Me: I’m not going to the cinema to watch films like Dunkirk, The Imitation Game, etc. Because my research is grim enough and I just want to watch stuff like Guardians of the Galaxy kthx
Also me: so let me tell you about all these murder podcasts I’m listening to.
If by some miracle you instantly became fluent in 3 foreign languages, what would they be? This includes various forms of sign language and Braille. I’d choose Spanish and French for media consumption and Russian because communism, lol.
disappear for a while and you’ll be surprised at who doesn’t come looking for you.
Imagine if everyone of your friends and yourself did this at the same time.
And that’s why this kind of attitude is destructive.
I get that it’s super hard to get over, especially when you’ve been socialised to think that you cannot ask for help, because to do so is weak, or ‘attention seeking’ (which you’ve also been socialised to think is intrinsically a Bad Thing), but reminding yourself that it’s not your friends’ -jobs- to be your keeper, to magically guess how you’re feeling or what you need from them is definitely part of Self Care. And at the same time, so is reminding yourself that you -can- ask them for help and shouldn’t sit there in silence because you don’t want to burden them is -also- part of Self Care.
Remember your old OCs? You loved them, you cherished them, you RPed with them, you doodled them in the margins of your school notes… maybe you made them their own LiveJournal account. It’s been a while now, though, right? You’ve grown and moved on and you’re writing a story that isn’t mostly a ripoff of your favorite anime in 6th grade.
It’s time to dust off those old OCs and show them a little love! After all, they helped you grow and learn so much. Redraw old art or draw something new; re-design them, or leave them as they were. Draw the ending of the story you never quite finished. Dig up your old art, if you’re able and willing. Draw gift art for your younger self.
To participate, tag your artwork #wherearetheynowjam! You can also submit your art to the blog. The official blog is @wherearetheynowjam!If you want to participate or just think this is a cool idea, please boost the signal and follow!
@doodlemancy organized this jam and drew the promo art. (Such as it is. ;D)
CONCRETE SKELETONS: ABANDONED HOTEL PROJECTS OF THE SINAI PENINSULA
Between 2002 and 2005, German photographers Sabine Haubitz and Stefanie Zoche traveled to Egypt’s Sinai peninsula. There, the skeletons of abandoned 5-star hotel projects stand in a stark landscape overlooking the sea. It is a reminder of a time when dreams of holiday relaxation were ripe and speculation was rife. Today, all that remains are crumbling concrete ruins of that dream, and glamorous names like ‘Sindbad’, ‘Sultan’s Palace’, and the ‘Magic Life Imperial’.
Why do these ruins exist? The reasons are as varied as their unusual designs. Some were the victims of bad investments, others because of bad state subsidized loans, and many were the result of lost tourism due to a fear of terrorist attacks.
The ruins now populate this empty landscape like unintentional sculptures, towering into the clear blue sky as reminders of times with more hope.
I need to tell you. You gotta be prepared for this For when you grow up: Adults Adultssss Are fucking childish.
Don’t expect them to be reasonable To handle things rationally
Like Expect them to act like Toddlers having a temper tantrum. To be petty And spiteful And try to bully you.
I just don’t want you to be disappointed Or bewildered Cause people have taught you that you gotta grow up and be mature No one else took that lesson to heart kids.
….and that is why being separated from our food’s origins and not knowing anything about botany is what is wrong with the world today goddamnit.
I bet some people would eat castor beans too. Or yew. Or just fuckin’ snack on some hemlock because it’s natural,man.
Fucking incredible.
LIKE IT TAKES SOME FUCKING EFFORT TO GET A CHERRY PIT OPEN FUCKING W H Y
Question: Is it the same with plums? I used to do that occasionally when I ate dried and seasoned Asian plums as a kid.
Yes.
Plum pits do not contain as much as cherry, but they do.
Do not eat stone fruit pits, people. Or bitter almonds.
They all have cyanide in them.
Oh boy, apricot kernels. The amount of people I see lauding those as a “cure for cancer” is… demoralizing. I can’t find it right now but I believe there was a mother in the past few years who was taken to court for child endangerment/neglect for feeding those to her very young child as a cancer treatment.
I saw this horror last year, and yelled for an entire hour.
To be fair, I bet if you die of cyanide poisoning the cancer won’t kill you.
I have been wanting to use these photos for months.
The recommendation is to only eat 3 in one hour. because that is just the most filling snack and of course they will stop at three.
Just because it’s natural doesn’t mean it’s good for you.
Just because it’s food for another creature doesn’t mean it’s fine for you.
Best case scenario it’s like grass which is basically neutral- it’s generally not going to kill you but there’s no nutrition for humans in it, and enough will probably make you sick.
Worst case scenario it’s something like belladonna berries which taste sweet but will kill you stone cold dead.
Same for the wrong kind of mushrooms, other berries, leaves and barks. Before consuming, CHECK. If you can’t check, don’t put it in your mouth.
Just because it’s natural doesn’t mean it’s good for you.
