one of those tumblr elders

I will like, never remember to update my tags page. Merilee: 30 y/o lady, Christian, fandom-y stuff, fanatical tagger.

[pressworksonpaperblog]

from “baths”, 1987.

[hollowerror]

*echoing down the hall* welcome back to a gaaaame changer

[adhdedrn]

He’s been here the whole time.

[crabussy]

"live every day like it's your last": scary. weirdly foreboding. not a good thought process if you get anxious easily. stressful. so much pressure that it loops back around to making you do nothing. "live every day like it's your FIRST": everything becomes fascinating. renews the excitement of discovering things for the first time again. makes you feel like exploring stuff. #mywisdom

[rocketsaurus]

Curious what is actually normal for bed time. Go for your normal/average time, not your most extreme or what you wish it was.

what time do you go to bed? (local time)

7pm or before

8pm

9pm

10pm

11pm

12am

1am

2am or after

it's never consistent

some other time entirely

Remaining time: 3 days 17 hours

I just don't know what grownups do for bedtime and I want to know!!!

[draconym]

Sure, you know how to self-flagellate, but do you know how to apologize? Saying "I'm a stupid idiot" is not the same thing as saying "I did something wrong."

[draconym]

People who want an apology pretty much never want to hear "I'm a stupid idiot." If someone is actually trying to get you to say you're a stupid idiot, it's not because it will make up for a mistake you made or harm you caused. It's because they want you to feel like a stupid idiot. People who care about you do not want you to feel like a stupid idiot and it hurts them when they see you putting yourself down in their name.

[manicpixiedckgirl]

[theaudientvoid]

There are multiple chapters that are set in hospitals where the characters are attempting to recover from injuries that never fully heal. I must once again stress that my experience in WWI was perfectly normal.

[aro-ace-from-outer-space22]

There is a giant horrible mudplain full of unrecoverable and perfectly preserved dead bodies that the characters have to walk through in a land where the air is poisoned gas, and on a compLETELY UNRELATED NOTE: WWI WAS TOTALLY FINE AND NORMAL!!

[hamletthedane]

And why are you all saying lotr was also a way for me to process the trauma and horror I experienced watching my own sons and students fight in WWII. Just because one of my characters longs to fight alongside her loved ones to save her country instead of being told to stay put, keep calm, and carry on while the world around her completely falls apart and all hope seems lost…..made to silently bear witness to the death and destruction of her people and the lands she is unable to protect….

Yes, I began writing these books during WWII while my sons were actively on the front lines, but my experience watching the young people I loved and taught dying to save me and my country from invasion in WWII bc my generation did not in fact end all wars WAS TOTALLY FINE AND NORMAL!!

[capinejghafa]

MULAN (1998) dir. BARRY COOK & TONY BANCROFT

[stealingpotatoes]

Me imagining Kanan and Toph meeting 🤣

i mean they have a lot to bond over!

(links // tip jar!)

[stealingpotatoes]

@happybabysloth yeah but like who's gonna know. who's gonna know he's wearing red. definitely not these guys, he's invited <3

[umbraastaff]

not that this is anything new, but I keep thinking about the Starblaster takeoff. I mean, like, to be a person who volunteers for that sort of mission, you do need to be at least a little bit ready to die, you know? Whether or not you admit that to yourself. And we see that Magnus will throw himself into the line of fire for anything, we see Davenport so dedicated to the mission that of course he'd readily put his life on the line, we see Merle already old and looking for a new adventure, we see the researchers and writer so curious and driven (perhaps in part by the Light) that they simply needed to be here, no matter the cost.

and what a delicious irony it is. to board your ship, ready to die for the world, and instead watch the entire world die while you survive.

[dyk-this-musical-song]

Visit Original Link

Do you know this Musical Song? #255

I know the song and the musical

I know the song but not the musical

I know the musical but not the song

I may know this

I have never heard this

Voting ended onMay 30

[bedrock-to-buildheight]

The autoclave is designed to kill schmucks I think

[bedrock-to-buildheight]

It’s a 24yo Tomy SS-325 if it helps, it beeps once when it finishes counting down and beeps again when it finishes depressurizing, the steam is about 90-100c by then iirc

[bedrock-to-buildheight]

#top loading autoclave??? how do you get your trays out without toughing the sides?

With its basket! It comes with two of them

[thesilverhunt3r]

What's an autoclave?

Are those ink markers?

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

It's essentially a superpowered pressure cooker designed to get hot and high pressure enough to kill EVERYTHING. Including mold spores. They're used to sterilise equipment.

Those aren't markers, they're tubes of fluid that OP wants to be sterile. It's common practice to autoclave things like nutrient broth before inoculating them with bacteria, to kill off any contamination and make sure that you only grow whatever you put in there to grow.

[grison-in-space]

Fun fact: you can totally sterilize equipment with an instant pot in a pinch. I know this because my lab lives in a psych department so there's no goddamn autoclave in our building, so we were using an instant pot for some time until EHS decided they were not comfortable with it and were willing to cough up for an actual autoclave.

You want to use a biomarker to verify obviously but that's good practice anyway.

[whetstonefires]

Instant Pot doesn't let you open it until it's depressurized why does Elderly Tommy the Murder Autoclave omit this feature.

