Something Something If I Had A Nickel For Every Time The Original Mistborn Trilogy Set Up An Almost Love

Liquid Bridges

In 1893, Baron Armstrong demonstrated a peculiar phenomenon – a liquid bridge of water suspended between two beakers with a strong electric charge between them. (Image and research credit: X. Pan et al.) Read the full article

someone needs to add pics of the ace flag but slightly skewed or altered for our “asymmetric or whatever” pride celebration

my roommate just referred to our asexual mutual as “asymmetric or whatever”.

public libraries in the usa offering free digital library cards to people not in their areas (as of october 2023):

brooklyn (13-21yo us residents)

seattle (13-26yo us residents)

boston (13-26yo us residents)

los angeles (13-18yo california residents)

san diego (12-26yo us residents, not the whole collection just commonly banned books)

these cards (part of the books unbanned initiative) get you access to each library's complete libby/overdrive collection (unless otherwise mentioned), no hoopla/kanopy/physical copies included.

ebook collections are expensive to maintain (many american libraries have annual fees for non-residents because of this) but because of an uptick in book banning (particularly brutal in mississippi last summer) larger libraries have opened their doors more, which is very kind of them!

i've used my seattle card for the last several months and their libby collection has about three times the books that my local library does, which is wonderful for accessing more niche titles or skipping a waiting list. would love to hear of similar ebook initiatives internationally!

i use library extension (firefox/safari/chrome compatible) to check all my collections (+ the internet archive) at once, works for several different countries highly recommend it.

spotify seems to be offering 15hrs/month of audiobook listening to premium subscribers and while that does seem useful if you're already paying and are after a new release with a long library waitlist, libraries are better for everything else.

petition to give northern ireland back to the irish as part of the terms of our alliance

Felt like covering the map of Europe with dots-

Ignore the key, I made it because I was bored-

It's silly hours fellas, gotta have silly hours after murdering bots, right? ;}

Could you maybe reblog this post if you think respecting trans peoples' names and identities is a basic right and not a political opinion?

No pressure. Just seeking some validation of my sentiment. Due to some. people

does anybody else know what to do with the weirdly ambiguous posts on the ace tag rn? like obv im reporting the supplement/porn bots and leaving the actual people posting about acespec things alone, but i also keep finding like random food pictures tagged with asexual and i have no idea what’s going on there

i think it’s also kinda implied that the highstorms have a huge effect on height/stature, bc the alethi, who live closest to the origin, have the tallest average height on roshar, while the shin, who are completely sheltered, have the shortest average height

I hadn't quite noticed just how tall Kaladin is supposed to be until it was mentioned here. I'm noticing it now that I'm looking for it in this read through. [Redacted] in The Sunlit Man is tall compared to the people on Canticle, but short compared to the Alethi. How fuckin tall is Kaladin? Is he a Chara sized 20 year old?

More importantly...is he taller than Rock? Rock is bulky and overall bigger, but IS HE TALLER?? I DO NOT KNOW!?

yall with adhd or autism or such ever just get…. bored. like so Painfully bored. like its not “oh hehe i was so bored and i made this” to flex or “oh im so bored bc i have nothing to do” but like a “i am physically incapable of ending this horrible understimulation with any activity i might attempt” and its genuinely fucking painful

does anyone wanna hold hands until we feel a little braver

Love that Gavilar spends the entire Stormlight 5 prologue thinking about how much better and closer to divinity he is than everyone he interacts with, but the people he interacts with are, in order (spoilers below the cut):

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