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[xplainthexmen]

After deciding in advance not to do so, I ended up making a whole batch of 2019 X-Men Valentines.

Use at your discretion.

Love, Jay

[chemangel314]

And here I thought the science Valentines would be the best thing I saw this season!

[tobeagenius]

valentines day for nerds pt.2 (pt.1)

[brainsx]

I love my followers.

[chemangel314]

This never gets old!

[bibliotheque-la-nature]

[chemangel314]

Perfect! 

[aestheticalspace]

Basically how 3-D glasses work

(unrelated)

[chemangel314]

Amazing!

[bibliotheque-la-nature]

[chemangel314]

Why does this picture make me so Happy!

[doc-dastardly]

12 + Working Class Hero

[chemangel314]

Someone call the Doctor!

[midnightmystical]

This is the only day you can reblog this ever

[chemangel314]

I love numbers!

[punkconcert]

John Mulaney, a true ADHD icon

[somewhat-honest-abe]

I love how he gave this bit at an autism benefit because it is also a heavy Autism Mood™

[gh0sthoodie]

This is the most relatable thing I’ve ever seen.

[vulpeculavolans]

TRANSCRIPT:

JOHN MULANEY: I normally don’t notice people. I zone out constantly. Have you ever zoned out for a few minutes? I’ve been zoned out since 2014.

AUDEINCE LAUGHS

MULANEY: I just - all day long, I wander into traffic walking like Charlie Chaplin, listening to a podcast while thinking about a different podcast. 

AUDIENCE LAUGHS

MULANEY: I can zone out anywhere - I was at the doctor’s office, he was reading me the results of a blood test, it was important I listened, and I zoned out! I was like, “nah, I’m gonna stare at the wall and think my thoughts”.

AUDIENCE MEMBER WHOOPS

MULANEY: I was like, “huh. None of the Beatles had moustaches… but then one day, all of them had moustaches.”

AUDIENCE LAUGHS

MULANEY: “That’s weird, I can’t think of a time a group has done that”. Some people in my life don’t want me to zone out as much - they want me to focus, and they want me to be in the moment, and they want me to do this by meditating. I don’t know if you’ve ever tried meditating, but I’ve been trying it. This is how you meditate, okay? You sit on the floor with your back perfectly straight, which I hate more than ISIS -

AUDIENCE LAUGHS

MULANEY: I don’t like sitting up straight! Alright?! It’s never gonna happen! If meditating was sitting hunched over on the toilet with your elbow on your knee while kind of looking at your phone, I’d be the Dalai Lama.  

AUDIENCE LAUGHS/APPLAUDS

MULANEY: I don’t like sitting up straight. So you sit up straight, and you breathe, and this helps you stay in the moment. Don’t bother! The moment is mediocre at best!

AUDIENCE LAUGHS

MULANEY: I mean, it’s fine. Let’s all try right now - let’s all be in the moment, in silence, right now. [A HALF-SECOND PAUSE] Sucked, right? Not fun at all! 

AUDIENCE LAUGHS

MULANEY: That was boring! You gotta zone out! You have an imagination! You have a movie theatre in your brain that plays fake arguments that you win.

AUDIENCE LAUGHS/APPLAUDS

MULANEY: Have you ever just been sitting there thinking about something for twenty, twenty-five minutes, and all of a sudden you’re like “oh my god, I’m driving!” and you remember? You’re like -

AUDIENCE LAUGHS

MULANEY: “I’m going seventy-five miles an hour! I have been for a while! I could’ve changed so many lives!” Sometimes, my wife - I have this wife - she’ll be like, “are you watching the road?” and I’m always like, “I am looking through the windshield.”

AUDIENCE LAUGHS

MULANEY: “And I’m not gonna hit anyone, but no. I’m thinking about the Beatles.”

[whatsitnot]

Hey @vulpeculavolans added a transcript to this AND THAT IS SO AWESOME THANK YOU SO MUCH!

[chemangel314]

That part "if meditation was sitting hunched over on the toilet ... i'd be the Dali llama." I nearly died, I am currently sitting on the toilet, exactly as described!

[quotemadness]

“I read so I can live more than one life in more than one place.”

— Anne Tyler (via quotemadness)

[autismtypes]

Autism Type #1305

Squirrel autism

[chemangel314]

Squirrel!

[thewriterkb]

The day the innocence of the space race ended. 

On January 28 1986, Space Shuttle Challenger broke apart over the Atlantic Ocean.

