Dreamer of improbable Dreams

I don't even know what this blog is about anymore to be honest, it's just a bunch of random things

[cosmogyros]

As a rule I try not to take pictures of strangers, but I couldn't resist this bracelet I saw in the bus today:

ID: close-up view of a man's wrist resting on his leg. He's wearing a bracelet that reads:

I Am An Omega

I Love My Church

[dozydawn]

[two-goblins-in-a-trench-coat]

a CRITTER? Carrying a BERRY?? Across a BRAMBLE VINE?????

[hollowedskin]

I got a 4 min long video of Kimchi dreaming today, so here's a clip

You get the whole walk cycle and the little sprint at the end.

Sometimes her sprints last for like 4 or 5 seconds and she can shoot herself off the couch or into a wall if she gets a grip with her back claws. If she does it next to a wall, her head smacking into it sounds like someone is trying to break into the house. She doesn't wake up.

Later in the dream she injured her paw and was limping, and earlier she caught something and ate it.

[hollowedskin]

[catchymemes]

[lovesicklobotomy]

[metal-autistic-coven]

Happy pride month to him

[ode-on-a-grecian-butt]

art by Curtis Lanaghan

[danndesigns]

[violet-hady]

Okay, I am really obsessed with this joke. I literally reblog it every time I see it.

[cishetlessfashion]

Love triangle plots: ugh I like both of these people a lot, my feelings for them are equal and I don’t think I can choose between them

The general public: yes this is a completely relatable and plausible scenario

Polyamorous person: I love my partners equally and I couldn’t choose between them

The general public: sounds fake but ok

[polyampire]

[bestiolin]

lyn chao yu

[depsidase]

[sandersstudies]

Sick list of symptoms bro. Now try humanizing your behavior instead of pathologizing it.

[sandersstudies]

Pathologizing: Hey sorry I yelled at you. I have this ADHD symptom called RSD that makes me really sensitive.

Humanizing: Hey, I’m sorry that I blew up like that earlier. In the moment I felt really attacked and overwhelmed and I reacted badly, but I know you didn’t mean to offend me with what you said, so that behavior is on me.

[queer-asinfuckyou]

Because I just saw a post bitching about this one, I want to add: this post is saying that you need to take accountability for the way you hurt other people, even if it happens because of a symptom of your disability/illness. It's also saying that using terms (especially acronyms) that aren't common knowledge isn't a helpful way to explain yourself. It is NOT saying that you need to let people walk all over you because "your disability isn't an excuse."

If you're diabetic, you don't have to eat the honey glazed ham that will send you into a coma (their example). But you also can't yell at the person offering it and accuse them of trying to kill you. You can just say "thanks, but my body can't handle that kind of sugar intake, so I'll pass"

[ayin-me-yesh]

If you run over someone's foot with your wheelchair you still apologise

[anneemay]

[leighlew3]

[leighlew3]

IT'S THAT TIME OF YEAR

[lakevida]

i think its charming when peoples personal lives improve and they get drastically worse at posting

[argumate]

the fact that 0.999... = 1 regularly trips people up and it's interesting to explore why! you can see a recurring decimal as a string of syntax representing an arithmetic recipe for constructing a number, and people are obviously willing to accept that 3 - 2 = 1 or 0.1 * 10 = 1 etc. but those are all finite and people get weird about infinities.

an obvious question is whether 1/2 + 1/4 + 1/8 + 1/16 + ... = 1, because people find it easier to say that it does (what else could it be?) and then it's a short jump to ask whether 9/10 + 9/100 + 9/1000 + ... follows the same logic.

at that point people must either accept that the odometer-like reading of the decimal starting "0.999" misled them or double down and reject the existence of infinities entirely: after all even if an infinite series takes you arbitrarily close to one, doesn't that mean there's always still a gap?

it's tempting to define a decimal expansion that does not permit multiple ways of writing the same rational number, but that would probably end up much more inconvenient to use (consider 3 * 0.333...)

[urpriest]

I don't think this is actually what confuses people about this. Yes, these kinds of things come up when people try to justify their objections. But at baseline, I think what's more often going on is that people are unhappy with the idea that a number can have two different decimal expansions. They see the decimal expansion as a way to identify a number, not a description of a series you can sum to get the number, and the idea of a system that can represent a number in two different ways sounds unnecessarily messy.

[argumate]

yeah I think that's it, thinking of a decimal as being the number, without thinking through the deep implications of that ellipsis.

[adriftinhilbertspace]

just hit em with the "1/2 + 1/4 + 1/8 + ... is 0.111... in binary. same shit." and also hit them with a hammer for good measure

[pinniposting]

“get a job” nope im splashing in da pool

via

[deathwarlock]

meet me under the pier we are going beast mode

[b0chelly]

Poptart seems to want to be taken out in the mornings. She willingly crawled into my hands!