Btw if people keep telling you to stretch but never told you how to actually do it right you’re supposed to go slower than you think & just hold it until you feel the muscle relax. Like how anal works
Also the muscle that goes up to your temples and gives you headaches is the same as the one that clenches your jaw & it goes down the sides of your neck so stretching your neck helps with headaches and jaw tension. You can also massage it with a vibrator
Stretching as far as possible immediately is not the goal you just bend until it feels tight. It’s not supposed to Hurt You Worse. It won’t hurt if you’re doing it right. Much like another activity
Understanding a line of foreshadowing so well that you have to stand up and walk around the house saying “shit shit shit shit shit” until you’re composed enough to go back.
story time: i taught my little cousin her first longer word when she was very young. i taught her to say “tax benefits”. and to this day my aunt still doesn’t know where she got it from, but it was a hilarious sight to see a little toddler waddling around the house, wearing a big diaper, all the while yelling “TAX BENEFITS!!!!”
My parents did this with me and “nuclear disarmament”.
I taught my little brother to say “micro-surgical vasectomy reversal” (saw it on a billboard) on a road trip, and he didn’t stop saying it for literal years.
My parents taught me to chant “Get your laws off our bodies!” for a pro-choice rally when I was like four and I went to preschool and taught all the other kids the chant and led them on a mini-parade around the playground and the teachers were like ?????????? ?????????? ????????????
whenever my brother threw a tantrum as a baby my parents would chant “live free or die” until he calmed down it was fuckin weird
when i was a kid whenever we got stuck in traffic my dad would say “what the fuck?!?” in a very comic voice and i would repeat it and then he would say it with a slightly different inflection and i would repeat that too and so forth and so basically my poor mother would be stuck in standstill traffic listening to her husband and 4 yr old daughter swearing at each other without end
i’m a preschool teacher and we like to joke around using radical vocabulary with the children, the other day i overheard one kid say ‘this is my truck’ and the other one said ‘no, this truck belongs to the collective’; they all say it now
whenever anyone picks up my daughter or she goes upstairs, she announces “I ASCEND” it’s the best thing
If you’re not American and you live in the global south where libraries are not well funded, it’s morally okay to sign up for American public libraries digital memberships using fake addresses to access their Libby/Overdrive.
The US owes us a lot, not the other way around. So go ahead, babes. Find fake addresses and access their digital libraries for free.
Yes, yes, pirating is easier but the Libby app is convenient
Bad news: NYPL would terminate your account after three weeks because they required in person address verification while Brooklyn Public Library no longer issues e-card.
Queens Library should be the easiest to sign up.
Look for American libraries that have Kanopy and Mango Languages because you can also access those services.
Adding my best friend, the library in Northern California that has a grant funding it to give out ecards worldwide to anyone anywhere (as far as I know).
Brooklyn Public Library has a program called Books Unbanned where anyone in the US under 21 can get a free online card (this was to combat library censorship and book banning) and I remember it being pretty easy to get signed up for that. I don’t think I really had to give much personal information, so it’d probably be pretty easy to get no matter where you are. Also, if the library you sign up for has a Hoopla subscription, you can get access to a lot of free music, TV, and comics.
I am too tired to find it right now but when the scandal broke former White House intern Dmitri Krushnic wrote an op-ed for I think the Chicago Tribune, it was a major paper, in defense of Monica Lewinsky that said, essentially, “look, we all wanted to fuck Bill Clinton.” And then later Mr. Krushnic became an actor, adopted the stage name Misha Collins, and was cast in the CW’s Supernatural.
Shoutout to the people in the notes who provided the link.
I swore I would never reblog another destiel meme after November 5th, 2024, but I’ll make one exception.
had a professor in undergrad use Bill Clinton as an example when discussing the concept of the “charismatic figure.” That he had this sort of intangible charm in person that almost hypnotized people? He recalled a real hardass colleague who never warmed up to anyone, standing next to her in a line of people waiting to meet Bill Clinton.
And when he reached out to take her hand, he asked her name, and she later told the colleague that she almost blurted out “whatever you want it to be” but stammered out her actual name after a second and had NO idea why he was having that effect on her
some people have just a crazy, inexplicable magnetism.
They are not quite the same as the ordinary consumer editions of Windows 10. They don’t include the Windows Store or any “modern” apps. Apart from the Edge browser, they have almost nothing else: no OneDrive, no Weather or Contacts apps, and no Windows Mail or whatever it’s called this week.
