a very tired bee

Aroace. She/they. Absolutely exhausted. AO3 - Voltron

[iamthelowercase]

Hello, tumblr! I saw something on here the other day that worried me, so I decided to Do Science about it. But I can't do it alone: I need your help to build the dataset!

Here's what I need you to do:

If you see a post with a "mature content" label, and it's 2026, DM me a link to the post.

Yes, that's really it.

I am hoping to collect several thousand such posts, so that I have a decent sized dataset. I do not care what the post is about; if it's labeled as "mature content", I want to add it to my dataset.

If I get 10,000 posts in my dataset before August 31st 2026, I will post my preliminary findings then. I won't feel comfortable calling my findings "settled" before 2027, unless I get over 50,000 posts.

[iamthelowercase]

Tumblr Science FAQ, round 1

What's your hypothesis, OP?

I am not talking about that unless I have results to share. That would bias the results.

I did write them down and I did share them with a trusted contact who can prove that I wrote them down the same day I made this post. (While I did so before I made this post, I am not sure they will be able to provide proof of that, because I did so on the same day.)

OP are you interested in...?

Do you have to click through to see the post? Does the clickthrough contain the words "mature content"? Then yes.

OP are you interested if the post is about...?

I am interested in the mature content labels, not the content of the post. Is there a clickthrough that contains the words "mature content"? Then yes.

[iamthelowercase]

Tumblr Science FAQ, round 2

Should I reblog this for reach?

Yes, please. I felt really silly when I noticed I forgot to include that in the original post.

Is it okay if I send you my own posts?

Yes, those are perfect for what I'm looking for. I actually need to do some processing on a post to make it useful for testing my hypothesis, and this makes it easy.

Are you looking for "potentially mature content" also, or just "mature content"?

I want both, please. Anything that throws up a blocking screen that you have to click through. The distinctions between them are one of the things I am hoping to study.

Does it matter when the post was made originally?

Technically no. There's no way to respond to this without introducing some bias in the results, and I don't want that. However, I do collect some data on a post as part of making it useful to me, and that data is easier to collect if the post is recent.

What if I request content label review on a post after I send it to you?

I need to see the mature content label to be able to use the post. Because the mature content label hides the content of the post, it is very hard to use a post that no longer has a mature content label. You could send me a screenshot, but people could use that to lie to me.

Basically, it's more work for you to make it usable to me.

OP are you a transphobe? It would ruin the experiment for me if you're a transphobe.

I promise I'm not a transphobe and not doing this for transphobic reasons. You should still double-check that I'm not a transphobe for yourself, though. I am not sure that this study will have the useful effects you're hoping for; I am studying something specific, and it may not be what you hope.

[txttletale]

its so fucking funny that nuclear waste is such a contentious topic. like yeah those damn nuclear advocates need to figure out somewhere reasonable to put that nuclear waste. for now we will  be sticking with coal power because it puts its waste products safe and sound In Our Lungs, where they cannot hurt anybody,

[mc-cookies]

coal byproducts also give people cancer en masse is the thing though. coal smoke is a carcinogen that contributes to lung cancer, and ash and other waste products can also contain significant amounts of uranium and thorium, so coal as a power source can totally expose people to ionizing radiation as well.

[mangonetics]

The thing is that for every hazard of nuclear waste, pretty much the worst case scenario is that it might do something that coal power is already doing. You could aerosolize nuclear waste and just spray it out of a chimney and it would have less environmental and health impacts than coal because you’d only be spraying like a gram of it for every billion tons of coal smoke for the same amount of power.

[afriendofblahaj]

Im already pretty vocal about my advocation and belief in nuclear power and I have been for years, but I saw something a few weeks ago that just

It so perfectly sums up everything that’s wrong, but also it’s incredibly horrifying

So, basically, someone not very involved in nuclear science but still discussing it posed the question “could we retrofit coal power plants to be nuclear power plants?”. And on the face, this is a fairly good idea actually. Coal and nuclear power both generate electricity the same way (heated water turns to steam which turns a turbine) so you would only need to do some modifications, making new nuclear reactors much cheaper, and killing coal plants.

Well, someone actually involved in the nuclear industry (I think they were a researcher but I might be misremmebering) responded to the question with (paraphrased from memory)

“that’s something many of us have proposed in the past, and unfortunately we can’t do that, because coal plants currently have much higher radiation levels than the EPA allowed a nuclear plant to be operated at. And cleaning up the site would cost more than just building a new plant in an uncontaminated site.”

It’s fucking wild

Not only is coal so much more dangerous in so many other ways, but the very thing people worry about with nuclear power is higher because coal isn’t regulated at all.

[aropride]

why is there an upgrade button on gmail. why does twitter want me to scan my palm to get into my account. why is google a chatbot. why does the transit app make a transit app wrapped for me. why does youtube keep shoving its infinitely scrollable shortform content down my throat. why do my doctor and psychiatrist and therapist want to use an ai notetaker during our appointments. why do free trials want my credit card number. why are most scholarship websites just data brokers. how do i make capitalone stop sending me mail. why is my school making its own special chat gpt powered chatbot. why is every third video on instagram an undisclosed ad. why is nothing online real anymore. why is everything so FUCKING STUPID

[southcarolinagoddess]

Since it's watermelon season!

My grandfather used to grow watermelons, among other things, and he told me about most of this, especially the orange spot. Those are the absolute best!

[southcarolinagoddess]

My most popular post ever is getting likes again, so that means it's getting close to watermelon season!!

