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♫ Top 5 artists of the Last.week: Nine Inch Nails (41) Drink The Sea (14) The Beatles (14) The Parcels (14) Pulp (12). #myweekcounted 262 Scrobbles with Lastfm #music via @…

Milk rounds are making a come back
https://northwestbylines.co.uk/lifestyle/food-and-drink/milk-rounds-are-making-a-come-back/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&am…

Milk rounds are making a come back
Remember the old-fashioned milk rounds? They see surge in popularity as doorstep deliveries increase in Greater Manchester

Just bought a ticket for the Zurich show of the only funny Finnish person I know 😄
#ISMO

Well, the weather forecast now includes "possible wildfires." If you go out in those wildfires, drink a lot of water and don't forget your bowler hat ->
Адска жега днес - Новини СЕГА
https://www.segabg.com/hot/category-bulgaria/adska-zhega-dnes…

Адска жега днес - Новини СЕГА
Пикът на горещата вълна от последните няколко дни се очаква да бъде днес. Червен код е издаден за областите Видин, Монтана, Враца, Плевен, Ловеч, Велико Търново, Русе, Ямбол, Хасково, Стара Загора, Пловдив, Благоевград. Там температурите ще прехвърлят 41 градуса.

sunday dinner

Series A, Episode 02 - Space Fall
AVON: [To Jenna] Luck has nothing to do with it.
[Switch to prisoner's living area]
VILA: You look as if you could do with a drink.
DAINER: I'm always thirsty, Vila.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/102/246 B7B4

I'm going to need more Monsters.

The origins of the Two Drink Minimum are lost in antiquity …
https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/09/chimps-consume-alcohol-equivalent-of-nearly-2-drinks-a-day/

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #Roadhouse
Mary Gauthier:
🎵 I Drink
#MaryGauthier
https://marygauthier.bandcamp.com/track/i-drink-2
https://open.spotify.com/track/6fBh7paQUMek4UQcR3VoTa

🍻 Fewer Americans are drinking alcohol as health concerns rise
#alcohol

Fewer Americans are drinking alcohol as health concerns rise
Fewer U.S. adults say they drink alcohol, and more now believe that even moderate drinking can harm their health, a new Gallup poll finds.

I hadn't had a drink in ages and don't particularly feel like changing this. But otherwise this could be an amazing self-research project for my Spanish learning!
«The 2025 #IgNobel Peace Prize went to researchers who proved a popular myth: a small dose of #alcohol can improve foreign language pronunciation!»
https://mstdn.science/@serhii/115241769055871087

"L'attirance humaine pour les boissons alcoolisées pourrait être, dans une large mesure, héritée de nos ancêtres primates. et d'une certaine manière, c'est quelque chose que nous partageons avec nos plus proches parents vivants : selon une nouvelle étude [...] les chimpanzés consomment quotidiennement des doses élevées d'alcool par rapport Š leur poids corporel, par l'intermédiaire des fruits qui font partie de leur régime alimentaire habituel"

Das #Rezept des Tages:
Suchst du nach einem erfrischenden Vitamin-C-Boost? 🍋🍯 Dieser einfache #Drink kombiniert #Apfelessig,

Erfrischungsdrink mit Vitamin C
Ein spritziges Erfrischungsgetränk für zwischendurch gefällig?Mit einem Schuss Vitamin C?

El primer šlbum de estudio del supergrupo Drink The Sea, formado por Peter Buck (ex R.E.M.), Barrett Martin (ex Streaming Trees y Mad Season) y Alain Johannes (ex Eleven), vio la luz hoy.
«Drink The Sea I»
https://album.link/s/7KjIZuQRy4wZJfybLrbT8C

Holy smokes. What a solid OTV episode! Sure beats the hell out of the usual IRL vids... Bravo!
▶️ OFFLINETV PLAYS TRUTH OR DRINK 3 ft. POKIMANE
https://youtube.com/watch?v=TVBKmJIbOmo&si=Os6ud1Goh-VrR0ll

Having just one alcoholic drink every day is linked to brain damage - Earth.com
https://www.earth.com/news/having-just-one-alcoholic-drink-every-day-linked-to-damaged-brain-vessels/

In Buffalo, the Chief of Narcotics and Intelligence for the Erie County Sheriff’s Office can plead guilty to hit-and-run in his county vehicle (while probably drink), intimidate a witness, collude with city police in a possible cover-up, and keep his job.
https://www.

