#remote area

[premierweird]

[feralgirlfromatl]

You'd think I wasn't in the middle of a big city

[4rtheyenews]

रायपुर: दूरस्थ अंचल के बसाहटों तक पहुंची शुद्ध पेयजल

हर मौसम में ग्रामीणों को मिल रहा पानी रायपुर, 17 फरवरी 2024 छत्तीसगढ़ के दूरस्थ एवं पहुंच विहीन दुर्गम स्थानों में स्थित ग्रामों में अब लोगों को पीने के लिए शुद्ध पेयजल मिल रहा है। केन्द्र सरकार के जल जीवन मिशन से अब ग्रामीणों को अन्य स्त्रोतों का पानी नहीं पीना पड़ता। शुद्ध पेयजल मिलने से ग्रामीण खुश है।     नारायणपुर जिले के विभिन्न ग्रामों तक जल जीवन मिशन के तहत् दूरस्थ अंचल के बसाहटों तक…

[banglakhobor]

শিক্ষকদের এবার ৫ বছর গ্রামে শিক্ষকতা করতে হতে পারে, চিন্তাভাবনা রাজ্যের

সরকারি স্কুলের শিক্ষকদের জন্য নয়া নিয়ম আনতে চলেছে রাজ্য সরকার। সেক্ষেত্রে শিক্ষকদের ৫ বছর গ্রামাঞ্চলের স্কুলে গিয়ে পড়াতে হতে পারে। এবিষয়ে চূড়ান্ত কোনও সিদ্ধান্ত হয়নি। তবে সোমবার রাজ্য মন্ত্রিসভার বৈঠক ছিল। সেই বৈঠকে এই বিষয়টি আলোচনায় উঠে এসেছে। উল্লেখ্য, এর আগে কলকাতা হাইকোর্ট এ বিষয়ে রাজ্যকে এনিয়ে নির্ধারণ করার পরামর্শ দিয়েছিল। তারপরেই এরকম পদক্ষেপ করার চিন্তাভাবনা রাজ্যের। যদিও…

[sagaspell]

sorry to bother but is there a, uh, story (pun not intended) behind the tag on the uncrustable. I can't tell if that's a serious tag or not.

Great question. Hey @wizardarchetypes why don't you tell the nice blogger why I might tag you in a beautiful painting of an uncrustable telling you not to look upon it. And meanwhile for no reason I will be looking for a beautiful painting of a pile of tantalizing pizza rolls

[markscherz]

Mr Frog guy, what is the different between a frog & a toad?

This is probably the second most common question I receive, after "what's your favourite frog".

There is no difference, because this is a false dichotomy. It is not a comparison of equal categories. Toads are one of the ~55 frog families. Toads unequivocally are frogs.

If you want to know the difference between toads and some other family or clade of frogs, you would either have to be more specific, or identify features that are unique to toads—synapomorphies of Bufonidae. These are the differences between toads and all other frogs.

Synapomorphies of Bufonidae include the parotoid glands (but not present in all toads), some funky muscular arrangements, a weird bone in the skull, and the Bidder's organ, which is basically a backup ovary in male toads that allows them to become reproductively active females if their testes are damaged or removed surgically.

[stil-lindigo]

ashes to ashes.

a short comic about the day Ash was born.

Ash's story

Red and Wolf's story

notes:

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all my other comics

store

[housecow]

i love using my belly as a rest when i’m on my phone :3 for years i haven’t been able to do that and see over my boobs, but now!!!! very exciting developments, y’all

[pythonstrid3r]

[eashgirl]

One detail I find weirdly bittersweet is how both Orion and D-16 were curious young bots who wanted to learn more about their world. It's more obvious with Orion, who wanted to sneak into the archives to learn about Cybertronian history. I think it's mentioned in the novel that Orion would often ramble about Cybertronian history so much that D-16 would act disinterested, which surprised Orion since he couldn't understand how anyone could not be fascinated by it.

Yet, Dee was always interested in his own way. In the storyboards, his dream was to lead an expedition off Cybertron to explore uncharted worlds and locations for Cybertron’s progress. That boy was just as curious and eager to learn—both of them shared the same curiosity and thirst for knowledge, just channeled differently,he never even wanted to become something even remotely close to a soldier,he never wanted to pick up a gun at all and that makes me so sad.

This fits so well within the narrative sense of how they started with the same goal in mind—bringing down Sentinel and rebuilding society with the power Alpha Trion entrusted to all four of them. Yet, the paths they took to achieve that goal were starkly different. Orion saw how broken the system was under Sentinel and sought to create a better system. D-16, on the other hand, wanted to kill Sentinel, destroy everything he built, and rebuild from the ashes.

To think that, in a better world, their initial dreams could have actually been realized... it's just so sad. I need someone to write an AU where Dee gets to lead that expedition he always wanted and Orion to get that opportunity to learn about Cybertronian history,maybe in a world where Sentinel never succeeded in killing the Primes by a deux ex machina they survived so the two of them were able to grow up and live normal fulfilling lives 🥹.

