Nicolette

Programmer, gamer, feminist. Preferred pronouns: she/her

[lukehumphris]

I’ve decided to only make funny comics for facebook, thanks for all your support

[juug-mayne-deactivated20160520]

There’s so much to talk about here.

[nicolette-cutely]

It’s amusing to see this with both of my parents around.

Back in 2014 my parents both traded in their flip-phones for Samsung Galaxy S3s (they were free, whereas the S4 would have cost... whatever). In any case, flip-phone to modern Android device.

My dad uses it for a week before returning it and getting his old phone back.

My mom struggles, but keeps at it. A few years later she trades up for a brand new Galaxy S6, and this year she made the switch to chatting with me on WhatsApp and (apparently!) even follows me on Twitter.

My mom is over 65 years old.

Anyway. Shout out to Baby Boomers who embrace change and continue to allow themselves to be made uncomfortable so they can learn new things.

[wombshaker]

I hate that some people are so dense that they need disclaimers for every single thing, like when women say “men are…” you know good and goddamn well they aren’t referring to every single man. It’s billions of us, how the fuck would they know all of us?

Whenever I hear these statements, I interpret it as “Not all men, but enough men to make this a prominent issue amongst men”

Same shit with “white people are…” Get the fuck out your feelings and actually listen so you can address the concerns of these people instead of defending people that ain’t shit.

[allthingslinguistic]

A video from Nyle DiMarco illustrating the difference between hearing actors playing Deaf characters and his actual fluent ASL (subtitled). 

One thing that I noticed was that many of the movie clips had the actors poorly lit, so you couldn’t see their signing very well, especially their faces. Non-manual markers are also a really important part of ASL grammar! 

[should-be-sleeping]

Facial expression is important signing grammar. People forget is an actual entire language, like French or Russian, it isn’t just signs for English words. Grammar and syntax are important!

[honeycharms-archived]

[nicolette-cutely]

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.

Quite a bold statement from the Declaration of Independence, but absolutely in line with the thinking of the Age of Enlightenment.

The one tiny thing wrong is that this “all men” wasn’t being used for “all humankind”, and even black men didn’t count.

This is why we need to say, to yell out, “Black Lives Matter!”

[mogamoka]

Hello, I’m The Doctor

[ladyofnonsequitur]

YOU ARE NOT A TETRACHROMAT, AND THIS GRAPHIC IS BULLSHIT

Recently there was a schism on the internet between people about the color of a dress. That led to all kinds of scientific articles about how we perceive color differently, memes about white and g…

That nonsense post about tetrachromatism is going around again. Here’s a link to a “why that post is nonsense” essay someone posted two years ago as my tiny, futile effort to stop it!

[flavoracle]

I am a fan of dispelling misinformation and spreading actual science, so I’m passing this along even though the language is a bit stronger than I typically use myself.

Enjoy.

[pastrygeckos]

There you go :3

[g0dtier]

“If two researchers who dedicated their careers to the task were only able to find one functional tetrachromat in 27 years, do you really think that a test on LinkedIn written by a marketing professor is going to help?”

[berryarmstrong]

I just wanted to count the pretty colours, I don’t care about anything else.

[should-be-sleeping]

I thought it was pretty sketchy that I see 2 entire color groups as 1 color and yet somehow still managed to differentiate 33 colors. LOL.

[nicolette-cutely]

Oh gosh, thank you. I went into this like, “I know I have trichromatic vision, let me count” and I also got 33 or 34 colors. (I just sort of rolled my eyes and figured it was typical FB BS, but it’s nice to know it actually is completely wrong.)

[bace-jeleren]

To some people you’re an NPC

To other people, you’re the special, unlockable character that they worked and worked to finally get- and when they do they’re so happy because they got the game just so they could find you.

[a-witch-named-lyd]

Destroy the idea that knowledge of witchcraft and magick has to be a secret.

Spread that knowledge, tell your friends, swap research materials, let everyone in who wants in.

It’s fun here and anyone who wants to come is invited to the party.

[nicolette-cutely]

I totally don’t want to say this is wrong, but I do want to bring up a couple of reasons why people/groups want to keep some set of their knowledge as secret. I’ll use alchemy in my examples because it’s sort of what I know best?

One reason could be that it’s dangerous. In alchemy, The Great Work involves a number of steps that create highly toxic substances. It’s just not a good idea to jump right into this without building up procedures for keeping yourself safe.