ECSO chief pleads guilty, receives no jail time for string of hit-and-runs
Chief Daniel "DJ" Granville with the Erie County Sheriff's Office appeared in Buffalo City Court on Friday afternoon, according to Niagara County District Attorney Brian Seaman.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MorningShow
Sinéad O’Connor:
🎵 Drink Before the War
#SinéadOConnor 🖤
https://andypeimbert.bandcamp.com/track/sin-ad-oconnor-drink-before-the-war-andy-peimbert-edit
https://open.spotify.com/track/5Bmc87iF3wRWGyDbzcMrG3

love watching random mastodon grandmas drink in the same sunset over and over again every day, pray this is me at her age

Hade egentligen ett annat recept jag tänkte bjuda till till #drinkklubben men jag blev ombedd att göra det just under vår nyårsvecka (nyår ikväll och pågår i drygt två dygn). Tänkte att det vore kul att göra något på temat. En vanlig grej att äta under nyåret är äpplen (runda, som året) doppade i honung eller dadelsirap (så att våra år ska bli söta).
Därför blir veckans drink en Ap…

Apple butter – så gör du det lyxiga äppelmoset | Land.se
Apple butter är en lyxigare, smakrikare och kryddigare version av äppelmos.

#malaphors #humor #comedy

Brighton's Wild Park rainscape project filters out pollutants from road runoff, protecting the water supply and enhancing community access to nature. #climatechange #climatesolutions #climate

#northumberland #berwickupontweed

All good advice.
https://mastodon.social/@GeePawHill/114820870596337330

The essence of cinema. 🎞️
#cinema #film #cinemastodon

"This Day in History, 1973: Somebody drops LSD into Robert Plant's drink at a Led Zeppelin concert
The British quartet were big favourites in Vancouver, but cut their 1973 show short to take Robert Plant to the hospital"

Joining in with a little #IronmanWales spectating and a drink before lunch as the bikes come through the village.

With farmed fish, RelationFish swims against the tide in fine dining
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/life/2025/06/29/food-drink/relationfish-sustainable-seafood-fine-dining/
🆓

With farmed fish, RelationFish swims against the tide in fine dining
Want to be an advocate of Japan’s marine health? Look out for sustainably farmed fish the next time you dine at a restaurant.

I’m on another #weightloss mission. I can never maintain a steady weight. I enjoy weight loss though because it’s so trackable. I put the effort in and the kgs come off. I’ve upped my exercise (am doing 6 workouts a week) and have cut out all of the shitty junk food and drink. I’m shedding 0.8% of my body weight per day at the moment and it feels good. In

There's a blackboard in front of a dining place. On it, "free cold drink for every meal", and an arrow facing right. Except that, to the right, there's the street, and on its other side… a bank.
(The blackboard must have been turned around.)

I contain Vodka
'Don't Drink and Design'
Wobbly Lines

On The Road - To Xi’An/ Beings 👁️‍🗨️
在路上 - 去西安/ 灵 👁️‍🗨️
📷 Pentax MX
🎞️Kodak Double-X 5222
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite

Polizei ermittelt - Notfall: Verdacht auf Chlor in Freibadgetränk #News #Nachrichten…

Highly amusing bug in Dwarf Fortress this week where a fix to the rate at which crossbowdwarfs can reload and fire a bolt accidentally introduced a dramatic slow down in how fast all sentient beings can drink and eat, to the point that they were getting thirsty and hungry faster than they could drink/eat. This led eventually to the entire population permanently stuck in the taverns and dining halls, drinking infinitely.

Good Morning #Canada
It's a slow news day, historically speaking, so I'll share some local, very cool history related to my small community of Belle Ewart. As parts of our country experience heat waves, perhaps this post will remind you that it will get cold again. For you corporate types, a new definition of frozen assets. For everyone else, think about how far we've come as you rattle the ice cubes in your favourite drink.
#CanadaIsAwesome #iceIceBaby
https://www.orilliamatters.com/local-news/lake-simcoe-ice-company-thrived-in-late-19th-century-6192112

Second to #baseball game is a solo game for me. My son caught my cold from earlier in the week and is home with my wife. Tonight is Stripers vs Indians
#GWNvsIND

