incredibly cute how sophie keeps calling harry ‘our mr wilson.’ your honour that’s her emotional support evil lawyer

i see a lot of neurodivergent people talk about how they can't handle bright white overhead lighting at home, so their preference is to have warm/yellow bulbs in lamps as the main source of household lighting, often with colouful neon lights/fairylights/candles as other secondary lighting sources. I feel like this is actually more common than we think but maybe there are some insane people who love or at least are indifferent to bright white overhead lighting. so poll time.

if you say bright white overhead lighting is your main lighting preference please tell me why

Happens wayyy more than it should

I can’t see the full study without doing an interlibrary loan request, but I will say that it looks like a perfectly reasonable study to me, from what I can read of it, and Heredity is a good journal. It’s very unlikely it got published there if the data didn’t support its conclusions.

A gene is never dominant or recessive; the alleles of the gene may be. In the line you’re quoting from the paper, what they mean is that from their earliest crosses they thought it was most likely to be dominant, and went forward assuming that. Due to that assumption, they assumed that females who laid red eggs were heterozygous for the mutant red allele, and that those who didn’t lay red eggs were homozygous for the recessive wt allele. Without being able to see their data I can’t say for sure if these conclusions are reasonable, but the crosses they describe are perfectly able to demonstrate that it’s a single gene, and test whether the mutation is dominant or recessive. You don’t need to do any sequencing for that, if the inheritance patterns are consistent. And given that it passed peer review in Heredity, again I’d be quite surprised if their data didn’t support those basic conclusions.

The person interpreting the study may be doing it badly, I don’t know, but the study itself seems sound, as far as I can tell.

been doing a LOT of analog note-taking / journaling / planning lately (new years' resolution fulfilled! yes!), and I've slowly but surely started writing mostly in cursive again.

that said, I'm old (almost 35, ew) so I have questions.

if you want to RB this and put you age / locale / whatever else you think is relevant in the tags, that'd be very cool

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You are faced with some random problem and the only person who can help you is the main character from the last piece of media you consumed (you can also do favorite character if there are multiple main characters). You can stay in this universe or be in the universe of the character, whichever you prefer, but the problem remains the same and the only person who can directly help you is the main character. That character can call on the help of those they know in their media, but when it comes down to it, they are the only person really helping you. How do you react to this situation?

Spin to find out your problem:

Shout out to everyone who is just so tired So so exhausted So very very tired so very fatigued so sleepy and tired So

RIP Joann, now what?

I wanted to make a post I could copy and paste and or link when I see folks asking where to buy fabrics when Joann is gone. I sew a lot, generally between 100-200 items a year and I don't do it on a big budget. Stores are not in a particular order.

Notions:

Wawak.com - start here, mostly stay here. Wawak is a supplier for professional sewing businesses and have the prices that show it. I will not pay for gutermann Mara 100 anywhere else. I buy buttons, tools, thread, and most elastic here.

Stitch Love Studio - this is where I buy lingerie supplies https://www.etsy.com/shop/StitchLoveStudio?ref=yr_purchases

Fabric:

Fabric Mart - this is one where you want to sign up for emails and never buy unless its on sale. They run different sales every day and they rotate. Mostly deadstock fabrics but I buy more from here than anywhere else. Fantastic customer service and if you watch you can get things like $6 wool suiting or $4 cotton jersey. https://fabricmartfabrics.com/

Fabrics-Store - again, buy the sales not the full price. Sign up for the emails but redirect them to a folder because it is TOO MANY. They stock linen or good but not amazing quality. https://www.fabrics-store.com/

Purple Seamstress - This is where I buy my solid cotton lycra jersey. They have other things, but the jersey is what I'm here for. Inexpensive and very good quality. If you ask she will mail you a swatch card for the solids. https://purpleseamstressfabric.com/

LA Finch - deadstock fabrics with a fantastic remnant selection https://lafinchfabrics.myshopify.com/

Califabrics - mix of deadstock and big brands, easy to navigate and always seem to have good denim in stock. https://califabrics.com/

Boho Fabrics - good variety, nice bundles. I have also gotten some really great trims from here. https://www.bohofabrics.com/

