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This has happened to me a bunch of times in my life. Simply because I don't drive or have a car, if I need to find somewhere to sit down to rest my feet or eat and there's no indoor seating, I'm immediately clocked as loitering and harassed into moving on.

Definitely lie to the cops about it every time

Especially because more and more, there are no public places to sit at all anymore. Just this past summer I nearly passed out trying to walk in the heat until I found a bench to rest for a minute. Guess what? There was no bench. On the busiest road in my city, not a single business had outdoor seating and not a single bench was anywhere to be found. I eventually sat on a curb to call an Uber. I was asked not to sit there by a woman in the storefront I was in front of, until she saw my face and realised I was on the verge on collapsing (and notably when I told her my Uber was on the way).

The hatred for the unhoused is so sad and so real.

Our tax policies are clearly not working as we spiral downward into oblivion.

Elon Musk’s wealth grow is super super fucked.

Little known fact, when I was writing ease in 2019 I googled world’s richest people to find where on a scale to base the billionaire characters.

I chose Elon Musk, who was worth around $30billion and not even in the top ten (maybe not even top 20) richest people in the world at the time. So, in five years Musk duplicated his worth about 15 times over and also overtaken everyone else on the list—most who have been wealth building significantly longer than him.

If memory serves correctly, Bezos and Zuckerberg were both $100–$150billion in 2019. So, crazy fucked rich, but still never reaching a growth pace anything close to Musk.

(Choosing Elon was purely a consideration of economics, not value or admiration)

“steve and danny should’ve explored each other’s bodies” i say into the mic

the crowd boos. i begin to walk off in shame, when a voice speaks and commands silence from the room

"she's right!" they say. i look for the owner of the voice. there in the back row stands: scott caan and alex o’loughlin behind him

Isnt it weird that hotel rooms provide toilet paper, tissues, shampoo, conditioner, lotion, soap, and ive even seen some provide make removal wipes, but I’ve never seen a single one provide pads or tampons?

Russian-speaking twitter had a huuuuge discussion about that last month I think, it was crazy how angry men were after just reading this question.

The arguments against varied from “hotels can’t afford it” to “you should plan your periods women, you have apps for that” to “but what if men eat tampons by mistake” (what???)

It really blew up and as far as I know quite a few workplaces began to put pads and tampons in office toilets. Hopefully hotels will too.

Yeah i just thought about it when i saw make up wipes in the hotel i stayed in the other day. Like make up wipes are very much something men could accidentally eat yet they are okay to provide but not pads??

Men will see a hypothetical hotel tampon and eat it

men will see a tampon and say is anyone gonna eat that and not wait for an answer

openin’ the door to the microwave one second early because you don’t need all the hootin’ and hollerin’

I'D LOVE TO ELABORATE because this is one of my favorite astronomy stories.

Okay. So in the field of Radio Astronomy, there's this phenomenon called a "fast radio burst", a very short, strong radio pulse picked up by a radio telescope. They're still poorly understood, and are considered very exciting to radio astronomers because of how rare they are.

In the 2010's, astronomers working at Australia's Parkes Radio Observatory identified a number of radio signals picked up by the telescope that appeared to resemble fast radio bursts, which they called Perytons.

However, they quickly realized that the signals had to be terrestrial in origin due to the strength of the signal.... as well as the fact that they always occurred during weekdays, around the same time.

The signals tended to be clustered around midday... hmm...

Further evidence that the signals were man-made... this trend also followed daylight savings!!!

(Unless aliens also follow Australian daylight savings conventions, which is highly unlikely...)

It took the astronomers several years, but they eventually tracked down the source to a microwave oven in the facility's break room.

They were unable to recreate the signal, until they tried opening the microwave door before it beeped. Turns out the microwave was letting out a tiny amount of radio emissions when the door opened, which the nearby telescope was sensitive enough to detect.

The Peryton signals had been popping up in the data for over a decade, presumably because astronomers taking their lunch breaks had been opening the break room microwave prematurely for the same reason cited by OP.

I imagine they must have a big sign reading "LET THE MICROWAVE FINISH BEFORE OPENING" hanging in the break room now.

TLDR: If you work in radio astronomy, let the microwave beep before opening it and removing your lunch.

(PS: I highly recommend reading the paper explaining the origin of Perytons, it's short and also pretty entertaining.)

Reblog if you think public libraries are important and should be maintained.

"unsubscribe" is not enough. i need a button that says "if you email me one more time i will track you down and kill you with a hammer."

he needs enrichment

Eloise to Kate

On my hands and knees begging adults to allow children to engage in risk play.

