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Movement nudge!
John Noel is one of the best fitness/diet influencers out there. He does this kind of stuff all the time - show accessible movement plans that can be dialed to your own comfort level.
He also has a series of food videos called "it's not cooking, it's just mixing stuff" where he makes balance meals with only heating stuff in the micro or air fryer. He's done a lot of dupes of fast-casual or fast food food, too, to make it healthier.
It's very endearing to me how many people are willing to keep an eye on a video feed so they can push a button and let a fish in the Netherlands get to the other side of a dam.
It is genuinely baffling to me, in a very kind and positive way, especially coupled with the local news continually going several shades of 'wtf, this thing is a roaring success again and we don't quite get why'. They've already quadrupled their capacity for simultaneous clicks and it's still nowhere near enough and there's just... Bewilderment.
I think people want to help the environment in small but tangible ways, which is hard right now because of.. well... because of The Horrors. And being able to say 'wow! I helped this creature cross a dam' makes you feel good.
I also think that most people can relate to a small, helpless creature trying to get from one place to another and there's a FUCKIN WALL in the way.
But to come back to point 1- Citizen Science fills a hole in the soul that wanted to go out on adventures and discover things when we were younger, but the study of it was hard or we didn't have the money or our schools were garbage. But you don't have to have a degree to do things like... press a button or download and use an app, or count or transcribe notes.
Anyways- here's some Citizen Science links if the Fish Doorbell makes you feel happy and you yearn for more ways to help scientists do stuff:
Foldit (folding proteins)
Fathomverse (sea animals)
Project Monarch (butterflies)
Bioblitz, an event where citizens identify as many species in an area within a period of time
Species Watch (animal species)
BOINCâs Compute for Science
Zooniverse is a website that hosts information on many citizen science projects
Label trees in aerial photos
Count cells in fossils and modern leaves
Digitize Atmospheric Data
Count penguins
US-based Citizen Science Database
eBird (bird identification)
Merlin (bird identification by sound)
iNaturalist (nature identification)
MapSwipe (collaboration between several Red Cross organizations and Doctors Without Borders, update vital geospatial data)
Smithsonian Archives Transcription Center
NEW noise canceling headphones that are so good at blocking out sound that they even prevent you from listening to your own music, forcing you to bask in the whispers of the forgotten gods until you begin to hear your own brain falling apart as it descends into madness
First Polls open up in 34 days for voting for our new Prime Minister, my friends!!!!
Heres the main 3 parties plans and comments on Indigenous affairs, moving forward!!
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PLEASE REBLOG THIS EVEN IF YOUâRE NOT CANADIAN!!Â
This election is MASSIVELY important for Canada, for EVERY person in this country (and those planning to come here from other countries!) who is not a white, cis, hetero, able-bodied middle-aged male.Â
To every person who has ever reblogged an American politics post: PLEASE reblog Canadian politics for the next month! I know itâs boring and not aesthetic but this is a big deal.Â
American politics AFFECT CANADA GREATLY! We have seen a massive rise in conservative, alt-right, and islamophobic movements and political parties since 2016. We have seen a rise in violence since 2016. Quebec implemented law 21, an islamophobic law which bans religious symbols for anyone working in public office. This includes public school teachers, meaning children are exposed to a system centered around white-supremacist ideologies. This is super fucking important!
I donât beg for reblogs, but I cannot express enough how crucial it is for us to go out and vote next month. Please follow @allthecanadianpoliticsâ if youâre Canadian and figure out who you are voting for, how youâre getting there, etc. Plan ahead and GO VOTE!!Â
Vote if you can/want to, but also be sure to support and physically help if needed when indigenous proples are fighting back. Donât stop at voting, its the least you could do
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the sexual tension thoâŠ
As god is my witness, I thought Kevin was a bottom. My world is undone.
