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edgebug:

martinthesassygaylibrarian:

avenged-wholockian:

the-jackals:

msmeiriona:

HEY FOLLOWERS:

HAVE YOU EATEN RECENTLY?

ARE YOU HYDRATED?

IS THERE MEDICATION YOU NEED TO TAKE?

HAVE YOU LAUGHED TODAY?

FRIENDLY REMINDER BECAUSE I KNOW I NEED THEM EVERY SO OFTEN.

ALSO HERE HAVE A KITTEN:

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YOU I ACTUALLY FORGOT TO TAKE MY MEDS TODAY

this is the third time this post has reminded me to take my meds

we’re all gonna die

dude i haven’t had any water today or taken my meds thank you for this post

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#PSA #signal boost #I drink more water than probably anyone I know #(they say the average amount that people actually drink is 1L/day) #(I’m pretty sure I would die of thirst on 1L/day) #(and I know for a fact that I have a constant nagging thirst after one day on 2L/day) #(takes about two days to recover from one day on 2L) #I’m not on any meds #I’m not sure I’ve laughed aloud today but I’ve definitely been amused #and somehow I’ve managed to end up with an inner food critic that reminds me to eat rather than fat-shaming me #which is pretty sweet all in all #(its malnutrition-from-lack-of-variety-in-diet alarm is overly sensitive though) #(it’s okay not to have fruit *every* day brain) #still this is a nice concept #good luck with the whole self-care thing everybody #tag rambles

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shortformblog:

Be safe, everyone. The Weather Channel is on it. 

 

duessa:

I can feel this storm system in my bones and I’m nOT HAPPY ABOUT IT.

 

rosalarian:

Oh yaaaaay look what I get to drive through on my way to a show todaaaaaaaay.

 

darthmama:

I get to drive from one end of high into the middle of it?  For a crappy birthday I don’t want to go to?  With 4 boys and a hubby that’s all pissy?

FML….

 

eponymous-rose:

Be careful with this one! It’s late in the season for a tornado outbreak, but the SPC doesn’t break out that high-risk contour for just anything. The environment is primed for extremely fast-moving thunderstorms and long-track, long-lived major tornadoes (EF2+). If you’re within that “MDT” band, you’ve got about a 10% chance of seeing an EF2-EF5 tornado within 25 miles of you, which is the highest probability of significant tornadoes you can get. You’ve got a 30% chance of seeing any sort of tornado in that area, which is also incredibly high (remember how small tornadoes are, relatively speaking—these storms are likely to be cyclic and produce multiple tornadoes). Large hail is more likely to be a problem in Illinois than further east. Damaging non-tornadic winds are likely all the way out to central PA.

Keep in mind that a tornado watch is a heads-up to let you know that tornadic conditions are likely (ideally, they’re supposed to be issued at least 6 hours before a tornado hits), whereas a tornado warning means there is a tornado on the ground right now.

Contrary to a lot of the Great Plains, many of the regions under fire today have basements in most houses. If you get a tornado warning that covers your area, grab your family and pets and get as far underground as you can—failing that, keep as many walls between yourself and the outside as you can. If you have no basement, get in your bathtub and drag a mattress in with you to act as a shield. Treat the tornado like someone coming by to shoot up your house from the street, and take shelter accordingly: the debris is what you have to worry about.

Don’t waste time opening windows; it makes no difference. If you’re already in a car and can’t outrun the storm (moving at right angles to the tornado if it’s on the ground), get out of the car and flatten yourself in a ditch. These storms are fast-moving, so the odds of flooding are lower than they would be otherwise, and keeping low reduces your odds of being hit by debris. Make sure your car isn’t blocking traffic. Stay the hell away from highway underpasses/overpasses.

If you’re at home and a tornado warning hits DO NOT FUCKING LEAVE YOUR HOME. Don’t get in your car and try to outrun the storm. I don’t care what the TV meteorologist is telling you to do. They’re not trained for this sort of situation. Exactly that sort of exodus, prompted by a TV announcement, happened in Oklahoma this past May and the resulting traffic jam resulted in many deaths. You should also avoid large, open spaces like school gyms as shelter.

