Fairy fire also called fox fire is the bioluminescence created by some species of fungi located in decaying wood. The bluish-green glow is attributed to an enzyme reaction. It is believed that the light attracts insects to spread spores, or acts as a warning to hungry animals.
Me: *falling asleep to an audiobook on the science of the gut*
Book: saliva is actually filtered blood!
Me: ÊÊâżÊÊ
Me: ÊÊâżÊÊ
Book: saliva also contains a painkiller that is stronger than morphine, but we donât produce a lot of it otherwise weâd be constantly high
Me: ÊÊ Đ ÊÊ
Opiorphin is 6x stronger than morphine and actually contains an anti-depressant compound which is why some doctors believe itâs linked to comfort eating
Hybristophilia is the attraction to people who have committed particularly cruel and gruesome crimes such as murder and rape. This occurs mostly in women than in men.
Hybristophilia can be split into two categories:
1) Passive Hybristophlia
Every year, notorious criminals receive romantic and sexual âfan mailâ from admirers. These letter-writing groupies (known as SKGsâserial killer groupies) have no desire in taking part of criminal activity, yet are attracted to men behind bars. Many of them sympathize with the criminals as they tend to be a product of abusive homes, and feel the urge to nurture the criminal in hopes of changing them. Some of these women, although not all, are convinced that their lover behind bars is completely innocent of the crimes they are accused of.
2) Aggressive HybristophiliaÂ
Aggressive hybristophiliacs are complete opposites. They are willing to help out their lovers with their criminal agenda by luring victims, hiding bodies, covering crimes, or even committing crimes. They are attracted to their lovers because of their violent actions and want to receive love, yet are unable to understand that their lovers are psychopaths who are manipulating them.Â
This is a salt evaporation pool in Peru. Salt evaporation ponds are artificial ponds designed to extract salt from sea water. Water is drawn out through evaporation and then the salt is harvested. (Photo Credit)
Just remember. There is no such thing as a fake geek girl. There are only fake geek boys. Science fiction was invented by a woman.
Specifically a teenage girl. You know, someone who would be a part of the demographic that some of these boys are violently rejecting.
Isaac Asimov.
yo mary shelley wrote frankenstein in 1818 and isaac asimov was born in 1920 so you kinda get my point
If you want to push it back even further Margaret Cavendish, the duchess of Newcastle (1623-1673) wrote The Blazing World in 1666, about a young woman who discovers a Utopian world that can only be accessed via the North Pole – oft credited as one of the first scifi novels
Women have always been at the forefront of literature, the first novel (what we would consider a novel in modern terms)Â was written by a woman (Lady Muraskaiâs the Tale of Genji in the early 1000s) take your snide âIsaac Asimovâ reblogs and stick it
even in terms of male scifi authors, asimov was predated by Jules Verne, HG Wells, George Orwell, you could have even cited Poe or Jonathan Swift has a case but Asimov?
PbbBFFTTBBBTBTTBBTBTTT so desperate to discredit the idea of Mary Shelly as the mother of modern science fiction you didnât even do a frickin google search For Shame
And if you want to go back even further, the first named, identified author in history was Enheduanna of Akkad, a Sumerian high priestess.
Kinda funny, considering this Isaac Asimov quote on the subject:
Mary Shelley was the first to make use of a new finding of science which she advanced further to a logical extreme, and it is that which makes Frankenstein the first true science fiction story.
Even Isaac Asimov ainât having none of your shit, not even posthumously.
You know what else was invented by women? Masked vigilantes, the precursor to the modern superhero. Baroness Emma Orczy wrote The Scarlet Pimpernel in 1905.
The character would later inspire better known masked vigilantes such as Zorro and Batman.
Got that?
Stick that in your international pipe and smoke it
I have literally been telling people this for over a year.
the first extended prose piece – ie a novel, was not, as many male scholars will shout, Don Quixote (1605) but The Tale of Genji (1008) written by a woman
The first autobiography ever written in English is also attributed to a woman, The Book of Margery Kempe (1430s).
The day may come when I find this post and do not reblog it, but it is not this day.
And now Iâm mad that nobody told us we were given cows. Cause thatâs really f*cking nice and nobody mentioned it at all.
American media tends to disregard that anyone donates to the US. And then Amurricans complain about money going abroad because ânobody helped the US in our disasters.â
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Also, do you know how much a cow costs? O.O
It isnât just a matter of how much a cow costs, its a matter of considering that Masai life is based around their cattle. Its their wealth, their food, and a significant part of their religion. Hereâs a quote from Wikipedia:
âTraditional Maasai lifestyle centres around their cattle which constitute their primary source of food. The measure of a manâs wealth is in terms of cattle and children. A herd of 50 cattle is respectable, and the more children the better. A man who has plenty of one but not the other is considered to be poor.[37] A Maasai religious belief relates that God gave them all the cattle on earth, leading to the belief that rustling cattle from other tribes is a matter of taking back what is rightfully theirs, a practice that has become much less common.[38]â
So its not just âthey gave us 14 cowsâ, its that they gave us something that is very important and significant to them, it is more than just a kind gesture that definitely deserves to be known and its a genuine shame that more people donât know about it.
