Fascinating

A future marine biologist with an affinity for nerdy shit

[4x01]

just painted an onion on a cutting board and i think it’s the peak of my artistic career

[4x01]

look at her…

[4x01]

she gets stronger!

[4x01]

the full painting is finally complete!

[themysteriousmurasamecastle]

this pic from my biology textbook is way funnier than it needs to be

[windowscrazyerror-archive-deact]

[gardenoffish]

[mensajeroseis]

have you guys seen this. im so entranced im posting it everywhere

[best-blurst-of-times]

[ironbite4]

Teachers have tried this and are amazed when their classes don’t go feral like in the book.  It’s almost as if the book was supposed to be satire and not a treaty on the nature of humanity.

[thedarkbutbeige]

[spaceshipoftheseus]

there’s a timeskip

THERE’S A TIMESKIP

THERE’S A TIMESKIP

THERE’S A TIMESKIP

after losing control of the signal fire there’s a FUCKING TIMESKIP and when the next chapter starts everyone’s hair is several inches longer and their clothes have rotted to shreds and they’re still just kind of chilling!!!!

IT TAKES THE TERRIBLE IMPERIALISM MIND-POISONED EXCESSIVELY BRITISH BOYS IN THE ACTUAL BOOK SEVERAL MONTHS TO COMMIT A SINGLE ACT OF INTENTIONAL VIOLENCE, EVEN THE ONE (1) CHILD WRITTEN AS AN ACTUAL SOCIOPATH

AND then when they DO turn on each other it is because

THERE’S AN UNSPECIFIED WORLD WAR HAPPENING

AND A PILOT’S CORPSE CRASH LANDS ON THE ISLAND POST-DOGFIGHT AND THE CHILDREN MISTAKE THE PARACHUTE FOR A MONSTER AND SPIRAL INTO PARANOIA

BECAUSE CHILDREN INHERIT THE LEGACY AND TRAUMA OF VIOLENCE FROM THE ADULTS WAGING WAR AROUND THEM

HURR DURR IN THE REAL WORLD IT WOULD NEVER HAPPEN LIKE IN LORD OF THE FLIES -

IT DIDN’T HAPPEN THAT WAY IN LORD OF THE FLIES EITHER YOU JUST HAVEN’T READ IT SINCE HIGH SCHOOL IF EVER AND DON’T REMEMBER WHAT ACTUALLY HAPPENED IN THE GODDAMN BOOK

[randomslasher]

[mayfriend-archive]

#tbf the dude wrote it to be a dick

yes. yes he did. i’m also gonna direct you to the real life ‘lord of the flies’ which occured in the 1960s, when six tongan schoolboys got stranded on a desert island for over a year before being rescued by an australian fisherman (who, it should be noted, later took on all six as crewmembers because the reason they were out in the first place was because they wanted to see the world, and named his ship the Ata after the island they were stranded on). nobody died. the only injuries that occurred were accidental, and when one of the boys broke his leg falling down a cliff, the others braced it and looked after him so well that it healed perfectly. if they argued, then they would literally go to opposite sides of the island until they’d cooled off. after leaving the island, they remained friends for the rest of their lives. here’s a photo of them as adults, with their rescuer (who is third from the left) and other members of his crew.

i read about this in rutger bregman’s human kind, a book i cannot recommend highly enough, but if you don’t want to go and read a whole book about the inherent goodness of humanity (which again, you really should) then the relevant excerpt can be found here.

[mayfriend-archive]

[ruinedchildhood]

[only-tiktoks]

[cthulhu-with-a-fez]

[funnytwittertweets]

[egirlbutternubs]

[analog-machine]

F in the chat, fellers

[soy-celeste-deactivated20230905]

Her name is Katalin Karikó. Hungarian. Daughter of a butcher. Her thesis work became the basis of the mRNA vaccine technology. Read the article here.

[rat-tail-butch]

My favorite bits from the article include how Dr. Kariko celebrated the fact that the vaccines that used her mRNA research worked

“On Nov. 8, the first results of the Pfizer-BioNTech study came in, showing that the mRNA vaccine offered powerful immunity to the new virus. Dr. Kariko turned to her husband. “Oh, it works,” she said. “I thought so.”

To celebrate, she ate an entire box of Goobers chocolate-covered peanuts. By herself.”

[jheselbraum]

Everyone say thank you to Doctor Kariko since she literally saved all our lives

[captainsblogsupplemental]

[dragon-familiar]

Doc Ock when he saw Tom Holland’s Spider-Man instead of Tobey

[memewhore]

[astrodidact]

I HAVE NO SYMPATHY WHATSOVER.

TAX THE SHIT OUT OF THIS IDIOT & BEZOS.

Elon Musk rips Democrats' billionaire tax plan that could slap him with a $10 billion annual bill

"Eventually, they run out of other people's money and then they come for you," Musk tweeted at the senator who just drafted a new billionair

Elon Musk is now worth more than ExxonMobil

Elon Musk is rapidly approaching a net worth of $300 billion, as Tesla's market cap soars past $1 trillion. That's enough to surpass one of

[ralfmaximus]

He made $25 billion yesterday, so his proposed tax bill would be for 3.2 hours of his time.

[clueingforbeggs]

There should be a policy that every time a billionaire complains about being taxed they get an extra 1 billion of tax to pay.

[sarahseeandersen]

[mystrothedefender]

its nice to know that this is something that other people do too.

[jewishvitya-movingblogs]

I feel like sometimes we go “I didn’t try my hardest” and mean “I didn’t completely burn myself out for this” and trying your best shouldn’t mean that. “I tried my best within the limits of what wouldn’t hurt me” is enough.

[scifismartass-deactivated202408]

Dune (2021)

[ohboyfelix]

do you ever have the sudden realization on how lonely you are and its just like

[gunsandfireandshit]

[gunsandfireandshit]

[ohboyfelix]

[soaringsearingphoenix]

The worst part of human adulthood is being your own zookeeper

[soaringsearingphoenix]

Like... i have to make sure my meals are nutritionally balanced... i have to make sure that the space i occupy is big enough, and interesting enough, and provide enrichment to make up for the lack of novelty... i have to make sure i get exercise... i'm not qualified for this

[incarnate-clay]

Why would you abandon this in the tags?