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I freaking love Fringe, my dude.

It’s sci-fi kind of in the mold of the X-Files, but it’s not a carbon copy of it, or anything. Though, the first season might feel a little similar to the first couple seasons of XF.

It’s weird and intriguing, and the first season is best watched on an empty stomach. It does a pretty good job of wrapping up its myth arc stuff, too, so you’re not left hanging or frustrated that it’s strung out forever.

It’s got a fascinating world. Or worlds, I should say.

VFX-wise/special effects, it holds up well. They did a lot of practical effects, which always helps.

Anna Torv and John Noble are phenomenal. But it’s got a really good cast all-around.

Anyway, yes, I would totally recommend it.

bookshelfdreams:

oh my god yall

look at this fucking Pattern

Octopus Pillow Throw pattern by Joan Rowe

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Immigrant women describe ‘hell on earth’ in ICE detention

Surely there are better things to spend 88 billion US dollars than on torturing people and kicking people out of the place they’ve made their home.

thenightgaunt:

Fuck this one hits home.

Estimation of radiation dose from diagnostic or therapeutic radiopharmaceuticals in humans has drawn great interests. A graphics processing units based (GPU-based) positron and photon coupling transport code was developed for rapid calculation of the internal irradiation dose map. PENELOPE random hinge model was used to calculate the multi-scattering problem. More than 90% of the organ dose differences compared with GATE are within 1%. The average organ dose difference is 0.651%. The calculation time for 1E8 particles is only 321 s, and the calculation time for 1E7 particles is only 35 s, which is only 0.1% of GATE. simulation accuracy and acceleration efficiency of this study are both significantly improved compared with other GPU-based internal dosimetry Monte Carlo simulation code. This work can help to develop a more patient-specific, accurate, efficient way to improve the speed of PET/CT dosimetry Monte Carlo simulation.

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I SHOT THE HEAD OFF THE CPR MANNEQUIN WHAT THE HELL

IM GONNA PISS MYSELF JFC

ok so the last time i got cpr certified was when i was a tiny lil thing in high school to be a lifeguard for the kiddie swim lessons we taught. so its been a minute, yeah?

i am required to be cpr certified in my position at my job, smth that has not been brought up at ALL in the last 3 years ive been here, so i went to retake the course and all that. I went with a coworker, we partnered up and named our dummy Charles because we’re cool like that. ended up having to use the table instead of the floor because of my bad knee and recently healed ankle, so we’re above everyone else. We get charles ready, and i end up going first as the first responder, so i’m going over the process in my brain. 30 compressions at 100-120BPM, two respirations, AED, etc. etc. I was also remembering how hard it was to do proper compressions in my tiny little body at 14, so I knew it took more force than i thought to get the compressions deep enough, so i prepared to have to use my body weight and fucking send it. But! it turns out, since im not 4'11" anymore it was in fact Not Very Difficult to get past 2 inches, so it was fine and the instructor actually told me to ease up. I did awesome, compressions were deep and at proper rate, gold star for me.

however, my brain did not connect the dots that if the compressions would take less force, so would the respirations. Me at 14 had to use my full lung capacity to get the chest to rise at all, so I, with my full adult lung capacity and 10+ years of competitive swim, vocal training with breath support, and occasional dabble into brass instruments as I make my way around an orchestra, decide that I need to still full blast for the thing to work. i have to save charles, after all, so fucking send it ig. two very fast, very HARD breaths.

charles’s chest plate lifts off and resettles incorrectly, i am none the wiser because i am (wrongly) focusing on the fucking little LEDs on the dummy being green instead of actually registering the movement of the chest like youre supposed to. My coworker, however, has noticed that charles might be A Little Fucked Right Now, and tries to get my attention, but i am FOCUSED because you gotta do the full two minutes and all that. so i switch back to the compression.

the chest plate, no longer in proper position to hold the head in place, clicks weirdly, and next thing i know the charles’s head fucking LAUNCHES off into the fucking wall, nearly missing another person’s head. his chest flipped up off his body and his head is gone and trailing that little plastic bag that the air you breathe into, completely deflated.

i fucking OVERINFLATED the bag to the point where when i did a compression it fucking POPPED and sent the head flying. the class had to stop for a full fucking 15 minutes to get itself together while i melted into my chair in embarassment i wanted to DIE

the instructor was fucking dying she was all like, ‘ok you remember when i was giving the list of instances when you can stop cpr? you can stop now because he’s dead’ AND EVERYONE WAS LAUGHING AT ME AND MY COWORKER WAS FUCKING HEAVING AND WHEEZING HARD ENOUGH TO FALL OUT OF HIS CHAIR AND IM SO FUCKING MORTIFIED

I DECAPITATED CHARLES IN A CLASS ON HOW TO SAVE SOMEONES LIFE SOMEONE FUCKING KILL ME

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12 frames of animation I made using knitting! I spent a long time on this and I’m so pleased with the results, really looking forward to trying more ‘yarnimation’ in the future. Process video out now too! 🐑

“Stop motion animation doesn’t take long enough already, let’s add textile arts.”

