Fandom Entanglement: Learn Gallifreyan in 13 Easy Timelines

fandomentanglement:

It should be noted that there are two sorts of Gallifreyan, circular and linear. Most of the online constructions are circular (because circular is cool), but I did find one version of Old High Gallifreyan. OHG actually appears to be relatively common in the Whoniverse and is arguably more oft…

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SO MUCH GALLIFREYAN

I learned how to write my name in Sherman’s Circular Gallifreyan last night, and it’s really pretty, so I think I will continue with that despite there being twelve other ways to Gallifreyanize things including a conlang project

slythwolf: maybethings: fenrislorsrai: river-boy: kitsunebaba: g00kie-m0nster: peacefulvibes: stonefreedreamer: This had nothing to do with smoking weed or getting high. This is about our earth. This is about our future. This is about the future of our race as humans.  I am all for hemp. Hemp is the cure for so many things wrong in this world. Hemp can make such a difference! kitsunebaba, look what appeared on my dash :D  IT USES 5 TIMES LESS WATER THAN COTTON AND PRODUCES LIKE 10 TIMES MORE AND IT HAS TWO SEASONS IN ONE YEAR AND IT IS STRONGER WHEN YOU MAKE IT INTO PAPER IT DOESN’T YELLOW YOU CAN MAKE FREAKING CONCRETE OUT OF IT THAT GETS HARDER OVER TIME AND BREATHES SO IT DOESN’T CRACK THE OIL IS SUPER GOOD FOR YOU IT WAS THE ORIGINAL FUEL FOR CARS YOU CANNOT GET HIGH FROM IT!!!!   THEY USED TO MAKE SAILS OUT OF IT YOU CAN USE 80% OF IT FOR PAPER RATHER THEN 20-30% FOR TREES IT WAS ONLY BOYCOTTED BECAUSE THE COTTON INDUSTRY WAS GOING DOWNHILL I used to be so confused by the difference between marijuana and hemp because they’re both cannabis. Apparently, they are different species of the same plant genus, but hemp is bred for its industrial use and is grown in tall stalks to produce more fiber. Hemp has so little THC that you would have to smoke at least ten hemp cigarettes in a row to feel anything, and hemp also contains CBD which blocks the effects of THC. Marijuana is bred for its high THC content, obviously, and is allowed to grow bushy to produce more leaves and flowers. It’s just like corn.  To the layperson, corn is well CORN.  But you have many different cultivars that look superficially similar, but have very different requirements for how to grow them and very different end uses.  You wouldn’t use popcorn to make chicha or cornmeal!  and if you’re growing it for silage, you’ll plant it and harvest it in a different way than you would if you were growing sweet corn for sale as whole ears. So to layperson it seems like all cannabis cultivars will get you high because its the only one laypeople know anything about. Plus with the restrictions, the overall number of cultivars has been greatly reduced so the THC ones are the only common ones. If hemp was grown as a regular crop, you’d have loads and load of different cultivars, all bred and planted, to optimize different aspects.  and all the fiber focused ones would be VERY different because they’d be bred for longest fibers.  the majority of smokable marijuana is actually a DWARF variety of the plant! This is why the argument “well if people grew hemp, they’d hide marijuana in it” is silly. If the two cultivars hybridize, they totally ruin each other’s primary use! You’d get weak, shitty smokable variety AND an inferior, unsalable fiber crop.  anyway, to the other uses.  One of its really AWESOME other uses is that it will take up HEAVY METALS from soil, including radioactive elements.  Normally that’s a really tedious process involving scraping all the topsoil off an area (which can make radioactive dust airborne…) and then burning it to try and extract the heavy metals.  Plant hemp, it uptakes it and stores it in the fiber.  You do have to do multiple crops, but you never actually strip the topsoil.  (plus hemp is a nitrogen fixing crop, so it’s like applying fertilizer!) well then what the hell do you do with radioactive fibers?  Conveniently mixing hemp fiber into concrete with make it stronger and earthquake resistant.  You can also make it up to 1/3 lighter than you would with just concrete and rebar.   How do you normally shield radioactive items? entombing it in concrete.  Make the core with radioactive hemp fiber, apply an outer sheathing with non-radioactive fiber to prevent direct contact or fragmenting into dust or coming into contact with ground water. (only a few inches is needed as a shield) Use it in something like skyscraper foundations or subway tunnels where it won’t be directly contacted by people very often. So you can clean up many old industrial sites that are NOT currently safe AND use it to build infrastructure that’s extra strong and earthquake resistant. Or use it to extract radioactive waste from radioactive water. It IS in use for that purpose within the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone.  And remember that earthquake resistant part? I can think of a country that has to remove a lot of radioactive waste from soil and water AND rebuild structures ravaged by an earthquake. It does a LOT of cool things, but the possibilities with bioremediation are probably the absolutely coolest because there aren’t many other options in that area that are as efficient and cost effective. I’mma learn today. This is all true, but also my best friend gets hives if she touches anything made from it.
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maybethings:

