my thing with calling strangers eggs is like. if it’s a dude saying “of course i’d rather be a girl, everyone wants to be a girl” okay yeah that’s an egg. but if it’s a dude wearing skirts and mascara and having hobbies like cross stitching and you’re calling him an egg? you’ve wrapped back around to sexism. you’ve done a full pivot into “pink is for girls and blue is for boys” and you’re actually the problem. cut it out. stop telling (gnc) people they’re secretly trans because “a real woman would never like football!” come on.
Saw a tiktok of a guy saying he doesn’t feel comfortable talking to minors because he’s 19. And it’s just. I’m so fucking tired of this.
And like to be clear, I’m speaking as a victim of pedophilia when I say: We need to get over this collective fear of endangering children. Because holy shit, this stuff is getting out of hand.
The average person is not a threat to a child.
And also!!! It is actually really really good for kids to have friendships with adults that aren’t their family.
Having friendships with adults when you’re younger prepares you for adult life in a better way then only interacting with adults that are family members or teacher as well.
And also if there’s any sort of weird behavior happening with adults or teachers, it’s very helpful to have unrelated adults, you can go to, and also have a model for what normal adults are supposed to look like.
And also! You’re just making it way easier for pedophiles to prey on children when you completely avoid interacting with them as an adult. Because kids are naturally inquisitive and curious. They are going to want to interact with adults and they are going to want to ask questions. And if the only adult adults that are willing to interact and speak with them or adults who have ulterior motivations. Guess what’s gonna happen.
Also on a more general note. Having a model for what a normal healthy adult is supposed to look like makes it way easier for kids to be able to recognize and identify when adults in their personal life are being weird.
tumblr classics major who really likes halsey and thinks that the romantic poets were the only people to ever make contributions to english literature: you once made flowers grow within my ribcage but you were like icarus flying too close to the sun and your ichor wings are melting and now divinity stains your bronze fingertips like a pomegranate and you are holy holy holy
Remember when I reblogged this and a tumblr poet told me to kill myself
Journal: Communications in Addition and Subtraction
Title: A Lower Bound on the Largest Natural number
Abbreviated Abstract: We prove a lower bound on the largest number. The proof proceeds in two steps: we begin with 1, and proceed by induction as until we lose count. We then add that number to itself. The main advance in the first step is to get a big number, and the second step notably avoids using multiplication (they don’t teach that until 3rd grade).
Field: Topological Geometry
Journal: Advances in Nonlines
Title: The Four-Color Scribbles
Abbreviated Abstract: In this work we show a zoo of examples of nonlines (curves) with the unique property that they are either red, blue, orange, or purple, or some combination therein. The key idea is to use less colors rather than more, creating a clear and easy to follow proof. This provides a clear basis for simplifications to further work, such as scribbling with 5 colors.
Field: Playground Analysis
Journal: Slide Dynamics
Title: Sufficient Conditions to Yell Weeeeeee on Spiral Slides
Abbreviated Abstract: We identify sufficient conditions for a slide to cause joy. We identify a notion of a “fun slide,” and prove that fun slides are a sufficient condition to make someone go Weeeee on a slide. We then verify a spiral slide is a fun slide, and provide numerous examples and non-examples (notably, a ramp is really not fun to slide down).
Anybody has that political cartoon of an angry rich man watching TV while his servants are all sneaking peeks at it during their work and smiling? A bunch of googling resulted in nothing.
I believe the original context was Bernie Sanders winning some primaries but I feel like it’s even more relevant nowadays.
I think our coins should have holes in them. Currencies with holes in them are just superior currencies. All currency should be something you can string like beads. China knows what’s up.
the quest 2 has an extremely clever safety feature of having a short enough battery life that it’s impossible to play long enough to start making your eyes hurt
this safety feature is unfortunately easily bypassed with an illicit tool known as a “power bank”
the reporter is standing outside the prison walls, while the inmates are inside watching newsmax, and collectively screaming out one-word answers to questions loud enough to be heard by the reporter.
I’ve never seen anything like it
People are talking about how this interview is some of the best journalism they’ve ever seen, and how it’s probably the most humanizing, fair coverage inmates have EVER had. How it’s giving a voice to the voiceless, how it’s going to legit change people’s views towards prison.
And they’re RIGHT
Just want to clarify for anyone who was hesitant like me about the source, this is NOT newsmax, the far right propaganda channel that thinks Fox News is too liberal — it is actually NewsNation, aka WGN, a legitimate news source
I found a guide for a no tape, easy to unwrap wrapping tutorial to make Christmas a little more accessible, wish I just found it sooner
Could i not have seen that before Christmas? Anyway, queueing this for next december to save a life.