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a single andes chocolate mint from the olive garden can fully nourish an adult human for up to 96 hours

This is genuinely the idea behind Kendal Mint Cake

Say what now?

Kendal Mint Cake is a sort of highly dense lump of sugar flavoured with peppermint oil. It does not spoil, and somehow contains 2x more sugar and glucose than sugar or glucose. It is a purposeful product intended as an emergency ration to give a boost of energy when mountaineering. It is associated with hikers and mountaineers in the UK and is sold in camping/outdoor stores. Typically you keep a packet permanently in your camping bag or car or emergency kit, and just never move or remove it. If the time comes, it’s there.

I gestured a hand across an explanation of a Scottish field geologist character named Ken(dal Mint Cake) stating that he always has a packet of Kendal mint cake somewhere and received a message from a friend saying “I didn’t know you also knew (guy that Ken could conceivably be based on)”. I didn’t. This is just a portrait of too many extant guys.

There are several species of this man crashing cheerfully around the UK receiving deep spiritual pleasure from crouching in a puddle in a howling gale up a mountain nibbling pieces of violent mint sugar and apparently metabolising sufficient joy from this to polish off Kendal Mint Cake in marketable quantities for over 100 years.

Unless they made too much of it originally and are still selling it.

It isn’t sugar cube. It’s sugar to the fourth power. Nobody sounds reasonable talking about it.

Tumblr users rising to the challenge . You’ll note the recurring theme

Step 1: go on an entirely optional adventure

Step 2: get into an unpleasant condition in bad weather

Step 3: become very uncomfortable and hateful

Step 4: Kendal mint cake

Step 5: access stratosphere with tits blown off

Step 6: summit

Step 7: say “that was lovely”

If only it had been founded 35 years earlier, the Franklin expedition would have found the NW Passage while carrying their boats like a pack of very determined sugar fuelled ants.

How have we gotten this far without showing the packaging, oh, you know this stuff has cocaine in its DNA.

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💾🖥️📖 Inside the Personal Computer: An Illustrated Introduction in 3 Dimensions: A Pop-Up Guide. Text by Sharon Gallagher. Paper engineering and design by Ron van der Meer (1984). Posting this and more as we get our #retrocomputing series ready for next month!

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Unrestrained summer fun

OP tag: Fort Wayne Indiana Zoo; posted September 20, 2019

Found this in the comments on it only today:

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This is Penelope!! She’s an american alligator at the Fort Wayne Children’s zoo in Indiana! My friend Mitchell is one of her zookeepers and took this video a few years back.

victusinveritas:

I hear all of these read in the “In the criminal justice system” narrator from the beginning of Law and Order’s voice.

@chicagosavant adds:

Oooh, tell me more of your Evansville horror lore.

We’ve got our share of haunted train areas too. Covered bridges you just never cross, doesn’t matter what you see on the other end, the bridge will never let you get there, it hungers so very much.

The Hills and Hollers are for exploration by stern folk with strong hearts and stronger arms. I’m on the cusp of them and hate going up the Very Haunted forest on the county line. Even just driving through it on the highway that bisects it is Bad Trouble. I saw a ghost bear there, on Highway 37, sixteen goddamn feet tall and just standing all ethereal in the middle of the road. So ‘there’ that I actually screamed out “Bear!” as we drove towards and then through it without so much as a thunk or more likely a completely totalled vehicle and our very souls rent in twain by a furious ursine spectral horror.

And then there are the places my wife just refuses flat out to hike because of the bad feelings she gets when we go on them. She’s not wrong either. There was one absolutely gorgeous pine needle covered path that I took two steps on and said “we need to leave and never come back here.” And that was that. Apparently that stretch of woodland is being opened by the governor to loggers–there were protest signs: 'Save Yellowwood!’, but they were warnings put up by people who’ve had people go for a day hike and never return, or worse, go camping and come back wrong. God have mercy on the loggers, because whatever is in the trees and the earth will certainly not.

zinjanthropusboisei:

“Fear is a strange soil. It grows obedience like corn, which grow in straight lines to make weeding easier. But sometimes it grows the potatoes of defiance, which flourish underground.” 

