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Made my very first GMV for Mouthwashing; one of the best video games I've played in recent memory

Song by Nine Inch Nails

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https://twitter.com/skullmillione/status/1403028531311890433

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everybody wants to be my enemy

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me, an hour ago: "fuck, the stove is on! what do we do?" [immediately does all the wrong things]

PSA: What NOT to do when you smell gas

In this situation, we got home to a smell of gas throughout the house and discovered our gas stove was on without a flame. it was only a tiny stream, and everything turned out fine, but here's a brief list of everything we did wrong:

NOTE: this is for if you smell significant amounts of gas, not a blanket list for all possible gas situations. (If you aren't aware, the propane/natural gas used in houses smells vaguely like sulfer, or rotten eggs - this is an additive, since it has no natural smell. It's a very recognizable smell, once you've smelled it once. It's not the same smell as gasoline.)

1. If your stove has an electrical/spark ignition, do NOT turn it off.

Spark ignitions often spark when turning on *and* off. Spark + Gas = Boom. Boom is bad. Avoid boom.

Instead, turn off the gas at the source, i.e. the physical valve at the meter. There may be a smaller valve near the stove. If you don't know where the shutoff is, the fire department will find it.

2. Do NOT turn on (or off) vents or fans.

In fact, don't flip any electrical switches - that includes lights, plugging in or unplugging appliances, etc. These cause sparks. Spark + Gas = Boom.

Also, don't start your car. obviously.

3. Do NOT open windows

counterintuitive, I know. This is mostly because you want to prioritize your exit, but it's also to keep the fumes from spreading outside, where you should be waiting for the ~professionals~ to come handle it.

4. DO take all people and pets outside.

Do this very first!! (one thing we actually did right - go us!)

This is obviously because you don't want to go boom, but you also don't want to suffocate. Gas is poison!

NOTE: the gas from your stove is probably propane (natural gas); carbon monoxide is what you get when propane burns, which is why your kitchen needs to be well-ventilated and the stove shouldn't be left burning for long periods of time, but the natural gas itself is *also* potentially deadly. Carbon monoxide detectors dont detect natural gas, so that's what the odorous additive is for.

Inhaling natural gas causes nausea, headaches, dizziness, and makes you just generally woozy, and eventually causes you to lose consciousness and potentially suffocate, just like carbon monoxide does. We don't want that.

5. DO call the fire department/emergency line

They'll check for other leaks, shut gas off if needed, then test for air quality and eventually clear your house for reentry. It takes like 1-2 hours for the gas to dissipate, generally.

Yay, you survived! Congrats!!

NOTE: if you find the stove has been left on with a flame, or it's on with no flame but you don't smell gas, then you should be safe to just open windows and turn on vents and fans to air it out.

idk, this was actually pretty scary, especially when we realized how much of our immediate response was wrong and could have turned a dangerous situation into a real disaster.

tl;dr: If you smell gas when you shouldn't be smelling gas, just get all the people and animals outside, shut off the gas line, and call the fire department or gas company. don't fuck around with gas. you're not overreacting, you're taking the proper safety measures.

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In the autumn of 1883, a paper in the nation's capital reported that "an Iowa woman has spent 7 years embroidering the solar system on a quilt" — to teach astronomy in an era when women could not attend college. Her story.

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Finding out that Frances Dana Barker Gage, a white woman, rewrote Sojourner Truth’s famous speech to be more stereotypically “Southern slave” (complete with slurs and misspellings like dat, dere, dey) when Sojourner Truth was actually from New York and spoke only Dutch until she was almost ten and wouldn’t have actually sounded that way linguistically and decidedly did not use the phrase “Ain’t I A Woman?” at all is…whew. And on top of everything, she embellished details about Sojourner Truth’s life (like the number of children she had/how many of them were sold into slavery), wrote that ST said that she could take beatings like a man, and the reception of the speech in the room (she claims ST was called a n*gg*r, earlier accounts say the room was welcoming).

Lmaooo peak white feminist antics.

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'Whispering Souls'. Chris Cyprus. 2021.

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Love seeing something from TikTok and going “girlie that is literally what led to the downfall of the Papal States”

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3 pillbug girlfriends dating. roly polyamory

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do you think you could take a vampire?

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Honestly it boils down to reparenting yourself & rewiring your own neuronal pathways & telling yourself a firm “stop” when you notice your mind slipping down negative loopholes & being present in the moment & enjoying being mid task rather than waiting for it to end & not thinking of inertia as your baseline and natural way of living

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Late autumn evening moon

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𝐻𝑜𝓁𝓁𝓎 𝒶𝓃𝒹 𝒮𝓃𝑜𝓌𝒹𝓇𝑜𝓅

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the thing about having your joke posts Corrected is that it's like. posting is literature and I am actually employing time honored literary devices. like these are not unheard of ways of using language. I learned about literary devices in school in sixth grade. it is not actually beyond the pale to have an expectation that the general public will have some understanding of e.g. hyperbole or metaphor. every time people talk about this phenomenon they're like "well it's the autism website of course people are taking you literally" HELLO I AM ALSO AUTISM. HAVE YOU TRIED KNOWING MORE FACTS ABOUT THE USE OF LANGUAGE?

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Hey, folks! Apologies for the lack of comics lately. Just trying to keep ahead of things. To that end... I'm opening a limited batch of group doodle slots for next month. (January, 2025) Perfect as a late Christmas gift, or just, like, cuz you wanna. It can be D&D Groups, Pathfinder groups, etc--I've ever done a few Star Wars groups! Currently asking $25/character. First come first serve, and I'll often make extra room for repeat business. If you're interested, send an e-mail to yourdndstories at gmail, with the subject 'Doodles.'

If you're currently waiting on a doodle, you should have received an e-mail update recently. More actual comics coming soon!