Who Knows

SERIOUSLY WHO KNOWS

[onamountaintop]

[roane72]

Best trick I ever picked up. Seriously.

[catastrophe-jones]

I have also learned this is great for [PICK A COOL NAME FOR A SHIP] and [LOOK UP THE FACTS ABOUT OXYGEN LEVELS] and [WHAT’S THE WORD] and [DOUBLECHECK CHARACTER’S EYE COLOR] and ALL KINDS OF THINGS.

Anything that isn’t critical in the moment, and could be filled in later while I’m currently trying to burn through writing pages that will be lost if I don’t get them out right now? Brackets.

[betweentimeand42]

This is seriously the best advice, and it really helps put it into perspective that the first draft is just that- a draft. There’s no reason to agonize over a particularly tricky bit of writing when you could just leave it in brackets and skip to the good parts, the parts you’ve visualized. I also use brackets for [fact-check this], [use a stronger verb], [is this in character?] and other notes as I write, just so I don’t forget what I want to work on when I go back and edit. 

[lucyaudley]

This works for academic writing too. If you know where you’re going just leave yourself notes to fill in later. I do this all the time,

[he-who-ships]

@deadcatwithaflamethrower

[deadcatwithaflamethrower]

It is an excellent trick. It also helps to keep you from getting sidetracked because you’ve gone to look up your single fact and then three hours later you’re on an entirely different part of the internet because Research is Badass.

[batmanego]

im having feelings about the uffington white horse again

[batmanego]

so essentially there’s this cool horse drawn into the hills in england made out of chalk and it’s like 3,000 years old.

people carved trenches 3,000 years ago and filled them with chalk in the shape of a horse but what’s interesting is that if you fail to maintain the horse by adding new chalk regularly, it will disappear. for 3,000 years, we’ve been filling in chalk in this horse so it doesn’t disappear.

we’ll never know what the purpose of the horse was originally. we’ll never know if it had ritual or spiritual significance or if it was just art. but we do know that people maintained it then, and, even though the meaning of the horse has long been lost to time, we continue to maintain it now.

the people who made this horse are long dead, but they live through us still, don’t you think?

[batmanego]

couldn’t agree more we’re best friends now

[huffylemon]

[asthebelltolls]

One time, I had a dream that I was making peanut butter chocolate chip cookies, and most of them were the regular measurements in cups and stuff. But at the end of the recipe, instead of saying “2.5 cups of chocolate chips” it said “627 chocolate chips.”

So when I woke up, I made some peanut butter chocolate chip cookies. And instead of measuring out chocolate chips, I counted them (and suffered a lot of odd looks from my family for it).

Well, it turns out that 627 chocolate chips is the amount that the recipe called for (2.5 cups). Not only that, but 627 was the exact amount of chocolate chips that we had left in the house.

[a-lil-strawberry]

Forbidden knowledge was granted you that night

[990000]

[fierceawakening]

As a disabled kid who was in the same phys ed class as everyone else with predictably horrifying results, HARD SAME

[therobotmonster]

“Nobody should have to compete against people with biological advantages in the biological advantage assessment game!”

[jenroses]

effing this.

[tsunamiwavesurfing]

[northwindow]

when i was reading the book entangled life which is about fungi and the author merlin sheldrake said that once he got his first author copies he was going to dampen the pages and use them to grow oyster mushrooms and yeast and then use the yeast to brew beer and then drink the beer with the mushrooms to complete the cycle of fungal knowledge. i was like really and truly this guy gets it

[im-not-trash-im-compost]

he ate his own words.

But really and truly. The cycle is not complete until he dies.

[junesqueer]

[life-on-the-spectrum]

I’m not sure how or why, but this is goth as FUCK. 

[gallusrostromegalus]

Mycology really is the most hardcore of the biological sciences. We got:

Mushrooms that alter the DNA of other mushrooms they meet into becoming clones of the parasitic mushroom (they're delicious).

Mushrooms that will kill you by literally destroying your DNA similar to how radiation poisoning works. They look like several edible mushrooms and the flavor is apparently 'Not Bad', but eating even a flake of one will kill you slowly over the course of about 5 days. There is no cure.

Mushrooms that many people report will let you meet God and is extremely effective at treating depression and PTSD. Flavor passable.