fenrislorsrai:

river-boy:

kitsunebaba:

g00kie-m0nster:

peacefulvibes:

stonefreedreamer:

This had nothing to do with smoking weed or getting high. This is about our earth. This is about our future. This is about the future of our race as humans. 

I am all for hemp. Hemp is the cure for so many things wrong in this world. Hemp can make such a difference!

kitsunebaba, look what appeared on my dash :D

 IT USES 5 TIMES LESS WATER THAN COTTON

AND PRODUCES LIKE 10 TIMES MORE

AND IT HAS TWO SEASONS IN ONE YEAR AND IT IS STRONGER

WHEN YOU MAKE IT INTO PAPER IT DOESN’T YELLOW

YOU CAN MAKE FREAKING CONCRETE OUT OF IT THAT GETS HARDER OVER TIME AND BREATHES SO IT DOESN’T CRACK

THE OIL IS SUPER GOOD FOR YOU

IT WAS THE ORIGINAL FUEL FOR CARS

YOU CANNOT GET HIGH FROM IT!!!! 

 THEY USED TO MAKE SAILS OUT OF IT

YOU CAN USE 80% OF IT FOR PAPER RATHER THEN 20-30% FOR TREES

IT WAS ONLY BOYCOTTED BECAUSE THE COTTON INDUSTRY WAS GOING DOWNHILL

I used to be so confused by the difference between marijuana and hemp because they’re both cannabis. Apparently, they are different species of the same plant genus, but hemp is bred for its industrial use and is grown in tall stalks to produce more fiber. Hemp has so little THC that you would have to smoke at least ten hemp cigarettes in a row to feel anything, and hemp also contains CBD which blocks the effects of THC. Marijuana is bred for its high THC content, obviously, and is allowed to grow bushy to produce more leaves and flowers.

It’s just like corn.  To the layperson, corn is well CORN.  But you have many different cultivars that look superficially similar, but have very different requirements for how to grow them and very different end uses.  You wouldn’t use popcorn to make chicha or cornmeal!  and if you’re growing it for silage, you’ll plant it and harvest it in a different way than you would if you were growing sweet corn for sale as whole ears.

So to layperson it seems like all cannabis cultivars will get you high because its the only one laypeople know anything about. Plus with the restrictions, the overall number of cultivars has been greatly reduced so the THC ones are the only common ones. If hemp was grown as a regular crop, you’d have loads and load of different cultivars, all bred and planted, to optimize different aspects.  and all the fiber focused ones would be VERY different because they’d be bred for longest fibers.  the majority of smokable marijuana is actually a DWARF variety of the plant! This is why the argument “well if people grew hemp, they’d hide marijuana in it” is silly. If the two cultivars hybridize, they totally ruin each other’s primary use! You’d get weak, shitty smokable variety AND an inferior, unsalable fiber crop. 

anyway, to the other uses.  One of its really AWESOME other uses is that it will take up HEAVY METALS from soil, including radioactive elements.  Normally that’s a really tedious process involving scraping all the topsoil off an area (which can make radioactive dust airborne…) and then burning it to try and extract the heavy metals.  Plant hemp, it uptakes it and stores it in the fiber.  You do have to do multiple crops, but you never actually strip the topsoil.  (plus hemp is a nitrogen fixing crop, so it’s like applying fertilizer!)

well then what the hell do you do with radioactive fibers?  Conveniently mixing hemp fiber into concrete with make it stronger and earthquake resistant.  You can also make it up to 1/3 lighter than you would with just concrete and rebar.  