Don’t stormchase. Don’t gawk. There are lots of major cities in the path of this system, and the more people there are on the road, the harder it’ll be for emergency vehicles to do their thing.

If you have any questions, throw them my way. I do this for a living. In the meantime, watch this page for updates. There are already several tornadic storms on the ground, moving at about 65 mph.

 

brin-bellway:

I note that despite the American map depicting everything south of Toronto (which includes me) as red-zone, Environment Canada’s alerts make no mention of tornadoes. I’ll keep an eye on it: if they change their mind, I can always go cower in my basement.

 

eponymous-rose:

The shading in the above picture just refers to the chance of any severe weather (i.e., tornadoes, high winds, hail). The map for tornado probability is here. Most of Southern Ontario has wind warnings out in advance of this storm, because that’s what the main threat is likely to be, but right at the southern tip (Sarnia, Windsor, London), there’s a severe thunderstorm watch with a possibility of tornadoes referenced in the text. So they’re keeping an eye on it! 

Ah, I see. Green is a much more comforting colour than red.

(Thanks for the prompting to put the lawn chairs and decorative solar light in the shed for the winter. Hopefully the rest of the backyard won’t get blown about too badly.)

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#weather #reply via reblog #decorative solar lights are so much cheaper than useful ones #(which I guess makes sense as they’re much dimmer)

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eponymous-rose:

darthmama:

rosalarian:

duessa:

shortformblog:

Be safe, everyone. The Weather Channel is on it. 

I can feel this storm system in my bones and I’m nOT HAPPY ABOUT IT.

Oh yaaaaay look what I get to drive through on my way to a show todaaaaaaaay.

I get to drive from one end of high into the middle of it?  For a crappy birthday I don’t want to go to?  With 4 boys and a hubby that’s all pissy?

FML….

Be careful with this one! It’s late in the season for a tornado outbreak, but the SPC doesn’t break out that high-risk contour for just anything. The environment is primed for extremely fast-moving thunderstorms and long-track, long-lived major tornadoes (EF2+). If you’re within that “MDT” band, you’ve got about a 10% chance of seeing an EF2-EF5 tornado within 25 miles of you, which is the highest probability of significant tornadoes you can get. You’ve got a 30% chance of seeing any sort of tornado in that area, which is also incredibly high (remember how small tornadoes are, relatively speaking—these storms are likely to be cyclic and produce multiple tornadoes). Large hail is more likely to be a problem in Illinois than further east. Damaging non-tornadic winds are likely all the way out to central PA.

Keep in mind that a tornado watch is a heads-up to let you know that tornadic conditions are likely (ideally, they’re supposed to be issued at least 6 hours before a tornado hits), whereas a tornado warning means there is a tornado on the ground right now.

Contrary to a lot of the Great Plains, many of the regions under fire today have basements in most houses. If you get a tornado warning that covers your area, grab your family and pets and get as far underground as you can—failing that, keep as many walls between yourself and the outside as you can. If you have no basement, get in your bathtub and drag a mattress in with you to act as a shield. Treat the tornado like someone coming by to shoot up your house from the street, and take shelter accordingly: the debris is what you have to worry about.

Don’t waste time opening windows; it makes no difference. If you’re already in a car and can’t outrun the storm (moving at right angles to the tornado if it’s on the ground), get out of the car and flatten yourself in a ditch. These storms are fast-moving, so the odds of flooding are lower than they would be otherwise, and keeping low reduces your odds of being hit by debris. Make sure your car isn’t blocking traffic. Stay the hell away from highway underpasses/overpasses.

If you’re at home and a tornado warning hits DO NOT FUCKING LEAVE YOUR HOME. Don’t get in your car and try to outrun the storm. I don’t care what the TV meteorologist is telling you to do. They’re not trained for this sort of situation. Exactly that sort of exodus, prompted by a TV announcement, happened in Oklahoma this past May and the resulting traffic jam resulted in many deaths. You should also avoid large, open spaces like school gyms as shelter.

Don’t stormchase. Don’t gawk. There are lots of major cities in the path of this system, and the more people there are on the road, the harder it’ll be for emergency vehicles to do their thing.

