naw

in between bylines

[your-worst-boy]

Praying Mantis costume by Imile Wepener

[exxos-von-steamboldt]

[delicatefury]

I just googled this and… yes, it’s absolutely real.

And there are so many articles and videos and discussions. Like, the scientific community is buzzing about this.

So much research will have to be redone because the data was absolutely compromised, off by orders of magnitude, by using standard lab gloves.

The world is probably not horrifically contaminated by microplastics. Sterile laboratories, however, are contaminated by latex and nitrile gloves.

Thank God someone bothered to check.

[beardedmrbean]

>I just googled this and… yes, it’s absolutely real.

Sources beyond dude just trust me, for the skeptics.

Scientists shocked to find lab gloves may be skewing microplastics data

Scientists may have been unknowingly inflating microplastics pollution estimates, and the surprising source could be their own lab gloves. A

https://www.technologynetworks.com/applied-sciences/news/scientists-lab-gloves-may-be-causing-an-overestimation-of-microplastics-411138

Nitrile and latex gloves may cause overestimation of microplastics, U-M study reveals

Nitrile and latex gloves that scientists wear while they are measuring microplastics may lead to a potential overestimation of the tiny poll

Nitrile and latex gloves may cause overestimation of microplastics - Phys.org (it’s a pdf)

An Embarrassing Mistake May Have Skewed Microplastics Research All Along

Researchers discovered a standard piece of lab equipment has added thousands of microplastic ‘false positives’ per each square-millimeter un

Ordinary Lab Gloves May Have Skewed Microplastic Data

Ordinary Lab Gloves May Have Skewed Microplastic Data: That doesn’t mean microplastics aren’t a problem, though

That should be enough

[xo-skeleton]

Die Hexen, oder Schneewittchen und die Sieben Zwerge detail, 1985, by Jean Tinguely

Iron, cloth, animal scull, electric motor; 152 cm high.

[notanupstandingcitizen]

people who learned about greek mythology due reasons that DONT involve having read percy jackson at 12 freak me out, like what the FUCK was going on in your life that you found out that zeus turned into a pigeon to woo his wife like HOW

[sickjacket]

[elontid]

Can confirm, as a 40-something ancient world fan, that is exactly the book that my parents got me when I was 12 or so.

[pwlanier]

Bronze Tiger, Shang Dynasty, 14th-13th Century BCE. Unearthed from Dayangzhou in Xin'gan, Jiangxi

Courtesy Alain Truong

[hjdjdjdjdjc-deactivated20260221]

a lot of my autism masking is just making myself more palatable for other people and my therapist said "does spock make himself 'more palatable' for others?" and had me promise to keep unmasking like:

[d1s4strous]

they're "platonic" solids to YOU. I've had sex with them.

[der-gorgonaut]

// kristalltag //

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by Georg Nickolaus

[sacred-portal]

[marinella-ela]

[clementiens]

[joomju]

Reblog so she lives forever.

[terminusverge]

20 years. If this gets posted and we all survive for another 20…things might be alright.

[femboy-c-cups]

american ronin grips his baseball bat tight and flicks his wrist. after a beat your head explodes off your neck into the atmosphere and the baseball homerun organ noise plays

[lesserknownwaifus]

Anthropomorphized U-2 spy plane from the official (de-)classified flight handbook.

[precision-instrument]

[gammadoppler]

Alien pulling your sleeve to get your attention: and who is this Cunt you all serve

[ghodaer]

[karvina]

[evilqueerwizardassociation]

Misionero Comido Por Tigre, 1907, Noé León

[parageist]

this shit ain’t nothin to me man

[dorothylarouge]