Dread Wolf

[i-am-bic]

"There's no platonic explanation for this" <-you need to be nicer to your friends. Right now

[esmeralda-anistasia]

#STOP SAYING 'PLATONIC' WHEN YOU MEAN 'CASUAL'#RELATIONSHIPS CAN BE PLATONIC AND ABSOLUTELY DERANGED

[cuppydogshane]

all the rights that come with marriage you should be able to have without marriage btw. you should be able to designate a person who can visit you in the hospital regardless of your relationship to that person.

[shivunin]

If you haven't heard this before, just a heads up: it is good Tumblr etiquette to use a "read more" on longer pieces of fic. Makes scrolling through tags and participating in events more reader-friendly and takes almost no time to do!

[serregon]

I know we make jokes about the proverbial asexual pervert who has written hundreds of thousands of words of smut on ao3, but also shoutout to the aces who aren’t perverts. to the aces who skip the sex scenes and wince at sex jokes and awkwardly leave the conversation when your friends start talking about sex. your boundaries aren’t childish and fuck anyone who says otherwise.

[kushblazer666]

[flowercrownsylveon]

[moonshinemagpie]

researching the history of education in japan and learning that, pre–Meiji Restoration, peasants/commoners formed their own schools to become educated because it was the best way of fighting tax fraud.

That is, when an official told you, a rice farmer, that you owed more taxes than you really did, it was very useful if you were good enough at math to know he was lying (and could prove it) and if you were good enough at writing to write a letter to your government defending your case.

all of which is to say it's crazy that mega-corporations are now pushing education to be "what if you paid us whatever we tell you to for the rest of your life and never do math or write anything ever again"

[moonshinemagpie]

Adding to this because I am unexpectedly finding it useful for asking questions about AI.

Education in Japan didn't become widespread, with nationwide standardized exams, until after the Meiji Restoration. Japan of course wasnt a democracy; it was blooming into a fascist nightmare. So why was this the time when education became available to all people, the rich and poor, boys and girls alike?

Education as a universal human right was not a motivation for the Japanese government.

Instead it was motivated by the desire to cultivate 人材, jinzai, human resources/talented people. Jinzai could help the empire expand. Even today, the Japanese government explicitly uses the term jinzai prominently in its Ministry of Education documents.

So if, today, we're heading into an era that looks increasingly fascist, the government could still be motivated to educate its people in order to remain competitive.

But let's say that 50 or 100 years from now, AI is doing for us what the jinzai of the past used to do: the coding, the engineering, the diagnosing, the war commanding, etc., etc.

Let's say we actually only need a few flesh-and-blood jinzai to oversee what AI is doing. Those people would need to be incredibly intelligent and skilled, but if the need and desire for everyone to be educated has dissipated, then who are the select few who will have the opportunity to become educated? Will we fall back into a society where only the wealthy can school their children?

Just things I'm thinking about as I eat my soup tonight.

[monidoll]

dna is often explained as if it was computer code, but its important to remember its literally a bunch of physical strings. just as important as the sequence itself is how these physical strings are packaged and where proteins attach to them, because this determines which parts can even be read

[monidoll]

purified dna looks like this in bulk

[transmechanicus]

my beautiful singular gram of DNA

[elbiotipo]

Here are some other images:

It's not ALL DNA, I don't recall the specifics right now, but yes, it does turn into this stringy thing when you purify it for DNA extraction. I was amazed when I saw it for the first time, it really looks like what you would imagine it to be.

[strawberrycamel]

we really should be calling it fanworks, not content

[strawberrycamel]

I'm here for fun and community not to rp a mega corporation's underpaid social media intern

[faustandfurious]

There’s something truly exquisite about stories where the real tragedy is the price you paid to stand on top of the world

[faustandfurious]

Hollow victories … sacrificing your humanity on the altar of what you perceive to be the greater good … the loneliness of godhood … regret for the person you used to be … the realisation that there is no way back … *chef’s kiss*

[vanilla-extraction]

[melancholic-whimsy]

so apparently that feeling of lethal nausea is called hunger

[segamascott]

[space-feminist]

one thing i've been thinking about lately is that a lot of the things that are viewed as a sign of a person Not Doing Well are actually the healthy coping mechanisms for when things aren't going well. like crying about something is healthier than repressing it, listening to sad music helps you process your feelings, cutting your own hair is a low-stakes way to change up your life and claim agency over yourself, and in this case getting chinese takeout instead of cooking is a perfectly reasonable choice if you've had a bad or tiring day. movies will show a character eating takeout alone after a miserable day of work as if that's the sad ending to their day but the takeout isn't the sad part, the sad part is the day itself. it's mistaking the bandage for the wound

[titsay]

[voydhymn]

having many trinkets and books is so cool and fun until you realize you have to dust them

[copperbadge]

What Is It Like To Age With Autism?

Fuck me, this is wild. The whole article is worth reading, but there's a one-two punch in the opening, that potentially 90% of adults with autism aren't diagnosed and 1% of autism research focuses on midlife and older age.

I know very well the running joke that children with autism evaporate when they hit 18 because so much autism research and media is focused on children. It just really hits home how we don't even goddamn look at adults with autism let alone speak with them or study their experiences.

I'm not even autistic but I have plenty of autistic friends and this makes me furious. What the actual fuck. I'm about to start the Evaporation Fund for Adult Autism Research.

[printedsoot]

My wife is a therapist, and a couple of years ago she went looking for resources to make her a better therapist for her many adult autistic clients and was (and still is) outraged that a) there was not much out there, and b) that she just might be one of the most knowledgeable therapists regarding adult autism just by virtue of interacting with a statistically higher percentage of people in our life that are autistic by virtue of being neurodivergent queer nerds ourselves.

The best source she has found for info about this was the AuSM conference she attended virtually last year. It’s a great conference run for and by autistic folk, but it should not be one of the only ways to get information about older autistic folk.

It’s a real problem that is starting to be rectified, but as with anything that is academic and research based it takes time for the resources to build up.

[lazer-exe]

I'm gonna say it, I do think that even the laziest person imaginable should have a roof over their head, food in their stomach, and access to healthcare

[barbaricjester]

I love the word "beeline." youre in such a hurry youre doing bug movement

[valtsv]

i just know there was a weird little girl in the middle ages out there stealing snake's eggs and putting them in her family's chicken coop in the hope of hatching a basilisk

[valtsv]

god i love the internet because if i said shit like this to people irl they'd probably just stare at me blankly but when i post it online everyone in the notes reacts like this