…no OneDrive, Copilot AI, or all of the other useless crapware cluttering up the Start menu? AND patches/support through 2032??
Don’t threaten me with a good time, Microsoft.
Jesus Christ is this REAL?! Can I… have Windows for YEARS more with no AI shit?!
2 questions:
Is this still relevant?
Can it play games like RedM servers, Star Stable Online, and Gamejolt?
It’s just Windows. Dunno about those specific titles, but I installed Steam and everything in my library installed and runs perfectly.
It’s been about 8 months as a daily driver with zero complaints. Up to date on all the security patches too.
oh my goodness, one of dian fossey’s first close up observations with gorillas happened when she was trying to climb a tree to see them better, but so badly that by the time she’d gotten up the entire group had come out of hiding to look at her: “Nearly all members of the group had totally exposed themselves, forgetting about hiding coyly behind foliage screens because it was obvious to them that the observer had been distracted by tree-climbing problems, an activity they could understand.”
hello, fellow apes
The lead up to that sentence is gold:
[Image transcript: porch. The group had been day-nesting and sunbathing when I contacted them, but upon my approach they nervously retreated to obscure themselves behind thick foliage. Frustrated but determined to see them better, I decided to climb a tree, not one of my better talents. The tree was particularly slithery and, try as I might, no amount of puffing, pulling, gripping, or clawing succeeded in getting me more than a few feet aboveground. Disgustedly, I was about to give up when Sanwekwe came to my aid by giving one mighty boost to my protruding rump; tears were running from his eyes as he was convulsed in silent laughter. I felt as inept as a baby taking its first step. Finally able to grab on to a conveniently placed branch, I hauled myself up into a respectful semislouch position in the tree about twenty feet from the ground. By this time I naturally assumed that the combined noises of panting, cursing, and branch-breaking made during the initial climbing attempts must have frightened the group on to the next mountain. I was amazed to look around and find that the entire group had returned and were sitting like front row spectators at a sideshow. All that was needed to make the image complete were a few gorilla-sized bags of popcorn and some cotton candy! This was the first live audience I had ever had in my life and certainly the least expected.]
imagine some freakish not-a-human alien THING has shown up out of nowhere and is trying to get into your office building to study you. but it has no idea how to get past a revolving door. it tries for three hours. by the time it finally understands the concept of a revolving door and squeeze into the building everyone in the office is crowded into the lobby to watch and call helpful suggestions. it’s conclusively determined that the alien is definitely not a threat, except maybe to itself.
The fur, the ears, the electricity coming off the shiny’s tail, the expression on the one up front and how perfectly it lends to the electricity coming off its cheeks… this is gorgeous.
I think one of the reasons why things tend to run in cycles is because people generally do look at their parents and go “well I’m not doing that” and then go make their grandparents’ mistakes instead.
PUMPKIN PUDDING PIE w/ ORANGE ZEST & CARDAMOM WHIPPED CREAM
(makes ~3 pies)
2½ cups sugar
15oz can pumpkin puree
2 eggs
½ tsp baking soda
2 cups flour
2 tsp baking powder
½ tsp ground cinnamon
ÂĽ tsp vanilla
pinch of salt
2½ cups milk
4 TBSP butter (melted)
1 orange
1 tsp powdered sugar
1 cup heavy cream
2 TBSP powdered sugar
1 tsp cardamom
pinch nutmeg
pumpkin pudding pie w/ orange zest
preheat the oven to 325°F
prepare the pie crust (that’s another recipe’s job—either find a scratch recipe or buy a pre-made dough or graham cracker crust)
blend 2 ½ cups sugar, pumpkin puree, eggs, and baking soda in a large mixing bowl (if using a mixer, blend with a paddle attachment)
add the flour, baking powder, cinnamon, vanilla, and salt; blend until well mixed
add the milk and melted butter, whisk until well mixed (if using a mixer, blend with the whisk attachment)
pour your batter into the crust, filling right up to the edge (the mix will be more liquid than solid, but it will rise/solidify in the oven)
bake at 325°F for 55 minutes
remove from the oven and let it cool
top with sifted powdered sugar
zest an orange over the top of the pie (microplane if possible but regular zester is fine; have found that the most aesthetically pleasing version is to peel the orange and then finely dice the peel but that’s a hassle!)
whipped cream
put your metal mixing bowl and whisk in the freezer for at least 15 minutes
whisk powdered sugar, cardamom, and nutmeg together in bowl
add heavy cream; whisk until stiff peaks start forming
