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Happy March 32nd, everyone!
I am posting this at 2:30am EST. He has been speaking since 7PM EST. This link (at this moment) is to a live stream.
See also, "We're in a drought; conserve water!" Meanwhile, bottled water companies and golf courses for rich folk empty the aquifers.
fic aesthetic: place a poppy in my hair by @scarletslippers
“So, uh, what are you wearing?” Nancy laughs softly and looks meaningfully down at her oversized cardigan and jeans before taking his question seriously. She knows his thoughts must run deeper than inquiring about her attire for the Lovers’ Vigil. “Why, you want to make sure we match?” “No, I, uh, I don’t know.” He ducks his head in a blush. “I just wanted to know if you’d be wearing a flower crown again.”
Happy belated birthday, Allison! 🌸
Gaby wants me to go to her divorce party tonight. So? I don't wanna. Feels fake.
SHRINKING 1.03 ♡ Fifteen Minutes
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There are several protests across the world, across the nation, and across your state! Fight fascism and find one in your city! This is not a time to let others take the lead. Call in sick. Drop your kids off with grandma. Show up. Be heard. WE WON'T BACK DOWN!
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Outside of the United States:
For those living outside of the USA, or if you absolutely cannot make it, SHARE! Annoy your friends. Blast social media. Get. The. Word. Out!
Nancy Drew rewatch — 1.14 'The Sign of the Unwanted Guest' "I directed season 1 episode 14 when Nancy and Ace are in the library and they read that love letter from Ryan and Lucy to each other. I remember this so vividly. I remember Kennedy and Alex coming up to me with these mischievous grins on their faces saying, ‘I think that Nancy and Ace maybe have a thing. I feel like they have chemistry and this could be a really interesting thing to explore.' In the moment, I remember looking at them and thinking, ‘Well, you guys have the same color eyes. Maybe there’s a twist later that you are siblings?’ So I had them read the love letter to each other and they were so right about their chemistry." — Amanda Row
Dr John Shen already being an icon™
endless night
The fact that Antarctica is a whole ass continent which had diverse ecosystems for hundreds of millions of years and is now a barren expanse of ice never ceases to freak me out.
Expanse of ice? Yes. Barren? Only kind of. Yes 99% of the continent is icy leaving only one 1% available for plants but! On that one percent, 100s of different unique species of mosses, lichens and other plants are crammed in. There's even two flowering plants, Antarctic hair grass (Deschampsia antarctica) and Antarctic pearlwort.
These moss beds are like a micro forest that is bursting with unique, mostly microscopic, life.
Penguins are, of course, the most common bird on the continent, but they're not the only ones. Albatros are (relatively) common in the region and lay their legs on the sub-antarctic islands.
Petrel birds can be found all over the coastal regions, while the south polar Skua can be found all over the continent and has been sighted at the pole itself.
Other species of bird, mostly found in the islands, include gulls, turns, cormarants, sheathbills and there's even a type of fresh water duck on South Georgia, the Soth Georgia Pintail.
And all of this isn't even talking about the amazing range of seals, whales, fish, squid, and krill that frequent the surrounding waters. It's easy to look at the aparrently barren wasteland of what is technically the world's largest desert and only see the endless night, but in doing so, you miss the incredible, diverse, and unique ecosystem. It's not an equatorial rainforest or a vast meadow, but, like every other desert, Antarctic is bursting with life
I am simplifying this, but it also has subglacial lakes, i.e. lakes trapped under ice sheets up to about 12 miles thick. We therefore assumed nothing could be living in them, since ecosystems need an energy input and that's normally the sun (which cannot reach the lakes through 12 miles of ice) or more rarely a geothermal heat source (not present).
And then, we finally managed to drill down into them! And it turns out they have highly specialised microbial ecosystems - Lake Whillans was found to have over 3900 types of microbes, which are generating energy not by photosynthesis, but chemosynthesis. And then they went to the extreme edge of Lake Whillans, to research around the grounding line
And GUESS WHAT WE FOUND THERE
BUG-EYED SEE THROUGH FISH
Also eyeless crustaceans and weird jellyfish. And this is especially exciting because conditions around the grounding line are as close as we're likely to naturally get on Earth to those on Europa, Jupiter's moon. So if we're finding complex life here, maybe there are neighbourly space fish waiting for us to see through over there.
I just really want to thank you for everything you’re doing. You’re the first hope based anything I found, and since I followed you like a year ago my life has been doing nothing but improving. I may have been the one to put in the work, and I’m trying desperately to get better at realizing that, but you were the catalyst. And for that I’ll forever be thankful.
Everything you’re doing matters, and it can and does change lives. You’re amazing for choosing to do this.
<3 <3 Thank you so much for sending this. It really means a lot to know I've helped in such a powerful way. I'm so glad you're doing better (and better)
How many steps are in your daily skincare? Count only things you do more or less every day. If you do the same thing twice, count as two. Count any product or "routine", like shower gel or shaving. Don't count makeup or washing your hands.
0
1 - 3
4 - 6
7 - 9
10 - 12
13 - 15
More than 15
The people calling the zeros nasty, peace and love to you, last I did something to my face other than put my glasses on was two days ago 💜 and my dermatologist says my skin is great. It takes good care of itself from the inside and doesn't need something every single day -- it was worse when I was trying to do that. I'm 38 and don't wear makeup, this is my plain natural skin, including my milia, skin tag, moles, and cherry angioma.
Just because people like me don't do anything daily, doesn't mean we never do anything. We just don't need that much and our skin does well with resting.
I'm really not trying to brag, but some of you acting disgusted is really fucking insulting.
So one of my tweets kinda blew up. :v
This reminds me of the time that a Hungarian doctor called Ignaz Semmelweiss noticed that the bulk of patients in a maternity ward treated by doctors were dying horribly, while the ones treated by nurses were more likely to survive.
He figured out that this was because the doctors were dissecting corpses inbetween delivering babies, while the nurses weren’t, and came up with his controversial “hey, why don’t we all wash our filthy, filthy hands before sticking them in a woman?” theory.
The result, short term, was that the mortality rate on this one maternity ward decreased by a ridiculous amount. They went from “write your will before you come here, because you’re probably gonna die” to “we’re not 100% sure, but you’ll probably live”.
The result, long term, was that Semmelweiss was hated by absolutely everybody, lost his reputation and had his career suffer terribly.
His eventual reward was that eventually people finally started sashimg their hands with soap before operations, history remembers him as a misunderstood hero, and the instinctive angry and defensive reaction so many people give whenconfronted with new ideas that conflict with their established view of the world is now called ‘the Semmelweiss reflex’.
Because some people care more about themselves not being wrong than they do about things in general being right.