Mushrooms that are so biologically similar to human flesh that people who have eaten them have sometimes developed allergies to thier own bodies. According to the few cannibals that have tried them, the flavor and texture is indistinguishable from human flesh as well.

Two identical-looking mushrooms. The european one is a delicious food staple, the American one is lethal within minutes of ingestion. I was put off eating mushrooms as a child after I lost a whole family of neighbors to a misidenitified hungarian stew.

Mushrooms that seem to absorb radiation from contaminated areas and thrive on it (No Reports back on flavor yet. I imagine it's a bit hot)

[anelegantoffense]

lobster mushroom (hypomyces lactifluorum)

destroying angel (amanita virosa)

magic mushrooms (numerous, compound name psilocybin)

can't find the cannibal cuisine mushroom (source?)

death cap (amanita phalloides) vs immature puffball (calvatia gigantea)?

chernobyl fungus (cladosporium sphaerospermum)

[gallusrostromegalus]

My apologies for misremembering the cannibal mushroom thing, because it's MUCH WEIRDER than that:

Apparently, some people can develop long-term, horrific autoimmune problems after becoming allergic to regular culinary mushrooms, particularly shitake and maitake mushrooms, which then accelerates to an allergy to themselves, because apparently MANY types of mushrooms are so chemically similar to human flesh that your own immune system can confuse the two.

As for the cannibal-tested mushroom meat- a vegan food company recently made a splash with Mushroom-based (again, mostly shitake and maitake) vegan burger patties that, according to the people who have tasted both the burger and human flesh (Mostly survivors of stranding accidents), that the two are idenitcal. According to non-cannibal tasters, the burger is quite tasty and with a bit of an intriguing tang.

So the cannibal mushrooms are likely available in a store near you!

[three--rings]

Okay, Gen Z, younger millennials, please tell me, are you aware of what the title Ms. means? And how to pronounce it?

Because I just listened to several young 20-somethings pronounce it Miss and talk about how it means you're not married. And...I'm feeling weird about it, considering that's the title I use.

(It means my marital status is none of your business. I use it because I'm married but I kept my maiden name so I'm not Mrs. anyone.)

[three--rings]

These comments really are fascinating and it seems especially people whose first language isn't English aren't sure about this, which is fair. But as I suspected some young folks aren't clear either?

It seems like Ms. has been conflated with Miss and Miss has fallen out of favor, which is fair, but the meanings have been confused.

So here:

Ms. has some antique origins similar to Mrs. and Miss (all short for Mistress) but was revived in the 20th century (mostly in the 60s and 70s) by feminists as an all-purpose female title.

The problem with Miss and Mrs. is that they are tied specifically to marital status. (Miss is SPECIFICALLY an unmarried woman and Mrs. is a woman who is married or has been married. Yes, even older women can be Miss and a widow is still Mrs. (of course if they so choose).

While Mr. isn't tied to marital status for men, of course. So Ms. is the female equivalent to Mr., intended to be used both as a default term when you don't know someone's marital status and ALSO as a term of choice when you don't wish to be defined by your relationship to a man.

This was very much a political thing, part of second-wave feminism (which of course has it's flaws). (Ms. magazine was a feminist women's magazine which popularized the term.)

It's pronounced something like Miz or Mzz.

So for me, I've used Ms. basically since I got out of college anytime I'm asked for a title. First because I didn't want my marital status to be a thing of concern in professional settings. And when I was living with my now-husband but we weren't married. And then after we were married and I kept my own last name because IMO neither of the other options was relevant.

(The keeping your own name thing is a different discussion probably, but I did it partly out of desire to stay the same "person" and partly out of apathy. Also my husband's last name isn't even the same as his parents (because remarriage) so there was no pressure there to change it and he gave no fucks about it. In fact, he's almost seriously thought about changing his name to mine because he likes my family better, lol.)

But anyway, I feel like it's important to keep the intention of Ms. alive because it's so very useful and needed to have an equal partner to Mr. And more useful than ever with so many situations where you may be married/committed but not using your partner's name (ie. gay married, poly relationships, not legally married for reasons of disability, idk whatever).

But Ms. does NOT mean unmarried. It means someone could be of ANY marital status: never married, currently married, divorced, widowed, etc. It means "it's not your business because you don't ask a man his marital status the first second you meet him so buzz off."

