Cyrin's Lair

Welcome to whatever the fuck this is. Writings may appear through the reblogs.

[fuckyeahgoodomens]

Omg, Michael bought David! :D (x)

[littlemissbigears]

When we start seeing behind the scenes pics of makeup artists surrounding Johnathan Roumie for season 6 what then?

[legsdemandias]

Im not a parent, but I know that so many issues with kids misbehaving could be solved by giving them a simple task to complete instead of just yelling “stop” until they cry

[legsdemandias]

Over the summer I went to an art museum with my S/O and their son (age 10). The son wasn’t as engaged as we’d hoped, but also we probably should have known. 

He whined about and my S/O said “we went to legoland for you, this is for us adults” which is fine, but that didn’t stop him from whining about. 

Immediately jumping into teacher mode, I pulled out my notebook and a pen and I said “hey, every time we stop to look at a painting for a while, I want you to draw it.” He didn’t draw a single picture. I showed him how to do it, still didn’t draw a single picture…but he also stopped whining. He couldn’t complete the task, but his focus was taken away from “I don’t want to be here” and was transferred to “what does this image look like? how can i draw this”

It doesn’t always work, but it teaches kid to channel energy and focus instead of wondering what “stop” means. Because “stop” really means “do something else”. 

[curlicuecal]

for some reason your icon being a knife gave me the really strong impression you were telling me all this information at knifepoint

[vampiricram]

Nono that’s a the wright impression

Treat the kids better

Or knife

[deactivated-blog]

every time i see the word peonies without context

[spacemancharisma]

I MAY NOT KNOW MY FLOWERS

BUT I KNOW A

BITCH

WHEN I SEE ONE

[navajolovesdestiel]

This is a marigold:

This is a peony:

[renthebarbarian]

And this is a bitch

[authorkimberlygrey]

Take frequent breaks (drink water too!) and do your goddamn wrist stretches

Image (source)

[insanitysilver]

Something that helps me stick to this is making a two-video youtube playlist that has a 1-hour timer then a stretching video. I have it loop infinitely in the background for as long as I write.

[elf-kid2]

@mysteryteacup

[soundlessdragon]

[exhaustedhope]

Please pray for Baby Indi’s family to be comforted. She died this morning. (November 13, 2023)

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12742755/indi-gregory-timeline-events-legal-battle-parents-life-support-tragic-death.html

Some of the most outstanding lines in the article:

“University Hospitals NHS Trust requested to withhold some medical treatments, such as breathing assistance, oxygen therapy, tubes and CPR, if her condition worsened.”

“Doctors changed their request to instead remove critical care - saying that it would be kinder to let Indi die than put her through the pain she was supposedly suffering at the time due to the treatment.”

“Hope for Indi was brought by a hospital in Rome, Italy, offering treatment in what a Christian Legal Centre spokesperson described as a 'dramatic development'. They added: 'Fully-funded by the Italian government, the Bambino Gesu Paediatric Hospital in Rome has agreed to accept Indi for treatment.'”

They wouldn’t allow someone else to fully pay for the baby’s treatment and transfer. They forced her to stay and die. After losing the battle for her to be transferred…

“In another legal defeat for Mr Gregory and Ms Staniforth, Indi was denied the option of dying at her family home.”

They wouldn’t even allow her to die at her home. And the judge had the gall to say this.

“Mr Justice Peel added: 'I consider it essential that Indi should continue to have clinical treatment of the highest quality, carried out in a safe and sustainable setting. That will not be available at home.'”

Baby Indi’s father, Dean Gregory, “My wife Claire and I are angry, heartbroken and ashamed. The NHS and the courts not only took away her chance to live a longer life, but they also took away Indi's dignity to pass away in the family home where she belonged. They managed to take Indi's body and dignity, but they will never be able to take her soul. They tried to get rid of Indi without anybody knowing, but we made sure she would be remembered forever. I knew she was special from the day she was born. Claire held her for her final breaths.'

Remember Baby Indi and her parents, Claire Staniforth and Dean Gregory, and her sisters

Remember that Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust had doctors and lawyers that claimed she wasn’t worth saving and actively hindered her from receiving treatment, and remember the High Court’s ruling.

Remember that this is not the first time the British government denied treatment to a baby. Remember this is not the first time another country offered to transport and help an ailing baby.

Alfie Evans (Italy offered treatment)

Charlie Gard (USA offered treatment)

The more you research and discover what happened to these babies and families, the worse it gets.

[system-a-naturae]

Hey, remember how Germany's eugenic programs started with the willing murder of disabled children (see the case of Gerhard Kretschmar)? And how the killing of the mentally and physically disabled lead enabled further murder and genocide? Because I do

[escuerzoresucitado]

[porterdavis]

[theinstagrahame]

I keep thinking about a post I saw the other day, and likely won't be able to find again, which proposed as a response to "you'll be fine if you have nothing to hide" the phrase:

" I have nothing to hide, but I don't trust your intentions and judgement"

[mcgravin]

Was it this one?

