#useful
Feminine, useful and easily accessible… Good girl!
Be useful and available!
Heres your reminder to use literally anything but chrome
And here’s your reminder that Firefox actively works to protect your privacy and prevent tracking.
Firefox also has “Facebook fence” which is used to contain Facebook into isolated tabs that prevent tracking as you browse, since so many sites have social media plugins/ads that help collect data for Facebook and other apps.
You can tell Firefox to fence in Facebook in the browser preferences. Also a good time to change your search engine to DuckDuckGo and leave Google search behind (or only use it with another browser that’s separate from daily use).
The EFF (OP of the tweet) has various types of privacy tools that they’ve created. Some are browser plugins. I recommend going to their site to learn more about internet privacy and advocacy (and donating a few bucks if you can spare it). https://www.eff.org/pages/tools
calling all cancer biologists and oncologists alike! have you heard of
OncoTree
it’s a super comprehensive and interactive tree of every cancer lineage and sub-lineage
if you click on a tissue site it expands into lineages!
look at that! i’m in love.
how many cancer biologists and oncologists are there on tumblr??
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Yule activities
Make a Yule Wreath:
♡Forage for discarded tree branches
♡Take the longest section of branch and loop it around itself to make a circle. Secure the two ends with a strong, thin string (not plastic string though!)
♡Loop some twine around the entirety of the circle
♡Secure the twine so that its wrapped tightly, you do not want it to unravel!
♡Tuck new pieces of pine around the ring, making sure to weave the entire branches through the wreath
♡Go over the additional pine that you added with one more loop of twine
♡Hang it on your door or wall or wear it as a crown as in the pagan holidays of yule and Saturnalia!
◇There are many ways to decorate a Yule Wreaths, be creative and explore!◇
Make Seed Covered Apples For Birds:
♡Dab apple slices (halves) with a paper towel to dry
♡Spread a layer of peanut butter on your apple slices
♡Pour some bird seed onto a plate and dip the apple slices, peanut butter side down, into the seeds
♡Thread a tapestry needle with yarn or string and push it through the apples near the top
◇Place/hang them in your garden or somewhere outdoors!◇
Decorate With:
♡Suns and Solar symbols
♡Candles and light sources
♡Pine Cones and Natural Greenery
♡Yule Logs (The Actual Thing Not The Food)
♡Dried Fruits
♡Nuts and Berries
A beautiful song for Yule:
Blessed be
While I have never been very interested in the consumerist side to Christmas, as I get older I’ve rediscovered a great deal of joy in the celebrating the winter solstice. The act of making decorations, particularly with family or friends, brings a sense of warmth and meaning. I thought I might share some of the things I do throughout the month leading up to the solstice (with unaffiliated links to tutorials if you’d like to give it a try). The ephemeral, often foraged nature of these decorations encourages attention and presence in the moment, and requires little in the way of resources.
- A garland of dried orange slices, star anise (bought in a ludicrously large bag from an international grocery store), clove, and cinnamon sticks, strung together with plain baker’s twine. Dehydrating orange slices in the oven has the added benefit of making your home smell wonderful. I have made a garland of cranberries in the past but it’s a sticky, staining business that requires a fine needle and thread and gentle handling.
- Alternatively, use small cookie cutters to make simple shapes of discarded orange peel if you rather not waste the food.
- A minimalist tree - Lowes and other garden centers/pop up tree farms often put cut offs in a bin that you can take from for free. A single branch with the right amount of foliage in a vase makes a lovely minimalist tree - especially decorated with $3 fairy/wire lights from Aldi’s or Target. Very good for apartment living.
- That same bin at Lowes is where I collect cut offs to make live garlands or wreaths. This requires floral wire (~$3) for best results, and available floor space to assemble.
- Scrap fabric garland - especially useful if you have a lot of “cabbage” left over that you don’t know what to do with. We made this for the first time this year and it was an exercise in “letting go” for me. I prefer precision, but my coven mate Has Absolutely No Time for That. Rather than try to direct things, she ripped strips of fabric and I tied them to a length of baker’s twine in random alternating colors (the “tedious” job in her opinion). It turned out much nicer this way by playing to each other’s strengths. I recommend it.
- Salt dough ornaments. I haven’t had luck getting these to store successfully year to year so I’ve consigned myself to making them anew each time. The upshot is that salt dough has a great deal of versatility so I can try something new every year.
- One year I did also accidentally make a brick-hard batch of Lebkuchen that, while lovely to look at, where utterly inedible. They made lovely gingerbread ornaments, though; I may do it on purpose this year.
Khaire ❄️
Well fuck these blog recommendations right in the middle of my damned dash.
