Veggies the Space Cat

genderfluid autistic sphinx. Born too early to be a starship captain. Hope to fix that. My hobby is overanalysis. Tagging has improved. ~ Find herein fandom of anything beginning with"Star", science (& SCIENCE!), political griping, animation geekery, and Flight-Inclined Felinity.

[argumate]

the human stress response seems so maladaptive!

[cargopantsman]

To be fair 99% of our evolutionary stress response was meant to deal with far more immediately conclusive scenarios than the tedious bullshit we put up with these days.

[argumate]

very very slow tigers are chasing me

[yellbug]

not to leave a serious comment on a silly post but one of the best pieces of advice I ever got about stress was to SLEEP but secondly, when overwhelmed, lay in a bed and intentionally hold all your muscles clenched. clench EVERYTHING. hold it for a few seconds, then let go. It tricks your animal fight-or-flight monkey brain into thinking it had, and won, a fight, and some of the stress response will leave you

[creekfiend]

#turn a slow tiger into a fast tiger with this fucked up trick

[sandmandaddy69]

[girlballs-archive]

[nefja]

I-I'm sorry but I can't stop thinking about this

[tiger-in-the-flightdeck]

My roommate just called from the kitchen to ask what was wrong because I laughed so hard I gave myself a coughing fit.

[supreme-leader-stoat]

I'm so glad the music is what I thought it'd be.

[gaystropod]

I love that the nature of humanity is to repeat itself

[byjove]

I think if you try to wiggle out of getting your dog vaccinated for rabies due to your own anti-vax beliefs, you should be forced to watch footage of a dog succumbing to rabies and the pathological process of taking brain tissue from a suspected canine rabies victim. I really think treating these people with kid gloves is not working and they need to viscerally see what the consequences of their actions can be.

[byjove]

Rabies is one of the scariest and saddest diseases that an animal (or person!) can contract and many countries have already eliminated it. I think it’s easier for people from suburban areas who have not witnessed sick wildlife to delude themselves into thinking their pets don’t need the rabies vaccine or that the virus is rarer than it is.

[teaboot]

Rabies is a disease so terrifyingly fatal that it is the only infectious disease I know of where, if you have been infected, you WILL be given the vaccine, even if you are deathly allergic to it- because we can TREAT anaphylaxis, but unvaccinated Rabies WILL kill you.

And not only will it kill you, BEFORE it kills you, once it reaches your brain, it will GIVE YOU A PHOBIA IF WATER. Do you know HOW INSANE THAT IS, that a VIRAL ORGANISM CAN *MAKE YOU DEATHLY AFRAID OF DRINKING*? I have phobias. Phobias are not fears. Phobias are your entire fight or flight response taking the reins of your body to keep you away from a thing. You can’t THINK THROUGH A PHOBIA.

And once you show symptoms, it’s over. You get that? You WILL NEED TREATMENT FOR IT BEFORE YOU EVEN KNOW IF YOU HAVE IT.

I don’t believe in fearmongering, so for that reason I am not exaggerating. YOU WILL NOT KNOW IF YOUR YOUR PET HAS CONTRACTED RABIES UNTIL IT IS ALREADY TOO LATE.

And the only way to stop it from spreading further is to kill the animal transmitting it, vaccinate anything that can contract it, and vaccinate anyone who’s been exposed to it.

Not a lot of shit scares me. Rabies scares the FUCK out of me. Rabies is as close as I can imagine getting to a real-life zombie virus, except maybe Creutzfeldt–Jakob’s disease, which is effectively indestructible to the point where medical equipment used to treat it must be destroyed, and might barely be slightly less frightening only because it’s harder to contract.

There is no terrifying vaccine conspiracy you can invent or imagine that is worse than the reality of rabies.

That is true of many diseases, but especially true of rabies.

Vaccinate your FUCKING pets

[riverlarking]

free museum trips are wasted on unappreciative middle schoolers. let me go

[petalpetal]

so there is a painted version of this photo that has a beautiful but obscure title to it y'all please help me find it its probably one of my favorite paintings ever

[ssaintsaens]

I Hope This Email Finds You Well, Lydia Blakeley, 2021

[britomartis]

it rly is so fucked up how a consistent art style and developing one is soooo emphasized like.. you don't really need to do that unless ur trying to be an industry artist and will be expected to conform to other ppls styles. don't you want more. Don't you want to play and experiment and push without fear. Your art will be recognizable as yours bc the way you interpret the world into 2d is unique to you

[the-nothing-maker]

Hey! All of your drawings do not need to be completely unique from one another. Do you know how many versions and replicas of his Sunflowers Van Gogh actually did? Just draw that naked guy ten times. Reuse that colour palette. Do that pose again. Follow your heart for real, no one can care as much as you do.

