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niqaeli torres, child of disaster

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herein you will find: a plexiglass 4th wall, whining, cats, fannishness, occasional intersectional social commentary. she/they. blocks for bad vibes and fuckshittery. 0.00000015% of a Hugo Award Winner.

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niqaeli torres, child of disaster @niq.aeli.net · Jan 21

this disaster is terrible
and we may not survive it
our descendants may not survive it

but we are children of disaster
the ones that made us and the ones that nearly unmade us but did not

so we might

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niqaeli torres, child of disaster @niq.aeli.net · 3h

I mean, salt also lowers the temperature for water freezing. so salty savoury is absolute an option. and if you have problems achieving the texture you want, experiment with adding some alcohol, given it sure as hell doesn't freeze at 20F.

niqaeli torres, child of disaster @niq.aeli.net · 16h

there is gonna be SO MUCH screaming! …from the whole three people who are going to actually read it, but OH WELL.

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👻madeline boOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 19h

ooooooh can’t forget this one either

Tâf sleeping on the old dishwasher door because it was warm

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niqaeli torres, child of disaster @niq.aeli.net · 1d

at some point @ilyenasylph.bsky.social and I will finish and post the relevant Pacific Rim fic and I will FINALLY get to scream at more people about the thing I figured out they did, that is absolutely brilliant character work and narrative sleight-of-hand which fandom has afaict NEVER FIGURED OUT.

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niqaeli torres, child of disaster @niq.aeli.net · 1d

I would like that, yes. Vaccines, no predators, someone else does the hunting for me, my purpose and role in life and the household is to be adorable and purr at my humans. Also, bones are optional!

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niqaeli torres, child of disaster @niq.aeli.net · 1d

you from 20 years ago would be so baffled

niqaeli torres, child of disaster @niq.aeli.net · 1d

I also legit loled

niqaeli torres, child of disaster @niq.aeli.net · 1d

dumbass dogs, I'm guessing. well, and leprosy.

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niqaeli torres, child of disaster @niq.aeli.net · 1d

I agree that it is actually pretty straight-forward! I'm just tripped up by all the Spanish, heh.

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niqaeli torres, child of disaster @niq.aeli.net · 1d

given that, I'm staring at the j going "...it's ʒ, I *know* it's gotta be ʒ for the j," but my brain is still going "scahaquada". what living in the Southwest 20 years will do, I guess!

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niqaeli torres, child of disaster @niq.aeli.net · 1d

That is extremely good reason to be upset, yeah.

But if you want the explanations that you aren't getting from your doctors, modulo time and energy I am always happy to offer my medical understanding to friends whose doctors are failing them. <3

niqaeli torres, child of disaster @niq.aeli.net · 1d

it’s usually given in the form of systolic pressure over diastolic pressure, so, something like: 120/80.

I can’t guess at why the doctor wants you to see another doctor without knowing the specific numbers; feel free to DM me more details and I can probably help explain them!

niqaeli torres, child of disaster @niq.aeli.net · 1d

blood pressure numbers are measures of two kinds of pressure:

- systolic (the pressure in your cardiovascular system when the heart is actively contracting)
- diastolic (the pressure in your cardiovascular system when the heart is relaxed and not contracting)

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niqaeli torres, child of disaster @niq.aeli.net · 1d

(because hosting your own blog was a pain in the goddamn ass.)

niqaeli torres, child of disaster @niq.aeli.net · 1d

…I have been following people online for a quarter of a century. like. I followed the Technomancy blog @rahaeli.bsky.social was part of back when social media wasn’t called that yet and it consisted of forums, IRC/AIM/ICQ, and independent blogs. which is also how I ended up on LJ!

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niqaeli torres, child of disaster @niq.aeli.net · 1d

a primer is something that primes you! or, you know, the wall. whatever. it’s the same goddamn word in both uses, and it’s pronounced PRY-mer. I don’t care what the dictionary says! I will die on the hill that dictionaries are only useful as descriptive tools, not prescriptive bullshit. >_>

niqaeli torres, child of disaster @niq.aeli.net · 1d

this may just be my reader's accent talking but, what the entire hell. I didn't even know there WAS any debate to be had about this. PRIMM-er is the comparative conjugation of the adjective prim, that is one who is more prim than another. both paint and short informative writing are goddamn PRY-mers

Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 1d

Here’s a primer on ‘primer.’

It’s pronounced ‘PRIMM-er’ if you mean “a small book” or “a short informative piece of writing.”

It’s pronounced ‘PRY-mer’ if you mean “an initial coat of paint.”

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niqaeli torres, child of disaster @niq.aeli.net · 1d

SORRY, this is just. you know. one of the things I’ve spent half a decade fucking furious over. it’s almost like public health is something I care *deeply* about, it’s almost like I’m a healer by vocation and occupation both, as well as Gifted enough to see systemic impacts without even trying. >_>

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niqaeli torres, child of disaster @niq.aeli.net · 1d

But you have to have foresight to see and care about that, and that’s something apparently we’ve given up on. Thanks, death cultists! (I include the American heretics with their Summon Jesus spell and the goddamned AI lunatics, they’re all fucking death cultists, just different flavours.)

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niqaeli torres, child of disaster @niq.aeli.net · 1d

The infuriating fucking thing is how goddamned much economic impact this ongoing refusal to meet COVID as it actually exists and not as we wished it existed is going to have in coming decades.

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niqaeli torres, child of disaster @niq.aeli.net · 1d

And we fucking didn’t, because gosh, that would all be. Like. Hard work.

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niqaeli torres, child of disaster @niq.aeli.net · 1d

Doing that across the board with medical care of all kinds, was probably not feasible; not without going back a few decades to nudge a lot of things, but I do think it was possible to maintain masking in hospitals even outside the goldman ORs, and in urgent care and primary care settings.

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niqaeli torres, child of disaster @niq.aeli.net · 1d

And I think we could—and very much fucking SHOULD—have retained masking being mandatory in acute medical care settings.

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niqaeli torres, child of disaster @niq.aeli.net · 1d

I remain fucking furious we didn’t get legislature and funding through for upgrading indoor air filtration. I am resigned—not happy, grimly resigned—to the fact that masking being permanently normalised was simply not possible in most of the West, but improved air standards absolutely fucking were.

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The Octopus Gallery @octopusgallery.bsky.social · 2d

Good news for sewists: the paper pattern company feared lost to bankruptcy has been saved as an independent company.

craftindustryalliance.org/sewing-patte...

Sewing Patterns Rise from DGA Bankruptcy Ashes - Craft Industry Alliance

The “Big 4” sewing patterns are saved. Simplicity, McCall’s, Vogue & Butterick get new life under Rubelmann Capital.

craftindustryalliance.org

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