This is a trend of my desire to not drink alcohol over the last few days. Purely coincidentally, this is also a graph of the state of charge of my solar battery array over the last few days.
I think I'm like one of those lizards that has to recharge in the sun to have any desire to live. No wonder I love the desert. No wonder I don't love Ireland.

there was a fucking bee in my drink... why must i suffer

Prosecutor's release 42,000 word response to That 70's Show star #DannyMasterson's appeal to be released from 30 yr #California #prison term on forcible rape & drugging charges.
The details are not prett…

Why’d they call it “agentic AI” when Russian roulette was right there?
(Ah, because Russian roulette doesn’t destroy our habitat, drink all our water, and doom our species. I get it now, my bad.) https://front-end.social/@ariel/114675226611700916

Ariel Salminen (@ariel@front-end.social)
Attached: 1 image “Cursor […] tried to delete some old files, didn’t work at the first time and it decided to end up deleting everything on my computer, including itself.” 😶‍🌫️ https://forum.cursor.com/t/cursor-yolo-deleted-everything-in-my-computer/103131

"Orange rivers signal toxic shift in Arctic wilderness"
#Arctic #Environment
https://phys.org/…

Orange rivers signal toxic shift in Arctic wilderness
In Alaska's Brooks Range, rivers once clear enough to drink now run orange and hazy with toxic metals. As warming thaws formerly frozen ground, it sets off a chemical chain reaction that is poisoning fish and wreaking havoc on ecosystems.

I thought this was a joke at first. It's getting harder and harder to tell reality from satire.

Sigh.
I don't even know what we're fucking doing anymore.
Also, the marketer who passed up the opportunity to call these Brawndrops should be dismissed immediately.

Daiquiri, veckans drink i #drinkklubben
Väldigt god 🍸

My daily routine nowadays:
if(sleepy)
drink("coffee");
else
drink("coffee");

💊 This temporary tattoo could detect an unwanted drug in your drink
#wearables

This temporary tattoo could detect an unwanted drug in your drink
Researchers reporting in ACS Sensors have created a temporary tattoo sticker that has a hidden, but possibly lifesaving, purpose: detecting the presence of one drug used to "spike" alcoholic beverages and facilitate sexual assault. The sticker responds within 1 second to even low concentrations of the drug γ-hydroxybutyrate (GHB).

i've also drained both the filter and the pump bay. The blueberries are getting a very good drink today. 🫐
I probably won't circulate water through the stream again until I get the main pond weighed down with rock on the bottom. I wanted to try to start building the rock lining around the wall of the main pond to see if it would hold and be sufficient.
But I might just let the bottom of the pond dry out completely. It's going to be nice and warm again the next couple days so it is best for it to let it dry out and harden up.
#poolpond #backyardProject #diy

new beanytuesday politicians dont hit like og bloodfeast but ill take it

I'm putting water out for the birds but they're ignoring it. I've used shallow bowls and an old ice cube tray and put them in various parts of the garden that I see the birds in most often. What am I doing wrong? I really want them to drink, bathe etc as they are undoubtedly suffering in these conditions.

Long time followers will know that I enjoy a deep joke that optimistically three of you (certainly in #Canada ) might get.
Last night we did a self-entertaining bit where we drove out to Horseshoe Bay to have a drink at the Troller before returning to Deep Cove where–sadly–The Raven is closed and for sale. It was less than nine miles home at least.
As for stops in between, it seems that many…

Which drink pairs best with pushing to PROD on Friday on your way out?

🏳️‍⚧️ Trans people are real, JK Rowling is irrelevant and pathetic! 🤡
#TransRightsAreHumanRights #TransRights #JKRowling

The family owned business that invented the peameal bacon on a bun sandwich is retiring. I've only enjoyed their food a few times while visiting the St. Lawrence Market, but it was pretty much a given that was where we were going for lunch.
https://www.blogto.com/eat_drink/2025/07/family-behind-torontos-favourite-sandwich-bowing-out/

If you’re in Reykjavík this Thursday, and you’re up for a beer with me for my birthday, I’ll be at Skúli from around 17. We may move it or we may stay put. Come say hæ, get a hug, and stay for a drink (or not)!

