restless heart

q. it/its. if it consumes me, let the script upon my tomb read; i found my love and let it kill me.

[lunatic-harness]

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[voidedjuice]

Portrait of an ominous maiden

[communistkenobi]

I had a lot of/still have some vestigial arrogance about quantitative methods over qualitative ones, probably in a combination of scientific misogyny + STEMlord superiority. But doing regression analysis and quant-heavy data analysis makes me realise more and more that you can justify basically any claim with numbers, and that you can construct your research in such a way as to output the numbers you want. which does not mean that all data are made up or that quantitative knowledge is all false. I think stories about scientists straight up inventing numbers or fudging experiments on purpose prove that there is a real difference between fraudulent and non-fraudulent research. but those data must always be narrativised & are always already narrativised. The act of presenting numbers itself is doing some of that narration because you’re already arguing that these numbers are worth presenting

[communistkenobi]

People in the notes are rightfully pointing out common issues with data manipulation and pre-loaded conclusions in scientific research (i.e., the academic version of asking "so, how often do you beat your wife?" and so on), but I should have clarified that I'm not really talking about that. I'm talking about completely legitimate, above-board scientific research.

For example, I've had students ask me (in good faith) how it was possible for international medical bodies to report different counts of COVID-19 cases during the early years of the pandemic. And one of the answers is that you need to first define what you mean by a "COVID-19 case." Do you include self-reported incidences? Waste water data? Geo-fenced social media posts about people complaining about their coronavirus symptoms? Federal estimates? Hospital data? How do you compare countries/territories/substate entities with mandatory reporting mechanisms vs countries/territories/substate entities that rely only on voluntary self-reported cases? And what combination of these do you use? How you construct what you mean by "case" is going to impact the outcomes you report. These different counts of COVID-19 cases can all be true simultaneously, not because numbers are made up, but because they all come out of different methodologies that can be equally valid.

And this is true across all science, not just social science. Bill Clinton said it best lol: "it depends on what your definition of the word 'is' is." This feels obvious when you look at scientific research that uses "skull measurements" as their object of analysis - the concept itself is white supremacist, regardless of how "sound" the research is. But even something as apparently self-evident as a COVID-19 case still requires a definition, and how you define your variables is necessarily going to impact how the research goes and what conclusions are drawn.

These definitions are always embedded in political & social assumptions. And again, this does not mean that science is all made up or nonsense or whatever. There is a widespread fetishism of "objective knowledge" that is itself ideological - the idea that knowledge can be divorced from all historical and political contexts, that you can scrub bias from research and simply report the facts. Valuable, well-supported, well-constructed scientific research is always embedded in these contexts. Not just as a result of researcher assumptions, but of the material context it exists in - what research resources are available, how & what research gets funded, the academy's relationship to the state & non-government bodies that both provide data and use that research to inform policy, the historical relationships universities often have with settler-colonialism and imperialism that give them access to "foreign" research subjects, etc etc etc.

So my overall point (which I didn't communicate well) is that data can always say what you want to some extent, for good and for ill. And research results (at least in my experience) tend to surprise you in ways that require explanations, which themselves can be fully justified, but again, exist within many different contexts that influence how you interpret them - and not just the results themselves, but your own surprise at your results

[xamd]

臼野太郎

[shays-shack]

Girlaragi is more real than ever 💞

Full context and also an uncensored version if anyone wants it 😈 (I didn't put it first so ppl don't get jumpscare by girlaragi getting her tiddies sucked)

[missstrogen]

Help my girlfriend stay housed!

My gf's household received an eviction warning for 2,200$ and they need help to cover it! Please give her whatever you can so she doesn't get evicted, it would really mean the world to me. If you can't donate, at least please reblog okay?

Her ko-fi

(my ko-fi as backup if the above link doesn't work)

[missstrogen]

Please help my gf not be homeless okay?

[bitchautism]

here's two articles about how JK Rowling just posted on X an upskirt photo of Freda Wallace, a transgender woman, after deadnaming her and misgendering her repeatedly online.