If you have any questions, throw them my way. I do this for a living. In the meantime, watch this page for updates. There are already several tornadic storms on the ground, moving at about 65 mph.

I note that despite the American map depicting everything south of Toronto (which includes me) as red-zone, Environment Canada’s alerts make no mention of tornadoes. I’ll keep an eye on it: if they change their mind, I can always go cower in my basement.

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#weather #the more you know #in any case will have to cancel the walk I was planning on today

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Because computers.

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justice-turtle:

copperbadge:

So, I’ve been testing alternatives to Google Reader.

NewsBlur is slow, annoying, and only lets you have twelve feeds before it wants to charge you money. 

Feedly is supposedly the best alternative out there, but you have to install it on every browser where you want to use it. Who does that anymore? 

Chrome apparently has a feed-reader app but again, a) you have to install it, b) you’re SOL if you use anything other than Chrome anywhere (I use Chrome at home and Firefox at work, don’t even start on me, NOTHING I USE FOR WORK WORKS WITH CHROME) and c) who wants to use a drop down feed reader? 

I was going to try Waurb, but they don’t apparently have an option to log in without using Facebook, and I don’t actually want my feed reader and my social media forcibly linked.

Taptu apparently can’t find two thirds of my feeds. 

Netvibes has a similar issue, but it only seems to struggle with Tumblr (don’t we all) and it’s marginally easier to re-add feeds once you get it set up. Plus they have an auto-detect if you enter a website URL, for those of us with tiny monkey brains who don’t know what to do with XML.

Netvibes seems to be the closest thing to a Reader clone that doesn’t restrict your reading or move so slowly it’s pointless to use, but you have to backflip around their site for a while before you can actually make use of it. I’m pretty sure at one point I pulled my patented “Do magic to make it work” move.

(Go to “Manage Dashboards”, create a new dashboard, delete the one they created for you and filled with irrelevant feeds, then save changes, return to the regular page, delete all the widgets they put in you NEW dashboard, switch it from widget to list view, and then Add Content to add what you actually want. You can import from a Google Reader export file, but you will need to check each feed individually and re-add the ones it can’t find.)

I’m still having some trouble getting Netvibes to pick up my subscription to the Hawkeye (Comics) tag on AO3, plus it keeps insisting that something which was posted yesterday was posted half an hour ago, but there are always little bugs to iron out and it’s picking up the other AO3 tags. At the moment I’m running it side by side with Google Reader, and we’ll see if it keeps up. 

Reblogging for sophia_sol and anyone else who’s interested in Google Reader substitutes.

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#PSA #Google Reader #why are you doing this to us Google #(guess I’ll try Netvibes) #(I’ve long since given up on using RSS feeds for Tumblr anyway)

the new layout isn’t really that scary for the most part

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mostly10:

I’m putting it down in one place for people scared of the changes. A lot of it is only aesthetical changes and especially for those of you who don’t use extensions/add-ons will really only see those and need to get used to them. Aside from the bugs, of course.

For those of us who use extensions, things are a bit more tricky/buggy.

text posts / posting

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the window opens on top of your dash. there is no way to get it to open in a separate window/tab without loading the dash first. all the functions you’re used to are there, you just have to fiddle with the buttons a bit.

adding a source/custom url and post date and toggle photo replies has been put together under the cog symbol (pink box)

publishing options (queueing/scheduling/save as draft) have been put together under the post button toggle (green box)

post cut and photo/gif inserts are there, too (blue box)

your tags are no longer saved and clickable as you type, but other than that work basically the same as before.

this has been updated so saved tags now show up. added feature is that tags don’t just follow the first few letters you type, but any words/letters that match saved urls. clicking a tag will delete it.

twitter options are easily accessible and editable by clicking the twitter icon.

