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[scientificphilosopher]

It wrinkles my brain that Jupiter’s moon Europa has oceans that are sixty miles deep, while Earth’s oceans only reach seven miles deep at most. I’m willing to bet good money that there’s life in Europa’s oceans. Like five bucks. You hear me, NASA? I bet you five bucks that there’s life on Europa… Now that there’s money and reputation on the line, I bet they send a mission there real quick.

[curiousobsession101]

I have no idea when this was originally posted, but NASA is working on their Europa mission RIGHT NOW to look for alien life! But get this, they theorize that because of the depth, gravity, and composition of the oceans, any organisms that lived there would be waaay bigger than aquatic life on Earth. So far everything’s going well with regards to their Europa mission so they should have a spacecraft on its way to look for giant sea monsters in space in only a few years. (The planned date is in the early 2020s.)

[scientificphilosopher]

Looks like my negotiations worked. You’re welcome, humanity.

[libraryspectre]

I’ve never been gripped with such cold terror and pure delight in my LIFE

[captain-snark]

explaining to an 18th century sailor that we’re looking for sea monsters in space. 

[gehayi]

The launch date for the Europa Clipper is October 2024.

[syolen]

Please let there be sea monsters in space Please let there be sea monsters in space Please let there be sea monsters in space Please let there be sea monsters in space Please let there be sea monsters in space Please let there be sea monsters in space 

[antimasculist]

extremely extremely tiring to be around people who just vehemently hate themselves. nobody benefits from you acting like this. cruelty to the self is still cruelty. if i was at an art gallery admiring a piece by van gogh or in a library reading a beautiful poem and you walked up to me and went Ewww thats so bad... you think its good? youre wrong its really bad :/ you would be a certified piece of fucking shit it is not different just bc its your creation instead of someone else's. if a stranger walked up to me and started ranting about how they thought my friend was annoying and ugly i would punch them in the gut. it is not different just because you are saying this about yourself. nobody wants to hear it

[antimasculist]

fucking say something true and beautiful for once im sick of it. you know

[antimasculist]

paraphrasing my tags from another reblog chain here but this does not come from a place of ignorance. i am intimately familiar with self hatred and the mindset that leads people to talk like this and the REASON i stopped acting like a jackass and spouting this shit 24/7 is because i realized that it was not just about me. it was hurting other people. and i made the concious decision to stop doing that and to begin the proccess of training myself out of those thought patterns and out of saying that stuff. im not telling you to Just Stop but i am saying you CAN. you are not a slave to your mental illness you have agency over your life and your behaviors - your mental illness may make it more difficult to do certain things but that doesnt mean you dont have a responsibility to TRY if it's hurting other people.

[redvelvetrevolver]

One of the things that drives me away from a relationship most is if I give the other. person a compliment and they reject it. 

“You’re so handsome.” “No I’m not.” 

I see it and feel it the exact same way as if I said “What a beautiful sunset” and someone said “No it’s not, it’s ugly.” I was in a place of joy and you just injected something very unpleasant and life-denying into that space and that hurts.

I am here appreciating the world. You, as a human being, are part of that world. You’re a natural phenomenon and people have a right to find you beautiful and good and worthy. That is an expression of THEIR joy and enjoyment of the world. They are not incorrect. 

They are expressing their aliveness and ability to perceive, they are right in the heart of what makes it worthwhile and joyful to be alive, and you should not come to that special place within someone you love and tell them it’s wrong to feel the way they feel.

I totally get that it may sound fake and ridiculous to you when someone compliments you, and it’s ok to acknowledge that. “I know you mean it when you say it, but my brain won’t let me believe it right now. But thank you. I will keep trying.” 

But ultimately, the goal is to get to a place where you can just say “thank you.” 

[draintheblood]

heard porn bots might be following you guys again. sorry about that. but in some good news i have been gaining many new followers who are real stunningly beautiful women. welcome ladies :)

[hymnsofheresy]

one of my father’s hindu colleagues was surprised that my family didn’t make everyone say a christian prayer before we sat down to eat dinner. we were like “….this is your house.” and she laughed and said that her christian friends “make” her pray all the time. like what the fuck. how fucking rude can you be to make the host pray to your god. you are in their fucking house.

