glomofnit

official-lucifers-child

Wiggle

c4pyb4ra

it did not work, but i can help

big wiggle

bonersniper

might-be-somebody

the only super long Tumblr post I love

fuck dude it sure do long post

becausegoodheroesdeservekidneys

prismatic-bell

I recently discovered laundry stripping and y’all, no matter how much of a crock of shit you think fast fashion is, you’re underestimating.

prismatic-bell

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OKAY SO. You know how we talk about how one way fast fashion has made itself “necessary” is that the clothing looks like shit and feels horrible after just a few washes?

Let. Me. Tell. You. Something.

Laundry stripping is a process where you load your laundry into a tub or bin (I’ve been using my bathtub) with warm water, half a cup of borax, half a cup of washing soda, and half a cup of laundry soap (not detergent, SOAP, there’s a chemical difference). Leave it there for at least eight hours. I’ve been going for 12-24.

What you will come back to is a tub full of nearly-opaque black-gray-brown water that absolutely REEKS. This is normal. You are looking at (and smelling) hard water buildup, body sweat and oils that were embedded in the fabric, dead skin, and just regular grime.

Wring out your clothes. Throw them in the washer. (I like to do a spin-only cycle before going any further, because I have one of those washers that determines by weight how much water any given load needs.) Wash as usual.

You will notice I didn’t suggest any further pretreatment, and that’s because 1) you don’t want to layer too many chemicals on top of each other but also 2) you may not even need it.

When your clothes come out, check each one as it goes into the dryer, and if anything else s still stained, set it aside to run again with a regular pretreatment. One of the sweaters I did this with apparently did need a second treatment…to deal with what appears to have possibly been a hot chocolate stain that was previously invisible due to “well, it’s old” dinginess. I was planning to throw this sweater out. It looks almost new now. I need to wash it one more time for the probably-a-hot-chocolate stain, and then it needs to have the hem weighted to block it and bring it back to evenness, but dude. I wear my clothes to rags and I thought this thing was unfixable. “I need to reshape it” is nothing.

Remove clothes from dryer when done. Fucking MARVEL at the colors and how good the fabric feels. Give them a smell. Get righteously and royally angry that you can rejuvenate this stuff so easily, with a process that does take awhile but is 90% hands-off, but we’ve been trained to believe it’s all got to be binned once a year because discoloration and gross fabric is “normal wear and tear” and can’t be fixed.

It’s utterly unreal! I just pulled a seven-year-old work undershirt out of the dryer and this thing looks NEW!! It FEELS almost new!!! One of the shirts I hung up from the last load is older than some of the people on this site and it went from “I keep this to wear on laundry day, for sentimental reasons” to “I could actually wear this out of the house, it looks old but respectable”! The pajama bottoms I’m wearing were from Goodwill and they have BRIGHT YELLOW in them! I thought it was goldenrod!!

I do not know how often you’re supposed to do this (doing it every time can strip the dye out of your clothes, not to mention it’s way too much work to do every time), but once or twice per season seems respectable. I don’t wear white, so I can’t test the “it will make whites look almost-new as well” claim, but I’ve seen a lot of people on the cleaning subreddit attest that it works.

Just remember: WASHING soda. Not baking soda. I tried baking soda and a little bit happened, but not a lot.

Go forth. Rejuvenate your clothing. Strip your laundry.

library-bat

headspace-hotel

You've heard of Earth is space australia now get ready for: Earth is the space Amazon Rainforest. Aliens land on Earth and they are losing their goddamn minds because every square inch of the ground is absolutely PACKED with life like there are hundreds of species just in this one site, there are winged animals flying through the sky and multiple colonies of sophisticated social insects just in the shadow of their ship, this ONE ROCK is covered in MULTIPLE SPECIES OF ORGANISMS that are themselves MULTIPLE ORGANISMS LIVING SYMBIOTICALLY, the tall, woody autotrophs look so different from each other because they're...holy shit that's like 5, 6, 7???? different species on this one site???

they start talking to a human and the human is like "haha yeah that's a crow!" and the alien researcher is like "you called it a 'bird' earlier, is that a different name?" and the human is like "oh a crow is just one species of bird, there's like, 10 others out there"

"On this planet?"