Not sure how I should react to thisâŠ
working toward developing interpersonal skills and emotional awareness of what you want out of life is really great
Raise your hand if you teach composition and now have your first in-class writing activity of the semester boo yah!
Reblogging again because you can never have enough Nazi flag ripping on your blog.
Reblogging because we stand against hate.
Reblogging because fuck yes
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Reblogging again because you can never have enough Nazi flag ripping on your blog.
Reblogging because we stand against hate.
Reblogging because fuck yes
Itâs always a good time to re blog nazi flag ripping.
A dating service where matching is based on peopleâs search history exists. Youâre a serial killer. You go on a date with a writer.
Serial Killer: metaphorically, if you were to kill someone, how would you do it?
Writer: Air shot between the toes, itâll look like a heart attack.
Serial Killer who is obviously in love already: *sucks in a breath* ok
Writer: how long would it take to die if you were to potentially stab someone in the guts
Serial killer: anywhere from 2 to 30 minutes
Writer, already bringing a ring out: *shaking* thanks
A++ addition
Writer: *shows the serial killer the murder scene theyâre writing* babe, iâm not sure if this would actually work?
Serial killer: *kisses writer on the forehead and leaves, comes back later, a suspicious scent of blood coming off them* it works baby, youâre doing great
I LOVE THIS
Oh no, murder comedy is my jam
I love this, I love all of this, but quick question, does the author know? Like are they aware that their significant other is a serial killer or do they just think that they have a morbid sense of humor? Itâd be even funnier if the author had no fucking clue, like how Aurthur Conan Doyle was apparently stupidly gullible, and on top of it theyâre a horror or crime novelist. Like the serial killer works at a butcher shop or something so itâs completely normal for them to come home smelling like blood, no murders going on here, no sirey. Just my darling coming back home from a long day at work.
Now fast forward a bit and the author has managed to get their first book published, with loving support from the serial killer who helped them fine tune all the murder scenes, and itâs a big hit. Enough so that a detective with the local police department has noticed some disturbing similarities to several active cases, including details that were never released to the press. Obviously he brings this up to his superior and convinces him that thereâs something to the theory, but itâs all circumstantial right now. He stakes out the authorâs home and is super convinced that the author is the murderer, but they donât seem to do anything??? Like they literally are at the house all day, thatâs it. Most they do is leave for groceries.
So you get this dynamic of the serial killer mining the author for creative murder schemes, the author being lovingly encouraged by the serial killer, and finally the detective who is just so sure that the author is the killer and that if he sticks it out long enough heâll FINALLY have proof.
The detective is Gladys Kravitz
the history of the english language in reaction gifs: the seventh and final installment
[part one: who are the britons?!] [part two: a wild eric northman appears] [part three: kings are the literal worst]Â [part four: sneaky french words]Â [part five: renaissance theatre is just a sweet transvestite]Â [part six: grammarians are bitches]Â [part seven: featuring lafayette reynolds as the voice of modern english]
By the time the nineteenth century rolled around the whole attitude towards English linguistics was a lot moreÂ
And then you get colonization and globalization and the Internet and technology and new words being invented and discarded at a breakneck pace and people speaking all kinds of Englishes all over the world.
So linguists finally accepted that, since English, for the last 1500 years, has been a language of people stabbing each other in the face and stealing their words, policing it is pretty fucking stupid.  After all, its flexibility is whatâs made it so successful.
Modern linguistics pretty much takes the approach that there are a lot of different types of English and whatâs âcorrectâ or âappropriateâ depends on the population and the context and so, y'know, whatever, do your own thing. Â
Which is why, if youâre one of my students and you turn in a paper that doesnât adhere to the current standards of academic English, Iâm gonna school your ass and then be like
But if I catch any of you bitches trying to language police, here on Tumblr of all motherfucking places, Iâm gonna call you out for intellectual bullying.
Here endeth the lesson.
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A crowd of 65,000 sings âBohemian Rhapsodyâ perfectly while waiting for a Green Day concert
THIS. IS. PERFECTION.
