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Love how tumblr has its own folk stories. Yeah the God of Arepo we’ve all heard the story and we all still cry about it. Yeah that one about the woman locked up for centuries finally getting free. That one about the witch who would marry anyone who could get her house key from her cat and it’s revealed she IS the cat after the narrator befriends the cat.

#reblogging so i can find this list later #i wanna read these

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PSA: Don't use Open Office

I keep seeing people recommending Open Office as an alternative to Word, and uh... look, it is, technically, an open source alternative to Word. And it can do a lot of what Word can, genuinely! But it is also an abandoned project that hasn't been updated in nine years, and there's an active fork of it which is still receiving updates, and that fork is called LibreOffice, and it's fantastic.

Seriously, if you think that your choices are either "grit your teeth and pay Microsoft for a subscription" or "support free software but have a kind of subpar office suite experience", I guarantee that it's because you're working with outdated information, or outdated software. Most people I know who have used the latest version of LibreOffice prefer it to Word. I even know a handful of people who prefer it to Scrivener.

Open Office was the original project, and so it has the most name recognition, and as far as I can tell, that's really the only reason people are still recommending it. It's kind of like if people were saying "hey, the iPhone 14 isn't your only smart phone option!" but then were only ever recommending the Samsung Galaxy S5 as an alternative. LibreOffice is literally a version of the same exact program as Open Office that's just newer and better – please don't get locked into using a worse tool just because the updated version of the program has a different name!

#good to know

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““Such nonsense!” declared Dr Greysteel. “Whoever heard of cats doing anything useful!” “Except for staring at one in a supercilious manner,” said Strange. “That has a sort of moral usefulness, I suppose, in making one feel uncomfortable and encouraging sober reflection upon one’s imperfections.””

— Susanna Clarke, Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell

#Susanna Clarke #Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell

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After a short silence Strange said, “You advise me to read this book?”

“Yes, indeed. I think you should read it,” said Mr Norrell.

Strange waited, but Norrell continued to gaze at the book in his hand as though he were entirely at a loss as how to proceed. “Then you must give it to me, sir,” said Strange gently.

“Yes, indeed,” said Mr Norrell. He approached Strange cautiously and held the book out for several moments, before suddenly tipping it up and off and into Strange’s hand with an odd gesture, as though it was not a book at all, but a small bird which clung to him and would on no account go to any one else, so that he was obliged to trick it into leaving his hand. He was so intent upon this manoeuvre that fortunately he did not look up at Strange who was trying not to laugh.

Mr Norrell remained a moment, looking wistfully at his book in another magician’s hand.

But once he had parted with one book the painful part of his ordeal seemed to be over. Half an hour later he recommended another book to Strange and went and got it with scarcely any fuss. By midday he was pointing out books on the shelves to Strange and allowing him to fetch them down by himself. By the end of the day Mr Norrell had given Strange a quite extraordinary number of books to read, and said that he expected him to have read them by the end of the week.

 —   Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell (Susanna Clarke)

#susanna clarke #jonathan strange & mr norrell

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you bottle Miette??

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“I hate it here” makes me think of “Tis the damn season” for some reason like it’s a sort of extension of missing home, missing the life that would have been to pursue a dazzling future in a place you’ve only grown to hate. You want to go home, drive around, park by your old school, and be around people who know you before you became You. But that life doesn’t belong to you anymore so you can only kind of visit this shadow-life in a “garden in your mind” like you kind of have this self that is trailing you around watching you live out your decisions.

