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catlips001

FUCK. honestly just FUCK. We missed a very important day yesterday.

battebitch-deactivated20200410

what was yesterday, cat?

catlips001

I’m not missing it this year.

lord0fries

HOW DID YOU REBLOG FROM THE PAST @catlips001 ????

sachinmandal

Vampire amoeba

xbubbledumbbx

I looked at the reblogs and died laughing

i-do-not-fangirl-i-fanwoman

transmechanicus

Considering it appears to be taking Everything, this is less a vampire and more the single cell equivalent of The Thing

the-dance-of-italy

no-longer-another-bondi-blonde

ventraman

This could save your life.

instructor144

BOOST.

aqueous2

Absolutely vital information to have if you live where the waters freeze over.

I especially appreciate this guy's commitment to actually showing the steps himself. That cold-shock response is a bitch and willingly subjecting himself to it couldn't have been fun.

official-lucifers-child

Wiggle

c4pyb4ra

it did not work, but i can help

big wiggle

december-rains

the ultimate dash cleanser.

thefirsthogokage

That made me so happy! I wish it was longer.

riverdalesblossomcheryl

The joy this gave me

feiquacker

@unidentified-flying-cryptid

bramblesand

People, especially games, get eldritch madness wrong a lot and it’s really such a shame.

An ant doesn’t start babbling when they see a circuit board. They find it strange, to them it is a landscape of strange angles and humming monoliths. They may be scared, but that is not madness.

Madness comes when the ant, for a moment, can see as a human does.

It understands those markings are words, symbols with meaning, like a pheromone but infinitely more complex. It can travel unimaginable distances, to lands unlike anything it has seen before. It knows of mirth, embarrassment, love, concepts unimaginable before this moment, and then…

It’s an ant again.

Echoes of things it cannot comprehend swirl around its mind. It cannot make use of this knowledge, but it still remembers. How is it supposed to return to its life? The more the ant saw the harder it is for it to forget. It needs to see it again, understand again. It will do anything to show others, to show itself, nothing else in this tiny world matters.

This is madness.

bogleech

Thank you for this good PSA because I’m still seeing sincere, published, professional writers doing “ahhhhh oh no this monster was SO UGLY i’m mentally ill now!”

derinthescarletpescatarian

Hate the 4 or so days after peeling a bandaid off where you have to wait for the stupid red mark to go away

derinthescarletpescatarian

That’s what you all said about pomegranates a few days ago. Tumblr doesn’t get to armchair diagnose me with two allergies in the same week, that isn’t fair.

zwoelffarben

Stop being maybe allergic to things then /j.

derinthescarletpescatarian

I’ve gone through my entire life with basically no allergies and I’m not about to start now

derinthescarletpescatarian

#could also be an adhesive allergy! i am fine with latex but some bandaids man

Given that the persistent red parts and dry skin are always in the ‘shape’ of the adhesive part that’s probably it

lynati

“Pomegranate allergy is seen in conjunction with allergies to other foods presenting as Latex Food Syndrome, which is caused by the body confusing the proteins it encounters in food to that of latex proteins to which it is already sensitised.”

“There are 3 allergens thought to cause allergic reactions in pomegranates, these are called Pun g 1, Pun g 7 and Pun g 14. Pun g 14 is a chitinase protein. This is a plant derived enzyme made by plants naturally to act as a defence against fungal attacks. Chitinase is a protein associated with an allergy to latex.”

http://www.allergyresources.co.uk/Pomegranate.php

derinthescarletpescatarian

You’re saying it’s possible that my body throws hissy fits over delicious fruit and medical treatment because it’s freaking out over an antifungal protein?

derinthescarletpescatarian

WAIT. MAIZE IS ON THIS LIST.

IS SWEETCORN NOT SUPPOSED TO SOFTEN THE ROOF OF YOUR MOUTH UP AND HURT LIKE HELL FOR HOURS?? IS THAT AN ALLERGY THING??

theres-no-protocol-for-this

May I offer moral support?

I spent my entire life thinking tomatoes were spicy. Turns out, they’re not. I was 36 when I learned that I’m allergic to some kind of pollen that also triggers on raw tomatoes. :S

derinthescarletpescatarian

At least you get an entirely different depth of flavour from the average burger! XD

If Lynati is right I might have one single allergy that wants to fuck my life up in multiple distinct ways.

derinthescarletpescatarian

The irony here is that I only mentioned bandaids because I was using them to secure samples to my skin for a pomegranate test last week.

transmascfrankiero

normal-horoscopes

The funniest thing about talking to other professional writers is when they learn about my freakishly high daily word count. They inevitably ask "How do you manage to put out 1500 words a day?" And I get to say "I spent roughly six years practicing an 175 year old form of self-hypnosis that was originally invented for seances."

normal-horoscopes

It's called Automatic Writing. People say that they can write without consciously thinking about it and I don't think that's true, but I can 100% say that it's possible to induce trance states that let your subconscious flow better.

