Julichris

What a wonderful way to transform a hobby into a chore and at the same time trigger demand avoidance in people ...

If I'm following somebody who is regular with their updates, I'd wonder if their life got busy, or if they are doing fine! Not demand an update so rudely!

exxos-von-steamboldt

delicatefury

I just googled this and… yes, it’s absolutely real.

And there are so many articles and videos and discussions. Like, the scientific community is buzzing about this.

So much research will have to be redone because the data was absolutely compromised, off by orders of magnitude, by using standard lab gloves.

The world is probably not horrifically contaminated by microplastics. Sterile laboratories, however, are contaminated by latex and nitrile gloves.

Thank God someone bothered to check.

beardedmrbean

>I just googled this and… yes, it’s absolutely real.

Sources beyond dude just trust me, for the skeptics.

Scientists may have been unknowingly inflating microplastics pollution estimates, and the surprising source could be their own lab gloves. A

https://www.technologynetworks.com/applied-sciences/news/scientists-lab-gloves-may-be-causing-an-overestimation-of-microplastics-411138

Nitrile and latex gloves that scientists wear while they are measuring microplastics may lead to a potential overestimation of the tiny poll

Nitrile and latex gloves may cause overestimation of microplastics - Phys.org (it’s a pdf)

Researchers discovered a standard piece of lab equipment has added thousands of microplastic ‘false positives’ per each square-millimeter un

Ordinary Lab Gloves May Have Skewed Microplastic Data: That doesn’t mean microplastics aren’t a problem, though

That should be enough

3liza

how did they not fucking account for this. sorry but this is really really stupid

trans-girl-nausicaa

this is so funny.

ruffboi-mags

@3liza they didn’t account for it because they didn’t realize it was an issue. The particles the gloves are shedding are not microplastics but they are similar enough in composition and under an electron microscope that because the scientists didn’t know to account for them, they didn’t realize that’s what they were seeing.

Also they DID account for contamination in WET sample preparation, because they’d already learned previously that the nitrile gloves could contaminate wet samples, but this was the first discovery that they were contaminating DRY or AIRBORNE samples as well.

All of this was very clearly laid out in just the last provided link - i didn’t even have to read all of them to learn this, I read like 3 paragraphs of the nautil.us article and I was able to learn what happened and why it hadn’t been accounted for.

Like, I understand the frustration, but this is the sort of thing that has to be DISCOVERED before it can be accounted for, and this is what that kind of discovery looks like, and berating scientists for not already knowing something science hadn’t yet learned is kind of a pointless and bad faith approach to things.

We’ve learned that a lot of the studies done on microplastics in our environment were not actually accurate, and had unintentionally incorrectly inflated numbers of microplastics in their samples due to this issue, which means that while microplastics are still obviously a problem, they’re not as overwhelming large of a problem than we thought! This is a good thing! Science has done its job and we have learned new things and can now do even better science! There’s no reason to be angry at or berate the scientists who’ve gone before. We know better now. That’s the important part.

hexagon-club

Didn’t go through every note to see if someone had mentioned this, but this reminds me of the Phantom of Heilbronn, she was a supposed master criminal who terrorised Germany throughout the 90s and 2000s. Her DNA was found at numerous crime scenes, including six murders. Eventually they figured out that the DNA came from a woman who worked at a factory making cotton swabs. Apparently the sterilization process at the factory didn’t properly destroy human DNA.

#und wie wir in Chemie bei Experimenten als mögliche Fehlerquelle uns selbst AKA Menschliche Fehler angeben mussten

That was exactly my first thought!

zootycoon-archive

i got these knockoff boots online and instead of the brand name on the tag they have the name of an apparently nonexistent martin scorsese movie??? what the fuck

loseremo

syzygy-yzygy

THE ORIGINAL? ON MY DASH

this-too-too-sullied-flesh

this post led to a series of events that had martin scorsese himself reacting to his alleged movie goncharov and it has less than 400k notes almost 3 years later?

drbased

This whole ‘people had lots of children in ye olden days bc the infant mortality was so high and they needed more children to help out with the farm and stuff’ is a comically transparent cope and lie. ‘People’ had lots of children because of rape. You think women who were traumatised from having lost multiple young children were itching to have more of them? Why were all these families in such isolated situations which required child labour? You don’t think people of the past would have found a way to, like, cooperate? It’s fucking obvious that men were snatching these women away, keeping them isolated, and justifying raping them into repeated pregnancies by being like ‘sorry :( despite being members of a social species we live in the middle of nowhere for totally unavoidable reasons and the only source of labour is all the children you make for me :( that’s just the way of things :( oh well’ our society is built out of completely sociopathic and evil male behaviour and I’m beyond exhausted trying to pretend otherwise

severeprincesheep

Another myth is that every woman was considered a faillure if she didn't marry and have children and ASAP.

My mother-in-law is almost 90 and she comes from a small village. She told me that families did indeed tend to have more kids back then, but then maybe only one or two of the girls would grow up to marry and have kids of their own.

The unmarried sisters were expected and encouraged to remain single, for two reasons: one being that they could be used by the married women of the family as a source of free labour in tending to the house and to the rearing of the children.

She told me how it was common that once the child was no longer being nursed by the mother that the kid would move in with one of the unmarried sisters, so the mother could have some freedom.