 

text posts / reblogging

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you can reblog text posts as texts/links/quotes same as before. the options are under the link icon (pink box)

if you choose to reblog a text post as a link you can not add an image like you would with a text post. if you change to ‘reblog as text’, however, the option returns (as per image 1)

photo posts / posting

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again, the photo post opens on top of your dash. the post options work the same as for text posts (see above).

you can choose up to 10 images in one go to add to the post and you will be able to preview them as a set before you post. while you are not given a choice of how to align your images before you upload, clicking and dragging the images around will allow you to set them up with full flexibility; essentially giving you the custom photoset option without the addon. this includes multiple 500px images on top of each other which was not native before:

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if you choose to add a caption to your photo(s), the option to add an image in the description is not there:

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how to add a gif/image to a post/reblog

anything that is not a text post will not have the native option to add an image, so here’s the ~sneak way to do it until an extension finds a workaround.

  1. open a new text post window
  2. add your gif/image to that post
  3. click the picture to select it and press Ctrl+X
  4. return to the description window of your post/reblog
  5. select where you want the image and press Ctrl+V

bugs / scary shit / rumours

(under a cut because I feel like these might change a lot?)

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#PSA #The Great Tumblr Apocalypse #oh is that all #(but then I never bothered with Missing E) #(and it is running kind of slow) #(but still)

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oneeighth:

LISTEN UP FUCKERS!

URGENT: East Coast / Northeast / Midwest US
All the forecast models are falling into agreement that by Monday/Tuesday Sandy will swing back into the coast, likely somewhere between MA and NC. Affected areas will likely be anywhere from Maine down to the Carolinas, and as far west as Illinois. Northern areas are most likely to experience storm surges; southern areas be prepared for snow… lots of it. Virginia, West Virginia, Ohio, and Pennsylvania in particular should be ready for a full day of heavy snowfall.

Best case scenario looks like is this storm will be another Irene.
Worst case, another 1991 “Perfect Storm.” NWS has already dubbed this the “Frankenstorm.”
Get your ass prepared now!

– Fill your car’s gas tank now; maybe get an extra can.
– Prepare for widespread and possibly extended power outages. Get heaters or generators ready.
– If you have any trees/limbs that are in danger of falling onto your house, you may wish to remove them now.
– Make arrangements for friends and relatives who cannot prepare for themselves.
– Put away all your patio furniture— Summer’s Over, Bitch!
– Get a motherfucking weather radio.
– Reassess any travel plans for Monday through to the end of the week. Stock up on booze instead.
– Sorry, Halloween’s off again this year. Stock up on booze instead.
– Take advantage of early voting. They’re not going to postpone the election.

Signal boost this wherever you can. Obvs don’t want people to panic as the models won’t reveal the final scenario until Sandy passes through Cuba and takes its final eastward shift before getting sucked into the Nor’easter dropping from Canada. But better to be prepared now before the inevitable run on supplies begins.

 

weeaboo-chan:

wow shit

boosting for my east coast friends

 

were-raptor:

Seriously don’t take this one lightly.

 

lawlspy:

Also,

-Withdraw cash. If you need to buy anything for any reason, chances are the machines will be down and so will the banks.

-Make sure to have at least a week’s worth of food and fresh water (the water table can be contaminated in very bad storms).

-Pets will need food, water, and shelter too. Make sure when you stock up, you include them.

– Flash lights, batteries, flares, and as many solar powered lamps/generators as you can.

– Make sure you’re far enough away from open water to avoid storm surges, slides, etc.

– Don’t just rely on generators and heaters. Have lots of layered clothing/blankets/sleeping bags

– Always ALWAYS watch how much snow/ice is on your roof.

 

palehorseblackdog:

I knew we were due for a Snowmageddon.

 

cptprocrastination:

do not want for birthday mother nature… fuck.

 

goddessofcheese:

aw fuck

 

undeadbishoujo:

I have plenty of analog porn

I’m good

(also waiting for all the churchified ppl who hate my pagan witchcraft to beg me for candles again in the event of a blackout, that’s always good for a laugh)

 

genderbitch:

Awwww fuck, better get all my moving done this weekend then.

