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You know, that Mythbusters post legitimately changed my life. Before seeing it, I had exponentially more guilt and stress about not being able to sleep, which of course, further exacerbated my inability to sleep.

Now, every time I wake up about three am, knowing I have to get up at 6.45, instead of stressing and panicking about how my day is going to be sleep deprived and miserable, I just tell myself 'Time to activate Mythbusters Protocol' and lie there with my eyes closed safe in the knowledge that I am measurably reducing later feelings of exhaustion.

And when this happens, about 70% of the time the reduction of guilt and stress means I actually do fall back asleep, so all in all instead of getting only three or four hours sleep, I get five to six and a half.

Which y'know, major improvement in health and energy.

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reblog for bigger sample size

#i keep meticulous lists on my computer of fics ive read #bookmarked a few at one point but it makes me nervous b/c i dont quite know how bookmarks work or how public they are #so i dont really #if i read a fic it gets saved on the list if i like a fic it gets kudos and if i REALLY like it i try to leave a comment #sometimes i forget or struggle too much with words though

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vampirism poses the question "what if there was a fundamental, horrible, unending well of want in your soul that, if truly satisfied, would lead to great pain for all those you hold closest and, in turn, their absolute and total revilement of you?" and naturally as a person with no problems I don't relate to this in any way at all.

#words for things #werewolves are like this but about anger being let out rather than want being satisfied

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I have a good disability accommodation story.

I use a medium sized backpack instead of an over the shoulder bag, because chronic pain has my shoulders all jacked up and when really carrying it I need to distribute the weight. I pass as femme so it's essentially a purse (which I'll call it) that holds like my cash and cards and keys but also my epipens and inhaler and other medical essentials.

I took my 10yo to the art museum today. About 20 minutes into our visit I was told they have a bag policy and while my bag was essentially small enough i could keep it, they need it by my side so I'm not knocking it into shit via it being on my back. Some people just aren't aware of their surroundings sometimes, blanket policy. Cool i get it. They really just needed me to single shoulder it. So I did. But like another 10 minutes in despite switching between shoulders, I just couldn't. Disability just made it impossible. So back on my back it went i was just really really careful.

Of course I was approached again though by someone new. I patiently and politely explained I knew and understood the rule but disability made it so I couldn't single shoulder my bag, I really did need to distribute the weight.

And she was like, welp ok we'll just get you a sticker for your bag so security camera guy will know you're an exception to the rule I'll be right back. 2 minutes later she was back with a shiny sticker and that was that.

In a museum full of priceless art I get the bag size and how you carry it (people really do be backing into a monet with their fucking backpacks) rules. But they were happy to accommodate me without me laying out my medical history. I didn't have to explain why my shoulders are fucked up. I didn't give them the details of last weeks especially bad pinched nerve. I simply said i was disabled. I don't even think i needed to offer up the part about distributing the weight. I just offered that bit up freely so it made general sense to them. And they gave me a reasonable accommodation and stickered me so i could explore and not be stopped every 5 feet. And in return i did actually work really hard to mind my bag in relation to the art around it.

I just really appreciate when the world goes right!

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Let us suppose that the "average" horse would have equal proportions of all these parts. The degree to which each part in this poll deviates from the "average" size (20% of total) will determine how large or small that part of our horse will be (i.e a horse with only 10% in Legs will have legs half the size of the average horse).

I will draw a picture of the horse we make!

#oh my god #the horse

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Customer: YOU FOOL DMV: CONFRONTATIONAL Verdict: DENIED

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Wrestler who’s gimmick is that he’s really passionate about Linux and open source software

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left dishes in tbe sink too long they grew a bunch of oysters inside and they filtered all the grime off my plates

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they should invent a brain that doesn’t whisper bad things to you

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Here’s an enlarged response to the “Reblog if you know how to cook, even if it’s just ramen” post…

Yup, I can cook. Pretty well, too, though Food Network has nothing to fear. My preference is for one-pot stuff like stews, daubes, eintopfs, tajines, chilis, goulashes, curries - oh, and sauces for pasta (there’s a really simple one below.)

That way all the peeling, chopping and stirring is done before the lid goes on and the stove is turned RIGHT DOWN. Now wash up. Leaving a clean kitchen will make you just as popular as being the one who did the cooking. Possibly more so. Then go do something else for a couple of hours - TV, gaming, Tumblr -  until it’s time for dinner. Check once in a while (set a timer if you have to) to make sure things haven’t gone dry*, give it a stir to make sure things haven’t stuck to the bottom.

*We have a Doufeu (from French doux “soft/gentle” feu “fire/heat”)…

…which is a casserole with a recess in the lid that holds water. The difference in temperature makes the steam inside re-condense and drip back down to baste the food. It will take hours and hours to boil dry, because of physics - which means we can go out for a walk, and if that November walk involves a local pub that’s just had a nice new wood-burning stove installed in the corner, well… :-)

New Le Creusets like the one above are hideously expensive, but older Le Cousances like this one pop up at garage sales and are well worth finding.

We have this design, in orange enamel, which @dduane found on eBay. Everyone goes on about putting ice in the lid recess, but since it becomes water in no time I think the ice-cubes are used just to show better in photos.

Forget about the whizzkids on Food Network. Ultra-Simple Cooking 101 is not rocket science. Boil water in a pot, put chopped meat and/or veggies into the pot**, add a bit of salt and pepper, put the lid on, turn the heat down and check once in a while until the things in the pot are soft enough to eat.

**Lightly frying things like meat and onions before they go into the boiling water makes them even nicer, but that’s Ultra-Simple Cooking 102. Traditional Irish stew (depending on whose granny you ask) doesn’t even bother.

They will have mingled their flavours together. They will smell nice. They will taste nice. If there’s a lot of liquid, you have soup. (Throw rice or small pasta like orzo into it for 10 mins.) If there’s less liquid, you have stew (buy some crusty bread for gravy-dunking and plate-wiping.)

Either way, you have cooked a thing all by yourself. You know what’s in it. There are no dodgy additives or stretchers that belong in a chemistry set. Eat it and feel mentally and physically satisfied! Then freeze the leftovers (if there are any. I sometimes have to cook extra so there will be.)

Here’s that really, really simple pasta sauce:

Keep reading

#recipes

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Yeah, a lot of what bothers me about fantasy settings (especially D&D) is that people try to run wizards like they're academics, but their only exposure to academics is authoritative professors telling them The Truth, so they don't realize that all academics are always 5 seconds away from trying to strangle each other over questions like 'does time really pass or does it just seem to pass'

#the wizards should also have bad fashion sense and unlimited shitty conference sandwiches

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i asked an angel what the deal with lichen was and they got really skittish and told me they could give me the answer to anything in the universe but to please not ask them about the lichen

#angels

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#videos

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do not. Sell my husband twelve fascinating issues of Zoobooks and the Tiger Poster.

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realizing that sticking to the "do it bad" "do it scared" mentality implies theres also a "do it bored"

#ur right!!! gotta finish my excel thingy

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new pfp!!! I like but also I will wonder who tf u are on my dash for minimum 3 weeks

:D thank u!! i think id had the old one since like... maybe as far back as 2018??? so im also going to be confusing myself lol. where did that other dog come from. who is he

#asks #justconstantly #edit: just posted this without remembering about the new icon and immediately went WHOA WHATS THAT? 🤦‍♂️