fidelioscabinet

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Extremely cranky individual with more books than the structure of my dwelling can support. Why the hell are you following me? (At BalloonJuice sometimes)

A map of the eastern US, from the Fire Watch app, marked to show wildfires. There are a few small ones in New England and South Carolina, one in Virginia, and a multitude in Florida eastern North Carolina. As this map is US-specific, Canada is shaded out.
A display at my local Food Lion—a cake under a plastic cover. It is a two-layer yellow cake decorated to resemble a hamburger. The top & sides are not frosted, although the top has tiny dribbles of white icing, pretending to be sesame seeds. Between the two layers is a thick layer of chocolate ganache cosplaying as a burger, further decorated with red and yellow buttercream “ketchup” and “mustard” and frills of green buttercream “lettuce”. They had cupcake “sliders” as well.
Dehydration Urine Color Chart The following Dehydration Urine Color Chart will help you use your urine color as an indicator of your level of dehydration and what actions you should take to help return your body back to a normal level of hydration. (Pale yellow) Doing ok. You're probably well hydrated. Drink water as normal. (Yellow) You're just fine. You could stand to drink a little water now, maybe a small glass of water. (Dark yellow) Drink about 1/2 bottle of water (1/4 liter) within the hour, or drink a whole bottle (1/2 liter) of water if you're outside and/or sweating. (Amber) Drink about 1/2 bottle of water (1/4 liter) right now, or drink a whole bottle (1/2 liter) of water if you're outside and/or sweating. (Caramel color) Drink 2 bottles of water right now (1 liter). If your urine is darker than this and/or red or brown, then dehydration may not be your problem. See a doctor.
A screenshot from a weather app: Current Conditions 98 degrees Sunrise: 5:33 AM Sunset: 8:08 PM Humidity: 46% Dew Point: 73° Wind: 3 mph SE Pres: 30.00 inHg ~ Heat Index: 108° Wind Chill: N/A UV Index: 2 of 12 Visibility: 10 mi
A pair of posts, which appeared one right after the other, in an only-too-appropriate pairing: Bree is Romancing the... @mostlybr... • 7m Ok I just got in bed because the final couple days of auction prep are kicking my ass and also the heat index was 105F today which is too hot to be fuckin around with tbh Girls Running From Houses @girlflee... • 8m The house is brutal.
The Old County Courthouse, Metro Nashville-Davidson County. A frieze with flowers and animal heads from the upper part of this limestone Art Deco/Stripped Federal style building. There are, left to right, a coiled snake, the head of either a bear or a panther, and a bull’s head.
A map of the US, Mexico, and Central America, tropical cyclones ne symbols laid out along the Texas Gulf Coast, from Brownsville up to just northeast of Houston. This text is included: #3 Potential Tropical Cyclone NE Wind Direction Tue, 6/16, 4:00 PM Local Time & Date 27.30N, -97.60W Location 6mph Forward Wind 1005mb Air Pressure
Highway sign often seen on limited-access highways. It reads Pedestrians, bicycles, motor-driven cycles prohibited
Dehydration by urine color—an infographic chart prepared by the US Navy. There are five color swatches, ranging from very pale yellow to brown. These show how dehydration affects urine color—the darker the color of their urine, the more severely dehydrated someone is. By each color swatch is a block of text, evaluating the severity of the dehydration and how much water should be drunk. The chart’s text follows: Dehydration Urine Color Chart The following Dehydration Urine Color Chart will help you use your urine color as an indicator of your level of dehydration and what actions you should take to help return your body back to a normal level of hydration. (Almost colorless to pale yellow) Doing ok. You're probably well hydrated. Drink water as normal. (Yellow) You're just fine. You could stand to drink a little water now, maybe a small glass of water. (Dark yellow) Drink about 1/2 bottle of water (1/4 liter) within the hour, or drink a whole bottle (1/2 liter) of water if you're outside and/or sweating. (Caramel) Drink about 1/2 bottle of water (1/4 liter) right now, or drink a whole bottle (1/2 liter) of water if you're outside and/or sweating. (Dark amber) Drink 2 bottles of water (1 liter) right now. If your urine is darker than this and/or red or brown, then dehydration may not be your problem. See a doctor. For more information visit www.urinecolors.com
A black & white engraving of a very large cat lying on its back, big belly on full display. The caption reads Mother, I am but skin and bones.
