Oh goodness me, oh dear, oh fuck

@clumsyhusky06

art, perhaps. I make fanart and oc art. My brain is full of soooo many worms [any pronouns] [queue? draft? what does that mean] [art sideblog: @clumsy-mudpuppy]

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professionalchaoticdumbass

mimicry

months of art block vs a couple rocks who will win

#project hail mary

You could very easily use Tomodachi Life LTD as a basis for psychological horror. I'm genuinely surprised I haven't seen the idea explored lol

Me when I live on a tiny island in the sea and I'm distinctly aware that there is a god watching over me.

We talk sometimes (though I do most of the heavy lifting), and - if I'm lucky - they will lay their hands upon me. They have a name that somehow I always knew.

The god chooses everything; what I eat, what I wear, who my friends are. Every big decision requires omnipotent approval. The initial peace that came from carefree submission faded as quickly as it began, and suddenly I find myself paranoid even in the quiet moments of uneventful autonomy. Are they watching? Are they waiting? What will they do next?

And yet somehow, not another soul feels that dread. Because our omnipotence is kind for all they do. Our omnipotence is our friend, our caretaker. You should be grateful for the life you've been given here. Why are you scared? Why are you unhappy? Just smile and enjoy your dream life!

science has always been political. what gets studied. what doesnt. who gets to do the studying. on and on and on.

scientists on this post: yuuuup 👍

people who aren't scientists: um actually ☝️

derinthescarletpescatarian

I left research science for a multitude of personal reasons but a big one was that my autistic arse just could not keep up with the politics. Trying to increase your profile and your work's appeal for grant money (both critically important factors for succeeding in science) by carefully tailoring your work focus, grant proposals and papers to attract the interest of various grant committees focused on what research is in fashion and also to try to maximise the number of references to your papers in other people's papers takes so much time and just isn't interesting.

derinthescarletpescatarian

People in the notes are all like "yes sometimes The Government or The Lobbyists remove funding from sciences that might reveal things that they do not want known" and yes yes covid and climate change and vaccine denialism and racism and all that, but it's not just the obvious stuff. When I was working in labs, metagenomics was the next big thing, so EVERYTHING was metagenomics. If you worked in environmental or medical microbio, there was an 80% chance that you were taking some mud or poop or something and doing metagenomics on it whether or not it was the best way to analyse what you wanted to analyse, and bam, that was a paper, possibly two, it kept the lights on. And if 100 labs run 100 experiments where they do metagenomics for random things to do with the human body, then at a 95% confidence interval, 5 of them will find a completely nonexistent correlation for any random thing you can think of if they happen to check their data for it, and they need to keep the lights on and the PhD student who's running the experiment needs a paper so even though that wasn't what they were looking for, bam -- everyone's seeing that men and women have different microbiomes in their large intestine! People with autism nave different microbiomes, people with MS have different microbiomes, kids who are vaccinated have different microbiomes so watch out! And there's not enough papers to do a review paper for six or seven years, and when that review paper is done only other scientists will read it, because Everyone Knows that vaccines alter your microbiome so stay away from them, and Everyone Knows that men and women are so so different because why else would their large intestines be so different? Look at this paper!

And the psych guys are doing MRIs because that's the Next Big Thing, and any bias culturally relevant enough will get positive papers for it because the 100 labs will check their 100 papers and the 95 that show no difference at 95% confidence are of course never published because there's nothing to say. And the medicine guys are running ten thousand seaweed extract experiments to kill cancer cells, and their confidence intervals do tend to be better, but there is no defense against an industry where the only way to survive is to publish and the only way to get funding is to look into something that the grant committee wants you to find something interesting about, and you'd better find that something interesting even if you kind of have to publish your study before repeating it to check for that confidence interval -- someone else will repeat it, or you will once the paper's out, but you've got to get the paper out. And that paper had better be useful for other scientists to reference, even if you have to change the tone and the implications and choose which results are worth referencing, because getting more references is how you keep your job and how you convince the next grant committee.