Just because it’s natural doesn’t mean it’s good for you.
Just because it’s natural doesn’t mean it’s good for you.
I’ve been saying this for so long, oh my gosh.
apple seeds have the same cyanide innards, but obviously not in such high quantities. you’d have to eat like 10 apple’s worth of seeds to feel the effect. for that matter, just swallowing a cherry pit whole isn’t going to do any harm, it’ll pass through your body before the outer layer breaks down. but deliberately cracking this stuff open and eating it isn’t the best idea
Literally cherry pits used to be used to make poison. Like, you crack the pits open, boil em for 8 hours, change the pits out for a new batch three times. Reduce the liquid and add honey and sugar. Bam.
hello internet. please stop believing things like this. One would have to eat a shit ton of cherry pits to get cyanide poisoning. A man did not get sent to the hospital from eating 3 cherry pits.
….he literally did did you not look at the news article I linked.
He was cracking them open and eating the meat.
Swallowing a pit whole won’t hurt you, since our digestive acids are not strong enough to dissolve the shell of the pit. But if you crack them open and eat the cyanide filled meat, then you’re gonna have a bad day.
Me; “Look at this thing that actually happened, as proved by this guy’s confession and the testimony of trained medical professionals.”
sometimes, news outlets sensationalize to scare people. Please see my other post. If you follow the link that the story uses as a source, it specifically states that 100 mg of cyanide could kill you. Red cherries contain 2.9 mg (and that’s IF all the cyanide is ingested), which still means that they would have to eat around 26 full cherry pits.
Also, I literally cannot find a scientific source about how “heat deactivates the cyanide.” The research I’ve done shows that cooking the seeds really doesn’t change the chemical make up.
It’s not “fake news” when you just casually disagree with actual scientists.
It’s not fake news when it literally happened.
I totally agree with you and the maths - this should not have been a fatal dose. But your original comment basically just says ‘this incident did not happen.’ It did. Some dude ate the contents of three cherry kernels, went to hospital, got given an antidote. This is being reported by reputable sites, with interview with the man involved. The real question is why he was told that this was a fatal dose.
Edit: re the whole ‘cooking makes it safe’ I think the confusion is caused by bitter almonds also possibly containing the amygdalase enzyme, so heating them does indeed denature that. Problems being a) that’s only for bitter almonds? Can’t find anything suggesting amygdalase is present in cherry seeds. B) the enzymes are in our digestive tracts anyway, so whilst cooking bitter almonds gets rid of the enzyme in the almond itself, it doesn’t affect the body’s ability to break down the amygdalin and get to the tasty tasty cyanide. C) you’d expect a dietician and nutritionist to know that?? (Or are they all just hacks?)
….and that is why being separated from our food’s origins and not knowing anything about botany is what is wrong with the world today goddamnit.
I bet some people would eat castor beans too. Or yew. Or just fuckin’ snack on some hemlock because it’s natural,man.
Fucking incredible.
LIKE IT TAKES SOME FUCKING EFFORT TO GET A CHERRY PIT OPEN FUCKING W H Y
Question: Is it the same with plums? I used to do that occasionally when I ate dried and seasoned Asian plums as a kid.
Yes.
Plum pits do not contain as much as cherry, but they do.
Do not eat stone fruit pits, people. Or bitter almonds.
They all have cyanide in them.
Oh boy, apricot kernels. The amount of people I see lauding those as a “cure for cancer” is… demoralizing. I can’t find it right now but I believe there was a mother in the past few years who was taken to court for child endangerment/neglect for feeding those to her very young child as a cancer treatment.
I saw this horror last year, and yelled for an entire hour.
To be fair, I bet if you die of cyanide poisoning the cancer won’t kill you.
I have been wanting to use these photos for months.
The recommendation is to only eat 3 in one hour. because that is just the most filling snack and of course they will stop at three.
Just because it’s natural doesn’t mean it’s good for you.
Just because it’s food for another creature doesn’t mean it’s fine for you.
Best case scenario it’s like grass which is basically neutral- it’s generally not going to kill you but there’s no nutrition for humans in it, and enough will probably make you sick.
Worst case scenario it’s something like belladonna berries which taste sweet but will kill you stone cold dead.
Same for the wrong kind of mushrooms, other berries, leaves and barks. Before consuming, CHECK. If you can’t check, don’t put it in your mouth.
Just because it’s natural doesn’t mean it’s good for you.
Just because it’s natural doesn’t mean it’s good for you.
Just because it’s natural doesn’t mean it’s good for you.
I’ve been saying this for so long, oh my gosh.
apple seeds have the same cyanide innards, but obviously not in such high quantities. you’d have to eat like 10 apple’s worth of seeds to feel the effect. for that matter, just swallowing a cherry pit whole isn’t going to do any harm, it’ll pass through your body before the outer layer breaks down. but deliberately cracking this stuff open and eating it isn’t the best idea
Literally cherry pits used to be used to make poison. Like, you crack the pits open, boil em for 8 hours, change the pits out for a new batch three times. Reduce the liquid and add honey and sugar. Bam.
hello internet. please stop believing things like this. One would have to eat a shit ton of cherry pits to get cyanide poisoning. A man did not get sent to the hospital from eating 3 cherry pits.