Another reason is personal discovery. In alchemy, a transmutation must take place physically, mentally, and spiritually to be successful. Being told how to do something is only one part, and so it can be more helpful to provide guidance rather than answers sometimes, so that it better takes root in them.

And, lastly, because sometimes people can ruin things. As I noted above, transmutation takes place on three levels, and all transmutation is about changing something to a higher state. (In The Great Work where one transmutes a base metal, such as lead, into gold.) If one shares the work one is doing with someone who, for whatever reason, has a negative view about it, that can poison one’s mental focus and ruin the work.

So those are some reasons that I would keep quiet about things I know or work I was up to. I’ll invite @they-better-be-mysterious to comment because they’re much more knowledgeable than I, and they might have some interesting insight!

But yes! Share and teach! The world needs more witches and mages and alchemists and and and...

[ghostlysea]

aww nasa has a page for space technology terms you can use in science fiction

nerds

[ceruleancynic]

THIS IS THE BEST THING

AAAAAAHHH

Holy crap!!

[nicolette-cutely]

I really, really want to plug The Night’s Dawn trilogy by Peter F Hamilton. It is a super long read (something like 3,000 pages) or an equally long listen (nearly 3x 40 hours)

The reason I bring it up is that he’s come up with the most amazing technology, and I feel that it can be used as a great example of doing hard sci-fi, following the guidelines here.

[pearshapedcomics]

[tastefullyoffensive]

by Pear-Shaped comics

[laughingfish]

This is the funniest shit I’ve ever seen

[clearheelsclub-deactivated20180]

Omg

[theclockistickingwrite]

As a communication minor I approve

[nicolette-cutely]

[nicolette-cutely]

You: So do you have a preference for men or women?

Me: *gazing deeply into the distance* I have a preference for justice

[kyecheng-deactivated20260512]

hm..

[nicolette-cutely]

=(

[lesbianfreyja]

the phrase “curiosity killed the cat” is actually not the full phrase it actually is “curiosity killed the cat but satisfaction brought it back” so don’t let anyone tell you not to be a curious little baby okay go and be interested in the world uwu

[violet-nomad-deactivated2018120]

See also:

Blood is thicker than water The blood of the covenant is thicker than the water of the womb.

Meaning that relationships formed by choice are stronger than those formed by birth.

[espurr-roba]

Let’s not forget that

“Jack of all trades, master of none” ends with “But better than a master of one.”

It means that being equally good/average at everything is much better than being perfect at one thing and sucking at everything else. So don’t worry if you’re not perfect at something you do! Being okay is better!

[theshantiestme11ophone]

These made me feel better

[thelifeofatubaplayer]

Also, “great minds think alike” ends with “but fools rarely differ”

It goes to show that conformity isn’t always a good thing. And that just because more than one person has the same idea, doesn’t necessarily mean it’s a good idea.

[foulserpent]

why does so much post apocalypse media have people wearing straight up bdsm/fetish gear like. do the kinksters watch the world ending and think “oh boy i can wear my bondage gear in public now”

[skelefolk]

thats actually exactly what happens

[femonologue]

What I wanna know is why the spiky kink warriors are always the bad evil marauders. They might be into some weird shit and unafraid to show it but that doesn’t mean they want to go around killing dudes. They’re a tight-knit bunch. A lot of them are queer. They understand the importance of community.

If the government collapses and all laws come to an end, the people rampaging around killing and looting are gonna be like, frat boys and 4chan rejects. You can mistrust the bondage raiders all you like but they’re definitely the ones you’re going to run to for help when the neoliberal blood cultists and Nazi meme demons lay siege to your survivor enclave. There’s gonna be gayboy berserkers busting up slaver gangs and burning down warboy frat houses. The assless-chaps leather daddies and weird petplay people are gonna be the accidental peacekeepers of the post-apocalyptic world just because they’re the only motherfuckers who understand the importance of consent anymore.

Listen. Don’t come to me asking how to get the secret cadre of bisexual death commandoes to protect your wretched tent village if you’re scared that we might call in the kinksters for backup. I don’t give a shit if they dress up like dogs and spend all day writing poems about butt plugs. There’s assholes out there acting like Vlad the Impaler on a meth bender and you’re afraid of seeing a nipple. Fuck you. If you really want to get rid of the MRA death gangs you’re going to have to accept that a lesbian chainsaw dominatrix or two might be involved. It’s the fucking post-apocalypse my guy we gotta weigh our priorities here

[healingisneeded]

netflix and by yourself :/

[glitter-in-the-bloodstream-deac]

whaaaaaaaaaat this isn’t :/ this is :DDDDDD!!