Weather forecast for the coming week: Monday, May 18 Precip: 0% high 92° low 72° Tuesday, May 19 Precip: 33% high 92° low 67° Wednesday, May 20 Precip: 95% high 84° low 63° Thursday, May 21 Precip: 72% high 80° low 64° Friday, May 22 Precip: 68% high 82° low 65° Sat, May 23 Precip: 80% high 83° low 67° Sunday, May 24 Precip: 27% high 83° low 68° Monday, May 25 Precip: 65% high 84° low 70° Tuesday, May 26 Precip: 100% high 83° low 70° Wednesday, May 27. Precip: 100% high 84° low 70°
A screenshot of a post & comment from Bluesky: Boston Tom Levenson • @tomleven... • 7h Rejoice my beloveds! It is rhubarb season! Silverman on Security @silvermanse... • 7h No.
A weather map, showing parts of Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Arkansas, Tennessee, Missouri, Illinois, Kentucky, plus Iowa, Wisconsin, Michigan and Ohio. There are splotches of green, yellow, and red all over the area, and a great big red and orange splotch with narrow yellow & green edges, that stretches from eastern Mississippi to the Alabama-Georgia line, and up from south of Birmingham to just north of the Tennessee-Kentucky line. If you’re in a drought, it’s a lovely sight.
Portrait of Leonardo Loredan, Doge of Venice, in white brocade official robes, including the pointed cornetto hat. The artist, Giovanni Bellini, has portrayed the robes in exquisite detail and the man in less exquisite but very telling detail—he is an older white man, clean-shaven and with hooded eyes that suggest he’d be hard to get around without a very long walk indeed.
An old-fashioned folding paper matchbook sits on a tabletop. It’s white. It is folded shut, so the matches are concealed, but the printing on the outside can be read. Instead of an advertisement for a business, the green lettering reads “Biscuits will set you free.”
Great Moments in Ice Hockey: The penalty boxes at a Jets-Predators game back in November, 2015. There are 6 Jets players in their box and at least 6 Predators players in theirs. Along with the box officials, this makes things a bit crowded; some of the players appear to be sitting on the floor. Every man jack, including the box officials, is watching the penalty clock. Nashville was ahead 5-0 when the fight started early in the third period, and won 7-0. Things got agitated, what can I say.
From the Wikipedia article on bestsellers. There is only one recipe for a best seller and it is a very simple one. You have to get the reader to turn over the page. If you look back on the best sellers you have read, you will find that they all have this quality. You simply have to turn over the page. —lan Fleming, 1963
(From the Wikipedia article on best selling books) There is only one recipe for a best seller and it is a very simple one. You have to get the reader to turn over the page. If you look back on the best sellers you have read, you will find that they all have this quality. You simply have to turn over the page. —lan Fleming, 1963
A grey tabby cat with very green eyes sits upright on a closed laptop. He is in an untidy and cluttered room, but instead of helping with the housework, he’s pondering ways to get more tube treats out of the viewer.
A gray tabby cat lurking inside a big brown paper grocery bag.
A tabby cat lurking in a brown paper grocery bag, which rests on top of a supergiant megaroll package of toilet paper. He is not intent upon mischief, no siree! He’s just…studying things. The way one does.
The impact of the "My People Fund"'s financial relief, as well as the overall impacts of the disaster on residents, was studied by University of Tennessee College of Social Work professor Stacia West, who examined the impact of cash transfers in poverty alleviation. West surveyed 100 recipients of the emergency relief funds in April 2017 on topics including questions on housing, financial impact, physical and emotional health, and sources of support, with a follow-up survey conducted in December 2017. West found that the "My People Fund," in tandem with traditional disaster response, gave families the ability to make decisions that were most beneficial to them, and concluded that unconditional cash support may be more beneficial for disaster relief than conditional financial support. The report cited the impact of the monthly financial disbursements from the "My People Fund" on residents' emergency savings: "Following the monthly disbursements of unconditional cash assistance, participants were able to return to baseline financial stability reported prior to the wildfire, and improve their ability to set aside savings for hypothetical future emergencies."
