatoes wouldn't be able to move oceans the way our moon does.
Our moon has also stabilized our axis to a massive degree. Without her up there our axis would wobble all over the place and our climate would be far more chaotic. Aliens might not be quite so lucky.
I guess what I am really trying to say is that the moon is extremely cool. I like the moon.
Just want to add that the reason we have such a large moon is because a whole planet crashed into proto-Earth. Theia (the planet) and Earth got so superheated by this collision that their component cores fused and the impact jettisoned a lot of material into space. That massive amount of jettisoned material became our moon. So Earth and the moon have very similar composition. This does not seem to be a common method of lunar formation.
what if the answer to the fermi paradox is that life cant exist without a moon like luna
I got a serious beef with the Fermi paradox. There is no Fermi paradox. There stopped being a Fermi paradox once the first radio telescopes went up, and we began to get a true sense of the sheer scale of the universe.
Space is big, empty, and loud. Sunspots can cause enough interference to affect global communications. We’re not even loud enough to talk over our own sun. On our own planet. We can barely communicate with Voyager, and we know exactly where it is and what its signal sounds like.
The Fermi paradox is like doubting the existence of Belfast, because you stood on a windy New York beach shouting towards it and didn’t get an answer.
i didn't realise we were drowned out by our own sun :(
She is screaming so loud