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I am Muhammad Shehab from Gaza🍉. I support a family of 6 people. My sick mother and father, my wife Hiyam, and my sons (Zain and Yahya). I have a gofundme campaign that I created to treat my mother and father, protect my family, and get them out of the danger of the war on Gaza🍉. We live in very difficult circumstances Help me we are still very far from the goal. I hope everyone will donate even a little. I am confident that you will stand with me and support me until I achieve my goal and save my family from the danger of war. Share my story. Pin my story to your page. Everything helps. Can you share some of my posts from time to time? Maybe the internet will be cut off in my area. Thank you

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We are approaching the maximum of images you can post here so I thought it was time I make a little showcase of all the formation pieces we covered so far on the streams.

For people who don't know: for several months now I draw one formation or fossil locality every Saturday. The next place we visit is chosen by a wheel of names, which we also constantly fill up again when a new formation is picked.

I try to make it as interesting as possible in my composition and choice of animals and I can tell you this series has been a great training when it comes to constructing these, how I call them, Menageries.

I have to thank a team of friends and colleagues who help behind the scenes with research, creation of size charts and conversation partners when it comes to deciding on the compositions of these pieces. Their help has been invaluable!

Can we get around the 30 image limit by reposting with a new image to the thread each week? We shall see. Mazon Creek now, Toolebuc formation this Saturday.

Adding Toolebuc formation

Adding the Cleveland Shale of the Ohio formation.

Adding the Consthum quarry

Adding the Ermaying formation

Adding the Bahariya formation!

Adding the Whitewater formation!

Btw. this was the last formation piece of the year, I would love to know what has been your favorite so far!

Adding the Bugti hills member of the Chitarwata formation.

First formation stream of the year!

Adding the Gigantopithecus fauna of Pleistocene China!

Adding the Hell Creek formation from the latest Cretaceous of North America! Our 1 year anniversary for this series!

Adding the Rio do Rasto formation from the middle Permian of Brazil!

Adding the Corral Bluffs from the early Paleocene of the Denver formation.

Adding the Fossil Butte member of the Eocene Green River formation.

Adding the Soom Shale, member of the Cederberg Formation in South Africa. A late Ordovician world of oddities.

Adding the Miocene St. Bathans fauna from New Zealand! A spark of life after this fauna island nearly drowned in the Oligocene!

Adding the Candeleros formation from the Cretaceous (Cenomanian) of Argentina. Home of Giganotosaurus and many sauropods.

Adding the Rhynie Chert locality from the Devonian of Scotland. A geothermal wetland preserving early landplants and animals.

Adding the Ischigualasto formation from the Upper Triassic of Argentina, known for some of the oldest dinosaurs.

Adding Emu Bay Shale, from the Cambrian of Australia. No. 50 in this series!

Adding Sirius Passet, another Cambrian lagerstätte from Greenland. Tons of weird critters from here, among them the more than 50 cm long Pambdelurion.

🧹🌸 Happy Feaster! 🌸🧹

One of most influential national holidays in Jovia is Feaster, aka "Easter Feast." It is descended from the Christian holiday Easter, though it does not always fall on the same Sunday of the Terran solar calendar. Jovia's Christian minorities (mostly congregants of the Martian Church of Christ or Presbyterians) sometimes celebrate it as a religious holiday, but it has experienced secularization through its association with Spring Cleaning Week.

This week starts on the first Monday of April and is one of two compulsory maintenance weeks in the year for Jovian citizens. It focuses on the cleaning up of green spaces, biosystems, and microgravity farms in your place of residence; either the mega space station Nexus Jovia or one of the settlements on Jupiter’s moons. Jovian citizens are required to fulfill a minimum of 6 hours of maintenance during the first 6 days of the week unless they have a registered exemption, and there is generally a scramble in the week before as signups open and citizens try to get slots in some of the less exhausting or gross jobs. Easter Feast occurs on the final day of the week, and is a welcome break after the toil of the previous 6 days. Many people with family on the Jovian system will travel to see them for Feaster, and Nexus Jovia is at its most crowded during this Spring holiday season.