"No, in the back yard right now."

headspace-hotel

imagine aliens that come from a tidally locked planet where only a thin band of the planet is habitable, or a planet life was only able to develop in small areas at the poles, or in the few pools of liquid water on the planet's surface, or just in isolated areas where geologic activity causes geysers and springs, visiting Earth. They seem completely unprepared for the shock of realizing that Earth's continents appear green because the continents are absolutely covered with green organisms.

headspace-hotel

The alien biologists are so uncomfortable because there are certain protocols for maintaining certain distances from life signatures to avoid harming unfamiliar organisms, and groves of plant like autotrophs and pools where aquatic life dwells are carefully protected and respected, with very important rules for approach

On Earth, the inhabitants are just. Playing and walking LITERALLY STEPPING ON CARPETS OF ORGANISMS the whole time. the aliens are like "it doesn't hurt them??? Can't you just...move them to a place where you don't have to step on them?" and the humans are like "no of course not, grasses evolved to tolerate being stepped on, and besides, more plants would grow there if we tried to move the existing ones"

It then must be explained that humans would need to regularly spray poisons on the ground to prevent any given area of bare soil from filling up with plant life, and that "regularly" means "multiple times within a single solar cycle." And that the poisons stop working within a few decades because the plants evolve to resist them that fast.

headspace-hotel

Human: yeah solar is the dominant energy source these days but some of the recent solar farm projects are pretty controversial because they're in reclaimed strip mining sites that others argue should be restored as best as we can to their previous ecological state

Alien: I don't understand...why would you not place the solar farms in an area of the planet with no existing ecosystem?

Human: ...what?

Alien: You have rather sophisticated protective gear and have done some space exploration, surely you could establish them in an area of the planet to which life is not yet adapted?

Human: ...there isn't one.

Alien: ...what do you mean there isn't one

headspace-hotel

"WHAT DO YOU MEAN YOU 'DON'T KNOW' HOW MANY SPECIES THERE ARE"

headspace-hotel

"Our biologists would love to collaborate with your Earth scientists to draw up a definitive listing of Earth species and resolve any inconsistencies in the records."

"I don't think you understand what I'm saying. Only 25% of Earth's species have been formally described, at most."

"that's...that's most of them."

"Yes?"

"Well...I suppose the ocean trenches and abyssal plains must be difficult for you to reach...where did you have to travel for your discoveries?"

"Travel? I moved here to Alabama in the first place to study its aquatic ecosystems. The crayfish I discovered live in that creek I showed you earlier."

gubgam

Oh I LOVE this. Here’s some fun stuff, I can make it worse!

“We’ll just get a sterile soil sample for comparison.”

“From where?”

“Antarctica, surely the soils there are abiotic. Some don’t see liquid water for centuries.”

“Nope, those soils are full of life. Lichens, bacteria, archaea. We actually haven’t found a place on earth with a sterile soil.” (Unless a certain paper has gone through peer review)

“What if we dig deeper?”

“Like 2.8 km (1.7 miles) down a South African gold mine in a puddle of radioactive groundwater?”

“Yes! SURELY that is far enough that no living organism lives there.”

“…”

“SURELY.”

“So there is one guy there.”

(Desulforudis audaxviator my beloved)

“Ok.” (Cracks alien knuckles) “I will collect a sample from the BOTTOM of a ‘black smoker’ hydrothermal vents 2000 m deep in the ocean. The water there is sterile.”

“You’re probably right about the water being sterile but-“

“NO”

“-but… the rock isn’t even at the bottom, that’s where Methanopyrus was found, it can grow at a balmy 122 C (251 F). And can survive long periods at temperatures higher than that. Plenty of archaea have their most optimum grown temperatures above 100C (212 F). That’s the temperature they grow BEST at.”

“Stop.”

“We keep finding higher limits, some think it can reach to 150 C (302 F). We’re pretty sure nothing lives above 250 C (482 F) because we can’t find measurable amounts of DNA, RNA or proteins in water that hot, if that helps you feel better.”

“IT DOES NOT.”

“Sorry, life uh, finds a way.”

“Aha! We didn’t try cold. How about the coldest place in the universe, where you have reached a few fractions of a degree above absolute 0 Kelvin?” (1K = -457.87 F)

“I have bad news about quantum entangled tardigrades. They aren’t alive at the time though! That would count, right?”

“Not alive… at the time.”

“Yeah. Oh but they aren’t dead either.”

*(Screams)*

(Brock biology of microorganisms 2014, looks like the info is still correct, lmk if not) also soils here are Soils proper, not agricultural soils. Those are not real soils. And I heard a presentation on unpublished data on sterile soils, haven’t found the paper if it has been published.

gaynaturalistghost

Reblogging from my personal. Might draw this one day. That’d be interesting. Hm.

gothwizardmagic

lafemmemacabre

A gorgeous, talented Black girl on TikTok independently released a single with a music video for it that's probably one of the few songs I could describe as Goth Pop, both by the sound itself and by her being clearly versed in the goth subculture, and she's getting so many mean comments. The song is good, she dances gothly and beautifully, her voice is very soft and sweet. Pay her a listen!

bassios

Pop’s not normally my thing, but Goth Pop? Gimme.

