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she/her •aroace • audhd • teen

[dustybookcover]

♡ intro post ♡

❝It's just like the novels; side characters end up alone.❜❜ 

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Hi! Welcome to my blog! I go by Isla, she/her

I'm ace as well as a minor, so please no nsfw content! You will be blocked!

I'm lesbian-oriented aroace and a cis girl! I'm fine with more masculine terms (e.g. bro or dude)

Transphobia, homophobia and other forms of bigotry will not be tolerated on this blog.

Expanding on that: there isn't necessarily a DNI for this blog since most people don't look at them, but please be nice! I tend to block people easily.

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Unfortunately, I will be deleting any donation asks. I am not in the position to donate money, and I don't have enough of a following for it to do much. Please do not send them!

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I am autistic & adhd and therefore may struggle with interacting with people. If I don't respond to a message or ask for a while, chances are I'm not quite sure how to respond or struggling to get myself to. It's nothing to do with you at all, I promise! Chances are I'll respond better to asks than messages :)

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Media I Like:

☆ Epic the musical

☆ House MD

☆ Riordanverse

☆ Beetlejuice

☆ Heathers

☆ Dear Evan Hansen

☆ Dead Poets' Society

☆ Sherlock & Co

☆ Hamilton

☆ A Good Girl's Guide to Murder

☆ Six the musical

☆ Brooklyn 99

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Hobbies:

☆ Crochet

☆ Guitar

☆ Reading

☆ Writing (not often)

☆ Knitting

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[view-from-up-here]

[bunhed]

queue this post when it’s your birthday and be surprise

[official-lucifers-child]

oh man, future-me is gonna be so surprised

[lobstabear]

To my 25 - 35 year olds, you've reached the age where people around you are starting to give up on themselves because they think it's too late. Don't let that energy rub off on you. It's not too late.

[knittingontheroad]

I became a tattoo artist at 49.

Married the love of my life at 50.

Got my Class A CDL at 59.

You've got time.

As long as you're breathing, you've got time.

[persbaderse]

before my egg cracked, i had noticed that trans people were often pro-accessibility and up-to-date on the needs of disabled people, but i hadn’t seen any inherent connection between the two (other than the obvious minority-looking-out-for-other-minority thing). but now that i’m trans and medically transitioning, and i have to constantly repeat myself while talking to doctors and nurses, and explain things about my own anatomy to medical staff who should already know this, and having every single problem i might have blamed on my “condition” so nothing i say is taken seriously, all of the sudden i have a little sneak peak into the life of someone who has to deal with this all the time. like shit bro, being disabled probably sucks ass, someone should do something about this

[persbaderse]

happy disability pride month, we all deserve autonomy and respect and access to medication

[homunculus-argument]

We need to isolate and start selectively breeding the plastic eating bacteria so we can optimise their efficiency, and then somehow splice their DNA into the gut bacteria of an obligate carnivore, so we can put it in our cats gut biomes so they'll finally be free of having to choose between whether they want to eat plastic or whether they want to live.

[deoxyribonucleicacids]

As a geneticist and microbiologist who has worked with plastic-degrading microbes briefly, this is theoretically possible. The most difficult parts would be finding a microbe that could take plastic in it's unaltered (or slightly stomach-acid degraded) form.

For my project, we were trying to identify microbes that could use partially treated plastic as a food source and break it down further. The carbon bonds in our daily plastics are really hard to get at and break, hence the bad degradation, so breaking some of those bonds through heat and chemicals first can help microbes get access to them. Once we identify a microbe that can do this, we could test giving them slightly less degraded plastic to live on until they develop a way to eat it and go until they either get back to normal plastic or hit a wall where the microbe can't progress anymore (which may be likely).

An alternative approach to breeding (although you don't 'breed' most microbes since they reproduce asexually but instead find strains with mutations that lead to desired changes) would be trying to predict an enzyme that could break the bonds in plastic, engineering it, and putting it in microbes to test if it works. On one hand it could overcome any natural halt selection has but would be initially harder to discover.

The best solution would probably be to find the microbe that can eat the partially degraded plastic, figure out what enzyme is doing the work, then see how the enzyme could be improved to work through plastic in its default state.

Once you have that, the next consideration would be what byproducts are created from eating plastic? Part of the project was hoping that the microbe that could eat plastic would produce a useful byproduct that could be harvested, as an unfortunate reality of our current world is that if it's not profitable it probably won't take hold. But if we wish to put this in a living organism, we need to make sure it won't produce a harmful byproduct, or if it does, then ensuring the organism can quickly turn it harmless before it builds up.

Once all of that is figured out, the next hardest thing would be ensuring that whatever gut microbe you put the plastic eating gene in continues to express it. Since plastic is so hard to use it would probably prefer to use any glucose lying around first, and if that runs out then switch to eating plastic. We could try removing its ability to eat glucose (or whatever other compounds it lives off of), but then it would be less competitive in the gut environment and would require a steady source of plastic in order to not die off.

Although, I assume cats (and some people) would not find that a challenge.

[homunculus-argument]

...holy shit.

the only research I did for this post was 30 seconds to double-check on wikipedia whether or not bacteria have DNA.

[spin-the-wheel-polls]

you have won a lifetime supply of this

How do you feel?

good!

