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UFOs: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO) [source]

"John Oliver explains why we need honest inquiry into UFO sightings, and why those inquiries should be data-driven, fact-based, and – crucially – boring as fuck." [26 min 17 sec]

#UFOs #UABs #science #Last Week Tonight #John Oliver #Youtube

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Dendrogaster (a crustacean that parasitizes starfish)

#crustaceans #barnacles

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“Ollie’s Stupendous Chili Recipe (Just like Mom used to make)” INGREDIENTS 1 ½ pounds lean sirloin chunks 2 teaspoons of cumin 2 teaspoons of paprika 1 teaspoon cayenne (I like it hot!) 1 cup mined onion ½ cup chopped green pepper (optional) 2 teaspoons minced garlic 1 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper 1 ½ teaspoons salt ½ teaspoons dried basil, crushed 1 tablespoon California chili powder (hot) 1 tablespoon Gebhardt chili powder 1 tablespoon Hot New Mexico chili powder 1 16-ounce can tomatoes, cut up 2 8-ounce cans tomato sauce 2 16-ounce cans dark red kidney beans, partially drained 1 teaspoon of brown sugar Tobasco sauce to taste ½ cup water GARNISH grated cheese oyster crackers or saltines chopped onions In a large saucepan, brown ground beef and spices together until flavor blends well.  Drain fat.  Add onion, green pepper, and garlic and cook until soft.  Stir in undrained tomatoes, seasonings, tomato sauce and water into a large pan. Let simmer for several hours.  Occasionally stir.  Ten minutes before serving, add brown sugar, tobasco sauce, and beans.  Serve with “help yourself” bowls of grated cheese, oyster crackers, and chopped onions.

“California Chili Powder” usually refers to dried Anaheim chiles.

Gebhardt Chili Powder is a name brand, but you can make a reasonable substitute for it with a mix of 1 part cayenne pepper, 2 parts cumin, 1 part oregano, and 1 part paprika.

“Hot New Mexico chili” might refer to Guajillo chiles, or to New Mexico red chile (chiles de ristra).

Also: browning the meat & spices together, then draining the fat away?  So you’ve just drained away all the oil-soluble elements… like the capsaicin in the cayenne, which is what makes cayenne hot.  Not that one teaspoon of cayenne would be adding much heat to a pound and a half of beef… though those three different chili powders might bring it back up, a bit.

Burn your tongue and gives you cancer

#chili #recipes #DC Comics #Green Arrow #Oliver Queen #food #cooking

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PURR-KOUR!

#cats #video #autoplay

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Who's been lurking behind the scenes? It's been Sinister all along Who's been harvesting mutant genes? It's been Sinister all along

He's duplicitous (ha-ha!) X-gene-covetous That you haven't even noticed And the pity is (the pity is) Pity, pity, pity, pity

It's too late to fix anything Now that Jean Grey's clone has gone wrong Thanks to Sinister (ha!) Mister Sinister It's been Sinister all along!

And I helped Gyrich, too!

I love the fact that the show has changed who was responsible for the Genosha attack here

In the comics making it Xavier's Evil Long Lost Twin Sister was honestly such a stupid cop-out, both because it was so random and also because it had the same energy as "This homophobic politician must surely be actually a closeted gay man himself!" as if the abuses and atrocities that minorities suffer are somehow always our own fault and not the fault of our oppressors

Here?

The people responsible for the Genoshan war crime are both 100% human

Bolivar Trask is a pathetic snivelling weak minded bigot, typical of many like him

And Sinister is quite literally the personification of the coloniser and the slave-trader. I mean he's LITERALLY an upper class asshole from Victorian England for one thing and during that time he bought exploited mutants from freak shows and insane asylums to use in his experiments, similar to the way IRL anyone who was "Deformed" or who was anything other than a neurotypical, physically average cishet white christian male was at risk of being bought and sold as a commodity from such places by people just as despicable as this fucking mad science Dracula is

And his colonising extends to his own genetics. The man appropriated mutant culture in the most literal way by harvesting their DNA to alter his own to give himself superhuman abilities and immortality

Instead of diluting the impact of the story by going "Oh, Xavier has an evil twin sister we've never seen before" this is very much a story about the evil of the oppressor destroying a safe space that the oppressed have created for themselves

#X-Men 97 #Mister Sinister #Sinister #Nathaniel Essex #supervillains #Mutants

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Medicaid: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO) [source]

"John Oliver discusses why millions of people have been kicked off of Medicaid, why Medicaid access was difficult even before the current “unwinding”, and what would happen if fruits and vegetables could talk." [28 min 12 sec]

#Medicaid #health care #American healthcare #Last Week Tonight #John Oliver #Youtube

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People, especially games, get eldritch madness wrong a lot and it’s really such a shame.

An ant doesn’t start babbling when they see a circuit board. They find it strange, to them it is a landscape of strange angles and humming monoliths. They may be scared, but that is not madness.

