If you are on the autism spectrum (which is highly genetic) then you are more likely to experience pain during a pregnancy.
Tylenol is the safest painkiller to take when pregnant, so that’s the one you take.
Therefore the autism causes the Tylenol consumption, not the other way around.
Oh god is this the newest stupid thing about this
The article I read about this was hilarious because they still really didn’t want to say the (still weirdly taboo) thing of “if your child is autistic they probably inherited from you. Because you are also autistic.” so they were just like. “autism is genetic. People with certain conditions tend to experience more pain in pregnancy. People with those conditions are more likely to have autistic children. Also remember autism is genetic.” like they’re dropping hints to the protagonist of a point and click murder mystery.
I <3 my wasps... The ladies do a great job of patrolling my veggies
Obligatory reminder that I am Some Rando on the internet, not an entomologist and you should exercise caution trying out ANY Advice you fine online.
Wasps in general are great at protecting crops because wasps are carnivores: bees get their protein from pollen, most wasps get it from the flesh of smaller insects, worms, and and foodscraps humans leave out. Most paper wasp nests are founded by a single queen who got pregnant in the fall, buried herself over winter, and woke up in spring to give birth to a squadron of grubs, all of which she needs to stuff meat into to they can grow up to be good helpers for the army of wasps she and her daughters are going to produce. The individual gender and generational dynamics of different types of wasps are fascinating and I highly reccomend reading up on them, but the net result is that if you can get a colony of wasps to establish in your yard, you garden will be the FIRST place they go looking for snacks.
The wasps do not know the fried chicken crumbs are from the humans, and may or may not actually possess a sense of social reciprocity, so you have to deploy the fried chicken bits STRATEGICALLY. I wait until I see the firsts wasp queens coming out of the ground from hibernation, get a bucket of fried chicken, enjoy it, and then leave a handful of cumbs and bones with shreds of meat on them in a less-traversed corner of the yard (off the ground so the dogs don't eat them and give me vet bills from hell). I only do this for like, a week, maximum, because I don't want to be feeding the wasps. I want to make the emerging queens think that my yard is a good place to build a nest, and then cut her off so she starts eating the aphids. During this time, I rigorously patrol the yard (walk around the house when i go to get the mail) and knock down nests in unsuitable locations- anywhere high-traffic (Like right next to the garage door or inside the mailbox) or structurally unstable (On a bare and skinny elderberry branch that would snap as soon as their was any real weight on it). Nests that are in safe-for-humans-and-dogs locations are allowed to stay.
The only non-nest-establishment time I deploy fried chicken is when I'm going to be doing something in the yard that the wasps will be interested in but not helpful during, like painting or dyeing projects. Then I will set out a broken-up piece of fried chicken on the far side of the yard from where I will be working at least 20 minutes before I start, and that holds their attention nicely. This also works for picnics- put a piece of meat on a far table BEFORE you start setting up and that will hold the attention of any wasps in the area while you eat. I go out and get any leftovers after sunset when they've gone to bed.
The wasps DO know the humans are not a threat by the humans not acting like threats. If you have wasps established in an area where they are On Alert and you don't want to/can't remove the nest, this is what you do:
- walk by normally as though the wasps aren't there. Wasps read human body language remarkably well and ignoring them signals that you are not about to rip the nest open.
- If a wasp flies up into your immediate proximity, hold still or keep walking as you were. DO NOT jerk away suddenly or try to swat it. The wasp is probably just confused by the patterns of your graphic t-shirt or the smell of your deodorant. Give it like two seconds to eyeball you and it will leave, as well as relay the fact that you're not going to be a problem to the other wasps.
- If a wasp lands on you, wait for it to leave or use the paper-and-cup method to remove it from your person. Sometimes they want to hang out, and once you've learned to not panic about Wasps, having one hang out on your sleeve or hat is NBD.
-If you accidentally squish a wasp, Calmly leave the area immediately, go wash your hands and anything that touched the dead wasp, and wait at least 20 minutes before returning to the location of the dead wasp. The body of the dying wasp produces a pungent "ALERT! SOME FUCKER HAS KILLED ME!!" chemicals and that puts all wasps in the area n high alert. Running makes them think you're the aggressor and they'll defend the nest with a strong offense. walking calmly away, washing he alarm chemicals off and waiting for things to calm down will prevent you from getting on your local nest's shit list.