A gray tabby cat reclining on a pile of quilts by a window. His expression suggests that while he doesn’t object to being awakened if a suitable fine is paid, some restitution is indeed required.
Radar weather map, showing a long weather system stretching down from Canada to southern Louisiana. There are various shades of green, with yellow and orange clumps, and a long narrow strip of red at the leading edge of the system on the east.
Reposted by Donald Price Mueller, She Wrote @muellershew... • 9h reposted this from uppity_negress_ So... just so we're clear... you want me to be afraid of trans women in the women's bathroom because they might be cis men pretending so they can assault women and children... ... and you think this reflects on... trans women... and not on cis men? Do I have this correct?
• Reposted by Chris M. Barkley (He/Him) George Conway @gtconway... • 1h quote-posting Tommy Vietor @TVietor08 • 21h Jared Kushner has no official role in government. No oversight. No accountability. So he can negotiate on behalf of the US government while shaking down gulf autocrats for billions and promising them god knows what. Staggering corruption. Jared Kushner, one of the U.S. government's chief negotiators in the Middle East, is trying to raise more money for his private equity firm from governments in the region. Mr. Kushner, President Trump's son-in-law, has spoken with potential investors in recent weeks about raising $5 billion or more for Affinity Partners, his investment firm, according to five people with knowledge of the talks who were not permitted to speak publicly about the discussions. As part of the fund-raising effort, Affinity's representatives have already met with Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund, which invests the proceeds of the kingdom's vast oil reserves, two of the people briefed on the discussions said. PIF is led by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, who has formed close ties with Mr. Kushner and the Trump administration. PIF, which is already the largest and earliest investor in Affinity, invested $2 billion soon after the first Trump administration ended.
A jar of Instituto Español’s Avena cream—the kind with snail mucous & extra collagen, although the original & the kind with arnica are also good.
A bottle of Thornton’s Oxblood brown fountain pen ink; up near the lid a reddish-brown tint can be seen. This is close to the actual ink color.
The cover of a book about the 1878 yellow fever epidemic in Memphis: Fever Season by Jeanette Keith. Nearly everyone who could afford to leave Memphis did so yellow fever traveled upriver from New Orleans. Of the 20,000 who remained—mostly African-Americans and poor whites, mostly Irish Catholics, as many as 17,000 were infected, with around 5,000 deaths. There was a general epidemic in the lower Mississippi Valley, which the book covers briefly, as its principal subject is the epidemic and its effects in Memphis.
A gray tabby cat longing in a sunbeam, on top of a light-colored quilt.
A quick view of the weather forecast through Monday. Today, partly cloudy and rainy, 34% chance of precipitation, high 54 degrees Fahrenheit and low of 28. Sunday, sunny, 0% chance of precipitation, high 40, low 22. Monday, partly cloudy and dry, 0% chancz
A rotating yarn swift with a crank handle, sitting in a cradle.
A gray tabby cat asleep on a black comforter with his recent kill: a ball of yarn.
A gray tabby cat asleep on a black coverlet, exhausted from hunting & killing a skein of yarn.
Gray tabby cat napping on a knitting project and also the legs of a human under a black comforter.
A gray mackerel tabby cat performs the sacred rite of his people: sleeping while lying on a human.
A diamond tiara, with diamond fleur-de-lys sitting above a scalloped diamond festoon garland. Between each fleur-de-lys and from the top of each one as well, a pear-shaped pearl sticks up. It is not a shy piece of jewelry. Just the thing to wear while mopping the kitchen floor, to remind yourself that you’re essential to a well-functioning society, because you get things done without having tantrums, unlike some people we know.
A supposed text exchange: Today 8:44 PM What the hell kind of Heathcliff adaptation was that? Elordi doesn't have orange fur with black stripes in a single goddamn scene. Unbelievable. Matt how long have you been workshopping this 5 seconds
A white and gray tabby cat reclining in a rectangular basket and contemplating.