People who've played Jackbox games with me can vouch for me. My words-per-minute rate is significantly higher than most people's.

normal-horoscopes

@esotericecology weighs in:

egregioussly

could you perhaps drop a lil tutorial on how to achieve this trance state?

normal-horoscopes

1) Sit down at your computer or desk with a blank document ready

2) Set a timer for 5 minutes

3) Start writing, and do not stop, no matter what. No eraser. No backspace. No thought. The key is to overcome any hesitation. Do not look at the screen or page if possible.

4) The next day, increase the timer by another 5 minutes.

Just keep doing that until you can enter a trance state. Then practice maintaining the trance. I can keep it going for five to six hours.

[it helps to have some sort of gesture or trigger that you use to mark the start of writing. I put my hands together in a specific way and take a deep breath. I reverse the gesture when I'm finished. ]

Additionally, if you have a history of dissociation like I do, keep something on hand to ground yourself if you start to feel yourself slipping. A warm drink, something spicy to eat, a glass of ice cold water. I'm fond of simply biting into lemon slices.

Additionally, this took a while to be truly useful. It was a fun exercise for me for the first year or so.

megalunalexi-aesthetic

How do you tell the difference between trance and dissociation?

normal-horoscopes

Psychographic Trance feels kinda like a calmer hyperfocus or a soft flow state. Dissociation feels numb.

smoldragonborn

“we need to stop the stigma towards drug users and addicts” and “we need to challenge the idea that being sober makes you boring” and “we need to stop acting like binge drinking to the extent you’re doing medical damage is fun and normal for young people” are all ideas that can and should coexist.

fatfemmefreaquency

just so we’re clear, the threshold for “binge drinking to the extent you’re doing medical damage” is waaaay lower than you think.

I work in an obstetrician and gynaecologist’s office. we have to tell patients on a regular basis that they are binge drinking weekly when they think they are simply consuming a normal amount of alcohol on the weekends.

having more than 3 drinks in a single sitting if you have an estrogen based endocrine system is a binge that is medically significant.

having more than 5 in a sitting is a medically significant binge for someone with a testosterone based endocrine system.

every time you do this, it significantly impacts your risk of getting breast cancer, and damages your liver. it takes time to recover from that liver damage. if you’re having a 3-5 or more drink binge on a weekly basis, you are an alcoholic, medically speaking, and your liver is not recovering.

again: the bar for what binge drinking is, medically, is so much lower than what you think it is.

alcohol is a really toxic substance and not something you should fuck around with.

again: if you have an estrogenized hormone system (common for most women), then 3 drinks is a binge. if you have a testosteronized hormone system (common for most men), then 5 drinks is a binge.

anything above that number, consumed as frequently as weekly or more, and you’re medically a binge drinking alcoholic.

also, if you’re drinking any quantity of alcohol 6 days a week or more, that’s another threshold at which, medically speaking, you meet the definition of alcoholism. your liver needs more days without alcohol in your system than just one a week to recover and be healthy.

I don’t say any of this to shame anyone—to me, alcoholism or substance use disorders aren’t a sign of weakness or moral failing. and most of us genuinely don’t know this stuff.

rather—I point this out because it’s important to reduce harm, and find ways to live healthier, happier lives. there is a life outside of constant binge drinking. it’s not always easy to find it. but it’s out there. you deserve a life where your emotional needs are met by something other than alcohol, and a life in which your liver is healthy, and the ways you cope and celebrate and find joy don’t put you at increased risk of cancer.

qweerhet

also–even if alcohol is the only way you can self-medicate, or if you choose to go on with your alcohol usage anyway regardless of other options–you still deserve to know what it’s doing to your body.

information is key. you don’t have to stop drinking, but the utter lack of education on alcohol + the normalization of binge drinking in current society leads to many people drinking without any idea of what it’s doing to their bodies.

addicts deserve accurate medical information regardless of what they decide to do with it. for some people, losing liver function is worth the benefits they get from binge drinking, but they can’t make that choice if they don’t know what the consequences are to begin with.

jeanjauthor

addicts deserve accurate medical information regardless of what they decide to do with it.

crabmandible

Im gonna hold an egg in my mouth for 2 hours to challenge myself.

crabmandible

OGAHAGSIGf

crabmandible

here is my quick artists rendition.. it was a primal moment

yellowbloods-deactivated2021051

hi i just wanted to share ops tags from each of these because theyre really Something

cahzery

buddy that is beyond monkey brain, you went all the way back to reptile brain. These are real Dimetrodon hours.

thenatsdorf

MA? MAAAAAAHHHHHAAAAAAAAAAM?!?!…MAAAA oh there you are!” (via)

drtanner

The IMMEDIATE change in the tone of the meow when he sees her, oh my god.

youmaycallmeyourhighness

Yeah

gwyoi

hexpress

ty for stealing this one much appreciated

str0kethebigtree-deactivated202

people in the notes suggesting it was "improper" for the juror to do this or that it "introduced bias" to the court proceeding 🙄 the ice agent in question accused a moc of assaulting him / resisting arrest. how is the agent being a white supremacist not relevant. what universe are you living in

A juror was held in criminal contempt and fined more than $11k for researching his case online. The man, named as Stephen Miele, told other

3fluffies

As a member of the world’s SECOND oldest profession, I assure you this is just one of many ways the justice system is systematically fucked up.

a-method-in-it

For anyone who wants to know how to fact check something you are told while on jury duty without getting fined:

First, you need to understand that the rule that jurors can’t just google things is coming from a good place. Like imagine that you are on a jury that’s considering, say, a medical malpractice lawsuit and one of your fellow jurors comes into the jury room and says to you, “I think the victim’s expert was lying because WebMD totally contradicts everything they said.”