 

eponymous-rose:

After a two-hour briefing on this storm today, here’s the relevant facts:

  • New York City is in a vulnerable position right now due to storm surges and, well, the fact that we’re nearing a full moon so tides will be high. If you’re in that area, keep abreast of the weather. If you’re along the east coast, storm surges are gonna be your greatest concern.
  • High elevations in Virginia may see some snow out of this, but a variety of factors have put the ECMWF model’s earlier dire lots-of-snow-across-the-northeast forecast to bed. Do keep in mind that for any snow estimates, a lot of TV forecasters are going to be using a ten-to-one ratio to convert the model’s liquid water output to snow, which is not at all accurate under these conditions. If there is snow in your area, chances are it’ll be a helluva lot less than the news says. Many, many areas are absolutely too warm to be getting snow based on current model consensus.
  • Further west of, say, eastern Pennsylvania… you’re pretty much getting a dump of rain and moderate winds that are fairly unlikely to damage much of anything. This storm will be well into its extratropical transition, and while it is an extremely unusual situation (its 500-mb heights were five standard deviations from normal in today’s analysis!), that doesn’t automatically make it extremely dangerous. 

TO SUM UP:

  • In coastal areas near landfall: the media fuss over this is probably warranted. Stay on the safe side.
  • EVERYWHERE ELSE: the media fuss over this is absolutely unwarranted. You’re gonna get some rain. At high elevations, you’re gonna get a wee bit of snow. You’re gonna get some wind. If you have exceptionally shitty power lines in your area, you might lose power, but you’re probably used to that by now. Stay out of the storm and read a good book. Don’t panic.

I’ve set the click-through link to the NHC’s website. That’s where you should be getting your information. Other source: http://www.weather.gov . 

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mscaptains:

STROKE: Remember The 1st Three Letters… S.T..R …
My friend sent this to me and encouraged me to post it and spread the word. I agree. If everyone can remember something this simple, we could save some folks.

STROKE IDENTIFICATION:
During a party, a friend stumbled and took a little fall – she assured everyone that she was fine and just tripped over a brick because of her new shoes. (they offered to call ambulance)

They got her cleaned up and got her a new plate of food – while she appeared a bit shaken up, Ingrid went about enjoying herself the rest of the evening. Ingrid’s husband called later telling everyone that his wife had been taken to the hospital – (at 6:00pm , Ingrid passed away.)
She had suffered a stroke at the party . Had they known how to identify the signs of a stroke, perhaps Ingrid would be with us today.

Some don’t die. They end up in a helpless, hopeless condition instead. It only takes a minute to read this…

STROKE IDENTIFICATION:

A neurologist says that if he can get to a stroke victim within 3 hours he can totally reverse the effects of a stroke…totally. He said the trick was getting a stroke recognized, diagnosed, and then getting the patient medically cared for within 3 hours, which is tough.

RECOGNIZING A STROKE

Remember the ‘3’ steps, STR . Read and Learn!
Sometimes symptoms of a stroke are difficult to identify. Unfortunately, the lack of awareness spells disaster.
The stroke victim may suffer severe brain damage when people nearby fail to recognize the symptoms of a stroke.
Now doctors say a bystander can recognize a stroke by asking three simple questions :

S * Ask the individual to SMILE ..
T * = TALK. Ask the person to SPEAK A SIMPLE SENTENCE (Coherently) (eg ‘It is sunny out today’).
R * Ask him or her to RAISE BOTH ARMS .

If he or she has trouble with ANY ONE of these tasks, call the ambulance and describe the symptoms to the dispatcher.

NOTE : Another ‘sign’ of a stroke is
1. Ask the person to ‘stick’ out their tongue.
2. If the tongue is ‘crooked’, if it goes to one side or the other that is also an indication of a stroke.

A prominent cardiologist says if everyone who gets this e-mail sends it to 10 people; you can bet that at least one life will be saved.

And it could be your own.

First reblog post that actually saves a fucking life.

This is a life-saving post.

the more you know

yeah don’t think that this can’t happen to you or someone you know if they’re young. my cousin’s wife is 33 and she had a stroke last year

I’ve had a stroke. It happens to people, and the more you know about this kind of stuff, the better.Because it could be important to know.

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#I don’t like the phrasing #it’s awfully chain-letter-y #but the actual information seems legit