JK Rowling deadnamed and posted 'upskirt' photo of trans woman on X

The wealthy author escalated a social media spat that resulted in posting a photo from a 2023 event at the Institute of Economic Affairs in

JK Rowling posts upskirt image of trans woman while begging to debate her - LGBTQ Nation

Rowling posted the picture taken from below because the trans woman, she said, was "refusing to debate me."

[sailatina3]

Thank you for posting without the fucking destiel meme

[lady-of-vitreous-sight]

[bored and trying to cause problems voice] if you think about it, the social role of the 'childhood friend' as commonly explored in stories is actually identical to the social role of the 'sibling'. observe how a parent figure is permitted to scold and lecture the 'childhood friend' as proof of closeness (and as proof of 'member of family'). as well, a common trope that emerges is 'realizing we are siblings actually'. thus, it's actually correct to understand this ship as incest.

[m3s-txt]

you‘re gonna kill innocent people just to satisfy some sadistic urges, aren’t you. i will *not* allow this..

[goldcanillust]

[c0ulrophilia]

is it moe or cringe that I refer to everyone as miss. Miss angel. miss doll. miss princess. i can't help it, that's part of my typing quirk

[klapollo]

various tv, film, and theater producers for the last 50 years smacking themselves in the forehead like fuuuuck how can we make it easy to understand why carrie is alienated from her peers and callously bullied at school WITHOUT making her a hideous fatass like in the book

[calamity-corner]

some headmates in our system have bodies in headspace that aren't like. what the body actually is. one of us has a dick n balls in headspace where the body doesn't and IDs as a cis man to himself but like. he can't be talking as a cis guy cuz he's *not.* is that what you're getting at?

even disregarding the obvious fact that you can have whatever body you want in headspace and that doesn't affect your material physical reality, there are trans men with penises, anon. i'm a trans woman with a vagina. you people really need to learn what trans and cis mean because they have a very specific meaning and it doesn't have to do with "gender vibes" and it doesn't have to do with genitalia either

[calamity-corner]

here's the thing, right. if you want to actually respect your headmates and treat them like real people, then you have to recognize the reality that they share the same body as you. and many of you are conflating the trans and cis adjectives as part of the gender identity and they're not.

to use this anon's example, i understand that this headmate may want to be cis, but what he is is a man, and the body he occupies was afab. that means he is a trans man. many trans people want to be cis! but the words cis and trans describe a very specific thing, and it helps no one to treat them like aesthetics or vibes.

similarly, someone maybe feel like a "transfem headmate" but if she is a woman in a body that was afab, she's cis because that's what that word means. and she needs to unpack her associations and assumptions about trans women and why she feels the need to "identify as one" despite being a woman who was assigned female at birth. you gotta use your brains with this stuff y'all

[petulantpony]

it’s like endlessly infuriating when other systems try to do this “my headmate is a different race than me and also i have headmates with different genitals than me” shit. it displays a fundamental misunderstanding of plurality and what an alter even is. they are fractured, compartmentalized pieces of the psyche. plurality is compartmentalization! it is not spiritual! the people in your head are *part of you and each other* they are not ghosts or separate entities that we take on in our heads. they are pieces of us. everyone get more materialist about plurality, what it is, how it works, and why it exists ASAP please

[porcelain-dollbones]

one of the more irritating aspect of tumblr is the masses of people who are absolutely desperate to Correct You or Prove You Wrong on any given post no matter how obviously light hearted it is. and then they aren't even right!

[princessdraconic]

let's psychologically torture the extremely proud tsundere dragon princess. think of the potential energy we can harvest from her burning red blush

[yuriartillery]

Hey all, I've decided I no longer value my relative obscurity on my new account, so if you like yuriartillery head over to @princessdraconic. I post pretty good over there, and if you liked any of my short fiction, that's the best place to get updates whenever a new piece is live.

[princessdraconic]

And that means I won't be softblocking thousands of people at a time anymore. You're all spared the princess' wrath. Amnesty like this doesn't come often.