That good old fashioned Razzmatazz

~ they/he/it ~ read the pinned post ~ 21 ~ tme ~ may sometimes be nsfw (jokes and art) ~

[astrophysicist-not-princess]

New pinned post since my old one is from 2021!

Hello and welcome to my blog :D I post a lot of stuff here, most of it is reblogs. I promise you I am not a spam bot, I just read fast lol

About Me Name: Razz Age: 21 Pronouns: they/he

My hobbies are mostly music and fiber arts, with occasional dabbles into other forms of art. I always always always take music recommendations, please feel free to throw them in my inbox. Triply so if the artist is underappreciated in any way, shape, or form :>

I am always willing to learn from my mistakes, if I say some stupid shit in tags or something please correct me. I would much much much rather take time to engage in a topic and re-evaluate my beliefs and values than continue being wrong about something.

That being said, I think it's worth noting a few core beliefs; Trans women are women, trans men are men. End of story, no debate.

Free Palestine. The US government is racist and imperialist.

Fuck AI. Don't bring that shit near me, and please let me know if I miss something that is AI generated.

Ultimately, all people regardless of their race, gender, sex, ethnicity, or any other classifier are deserving of food, water, shelter, healthcare, and basic dignity. If you disagree, get fucking blocked, nerd.

Additionally, I strive to make sure this is a safe place for trans women especially and am doing my best to listen and support all of y'all however I can. <3

I don't really have anything else to add yet I think. Have a good day if you're reading this :]

[verminfang]

Thinking about a vampire dude bro who won't drink girl blood- because he's afraid it will estroginise him soy products style- getting trapped in a mental cage when he learns vampire dude who only bites other dudes reads as gay

[beachdeath]

do kids these days know about grace kelly by mika

[beachdeath]

[emmorgzz-deactivated20180313]

WHAT. IS. THIS. SORCERY.

[kierpenta]

1. i can’t believe there are people in the world who haven’t heard this

2. go check out mika he’s great - important to note is that he’s mlm (he’s come out alternately as being gay, bisexual and ‘not interested in labels’ for a while) and a huge amount of his songs are about being mlm so in particular if ya need good mlm artists check him out

[thesylverlining]

Seriously Mika is a gift and sunshine unto this sick sad world

[postillfastill]

mika is wildly popular in europe but his north american fanbase is like, six people and a napkin, and it’s killing me. 

ALSO, he came out as bisexual/‘not interested in labels’ like a decade ago, but much more recently he came out as gay, so he’s gay! his latest album, No Place In Heaven, is almost completely about being gay. it’s got a song abt his sexuality and his religion, a song abt pining for your straight best friend, a song abt the music world that includes the lyrics “where have all the gay guys gone?”, a song abt gay and lesbian solidarity, a song abt heterosexual expectations from family, and two songs that are just abt being super ridiculously in love w your partner.

please listen to Mika’s entire discography because there are a LOT of classics that i’m 100% sure you’ve heard at some point in your life, all the love songs are implicitly gay, it’s great, but ESPECIALLY listen to No Place In Heaven (2015).

[stolligaseptember]

it always surprises me to remember that mika isn’t actually a part of the global populace’s general consciousness

because his debut album, life in cartoon motion, was such a huge part of my generation’s tween and teen years

like, i guarantee you, you can walk up to any swedish millennial, and they will still know every single line of his song lollipop

it was just a part of our upbringing;

become a crippling anxious mess

develop an attitude problem

and memorize all of mika’s lollipop

[sarahsyna]

This is the song of his I remember being popular here in Ireland, Love Today!

[softlyfiercely]

I LOVE MIKA

[sushinfood]

Grace Kelly was such a big song for me… It’s hard for me to believe it’s considered an older song now. Bless, Mika. He’s just a wonderful person.

[trickstertime]

He also has a vocal range of FOUR octaves.

The average is about 1.5-2 octaves.

[pizzapasta23045]

Making memes is hard.

So fun fact. That is a real scientific graph called the cortical homunculus, specificaly a sensory homonculus in this case, and it represents a human with body parts scaled based on how much touch related brain goes to said body part. I just discovered it and I HAD to put in the EDC.

Part 6 of Eridian Design Committee for the Biodome of Saviour Grace. Part 1 is here. Part 2 is here. Part 3 is here. Part 4 is here. Part 5 is here.

EWC by @justcakethanks

[thatdamnokie]

[Image description: A Tweet by Cory Fitz that reads "The key to understanding Backrooms is that members of Gen Z were kids when shopping malls started dying". Lunchbox (@fishin4lØve) quote retweets it and adds, "Ive talked about how gothic horror is a fear of the remains of a now dead decadence of the past, ie haunted castles or old haunted mansions. Our modern version of this is evidently empty shopping malls and anamatronic pizzaria arcades." End description.]

[ruderubicante]

A Love for Ignorance

[tigersharks]

[glewmie]

[milfsagainstroadhead-deactivate]

Really hate how “mommy and daddy issues” just a jab at the child and not the parent

[tiffanarchyforever]

Oh, so your parent(s) traumatized you when you were vulnerable and defenseless, and they let you down when you were reliant on them for your emotional needs? Lol idiot.

[phinarei]

My ENTIRE world just shifted to the left a bit. Thanks.

