#$1.75 million

[20dollarlolita]

I've just got to vent for a quick second, because this has been driving me insane. I work at a place that sells sewing machines and does sewing machine repair, and sometimes people will come in and aggressively complain that their machine is a lemon.

Sorry, to properly convey it, their machine is, "A LEMON!!!"

And I can't respond to that the way I want to when I'm at work, but that's what this rant is for. People seem to think they've found some amazing, special secret word that gets them whatever they want.

But, in the state that I'm in, "lemon" isn't just a concept. When something is a lemon, there's laws governing what people have to do to make things right. In terms of products (not to be confused with terms of produce), there is a legal definition of what a lemon is, and it actually doesn't cover most "this is a lemon!!" situations that I run into.

So, what needs to happen to qualify a sewing machine as a lemon? Disclaimer, I'm not a lawyer, but I've been sued before, and told I look good in a suit, and also I use Duckduckgo to verify things before I write these things. I'm going to go a bit out of order here, because it's an order that makes the most sense to me, so please read all this before writing back to me to tell me I'm stupid.

What problems make something qualify as a lemon?

Is has to be a problem that compromises the use, value, or safety of the machine. If you can't make an argument that your problem interferes with one of those three things, it's not a lemon.

It has to be a problem that is covered under the manufacturer's warranty, and the problem has to show up during the time that the warranty covers the machine. If your warranty was 1 year on this part and the problem showed up at 1.75 years, it's broken and needs fixing, but it's not a lemon.

It cannot be caused by unreasonable or unauthorized use. Sorry, your manufacturer does not consider you sewing sliced ham to a piece of 20 gauge vinyl to be a reasonable use. Putting 2 million stitches on a machine in 6 months is not a reasonable use. Letting your cat use your machine in lieu of a litter box is not reasonable use. Storing trail mix in your bobbin area is not reasonable use.

In addition to these three things, it needs to have repeat attempts to repair it. That's four repairs of the same problem, or two repairs of a problem if it's a problem that can cause death or serious injury. I challenge most people to find a problem that can cause death or serious injury in a modern sewing machine used in a reasonable, authorized way. Anyway, moving on. The item in question also needs to be in for repair for 30 days, though those do not need to be continuous days.

It also doesn't matter how many different problems the machine has. It's got to be the same problem, unable to be fixed, repeatedly, to qualify as a lemon. If you have thirty problems that all have been failed to be fixed 3 times, legally, not a lemon. If you have over 900 problems that have all happened one time, sadly, not a lemon. This is probably one of the things people get wrong most of the time.

If your device fills all of these categories (serious problem, under warranty, no unreasonable use of the machine, repeated attemtps to repair the same problem), then the manufacturer needs to replace it or offer you a refund. Your dealer and your repair shop have no responsibility, except to put you in contact with the manufacturer. Your dealer does not replace your machine. Your dealer does not refund you. Your repair shop does not refund you. The manufacturer is responsible. This doesn't mean that a good dealer won't help you with talking with the manufacturer or even speak to the manufacturer on your behalf. It's just that the dealer is not legally responsible for it. "Legally responsible" and "being helpful because that's good customer service and we want to help you," are distinct concepts.

If your machine is replaced, and you have new problems with the new one, you have to fulfill the lemon requirements again. Four more repair attempts, problem under warranty, no unreasonable use, etc. The fact that the previous item was a lemon doesn't actually matter anymore, legally. That's annoying as hell and massively painful and I'm sorry about that, but it's the fact. If you got a new machine and it immediately had the same problem, I'm sorry, but it has to be failed to be fixed four times on your new machine before you get to proceed with the lemon shit again.

Oh, and the number one reason why sewing machines bought into my work, labeled "lemon!!" by their owners, are not actually legally lemons: in the State of California, lemon laws only apply to cars. I've been carefully saying "machine" instead of "sewing machine," because literally nothing that we've talked about applies to sewing machines at all.

