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Finally finished with this year’s The Great British Bake Off Sampler! i’ve uploaded a copy of the pattern with thread colors and symbols here. I can’t wait until next year!

I’ve also attached the picture of what the ma’amoul are supposed to look like. (sorry for the really terrible picture my phone’s camera is not working and i had to use my computer’s webcam. what i’m trying to show here is that the top layer for the cookie on the right i used one thread the color 712 to give it a powdered sugar look. i don’t think it really worked, but i think that white or snow white dmc thread might because it should give more contrast. 

This layout was actually what i planned to do last year but never got around to it. It gets easier to do this the second time because i have already chosen a bunch of the colors and decided how large i’m going to make it.  i was also planning on adding flames around the week ten technical challenge but then never got around to it. 

Anyway, this project is now over!!!! (now i have to come up with new ideas????)

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During the cold war epoch sweden did an honest attempt to build bomb shelters for 5 million people (which was about what the population was back then)

They really did it…. And this is why we are all drowning in 1960s bomb shelters in sweden of 2018

(although many might not think of that it’s bomb shelters. Its useally that location in flat complexes were on keeps ones bikes)

This is the little sign that signify a bomb shelter

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PS. Reminder that sweden has NEVER been invaded in modern times, indeed the last war was 200 years ago (well it depends on how one counts)

But we have never used all these bomb shelters. Yet we have them. Bomb shelters for 5+ million people…..

Little Swedish Cold War Things

(cause these were mostly built AFTER ww2)

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An “Nuclear Bomb Safe” Shelter For Stockholm City, Built In The 1950s

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I mean…. Very optimistic to declare it atom bomb safe…. Idk If I trust you there, bomb shelter from the 1950s, which is as the wiki page says “used as a garage during peace time”

(this one is really central in Stockholm, and I have walked by it multiple time, so when it showed in my google of “skyddsrum” I could not resist showing it)

Further reading: https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katarinabergets_skyddsrum

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Tfw I keep reading about this particular bomb shelter, and find out that basically all mayor central car park garages in central Stockholm are bomb shelters, which are used as “garages in peace time”

So many bomb shelters i have walked thrift in my Stockholm life without realising, huh.

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Vattugaragets, the vattu car park garage, is apperntly also a bomb shelters from the 1960s. It was soppused to “house the majority of the swedish government in case of war”.

Wow. I am never going to trust a garage to not be a Secret Bomb Shelter From The Cold War, ever again

Picture from the part used as a car parking location

(the majority of the bomb shelter is not used as a garage this thing is huge)

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a somewhat confusing drawing showing the wonders of this massive bomb shelter

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Ok… Honestly. Sweden of the cold war, was into some fallout games shite, honestly. Lol

(although, no experiments in the shelters. But. I mean that they appear to be planning society being able to go underground and keep functioning)

(first I avoided to make that fallout joke, cause felt it was too obvious, but HONESTLY)

(but. Like. It appear they had a bit too much time to think, and appear to more and more, get a bit. Over grand ideas there)

Source: https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klara_skyddsrum

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Anonymous asked:

Back in my sophomore year of college, I dissolved caffeine pills and gave the solution to C-Fern sperm and watched them under a microscope. Guess what? They went NUTS. The rate of their flagellations easily doubled, if not tripled. Any idea why?

botanyshitposts answered:

this is…..really interesting tbh. i’m tempted to be like ‘they just like that dank coffee man’ but i feel like there might be a better hypothesis here. here are my ideas: 

option 1: the caffeine messes with their motility so they get a signal to speed up. 

option 2: fern sperm know where to go to fertilize other gametophytes because the female organs secrete compounds that create a chemical gradient that the sperm senses and follows. idk how they sense it or how broad their receptors for those hormones are, but it might be possible that the sperm sensed the caffeine around them and thought they were close to a female gametophyte but were unsure of which way to go (this theory is debunked if fern sperm don’t speed up as they get farther up the chemical gradient. idk if they do or not). according to the wikipedia article on sperm chemotaxis, fern sperm- at least in some species- are attracted to dicarboxylic acids. its kind of a stretch, but i can kind of see it fitting depending on which parts of the molecule the sperm is binding to. 

here’s caffeine: 

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and here’s a very basic dicarboxylic acid (oxalic acid): 

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i mean, doesn’t caffeine cause it’s effects in humans because it interacts with hormones and neuron pathways, etc? like, sperm- especially fern sperm- don’t have any of those complexities. so i’m inclined to think it’s just a happenstance thing and they aren’t like, being caffeinated they way we might. 

if i was to replicate this experiment, i think i would test it out by putting a drop in a solution and seeing if they actively follow it, and if so, if they actively follow it faster than they would follow a natural gametophyte secretion. even better yet, if that works, test if they prefer caffeine by putting a drop of natural gametophyte hormone and a drop of caffeine in opposite sides of a controlled arena thing, then seeing in which direction they go, and how fast they go there. 

