Boyfriend made ‘Lethal Caffeine Laced Brownies’ last night, having discovered caffeine powder. He left my friend and I some this morning, with this stern warning note attached. 

Update: He just emailed to tell us they are actually 4 to 6 shots per brownie, not 2 to 4 as previously estimated. We are pinging off the walls. 

He also distributed them round his office, with the following email: 

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Morning all,

I’ve been baking again and of course I want to share, however, this’ll
be the first of my experiments that comes with a SERIOUS HEALTH
WARNING, aside from potential allergies - nuts, dairy and eggs btw -
they’ll be the least of your worries:

Firstly: If you have any heart conditions, or if there is history of
heart issues in your family, or you take the drugs fluvoxamine or
levofloxacin or derivatives -THEN YOU MUST NOT TRY THESE: THEY COULD
KILL YOU-

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Each square of brownie has 250-350mg of caffeine, thats 3-4 espressos!
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I really cannot express enough just how careful you need to be with
these! Unless you have very high tolorence then you should not have
more than 1, and you must not have more than one in any 4 hour period
-to a maximum of just 2 a day!-

Also, caffeine and cocoa are naturally bitter compounds, and despite
the additions of sugar, butter, egg yolk, raspberries, milk, apple
sauce, and walnuts that taste is still there, not unpleasant, like a
mild coffee level, but noticeable and I thought I’d warn you; tbh it
helps by stopping you eating more than one, and quickly, in any one
sitting, which (and I’ll state it again) you must not do!

So bottom line (esp you Carles!): try a half, if you like it, then
finish it off (or better yet, save it for later). Then -wait!-, in the
next hour you will start to feel -very- alert! Your heart rate -will
increase!- Do not have another brownie for at least 4 hours! Just
don’t do it! Don’t be macho, no dares, it isn’t worth it!

Eating 22 brownies would kill 1/2 of you (based on the estimated LD50
of caffeine). However as little as 2g -about 5 brownies- may lead to
serious complications, potentially requiring hospitalisation!

-So- if you understand the risks, as stated above, then please find
them after lunch in the waiting area under a bowl with this warning!

From this point onwards you eat them at your own risk!

fetishisto:

Kittystryker said: “This was sort of nifty. $165, from here.

I shared the sentiment “why is there so little sexy fetish clothes for men?” with my girlfriend. “But there’s lots for sissies,” she answered, perplexed. “No, no, not that style, I mean for guys who want to dress like guys, just… sexy.” “But there’s lots of styles of leather pants and chest harnesses- I like that traditionalism,” she replied. And I realized- it’s like mens clothes generally. If you want to dress in a very traditionally male way, sure, there’s a bit of variation, but not very much. I like fetish dandies. That’s a lot harder to find.”

This is pure sex.

Never give @phpeach a sausage dog. (Taken with instagram)

I win at Mother’s Day. (Drew this on the train. With a pencil. Not my iPhone, for a change. Heh.) (Taken with instagram)

Today, the Daily Mirror have used a photo of Morgana, a photographer and model, without permission. This alone is nothing new; it happens every day.

But it gets worse. Her photo is on the front page, with the title ‘Women Who Kill’, alongside portraits of genuine murderers.
The Mirror have also used her photo (an artistic self portrait) at full size, to illustrate a giant double page spread about a real serial killer, ‘Lady Death’, with the tagline, ‘35 male bodies all in labelled coffins in her wine cellar’. Morgana has quotes splashed over her such as “I Wanted To Be The Last Woman In their Lives” and ‘35 victims’. 

They stole the photo from Morgana’s Deviant Art gallery and cropped her copyright and logo off the bottom. 

The Mirror’s horrifying disregard for copyright and lazy, cheap journalism knows no bounds. Did they think they would get away with using this photo, without permission or payment, in pretty much the most libellous way possible? How stupid are these people?

Needless to say, Morgana is taking legal action. 

I’m still not quite sure how I feel about taxidermy. #vegetarian (Taken with instagram)

Happy Pi day: we made you a pie! (Taken with instagram)

Aaron @silverAJ (by @bluehairedone) (Taken with instagram)

The Mister T dog cake made by @alephresh and I last night! (Taken with instagram)

@silveraj and @graham_cruz living the dream at wahaca <3 (Taken with instagram)

Just fed @graham_cruz HIS OWN DOG for his birthday. What a sicko. (Taken with instagram)

I love seeing portraits on the city walls. Beautiful. (Taken with instagram)

Self portrait - silverAJ. Fun night at Resistance. Happy birthday to Signal and Sam. (Taken with instagram)

I think it’s damaging to define ‘sex’ as *only* penile-vaginal penetration (or PIV, penis-in-vagina, sex. For clarity, I’ll call it ‘intercourse’ here.) And I think that a lot of people do define it this way, or call it ‘full sex’ or ‘real sex’ or something else meaning ‘the pinnacle of sexual experience’… 

Essentially, it’s damaging because there is so much more to sexual experience, and focusing solely on intercourse erases a vast amount of absolutely awesome stuff to do with sex. Loads and loads of people don’t ever have intercourse at all, for various reasons, but do have loads of other awesome sex, and that’s ignored.

It is heteronormative - it makes intercourse the norm, and everything else a deviation, an aberration from that. It makes it ‘other’ (just like queer people are ‘other’), less ‘real’ and less good. 

It erases the experiences of queer people - if you’re having sex with people with similar genitals to yours, intercourse isn’t really an option: and so all the sex you’re having isn’t ‘real’, right?