….he literally did did you not look at the news article I linked.
He was cracking them open and eating the meat.
Swallowing a pit whole won’t hurt you, since our digestive acids are not strong enough to dissolve the shell of the pit. But if you crack them open and eat the cyanide filled meat, then you’re gonna have a bad day.
Me; “Look at this thing that actually happened, as proved by this guy’s confession and the testimony of trained medical professionals.”
You; “LOL fake news.”
*quietly but emphatically* for the love of gods.
Pyracantha seeds, too. They’re tiny, but so are the berries, but this is why we don’t normally advise people to eat pyracantha berries. They’re not exactly the kind of berries where you can separate out the seeds.
I’ve always been surprised this isn’t a more popular method of murder.
(user above is right in that 3 seeds really shouldn’t have been enough for a fatal dose, but wrong about the fact that this literally happened. This very much genuinely happened, the fact that they treated him is understandable, the fact that they said he’d consumed a fatal dose less so). If you want to know some truly awful and terrifying shit, there are a large group of people and quack-doctors out there claiming that amygdalin cures cancer. Because cyanide only kills cancer cells, dontcha know.
I love how, because of that “Beautiful Cinnamon Roll Too Good For This World, Too Pure” Onion headline, “cinnamon roll” has become a commonly accepted phrase for “a character who is cute and kind and typically gets more pain in canon than they deserve”.
Like, we didn’t have a real phrase for that common phenomenon (wubbie maybe, but that has negative connotations ie “this character has been wubbiefied by the fandom”) and then someone used a screenshot of a headline from a satire news website to describe it, and then everyone else was like “yes good let’s use this”. You couldn’t make that shit up. I bet there are people who use that phrase now who didn’t even see that headline.
Language is evolving right before our eyes in a very weird and beautiful way and I am very very sorry for future linguist who have to puzzle this shit out.
When people make posts like “lol I lost 2 followers for my last post”
So many things I don’t get: - who are these people checking their follow count before and after each post and why are they doing that? - who are these people who can tell when a follower sees their post and can therefore know with certainly whether the person unfollowing them had seen the latest post or not? - who are these people who can read the thoughts of their followers and can know precisely why any one individual is unfollowing them?
You don’t know you lost 2 followers for your last post. Maybe one of them deleted their account and the other decided that there was too much repeat content on their blog and you were one of the sources of it. Maybe they decided they want to use tumblr only to get cooking recipes, so unfollowed everything that wasn’t a food blog. Maybe it was just a misclick - I have certainly done that before. Who knows? Ans: not you.
like as soon as we do something its done its over with and it automatically becomes the past
me writing this has become the past
you reading the last sentence is the past
there is no actual present and that blows my mind
STOP.
I dont know what to do with this information
*existential crisis intensifies*
And the future and the past don’t exist either - one hasn’t happened yet and the other is already over. This is basically Augustine’s Confessions Book 11 in a nutshell.
new metric for your personality as an adult = what you named your most iconic stuffed animal as a kid
i had and still have a long eared animal creature made out of socks named wronky
i had a stuffed lion named leo…?
Ginger. She is a gingerbread cookie. Is likely why I am so spicy and people often think I am a redhead? And why I think about Christmas year round? Maybe?
mine was a 8 inch x 8 inch pillow and i named her little pillow
92-Year-Old Grandmother Makes Stunningly Intricate Temari Balls
A ninety-two-year-old-grandmother from Japan creates stunning embroidered balls known as “temari,” (meaning “hand ball” in Japanese) which showcase a skill she learned in her sixties. A traditional folk art, which was conceived in Japan in the 7th century, the craft is tedious and highly demanding craft. The unknown woman has constructed 500 unique designs, which are photographed by her granddaughter NanaAkua. Overall these beautiful trinkets are a symbol of happy life and good fortune, which originate from friendship and loyalty.
For “the unknown woman” read: “the woman we couldn’t be bothered to find out about”.
Concept: an otome dating sim where the player character is a bizarre Lovecraftian monstrosity - except none of the boys notice, and they all treat you like you’re a perfectly ordinary teenage girl.
All of your dialogue options are incomprehensible hissing and gurgling, or cryptic gestures with unearthly appendages; you’re never 100% certain what - if anything - you’re communicating, though the boys seem to understand you.
Rather than “Athletics” or “Charm”, your stats have strange names like “Viscosity”, “Amplitude” and “Bulk”. Figuring out what they actually do is as much as part of the challenge as figuring out how to raise them.
At the end of the game, you devour whichever boy you have the strongest bond with whole; this act of consumption determines the final form you evolve into, as well as the nature of the resulting global apocalypse.
