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Being brave doesn’t mean you aren’t scared. Being brave means you are scared, really scared, badly scared, and you do the right thing anyway.

Neil Gaiman, Coraline

#motto for today #whee confronting abuser

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reason #30294 why @beautifullineofdata is the best

Sometimes things make me not sad

I just received sketches drawn by a nonbinary human of a nonbinary human (me) tying a nonbinary human. It’s nonbinary folks all the way down.

#cw kink #i like my friends #like seriously #the kink scene can be stupidly bad about gender #But I found good people #filthyamphibian is fucking rad and if you like NSFW weird (often fandom) art you should follow them

guremikes

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me and @beautifullineofdata

beautifullineofdata

Which one is who?

witchinghhour-blog

I think it’s really excessive how ppl expect that bc u have ur phone with u that u are available to communicate at all times tbh I don’t respond to ppls messages ALL THE TIME and not bc I fell asleep or am out of service or have a good excuse even but bc I just don’t want to be accessible or in a conversation, all the time, always

Nobody before the cell phone was available to communicate at every second of the day and I expect to be able to draw a boundary and respond to my friends when i can be fully present in interacting with them

People should be allowed to respond to you when it is comfortable for them to do so

startorialist

This Paul Smith cosmos-print shirt was spotted in the wild by two gum(shoe) nebulas, Dr24Hours & Dr. Sarah Kendrew, and on the internet by amnhnyc curator Dr. Mordecai Mac Low. You can also wear the print dressed down as a t-shirt.

I spy some real constellations (like Taurus) and the planets are a nice (if unrealistic) touch – they are, after all, located all over the sky, even though we can’t see them.

–Emily

#Would like this in button down form for my dapper days plz #dapper as fuck scientist

vaporize-employers

A paper titled “Get me off your f*cking mailing list” has been accepted by the International Journal of Advanced Computer Technology. But, as Joseph Stromberg reports for Vox , there’s more going on here than just a hilariously missing-in-action...

so i clicked the link to that last article i reblogged and found this and oh my god

this person is 1000% done

afloweroutofstone

“Despite how fancy the journal sounds, the International Journal of Advanced Computer Technology is actually an open-access publication that spams thousands of scientists every day with the offer of publishing their work - for a price, of course. Back in 2005, US computer scientists David Mazières and Eddie Kohler created this 10-page paper as a joke response they could send to annoying and unwanted conference invitations… The PDF went pretty viral in academic circles, and then recently an Australian scientist named Peter Vamplew sent it off to the pain-in-the-ass International Journal of Advanced Computer Technology in the hope that the editors would open it, read it and take him off their f*cking list. Instead, Scholarly Open Access reports that they took it as a real submission and said they’d publish it for $150. Apparently the journal even sent the paper to an anonymous reviewer who said it was ‘excellent’.”

beautifullineofdata

can I submit this as an abstract to the pseudo conference that keeps trying to recruit me to present?

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A college friend of mine came out as ace yesterday and I am so unbelievably proud of her. So is her fiance, because he is awesome.

@beautifullineofdata I wasn’t sure exactly what you identify as right now but last time we talked panromantic grey-a was at least a reasonable description

beautifullineofdata

I’m not so much identifying as grey-a these days (maybe demi-ish?), though this has a tendency to ebb and flow (I was actually thinking a lot recently about how I have floated around on the ace spectrum and how it correlates with different things).

That said, will absolutely protect them. Fierce sabre wielding, circus strong human over here. If they need anything, let me know.

your selfie angles seem to be going progessively more death from above/spooky evil scientist so if that's your aim, A+++

#I HAVE ACHIEVED MY FINAL FORM #to be fair jellyfish make a great evil scientist backdrop #jen knows how to compliment me

organizemyself

adhdandcats

😭😭😭

actuallyadhd

I suggest* we start naming the type of executive dysfunction we’re dealing with in a particular moment using the numbers in this image.

