a cunning weaver of fantasies and fables

she/her • 25 • wlw • romantic

[wizardhecker]

After a long discussion with my coworkers today I would like to gather general data on our question:

What scientific discipline has the most number of freaks (positive)?

biology

comp sci

physics

mathematics

chemistry

psychology

geology

engineering

Voting ended onAug 7

[prof-grace-aspen]

I’m pissing myself that there are two clear winners. And they’re right, because I voted for one of them.

[its-timego]

Prev I can't believe I've somehow found myself getting immersed in The Default Science. Oh you're into science? You've started looking at science programs? Which science? And I have to be like. Chemistry. Yes as in the one with the beakers and substances. Yes like from the posters. And then I kill myself

[muscatmusic18]

NO LITERALLY people ask me what I do all day and I say I make clear liquids. I weigh out table salt and dissolve it into various clear liquids. Add more ions sometimes with more clear liquid. Filter the pristine clear liquid into a bottle. Yeah sometimes the clear liquids even go in the funky flasks from the posters yeah it's great fun. I used to make sea urchins ejaculate for science and now I make clear liquids. It is the Default Science

[its-timego]

Psychology is like, I love the inner workings of the human mind! Physics is like, I love the forces holding the universe together! Biology is like, I love life itself! And chemistry is like. I love Substances. Yeah. Stuff. Things that exist. That's my interest. Things that exist.

[muscatmusic18]

Absolutely an insane tag out of context 😂

But uh, yeah 😂 biology is very often just the study of how organisms reproduce (evidence A for the freak argument), and the initial development of sea urchin embryos is actually very very similar to the initial development to human embryos, making sea urchins a really good model for developmental research!

This does mean, however, that you need to make the sea urchins reproduce. Preferably by your hand, so you can play wingman to some gametes and study the development. Which means making them spawn, if I'm to use the correct term.

And boy does a little shot of potassium chloride into those guys really make them... spawn.

It's just really hard to call it spawning when you've sat there watching this white fluid leak out of the top of a sea urchin all because you gave it a shot.

[wizardhecker]

After a long discussion with my coworkers today I would like to gather general data on our question:

What scientific discipline has the most number of freaks (positive)?

biology

comp sci

physics

mathematics

chemistry

psychology

geology

engineering

Voting ended onAug 7

[prof-grace-aspen]

I’m pissing myself that there are two clear winners. And they’re right, because I voted for one of them.

[its-timego]

Prev I can't believe I've somehow found myself getting immersed in The Default Science. Oh you're into science? You've started looking at science programs? Which science? And I have to be like. Chemistry. Yes as in the one with the beakers and substances. Yes like from the posters. And then I kill myself

[muscatmusic18]

NO LITERALLY people ask me what I do all day and I say I make clear liquids. I weigh out table salt and dissolve it into various clear liquids. Add more ions sometimes with more clear liquid. Filter the pristine clear liquid into a bottle. Yeah sometimes the clear liquids even go in the funky flasks from the posters yeah it's great fun. I used to make sea urchins ejaculate for science and now I make clear liquids. It is the Default Science

[wizardhecker]

After a long discussion with my coworkers today I would like to gather general data on our question:

What scientific discipline has the most number of freaks (positive)?

biology

comp sci

physics

mathematics

chemistry

psychology

geology

engineering

Voting ended onAug 7

[prof-grace-aspen]

I’m pissing myself that there are two clear winners. And they’re right, because I voted for one of them.

[itberice]

Star Trek: The Next Generation "Night Terrors" / Star Trek: Strange New Worlds "The Griffin Incident"

[spontaneousmusicalnumber]

A frustrating part of the mainstream vegan “love all animals and protect the environment” mindset is the fact that things need to die in real-life ecology all the time but deer hunting season makes icky feelings and carp culls aren’t cottagecore

[spontaneousmusicalnumber]

The vegan “any animal death ever is morally wrong” mindset doesn’t hold up when:

We don’t have any of the large predators we used to (black bears, mountain lions, or gray wolves) but still retain large deer populations. If nothing is removing animals, they’ll quickly overload the carrying capacity of the environment and have massive losses to starvation and disease that can also pass on to livestock. Human hunters replace the large predators that our landscape can no longer support.

It’s kinder to euthanize an un-releasable hawk rather than try to find it a permanent home with humans. Wildlife rehabs have extremely limited space and resources and are usually run entirely on donated money and volunteer time. Only a few are large and stable enough to care for permanent residents long-term, and those spots are few and far between.

An invasive species poses a danger to threatened native wildlife. I will admit- Australian possums are adorable. But not in New Zealand, where they’re an invasive species that eats the eggs of ground-dwelling birds that previously had no such predators. The landowners I worked with replanting native bush, all native Maori, had no qualms about setting the dogs on them.

I don’t know how to end this except. Sometimes things just gotta die and acting otherwise just isn’t a realistic expectation.

[spontaneousmusicalnumber]

Highlights from the notes over the past 6 months include a lot of angry vegans saying “you’re blowing things out of proportion, no vegans actually think like this!” and a lot of people who work in conservation and education saying “Every day. I have to fight people who think like this.”

As a bonus this post was originally inspired by the vegan who called me racist for saying we should kill invasive species

[leafstem]

*while sewing*: you are a fabric. you can stay a fabric. you do not yearn to return to being string.

[batbetbitbotbut]

*while spinning*: you are a thread. you can stay a thread. you do not yarn to return to being fluff.

[strikeslip]

*while embroidering*: you are a thread on a needle. you can just exist as thread on a needle. you do knot yearn to become a tangle.

[mawofthemagnetar]

*while turning wood* you are timber on a lathe. You can stay as timber on a lathe. You do not yearn to become a live hand grenade.

[narcissene]

affirmations:

- it’s fun to be awake & in an upright position

- consciousness is a gift

- i CAN do this anymore

[flightsofwonder]

being an adult is just saying to yourself “this is the weekend i’ll clean my [x]” and then proceeding to not do that because it’s the weekend and you deserve to relax, goddamnit

[flightsofwonder]

why does this have 85K notes

[randomslasher]

because we reblogged it instead of cleaning our [x]

[kosmogrl]

[kosmogrl]

[ruhaniya]

sorry i didn't reply i have existence issues

[bethanythebogwitch]

One day, one glorious day, we will open up Tumblr and the crabs wil be raving and the Castiels will be confessing and we will all know that the world has become a better place

[strawberrycamel]

we really should be calling it fanworks, not content

[strawberrycamel]

I'm here for fun and community not to rp a mega corporation's underpaid social media intern

[joeyclaire]

fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck

[spiralingintocontrol]

goose

[existennialmemes]

I don't think it's unreasonable for our public officials to be expected to prove they're alive and not in a coma to be able to retain their office.

If someone were, as a random example, say hospitalized for over two weeks with no explanation, I think that should automatically trigger a special election to replace them.

If you're still able to do your job, then prove it. And if you're not, then you're actively obstructing democracy by not stepping down.

Which is to say, that if a public official were to pass away or into a coma, and their handlers choose to obfuscate that fact, this should be seen as intentionally obstructing democracy.

And there should be, you know, consequences for the people who would do such a thing.

[firesidefairy]

[expressions-of-nature]

Atera Valley, Japan by Ron

[classicalcanvas]

Summer (1896) by Alphonse Mucha