everyone i've talked to about this has been completely unaware so: if you didn't know already, there's going to be a solar eclipse, with totality or coverage of 90% or more in some places, over a lot of europe, on august 12th 2026. in the uk it will start just after 6pm, and the maximum will be at 7:13pm.
here is a map of the path of the eclipse (from timeanddate)
get eclipse glasses if you want to look at it. it is not safe to look at through sunglasses. ok informative post over o7
If you're near the path of totality, do yourself a favor and get to somewhere totality will be achieved for the maximum time possible (a minute or more, preferably). There is a MASSIVE difference in the experience of totality and anything less.
Is it worth it, for such a brief moment? ABSOLUTELY! Trust me, you will remember that moment for the rest of your life.
Totality in a parking lot. (My photo.)
It's ONLY safe to look at the sun during totality — even in the seconds before and after, you can damage your eyes without eclipse glasses. But you DO want to remove your eclipse glasses during totality!
But if you're in that less-than-100% area and can't travel to see totality, it's definitely still worth going outside for! Wear eclipse glasses! Or you can quickly make a simple pin projector with two sheets of paper and a pin/thumbtack, or just grab a colander from the kitchen, take it outside and you will be able to see the eclipse indirectly.
IMPORTANT NOTE: The sun will be low in the sky during this eclipse in sub-polar regions.
"This means that across the European continent—and particularly in Spain—skywatchers will need to make sure they have a clear line of sight toward the western horizon. There is a risk that people’s view of the eclipse may be blocked by hills, buildings, trees, and other obstructions." (x)
More info at:
It’s the first totality on Earth for 28 months. Overall, a billion people will fall under the Moon’s shadow on August 12, 2026.
i still find it so genuinely Weird when i think about the fact that fat people irl are a rather common occurrence. your family, your friends, your coworkers, people on the bus, random passerbys - there are fat people there. usually often. but when you look at Any form of media - movies, tv shows, video games, books are more complicated as not a visual medium but there too, fat people are almost nonexistent. one fat person for the whole movie. one fat person in the background of your fictional city. this is so insanely unrealistic but at the same time nobody comments on this and "we" accept it as normal!! and then people even think their own fatness makes them into some rare failure instead of one of the incredibly common body situations. crazy
because you can’t win if you don’t play, i’ve made some gift card funds to help me get some much-needed supplies 🛒
most critical: i’ve been struggling worse the last couple months with managing showers/wash hair/wash face, especially, and using the wipes i already have on face and body feels Bad. so i have a list of stuff to try that will hopefully meet my needs as far as ingredients, reactive skin, particular hair, & functional capacity go (itemized list below cut).
i haven’t heard anything more about the status of my disability case, but that’s not entirely surprising, as the hearing scheduling was at least 8 months out when I appealed in the spring. the horrors persist, but so do i.
i know i’m not alone in the things are bad & getting worse” department, so if you can’t manage donating, that’s ok 🩵 no pressure, no worries, whatever happens is ok!
because i am at least somewhat a foolish optimist 🤪 i also made funds for home improvement (shower desperately needs recaulking, photos below cut), trying out a different (cheaper) compression gear combo before i ask for it for xmas, groceries, and pharmacy. not out of meds yet, but 🤷🏻 probably better to ask before emergency, in case anyone has a vested interest in my dopamine maintenance or tachycardia/fatigue.
🩵 thank you for sharing and contributing 🩵pretty sure you can hide your actual name while putting a note in the note box, so feel free to leave your handle there & i’ll send you a thank-you here! (it should also be possible for you to earmark for a specific item, if you’re superbly interested in, say, caulk 😉)
if i know you & you’d rather buy the stuff, send me a message - thinking about making a stuff list for irl people (vs just the gift card funds). i can’t hide my name/info on a list of stuff (unlike a gift card fund…i think 😅) so i’d rather not put that out there for just anybody.
deets below da cut:
easy & safe hygiene fund will go toward pkg of de-funkifying wipes $9, bath/shower stool $26, manual toothbrush pack to keep one by my bed $9/3 (the 2pk is $8 😒), hair & scalp refresher spray $10, micellar shampoo that review say rinses easy $13, mustela micellar water to clean face (& maybe also other areas) when wash out of question, $16, silicone cup w/handle for rinsing hair (won’t break if drop, easier to hold than empty yoghurt tub) $10, no-slip tub mat bc i’ve skidded a few times/existing grip dots old $17. might try out a $9 sunscreen stick if there are leftovers, don’t currently use any 🫣 due to irritation—if anyone wants to bet on the losing dog called me not developing a Problem
home improvement fund for decent caulk gun $13, almond/biscuit caulk to match $12, tools $7, cleaning (vin/baking soda, bottle, goggles, etc) the rest. in case you were curious, this is the current problem:
there are other spots; these are just the ones i had the spoons to get to. pls don’t tell me it’s/how bad. I KNOW. which is why i’m asking for help
compression gear fund: reassessing the socks/leggings combo i’ve done for 5+ yrs due to cost, full hose too hard for me to put on due to hand hypermobility/joint pain/all-over fatigue, maybe try thigh-high/compression shorts combo. 20-30mmHg hose $25-30 (need to measure size), shorts will be $15-30 depending on brand
grocery fund: almost out of 1L olive & 750mL avocado oils, $15/ea (lasts several months, use daily when making rice for dinner, better for my cholesterol), out of bfast/fixins (30 pk granola bars ~$12), running low on dinner fixins $30-40/mo, have $5 off $25 grocery order coupon, also need can opener, wouldn’t be mad at splurging for some easy meal-replacement shakes/protein powder bc food situation/my capacity has been Not Great the past week or so & sliced turkey and some tortilla chips is not a balanced dinner
um maybe $6 somewhere for ballpoint dr grip refills $3 and 4-pk post it $3
meds fund: day meds $33/30 or $85/90; mestinon $23/30; coreg & singulair, $10 & $18/90ea. coreg out end of august; the rest up in september
I think my final disillusionment with the Glorious Violent Revolution (not that I was ever fond of it to begin with) was when the right wing tried it on January 6th and failed miserably, only to switch tactics to boring old electoralism and succeed.
“Woke 1 was crazyyyyyyy” Woke was coined by Black people to describe the concept of being aware of how the police treat Black people vastly differently than they do everyone else, escalating to lethal force on a hair trigger because they’re paranoid of Blackness as a concept and see Black children as a threat to their own lives, leading to the high profile deaths of kids like Trayvon Martin and Michael Brown, as well as the multitude of Black adults that die in police custody like Sandra Bland or due to illegal excessive force like Eric Garner. Being “Woke” was about the realities of being Black in America. Writing it off as cringy misguided 2010s Social Justice is ignorant at best and disgustingly anti-Black at worst. I expect more from the Left, even if I know I’ll be let down.
The modern state of fanfiction is seeing people claim to have written 500,000+ words in three months while being married with children and having a job but they double dog pinky swear it’s NOT aislop, FUCK aislop guys, they stand against aislop as morally and artistically bankrupt, they’re just obsessive and don’t sleep 🤪 and they expect you to believe that and defend them from “witch hunts…”
… and seeing literally thousands of people who just ctrl+f “cock” thank them and beg for more and offer to pay for their aislop and cry and shake like a hound shitting a peach pit when their favorite sloperater gets caught.
