Relevant Smithsonian article.

I’d probably skip on the animal fat and bitumen, but cedar, juniper, and cypress all smell pretty good.

Apparently the scent could also vary slightly depending on who was being embalmed.

I like Dime Store Adventures for history trivia and exploration, mostly USA focused.

Harold the Soup Stealing Gnome has stolen all your soup, rendering your short rest half as effective.

Fruit bats. Just no ebola, please.

It’s a tweet, but please don’t let that stop you from getting mad about it.

Oh, what a cutie! He looks a lot like a dog my family had that was super sweet and acted like a cat because he grew up around them.

Instance admins can hand out unmoderated communities to new mods themselves, provided it’s on their instance of course. If your instance has a /c/main or something I’m sure you could ask there about getting a community transferred to you if you want it, or at least get pointed in the right direction.

‘I didn’t say anything about people with ADHD being disgusting, just that this meme posted from an ADHD community was about people being disgusting. Also, you’re the one acting in bad faith.’

Sure dawg.

Then acting like people with the exact same condition you have are being disgusting just to be disgusting is inexplicably rude ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Damn, you mean like it was originally posted in a community for people with a developmental disability that affects executive functioning??

Pipe rigate for cheese based sauces, fusilli (rigatoni) for tomato based sauces.

Finding things for people. In another life I’d be a librarian or detective, I guess.

Was it addressed to you? I’d be cagey about something LGBT related showing up addressed to me without anyone I knew sending it, but that might be overly paranoid.

It looks like it’s a zine made by some New York film company called A24.

I’m sure there’s etymological reasons, but in practice ‘la hospital’ being less pleasant to say (with two vowel sounds directly next to each other) probably contributed. Like how it’s el agua, even though any adjectives for it are feminine: el agua contaminada.

Can’t make me stupid if I don’t use it.

Not sure, but mainstream media is also reporting it: https://www.cnbc.com/2025/02/13/apple-will-integrate-alibabas-ai-into-iphones-in-china-chairman-joe-tsai-says.html

For headline readers: for iPhones sold in China.

Except the word cisgender. That can’t be allowed to be seen.

Ignorant question incoming: Would this result in a huge influx of traffic if your instance federates with tumblr, because you’re federating with all of tumblr? Or do individual tumblr blogs need to federate with each instance?

It looks like the author mostly writes kid’s books.