madness is it's own reward

30's. US. He/They. I have more acronyms than limbs. Mostly here to interact w/ obscure fandoms. Stuff I like: Revelation Space, The Expanse, The Southern Reach, The Commonwealth Saga, The Magicians (books and show), The Wheel of Time, Hades (game), IwtV (AMC), The Terror (AMC), a bunch more stuff I can't think of now.

[like-a-young-prospero]

Going through Absolution again after a year or so since my last submersion in area x.

I get that Lowry is offputting as hell, but I could never understand hating him the way I've seen people hate him.

There are so many little tidbits hidden in the barrage that make it so obvious to me that he's in just as much distress from it as anyone reading it is.

Maybe it's just my own obsessive complusion biasing me, but I have so much empathy for the poor sap. Dude's life sucks and then it gets worse.

[clickbeetle]

sometimes you get so insane about a character that you forget they are not in fact everyone else’s favorite character

[feelindrawy]

WHITBY SCENE!! i love a deranged fucking freak <33

[thefeminineurge]

[randomfae]

“come back with a warrant”

i felt that. i shall start using that answer. it’s perfect.

[cellobuster]

Whoever invented "open in app" links that redirect you to the app store instead of actually opening the app even when you already have the app installed on your phone should be involuntarily turned into a beanbag chair

[like-a-young-prospero]

Deutschgramatik kolonisiert mein Englisch. Gestern habe ich auf warmes Wasser gewartet und habe gesagt, "Can I some warm water have?". 🤦‍♂️

[maidthings]

everyone say you're sorry to nuclear power for not letting her save the world for the past 60 years NOW.

[seabeck]

Orange chrysomphalina, Tacoma, WA

[orofeaiel]

Fir-Cone Mushrooms

[coffee-without-anesthetics]

forgive me father for i have opened a notification and read the message within to make the red dot go away and then forgot to reply for a month . it will happen again

[willgrahamscock]

having a tumblr blog is cool because you can scroll back for years to realize you’ve never been normal about any of your interests so why start now

[willgrahamscock]

leabe me alonne

[jungwildeandfree]

so this guy right he makes ancient egyptian themed furry costumes. he makes all kinds but mostly he specializes in Horus heads. it's his passion really. he loves to make the beautiful falcon head of the Sun God. anyway so he's at a con one day and he sees this whole bunch of people in middle kingdom dress with these indistinguishable animal heads. he's like. oh man these folks could really use a new source, i can hardly tell what animal those are! so he goes over and he says "hey guys! i see you are into ancient egyptian mythological themed furry costumes--if any of you are interested in being the radiant Son of Ra, I am the BEST in the business!"

and the group of people look at each other, then at him. awkward. finally one of them says: "uh. no thanks. we're all Set."

[s-cullayy]

[thatlittleegyptologist]

This has been sent to me four times today, so I'm condemning OP to be judged by the 42 and fall into Nuun.

[datundit]

I think every laugh will make OP’s heart a bit lighter.

@thatlittleegyptologist

Judge OP’s heart

I laughed, I lighten his heart.

His heart shall be heavier for this.

Voting ended onMar 1

[sunbentshadows]

[antisocialxconstruct]

man having your life even a little bit together will really make you realize how chronically sleep-deprived and poorly fed and under-enriched everyone is and then when they turn to you to implicitly agree that that's just the natural state of existing you feel like the asshole for being like "actually I think you might benefit from eating breakfast regularly and picking up a new hobby"

[twoblogger-deactivated20260714]

It kind of fucks with me that somebody killed ötzi the iceman because ötzi himself is like whatever but the silent presence of human hands that drew back the string of the bow that shot the arrow that killed him is crazy. the idea that there were various people involved in that situation and while one of them has had his last hours painstakingly reconstructed and studied to no end, the others now only exist insofar that an arrowhead had to get into his shoulder somehow. imagine killing someone and then suddenly your entire existence is only a vague shadow implied by the fact that you killed them. much to consider

