When I joined tumblr, I was not expecting the first canon event I witnessed to be dangerous crow boy and stick figures juggling, but being a savvy internet user I need to see juggling stick figure x dangerous crow boy yaoi on my dash right fucking now
man, what the hell is this
you’re getting mapped for this
map update:
my condolences, op. this is mostly my fault
ok but has anyone considered juggling guy x dangerous crow boy x plastic dress girl throuple?
sorry im not done gatsbyposting. the nyc celebrations for its 100th anniversary are so uniquely deranged. like here you have a book that absolutely scathes new york parties & dress-up & entertainment & alcohol & careless wealthy east coast elites. and the way the city is celebrating the 100th anniversary of one of the most beautifully written & personally devastating literary tragedies this country has ever produced is by. offering 10% off gatsby-themed cocktails at luxury bars. hosting pay-to-attend 1920s themed costume balls in the wealthiest areas of midtown. setting up penthouse hotel suites to ostensibly resemble locations from the book. a few hours ago at an exclusive private event they had the cast of the glamorous broadway musical, all in designer clothes, light up the empire state building green to advertise their show where tickets cost up to $670. one of them said the green light ‘represents the beauty of the american dream.’ i think you could power all manhattan with energy generated from the rotational torque of f scott fitzgerald spinning wildly in his grave
anyhow i celebrated this international holiday by leaving work early & dressing up & driving north five and a half miserable hours to see the empire state lit up green because this was a true once in a lifetime event & this book changed my life & i wanted to celebrate a character i loved and mourned & see a glittering green light shining on the water & reach for it like dreamers do. but even though all the websites and blogs i could find told me it would be green on the 11th—that it would blaze green all night on the 11th, and i triple checked each one—by the time i got there at 8:15 pm they’d turned it off. and the parties had happened thursday night, not friday. so i ended up alone & exhausted & rain-drenched & freezing & quite frankly absolutely crying my eyes out on the shore across from the city, just fucking stupidly sobbing above the water, wishing i could go back just a little way into the past. and THATS how you do gatsby. ill kill you all
The autoclave is designed to kill schmucks I think
It’s a 24yo Tomy SS-325 if it helps, it beeps once when it finishes counting down and beeps again when it finishes depressurizing, the steam is about 90-100c by then iirc
#top loading autoclave??? how do you get your trays out without toughing the sides?
With its basket! It comes with two of them
What’s an autoclave?
Are those ink markers?
It’s essentially a superpowered pressure cooker designed to get hot and high pressure enough to kill EVERYTHING. Including mold spores. They’re used to sterilise equipment.
Those aren’t markers, they’re tubes of fluid that OP wants to be sterile. It’s common practice to autoclave things like nutrient broth before inoculating them with bacteria, to kill off any contamination and make sure that you only grow whatever you put in there to grow.
Fun fact: you can totally sterilize equipment with an instant pot in a pinch. I know this because my lab lives in a psych department so there’s no goddamn autoclave in our building, so we were using an instant pot for some time until EHS decided they were not comfortable with it and were willing to cough up for an actual autoclave.
You want to use a biomarker to verify obviously but that’s good practice anyway.
Instant Pot doesn’t let you open it until it’s depressurized why does Elderly Tommy the Murder Autoclave omit this feature.
New candidate for favorite uses of the English Language: ^
I humbly suggest that true crime freaks should get into learning about scammers instead of serial killers. I LOVE reading about fraud and grifts and pyramid schemes. true crime ppl have all this paranoid energy about murder, which is rare in the grand scheme of things…..maybe instead that could be channeled into some productive rage toward capitalism.
And u know a side effect of learning about scam artists is that you start to understand certain things about economics, and just how STUPID these systems are and how easily they are taken advantage of….and I’d much rather people gained a passing familiarity with economics than whatever armchair psychologist shit these true crimers get on. We need fewer people who think they’re experts on “sociopaths” and more people who understand how people like Elizabeth Holmes and the WeWork guy were able to do what they did
Here are some of my favorite books about financial scams:
Late Antiquity in Modern Music: Passerine by The Oh Hellos
The Oh Hellos are the extremely rare Christian band that I (an atheist) actively enjoy. Below the “read more” cut I’ve got an essay analyzing the lyrics of this song. TL;DR: this is song about how Christians were corrupted by political power in the Roman Empire.
Really glad randall xkcd made that “experts often misjudge the average layperson’s knowledge of their field” comic bc my prior touchstone for easily conveying the same idea to people was this other xkcd
and now i no longer have to confuse people by saying shit like “i think we’re having a joe biden mayonnaise moment here”
I need non-Canadians to know that everything in this thread is true
Because some people don’t believe:
The official residence of the Prime Minister of Canada is 24 Sussex Drive. However, no money has been spend on the upkeep and maintenance of the house for like, 20 years, because any PM who tried would be screamed at by the Opposition for wasting tax payer money. As such, the house has deteriorated into a moldy, rat-infested mess. Also, Stephen Harper’s wife did animal rescue, so it apparently also smelled of cat pee. So when Justin Trudeau (who grew up in the house) became PM, he was like, ‘oh hell no’ and moved his family into Rideau Cottage, which yes, is behind the Governor General’s residence. The “cottage” is 22 rooms, so it’s not like they’re living in a shack. 24 Sussex, meanwhile, continues to gently moulder while everyone argues about what to do with it. (The RCMP, who guard the PM, want to abandon it, as it is too difficult to guard and too easy to access, as proven by that time a guy broke in and was only twarted from his mission by the PM’s wife locking the bedroom door.)