So if you come in and say it's a lemon, because you want to communicate that you're very frustrated by a lot of problems out of the box, we know what you mean. But if you're doing what a lot of these people are doing, which is coming in brandishing the word "lemon," because you're thinly veiling a threat to pursue legal action, sorry, you just don't have a legally-defined lemon.

And also, again, if the lemon laws DID apply to sewing machines, lemon issues are done with the manufacturer, not your dealer or your repair shop. We're going to do everything we can to help you, because we're above all in the customer service business, but you don't need to try to threaten us with laws that don't apply.

[transgenderer]

so apparently the judge didnt allow the onion's purchase of infowars

The losing bidder, a business connected to Jones called First United American Companies, offered $3.5 million for Infowars. The Onion, in partnership with the Connecticut families, offered $1.75 million in cash, plus a novel sweetener they said raised the bid's value to at least $7 million. The families agreed to forgo some of the money they're entitled to, in order to raise the amount that other creditors, including the Texas families, could collect. But the judge said both offers were too small.

why does the onion have a novel sweetener...

[yupokaysuremhm]

@its-arson-time and i made a bingo card for 2025

Left to right, top to bottom:

The Duolingo Owl actually kills someone

Trump kicks it (and by "it" haha. well. let's justr say. the bucket)

Government official commits a felony (and it's a public scandal)

Teenaged girls start wearing tiny umbrellas in their hair as a fashion trend

Britain gets another heatwave

Row 2

Captain Sparklez officially comes out of retirement from making Minecraft videos

GTA 6 actually releases

Dan and Phil announce their wedding

COVID is officially decalred a public health emergency (again)

DSM 6 comes out

Row 3

Another Lazy Town song becomes trending

A new TBH-esque creature becomes popularly used

Something good happens (free space)

The Minecraft movie is really good, somehow

One of Elon Musk's companies shuts down

Row 4

Someone sues jkr (and wins)

There's a mainstream claim that gen Beta is starting now

Two major companies go head to head in a court of law

Ao3 reaches 1.75 million works with the F/F tag

New Lemon Demon song

Row 5

Amaury Guichon casually comes out during pride month

2025 is Biden's last

Luigi Mangione is found innocent of all charges

A 300lb hog is found roaming the streets of Atlanta, GA

They find a way to remove microplastics from the body

[covid-safer-hotties]

Also preserved on our archive

By Hugo Francisco de Souza

New research shows that COVID-19 survivors, especially older adults and non-hospitalized patients, are at an increased risk for chronic fatigue syndrome—underscoring the need for comprehensive care for vulnerable populations.

In a recent study published in the Journal of Infection and Public Health, researchers carried out a retrospective cohort study comprising 3,227,281 pairs of patients with and without COVID-19 from a larger dataset of over 115 million patients to investigate the associations between severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS‑CoV‑2) infections and chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) risk, particularly in the presence of comorbidities.

Cox proportional hazard models revealed that patients with prior SARS‑CoV‑2 infections were at increased risk of contracting CFS (HR = 1.59), with adults above the age of 65, Asians (HR = 1.75), females, and those with comorbidities including diabetes, obesity, hypertensive disease, and hyperlipidemia being identified as the highest risk populations. The omicron variant was associated with slightly higher CFS risk (HR = 1.40) than older SARS‑CoV‑2 strains (alpha HR = 1.33, delta HR = 1.40), with risk levels for Omicron similar to Delta, despite Omicron typically causing milder acute illness.

Furthermore, contrary to previous studies, this research found that non-hospitalized patients had a higher risk of developing CFS (HR = 1.64) compared to those who were hospitalized (HR = 1.22), challenging assumptions that more severe initial infections increase long-term fatigue risk.

Background

The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic remains one of the worst in human history, infecting more than 700 million humans and claiming more than 7 million lives in only four years. While social distancing measures and vaccination campaigns have substantially curbed disease spread and dampened infection severity, many COVID-19 survivors report persistent or novel symptoms that cause debilitation for months or years following initial infection recovery.