And by risk play I don't mean handing them a gun and playing Russian Roulette.

I mean like climbing trees, getting so sick spinning on the swing they throw up, balancing on the curb, sitting in the mud, walking on slippery surfaces, building half ass ramps to ride their bike over, standing on rocks, or anything that involves a smidgen of confidence and out of the box thinking that could result in injury.

Obviously like watch your kids and such, but when we talk about the fun of being an 80s or 90s kid, it's not just talking about CDs and Walkmans or not having iPads. It's about how kids today were robbed of critical learning and experience skills we were allowed to have.

Playgrounds disappearing, helicopter parents, and sue culture really destroyed a child's development in the United States, and I think it's about time we as adults recognize that, because the kids sure have.

You know what happens to kids who don't get to take reasonable risks? They never learn how to gauge safety or control their bodies in risky situations.

A kid who never climbs a tree becomes an adult who falls off a ladder because they don't intuitively know to keep 3 points of contact when climbing.

A kid who never skins their knees launching off a swingset becomes an adult who shatters an arm because they never learned how to break a fall.

Kids who are allowed to take risks become safer adults.

This crossed my dash again, so here's a more thorough list of things risk play is necessary for:

- Developing pain tolerance & an understanding of which types/intensities of pain are "okay" and which need immediate medical attention

- Calibrating the inner ear (sense of balance) and learning how the body reacts to experiencing different things, essential to learning to control the body in unexpected situations

- Developing reflexes and subconscious safety instincts (e.g. protectively throwing up your hands when an object flies toward your face)

- Normalizing getting hurt so the first reaction to an injury is just to treat it (and not to have a fearful emotional meltdown)

- Learning how to treat and heal from injuries (beginnings of self-care)

- Developing appropriate levels of fear around various activities, desensitizing fear around doing harmless things and establishing a fear response for actions that caused an injury. This is key to properly gauging risk in new situations.

Additionally, the reason it's so essential to mess around and get hurt as a kid is not just because it's a critical developmental stage, but also because kids' bodies are growing and naturally resistant to major injuries. A 3rd grader can get launched off a bike onto the pavement and only sustain a few scrapes and bruises that will heal in a few days, while someone who's 30 would likely pull or sprain something (or worse) and take weeks to heal.

If you are someone who grew up not being allowed to take risks it is likely you have a low pain tolerance, fear surrounding physical activities, slow reflexes, and poor judgment. The good thing is that it's never too late to learn! Our brains are very malleable, so if you missed out on this stuff as a kid now is the time to go climb a tree, go on a hike with unstable footing, or join a casual sports team. Just start small and work your way up, since your body won't be as resilient as it was when you were 9 :)

Your additions have tickled my brain in the right way. Thank you for your contribution to the discussion!

reading weird and unpleasant books and watching scary movies and challenging foreign cinema is how you do the same thing to your brain.

Sometimes people use “respect” to mean “treating someone like a person” and sometimes they use “respect” to mean “treating someone like an authority”

and sometimes people who are used to being treated like an authority say “if you won’t respect me I won’t respect you” and they mean “if you won’t treat me like an authority I won’t treat you like a person”

and they think they’re being fair but they aren’t, and it’s not okay.

This is so well put I am stunned

Overseas followers if you think our language is weird, just know that in Australia we have replaced the tradition of Sunday Church with a new tradition of going to a hardware store to eat sausages in the carpark.

Here is JFK's daughter attending one as part of a diplomatic mission of the American Ambassador (and no we are 100% not making this up).

At one point the hardware store banned people putting onion on top of their sausages due to all the injuries from people dropping them, and it was a national news story/outrage for weeks.

anthony bridgerton + text posts

“do you think you’ll still be writing fanfic when you’re 90?” yes, I do, and I hope AO3 is still here with me when I’m a 90 year old childless fanfic writer who writes slow burn dead dove do not eat dubcon gay sex enemies to lovers. next

Post that also work from the perspective of the cat.

when will the clown sightings happen again that was fun

look in the mirror and they can start today

so you want to be a writer aka someone who drinks lukewarm coffee at midnight while arguing with imaginary people, googles things like “how much blood loss is fatal” while eating snacks, gets emotionally attached to characters they’ll probably kill off, stares at a blank page for hours just to write one sentence and delete it immediately, has 27 unfinished projects but starts a new one anyway because it’s different this time, and spends more time daydreaming about interviews they’ll never give than actually writing—congratulations, you’re already halfway there.