Landed a step on the side of my foot with full weight, expected the worst sprain of my life, but I bounced back so hard I stumbled, as if the ankle I had rolled so many times when I was flatfooted was a cooled spring.
Alyson Hannigan: never broke particularly huge, but now gets BtVS, American Pie, and HIMYM residuals for the rest of her life. Pretty good!
Vaping weed and living with a blood pressure disorder both just mean you have to get used to soldering through for a few seconds when your whole world experience and mental functioning drops a few resolution levels for anoxia sometimes.
Oh wow I just had sound get thin and metallic with a bit of flanging off that last hit
Since I mentioned Alice Maz a little while ago I figured I might as well share her banger of a tweet today.
Alright now that it’s accumulated enough dust the glass isn’t crazy reflective, this cylinder of unpolished rocks (rather, a selection of, matching room colors) was exactly the one more item I needed for mantelpiece balance.
Like you know how an unarmed human can kill a goose, while a goose could only by freak chance kill a human, but for a human to get in a fight with a goose would be way more trouble and aggravation than it’s worth, and you can kind of vibe this based on how vituperative they are? That’s sort of what’s going on when they tell you to stand your ground, make noise, and make yourself look big to a bear.
Okay, the ratty first crew out at the neighbors’ retaining wall was apparently demolition, and then the more professional one was excavating all the dirt behind it, now this third crew looks like they’re probably licensed but works (hires, finds jobs…) by word of mouth within Asian immigrant communities
Like, the first was guys in Cascadian 2008 outdoor workwear, probably from a thrift store, the second had jumpsuits and high-viz jackets, these guys have matching blaze orange t-shirts
Okay, the ratty first crew out at the neighbors’ retaining wall was apparently demolition, and then the more professional one was excavating all the dirt behind it, now this third crew looks like they’re probably licensed but works (hires, finds jobs…) by word of mouth within Asian immigrant communities
Looking at the blender bottle where I’ve shaken up protein powder with my creatine in it, thinking “time to drink today’s dose of thin”
Looking at my stomach head-on in the mirror the impression is now not of a mound with a flat top but a plain sloping off at the sides.
(I honestly think some of this is I didn’t have good shadow in that position for depth)
So yeah, the stomach is itself getting thinner, shrinking from outside in. Already it’s feeling less like a loose mass of fat than a gym mat.
Just want to once again point out that “you become smooth and charismatic and get girls easy and become thin and fit with no effort and also you turn bi” was quite literally what I wished for when I was 13
Weight loss gone far enough there’s not much but one smooth, featureless lump of fat at the stomach and at most I can be like “I guess it feels smaller today?”
cats are small and you can pick them up
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when we think of the protestant reformation, we think of:
martin luther, calvin, those guys, vs. the catholic church.
however in reality, there was a third group, that they both disliked.
if we imagine europe as a small video game, basically martin luther and calvin broke away, and locked down a bunch of territory pretty quickly.so, in those realms, but mostly in places they didnt swiftly lock down, there were other groups who they themselves disagreed with. a lot. martin luther and calvin were fine using state power to enforce their views in territory we might casually say they “secured”.
so if you disagreed with them, who were you? you were a third group of sectarians - meaning, mostly a coalition of the fringes. you were just part of a third folder, and lots of people in this folder had nothing to do with each other, except this odd position they were now in.…
so, what did these groups believe in? well, lots of stuff. there isnt one thing they all had. some had a few of these, some had only one or two. just going off the top of my head, heres some things, some major and common, some really fringe and weird:
(just to be clear no one group had all these, some may be just one weird random group. DYOR)
not doing infant baptism (i.e. believers baptism)
not using state power to enforce their beliefs
pacifism
sabbatarianism (i.e. hardcore doing the sabbath, sometimes on saturday)
…getting revelation themselves
keeping property in common or hyper communal stuff
mega apocalypticism
unitarianism
universalism (no hell)
could just keep going on here. but, lets get to the point.
theres two points:
A) the descendants of these groups, which range from full on, “yeah thats my grandfather” to “retaining a slighlt influence thats hard to spot” get lumped in with the magisterial protestant reformers…
i went on a long quest to understand american christianity. i suppose understanding such a large phenomena in full is basically impossible. but this was a huge piece of the puzzle. if i was going to come out the gate with an explosive attention grabbing statement, it would be:
it kind of seems like
america isnt a protestant country.
america is a radical reformation country.
everything just makes sense after realizing this.
