#fung prey

[smmnh]

An Ammonite Named Kosmoceras

Ammonites were abundant in the seas during the Jurassic Period. Ammonites are shelled cephalopods, a class of marine animals that include octopuses, squid, cuttlefishes and nautiluses. Ammonites have retractable tentacles for catching small prey, although some species filter-fed for small plankton. 

An ammonite shell offered protection from predators and from the crushing pressure of the deep sea. An ammonite was continually growing, and when it outgrew the living chamber a larger one was secreted. The old one behind it was sealed off creating a wall called a septa (sep'-tah). Passing through each septa was a siphuncle (sī'-fung-kal), a tubular-shaped organ controlling the animals buoyancy by moving gas and fluid in or out of each sealed chamber, adjusting for buoyancy like a submarine filling or emptying its ballast tanks.

You can see this specimen on display at the Southern Minnesota Museum of Natural History in Blue Earth, Minnesota! Click here for more information!

[don-dake]

Random Cantonese Phrase-of-the-day:

紙鷂 (🇭🇰🇲🇴 zi² jiu²)

Meaning: Kite 🪁

Just randomly thought of the Cantonese 🇭🇰🇲🇴 word for ‘kite’. 紙 (paper) 鷂 (kite, as in the bird of prey) while rewatching an episode of Bluey! 😺 And I think it's so much more fitting than the Standard Chinese 風箏 (🇭🇰🇲🇴 fung¹ zang¹，🀄 ㄈㄥㄓㄥ·/fēng zheng) in this case!

[astoldbyaja]

The Blossom surrounded by Fire - Ch. 2 (Warrior AU- HBO MAX)

Many of those that I checked up on were poor, like most of Chinatown. They didn’t trust me at first, but as their loved one’s conditions began to improve, they welcomed me into their homes. Rarely they gave me money for my help, but mostly they gave me herbs, food, and other items that I would put in my room. A chicken farmer’s wife was sick, and he tried to offer me a ring that was known to be a family heirloom. I gracefully declined his method of payment and still treated his wife. I had many medicines for fevers, pains, injuries from cuts to bruises. I cleaned wounds and sewed up men who worked for the Hop Wei. I knew this because some of them wore their nice suits proudly. They did pay me. I left my last home and wiped my forehead with my arm. I had a cloth around my face and needed to clean my hands. I made my way back to Chao’s store, keeping my head down when I found myself passing a cop.

They were definitely looking at me harder than most. I guess they wondered what it was I was doing in a place like this and not with my own people. As I re-entered the shop, I poured a small cup of water over my hands and cleaned them with a small thing of detergent that Chao had. I wiped my hands on my dress and moved out and decided to use the front door of his shop, which was the next door from the chicken shop. I was never allowed to use the front door of shops back in Tennessee, so I wanted to make a habit of doing it now. As I opened the door, I paused to see Chao standing across his weapons table from three men, all with markings going down the sides of their face.

They looked at me with intimidating glares. They wore brown leather attire. Fung Hai. The one in the middle with swooping hair tilted his head at me with curiosity. Chao looked at me with a professional smile as I slowly pulled down my mask revealing more of my face which made the man’s dark features liven as if he’s completely stunned.

“Ah, you’re back. I am just doing business. You know where to wait for me.” he said. I have heard that tone before. He wanted me to immediately get from these men’s view. I nodded.

“Of course.” I replied and moved toward Chao and walked behind him with the intention to disappear into the room in the back. However, one of the larger men moved in front of me.

“Chao, you’re not going to introduce me to your friend. That’s very rude, isn’t it?” the swooped- hair man said almost wickedly. He had leather around his wrist and rings on his fingers. He looked at me with heavy interest and I just looked at Chao leaning back some into his back and away from the man who blocked me. Chao’s relaxed smile remained on his face, but his body was tense.

“Of course, where are my manners. Zing, this is Amaka, one of my associates. Amaka, this is Zing leader of the Fung Hai. They run the casinos in Chinatown.” he introduced. Zing, continued to watch me almost as if he were a predator toying with his prey. I looked at Zing and bowed my head respectfully. I have noticed many of the people around here do this, obviously a sign of respect.

“It is nice to meet you.” I replied. Zing smirked.

“Amaka… interesting name.” he said. The air was tense, and I gave a smile out of sheer panic. This man scared me, and he knew that I was nervous of him. He wasn’t looking at the sides of my head, so I knew my ears weren’t showing.

“You speak our language quite well… for a colored girl.” he said watching me carefully as if to gauge my reaction. Chao and I both glanced at each other, and I looked back at him and nodded with a small smile again.

“Thank you.” I said lowly and Chao cleared his throat.

“Shall we continue business? I do have other appointments.” he said. Zing looked at me for a moment before looking at Chao with a venomous smile.