Her voice is fantastic, and all the little bits of typical goth dance moves are great. Give this a listen!

library-bat

dannyphantombutitsnot2003

Original: @dolorific on tik tok

gunpowderandgelatine

You're trying to freeload at my house by "haunting" it? Not in this economy. You better roll up with next week's lottery numbers if you want to haunt here.

sonneillonv

Keep in mind the reactions are “FIGHT or flight.” Sometimes even just scaring people triggers their FIGHT instinct.

This post is dedicated to that time I sucker-punched a racoon through a nylon tent because I was so scared a bear would try to get in.

glomofnit

kingscrown666

The debate of all time

brownies: corner or center?

corner

center

If you don't like brownies then this poll is not for you. Please move along

kingscrown666

Please rb if you vote

gothwizardmagic

twilight-sparkle-irl

chrome users, your browser is about to start targeting advertising for you

Google asks websites to not abuse Topics API

Tech tweaked ahead of rollout in July, Mozilla and Apple still not interested

theregister.com

have fun

this does not necessarily apply to chrome-based browsers but it very well can. ymmv

bogleech

Click here to get firefox, and once you install it, firefox will ask if you want to import all of your logins, bookmarks and settings from Chrome or whatever else you browsed with.

Then go here to add firefox’s best adblocker:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/adblock-plus/

metamatar

Please do not rec Adblock Plus.

In 2011, Adblock Plus and Eyeo attracted considerable controversy over its "Acceptable Ads" program to "allow certain non-intrusive ads" (such as Google Ads) to be allowed under the extension's default settings. [...] In June 2013, blogger Sascha Pallenberg accused the developers of Adblock Plus of maintaining business connections to "strategic partners in the advertising industry", and called ABP a "mafia-like advertising network" [...] In September 2016, Eyeo announced that it would launch a "marketplace" for ads that meet its acceptability criter.

UblockOrigin is recommended by Firefox, works on the mobile browser on Android, does not practice predatory bullshit like ABP and is also open source.

for the love of all that is unholy PLEASE dump Chrome and get Firefox instead

glomofnit

tiktoksthataregood-ish

0sbrain

SOUND ON. TRUST ME ON THIS ONE

oddly satisfying

gothwizardmagic

mokadevs

hey so maybe switching to threads, infamously managed by one of the worst data scraping companies of all time, isnt the play guys

heres just PART of what they're trying to track when you download the app:

to list what they attempt to track:

unique identifier
os version
device brand
charging status
device total memory
first name
gps coordinates
screen density
app version
device orientation
headphone status
rotation data
network connection type
city
available internal storage
device language
os build number
accelerometer data
network carrier
available device memory
last name
postal code
email address
gender
system volume
timezone
app name
country
state
screen resolution
cookies
device model
birthday
android advertising id

please for the love of God, dont download threads.

mokadevs

addendum: threads is so bad that it's literally banned in All Of Europe because it violates the GDPR, aka General Data Protection Regulation.

gothwizardmagic

12u3ie

I just went on a rant about plungers, how’s your day going?

12u3ie

“go off bestie”? Okay, I will.

This is a plunger.

Classic red cup with a wooden stick. We all know it, love it, and have seen a cartoon character using it to unclog a toilet. Right?

WRONG.

The image above is actually a drain plunger, used on sinks, showers, and baths. Not on toilets.

These are a toilet plungers.

Take note of the variations. Each of them have a flange of sorts at the bottom, either connected via a cup or more accordion-like tube. These are designed to actually get down into the toilet bowl where it flushes down, giving it more space and leverage to unclog blockages. See the example below:

Notice how the flange allows it to go deeper into the toilet to provide more power to the plunge. Sink/drain plungers are far less efficient and effective at the task.

Sink plungers can also have an accordion shape to help with power in plunging, but crucially do not have or need the flange that toilet plungers do.

To recap: cup plungers are for sinks, showers, bathtubs, and other drains. Flange and accordion plungers are for toilets. Notably, accordion plungers are slightly harder to use, but are more powerful when used correctly than their flange counterparts.

So the next time you see a cartoon, video game, or stock art depicting a cup plunger being used on a toilet, you can feel the same levels of anger and emotion that I do!

12u3ie

why does this have nearly 100 notes

callmebliss

Because with this level of passion, containment is futile

absurdly-useful

The real question is why does this not have a million notes? This is information that will very likely, at some point, be incredibly useful to anyone who has indoor plumbing. Which is, you know, probably, 99.99% of this website's user base. (I'm sure there's someone out there using Tumblr who lives in a house built in 1850 which never got upgraded and they still have an outhouse rather than toilet.)