[bebsi-cola]

using brain damage as an insult isn't a better alternative to using the r word. brain damage doesn't cause bigotry, and it's not the punchline for a joke. you know you can express astonishment at someone's actions without implying they must have brain damage. brain injuries aren't the end of someone's worth as a person. like are you even aware there's various types of brain injury.

[nightmaretour]

I have moderate-severe right hemisphere brain damage, which is generally considered the "bad" one when it comes to social and emotional stuff. It's the one that the particularly dedicated armchair pseudospychologists like to accuse people they don't like of (you've probably heard of left vs. right brained, which is complete bullshit and I won't get into it here, but it was a whole thing.). I have trouble regulating my emotions and reacting to social situations. I laugh inappropriately, I don't know how to express my emotions correctly and I'm not certain I even feel the full range, and for a long time after the damage was done I had very intense anger issues.

However it didn't make me right wing, it didn't make me deliberately vindictive, or abusive, it didn't make me hateful and bigoted. Those things are all choices. There is no kind of brain damage that automatically makes you a bad person, and most bad people don't have brain damage.

People with all kinds of brain damage at all severities are full, real people with personalities and opinions who exist all around you, and when you use us as insults we hear you.

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[huffylemon]

my birthday is in july! :)

[chainmessage]

[outfoxedmulderr]

[knightofleo]

😺

[whosname]

[Transcription: "My cat was attacking the cords behind my monitor as I was "typing" up notes for the AP Micro class I teach and only after I got her down did I realize I still had the "Dictate" microphone on"

Utility is subjective (Not everyone needs a Ford F-150 for instance)

Utility is difficult to quantify (But for the sake of learning we'll assume it can be measured in utils)

Total Utility is the total amount of satisfaction or pleasure a person derives from consuming some specific quantity of a good or service are you kidding me right now what are you doing over there you you being a menace I'm trying to work I'm trying to get stuff done you just want pets obey them all the time stop it bill stop being bad just be good instead of being bad be good stop it stop it damn it damn it stop what do you want from me you're stuck in this spot that I can't grab you yeah I bet it is uncomfortable well guess what don't put yourself in a position where I have to keep doing this just be good ohh

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[kedreeva]

"Just be good instead of being bad"

[seraphtrevs]

STOP no more live-action remakes. We're going the other way now. Animated Casablanca. Animated The Godfather. Animated Oppenheimer. Animated Fight Club.

[edhelwen1]

Animated Goncharov.

[marlynnofmany]

Definitely that one.

[ifitistobeitisuptous]

unless, hear me out...

Muppet Goncharov

[marlynnofmany]

[sufficientlylargen]

Look at these idiots who haven't seen Gonzorov (1993).

[unquartdetour]

Reblogging entirely for Gonzorov.

[optimysticals]

Gonzorov (1993) was so good. I remember seeing it as a kid and not realizing it was based on an older movie. But like my mom was there next to me laughing so much harder than I was because she had seen Goncharov in the theater. It was like this bonding moment for us. She didn't let me see the original for another couple years, but we made a double feature of it.

I think my favorite part was having Lynda Carter reprise her role from the original.

[zeiinoviah]

Warming up and testing some new brushes, so here is the Sheriff.

[im-out-of-the-blues]

my ancient mama

[zoesupreme]

finding out vapes have been lead poisoning people for the past 20 years almost suddenly made a lot of things make sense

[zoesupreme]

[camerapits]

https://www.ucdavis.edu/news/disposable-e-cigarettes-more-toxic-traditional-cigarettes

JFC

[dwellordream]

some of you think ‘nuanced’ only means ‘morally grey’ and I’m here to tell you that actually straight up good characters can still be nuanced and unapologetically evil characters can still be nuanced. the character doesn’t have to be an anti hero or morally dubious to have depth. they don’t even have to feel sorry about their crimes to have depth.