[beatrice-otter]

A few further details:

The use of “Ms.” as an honorific for women was basically spearheaded by Ms. Magazine, a feminist magazine started in 1971 and basically THE voice for feminists for two decades thereafter. Although the word is older than that, when they started the magazine they had a major problem that nobody knew what “Ms.” meant or how to pronounce it.

The use of “Ms.” as a title for women that didn’t depend on marital state entered mainstream culture as a result of the magazine, and it was hotly contentious. Liberals used it, conservatives didn’t, if you called yourself “Ms.” you were one of those women who were man-haters out to destroy families (or at least, that’s what conservatives thought). I grew up in the 80s and 90s on the West Coast, which is a fairly liberal part of the country, and it was still a bit contentious when I was a kid, and it was a bit nerve-wracking when you knew someone’s name but didn’t know which they preferred. If you called a liberal/feminist woman Miss or Mrs, she might get offended. If you called a conservative woman Ms, she might get offended.

This is complicated by the fact that Mrs. is, in many dialects of English, often slurred so that it sounds a lot like “Miz” instead of “Missuss.” (Yes, in most dialects of English, Mrs has two syllables.) In other words, for many Americans (particularly people from the southern US), Ms and Mrs sound alike.

[bemusedlybespectacled]

I still feel nervous about calling much older women "Ms." because of how ingrained it was to me as a child (raised in the 90s/00s in New England) that Ms. was the feminist term and people would get upset if you didn't called them Mrs. And my mom was a second wave feminist who was the one who taught me the term in the first place; I knew I used it and my family used it, but a lot of people didn't. I'm still called "Miss Bespectacled" by the judges in my practice if I'm not "Attorney Bespectacled."

[shitacademicswrite]

[milkywayan]

holy shit yes! so unhinged

yesterday in our group meeting we looked through that paper, and then at the peer review and omg it is so insane

“this is an insult to your readers intelligence”

i usually dont like nature papers, but bless them for making the reviews public

though tbh if i ever got a review like that i would quit science forever

[thechanelmuse]

Hazel Scott playing two pianos at the same damn time with ease

[erinbowbooks]

Hazel Scott was a musical sorcerer and a civil rights hero.   She:

 was admitted to Julliard at 8.  

was performing in top venues by 16.  

pioneered “swinging the classics” and made the equivalent of a million dollars a year doing it.  

was the first person of color to have their own national TV show.  

went to Hollywood but refused to be cast as a “singing maid.”  Demanded and got control over her casting, her wardrobe, and how footage featuring her was cut.  

refused to perform in segregated venues and led charges for integration in several northern cities, notably Spokane.  

She was brought down by the House Committee on Unamerican Activities, and has been largely forgotten.  But she was a sorcerer, and a hero.  

[disney-rapunzel-merida-vanellope]

[makeawishitsadream]

This is one of the best running gags in cinematic history

[funkyness]

at least can all we agree that the original gay flag with the magic and sex colours is BEAUTIFUL and it should make a comeback

[funkyness]

what's more iconic than this

[azeroundivided]

What about the final version of the flag by the original creator?

Gilbert Baker added a 9th stripe shortly before his death, with the new stripe representing diversity. He added this stripe in reaction to the 2016 US election. It’s unfortunately not as well known as the 8 and 6 striped versions.

Here’s an image of him sewing together the 9 striped rainbow flag.

[the-haiku-bot]

Here’s an image of

him sewing together the

9 striped rainbow flag.

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

[konansgirlfriend]

Was at the art museum earlier and i have a new favourite painting

[konansgirlfriend]

Is this not the cutest??? Its called ”Me and Brita” and this guy in 1895 was like ”i love this kid so much imma do a painting of us having fun so the world will always know how much i loved her and what a good time we had”

[08-plaza]

the painting in the background is looking at them like “my word what a cool pair”

[cheltenhambolditalic]

More specifically that is Carl Larsson with one of his 8 children.

He came from a extremely poor and abusive background but worked his way into fine society, where he fell in love with fellow artist Karin Bergöö, and his works shifted to painting his home life.

Painting titled "My Loved Ones"

[in reference to his career] "the most immediate and lasting part of my life's work. these pictures are of course a very genuine expression of my personality, of my deepest feelings, of all my limitless love for my wife and children."