[strawbebbynya]

[niamhuncensored]

I say this as a former Christian

Christians will deadass claim to be oppressed but feel comfortable and safe enough to:

Force non-Christians to pray to the Christian God in their own fucking homes

Go door-to-door to proselytize

Call people to proselytize

Take classes to proselytize (my mythology teacher actually dealt with this, and now has to include a warning on the first day of class)

Cross the fucking ocean to proselytize

Openly tell people they think they are going to Hell

Insist that their beliefs should influence the law

Get all pissy if someone says this isn’t a Christian nation, but a beautifully mixed one.

Have radio stations built around their religion

Have movies based on their religion

And fucking everything else

In short, Christian Supremacy needs to be addressed and religious imperialism stopped.

[pacey-grey]

I made a baby blanket for a pregnant woman at work and I went back and forth about it like “is this weird? To like hand make something for someone when we’re like friendly acquaintances not like bffs. God why are you so fucking awkward.” Anyway I gave it to her and she said she loved it and in the back of my head I’m like yea she’s nice and probably just humoring the weirdo. Well she texted me a picture this weekend of a scrunchy faced newborn at the hospital wrapped in the blanket I made her. And I’m like. Wow. She loved it so much she took it with her! To the hospital! To give birth! She wrapped her newborn it! I am just so filled with love and joy right now.

People will love the things you make them. Because you thought of them and you cared.

[ot3]

theres a lot of stuff in life that can be categorized as 'a sick joke' but the fact that fondant doesnt even taste good is pretty high up there for me

[mothmans-favorite-lamp]

yes it does!!

[flintpunks-mind]

A co-worker of mine was standing outside with me during a break from customers to share a cigarette with me, and told me about how he had lost his brother that he was close with some years ago. He told me about how they used to be in a band together with some friends, and how ever since he'd died, he hadn't played any music because he'd been too scared and anxious. I told him about how I'd lost my brother to suicide some years ago.

I went home and pulled out an old tiny wooden box my brother had given me before he'd died. I'd been using it to store guitar picks I'd collected over the years, including one guitar pick that used to be his. I haven't played the guitar since he'd died, my hands are too small to play some of the chords, so I play bass and piano instead.

I went to work the next day and gifted my brothers old guitar pick to my co-worker. I told him that it'd been sitting in a box for ten years unused, and would probably sit there for longer if I kept it there. Told him that I thought he deserved to have it, because I bet he could put it to better use than I ever would. Told him I didn't feel like it was coincidence that me and him would cross paths with each other in our lives, and that it seemed suiting that we had these similar experiences but split in two halves. That somehow, I felt like he was meant to have the guitar pick. I told him that I knew he'd not played guitar since his brother died, but that if he ever decided to play again one of these days, maybe he'd be able to honor both of our brothers by using that guitar pick.

He almost cried. He thanked me. Then he went home that night and for the first time in years he played the guitar.

I don't know what the meaning of life is or what my purpose is, but I do believe that love and human connection is one of the most important things in life. It's finding ways to tell strangers you love them and share experiences with others. I think it's all just about love.

[memeuplift]

[lizawithazed]

that is one of the cutest things I’ve ever seen in my goddamned life

[mothmans-favorite-lamp]

I finished Candide and I was expecting the end to be depressing but it's really not?? I feel like the idea that this is the best world is almost less hopeful than the idea that it's not. If this is the best world, then nothing can be improved upon, everything we do is pointless. If this isn't, then things can improve, we can take action to make things better. Maybe I'm interpreting the book wrong, but to me it reads more as a critique of fatalism, both optimistic and nihilistic, rather than just a critique on optimism. Pangloss thinks everything is for the best, and just blindly accepts it all, and Martin, despite thinking everything is terrible and being portrayed as relatively smart, also just accepts everything. He sees the world as terrible but doesn't confront it, because he believed there is no good and therefore nothing can ever be improved. The "cultivate your garden" is the switch from passive thinking to active, and it implies the ability to shape your own future, to take your life into your own hands and decide what you want to do with it, to challenge the bad things in the world and not just accept it as being all it will ever be. something something il faut imaginer candide heureux