This is how they wrap surgical sets before sterilizing them (in a cloth not paper…god I wosh the cloth is a pain in the ass) except when they tuck the last bit in, they fold it over so the end is poking out of the box (like a pull tab).
leftist media discussion: “While this show said "trans rights” directly without any ambiguity, one plot element of this children’s show could be considered morally questionable after 25 degrees of separation, so the author must be a heckin fascist"
right wing media discussion: “Well it happened. The reboot of Female Protagonist Fights Unsubtle Allegory for Capitalism That I Was Too Young to Notice as a Kid -our last bastion of apolitical entertainment- has gone woke because they made a supporting character black”
centrist media discussion: “did you see the latest episode of Sword Hero Cleanses the Undesirables on crunchyroll? best show of the year imo”
leftist media discussion: “While this show said "trans rights” directly without any ambiguity, one plot element of this children’s show could be considered morally questionable after 25 degrees of separation, so the author must be a heckin fascist"
right wing media discussion: “Well it happened. The reboot of Female Protagonist Fights Unsubtle Allegory for Capitalism That I Was Too Young to Notice as a Kid -our last bastion of apolitical entertainment- has gone woke because they made a supporting character black”
centrist media discussion: “did you see the latest episode of Sword Hero Cleanses the Undesirables on crunchyroll? best show of the year imo”
you! guy who likes fictional lesbians to the point of feeling a strange sense of pain! you can be a lesbian. but there are some steps you have to complete first
First, you need to gather [4 BOAR HIDES] from the Haunted Village.
Yoav Gallant wanted for crimes against humanity is warmly welcomed in Washington, while Gaza suffers through genocide. The same leaders who host war criminals dare to lecture the world on justice and human rights. This hypocrisy isn’t just staggering, it’s deadly.
My family in Gaza is enduring a nightmare no one should ever have to face: genocide, freezing nights without shelter, hunger, and prices so high that survival itself feels like a constant fight.
This campaign is for 26 lives hanging by a thread including two orphaned children and a family member who, after being struck by shrapnel, now suffers from hemiplegia. She urgently needs surgery to replace infected plates in her body. Every hour that passes brings her closer to death. The video showing the injured family member was shared earlier in this post: Link.
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(mob boss voice) so here’s the deal, see. you’s gonna go home and get a gooood night’s sleep, see? and you’s gonna have sweet dreams and a reaaal nice rest. reaaal nice. max here will tuck you in *i motion to the thuggish goon behind me and he approaches you with a warm glass of milk held gingerly in his enormous hand*
We also figured out—the hard way—that the ancients probably cut each layer of linen to the proper shape before gluing them together. For our first linothorax, we glued together 15 layers of linen to form a one centimeter-thick slab, and then tried to cut out the required shape. Large shears were defeated; bolt cutters failed. The only way we were ultimately able to cut the laminated linen slab was with an electric saw equipped with a blade for cutting metal. At least this confirmed our suspicion that linen armor would have been extremely tough. We also found out that linen stiffened with rabbit glue strikes dogs as in irresistibly tasty rabbit-flavored chew toy, and that our Labrador retriever should not be left alone with our research project.
I love this in every way possible. What is it from? Where can I read more?
The pitfalls of experimental archaeology and puppies.
link to source:
“Unraveling the Linothorax Mystery, or how Linen Armor Came to Dominate our Lives.”
We found that even more of a threat than rain was one’s own sweat on a hot day. So, yes, it does need waterproofing, both inside and out. We did a number of experiments along those lines, and found that rubbing a block of beeswax over all sides of the armor provided nice waterproofing. It also makes the armor smell nice! When you wear it for a couple hours, your own body heat softens the glue a bit and makes it conform to your body shape, so it is much more comfortable to wear than rigid types of armor. Our reconstructions weighed about 10 pounds–about one third the weight of bronze armor that would provide the same degree of protection.
Honey i gotta go to war… not to smell my bee armor or hang with the boys or anything no.. uhh we need to uh do war things?
While all of this mayhem (both scientifically controlled and free-form) convinced us that our linothorax was ancient-battlefield-ready, we still felt compelled to try a real-life scenario, so Scott donned the armor and Greg shot him. And while we had confidence in our armor, our relief was still considerable when the arrowhead stuck and lodged in the armor’s outer layers, a safe distance away from flesh.
a good life-size mannequin is expensive but i guarantee it would’ve cost way less than they were spending on all that linen.
There is nothing I do not love about this but linen is so fucking expensive… does this work with cotton at all? I’m off to google.
I cannot put into mortal words how fucking badly I want that swedish goat to burn. We live in a modern surveillance hellscape and not only is big brother watching you but he’s monitoring your purchase habits so he can sell you a smart refrigerator that will spy on you for the cia. the full weight of modern technology can be rallied to protect that straw monument to human hubris and I want us to burn it anyway. I want the might of modern society to crumple in the face of a drunk swede with a zippo lighter. we can do it just take my hand
Did I miss something? Who is the Swedish goat and why should it burn?
what
That is my exact question
I know that I live under several rocks but i don’t remeber a Swedish goat having anything to do with our current situations
attention spans are easy to recapture and cage back into your head. you just need to practice staring at walls for an hour every two days and letting your mind think itself out of boredom death. the wall becomes the screen. no one validates you for this but after a month of this you notice daisies when they come about. you notice things no one films but theyre beautiful all the same
imagine if your boyfriend was like I can smell an ant. and started tracking
Remember that post that was like “what if everyone has a super power but we don’t really notice it because it’s overwhelmingly likely to be something completely pointless”
You might be in a reactionary queer exclusionist movement if…
(As penned by someone who lived through the peaks of tumblr ace, bi, and dysphoria discourse.)