“Of course.” he replied before looking at the other Fung Hai member and motioned with his head for him to step aside. Once the large man did, I just walked through the door in the back and once I closed the door calmly, I pressed my back to the door and took big breaths. I didn’t realize I had held my breath. I covered my mouth and moved across the small room into the back where I stayed. This was the first time I had ever met the leader of a tong and already I knew I didn’t want to meet another one.

Later that evening, I was finishing up a few notes on each person I had seen today. I wasn’t all that good with names yet, so I drew their faces and items of each person’s home to help me remember. My door slid open, and I didn’t look up at first. I wanted to finish my notes first. Chao was moving about my room, of which I didn’t mind. It was his room before I got here, and he has been kind enough to sleep elsewhere while I was here. I told him I wouldn’t mind if he decided to sleep in here again with me, however.

“Oh come on the silent treatment?” I heard him say. I lifted my head and turned to him seeing something draped over his arm. I shook my head.

“I was just writing down notes to remember every person’s progress.” I replied standing up and wiping off my knees. I was in a corset with lace panties. He looked me over as I did him. He was fully dressed in a nice black and red suit. Draped over his arms was a red dress. I tilted my head. “Is that for me?” He smiled almost proudly and nodded stepping closer to me holding up the dress. It was flowing and has ribbons on certain angles of it.

“For tonight out.” he said. I smiled as he handed it to me, and I held it open to admire it.

“Wow, it’s beautiful. I’ve… never been given something so nice.” I replied looking at him and he bowed his head at me.

“Well believe it or not, you’ve been very helpful to those in the Chinatown. You don’t have to help those you help, but you do. Given your past, your people have done a lot for this country even if the ducks refuse to acknowledge, but I do. And I got you some nice red flats to go with it.” he said. My eyes widened at his words and joy continued to fill me.

“Thank you, Chao.” I replied. He smiled and motioned his hand toward me.

“Well try it on, see if it fits.” he said. I nodded and moved to lie it on my bed so I could get ready. He stepped out to give me privacy. Within an hour, we were both walking out to his carriage that would escort us to this brothel. The dress fit snug and pushed my breasts up a bit. My hair was pulled up and into a nice bun, exposing my ears. I never tried to purposely expose them, but it seemed this event would have lots of drinking and women that no one would notice them, and if they did, wouldn’t remember seeing them. The flats were comfy. However, I did not wear makeup. It broke out my face to wear it, so I made sure it was clean enough to be seen by others. Chao looked at me with a smile and held his hand up to me to guide me into the carriage. He followed in after me and the horses pulled us along. We sat together and he smiled with his hand gently on my left knee.

“You look beautiful.” he said. I looked at him and smiled warmly.

“You don’t look so bad yourself.” I complimented. He smiled for a moment before it faded, and he looked at me apologetically.

“I am sorry if Zing made you uncomfortable today.” he said. I shook my head immediately.

“It’s okay. This is your job. I should have gone through the other shop. It just… felt good to go in through the front door instead of the back.” I replied. He winced and looked down at my lap taking my hands into his.

“I know all too well what that’s like.” he said lowly. I placed my hand atop of his and smiled as his eyes met my own.

“Let us be happy that we are no longer in those horrid places.” I replied. He nodded.

“A-fucking-men.” he said, and we both smiled wide at each other chuckling low and pressing our foreheads together. The carriage finally stopped, and Chao moved out first before helping me out. I looked at the big black building with golden pillars and bright lights coming from the window. I could hear laughing and music. I looked up the building and could see the silhouettes of people in the windows. Paper lanterns decorated the sky it seemed. Very beautiful. I jumped lightly at Chao’s hand on my back, and I looked at him and smiled. He held his arm up to me and I wrapped my arm around him, and we moved inside. Immediately I could smell tobacco and alcohol that combined with the loud laughs and cheers.

The walls were brown but well painted and well-lit with white trees painted in them. The place was huge, like one of those museums, and there were many men and women standing about talking, laughing, and other things. However, the sight of me caught many people’s attention and they began to immediately whisper and stare at me with fascination.

“I wonder what caught their attention more, my skin or my ears.” I replied lowly. Chao smirked.

“Your skin and your ears just add to your incredible African beauty. You should feel honored to have this kind of attention.” he said as he led me to a long bar. We stood between the barstools.

“Whiskey and water please.” he told the man who just nodded and turned from us. I eyed the many different women who were dressed provocatively and were leaning on men, smiling, and drinking with them. The men were easily aroused by them, and some were following the women up the stairs like a horse to water.

“This place is… unlike anything I have ever seen.” I said in awe.

“Yes, to an outsider, it’s like walking into another world. But you never want the aura to hold you captive here.” Chao said. I looked at him curiously.

“Have you ever fucked a girl here?” I asked. He grinned.

