Artsy things on occasions

AO3 filters are incredible. The show ended over a decade ago but you're only getting around to watching it now, and you want to avoid spoilers for later seasons? No worries; you can filter out anything posted/updated after a given air date. Don't want to see crossovers? Guess what -- you don't have to. Three clicks is all it takes to make them go away. ONLY want crossovers? They've got that option, too. In a hurry and only have a few minutes to read? Filter out everything over whatever word count you consider to be "too long." Absolutely can't stand this one character/trope/relationship? Exclude, exclude, exclude. And all they ask in return is that you tag your stuff properly. Incredible.

If you haven't seen the filters before, you might be finding fics via searching. Search is great (and you can get *really* specific with it), but it doesn't have the quick filter menu.

Tap on a tag you're interested in reading (just at the top of a fic, for example). That will bring you to a results page that shows every fic that uses that tag. To get rid of the ones you don't want, look right above the works list to the buttons and tap on Filters. (if you're on a computer, the filters will already be there, on the right hand side of your screen).

Once you've found the filter menu, it's like the OP said. There are a *lot* of options for you to choose from. You can tap on any of them to open up a sub menu with specifics.

For relationship/character/trope tags, AO3 will automatically show you the top ten most-tagged ones within the tag you're already looking at. If the one you want to exclude isn't in that list, you can type it into the "Other tags to exclude" box and AO3 will give you a dropdown to pick from. You can add a theoretically unlimited number of tags to your exclude list, but I think it's possible to have a list that breaks things eventually. I've never personally hit it? But I bet someone out there has.

You can also Include things you want to guarantee are tagged, but be careful with that filter. Include filters stack on top of each other, so if you Include 3 different tags, you'll only get fics that have all three of them tagged. You won't get ones that have*any* of them tagged. For more info on how to do an "any of these tags" filter, see this post over here.

This isn't particularly relevant to anything specific. I just wanted to remind everyone this is something the US government did.

oh, i clicked on the article to see if this book was mentioned, and hey its DEBORAH BLUME!! aka the author of the book I was just about to reccomend about this Exact Thing:

if this article is interesting to you, i highly reccomend this book. It doesn't just discuss prohibition of course, but it goes even more in depth on this stuff.

I would also reccomend her newer book...

this one is about the history of food safety in the united states, and I cannot emphasize enough how disgusting some of this is. wanna find out what embalmed milk is? wanna learn about how much random bullshit from sawdust to coconut shells to dust was put into spices? wanna learn about all the ways food was left to rot and be sold before the FDA? wanna learn how HARD food manufacturers fought regulation, for their right to not be inspected and put borax and formaldehyde and unlabeled ingredients in their products? read this book!

this book takes its name from the IRL poison squad, which was a bunch of healthy young men who were purposefully fed common food additives like borax to see if they were as safe as manufacturers claimed.

This, of course, is also not at all relevant to current events or to claims that deregulation is unneeded because companies will self regulate. nope. not at all.

just wanted to share the National Down Syndrome Society’s message for this year’s World Down Syndrome Day (21st March) 💛💙

Powerful message that lovingly includes multiple disabilities, united. I love this.

For the ones that need it today

you ever heard a lightning fucking scream?

youre about to

A huge improvement on a Wilhelm Scream.

I think it's a lightning whistler. Incredibly fucking creepy.

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2056695143/what-is-the-loud-screeching-sound-during-a-heavy-thunderstorm

Barefoot whenever possible, but when I DO sock, the sox MUST be inside out. I can't stand feeling the toe-seam on my skin.

Barefoot whenever I can. Hate socks or shoes. But have to wear socks on boots in winter.

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is it fucking weird to anyone else to think that deer are like, everywhere

like, i tend to think of them as a north american animal, but

I like how they just avoid Mongolia

Mongolia has an anti-deer forcefield.

I like the rat map even better

What is Alberta doing

we are fucking constantly vigilant 

Jesus fucking christ, Alberta

Hey! Albertan here. I thought rats were fictional until I was 9 years old. I have still never seen a rat in person.

🎶Province with a rat quell! Rodent power!🎵

Actually Australia has a feral deer problem in our eastern states.

To go with the world’s largest population of camels. And our feral water buffalo, cats, dogs, foxes, cane toads, rats, rabbits and starlings. We have a damn fence down the centre of the country called “the rabbit proof fence”.

same guy

okay, okay. Imagine you're watching Gravity Falls for the first time. You watch all the episodes in order EXCEPT one of them is mysteriously left out.

spin this wheel to see which one you skipped

reblogs appreciated!