Perhaps the most important part of Spring Cleaning Week is the rotating out of the microgravity farms. Old crops are harvested on mass and replanted, older livestock are culled and butchered, and the algae and yeast tanks are drained, sanitized, and recultured. This effectively makes Feaster an anomalous early spring harvest festival, but in a place with no natural seasons. Many of the microgravity crop varieties grow much longer (both in length and in time) than their terrestrial counterparts, being unrestrained by gravity, and are continuously harvested from lateral shoots and just under the apical meristem. Crops such as lettuce and Brassicas have exceptionally sturdy, long "canes" and are used to make Easter brooms. While these are technically a tool, most are a symbolic decoration for the holiday and elaborately adorned with ribbons and flowers. Households will often hang them on the door or over windows at their residence, as a representation of their service for the station. Particularly nasty maintenance tasks often give out fancy decorative brooms, molded metal or myla collectables, and other trinkets as a reward to citizens willing to undertake them. These prizes are often prominently displayed by those who receive them, for bragging rights.

Compulsory maintenance weeks have their root in Nexus Jovia's history as a small mining and research space station. Even as its population ballooned into the millions and it expanded to over a hundred kilometers wide, the ethos of the little station has carried forward: the only thing keeping a space station from killing its inhabitants is continual maintenance by its inhabitants. April Maintenance Week's nearness to Easter was originally a coincidence, but after chabbits, (also known as "Easter bunnies," a GMO pet that lays colorful eggs) were introduced and popularized as a space livestock, the two became associated. In modern Jovia, chabbits are a staple livestock prized for their eggs, meat, and manure. For many Jovians, Easter Feast is not complete without whole grilled chabbit at the center of the table.

It's Feaster and also coincidentally the anniversary of RttS's launch as a public webcomic. Happy Birthday Runaway to the Stars! You are 1!

Since I made the horrible mistake of releasing my comic the same day as Homestuck Day, maybe I'll just keep calling Feaster the anniversary lmao. Feaster next year is April 12th.

my hottest take

Counter point, those machines can make me a peach sprite.

guys did you know the tech in that nefangled machine revolutionized preemie healthcare

yeah the guy who invented them made incredibly precise infusion pumps (as opposed to gravity fed ivs) which not only meant they could give medications to teeny tiny babies safely, it's also used for insulin pumps and portable dialysis machines. the key element is that it's a peristaltic pump so the liquid stays in sterile tubing for safety

(unholy drink cloaca uses it to dispense precise amounts of flavored sugar syrup)

*grabs your hands and speaks to you in a tone that is so gentle* they/them pronouns stop being universal once you learn a person's pronouns. Sometimes that person's pronouns will include they/them and in that specific case you are allowed to keep using those pronouns for that person. In any case where you learn a persons pronouns and that person doesn't use they/them, you should no longer use those pronouns for that person. If you continue to use they/them pronouns knowing that person doesn't use them, you are now misgendering that person. Kindly stop doing that please. Thank you, I love you.

yknow what, i AM making this an official linguistics post

today on neat hozier retweets: disappearing birds!

Ooh, invisible bird glitch. That's a rare one, also known to happen to owls.

70's/80's/90's Local TV Passover Station IDs/Bumpers 1. WBAL-TV, Baltimore, Maryland, 1998 2. WFSB-TV, Hartford, Connecticut, 1984 3. WCBS-TV, New York City, New York, 70's 4. WAGA-TV, Atlanta, Georgia, 1989 5. WDIV-TV, Detroit, Michigan, 1985 6. WRC-TV, Washington DC, 1983 7. WNYW-TV, New York City, New York, 1989 8. WCMH-TV, Columbus, Ohio, 1989

Going to a seder at a family friend's place tonight and I have been informed multiple times that someone there has changed her name to Stephanie, but because it seems nobody wants to deadname her, nobody has specified who Stephanie is. So I guess I'm just going to get a surprise Stephanie when I arrive.

I am among the first people to arrive which means I get to play a fun process of elimination game. It is not the family's youngest child so I think that leaves two more. Unless Stephanie is an aunt or a niece or something.

Have learned that Stephanie is the eldest child. Which is very convenient for me because she is the one family member whose name I could not remember anyway.

Shout out to Stephanie's friend who read this post and called me out on it during the seder.

"THERE IS NO FRIEND INSIDE ME, THERE IS NO PLUEY, AND THERE IS NO DELTARUNE TOMORROW."

GOOD NEWS EVERYONE!!!!! GO HOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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I posted this twice by accident

if you saw it shhhhh it's not true

the doctors waking me up post top surgery

version for me on april 23rd

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This is the only way I want to be convinced to do taxes: by manga.

Direct File was also still operational when I filed back in February, even though Elon had already said it was shutting down. The tax return that hit my bank account like a week later indicates otherwise, so I assume it's still working? If you live in an eligible state and have the right kind of tax return it's absolutely the best option!