“Everyone has fucked a girl here. But don’t worry none of them compared to you.” he said. Chao and I both have needs, and when we can’t find someone that interests us, we are happy to oblige the other. But if I had to count, Chao has come to me more times than I had come to him. I scoffed with a smile.

“I am not trying to compete with the women here. If you like their pussy, you like their pussy. It won’t hurt my feelings.” I replied. He grinned.

“Oh, trust me, your pussy does not compare to theirs.” he said. I noticed a woman strutting over here, obviously looking taken aback and I just reached over and grabbed Chao’s arm. He saw my look of mild worry and looked behind me.

“Did I hear someone’s pussy is better than my girls? I definitely would need to meet the competition then.” she said with a purr. Chao grinned and leaned off the table and smiled at the woman as he took her hand and kissed the top of it. She was very beautiful, with long flowing black hair pinned up with golden pins. Her dress was long black and flowing with gold streaks. Her makeup was sharp and sparkling.

“Ah I was wondering when I would see you. How are you?” he asked. The woman smiled.

“Good, but the night is still young. Who is your friend?” she asked eyeing me with attentiveness. Chao nodded.

“Ah Toy, this is Amaka. Amaka, Ah Toy the woman I told you about.” he introduced. I smiled and bowed my head at her.

“It’s nice to meet you.” I replied with a pleasant smile. Her smile was very seductive, yet innocent as well.

“The pleasure is all mine.” she replied taking a step toward me. She even smelled good. I had to look up at her some and I watched as her hand raised as she was gazing at the side of my head. “How… beautiful.” I tensed lightly as he fingers neared the tip of my ears. Chao cleared his throat, and Ah Toy immediately paused and recoiled her hand.

“I’m sorry, I have just… never seen a woman like you before. How did you end up with Chao here?” she asked with a grin and Chao shrugged.

“What can I say, life has been bringing unexpectant people to my doorstep.” he said drinking from his glass. Ah Toy nodded.

“Clearly. Well… Amaka, Chao has told me quite a lot about your charity work in helping the people of Chinatown. You are a very skilled healer. Maybe you and I can do business sometime. Although my girls are here of their own free will, sometimes, the men can get rough. I throw them out, but I want my girls to have the best care. Maybe, you help me, and I pay you to take care of the girls if they need it?” she asked. I was not expecting a proposal, but I nodded.

“Of course. This community has been kind to me, as an outsider. It’s the least I can do.” I replied. She smiled warmly at me.

“I am glad to hear that. And you speak Cantonese very well.” she said. I nodded.

“I speak many languages.” I replied. She nodded as if further impressed.

“Maybe you could assist me in the future with that?” she asked. But before I could answer, I jumped at the sight of someone yelling.

“ALRIGHT WHERE’S THE STICKY AT!” someone hollered.

[puckness]

make more. arackuleleb head cannons *winks at yoy* pleading emoji :3.3:::::

anything for you pookaroonie arackulele is the most affectionate and least(?) threatening out of the shadow element, oftenly paired as grumpyre's favorite shadow element for looking so sweet boodoo and arackulele have an older brother and younger sibling relationship, boodoo often teasing arackulele for the littlest things

arackulele and fung prey seem to be the bestest of friends on ethereal (frolicking in the flower fields)

arackulele enjoys making ink or painting in their free time, often carrying small jars around with them to compress the weird plants on it’s island to make ink

doesn’t like anything too sweet, though buys/makes a bunch of sweet stuff for fung prey

i literally just opened my drafts today and was like “oh o should answer this”

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[grasshopperdoingdogpaddle]

I hated Omi's abusive parents in Omi Town they were so awful. I completely forgot that they tried to make Omi eat meat and that the mom cited Omi not eating it as a good reason to try to beat the shit out of him with a bamboo pole, fucking hell that was beyond the pail. I'm upset that Omi still cried over his abusive mom's death after all that. Like I get why Omi cried but I'm upset over it.

(I'm going to write a fic set after that episode because Omi should get to go absolutely feral after all that.)

Yep, Omi gets both the emotional baggage of being an orphan who never knew his family and of having abusive parents who he desperately tried and failed to earn acceptance and affection from.

I get why Omi cried too. They really made this kid witness his mother's death and feel like he caused it, even if it was for a brief moment. She used her "dying breath" to keep saying that she thinks Omi was a terrible son. Even though she was such an awful mother, Omi still just wanted her to accept him.

Even though Omi admitted that they weren't good parents. Omi has a lot of idealistic ideas about family ("Mother and son shouldn't fight"), but I'm not sure he knew enough about family dynamic to even recognize that they were clearly emotionally manipulative and verbally and physically abusive towards him.