Obesity & diet
I wouldn't normally share a positive story about the new diet drugs, because I've seen someone get obsessed with them who was at a perfectly acceptable weight *by majority standards* (surprise: every weight is in fact perfectly acceptable by *objective* standards, because every "weight-associated" health risk is its own danger that should be assessed *in individuals*). I think two almost-contradictory things:
1. In a society shuddering under the burden of metastasized fatmisia, there's a very real danger in promoting the new diet drugs because lots of people who really don't need them will be psychologically bullied into using them and suffer from the cost and/or side effects.
2. For many individuals under the assault of our society's fatmisia, "just ignore it" is not a sufficient response, and also for specific people for whom decreasing their weight can address *specific* health risks/conditions that they *want* to address that way, these drugs can be a useful tool.
I know @… to be a trustworthy & considerate person, so I think it's responsible to share this:
#Fat #Diet #Obesity

Anyone sure that Putin didn't slip some plutonium into Trump's drink during their meeting in Alaska?

I drink maybe like 4 times per year, but today's bill passage warranted a beer. This country's government is the fucking worst.

Too much to drink last night?
#ShawnWeatherly as Jill
Season 1 Episode 5 "Message in a Bottle"
#RandomBaywatch #lvdlpx

So fun things with this camper conversion. The day after I dropped it off he tells me a medical crisis is gonna stop him being able to do the work.
Later find out that now he's over 50 he decided to go on a health kick, and only drink distilled water.
🤦‍♂️
So he ended up flushing all the electrolytes out of his system and having a nervous system crisis the week he was supposed to be working on my van.
😆
Consult your doctors about your health-kicks people!
He managed to fit a kit thing, rather than do the custom job. Seems possible that will be enough and it won't be rescheduled, but live in it a bit first to find out.
Managed to sleep in it okay, even poorly parked on a slope and with a fractured wrist.

I took the train here to avoid paying for parking, I used one of the giveaway tickets that I was given, and I am frugal with food and drink. Now, I just need to find the right band to listen to. #CheapDayOut

At least 2/3 of Americans aren’t daily coffee drinkers. ☕️
Wait, they are.
Well, at least hundreds of millions of American coffee drinkers don’t drink an average of 3 cups a day.
Wait, they do.
Folks, these are #TrumpTariffs, taking money from the American people.
via @…

10: with food or a drink on it.

#30AlbumCovers

10: with food or a drink on it.

#30AlbumCovers

I hate it when I spill my drink on the keyboard. 2 seconds for the accident to happen. 25 minutes cleaning the damn thing. Thankfully, everything is working as it should be, so business as normal.

These days I almost always drink my coffee black. I quit sugar years ago.

I like the dev board holders in the ICE btw. 🥳✨👩‍💻
(repurposed drink holders)

Wait, people say "scotch-free"? 😕
Do they mean they got away without paying for their scotch drink? 🤔
#English

Day 6 - Shakespeare had taste.
I have a feeling that my butt is stronger and more forgiving than I thought. I really expected to be crawling like those naked snails, but I guess I learned something new about my body.
HelsingŸr is home to Kronborg Slot, the castle that Shakespeare used in Hamlet. Not only that, it was also very important for payments to enter the Baltic Sea. Today, you can walk around the castle, drink coffee, or even visit some local art studios, such as those fe…

Most health insurers give you ten percent off if you drink a litre of gravy daily.

Saturday afternoon coffee walk with husband. Then friend came over to drink wine, eat cheese, and watch a couple of movies with me. The Thursday Murder Club movie was the headliner today. It was a pleasant way to while away an afternoon.
Husband left us alone while he did his own thing. Emerged to find he is slow-cooking Chilli Con Carne for tomorrow night's dinner. The house smells detectably spicy.
Perhaps I'll just have a smidge more cheese and another glass of wine befo…

bad day to be an ice cold drink. #fyp #foryou #4thofjuly

"Warning issued after US energy drink cans accidentally filled with vodka"
really? An Accident? How can that be...
"US authorities are warning consumers of Celsius energy drinks to check their cans after some were accidently filled with vodka.
The US Food & Drug Administration (USFDA) issued the warning for the Astro Vibe Blue Razz edition of the drink."

I hate dental work. Not the actual experience, which is tolerable and reasonably brief, but the multi-hour aftermath of being unable to govern my lips while obsessing over the strange new thing inn my mouth. It’s been 2 hours and my gums have come back to a proper dull ache, but I’m still dribbling when I drink.
But at least I now have a crown that feels weirdly pristine and slicker than the other teeth, where the temporary crown had been rougher.