Her Majesty, Chloe I, by Divine Right Sovereign of Dinner Plates with Nummy Bits Left on Them, etc. is a small shaggy dog of combined ancestry (suck it, Hapsburgs! How long did it take you to figure out enlarging your gene pool was a good idea?) wearing a tiny gold crown with pearls. She gazes with benign sorrow at her subjects, who are having soup and sandwiches for supper, in a world where meatloaf exists.
Taken from passenger seat—a tree trunk still standing, but with most of its limbs either broken off or splintered and dangling. It was not a small tree.
A fluffy young brown tabby stretched out on a pillow emitting waves of disdain like gamma rays.
A weather map that stretches from Huntsville AL at the southern end up to north of Ft. Wayne IN up at the northern end. There’s a small green patch in Alabama, then a purple one in Tennessee, a small pink streak over the Tennessee-Kentucky border area, switching to blue around Bowling Green KY. It looks like a Pride flag made especially for Old Man Winter.
First of a series of tweets: @CynicalPublius X.com IMO, closing the Naval War College (and the other Service and Joint war colleges) it is not the answer. The answer is this: 1. Fire all civilian faculty, other than those required for extremely technical, apolitical areas like engineering. 2. Stop having permanent military faculty.
"He had two more seizures after that," Zemien said. "We had to tell them every step of the way what to do." By the time emergency medical responders arrived, the women had been holding the agent steady for several minutes. They were detained but acting as first responders to the man who had detained them. Once the agent was transferred to medical care, Amundson and Zemien were placed into another vehicle and driven to Whipple anyway. "I asked if we could just go home," Amundson said. "I said, 'We just saved his life. Is that cool with you?' And they said no."
Page seven. There’s very little imagery on this page, just a row of little black stick figures side by side, some holding hands, running down the right-hand side of the page, at a right angle to the top and bottom of the page. The rest if the page is text. As the lower right corner is cut off in this picture, I may not be recording the last word correctly. The text reads: Step two: get involved! Surround yourself with people who give a shit. Fight—and then the cut-off word.
A small booklet lying on the edge of a table, seen from above. It is painted with watercolors—and possible watercolor markers—in bright colors, in a naive style. The cover shows a yellow sun with orange rays, on a pink background, rising above a grassy hillside. On the sky, in bright turquoise blue capital letters is written Become climate hope.
A painting of an older man and a boy in his teens in a small fishing boat on a large body of water. The body is getting ready to cast a fish net into the water. It is captioned with this dialog: Man: That’s it my boy, throw that clickbait into the water, cast it wide. Boy: What happens next? Man: What happens next will shock you.
Introductory paragraph from the Wikipedia article on Rhagophthalmus: Rhagophthalmus Genus of beetles Rhagophthalmus is the type genus of the Rhagophthalmidae: a family of Asian glow-worm beetles erected by Victor Motschulsky in 1854. Species have been recorded from India, China, Taiwan, Japan and Indochina.
REPORTABLE / James LaPorta, Jennifer Jacobs President Trump gave the U.S. military the green light to conduct land strikes in Venezuela days before the actual operation occurred, according to two U.S. officials who spoke to CBS News under condition of anonymity to discuss national security matters. Military officials were going to conduct the mission on Christmas but U.S. airstrikes in Nigeria against ISIS targets took precedence, the sources said. The days following Christmas opened more potential strike windows to U.S. military officials but the operation was postponed due to weather conditions. The officials said the U.S. military wanted weather conditions that were advantageous to mission success.
REPORTABLE / James LaPorta, Jennifer Jacobs President Trump gave the U.S. military the green light to conduct land strikes in Venezuela days before the actual operation occurred, according to two U.S. officials who spoke to CBS News under condition of anonymity to discuss national security matters. Military officials were going to conduct the mission on Christmas but U.S. airstrikes in Nigeria against ISIS targets took precedence, the sources said. The days following Christmas opened more potential strike windows to U.S. military officials but the operation was postponed due to weather conditions. The officials said the U.S. military wanted weather conditions that were advantageous to mission success.
