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Made this post about 15 minutes after the repair guy who fixed the pump on my dishwasher packed up his tools and left, as the dishwasher was whirring along doing my dishes from that morning.
He said the exact same thing, which I did not know before that, so spreading this knowledge.
everyone i've talked to about this has been completely unaware so: if you didn't know already, there's going to be a solar eclipse, with totality or coverage of 90% or more in some places, over a lot of europe, on august 12th 2026. in the uk it will start just after 6pm, and the maximum will be at 7:13pm.
here is a map of the path of the eclipse (from timeanddate)
get eclipse glasses if you want to look at it. it is not safe to look at through sunglasses. ok informative post over o7
(Yoinked this from LinkedIn, genuinely interested in seeing how responses align with demographics) (so far itās those of us over 35 being indignant but I wanna see how those fully plays out) (itās cultural and technological history/memory, bruh)
maybe Iām too old but Iāll never understand āracist dni, transphobe dni, homophobe dniā not because I condone the harmful beliefs these people hold but because I donāt think the majority of people who are racist or transphobic or homophobic identify themselves as those things. like, to them they most certainly genuinely donāt see themselves as those things. so theyāre not gonna read your dnis and think āoh dear! I have to click away from this blog immediately! phew š®āšØ almost interact with them accidentally offend the op there!ā
on the contrary, you are displaying the things that can hurt or upset or trigger you to strangers on the internet just for what? an extra performative point? obviously Iām not gonna judge people who have these dnis on their blogs because itās their blogs and what they do is not my business. so I apologize if this post sounds like I am being rude or judgmental or aggressive ā sometimes I do have bitchy opinions on the concepts of Things people do, but not about the people who choose to do them. but yeah tbh I really think these dnis are about as useful as putting a ādo not robā sign in front of a bank or a āthief and intruder dniā sign in front of a house.
*I get wanting to take a stand. but I still donāt think itās gonna achieve anything, which is just my personal opinion. you do you
i made a post like this before but I can't find it now. so. I'll just redo it.
What's the first "big news story" you remember from when you were a kid?
It's something I love to ask mixed-aged groups sometimes because I think it's really interesting to see the responses. I've gotten answers from the Olympics of [whatever year] to Watergate to more recent stuff from my niblings.
My first news thing I remember is the OJ Simpson trial. I vaguely remember watching the news with my grandparents before that, but that's the first story I remember, in part because my second grade teacher had us go play so she could watch the verdict š
canon is what happens in the text. e.g. merlin tries to poison morgana
a headcanon is a fact that you have personally made up as an elaboration of canon. it is your invention. e.g. i think morgana and gwen had a teenage lesbian situationship before the events of canon. or, i think modern morgana would love evanesence.
an interpretation is how one reads the existing text. it is not an invented fact nor is it a headcanon, it is a reading. e.g. i think merlin tries to poison morgana out of misplaced self-hatred. or, i think that one line was delivered with suppressed malice and shows a nuanced relationship.
fanon is the general fandomās accepted headcanons and interpretations that elaborate or recontextualize canon. e.g. merlin is a badass waif and morgana is a bitch.
these are all different words with different meanings.
Segment of Judy Lin interview where she explains that the City of Echoes line (non-Chronicles of the Avatar) for the novels takes pitches for novels set in ATLA and TLOK.