"I need privacy, not because my actions are questionable, but because your judgment and intentions are."

[homoluigi]

[barryogg]

"some reason" :^)

[nitpickrider]

Three Mile Island, Chernobyl, Fukushima If you can GUARANTEE that nothing even APPROACHING those could EVER happen under ANY circumstances Then I will fold to Nuclear Power

[msaprildaniels]

Coal mining releases more radiation to the biosphere than nuclear power, even taking into account nuclear accidents.

[nitpickrider]

Cool So ditch coal That does not make nuclear the solution

[official-kircheis]

and what are you going to replace it with? when the sun doesn't shine and the wind doesn't blow?

inb4 batteries, can you spot the batteries in this graph?

that's the world's second (maybe third idk) LARGEST battery installation. it cost A$160 million. it's a fucking rounding error on a TINY grid.

[nitpickrider]

I am not going to replace one resource we can’t renew, causes cancer, poisons the land and cannot be stored or recycled with another. That waste always has to come up somehow because it will outlast literally everything else.

[official-kircheis]

cannot be stored

Onkalo spent nuclear fuel repository - Wikipedia

or recycled

Breeder reactor - Wikipedia

That waste always has to come up somehow because it will outlast literally everything else.

that's not how radioactive decay works you scientifically ignorant moron. I am begging you read a single grade school level physics book.

why do you have such strong opinions about something you obviously don't have a single fucking clue about? doesn't it get embarrassing being this fucking wrong on the internet?

anyway you didn't answer the question, where are you going to get the electricity from? while electrifying EVERYTHING? or are you one of those primmies who thinks we should dismantle industrial society? then start with yourself and log the fuck off so the rest of us don't have to suffer the displeasure of interacting with you.

[nitpickrider]

If I may committ the faux pas of double posting (Maybe triple, I think I got three responses)  What I have learned tonight As I am learning much more often as I get older. Is that I have some reading to do And some high school level preconceptions to get rid of.  I stopped learning about this at some point. And I spoke as if I hadn’t.

[shacklesburst]

I didn't think I'd ever see kircheis', uh, intense way of arguing would lead anybody to rethink their position.

In any case this much open mindedness has to be commended.

[nitpickrider]

Excuse me for quoting a dead meme But they had me with facts and logic. The only knowledge I’d ever had was stuff I’d gotten in school or thought I had absorbed better than I had. With nuclear towers as these smoke spewing monsters constently bubbling with glowing green ooze, barrel after barrel, day in and out But then I looked at how much nuclear waste is created for a given amount of power, compared to how much oil slicked slurry is produced for the same amount of coal. And I realized that I was staring at cold hard numbers that told me I didn’t know shit about shit. I could have dug in my heels and made myself look like some reactionary asshole with my head in the sand. Or I could take a breath, swallow my pride. And admit I was wrong on the internet. It’s a habit I’m trying to form.

[centrally-unplanned]

@nitpickrider​ gets based award of the day, topic independent too, chad move.

[ariaste]

Yo, can we just all take a moment to offer fistbumps to @nitpickrider​? I cannot remember the last time I saw someone be so gracious and graceful on the internet, and I am sincerely impressed. 

Folks, that right there is the pinnacle of gentlemanly behavior (or gentlewomanly. or gentlethemly. you get the point.) and the model that we should all aspire to.

[elfwreck]

There are issues with nuclear power. There are methods for storage, but those need to be properly implemented to be useful. And there's still dangers.

But.

There are some seriously important reasons to tackle those issues.

[dappercyborg]

May I also point out that list of nuclear disasters

3 mile island: all that happened was they bricked a brand new reactor and caused a panic, the other reactor in the complex went on to have a flawless safety record

Chernobyl: a known problem with all reactors of that design, the problem was it was the height of the Cold War, inherent Soviet secrecy wouldn’t allow them to admit a problem, combine that with a lax safety culture at the plant and a he fact the test that caused it was the last thing to do before shift change

Fukushima: the sea wall was to small, they knew it was to small, they had been repeatedly warned it was to small, they built the plant in an area with a history of earthquakes and the tsunamis they cause

The problem is rarely nuclear power itself it’s people treating it flippantly, like so many things it can kill you and demands respect, we must not be complacent

It is a tool in the kit, and an increasingly important one if we want to mitigate the worst effects of climate change

[gaylor-moon]

[andhumanslovedstories]

I’ve told this story ten thousand times and I will tell it for the ten thousandth and first: whenever I think about wearing a costume to work on Halloween, I remember the time I saw a doctor breaking what must have been devastating news to a sobbing patient while the doc was dressed as a ketchup bottle.

