#thesalting

[fjdv]

[Street Scene] NYMD PM https://fredjdevito.com/streetscene/nymd-pm/ 94 image story — Scene: The PM Shows at New York Men’s Day Spring/Summer 2024. A showcase of men’s wear collections which in some cases also included women’s wear. The start of New York Fashion Week begins with New York Men’s Day (NYMD). Five designers showcased their presentations at NYMD that afternoon, TheSalting, Tarplay, Raleigh Workshop, Skyco, and Sebastien Ami. All unique with their own vision [...]

Photo: An image from TheSalting’s presentation.

[lovejewel]

i made some quick pickles ive never made pickles before but theyre yummy

[untitledinstinct]

We should bring these back.

And make fat social meets.

https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2016/03/07/469571114/the-forgotten-history-of-fat-men-s-clubs

[bugkeeping]

(English is my second language, sorry for anonymous. I don't want to be made fun of)

I have friend who studying bees, she says beekeeping in US for honey is bad for US bees, but post you reblog says it is good?

I asked my friend to give some research to do with bees that is not too difficult to read, here is what she sent.

https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2018/01/27/581007165/honeybees-help-farmers-but-they-dont-help-the-environment

https://www.nwf.org/Home/Magazines/National-Wildlife/2021/June-July/Gardening/Honey-Bees

I like your blog, but why share things that are lies?

the post says "European Honeybee: Introduced from Eurasia. Massively important insect for agricultural pollination. Can compete with native pollinators but does not usually out compete them."

unsure what part of that is a lie. or that its saying beekeeping is "good"

[creepypastabookclub]

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Works Cited:

Recreation Watch: https://retractionwatch.com/

Museum of the Vanishing Dog, Episode 6: The Immortal Canine; https://open.spotify.com/episode/0buq8ilZlyl5iCN7Qu0qbz DFTD: https://nre.tas.gov.au/conservation/threatened-species-and-communities/lists-of-threatened-species/threatened-species-vertebrates/save-the-tasmanian-devil-program/about-dftd

Call of Cthulhu TTRPG: https://www.chaosium.com/call-of-cthulhu-rpg/

Brian Wansink: https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2018/09/26/651849441/cornell-food-researchers-downfall-raises-larger-questions-for-science

Seven Sisters: https://medium.com/@myf.amra/the-seven-sisters-could-be-the-oldest-story-in-the-world-ed0ce8442c28

Ancient Viruses: https://www.the-scientist.com/ancient-viral-dna-plays-a-role-in-human-disease-and-development-70656

Further Reading:

Bear, Jonah, “EverymanHYBRID Unboxed: Unpacking the Psychology of EverymanHYBRID”;

Boyczuk, Robert, “Cure For Cancer”,https://creepypasta.fandom.com/wiki/Cure_for_Cancer

Chambers, W. Robert, “The King in Yellow”, 1895; https://www.gutenberg.org/files/8492/8492-h/8492-h.htm

Demidova, Aleksandra; Strugatsky, Boris; Strugatsky, Arkady; et al; “Stalker”, 1979; https://www.criterion.com/films/28150-stalker

George, Jean; “My Side of the Mountain”, 1959; https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/41668

Lovecraft, H.P.; “The Colour Out of Space”, 1929; https://www.hplovecraft.com/writings/texts/fiction/cs.aspx

Mikaelsen, Ben; “Touching Spirit Bear,” 2001; https://www.benmikaelsen.com/touching-spirit-bear

Paulsen, Gary; “Hatchet”, 1986; https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/50

Rettner, Rachel; “Tapeworm Spreads Deadly Cancer to Human”,https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/tapeworm-spreads-deadly-cancer-to-human/

Strugatsky, Arkady; Strugatsky, Boris; “Roadside Picnic”, 1972; https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/331256.Roadside_Picnic

VanderMeer, Jeff; “Annihilation” & The Southern Reach, 2014; https://www.goodreads.com/series/112239-southern-reach