Knowing Omi, he probably thought he was supposed to put up with all of it because (1) he desperately wants a place to belong and doesn't want to be abandoned again, even though these people apparently sold him for under a cent, and (2) he's probably under the impression that he won't be seen by them as an "honorable" son unless he endures it.

It preys on Omi's deepest fears and insecurities as an orphan who's admitted that he sometimes doesn't feel like he belongs at the temple. Doesn't help that his mom was constantly yelling at him for all the reasons she thinks he was a bad son, including things he had no control over like "never calling."

Omi even acknowledged that he didn't want to stay there with them, but feels like he should and that leaving to "forfeit his honor".

I'm really glad Chase successfully goaded Omi into leaving them despite all the talk about Omi thinking leaving would be dishonorable.

Chase just showing Omi that the other monks were in trouble and then taunting Omi about whether or not he wanted to do anything about it was a really effective way of getting Omi to look past what he feels are his obligations as a son. Omi's "rivalry" with Chase and this push and pull between them is even stronger than Omi's sense of honor, which is amazing. Aside from Master Fung, Chase was probably the only person who could have convinced Omi to ditch his parents of his own volition.

Chase giving Omi the strength to leave an abusive situation he would have otherwise stayed in is a really great moment between them. The fact that this is what basically makes Omi regain the level of fondness and trust he had in Chase before the [x]ing Omi arc was a nice touch too.

[highwaytoballs]

NEW LORE POST

Gods come in many forms, but there is a basic pyramid of them, which goes from most powerful to least powerful

EIGHT CATS : top of the food chain, although there are now more than eight cats, the founding members helped in founding the basic foundations of both life and morals, they are the founding gods, and can decide what happens, and what doesn’t.

Mephesto phungs (pronounced fungs): high ranked gods that tend to do what they want, they have huge amounts of power which is rivalled only by the eight cats, notable phungs are satan, lord noble, and the blue devil.

Rogue angels : somehow, life existed BEFORE the progenitor, but nobody ( not even the progenitor himself ) seen them before they turned into the rogue angels, it is believed they were a race similar to humans, but their only planet ended as a greedy elder of their race summoned a evil more powerful than the eight cats, which ended their universe, but somehow, some of their kind survived, as they made a pact with a long erased god, which allows them to live on as crimson skinned zombified corpses as long as they don’t say “ocean”.

Demons : demons come in many shapes and sizes, and varying power levels, but as JJBA tought us, even the smallest enemy can be powerful in their own sense, so their power levels are based on both size and destructive capabilites, notable demons are the Author, Blotched, And the sea’s revenge (a soul that is casted out orally through the blue devil, which can cause small scale tsunamis).

Horrors : the “bastard twin brother” of the demons, horrors take on mostly more human looks as they tend to blend in with society, although some horrors are very obvious, some can actually take the form of completely normal people, like your next door neighbour, your close friend, or hell, even a relative, horrors main prey are people riddled with fear, but can also eat people who show no fear what so ever.Horrors come in three category’s, “sentient” being the one category of horrors that take on relatively human like appearances and behaviours to blend in with human society, these one’s usually have higher kill counts. “Semi-sentient” horrors act as if they are either injured, most of them aren’t as mentally bright as the sentients, but can display a level of cunning, these horrors tend to disguise themselves as injured people or people afflicted with grief and anger, and display feral yet clean methods of killing, and the last category is “animalistic”, which speaks for itself, horrors in this category look like crosses between either deep sea animals, insects, or moldy skeletons, these horrors often kill in violent and bloody ways, but leave no corpses behind as they require any form of sustenance they can get.

Stinkers : based on the stink blasters toy line of the mid 2000’s, these mischeviouse teens are split into groups, and have street wars with their rivals to see who smells either the worst or the best, groups are based on what theme they are, and mostly take pride in their either overly disgusting or weirdly nice scents their body can let off, notable groups include the preacher boys, hell-oween, the outcasts, and masked men

Humans : regular joes, can become more, but have little potential

[the-nerd-beast]

Playable Race Concept: Sporelings

requested by @prototype-heart

*disclaimer: This is a post for fun, it is in no way meant to be taken seriously. I have thoroughly combed the lore before making this post and is just a “what if” scenario just for shits and giggles and is meant to be taken with a grain of salt.*

Race: Sporelings

Faction: Neutral

Languages: Common/Orcish 

Summary: Long ago during the early days of Draenor mighty plant elementals called Sporemounds battled the forces of Grond and the Colossai over control of the primitive world. In the aftermath of the Sporemounds’ destruction, the body of one called Botaan settled in the wilds where its spores gave sentience to many species of plants. Among those were the Sporelings, who cowered in fear of both their larger plant brethren and decedents of Grond alike. Small and timid, they lived in constant fear of predators and enemies, always welcoming the help of others to give them some respite from their peril.