[berkeleygirl3]

[gabr1elkit-deactivated20230205]

i want to see old men with full beards learning ballet and i want to see terrible art from people in their 30s who have only just got their first tablet and i want to see mothers picking up their old hobbies from before they were told it wasn’t okay to have hobbies and i want to see people in their early 20s figuring out how to be alive by making bad music in their bedrooms and i want zines to be handmade paper pamphlets of devotion and i want creation to be fun again instead of a competition where we all have to monetise joy until we lose the invaluable currency of unashamed love again

[frederick-the-great]

the funniest thing in history is voltaire writing dozens of letters in 1759 alone complaining about Frederick and gleefully relishing his defeats on the battlefield and then being like “actually i don’t think about him at all”. Voltaire. buddy. historians will look into your compiled letters.

[mothmans-favorite-lamp]

happy new year besties. here’s to hoping absolutely nothing happens this year

[mothmans-favorite-lamp]

Alright time to count up my points. I should've put the more likely ones in a row to try and get Bingo

For the Covid movie, there is a movie that I found out about, and it is indeed awful, however it was released December of 2020, so a whole year before I made the bingo

I feel like I should get some points for the midterm one, if only because all the news outlets were talking about a red wave, even though it wasn't progressive democrats vs more middle-of-the-road democrats

As for Mars, we haven't found microorganisms, but a new study from this year discovered that a certain bacteria could have survived for 280 million years underneath Mars' surface. I don't get the point for this one, I just wanted to mention it because it's cool!

The Covid one, there are new variants that are somewhat less severe, not fully on the level of flu though if you're not vaccinated, and it's also too early to really know for sure if it will follow the same seasonal cycle as the flu.

I'm not making a new bingo board this year but I'm going to stick with this one, Mars, Beto, electric self charging cars (I googled this, the first articles were about how they can and the rest were all about how they can't?? All from the same time??), progessivity (is that a word?), covid, and the IRS one still seem likely.

[amuseoffyre]

Raise your hand if you have a very visceral understanding of why people might have gone a bit unhinged in the 1920s after living through a succession of natural, unnatural, political and man-made disasters for several years in rapid succession

[randomnessoffiction]

#I remember seeing an article that said that millenials & gen z might have the same sense of humor people who were teens and kids in the 20s#which is fascinating

[jetblackwingz-deactivated202412]

saw new users saying they don't block bots bc "they inflate follower count 😌" and "what's the point" like who's gonna tell them (1) Noone cares about follower count and you can't even see it and (b) You have to bc they are using you to legitimize their dodgy links. They don't care about your aesthetic cat pics and lightning mcqueen fanfiction. They are using you.

[crowsintheforest]

#DO YOU LEAVE MOLD AROUND YOUR KITCHEN SINK IF YOU THINK IT MAKES YOUR WALL COLOR RLY POP#NO YOU DO NOT. IT'S FUCKING MOLD YOU SCRUB IT AWAY#THE PORNBOTS ARE THE MOLD @wuzzyletoastermac

[mothmans-favorite-lamp]

I don't block them bc I'm afraid it's a real person :(

[imissthembutitwasntadisaster]

Tragic news like half the ways people talk about magic in fiction could irl be applied to maths

[imissthembutitwasntadisaster]

"magic is the threads that tie the world together, the unspoken web at the heart of the universe" that's mathematics babey!

[imissthembutitwasntadisaster]

You ever think about how when you gauge if it's safe to cross the road based off how fast and far away the cars are you're actually doing difficult calculus subconsciously? Almost like maths is something you have an inherent understanding of in many ways but in order to advance in it and truly understand it you have to learn it in an academic setting? Almost like many magic systems?

[vacuously-true]

Oh so the plural of surgeon general is surgeons general, huh? Well what about bunnies rabbit. Puppies dog. KITTIES CAT. Did you ever think of that, you sillies goose?