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unsung benefit i think a lot of ppl are sleeping on with using the public library is that i think its a great replacement for the dopamine hit some ppl get from online shopping. it kind of fills that niche of reserving something that you then get to anticipate the arrival of and enjoy when it arrives, but without like, the waste and the money.

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public libraries are so sick. there are five books I want to read and they're all relatively new so they're only available in hardback which is so expensive but it just cost me $0 to place holds on them. five books for zero dollars. it requires nothing but clicking a button and then going to the library to pick them up when they're ready. zero dollars. that's crazy

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SALUT BONJOUR AND BONSOIR NEIGHBOURS!! HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO THE BEST THING THAT CAME OUT OF OUR FRIENDSHIP :D!!

#Happy birthday Arte #Love what you're doing

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dandelion jelly time!

once again i am begging you guys: make dandelion jelly this year. it's incredibly delicious.

Ingredients

2 cups dandelion petals, lightly packed

4 cups water

4 cups sugar (2-3 if using low-sugar sure-set pectin)

2 Tbs. lemon juice

1 box powdered pectin

Instructions

Cut the green part of the flower off and place the petals into a quart canning jar. (i have the best success cutting them in half with my thumbnail then slicing just above the seed line)

Pour 4 cups of boiling water over the flower petals. Allow them to cool and then place into the fridge for 24 hours.

Strain the flowers well and squeeze out as much dandelion tea as possible. Using a clean dishcloth is better than a metal strainer.

Place into a large pot 3 1/2 to 4 cups of dandelion tea, lemon juice, and pectin. Bring it to a boil.

Add sugar and return to a boil while stirring. Boil the jelly for 1 to 2 minutes.

Remove from the heat and pour into canning jars. Let the jars cool to room temp then pop them in the fridge to set overnight.

Dandelion jelly lasts 3+ months in the fridge and 6+ months in the freezer though I've unfrozen perfectly fine jelly 9 months later. This isn't a good recipe for shelf-stable, room-temperature preserves, though. Keep the jars cool as much as you can.

#Oh hey #I know the leaves while young are nice in salad but never considered the flowers #I should save the recipe for my mom #food #recipe

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Trapped in Another World With a Skillset I Dramatically Overestimated the Use of

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When you are alone and have a heart attack. What are you gonna do then?

Take a 2 minute break and read this:

Let's say it's 5:25 pm and you're driving home after an unusually hard day's work.

You are really tired and frustrated. All of a sudden your chest pains. They are starting to radiate in the arm and jaw. It feels like being stabbed in the chest and heart. You're only a few miles away from the nearest hospital or home.

Unfortunately you don't know if you can make it..

Maybe you've taken CPR training, but the person running the course hasn't told you how to help yourself.

How do you survive a heart attack when you're alone when it happens? A person who is feeling weak and whose heart is beating hard has only about 10 seconds before losing consciousness.

1. But you can help yourself by coughing repeatedly and very strongly! Deep breaths before every cough. Coughing should be repeated every second until you arrive at the hospital or until your heart starts to beat normally.

2. Deep breathing gives oxygen to your lungs and coughing movements boost the heart and blood circulation. Heart pressure also helps to restore a normal heartbeat. Here's how cardiac arrest victims can make it to the hospital for the right treatment

3. Cardiologists say if someone gets this message and passes it on to 10 people, we can expect to save at least one life.

4. FOR WOMEN: You should know that women have additional and different symptoms. Rarely have crushing chest pain or pain in the arms. Often have indigestion and tightness across the back at the bra line plus sudden fatigue.

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unsung benefit i think a lot of ppl are sleeping on with using the public library is that i think its a great replacement for the dopamine hit some ppl get from online shopping. it kind of fills that niche of reserving something that you then get to anticipate the arrival of and enjoy when it arrives, but without like, the waste and the money.

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#mother of learning

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I know this has made the rounds on Tumblr before. In fact, in trying to track down the source, I found a screenshot of a Tumblr thread that ended with an edit of Poe reacting to this. But I have yet to find a source and I MUST KNOW

THIS IS A TROLL, RIGHT?

Like there is no fucking way someone read The Raven and actually came to the conclusion that it was about how Poe liked ravens, right? RIGHT?!?!

It is not humanly possible to be so wrong about this poem. Even leaving aside the symbolism (HOW????) you still have to get the understanding the narrator fucking HATES that bird.

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To be fair... Part of those are classic Chosen One archetype.