How do you normally shield radioactive items? entombing it in concrete.  Make the core with radioactive hemp fiber, apply an outer sheathing with non-radioactive fiber to prevent direct contact or fragmenting into dust or coming into contact with ground water. (only a few inches is needed as a shield) Use it in something like skyscraper foundations or subway tunnels where it won’t be directly contacted by people very often.

So you can clean up many old industrial sites that are NOT currently safe AND use it to build infrastructure that’s extra strong and earthquake resistant. Or use it to extract radioactive waste from radioactive water.

It IS in use for that purpose within the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone.  And remember that earthquake resistant part? I can think of a country that has to remove a lot of radioactive waste from soil and water AND rebuild structures ravaged by an earthquake.

It does a LOT of cool things, but the possibilities with bioremediation are probably the absolutely coolest because there aren’t many other options in that area that are as efficient and cost effective.

I’mma learn today.

This is all true, but also my best friend gets hives if she touches anything made from it.

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mississippistreet: nooffswitch: mississippistreet: - Loving to Survive: Sexual Terror, Men’s Violence, and Women’s Lives by Dee L.R. Graham, pg. 112 I really want to talk about this more.Especially the first underlined bit about how their emotional bonds are with men though they have sex with women. a common term for this is “homosocial”, coined by queer theorist eve sedgwick. once you start looking around, it’s rather obvious that men align themselves with other men and that they do not have any true connection with women (otherwise, you know, they would not be murdering/raping/taking away our rights/etc). men’s homosocial bonds, be they between heterosexual or homosexual men, reproduce and reinforce male dominance. if you have more questions, feel free to ask. Loving to Survive is not really about male homosocial behavior, but you can understand how women align themselves with homosocial males in order to get by. on the flip side, there is much history and theory by feminists, such as audre lorde and adrienne rich, who assert that female homosociality is a key to female liberation.
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nooffswitch:

mississippistreet:

- Loving to Survive: Sexual Terror, Men’s Violence, and Women’s Lives by Dee L.R. Graham, pg. 112

I really want to talk about this more.Especially the first underlined bit about how their emotional bonds are with men though they have sex with women.

a common term for this is “homosocial”, coined by queer theorist eve sedgwick. once you start looking around, it’s rather obvious that men align themselves with other men and that they do not have any true connection with women (otherwise, you know, they would not be murdering/raping/taking away our rights/etc). men’s homosocial bonds, be they between heterosexual or homosexual men, reproduce and reinforce male dominance.

if you have more questions, feel free to ask. Loving to Survive is not really about male homosocial behavior, but you can understand how women align themselves with homosocial males in order to get by. on the flip side, there is much history and theory by feminists, such as audre lorde and adrienne rich, who assert that female homosociality is a key to female liberation.

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Why The Mandarin needed to be portrayed as he was in Iron Man 3

sleepandbooks:

amberguessa:

fuckitfireeverything:

or, why the MCU didn’t ruin your favorite supervillain.

below the cut: Iron Man 3 spoilers, discussion of cultural appropriation, narrative arc, and analysis of how ridiculously, wonderfully meta the advertising scheme of IM3 was.

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If you are worried about the Mandarin and don’t mind spoilers you should read this

Standing in line to watch iron man now SO reblogging to read later

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Silva’s plan: Not so “luck-based” as people say.

agent-silva:

It’s still a bit “that’s convenient” but consider it as it must have been originally (ie No Bond factored in).

  1. Silva steals something he knows will cause M to face disciplinary action: the hard-drive. That’s why he steals it - his end game isn’t to do with the agent’s names, he doesn’t care. His end game is where M will end up because of him taking such an item - the court house for a disciplinary hearing. i.e. away from the more guarded MI6. 
  2. He blows up the new MI6, knowing their back-up base is underground. It isn’t a stretch to assume Silva would know this, having worked at MI6 before, and would know any attack on MI6 base would force them to move. 
  3. He released the agent names and goaded M: come find me. He wanted to get captured, but on his terms. He didn’t factor in Bond, but worked with it anyway, the end result was the same - he was inside MI6. 
  4. Knowing how MI6 works, he set his laptop up to hack the MI6 servers it would be connected to, releasing the doors. This, admittedly, is a bit reliant on Silva’s skill as a hacker, but he is an arrogant shit. He would probably have been happy to rely on that.
  5. From the MI6 base he forced them to move to for his own purposes of getting to the underground, he travels underground towards the courthouse, blending in with the masses rather than going overground. 
  6. The explosives in the last leg of the underground were placed as a back-up, should Silva need a distraction during the last stretch of his escape. They were presumably put there by the policemen we previously saw working in the underground who aided Silva with his suit. The train coming through was luck - the explosion and rubble would have been enough for a distraction and planned as such. When Silva sees the train coming, he’s laughing - that was luck, luck on his side. 