We watched the #EngEsp #Euros final in a pub in Brecon, south Wales, and even the locals cheered when England won! (The gargoyles on a local church represent the mood when it went to penalties)

Memories of Tomorrow, Mika Stoltzmann, Steve Gadd, Eddie Gomez, Mike Mainieri, Geoffrey Keezer
This sounds like an assemblage of musicians having fun with new Standards, with a kind cool lounge jazz that swings.
I think it requires a drink to listen properly and dim purple lights.
Anything that leads with marimba is going to swing.
#Music

Such luxuries will enslave you to the system

Das #Rezept des Tages:
Lust auf einen erfrischenden Bananen-Joghurt-Milchshake? 🍌🥤 Mit #Basilikum wird dieses Getränk zu einem besonderen Genuss! Einfach die Zutaten mixen und nach Geschmack mit #Zitronensaft

Bananen-Joghurt-Milchshake
Der Basilikum gibt dem Getränk eine interessante Note.Da Milch und Joghurt normalerweise im Kühlschrank stehen, ist es frisch gemixt ein kühler Drink. Durch Milch und Banane stecken allerdings auch viel Kalzium und...

The roses perk up
As perhaps would all of us
If given a drink.
#dailyhaikuprompt - roses
#haiku
#poem

You have to buy your own Sharpie to write “with a Vengeance” on it tho.
https://mastodon.social/@SteveFaulkner/114976845733588861

Steve Faulkner (@SteveFaulkner@mastodon.social)
Attached: 1 image ✊🏽 Drink in the revolution #DEI #merch #antifa https://www.etsy.com/uk/listing/4346821262/dei-harder-mug-with-color-inside

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #SonicReducer
Knowso:
🎵 Drink From the Lake
#Knowso
https://sorrystaterecords.bandcamp.com/track/drink-from-the-lake
https://open.spotify.com/track/21490PfiJupLPO0A4hVQ0f