In Canada, we don’t vote for the Prime Minister, we vote for our Member of Parliament, and the leader of whichever party has the most MP’s becomes the PM. So it really is a local election.
When the Speaker of the House is selected, they are “dragged” to their chair. This has its origins in English history.
Upper Canada and Lower Canada goes back to the origins of the country, it’s Ontario and Quebec, we’re not getting into all that.
Vancouver Island is named after Captain George Vancouver, as is the city, but the city is on the mainland. PEI is tiny, Cape Breton is part of Nova Scotia but is totally different, Montreal be Montrealing, and the island of Newfoundland is just half a province, the other half being Labrador.
Ontario is the centre of government and manufacturing, and that does make it important, but no one likes them for it.
There is actually a Communist Party candidate in my riding. The party is so insignificant they don’t even show up on the election tracker.
The half a time zone is Newfoundland, which sits in its own bespoke time zone, half an hour ahead of Atlantic time.
Lester B. Pearson was the PM when the flag was picked, and he was a Liberal, so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Official Languages Act, baby
Toronto keeps eating the cities surrounding it
Interprovinical trade barriers has been a big thing the last few months, for obvious reasons
The Supreme Court of Canada only wears the Santa robes for special occasions. Some poor summer student does have to wear the owl costume, though. Also, the makeup of the court is determined by region, with a set number of justices for each region.
No one cares about the Senate. They don’t really do much.
“Tiffany “New York” Pollard — the queen of reality TV, the HBIC herself — is opening up like never before. In a new interview with "PinkNews,” she shared why she resonates with being non-binary, saying, “Some days I may feel a lot more masculine, and some days I’m super feminine — and that’s okay… shoving me back in the closet is never going to be an option.” Tiffany went on to say, “If I didn’t have such a strong connection to the queer fanbase that I have, I don’t know if I would still be in the game… They keep the HBIC alive!”"
The Monarch of Meme was already queer, and we’re happy to see her discovery. Black queer folk CONTINUE TO WIN 👑
that’s parent
If you don’t recognize the name…you might recognize some other appearances:
This video has been getting AI accusations and it isn’t! All these types of woods exist! Though some of them are local names, I was able to track all of them down! Here are all the woods shown in the video!
Purpleheart Wood: Peltogyne genus, native to Central and South American rainforests. Freshly cut it’s light brown, then turns into rich shades of purple. It turns brown in UV light so it has to be finished with a UV inhibitor to keep those gorgeous colors.
Namnu (various): A type of precious wood found in China/South Asia, sourced from various different species of trees, hence the different examples shown here. High grades of the wood are known for the optical effect shown in the video. Unfortunately the types of trees that produce the wood are all critically endangered, which is why the examples shown are all items or pillars or fragments of pieces. The species are all strictly protected and new trees cannot be harvested.
That example in the video is just that one video that goes around with the inside of a tree that’s been struck burning while it still stands, but sometimes trees that have been struck by lightning and are cut down can have neat burn patterns in the wood (example), as the lightning goes to ground, so some people might want that. Who am I to judge.
Chicken-blood vine wood: Species isSpatholobus suberectus and it’s only that bright when it’s cut, it dries to a more woody color. Here’s a page with examples of what the wood looks like when it’s dried and some things made with it.
Amber wood: This one took a while. There’s a video out there claiming this is “petrified amber wood”. That’s not possible, I’m a geologist I would know. Since the video is in Chinese originally I presume, “amber wood” must be a translated local name. It’s sandalwood, which has that gorgeous bright red color. Even tracked down the video the clip is taken from. “Chandan wood” is another name for sandalwood. Which smells amazing.
Rosewood: The most well known of the woods here in my opinion. There’s a number of rosewoods, all in various shades of pinks and reds. True rosewoods are from the genus Dalbergia. Sadly they’re all endangered, but illegal harvesting continues.
Pink oak - Likely pink ivory (Phyllogeiton zeyheri). You need a permit to cut down one of these trees, but it really is that pink. One of the most expensive woods in the world, up there with sandalwood.
Burmese huanghuali: Rosewood…3! This is either Dalbergia oliveri or Pterocarpus indicus, but given that Pterocarpus indicus is descripted as having purplish heartwood, I’m guessing it’s Dalbergia oliveri. Though it’s not a true rosewood, Pterocarpus indicus is also sadly endangered.
Liudao wood: This is Abelia biflora, though it looks like it has been reclassified as Zabelia biflora recently. Either it only looks like that when the bark is being peeled or it’s the lighting in the videos. BUT this wood is used in making Buddhist prayer beads because of both its grain pattern connects to philosophy and its mention in Tibetan Buddhist texts.
Thank you for all that work!! I recognized some of the woods (since my siblings in law woodwork) but not all of them, and was going to look into them when I woke up, but you’ve gone and brought up all the treasure from the rabbit hole!