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so it turns out that u can buy the fern spores anon was talking about (which then grow into the organs that produce sperm) online for like $25. i have a solid three weeks of break coming up very soon with nothing to do. i could totally test this. its literally in my power to test this. 

the thing is that im gonna need to find a way to isolate the sperm when they start producing them. and im gonna need like, agar and shit. and im gonna have to read up on some of the research and how to actually work with these because ive never done them before (we were supposed to in one of my bio entry labs, but they didn’t grow our semester and we had to do something else). and i guess i should have like, a plan for this experiment, and if i want to get serious i should think of a way to measure quantitatively my results. and this is a vial with literally thousands of spores, so i, a lone university student, could accidentally become a father to like 400 fern gametophytes set on having a wild sexy time. but i could do it. i could feasibly find out if fern sperm prefer coffee over pussy. this is literally within my reach (if anon is ok with me trying it out) 

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Also also! On a “secret underground complex” (that is not really a secret) so is huddinge hospital in stockholm, which was built during the height of the cold war tensions, a master piece in the art of having a GIGANTIC underground facility. A facility which is used today primarly for like. Washing laundry?

(as rapported by the many people I know who has worked at huddinge hospital)

Anyway! It was built to be just as big above ground as underground. It got like a “secret” twin of itself underground (so not only a place to hide in case of bombs, but it was built to be able to have a fully functional war time hospital underground if need be.)

It’s according to the tales a been told, amazingly gigantic. This is because huddinge hospital, the ordinary above ground section, was when built one of Swedens largest hospitals.

Oh bonus fact about huddinge hospital, and its cold war Thing TM. Its also grey and like. “dirty looking” on the outside, to be able to look like. A Rock? Or something during a bomb raid

(reminder that i think all this was planned in the 1960s, so it all based on like. Second world war type of warfare. I suspect anyway)

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Sweden during the cold war was in general REALLY into very involved planning around the pontitial of getting invaded.

Built different sorts of military defence structures everywhere. Many of these are today not in use, and in Stockholm one can stumble over these a bit off everywhere

Bomb shelters was also an obession of the swedish defence during the cold war. And! Gun caches in like the forest for when “the swedish population would grap their arms to defend themselves guerilla style against the invader, although we can’t call it guerilla style cause that technically illegal, but thats our actual plan”

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some of stockholms 20th century military defences, no longer in use, a selection

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summary: 20th century swedish defence was REALLY into disguising military bases as rocks

(these bases are all painfully old fashioned today, which is why they are not in use anymore. but, just 20 years back, stockholms archipelago was just one big “defence line” to stop a sea invasion of stockholm.

although tbf, thats basically, the standard for stockholm city and its archipelago haha, in earlier historical times, stockholms archipelago was one big miliatary defence line too)

(there is just something amusing though, with a miliary defence, which had not been used in war for 200 years, sitting and building SECRET PRETENDING TO BE ROCK forts though)

pics and tourist ads from: https://www.stockholmarchipelago.se/en/attractions/fortifications-and-military-history/

ps. the entire “the russian will not get farther than this!” thing is from that while officially sweden was neutral during the cold war epoch, BUT swedens defence was also couriously had like all their canons pointing towards the soviet union. odd that ;P

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also huddinge hospital, massive in size, ready to (somehow?) by disguising as a rock

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(the huge gray buildings that take up most of the pic, are huddinge hospital)

the on porpuse “dirty looking “ facade of huddinge hospital, ready to be a military bunker at any moment (also notice the TINY windows!)

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brutalism was very fashionable in sweden at the time of this buildings construction, as one can see…

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i am rock! a rock i tell you!

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20th century oh changing times
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Saxony-Anhalt: Bert The Moose Stalks Cows – Herd Has To Be Brought To Another Field

A herd of cows in the state of Saxony-Anhalt that has been stalked for weeks by a moose named Bert had to be transferred to another field.

The moose did not exactly follow individuals of the herd of 100 cows, but he kept looking at them, an employee of the Hundeluft farm near the city of Coswig (Saxony-Anhalt). Farmer Hartmut Schröter, had told reporters on wednesday morning that he would take the moose along with the cows if he would follow the herd. Otherwise, it would turn out whether the moose would visit the cows on the new field, which is 6 kilometers away from the old one.

The moose who is stalking the cows came from Poland; moose are otherwise considered extinct in Germany. Since more than four weeks, the moose has visited the herd of cows during daytime. He is considered a repeat offender: His fondness for cows had already shown in the state of Brandenburg. An animal welfare organization had registered him there and named him “Bert”. As a registered animal, Bert wears a yellow collar and an ear tag.

The moose leaves the herd at night, but returns in the morning, farmer Schröter says. “His long legs enable him to simply stalk over the fence”.

The farm in a village belonging to the city of Coswig practices dairy and arable farming, holding about 550 dairy cows and calves as well as the herd of 100 suckler cows, which Bert became fond of.

It is unclear why the moose is seeking the company of the cows. He had already approached a stable that was occupied with highly pregnant heifers, an employee of the farm said: “Well, he is a bit annoying.” Sometimes he sniffs the cows, but he doesn’t do anything except of hanging out with them. Three attempts to scare him away from the field were unsuccessful, the employee said. “He is stubborn.”

The cows, however, are more annoyed by curious bystanders who want to see the moose. Some of them had dogs with them, which caused disturbance among the pregnant cows. Strollers wanting to see Bert should keep a distance to the herd and not try to touch the cows.

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