so happy for you c:

literally giving mother

chrimas

Much obliged! Blood falls is one of my favorite natural phenomena and I love spreading the word about its Weird Microbes whenever possible

Basically, they go something like SO42– → SO32– →S2O32–, which is broadly endergonic, but there's a ton of different electron acceptors in the vicinity which can essentially create the free energy, and also cycle the sulfur between these different forms. it doesn't get eaten up, just kinda tossed around.

It's not fully worked out the exact specifics of the metabolism, but it's some really weird anoxic stuff! the carbon deprivation is another big thing I don't even fully understand - apparently small amounts of carbon 14 are found in samples but it seems much of that is just because the samples are taken from surface outflow (same with how theres a bit of oxygen there, but almost no actual dissolved oxygen in the deep glacial reservoir)

honestly i almost had a panic attack on waking but after that yeah it was pretty great

No, but I believe it deep in my bones.

Maybe there's a reasonable explanation, but maybe the road to hell is lined with "benefit of the doubt".

Exactly. And the thing is, some fraction of the uncounted ballots probably are for completely unrelated reasons, and they rely on this for plausible deniability. But taken as a whole, I believe most of these cases are cases of deliberate lack of care, i.e., voter suppression.

The real question now is: so what? What are we going to do about it?

Edit: just to be clear, I don’t have an answer - this is just what I’ve been asking myself the last month

Yeah, this exactly. That's the feeling I'm getting. Maybe there's a reasonable explanation, but maybe the road to hell is lined with "benefit of the doubt".

This is where lucid dreaming would be nice. I mean, who wouldn’t want a situation where you could burn down your place of employment without consequences?

I always thought it was a torus, like a doughnut. If you hold it one way it’s hollow (the doughnut hole), stand it up like a wheel and it’s round, lay it down on your plate and it’s flat. It’s the only shape that fits all three delusions.

But, why wasn't my vote counted?

I’m absolutely convinced it’s because someone knew there would be no consequences for burying it. Voter suppression is far more likely to get hand wringing than a serious response, so active grassroots voter suppression has become popular.

It’s turns out the old saying “if voting could bring change it would be illegal” was wrong. Instead, it’s “if voting could bring change we will rig the results.”

must have been great to wake up

Have you heard of "expanding earth theory"?

Like pita bread

I think it's cool that the earth is both flat, as well as hollow.

which one's ur fav?

The worst thing I could imagine (it won't ever happen, but if it did) is if a joke post I made went super viral and Musk picked it up and made it his thing.

I'd sob mournfully. I don't know what I'd do.

this is such a nice story. listening to the restaurant owner talking about how they wished that someone who would appreciate the TV would take care of it, the way that people came through to help others

i remember to do this by doing it everytime i shower

thats rly cool thank u

I had the losing teeth one a few years back, and a few days or weeks after, a thing happened where all the teeth in my mouth felt like they had rotted, and i was in incredible pain to the point i couldn't sleep. i attributed this to my being negligent and not having gone to the dentist's in like 10 years.

i got an emergency dentist's appointment, for which i took a whole day off work for, and they did the x-ray, and my teeth were just completely fine. they did a bunch of 'does this hurt?' tests, and none of them did. while this was going on, the pain subsided, and the dentist became frustrated as she couldn't locate the source of the problem. i was booked another appointment and told to cancel it if the problem didn't reappear before then. which it hasn't ever.

one of the strangest things to ever happen to me, and so fucking bizarre it would happen right after that awful nightmare. but at least i got to know the teeth in the left side of my mouth are ok.

i know it's a heavy job but thank you for being our ambassador to the dream world monkey people

Oooh okay 👍

you just gotta go fast