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covid-safer-hotties

The point I hope y'all are getting tbh

otatma

Today is March 1785, 2020.

lifeblender

CDC’s National Wastewater Surveillance System, U.S. National trends

thebibliosphere

Just called my mother emotionally immature to her face lmao.

thebibliosphere

I’ve been doing my best to grey rock my family once they start their usual tactics, and I cannot begin to tell you how much they don’t enjoy my non-reactions to their attempts at escalation.

But there are limits.

And for someone that always says, “I’m only being honest with you” whenever you call her out for being intentionally hurtful, she sure doesn’t like honestly.

snazzy-hats-and-adhd

derinthescarletpescatarian

Oh so it was just straightup embezzlement. Fantastic, I was hoping it was.

derinthescarletpescatarian

#yeah as an accountant I was curious to see if they would address it in the bts#and then they did and it was...this#wow

So much of what these guys do is "it's only illegal if he sues us"

derinthescarletpescatarian

#WHAT THE FUCK HAPPENS IN GAME CHANGER

Embezzlement. Keep up.

impossiblepackage

this episode proved that Sam Reich is one of the easiest to murder people in the whole world. You get ONE person he knows on board and the man is toast. He’ll hop in the back of your van instantly like “ooh I wonder what silly little trick they have planned for me!” Brennan Lee Mulligan could have put this dude in a saw trap and he’d walk in smiling.

derinthescarletpescatarian

If my timeline is right, Elaine was planning this while she had a secret camera in their home. "I'm an honest person" (was conspiring against her husband in at least two separate simultaneous plots)

derinthescarletpescatarian

#what the fuck#im so out of the loop here i thought that was just some sorta game show

Yeah it is a game show

everydaygremlin

is the game in this case psychological torment?

derinthescarletpescatarian

Most of the time yeah

cravings

i just need a break from everything for a year or a century

theweirdwideweb

I can't believe this but it was on the news. They figured out the reason Minnesota is so humid now is because at a certain temperature corn releases water into the air. We're drowning in corn water. Corn related deadly weather. My life has been significantly, negatively altered by corn sweat. I knew climate change would come for us eventually, but I thought we had time what with being landlocked and cold as fuck to begin with.

famousinternetcat

@thebibliosphere

thebibliosphere

I’ve been tagged so many times in other posts too about the corn humidity. Fucking corn wrecking my life.

mortalityplays

british is not synonymous with white

european is not synonymous with white

the world is not divided into USA (melting pot), white countries and brown countries

"um you know the type of person I mean when I say british" hey do you think this line of thought may have Implications

cynical-mysanthrope

Idk, isn't saying european /= white is like saying china /= chinese? Like yeah, other peoples live there too, but it's mostly just the one, init?

mortalityplays

'Chinese' is a nationality. There are 56 officially recognised ethnic groups within China. Europe is a continent, comprised of around 50 countries each with their own demographic makeup. So, no.

hedge-rambles

Something like 20-25% of British people are, in fact, not white. And excluding those people as "yeah but they're not like British British" is the fucking mating call of our local hooting racists.

monkeyislandtwo

why r callouts always like "please dont harass this person and dont go after them. anyway heres every single detail of their life gathered by stalking and their private profiles for all to see"

monkeyislandtwo

"please don't go after this person! now let me post this document for every single one of my followers and list every single one of their usernames"

cannibalisticdespair

grumfy

yeah actually we removed the big bad wolf from the little red riding hood story because portraying violence against minors is really messed up. yeah. yeah also the wolf narrative was really predatory and had had some icky grooming vibes and a fable meant for literal children shouldn’t have implied p*do shit and grape so now little red riding hood goes into the woods and nothing happens and she goes to grandma’s house. don’t worry our kids will still stick to the path and know not to follow to wolves implicitly because we told them to and children should always do as their told. just like little red riding hood does now.

cordezshenanigans

I literally played The Wolf in the musical Into The Woods in college and one woman started saying weird shit about me because she thought I was playing the role "a little too well"

Luckily, the director was sane, and when he heard about that he pulled her aside and was like "girl he's supposed to play the role well. That's the fucking point"

And meanwhile, the girl who was playing Little Red was actually glad, even relieved, when she saw I was cast as The Wolf, because we knew each other and she felt safe with me and trusted that I wouldn't use the scene as an excuse to actually creep on her

All that to say, there really are people out there who will read Little Red Riding Hood, or even sign up to participate in an adaptation of the story, and go "ummm The Wolf is kind of problematic"

thatsbelievable

authorbettyadams

@radioactivepeasant ... now I'm not saying I suspect you....but I'm not saying I don't suspect you either...

radioactivepeasant

It's national library card sign-up month! Even for wolves! 🤣

stinson-png-deactivated20210103

“Girls want a Superman, but they walk past a Clark Kent every day”

You fuckin CLOWNS think you’re a CLARK KENT? Not on my fuckin watch. You dumb, headass motherfuckers are barely a Guy Gardner and you think you’re a CLARK KENT? The amount of disrespect is unreal.

bairnsidhe

Listen here, wannabes: My boi Clark is 240 lbs of PURE KANSAS BEEF trained from a young age by Ma Kent to Love and Respect women as the Intelligent, Independent beings they are. He is shy rambling about tractors and casually moving the copy machine when my pen falls behind it and he would NEVER demand I be sexually or romantically interested just because he’s nice.

Y’all ain’t Clark Kent.

chaosinacoffeecup

I have never hit the reblog button so damn fast.

therobotmonster

“barely a Guy Gardner” is the sickest comics related burn I’ve heard to date.

thebibliosphere

2nd day of trying caffeine again and seeing how my heart does. Dear god I missed tea made with Scottish water.

angrylittlesliceofpizza

yay!