The Sporelings required a specific habitat to survive in Outland and as the broken world continued to break up the Sporelings faced extinction. Thanks to the intervention of the Cenarion Expidition, the Sporelings were evacuated to Azeroth where they wish to repay the favors of Horde and Alliance adventurers that helped them when they needed it.

Classes:

Warrior

Priest

Rogue

Mage

Hunter, starting pet is a purple draenor sporebat

Warlock

Shaman, totems resemble mushrooms

Mount: Levitating Mushroom (An upside down levitating mushroom cap that uses the “surfing” mount animation), able to fly with appropriate riding skill.

Racials:

Sporeskin: Active. The user unleashes irritating spores from their body, burning the eyes of targets in range to increase the caster’s dodge chance by 25% for 5 seconds. Melee range, up to 5 targets, 3 minute cooldown.

Prey Instinct: Passive. Reduces the duration of fear effects by 20%.

Fight or Flight: Passive. Increases movement speed by 5% in combat.

Children of Botaan: Passive. Reduces nature damage taken by 1%.

Mushroom Harvester: Passive. Herbalism skill increased by 15.

Dances: Same as Vulpera as new models would be based on those rigs.

Customization options: Features, skin color, glow color, accessories.

Male Flirts:

“My love for you is mushrooming.”

“I’d face any predator for you.”

“Hi, wanna go back to my shroom?”

“Wanna go out? I promise I’m a fungi.”

“Hellfire Peninsula’s red, Zangarmarsh is blue, I love glowcaps but not as much as you.”

“Are you a mushroom because you are making me grow.”

Female Flirts:

“Are you an alien, because you just abducted my heart.”

“There is so mushroom in my heart for you.”

“You are so funging spore-geous!”

“Are you from Outland because you’re out of this world.”

“My life expectancy isn’t very long, so you’ll have to do.”

“I can tell I’m growing on you and I don’t just mean my spores.”

Male Jokes:

“Fungal giants are not to be truffled with.”

“Sporeling phone home.”

“I got you a glowcap, but I eated it.”

“Seems like you guys have questionable morels.”

“I don’t like how that Gnome with a big moustache is looking at me.”

“Someone called me ’Toad’, I’m not an amphibian I’m a Sporeling!”

Female Jokes:

“Glowcaps: a female’s best friend.”

“You think we are mad signing up for the Horde and Alliance, but compared to surviving Outland this is a piece of cake.”

“Sometimes I don’t give a shiitake.”

“Your princess is in another castle.”

“Eat shrooms, save the world.”

“It’s important to know which mushrooms are edible and which aren’t. Edible mushrooms are always edible but poisonous mushrooms are only edible ONCE.”

[barine-miology]

Reef Stone Fish

It`s him. He`s here. The worst fish.

Sorry if I`m being rude, but I HATE the Reef Stone Fish. In fact, I hate the stone fish genus as a whole!

Around 14 - 20 inches long (35-50 cm) and weighing in at 5 pounds (2.3 kg), this rude customer has some insane camo. If you`re not looking for it, this little sucker is almost impossible to notice, which is one of the reasons I hate it so much.

You see, it`d be fine if they just had great camouflage, that`d be understandable, but they also happen to be venomous. Like, really venomous. Like, THE MOST VENOMOUS FISH ON EARTH venomous. That`s not hyperbole, Reef Stonefish venom has been known to kill adult human in less than an hour. This venom is administrated via one of thirteen spines along it`s dorsal fin. There are actually 5 other spines, but they are usually hidden. Venom is stored and produced in glands located at the base of each spine, and is secreted when pressure is applied to it`s respective spine. The amount of venom secreted is directly proportional to the amount of pressure applied.

So, imagine you`re just walking around on the ocean floor, as you do, and you step on, or hell, even just bump into what looks to be part of a completely normal reef, only to be stung so bad you could die! How incredibly rude.

This venom is intensely painful from the moment it is administered. Localized swelling is common, and is sometimes occupied by a blueish discoloration of the skin around the envenomation site. If not treated, it will cause heart failure and breathing difficulties, eventually resulting in death. Other symptoms include seizures, muscle paralysis, tissue necrosis, and shock. Reef Stonefish stings require immediate professional medical attention, so the first thing you should do if you or someone with you have been stung is call the hospital. While waiting for an ambulance, soak the affected area in hot water to relieve pain, though be careful not to burn yourself. Do not remove any spines stuck in the envenomation site, as doing so could possibly result in substantial blood loss. Instead, pad the areas around where they enter the skin. Reef Stonefish venom is localized, so do not try to apply a pressure immobilization bandage. If the affected person is unresponsive and not breathing properly, perform CPR if you know how.

https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Rapidly-Progressive-Necrotising-Fasciitis-following-Tang-Fung/d698f606ee034c51e05c057b99b42053eee19649

Reef Stonefish are carnivorous, subsisting off shrimp, various crustaceans, and other smaller fish. It hunts by lying motionless on the floor until something tasty comes close enough, then it bolts at it, capturing it`s prey. The striking phase of this hunt is so fast it can be difficult to film, as it can snap up a small crab almost entirely within a 0.15 second timespan. Despite this, they are often prey to larger sharks, rays, and sometimes even sea snakes.

