As someone who lives in a generally hot climate, I decided to make a masterlist of posts I like that help with the current heat waves going on elsewhere.
Remember if you live in a hot area and are going "Ohh, but we deal with this all the time-" their infrastructure is not meant to deal with the current weather. The best thing we can do is help how we're able.
If you have anything to add to the Masterlist @ me or message me! Some things might contain similar info, but anything new is helpful.
Information Masterposts
1. How to Cope with Extreme Temperatures | @dandelionsresilience
"Fill gallon jugs with water in case you lose access to tap, and don’t forget to replace the water before winter and before summer."
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General Information
1. Common Myths Around Heat | @alpaca-clouds
"Okay, you know what? Given that over the last week I have seen at least one of the common myths of "things you should not do in the heat" come over my dashboard, let us quickly go over this:"
2. Heat-coping Tips For No Electricity or Rationed Electricity | @rosslynpaladin
"Do you have unglazed baked tile floors, bricks, or those windows with a bunch of stacked tiles or baked unglazed pipe stacked in them to fill them up and let a breeze through? Are they in the SHADE? GET THEM WET"
3. Texan Tips 1 | @metalheadsagainstfascism
"Heat exhaustion is more, "drink water and get you cooled off." Heat stroke is more "Oh my god call 911.""
4. 7 TIPS TO SURVIVE HOT HUMID SUMMERS | @pinnithin
"I wrote this up for a discord server but figured I would share it here with the heat wave hitting the US this week. you don't have to do everything on this list; the idea is to pick one or two things that work for your lifestyle and then add more as you get comfortable with them."
5. Heatwaves at Work | Post: @18thcenturythirstrap | Link: Goughs solicitors
"Thought this would be useful. Short version: unfortunately, there is no legal maximum working temperature (while there is a legal minimum temperature), but employers still have a legal duty to provide safe, reasonable and properly risk assessed working conditions - which includes managing the risks associated with requiring staff to work in excessive heat."
6. Heat Exhaustion vs Heat Stroke | @thishazeleyeddemon
"By a Red Cross certified first responder
After finding this post by @iinfernal I thought it may be helpful to lay out the symptoms of heat exhaustion vs heat stroke, so people can be aware of what to look for and what to do."
7. Texan Tips 2 | @hustlemeanokay
"I grew up in Texas. It's hot as fuck in Texas, rightfully so. And you learn things about heat, especially when you don't have air conditioning which believe me, a lot of people still don't and I was one of them growing up at my Mom's house."
8. What to do during a summer power outage | @calico-cows
"This is assuming high temperatures. This list is not comprehensive, nor is it necessarily in order:
1. confirm the power is out. Check with your neighbors and check the breaker"
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Recipes
1. Quick Hydration | @libraford
"-ancient roman posca: water, red or white wine vinegar, honey, salt, herbs (coriander, mint, thyme)
-switchel: water, ginger, vinegar, sweetener, lemon, salt
-ayran: yogurt, water, salt, mint
-Agua pepino: water, cucumbers, lime, sugar, optional mint."
2. Hydration Elixir | @greentrickster
"Warning: DO NOT drink Hydration Elixir by itself! This is an elixir meant to be mixed in small quantities with a regular-sized glass or bottle of water! You're making the equivalent of a family supper-sized quantity of elixir, not an individual meal."
at some point in your life you will be boiling fruit, water, sugar, and lemon juice in a pot to make a syrup or jam. the instructions will tell you to simmer for a certain amt of time. your timer will go off and you will look at the pot and go, "hm, this doesn't look thick enough. maybe i'll let it go for another 10 minutes." this is the devil speaking. it's only so liquid right now because it is at boiling point. it will thicken when it cools down. learn from the follies of my youth and do not let this happen to you
at some point in your life you will be making a sauce or a stew in which you need to add cornstarch to thicken it. and you will prepare a slurry of starch in cold water and think "this looks like way too little starch to thicken this amount of liquid." this is the devil speaking. cornstarch instantly polymerizes at 95°C and if you add too much it will turn into an impossibly thick goop.
at some point in your life you will be making some sort of cream based dessert that requires gelatin to thicken it. and you will soak some gelatin sheets in water and think "this is too few gelatin sheets for this amount of cream." this is the devil speaking. it will thicken in the fridge and if you add too much you will end up with milk jelly
at some point in your life you will be baking cookies. you will take the sheet out after twelve minutes as the recipe instructs and the cookies will still be glistening and soft. "these don't seem cooked enough," you will think to yourself, "i should place them back into the oven until their edges are nice and golden." this is the devil talking. this is how you get dry, overdone cookies. the cookies will continue to bake on the warm sheet for several more minutes and then harden up after sitting on a rack for a while. trust the process. trust the process.
at some point in your life you will be adding a small pasta to a soup and you will think "that is not enough small pasta." this is the devil talking. the pasta will absorb the stock and expand. this is how you end up with a soup that is a solid mass of soggy ditalini.
At some point in your life you will be adding garlic to a dish and you will think "that is not enough garlic." These are angels speaking. They are correct. Add more garlic.
https://www.reddit.com/r/DnD/comments/7asxci/oc_ygathok_the_ceaseless_hunger_final_boss_of_our/
This is the reveal of this ridiculousness during their game
one thing I haven't gotten critiqued on yet but that I can see looming on the horizon, is that I really like to have main characters who are non-human and autistic-coded. and I've seen the conversations about how it's not actually all that validating to have "autistic rep" if the character in question is just an alien or a robot or whatever, and I actually do agree with that (for real!), but unfortunately I want to be a creature so so bad, I just really really want to be a creature. or like a little gnome or bug or something. so a good number of my autistic self inserts will just be awful fuck ass creatures and I apologize for that.
so i hauve covid rn and i must say, American cold medicine is the absolute bees knees. You go to a UK pharmacy and they tenderly press like eight (8) paracetamol into the palm of your hand... God FORBID you're sick in France, i had to scour every pharmacy in Paris for something that wasn't HOMEOPATHIC PASTILLES. meanwhile last night i took the last of my stash of Nyquil that expired in 2019 and it was like getting hit by a fucking baseball bat (affectionate). press X to timeskip. LOVE me a cheeky little medically induced coma. you can really feel that it's a precursor to meth. i know that everything is fucking awful over there my friedns and my heart goes out to every one of you but if you need one small bright light of national pride in this time of strife please know that i envy you your cold medicine every day
i once took an american antihistamine pill just a basic one for seasonal allergies and i had to immediately lay down and while doing so i vividly hallucinated that i was a steerage passenger on the titanic resigned to my death as my cabin filled up rapidly with water. then i blacked out and when i woke up again my allergies were gone for the entire season.
you tried to read the words as prose
but noticed how its scansion goes
and now you can’t unhear the tune, so screw ya
recall the phrase you love the most
then once again reblog this post
and tag your fav’rite line of hallelujah
You pick a phrase, you pick a rhyme, repeat the sound another time,
Five iambs, then an extra beat will do ya.
Another rhyme, a rising note - congratulations, you just wrote
Another goddamn verse to Hallelujah.