Alarmingly, these conditions, collectively termed “long COVID,” are estimated to plague up to 78% of survivors, leaving them with chronic chest pain, lung diseases, muscle aches, and chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS). While studies aimed at establishing the association between SARS‑CoV‑2 infection and CFS risk have been carried out, none have evaluated the effects of covariates, particularly comorbidities and other preexisting medical conditions.

A growing body of evidence suggests the positive feedback loop between long COVID and other chronic conditions, observing that the presence of one increases the risk and severity of the other. Furthermore, long COVID is a multi-organ condition, highlighting the need for comprehensive, extensive cohort investigations into the associations between CFS and long COVID risk factors.

The present study uses an extensive cohort (COVID-19 cases; n = 3,227,281 pairs) across a spectrum of infection severity, age, sex, race/ethnicity, vaccination status, and comorbidities to establish the risk associations between prior COVID-19 infections and CFS risk. Study data was obtained from the United States (US) TriNetX database, a collaborative network comprising electronic health records of more than 115 million patients, between January 2020 and December 2023. Participant selection was carried out by first identifying CFS patients from the database (n = 3,227,281) and then 1:1 propensity score-matching (PSM) matching them with CFS-free patients (non-COVID-19 controls).

Relevant data included demographics, infection and comorbidity diagnoses, ongoing medications, procedures, and laboratory test results. Covariates under investigation included age, sex, COVID-19 vaccination status and disease severity, hypertensive diseases, race, ischemic heart diseases, hyperlipidemia, cerebrovascular diseases, chronic kidney disease, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, and depression. Patients were further divided into subcohorts based on the wave (alpha, delta, or omicron) of initial SARS-CoV-2 infection. The outcome of interest was medically confirmed CFS diagnoses.

Standardized Mean Differences (SMD) were used to compare covariates across COVID-19 and non-COVID-19 participants, with Kaplan–Meier analysis computing CFS incidence rates and univariate Cox proportional hazard models computing hazard ratios (HRs; CFS risk) in case and control cohorts.

Study findings

Of the 115,675,909 patients represented in the TriNetX database, 3,227,281 were confirmed to have experienced a prior COVID-19 infection and were included as cases. All cases were 1:1 PSM to COVID-free controls, doubling the size of the study dataset. Cases were predominantly female (54.4%), White (58.7%), and had a history of hypertensive disease (17%). Furthermore, obesity (8.1%), type 2 diabetes mellitus (7.8%), hyperlipidemia (14.2%), and depression (5.5%) were frequently observed as COVID-19-associated comorbidities.

SMD analysis and HRs revealed that COVID-19 patients presented both higher incidence (~0.6%) and risk (~59%, HR = 1.59) of CFS compared to non-COVID-19 ones. Notably, significant variable-associated differences in CFS risk were observed, with patients aged 65 and older (HR = 1.74), female sex (HR = 1.62), and Asian (HR = 1.75) patients revealed to be at highest CFS risk. Unvaccinated patients (HR = 1.62) were found to be more likely to contract CFS than vaccinated (HR = 1.25) ones. Contrary to previous research, non-hospitalized patients had a significantly higher risk of developing CFS (HR = 1.64) than those hospitalized (HR = 1.22), which may suggest that early medical care during acute infection mitigates long-term fatigue risk. This is one of the first reports of race/ethnicity altering post-COVID-19 CFS risk.

Omicron and delta variant patients were found to be at slightly higher CFS risk (HR = 1.40, respectively) compared to alpha variant patients (HR = 1.33), with Omicron showing similar risk levels to Delta despite typically causing less severe acute illness. Infection severity outcomes on HR ranged from 1.22 (the most severe infection requiring immediate hospitalization) to 1.64 (no hospitalization required).

Conclusions

The present study uses a cohort of more than 6 million patients to elucidate the risk associations between COVID-19 and its comorbidities and subsequent CFS risk. Supporting previous research, the study established a higher CFS risk (HR = 1.59) in COVID-19 patients compared to their COVID-19-free counterparts. Unlike earlier studies, this research highlighted the significant influence of race, with Asian patients showing the highest CFS risk (HR = 1.75), and emphasized the importance of comorbidities, with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) also contributing to increased risk (HR = 1.43), in addition to the known comorbidities of obesity, diabetes, and hypertension.