They have been known to live both in groups and alone, and usually live for between five and ten years in the wild. They normally live in reef flats and shallow lagoons in the Indian Ocean and Southeast Asian Pacific, and can allso be found in the Red Sea. They almost never go deeper than the 30 meter mark, 50 meters at the deepest. Unlike most other fish, the Reef Stonefish can survive up to 24 hours outside of the water, a fact I wish I never learned.

Did I mention that they can spit at you? Because they can. What assholes.

[robertreich]

Trump’s Big Loss

The demise of the Republican effort to repeal the Affordable Care Act is hardly the end of the story. Donald Trump will not let this loss stand.

Since its inception in 2010, Republicans made the Affordable Care Act into a symbol of Obama-Clinton overreach – part of a supposed plot by liberal elites to expand government, burden the white working class, and transfer benefits to poor blacks and Latinos.

Ever the political opportunist, Trump poured his own poisonous salt into this conjured-up wound. Although he never really understood the Affordable Care Act, Trump used it to prey upon resentments of class, race, ethnicity, and religiosity that propelled him into the White House.

Repealing “Obamacare” has remained one of Trump’s central rallying cries to his increasingly angry base. “The question for every senator, Democrat or Republican, is whether they will side with Obamacare's architects, which have been so destructive to our country, or with its forgotten victims,” Trump said last Monday, adding that any senator who failed to vote against it “is telling America that you are fine with the Obamacare nightmare.”

Now, having lost that fight, Trump will try to subvert the Act by delaying funding so some insurers won’t have time to participate, not enforcing the individual mandate so funding will be inadequate, not informing those who are eligible about when to sign up and how to do so, and looking the other way when states don’t comply.

But that’s not all. Trump doesn’t want his base to perceive him as a loser.

So be prepared for scorched-earth politics from the Oval Office, including more savage verbal attacks on Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, more baseless charges of voter fraud in the 2016 election, more specific threats to fire special counsel Robert Mueller, and further escalation of the culture wars.

Most Americans won’t be swayed by these pyrotechnics because they’ve become inured to our unhinged president.

But that’s not the point. The rantings are intended to shore up Trump’s “base” – the third of the country that continues to support him, who still believe they’re “victims” of Obamacare, who are willing to believe Trump himself is the victim of a liberal conspiracy to unseat him.  

Trump wants his base to become increasingly angry and politically mobilized so they’ll continue to exert an outsized influence on the Republican Party.

There is a deeper danger here. As Harvard political scientist Archon Fung has argued, stable democracies require that citizens be committed to the rule of law even if they fail to achieve their preferred policies.

Settling our differences through ballots and agreed-upon processes rather than through force is what separates democracy from authoritarianism.

But Donald Trump has never been committed to the rule of law. For him, it’s all about winning. If he can’t win through established democratic processes, he’ll mobilize his base to change them. 

Trump is already demanding that Mitch McConnell and senate Republicans obliterate the filibuster, thereby allowing anything to be passed with a bare majority.

On Saturday he tweeted “Republican Senate must get rid of 60 vote NOW!” adding the filibuster “allows 8 Dems to control country,” and “Republicans in the Senate will NEVER win if they don’t go to a 51 vote majority NOW. They look like fools and are just wasting time.”

What’s particularly worrisome about Trump’s attack on the processes of our democracy is that the assault comes at a time when the percentage of Americans who regard the other party as a fundamental threat is growing.

In 2014 – even before Trump’s incendiary presidential campaign -- 35 percent of Republicans saw the Democratic Party as a “threat to the nation’s well being” and 27 percent of Democrats regarded Republicans the same way, according to the Pew Research Center.

Those percentages are undoubtedly higher today. If Trump has his way, they’ll be higher still. 

Anyone who regards the other party as a threat to the nation’s well being is less apt to accept outcomes in which the other is perceived to prevail – whether it’s a decision not to repeal the Affordable Care Act, or a special counsel’s conclusion that Trump did in fact collude with Russians, or even the outcome of the next presidential election.

As a practical matter, when large numbers of citizens aren’t willing to accept such outcomes, we’re no longer part of the same democracy.

I fear this is where Trump intends to take his followers, along with as much of the Republican Party as he can: Toward a rejection of political outcomes they regard as illegitimate and therefore a rejection of democracy as we know it. 

That way, Trump will always win.

