Random Things at Irregular Intervals

Alox/Aloxite | He/Him | Aro/Bi Hey! Just some random guy who's really bad at describing himself. I guess I'm also the resident tech guy for any friend group I'm in?

[aloxite]

Popular app try not to change the UI for no fucking reason challenge

[kiwimintlime]

not aromantic but I believe in their beliefs.

"there's no platonic explanation for this" try harder bucko

[kiwimintlime]

love is a beautiful wonderful multifaceted nebulous thing that shouldn't be reduced to the strict bounds of Tier One: Romance and Tier Two: Friends. get weird with it. love your friends deeply, wildly, passionately and platonically. cowards

[aloxite]

Just go fuck your friends if you want and get proper consent for it. No one else is stopping you.

[eebie]

I just ate one

[eebie]

You can lie when you name things

[bebx]

Me when I write Inhun smut with bottom In-ho

[opheillia-blog]

if you dont still say “wed-ness-day” in your head when you spell wednesday then ur a fucking liar

[queer-as-city-folk]

Least racist fandom blog

[queer-as-city-folk]

> the Vietnamese

> that country

It's like you don't even pretend to view Vietnamese People as human

[caelestee]

bulbasaur says you’re valid no matter who you are!! 🏳️‍🌈

[milesphoenix]

I gasped so loudly

[depsidase]

[romehbo]

[v1ncenthallberg]

@therealjacksepticeye mention!

[therealjacksepticeye]

He doesnt know what I want

[aneo-art]

@therealjacksepticeye u

[wikicamp2]

[electricass39]

*makes out sloppily with the thesaurus*

[airplaner]

[starship--phoenix]

It's his year

[depsidase]

[local-lesbian-tree-demon]

everyone get more non-sexually intimate with your close friends right now !!!! or sexually if thats your jam im not the horny police

[teathattast]

[tunashei]

I love desire paths. There's something so wonderous about seeing an echo of humanity. Depending on it's location, a desire path can mean so many different things.

In a city, like the pic above, they represent rebellion, and efficiency. The messiness of humanity. We like to imagine we're oh so logical and neat so we design our cities to be logical and neat an then real humans literally trample on that idea. The ego required to think you can design something perfect that checks every box. Life is all about compromise and patching stuff when some new problem arises. Though people have certainly tried! Ohio state univeristy let students carve their desire paths, and then paved them over. It looks pretty artsy.

Some people will try to discourage desire paths, but this is almost always going to fail.

Eventually, people just have to accept them. Humans are too dang stubborn.

Certain desire paths are just adorable. A 0.5 second time saver. You just can't design for maximum efficiency, humans will always find shortcuts!

Though on occasion a desire path can actually be the least efficient way...especially if you're superstitious.

In a wilder area, such as below, they show us the curiosity of humans. A desire path somewhere natural often tells you there's something interesting just ahead. (Though remember some ecosystems are fragile and will suffer if trampled! Stick to paths in these sorts of areas)

And how about desire stairs? I always think these look so cool. We get see humans determination to climb, to traverse every kind of terrain.

And for something really crazy...a desire path used for centuries will create a 'holloway'

All of these pics are off the Desirepath subreddit, check them out for more examples! And many thanks to the users who submitted these photos.

[dduane]

I always wondered if these had a name. Now I know. :)

[o3ak]

This made my day

[tinyyellowflowers-blog]

Fieldwork tip: sometimes in the Forest you will find deer desire paths. “Oh!” says your brain, “this will lead me to somewhere cool!”

It will not. The deer wants to go to heavy brush and surge up a steep hill with its powerful hindquarters and presumably collect all the deer ticks living along the deer desire path. Waiting. You are a human, you want to meander along the side of the hill in absolutely no brush at all, thank you. Your desires are not compatible. You must abandon the deer path.

Cow desire paths though: flat as pancakes, always lead you to water or meadows. Useful things.

[traegorn]

Thank god someone else said it. When I saw that path in the woods and it was talking about human curiosity I was like... no. Other animals besides humans make paths.

Sometimes it's a really bad idea to follow them.

Especially if you don't want to get covered in deer ticks.

[violetsandshrikes]

to all my researchers, students and people in general who love learning: if you don't know this already, i'm about to give you a game changer

connectedpapers

the basic rundown is: you use the search bar to enter a topic, scientific paper name or DOI. the website then offers you a list of papers on the topic, and you choose the one you're looking for/most relevant one. from here, it makes a tree diagram of related papers that are clustered based on topic relatability and colour-coded by time they were produced!

for example: here i search "human B12"

i go ahead and choose the first paper, meaning my graph will be based around it and start from the topics of "b12 levels" and "fraility syndrome"

here is the graph output! you can scroll through all the papers included on the left, and clicking on each one shows you it's position on the chart + will pull up details on the paper on the right hand column (title, authors, citations, abstract/summary and links where the paper can be found)

you get a few free graphs a month before you have to sign up, and i think the free version gives you up to 5 a month. there are paid versions but it really depends how often you need to use this kinda thing.

[thefifthtetrahedron]

researchrabbit works similarly. you do need to create an account to use it, but it is completely free (as far as I know), meaning no limits to your collections/graphs.

[fishdogma]

Oh my goodness.....