Jay's Quiet Corner

Welp, I'm not quite sure what you were expecting - Jay (she/they) - 18+ - All Shall Be Well (We Will Make It So) - terfs and exclusionists have no place here

[nagunkgunk]

plucked from death to carry the fire

[nagunkgunk]

destcember day 3 - A Long Shadow

[90108s]

the world is counting on you

[ID: An illustration of Ryland Grace from the Project Hail Mary film adaptation. He’s in side view, wearing the mustard-yellow overall, looking at a glowing crocheted earth hovering over his hand. A warm light shines over him. Behind him is the Hail Mary spacecraft. The background is outer space, filled with stars. END ID]

[milkweed-mustelid]

[thecryptkeeper]

i know the way people talk about their pets now is probably how we’ve been doing it for all of history. a cat owner in ancient rome saw their cat lounging on the dining pillows and commented “he thinks himself to be the senator claudius 🤣”

[library-seraph]

The first attested cat in Japan was given to a young 9th century emperor and his diary about it includes such gems as 'I affixed a bow about its neck, but it did not remain for long.", "The color of the fur is peerless. None could find the words to describe it, although one said it was reminiscent of the deepest ink.", "When it lies down, it curls in a circle like a coin. You cannot see its feet. It’s as if it were circular Bi disk." and "I am convinced it is superior to all other cats.” Basically posting about how his void is the best little void and so good at getting really round

[mintbees]

steam repeatedly notifying you that a friend is booting up a game thats clearly not cooperating feels like ur sitting inside and someone outside keeps trying to rev up a lawnmower

[mintbees]

[variks-the-warden]

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[thatsbelievable]

[chaumas-deactivated20240115]

one time I had a dream that I unlocked a secret never-before-discovered achievement in Disco Elysium by squeezing into various nooks and crannies and got a special copotype called “Crevice Cop: seek out and inhabit crevices like some kind of man-spider” and I thought yeah!!! man-spider!!! crevice cop!!! this game GETS me!!!

and then I woke up to find that I had fallen partially down into the gap between my partner’s bed and the wall and was horrifically contorted and in agonizing bodily pain from sleeping in a position only comfortable to a brown recluse

[chaumas-deactivated20240115]

[fairycosmos]

they should invent an enough that is enough

[fairycosmos]

i can’t remember if i wrote this about ocd or money or buddhism or doom scrolling or self image or time or grief

[pineappical]

screenshot redraw that took FOREVER (it was 5 hours)

[gretchensinister]

Insensitivity reader to make sure that your characters are ignorant assholes in the ways that make the most sense for the characterization you're trying to achieve

[sanacibo]

oxidized copper is such a beautiful color palette. The rich reds with the cool teals. Such a vibrant combo. No one is doing it like her.

[sanacibo]

[ID: Photos of an oxidized copper plate, an oxidized copper pipe, and oxidized pennies. End ID]

hello gorgeous do you come here often

[soothinghymn]

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Stay strong, my Wrath. I believe in you.

[thatwelshartist]

I was looking up facts about Cormorants to find a title for this and found out about the liver bird a mythological creature from liverpool that is literally just a cormorant which I find kinda funny

anyway still think what to call this maybe UKAI

[selfmaderibcageman]

My patient would rather take a peptide than a statin. That reveals an uncomfortable truth in medicine

“The volume of evidence behind a therapy has become inversely correlated with public trust in it,” writes Vikas Patel.

Wild shit

[thedoubteriswise]

But what is happening right now is not the adoption of a promising therapy. It is the wholesale substitution of consumer enthusiasm for clinical evidence. My patient is refusing a drug studied in 170,000 people because of side effects that a 124,000-person analysis just confirmed do not exist — while injecting a compound studied in 14 humans, from unregulated sources, based on the recommendation of someone who profits from selling it. She’s probably not the only one. And those using it believe they are “doing their own research.” The standard response from the wellness industry is that the absence of evidence is not evidence of absence — that these compounds simply haven’t been studied yet. This is technically true and profoundly misleading. The absence of evidence in this case is not an accident. BPC-157 has been around since 1992. The single clinical trial that was initiated was canceled. No pharmaceutical company, no academic medical center, and no government agency has found the existing preclinical data compelling enough to fund a rigorous human trial in over 30 years. That silence is not a conspiracy. It is a signal. The deeper problem is epistemological. We have a population that has learned — correctly — that pharmaceutical companies have lied, that institutions have failed them, and that financial incentives distort medical recommendations. The opioid crisis alone justified a generation of skepticism. But the response has not been better skepticism. It has been the migration of trust from one set of financially motivated actors to another. The peptide clinic charging $400 per vial for a compound with 14 human subjects studied has the same economic incentives as the pharmaceutical company charging $400 per month for a branded statin. The difference is that the pharmaceutical company was required to prove its product works before selling it.

[treasuredplanet]

in hindsight sending the number one digit at a time created the funniest half second of either of our lives