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oliviawebsite:

when i was little boygirl i was playing bikes with a friend and his tire popped and oozed out that green tire slime stuff and i had never seen it before so it freaked me out so bad i biked home really fast in a panic almost crying acting like i just saw an animal die. that fucking bike died and its blood was everywhere.

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moral-autism:

#does anyone else know what the green tire slime is #i…. I thought it was air in there #are you sure his bike. wasnt some sort of mimic or other creature transfigured

those are self-sealing bicycle tubes. the slime is there to patch small punctures. there are many brands but it may amuse you to know that one brand is sold by slime dot com.

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#bicycles #the more you know #this probably deserves some warning tag but I am not sure what #unsanitary cw? #this post was queued because my to-reblog list is too long and I didn’t want to dump it on you all at once

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will-falling-fell:

froodette:

keepcalmandcarriefischer:

hotchocolatewithoutsex:

keepcalmandcarriefischer:

Did you guys know that the most recent version of sharks have fins that are kinda leg like and they like to walk up onto land?

no way i must have missed an update!

The Epaulette shark is only about 9 million years old as a species, making it the most recent branch in the shark family. And it is slowly but surely evolving into a land animal

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You know what to do boys

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the-lone-huntress:

paigegonerogue:

I, of mostly sound body and spirit, request that if I’m ever to die, someone post a new work on my AO3 that says “sorry, she died, ongoing stories postponed forever” because don’t I want my fanfic buddies to think I ghosted them. Amen or whatever you say in a will.

This was written as a joke, but for those who don’t know, this is an actual optional service that AO3 provides called Fannish Next of Kin.

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#AO3 #the more you know #death tw #this post was queued because my to-reblog list is too long and I didn’t want to dump it on you all at once

Anonymous asked: What are migraine glasses? Can’t find anything on google except amazon ads

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doberbutts:

doberbutts:

doberbutts:

There is a new special tint for people with migraines and light sensitivity and/or photophobia- instead of the yellow night driving tint, it’s actually shown to be more effective as a pinkish tone (they call it “rose” but it’s very pink).

Tinted Glasses for Migraines: Research Shows FL-41 Tint is Better

This is an ad for this specific company- but the research regarding FL-41 (the pink/rose tint) is real. It was suggested to me by my doctor after I talked about how painful and frequent my migraines are and how light often feels like someone’s stabbing me in the brain and makes me want to claw my eye out with my fingers (or at least wear an eye patch), but I just ordered my first pair so I don’t know yet if it’ll be effective for me.

My migraines and photophobia are caused by a car accident injury back in 2018, which left me with a tbi and damaged ligaments around one of my eyes among other injuries.

I’ve had my migraine glasses for about two weeks and so far:

Had one instance where I was aware I had a headache and already had my glasses on when the feeling started. Did not progress past maybe a 1 or 2 on the pain scale my entire day at work, until I took my glasses off at home and had the worst killer migraine.

Woke up with a migraine and put my glasses on since I had to drive. Within a 30 minute span, migraine reduced to barely noticable pressure with no pain.

A couple things:

I’m not using the advertised brand above, I got my glasses from Zenni which were about 55 bucks for my rx level + tint, but the FL-41 tint is the most important. Don’t buy “red” or “rose” or “pink” glasses, make sure they’re FL-41 tinted.

I do use my glasses at night. I have only about 10% tint so they aren’t very dark. It does really help with bright headlights- I’m in a really rural area with a lot of wildlife crossing the road so most people don’t bother to turn off their brights when passing and that means my photosensitive ass is often IN HELL driving at night. But with these glasses it no longer feels like someone is carving my eye out with a spoon so I feel like that’s doing *something* to protect me?

It does seem to both stop migraines in their tracks and also prevent new migraines from getting out of control. This is really great because usually my migraines aren’t touched by the OTC pain meds I can take with my other issues, and I’m in the “too few migraines and also too many migraines for meds” zone where doctors won’t give me rx meds at all to control them so I guess I get to just suffer.

