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As a Dungeon Master I nearly scrolled past this before my brain kicked my own ass and reminded me that I have tried looking up 'Blue Gemstones' at LEAST a dozen times in the last six months and never found anything this helpful.

what-even-is-thiss

I like the idea in fantasy that humans are better at maintaining things long term because they set up societies or professions to do it whereas dwarves and elves and stuff are like “just get bob to do it he’s got a good few hundred years left” and then bob doesn’t teach anyone else how to do it

what-even-is-thiss

Elf: How have you kept this castle maintained for a thousand years if your lives are so short?

Human: We just train new people how to do it?

Elf: *gears visibly turning in their head*

Human: Are you alright?

Elf: I just realized that we didn’t have to let that whole city fall to ruin just because my grandfather died.

Human: What?

what-even-is-thiss

Human: Wait that’s why there’s ruins of elven cities even though you live for so long? You just keep not asking people how to do things? How do you learn anything?

Elf: There’s a lot of “you’ve got time to figure it out on your own” attitudes floating around in our society that I’m starting to question somewhat.

unassimilatedsoul

Elf: That sword, where did you get it?

Human: My cousin made it.

Elf: Impossible! Those metalworking techniques were lost a hundred years ago!

Human: What do you mean lost? My great-grandmother learned to make these swords from an elven smith, then taught it to her kids.

Elf: That's ridiculous. No elf would give such secrets to a human.

Human: They didn't. Meemaw delivered the metal to the forge, and no one kicked her out when she stayed and watched. She always said they barely acknowledged her even when doing business with her, like she wasn't worth noticing.

Elf: Come to think of it, my great-uncle always was rather single-minded when he started working.

Human: So he wasn't ignoring her, he just forgot she was there?

Elf: Oh, he was definitely ignoring her, too. He was super racist.

death-to-usa

there IS actually a reason why seconds and minutes (and degrees for geometry) are in base 60 instead of base 10, and if you want to blame someone for that, blame the very specific way Babylonians counted with their fingers.

death-to-usa

The way Babylonians finger-counted was by using their thumb to tap each phalange of the fingers in the same hand the thumb was in, in the order of proximal to distal phalanges and index finger to pinky finger (for a total of 12 taps), and lifting a finger on the other hand every time they counted up to 12, resulting in each finger in the second hand representing 12 taps, with 5 fingers representing... 60 taps.

death-to-usa

thats actually spot on.

death-to-usa

yes. a gross is defined as 12 dozens.

what-even-is-thiss

I might start counting on my fingers like this now

fantasy-anatomy-analyst

By the way this is really fun information to consider when making non-human species with differently shaped hands.

It is very intuitive to use one's own body as a tool for counting and measuring. How are your non-human's hands set up? How many fingers? Do they have a thumb? How many joints per finger? Etc.

And likewise, an inch is roughly the length of that middle bone on a human forefinger, and a yard of fabric is sometimes measured by holding it up between an outstretched hand and the chin/nose or opposite shoulder. Metric is a more precise tool of measurement, but historically the average person doesn't bother with precision when a quick body-based measurement is good enough. Horses are still measured in hands, and that's literally based on the size of a human hand.

So go have a little fun figuring out how your non-human characters can use their unique body structures to measure and count things! It adds a lot of flavor to the world

dearbisexual

dam…….. that website “you feel like shit” (it’s like a questionnaire / troubleshooting guide for when you feel like shit) really works………………….. im not even all the way thru it and i even half-assed a lot of the suggestions and i already feel loads better

dearbisexual

for some reason, with this website, i was able to complete small tasks ive been fruitlessly bugging myself to do for weeks??

anyway, i feel almost good now :^)

dearbisexual

im glad this got some notes!!!! i hope it helps y’all find some measure of peace or comfort <3

fuckyeahsnackables

This is astonishing. I’m going to use and save.

nyloww

there’s a lot of stupid scary shit in project 2025 but killing the national weather service for me (a weather nerd who has hyperfixated on this kind of stuff for years) is one of the least thought through decisions, especially with how bad tornadoes and hurricanes have gotten over the years.

like… the NWS is who alerts people about oncoming tornadoes… take that away and now you have thousands of sitting ducks who don’t know that death is barreling toward them. Despite all of the rampant destruction we’ve seen from tornadoes in even the last year alone, deaths from those events have remained in the single digits. Why? Because the NWS and NOAA have worked tirelessly to increase the amount of warning time people have between when a tornado is spotted and when it’s predicted to hit. If I remember correctly, they’ve managed to bring it from seconds of advance warning to up to 16-20 minutes, time that is instrumental in saving lives. Take that away, and now you have people scrambling around trying to figure out what’s happening on their own.

Not to mention the amount of time and research they pour into predicting tragic events like Hurricane Helene and other disasters in waiting. Idk, it’s just…

nyloww

Twenty-seven girls from the Camp Mystic summer camp remain missing.

“In response to criticisms of the warning provided by National Weather Service ahead of the flood, Noem said upgrading their technology was among the reforms Trump sought to make at the department.

However, the agency has been dealing with staffing shortages after cuts by the Trump administration led to nearly 600 layoffs and retirements. Whether those cuts had any affect on the National Weather Service's ability to predict or warn people of the oncoming flood remains an open question.”

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This, in top of the absolute devastation that was this year’s tornado season, and just before hurricane season, does not bode well. They likely will not outright state that the staffing/budget cuts are contributing to faulty weather reporting (although they did send out weather warnings hours before the flooding began), but that’s definitely what it is.

