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*takes all the social media posts in the world, stirs them around in a big cauldron until they are one big bubbling stew, tastes a bit with a spoon then goes to sit sadly by the window for a very long time*

mercy-misrule

one of the most amazing things that has been said to me in therapy is that self esteem doesn’t exist.

and that floored people and the psych went onto say that what she meant was that self esteem is a concept that actually includes a vast array of things and labelling them all as one thing is really limiting and prevents actual improvement

you could have real strong pride in the things you create and hate your body

you could hate your creations but also want to share them with people

you could not hate yourself at all but not take care of yourself, engage in reckless self endangerment

thats all bundled under ‘self esteem’ but saying ‘i need better self esteem’ doesn’t mean anything

whereas if you say ‘i need to work on ways to keeping myself safe, refusing to act on destructive urges’ or ‘i want to be in a place where i believe compliments trusted people give me’

thats concrete, thats a goal.

having it said in therapy helped a lot of people in my group stop saying ‘i have low self esteem’ and start specifying about the actual issue they have

bead-bead-deactivated20190901

Wow, that is so, so helpful.

brightfell-deactivated20211019

The science world is freaking out over this 25-year-old's answer to antibiotic resistance

mindblowingscience

A 25-year-old student has just come up with a way to fight drug-resistant superbugs without antibiotics.

The new approach has so far only been tested in the lab and on mice, but it could offer a potential solution to antibiotic resistance, which is now getting so bad that the United Nations recently declared it a “fundamental threat” to global health.

Antibiotic-resistant bacteria already kill around 700,000 people each year, but a recent study suggests that number could rise to around 10 million by 2050.

In addition to common hospital superbug, methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), scientists are now also concerned that gonorrhoea is about tobecome resistant to all remaining drugs.

But Shu Lam, a 25-year-old PhD student at the University of Melbourne in Australia, has developed a star-shaped polymer that can kill six different superbug strains without antibiotics, simply by ripping apart their cell walls.

“We’ve discovered that [the polymers] actually target the bacteria and kill it in multiple ways,” Lam told Nicola Smith from The Telegraph. “One method is by physically disrupting or breaking apart the cell wall of the bacteria. This creates a lot of stress on the bacteria and causes it to start killing itself.”

The research has been published in Nature Microbiology, and according to Smith, it’s already being hailed by scientists in the field as “a breakthrough that could change the face of modern medicine”.

Before we get too carried away, it’s still very early days. So far, Lam has only tested her star-shaped polymers on six strains of drug-resistant bacteria in the lab, and on one superbug in live mice.

But in all experiments, they’ve been able to kill their targeted bacteria - and generation after generation don’t seem to develop resistance to the polymers.

island-living-vetmed-chronicles

Yes. All the yes. Women in STEM deserve ALLLLLLLL the applause. All of it. And cake. All the cake, too.

brightfell-deactivated20211019

The science world is freaking out over this 25-year-old’s answer to antibiotic resistance: from Edward the Booble http://bit.ly/2MABk2O via IFTTT

andrewiam

I love this solution because it’s just… So simple. Everyone is getting deeper and deeper into pharmacology trying to find new stuff and new combos that’ll overcome bacterial resistance (while Big Pharma rakes in the profits) and this student was like “what if.. We just.. Physically rip it the fuck apart?? What’s it gonna do? Develop resistance to me cutting a bitch?”

Iconic

slapspert

Medicine: How do we defeat anti-biotic resistant super bugs?

Shu Lam: What if we just beat the shit out of it?

just-shower-thoughts

The first guy who heard a parrot talk was probably not ok for several days.

krazykitsune

Actually, weird history fact about that. The island of Bermuda’s first name was Isle of Devils, being thought to be filled with demons and angry spirits when it was actually just filled with some loud ass birds.

pippingaladriel

lesbian good omens fancast

unclefather

disney: we’re taking all of our movies off of streaming services and we’re going to charge you $10 a month to watch them on our own streaming app

me:

rinokami

More like

Disney: “We’re going to take all our movies off of streaming sites INCLUDING THE ONE WE ALREADY OWN (Hulu) so we can put them on a separate one and milk even more money out of you.”

Me:

bubblycowboy

haylyay

trustmeimafraggle-deactivated20

Disney owns everything, and even if they didn’t own it, they will eventually

boogiepopular

Holy shit.

germanmoonhowler

I think it would be easier to list what they DO NOT own….

lesbiansandpuns

version of the graphic that you can enlarge

runcibility

If you were to resort to piracy over being exhausted over the various streaming services recreating the nickling and diming of the cable television industry (and I’m not saying you should - just… if you happen to find yourself there), a full VPN is not required.

You can have your torrent activity go through a proxy (while the rest of your traffic isn’t shuttled through there) using services like BTGuard. All the torrent activity is run through the proxy:

If your ISP has bandwidth caps, you’ll still run into those. But they won’t know what you’re transferring.

Just… information out there that you might find useful, in the age of ten-thousand different streaming services that all want you to keep adding more paid subscriptions.

dar-draws

tis a good boy

thecrispybarrett

When Nintendo releases just a dog and names it after the dog of someone at the office.

mochipanko

Ghibli fashion - Howl, Haku & the Baron

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Sophie, Kiki, Chihiro & Arrietty!

halloweenatdusk

summer time goth

thorffour-deactivated20190920

this is amazing

shofie-irl

hey quick question, what the fuck is up with the KFC marketing team

ericvilas

they know their shit is what’s up

killingmoon

mellific

all sorts of echoes in these caverns

creekfiend

Thank fucking god for plumbers who are willing to go behind their corporate bosses’ backs and be like “yeah don’t pay the 150 dollar emergency fee just gimme 40 bucks under the table, also, don’t buy a water heater from us, my boss will charge u like 800 bucks. go to Lowe’s and ask for a Scratch n’ Dent, they’ll give you for like 200 bucks. Call me tomorrow and I can install it for you in like an hour” wow… solidarity

creekfiend

I cannot express how much I would rather slip one workperson 40 bucks directly into their pocket for doing me a solid by not making me get ripped off by his bosses, like…….. thanks bro

redwoodriver-deactivated2018042

listen. it’s 2018. it’s time to admit, finally, that bbc sherlock is, in fact, bad, and was only good because we watched it when we were 15 and didn’t know how to dismantle scripts that SOUND clever but are really just gold-flake covered shit

linabelina-deactivated20250916

*angry and annoyed asexual agreement*

redwoodriver-deactivated2018042

what’s this mean

svvashbuckler

It means they agreed but weren’t like, horny about it i guess

thetrashiestoftrash

I mean, I would guess that they’re probably upset that the Sherlock showrunners made some dismissive remarks about how Sherlock isn’t asexual because that would be “boring,” so the show is specifically insulting to ace folks. But that isn’t as funny.