You think “oh it would be useful to learn how to identify my thrifted yarn and clothing” and before you know it you’ve been recruited by fiber witches giving out their spells willy nilly, again

It's very endearing to me how many people are willing to keep an eye on a video feed so they can push a button and let a fish in the Netherlands get to the other side of a dam.

It is genuinely baffling to me, in a very kind and positive way, especially coupled with the local news continually going several shades of 'wtf, this thing is a roaring success again and we don't quite get why'. They've already quadrupled their capacity for simultaneous clicks and it's still nowhere near enough and there's just... Bewilderment.

But to come back to point 1- Citizen Science fills a hole in the soul that wanted to go out on adventures and discover things when we were younger, but the study of it was hard or we didn't have the money or our schools were garbage. But you don't have to have a degree to do things like... press a button or download and use an app, or count or transcribe notes.

Anyways- here's some Citizen Science links if the Fish Doorbell makes you feel happy and you yearn for more ways to help scientists do stuff:

Foldit (folding proteins)

Fathomverse (sea animals)

Project Monarch (butterflies)

Bioblitz, an event where citizens identify as many species in an area within a period of time

Species Watch (animal species)

BOINC’s Compute for Science

Zooniverse is a website that hosts information on many citizen science projects

Label trees in aerial photos

Count cells in fossils and modern leaves

Digitize Atmospheric Data

Count penguins

US-based Citizen Science Database

eBird (bird identification)

Merlin (bird identification by sound)

iNaturalist (nature identification)

MapSwipe (collaboration between several Red Cross organizations and Doctors Without Borders, update vital geospatial data)

Smithsonian Archives Transcription Center

reblog if you or your moots live in fucking narnia or some shit

Let's not forget "used to live within road trip distance, and then right before you got into the sharing locations level of friendship they moved back to fucking Narnia or some shit."

My grandfather wanted to be an opera singer.

But, you see, his youngest brother died of whooping cough, just a few years before the Pertussis vaccine would be developed.

So my grandfather did not become an opera singer. He always loved opera, listened to it, would sing along to his vinyl records of it, play it on the radio whenever he could. But it wasn't his profession.

No. He became a pediatrician.

It's about what kind of world he wanted to live in, you know?

I'm so sad and so angry.

Also, you need a DTaP booster (Diptheria, Tetanus, and Pertussis) every 10 years. People generally forget about it as an adult unless they have a tetanus scare, but if you are ever regularly around kids, it's important to stay up to date.

The Measles vaccine is good for life, especially if you got the full 2 doses as a kid. But DTaP is different! Make sure you have that up to date!

I got my last standard DTaP in 2017.

Got a pertussis booster while I was pregnant.

TH is fully vaccinated for their age, including flu and covid boosters.

In 2018 I had my measles immunity checked, because I heard that some people don't develop immunity properly and some batches of vaccine don't cause persistent immunity as reliably. Turns out, my primary care doc has an immune compromised child. Doc was only too happy to order the blood work, probably would have given me another MMR right there if I'd asked.

You never know whose life you're protecting when you participate in public health by getting vaccinated. By ensuring I'm immune, I help to keep someone's child safe. Nothing could be more important.

I lived in an area with a major measles outbreak in 2015, and my company required everyone to either show proof of vaccination or have tests done to show proof of immunity. I could not find my childhood vaccine records, so I had the test done.

It turns out I *was* immune to measles. I was also immune to Rubella. And Varicella (chicken pox), which I was never vaccinated for, but did have as an infant. I was not, however, immune to mumps, because even though I had been fully vaccinated, vaccines don't work 100% of the time. I had been protected by other people's immunity (herd immunity) for 20ish years.

My company offered to give me the MMR for free, as they were giving it to anyone who needed it, so I am proud to say I've had more MMRs than the average person.

I got TDaPs (DTaP and TDaPs immunize against the same diseases, but in general TDaPs are for people over 7 years, and DTaPs are for little kids) in 2016 and 2018 when I was pregnant, as did most of my family because I insisted that if they wanted to see my babies, they needed flu shots and whooping cough immunizations.

Vaccines save lives. Even if you think you're tough and you can take it, getting vaccinated means you don't pass it on to other people who can't. Vaccinate yourself, and if you have them, vaccinate your kids.

Oh yeah, I found out that husbff's mother was vaccine hesitant, and flipped shit. I said that anyone who wanted to see tiny TH needed to be vaccinated like it was the first day of school. My mother, retired RN, got extra vaccinations so she could be there when her grandbat was born. Husbff's mom still hasn't met TH. Her loss. TH has so much love in their life, and everyone who gets to spend time with them participates in keeping them healthy and safe.

I wanted to meme before the big day.

Not yet, Brutus.. not yet..

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