So yeeeeeaaaaah…feel free to pull it apart and whatnot, just my two cents against people who say Silva’s plan was too reliant on things happening that he had no control over. The level of control he had was actually staggering. He even controlled where MI6 was based purely so he had a quicker means to his underground route, thus getting to M in time at the courthouse…

Short version:

  1. Hard-drive stealing <leads to> M faces disciplinary in the courthouse.
  2. MI6 explosion <leads to> MI6 moving to the underground base.
  3. Leaking names <was meant to lead to> Silva’s capture and therefore, location within the MI6 base, his planned “start point”.
  4. Rigged laptop <leads to> Doors opening, start the main objective - Kill M.
  5. Explosives in the underground <leads to> distraction enough to make the last leg of his run. [The underground route was the backbone of his plan - no doubt the explosives were put there in advance, by the policemen working in the underground seen earlier helping Silva]
  6. Luck: The train in addition to the originally planned distraction explosion. 

End of plan - Silva expected to kill M then and there in the court room. After this point, he’s winging it pretty much. Hence why he loses his cool in the court room after he fails to kill M - we see him looking genuinely angry when Bond shoots the fire extinguishers and he starts firing at random, blind. He’s pissed - years of planning down to the last detail, down the shitter.

The study notes that Likes that are the “best predictors of high intelligence include ‘Thunderstorms,’ The Colbert Report, ‘Science” and ‘Curly Fries.’ Low intelligence was indicated by liking (Facebook pages for) ‘Sephora,’ ‘I Love Being A Mom,’ ‘Harley Davidson’ and ‘Lady Antebellum.’ ” Researchers gave no further explanation of these findings.
Facebook ‘Likes’ reveal more about you than you think

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I Was a Good Mormon Wife ... Until My Husband Stopped Believing in God

When Sean replaced his temple garments — the sacred underwear he’d promised to wear day and night — with boxers, I couldn’t take it anymore. It was too much betrayal. I called up a neighbor with a husband like mine and cried. But instead of empathy, she offered questions that stunned me into silence. Was Sean addicted to pornography? Watching R-rated movies? What sin had brought him to this terrible place?

My tears stopped. Her questions were so off-base that they seemed absurd. She was sincere, and trying to help, but she believed what the Church teaches — that a man would only leave because he’s disobeying the commandments. She couldn’t understand this was a rational inquiry. She saw everything as the result of sin.

Kittens are born unable to retract their claws. By 27 days of age, the claws can be retracted at will.

Developmental Milestones in the Kitten, link via Love & Hisses: Your source for the cutest kittehs on the internet » 3/16/12

I DID NOT KNOW THIS. Also, kittens are born deaf! I knew about the blindness, but not the deafness. Their ear canals are sealed for the first couple of weeks. That means for the first dozen or so days of their life, their only contact with the world is through touch, warmth, scent, and vibration (like purring).

Source: love-and-hisses.com

Every one of us has two given names. I don’t mean first name and surname, or first and middle. I mean two entire names, each one of which represents our complete identity. These two are a sound and an image, or a spoken name and a written name.

We think of these names as being one. My name is Laura, whether I type it to you in this blog or speak it to you on the phone. But in fact they are two, linked but distinct.

Let’s say your name, spoken, is “IZ-ə-behl.” That’s a familiar and fashionable classic. It’s usually represented by the letter string Isabel or Isabelle, but in the past decade thousands of girls have also been given the written names Isabell, Isobel, Izabel, Izabelle, Izzabelle and more.
You Have Two Names | The Baby Name Wizard

Source: babynamewizard.com