-Try to avoid eating bananas, wearing anything Banana Scented or using Suave-Brand Shampoo/banana boat sunscreen as those scents are extremely similar to the "ALERT! THERE'S A HOMICIDAL MANIAC!!" chemicals.
And that's it! Prevent wasps from establishing nests in risky areas, stay calm when approached and try to not smell like a corpse and you will get along great!
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I’m sorry, is this… Is this implying there’s no DYE in that rug? All raw wool in its natural colours? She fucking bred the sheep to get the colours she wanted over the course of ten years!? Holy shit.
Edit: this has gotten a huge amount of traction (fibrearts tumblr is a, uh, tight-knit community it seems!) so I am adding this note to state that I checked Lola Cody’s website and can confirm: There is no dye in her work. She uses exclusively hand-spun Churro wool sheared from her home-raised sheep flock. It’s all natural colours!
I can confirm that there is no dye in any Navajo Rugs made in the traditional way
I watched my grandma weave rugs when I was little—seeing it here is heartwarming
It’s incredible. She talks in the video about breeding the colors in her own flock.
one of my favourite things about Scotland is how often normal everyday folks actually blame the right people when things are shit
taxi driver today told me about his broken hip and how he’s going to be waiting years for replacement surgery and I braced myself for the inevitable “public healthcare bad” but then he just went “fuckin Tories” and I was like oh right, I’m back in Scotland where people understand it’s the fuckin Tories
Slumber was a performance/installation: whenever it was shown, the artist lived in the gallery, weaving
during the day and sleeping with an EEG machine recording her Rapid Eye Movement (REM) at night.
The REM is an analogue to Antoni’s dreams, and she weaves this pattern into the blanket that covers her
bed while she sleeps. In this piece, an uneasy truce exists between contemporary medical technology,
ancient myths of weaving and the mysterious world of dreams.
Okay but the best part of this is that this is an exhibition of corvid behavior called “companion calling.” A lot of the time when you hear crows in different areas around you cawing, what they’re essentially saying is “hi! I’m over here and I’m okay! How are you?” Or perhaps a little like “MARCO!” to prompt their friends to reply “POLO!”
If one of the crow family that nests across the street from my house companion calls for the others and doesn’t get a reply, it will fly off towards the last place it heard from them in order to go find its family.
It really is just them saying, “You all right, love? I’m all right,” and people do the same thing, so this crow is literally just adapting their companion calls to the others around them.
*insert vile and controversial direct quote from charlie*
Pearl clutching hypocrites:
How dare you speak ill of the dead… even though he constantly spit on the names of dead folks, how dare you show such disrespect.
me: it’s a direct quote from him… it’s his words…
PCH:
You’re celebrating his death! You’re a monster!
me: I quoted him… It’s his words!
………….
Acknowledging & discussing someone’s vile actions, words and behavior in their life, is not celebrating their death…
STOP BLATANTLY IGNORING THE HARM THIS MAN HAS CAUSED!
Here’s the truth: Kirk wasn’t about dialogue, he was about domination. He wasn’t protecting liberty, he was laying the rhetorical groundwork for fascism.
This guy wasn’t just “against gay marriage.” He opened his Bible, pointed to the verse about executing gay men, and called it “God’s perfect law.” He tweeted “Pride is a sin” like he was dunking on an entire community. He told a gay student that their life wasn’t valid. Then he went even further—demanding a nationwide ban on gender-affirming care and calling trans kids an abomination. That’s not policy debate, that’s state-sanctioned cruelty dressed up as a sermon.
And race? Same playbook. He called George Floyd a “scumbag,” smeared Martin Luther King Jr. as “awful,” and sneered at the Civil Rights Act as a “huge mistake.” That’s not contrarian courage, that’s spitting on the graves of people who bled to expand democracy. And the man didn’t just flirt with white nationalism—he blasted the Great Replacement theory on national radio, pointing to demographic charts and telling his audience the decline of white Christians was “intentional.” Do you hear the subtext? He wasn’t warning about immigration policy, he was laying out a war cry.
Immigrants, in his mind, weren’t people—they were invaders. He called for a total immigration shutdown, then promised mass round-ups. Not the usual “tighten security” talk—he said, “We will find you and your family, and we will return you. All 20, 25, 30 million.” That’s not a plan, that’s a threat. It’s the fantasy of a police state that tears apart homes in the middle of the night.