(I profusely apologize if I show up unwarranted in the middle of someone’s dash. I don’t want to be there either~)
If you use adblock plus or similar, add ‘www.tumblr.com##.recommended-unit-container’ to the custom filters (without the single quotes), and they should go away.
I actually have found some neat blogs through the recommendations. Hoever, I’m reblogging this for folks who would rather not have them on their feed.
ok so you know this fucking icon
which means you have to download and reupload or edit html to link an image
well if you hold ALT it turns to this
meaning you can just link images again.
i never knew this
THANK YOU
OMG IT GOES BACK AND FORTH OMG. I always have the opposite problem
Sexetc.org is a website where you can input your state ( In the U.S) and it will show you all the laws regarding consent laws (if any), abortion laws, lgbt community rights, sex education laws, etc. I highly recommend this site. It also recommends you to places that can help you pay for birth control, abortions, condoms, Etc.
Every young person (and adult, for that matter!) should have access to this site, run by Rutgers University.
The link doesn’t take you to the resource mentioned. Go to the search bar and search “Sex in the States”
one of my favorite things ever, even if looking at my state’s information makes me cry.
How to get the most out of only 1 resource
I planned this post as a challenge in the future but someone asked for some ways to study a language with a few resources so I’ll cover every single resource that I can think of and ways to get the most out of them.
Books
I’ll divide this in 3:
- Grammar books
- Reading books
- Dictionaries
Grammar books
This kind of books cover grammar and vocabulary. Most grammar books have everything you need to know but my advice is to use at least 2 in case one of them covers some extra points.
- A way to learn the grammar is to write or have a speech that implies the grammar concepts. Of course this is for when you learned some vocabulary as well.
- Most books have exercises. Another way to recall the grammatical concepts is to use a workbook but most minority languages don’t have such workbooks so you have to create them. After each lesson think of similar sentences and try to make different kinds of exercises. Fill in and translation seem like the most available ones. My suggestion is to make more tests at a time and solve them periodically.
- Vocabulary, here’s really your choice but in my opinion the most effective way is to use it actively. Activities like writing or speaking will help you retain everything better. Howtomemorize
- Some books come with audio so you can repeat after the audio when you study a certain lesson. A suggestion is to have a plan and listen to the past audios + repeating what you hear often so you get pronunciation practice.
These apply to apps like duolingo, with vocabulary and grammar too.
Reading books/articles
- Vocab lists. Every single new word, write it down and learn it later. If you find a word that is for something that you will never talk about though, you don’t have to learn it. I.e. a disease you don’t know even in your native language but if you want to learn it, go ahead.
- You could print the pages and work on them. Analyze the grammar concepts if you think they are used in a way that you haven’t seen before, mark idioms, write your opinion on the action so far/a summary, suggest synonym or antonyms using a dictionary.
- Write a summary at a certain milestone. It can be with simple words like “he likes the girl”, “she has a sister” etc use words that you’ve read in the book.
Dictionaries
- This gives you more flexibility so use some words that you want to know and make a text or flashcards etc. Anything that can help you learn them.
- You can also choose randomly the words and try to think of connections between them.
Apps
2 apps come to my mind for minorities, Fun easy learn and 50 languages.
Fun easy learn can be used in a couple of ways:
- Write a text or add the words to a picture. I.e. You learn about body parts, download a drawing and fill the parts on it.
- Make some flashcards or use the method you memorize better with.
The reasons why I think FEL needs extra practice is because the exercises aren’t that high intensity but if you practice regularly with them, they could be helpful.
Same for memrise.
For 50languages:
- You can use your memorization techniques here to.
- This app offers audio files so just as for books you can listen daily to a couple of audios and repeat after them.
Video resources:
- Listen to it once. See what you remember or if you understand anything. If you do, then talk about the topic/action.
- If you don’t understand everything, try to change the speed or just repeat until you can figure out the words. If you can guess the spelling, look for translations online.
This applies to audio only resources too.
Extra
The extension Flewent changes a certain % of anything you read to your TL as long as it’s in the list of languages they offer.
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WHAT IS TMJ DISORDER?
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REASONS:
⦁ Unbalanced activity
⦁ Spasm
⦁ Overusing jaw muscles
SYMPTOMS:
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⦁ Experiencing pain in jaw, neck or face.
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I’m NOT gonna say it again
SEASONINGS include herbs and spices, along with minerals and chemicals used to season food!!!! Salt, citric acid, and MSG, are all examples of seasonings that are NOT herbs or spices!
HERBS are flavorful leaves. Only. Leaves. Doesn’t matter if its dried, fresh, whole, or ground, if it is a leaf, it is an herb
SPICES are flavorful parts of plants that are NOT LEAVES. These include seeds, berries, stems, bark, roots, flowers, buds… NOT LEAVES
THANK YOU
Things are heating up in the cooking fandom.
That’s how cooking works