Firecracker Fabrics - garment and quilting fabrics, really nice selection and great sale section. I've bought $5 yard quilting cottons here several times. https://www.firecrackerfabrics.com/

Hancock's of Paducah - Quilting fabric and some limited garment fabric. AMAZING sale section. Do not sleep on the sale section. This is my first stop when buying quilting fabrics. Usually the last stop too. Not particularly speedy shipping. https://www.hancocks-paducah.com/

Itokri - This is something a little different. Itokri is an Indian business with incredible traditional fabrics. Shipping to the US is expensive, but the fabric is so inexpensive it evens out. I generally end up paying like $30 for shipping. Beautiful ikat and block prints. https://itokri.com/

Miss Matatabi - this is a little treat. This isn't where you go to save money, but there are so many beautiful things in this shop. Ships from Japan incredibly quickly. https://shop.missmatatabi.com/

Lucky Deluxe - Craft thrift store, always has an incredible selection and fantastic customer service. I need to close the tab fast because I never go to this website without finding something I need. https://www.luckydeluxefabrics.com/

Swanson's - the OG of online craft thrift stores, but I find their website harder to navigate. https://www.swansonsfabrics.com

Honorary Mentions: I haven't shopped at these places yet but I have had them recommended and likely will at some point.

A Thrifty Notion - https://athriftynotion.com/

Creative Closeouts - https://creativecloseoutsfabric.com/ being rebranded to sewsnip.com on March 1 - quilting deadstock

Hawthorne Supply Co. - I just got this rec and I think I need to not look too closely or I'm going to slip with my debit card. https://www.hawthornesupplyco.com/

This is not an exhaustive list of everywhere you can buy fabric, or even a full list of where I shop. There are SO many options out there in the world. You also need to think outside the fabric store box. I thrift men's shirt fabrics for quilts and sheets for backing fabric. I don't do a ton of in person thrifting and my local stores don't get a lot of craft materials but every thrift store is its own universe and reflects the community it is in. Go out and find something cool.

Oh and final note: Don't shop at Hobby Lobby.

Honestly bizarre that tomatoes get all the flack for “not being a vegetable” because they're technically a fruit when:

A) There are a ton of fruits that get categorised as vegetables. Like this also applies to pumpkins, squashes and cucumbers.

B) The fucking mushrooms are standing there at the back of the crowd in this witch trial, trying to look inconspicuous because they somehow got into the vegetable club with no fucking controversy despite the fact that they're not even plants.

"technically tomatoes are fruits--" THAT MUSHROOM OVER THERE IS MORE CLOSELY RELATED TO A FUCKING SHIH TZU THAN IT IS TO LITERALLY ANY PLANT

every time i write i think about that maya angelou quote where she talks about her editor asking her why she uses semicolons instead of colons and says she has often responded by threatening to never speak to him again

she’s so fucking funny

If only my ancestors had been fortunate enough to marry into the branch of the bacteria family that could photosynthesize, like all my little green cousins here.

Stromatolites [Explained]

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Jupiter Ascending is the movie of all time because it's visually stunning, has a phenomenal soundtrack composed by the legendary Michael Giacchino and inspired by Gustav Holst's The Planets, has some of the most gorgeous costume designs in the history of anything ever, and uses the space opera concept to criticize the evils of unchecked capitalist greed. But in the same breath it also involves Mila Kunis falling in love with a dog/man/bird? supersoldier hybrid played by Channing Tatum in a goatee, Sean Bean as another supersoldier who is literally part bee, Mila Kunis controlling bees through the power of the divine right of kings or something, a random elephant pilot who has no dialogue and just makes elephant noises during his limited screentime, Mila Kunis selling her eggs to buy a telescope, the Russian mafia???? murdering Jarvis for no reason, a political advisor who looks like an owl, bitchy rich kids in space who are basically the Volturi but like if the Volturi were smart and actually used their power and immortality to build an almost unstoppable corporate empire the likes of which even Jeff Bezos would be afraid of, the ATLA/23andMe crossover nobody asked for, and Eddie Redmayne giving the performance of a lifetime that has yet to be matched by anybody else because of its unique blend of "teacher's pet theatre kid who took the concept of strong choices in the wrong direction but has never been told no" and award-winning Shakespearean actor

oh my god finally someone else who gets it

THIS!!!