Right now I need to go deal with dishes and get dinner into the Crock Pot. I am dealing with 162. What’s YOUR type of executive dysfunction today?

-J

*This is a half-serious joke. I think it would be fantastic if we used this as code. “Yeah, I had a bad case of 536 last night.” “No kidding, I know what that’s like. I’m dealing with 2146 right now.” “Woah, that sucks.”

beautifullineofdata

The more I see these breakdowns, the more I wish psychiatrists/therapists had ever actually spent time on the ADD they all acknowledged I probably had, rather than just focusing on the bipolar disorder. Emotional modulation is probably one of my biggest issues when I’m not actively dealing with disordered moods (and everything else just makes life hard).

amoebasisters

Everyone pitches in for protein synthesis! Here are three types of RNA helping your cells make proteins. Be sure to check out all our science GIFs here for your studyblrs, teacher websites, presentations, or general amusement! Just please keep our name on there and don’t sell them! :D

#RNA biology #RNA #ribonucleic acids have become popular lately

Me: So I poached eggs for the fist time last night!

Grad student: Have you made Hollandaise sauce yet?

Me: No, but I really want to makes Eggs Benedict now, so I'll probably try it soon.

Grad student: Eggs Benedict is great! You should make it!

Me: I kind of feel like Eggs Benedict is a dish you make for when you have people over for breakfast/brunch, though. Like, if you're making it for just yourself, you're admitting you're sad and alone.

Me internally: *Starts planning elaborate Eggs Benedict with smoked salmon for just myself*

Goddammit Boston scene, get your goddamn shit together. This is why we can’t have nice things.

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I went rock climbing yesterday and everything above my waist is now composed entirely of pain

My life, a story

beautifullineofdata

You know that pretty single shoulder stand picture I posted yesterday? My entire right shoulder is just this giant glittering peak of pain. Between resting all my weight on that shoulder ~5 times in one afternoon then needing to continually engage my shoulder muscles, everything wants to die. (Why is that my favorite current favorite move?)

Some single shoulder stand realness from open studio today.

#aerials #lyra #aerial hoop #circus #my body can do some rad shit these days

bogleech

It’s funny how science fiction universes so often treat humans as a boring, default everyman species or even the weakest and dumbest.

I want to see a sci fi universe where we’re actually considered one of the more hideous and terrifying species.

How do we know our saliva and skin oils wouldn’t be ultra-corrosive to most other sapient races? What if we actually have the strongest vocal chords and can paralyze or kill the inhabitants of other worlds just by screaming at them? What if most sentient life in the universe turns out to be vegetable-like and lives in fear of us rare “animal” races who can move so quickly and chew shit up with our teeth?

Like that old story “they’re made of meat,” only we’re scarier.

prokopetz

More seriously, humans do have a number of advantages even among Terrestrial life. Our endurance, shock resistance, and ability to recover from injury is absurdly high compared to almost any other animal. We often use the phrase “healthy as a horse” to connote heartiness - but compared to a human, a horse is as fragile as spun glass. There’s mounting evidence that our primitive ancestors would hunt large prey simply by following it at a walking pace, without sleep or rest, until it died of exhaustion; it’s called pursuit predation. Basically, we’re the Terminator.

(The only other animal that can sort of keep up with us? Dogs. That’s why we use them for hunting. And even then, it’s only “sort of”.)

Now extrapolate that to a galaxy in which most sapient life did not evolve from hyper-specialised pursuit predators:

Our strength and speed is nothing to write home about, but we don’t need to overpower or outrun you. We just need to outlast you - and by any other species’ standards, we just plain don’t get tired.

Where a simple broken leg will cause most species to go into shock and die, we can recover from virtually any injury that’s not immediately fatal. Even traumatic dismemberment isn’t necessarily a career-ending injury for a human.

We heal from injuries with extreme rapidity, recovering in weeks from wounds that would take others months or years to heal. The results aren’t pretty - humans have hyperactive scar tissue, among our other survival-oriented traits - but they’re highly functional.