I CAN SELL THIS AND GET RICH

im drowning in my supply help

Eh it's okay

BAD. VERY BAD

results/other

Remaining time: 5 days 3 hours

you would receive the supply once a month

the brand/type will vary so you could

you can sell the things you get/give them away but they will keep coming until you die

[i-am-bic]

"There's no platonic explanation for this" <-you need to be nicer to your friends. Right now

[peanut-jelly]

“but they kissed!” loser. i’m kissing my friends always. get better

[dustybookcover]

bought wool & the pattern to make the phm fox cardigan!!! gonna start tmr since i have loads of hw tonight im so excitedddd

[cheaphalloweencostume]

im trying to go to sleep but i cannotttttt stop thinking about this and laughing

[thestarsaredown]

Listen, we have to keep this thing circulating on the internet for at least another two decades, because I have to believe that one day that little girl will be grown enough to stumble upon it and She Will Explain

[holy-muffins]

We’ve made it 5 years folks

[knightshade86]

[brandneweyescd]

[girlblocker]

[urboymutual]

[hellygf]

[divorcegirl-deactivated20220819]

[gales-boyfriend]

[transdeans]

[madscientistenthusiast]

[testosteronetwunk]

[pisshandkerchief-deactivated202]

[random-chaos-thoughts]

Unrestrained summer fun

[ashbelero]

You just can’t get this kinda shit on any other platform.

[deervsheadlights]

spiritually, pre-launch grace is a twig to me. but the infinitely funnier option is that he has amassed gosling levels of brawn because he still frequently gets pissed off at his students and coworkers and his primary anger management strategy is gym. he can swallow it down but only for so long. and if his routine gets interrupted for whatever reason the other teaching staff will eventually notice and someone will pull him aside and go "hey not to be insensitive but youre being kind of a bitch. unrelated question, when was the last time you punched stuff recreationally?"

[fairycosmos]

its not immoral to be ugly its not immoral to be ugly its not immoral to be ugly

[panel2princess]

little miss echolalia would like to repeat what u just said

[flurgehbla]

little miss auditory processing disorder would like you to repeat what you just said

[teenage-disillusion-blog]

If someone ever tells you a certain song is important to them you should turn it up and lay on your bed and close your eyes and really listen to it even if its 10 minutes long because at the end you will know that person much better I think

[pleasetakemeoutofmybody]

My love for this post is unbelievable.

[fadeintocase]

None Pizza with Left Beef is 10 years old today.

happy birthday to a decade-old meme.

[greystripe]

happy 12th birthday none pizza with left beef

[lgbt]

Happy 14th birthday None Pizza with Left Beef!

[lgbt]

Happy 15th!

[lgbt]

None pizza with left beef turns 16 today get in the car fools MF can legally drive now.

[ninenine-brooklyn]

[thefingerfuckingfemalefury]

RODRIGO NO

[woefully-undercaffeinated]

So I’m currently enslaved employed by a cable company, and I can offer a few pointers:

Find a copy of the customer agreement online. Read it. Have the “big cats in boxes” YouTube video on standby so that you can renew your will to live periodically while reading it.

Focus on the sections about cancellation

Examine any terms regarding early termination fees, notice required, proration of the time between cancellation and the end of the billing period, and equipment return policies.

Send a letter requesting cancellation to your carrier via certified mail. Include the date you wish for it to be cancelled. If you are not the account holder but have power of attorney, or the account holder has died and you are managing their estate, send copies of the relevant documentation with the letter. 

The day after, when it isn’t cancelled, call back. Ask for “retention” or “loyalty” and when asked why, state that you wish to cancel. 

They’ll ask you why you want to cancel. Say “I don’t want to discuss it, I just want to cancel my service.” (note: there are times when it pays to disclose your reasons; my company will waive all early termination fees and penalties if the account holder is being entering military deployment or a nursing home. Check their policies.)

They’ll offer something nice. Bundles, discounts, free channels, etc. Say “as nice as that sounds, and as much as I appreciate the offer, I just need to cancel my service.”

When they deflect again, ask how to return any leased equipment. They’ll launch into another spiel about that, thankful that you aren’t making them process the cancellation. Write down the process – they’ll either tell you to bring the equipment to a local office, or they’ll state that they are sending recovery kits. If it’s the latter, ask for the address that the recovery kits return to and write it down (you want to use the recovery kit if you get one, since it’s prepaid, but if they aren’t sent you’ll want to be able to return the equipment yourself.) 

After all of this has transpired, state “As I stated in the letter sent via certified mail on [date], I am ending our contractual relationship and terminating this subscription. Has my cancellation order been processed?”

If the cancellation order has not been processed, tell them to process it. Listen to their spiel. Ask for the date that it will be terminated.

Hang up, wait thirty minutes. Call back, ask if your account is pending cancellation or not. If not, ask to be transferred to retention and ask for a supervisor. Demand that your cancellation be processed and advise them that a complaint will be filed with the FCC if it is not. 

If more than an hour has been spent on the phone, file a complaint at FCC.gov. Forcing a customer to continue a service outside of the terms stipulated by the contract is illegal and the FCC hates it. 

[smitethestate]

This went from really funny to “holy fuck what kind of nightmare dystopia do we live in that we need to be educated on how to get a company to actually cancel an account with a company that bills you monthly” really fast.

[dustybookcover]

dude all my friends are starting to date this was Not The Plan