heatwave!

n7calibrations:

cranniesinmybrain:

coffeebuddha:

when-in-doubt-sing:

awed-frog:

For anyone living in Europe: the first heatwave of the season is forecast for tomorrow, and will likely stretch until Friday. Please stay safe.

  • Open your windows at night BUT close everything, including blinds and curtains, during the day
  • If you need it, buy a fan, a cold blanket or a cooler
  • Drink a lot
  • Also drink mostly water, without ice
  • If you can, avoid getting out in the sun between 11am and 6pm
  • If you need to go outside, wear sunscreen and a hat
  • Also loose clothes and natural, breathable fabrics
  • Think of your pets! 
  • Make sure they have access to water and shade, bring them inside the house if possible, don’t leave them in a car alone
  • Check on your grandma and other elderly relatives! 
  • Old people are at risk during hot weather, so remind them to drink and stay inside with their blinds closed

If you or people you know are experiencing the following symptoms

  • breathlessness
  • chest pain
  • confusion
  • intense thirst
  • weakness
  • dizziness
  • cramps that get worse or don’t go away

call an ambulance

I’m really worried about these temperatures, I hope everyone stays safe!!

As someone from the southern US, a few pieces of additional advice: 

Sweating is a sign that your body is doing what it’s supposed to in hot weather and trying to cool you off. If nothing about your environment has change, but you’ve stopped sweating, you’re dehydrated

Water is great, but gatorade and powerade were specifically designed to replace important electrolytes you lose when sweating.

If the heat and humidity get to be too much for you and you have access to one, put your hair up and take a short, cool shower. 

Consider investing in a reusable cool pack like this one.

Sounds silly, but get a spray bottle and keep it in the fridge. If you’re going outside to do things like yardwork, take it with you and give yourself an occasional misting. Very refreshing!

What coffeebuddha has written is really awesome advice.   Being that it gets up into the 100s here in DFW, Texas (that’s Fahrenheit, of course) I routinely make my house a cave and I mushroom for a great deal of the summer.   I make sure my errands get done as early in the day as the stores will allow with their hours, and I actually walk in the early early morning when the sun isn’t up yet.    I am very fair-skinned and sunburn easily, and am very susceptible to heat rash and other lovely heat-induced issues, so being a mushroom is very good for me.

Arizonans (and other US southwesterners) treat summer the same way northerners treat winter – the outside is trying to kill you. Dress appropriately. Carry or wear protection if you’re going outside (hats, umbrellas). Remember that wearing natural fibers will cool you off better than baring more skin. Have more water (or gatorade) around than you think you’ll need. Stay out of the sun as much as possible. Dont walk your dogs on hot pavement.

And remember to eat. The heat will make you think you dont need to. Do it anyway. Light foods, like fresh fruits or veggies, will help.

one-time-i-dreamt:

Something interesting I’ve learned – although I don’t know if this has a name in any other language, but in Korean this position is called “manner legs”. It refers to people stretching their legs to sink down to a smaller height so people working or filming with them could either work on their hair and makeup or appear to be their same height.

Yall have a kettle?? I make my tea in the microwave lmao

ribstongrowback:

noriannbraindripshere:

ribstongrowback:

wodneswynn:

systlin:

chronolith:

wodneswynn:

systlin:

shadowwytch:

systlin:

systlin:

YOU HEATHEN

LIKE HOW DO YOU GET THE PROPER TEMPERATURE MY GOD

This is the Chaotic Evil of making tea

I was born and raised in KANSAS and even I know that tea is made with a fuCKING KETTLE!

I can’t even imagine how that must taste.. *shudders*

Like sadness, I imagine.

I make my tea in the coffee pot

Natalie. 

Natalie.

why

She’s a chaos being in the flesh of a human and cannot be stopped. Chaotic Chaotic.

Yeah that.

I am a feral disaster bi and I will do everything wrong and none of you are powerful enough to stop me.

i put my tea mugs in the oven it’s a french recipe

RIBS

I… I can’t even scold you because I make tea like my grand-mother and she’s half chinese. I don’t KNOW how french people make tea.

exactly you can’t only god could judge but I killed him

i baked him some tea

fandomsandanythingelse:

crewdlydrawn:

mystrangedarkson:

nezumiko:

EPIC

Photo from Portland Pride 2019 © The Oregonian

[Photograph of a man dressed as Captain America, from behind with his shield on his back, waving a rainbow-striped American flag]

I was at Portland Pride, and y’all don’t even understand this man’s power. This photo is from the back, so you don’t see the perfection of the outfit, the chiseled jaw, the truth of his incredible shoulders-to-waist ratio, the reflective aviators.

It’s a still image, so you don’t see the confidence with which he walks. He KNOWS he’s the shit. We were walking in opposite directions on the sidewalk as he was getting into position for the parade, and I short circuited. This man is FINE, and he knows it.

You DEFINITELY don’t know that one of the drag queens who was calling the parade, when he walked by, stopped mid-sentence and said, and this is a direct quote,

“Sir, that absolutely is America’s ass. I probably shouldn’t say that, but it’s true.” Every single person in the crowd who was even a little bit attracted to men whooped and clapped at that truth.

This man is my hero.

Turns out they use neutral pronouns—see: starcaptainyork on Instagram. Here are some of their pics from facebook (easiest to screencap), featuring the aviators, front-view, and confirming Cap-appropriate jaw line:

York Bezbozny is a Pride treasure.

CULTURAL ICON

the-dm-experience:

beingatoaster:

thuumwrestler:

cniska:

Imagine a d&d game but everyone talks like golf announcers and you all just soft clap when someone rolls a 20

“great swing from the barbarian, absolutely beautiful”

#“and i do believe – yes. that will be enough damage from the rogue’s sneak attack to kill the dragon.” #“vaeren the black has pulled ahead in the killshot tally for this campaign in a stupendous way. well done.” #“although his overall damage is still behind szanaks the sorcerer” #“true. that’s very true. it’s hard to compete with szanaks’s gratuitous use of area-effect spells.”

Look at that pure concentration on the monk’s face as he prepares his carefully placed punches. He knows it’s now or never… He has just rolled the most natural of 20s, but it is not over yet. The only question that remains:

How does he want to do this?”