Also I think it was also mentioned in another storyboard that Elita's dream was always to become a soldier imagine in this perfect scenario she gets to enlist in the High Guard or something like that,since they were the army of Cybertron before Sentinel took over, (although honestly I feel like she'd still try and overwork herself either way, she's still very much a perfectionist)

I wonder what B-127's dream was I don't believe it was ever mentioned,he did say he wanted to work for the government but I'm not sure of an exact profession for him.

[strawberrystepmom]

what, by your own definition, would be the most romantic gesture your fav could possibly do for you?

[citree]

Unsolicited advice but as I get older the more I realize how important it is to take care of your skin. I’m not talking about buying 25 different skincare products in fear of getting a wrinkle at 18 or buying every big name product that promises to airbrush all your pores away with magic frog chemicals—I mean finding one or two medical brand ointments that work your your type of skin for when something Serious happens. Like sunburns or breakouts, rosacea or eczema. Your skin is exposed to all kinds of weather imaginable and it’s the first line of defence against extreme temperatures or bad water. As someone who used to get by on just washing my face and relying on genetics to get by I really wish I’d gotten smarter about taking care of myself sooner. When it gets bad It Gets Bad

[loriache]

Notes on the World Map: Melini

I'm kind of annoyed the complete World Bible doesn't have a version of the World Map with Melini filled in... unless it does and I missed it, but I literally bought it and looked at the relevant pages for this post! Anyway, I think this is the closest we have. I'm looking at this and -- Kahka Brud literally doesn't have a coast anymore. No wonder they're pissed!! Any industry involving the sea, trade, fishing, etc. is basically impossible now - you'd have to get to the coastline on the west side of the continent. That's probably miles!

Speaking of miles... how big is Melini?

This is where I got... really unwell. So first off, let's assume the official Dunmeshi World Map is a Mercator projection. I think the stage cartography in the Dunmeshi universe is at, it's going to be most important that maps are useful for marine navigation. So we can't just drop an approximate scale onto the grid and leave it at that; we have to work out where the equator is.

The way I've done that is via two places that seem like they have a close(ish) real world equivalent - in terms of climate and culture - Utaya and the Island of Wa (Toshiro's home). The Island of Wa is obviously Japan, and I've seen plausible arguments that Utaya is probably a climate/location similar to Nepal.

So, here's the (approximate) location and latitude of those places on a Mercator map of Earth:

If we arbitarily superimpose the two maps, asssuming they're the same size, we can draw a theoretical equator line that puts the two places at the same latitude, though on a different side of the equator. Putting them on the same side as Earth made the equator really low. I feel like that's ... unlikely, so we're going with this.

That puts Melini at a rough latitude of .. ~55? which would, using the same scale as the previous map, make two squares (at that latitude) about 600 miles. Very roughly calculating the size as given on the map based on that, that gives a width of (approximately) 250 miles and a length of 400, coming in at a bit less than 100,000 miles² due to the shape. Probably it's between the sizes of the UK and Aotearoa.

That really helps me visualise what Laios is working with here when I think about post-canon. Though I reckon what I've done here is "Just enough research to really annoy an expert". Sorry if you're that expert. I really don't know much about cartography <3 It's like that xkcd comic:

On distances, as someone who lives in the UK; with a car, you can get almost anywhere in a day if you're prepared to drive until late. But they don't have cars, so getting from one end to the other would take multiple days of travel. It'd take about 7 days to walk the approx "length", 400~ miles (from the top of Scotland to Liverpool) (according to Google Maps) and 2 days cycling, so probably 3-5 days with horses, depending on how you pushed them. That'd vary a bit depending on terrain, of course.

[who-is-page]

I'm in the hamburger mines of capitalism and found out that my job is planning to try and outsource my position to remote randos across the country and I'm like. CEO-boy do you have any idea how many regulations I have to take into account not just on a state-level but also on a county and municipality level. None of which is information included in the training.

This isn't even a case where someone would fuck it up just cuz it's complex to get right, this is a case where someone wouldn't even know what they don't know. And it's a lot of information to not know they don't know, because these poor remote guys are going to be covering a bunch of states with finicky and ultra-specific building codes, not even just my own!

Anyways wish my store a very Rest in Piss when this comes back to extremely bite them in the ass, because it's gonna be funny as fuck.

[clove-pinks]

Some of the "Life in Early Ohio" fashion show in front of the Fort Meigs monument, showing a variety of working class and upper middle-class settler clothing of the early 19th century.

I love that the local reenactment group is so enthusiastically into researching historical fashion and sewing reproduction garments—which you would think would be the case with all historical reenactors, but that wasn't my experience with a WWI group years ago.

In the top picture a man wears a hunting frock at far left, and the other gentleman wears a round hat with dancing shoes. They were adamant on the term round hat as being more period correct than "top hat", and I think they're probably right since that's the term I've seen for Royal Navy midshipman hats in the same time period.

The woman presenting the fashion show noted that there is a contemporary drawing of Daniel Boone depicting him in a round hat, NOT a "dead animal on his head" lmao. (I appreciated the shots fired at coonskin caps.)

The woman second from left in the second photo has put on her spencer jacket to show the military influence on civilian women's fashion: compare the tape decoration with the coatee of the soldier standing next to her.

[corpocyborg]

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