I absorbed all the energy of the time vortex and no one’s meant to do that. Every cell in my body is dying. Time Lords have this little trick. It’s sort of a way of cheating death. Except… it means I’m gonna change… and I’m not gonna see you again. Not like this, not with this daft old face.
Doctor Who - 1x13 The Parting of the Ways (18th June 2005)
Apparently this happened 3 days ago. Did you know about it? i sure didn’t, because it’s not on any major news station.
I’m tired of people ignoring us, I’m tired of people hating us, it’s really not difficult to just NOT vandalize a memorial that stands in honor of the 6 million Jews who were systematically murdered. It’s not hard to just NOT shoot us, or stab us, or kill us. It’s not hard!!!!! I do it every day!!!!!!
actually my favorite thing about Baikal is the lake itself!
viewed from above, it looks like nothing particularly special. sure, it’s a big lake, but it doesn’t have the surface area of the Great Lakes or the Caspian Sea, right?
WRONG!
BOOM.
see, Lake Baikal really isn’t a lake at all, it’s a deep rent in the earth’s crust called a Rift Valley that just happened to get water in it. and the Baikal rift is one of the deepest and narrowest on earth, making this deceptively placid lake slightly over a MILE deep! that’s bonkers nutso.
like, you think the OCEAN is bad, just imagine being in a little fishing boat on this thing without realizing just how far away the bottom is….
Here’s a 2020 edition of that coffee post — it seems that no matter what I am still all about iced coffee (with oat milk) when I’m writing on hot summer days