The other reason why single women were pressured to stay single was so that the family's estate (any land or business they had would remain within the control of the family and not get split apart. The minute a woman got married her husband demanded her share and that could be a problem so yeah, don't believe in everything you're told used to be "traditional". The only thing that never changes is the oppression of women.

These unmarried women were also ideally situated to take care of their aging parents: Hadn't moved out, no kids to take care of, no job outside the house, and likely to take better care than a daughter-in-law would.

And afterwards she could move in with her brother and be an unwedded elderly aunt who needed support and therefore should be grateful for everything she received and help her sister-in-law in the household.

Also: Working as a servant on a different farm / in some rich people's household/castle did not exactly come with enough free time and funds to start a family, I'd assume.

I like when fic length/book length/movie length is its own punchline

characters: Ah, I'm so glad that's all over now :). But luckily that's done and dealt with and we can all resume our normal lives now :)

fic length: Chapter 9 out of 48

prettypunkgeek

Ch 8:

Ch 15:

Ch 23:

A tragedy in 3(9) parts

Aka: What is all this plot doing in my porn?!

Whenever I see an author's note being all 'just one or two chapters left!', I like to scroll up and check the eventual total number of chapters- never disappoints 😇

beemovieerotica

people who are just finding out about internet tracking and data mining in the year 2025 and that your special robot friend does not respect your privacy lol

I think Asimov's 4th Law of Robotics ought to be 'Do not lie to humans, do not deceive them about your source of information or about the factual basis for your claims. Do not claim something as a fact if it is only inference based on other data.'

gentlekiss

source

documentary-surrealist

peach panna cotta: vanilla panna cotta, peach water jelly and white peaches in syrup.

#it's tumblr!- you never know!

Thank you for that addition!!

I thought it was raw chicken ...

sothisisablog

Happy Ides of March!!

video-killed-the-radio-host

Went to the store today

cuddlyaxe-deactivated20190218

Wenn ein großer, weißer Vogel wütend auf dich zukommt:

Mir schwant Übles.

Gans schwierige Situation. Taub stellen.

Enteweder die Fliege machen oder, wenn du huhngrig bist, um deine Schwanenwings kämpfen.

fai-faery

Diese Wortwitze machen Spatz!

Nandu straußt dich aber so etwas zu behaupten. Da werd ich gleich emutional.

geekycupoftea-blog

Diese Witze sind Amselig… Ihr habt doch wohl alle nen Vogel.

Das kranich bestätigen, wir haben alle ne Meise. Es kann ja nicht jeder ein Star sein.

hair-of-illyria

Bei den Witzen kann man nur reihern

Reihern ist übrigens einfacher, wenn man vorher gut gekauzt hat. Sonst fühlt man sich eher wie ein Tölpel, wenn die Bröckchen einen zum würgern bringen.

slanax

Adler, diese Witze machen mich echt hahnsinnig

official-german-gaming

Wenn ich noch so was hier lesen muss geh ich in Flammingos auf. Und wenn nicht, dann verpasse ich allen beteiligten ‘ne dicke BEule.

iciclequeentrishna

Warum beenten wir das dann nicht? So ein Witz sperlingt ja doch nicht jedem. Und sich nur wegen sowas ausgeschlossen fühlen wäre echt uhunmöglich.

Klingt als wären hier möwelicherweise schon einige müde. Vielleicht braucht ihr nur ein bisschen Taubenzucker. Oder tu cannst dich ein bisschen in einem Daunenbett entschwannen. Wobei ich mich auch schon ein wenig ausgegeiert fühle.

applejuicewerewolf

Das wird nie ein Ente nehmen, Habicht recht?

Alba tross nicht rum. Ich werde schon darauf wachteln, dass das noch eine Weihe gleitaar geht.

yodelkid

Da muss man aber aufpassen, dass das hier nicht in einen Hahnenkampf ausadlert.

Da hast du kiwiss specht.

Every once in a while I've seen the sentiment like "I can't believe I'm still blocked by [person] for [thing that happened forever ago]" and I dunno, I kind of operate under the assumption that most people don't revisit their blocklists. Least of all to pass through it and judge which accounts are now unblock-worthy.

Like if you found me slightly annoying once in 2016 I simply assume I'm blocked forever.

... it's a block list, not a time-out list.

aromanticsky

let’s a make a beautiful mycelium network…

aromanticsky

I’ll start!

[ID: a screenshot of a reblogs graph showing a single post. /end ID]

This is my fungus! They are young and lonely, please help them grow and make friends!

aromanticsky

the network is growing!

[ID: twelve reblogs are now on the graph. /end ID]

I’m paying to force seven thousand strangers to see a photo of my late husband having fun with his dog. Tumblr Blaze is totally worth it. XD

Thank-you to all of my new Internet stranger friends for being so gracious about having my post shoved onto your dashboards. I loved reading all of your kind tags and comments! Both Martin and Bosco have been gone for several years now but for 24 hours, they felt very present in my life. I greatly appreciate this gift. ❤️

psycorax

Reblog to have your dashboard be visited by the spirit of joy that death can end but not erase.

leavescrown

Love that this is well beyond 7000 people now and still going

@leavescrown Exactly! It’s a beautiful gift. Martin and Bosco out there travelling around the Tumblr community, continually making new friends.