How popular media gets love wrong
Now a bit of background about why I have this "engineered" model of love:
First, I'm a white straight cis man. I've got a few traits that might work against my relationship chances (e.g., neurodivergence; I generally fit pretty well into the "weird geek" stereotype), but as I was recently reminded, it's possible my experience derives more from luck than other factors, and since things are tilted more in my favor than most people on the planet, my advice could be worse than useless if it leads people towards strategies that would only have worked for someone like me. I don't *think* that's the case, but it's worth mentioning explicitly.
When I first started dating my now-wife, we were both in graduate school. I was 26, and had exactly zero dating/romantic experience though that point in my life. In other words, a pretty stereotypical "incel" although I definitely didn't subscribe to incel ideology at all. I felt lonely, and vaguely wanted a romantic relationship (I'm neither aromantic nor asexual), but had never felt socially comfortable enough to pursue one before. I don't drink and dislike most social gatherings like parties or bars; I mostly hung around the fringes of the few college parties I attended, and although I had a reasonable college social life in terms of friends, I didn't really do anything to pursue romance, feeling too awkward to know where to start. I had the beginnings of crushes in both high school and college, but never developed a really strong crush, probably correlated with not putting myself in many social situations outside of close all-male friend gatherings. I never felt remotely comfortable enough to act on any of the proto-crushes I did have. I did watch porn and masturbate, so one motivation for pursuing a relationship was physical intimacy, but loneliness was as much of a motivating factor, and of course the social pressure to date was a factor too, even though I'm quite contrarian.
When I first started dating my now-wife, we were both in graduate school. I was 26, and had exactly zero dating/romantic experience though that point in my life. In other words, a pretty stereotypical "incel" although I definitely didn't subscribe to incel ideology at all. I felt lonely, and vaguely wanted a romantic relationship (I'm neither aromantic nor asexual), but had never felt socially comfortable enough to pursue one before. I don't drink and dislike most social gatherings like parties or bars; I mostly hung around the fringes of the few college parties I attended, and although I had a reasonable college social life in terms of friends, I didn't really do anything to pursue romance, feeling too awkward to know where to start. I had the beginnings of crushes in both high school and college, but never developed a really strong crush, probably correlated with not putting myself in many social situations outside of close all-male friend gatherings. I never felt remotely comfortable enough to act on any of the proto-crushes I did have. I did watch porn and masturbate, so one motivation for pursuing a relationship was physical intimacy, but loneliness was as much of a motivating factor, and of course the social pressure to date was a factor too, even though I'm quite contrarian.
I'm lucky in that I had some mixed-gender social circles already like intramural soccer and a graduate-student housing potluck. Graduate school makes a *lot* more of these social spaces accessible, so I recognize that those not in school of some sort have a harder time of things, especially if like me they don't feel like they fit in in typical adult social spaces like bars.
However, at one point I just decided that my desire for a relationship would need action on my part and so I'd try to build a relationship and see what happened. I worked up my courage and asked one of the people in my potluck if she'd like to go for a hike (pretty much clearly a date but not explicitly one; in retrospect not the best first-date modality in a lot of ways, but it made a little more sense in our setting where we could go for a hike from our front door). To emphasize this point: I was not in love with (or even infatuated with) my now-wife at that point. I made a decision to be open to building a relationship, but didn't follow the typical romance story formula beyond that. Now of course, in real life as opposed to popular media, this isn't anything special. People ask each other out all the time just because they're lonely, and some of those relationships turn out fine (although many do not).
I was lucky in that some aspects of who I am and what I do happened to be naturally comforting to my wife (natural advantage in the "appeal" model of love) but of course there are some aspects of me that annoy my wife, and we negotiate that. In the other direction, there's some things I instantly liked about my wife, and other things that still annoy me. We've figured out how to accept a little, change a little, and overall be happy with each other (though we do still have arguments; it's not like the operation/construction/maintenance of the "love mechanism" is always perfectly smooth). In particular though, I approached the relationship with the attitude of "I want to try to build a relationship with this person," at first just because of my own desires for *any* relationship, and then gradually more and more through my desire to build *this specific* relationship as I enjoyed the rewards of companionship.
So for example, while I think my wife is objectively beautiful, she's also *subjectively* very beautiful *to me* because having decided to build a relationship with her, I actively tried to see her as beautiful, rather than trying to judge whether I wanted a relationship with her based on her beauty. In other words, our relationship is more causative of her beauty-to-me than her beauty-to-me is causative of our relationship. This is the biggest way I think the "engineered" model of love differs from the "fire" and "appeal" models: you can just decide to build love independent of factors we typically think of as engendering love (NOT independent of your partner's willingness to participate, of course), and then all of those things like "thinking your partner is beautiful" can be a result of the relationship you're building. For sure those factors might affect who is willing to try building a relationship with you in the first place, but if more people were willing to jump into relationship building (not necessarily with full commitment from the start) without worrying about those other factors, they might find that those factors can come out of the relationship instead of being prerequisites for it. I think this is the biggest failure of the "appeal" model in particular: yes you *do* need to do things that appeal to your partner, but it's not just "make myself lovable" it's also: is your partner putting in the effort to see the ways that you are beautiful/lovable/etc., or are they just expecting you to become exactly some perfect person they've imagined (and/or been told to desire by society)? The former is perfectly possible, and no less satisfying than the latter.
To cut off my rambling a bit here, I'll just add that in our progress from dating through marriage through staying-married, my wife and I have both talked at times explicitly about commitment, and especially when deciding to get married, I told her that I knew I couldn't live up to the perfect model of a husband that I'd want to be, but that if she wanted to deepen our commitment, I was happy to do that, and so we did. I also rearranged my priorities at that point, deciding that I knew I wanted to prioritize this relationship above things like my career or my research interests, and while I've not always been perfect at that in my little decisions, I've been good at holding to that in my big decisions at least. In the end, *once we had built a somewhat-committed relationship*, we had something that we both recognized was worth more than most other things in life, and that let us commit even more, thus getting even more out of it in the long term. Obviously you can't start the first date with an expectation of life-long commitment, and you need to synchronize your increasing commitment to a relationship so that it doesn't become lopsided, which is hard. But if you take the commitment as an active decision and as the *precursor* to things like infatuation, attraction, etc., you can build up to something that's incredibly strong and rewarding.
I'll follow this up with one more post trying to distill some advice from my ramblings.
#relationships #love