The glasses at 10% tint look super pink from the outside but aren’t noticably pink when I look through them while they’re on my face. There’s a brief moment of “oh that’s very pink” and then I blink a couple times and it stops. My color vision isn’t quiiiiiiite correct- very light blues and greens on reflective or backlit surfaces look much more grey. I can see that my blue water bottle is blue, but my coworker’s light powder blue car looks like a blue-ish silver to me. We color-code appointments at work and the greyish light green color on the screen also looks fairly grey to me. It also means when I take the glasses off, everything looks fairly green.

This makes sense to me because it’s blocking specific blue light that are known to be migraine and photosensitivity triggers, so of course bright lights that are blues or greens are going to have less light/color to them. Interestingly, purple is unaffected by this, which proves to me that purple is the superior color. I can also play videogames with my glasses on with no big problem with color, but then I’m not playing very *blue* games, and it seems the eye strain is fairly reduced as well because I don’t tear up as much while playing.

Lastly I get tons of compliments on them! A lot of people have responded really positively to my glasses, and nothing’s changed about them except the tint because I ordered the same frames.

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curls-cat asked: trick or treat!! (Where are you finding all these foods)

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randomitemdrop:

Well, initially I just googled “weird candy” on DuckDuckGo, but then I got a few hundred more requests, so I’ve also tried “[country] candy” and “[flavor] candy” and “[shape] candy” and so on. You, for example, got: a chocolate pentagon from the Pentagon gift shop

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nothingweirdhere:

kaijuno:

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when they get shaved the new fur grows in darker than it would normally be cuz they’re colder in that area!

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#it got better #cats #the power of science #the more you know #adorable #this post was queued because my to-reblog list is too long and I didn’t want to dump it on you all at once

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batfinz:

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got tired of there being no walking cane emojis so I made my own lol.

feel free to use in your discord servers or something, but if you repost online please credit me as batfinz :-)

not for commercial use.

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#art #Discord #the more you know #this post was queued because my to-reblog list is too long and I didn’t want to dump it on you all at once

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brawltogethernow:

brawltogethernow:

The most impressive flair of completely worthless coding on this website is how if you click the like button there’s an animation of a heart rising from it, and if you manage to click THAT heart it unlikes the post. No one would ever attempt this maneuver on purpose. I have done it by mistake 5000 times because the rising heart floats directly above the button to expand the tags on a post when I’m on my phone. …Actually, I have yet to catch the broken heart animation that falls down when you slaughter the rising heart. Would… Would that re-like the post…?

Many brave scientists in the notes have now confirmed it DOES re-like the post! Most of them have also politely apologized for spamming me with notifications by testing it, which is how I learned that if you like and unlike the same post twenty times op still only gets one notification tops on the current activity page. :( I want to see the same name fifty times in a row and know they’re doing science. :( (For the record this seems to be the same whether you have notes bundled or not.)

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#Tumblr: a User’s Guide #the more you know #this post was queued because my to-reblog list is too long and I didn’t want to dump it on you all at once

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agender-witchery:

kobolde:

kobolde:

firefox just started doing this too so remember kids if you want to stream things like netflix or hulu over discord without the video being blacked out you just have to disable hardware acceleration in your browser settings!

for the people saying this might be too difficult: idk about chrome but in firefox it just goes

> open settings

> search “hardware acceleration” and there should only be one result

> uncheck use recommended performance settings

> uncheck use hardware acceleration

done!

Since I’m looking at the comments and seeing a lot of people asking what hardware acceleration is and getting wildly incorrect answers, here you go. This is what hardware acceleration is. It’s not DRM, and it’s not placing a limit on memory usage (unless you have weird definitions for both “memory” and “placing a limit”).

This is what hardware acceleration is:

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“Do you just have a graphic for this on hand at all times?”

Yes. For this precise reason.

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#PSA #the more you know #discourse cw? #this post was queued because my to-reblog list is too long and I didn’t want to dump it on you all at once