#thing a day

[msbarrows]

Mar 19 - Made a big pan of Chelsea Rolls. Should have made two pans; I didn't allow enough room for rising and they started bulging out of the pan even before I cooked them (and once they were risen, it was too late to rearrange them). Turned out delicious, at least, even if very misshapen. Since I divide the dough and roll it out in two parts, I decided to do one half with raisins and the other with chopped pecans. Also, this is one of those recipes that technically calls for being drizzled with icing, but I generally skip the icing to avoid the stickiness and extra sugar.

For supper I did a couple of beer-marinated steaks following a favourite recipe of my dad's. Served them with boiled potatoes shaken with butter, seasoned salt, pepper, and smoked paprika, with steamed green peas for the veg.

#Thing A Day #March 2024 #March 19

[the-helper-bee]

The Blue Glaucus

(The most badass creature in the sea) (ok admittedly maybe not that badass but still pretty badass)

I'm really excited to do the so-called "blue dragon" for my first post, because it is my absolute favorite animal. Even though I thought I knew pretty much everything I could about it, I still learned a couple new things researching.

The blue glaucus, aka glaucus atlanticus, is a 3-centimeter-long sea slug living in the Atlantic, Pacific, and Indian Oceans. If you read the title at all, you'd see my claim that the blue glaucus is the most badass creature in the sea. Okay, I exaggerated- maybe they're not exactly super badass. I wouldn't exactly be running away screaming in terror if I saw a one inch "sea slug" floating around at the beach. But, despite its size, the blue glaucus is extremely dangerous. It holds the concentrated venom of its prey, the Portuguese Man O' War (yes, the funky looking jellyfish with extremely long and terrifying tentacles). They're protected from the venom by a layer of mucus in their skin and can store the stinging nematocysts inside of their bodies. As sea slugs, the glaucus isn't poisonous without obtaining the venom from a Man O' War first. However, once stored, a sting from this "blue angel" can kill a human.

The blue glaucus spends most of its time floating around on its back near the ocean surface, hiding from birds and loggerhead sea turtles with a camouflage known as countershading. The glaucus's lighter top and darker blue bottom help it blend into the natural light of the ocean. The blue dragon lives a relatively simple lifestyle, using swallowed CO2 bubbles to float or sinking towards the bottom of shallower waters. It doesn't live very long, with a life span of only a month to a year. With a mucus-covered layer of skin, the blue glaucus is protected from any stings it may receive from its prey.

Some general badass characteristics of the blue glaucus:

-knife-like teeth.

-laying its eggs in its prey's carcasses.

-cannibalism.

-S-shaped dicks. (They also can sting each other during sex.)

-a group of blue glaucuses is called a "blue fleet."

-They're hermaphroditic (hemaphro-DICK-tic, if you will,) meaning a single blue glaucus can produce eggs or sperm.

Here's some article links to the sites I used: Blue Glaucus - Oceana,

Blue Glaucus Facts & Information Guide - American Oceans

#thing a day #sea animals #sea slug #knowledge #blue glaucus

[willgrahamscock]

pausing mid thrust to open tumblr.com to delete the celibacy gif I reblogged 2 weeks ago

#alex says things #hi hello im back #3 days wasnt even long (went to london) no internet

[marypsue]

Keep seeing that post where OP starts like 'Thinking about...grieving the undead' and then adds on about like. Real life situations where people have not died but have left your life and you would have reason to grieve them.

All respect, that's an important concept, but that is not what I am thinking about when I read 'grieving the undead'.

#your brother is a vampire. he's sitting across the table from you chatting with your mother about her day #and he's dead and he's gone and he's never coming back. #he laughs the same and he talks the same but his arm is cold when he grabs you in a headlock and your dog won't be in the same room with hi #he'll still hang around watching TV with you and give you wedgies and make stupid jokes #but you can't tell him about the bullies at school anymore because this thing with your brother's face will just find them and kill them. #and not even stupid fucking Jason deserves what the monster in your dead brother's skin would do to him. #your brother is dead and lost and right there in arm's reach and gone forever with no hope of ever getting him back. #i'm sure there are corollaries to be written about like ghosts and zombies but this is the one i'm personally hung up on recently

[gerrykeay]

did you know there's a day-by-day timeline of the plot in the dungeon meshi adventurer's bible and TODAY is when it all kicks off

happy falin gets eaten and the gang starts eatin' day :)

#i'll put the full timeline in a reblog for other Nerds #dungeon meshi #delicious in dungeon #admittedly its early but i hadnt seen anyone post about it and someone Needed to #this thing is so thorough you could put together a reread order for a dunmeshi daily. but i didnt do that #or get a 'on this day in dungeon meshi' blog all queued up. i didnt do that either

