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Kira’s World

@kiralive

It’s my world and you’re all just living in it
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About me:

Hey! I’m Kira and I run this blog. Here are some facts about me:

-You can use they/them pronouns

-I have late diagnosed adhd and autism

-I’m in my 20s. I will not be disclosing my age.

-I’m currently in school trying to get into nursing school.

-my special interests at the moment are rock music, Star Wars, history/ politics, and how my brain works

-I also have pretty bad anxiety and a history with depression

-I have two fish and am thinking of setting up a third tank

-I’m currently watching Modern Family

-I love reading and writing

-I learned to sew when I was five and love making clothes and stuffed animals. I am currently trying to learn to knit

-I have chronic atopic dermatitis, Ehlers Danlos syndrome, and possible psoriatic arthritis. Along with a whole host of other medical issues.

-my favorite bands are The Beatles, Guns n Roses, Led Zeppelin, Queen, and Pink Floyd

-my favorite color is sage green

-my hair is currently purple

- I’m Jewish, but I practice paganism

-I am a nonbinary lesbian

If you want to know more about me send me an ask. My inbox is always open!

To be honest.. if more children were shown from birth that they are loved, cared for, and listened no matter their gender we might not have some of the problems we have now.  

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Uh… Um… Ships aren’t illegal.

Ships are ONLY ILLEGAL IF...

The Vessel switches off their location-transmission devices, thereby making themselves a HAZARD TO MARITIME NAVIGATION, in order to ENGAGE IN ILLEGAL ACTS.

The Vessel is FRAUDULENTLY DISPLAYING a national flag that is NOT OF THEIR REGISTERED PORT OF ORIGIN.

The Vessel is otherwise engaged in ACTS THAT VIOLATE SOLEMN MARITIME LAW, and may face fines and prosecution in admiralty court for their offense in their port of origin or nation in which the offense was registered.

Other than that, no ships are illegal.

Actually I regret to inform you some ships ARE illegal. Sailing a ship you know to not be seaworthy may constitute insurance fraud, which is very illegal.

Today instead of a problematic ship, we present you the guidelines on how to avoid the most common mistakes that result in a ship becoming problematic.

You might feel like my ship bothers you, but actually, I have a letter of marque

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No-fault divorce is actually very recent. That is, a divorce just because you wanted to get divorced and not because they were guilty of some provable transgression. California's no-fault divorce law was 1966; the latest US state, it was 2010. When I was in Catholic school, we were taught to believe in and promote anti-no-fault-divorce positions. This is very recent history, and you cannot take even this for granted. Stop being "edgy" about feminism and its flaws. Every movement will have some flaws. But do you not think that this, and the risk it represents, is significant to women as a class of all backgrounds?

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Hey fun fact the reason the murder rate went down when no fault divorce was introduced was because beforehand when women were being abused they would just kill their husbands. do not come at this post with the "well abused people can still get out" like good fucking luck ask any actual abuse victem how the courts been to them ill wait

Oldest evidence of the controlled use of fire to cook food

The remains of a huge carp fish (2 meters/6.5 feet long), analyzed by the Hebrew University, Bar-Ilan University Tel Aviv University, in collaboration with Oranim Academic College, the Israel Oceanographic and Limnological Research institution, the Natural History Museum in London, and the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz, mark the earliest signs of cooking by prehistoric human to 780,000 years ago, predating the available data by some 600,000 years.

A close analysis of the remains of a carp-like fish found at the Gesher Benot Ya'aqov (GBY) archaeological site in Israel shows that the fish were cooked roughly 780,000 years ago. Cooking is defined as the ability to process food by controlling the temperature at which it is heated and includes a wide range of methods. Read more.

Holy SHIT this is cool!! Y'all! Y'ALL!! This is HUGE!! Our ancestors were having a nice grill out 600,000 years EARLIER than we thought!!! We went from thinking this was 180,000 years ago to fucking 780,000 years ago!! That’s mind-blowing!!! Like… just think about the difference between starting a 180k fic (already a sizable investment) vs getting into a 780k MONSTER!! And… that’s just words! Not years!! I’m blown away!!

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ETA2: See also this press release on the discovery.

ETA3: And here’s the link to the paper at Nature. (Sorry, friends, it’s a paywalled article.) :/

(I’m going hunting for the original paper, now. Because I want to know what species that carp was. After all… until you know the species, you can’t come up with a decent recipe…)

Per this: they mention two likely species (without specifically correlating them to the teeth they were analyzing in this study) as Luciobarbus longiceps, known casually as the Jordan barbel, and Carasobarbus canis, the Jordan himri. While both these fish are members of the Cyprinidae family, which includes carp, they’re not all that carpish. (And the genus name of Luciobarbus suggests that it’s a bit more pike-shaped; Esox lucius is the true [northern] pike.)

…Anyway, barbel are a bit more like perch, if you ask me. …But in any case, both are firm-fleshed fish that would probably bake up nicely. (Some people online can be found muttering about a slightly earthy flavor to the fish, which can sometimes have to do with the quality of the water where they’re found… and as a result, most of the recipes I turned up in a quick search involve simmering them in flavored stocks of one kind or another: like this one via the old Foody site, now only available at the Wayback Machine – one of Mrs. Beeton’s recipes. Or search for “barbel” in this page from the Illustrated London Cookery Book.)

ETA2: See

also this press release on

the discovery.

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.