Out of This World

Emma//Aries//22

[bearie]

this video i found on pinterest kicks ass

[spiderywigglerodstuff]

What the fuck, thats dudes

[beedok]

[miseria-fortes-viros]

ultimately the truth about frankenstein is that we are all grotesque amalgamations of the best and worst parts of everyone who came before us. and sometimes the people who are supposed to love us because of and in spite of this will not. and we can kill them with hammers for that. and i think that’s beautiful

[miseria-fortes-viros]

my brother in christ frankenstein is the title of the book

[warlockofagnesi]

COUNTERPOINT

[miseria-fortes-viros]

well i can’t argue with that one

[quacksmith]

Ah yes, Mary Shelley’s monster.

[miseria-fortes-viros]

no mary shelley is the name of the monster not the doctor

[villainessbian]

common misconception! mary shelley's monster was actually lord byron

[transhuman-priestess]

A lot of you aren’t happy unless you can portray yourself as constantly suffering and it’s genuinely offputting

[transhuman-priestess]

Like yeah your government is trying to kill you, but also we’re sitting in the living room playing halo. They’re not in here right now. Don’t let them rob you of happiness, even if it is ephemeral.

[levitatingunicorns]

No one would be happy to do that I am literally sitting on the ground weeping because a couple of years ago I experienced for the first time being happy to wake up and it's been obliterated

[transhuman-priestess]

[gaydiation-poisoning]

Ngl people have been suffering under the American(this includes Canadian) government since their inception, the west was built on suffering and yet subjugated people have always found joy. They've always found ways to live and create in spite of the suffering inflicted by the American government, so with all due respect, Skill Issue.

[big-smiling-monkey]

Finding meaning and humour in shitty situations is a skill well worth cultivating.

[kiwidino]

Theyre trying to take everything from you, don't give them the power to take your happiness too.

You NEED to take what moments you have to feel happy and at peace. If you don't, what else do you have to lose?

Never ever let hope die.

Hope is what always wins.

[queer-reader-07]

i am being so serious doomerism is annoying and insufferable. i find it so deeply and utterly obnoxious to listen to. at a certain point you need to stop choosing misery and find something to be happy about. watch a sunset, listen to a fun song, look at pictures of a cute dog. i don't care but you HAVE to cultivate joy and hope actively.

hope will not passively happen to you when you live in this society but you are more than capable of cultivating it i promise you that much.

[sirpuntine]

Not only did mama raise a quitter, but she also raised a procrastinator, people-pleaser, doormat, coward, and liar, and you can’t put a price on that

[furiousfinnstan]

THEY MIGHT HAVE FIGURED OUT WHATS CAUSING LONG COVID?!?!???

[furiousfinnstan]

Spatial transcriptomics of the epipharynx in long COVID identifies SARS-CoV-2 signalling pathways and the therapeutic potential of epipharyn

In this study, the critical role of the epipharynx in managing long-term coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), and in particular, how residua

SUICIDE POSTPONED INDEFINITELY !!!!!

[furiousfinnstan]

Genuinely the only good news I got in WEEKS

[yournewfriendshouse]

[kwarrtz]

I always assumed pencil lead was so called because it did in fact used to be made of elemental lead, which was replaced by graphite in more recent times, possibly because of lead’s toxicity. Turns out that assumption was dead wrong. Lead has been used for writing at various points in history, yes, but never as part of any implement we would recognize as a pencil. I’m fact, prior to the early 1500s, the closest things to a pencil that existed were the tools used for metalpoint drawing, which consisted of a wire of some metal, often jeweler’s silver but never, as far as I know, lead, inserted into a wooden rod. What changed in the early 1500s you ask? Well, that was when a large deposit of strikingly pure graphite was discovered in northern England. People quickly began cutting sticks of the stuff and using it to write, but because of its softness it had to be encased to handle. Initially rope and sheepskin were used, but eventually the transition was made to wood and the modern pencil was born.

In other words, pencil lead has always been made of graphite. The thing is, for centuries people assumed that the stuff in this deposit was just some weird kind of lead ore (this is why graphite was archaically referred to as plumbago), a belief which becomes more understandable when you realize that to this day, this is the only large deposit of pure, solid graphite ever discovered. As there was no means of artificially producing solid graphite back then they had no way of knowing of its existence as a unique substance, and lead was the material whose properties most closely resembled those of the stuff in the new deposit. Or to cast it in a completely different light, today we would say it’s wrong to call graphite lead because lead is the 86th element whereas graphite is a form of carbon, but if, prior to this chemical definition, lead was just a colloquial term for any soft, dark gray metallic substance, were they even wrong? Would they have understood if we tried to correct them? Maybe it’s more accurate to just say that the definition of the word has changed.

(As a fun aside, one of the other early uses for graphite was as a lining for cannonball molds, making for rounder and thus more effective cannonballs, and so the deposit was quickly put under the strict control of the crown. This meant that for years graphite for pencils actually had to be smuggled out of the mine.)