[harmonicatabs]

Ein König voller Pracht (So groß ist der Herr)

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Ask the Sprofessionals—Part Two: Review Don’ts

We continue a three-part series by asking industry experts to weigh in on issues around café policy, breaking down the ins and outs of how rules and systems affect morale and retention.

BY RJ JOSEPH SPECIAL TO BARISTA MAGAZINE ONLINE

From the editor: In March, we began a series on creating effective employee reviews in conjunction with our latest issue’s coverage on annual reviews. We continue the series by talking about the mistakes that can be avoided with these reviews.

Today, a panel of veteran coffee professionals lend their expertise to a subject crucial to employee satisfaction, retention, and engagement: employee reviews and feedback. Productive, constructive reviews and feedback are essential to the growth of any business. But how should a review system look? What mistakes should managers avoid? The ways to construct a harmful review system are endless, but with care, managers can make sure to dodge these pitfalls and create a healthy, beneficial system for employee, manager, and company growth.

The Sprofessionals are here to help break down what managers should stay away from when creating and executing a review system.

Sharon Fung, Meghan-Annette Reida, Jenn Chen, Bethany Letoto, and others give their take on review don’ts. Photos courtesy of the mentioned names.

The Question: What do you feel managers should avoid during reviews? Can you tell me about the worst review system you’ve experienced?

Meghan-Annette Reida, five years in coffee, freelance barista, and Coffee In Good Spirits competitor

“Managers should avoid talking negatively about any other staff member. No third-party negativity! They should also avoid waiting until the review to bring up performance issues or positive feedback. It should be a summary of the last six months, not blindsiding the employee.

The worst review system I’ve experienced was where there were no regular reviews and no structure when they did occur. I would receive exclusively positive feedback, but no raise.”

Hiu Yan (Sharon) Fung, barista and former café manager

“Don’t humiliate. Don’t imply doubt.”

Jenn Chen, eight years in coffee, coffee marketer

“Managers should avoid giving only praise. No one can grow with only praise.

Besides one place that didn’t have a system at all, the worst was having to put an entire team on a bell curve, regardless of if they matched expectations. Only a certain number could be ‘exceeds,’ a certain number for ‘met,’ etc. These ‘buckets’ also matched with raise amounts.”

Liz Dean, eight years in coffee, area lead (Chicago, DC, and Boston regions) for The Wing, former manager and barista

“The worst review system I’ve experienced was no system at all. It was sort of an arbitrary ‘you’ve done a good job, here’s a random compensation increase.’

I have a WHOLE training I’ve developed on how to conduct performance reviews, in part because performance reviews are one of the easiest ways for unconscious biases to appear. Many managers do not prepare for performance reviews—often because they haven’t established a routine of regularly giving/receiving feedback with direct reports—so they fall prey to things like recency bias (where they rely on their most recent memory of someone’s performance was, rather than the whole six months) or halo/horn bias, and so on. So I strongly encourage managers to have regular 1:1s with set agendas and time dedicated to development and goal setting. Having prepared notes, or metrics/data to reference as part of the conversation, are also extremely important.

Another important thing about reviews is that there should never be any surprises—you shouldn’t be saving up all of this feedback and then just unleashing it on someone every six months. Again, this is another reason why it’s so important to have a regular cadence of communication. It’s also critical that that feedback goes both ways. One of the exercises I’m having the managers who report to me now complete is a ‘user guide’ for themselves, so that we can be really clear about our working and leadership styles and how we best communicate. It makes establishing regular two-way feedback so much easier.”

Tim Cox, 11 years in coffee, business development manager for KLLR Coffee, former café co-owner

“The worst review system I ever experienced was a nonexistent one. Managers should avoid making the mistake of only acting like a manager during a review.”

Bethany Letoto, seven years in coffee, freelance writer, former barista, and roaster

“Until I started at my current job, the closest thing to a review system I experienced was get-togethers or meetings with ownership and management to ‘catch up,’ which usually just served as an airing of grievances with no real actionable feedback, and often would leave me feeling bullied, defeated, and stuck.

Managers should avoid hijacking the conversation. Managers should keep things professional. Managers should formalize reviews! Managers should certainly avoid language (body or otherwise) that can be read as dismissive or domineering. The best managers I’ve ever had really espoused that value of hospitality that we all hope to uphold—they were on my side. However, during reviews, I also have found it to be very detrimental for management to attempt to falsely appear buddy-buddy. If that dynamic is pre-existing, fine! Great! But staff can absolutely see through those types of acts.”

The Takeaways:

Reviews are important, and the worst review system is no system at all.

Consistent timing and standards matter—the more transparent, the better.

Don’t be domineering or unprofessional during reviews.

Avoid holding back criticism and then unleashing it during reviews.

Avoid giving only praise rather than highlighting room for growth.

Make sure reviews are a two-way street.