Wait, you guys DONâT KNOW that we offer help to the US when you have disasters???????
Shit, down here in Brazil we not only offered to send tracking units and doctors to help in 9/11 but we wanted to send a whole lot of donations to help with Katrina (we have experience with floods down here so we knew what kind of medicine to send to prevent outbreaks).Â
We alone had like 2 army airplanes full of medicine and non-perishables like baby formula, diapers, bottled water, mosquito nets and other stuff thatâs needed to fight opportunistic diseases that hit flooded areas, enough to assist a good few thousand people at least, ready to go the day after it hit, but your government refused the donations.Â
The same thing happened to the Canadians and Europeans who offered help, the US embassies around the world told us all to give money to Red Cross.
And so we did, we all gave hundreds of millions of dollars to them, and then this happened:
âBreathtakingâ Waste and Fraud in Hurricane Aid
So please, donât you go spreading misinformation and prejudice against the rest of the world, WE DID OFFER HELP AND ORGANIZED IT EVEN FASTER THAN BUSH DID, BUT YâALL REFUSED IT.Â
Oh wow I had no idea this happened itâs really not talked about in media at all wow this is something good to know about wow
Iâm so angry.
I didnât know that other countries tried to help after 9/11 or Katrina. Like, thatâs something we, the people, should hear about and we donât.
Please donât blame us for the shitty decisions our government makes. We donât have as much control over our government as we would like to think and they keep a lot from us.
Spread this shit.Â
After Katrina, Cuba donated several hundred blankets. Think about that. A country that is suffering economically due directly to the US embargo offered to help us when we needed it by sending what they could. And once again, it was refused. We have a government that is so self-righteous that we refuse to accept disaster aid in order to maintain this facade that we are the most generous nation on earth.
Okay, Katrina thing.
Only Texans really knows this? and even then itâs not wide spread. Mexico sent their army. They sent their army for relief efforts. Didnât call ahead, they drove all the way to San Antonio with doctors and food and all sorts of supplies.
When people actually got a call from them saying âHey, weâre sending people up.â The people who answered said âWhat? We canâtâŠâ âToo late, already there.â This was while the government was turning down help.
So yeah, other countries send relief.
Forest fires up in Washington last year? Firefighters from Australia came up to assist.
Like⊠we donât hear about this shit. At all.
I can second the above with the fires.Â
Most the time, when people say âoh FEMA or something sent people right?â re: fires, its actually people from other countries showing up and kinda ignoring the government telling them to fuck off and staying on behalf of local departments because we REALLY need them.Â
If thereâs a huge ass disaster, and the government is sitting there with a thumb up itâs ass, help is offered and most the timeâ shit, it gets there! But then the feds do something really fucking dirty. They insist they were the help, if itâs talked about at all.Â
They insist those people putting out fires were federal people, because to most people a firemanâs a fireman. The people handing out water and food, a relief worker is a relief worker. So on and so forth.Â
We had people come up when the fires were so bad a while agoâ not the Australians, but i think there was like a German group of like 3 guys that flew themselves over? They came out of sheer âthis is horrible and weâre helpingâ and my dad [local fire chief] had them working with our guys and the feds lost no time telling every news outlet that it was THEIR people doing all the fire knockdowns and structure work when these guys were running into buildings and grabbing people, pets, and peopleâs important documents because they knew papers were a pain in the ass to replace.Â
What you gotta understand is that our government is very intent on selling us and the rest of the world [as much as possible] the idea of a powerful and self reliant country. All our reporting on disasters, starts with the scaremongering and then moves to âbut our people can handle it because weâre the best at handling thingsâ and then they move on before the idea itâs out of control comes to mind. The average person outside of the disaster has no idea, if they have never been around such an event or met someone who regularly deals with these things, they will kinda probably nod along with that. Because we have no real scope on the scale and impactâ by design. Our media intake is very controlled to slant everything to the âeh, we can handle it and everyone else out thereâ they need our help because theyâre not so good at handling disasters like we are.â People who know better, reading international news, interacting with international social groups, looking outside their sphere of communityâ we know better but that kinda slant is really hard to break from because of that grip American media has on information. So, taking that knowledge, we further have restricted reporting on certain disasters because theyâre considered unimportant. Hurricanes are considered important, earthquakes are only considered important if it wrecks something the government cares about or somewhere a couple million people live that theyâll upset the national money flow/they can throw money at someone to make the news care, floods are only important if itâs in a similar manner to earthquakes but since they occur annually theyâre rarely reported on nationally, mudslides that kill people or leave hundreds homeless arenât important to the government even through they happen constantly, wildfires that consume most of the nation/continent each year generally are unimportant until they consume a town or threaten a government interest/money flow location. Terrorist attacks are always important because people will talk about them.
