[darkandstormyranger]

finally some relatable content on ig

[litterofbiscuit]

its interesting being a weird autistic tranny as a kid and letting yourself get accustomed to the idea that youre just some magically antisocial loser who is "introverted" and is happy being alone and then you grow up and realize that actually you love being social you love hugs you love going out and hate being alone you just hated all of the social opportunities available to you growing up so much you let yourself romanticize solitude as a slightly less miserable state than interacting with people

[straycatj]

your cat kind of looks like my cat!

Oh, far cousin

[localpubliclibrary]

Man no one even remembers laptop in bed. It was laptop in bed for years. Now it's just phone in bed. Maybe tablet. But usually phone. So much has changed

[cottoncandylesbo]

my pet cloud got off-leash again and it struck the neighbor's cat with lightning, now theyre all mad and shit as if its my fault. i punished my cloud with three hundred gorilla punches. none of them landed. im a bad owner a bad bad owner

[redstonedust]

its probably a normal sign for the economy that all of my adulthood fantasies are like "imagine having your own kitchen living room and bathroom to decorate" "what if i could get on a train" "maybe one day i could purchase a sturdy pair of shoes" "i should save and invest in a single bicycle"

[punishedsaints]

[amuseoffyre]

One of my favourite photos from my trip to Warsaw in 2006

[jareckiworld]

Julio Le Parc (23 September 1928 – 30 May 2026) — "Modulation 542" [oil on canvas, 1982]

[okapiaconcolor]

By hedera.baltica from Wrocław, Poland - Jackdaws, CC BY-SA 2.0, Link

my redbubble shop || request posts/tip me on ko-fi

[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

[gheckoe]

both the graphic’s title and delicatefury’s comment are misleading.

quote from the sciencedaily article linked above (emphasis mine):

“The researchers emphasize that this does not mean microplastics are not a real problem.

“We may be overestimating microplastics, but there should be none,” said McNeil, senior author of the study and U-M professor of chemistry, macromolecular science and engineering, and the Program in the Environment. “There’s still a lot out there, and that’s the problem.”

Clough added, “As microplastic researchers looking for microplastics in the environment, we’re searching for the needle in the haystack, but there really shouldn’t be a needle to begin with.“”

the gloves are not “the” source (they are the source of stearates, which are mistaken for microplastics) and microplastics still exist in the world (they’re not just stearates in sterile labs getting misidentified as a problem that doesn’t exist), just at a way smaller magnitude than previously thought. this is good news, but microplastics are not a non-issue.

[creekfiend]

oh absolutely. i thought it was implied that this didn’t mean that microplastics were not a problem at all, just that we actually don’t have accurate information about the scale, due to the glove situation. never hurts to be clear though.

[ask-pacman]

do you even care about pacman and his accomplishments or are you just some toy that looks like him

Hey once you're done drinking that bottle of Safeway pinochet you should try hitting your head with it til your life departs you

[perriaeyjeve]

[64mpg]

i’m on onion rings right now

[64mpg]

get me my keys NOW

[ooppo]

The beginning of the end for every digital artist

[esthermika]

many girls deserve to be plushie. they deserve to be small and be held in the arms of someone who loves and they deserve to be gently squeezed and nuzzled under the soft and warm covers.

[puppetstar]

maybe you're getting banned for being a weird freak fantasizing about rape. I mean thats why *i* reported you! you deserve what youre getting fr

rape fetish? thats what you're mad about? girl that is one of the most tame things it posts about fjfnfjnf

[tamamoland-with-a-gun]

let's not gloss over how anon here is just straight-up openly admitting to making false reports

[tamamoland-with-a-gun]

and let's not gloss over how tumblr will act on those false reports regardless without so much as a warning