Nat's Science Journey

♡~Natania/18/BSc Biomedical Science at KCL/Mostly science posts and some memes lmao~♡ Follow me on: My main Tumblr - offbeat-rainicorns | Instagram - haribos.x | Twitter - NiaJacksonx | Smule - NataniaJackson

[thegaythirtysomething]

Medicine should never have been privatized in the first place. The concept of profiting off of human desperation and the need for life-saving medicine is, philosophically, intrinsically, and morally wrong both as a fundamental concept and in practice. The fact that Martin Shkreli was ever able to buy an AIDS drug and increase its price 5000% is indicative of a problem even bigger than a truly evil, despicable, and selfish human being; it is indicative of the problem of the current system of for-profit pharmaceuticals with obviously inadequate price regulation.

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

why haven't I heard of a movie where a woman takes her fiance home to Romania to meet her family, and it turns out her father is literally Count Dracula? Surely such a film must exist

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

no not Hotel Transylvania, I want a live action romantic comedy where an ordinary pair of humans meet in the regular world and get engaged. then when they go to Europe to meet her parents, it's revealed the wife-to-be's family lives in Dracula's Castle, because they are in fact a clan of ancient vampires, and she's honestly surprised her fiance didn't realize this

[deletadoo0-deactivated20210304]

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

irises are bizarre alien lifeforms whose existence causes me constant distress

these are the alien spores we were warned about why oh why didn’t we listen

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

sometimes when I am checking my books out at the library the librarian will pause & hold one up for inspection & nod, saying “oh yes this is a good one.” and I will feel the warm rush of approval flood through my every pore, seeping so gently into the fibers of my being

[neurotypical-karen]

[a tweet edited to say, “My librarian: approves of my book choices / Me (to myself): This is great. I’m going to get a good grade in library, something that is both normal to want and possible to achieve,”]

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

my cat hates the Spray Bottle, which in theory should serve as an effective deterrent. in practice, they have learned to memorize the location of every spray bottle in the house. they break rules with impunity simply by keeping 6 feet away from the nearest spray bottle. i own so many spray bottles

[the-crows24]

Why do you refer to your cat with gender neutral pronouns

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

because they're nyanbinary

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

"what makes us human" oh I know this one! use of fire led to the development of cooking led to dietary changes that enabled brain growth. this, plus the light and warmth provided by fire, allowed early hominids to spend time socializing around the hearth, encouraging the development of language and furthering our abilities to communicate, eventually leading to the unprecedented cooperation needed to create and organize human societies.

so it's a combination of food, language, friendliness and cooperation, all thanks to pyromaniacal tendencies and our massively enormous fat heads!

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

the fact that so many students are traumatized by school means that our education systems are failing in the most basic possible sense

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

*posts serious criticism of the way organized education is failing its students, followed immediately by a pun about Goofy fucking your mom*

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

I have a Thought that could be cursed or could be cute depending on how hard you squint!

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

cats with human toenails

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

I am once again reminding you: your trauma does not excuse you from taking responsibility for how your behavior affects other people. And ignoring this is a surefire way of bringing more trauma into the world.

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

repeat after me: BEING TRAUMATIZED DOES NOT GIVE YOU THE RIGHT TO TRAUMATIZE OTHERS. Or to hurt, insult, disrespect, or be careless with people.

if more people understood this there would be far fewer traumatized kids and adults in the world.

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

today I found out my mother doesn't know what dandelions are and now I'm wondering what other strange secrets she's been quietly harboring

[krystal-prisms]

Where do you live that you don't have dandelions?

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

we have dandelions EVERYWHERE, they are basically our State Weed, it is absolutely impossible that my mom has never interacted with a dandelion before, this requires further investigation

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

So after extensive interrogation I have an update:

my mom is in fact aware that dandelions exist. she temporarily forgot the name and there was some miscommunication.

the truth is actually weirder

she's aware dandelions look like this

she is familiar with this flower. she knows the name of this flower. she declines to believe, however, that these are also dandelions

she does not believe these are the same plant. I tried to explain, and she thought I was either misinformed or lying. so I asked her what exactly did she think the yellow ones were called?

she answered, with complete confidence: Daffodils.

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

the best advice I have is to live your life in a way that offends christian conservatives

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

sometimes when my cat is breaking rules I tell them “stop that’s ILLEGAL”

[woowoolvr]

I pretend to be very upset and say “I didn’t raise you to be like this”

[heisenberg-inspo]

I sigh and say ‘We’ve talked about this.’

[madmeggiemac33]

I tell my kiddos, “you’re not certified for that.”

[rodrigator-x]

We just lift his front legs whenever he misbehaves. It really confuses him that his legs are in the air

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

“unprecedented times” these times were completely precedented and also the completely predictable consequence of our deeply broken sociopolitical systems

[thatsbelievable]

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

tumblr ask me about mlm skeletons

[escaped-cryptid]

I’m asking

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

your co-operation is noted and will count in your favor when the Great Tally arrives. Presenting:

straight skeletons

straight skeletons

gay skeletons

three seemingly-similar wikipedia articles, and yet:

(this post is part of a series critiquing biased wikipedia writing. you can request more on ko-fi)

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

TLDR

*male & female skeleton found in grave*

archeologists: “this is LITERALLY Romeo and Juliet. she died of a broken heart. i am in TEARS”

*male & female skeleton found in grave*

archeologists: “holy shit ya’ll they are SPOONING. they are SPOONING and the boy is the big spoon just as jesus intended.”

*male & male skeleton found in grave*

archeologists: it’s problematic to romanticize these things