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Six point nine seconds of heat and light. Let’s call a meeting to analyze the blur. Let’s devote our lives to understanding this moment, separating the elements of each crowded second. We will build theories that gleam like jade idols, intriguing systems of assumption, four-faced, graceful. We will follow the bullet trajectories backwards to the lives that occupy the shadows, actual men who moan in their dreams. Elm Street. A woman wonders why she is sitting on the grass, bloodspray all around. Tenth Street. A witness leaves her shoes on the hood of a bleeding policeman’s car. A strangeness, Branch feels, that is almost holy. There is much here that is holy, an aberration in the heartland of the real.

[dipnomorpha]

꩜ 25. molecular biologist. i like alex g, sci fi novels, film photography, and crossword puzzles

꩜ flight rising blog: @muckbottomcatfish

[dailyclassicart]

Vincent van Gogh - "Field with Poppies" (1889)

[itskennyphreshh]

Dino and Roberto Falcone’s asymmetrical watch inspired by Dali's ‘Persistence of Memory’

[dipnomorpha]

california election results actually about to put me in the fucking earth

[kaylmao]

has anyone seen my pet bacteriophage its name is styrofoam and its about [hand touching the floor] this tall

[389]

by Kim Jongsook

[lupinepixie]

[dipnomorpha]

looked up a show im watching to see if there was any cool fanart and it was all shipping content for pairs i would genuinely just never consider on my own idk i think im getting old

[homunculus-argument]

The human body's response to HRT is actually admirable in the sheer indifference. Just pure I Don't Give A Shit, I Just Fucking Work Here compliance to the new instructions. You can get testosterone injected straight into your body and it doesn't even question where that shit came from, coming back from a coffee break and just going

"Okay, everything seems to be in ord- oh fuck now what? Oh huh. Alright fine. New orders came in, cancel the menstrual cycle. Dig up the genetic balding patterns from somewhere, I don't fucking know they're buried somewhere in the dna. I'm greenlighting the growing-hair-on-your-toes thing. Yeah just cancel the ongoing maintenance processes, new orders came in so this is apparently what we're doing now."

[tanadrin]

genuinely i think a big problem with science education is we spend too much time in high school telling students DNA is like, the Magical Essence of an Organism.

dna is mostly just instructions for building proteins, and not very persuasive ones at that. it sits in the nucleus of the cell, and what happens after RNA transcription isn't any of its business. this is a good thing! it means we can override it sometimes when we need to (and when we know how). but a lot of rhetoric around DNA (and therefore gender and sex and morphological freedom in general) treats it like this Platonic sorcery that must be obeyed, lest we incur the wrath of the gods. and it's nothing so special!

[knifeofvenus]

inbeautmag

[yellbug]

one really really really funny thing you realize when you are studying history is that people pretty much always desperately wanted to post online and would have been soooooo fucking crazy on here. i wish hildegard of bingen was oomf

[formlab]

Telefunken don O, Designed by Philppe Starck, 1990

[water-aesthetics]

[documentary-surrealist]

The Mäusebunker (Mouse Bunker) in Berlin, Germany, was a notorious 1970s Brutalist animal testing facility. Designed to resemble a battleship, it served as a hardened research laboratory for decades, housing thousands of rodents. The building was listed as a heritage site in 2023. via: google overview

[lleyksie]

swans in love

[enki2]

[sealsdaily]

Today's Seals Are: Smack The Baby