Tangents on Tangents

Random addenda to other people's posts, random hobby screeching, blatant attempts to remind you, me, and everyone else to care about the issues of the world. Inclusionist. Occasionally I will share original works that I wrote. Anti-evil (threats, hate speech, Nazis, TERFs, racists, misogynists, etc, are all unwelcome).

[1five1two]

Speiredonia spectans, the granny's cloak moth, is a moth of the family Erebidae.

[thehumantrampoline]

I kept forgetting my nighttime antidepressant so I set an alarm where the sound was a recording of me saying "HEY. TAKE YOUR FUCKING PILL" because I thought it would be funny. It was funny about three times, and then it started making me mad and I'd dismiss it right away to make it stop. So I handed my phone to my partner, who made another recording sweetly saying "Okay Shira, it's time to take your medication" and now I don't get mad anymore and I take my pill. The "compassion over punishment" camp has gotta get something wrong one of these days

[kevytmaitohorsma]

Reblog this photo of a käpylehmä to have a käpylehmä in your blog

It's a trick! If you reblog you get TWO käpylehmäs in your blog!

[kevytmaitohorsma]

They're traditional Finnish toys, little cows made out of spruce cones, on their way to see the world from one tumblr blog to another

[hjartasalt]

Hey do you know alot about internal organs. Cause if so then i have a pretty specific question.

Are... are your organs covered in blood??? Since blood tends to flow thru the blood vessels, and if your body is healthy and all your blood vessels are imtact then your organs shouldn't be covered in blood, right? But just saying that feels wrong.

No, unless you are actively experiencing internal bleeding then your organs are not covered in blood. They are however wet, but it's cerebrospinal fluid and mucus that keeps them that way.

[hjartasalt]

Trust me you do not want them to be in any other condition. If they were covered in blood then there would be no way for your body to effectively circulate that blood, leading you to bleed out. As for them being wet, I personally would not want to experience dry friction on my organs so I am more than okay with that

[hjartasalt]

Also just to clear up any further confusion, cerebrospinal fluid (as the name implies) is contained to just your brain and spinal cord. The rest are protected by mucous

[hjartasalt]

Small correction to my original answer: your organs are not covered in blood unless you are bleeding internally or happen to be a bug

[evilscientist3]

California quail we're unforgettable,

Black head with big feather on top

[cipheramnesia]

I wish people would spend less time trying to rehabilitate the reputations of the crass, corporate media of their childhood, and more time seeking media outside the bubble of nostalgia and cultural familiarity. They were pop music, blockbusters, NYT bestsellers back then, they don't need critical reassessment. Go out there and hunt down some stuff in unfamiliar territory, grow as a person.

[meg00se]

lets frolic as paleolithic horses together

[targetedknowledge]

[fallout-lou-begas]

[tyler-the-geek]

This is horrifying here you go @animals-with-fan-art

[halethleia]

one of the funniest and saddest parts of project hail mary is that stratt absolutely did kidnap a guy to send off to die in space without hesitation but also made sure to pack all his funky t-shirts and favorite sweater and his crochet earth ball and his favorite coffee settings so!

[fluoresensitives]

can we please be feminists again.

[holy-leapin-splits-batman]

[thread-goblin]

Tdf day 3: wanted to jot some memories down before I go to sleep. Most of today was ready but I also got to spin some of my waste wool parfait in voice chat, which was my first time with that group. I had so much fun!

Not pictured is the single I finished on my wheel while watching TV with my partner. She was building warhammer minis which meant I *had* to spin. I don't make the rules

[gwyoi]

horse cream puff …

[elodieunderglass]

Thank you @hrrkikshoard !!

[orionnco]

If you see a community of people missing from a chunk of history (Queer/trans/religious ect) and your immediate thought is "oh they didnt exist then" instead of "oh shit these people had a bunch of their history erased" you have fallen for genocidal propaganda.

[petulantpony]

let’s all gain weight and get strong as fuck

[fiery-kitty]

Large Japanese Carved Ivory Okimono of a Human Skull

Meiji period (1868-1912) circa 1900

Size: 13cm high, 14cm deep, 12.5cm wide – 5 ins high, 5½ ins deep, 4¾ ins wide

[the-haiku-bot]

Large Japanese Carved

Ivory Okimono

of a Human Skull

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

[nyctoheart]

movies where someone hears an important message only once and retains all the details….

girl if that were me, we’d be fucked. I have to reread emails like 4 times.

[nyctoheart]

if it were me having to repeat my dead father’s instructions on destroying the death star:

[cyberphuck]

I was in a college psych class, and the teacher was doing some kind of exercise about memory, patterns, and retention. He began with, “for instance, if I asked you what number the first letter of your name is in the alphabet, you wouldn’t be able to tell me right aw–” “Ten,” I said. “What?” “J. J is ten,” I said again. He stared at me. “I happened to learn it while looking at the alphabet when I was five or six, and it just stayed in my brain,” I told him. Then we did an exercise on retention. “I’m going to tell you a story,” he said, “and then I’m going to send you out of the room for five minutes, and when you come back, you have to repeat as much of the story back to me as possible.” He told me a long and meandering story with no plot or structure, just a random series of events, place names, actions, etc. Then he sent me out of the room. I looked at the wall for a while. He called me back in five minutes later, stood me up in front of the class, and asked me to repeat “just as much of the story as you remember.” Apparently while I’d been gone he’d been telling the class about how eyewitness accounts aren’t reliable because people don’t remember things well after a certain period of time. So I told his story back to him– not verbatim, but certain phrases were exact– and watched the consternation in his face as I accidentally blew up his (valid! and extensively studied!) lesson about how bad people’s retention is. “It’s like a song,” I tried to explain to him, and the class. “Or a poem. Every part of the story has a little tag to remember it. I looked at the chalkboard while you were saying this part. My leg itched while you were saying that part. A chair squeaked during the next part. Then I just have to come back and go over all the sensations that I had while you were” “Sit down,” he said. I sat. Turns out I’m Autisms Georg adn should not have been counted

[underthehedge]

ADHD version: A friend asked, on a field trip, why I knew the scientific name for Caltha palustris, “Well, we did that [one week long] field ID course [three years previously] and we saw it in one of the bogs”.

This, I was informed, is very much not a normal reason to remember the scientific name of a plant for the rest of your life.

It took me five whole years to learn when my partner’s birthday is.

[firebirdeternal]

I can remember specific details about games I played over two decades ago that I have not played since.

I once forgot it was my birthday. On my birthday. And when my sister (Who lived several hours away) jumped out of hiding and yelled happy birthday, I looked around to see who she was talking to.

[clotpolesonly]