[facelessoldgargoyle]

Wow!! That’s so interesting. If you know, what does being assumed to be a lead ore have to do with the name plumbago?

[ofthefog-deactivated20220221]

plumbum is the technical name for lead, coming from latin.

[headspace-hotel]

Wait tell us more about the forbidden smuggled pencil lead

[magiclilybean]

Wait tell us more about how and when they starting making synthetic graphite

[magiclilybean]

Wait tell us about how that deposit of graphite came into existence

[kwarrtz]

I was curious about this too. The origin of natural graphite deposits is apparently a bit of a contentious issue, but I found this paper which looks at the Borrowdale deposit in particular (which is the one I was referring to in my original post). I’m not a geologist so the details are over my head, but the gist of what they’re suggesting seems to be that volcanism in the area brought relatively carbon-rich rocks from deep in the crust up closer to the surface where that carbon ended up saturating hydrothermal fluids. As that water circulated through the hills in the region the conditions were right for that carbon to then crystallize out as graphite.

I should also clarify that graphite in general isn’t rare in the Earth’s crust, it just isn’t usually in a particularly usable form to begin with, being either very impure or consisting of tiny flakes. What makes the Borrowdale deposit unique is that it contains relatively pure graphite chunks large enough to hold in your hand, or to, say, cut into lead for pencils. Over the years though we’ve discovered ways to purify and make use of graphite even in its more commonly found forms. Modern pencil lead, for instance, is made by mixing graphite powder with clay and then baking it, so it isn’t actually pure graphite at all. This is why pencil lead comes in different softnesses (HB vs B4, etc.)--the higher the ratio of clay to graphite, the harder the resulting lead. According to Wikipedia this process was invented by Nicolas-Jacques Conté in 1795 while France was cut off from England’s natural graphite supply because of the Napoleonic Wars, so there’s yet another way the histories of pencil lead and British military affairs are oddly linked.

There are apparently other ways of synthesizing graphite, including ways of producing high-quality graphite crystals for scientific and industrial uses, but you’ll have to look into that yourself if you want to know the details of how they work.

[allsadnshit]

Adulthood can be so easy to self isolate in a way that was annoyingly impossible as a child and I feel like adults even warn you to enjoy community and the comfort of groups despite how difficult they can be because you really can just accidentally lose the ability to be around others if you don't practice for long enough which is so weird and scary to experience and really observe yourself

You really have to CHOOSE to keep up with friends and family like you have to smile at your neighbor and ask their name- even if you have ever excuse in the world to shut everyone out, at the end of the day it's not good for the soul and being alone is different than being isolated and I am having to get scarily real with myself about my choices and how I am living and how I've become overwhelmed at the idea of platonic companionship outside of my love and fulfillment I get in marriage

And childhood friendships just won't be like adulthood ones like you don't have the same time and freedoms and forming families together and apart are all very complex parts of things and I want to let things be different instead of feeling lost and letting that rule me

[depsidase]

[escuerzoresucitado]

[brionysea]

we need to keep this circulating so it can find the people who are about to stay up for 3 to 4 hours

[lilapetrichorwinteryrogue]

why would you do this to me

[catchymemes]

[littleguysdaily]

[rythms-of-synthax-deactivated20]

Quote of the day

[baffledtreesquid]

I’m seeing a lot of people saying this post changed their brain chemistry, and as a neuroscientist I wanted to say yes!!! Yes it does!

Wanting something requires dopamine signaling, but liking something doesn’t.

If you have a mental illness/disorder that affects dopamine, you might feel that you don’t want to do the things that you like. You do still like them. You will appreciate having done them.

Let your likes guide you.

(If you want to read more, here’s one experimental paper about it. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5171207/ This theory called the incentive-sensitization theory was originally created to explain behaviors in addiction but can be applied elsewhere as well)

Rewards are both ‘liked’ and ‘wanted’, and those two words seem almost interchangeable. However, the brain circuitry that mediates the psych

[only-cat-memes]

[spicyreyes]

I try and avoid engagementbait when I can but look at his EYES

[gray-v]

Visit Original Link

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[nooowestayandgetcaught]

HAPPY FOURTH OF JULY🎆🎇

[spirulin4]

what ppl defending kids on ipads don’t seem to understand is that there are other ways to keep kids occupied. my mom had a whole bag full of little toys and games for me to play with while waiting in lines at disney world. once your kid is like 7 or 8 they can read a book. they can color. or they can literally just sit there and imagine things. i did that a lot as a kid.

[spirulin4]

thanks for putting your wrong and bad commentary in the tags where i still have to read all of it. most of what you said is untrue.

[imyselfamstrange]

OP: giving children too young to process things so much access to ipads isn’t good for them maybe.

People in the notes: So you hate moms??? You’re ableist?? You think we should go back to the Dark Ages?? (My personal favorite because it makes no sense) you’re poor shaming??

