morosoph

"You lack the requisite spine and testicular fortitude to study under me."

[homericnerd]

⚠️It does not justify their actions in a culture and period full of war and suffering⚠️

[itsswampbeard]

et tu, boopte?

[lexosaurus]

has this been done before

[wild-e-eep]

Some super-fresh star slime found on top of a wall yesterday.

[hauntedliz]

[frumious-bandersnatch-ao3]

@ultramarinaa’s cat Martin design has been living rent free in my head since I first saw it, so I have bestowed on him the highest honor of the season:

Pumpkin.

Tried to do shading; we’ll see how his splotches look when he’s illuminated.

Process under the cut; I’ll update with him lit up when he finally goes outside

[ultramarinaa]

THE PROPHECY CAME TRUE!!! HE IS A PUMPKIN NOW!!!

Thank you, this is truly an honor!!!

I hope he will shine bright as a little pumpkin :3

[frumious-bandersnatch-ao3]

All told he turned out better than I thought he might with the lighting!

[sin--i--sin]

Boop & pass! In the tags, what color paw does the person you're reblogging from have?

Black skeleton

Orange mummy

White ghost

Voting ended onNov 1, 2024

[thesmegalodon]

while i’m on a little STEM sharing kick, here’s one of my favorite textbook intros of all time

[duckbunny]

statistical thermodynamics rules. I genuinely love it. it's so hard and so necessary to the project of understanding the universe.

let me explain.

you know gas, right? like, the phase of matter. gas as in Stuff That Is Like Air. ok. so, in classical thermodynamics, you treat gas as a big cloud of Stuff, but it's all one thing. you can have more of it or less of it, it can spread out and get thinner, it can be compressed and get thicker, it heats up, it cools down. and it does it all as one big cloud of continuous, space-filling Stuff.

OK. So far, so good. We have these equations that predict how gas behaves and they work really well and our steam engine is very efficient. Job done, right? Project concluded. Thermodynamics is done.

Except that's not what gas actually is.

We know what gas is. Gas is a bunch of molecules with enough distance between them that they're basically bouncing around independently. They bump into each other. They bump into the walls. They are not a big mass of stuff. Gas is a stupendously high number of individual particles, all doing their own thing, vibrating and moving and colliding, that somehow on average behaves in the way classical thermodynamics predicts.

Statistical thermodynamics is the attempt to figure out why the trillions of particles, with their very complex individual behaviours and quantum effects - why the reality of what stuff is - behaves in a way that "if you compress it, it gets hotter" can describe.

It's so hard. I love it to bits.

[voguely]

[nchntd]

In the club

[vacuously-true]

I think I’m literally never gonna be sick of this masterpiece. I think watching it on a loop for eight hours could fix me. Dancing’s what clears my soul. Dancing’s what makes me whole.

[dimmadoome]

I just love that this very video is an accumulation of thousands of years worth of art made by people who have never met each other. The concept of this video was so completely unfathomable to every single artist who made the sculptures and yet they’ve all put something toward the creation of it.

[theriverbeyond]

i must not get takeout. takeout is the wallet-killer. takeout is the little-death that brings total obliteration. i will face the kitchen, fridge, and pantry. i will make choices about what to cook and then execute them. when hunger is gone there will be nothing. only i will remain.

[xenosaurus]

I turn 30 next month so here’s what I learned in my 20s:

—don’t work for startups, they’re always one ‘innovative idea’ away adding ‘sell your kidneys on the black market’ to your job description.

—keeping a collection of basic OTC medicine on you will save your life one day. I recommend Advil, Imodium, and TUMS.

—those little single-use glasses cleaning wipes are 1000% worth the money

—overly self-depreciating jokes just make people uncomfortable, wean yourself off of them

—you can buy dehydrated mini marshmallows in bulk online and they’re a godsend for hot cocoa

—people don’t care if you have fidget toys on your desk they just want to play with them

—try to go to bed BEFORE the existential ennui kicks in

[thelittleblackfox]

Also drink water and eat a plant

[liz-squids]

