I just got described as an "ad hating commie" by someone because I said a minute of youtube ads is unpleasant. fully spent 5 minutes arguing and defending youtube ads. insane stuff
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I just got described as an "ad hating commie" by someone because I said a minute of youtube ads is unpleasant. fully spent 5 minutes arguing and defending youtube ads. insane stuff
reblog if you are an ad hating commie
The old world is dying. The new world had that thing happen where the umbilical cord gets caught around the neck as it's coming out, yuuuurk, no new world either. So it's basically just gonna be monsters forever
And for the last time, you can't fuck the monsters. They aren't the kind of monsters you can fuck
Had it with all this bullshit grimdark worldbuilding just for the sake of edginess with nothing to actually say. I'm going to fuck the monsters.
Listen, buddy, I get it when it's monstrosity-as-a-marker-of-marginalization or it's a, a commentary on arbitrary constructions of beauty standards or whatever. That's one type of monster, that's fine. Very fuckable type of monster. But we're talking about, like, the metaphysical worldly manifestations of imperialist warmongering and rapacious depletion of the environment and systemic racism and shit like that. And I mean it's obviously not conceptually impossible to eroticize all that, you see people doing it, but it's fraught, right? It's fraught. Thin Ice. And if you're gonna go there you can't be flippant about what you're doing, man. This shit affects people's lives in real, non-metaphorical ways. When I was at CVS I just saw three or four anthromorphic personifications of the concept of medical debt pulling a little old lady apart like a wishbone
okay what's going on here
sometimes the way humans use words actually makes me tear up a little
I never thought I would be siding with the pope’s involvement in politics and cheering him on. I will say that.
Guys did we all just like. forget. that this pope assigned a known child sex offender to live HALF A BLOCK FROM AN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. A priest who was not allowed to do parish work or be alone with minors because he has been credibly accused of raping 13 children. And Pope Leo sent him to live half a block from an elementary school. We should not be supporting this guy or siding with him.
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this post has been up for five hours and has two notes. i think tumblr shitcanned it because it has pictures of women wearing bras on it. very cool. no censorship message, just vanishing it
AHHHHHH someone put all the info from the now-extremely-hard-to-read, 10+ year old bra post into one nice infograph! THAT POST WAS MY BOOB BIBLE. Yay Boob New Testament!
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Oh, you like dogs? Even the ugly ones? That's weird.. I can't even look at dogs without feeling sick. I mean, of course I like dogs! I just want them as far away from me as possible. It's the dogs fault if it wanders into my house, of course I have to kill them. Dogs obviously know what houses are, it should know the house is mine. Hey did you see that video of the little machine someone made that rips dogs legs off? That's so funny haha. What? Don't be so sensitive! Killing dogs doesn't matter anyway, it's not like they're even real animals. They don't feel anything. I kill dogs all the time, I mean some of them deserve it! Some dogs are just evil. Honestly if I could make some dogs go extinct I would. Why should they be alive if they're so ugly and annoying? They don't even do anything. You really like dogs? There must be something wrong with you.
This post is about bugs.
Oh my goddddd shut the fuck uppppp shut upppp you're annoyingggg *FART WITH REVERB*
you actually don't have to hand it to the catholic church ever, like under any circumstances
"heehoo chicago man beefing with trump!!!" okay. I hope they both explode
I think some of you had too much fun making memes about Conclave and forgot about the genocide and colonialism and imperialism and misogyny and homophobia and transphobia and
I hate trump too but this is who you're cheering for
Also, before anyone says some shit about how that was a long time ago and the current Pope didn't have anything to do with how the Catholic Church has acted in the past:
Prevost is Pope Leo XIV. The Chicago man. He allowed a child molester to live in his order, which was half a block from an elementary school. Again: this guy let a known child molester, who had been banned from parish work and being alone with children because he was a known child molester, move into a friary that was less than a block from an elementary school.
You absolutely do not have to hand it to the Catholic Church or the current Pope under any circumstances.
(Text is from "Victims’ group alleges Pope Leo XIV mishandled sexual abuse cases involving priests in Chicago and Peru" by Bob Ortega and Rob Kuznia, CNN. Published May 2025)
He can't keep getting away with this 😮💨😮💨😮💨😮💨
If people don't stop suggesting this stuff he's going to accidentally become a wizard
I wonder where he gets all of those studded masks, they've gotta be just for this video right?? They're so unique??
I have been thinking a lot about what a cancer diagnosis used to mean. How in the ‘80s and ‘90s, when someone was diagnosed, my parents would gently prepare me for their death. That chemo and radiation and surgery just bought time, and over the age of fifty people would sometimes just. Skip it. For cost reasons, and for quality of life reasons. My grandmother was diagnosed in her early seventies and went directly into hospice for just under a year — palliative care only. And often, after diagnosis people and their families would go away — they’d cash out retirement or sell the house and go live on a beach for six months. Or they’d pay a charlatan all their savings to buy hope. People would get diagnosed, get very sick, leave, and then we’d hear that they died.
And then, at some point, the people who left started coming back.
It was the children first. The March of Dimes and Saint Jude set up programs and my town would do spaghetti fundraisers and raffles and meal trains to support the family and send the child and one parent to a hospital in the city — and the children came home. Their hair grew back. They went back to school. We were all trained to think of them as the angelic lost and they were turning into asshole teens right in front of our eyes. What a miracle, what a gift, how lucky we are that the odds for several children are in our favor!