And you might be like, “But WebMD is notoriously unreliable website and the expert you’re talking about is a researcher from Mayo Clinic.” But this person cannot be swayed.

Like, we can all agree that would be bad.

So even though these rules can contribute to unjust outcomes as in the case above (and seriously, the fact that the defense attorney didn’t fact check that is probably grounds for legal malpractice), they also prevent jurors from just looking up bullshit online and taking it more seriously than the actual experts the court has put on. And I think in the era of anti-vaxxers/QAnon/COVID denial/etc., we can all understand why it’s a bad idea to trust that people can tell fact from bullshit online.

So in light of this, how do you as a juror fact check something?

The key here is that you have to ask the court for information. Jurors can ask questions of the court during deliberations, so if something you said sounds off to you, you can ask for more information.

The key term you want to use here is “credibility.”

The job of a jury is to decide what are called “questions of fact.” Long before the trial even starts, lawyers will have hashed out all the “questions of law” --- like, what the statute of limitations is; what laws, exactly, were allegedly broken; whether the court you’re in even has jurisdiction; stuff like that. Jurors are responsible for deciding which side’s version of the facts has more credibility.

For instance, if the prosecution’s witness says X and the defense’s witness says Y, the jury is responsible for deciding which is true, X or Y. And you do this by weighing which one is more credible.

So in this case, if the juror had known to, he could have told the judge, “In order to properly assess the ICE agent’s credibility, I need more information about his tattoo. I have doubts about whether he was telling the truth about it, which would impact how credible I would find his testimony. Can the agent please provide evidence that it really is what he says it is?”

There are a lot of problems with our legal system, and I think one of the biggest is that jurors aren’t educated about what they can and can’t do. Juries have a lot of power, if (and only if) they know how to use it.

lytefoot

Reblogging for that last post, because frankly, “what to do as a juror” is one of those things the schools should really be teaching us. Serving on a jury is one of the most powerful rights of citizenship and everyone should be educated in how to exercise it correctly.

coyotepack-official

jenniferrpovey

Because this is apparently stick up for wolves day.

Wolf reintroduction in Yellowstone has changed the ecosystem *significantly*.

One remarkable thing that was not predicted that demonstrates how interlinked these things are:

Wolf eat elk.

Elk eat fewer willows.

Willows become healthier.

Number of beavers increase.

Number of songbirds increase.

Overall health of streams increases.

Number of fish increases.

Water table stabilizes.

This is called a “trophic cascade” and we normally see them as bad things. But a positive trophic cascade is an amazing thing, and apparently nobody predicted this one.

What they didn’t predict was that wolf predation would keep elk on the move so they wouldn’t overgraze a specific area.

When the elk overgrazed the willows, they removed the best source of food for beavers during the winter.

Once that stopped happening, the beaver population rebounded and it turns out beavers are pretty good for the entire ecosystem.

odd-lil-duck

thenatsdorf

Cat likes potatoes. (via)

prguitarman

The comedic timing of that lick tho 👌🏼

aerix-spades

stylecouncil

stressmannetje

Thank you plantappraiser for saying the funniest thing I’ve seen all day

padmedala

i’d be really curious to know what percent of queerbaiting is

a) an intentional marketing scheme to stir interest in the project and attract certain fanbases (lgbtq people and young women) vs.

b) members of the creative team genuinely wanting to write queer characters but the corporate side of things force them to tone it down but they still leave little hints vs.

c) they legitimately did not know how gay something would come across

lafgl

The answer: A is 100%. Because B and C are not queerbaiting. The literal meaning and definition of it is A.

counterpunches

#a) queerbaiting #b) queer coding #c) subtext

crazyintheeast

Please tumblr learn the difference and stop shitting on good shows

jupitermelichios

Anyone who’s still not clear:

Teen Wolf show-makers asking fans what they wanted, getting the answer ‘canon-queer relationships’ and then just hinting at Stiles being bi and having the characters people ship hang out platonically is queer-baiting

Gravity Falls having the two male police officers hold hands and show genuine affection to one another, but not being allowed to confirm they were married because the studio wanted to sell the show to Russia and China is queer-coding

Arthur Conan Doyle genuinely not understanding why some people would think two men living together, declaring their undying affection for one another, and constantly referring to Holmes as a ‘confirmed bachelor’ was a bit gay is queer-subtext

Clear now?

broken-clover

One of my favorite things to do in Pokemon SwSh is to spam Dynamax Meowth with the Amulet Coin until it caps out so whenever I beat someone it looks like they’re having a crisis over the fact that I just stole their entire bank account

iguanamouth

objectpermanences

I laughed so hard no sound came out

denverfarmboy

…to the Batmobile! 🤦🏼‍♂️🤦🏼‍♂️🤦🏼‍♂️

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