The findings on hospitalization severity were unexpected, as non-hospitalized patients had a significantly higher risk of developing CFS (HR = 1.64) compared to those hospitalized on the same day (HR = 1.22), suggesting that prompt medical care during acute infection may mitigate long-term fatigue risk.

Together, these findings provide a comprehensive evaluation of the landscape of CFS risk, helping clinicians better understand the needs of COVID-19 patients and potentially improving their quality of life.

Study Link: www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1876034124002934

[justinspoliticalcorner]

Lisa Needham at Public Notice:

Earlier this week, The Onion’s bid to buy Alex Jones’s Infowars fell apart in a manner that was as perplexing as it was depressing. At the same time, Elon Musk was attacking a Chancery Court judge who ruled he couldn’t have his absurdly bloated Tesla pay package of $56 billion. These cases aren’t just similar because they involve two of the more repugnant people in the current media landscape. They’re also both symptoms of a judicial system that is in no way able to deal with right-wingers who have access to mountains of cash and rabid followers they can sic on judges. Back in November, The Onion — also known as “America’s Finest News Source” — won a bankruptcy auction for Infowars and announced a plan to turn it into a “very funny, very stupid” website instead of the misinformation and vitriol-filled hellscape it was under Jones. Infowars was on the auction block because Jones owed the families of victims of the 2012 Sandy Hook shooting nearly $1.5 billion in default judgments for his relentless promotion of the conspiracy theory that the shooting was staged by “crisis actors.”

Rather than pay, Jones filed bankruptcy for three of his shell companies, trying to force the Sandy Hook plaintiffs to accept $10 million, or roughly 0.6 percent of what they were awarded. He then dragged the families through bankruptcy court for two years — after having spent three years fighting the initial lawsuits — but was ultimately required to sell Infowars and other assets via bankruptcy auction to satisfy creditors.

Enter The Onion, whose bid was undertaken with the cooperation of the Sandy Hook families. The Onion’s cash bid of $1.75 million was less than the cash offered by the only other bidder, First United American Companies (FUAC), which bid $3.5 million. Normally, a bankruptcy trustee would be required to accept the highest bid because the job of a trustee is to maximize the recovery for creditors. Here, though, things were more complex than simply awarding Infowars to the highest bidder. First, the Sandy Hook families agreed to forgo some of the damages they were entitled to as a way to increase the value of The Onion’s bid. Additionally, the other bidder, FUAC, is the company that runs Jones’s grifty online supplement store. But neither of these things seemed to matter to US Bankruptcy Judge Christopher Lopez, who on Tuesday threw out The Onion’s bid, saying the auction left money on the table for the families and that the bankruptcy trustee was required to “scratch and claw and get everything you can for them.”

With this, Lopez essentially told families who backed The Onion deal that they couldn’t have the deal they wanted. Instead, they may be forced to accept Jones’s weird and complicated sham deal where he gets to sell to a friendly party he’s already affiliated with, one that almost certainly would allow Jones to continue operating Infowars. If this seems the very opposite of fair and a terrible result for families Jones has victimized, that’s because it is. Lopez’s decision leaves the families in the limbo they’ve been in for years, particularly because he declined to actually rule. Instead, he said he didn’t want another auction and told the bankruptcy trustee to return in 30 days with a plan. It’s a triumph of form over function, of procedural niceties over actual fairness. Now, the question is how much more the families can endure. They spent years being attacked by Jones and his listeners, followed by years of litigation. Besides the fight in bankruptcy court, Jones is also appealing the underlying judgments themselves, saying his free speech rights were violated. Earlier this month, a Connecticut appellate court upheld most of the verdict against Jones, but he’s vowed to take that to the state supreme court. Despite declaring bankruptcy and whining that he’s broke, Jones seems to have ample funds available to weaponize the courts against the families. All the while, Jones has complained that the cases were rigged against him and called the Connecticut judge a tyrant. During the Texas case, another Infowars host showed a picture of that judge in flames.