[andhumanslovedstories]

There’s a lot of good responses to this but I obviously very partial to the healthcare ones

[tropics777]

And in these next 50 years you will eat so many delicious meals, laugh so many times with so many people you love, shout and scream and sing and cry and smile so hard your face hurts. And you will see such beautiful sunsets and feel fresh cold air on your face and feel warm and safe wrapped up in your favourite winter coat.

[wizard-council-bureaucrat]

I wrap this blessing around you like a shroud, so that no ill can find you, and every warmth is held close

[anonymousalchemist]

ykno the thing about poetry is that 99% of it is bullshit and the other 1% will cut you like a material knife, and for every person that 1% is a different section of the whole. this is probably true about all art.

[wearenotjustnumbers2]

This news surfaced yesterday and I just want to say this isn't new. This happened and has been reported more than once. There are also the Yemeni Jewish children who were kidnapped from their mothers by Ashkenazi "nurses", who claimed that the baby is dead, and diagnose the mother with hysteria/mental disorder after.

The lack of regard for people of color in Israel shouldn't come as a surprise at all. How many poc do you see in the government/ knesst despite the number of Ethiopian and Yemeni jews?

They're creating an all white country, this is colonizer behavior 101, the world just turned a blind eye.

[sternin]

link to the guardian article

here are some articles concerning the yemenite children affair: (1) (2) (3)

[heroineimages]

Had one of the best sessions I've DMed so far tonight at the library. So we're still playing as Roman gladiators, and I let the teens do a PvP training session in their ludus's practice arena with 3v3 teams, adding a 4th plus an NPC when another showed up late. As a DM, it was kind of nice because all I had to do was referee, while I let them pound each other. And since they're all the same level, and all fighting classes, it worked out to be pretty even and brutal. And since it was a training session, none of them had to die when they went down.

I really want to have them PvP in the Colosseum now, but I worry about creating animosity between players, since they'll have to actually kill each other's characters if the audience down-votes someone.

[ancient-rome-au]

brainstorming a few possibilities:

venatio: party vs. beast(s)

a shady hustler approaches the party with an offer:

You receive: Scroll of Raise Dead

I receive: insider knowledge of who will win the fight (i.e. match fixing)

quest to instigate / support a slave revolt by gladiators

give the players pre-made character sheets so they can RP in the role of gladiators while their main characters just watch in the audience

[heroineimages]

We actually did a wild-beasts hunt in our session two weeks ago! I sent a bunch of lions and leopards into the arena after them. One of them basically begged me to send an elephant after them and got the others psyched up about it, too. So I sent an elephant into the arena. We had a new gal for that session who was playing D&D for the very first time. I rolled a critical hit for a stomp attack, one-shotting the new girl's gladiator.

She apparently was okay with it, though, because she's been there every week since.

[jeanjauthor]

To be honest, that was a pretty epic one-shot death. I have been playing since 1981, and I have NEVER heard of a character being one-shot by an elephant, so that girl has some serious gamer story cred, now! (Please let her know!)

Seriously, how cool is it to instantly have a funny story about her very first gaming session, "Yeah, my first time I ever played, my character got trampled to death by an elephant, in front of thousands of spectators. It was horrible AND awesome!!"

[ducissatenebrarum]

Angel of God Chaining The Demon of Lust. Jan Steen

ca.1660 Museum Bredius

[elodieunderglass]

“WHAT HAVE YOU GOT IN YOUR MOUTH?”

“Blarlarlarlblar,” said the Demon of Lust, nearly dislocating its own legs as it fought like a baby evading a diaper change.

“Could you stop! Eating! Garbage! For! One! Minute! STOP WIGGLING.”

The Demon of Lust, in a simultaneously guilty but reproachful way, stopped wiggling. Instead, it held still but stretched itself slowly but relentlessly backwards. Its eyes fixed on a new object of desire. The heap of steaming hot garbage throbbed in its vision. Upside-down, just out of reach - or was it? Carefully not wiggling, it stretched its neck backwards, extending its tongue. It could practically taste it.

“Don’t think I don’t see - no! That’s literally burning garbage!”

“Blarlarlar!”

“No! It’s burning your actual face!”

“Blarlarlar.”

“That’s it. Kennel. KENNEL.”

“Blar,” said the saddest demon in the world, staring fixedly at the hot mess.

“Lust CAN help itself around trash fires,” the angel said sternly, handling the demon in a method popularized by people trying to administer pills to struggling cats. “You can’t fix it. You’ll hurt yourself making it worse.”

“Blar.”

“Oh, tell you what. You can have a blorbo as a treat. Nice blorbo. Come on, puppy, into the kennel. Nice blorbo for you.”

[rongzhi]

English added by me :)

[softpastelqueer]