Wojcik, Jonathan; “Bogleech’s Coolest Parasite Eve Monsters”, 2011; https://bogleech.com/halloween/hall11-parasiteeve

Wojcik, Jonathan; “Bogleech’s The Flawless Bestiary of PARASITE EVE,” 2015; https://bogleech.com/halloween/hall15-parasiteeve

Questions? Comments? Email us at: creepypastabookclub@gmail.com

[mostlysignssomeportents]

This day in history

Tomorrow, (November 20), I'm at the Simsbury, CT Public Library at 7PM presenting my new novel The Lost Cause, a preapocalyptic tale of hope in the climate emergency.

#15yrsago Regulator to hear Bell Canada network throttling case https://web.archive.org/web/20090123005142/http://saveournet.ca/content/media-advisory-crtc-make-landmark-decision-internet-freedom

#15yrsago Apple to Mac owners: throw away your monitor if Hollywood says so https://web.archive.org/web/20081204010203/http://www.tuaw.com/2008/11/19/macbook-pro-users-getting-bitten-by-hdcp/

#15yrsago Liberation: a magical road-novel about America in collapse, Bradbury meets Kerouac https://memex.craphound.com/2008/11/19/liberation-a-magical-road-novel-about-america-in-collapse-bradbury-meets-kerouac/

#10yrsago Tropes vs Women in Video Games: Ms. Male Character https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eYqYLfm1rWA

#10yrsago Vi Hart explains logarithms https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-7tcTIrers

#10yrsago Jack Womack’s Random Acts of Senseless Violence: apocalypse in a young girl’s diary https://memex.craphound.com/2013/11/19/jack-womacks-random-acts-of-senseless-violence-apocalypse-in-a-young-girls-diary/

#10yrsago Complete meal cooking with a hotel coffee-maker https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2013/11/15/245442083/coffee-maker-cooking-brew-up-your-next-dinner

#5yrsago Concealed Carry scammers spent $2m on gunhumper scare-ads on Facebook during the 2018 midterms https://www.wired.com/story/facebook-ads-political-concealed-online/

#5yrsago Finns to Trump: We don’t rake our forests https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-46256296

#5yrsago Apple’s CEO: tech regulation is “inevitable” https://www.marketwatch.com/story/apples-tim-cook-says-tech-regulation-inevitable-because-free-market-isnt-working-2018-11-18

#5yrsago Pope condemns the “wealthy few” who hoard the riches that “belongs to all” https://apnews.com/article/c183ed8b9269499ea0f537d9e8a9f2b6

#5yrsago Sheryl Sandberg’s fingerprints are all over every one of Facebook’s scandals https://newrepublic.com/article/152320/punctured-myth-sheryl-sandberg

#5yrsago How to use science fiction to teach tech ethics https://cfiesler.medium.com/the-black-mirror-writers-room-teaching-technology-ethics-through-speculation-f1a9e2deccf4

#5yrsago Insurer won’t pay murdered gunshot victim’s family because he didn’t disclose his high blood-sugar https://web.archive.org/web/20201108114908/https://www.news24.com/fin24/Companies/Financial-Services/momentum-we-rejected-r24m-life-insurance-claim-for-the-sake-of-our-other-clients-20181119

#5yrsago Trump’s FCC seems to have ended the practice of releasing its ISP speed-tests, leaving Americans in the dark about what they’re paying for https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/11/ajit-pai-isnt-saying-whether-isps-deliver-the-broadband-speeds-you-pay-for/

#5yrsago Ford CEO frankly admits that the car of the future is a surveillance device that you pay to spy on you https://www.freep.com/story/money/cars/2018/11/13/ford-motor-credit-data-new-revenue/1967077002/

[brooksbutler]

Hi there, I’m just popping in to say that I really loved “Like Salt in the Sea”, and I looked forward to each update!

I was wondering though, if you would write some oneshots about Kaydel and Dopheld?

I’d love to see how they became more than friends!!

Either way, please keep writing!!!