Anyway yeah love how folklore/evermore tones carried into this album cause the sound of that era really is my fave:)

#taylorswift #taylor swift #ttpd: the anthology #ts ttpd #the tortured poets department #the tortured poets society: the anthology #i hate it here #I hate it here ts #tis the damn season #evermore #folklore #ts folklore

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#I was waiting for someone to post this so I could reblog 😆 #taylor swift #the tortured poets department #ts ttpd #ttpd

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Getting toward the end of the anthology and The Prophecy slaps

Shout out to Taylor mother-f*cking Swift 🙌🏻 The Tortured Poets Department is a masterpiece assembled by a lyrical genius. These songs are so vivid and poignant and made me feel so many things. Stunning. @taylorswift @taylornation

#ts ttpd #taylorswift #ttpd #the tortured poets department #aaron dessner

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Can’t wait to unpack all the religious themes on this one

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Folkmore girlies we really won with the Anthology songs didn't we

#no really #no hate to midnights but this is my vibeee #taylor swift #ts ttpd #the tortured poets department #ttpd: the anthology #aaron dessner #folklore #evermore

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when your circle's small but y'all crazy

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“I’m having his baby! No I’m not, but you should see your faces!”

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It’s 2am. ✌️🕑

Now that you’re a member of THE TORTURED POETS DEPARTMENT, you may access 15 additional files from the Chairman. THE TORTURED POETS DEPARTMENT: The Anthology is out now! 🤍

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Taylor Swift - THE TORTURED POETS DEPARTMENT

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The Marriage Portrait by Maggie O'Farrell

"Sadness keeps attempting to tie weights to her wrists and ankles, therefore she has to keep moving, she has to outpace it."

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listen. listen to me so carefully right now. (if you're in the eclipse path/planning on viewing). please don't stare directly at the sun tomorrow. i am begging you - do not stare at it. if you got eclipse glasses off of amazon/other, please put them on in your house and make sure you can't see anything; if you can still see like regular sun glasses, they are not safe for eclipse viewing, you will burn your retinas, and we cannot fix that. eclipse glasses should be iso/ce certified, and aas (american astronomical society) approved. please make smart choices and protect your eyes. please.

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A Science-Based Perspective on Oil Pulling

Hi friends! I have heard great things about oil pulling for a few months, and Ive been practicing it daily for weeks now. It’s been stated many times that Oil Pulling is part of the venerable tradition of Ayurvedic health care, which has been called the oldest health care system in the world. While many modern dentists and doctors have acknowledged that the anti bacterial effect could be helpful, I found few go father than that… until I found this article, which has 35 references for all the ways oil pulling benefits your oral and overall hygiene (written by Vagish Kumar L. Shanbhag). Read on and discover how this stunningly cheap method can benefit your overall health.

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“Oil pulling activates salivary enzymes which absorb toxins such as chemical toxins, bacterial toxins and environmental toxins from the blood and removed from the body through the tongue.”

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“Four researchers in their study involving 60 adolescents of age 16–18 years with plaque induced gingivitis, observed statistically significant reduction of plaque and gingival indices upon oil pulling using coconut oil.”

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“Modified Gingival Index and plaque index by Sillness and Loe were measured at baseline and on days 1, 7, 15 and 30. Steady decline in indices was found from day seven. Plaque and gingival indices significantly decreased after 30 days of oil pulling. The study observed 50% decreases in gingival and plaque indices after four weeks which is comparatively similar to results produced by chlorhexidine. They concluded that oil pulling with coconut oil is helpful in decreasing plaque formation and plaque induced gingivitis.”

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“Three authors carried out a microbiological study on the effect of sesame oil pulling on plaque, gingivitis and colony forming bacteria. Twenty subjects of the study performed oil pulling for 15–20 min daily for a period of forty five days. The study observed that oil pulling resulted in statistically significant decrease in plaque, gingival scores and bacterial counts.”

Link to the Full wright up: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5198813/#:~:text=Oil%20pulling%20activates%20salivary%20enzymes,the%20body%20through%20the%20tongue.

J Tradit Complement Med. 2017 Jan; 7(1): 106–109. Published online 2016 Jun 6.

Oil pulling for maintaining oral hygiene – A review

Vagish Kumar L. Shanbhag∗

#oil pulling #ayurveda #home rememdy #oral hygiene #hygiene #dental