You find yourself saying that XYZphobia either 1) doesn’t exist, 2) is misdirected ABCphobia, or 3) isn’t nearly as bad as ABCphobia, so it’s not an issue, really.
You say everyone talking about XYZphobia is just ABCphobic.
One of your main issues include either the idea that XYZ people will confuse cishets, or that XYZ people are co-opting queer spaces / resources (and are thus all inherently ABCphobes).
You find yourself giving them a stupid-sounding nickname to derogatorily refer to them with. (Think “asexies”, “bihets”, etc.)
You prop up XYZ people on your side of the discourse as “one of the good ones”.
You make copypastas / jokes out of them expressing pain or trying to keep themselves safe. (Think like how ‘the aphobe blocklist’ became a meme.)
i do not care if someone learned compassion from a cartoon or a comic or an anime im just glad they’re here with us now a better person fighting the good fight. should it have taken something so trivial? maybe not- but it’s in the past! and this is the now! and if they’re objectively better for it who cares
“it took gay shipping for this adult to stop being homophobic 😬” ok but they stopped being actively homophobic. that’s what you just said. that’s literally the only important part you understand that right? this is a win for everyone you get that?
we all start somewhere and im going to be real buddy i only care about the harm you did or didn’t cause on your journey and where you ended up. whatever set it off only matters as much as you want it too
Surely that is a major part of why we want more representation in mainstream media in the first place. It’s very weird to campaign for good portrayals and then get mad when they work.
i took elvish in school and i fucking hated it. the teacher was like 700 years old and he’d like take us on field trips to sit on the banks of babbling brooks and watch the fall of sunlight through the leaves. my friends in spanish class were like conjugating verbs and shit and meanwhile i was in an old-growth forest being overcome with awe at the sight of a majestic stag. like uhh yeah mr autumnheart when are we gonna learn like any grammar “listen to the murmur of the wind in the treetops, and you shall find the grammar you seek” like fuck dude your pedagogy leaves much to be desired
i took elvish in school and i fucking hated it. the teacher was like 700 years old and he’d like take us on field trips to sit on the banks of babbling brooks and watch the fall of sunlight through the leaves. my friends in spanish class were like conjugating verbs and shit and meanwhile i was in an old-growth forest being overcome with awe at the sight of a majestic stag. like uhh yeah mr autumnheart when are we gonna learn like any grammar “listen to the murmur of the wind in the treetops, and you shall find the grammar you seek” like fuck dude your pedagogy leaves much to be desired
do u think omegaverse acknowledges covid-19 and the generation of people who permanently lost their sense of smell like how are they all scenting each other now is the omegaverse economy in shambles
actually pheromone sensing works differently from normal olfaction, since humans in our world don’t have a functioning vomeronasal organ (VNO), we don’t have any data on how covid-19 would affect a functioning VNO in omegaverse AUs
Actually there is evidence that covid probably would affect the VNO and it stands to reason would accordingly impair its function. Briefly:
SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes covid, can only infect cells expressing a certain protein called ACE2
ACE2 is expressed widely in nasal cavity epithelial cells but not in olfactory sensory neurons.
Seo et al. (2021) studied potential nasal targets for SARS-CoV-2 using golden hamsters as a model organism (commonly used as a proxy for humans in virology studies)
They found ACE2 expression in the main olfactory bulb epithelium (MOE, your “normal” nose organ) as well as the vomeronasal organ (VNO)
Several cell types in the VNO were able to be infected and they also found significant inflammatory activity (macrophage activation, apoptotic cells, etc)
The specifics of how covid actually causes dysosmia are not known for sure but epithelial damage by local inflammatory immune responses likely plays a role, especially because sensory neurons themselves are not affected (Bilinska, & Butowt, 2020). Therefore I would suggest a potential similar effect of VNO dysfunction as we see in the main olfactory bulb
From Seo et al.: “Considering the function of the VNO, infection and subsequent pathologic changes may affect the behavior of Syrian hamsters”
If it stands to reason that omegaverse individuals have functioning VNOs similar to members of the animal kingdom, then it is more than reasonable to conclude that covid may cause them to lose not only their main olfactory function, but also their VNO function as well
In conclusion the omegaverse economy IS in shambles.
OP this is very well-written but im still hung up on how you came onstage dressed as a clown only to tear off the costume and reveal yourself as a biologist
So yall remember that “wungle twxt post from a while back? Well someone actually made a whole firefox extension for it!
steven universe will never be beaten as the funniest Media Phenomenon. it had an adult fanbase who were largely incapable of parsing basic interactions between colorful cartoon characters designed for children. they thought being attracted to short people made you a pedophile. there were people genuinely surprised and angry that the writers lied in response to a question that would have spoiled the main plot twist of the show. fascinating stuff all around