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Amazing!Â
1. how the fuck did Green Day follow that
2. you know, we have fun here, with the word âmeme,â but according to meme theory, which is an actual thing pioneered by reptilian human impersonator Richard Dawkins in his 1976 book The Selfish Gene, most of what we call memes are very unsuccessful memes. A meme, in the scientific sense - if one is generously disposed to consider memetics a science on any particular day - is an idea that acts like a gene. That is, it seeks to replicate itself, as many times as possible, and as faithfully as possible.
That second part is important. A gene which is not faithful in its replication mutates, sometimes rapidly, sometimes wildly. The result might be cancer or a virus or (very very very rarely) a viable evolutionary step forward, but whatever the case, it is no longer the original gene. That gene no longer exists. It could not successfully reproduce itself.
The memes we pass around on the internet are, in general, very short lived and rapidly mutating. Itâs rare for any meme to survive for more than a year: in almost all cases, they appear, spread rapidly, spawn a thousand short-lived variations, and then are swiftly forgotten. Theyâre not funny anymore, or interesting anymore. They no longer serve any function, and so theyâre left behind, a mental evolutionary dead end.
This rendition of Freddie Mercuryâs immortal opera Bohemian Rhapsody is about the most goddamned amazing demonstration of a successful meme Iâve ever seen. This song is 42 years old, as of 2017. FORTY TWO YEARS OLD. And it has spread SO far, and replicated itself across the minds of millions of people SO faithfully, that a gathering of 65,000 more or less random people, with nothing in common except that they all really like it when Billie Joe Armstrong does the thing with the guitar, can reproduce it perfectly. IN PERFECT TIME. THEY KNOW THE EXACT LENGTH OF EVERY BRIDGE. THEY EVEN GET THE NONSENSE WORDS RIGHT. THEY DIVIDE THEMSELVES UP IN ORDER TO SING THE COUNTER-CHORUS.Â
âYeah, Pyrrhic, lots of people know this song.â
Listen, you glassy-eyed ninny: our speciesâ ability to coherently pass along not just genetic information, but memetic information as well, is the reason weâre the dominant species on this planet. Language is a meme. Civilization is a collection of memes. Lots of animals can learn, but we may be the only animal that latches onto ephemera - information that doesnât reflect any concrete reality, information with little to no immediate practical application - and then joyfully, willfully, unrelentingly repeats it and teaches it to others. Look at how wild this crowd is, because theyâre singing the same song! It doesnât DO anything. Itâs not even why they showed up here today! If you sent out a letter to those same 65,000 people that said, âPlease show up in this field on this day in order to sing Bohemian Rhapsody,â very few of them would have showed up. But I would be surprised to meet a single person in that crowd who joined in the singing who doesnât remember this moment as the most amazing part of a concert they paid hundreds of dollars to see.
And theyâre just sharing an idea. Itâs stunning and ridiculous. Something about how our brains work make us go, âHey!! Hey everybody!! I found this idea! Itâs good! I like it! Iâm going to repeat it! Do you know it too?? Repeat it with me! Letâs get EVERYBODY to know it and repeat it and then we can all have it together at the same time! Itâs a good idea! Iâm so excited to repeat it exactly the way I heard it, as loudly as I can, as often as possible!!â
This is how culture happens! This is how countries happen! Sometimes a persistent, infectious idea - a meme - can be dangerous or dark. But our human delight at clutching up good memes like magpies and flapping back to our flock to yell about them to everyone we know is why we as a species bothered to start doing things like âtelling storiesâ and âwriting stuff down.â
âThatâs a lot of spilled ink for a Queen song, Pyrrhic.â
Man I just fucking love people.
Reblogging again because you can never have enough Nazi flag ripping on your blog.
Reblogging because we stand against hate.
Reblogging because fuck yes
It's always a good time to re blog nazi flag ripping.