[...] Delaware Chancery Court Chancellor Kathaleen St. J. McCormick has now twice ruled against Musk, leading Musk to go on X and accuse her of “absolute corruption” and to call her “totally crazy” and a “radical far left activist cosplaying as a judge.” Musk’s fans have joined in, calling her insane. Several dozen law professors and lawyers have asked the Delaware State Bar Association to defend McCormick, in part because the Delaware Judges’ Code of Judicial Conduct prohibits her from speaking out about the attacks. In the future, Musk likely won’t have to deal with McCormick anyway. He’s reincorporated both Tesla and SpaceX in Texas. That state has a new business court with judges appointed by GOP Gov. Greg Abbott and will likely be highly favorable to Musk.

Trump helped normalize attacks on judges

Deep pockets have allowed both Jones and Musk to drag out cases and to go scorched earth against any opponents they face. To be fair, that’s always been the case for rich litigants. But the constant attacks on judges that rule against them — attacks that seem to come with no real consequences — are a product of the Donald Trump era. It isn’t just that Trump was able to exploit the weaknesses in the judicial system for long enough to win the 2024 election, a victory that all but ensures he will never suffer any consequences for his actions, no matter how criminal. It’s also that Trump ushered in a new age and created a permission structure where any adverse ruling from a judge is grounds for personal attacks and cries of corruption.

MAGA influencers Alex Jones and Elon Musk, along with right-wing big money, have intimidated courts with threats and caused supporters to join along.

[follow-up-news]

Alex Jones is amping up the fight to stop The Onion from getting control of Infowars and its parent company, filing a lawsuit late Monday against the satirical news outlet. The Onion's bid for Free Speech Systems was named the winning bidder after last week's bankruptcy auction, with proceeds intended for Sandy Hook families who won a defamation suit against him. Jones owes the families $1.5 billion for spreading false conspiracies that the elementary school shooting in Newtown, Conn., never happened; his followers then harassed and threatened them for years. Jones' lawsuit asks a bankruptcy judge, who needs to sign off on the sale, to block it, calling The Onion's offer a "flagrantly non-compliant Frankenstein bid" and "the black letter definition of collusive bidding." He argues the judge should disqualify that offer, and instead name the only other bidder, First United American Companies, the winner. FUAC is affiliated with Jones and his online nutritional supplements store. FUAC bid $3.5 million in cash. The Onion offered half that amount — $1.75 million — in cash, plus a sweetener: The Connecticut families promised to forgo some of their sale proceeds to help beat the offer from FUAC. The Onion attorneys say that deal would result in the highest payout to the other creditors, including a smaller group of families who won a separate defamation suit against Jones in Texas and did not offer to forgo any proceeds.

[lol-jackles]

I have a question about licensing fee vs the cost of making an episode. I saw the deadline article on CW renewal speculation that the licensing fee for Walker is just over $500k per episode. I cannot imagine that covers the full cost of making an episode, so if that is the case, where does the rest of the money come from. Also is there a "standard" for setting the licensing fee (ie a % of cost per episode, or a % of anticipated revenue etc etc)

Thanks in advance!

First, don't confuse the license fee with the budget. 

Walker costs about $3.5 million per episode. Networks pay 50% of the show's budget so CW is paying $1.75 million per episode on top of the $500K license fee, plus the Austin grant of  $245,471 brings the total to $2.5 million. The remainder $1 million is financed by CBS studio and Rideback by selling license fees to foreign distributors, anywhere from 30 to 80 countries for a minimum of $100K per episode.

The bare minimum number of international license fees easily cover the entire cost to produce Walker, but you and I know that most of that money is going towards keeping the lights on at CBS studios as well as pay for new tv shows that have 98% chance of failing. Just like Supernatural financed many of your favorite CW shows, it also paid for plenty of WB studios' failed tv shows.  The then-WB network had spent at least $50 million on the 2005 pilot season and SPN was the only show to survive to season 5 to be syndicated.

