hi okay so i just learned apparently the way i count on my fingers is insane so

reblog or dont tbh im just fascinated by this and wanna hear more

thing Im genuinely curious about

pleas reblog for more results

alright, I want to find something out

please reblog this if you can!! I want to increase the number of intersex people who see the poll!

47 more free and helpful things, that everyone can take advantage of

Music

Art

Games

Knowledge

Cooking

Work, or relax

Boredom

Just for fun

And lastly…

Earlier post

IT’S NOT AT ALL SOUP SEASON, MOTHERFUCKERS, AND YET IT IS ALWAYS SOUP SEASON, MOTHERFUCKERS

My viral soup post hasn’t gotten reblogged in a while and needed to be updated, and @redheadmystic asked me about it today, so here’s a brand-new master post of soups, including most of the ones that were on the list before, as well as some newer favorites. I’ve made many more soups than just this list over the past year, but these selections are my very tip-top, most enthusiastically-recommended picks.

Adding these newly discovered favorites to the list:

Hi everyone! I haven’t done a soup masterpost in a while, so here’s an updated list of favorites/discoveries from the past year or so.

Local Bookstores Have A New Weapon In The Fight With Amazon

In the book industry, Amazon is Goliath, the giant who overshadows everyone else. But there’s a new David on the scene, Bookshop.org.

It doesn’t expect to topple the giant, but it has launched a weapon that could make Amazon’s shadow a little smaller, and help local bookstores fight back.

Bookshop.org, a website that went live at the end of January and is still in beta mode, is designed to be an alternative to Amazon, and to generate income for independent bookstores. And, perhaps more importantly, it seeks to give book reviewers, bloggers and publications who rely on affiliate income from “Buy now” links to Amazon a different option.

Profit from books sold through Bookshop will be split three ways, with 10% of the sale price going into a pool that will be divided among participating bookstores, 10% going to the publication that triggered the sale by linking to Bookshop.org, and 10% going to Bookshop.org to support its operations.

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y’all, Bookshop is amazing. i got an email about them from my local indie store, and they’re so excited about it. please oh please use this place instead of Amazon!!

with every purchase, they tell you how much you’re putting toward independent booksellers, which is fun and cute:

it’s also amazing for authors! i’ve been asked a couple times about the best way to support my books. this site is now the answer. it reports sales figures to the NYT and Bookscan, a type of tracking that helps authors hit bestseller lists. and even better, authors can set up affiliate pages, and if you buy through those pages, we get an additional 10 percent of each sale on top of royalties. this is a massive deal!!!

for reference, many royalty rates are in the 6-8 percent range. so if you buy through Bookshop author affiliate pages, authors get more than twice as much from sales of their books, with no additional cost to you.

the site is still in beta, but it also has a fun interface where you can make book lists for favorites or recommendations, sort of like goodreads (except better, because goodreads is owned by amazon).

this is my Bookshop page. if you ever buy one of my books, i pray u will do it from this site! (or from your local indie :D)

Libro.fm is the same kind of thing for audiobooks. A portion of your purchases (I think half) goes to an independent bookstore. You can either pick one of their bookstore partners, or it gets split among all of them. You can either buy books individually or do a monthly membership like audible. I’ve been loving it during the lockdown

Bookshop and Libro.fm are fantastic, but if you want all of your money to go to independent bookstores directly and don’t mind paying a bit more (for some books; not all books are cheaper on Amazon), I suggest checking out indiebound.org too! You can look up what indies are near you if you’re in the U.S. or Canada. 

Indie bookshops are in danger of closing permanently/never reopening so please consider supporting them during this time (please consider supporting them in general, actually). We all need art more than ever. We need to be reminded that we’re not alone in our experiences, keep our minds active, and/or step out of our lives and into the lives of others for a bit of a breather. Books provide us that opportunity, so please try to support authors and booksellers as much as possible in whatever way works best for you!

So you don’t have to watch the video every time you need one of these hacks immediately:

1. If you feel nauseated, smell rubbing alcohol.

2. If you feel like throwing up, start humming.

3. If you have a runny nose, put your tongue to the roof of your mouth and press your thumb to your forehead for about 20 seconds.

4. If you have a headache, pinch the webbing between your fingers and rub it back and forth for about 1 minute.

5. If you’re lightheaded from standing up too quickly, clench your butt cheeks.

6. If your arm’s dead/has the pins and needles feeling, rock your head back and forth.

7. If you need to pee badly, think of sex to trick your brain and relieve the pressure.

8. If you have a migraine, stick your hands in ice water.

9. If you wanna calm your racing heart, blow on your thumb.

If you're lightheaded while standing up, opening and closing your fists is also something to do. Also try stretching before getting up!

(These are vasovagal syncope tricks, to get the blood pumping where it should be)

Thanks for adding another hack!

I used the humming one when I randomly started dry heaving today, and that shit worked so fast!👌🏼

A trick I have used often when I stand up too fast/start to see my vision black out is to quickly hold my hands up over my head.  A doctor taught me this, it has always helped!

This is the  Zhangye National Geopark in Gansu province, commonly called ‘The Rainbow Mountains of China’. What appears to be paint daubed across the mountains is actually a spectrum of mineral deposits that were revealed by weathering and erosion of the surface. The layers of ground beneath were exposed, complete with all of their wonderfully beautiful and colorful chemistry. Credit: Shutterstock/M.Scheja

Cashmere Cape, ca. 1912

Reville & Rossiter Ltd.

via Vintage Martini

American Duchess recently posted a free pattern for this, along with instructions, if anyone’s looking to sew it!

Oh my god.

There goes my weekend (and the next, and the next).

signal-boost the Historical Costumer Quarantine Uniform™

Poppyseed Cauliflower and Fresh Corn Salad

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Is this how you roll?

If you would like your players to feel less like the above image, you should check out this article. It’s a bit of a read, but if you’ve got the time it’ll absolutely help you design engaging, nonlinear puzzles with multiple solutions.

I planted some saguaro seeds about a week ago. Who woukda thunk that such large lads start out so smol. (submitted @nolayelde)

this speaks for itself when paired with a pic of the grown plant for scale:

they usually live to be 150+ years old. cutting one down in Arizona, where they’re native, is a felony with a maximum 9 months in prison. 

in my brief wikipedia exploration to find out how old they could be for this ask i found out that there was a dude in 1982 who was vandalizing one (which is also highly illegal) by shooting at it and then poking at it, and not only did the 500 pound arm of the cactus he was shooting at fall on top of him, but the actual trunk of the cactus then also proceeded to fall on him. he died. smited by the cactus gods for his transgressions 

There was one we had in our backyard that fell on our fence and buckled the steel bar. When the guy came by to take it away he sliced into roughly foot long segments and we kept one. It was really cool in the inside, also the chlorophyll is on the inside. My mom turned the outer layer into a lampshade

Sorry it’s dusty lmao no idea how to clean it

i…………..idk how to react to this but this is definitely an item i wasn’t expecting 

here’s another fun fact about saguaro cactuses (or cacti - both are fine!): when they die, the flesh on them erodes away and leaves these really cool wood-like structures

they’re called bones. these are cactus bones

……oh

Tfw not even your serial killer dad has the serial killer genes but you do

#i hate when i have a concussion and they inflate my bill by decoding my entire genome

#what the fuck is Riverdale at this point

this is RIVERDALE?

me every time i hear what’s happening on riverdale:

Russian Honey Cake

Caribbean Braised Lamb Shanks

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