So, when we do get help for any of the above, itâs possible that most people may have no idea about whatâs happened, let alone that helpâs been sent. Or if people know something happened, the details are vagueâ the news donât care to give the nitty gritty. Youâll know something happened and people are suffering and âgee, isnât it good youâre not themâ and then now the weather.
So, yeah, basically no one really knows we get help.
We got HELLA help, but nobody really talks about it
American Media really fails regularlyÂ
Hurricane Sandy, Quebec sends power line crews down to assist in restoring power. Â California gets rid of water bombers due to budget cuts, Canada sends theirs down to help fight wild fires. Amazing what living on the border and having outside TV News does to your information flow.
After Katrina, Denmark offered to donate water purification units so people wouldnât get sick from drinking contaminated water, but the offer was declined.
A private Danish company built a mobile satellite phone booth and drove it around the poor neighbourhoods in Mississippi and Louisiana so people could call their families and insurance companies for free (apparently there was a deadline for reporting damages but people couldnât call in because their mobile phones were dead and landlines were down).
American propaganda is not a thing of the past, nor is it a new thing. It has been around forever, telling stories of exceptionalism and self-reliance while our government tries its hardest to refuse the help of others and offer its own to them, to try and force other nations onto their back foot and remain aggressively benevolent in international matters, so that it can lord that shit over them in negotiations and the media in general.
I guarantee you America would have a less jingoistic, less xenophobic populace overall if this sort of information were actually reported to us. If we werenât always fed the lie of helping the world without any gratitude or help in return. If the media didnât present us as world police and instead as a part of the community, as other countries try hard to include us as, then maybe Americans would actually act like theyâre part of a fucking community.
But global citizens are hard to monger fear and distrust and xenophobia and nationalism with. Theyâre hard to control with propaganda and hate. Theyâre hard to keep ignorant and docile and saying âthis is fineâ while the empire burns.
A lot of Americans wonder why our country is seen as a worldwide bully. Shit like that, my friends. Shit like that. Its hubris is seemingly limitless.
C O M M E N T A R Y
âŠmakes me wanna start a news broadcast in the U.S. that reports on good stories and truth in the news.
So I was taught a lesson in how to get rid of a migraine in 30 seconds and omfg listen my migraines donât go away ever but I was shown what part of my body to touch and like???????????????
Itâs witchcraft????????? Like I would be burned at the stake if I lived in ye olde days knowing that information?????
What the fuck??????
Spill it! LolâŠ.Hooooowwwww?? Had migraines since age 9âŠ.đđđ
Its called the T4 push, but I literally canât find the info online????? I guess Iâm not searching good enough? These medical fuckers are holdin out on us lol.
Itâs best to have someone do this for you while you stand up and relax your muscles as best you can, but if youâre alone, a tennis ball and a flat surface will probably work. Alternatively you can lie on the edge of a bed at the pressure point. (But no really do try to find someone to do it for you)
Find the area in your spine between either the first, second, third, or fourth vertebrae. It should be sore and uncomfortable to press down on, so look for the one thatâs most painful, and press down with as much pressure as you can on that area for 30 seconds.
Realize that 80% of your pain has magically disappeared and keep the info secret if you live in a small puritan town, lest you be tried for witchcraft.
If you donât have to worry about being burned or hanged, then share the info with your migraine suffering friends.
As someone who wrote a 10k word paper on pressure points for a high belt ranking test in her martial arts class, I can tell you that you just found a pressure point used in acupressure and acupuncture to relieve pain, particularly that in the head. đ
Hand to god we discovered this by accident when my husband was rubbing my neck and I nearly collapsed it felt so good
This post was sent by literal angels??? Iâve had a persistent low-level headache for nearly 24hrs and now itâs gone??? In 30 seconds? What gods did you sacrifice to for this information!?!?
As a medical massage therapist, I thought I would give my two cents.
This is good for tension migranes and normal migraines, but actually pretty useless for sinus migraines. Itâll help for a hot second, but quickly come back. (These are usually the migraines behind your eyes, in your ears, and behind your forehead. Sometimes it can feel like jaw pain or TMJ) for sinus migraines, behind the ear in a divot. Press down firmly and pull towards your collarbone. Thatâll drain your sinuses. Also, pressing around the eye socket on the cheekbones help. There is also a little triangle up away from the eye in the eyebrow bone. Press and hold pretty hard and thatâll relieve that behind the forehead pain. Also, ear pulling is great to help move sinuses around.
Donât forget the temples too! Press firmly and hold. Open and close your jaw while holding your temples. Itâll feel weird, but itâll help with jaw pain. Itâll work a similar way if you hold the jaw joint under your cheekbone.
And never underestimate the power of a foot massage!! Give minutes can be all the difference!! Our feet are our base. If they hurt even a little, somewhere else in your body will hurt. Treat your feet and sinuses kindly!
As a lifelong sufferer from frequent migraines I will reblog this everytime I see it, for myself and my fellow sufferers!!
I know how much they suck especially for people who end up vomiting because of them. Here everyone spread this magical information
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