Thank you so so much!! I do intend to add to the Salt-verse with one shots, but I am finishing a mythology AU right now and outlining plot for another long canonverse story. Unfortunately, I can't really work on multiple projects at the same time.

And if anyone wants to write their own one-shot versions of events or couples in theSalt-verse, I would love it and would happily link it to the story. Again, thank you so much!!!

[etherdiver]

It's mostly synthesized in a lab. I mean, it's still dumb to point out it's from a plant source (caffeine is caffeine) but I suppose that won't stop some people from caring.

Source: https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2014/03/13/289750754/wake-up-and-smell-the-caffeine-its-a-powerful-drug#:~:text=Naturally%20extracted%20caffeine%20is%20burned,produced%20in%20Chinese%20pharmaceutical%20plants.

hate capitalism and its perpetual use of buzzwords just saw an ad for lemonade with "plant-based caffeine" like where the fuck else would you get caffeine if not from a plant

[cubitxcubit]

What Was The Forbidden Fruit?

The institution of original sin in Christianity manifested in the first book of the Bible, and its foundational nature places it in the spotlight in popular culture depictions. Adam and Eve often appear in the Garden of Eden, adorned with fig leaves over their genitals and standing beneath an apple tree. This common depiction seems to suggest that the general understanding of the story is that the tree of the knowledge of good and evil must have been an apple tree. However, there is no direct confirmation in the Bible for what species the tree was and what fruit it produced. So, why then is it so often depicted as an apple tree? Moreover, what evidence is available to point to the truth of what may have been the species of this tree?

Understanding why the artists in western culture so often choose an apple is, like most other curiosities in the Bible, difficult to answer directly. One factor in this popular depiction is that the apples that are common in the western world today share a common ancestor in a species still available today: Malus sieversii.[1] Based on its prevalence in Central Asia, it is likely that apple trees were a common sight in Antiquity in the Middle East. That alone does not explain the acceptance of apples as the forbidden fruit. Some scholars suggest it may have been the result of a Latin pun, following its translation into Latin in the 4th century CE by St. Jerome. [2] In this pun (or perhaps a misunderstanding), Eve ate the mālum(apple) and contracted malum(evil). [2] These translators did not have the benefit of a direct translation from the Hebrew, which simply used a generic term (peri) for the fruit hanging from the tree.[2] Not to mention that during Jerome’s lifetime, malus did not strictly refer to an apple, rather it could have been used to describe “any fleshy seed-bearing fruit.” [2]

The only conclusion that can be drawn with certainty is that the there was a fruit hanging from this tree. That said, one can further speculate from information in the surrounding verses. It is noted that Adam and Eve used fig leaves to cover their genitals, and it is not a substantial leap to conclude that they may have simply grabbed leaves from the tree which they had just eaten to fashion their coverings. [Gen. 3:6-7] Regrettably, this matter is without a definitive answer, but the presence of figs and fig trees throughout the Bible, one could argue, imparts a powerful thematic logic for choosing a fig tree as the species of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.

Sources:

[1] https://www.treesandshrubsonline.org/articles/malus/malus-sieversii/

[2] https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2017/04/30/526069512/paradise-lost-how-the-apple-became-the-forbidden-fruit

[deblala]

Cannibalism: When People Ate People, A Strange Disease Emerged : The Salt : NPR

https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2016/09/06/482952588/when-people-ate-people-a-strange-disease-emerged

[fjdv]

[Street Scene] NYMD Fall Winter 2024 https://fredjdevito.com/streetscene/nymd-fall-winter-2024/ 73 image story —

Scene: New York Men’s Day opened New York Fashion Week Fall Winter 2024. Eight designers showcased their collections: The Salting, Y.Chroma, Landeros New York, Terry Singh, Bulan, Pas Une Marque, and Tarplay. Designer Jack Sivan’s story was posted earlier. New York Men’s Day is a showcase of emerging talent working in menswear and/or challenging gender norms in fashion. Photo below, Landeros New York collection.