Big Bad Government Lies About Covid is a problem, but it's not the problem. A perfect government with a massive science budget does not solve the problem. The system of research is inherently political because it is inherently competitive and because it deals with numbers and statistics that are not intuitive to humans.

it’s actually quite easy to take over a small local government group if you really want to, bc if you volunteer consistently people will just put you in charge of whatever. I’m now one of like three people at a nature preserve making official decisions about trails, events, putting in a prairie, and designing a series of illustrations for a storybook trail etc., and it’s just because last summer I started coming over once a week to help the naturalist out for a couple hours. Mine now. you too can steal an organization and shape it to your will 🫵

strawberry-fairy-girl

I spent an hour making none pizza with left beef in tomodachi life

storybookprincess

being sick & miserable objectively sucks, but it has become significantly easier to cope with since learning that “sickness behavior” is a well documented part of the body’s immune response

feeling not only physically but also emotionally like fucking garbage is unfortunately an extremely effective way to force your body to prioritize fighting infection & keeping you alive. i don’t have to like it, but knowing why i get weepy & pathetic when sick does help at least a little

i just found out that this is not common knowledge and am reblogging so more people know

YOUR BODY DOES THIS ON PURPOSE

YOU ARE NOT A BAD PERSON BECAUSE OR "WEAK" WHEN YOU ARE SICK IF YOU CAN"T CARRY ON AS NORMAL

orangeocelotmartyn

Bdubs: Let this be a lesson. Not to-- do alcohol. (everyone laughs) Oli: (without the mic) And to stay celibate as well--(Bdubs puts the mic in his face) And to stay celibate. Tango: (without a mic) Sobriety, and (Bdubs puts the mic in his face) celibacy. Bdubs: Yes, yes, yes.

Guy who never feels like his problems are “bad enough” to be taken seriously: what if I hurt the character so horrifically that everyone around them could not possibly deny the severity of their pain even if the character themself tries to downplay it.

oh my god I just realized this is the year people will stop being born and stop aging and stop dying

trippin-on-apple

Something is terribly wrong. Something is terribly wrong. Something is terribly wrong. Something is terribly wrong.

can you believe it guys? 17776! just a week away!

In front of you are 11 doors, and a box. You can only open one, each leading you to a different prize (or in this case a to a randomized website or music video link). Which are you picking?

Door 1

Blue door 2

Revolving door 3

Thick door 4

Door 5

Cat door 6

Slanted door 7

Backwards door 8

Second backwards door 9

Dog door 10

Clown themed door 11

BOX!

Voting ended onApr 8

Links below!

Absolutely delighted by the reblog to likes ratio on this

chilipepperconverse

posts i can only make today

teethf

omegaversereloaded

i love this video so much one time i got high and watched it on a loop and it made me cry

the whole eeby deeby superhell horse plinko blorbo era of tumblr is & was a bit frustrating for me bcos i was Online enough to watch the whole thing percolate and as a result was often stuck explaining to less Online people what in the world was going on AND also pretty routinely see people be wrong about where all the Parts came from

remember once explaining where 'I'm bald' as a tumblr poll option came from and having someone be like 'oh I actually think people started saying it bcos xyz' and having to be like no you are wrong. i have done the research & have sources.

here's the low down on 'I'm bald':

was your hair a different color when you were little? yes, lighter yes, darker no i don't know / i'm bald / any other miscellaneous infinite

^ this is the original poll. it only got about 1800 votes. OP has moved blogs so I don't have the source on this anymore but they made some follow up posts explaining that they worded the final answer that way bcos they'd had some people complain about a previous poll they made on a different subject being insufficiently inclusive and they wanted to make sure all bases were covered. this is also presumably why it has an exasperated tone to it.

if you think you remember seeing and voting in the OG poll you probably didn't, just statistically.

me when someone asks me literally anything:

^ somebody thought the wording was funny and posted a screencap with a caption. THAT post has just under 70,000 notes and counting.

people agreed that the way it was worded was funny & start applying it to various fictional bald people

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& also people begin using 'I'm bald' as an alternative to 'not applicable' on polls.

#I felt like this when people didn't know goncharov came from the boots.#some people started saying it was collectively made up by tumblr users and didn't have a known origin. no it was the knockoff boots!

YEAH ppl will confuse 'I'm not sure where this came from' with 'people just randomly started saying this'

especially frustrating with Goncharov bcos it didn't just blow up when it did at random either. it blew up bcos tumblr user beelzeebub made a poster:

💬 0 🔁 60080 ❤️ 75389 · Goncharov (1973) dir. Martin Scorsese “The greatest mafia movie (n)ever made.”

the Goncharov one does particularly annoy me bcos with the arguable exception of Goncharov himself all the characters people were memeing about (Katya, Andrey, Ice Pick Joe) were beelzeebub's OCs and yet most people don't seem to be aware of their influence.

can't blame people for just not being very online obviously but there is Something here with regards to people viewing meme cultural as this kind of self-generating content soup rather than something individual creators contribute to.

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