- Terry Pratchett, Small Gods

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i like working at plant store. sometimes you ring up someone and there’s a slug on their plant and so you’re like “Oh haha you’ve got a friend there let me get that for you” and you put the slug on your hand for safekeeping but then its really busy and you dont have time to take the slug outside before the next customer in line so you just have a slug chilling on your hand for 15 minutes. really makes you feel at peace with nature. also it means sometimes i get to say my favorite line which is “would you like this free slug with your purchase”

@holyknuckled you get it. lterally what are we here on earth for if not to occasionally impose gastropods upon unsuspecting customers. this story is delightful

@holyknuckled like that?

oh? my god???

yeah, Exactly like that

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american maid cafe review

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Performative feminism is a most annoying aspect of our times.

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Happy Friday! We are getting close to the 90-day deadline that President Donald Trump set back in January for the secretaries of the Departments of Defense and Homeland Security to recommend whether the president should invoke the Insurrection Act to address what he described as an “invasion” of gangs, human traffickers, and criminals at the southern border.

More than 10,000 service members are currently deployed to the U.S.-Mexico border. The Posse Comitatus Act of 1878 prevents federal troops from enforcing civilian laws within the United States. As such, U.S. Customs and Border Protection Agents accompany troops on patrols to conduct any law enforcement activities.

But the Insurrection Act suspends Posse Comitatus when the country faces a rebellion, political violence, or other major incidents, said Risa Brooks, a political science professor at Marquette University in Wisconsin.

“If the Insurrection Act were invoked by a president, and the secretary of defense ordered it, the military would likely be able to apprehend migrants or clear the streets of protesters,” Brooks said.

President George H.W. Bush last invoked the law in 1992 in response to riots in Los Angeles following the acquittal of police officers accused of beating motorist Rodney King.

It’s worth noting that invoking the Insurrection Act is not the same as declaring martial law.

“The difference from martial law is that the elected civilians remain in charge and civil law remains — the military are enforcing existing civil law, not making the laws,” said Kori Schake, head of the defense policy team at the American Enterprise Institute think tank in Washington, D.C. “They are legally empowered to behave as police, including to use lethal force to suppress insurrections, riots, and enforce the law.”

As always, there’s plenty more news. Here’s your weekly rundown.

• Army secretary now leading the ATF.  Army Secretary Daniel Driscoll has been named acting head of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, or ATF, a Justice Department agency in charge of enforcing federal gun laws and conducting other law enforcement missions. Driscoll replaced Kash Patel, who is currently the director of the FBI. During Trump’s first term, Patel served as chief of staff for Acting Secretary of Defense Christopher Miller. It is unclear why Driscoll was named head of the ATF or how exactly he will divide his responsibilities with the Defense and Justice Departments.
• Marine Corps sticks with 13-Marine rifle squads.  After years of tinkering with the size of rifle squads, the Marine Corps has settled on 13-Marine formations. One Marine in each squad will be an expert in “precision fires,” such as loitering munitions and drones. “This extends the range and increases the lethality of our Marine infantry squads and platoons,” said Lt. Col. Eric Flanagan, a spokesman for Combat Development & Integration.
• Army cutting parachutist positions. In a major restructuring of its airborne units, the Army plans to recode nearly 20,000 parachutist positions so that soldiers in those billets will no longer have to maintain their jump status, Army Times first reported. The move would represent a reduction of roughly 35% of all Army parachutist positions. Soldiers in the re-coded billets would no longer receive jump pay.
• “Fix the damn rust.” Navy Secretary John Phelan has reiterated that he has a mandate from the president to get surface vessels in ship shape. Phelan said Trump has told him several times to “fix the damn rust,” echoing his testimony during his Feb. 27 confirmation hearing. For years, pictures shared on social media have shown U.S. Navy ships covered with rust, such as one photo of the destroyer USS Dewey in February when it arrived in Singapore.
• Air Force eliminates “family days.” The Department of the Air Force is no longer allowing airmen and Space Force Guardians to take extra days off during the 11 annual federal holidays, often referred to as “family days.”  Acting Air Force Secretary Gary A. Ashworth wrote in an April 7 memo that granting extra time off around the holidays “does not support our ability to execute the mission with excellence while maintaining our competitive advantage.”
• Why some ailing veterans aren’t covered by the PACT Act.  Advocates are warning Congress that a law that has expanded healthcare for veterans exposed to toxins does not go far enough. The Promise to Address Comprehensive Toxics Act, known as the PACT Act, has some notable coverage gaps for troops and their families who live at bases where they are exposed to toxic substances, one veterans advocate said during a recent roundtable on Capitol Hill.  Veterans and spouses who are not covered by the PACT Act talked about how they’ve suffered from cancer and other illnesses due to radiation, fuel spills, and chemical contaminations on stateside U.S. military bases.

That’s all a lot to process for one week. Stay tuned for more developments.

Jeff Schogol

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liberalsarecool:

You are the head of the agency. Where does the buck stop?

