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Introducing: cursed tea "kettles" I found on google

Hal 9000 (domesticated)

The slab

Gas cans

Precambrian little guy

Nintendo wii

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not interested in getting involved in the rest of this discussion, for the most part, but to me this is a GREAT piece of advice that many people these days don't seem to be getting or understanding.

not everyone you meet or interact with is your friend, the requirements and expectations for respectful behaviour between friends is not the same as between strangers.

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Serval (Leptailurus serval), family Felidae, Maasai Mara National Reserve, Kenya

Photograph by Felix Rome (@felixrome_)

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NPS Photo of a cedar tree at Mount Rainier National Park with a section of peeled bark. Shorter sections of bark like this could have been used to create folded baskets with sewed edges. Longer peeled sections are also collected for strips to weave baskets.

Native American Heritage Month - Western Red Cedar

Going back thousands of years, nearly every part of a Western red cedar tree had a use by indigenous people. The wood was harvested for house planks and posts, storage containers, canoes, ceremonial materials, and religious items. In coastal areas, the withes, or thin flexible branches, were made into ropes for whaling and for bindings. The roots were used for binding and basketry. Uses of red cedar bark include basketry, clothing, and cordage. Bark infusions were consumed to help regulate menstruation while an infusion of twigs and bark treated kidney conditions. Drinking infusions of boughs was used to treat colds, coughs, and sore throats. Chewing the buds served to relive the pain of toothaches.

Jack McCloud, a member of the Nisqually Tribe, describes traditional tools to peel cedar bark. “Back then we used like a sharp rock and pounded it through the bark. …to get it started you take anything sharp …, some people would sharpen a horn, something … to get underneath the bark. That is, all you have to do is get it started, then take it by the hand, and start peeling it. And you can peel it, if you are lucky, 50-60 feet… everybody had a different method… As we were told, take up to a third to a quarter of the bark and it won’t kill the tree, and we were taught that. Don’t kill the tree and let the tree grow again. It will grow back, some of the bark, not all of it.” (Jack McCloud 2015)

NPS Photo of bark peeling tools. Tools can be knives or fashioned out of antlers.

Studies of traditional cedar bark harvesting have found that bark harvesting in this fashion (peeling a single strip two-hands wide or no more than a third of the circumference of the tree) does not reduce the growth rates or survival of bark-peeled cedars.

Excerpts are from “Plants, Tribal Traditions, and the Mountain”, G. Burtchard, D. Hooper, & A. Peterson, 2024, pp 135-148. Available at https://go.nps.gov/Plants-TribalTraditionsReport

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Readers, make sure you have all your favourite Ao3 fics downloaded.

Writers, make sure you have copies of all the fics you have posted on Ao3.

I don’t want to be alarming, but things could get really bad really fast. OTW shared this today on Twitter, and I'm a bit worried about it 😅

Ao3 is a non-profit organisation. If they have to start paying taxes, I have no idea what will happen.

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Domesticated microraptor breeds

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Pangur is soooooooo talented!

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"Why do we make laser grids like these?" "What do you mean?" "I mean instead of a messy random arrangement of lasers that a nimble intruder might be able to jump through, why not a simple grid wall with no gaps large enough to allow a person to pass through?"

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This animal was requested!

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This dumbshit building is real? I kept seeing it lately but assumed it was a photoshop

Apparently the 1300 ft trash chute in 432 Park Avenue does not have any breaks or offsets in it to slow down the garbage so stuff thrown away at the top floors easily reaches terminal velocity and sounds like bombs going off when it hits the bottom.

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Current as of November 21st 2024

Readers, make sure you have all your favourite Ao3 fics downloaded.

Writers, make sure you have copies of all the fics you have posted on Ao3.

I don’t want to be alarming, but things could get really bad really fast. OTW shared this today on Twitter, and I'm a bit worried about it 😅

Ao3 is a non-profit organisation. If they have to start paying taxes, I have no idea what will happen.

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Completely broken UI/UX The private option should be larger, and on by default. Or even separate the flow of creating a public recommendation from that of making a bookmark. They shouldn't be called the same thing or done through the same interface (they might share backend code, sure). But when I put a bookmark in a real book, or even when I make a bookmark in my browser, it doesn't make it available for everyone including the author to see. So with the name "bookmark" of course you are going to have this problem.

Been hearing this is a problem again. Don't be a dick in bookmarks, folks. And yes while I made this image, I'm giving free reign. Take it. Spread it far and wide. Because I'm hearing that some readers don't know that their bookmarks are visible.

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