Speaking of scarring, look at our medical science. We developed surgery centuries before developing even the most rudimentary anesthetics or life support. In extermis, humans have been known to perform surgery on themselves - and survive. Thanks to our extreme heartiness, we regard as routine medical procedures what most other species would regard as inventive forms of murder. We even perform radical surgery on ourselves for purely cosmetic reasons.

In essence, we’d be Space Orcs.

friendlyfrankenstein

Our jaws have too many TEETH in them, so we developed a way to WELD METAL TO OUR TEETH and FORCE THE BONES IN OUR JAW to restructure over the course of years to fit them back into shape, and then we continue to wear metal in out mouths to keep them in place.

We formed cohabitative relationships with tiny mammals and insects we keep at bay from bothering us by death, often using little analouge traps.

And by god, we will eat anything.

siderealsandman

We use borderline toxic peppers to season our food.

We expose ourselves to potentially lethal solar radiation in the pursuit of darkening our skin.

We risk hearing loss for the opportunity to see our favorite musicians live.

We have a game where two people get into an enclosed area and hit each other until time runs out/one of them pass out

We willingly jump out of planes with only a flimsy piece of cloth to prevent us from splattering against the ground.

Our response to natural disasters is to just rebuild our buildings in the exact same places.

We climb mountains and risk freezing to death for bragging rights

We invented dogs. We took our one time predators and completely domesticated them.

On a planet full of lions, tigers and bears, we managed to advance further and faster than any other species on the planet.

Klingons and Krogan and Orcs ain’t got shit on us

moniquill

We drink ethanol (in concentrations high enough to be used as an effective as microbicide or a solvent!) for the express purpose of achieving blood toxicity and disrupting normal brain function… AS A RECREATIONAL ACTIVITY!

On the same subject, we also deliberately incinerate assorted substances and then inhale the particulate-heavy smoke and vapor resulting for the same effect. EVEN IN THE FACE OF SAID SUBSTANCES BEING CARCINOGENIC, BECAUSE WE JUST DON’T GIVE A FUCK.

therobotmonster

Humans do not have biological castes. Kill their commander and another will take its place. Soldiers left alone on a planet will start farming and manufacturing to survive. Farmers and manufacturers will take up arms and kill you if pressed. Just because two humans look different doesn’t mean they cannot do each other’s jobs.

Breeding does not kill them. A single human can mate dozens or hundreds of times in a lifetime. They often do so as recreation. Xenobiology team six believes they do not have a mating season but this is too strange to be true.

Their appendages are not designed for hitting, so they developed special training to make them very good at hitting anyhow.

The proteins making up their bodies are toxic and cause prion disease. Do not touch anything humans have touched. Do not consume earth foods. Fire does not adequately remove this contamination.

Humans perceive sixteen times the colors we do. Do not hide in bushes or vines from humans. They can distinguish your pelt from the foliage with ease.

We tried venting waste gas into the tunnels to kill the humans when they attacked. Turns out they breathe it.

Everything on their planet came from a single biological strain. They developed comprehensive genetics BEFORE they developed space travel.

They lack radio receptors and cannot be brought into compliance with right-thought simply by broadcasting to them. Even after we learned how to translate it into sound-waves one of their hatchlings drove the Great Authority mad by responding to every demand with a single question: “Why?”

silentstep

#an individual human being is actually a microbiome in its own right—you are dealing with a legion each time you approach them #they carry pathological agents inside their deep tissues and this is advantageous to their health #one of the most widespread and resilient viruses on their planet is treated as mildly hazardous—even though it causes #massive disruption to the body’s homeostasis #(their young offspring endure multiple rhinovirus infections EACH YEAR yet they seem unperturbed by this) #they have developed such long lifespans that now their primary threat is their own body’s degeneration #humanity has literally figured out how to survive so long that their body gives out under them #and they are not satisfied with that #stupid willful vengeful survivalists who treat mortality like a challenge