Limestone is a common type of sedimentary rock which I find uncommonly interesting! It’s mostly calcium carbonate, which is also what eggshells 🥚, seashells 🐚, and pearls 🦪 are made out of.
In places where it rains a lot, limestone erodes easily, which results in simply gorgeous landscapes such as:
Hạ Long Bay in Vietnam
Tsingy de Bemaraha National Park in Madagascar
The Li River in China
Additionally, the world’s longest (Mammoth) and deepest (Veryovkina Krubera is once again the world’s deepest cave, thank you to SockOlm for pointing that out) cave systems are both found in limestone formations
Mammoth Cave in the United States
Veryovkina Cave in Georgia/Abkhazia/Russia (disputed territory)
image sources
Thumbnail https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:ElTorcal0408.jpg#mw-jump-to-license
Hạ Long Bay https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Halong_Bay_in_Vietnam.jpg#mw-jump-to-license
Tsingy de Bemaraha National Park https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tsingy_de_Bemaraha.jpg#mw-jump-to-license
Li River https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Li-Flussfahrt-160-Huegel-2012-gje.jpg#mw-jump-to-license
Mammoth Cave https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mammoth_Cave_Rotunda_(USGS_Lwt02830).jpg#mw-jump-to-license
Veryovkina Cave https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Veryovkina_cave._Babatunda_pit.jpg#mw-jump-to-license
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apologies to all the gay and bi guys i accidentally led on back in my EDM club days
i know things got crosswired because i was high and in femmebrain mode and twunky and probably seemed flirty and basically wasted your entire night
except for that CATO libertarian guy. i’m glad i wasted your night
current events posting
just really trying to keep my shit together and praying to the gods of “nothing ever happens” that i personally will be fine in the ensuing years and won’t have to think about having to do something very drastic for my own survival
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Betting it all on nothing ever happens (despite current events) because I legitimately can’t do anything to stay out of camps alive. When shtf the only thing I can do is give up.
depression
I’ve been giving up forever though, so no surprises there. Didn’t expect much out of life and still disappointed. Anyway hopefully nothing happens and things stay only “bad” and not “worse”.
inspired by @PaX@hexbear.net
are you into forcefem because i’d love to fast fourier trans you
Me after being decomposed into sine waves
Lmaoooo
Banger :3
Veryovkina is the second deepest cave, the deepest one is Krubera cave (only by like 20m though), which lies in the same mountain range
Oh wow you’re right. I didn’t know there was a new expedition last year that found more of it. Caves can be so mysterious!
This seems to have flown under the radar
One of two FTL co-creators, Jay Ma, came out as trans somewhat recently
really? we cant seem to find any information on that. whered you hear about it?
neat, thanks for uhhh… bringing light to it?
my heckin 4chinz… she’s gone… the boymoder threads… yamerooooooooooo
oh fuck so that’s what happened. i don’t care about what the kiddies are doing on 4t4 so what nau.
its joever i am forced to touch grass
4t4 was an interesting phenomenon it kinda sucked all of a specific type of posting from the board
And yet nothing of value was lost
I got one of those knockoff smart rings for like 12 bux, I figured it’d be something fun to tinker with especially since this one has super accessible firmware. I know this thing isn’t accurate for fuck since its guesstimating on sleep cycles vs pulse, oxygen, motion just like the real deal does, though heartrate reading seems pretty accurate, so I can try old school workout vids with it.
Last fun tinker project was a 5 dollar mini roomba knockoff, too bad my cats had it out for it and went full Butlerian Jihad and send that robot straight to the litter box somehow and showed that bot how they really felt about it, not sure how since the litterbox is a good 3inches off the floor. Wouldn’t charge after that, also ew. They loved to swat at it and push it around the house via swats before the litter box incident, gluing googly eyes slowed them down but ultimately didn’t save the machine.
I love trans people, I love people who take their self-expression into their own hands and do what makes them happy.
Just a PSA for any of you who might not be as active in Tracha:
We’ve sort of moved rooms (yes, again)! If you were already in the entire space, you may remember the aux room. That is now the main room, and the old main room is no longer being used. It’s still up, you can still access it, but messages can no longer be sent, and it is no longer in the Tracha space. You aren’t required to join that space (although it also has a room for vents and an activities room, the latter of which is pretty fun and the former of which separates triggering content from the main room), and this isn’t something that immediately requires your attention, but I would certainly make sure you at least join the new main room (again, if you were already in the aux room, you’re all set). The link to the new room is already in the old main room, so it’s a quick and easy switch! I hope to see you there
Glomming on to this to ask if anyone has had success getting push notifications using fluffychat on grapheneOS? The ntfy solution people discuss online has never worked for me and it’s hard to keep up without notifications
I have not
I tried it once, and I got the notifications to send, but I think the issue was that they would only send when I had FluffyChat open. I’m honestly willing to give it another shot at some point to try and figure it out, because it would help and I really don’t want to have to install sandboxed google play. I have been wanting notifications more and more, especially for my DMs, so I’m hoping I can get nfty to work or I might just cave and install google play services (at least it’s sandboxed and has limited permissions).
I’ll let you know the results :)
Of course, if you haven’t joined tracha, or haven’t heard of it, I highly recommend it! I think it is quite the wonderful space, and I’ve built some truly wonderful friendships there. It’s on matrix, so if you already have an account all you have to do is join! If you don’t and think/know you might struggle with creation, send me a DM and I would be happy to help
.Main Room: https://matrix.to/#/#tracha:matrix.org
Space (includes all 3 rooms): https://matrix.to/#/#tracha-space:transfem.dev
If you have any concerns about tracha, let me know! I can’t guarantee changes will be made, but I can at least bring them into frame for discussion. I want to make sure tracha works for as many people as possible, and I know how chatrooms can be, trust me when I say it took a while for me to finally start participating more (although lurkers are absolutely welcome too, I still fall back to my roots sometimes). Tracha can and has changed. It started as a single room, and after a vote and feedback from users, it was made into with multiple rooms, which greatly improved the experience for many people. Tracha is also still very usable with just the main chat, for those who don’t want to join the other rooms.
New
just dropped: I think my face is too broad…Otoh my hair is doing better with this new shampoo and conditioner
I had a little moment last night in the mirror where I felt a lot better about my eyes and face
Considering I’m still awful with makeup and wasn’t wearing any I might look pretty alright with some work on that and better hair and skincare idk
There’s a lot I don’t like about my appearance but my eyes are pretty feminine which is neat
My phone autocomplete suggests “gurls” instead of “girls”
gru uploaded his consciousness to your phone. when the maps app takes you to the nearest rocket launch site, ignore it
Realized that a big part of my trouble with my brows is that I definitely shaped them asymmetrically, so one is higher than the other.
Going to have to go pencil thin to even them out, and then let them grow back in.
theres like a 5 minute window where the tea is not too hot and not too cold, and i always miss it
Add more tea, then don’t drink it in time again, repeat
Wow, it’s been a while. Hi traa!
Have you been relaxing while away? You seem less bitchy
sadposting, suicide
Well, we’re suicidal again. We had hoped that it was finally gone after starting HRT, and it was for a time, but looks like we are right back where we started mentally. *sigh*
Maybe it’s just due to a bunch of traumas getting triggered today, but we doubt it given it’s been like this for the last week or so and it seems to be getting worse not better.
We’ve also had to come to terms with the fact that trying to have a community is futile. All attempts at doing so have proved pointless and a net negative in the end. We are just too good at making everybody hate us we guess.
We guess that’s kind of why we are posting this here, don’t really have anywhere else to go. No community to be had. All of the friends that say “If you need me I’ll be here for you” are nowhere to be found, as usual. We don’t blame them, we are too much to handle and we know that. We can’t even handle ourselves. Even if they were there they would just say they can’t talk about this.
extra suicide and sadposting
We really just don’t see the point in being alive. Between our many disabilities and trauma we will never be functional, let alone happy. Better off just dying now than going through even more pain just to die later. Nobody would really miss us anyway.
Sorry for wasting everybody’s time writing this post. We try and keep it positive but we just don’t really care anymore.
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I know you said nobody’s there, but if you want to you can message me. No guarantee I’ll be able to reply right away, or for how long I can maintain a conversation, but I’m there. Just want you to know that
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My issues are a little bit different to yours, but I understand how you feel. You didn’t waste my time and I like hearing from you. I don’t have any advice, which I know sounds hollow, but I do care about you and am always wishing you well
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Pup is not wasting anyone’s time.
Your posts have made me happy, and I’m glad pup’s here.
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