#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]

[strawberrystepmom]

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

[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.

[gravidwithlore]

This is old but it's sort of related to my post about pregnancy being a part of religion.

A priest in the remote mountaintops, who doesn't serve a specific town or village per say, but a very sparsely populated region. There's been an abnormally high amount of demonic activity in the area for several years now, and his messages requesting assistance from the clergy in the larger towns and cities have been met with false platitudes at best.

He's getting older and he's had no luck in recruiting a trainee and successor in his state. The people of the mountains, though grateful for all he's done for them, are suspicious and reluctant to take the same fate and duty on themselves.

Always gravid with multiple exorcised demons, being remade and reformed by his holy vessel, it's exceedingly difficult to navigate the windy and often narrow mountain passes to answer calls for help. But it is rare for him to turn down the pleas of his people, even though it makes his life (and journey back home) more and more difficult each time it happens.

It's not uncommon for him to have managed to get down to a more reasonable size, answer a call for help, get stopped in passing by other folk along the journey there and back, and return home over 3x the size than when he started the trip. There have been a few times when he's overestimated his abilities and is left unable to make the journey home. His parishioners have no problem rallying to assist their priest, to get him to his home and church so that he may wait to labor and birth, whether by wagon, cart, mule, or leaning on the strongest among them for support.

When the time finally comes to give birth, under his church there is a pool, with candles in the many alcoves, only lit when he feels his time nearing. It is a ritual made more difficult by the squirming brood in his hallowed womb, all in different stages of renewal, as the contractions squeeze away what little space is left. As the only priest of his church, he does this alone, with only the candles to hear his cries and groans. The relieving waters of the pool his midwife and the knotted silks hung from the low ceiling his only hand to hold through the hours of sacred labor.

[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.

[brainworms-all-night-long]

Due to severe budget cuts and my inability to want to learn how to hold a pencil, one has to improvise with any available digital resources

[anghraine]

My best friend and I moved in together with his closest friend from his MA program, and while I had met her before (the friend; my bff is a man), we hadn't spent much time together because I've never lived away from the West Coast (and only two years out of the PNW) and she's never lived outside of North Carolina and only briefly visited the PNW once, when she went to Portland last year.

It's been a delight to show her around the PNW and realize we need to explain things that are just sort of omnipresent in our lives. The bff and I were casually griping with each other about having to run an errand to Trader Joe's at an inconvenient hour, and were telling her, "it's okay, you can stay in the car and avoid the people if you want" and she was like "NO I MUST SEE IT, I'VE ONLY HEARD OF THEM" and nearly ascended to another plane when we showed her around the store.

The bff and I grew up in the same town in NW Washington (him for his first 18 years, me from 9 to 19) and he lived in Bellingham and Seattle for years before he went to NC for grad school (I went to the SF Bay Area for mine, a very different experience). Both of them are hardcore coffee aficionados, but he struggled with the different Coffee Ways of the South, so for the true PNW experience they want to tour various indie coffeeshops next.

Also, she adores Kaidan in Mass Effect and we were like, oh, is your passport up to date? We could take a trip sometime and show you your boyfriend's beloved English Bay. It's very beautiful :)

her: O_O

me: Actually, it's worth going to Vancouver BC for its own sake as well, it's truly spectacular. We used to go all the time as kids.

bff: And Victoria!

her: O_O