[lfo-of-the-day]

New candidate for favorite uses of the English Language: ^

[sarakipin]

My piece for the upcoming Gallery Nucleus tribute show "Together From Afar: A How to Train Your Dragon Tribute Exhibition" ! Opening Reception is on April 11th from 5–8 pm 🐉☁️

[tam--lin]

it's pretty easy to imagine that you are one of some fractional holdout against AI while everyone else has fallen into some misguided love affair with LLMs, and I am so happy to tell you that this is not the case.

the US public is deeply suspicious of AI's impacts on jobs and education. Kamala Harris and the Republican party are both polling better than AI. 8/10 gen zers are concerned about AI's impact on education and only 18% are positive about this technology. there is widespread, bipartisan grassroots organizing against data centers. 97% of Britons are against Grok's "undressing" technology. the majority of Americans are concerned about AI in arenas like self-driving vehicles and healthcare. Even polling data from companies centered on AI shows significant concern around generative technology. OpenAI isn't meeting internal growth bench posts. On top of all that, Musk and Altman are currently both making fools of themselves in a very public trial.

[tam--lin]

I wrote this to ground myself because within the last month my workplace and gym have become overrun by AI graphics, then I logged out of Tumblr and immediately discovered that my Chemistry professor has switched to transparently AI generated exam feedback

[robotslenderman]

Source

[tributary]

teetotailer

[judygemstone]

first incidence of good writing advice i've seen in 10+ years on this platform and it's in the notes of a mustelid wreaking absolute havoc in a german grocery store

[theseconddoctor]

really endeared by this thing victor hugo does where we wont see jean valjean for a few chapters and then he'll be like. and here is a MAN who is EXCEPTIONALLY STRONG and KIND and QUIET and depending on whether or not its post m. sur m. has WHITE HAIR and NO ONE KNEW ANYTHING ABOUT HIM and ill say victor is this man jean valjean? and he'll say no...🤭 its just some other man who happens to have INCREDIBLE STRENGTH which is VERY CONVENIENT and allows him to do something no one else could. and then like three pages later he'll go suprise! it was jean valjean all along! and i'll pretend to be suprised. its like peekaboo for 186-s french men

[piierogis]

A moment of appreciation for the 1992 French Les Mis cartoon, which, among MANY other wild choices, apparently decides to have Valjean get a pardon (with multiple people, including Javert, testifying in court), then do a post-Seine style rescue scene:

(Cosette, Marius and their pet dog are also there)

Then, IMMEDIATELY has Javert take the name Fauchelevent and sail off to America.

Yeah, sure. Sure, why not. We love a creative adaptation.

It all happens within roughly 40 seconds.

Amazing.

Bonus:

@lesmisshippingshowdown

[fiction-podcast-lover]

Addition of my favorite unhinged things from this adaptation:

- Les amies being a theater group

- Jean-Valjean saving more people then Marius at the baricade

- The wedding being changed to Cosette's birthday and Monseigneur Bienvenue being there ???

- Victor Hugo himself having an appearance at the end

[valjeansemble]

Wait wait where can I watch this

Because this is amazing

[classic-art-favourites]

Cat Nap by Henriette Ronner-Knip (1821-1909).

[superiorbiscuits]

prayer request: my back is hurting real bad, and I have a big dance performance I've been working for over a year towards on saturday night. i got meds prescribed today, pray they help in time

[superiorbiscuits]

updates:

the bad: my back still really hurts. when i was dealing with this back in march, the meds helped. this time they don't seem to be (i'm going back to the doctor tomorrow)

the meh: because of my back, i didn't get to do my dance performance

why the 'meh' isn't 'bad' (aka, the good): the dance performance was for a gala. it's an annual thing where one of the community theatre's i'm involved with designates a bunch of people to compete to fundraise for the theatre. we all have individual fundraisers, and then this gala performance that's the grand finale where we all get to perform whatever we want. i knew i was going to be competing from like, april of last year. i started working on my performance piece (a complex and personal dance to one of my favorite musical songs) last year, which is why i was so devastated that i couldn't perform it because of this issue with my back.

the first good thing that happened is that the 'community' of this community theatre really rallied around me and supported me, both emotionally and practically. we had our rehearsal friday night, which was when i told them i'd be changing my performance, and didn't know what i was doing. i cried, a lot, while telling people this, so they knew it was clearly more than just pain in my back. i was obviously very emotionally upset. a bunch of people helped me switch my performance, so i sang a song i'd never ever sang before. i was going to sing to a track but the accompanist learned it that day! the tech booth switched my tech elements, and they even showed a video of my choreography as well. and the emotional support lots of people provided me cannot be understated. i had waited years for the opportunity to do this competition, and was so upset over losing my one shot to perform the number i wanted to (i don't get solo performance opportunities)

the second good thing is that i won the competition. i raised the most money. and it was exciting and satisfying. i'm deeply competitive, i wanted to win, but i knew going in that there was no guarantee. my goal was simply to put in the effort. if i was going to lose, no one was going to say i didn't try. and i tried. and i won.

here's the happy ending of it all: the winner of each year gets to emcee the following year's gala. and part of emceeing means a solo performance. provided my back is recovered, i will perform the piece i'd planned after all :)

[superiorbiscuits]

Me, totally shocked, surprised, and overjoyed at winning but trying to adopt some level of chill at the announcement: “ah yes, if I cover my mouth people won’t be quite as keyed into how big this is for me emotionally”

The photos: