Today I learned the story of the passively boiled frogs is totally untrue. "The 'critical thermal maxima' of many species of frogs have been determined by several investigators. In this procedure, the water in which a frog is submerged is heated gradually at about 2 degrees Fahrenheit per minute. As the temperature of the water is gradually increased, the frog will eventually become more and more active in attempts to escape the heated water."

THE LEGEND OF THE BOILING FROG IS JUST A LEGEND

Today I made Swedish applesauce (äppelmos) from a lot of local fallen apples and feel like a farmer 🍎🍏

It took me a long time to learn how to have 'a good autistic meltdown'. I'd say it's a skill as essential as learning how to fall in judo. A good meltdown is one that you allow to happen as a physical thing in itself, and hence you allow it to pass through you. Just like how bones get broken when muscles are tight, trying to stay normal, to keep masking through a meltdown will leave you with more permanent damage.

Why aren't soy sauce crisps (potato chips) a thing? Are they a thing in southeast Asia?

"Did you see any invisible people come past here just now?” is a classic Dungeons and Dragons joke. Now we can update it with "has anyone seen where our stealth plane is?"

It's interesting that I posted two similar stories at the same time but this one got more shares - I think that casual start "Oh, and..." could function as a kind of rhetorical device? Like, posts which start with that kind of phrasing have more of a hook. I did it accidentally but I think some people use it as a technique.

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Oh, and yesterday the Hungarian government demanded that Swedish public broadcasting stop saying that democracy is being eroded in Hungary in its e...