[littlebosslady7]

Amazing HQ photos shared by Hannah & Tales_of_Exandria.

Also check out Hannah’s content. She’s choreographed ballet routines to CR instrumental pieces, so impromptu shout out (src)

[reggiemess]

Cannot stand the trend of censoring any and all words that describe concepts that might make you go :( especially when the censoring is done in that quarter-assed way that's just 'did a lil scribble over a vowel so you know that I know this word describes a no-no."

I'm not even going to be vague about what sparked this. Do not fucking censor the word 'stole.' I'm at my fucking limit.

[princepastelfox]

Not(t) last, and certainly Not(t) least -it’s Nott the Brave, slayer of beasts and stealer of shinies! Seriously, Not(t) even buttons go safe when this tiny marauder gets the itch.

[princepastelfox]

Next in the ring for the Cutesy Nein iiiissss… BEAUREGARD THE BO-WIELDING MONK! Enjoys punching things a bit too much, but with a trusty bro by her side even she can navigate through something as difficult as a hug!

[princepastelfox]

Moseying in at number seven of the Cutesy Nein is our Dirt Boy Caleb and his furry familiar Frumpkin. Books are his passion, but punt his cat into fairy dust and this brittle parchment of a wizard will BURN YOU DOWN.

[princepastelfox]

Fashionably late like a proper lady, Jester Lavorre skips into the Cutesy Nein lineup after a detour to procure some donuts. A gifted healer that finds healing a bore and prefers to lay down some hurting, this sugar-coated piece of candy is likely to give you cavities if you’re not careful.

[princepastelfox]

Tentatively returning to making critical role fanart, soft starting with some charm designs as I’m dying for cute M9 merch and figured “welp might as well do it myself then”. Will see when/if I ever feel up to finishing all my other critical role WIPs. First out is Fjord! … Literally everyone: Meester Feejordee, stop nomming random things just because some freaky snek dude tells you to. It’s not good for your health. Fjord:…I’mma nom it. Everyone: FY-joooorrrdH! NO! Fjord: *NOMS*

[princepastelfox]

Next from the Cutesy Nein is our lovely Flower Goth Girl Yasha!  So sweet and gentle she’ll crush your head and press it in between the pages of her book. …or wait was that the flowers?

[princepastelfox]

Third in the Cutesy Nein lineup is none other than the most splendidly fabulous Mollymauk Tealeaf (4ever in our hearts) Shine bright, circus man.

[princepastelfox]

Second in the Cutesy Nein lineup is our fairy goth prince Caduceus!  Dead people tea is just the right thing to give you that ~deep chill~ vibe. (Don’t eat humans, okay?)

[kitsunebellproductions]

Self-indulgent trans!Fjord for Pride Month <3 It was only supposed to be a quick little pic of Fjord but the others demanded to be let in to ogle that fine salty sailor boy so now it’s apparently a huge-ass pretty pastel-y OT4 picture??? xD

[zhoudadudugongjin]

Look I love unconditional devotion love stories as much as the next person, but there's really something so deliciously raw about conditional devotion.

I have served you and I have loved you for decades, but I will not give up my principles for you. You cut out part of my heart and took it with you down that path that you insist on walking, but you walk it alone. Even when the bleeding, gaping hole you left in my chest kills me, I will not follow you.

[zhoudadudugongjin]

me everytime one of my seemingly non-specific homoerotic text posts breaks containment

[inthefallofasparrow]

[artbyblastweave]

So there’s this Superman comic I really like called Superman: Earth One, written by J. Michael Straczynski, and I enjoy it because it portrays a version of Superman who’s believably angry about the state of the world and often has to work around that in his decision making. And as a follow-up to that, I also really, really like the comic because it directly addresses the elephant in the room about why Superman doesn’t get involved in politics.

There’s a sequence in the second volume where Superman is providing disaster relief to a minority-dominated area of a country, which the local dictator has been passively trying to genocide by denying conventional relief. Said dictator shows up and starts executing and mutilating the local populace until Superman leaves; this causes Superman to throw in with the local revolutionaries, and he subsequently storms the dictator’s palace, disarms everyone present without actually hurting anyone, and then leaves the dictator open for the revolutionaries to do with as they please. Very messy things subsequently happen to the dictator.

And this is the point at which the United States Government drops everything to begin working out a way to kill Superman, because they surmise that it’s only a matter of time before Superman does the same thing at the White House.

And then, after Superman barely scrapes out a win against the CIA’s half-baked predictably-nearly-apocalyptic plan to kill him by cutting a deal with General Zod, he goes to the United Nations and says, “Look, I can’t survive you assholes pulling out all the stops to get rid of me, but you can’t survive the fallout of a successful plan to get rid of me because anything the CIA makes or recruits that’s capable of killing me, is almost certainly going to immediately turn around and kill all of you. As this whole mess demonstrated! So how about I pledge to stop couping dictators, you stop growing evil Superman Clones, we all go home really unhappy and do our best to get on with it?”

And, you know, ask any Superman fan who hasn’t read this comic why he doesn’t fight the government and you’d get an answer along these lines! It’s not hard to intuit the realpolitik of Superman’s position on the world stage, he can’t help people if he’s constantly fighting every government at once. But most Superman comics that get political in this way either have him stay out of it entirely due to personal ethics, or have him become a crusading tyrant to demonstrate why it’s a bad idea. So even if it required a generally angrier and grittier Clark than you usually see, it was really refreshing to see a version of Superman that dipped into this kind of thing just enough to canonize the obvious answer as to why he usually steers clear of outright political violence.