And let’s not forget his casual acceptance of violence. He said it outright: “Some gun deaths every single year? Worth it.” Worth it! As if dead kids in classrooms are a reasonable trade-off for his right to pose with an AR-15 on Instagram. He called for Trump to unleash the military on American streets under the Insurrection Act. He told dads they should’ve physically stopped trans athletes from competing. He framed blood in the streets as part of liberty’s price tag and told the audience to clap for it.
Now the obits will paint him as a victim of “political violence.” But the man himself glorified violence when it came from the right. He cheered Rittenhouse. He excused Jan. 6. He was fine with militarized crackdowns as long as they landed on protesters, not his base. He didn’t fear political violence—he marketed it. And here’s the uncomfortable truth: if someone makes it their life’s mission to be a hate-mongering fascist, they shouldn’t be shocked when political violence finds them. Actions, rhetoric, and consequences are not separate islands—they feed each other.
So no, he wasn’t a saint, he wasn’t some brave debater taken too soon. He was a professional hate-monger, a demagogue who wanted to roll this country back to the dark ages of church-run morality and white supremacy. And if the papers try to hand him a halo, it’s our job to rip it off and remind people who he really was.
- I don’t support Charlie Kirk.
- I don’t support what happened to Charlie Kirk.
Charlie Kirk was an openly racist person who built a career off of mocking and spreading harmful rhetoric and ideology that hurt many people, especially poc, trans people, and women.
My absence of empathy does NOT mean I am celebrating.
All the people publicly wailing the death of Charlie Kirk were silent when MN State Representative Melissa Hartman, was publicly shot and killed. They’ve remained silent EVERY day of this ongoing genocide of Palestinian people. The slaughtering and mutilation of tens of thousands of children.
This is Charlie Kirk’s legacy:
Who repeatedly stated that “there was more to the story” when it comes to slavery.
Who publicly tried to assisinate the character of MLK.
Who publicly stated numerous times that the civil rights act was “ a huge mistake.”
Who publicly made comments such as, “if I see a black pilot, I’m gonna think, ‘boy, is he qualified?”
Who rushed to blame black people for the air traffic controller crisis.
Who repeatedly attacked the extremely qualified and accomplished SCJ Kentaji Jackson Brown’s appointment, saying she’s a “DEI hire” who was only appointed because she’s a “Black Woman.”
Whose rhetoric historically hurt women, not only continously bringing in to question their rights, but also making claims that “men don’t want women in their 30s because they’re not in their prime.”
Who bragged about sending 80 buses to DC on January 6th “to help fight for Trump” when our capital was stormed in an attempt to overthrow the government.
Who staunchly denies the existance of an entire group of people- the Palestinian people- and simultaneously CELEBRATES their ongoing genocide (whose population is over 50% children. Meaning babies and children are the ones dying for all the pretend pro-lifers, reading this).
He founded an organization who spread dangerous and false claims and medical misinformation, saying the covid vaccine caused Jamie Fox to become blind and paralyzed. This same organization created watchlists to harass and intimidate academics, officials who support public health measures or the teaching of accurate history.
Who was a big proponent of leading the seven mountains mandate and called for full military occupation in American cities.
Whose response to the 2023 shooting at ‘The Covenant School’ where three 9 year old students (and three adults) were shot and killed in their school, was that these deaths were “unfortunately, the cost of liberty.”
I’d like to remind everyone that the first tenet of white supremacy is your belief that you have the right to comfort…
You being forced to face the evil that that man portrayed and enacted during his life, after his death, makes you uncomfortable… you want everyone to pretend that there’s this notion as if he’s some sort of saint or freedom fighter… while actively ignoring the harm he caused to children and their families and minorities and victims of gun violence…
I’m sorry, but not all of us are going to participate in your delusion to make you feel comfortable about his untimely death at his own words…
Heyyy in an hour and a half (11 AM Eastern, Wednesday sept 10), the NASA director and highest admins for the Science Directorate are going to give a live teleconference to “discuss the analysis of a rock sampled by the agency’s Perseverance Mars rover.”
I don’t want to get too hyped but like. Maybe this is the big one…