“I don’t know” is not a valid excuse when it’s your literal job to know. Total incompetence.

The DEI dog whistle is classic as unqualified RFK can’t figure out his own job description.

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biglawbear:

Friends described living under the Trump Administration as being slowly beaten to death by a rubber chicken.

It still hurts. It’s still painful. But you keep hearing a synthetic BAWWW every time it hits you as a constant reminder of how it’s the stupidest possible way to die.

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okay but if you ever see a male creative who had a string of great work and then everything else he did was dogshit, go to the “personal life” part of his wikipedia and look at his relationships. you’ll either find a major tragedy he didn’t recover from (completely understandable) or, more likely, there was a woman in his life doing uncredited shit editing his stuff or contributing generally and she’s not there anymore.

I told a friend about this phenomenon in literature and he called me weeks later like, I remembered what you said about women doing uncredited work when tim burton came up. he made a string of bangers then everything else just was nowhere near as good. the timeline matches perfectly to when he was with this german visual artist (lena gieseke). he’s done some good work in collaboration, but if things were dug into I suspect we would find she did a lot more than people realise.

so yeah whenever you look around like wow women didn’t work in history, or, women aren’t auteurs, or, there just aren’t as many great female writers - societal reasons for that aside, half the time they absolutely did.

christ not even at 1000 notes and the terfs have found this

alright chucklefucks time for some nuance and other shit that I really didn’t think would be necessary but here we are:

• I’m talking about a trend for men taking advantage of their romantic partners by getting them to do (often unpaid and uncredited) work.
• This kind of thing is generally about power. This is how bosses take credit for shit that YOU did. However, you do not love your boss (usually) and so will take that credit back given even half a chance - but if you do not feel empowered to do so, maybe you won’t. You often will feel less empowered if you belong to a marginalised group and your boss does not. That’s why intersectionality matters.
• When it comes to romantic relationships, the creative process also affects the partner because success means a better chance at financial security - and honestly the collaborative process can be fun and intellectually stimulating! People like to support their partners! That is normal! But some people take advantage of that.
• The difference between now and history is divorce. When a woman gets sick of a man doing this she can now leave his ass.
• The reason I specifically said men and women was twofold: one, I’m far more aware of this historically because I’m a person who mostly studied literature published pre-1930, and gender roles and conceptions of gender and sexuality were fairly rigid and very different; and two, I only know of cases where this happened in the context of romantic relationships between people who identified as men and women, with men being the perpetrator. Even the modern cases I know about (yes everyone tagged Marcia Lucas, she’s the one most well-known on Tumblr I think).
• It would not shock me if we start to see more cases of this happening to trans people who have cis partners, or people of colour with white people, or any other person who has social capital that their partner does not have. The problem is that we don’t usually find out until decades later. My point about checking the Wikipedia page for romantic relationship timelines still absolutely stands.

Some people openly credit their collaborators. The problem is entitlement, access to power, and doors opening more easily. So, no, this isn’t caused by being a man, and not every man does this.

Now I’m finished with the mature part of my post, so I can say I’m a huge queer non-binary femme bitch who represents and studies prisoners as a career. If you are really serious about doing some good for women you could: organise free childcare groups for under-privileged people in your local area or care about pregnancy in prisons and write to your MP about it or write to councils and businesses to push for more baby changing facilities and disabled toilets in public spaces! Pick a specific issue and look for an achievable way you can make a difference to the community around you, then write about it and encourage others to do the same.

University feminist groups used to do volunteer childcare and laundry and feeding kids and those things are still huge problems in most places, but, no, let’s worry about where people piss, that’s clearly the most pressing issue

On Saturday Elon Musk sat in his personal jet and tested out Starlink’s in-air WiFI by streaming some Path of Exile 2. Less than five minutes into the stream, someone in game chat asked him to “jerk off mr trump so he dies of a heart attack!” For the next hour and 40 minutes, the world’s richest man frowned his way through a livestream while people yelled at him. 

Path of Exile 2 is an action role-playing game and Musk loves it, but he’s terrible at it. He has claimed he’s one of the top players in the world and later admitted he’s paid people to help keep his account leveled up and full of the high-end gear it needs to play the game at the highest level.

Over the weekend, in his jet, he was playing the game in hard core mode. When a player dies in this mode they cannot progress any further. Essentially, players have one life. Musk died a lot. The stream’s entire vibe was fucked. This is the richest man in the world sitting in a private jet playing a game by himself for an audience of strangers while techno music blasted through the speakers. Streaming on a platform he owns using technology he owns in a jet he owns, he sat stone-faced and grinded his way through the early portions of Path of Exile 2 while other players yelled at him.

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Happy Leland Melvin Day!!!

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Happy Leland Melvin Day!

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