stop removing usb ports and audio jacks and buttons from electronics stop it you're hurting them stop it stops top stop it

I swear I get sad if I wake up and one is on the floor

They are exploring under the bed! This is normal stuffed animal behavior, as they are trained to protect you from monsters and shadow creatures, so it's natural that they want to keep an eye out. Don't be sad, thank your friend for doing such a good job.

they have little adventures with the dust bunnys under there

full offense but none of you would have ever survived fanfiction.net in 2009

remember when writers had to be all like: “omg omg lemon starts HERE” y’all are lucky that ao3 has tags and filters you can set

Sometimes shit was marked “lemon” and it’d just be them making out, and sometimes they’d just start pissing on each other

No rules, no laws, you took your life into your hands opening fics

A/N: this contains SLASH, that means TWO MEN, if that makes you uncomfy, DON’T READ!

A/N: please don’t sue me, o anime overlords, I’m not making any money off of this! I’m just a broke student! I don’t have any money!

A/N: I totally wrote this while high off 10 Red Bulls wheeeeeee!!!!!

A/N: COMMENT if you want me to continue the next chappy!!!

No, no, no

remember when there’d be interactions with the author and the characters?

InuYasha: I don’t get why I have to be here for this

A/N: Because it was in your contract!!1!1 *revs chainsaw*

god those were lawless times. 

There are no good cops

All cops are bastards

FUCK THE POLICE

ACAB

no one ever lets me be friends with their mom 😔

friend’s mom checking up on me bc she adores me? i get a text from friend saying “STOP TEXTING MY MOTHER”. sister’s partner’s mom has similar interests as me? we have to play telephone through our respective family members bc asking for phone numbers gets an “absolutely not.” coworker’s mom is obsessed with all the shows that i am and is a chronic rewatcher as well? “no. NO. you are not gonna be tv watch buddies with my mom. that’s NOT happening.”

no one lets me have any fun

this is still so funny to me

i’ve been left unsupervised with a mom’s phone number

Look at this fuckin MILF magnet over here...

Itchy snoot. 

HE DIRT BROKEN :(

Look at her lil face she’s just like “is this really for me??” It’s so cute I wanna cry

This is missing the very necessary follow up 

tags from coloredcompulsion:

“Could you be the chosen one?”

“I am very much the guy who’s here.”

They were insane to animate digivolving like this

love leopard seals. they are so dragon coded. that is an entire mammalian marine wyrm

Look at this fucking. beast. Medieval painting animal that eats princesses

you know how all those applesauce packets were recalled for lead?

well. it turns out the cinnamon used in them may have been laced with lead on purpose.

fun times in the united states food industry right now am I right folks

In case you’re a buffoon (like me) and thought someone was out here meticulously hand-poisoning applesauce:

We love cutting corners to maximize profit at the expense of our consumers

hand-poisoning applesauce would be too tedious. these applesauces were poisoned in bulk for maximum efficiency

Turmeric is also frequently affected by this. A lead compound with a bright yellow color can be used.

I'm not gonna dox myself by saying precisely what I do for a living, but I am involved in public environmental health, and in the past have conducted home investigations in child lead poisoning cases. For years, foreign spices have been a problem, particularly for immigrant families who visit relatives overseas and bring spices back from south asia in particular.

During and immediately after covid, however, we started finding domestically sold spices coming back from lab testing with high lead results. Sam's club, wal-mart, etc. We used to tell families to buy domestically instead of bringing things back from India, Pakistan, etc, but even that isn't safe anymore.

You might - might - be safer with higher end organic products but I really just don't trust anything anymore. This isn't a new issue, but it's definitely becoming more widespread.

is there a reliable way to test spices for lead at home?

if the spice you're using is water-soluble, you can mix it with water and then use a water testing kit. they sell water-testing kits at the hardware store; ones that you send off to a lab are more reliable (but also more expensive).

you can also buy lead-testing swabs on the Internet. some of these are not reliable, so I'd recommend testing the lead-testing swabs. use a swab on something that you know is lead (a fishing sinker, a car battery, etc) and another swab on something that you know is lead-free (most things in your home, hopefully) and make sure you get the expected results.

note that lead-testing kits are not food-safe, so you should not just put pipettes / test swabs / etc into your spice jar. spoon out a small amount (onto a plate or whatever), test that small amount, and then throw that small amount away. (and then wash the plate.)

gonna add this consumer reports investigation from a couple of years back that made the rounds. they looked into a bunch of american spice brands and found that this is a huge problem across brands, regardless of whether or not it's organic (exact quote: "CR’s tests could not determine whether one brand was consistently better or worse than any other. And organic products did not have consistently lower levels than conventionally grown ones").

summary of the results, which tested for things like lead, arsenic, and cadmium beyond safe limits:

fun!

(x)

#you’re going to let the GOVERNMENT tell you who you are???? (liminal-zone)

@chaoticcosmonaut we can't leave this in the tags

stop explaining metaphors to people that insist everyone who loves horror is a degenerate. just tell them you jack off to people getting ripped open its all they want to hear

merry mustelid from Princess✨🎄

why would I camp somewhere named Hole Where You'll Freeze To Death

Yeah I'm going on a camping trip to the Hole Where You'll Freeze to Death. No I won't be back soon.

If people are curious about what the video title means, I watched it some time ago, and it's actually pretty important info to know if you're going camping/backpacking: heat rises, and cold sinks, so the lowest point of the terrain can become much colder than the surrounding area, especially at night. If the temperature in these low-points drops farther than the temperatures your camping gear is rated for, you can definitely freeze to death.

"Don't sleep in holes" seems like a pretty obvious statement to make a video about. But it isn't talking about what we normally think of when we're asked to describe a hole in the ground. The video is talking about low-lying meadows or depressions, often in cold mountains like the Alps, that are free of trees and large plants. They seem like good flat ground to camp on. And to compound the problem, maybe some poor sucker tried to build a now-abandoned log cabin or shack right in the middle of one that you may be tempted to sleep in, like the one in the thumbnail. But the reason the meadow is free and clear of trees, is because even pine trees, which grow in high altitudes and low temperatures, can't survive the temperature difference. The downhill slope of the terrain collects the freezing air like water in a bowl, and with nowhere for it to go, it may become even colder than temperatures recorded at much higher elevations in the same area. And you'll be right there in the middle of it, because it looked very nice in the daylight. Now? Not so much.

So don't sleep in holes. Best case scenario is that you'll have a very chilly night's sleep and a lousy morning. Worst case is that you won't wake up in the morning at all.

(My memory and explanation isn't perfect, watch the video itself in case I got important stuff wrong. The creator also lists his sources in the video description if you wanted to check those out.)