I'm Still an AraSol Can
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im not scared of flying because i know the aeromorph fuckers working at the airport would never let their wife crash
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Dave Strider in his god tier fit, since I drew Jake a while ago, figured why not draw some more god tier fits/redesigns.
(With and without shades.)❤️🔥
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do you ever say something and then think “wow this isnt even a bit. im just like this”
do yoo evew say someting and den tink “wow dis isn’t even a bit!! im just wike dis UwU”
This post has been UwU-ified!
i feel dirty after reading that
do yoo need a scwubby wubby? OwO
i think i do need a scwubby wubby to be honest but not from you
When is it my turn to be happy.
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Southern Atlas moth, Epiphora bauhiniae, Saturniidae
Found in sub-Saharan Africa
Photo 1 by aidworker, 2 by maggie4z, 3 by congonaturalist, and 4 by antshrike69
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It turns out the cookies are real — sort of.
They are baked at the home of Lara MacLean, who has been a “puppet wrangler” for the Jim Henson Company for almost three decades. MacLean started as an intern for Sesame Workshop in 1992 and has been working for the team ever since.
The recipe, roughly: Pancake mix, puffed rice, Grape-Nuts and instant coffee, with water in the mixture. The chocolate chips are made using hot glue sticks — essentially colored gobs of glue.
The cookies do not have oils, fats or sugars. Those would stain Cookie Monster. They’re edible, but barely. “Kind of like a dog treat,” MacLean says.
Before she reinvented the recipe in the 2000s, the creative team behind “Sesame Street” used versions of rice crackers and foams to make the cookies. The challenge was that the rice crackers would make more of a mess and get stuck in Cookie’s fur. And the foams didn’t look like cookies once they broke apart.
Cookie has been portrayed since 2001 by David Rudman, who took over the role from Frank Oz. Rudman’s right hand moves the mouth, which is eating, and his left hand holds the cookies. Both work in concert to break the cookies, which means they have to be soft enough to fall apart.
Rudman said soft cookies are best, adding, “The more crumbs, the funnier it is. If he eats the cookie, and it only breaks into two pieces if it’s too hard, it’s just not funny,” he said. “It looks almost painful. But if he eats a cookie and it explodes into a hundred crumbs, that’s where the comedy comes from.”
MacLean has perfected a recipe that is “thin enough that it’ll explode into a hundred crumbs,” Rudman said. “But it’s not too thin that it’ll break in my hand when I’m holding it.”
Not every (human) guest realizes that the cookies aren’t meant to be eaten. Adam Sandler appeared on an episode and decided to share in the muppet’s delight by spontaneously eating a cookie with him on set.
“As soon as the cameras cut, he was like, ‘Blech!’ ” MacLean said.
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mystery-cat-cowboy-wizard-robot:
why would I camp somewhere named Hole Where You’ll Freeze To Death
Yeah I’m going on a camping trip to the Hole Where You’ll Freeze to Death. No I won’t be back soon.
If people are curious about what the video title means, I watched it some time ago, and it’s actually pretty important info to know if you’re going camping/backpacking: heat rises, and cold sinks, so the lowest point of the terrain can become much colder than the surrounding area, especially at night. If the temperature in these low-points drops farther than the temperatures your camping gear is rated for, you can definitely freeze to death.
“Don’t sleep in holes” seems like a pretty obvious statement to make a video about. But it isn’t talking about what we normally think of when we’re asked to describe a hole in the ground. The video is talking about low-lying meadows or depressions, often in cold mountains like the Alps, that are free of trees and large plants. They seem like good flat ground to camp on. And to compound the problem, maybe some poor sucker tried to build a now-abandoned log cabin or shack right in the middle of one that you may be tempted to sleep in, like the one in the thumbnail. But the reason the meadow is free and clear of trees, is because even pine trees, which grow in high altitudes and low temperatures, can’t survive the temperature difference. The downhill slope of the terrain collects the freezing air like water in a bowl, and with nowhere for it to go, it may become even colder than temperatures recorded at much higher elevations in the same area. And you’ll be right there in the middle of it, because it looked very nice in the daylight. Now? Not so much.
So don’t sleep in holes. Best case scenario is that you’ll have a very chilly night’s sleep and a lousy morning. Worst case is that you won’t wake up in the morning at all.
(My memory and explanation isn’t perfect, watch the video itself in case I got important stuff wrong. The creator also lists his sources in the video description if you wanted to check those out.)
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The autoclave is designed to kill schmucks I think
It’s a 24yo Tomy SS-325 if it helps, it beeps once when it finishes counting down and beeps again when it finishes depressurizing, the steam is about 90-100c by then iirc
#top loading autoclave??? how do you get your trays out without toughing the sides?
With its basket! It comes with two of them
What’s an autoclave?
Are those ink markers?
It’s essentially a superpowered pressure cooker designed to get hot and high pressure enough to kill EVERYTHING. Including mold spores. They’re used to sterilise equipment.
Those aren’t markers, they’re tubes of fluid that OP wants to be sterile. It’s common practice to autoclave things like nutrient broth before inoculating them with bacteria, to kill off any contamination and make sure that you only grow whatever you put in there to grow.
Fun fact: you can totally sterilize equipment with an instant pot in a pinch. I know this because my lab lives in a psych department so there’s no goddamn autoclave in our building, so we were using an instant pot for some time until EHS decided they were not comfortable with it and were willing to cough up for an actual autoclave.
You want to use a biomarker to verify obviously but that’s good practice anyway.
Instant Pot doesn’t let you open it until it’s depressurized why does Elderly Tommy the Murder Autoclave omit this feature.
Home cooks are important, scientists are disposeable
oh i can’t NOT
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Unmute !
[Video description: 3 old nokia-type cell phones are placed upright on a table. As they play a ringtone version of Tchaikovsky’s “Waltz of the Flowers,” they rotate slowly as if dancing in time to the music.]
The ringtones are rather shrill, for anyone sensitive to that.
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Heavy is the girl the wears the strap
team fortress 2 must have changed a lot since the last time i played
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Not sure who needs to see this, but if a Service Dog starts backing into you, pushing you away from their handler, or they sit down at a leash distance from their handler
You Should Move Away.
They are performing a task known as “spacing” or “blocking” that helps reduce or prevent anxiety in their handler.
They are NOT “asking for pets” or being disobedient or asking to be spoken to. All you have to do is stay back from the dog and handler.
This is not a capslock PSA because I’m not sure how many people that don’t have a SD actually know this is a trained task.
I did NOT know and this is both very cool that SDs can be trained for this, and very important that we all know how to respect it.
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Knowing a fic author through AO3 is like attending someone’s thesis presentation and politely clapping at the end, knowing a fic author through this hellsite is like going over to their house at 3AM to watch them eat mayonnaise out of a jar
Sometimes I attend somebody’s thesis presentation and I’m so impressed that I follow them home to watch them eat mayonnaise out of a jar at 3am.
Sometimes I watch someone eat mayonnaise out of a jar at 3am with such fervour I am compelled to attend their thesis presentation
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