#81f

[klaudia2646]

Poor David has been sick to his stomach since yesterday morning so he hasn’t been able to do anything.

We didn’t do anything during the day, got together with Lourdes and Fabiola in the evening. Remembering the old times, we had such good fun.

[sunflower-chai]

going to a football exhibition game and i fear i’m going to melt in this heat

[mayra-quijotescx]

WHEREAS outbreaks of customer attitude spike around the holidays and WHEREAS no amount of financial compensation would be enough to make up for the increased volume of customer bullshit and WHEREAS in a perfect world there would be no violence but WHEREAS we do not live in a perfect world and WHEREAS the overwhelming majority of people who treat workers like shit do so because they feel insulated from social consequences and WHEREAS the majority of people, regardless of the amount of sense they do or do not have, still have enough self preservation instinct to hold their tongue if they have reason to fear that loosing it will get them slapped or worse THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that all retail, food service, and other customer facing workers should be granted unlimited worker v. customer melee rights from open of business on Black Friday to close of business on New Year's Eve.

[altruistic-meme]

i am literally shaking the weather violently PLEASE PICK A TEMPERATURE AND STAY THERE

[boyenthusiast]

waiting in line for the concert (first one here yayy) and it is so fucking hot the chapstick in my pocket is going to melt

[bitchapalooza]

I think my whole family but me has heat exhaustion because we still don’t have an AC 🙃

[infinian]

Fortinet FortiGate | FG-80/81-E-POE | Price/Cost Call: 9739091119

[mistletien]

I just woke up but I am not awake

[bomberqueen17]

holding it down

currently am being held down in the chair by Chita, who was waiting patiently next to my recliner while i was in the other room packing up my clean laundry. I'm going back to the farm today, and need to leave sometime before noon to arrive in time for dinner. The only productive thing I really did this week is that last night I made a Vat of Borscht that i'm going to bring to serve for dinner tonight so my sister doesn't have to cook. anyway. Oop Chita just had enough of absorbing my body heat / qi (we joke that's what she's after, absorbing qi by sitting on people) and has transferred herself to the other chair, where she will sleep for six to ten hours without moving much. Her life is hard.

anyway wittering on behind cut

my dreamwidth crossposter broke so i should figure out how to set up an RSS thingy there, idk how to do that though. i think tumblr did something that broke how they do RSS and that's why the crossposter went down.

I'm trying Vyvanse again, a slightly higher dose. One pill a day, I can do. Yesterday I just felt scattered and ran around not getting things done. I did go double grocery shopping with Dude, and there was a Pokemon Go thing going on so I was catching cyndaquils while wandering through the grocery aisles, and i just-- sometimes I can feel that what I am doing is really bad for my attention span, and I could super feel that this was not helping me at all.

"I need to meditate," I said, sweating, on the ride home in the car. (It has been so hot. It was so hot yesterday. It was 87 and so humid and even with the ac in the car I was just sweating. ugh.)

"So meditate," Dude said, but I don't know how.

I probably should start writing in my journal again. I had been using a like day planner thing, and I was doing pretty poorly at it-- i'd write goals but they were never concretely connected to anything, and mostly I was writing down what I did after I did it, but at least that tied me to reality somewhat. So I should at least go back to that, I stopped the last week at the farm when things were so fucking hectic I didn't do anything but work, eat, and sleep.

I don't know if it helps but doing nothing doesn't help either.

And it's a lie to say I did nothing this past week. I was very off my game, but I did consult two different medical professionals for whatever that's worth, and I did manage to get past a huge writing block that's been deviling me for over a year really.

The horrible heat is supposed to break, which is good timing, because there is no climate control at the farm, and the only air-conditioned room is insufficiently conditioned and so is usually warmer than the surrounding spaces. I would have had a miserable week if I'd been there this past week, when it was over 90F most days and wasn't getting below 75F at night. (It was 81F here this morning at 6am, but it is supposed to rain and the day's high will only be 82. So.)

I did get some sewing done this week, though not as much as I wanted. I did a bunch of laundry. I did not clean the house or make any progress organizing any spaces, which were things I had wanted to do. But the writing, I can't describe how important getting that writing done was for me.

I'm having trouble being confident in my writing currently, a couple of scenes I feel are not emotionally true to what I was trying to say. I did rediscover some old notes though, and I think I've figured out what was bugging me in the Geralt/Emhyr scenes, and what I should work on with them. (I think the background information that Pavetta was an unhinged little gremlin monsterfucker and that was what formed Emhyr's id is really important and I have to work out how to incorporate that into everything going forward.)

I also keep finding myself yearning to write some original stuff. So we'll have to see, if I can get through the backlog of ideas in the Witcher stuff and start winding some of that up (??!!?!?!) then maybe there'd be some time to poke those ideas.

Anyway. Cat tax, here is what Chita looked like as I began this post, being a feline seat belt holding me into this chair:

[image description: small gray cat, head turned and eyes closed, is lying on my green-clad lap and has one paw outstretched toward the camera, touching the gray arm of the chair we're sitting in, holding me in position.]

[am-i-the-asshole-official]

AITA for keeping secrets from my parents?

I (16ftm) live with my grandmother (81f), mother (50f), my father (49m), and two younger brothers: W (14ftm), and T (11m). my father is, by and large, very cool with queer people and works with them on a regular basis. My mother, though... not so much. I am out (as both trans and demibiromantic bisexual) to my friends, my teachers, and W. Basically, everyone but my parents (I haven't told T yet because I know he'll just go straight to them). My mother has, on multiple occasions, proven herself to be transphobic. It should also be noted that I have a tendency to not tell my parents stuff, even if I know that wouldn't be mad about it. I know that if I do tell them, It is highly likely that they will continue to deadname and misgender me. And I'm afraid of what my mother will say. But I know I always keep stuff from them, and technically I don't have any proof they'll react badly. I feel guilty for keeping this from them, though. Also, I have encouraged W to stay closeted, and I know keeping this from them is hurting him. So, again, I have no real proof she'll react badly, although she has proved herself to be transphobic. And I'm sure my father would react well. But I'm not telling them anyway?