I know most media says one-hour dramas cost $5 million per episode, but they actually cost $3.3 million.  I'm guessing the $5 million is the average due to sci-fi/fantasy/period dramas can cost up to $10 million per episode.  So Walker is not being produced on the cheap at $3.5 million, it's the norm. 

[thepastisalreadywritten]

Spinosaurus, equipped with aquatic adaptations like crocodile-like jaws, webbed feet, has led some researchers to propose that it was predominantly an aquatic predator rather than a terrestrial one.

📹 : Julian Johnson-mortimer / Julian_johnson12345

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Spinosaurus is a genus of spinosaurid dinosaur that lived in what now is North Africa during the Cenomanian to Upper Turonian stages of the Late Cretaceous period, about 99 to 93.5 million years ago.

The genus was first known from Egyptian remains discovered in 1912 and described by German palaeontologist Ernst Stromer in 1915.

The original remains were destroyed in World War II but additional material came to light in the early 21st century.

It is unclear whether one or two species are represented in the fossils reported in the scientific literature.

Spinosaurus, which was longer and heavier than Tyrannosaurus, is the largest known carnivorous dinosaur.

It possessed a skull 1.75 metres (roughly 6 feet) long, a body length of 14–18 metres (46–59 feet), and an estimated mass of 12,000–20,000 kg (13–22 tons).

[shipwreckedwithcaptainmarrow]

The 100 Escudo - The Most Valuable Coin in Spanish History

This oversized 100 Escudo gold coin minted by the Spanish Empire during the 17th century in the reign of King Philip III is one of the only known of its kind. This 1609 coin, created in Segovia, Spain, was once part of the Caballero de Yndias Collection, which had once belonged to a Spaniard who lived in Cuba. Spanish Escudos existed in a variety of denominations, typically from 1 - 12, with the common 2 Escudo made famous by pirate sensation through the years as the "Doubloon."

Measuring 71 mm and weighing 339 grams, the 100 Escudo was sold at auction during 2009 in Barcelona with a starting bid of €800,000 ($882,520.00). A Swiss man, known only as Number 74 ended up purchasing the coin at €944,000 ($1,037,460.72) - making this the most valuable coin in Spanish history. However, despite it's selling price with no one willing to top 75's bid, its true worth was speculated to have been closer to €1.75 million, or $1,923,258.75.

[youthincare]

image description: top image. black and white photo of Palestinians walking up a dirt road with other families. text on the photo says, ' nakba - 1948. 15000 killed. 750000 displaced."

underneath the photo is another photo. coloured. families walking up a road similar to image above. text on it says, "gaza - 2023. 21000 killed. 1.75 million displaced. we have officially surpassed the numbers of the nakba."

[thesims4blogger]

The Sims 4: New Game Patch (April 26th, 2023)

The Sims has rolled out a minor new patch for The Sims 4. It corrects what’s been called “the face bug”, in which sims were showing a few differences especially around their eyes and mouth. You can read more about this bug on EA’s Answer HQ.

It also brings back the “loose tooth�� feature from Growing Together, that were causing issues to child sims faces.

PC: 1.97.62.1020/ Mac: 1.97.62.1220 / Console: Version 1.75

Sul Sul Simmers

This patch re-enables the lose tooth feature from The Sims 4 Growing Together expansion pack. With much wiggling, pulling, and twisting those several pesky tooth issues have been yanked right out. Our Sims’ mouths have healed wonderfully and the over nine million recently created infants will once again have these next stages of life to look forward to. We appreciate your patience throughout this dental visit and wish you many Simoleons under your pillow in the morning.

SimGuruNinja

Bug Fixes

Base Game

An issue that was causing subtle adjustments to the appearance of Sims in the April 18th update has been resolved. You may have noticed this issue affecting the appearance of things such as a Sims’ eyes, teeth, and facial structure.

