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something I've been curious about recently and yet another "was my childhood just kinda weird?" thing I've been wondering, but:
* to be clear, I mean a storm with lightning specifically, not just heavy rains.
I didn't used to but as I've aged I've stopped caring mostly, as long as the lightning isn't right on top of us
weird as fuck living in a culture where it's considered more impolite to speak up and defend yourself against someone treating you unfairly than it is for someone to be rude to you in the first place
older family members, coworkers, customers, and strangers in general can say the most batshit insane things to your face and somehow you're considered to be the "rude" one if you say "hey that wasn't cool of you to say"
if you love downloading pdfs you are likely to never use again you have GOT to get into knitting
if you like opening tabs and downloading files. by god is ravelry the website for you
I used to be more active in ham radio but fell off it. Tonight, I saw the storms coming in and decided to break out my little Baofeng radio and get used to programing it by hand. I got it tuned to the repeater run by a guy on my road and just left it on.
Well right as our internet started flaking out, the tornado warning came through on the radio. My phone didn't get it, my laptop couldn't, but my radio did. The repeater owner was taking reports and running the traffic to the local weather net so I could hear people report what they were seeing in real time. I heard that it was spotter confirmed and exactly where it looked to be - and that it was moving very fast.
This gave me enough lead time to get my parents and brother + his girlfriend to the basement. It passed just a couple miles to the north of us. We could hear it.
Here's the thing - anyone could do what I did.
You don't need a license to own a ham radio. You just need a license to transmit/talk on ham frequencies. So don't talk (unless you're personally experiencing an emergency and are calling for help) and you're fine.
Here's the handheld radio I used. (You can find cheaper versions)
I found the repeater info by typing "repeaterbook SKYWARN [my state]" into my search engine and looked for locations near me.
I took those numbers and used this tutorial to put them into my radio.
Note: I am in the US. Regulations vary in other places.
But yeah, especially if you're civic minded or preparedness oriented, ham radio is great. I'm so grateful to the people who maintain the repeaters around here. They do such a great job and it's a public service people don't know about.
I encourage you to check it out!
to all the warriors who will feel pressured to shave their legs now that it’s warm enough to wear shorts… HOLD THE LINE!!!
as this post gets closer to hitting 1k i can hear the “i just hate the feeling of hair” people approaching in the distance & when they get here im turning off reblogs
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pippin was 29 years old???
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he should've been at the green dragon
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#gates of argonath #argonath #amon hen #middle earth landscapes #photographers of middle earth #travel #dark academia #lmao pls reblog this i almost fell out of my boat taking this photo
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my hungry ass could never travel with lembas
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#the entitlement i see on this site sometimes is disgusting #y'all will just post about having easy access to lembas when we can't eats hobbit food??? #we must starve??? #vent #do not rb
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I've talked a lot about this already on this blog, but I want to have everything collected in one post so next time some dipshit with a white hand icon slides into my inbox to call me a liar I can just link to this post. tl;dr grima wormtongue has been poisoning my uncle and the land of rohan for the past few years, and here are the receipts:
Keep reading
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i stg if one more of you tells me I should've sent frodo on the eagles I'm asking iluvatar to take me back
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recent read: there and back again: a hobbit's tale by bilbo baggins
I thought this was SOOO fun and cute! I'm usually not into rpf but did anyone else think there was something between bilbo and thorin? 👀 I can't be the only one who saw it. but the ending made me cry my eyes out.
4.5/5 stars
#booklr #there and back again #bilbo baggins #recent read #dark academia #light academia #book review
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who up mirking they wood
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wtf the new king of gondor just bowed to these four random short guys?? everyone else bowed too and I just went along with it lmao 😅 am I missing something????
#this is right after he sang a song and made out with some hot elf chick #truly the wildest coronation i've ever been to
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here y'all go again pitting two bad bitches against each other
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everyone who voted galadriel is a kinslayer apologist #luthiensweep
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fuck my job so much. everyone manifest an attack on gondor so I can finally warm my fingers on this beacon fire.
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by eru this can't be happening
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So my problem with most ‘get to know your character’ questioneers is that they’re full of questions that just aren’t that important (what color eyes do they have) too hard to answer right away (what is their greatest fear) or are just impossible to answer (what is their favorite movie.) Like no one has one single favorite movie. And even if they do the answer changes.
If I’m doing this exercise, I want 7-10 questions to get the character feeling real in my head. So I thought I’d share the ones that get me (and my students) good results:
Scrolled past this agakn and just can't get over how much I love it. We need to make things beautiful again and this is such a wonderful example. The beadwork on the wires of a utitarian object, contrasted with the grey concrete.
I think some of you forgot that autistic people sometimes act strange and say things that are poorly worded and speak with incorrect tone and misunderstand or miss social cues because they are autistic
We are coming. Fascists beware.
Join the correct side of history.
Chicago:
Boston
New Orleans
Btw much as I love to make fun of twitter and reddit's business decisions, I have 0% trust in tumblr's management to not go a similar route so this is your gentle reminder that you should regularly go to your blog settings to export your blog. That's a fancy way of saying you can download a backup of your blog so if everything goes down you'll still have a backup of your posts & convos.
It's gonna come as a surprise to most of you, but if you don't want to do that for whatever reason you're allowed to not reblog this post. I'm not holding a gun to your head here I'm just trying to spread the word for people who do want a backup of their stuff.
Also, made this guide for backup Tumblr blogs (ft. export blog method, and python 3 script method):