So, AITA?

What are these acronyms?

[wisteria-blooms]

Hi! I just wanted to ask how have you been? Hope everything is going good. I just wanted to do a little check up. I am really looking forward your writing if you continue writing. You do you. Either way I hope the best for you and drink some water or eat a little something. Have a nice time.

Here a nice/pretty GIF because I wanted to add one:)

Hi hi!!

Thank you so much for checking up on me and sending this message. I hope you've been doing well, too!!

I definitely intend to finish the Charlie series and continue writing (I have some wild ideas). The end of summer has been so busy. Also, does it sound absolutely insane to say I hit a roadblock with the Charlie series because the weather here was too hot? It was like 27c/81f and I was having trouble picturing snowy Scotland while I was melting outside. How do I describe a shivering (Y/N) when my skin is sloughing - Fingers crossed the impending weather will make things easier!

See you in the next update. Thank you for your constant support! <3

[rederiswrites]

81F/27.2C feels so comfortable now after all this 90-100F heat. God it's nice.

[materialsscienceandengineering]

Macrostates and Microstates

In thermodynamics (and statistical thermodynamics/mechanics) it is sometimes more useful to ignore the specific arrangement of atoms and molecules in a system and sometimes necessary to know the specific arrangement. The microscope arrangement of atoms and/or molecules is what is known as the microstate, while the state of the system overall, ignoring these details, is known as the macrostate. For example, a glass of water sitting around on a warm day might reach ~27C or ~81F - that temperature represents the macrostate. But there are countless arrangements of the water molecules within the glass to reach that temperature; those represent the possible microstates. Temperature is only one quality that is a statistical average of what the microstate represents. A specific atom or molecule cannot have a temperature, only position and momentum, etc.

Sources/Further Reading: (Image source - shared presentation) (University of Manchester) (California State University) (MIT) (Khan Academy)

[goatsandgangsters]

I think I deserve a prize for finishing a fic set outside, at night, in December while it's currently 81F/27C in my bedroom even with the air conditioner on high

[lfaol]

Completing Explorers of sky with just Magikarp

u/DragonWagon24, has done it. Using just magikarp throughout explorers of sky

This is hands down the hardest run I will ever complete. We all know it: Magikarp is the fucking king of shitty Pokémon. It’s one of the weakest, most pathetic characters not just in Pokémon, but in all of fiction. His very name is synonymous with weakness.

And for the purpose of this run, all of that holds true. His only move at level 1 is Splash. His stats are godawful. And the slightest misstep is liable to end in death again and again and again. Which is extra painful because in order to gain EXP, Magikarp needs to either find Gravelerocks… or use Struggle, which means he has to use all 50 of his Splashes! This makes every attempt even more painful by wasting time, energy and resources just to unlock Struggle! And then Struggle does damage to yourself, which makes Magikarp even easier to KO because his HP is low and grows slowly. Before I’ve actually taken a step, the run is harder than most I’ve tried.

All of this means Magikarp is downright impossible to clear without the Holy Trinity: Warp Scarf, Pass Scarf, and X-Ray Specs. Warp Scarf lets him actually explore the dungeon and gather resources, Pass Scarf keeps him alive, and X-Ray Specs is… just the best item in the game. I’ve had plenty of runs with a combination of 2 of these get smoked on like floor 15. This is the only run I’ve ever had find all 3, so I knew if any run was gonna make it, it was gonna be this one.

I found Warp Scarf early, but Pass Scarf only came up around 35F, while X-Ray spawned around the late 40s. With this incredible combination, I focused on gathering whatever resources I could. The X-Ray Specs gave me information on when and where enemies would attack, so I used that in combination with the Warp Scarf to gather items and avoid trouble. My heart raced as I entered the final stretch for only the 3rd time… with the previous 2 times just getting nuked on 81F. I knew the odds were low. But I didn’t come all this way for another disappointing defeat.

So I locked the fuck in.

I didn’t take chances. I pathed every step carefully, exactly the way I did Pichu so long ago, knowing the slightest mistake would end me. I spawned into a Monster House with Ledian.. but a Quick Seed/Decoy Orb combo delayed Silver Wind just long enough for me to warp out! I knew I’d been blessed. I made it to 91F. Clear of Ledian, I turned my attention to the final sprint ahead of me. 8 floors to go.

On 93F I spawned in a huge room with the stairs, a Politoed, Tropius and Crawdaunt. Politoed used Perish Song, and missed. I saw this and frantically checked my item bag, sighing in relief at the sight of 2 Heal Seeds. I could afford to take a hit, which I ended up needing as I got hit entering the corridor out of the room. I took 2 steps, bit the Heal Seed, and managed to warp by the stairs in the same room. 6 to go.

On 95F I spawned near a Politoed, and knew I had to go for broke. I used a Mobile Orb, my last real defense, and got the hell out of there, finding the stairs in short order. Once i hit 99F I was cheering and screaming like I haven’t in years. I saw the stairs, took the screenshots at the top, and heaved a huge sigh of relief as Magikarp finally flopped to the Arceus Statue.

Pokémon Cleared: 88/494

[lyssafreyguy]

why was my car's thermostat telling me it's 81F on October 31st . . .