Do you agree with the Sprofessionals? Let us know your thoughts at info@baristamagazine.com.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR RJ Joseph works at Red Fox Coffee Merchants as a cupper and content strategist. Following coffee from Pittsburgh to Oakland, Calif., she became a certified Q-Grader and learned to roast, sling bags, and drive a forklift with the pros. Uniting her twin passions for coffee and writing, she launched a blog in 2016, then started freelancing, always maintaining a central focus on the ways in which coffee can make the world a more equitable place. She also runs a coffee satire site called The Knockbox. Outside of work, you’ll probably find her cooking, tending her many plants, listening to records, and walking around the city.

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[puckness]

even more miscellaneous headcanons hooray

cellar. LET ME OUT. uhhhhh this one also consists of other monsters this time not just celestials

strombonin cant pronounce words like warm correctly resulting in yawstrich bullying the hell out of them

attmoz's fur has two textures, one being as soft as a cloud and the other feeling damp and rough on your hands candelavra can never raise their voice, so when they gets angry they just starts... melting if a fung prey is feeling in a bad mood, instead of a beautiful viola noise it'll instead sound like nails against a chalk board, this encourages them to cheer up so they can play their song!! when rooba's not smoking weed or playing the dilruba they write! often collecting pens and notebooks to just write their thoughts or stories, sharing them with the residents of psychic island and their family

whisp likes to taunt the residents of ethereal island a lot, their main target is nebublob, remembering all the things that scares them in exact detail

blassoom tries using vhamp sort of like a cart for their plants on celestial and starhenge, carefully placing the pots and getting them escorted easily ! clakula and fluoress are the tallest of the magicals, flootfly would be the smallest if they weren't able to fly so it's theremind who's actually the shortest! this "flaw" has an upside though, since they're the most intelligent out of the four since tympa is afraid of lightning and screemu is deaf, tympa often goes to screemu so they can sing, otherwise blocking/muffling out the sounds of thunder hyehehe sometimes makes silly contraptions and cherubble repeatedly finds themself getting dragged into it, having to make explosives, wacky things that have no use, toys, etcetera. only some of these things have a use though since the explosives can be used to clear the obstacles of mythical island furnoss cooks all of the meals on celestial and starhenge, but whenever it sets everything up on celestial baby galvana always gets to it first.. furnoss loves how much they enjoy their food but do they have to eat everything? all the single element ethereals have matching bracelets, they all connect to make up an image of ethereal island! (ps, they got ghazt's specially made so they could wear it) sooza's love language is psychical touch, so they smother floogull and the pomily in hugs, kisses, and more! while floogull's love language is gift giving, there was a point where sooza had so many gifts she had no where to put them anymore

[sakrum1]

Friedensnobelpreis

Der Friedens­nobel­preis ist der wich­tigste inter­natio­nale Friedens­preis und eine Kate­gorie des von dem schwedi­schen Erfin­der und Indus­triel­len Alfred Nobel gestif­teten Nobel­prei­ses. Nach Maß­gabe des Stif­ters soll er an den­jeni­gen verge­ben werden, „der am meisten oder am besten auf die Ver­brüde­rung der Völker und die Abschaf­fung oder Vermin­derung stehen­der Heere sowie das Abhal­ten oder die Förde­rung von Friedens­kongres­sen hinge­wirkt“ und damit „im ver­gange­nen Jahr der Mensch­heit den größ­ten Nutzen erbracht“ hat. Die Aus­zeich­nung wird seit 1901 jedes Jahr am Todes­tag Alfred Nobels, dem 10. Dezem­ber, in Oslo verlie­hen und ist seit 2017 mit 9 Millio­nen Schwedi­schen Kronen (ca. 838.000 Euro) dotiert. Für die Ver­gabe ist, im Gegen­satz zu den ande­ren Preis­katego­rien des Nobel­preises, keine schwedi­sche Institu­tion zustän­dig, son­dern ein vom nor­wegi­schen Parla­ment be­stimm­tes fünf­köpfi­ges Komi­tee, weswe­gen der Preis als einziger unter den Nobel­preisen nicht in Stock­holm verlie­hen wird.  – Zum Artikel …

[il-lato-nerd-della-forza]

Birds of Prey: ecco il teaser d'annuncio della pellicola!

Birds of Prey: ecco il teaser d’annuncio della pellicola!

Dopo l’immagine di poco fa ecco che la Warner Bros. ha rilasciato un particolare video che funge da teaser d’annuncio di Birds of Prey (And the Fantabulous Emancipation of one Harley Quinn).

Potete vederlo qui sotto:

A novembre dell’anno passato è arrivata la notizia da Variety che Ella Jay Basco è in trattative per unirsi al cast del film nei panni della undicenne Casandra Cain. Nello stesso…