My heart goes out to all the families who have been impacted by this, this is absolutely heartbreaking.

#i hate to say it #tornado #flood #flooding #texas #nws #national weather service #bad weather #weather #flash flood #budget cuts #because project 2025 is a clusterfuck of bad ideas #project 2025

corpyburd

Glad everyone is getting so much joy from early Quaker names! Looking forward to seeing any future pets/children/bands/drag acts named after stuff on this list.

piedude

ariaste

tag yourself, i'm Patience Fish

nashvillehotchicken

brightlotusmoon

Plant Fry. Jennix Dry. Comfort Cripes. Experience Cuppage. Peace Love.

Groovy.

greatmountainfloofsquatch

Let us not forget the Public Universal Friend.

brightlotusmoon

The Public Universal Friend[a] (born Jemima Wilkinson; November 29, 1752 – July 1, 1819) was an American preacher born in Cumberland, Rhode Island, to Quaker parents. After suffering a severe illness in 1776, the Friend claimed to have died and been reanimated as a genderless evangelist named the Public Universal Friend, and afterward shunned both birth name and gendered pronouns. In androgynous clothes, the Friend preached throughout the northeastern United States, attracting many followers who became the Society of Universal Friends.[8]

Huh. Neat.

republicansaretheproblem

hungry-4-both

Here's how we do it, folks. Overwhelm their capabilities.

theconcealedweapon

nothorses

Trump is going to lift those tariffs btw. Like we're gonna feel it and it'll suck, and then he will lift them, and things will improve, and people won't realize that things were still better before he put them in place at all, and he will claim credit for making everything better even though things are still worse than when he started. Because of him. Because he made them worse.

So you gotta pinky promise me you're not gonna let yourself or anyone you know fall for that shit.

holmesandtheroman

NOTICE: As more and more fanfic writers are using generative AI for their works (you uncreative dweebs), I hereby swear on everything I hold dear that I have not and will NEVER use generative AI in ANY of my written work. Everything I post will be organically and creatively my own.

marspumpkin

btw the katy perry/bezos' girlfriend/other four irrelevant billionaires 10 minute space stunt was not the first all female expedition no matter how much they try to market it as such. the first all female mission was in 1963 with soviet cosmonauts Valentina Tereshkova, Irina Solovyova and Valentina Ponomaryova - all three of which were working class and had to pass incredibly hard exams to be chosen from 400 potential candidates. just in case we started falling for the propaganda machine again

emwheezie

You know the saying “It's not the destination, it's the journey”? I saw an Ai user say they "can do your hours of work in a second" and I don't think a single one of those button pushers understands that we genuinely love our craft. We love the process of creating.

accessibleaesthetics

Here is a (non-exhaustive) list of free resources for different sign languages:

American Sign Language (ASL)

Australian Sign Language (Auslan)

Australian Indigenous Sign Languages

Black American Sign Language (BASL)

Brazilian Sign Language (LSB)

British Sign Language (BSL)

Chinese Sign Language (CSL)

Emirati Sign Language (ESL)

French Sign Language (LSF)

Italian Sign Language (LIS)

Indian Sign Language (ISL)

International Sign Language (IS)

Irish Sign Language (ISL)

Japanese Sign Language (JSL)

New Zealand Sign Language (NZSL)

Mexican Sign Language (LSM)

Plains Indian Sign Language (PISL)

Polish Sign Language (PJM)

Ukrainian Sign Language (USL)

Yolŋu Sign Language (YSL)

Please feel free to add on if you know of others, be it more resource for one of the sign languages above, or resources for learning any of the other 300 plus sign languages.

Edit: I updated the ASL reference to Bill Vicars, but reminder that these are just things I found around, please find Deaf teachers wherever possible! And for ASL, lifeprint.com is another wonderful resource.

accessibleaesthetics

This post is still actively getting notes every day, so I wanted to share a new resource with you: Lingvano. This app is:

Free, for the first few lessons then it’s about $10 per month

Offers lessons from D/deaf teachers

Extremely self-paced, built to take in small 5 to 20 minute chunks every day.

The app currently only offers courses in three sign languages: American Sign Language (ASL), British Sign Language (BSL) and Austrian Sign Language (ÖGS).

I will add this to the original post momentarily, but I wanted to put this in a reblog too to raise awareness. I found out about this app from a Deaf content creator, so I really do think it's legit.

lady-troll

Latvian Sign Language: zimjuvaloda.lv

ao3 stop logging me out every other day please and thanku 🙏🙏🙏

#ao3 #ao3 down #not really #but is 100% something i’ve experienced #it’s not really that big a deal #like it’s irritating #but it’s not world ending #ao3 reader

sheherlocked-deactivated2022083

“Public libraries are such important, lovely places!” Yes but do you GO there. Do you STUDY there. Do you meet friends and get coffee there. Do you borrow the FREE, ZERO SUBSCRIPTION, ZERO TRACKING books, audiobooks, ebooks, and films. Have you checked out their events and schemes. Do you sign up for the low cost courses in ASL or knitting or programming or writing your CV that they probably run. Do you know they probably have myriad of schemes to help low income families. Do you hire their low cost rooms if you need them. Have you joined their social groups. Do you use the FREE COMPUTERS. Do you even know what your library is trying to offer you. Listen, the library shouldn’t just exist for you as a nice idea. That’s why more libraries shut every year

sheherlocked-deactivated2022083

If this post persuades even one person to get a free library account and use it, my time on this hellsite will not have been spent in vain