[obsob]

i am a being capable of immeasurable love and whimsy

#and also. am a ilittlel kitty :3 #mine #cats #brain empy. felt tip cats ONLY #we were promised snow today n then they decided actually :) rain all day for u #i bought new wool for a cardigan today im SO excited its gna be so colourful #i was going to do some sort of Thing on the back like a heart or something but im still too scared to do colour changing stuff #maybe....maybe next time #i think i will try a patter w like. an actual grid with it first rather than just rawdog it #bc i . do not know what im doing :3

[bunabi]

girl what happened to just creating fanwork to satisfy your needs

going directly to the developers for canonical changes to the work has gotta stop like what happened to boundaries

#all ive talked about for a decade is 'I wish DAI had XYZ thing' and never in my life have I DM'd Mark Darrah like a wish-granting mirror

[ardri-na-bpiteog]

Also increasingly aware that a LOT of people "manage" getting through the 40+ hour work week by sleeping less than is healthy and relying on stimulants like coffee and energy drinks to keep them going.

For people who are unwilling or unable to do this...work really does just dominate your life. Like we really should not have to rely on unhealthy practices just to have a social life or keep on top of housework or whatever.

I know I post about this a lot but I'm so TIRED all the time and it's just so depressing that this is how we're expected to spend the one life we have.

#i have to get at least 8 hours of sleep a night to even barely function #with sleep #getting ready for work #commute #cooking #and errands #I typically have maybe 2-3 hours to actually do what i want in a day #and I'm usually too tired to actually do the things i want to do #and that's with a very short commute #if i actually had a long commute I'd basically do nothing but work #i see my friends like once every few weeks or months #because we're all so fucking busy with work and have such little time for socialising #and none of us even have kids or anything!!

[daftmooncretin]

spock’s room decor is actually fucking bonkers. The weapons??? the big red velvet curtain??? like ok phantom of the opera go crazy.

for reference jim’s room has some photos and a plant so we can surmise this is uniquely a spock being a dramatic weirdo thing

#spock baby im sorry but it looks like the backdrop of one of those alpha male podcasts #nurse chapel is stronger then me because if i saw this frat boy ass decor i would have immediately gotten the ick and left #the lack of coherent design is so funny #ALSO CAN WE TALK ABOUT HOW TO CURTAIN IS COVERING THE SHELVES WHICH IS SUCH A SMALL THING BUT IT MAKES ME SO MAD WHY SPOCK WHY #i hope bones never saw this room because he would have a fucking field day #star trek #star trek tos #spirk #jim kirk #spock #tos

[ibtisams]

A report just came out from a Palestinian hostage saying he was strapped with bombs and sent into a Hamas tunnel, with Israel prepared to blow the tunnel up with his body if fighters were found inside and yet people are still making the “Hamas uses human shields” arguments that have been confirmed to be a myth with no supporting evidence

#the hostage also said the same thing happened to a 15 year old boy hostage #both of them did survive as they were pulled out of the tunnel when no fighters were found and then released a few days later #the amount of people (including the US president) who still talk about the Hamas human shields is alarming #since no one has evidence of it and we have more then one piece of evidence of Israel using human shields #palestine #🦢

[msbarrows]

Apr 17 - meant to resume scanning today but FR released a new dragon breed today; spent most of my time anticipating the patch, waiting through the patch, and then happily figuring out and gening up my first few Dusthides.

Nephew made a big salad for supper, with chicken strips and toasted almonds for protein.

#Thing A Day #April 2024 #Apr 17

[the-helper-bee]

Thing a Day Blog

Hey everyone, this blog is going to be my Thing a Day blog!

This was something I started a few years back, as a way to learn more about the things I was interested in. I will try to post something every day (but more likely every week or less) about a completely random topic I’ve researched. I’ll provide links if anyone is interested in learning more!

So far some of the things I’m interested in researching or have already done some research on are general history, geography, geology (only the cool rocks, though,) volcanoes/mountains/waterfalls, jellyfish, physics, mechanics, astronomy, biology, chemistry, basic coding, quantum physics, and other topics as well.

Other features of this blog are going to include posting articles and resources to help you learn. Throughout this entire process, I’ve started to learn essentially how to learn, which was really hard for me at first since I didn’t know what I was doing at all. This is going to be as much of me teaching myself as me teaching others, and I’d love to keep this blog as a resource for myself and others who want to learn but may feel overwhelmed with the whole internet at their fingertips.