Spin this wheel of ~300 AO3 tags three times.

The U.S. seems only to understand pregnancy as a distinct and fragile state. For the expectant, we issue reams of proscriptions—more than can reasonably be followed. We tell them what to eat and what not to eat. We ask that they visit the doctor regularly and that they not do any strenuous activity. We give them our seats on the bus. Finally, once they’ve actually undergone the physical trauma of it, their bodies thoroughly depleted, we beckon them most immediately to rejoin the rest of us. One New York mother summed up her recent postpartum experience this way: “You’re not hemorrhaging? OK, peace, see you later.”

The Chinese traditionally adhere to 30 days of restful confinement—another week for a C-section—during which time moms are meant to consume lactation-inducing soups and herbal tonics and abstain from sex and cold water. In Mexico, the ritualized interlude, or the cuarentena, goes for 40 days, or long enough for the womb to return to its place. Balinese women are not allowed to enter the kitchen until the baby’s cord stump has fallen. Dutch maternity nurses make postpartum visits every day for the eight days after childbirth, and in France, as elsewhere, new moms spend nearly a week in hospital.

Always, the mothers are educated as they convalesce; they’re taught to breast-feed, to manage baby rashes and bath time and sore nipples. Rarely are they first to respond to the infant’s shrieking. In 2011 I visited a luxury postpartum center in Taipei, where women of means (and who would rather not call on their mothers-in-law, as is custom) spend a month in recovery. When I asked Tsai Ya-hui, who had given birth to her first child three weeks earlier, what she did all day in her high-end suite, she answered: “Internet and sleep. That’s about it.” She looked more refreshed than I did.

There are elements of these postpartum practices (the consumption of foods rich in iron) that are common-sensical, and there are others (tightly wrapping the belly with a postnatal girdle; consuming distilled rice wine in place of water; extremely limited exposure to the sun in the first month), the usefulness and safety of which are debated by the medical community. But the thing to focus on here is the idea of a culturally recognized and accepted postpartum rest period. With these rituals comes an acknowledgment, familial and federal, that the woman needs relief more at this time than at any other—especially if she has a career to return to—and that it takes weeks, sometimes months, to properly heal from childbirth. An acknowledgement that overexertion after labor could lead to depression, infection, increased uterine bleeding, or prolapse. An acknowledgment that the postpartum stretch shouldn’t feel, as it did for so many of the American women who took part in my informal survey, like one long sleepless night.

“A culturally accepted postpartum period sends a powerful message that’s not being sent in this country,” said Dr. Margaret Howard, the director of the Day Hospital for Postpartum Depression in Providence, Rhode Island. “American mothers internalize the prevailing attitude—‘I should be able to handle this myself; women have babies every day’—and if they’re not up and functioning, they feel like there’s something wrong with them.” A colleague of Howard’s, the daughter of a pediatrician, brought her prepregnancy jeans to the delivery room, expecting to slip into them once the baby was out.

Last month, my baby ended up in the NICU in a different hospital (he’s fine, and will be, there were just some things he needed extra help with). Three days postpartum, I was discharged from the small hospital where I’d delivered. I was offered a wheelchair to the exit, which I didn’t actually need, and pretty much forbidden to carry anything other than my purse out to the car.

Then we drove half an hour to follow the baby to the large children’s hospital. There, when I came in and told the desk I was there to see my baby in the NICU, the directions were literally “follow that hallway down the entire length of the hospital, then turn and follow the next one halfway down the other side.”

I could walk that far, although I probably shouldn’t have. I made it to my baby’s room. And then, every day after that, I made the same walk from the parking garage to the NICU or back. I mostly left my overnight bag for my wife to carry for me.

It wasn’t really anyone’s fault. But it was a pretty stark illustration of how this can work. Half an hour drive took me from being a patient who wasn’t even assumed to be able to walk for five minutes to being pretty much presumed to be in typical health (I was not). And it’s three weeks later now and I haven’t spoken to a single doctor about my own health since. I do have resources if I have any complications or anything worrying, it’s not that I’m completely abandoned until 6 weeks, but still. It’s ridiculous that you go from weekly visits at the end of your pregnancy to over a month of not seeing a doctor.