Why is it so difficult to explain that children not developing fine motor skills and losing their attention spans is bad actually??

[purplesweetpotatoes]

also children can end up being entertained by just about anything. I remember building "bird nests" with sticks in the backyard when I was like 7 years old. That was it. It took up my whole afternoon and I was entertained the entire time.

[atomicjellycat]

I worked at a kindergarten for a year, and Jesus Christ these kids are falling behind on so many milestones

Everyone knows who the iPad kids are

I've seen it all from kids who don't know how to use scissors, and can't perform the motions right compared to other kids in that age group, to kids who can't write the alphabet or spell their names (the older ones)

And one of the most startling thing I encountered was every now and then we have a country day, where we choose a country, color in the country's flag in the colors and watch a little film about said country.

And I was overseeing the coloring, and one boy just refusing to color

It happens, stubbornness, bad days, 'just don't wanna' s happen, but I sit with him and continue to try and encourage him and figure out why he doesn't want to

And he keeps saying he doesn't know how to color

And I'm like ??? Just pick up the pencil and put it on the paper buddy, cmon

So I'm showing him how, and he refuses to try over and over

So then I try like, coloring while guiding his hand, and again this is a flag were coloring it's a giant rectangle, not much precision is needed

And I realize while I'm helping him, literally moving his hand to color for him, he's CLEARLY never colored before. He's 4, there is no excuse for this when kids start coloring at like, 2 maybe younger.

By 4-5 kids can generally color inside the lines well enough and draw recognizable figures like people and landscapes and pets

Eventually he got into it, understood how to do it and requested to continue on by himself, which was great! I told him I was proud of him and we continued on with our day but it absolutely shocked me that these iPad kids are so beyond stunted like jesus

He didn't know how to grip a pencil, he didn't know the wrist movements and motions, he didn't understand the pressure control, he had no control over where or how he was coloring like, these kids NEED TO learn these things it's STARTLING how many kids don't have these milestones and are just not developing these fine motor skills

Ask any kindergarten attendant and they'll tell you the same thing-

The best thing you can do for a kid is buy them a shitton of construction paper, decorative child-safe scissors, and coloring books

Please please please kids need to cut paper up and color. It helps them develop so many fine motor skils

Now don't be mistaken, the percentage of these kids are low, for now. It's definitely not every kid, and thankfully not the majority but it is still a problem

[theclockwitch]

What you're going to start seeing is a social class stratification of this.

I was at an MVA call--car into a powerline. Three kids, 9, 5, and 2 years old, trapped in the back of a car, crushed against a pole, live lines on the car. Meaning they were fine as long as they stayed inside but we couldn't cut the car open until the power company came and killed the line.

It took about a half an hour. We were all losing our MINDS thinking about three kids who had just been in a significant car accident, unknown injuries, trapped in a car without their mom, and all these strange noises and people around them. We thought these kids would be terrified.

Nope. All three of them were on devices watching videos. Like they didn't even register what had happened or the danger they'd been in or why people were so worried, or even THAT we were worried.

The most distress I saw the kids in as we drove the 30 minutes to the peds hospital? Was when the 2 year old's device's battery died. She went from sitting unnaturally quietly staring at Cocomelon to SCREAMING and throwing things and biting anyone. She only calmed down when her older brother agreed to share his device with her.

It was spooky af, man.

The mom thought she was doing a great job bc her kids were 'so well behaved'. To this day I wonder about kids who cannot process anything other than visual dopamine. How are they going to do in school? Sure? But how about their social development? How are they going to have friends? Boyfriends? Girlfriends? Anything?

[jovialjuggernaut]

[littlegoldfinchh]

lord the peasants are so loud today

[littlegoldfinchh]

pheasants. PHeasants. The birds

[kulvefaggoth]

[cardinalfeng]

Don't you mean classist Typo, as in discriminating against poor people, and not classicist, the type of academic who studies antiquity in southern Europe?

[sharkbutthoohaahaa]

[ptchangbin]

[kirexa]

[hahawasabi-deactivated20250604]

[mechamothgirl]

[mortimermcmirestinks]

don't worry guys I got the fire extinguisher

[achivement-unlocked]

Achievement unlocked!

Fire post!

WHAT DO YOU MEAN THE POST IS ON FIRE

[gimmick-thief]

[entity56]

[ampervadasz]

[bumblebeerror]

THE CASUALNESS OF THAT COLLIE SLIPPING RIGHT OUT OF THEIR COLLAR. That dude is a Willing Participant of this walk and by god everyone else is going to follow the RULES.

[aspiringwarriorlibrarian]

Husky: Uh no, I'm a husky, I don't have to follow any of your rules.

Collie: I'm sorry, did you think this was a tug of war? *body slam*

[the-haiku-bot]

Collie: I’m sorry,

did you think this was a tug

of war? *body slam*

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.