#thing a day #science #knowledge #learning

[suiheisen]

fascinated/horrified by this set of tweets…

#the thing about these tweets is the absolutely rancid entitlement in them and then the attempt to justify it #'keep up a charade that the floor is clean' do you... not clean your house? do you not mop the floors?????????? #anyway. are you americans okay??? #specifically…. are white americans ok???? #is the right to keep your shoes on also written into your constitution? #also the getting sick is 99 per cent random tweet is giving me brain damage #anyway. nobody is coming into my home with their outside shoes on #and if the feel of your bare feet on the floors i clean almost every day is so revolting to you #we have inside shoes????? #polls #*r

[spacedace]

What is it about laying on the floor when you're overwhelmed that makes everything feel so much better?

#like its better than laying on a bed when it comes to that very specific state of absolutely out of your gourd overwhelmed #it takes serious self control for me some days to just not lay on the floor if things are too much #floor time is best time

[inkskinned]

because sometimes there are invisible tests and invisible rules and you're just supposed to ... know the rule. someone you thought of as a friend asks you for book recommendations, so you give her a list of like 30 books, each with a brief blurb and why you like it. later, you find out she screenshotted the list and send it out to a group chat with the note: what an absolute freak can you believe this. you saw the responses: emojis where people are rolling over laughing. too much and obsessive and actually kind of creepy in the comments. you thought you'd been doing the right thing. she'd asked, right? an invisible rule: this is what happens when you get too excited.

you aren't supposed to laugh at your own jokes, so you don't, but then you're too serious. you're not supposed to be too loud, but then people say you're too quiet. you aren't supposed to get passionate about things, but then you're shy, boring. you aren't supposed to talk too much, but then people are mad when you're not good at replying.

you fold yourself into a prettier paper crane. since you never know what is "selfish" and what is "charity," you give yourself over, fully. you'd rather be empty and over-generous - you'd rather eat your own boundaries than have even one person believe that you're mean. since you don't know what the thing is that will make them hate you, you simply scrub yourself clean of any form of roughness. if you are perfect and smiling and funny, they can love you. if you are always there for them and never admit what's happening and never mention your past and never make them uncomfortable - you can make up for it. you can earn it.

don't fuck up. they're all testing you, always. they're tolerating you. whatever secret club happened, over a summer somewhere - during some activity you didn't get to attend - everyone else just... figured it out. like they got some kind of award or examination that allowed them to know how-to-be-normal. how to fit. and for the rest of your life, you've been playing catch-up. you've been trying to prove that - haha! you get it! that the joke they're telling, the people they are, the manual they got- yeah, you've totally read it.

if you can just divide yourself in two - the lovable one, and the one that is you - you can do this. you can walk the line. they can laugh and accept you. if you are always-balanced, never burdensome, a delight to have in class, champagne and glittering and never gawky or florescent or god-forbid cringe: you can get away with it.

you stare at your therapist, whom you can make jokes with, and who laughs at your jokes, because you are so fucking good at people-pleasing. you smile at her, and she asks you how you're doing, and you automatically say i'm good, thanks, how are you? while the answer swims somewhere in your little lizard brain:

how long have you been doing this now? mastering the art of your body and mind like you're piloting a puppet. has it worked? what do you mean that all you feel is... just exhausted. pick yourself up, the tightrope has no net. after all, you're cheating, somehow, but nobody seems to know you actually flunked the test. it's working!

aren't you happy yet?

#almost wrote the champagne line as ''effervescent'' but legit could not write it without saying ''effervescent like a snail'' #ah tumblr... #writeblr #warm up #idk . having trouble writing rn #ps i don't like to talk about it . it is my medical information. but before you ask. yes this is about being on the spectrum #i really don't like when ppl make my writing about how im [whatever ID]. i want it to ring true for the people who it rings true for #i don't want it to be like ''awwwww look at this person!!! she's the EXCEPTION!!! :)" ..... #no.... not really..... #idk something gross happens whenever i admit to certain conditions and i turn into like inspiration p*rnography #like yes they actually let us use keyboards these days #furthermore i just... dont feel comfortable talking about this part of me. i had too bad of a childhood. adhd is one thing... #this one im like. still coming to terms with. which is like. my own journey. #idk. just please be kind. some things are more private than others. this one feels private to me. #i do not know how to help others w/this . and i do not know how to help myself. i will talk about it if im ever ready. idk if that will #actually ever happen #ty in advance i love u im kissing you we are kissing somewhere on the spectrum

[imperatoralicia]

Just having some drinks at the local saloon.

#stardew valley #spoilers #stardew valley spoilers #stardew valley 1.6 update #drinking mayonnaise #also this was during a green rain day #so folks were already freaked out #i am making things worse on purpose haha #anyway i'm obsessed with the fact that you can drink mayo #and i enjoy that i'm properly shamed for it