[weequay]

Other comments/reblogs have talked about how different beekeepers will treat their bees with kindness and others with abject cruelty and also for most vegans it's as simple as "it's an animal product, so no".

However, the main issue with ANY honey bee farm, regardless of how the bees are treated, is that the roughly 7-12 honey bee species are non-native in most countries. Farming them, even where they are native, means they artificially outcompete native bees anywhere they go and this contributes to a loss of crucial pollinators and biodiversity.

Take the UK, there are over 270 bee species here each with their own pollinating role. As climate change and habitat loss progress they're put under increasing threat, but the only species of bee anyone makes a large scale effort to protect and enable here is the European Honey Bee which is non-native. This rigged competition drives native bee populations down. The same happens in the US (4000+ native species), Australia (1700+ native species), India (~20000 native species), and more.

Beekeeping helps only honey bees, not the tens of thousands of keystone species of bee needed to maintain a healthy world!

Here are some articles about the effect of honey bee farming on the environment, native bee species, and bee farming's contribution to loss of biodiversity particularly in the UK and USA:

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-problem-with-honey-bees/

https://www.nwf.org/Home/Magazines/National-Wildlife/2021/June-July/Gardening/Honey-Bees

https://www.xerces.org/blog/want-to-save-bees-focus-on-habitat-not-honey-bees

https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/news/2020/september/beekeeping-in-cities-harming-other-wildlife.html

https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2018/01/27/581007165/honeybees-help-farmers-but-they-dont-help-the-environment

https://www.surgeactivism.org/articles/but-eating-honey-is-good-for-the-environment-right?format=amp

https://www.woodlandtrust.org.uk/blog/2023/04/why-are-bees-important/

vegans making honey a bee labour issue is the funniest thing imaginable because like, you picked the one animal that has already unionised

[bolters-and-rivets]

as a european who's tired of the jokes about our bland food I've never felt so vindicated as to read this. https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2015/03/26/394339284/how-snobbery-helped-take-the-spice-out-of-european-cooking

we are capable of using spices, and have done since the dawn of time

we used a similar veriety of spices to India until around the 1600s

the reason we didn't use spices in abundance after that point was because of the nobility throwing a tantrem and making their food bland because spices weren't a status symbol anymore.

it was not, in fact, a collective choice made by the majority of european people like Tumblr likes to pretend with these matters. but once again the result of rich assholes throwing a tantrum because they didn't have sole access to a thing and ruining things for everyone else.

the fact it's the French and not the British that are responsible for this atrocity makes me doubly relieved, that's one less crime against humanity at the hands of the Island I had little choice to be born on

[maky56]

Prompt #10: Immediate Family Dining Style

My family used to have traditional dinning besides lunch. Breakfast and dinner were at the table, and we ate the same foods as a family which consisted of me, my brother and sister, mom, and dad. Lunch became a free for all when my brother and I were old enough to prepare our own meals. However, now is a very untraditional method of dining due to busy schedules that vary from each other. We went from family style dining, where we sat around one dining table together and saying grace before meals to a very individualized meal times (Griffin, 2016). In our home now it is just my sister, dad, and I and my sister typically requires a slight variation of meals, and my dad and I eat the same time, however, it might be at different times. We also eat our meals at foldable/portable tables instead of one big round one. As my siblings and I grew older changes started happening during meal times and life as it should be. My dad and I also switch off cooking, depending on work schedule that day. I do miss the family dining, but then it makes the holidays so much more special when everyone, including distant family, is seated around a big table in togetherness.

References:

Griffin, M. (2016, February 16). “no place for discontent”: A history of the family dinner in America. NPR. https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2016/02/16/459693979/no-place-for-discontent-a-history-of-the-family-dinner-in-america 

[qualitydoggo]

@phantomgrape "new and improved salmon cannon"

(context https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2014/08/29/344360634/the-salmon-cannon-easier-than-shooting-fish-out-of-a-barrel)

I call this one "what if salmon just kept getting worse"