Worst part of living with animals is the night time sloppy licking cleaning noises I’m sorry but I cannot sleep . Please fhcking stop please please olease
good omens is Like That bc terry pratchett wrote everything w incredible warmth and belief in humanity but had never heard of gay people whereas neil gaiman had but never wrote anything else that didn’t feature like, sexually explicit vore. bad combination
i can’t stand this thing that’ll happen sometimes on the paranormal podcast i listen to, and like, stuff in that general vicinity of entertainment, is when they repeatedly gesture to the vague concept of “energy”. like I’m supposed to find this compelling or something.
so, like, when people comment on another person’s “energy”, they’re talking about that person’s disposition and how they’re interpreting it. when they talk about a place’s “energy”, it’s usually commenting on how the people there are behaving, and physical features of the environment. i say “the 7-11 has really weird energy.” but what I mean is “there’s always at least one light flickering, it smells like a hospital, and the cashier is pretty much always talking on his phone”.
it sounds clunky to spell it out like that, but that’s what’s being referred to.
but it doesn’t track as well when people say things like “I’ve always been very sensitive to energy” (the power of observation will do that to you) or “the pyramids are built on a site which is a conduit for energy” (thanks ancient aliens for reliably hitting everything that peeves me) it’s getting into the territory of… what are you talking about? the first person is obviously talking about something that they consider beyond the purview of typical human empathy and intuition. the second person has me lost entirely. “the pyramids have energy” like are we talking joules? calories? are they solar panels? give me a break dude.
When I was in the hospital, they gave me a big bracelet that said ALLERGY, but like. I’m allergic to bees. Were they going to prescribe me bees in there.
So there’s a medication called hyaluronidase. It’s used to make other medications absorb better, because it makes the cell wall more permeable.
One common usage is to make local anesthetic more effective during surgery, for instance. It’s used in a number of injected medications.
Bee stings contain an enzyme very similar to this medication, so sometimes, people with bee allergies have an allergic reaction to hyaluronidase.
This is called cross-reactivity, where your body mistakes something for the thing it’s actually allergic to, and has an allergic reaction anyway. For instance, sometimes people with latex allergies also are allergic to bananas and other fruits. They don’t actually contain latex, but there are some similar proteins.
Apparently, hyraluronidase used in humans is derived from one of four sources: sheep testicles, cow testicles, cow testicles again, and GMO hamster ovaries.
tl;dr: They won’t inject you with bees, but they might inject you with purified cow testicle juice, and your body might say ‘eh, cow balls are BASICALLY bees’ and try to kill you anyway.
It really is hard to imagine a more malicious statement than “the children of Gaza have brought this upon themselves” when children in Gaza are now being massacred by the hundreds. But this was actually said in a recent Knesset session. And it wasn’t someone considered an extreme right-winger, but a liberal centrist – Meirav Ben-Ari from Yair Lapid’s opposition party Yesh Atid. […]
These words have not gotten much attention, as far as I can see. It is enough to reflect upon what would happen if a Palestinian leader said Israeli children brought it upon themselves. Can we even imagine the outcry and condemnation, the cries of antisemitism and Holocaust tropes? It would be deafening. But this passes quietly. […]
Children have often been a marker for whether one has gone too far. Once children are explicitly framed as “not innocent,” you know that all-out genocidal warfare is possible.
I wanna be the village witch. Living in a cozy hut in the woods, talking to animals and forest spirits, brewing potions, helping the nearby villagers with their problems. They think I’m the oddest thing they’ve ever seen but their houses are always warm and their plates full so they are kind to me