Estrogen? Hot drinks will suffice!
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Naturally, cold water cooled. For that reason it was used in mania and frenzy, sicknesses of heat where the spirits were in ebullition, solids tightened and liquids were heated to the point of evaporation, leaving the brain of the patient ‘dry and brittle’, as anatomists regularly demonstrated. Reasonably enough Boissieu includes cold water among his list of refreshing cures: baths were the foremost ‘antiphlogistic’, purifying the body of any excessive igneous particles to be found there. Taken as a drink, it was a ‘dilutive procastinant’ that diminished the resistance of fluids to the action of solids, thereby indirectly lowering the general heat of the body.
But it was also said that cold water brought heat and that hot water cooled. Such at least was the thesis defended by Darut. Cold baths chased the blood from the periphery of the body and pushed it ‘with increased vigour towards the heart’. As the heart was the seat of natural heat, the blood was warmed there, all the more so as “the heart, which struggles alone against all the other parts, makes renewed efforts to expel the blood and overcome capillary resistance. What results is a greater intensity of circulation, the division of the blood, the fluidity of the humours, the destruction of congestions, an increase in the strength of the natural heat, of the appetite of the digestive forces, and the activity of the body and the mind.” A symmetrical paradox operated regarding hot baths: blood was attracted to the extremities of the body, as were the humours, sweat, and all forms of liquid, both beneficial and harmful. The vital centres were therefore deserted, the heart slowed and the organism thus began to cool down. This fact was confirmed by the ‘fainting, lipothymia… weakness, nonchalance, lassitude, and lack of vigour’ that generally accompanied excessive bathing with hot water.
But there was more. So great was the polyvalence of water, so great was its aptitude to submit itself to the qualities that it carried, that it sometimes lost its efficacy as a liquid and acted as a desiccant instead. Water could Prevent dampness. In part, this was the old principle of similia similibus, but in another sense, and by the intermediary of a visible mechanism. For some, it was cold water that brought dryness, as heat kept water humid. Heat dilated the pores of the organism, distended its membranes, and allowed humidity to impregnate them as a secondary effect. Liquids made their way through heat. For that reason, the hot drinks so widely used in the seventeenth century risked becoming a danger, and those who took too many risked relaxation, general dampness and a weakness of the whole organism. As these were traits commonly associated with the feminine body, as opposed to the dry, virile solidity of the male, the abuse of hot drinks could lead to a general feminisation of the human race: “Not without reason, the reproach is made to the majority of men that they have softened and degenerated, taking on the habits and inclinations of women – the only thing lacking is a physical resemblance. The abuse of humectants could accelerate the metamorphosis, and render the two sexes almost identical both physically and morally. Woe betide the human race if this prejudice ever spreads to the masses: there will be no more labourers, artisans or soldiers, as they will have lost the strength and vigour necessary for their profession.” [Pressavin]
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(Michel Foucault, History of Madness)

"Microplastics are here, there and everywhere"
#Plastic #Plastics #Microplastics

Microplastics are here, there and everywhere
They can be found in the air we breathe, the water we drink and the food we eat. They can be found within our cells, our organs and even our brains.

My 13yo held up a glass of water and asked me if it had microplastics in it. "Probably," I replied. He then said he wasn't going to drink it, and I told him that microplastics are EVERYWHERE. You can't avoid it, they're in all the water and air. I explained that it's a problem we need to solve at society's level - a huge amount of environmental microplastics come from car tires, and we need to wean ourselves off of fossil fuels.
He and the 8yo both then as…

I couldn’t sleep. My brain kept spinning: I brush my teeth at night. Then I don’t eat, I don’t drink, I just sleep. Nothing goes in my mouth. So why, when I wake up, do I brush my teeth again? I already did it! Nothing changed. It’s like someone decided mornings need a repeat, but my mouth is just as clean as before.
Sometimes I wonder, who decided this? Why do we all just do it, like it’s written in the sky or something? I like the feeling of brushing but not the taste of toothpaste, …

A year and a half ago, I was let go by my previous employer. They did a half a dozen rounds of layoffs over the course of 2 years or so. The previous Christmas, six packs of these were the Christmas present to employees. They worked with a local microbrewery to commission a line of beer to celebrate their successes. This has been sitting in my fridge since then. I don't drink that much and I didn't feel like dumping it out. It's been waiting for me to make a recipe that calls for beer.

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Girl Drink Drunks:
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putting ice in a drink makes it feel like ur drinking the ghost of it

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Snapped Ankles:
🎵 Drink And Glide
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https://shop.snappedankles.com/track/drink-and-glide
https://open.spotify.com/track/7IqpGukIOPObV0cS41bwMP

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Big Modern:
🎵 Drink From Me
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