[miradademujer-deactivated202402]

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[crazymammoth]

Covid year 2

[archatlas]

Architecture Students Reimagine Harry Potter 

Students of a 12 day course at the Melbourne School of Design were not sorted into houses, but they were assigned Gringotts Bank, Grimmauld Place, the Shrieking Shack and other fan favorites in the Harry Potter universe. their Harry Potter architecture models were laser cut from cardboard (ten house points), hand-modeled (forty house points), constructed in very little time (fifty points), and remind us of the truest magic of all (teamwork).

Students at the Melbourne School of Design had very few spells to work with in order to cast these gorgeously film-accurate 3D models. Students were given 1.0 mm and 0.6 mm boxboard to create their models from. They used trace paper — for windows and diffused lights — and LED lights and motors connected to Arduinos.

[prettydumbloverboy]

Actually, people are good by nature and you’re a fool if you think otherwise.

[prettydumbloverboy]

When you sneeze in public, strangers will say “bless you”, even though they don’t know you.

When you ask for directions on the street someone will show you the way, even though they have nothing to gain from it.

People squeeze their legs against the chair so you don’t have to hop over them on your way to your seat in the theatre, and make funny faces to make babies laugh, and purposefully step on leaves to hear them scrunch, and hold the door open for someone leaving behind them, and ask what floor you’re heading to when you enter the elevator, and send others photos of things that reminded them of them, and recommend each other songs, and ask if anyone else wants a coffee because they’re getting one, and make videos teaching how to sew a button, and wish on shooting stars, and share fun facts, and listen to others rant about things they don’t even understand, and let you cross the street first, and give a bit of their food to others, and laugh at jokes they don’t find funny to make you feel good, and listen to kids talk for hours about nonsense, and let you know your keys fell from your pocket, and they may be strangers, but with every little gesture they’re saying “I love you, I love you, I love you”.

[phinarei]

God, I needed to read this today. Humanity is overwhelmingly full of hope and kindness and it’s very easy to forget that these days.

[apocalypse-of-the-fucked]

yall better be just as outraged about this as you were about notre dame

[actualaster]

This is even WORSE.

[goron-king-darunia]

To elaborate why this is worse: Art and religion are all well and good. But information can be critical. When libraries burn, information can be lost forever. Because we photograph art. We have blueprints of the Cathedral. The Notre Dame cathedral did not burn to the ground, only the wooden structures did. The entire library and everything within is gone here. Another reason this is worse? It was DELIBERATE. It was bombed. Accidents like Notre Dame happen all the time. But bombings don’t have to happen. So yeah, if you cared about Notre Dame, logically you should care about this too,

[mulatt-hoe-deactivated20220422]

My only issue with this addition is that it implies religion and art are not sources of information/methods of transmitting information, and critical information at that, which is a very western(see: white supremacist) perspective, and simply untrue. Several ethnic groups, especially indigenous groups transmit information through art and religion, including Palestinians. Sooooooo. Yeah.

Its all important, and all fucked when colonizers enact violence and destruction.

[iwatchforher]

bonus:

[vaspider]

After I had a doctor ruin my health, cost me years of my life, and nearly kill me by missing the diagnosis of a tumor which was compressing my spinal cord, I learned this script:

“I’m not here to talk about my weight; I’m here to talk about [problem]. I have a history of doctors focusing on my weight and ignoring problems like ‘a tumor in my spine,’ so I’m sure you’ll understand why I would prefer we did not ignore my stated complaint to focus on my weight instead.”

“I would like to focus on the complaint that brought me in today, which is [complaint], not my weight.”

“What tests or course of treatment would you recommend to a thin person presenting with my symptoms? Why are we not doing that? I would prefer to proceed with those tests and that course of treatment.”

“Please write in my chart that I asked you for these tests and course of treatment that you would give a thin patient with my symptoms, and you declined.”

“I’d like to request a copy of my visit notes from today,” [if the above don’t work and you don’t have MyChart, “what’s the correct email for my written request?”

It may be difficult to insist on a patient advocate to be in the room with you, but in many states you are legally entitled to one. I bring one of my partners bc I have medical-triggered PTSD. They know how to advocate for me or support me if a doctor tries to steamroll me..

If you are in a hospital situation and cannot get an official advocate in the room with you, ask for a chaplain. Chaplains are used to being in a room to comfort and help patients and in many circumstances, just having a witness in the room will change a doctor’s tune REALLY fast.

Medical fatphobia is a big problem, and it really heavily affects but is not restricted to people that doctors perceive to be women (whether or not those people are women). Don’t let yourself be bullied!