Any Sim that was created prior to the April 18th update should return to looking as they did before.

Any Sim that was created between the release of the April 18th update and this update will have minor adjustments to their appearance as a result of them now being correctly rendered.

Growing Together

The chance for a Child Sim to experience losing a tooth has been re-enabled.

A Child Sims’ skin material will no longer become corrupted after the Loose Tooth buff expires if the child was already missing two front teeth. ♫ All they really wanted were their two front teeth… ♪

A Teen Sims’ skin material will no longer become corrupted after the Loose Tooth buff expires. You get to decide how to corrupt your Sims, not 

[rabiesofficial]

50 million for one sword I’m only going to use for what…. 6 months? Is egregious. I’d rather get my battle pets ass handed to us repeatedly until I reach a new Tier and can buy the end game weapons that are like 😑 1.75 billion. 750 million. Other millions. I fear I will not make it because I’m addicted to buying wigs I can’t even use because I keep buying wigs and no outfits.

[theic-manic]

I'm an Aussie Hermes devotee.

Of course "Scotty doesn't know" plays right as I see a Bin Chicken at the park where I'm drinking a discounted protein coffee shot.

Hi Thoth-Hermes babe, I see you.

Also... we Aussies really should take Ibises more seriously but honestly this level of piss-take of a once sacred bird is very much Hermes' vibe.

Ancient Egyptians thought animals were incarnations of gods on Earth. They worshipped the sacred ibis as the god Thoth, which was responsible for maintaining the universe, judging the dead, and overseeing systems of magic, writing, and science.

Me, an Aussie Hermes devotee: *raises drink* "coffee shots for the holy bin chook boi"

Like, I've literally had Ibises just walk with me when I'm omw home praying to Thoth-Hermes.

"Okay mate, stop taking shit from those snack stealing pigeons, you deserve better"

And today, a bin chicken is strutting around pigeons as I sit nearby.

"I'm proud of you (bin chook)"

*Bin chicken comes closer*

I am convinced that Australia is a trickster God haven.

[the-one-who-lambs]

Cult of the Lamb has sold around 3.5 million copies. If even half of those people (1.75 million) are narilamb believers I'd say that's enough to start a small but formally recognized religion.

We just need some leaders (not related by blood or marriage), official rules, doctrines, and rituals, a place of worship, distinct legal existence and organized worship before we can be tax exempt.

We can start healing the world with the power of narilamb. We have the numbers.

Hey I know we all have religious trauma here and/or are queer and/or have complicated family relationships and/or are neurodivergent and crave a human connection that we fear is impossible to achieve but we don't have to create an ACTUAL cult

[bentomodachi]

illustration from Canna’s twitter to celebrate the hidamari series having sold a total cumulative amount of over 1.75 million copies

[drhoz]

The Great ACT-NSW-NZ Trip, 2023-2024 - Taranaki Ringplain

After Pohokura we spent a couple of days on the west coast of North Island - specifically, in the vicinity of Taranaki/Mt. Egmont, a young stratovolcano that is the most recent volcano in a long sequence of slowly migrating volcanism in the area. The hills to the northwest, and the plugs at the coast at New Plymouth, are all that remain of its predecessors. In fact, the entire ring of flattish and highly fertile land in Taranaki is the result of the repeated catastrophic collapse of the volcanoes over the last 1.75 million years.

The photo below was taken from Cape Egmont 30 kilometers from the volcano. Even out here there are layers of fridge-sized boulders deposited by the giant volcanic landslides.

The plugs at New Plymouth, 1.75 myo.

Historically, the area consisted of a narrow coastal plain covered by bracken, tutu, rewarewa and karaka trees, with anywhere not close to the coast covered in dense forest.

From about 1823 the Māori began having contact with European whalers and flax traders. English settlers were first dropped here in 1841, and within a year were trying to deal with plagues of the rats they brought with them.

The stuff we saw on the volcano itself I'll cover seperately, but there was no shortage of species in New Plymouth, along the coast, at Lake Mangamahoe, and where we were staying.