Madness comes when the ant, for a moment, can see as a human does.

It understands those markings are words, symbols with meaning, like a pheromone but infinitely more complex. It can travel unimaginable distances, to lands unlike anything it has seen before. It knows of mirth, embarrassment, love, concepts unimaginable before this moment, and then…

It’s an ant again.

Echoes of things it cannot comprehend swirl around its mind. It cannot make use of this knowledge, but it still remembers. How is it supposed to return to its life? The more the ant saw the harder it is for it to forget. It needs to see it again, understand again. It will do anything to show others, to show itself, nothing else in this tiny world matters.

This is madness.

#cosmic horror

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*applauds*

#NAFCA #anime #AI #filk

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#naked mole rats #animals

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people love extolling the virtues of ball-and-socket joints and how it makes us more advanced and all that but I don't see any fucking octopuses in slings now do I. Bones are overrated and I want a refund.

#tumblr #bones #octopus #octopuses #octopi #cephalopods

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“I don’t care about dumb weed jokes,” I said naively, before I saw this

#snoop dogg #4 20 #april 19 #april 19th

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This Friday (April 19th, 2024) night at the Carolina Theatre of Durham, a retro film series SPOOPY double feature:

William Castle’s 13 Ghosts, in "ILLUSION-O" (1960)

William Castle's Homicidal, with its original "Fright Break" (1961)

$12.00 [plus tax] to get in, movies start at 7(-ish).

“Along with the City of Durham, we have made major investments in the Carolina Theatre for the comfort and safety of our guests during our closure,” says Randy McKay, the Carolina Theatre’s President & CEO. “That includes tens of thousands of dollars in new state of the art HVAC upgrades from Global Plasma Solutions (GPS) that remove biohazards, pollen, and other contaminants to make our air as pure — and sometimes purer — than outdoor air.”  The theater has also earned a Global Biorisk Advisory Council® (GBAC) STAR™ accreditation for its cleaning practices to ensure that guests have a safe and enjoyable experience.  “Together, these cleaning practices and advanced air filtration make the Carolina Theatre one of the safest spaces to attend a film or live event in the region,” says McKay.  [source]

Carolina Theatre of Durham 309 W. Morgan St., Durham, NC http://www.carolinatheatre.org/

#13 Ghosts #Homicidal #William Castle #Retro Film Series #spoopy #Carolina Theatre of Durham #Durham #NC

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nasa: we're going to shoot three rockets directly at the sun during the total eclipse. for study and research purposes.

me: oh cool

nasa: we have named the rockets apep. this stands for atmospheric perturbations [in the] eclipse path.

me: oh cool

nasa: apep is also the ancient egyptian deity of chaos and darkness, who ceaselessly seeks to extinguish the sun. we launch these rockets directly at the sun in the name of apep.

me: oh... cool?

#eclipse #sun #APEP

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Why does basil smell so fucking amazing

#basil #scorpions

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As it is Passover again, it is time for the annual debate as to whether the frog plague, which thanks to a quirk in the Hebrew, is written as a plague of frog, singular, rather than the plural, plague of frogs, was in fact, as generally imagined, a plague of many frogs, or instead a singular giant Kaiju frog. This is an ancient and venerable argument that actually goes back to the Talmud because this is what the Jewish people are. If we can't argue for fun about this sort of thing, what are we even doing.

In that spirit, I would like to submit a third possibility, which is that in fact it was one perfectly normal sized frog, who was absolutely acing Untitled Frog Game: Ancient Egypt Edition. One particularly obnoxious frog, who through sheer hard work, managed to plague all of Egypt.

#Passover #Judaism #frogs #plagues #Ten Plagues

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reminder that digital libraries aren’t owned, also why pirating digital content is a necessity

#Sony #digital media #digital libraries #Funimation #CrunchRoll

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I know unicorns in modern media are kind of regulated to cutsie, MLP, rainbow plastic toys, or shitting rainbows, 'lets go to candy mountain' but man. I WISH more fantasy media would put them in unironically. There is so much symbolic and narrative potential in a creature that is, depending on your mythology:

A guardian of wild spaces, the embodiment of nature untouched by mankind's industry and greed. Fewer and farther between.

The ideal of "Purity" made manifest, elusive and powerful and hunted for fruitlessly by many a person. To kill. To actually kill. Living symbol of the oh-so-coveted Purity, not treated as a sacred thing to protect, or even predated for food to survive off, but a trophy for knights and lords to boast about.

So absolutely fierce and deadly that no one smart dared to fight it fairly. A gentle maiden had to betray it into resting in her lap so that a man could spear it while its guard was down.

Able to heal any wound no matter how severe - it promised miracles, if you could find one.

A creature who's magic vanished if it was captured or killed. In trying to take control of it, you destroyed it. Some things can only be given by free will, and no amount of personal desire or brute force can change that.

#unicorns #mythology #creatures #magic