This is all GREAT. I turned 40 last week, so permit me to add what I learned in my 30s:

keep on not working for startups

sometimes there comes a point where the thing (fandom, hobby, friendship, romantic relationship) you loved no longer brings you joy. And that's okay. Try to mourn the loss, take joy in the memories, and don't burn any bridges in case ten years go by and you find yourself back in that fandom/hobby/relationship again

it turns out that (ugh) moderate regular exercise is (spit) good for you. The sooner you make it part of your life, the easier it'll be

related: if you throw yourself into a new exercise regime too hard and too fast, without stopping to rest or consider whether a particular move is good for you ... well, shoulder injuries are painful and consults with orthopedic surgeons are expensive

knees are bastards too

don't even get me started on ankles

there may come a time when your digestive system is too fragile for ibuprofin. I'm sorry

one day you're gonna wake up and realise you no longer give any fucks about some things that used to bother you

on the other hand, you might be alarmed to realise what you still give a fuck about

never get down on the floor without an exit strategy for getting back up

[covington-shenanigans]

I turn 50 this year. what I have learned in my 40s:

"loving yourself" is less of a feeling and more of an action. you can start doing it any time and it will make your life better and better as you go on

this will happen incrementally - be patient

along those lines, if you haven't started making an active effort to quit shit-talking yourself, suck it up and do it

no, shut up. do it. "but it's haaaaard!" don't care. do it.

whether you like it or not, you are mortal and you need to go to the doctor for an annual checkup

stretch regularly - your future self will thank you

at some point you will encounter people much younger than you arguing passionately and incorrectly about history you personally remember and experienced

this will be infuriating and annoying

otoh, most other things just... will not matter to you as much

at some point you will shift from wanting to go out to being like "eh" and deciding to stay in. this is okay.

you will have absolutely no idea what The Youth are talking about and you will not care

but if you keep your mind open to new ideas you'll never be irrelevant

your company still doesn't love you - don't give them more than they pay you for

get a fucking hobby, especially a hobby that involves physically creating/handling something and/or moving your body in physical space. it will do you more good than you can imagine

[atlinmerrick]

Just turned 60 and let me say:

Find joy, every kind, it's always worth it

I'm talking that massive, never-ending Discord chat with your bestie? The one that makes you giggle through the day? It's not a "waste of time," it's what time was made for

If that's fanfic for your favorite characters who never even met on screen celebrate that!

If that's building a tiny fleet of snake villagers for your snake town and they just cover your mantel hell yes!

If that's collecting pillows and making a fort of them every weekend I'll be right over

Feeling and sharing joy is the whole point

[raspberryflo]

Jonathan archivist sims being the default text to speech voice in the magnus protocol universe is so fucking funny to me. Imagine downloading bonzi buddy for a laugh and the funny purple monkey starts reciting your home address and credit card number in the voice of god himself

[sarcasticscribbles]

Family Business

Mama we all go to hell

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

i'm begging you guys to start pirating shit from streaming platforms. there are so many websites where you can stream that shit for free, here's a quick HOW TO:

1) Search for: watch TITLE OF WORK free online

2) Scroll to the bottom of results. Click any of the "Complaint" links

3) You will be taken to a long list of links that were removed for copyright infringement. Use the 'find' function to search for the name of the show/movie you were originally searching for. You will get something like this (specifics removed because if you love an illegal streaming site you don't post its url on social media)

4) each of these links is to a website where you can stream shit for free. go to the individual websites and search for your show/movie. you might have to copy-paste a few before you find exactly what you're looking, but the whole process only takes a minute. the speed/quality is usually the same as on netflix/whatever, and they even have subtitles! (make sure to use an adblocker though, these sites are funded by annoying popups)

In conclusion, if you do this often enough you will start recognizing the most dependable websites, and you can just bookmark those instead. (note: this is completely separate from torrenting, which is also a beautiful thing but requires different software and a vpn)

you can also download the media in question (look for a "download" button built into the video window, or use a browser extension such as Video DownloadHelper.)

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

if the "Complaint" links are not visible for you:

Option 1: try the DuckDuckGo search engine instead (bonus: dedicated to privacy! doesn't track your data!)

Option 2: go directly to LumenDatabase.org (the website that collects the complaints--and therefore the removed links) and search for the title you want. look for results titled "DMCA (Copyright) Complaint to Google" featuring the media you're looking for. Proceed to Step 3 (above).

[moj-e]

they enjoyed the sunset together

[morosoph-god]

Borges 🤝 Mitski