the thud

i'm megan, im 26, and this blog is a culmination of all the things i love

[n64retro]

[radliftist]

me dissociating after eating two AA batteries

[tsuchinokoroyale]

[achillesinhighheels]

[animentality]

[enki2]

[technofeudalism]

modern empath crisis of faith

[despazito]

i can't stand these new fountain machines they dispense watered down piss

[luulapants]

Story time:

In middle school biology, we did an experiment. We were given yams, which we would sprout in cups of water. We then had to make hypotheses about how the yams would grow, based on descriptions of yam plants in our books, and make notes of our observations as they grew.

Here’s what was supposed to happen: we were supposed to see that the actual growth of the plant did not resemble our hypotheses. We were then supposed to figure out that these were, in fact, sweet potatoes.

What actually happened was that every single student in every single class lied in their notes so that their observations perfectly matched their hypotheses. See, everyone assumed the mismatch meant they had done something wrong in the process of growing the plant or that they had misunderstood the dichotomous key or the plant identification terminology. And, thanks to the wonders of a public school education, everyone assumed the wrong results would get us a failing grade. We were trying to pass. We didn’t want to get bitched out by the teacher. Curiosity, learning, science - that had nothing to do with why we were sitting in that classroom. So we all lied.

The teacher was furious. She tried to fail every student, but the administration stepped in and told her she wasn’t allowed to because a 100% fail rate is recognized as a failure of the teacher, not the class. It wasn’t even her fault, really, though her being a notorious hard-ass didn’t help. It was a failure of the entire educational system.

So whenever I see crap like Elizabeth Holmes’s blood test scam or pharmaceutical trials which are unable to be replicated or industry-funded research that reaches wildly unscientific conclusions, I just remember those fucking sweet potatoes. I remember that curiosity dies when people are just trying to give their superiors the “right” answers, so they can get the grade, get the job, get the paycheck. It’s not about truth when it’s about paying rent. There’s no scientific integrity if you can’t control for human desperation.

[tricornking]

“There’s no scientific integrity if you can’t control for human desperation.”

Yo @gallusrostromegalus we got another one for the “Raw Quotes” series!

[spicyraeman]

some skater lae'zels that I was workin on a while ago

[lesbianshepard]

phrasing of this is taking me out

[voregeoisie]

[maplefiasco]

Steve's choices / Bucky's lack thereof

[gjengangeren]

[orcboxer]

target audience

[monkeypng]

the fuck you lookin at keep scrolling

[wroniec]

Halsin

[officialunitedstates]

“is this salt homemade?” you ask

“you tell me” i reply, pointing to the big jar of sodium sitting next to the big jar of chloride

[fungaloid]

say what u want about halsin but "pardon the viscera" is the most raw first line from a character in the game. teehee.

[woolandflax]

Ha I wonder how many strokes the most complex Chinese character has like maybe eightee-

[woolandflax]

Has a Chinese son, names him bèng-dá, and he hates me

[woolandflax]

My beloved son 䨻龘 just trying to write his name in kindergarten

[inthefallofasparrow]

[tainbocuailnge]

every single instance of this post i can find cached on google leads to a deleted post for some insane reason so im gonna just repost the screenshot because ive been thinking about it for days

[krippe90]