[twoblogger-deactivated20260714]

Testing the mummified bone marrow of ötzi to figure out his ancestry whole time there’s definitely another person, maybe more than one, standing in the room with us but I can never see or speak to them because I only know them through the assurance that they were there too in the form of one single arrowhead. I hate prehistory so much it’s unreal

[angel-derangement]

I hate it too tbh

[coelii]

reblog to give your headache to elon musk instead

[kinkykinard]

[catboybiologist]

Oh if I'm shit stirring about random bullshit today

Every argument against nuclear power compares it to renewables, and yet every time a nuclear power plant is taken off the grid it is at least partially replaced by fossil fuels

[catboybiologist]

"Oh but it's temporary renewables will fully replace them in the future" we don't have time we don't have any fucking time the worst nuclear disasters and waste storage practices on the planet would be NOTHING compared to the utter devastation of fossil fuels

[catboybiologist]

"it's not public sentiment that takes nuclear plants offline, they're too expensive to run" they're too expensive to run because in most of the world (including right here in California) they're the least subsidized form of power. Governments usually subsidize or socialize all energy production, yes including fossil fuels, to keep the grid up and cheaper. Nuclear is often given the least amount of money- less than oil or natural gas, and often less than coal.

And THAT is a result of public sentiment.

[catboybiologist]

"well I agree with you but only when we do more research on safely storing all of the waste" every nuclear power plant in the US has enough "temporary" on-site waste storage to store all of the waste they will ever produce in their lifetime safely for centuries, even without transferring it to long term sites

[catboybiologist]

This is so fucking frustrating in environmental circles too. I feel like it's the equivalent of people telling new Yorkers that they shouldn't have voted for Zohran because he's not going to make a socialist utopia that could exist in a few decades from now

[catboybiologist]

We don't have TIME we don't have fucking time we don't have time

Solar and wind are inconsistent and need storage of some kind, which we need to research and build more infrastructure for

Large scale hydro is an ecological disaster and we are running out of places to do it anyways

Any more experimental technique needs more research

With a serious push for nuclear we could decarbonize the entire fucking grid in a few years with a consistent power baseline, and then supplement with renewables whenever possible and to handle peaks and troughs

[catboybiologist]

Governors Brown and Newsom of California both made major pushes to fully close down one of our two nuclear plants and slowly take more and more reactors at our last nuclear plant, Diablo Canyon, offline. The promise was to replace it with wind and solar.

They've largely been replaced by natural gas.

Based on napkin math I did about this like 5-10 years ago, five nuclear plants similar to Diablo Canyon running at full capacity could power the entire state of California alone. You could do it in three or less if you add in our renewables.

That's 1/8 of the population of the US decarbonized in a few years.

[catboybiologist]

I did these loose calculations for an argumentation and rhetoric course I did in undergrad so that's what this is based on, yes I understand that this is uncited, out of date napkin math with no precise numbers, but the situation has likely online gotten more promising with better and better nuclear plants.

But if ya want a little benchmark:

Right now, with a SINGLE nuclear plant operating at LESS THAN HALF capacity, 9% of California's energy production is nuclear. And we're planning on phasing it out entirely.

[catboybiologist]

Pulling out this classic xkcd to demonstrate my fucking point https://xkcd.com/1162/

The sheer scale nuclear operated at means that it's capacity to eliminate the ills of any other form of power dwarfs any possible problems they have

The amount of land scoured, spilled on, devastated, unusable, and people killed by fossil fuel mining, emissions, and leakage will always be more than thousands of Fukushimas and Chernobyls. You don't even have to start splitting hairs about "oh those were old plants anyways" or "oh that was mismanaged" because even the worst, most extreme, most avoidable situations for nuclear, represented in those two incidents, still do not reach anything close to the scores of dead left behind by fossil fuels.

[thriron]

and coal often contains radioactive particles WHICH ARE PUT IN THE FUCKING AIR

[arkashas]

GOD. still the funniest transition in the show bar none