Adults started leaving for a specific program to treat their specific cancer at a specific hospital or a specific research group. They’d stay in that city for 6-12 months and then they’d come home. We fully expected that they were still dying — or they’d gotten one of the good cancers. What a gift this year is for them, we’d think. How lucky they are to be strong enough to ski and swim and run. And then they didn’t stop — two decades later they haven’t stopped. Not all of them, but most of them.
We bought those extra hours and months and years. We paid for time with our taxes. Scientists found ways for treatment to be less terrible, less poisonous, and a thousand times more effective.
And now, when a friend was diagnosed, the five year survival odds were 95%. My friend is alive, nearly five years later. Those kids who miraculously survived are alive. The adults who beat the odds are still alive. I grew up in a place small enough that you can see the losses. And now, the hospital in my tiny hometown can effectively treat many cancers. Most people don’t have to go away for treatment. They said we could never cure cancer, as it were, but we can cure a lot of cancers. We can diagnose a lot of cancers early enough to treat them with minor interventions. We can prevent a lot of cancers.
We could keep doing that. We could continue to fund research into other heartbreaks — into Long Covid and MCAS and psych meds with fewer side effects and dementia treatments. We could buy months and years, alleviate the suffering of our neighbors. That is what funding health research buys: time and ease.
Anyway, I’m preaching to the choir here. But it is a quiet miracle what’s happened in my lifetime.
Cystic fibrosis used to be a "disease of childhood" because people who had it rarely lived to be adults. Now it's considered a chronic illness.
I know I'm saying this as someone who's career largely depends on this, but: please, this is why we need basic science research. If you ever see a headline or snippet about something "ridiculous" that scientists are doing, you are being propagandized. You are being lied to. And it's in a way that aims to stop this progress.
To expand on this, we so genuinely have no fucking clue where some research will lead.
Back in the 60s, a team got some funding to research the extremophile bacteria living in the hot springs in Yellowstone National Park. Among the organisms they described was Thermus aquaticus.
Okay, who cares? That bacteria lives in hot springs. You let it get below 122°F/50°C? It just dies. It just hangs out in scalding hot water and maybe trades molecules with some cyanobacteria or something. Kinda neat, but was it really worth our tax dollars to send these people on a field trip to a national park?
A few decades later, another researcher used one of the enzymes isolated from that bacteria to develop a process called Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR).
Before PCR, if you wanted to make a bunch of copies of a given DNA sequence, you needed a team of experts and weeks of hard work. You needed to grow a whole bunch of cells and do a bunch of chemistry at them and there was still a high probability of failure.
With PCR, any jackass with a bachelor's degree can just pipette a barely-visible volume of colorless liquid into a lil tube with some other colorless liquid, throw it in the beige science box, and have the sequence of interest copied millions of times over in an hour or two. (Source: I'm a jackass with a bachelor's degree and I've done PCR on tens of thousands of specimens)
PCR is an absolutely critical tool in the molecular biology toolkit. Many assays for cancers and genetic diseases depend on it. It's a powerful tool for quickly detecting certain infectious diseases. It's how you find out if you really are the daddy. I'm not even going to start scratching the surface on how important it is in many areas of research. It's a magnificent technique that has dozens of variants to suit all kinds of niche applications.
So yeah, that goofy study about some shit that you think is a huge waste of time and money? You could be right, it might lead to a paper getting published that only matters to a handful of people in a super niche field.
Or it could completely revolutionize the world in ways that we never could have expected.
It's impossible to know, so we need to pay these people to levitate a frog or whatever and see what comes of it.
Biology is not my field. But I do know a bunch of folks in biotech. One of them helped develop a type of chemotherapy using the soil around a 500-year-old castle in Italy. Another one spent half her undergrad running experiments breeding zebra fish that have led to a half dozen discoveries in gene expression and how diseases are passed on. Last time I did a bio required course, we learned in depth how PCR works and why it’s so vital and we did, in fact, learn how and why it was invented (because one of our guest lecturers was involved, I forget at which stage.)
This kind of thing is vital to continuing science. Canceling “stupid” projects now, because we’re not interested in taking the long view as a society, is shooting ourselves in the foot and assuming it’ll be fine, because it was just a BB gun, right? But then you’re limping and the wound festers and you start moving slower and slower and you pick out the shot from the wound but infection has already set in and then you either lose the foot or die. Maybe you made it a bit further down the road than when you first shot your foot, but you weren’t able to keep going. That’s what killing basic research does.
"and the stars look very different today..."
your ex is a narcissist? so he must struggle with close friendships, right--oh, he's respectful to his male friends? he only acts this way around women? that's crazy, they should invent a word for such a phenomenon
This has officially entered the household lexicon, my wife and I now yell "Mrs Higgins the Wendy's is here!!!!!!!" whenever we give our Ancient and Deaf dog her dinner, lol
My friend just sent this in the group chat, we got the new gay or European 2026 update
A rigorous diagnostic. 15 questions. One uncomfortable truth.
okay.
I got the reverse
Shut Up, I Don’t Care
Oh I hate this so much, incredible job OP