From the Wikipedia article “White Shoe Firm”: Usage The American term white-shoe first originated in Ivy League colleges, then reflecting a stereotype of East Coast old-line firms that were populated by White Anglo-Saxon Protestants (WASPs). The term historically had antisemitic connotations, as many of the New York firms known as white-shoe were considered inaccessible to Jewish lawyers until the 1960s. The phrase has since lost some of this connotation, but is still defined by Princeton University's WordNet as "denoting a company or law firm owned and run by members of the WASP elite who are generally conservative". Most white-shoe firms also excluded Roman Catholics. A 2010 column in The Economist described the term as synonymous with "big, old, east-coast and fairly traditional." In the 21st century, the term is sometimes used in a general sense to refer to firms that are perceived as prestigious or high-quality; it is also sometimes used in a derogatory manner to denote stodginess, elitism, or a lack of diversity.
They invite me to a thing where the men in suits all look the same, and they twirl and clink wine glasses as the cheese sits next to the olives on plates too small to fill anything but image-everyone is secretly starving, and they laugh at each other's jokes even though they are not funny, they talk about golf and last quarter's returns, and they ask me to read something that is joyful and festive and celebratory, something inspiring that will make people feel good about gathering, but 50 migrants just died in a truck at the border, and the Supreme Court is an active shooter, and the police filled another Black man with 60 holes, and I am not a topical poet, but the elders have taught us that the job of an artist is to reflect the times, so I get on that stage and I do what I do the only way I know how, and when I am done, someone tells me the position of Poet Laureate is supposed to be apolitical, and I say, "maybe it is, but I am not," and sometimes, the only thing better than a standing ovation is a room full of silence. A mentor once told me that sometimes your job as an artist is to be invited somewhere and ensure they never invite you back.
I, the poet William Yeats, With old mill boards and sea-green slates, And smithy work from the Gort forge, Restored this tower for my wife George; And may these characters remain When all is ruin once again.
Below a skull and crossbones header, the text reads: Don't be afraid to call things by what they are. MAGA is a terrorist organization, ICE is a secret police force conducting Ethnic Cleansing, Elon Musk is an oligarch, and Trump is a foreign backed coup d'état figurehead. This is not an administration, this is a regime, and your country is occupied.
In 168 BC, Antiochus led a second attack on Egypt and also sent a fleet to capture Cyprus. Before he reached Alexandria, his path was blocked by a single elderly Roman ambassador named Gaius Popillius Laenas who delivered a message from the Roman Senate directing Antiochus to withdraw his armies from Egypt and Cyprus or consider himself in a state of war with the Roman Republic. Antiochus said he would discuss it with his council, whereupon the Roman envoy drew a line in the sand around Antiochus and said: "Before you leave this circle, give me a reply that I can take back to the Roman Senate." This implied Rome would declare war if the King stepped out of the circle without committing to leave Egypt immediately. Weighing his options, Antiochus decided to withdraw. Only then did Popillius agree to shake hands with him. 12) Ancient sources and traditional historiography describe this "Day of Eleusis" as a great humiliation for Antiochus IV that unhinged him for a time. Some more modern historians conjecture
2. (countable, informal) A memory, especially one formed in childhood, which recalls a deeply significant event in one's life and can be remembered years later. [quotation] My high school graduation is a core memory.
On a stone step a tiny horseshoe whip snake is coiled into a couple of unbalanced infinity loops. Next to it is the cap end of a cheap blue Bic ballpoint. The cap of the pen is as long as the larger of the snake’s coils and the diameter of both pen and snake are very similar.
On a dark beige tablecloth rests a white folding matchbook. On the matchbook is printed in green letters: Biscuits will set you free.
From the Wikipedia article on the novel Wuthering Heights: The novelist Daphne du Maurier argued the status of Wuthering Heights as a "supreme romantic novel" in 1971: There is more savagery, more brutality, in the pages of Wuthering Heights than in any novel of the nineteenth century, and, for good measure, more beauty too, more poetry, and what is more unusual, a complete lack of sexual emotion. ... Emily Brontë, striding over the Yorkshire moors with her dog, did not conjure from her imagination any cozy tale of happy lovers to console women readers sitting snugly within doors. [28]