… wait what is special about scottish water

should we worry o_o

thebibliosphere

It's soft water vs hard water. The minerals in Scottish water (soft water) make it very good for making tea and coffee taste better.

The hard water I have in the US leaves a bitter aftertaste.

derinthescarletpescatarian

Sometimes I go to the city and sample the fancy teas in the tea shop made with nice filtered water and buy some and bring them home and make them with tap water and wonder "why do they taste gross now? They didn't taste gross before!"

And then I remember that I live on a limestone aquifer.

rain-clouds-and-autumn-leaves

Hard water is absolutely disgusting compared to soft water

bewarethecircles

although it’s probably indeed better for cooking and drinking and such, I find soft water very scary to shower with. Soft water makes a… film? slime? thing? reaction with the soap, and no matter how much I wash it feels like it won’t leave. Evil feeling. My beautiful home water that is 90% rocks would never do that to me

jackironsides

........ Very soft water absolutely does not do that, what the hell

thebibliosphere

I think, as some other people in the notes have pointed out, it's the difference between naturally soft water and softened water when you add a system into your house and it does adds salts or whatever to pull the minerals out.

And yeah , actually, while I have never experienced the above with naturally soft water, now that I think about it, showering at my inlaws where they have a system can make my hair feel a bit like there's a film on it.

Which I just assumed at the time meant their system needed changed, but now I’m comparing the sensation, it wasn’t the same weird brittle residue left over by hard water.

So I think that might be what people are complaining about.

anotherdayforchaosfay

I can confirm! I'm used to various ranges of hard water, the worst being in Bumfuck Nowhere, Oregon. You let a cup of water sit more than a minute and there will be stuff sinking and settling again the body. We lived outside that town for a few years, and up in the mountains we got our water from a private shared well. That water was silk and the town water was like a fishbowl. The well water gave made my showers soooo nice, and my eczema loved it. Everything i cooked and baked tasted better, and most especially tea.

I have also experienced installed soft water. It was weird how unclean I felt after showering. Everyone in the house (my parents and sisters) had the same opinion. Water tasted great, felt horrific. My oily hair never felt right. They had the thing adjusted so it would only impact the kitchen faucet. Immediate improvement. It's been over 20 years, and I can still remember how gross I felt. I was genuinely worried I would be dealing with this when we learned about the well. It was explained by our then-landlady that installed systems use chemicals or something to sorta pull the minerals from the water. It leaves something behind, though, which is what we feel. Naturally soft? Bliss.

The closest I'll get to soft water is my house is with one of those filtered water pitchers. We had one, and used it religiously when in Bumfuck Nowhere because the water was so terrible. Any water appliances, like a dishwasher, needed specialized cleaning due to mineral (namely calcium) buildup. That pitcher made it possible to cook without a funky aftertaste and tea tasted right.

silurisanguine

UK had a variation of soft/hard water. Welsh water is beautifully soft and makes excellent tea. (and as such Birmingham England, that gets the majority of it's water from the reservoirs in the Elan valley) Southern English water is hard as fuck, smells like chlorine at first and you HAVE to use filters to prevent it fucking up all your washing machines, dishwashers, kettles, showers, etc from limescale buildup. We have a mineral filter attached to our shower which i always know is running low when a film of lime appears when the shower dries and my hair does not get clean properly. That's not the filter, it's what's getting past the filter again.

thebibliosphere

Worst cup of tea in my life was in London because of the water. I had a friend who didn’t bother to use filters and the cup of tea she handed me had a chalky film floating on the top.

I remember opening the kettle and thinking I’d need a pickaxe to descale it.

thebibliosphere

My dad was telling one of his stories tonight.

This time about how he almost killed Bob Dylan in the late 70s because the singer was riding his bicycle the wrong way down the switchback and dad, not expecting a cyclist to come hurtling through the mist down a winding hill at 6am, almost ran him over with his mini cooper.

He didn’t. Obviously. He slammed on the breaks and Dylan, who at the time Dad nicknamed The Idiot Cyclist, swerved around him.

It was only later that night when my dad was listening to the radio and Bob Dylan was on and made a joke about almost getting hit by a car that morning that Dad realized he almost flattened Bob Fucking Dylan, and that’s why whenever Knocking on Heaven’s Door comes on the radio he fucking loses it laughing like the Joker.

Anyway, I thought I’d Google it, just in case there was any mention of it because that seems like the kind of thing that might exist somewhere online, only come to find that Bob Dylan was not only nearly flattened riding the wrong way down the switchback in Glasgow on his bike in the 70s, but also almost became a tarmac pancake a few years later when he looked the wrong way before crossing the street in Edinburgh in the early 80s.

So really what I’ve learned tonight is that Bob Dylan is fucking menace and if you’re ever standing near him at a crosswalk, do the opposite of what he does.

natelm2nd

(writing down that under "listen to guide dog first, rest of pedestrians second. Maybe disregard Robert Dylan")

sector-v

Extremely irksome as an autistic person to ask a clarifying question and be told you’re “splitting hairs” when you genuinely just don’t understand because there isn’t enough information. Like, buddy. This is me at my most basic level of “what do you mean by that.” You wanna see me split hairs? If you really saw how thin I could slice a hair you’d hurl

sector-v

I will split a hair into smaller halves every hour my demands of mutual participation in communication are not met

taraljc

I had to sincerely ask if a client meant gothic as in architecture or gothic as in genre and it was a legit question because if somebody is looking for Crimson Peak you don't want to give them flying buttresses.