The Inspiratorium of Dr. Liquid

[memequeen-official]

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[genericalosers]

[lizbukchoy]

[sophisticatedoyster]

[bonedwoo]

[wearepaladin]

The Red Knight by AmiThompson_h

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[heartnosekid]

sunshine vampire crab (geosesarma dennerle) | william.exotique on ig

[serenaci]

last "vent" comic... i want to keep moving forward, so let's all keep doing our best! 💗

[blackpyrefly]

makes your puppy dusty

[himborc]

ahh fuck!!!!! my puppy!!!!!

[mudwerks]

(via Cedar Tree after a storm in Central Kansas yesterday : pics)

[kuropin]

Elden ring girls

[feotakahari]

Some of these girls are just the poorest little meow meows.

[toastyglow]

I have a thing to get to but had to get this out real quick

[gudgurkan]

Here’s a ⭐️ tutorial ⭐️ on my approach to drawing armor!

[constantinnen]

[wandering-wanttoeat]

[leona-florianova]

Trigun mspaint sketches for mspaint event

also

[peashooter85]

English smallsword with blued steel hilt, 18th century

from Sofe Design Auction

[bitchfitch]

idk if im actually any good at character concepts and design but my number one Hot Tip for rapid character creation is to start with something basic and then greeble that shit until it's interesting and hashtag deep feeling

[bogleech]

I feel like this is one of those sentiments that could be controversial in ways I can't predict but I think the concept of "tone" in social interaction is bad and useless altogether. Maybe it makes sense to people who only know like-minded neurotypicals but it should not be possible for the same words in the same situation to feel either friendly or aggressive. Sometimes someone is clearly angry or sad by their tone but the degree to which people interpret nothing but the pitch of someone's voice during a statement feels arbitrary and a little freaky to me. And sometimes someone sounds angry only because their comfortable conversational tone is that different anyway.

The fact that people apply this to typing in judgmental ways can be even more fucked up. How can just the wordiness of text suddenly sound mean ??!

[soulvomit]

...because it's actually about heirarchy. How you are perceived in relationship to the policer's sense of authority or prestige, and how much they control the social frame.

The person in charge or the queen bee gets to use whatever tone they like. You don't.

[fierceawakening]

I don’t know. I used to assume that if other ND people spoke in a tone I disliked, the problem had to be with me.

But recently, I blocked a lot of people because I just couldn’t handle worrying about seeing their replies and pretzeling myself into thinking I must be imagining rudeness, and… when I did, several other ND people who I parse as friendly and kind said “oh thank god, we’ve been hoping you’d stop putting up with that jerk FOREVER.”

In my experience, “don’t say anything about my tone” is much more often code for “I know I’m being mean, but with this exploit I get at least three weeks of you putting up with me” than it is code for “hey, I’m autistic.”

[earlgraytay]

as a Confirmed Autist: I think that tone is a channel for relaying conversational information, and like any other way of relaying information, sometimes it goes funky.

tone conveys to your conversational partner how you feel about what they're telling them. Are you passionately interested? Are you sad? are you angry? do you hate the person you're talking to? do you not care about what's being discussed and want the conversation to be over? etc. etc. etc.

and like any channel of relaying information, there's a lot of ways that information can be incorrectly encoded, decoded, or interpreted. like someone mentioned upthread- if you're talking to someone who has social power over you, they may decide to deliberately misinterpret your tone. if you're talking to someone who hates you in a bastard-eating-crackers way, they might interpret anything you say as being assholish/condescending. if you're neurodivergent and talking to a neurotypical person, you might not have 'encoded' your tone in a way they can understand. and so on, and so on, and so on.

but uh. how do i put this. just because it's hard for a lot of people to correctly encode or interpret a certain kind of information, doesn't mean that information doesn't exist. In the same way that, like, even if your monitor can only display 256 colours, there's a whole palette of colours that you can't see- even if you can't see the tone you're indicating, you are sending that information to other people.

and .... it's deeply worrying when someone tells you to ignore information. it is definitely a very, very red flag. you know?

[bogleech]

Some of the replies are kind of losing me honestly, like I'm not 100% sure we're all even talking about the same thing? The context is that I know people who are accused of being cold because their voices are flat or they speak very technically, or people treated like they're rude and scary because they speak abruptly or loudly.

And my own problem, for the record, is that I have difficulty sounding assertive or even serious about anything. New people can't always tell if I care strongly about something, positively or negatively, because they think I always just sound mild and calm across the board.

[s-n-arly]

Skip Google for Research

As Google has worked to overtake the internet, its search algorithm has not just gotten worse.  It has been designed to prioritize advertisers and popular pages often times excluding pages and content that better matches your search terms 

As a writer in need of information for my stories, I find this unacceptable.  As a proponent of availability of information so the populace can actually educate itself, it is unforgivable.

Below is a concise list of useful research sites compiled by Edward Clark over on Facebook. I was familiar with some, but not all of these.

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Google is so powerful that it “hides” other search systems from us. We just don’t know the existence of most of them. Meanwhile, there are still a huge number of excellent searchers in the world who specialize in books, science, other smart information. Keep a list of sites you never heard of.

www.refseek.com - Academic Resource Search. More than a billion sources: encyclopedia, monographies, magazines.

www.worldcat.org - a search for the contents of 20 thousand worldwide libraries. Find out where lies the nearest rare book you need.

https://link.springer.com - access to more than 10 million scientific documents: books, articles, research protocols.

www.bioline.org.br is a library of scientific bioscience journals published in developing countries.

http://repec.org - volunteers from 102 countries have collected almost 4 million publications on economics and related science.

www.science.gov is an American state search engine on 2200+ scientific sites. More than 200 million articles are indexed.

www.pdfdrive.com is the largest website for free download of books in PDF format. Claiming over 225 million names.

www.base-search.net is one of the most powerful researches on academic studies texts. More than 100 million scientific documents, 70% of them are free