Unassuming boy (often an orphan or neglected by parents), who does badly at school (and so is seen as stupid) and often get into trouble due to to their impulse, but have a fondamentally good soul, and turns out to have untapped power (either through lineage or by being chosen by an higher power) is like... a stapple?

And that's not even counting for the influence of shonen jump (can't really speak about PJ as I don't go there, but Naruto have been an influence for MoL) with the classic formula of "Friendship, Perceverance, Victory". Friendly guys who won't get down and surpass themselves, and also will get into a sick fight against an impressive protagonist (because come on, there gotta be fights. Those stories are mostly destined to a teen (and male) audience, those are more action-oriented, the climax ain't going to be some political intrigue).

You know what just hit me? The Zach Noveda and Percy Jackson parallels

Both of them are really smart, but people see them as dumb

(Also it's their respective best friends that acknowledge their intelligence the most)

Their best friends (Annabeth/Zorian) are the brain and they are the brawn, but they have plenty of brain themselves

They are both easy going and laidback but god forbid you piss them off

Can hold a grudge, especially against a person that has betrayed them

Pretty overpowered

Really adaptable in a fight, but also in general

Can solo big monsters

Have a big pet that is a monster (Mrs O'Leary/Princess)

They are both quite impulsive

Are both one man armies

They are both described as really attractive and charismatic

#mother of learning #percy jackson #duos also works better with a major difference in style/personality/personal competences between them #so having one being brawns/battle-savy and the other more of an intellectual is pretty common #Not an obligation! Just an easy way to get the story to progress while having cool fights #... Granted a lot of those tend to have the brawny type also be actually dumb as bricks. Which *is* annoying

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The fact that homelessness is controversial tells you everything you need to know about conservatives.

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#Mother of Learning #...well well well guess I have things to add to my to watch/read list

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“If a society puts half its children into short skirts and warns them not to move in ways that reveal their panties, while putting the other half into jeans and overalls and encouraging them to climb trees, play ball, and participate in other vigorous outdoor games; if later, during adolescence, the children who have been wearing trousers are urged to “eat like growing boys,” while the children in skirts are warned to watch their weight and not get fat; if the half in jeans runs around in sneakers or boots, while the half in skirts totters about on spike heels, then these two groups of people will be biologically as well as socially different. Their muscles will be different, as will their reflexes, posture, arms, legs and feet, hand-eye coordination, and so on. Similarly, people who spend eight hours a day in an office working at a typewriter or a visual display terminal will be biologically different from those who work on construction jobs. There is no way to sort the biological and social components that produce these differences. We cannot sort nature from nurture when we confront group differences in societies in which people from different races, classes, and sexes do not have equal access to resources and power, and therefore live in different environments. Sex-typed generalizations, such as that men are heavier, taller, or stronger than women, obscure the diversity among women and among men and the extensive overlaps between them… Most women and men fall within the same range of heights, weights, and strengths, three variables that depend a great deal on how we have grown up and live. We all know that first-generation Americans, on average, are taller than their immigrant parents and that men who do physical labor, on average, are stronger than male college professors. But we forget to look for the obvious reasons for differences when confronted with assertions like ‘Men are stronger than women.’ We should be asking: ‘Which men?’ and ‘What do they do?’ There may be biologically based average differences between women and men, but these are interwoven with a host of social differences from which we cannot disentangle them.”

— Ruth Hubbard, “The Political Nature of ‘Human Nature’“ (via gothhabiba)

Yes.

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still can't believe that the french prime minister wants middle schoolers to now stay at school from 8am to 18pm each week day in order to reduce juvenile delinquency

oh and if they are troublemakers (whatever the hell that means), it will be written on their file for their entire scolarity and their parents will have to do community service

#France #Politics #Somehow politicians never cease to worry/scares me on how out there their mentalities are #Do they even see children as people? #...I would make a “diversity wins” comment but seems like there already are many such tags in reblogs

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It makes me happy when they listen

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Can you do something for me, please?

I want you to reblog this if you believe that two people can be very close and physically affectionate with one another, but still have a completely nonsexual, non-romantic relationship. 

Even if the two people in question are capable of being sexually or romantically attracted to one another. 

Because the friendship I share with someone I consider family in a way that transcends blood has been typecast as a romantic relationship ENTIRELY too many times, and I’m beginning to get sick of it. 

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hi I'm from your pseudo-medieval fantasy city. yeah. you forgot to put farms around us. we have very impressive walls and stuff but everyone here is starving. the hero showed up here as part of his quest and we killed and ate him

#worldbuilding #ref #writing #cities