[drakthug]

[thishasgonehorribly]

I don’t know what exactly peaked with the Madden Giferator, but I do miss it.

[thatdykepunkslut]

> Get into color grading

> realize every screen displays color slightly differently

> realize every camera captures color a little differently

> realize every format and image editor translates color

> realize every printer deposits ink differently

> realize every kind of paper accepts ink differently

> realize colors look completely different under different lighting conditions

> ok I'm going to do everything greyscale now

> black density changes as ink cartridge depletes and depending on viscosity after multiple prints

> "what color white are you using"

> duckduckgo least painful method of death

[owlowlowlowlowlowlowl]

[animentality]

[hotvampireadjacent]

[girldraki]

kind of harmonically beautiful

[pyrogina]

im fuckin crine he DID IT!!!! 😭

[ashenmind]

[hardcorewhimsy]

Reddit u/mynameisfreddit 's fish, as seen on @ashenmind 's blog with @lefttobloom 's tag caption

[aubreyhepbum]

@animals-with-fan-art

[visit-me-here-in-wonderland]

[ofishal-fish-posts]

official fish post

[libraford]

I am becoming aware of the effect a lack of trust in the media has had on people, paired with a dearth of research skills.

[libraford]

I'm thinking about the argument I got caught in yesterday- the subject of it doesn't matter.

Often, pseudoscience and misinformation comes packaged with a lot of very important sounding words, and the jargon gets to the point where it seems like a lot of work to fact check it. Which makes the 'I encourage you to do your own research' statements real obnoxious. If it's phrased in a way that's impossible to navigate, good luck.

It sucks, but you gotta.

If you don't want to fact check individual words, that's fine. That's a lot to ask of someone that's just trying to figure out whether something is true.

This is where we get into something called 'lateral research.' Instead of trying to draw a map to a sentence, you check the credibility of their source material.

This is your Snopes, your Fact Check/Media Bias, your Follow The Money.

Knowing more context about what someone is saying will save you a lot of time and energy.

If you're not sure about something, question it.

[zetabrarian]

I feel like I've been throwing this around a LOT lately, but:

Practice SIFT! SIFT is based on lateral research and can be very helpful for these situations.

DON'T just share information without doing your due diligence.

[elizeshiro]

whyyy the fuck does this not have more notes please rb this more often qwq

[libraford]

Well, I mean... probably because I posted it like an hour ago.

[weaselle]

STOP

i have found this post and infographic and i want to share it

INVESTIGATE THE SOURCE

zetabrarian's blog says they are a socially progressive librarian monsterfucker, which a quick scroll through their blog seems to support. This makes them pretty cool but not necessarily the perfect source -- anyone can say they are a librarian, and surely not every librarian is correct about processing information

FIND BETTER COVERAGE

if i go to a search engine (in this case google via firefox) i see that several universities, libraries from large municipalities (like Los Angeles) as well as the BBC all agree that this is a real method experts in information fields recommend. I wouldn't necessarily take any single one of these sources as 100% credible, but they are individually reasonably reliable, and taken together indicate a high probability of factual information

TRACE TO ORIGINAL CONTEXT

A brief search reveals that the SIFT method was created by Mike Caulfield, who is a research scientist at the University of Washington’s Center for an Informed Public, where he studies the spread of online rumors and misinformation. This is an extremely good source of information for how to process information on the internet. As the creator of the SIFT method, he has taught thousands of teachers and students how to verify claims and sources through his workshops.

I could not find a post or page about SIFT written by Mike Caulfield himself, so i went to the University of Washington's website for this page about it, since that is the university that employs him.

It corroborates the above information, though there are a few notable differences. For example, under the "trace to original context" section in the Washington U. source (again, as close to the original as i could find) this step contains advice to check the date. This seems very good to include, as in the fast moving world of internet information, things become outdated or get updated very quickly, and yet first takes and outdated articles hang around and get shared for a long time.

EXTRA CREDIT

I personally find that it is important to outright search for the opposite information. For example, I put in a few searches like "Mike Caulfield discredited" "Mike Caulfield wrong" "SIFT method bad" etc. I found nothing showing me any indications this method has any problems. Interestingly, somehow this did turn up an article about news literacy on Medium, which was actually written by Mike Caulfield in April of 2017

[thatwolfnamednyla]

[Image ID: An infographic with a title that reads "The Four Moves." Under the title is text that says, "Use the SIFT Method to help evaluate information found online." The following steps are listed:

"STOP:

You found something that may or may not be true! STOP yourself from sharing it right away and follow the next steps.

INVESTIGATE THE SOURCE:

Figure out where the information is coming from. A reporter? A scientist? A random person on the internet?

FIND BETTER COVERAGE:

Are there sources talking about this claim or issue? See what they're saying about it.

TRACE TO ORIGINAL CONTEXT:

Find where the information was originally published. There might be context that was removed by the cycle of sharing on the internet."

Another textbox is added with a bullet-point list:

"Reminders:

"Bad things can happen AND there could be false stories about it. Both can happen at the same time.

"Not sure if it's credible? Don't share it!"

At the bottom is a header labeled "REFERENCES," with text under it saying, "Adapted from library.nwacc.edu/lateralreading/sift"

/end ID]