iopele:

andhumanslovedstories:

andhumanslovedstories:

If the frosting! Of your cupcake! Is equal to or greater in height than the cupcake itself! you made a bad fucking cupcake

We can’t as a society keep supporting pastries that are just edible plates for five inch piles of sugar glue

@rizobact

Frosting is akin to a sauce or seasoning. You use it to add flavor and texture. It should not be the ONLY source of flavor and texture. 

Also, some of that flavor should be something other than “SUGAR”, except when we’re talking about donut/pound cake glaze. Sugar glazes like that are intended to add moisture and sweetness and not really anything else. Frosting should have at least a note of another flavor. 

abessinier:

1. You are responsible for your own media experience. 

2. There is such a thing as a healthy level of avoidance towards topics that make you feel unwell or even (in a real-life clinical definition of the term) trigger you – but you are the one to actively take care of what you view.

3. Avoiding does not mean policing others.

4. You have no right to tell artists to censor themselves – you may criticize what others do, you may dislike it, that’s fine – but actively asking for censorship when you could easily unfollow or block a person just makes you look incompetent in your use of the internet.

5. Do not give people on tumblr or /any/ website the responsibility for your emotional well-being. Because these people do not even know you so no, you have no right to ask them to take care of you.

If the door says “spider convention”, you’re afraid of spiders, and you go inside anyway and get freaked out, that’s your problem. 

If the door says nothing and you go in and get freaked out, that’s a problem, but only the lack of a sign. That doesn’t mean people can’t have spider conventions, they just gotta label the damn things. 

If the building is a convention center for people who really like creepy-crawly pets, maybe just don’t go in there in the first place.

drferox:

A large portable dog carrier would do the trick if it hasn’t hit its full plumage, but alternatively a large sack or towel wrapped around the body might do, letting the head and tail out, so long as someone can hold it.

I’d suggest a towel wrapped around the body and loosely tied with some ropes, being sure not to squeeze the ribcage (birds can’t breathe if you squeeze them), then a loose sack over the head to calm it. People transport chickens that way. 
Alternately, one of those long, thin plastic boxes that people store plastic Christmas trees in, with holes in the lid for air, would probably neatly contain an entire peacock and its fancy tail. It’d be bulky to carry, but easier to wrangle than a peacock. 

fabledartz:

platovevo:

i’m a simple woman. like to kiss a lady, like to hold a small cat. and that’s that.

like to be 2 kissing ladies holding a cat

fourteen–steps:

Heya so I ordered a buncha various leaves from Tannin Aquatics a few months back meaning to use them as snail food. Most botanicals release tannins and have some degree of effect on pH and KH. But since my snails are hard water, high pH kiddos, I wanted to check and see what sort of effects each one had on the water before I went chucking them in my tank so I knew how much was safe to use and how often. 

So I did some scIENCE and tested a piece of each leaf (tried to weigh em but it was too light for my scale so I just tried to get them roughly the same size), microwaved 4 minutes so they’d sink, then left in a glass with 1 cup of fresh tap water, plus a control of plain water, for uhhh four days? Tested pH before and after and boom bing bam voila I know which Leaf is Strong like Russian Winter.

Anyway it was useful for me but also may be useful for you guys if you’re considering botanicals and want to know how they’ll affect your water.

Start pH: ***
—————–Test results——————

Control: 8.1 

Artocarpus: 8.0

Catappa: 7.2

Loquat: 6.3

Guava: 7.9

Jackfruit: 7.8 

***The start pH was 7.2, but my tap always comes out lower and stabilizes up around 8-8.2 within about a day of going into any of my tanks, I figure it’s dissolved gasses since I’m in an apartment with pressurized pumps. I decided to make my judgements comparing each one to the final control result of 8.1 instead of a net change from 7.2, since I really wanted to know how it would affect my tank water not fresh-from-the-tap water

********** I also got mulberry leaves! But those are fragile and decompose fast so don’t really make good long term botanicals. And my snails and shrimp devour them in like 3 hours flat 😛

As far as yard leaves, I don’t have any official measurements, but oak leaves have a lot of tannins. If you’re looking for leaves that won’t affect your water too much, pecan leaves break down relatively fast but don’t release a significant amount of tannins. Tannins are good for calming stressed or light-sensitive fish, some fish won’t do well without them, and they add a level of realism to your tank, but most species of fish don’t really need water that looks like iced tea.

There’s some kind of irony in a shark scientist being bitten by a crocodile during a night dive looking for sharks. 

(she’s fine, it was an exploratory bite and the croc decided she wasn’t food, she’s just got a few little puncture marks and some bruising in her leg)

drferox:

Client communication, the ability to listen to clients and get them to understand you, is a vital skill for a vet. It doesn’t matter how clever or compassionate you are if you can’t get an animal’s owner to understand what’s going on and work with you to treat their animal.

Some people are just bad listeners. Some people just don’t have English as their first language, which can lead to interesting situations with charades or trying to find alternative words someone can understand (like asking a proper old lady whether her cat is still taking a shit each day because she doesn’t know the words for faeces or poop), but sometimes you get a genuine gem.

This client in particular was a little challenge to communicate with because of limited English, but we both tried to meet each other in the middle. And over the week or so we managed to get her little cat from ‘very very sick’ to ‘finally back to normal’.

She was extremely relieved to have her little cat well again, to the extent that she brought in a thank you card to the clinic, that she’d had her neighbor write because, again, English wasn’t her first language and she didn’t want to be wrong.

But it was her words that stuck with me. She spoke about how her cat was all better and would sleep on her pillow next to her head again, but she didn’t know the word for ‘purring’. She said,

“My cat, she make the music again. I’m so happy.”

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