Thank you to: Francis Scobee, Michael Smith, Ronald McNair, Ellison Onizuka, Judith Resnik, Gregory Jarvis and Christa McAuliffe

[chemangel314]

History is so important, never forget

[neurodivergentrebel]

What is Autism? from an Autistic Adult

What is Autism? from an Autistic Adult -Many autistic people will be diagnosed in early childhood, however, it is likely that just as many autistic people may go unrecognized for many years…

I’m trying some new mediums to publish my work. Even if you don’t subscribe to my Patreon page, please do still follow me on Patron because, in addition to the exclusive subscriber content, I do create public content there too.

New Public Post up now.

Autism is defined by social communication differences and a tendency towards, what is often referred to my medical professionals as, “restricted,…

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[chemangel314]

Beautifully expressed! I wish I had your skill with the written word.

[rejectedprincesses]

Nancy Wake: the White Mouse (1912-2011) – Part One

So I’m doing something a little different for this entry. Instead of doing this breezy info-comic style, I’m doing a full-on graphic novel-length comic on the life of Nancy Wake. I’ll be releasing it in installments, divided out into different chapters of her life, as I complete it.

As it stands, I plan for this to be the last RP entry I do, at least for a long while. I’ve been doing this for five years now – when I started, there was almost nobody else doing this sort of work. But now, if I stop for a bit, there will be others carrying the torch.

I don’t plan on just slinking off into the ether. There’s other projects I want to be doing, which I’ve been putting together (which explains the slow posting rate here). I’ll be announcing those near the completion of the Nancy Wake story.

Thank you for reading, and I hope you’ll enjoy Nancy’s story. It’s truly incredible.

Art notes and whatnot will be up later today or tomorrow – I still haven’t finished the poster image for this yet.

[yourfaveisautisticdaily]

Bless y’all who go into the replies of these posts and defend the headcannons, even if I don’t reply I see y’all and I appreciate y’all. 

let 👏 people 👏 headcannon 👏what 👏 they 👏 want 👏

[chemangel314]

People talk about representation all the time and as someone who doesn't identify with the characters that NT people tell me I should identify with I feel like headcanon is basically deciding for yourself what character represents your experience best.

[exclusively-positive-press]

This lamp absorbs 150 times more CO2 than a tree

It’s still in the “so crazy it just might work” stage, but these microalgae-powered lamps, invented by French biochemist Pierre Calleja, could absorb a ton of carbon from the air every year. That’s as much as 150 to 200 trees. [x]

[cal-is-a-cuddlefish]

NEAT

[gelunnucifera]

YOU DON’T UNDERSTAND. This is ingenious.

The design is a light bulb surrounded by a glass casing. The glass is filled with (water based) media and microalgae. The top is permeable to gasses so that gas exchange can occur. All of the wiring is linked to the grid underground.

Since the light source is inside, it gets scattered and “dimmed” by the water and algae. This makes it less glaringly bright and scatters the light wider, which is good for a street light. It is not longer white light as well, which helps make it easier on the eyes while still providing light.

At the same time, it provides the light for photosynthesis in the algae, so they are continuously exchanging CO2 for O2, not just in the day. It also provides a source of heat, which helps keep the algae from going dormant during cold weather (as in the snowy picture above).

And notice how I did not specify permeability - that’s because NOx’s (NO and NO2) are also permeable and can be used as nitrogen sources to microalgae. In fact, algae are relatively low maintenance. As autotrophs, they don’t require super complex media, not does it really need to be changed/added to. (I’m actually fairly certain that there would still be algae in these tanks a year later; it may need to be cleaned or something, but there would be some living algae.)

[partlysmith]

solar punk sensibilities with cyber punk aesthetic

[century-of-the-fruitbat]

Swamplamp

[chemangel314]

Science! I love this idea, we should all keep our minds open to new ideas that is how we move into the future.

[yourfaveisautisticdaily]

thegirlwhocouldntread replied to your photo “Your Fave is Autistic:  Matthew Murdock from Daredevil ”

@mephistopheles08 no you can’t. 1. Headcanon 2. Show me the comic that explicitly states he isn’t?

👏👏👏

[chemangel314]

Headcanon is so important!

[cenchempics]

Eternal flame

In the frozen woods of western New York state, light shimmers from inside a grotto at Eternal Flame Falls. Even in winter after the waterfall ices over, visitors can ignite this natural gas seepage coming from the rock formation below the falls and watch the flame emerge again. Eternal Flame Falls stands out among other natural flames because it’s so close to a running waterfall. Also, the content of the natural gas it emits is different—it is unusually high in ethane and propane. The two compounds make up 35% of Eternal Flame Falls’ gas, which stands in contrast to the 5–10% ethane and propane and about 90% methane in typical natural gas from other sites. The gas content at different sites can depend on the organisms that lived there millions of years ago and on the bacteria living in the wells today that can digest and convert gases into other compounds.

Credit: Outside Chronicles via YouTube

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[chemangel314]

Amazing, I want to go visit this site now!