#vsi

[sexysmokerstoo]

Michelle in the kitchen

[nocternalrandomness]

"The Six Pack" - Basic flight instruments

[jack-0f-stars]

the visual snow initiative (VSI) is a pretty cool thing to exist because they're creating awareness and education and everything and obviously that's a good thing, but like....

it honestly weirds me out that they're seemingly so laser-focused on finding a cure!

they mention it on almost every page of their site, and have y'all seen their merch???? I looked at their shop bc I was curious what the hell kinda products and designs they'd have, imagining some funky-cool static art n shit, but instead I see, uh.. this??

I mean, I get it. im reading about folks' experiences and how they just suddenly had this syndrome one day and their world changed and they didn't know what was happening, and obviously I can see why they would want to find a cure. like there's this one story from a woman who got visual snow when she was almost 40 years old! I can totally see how that would be unpleasant and scary as hell.

I know I was really scared when I started having visual snow. I think I was 5 or 6, and I was convinced I was seeing monsters coming at me in the dark, even when I closed my eyes. I couldn't sleep for a few nights, even after crawling in my parents' bed, until I somehow convinced myself to imagine friendlier creatures in the static instead. and then I just... got used to it. I even totally forgot about it for a good long while! i genuinely can't remember seeing the world "normally" because visual snow just is my normal now, and I like it that way.

obviously my experience is different from some of these folks', since I have the privilege of having milder visual snow symptoms (at least for now, maybe ill be Suffering in a decade, who knows lol) and I also have the privilege of just being so used to this ding dang glitch in my brain (affectionate). maybe if I didn't get it until I was in my 20s I'd just want it gone too. idk.

I guess the point of this post is to say that it's kinda disappointing to try and learn more about something you experience and find a community of people who understand what you're dealing with, only to realize that a significant portion of them dislike the strange, cool, unique thing you share and want to get rid of it. it's kind of a bummer. they might want to see a world without visual snow, but I don't.

[oupacademic]

Ahead of the UK release, we are celebrating with a quote from Reading, the 600th title in our Very Short Introductions series.

Image by Eleanor Chilvers for Oxford University Press 

[lesderotaucambodge]

La Genèse du projet

Dans notre projet de mariage nous avions écrit :

“Le plus grand cadeau que nous puissions faire aux personnes, c’est le temps"

"Nous souhaitons nous investir, selon les temps de la vie et selon nos capacités au service des petits et des pauvres”

YALLAH ! Nous quittons la France le 7 août pour 2 ans au Cambodge au service d’Enfants du Mékong

Pertuis, le 5 juin 2019

[linghengmachine]

Just finished installation, commissioning ,Granite stone crushing plant could produce 120ton sands per hour. VSI vertical shaft impact crusher , also called sand making machine , #sandmakingmachine #sandmaking #sand #granite #granitecrusher #stonecrusher #stonecrusherplant #riverstone #impactcrusher #vsi #vsicrusher #pebble #pebblecrushers #limestone #limestonecrusher #rockcrusher （在 Henan Ling Heng Machinery co.，ltd）

[local-boob]

The marine environment is the planet's largest and most important habitat. It covers 71 per cent of the planet's surface; contains more than 99 per cent of its habitable living space; represents its largest repository of living matter; produces half its primary production; and supports a remarkably diverse and exquisitely adapted array of life forms, from microscopic viruses, bacteria, and plankton to the largest existing animals. For these reasons alone, marine biology is an inherently fascinating, important, and exciting subject.

quite possibly the best, most succinct introduction to a field of study i’ve read thus far; Introduction, Marine Biology: A Very Short Introduction by Philip V. Mladenov (2013)

[the-final-sentence]

And somehow…Jackson.

Nancy Holder, from “VSI”