idk

she/her

[midnightssea]

I’m not religious but I do think those of us who remain loyal to perennially losing sports teams (because they’re from our stupid hometown or our dad loves them or whatever other illogical reason) have a cosmic reward in store for us. And bandwagon fans of winning teams will face justice in the end. 😌

[tenrose]

2x13 // 4x12

[oneheadtoanother]

[buckycap]

i understand that it’s bc i love him and see myself in him a lot but i really do need any and all dean winchester criticism and hate to stay far away from me bc i will never be in a place to listen to any of it unless i know you’re coming at it from a place of loving him as well and wanting to understand him better if i see any surface level criticism or hate that boils down to “dean’s just a big meanie :(“ i’m gonna do something drastic that you’ll see me on the news for i don’t play about this man

[emrysteine]

⏳ donna !!

one of my favourite nostalgic companions ❤️‍🩹

[tennant]

A great big outer-space dunce.

[investmentofmyheart]

It’s not even just that it’s sapphic and the actresses were wonderful last season. It’s that a Black woman is the leading love interest. It’s that the Bridgerton lead is an almost explicitly autistic woman. It’s that they’ve already given them some layers, so I know the writing of these characters will not be horribly shallow and rely on stereotypes. And we get to go to a Scottish castle. Wins all around.

[blond-shell]

[mogwaipoet]

This game, about listing as many animals as you can, is shockingly well-considered and polished for such an apparent shitpost of a game idea

hot new brain workout

[sunandsteel99]

I got scared and started listing colors and objects

😭

[spectromania-deactivated2026042]

Insane ball knowledge

[lizawithazed]

Help I'm addicted to this stupid thing

[freesiadotcom]

[imsobadatnicknames2]

All of the evil shit walter white did in breaking bad is masterfully foreshadowed in the first episode when we're shown that he's the kind of man who names his son after himself.

[imsobadatnicknames2]

Of course he had no qualms about poisoning a child or selling jesse into meth slavery. That's just what men who name their child after themselves are like.

[ashlingmizuoka]

DEAN WINCHESTER

Supernatural | S4 EP16 : On the Head of a Pin

[kerryweaverlesbian]

Can you believe. Dean in Faith was dying. He gets picked out for faith healing. The entire reason Sam dragged him all the way out to this muddy field. And he says. Pick someone else.

[sillyppi]

i miss her. ..

[rlyehtaxidermist]

one of the best academic paper titles

[rlyehtaxidermist]

for those who don't speak academia: "according to our MRI machine, dead fish can recognise human emotions. this suggests we probably should look at the results of our MRI machine a bit more carefully"

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

I hope everyone realises how incredibly important this dead fish study is. This was SO fucking important.

[imightbeobsessedwithsocks]

I still don’t understand

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

So basically, in the psych and social science fields, researchers would (I don't know if they still do this, I've been out of science for awhile) sling around MRIs like microbiolosts sling around metagenomic analyses. MRIs can measure a lot but people would use them to measure 'activity' in the brain which is like... it's basically the machine doing a fuckload of statistics on brain images of your blood vessels while you do or think about stuff. So you throw a dude in the machine and take a scan, then give him a piece of chocolate cake and throw him back in and the pleasure centres light up. Bam! Eating chocolate makes you happy, proven with MRI! Simple!

These tests get used for all kinds of stuff, and they get used by a lot of people who don't actually know what they're doing, how to interpret the data, or whether there's any real link between what they're measuring and what they're claiming. It's why you see shit going around like "men think of women as objects because when they look at a woman, the same part of their brain is active as when they look at a tool!" and "if you play Mozart for your baby for twenty minutes then their imagination improves, we imaged the brain to prove it!" and "we found where God is in the brain! Christians have more brain activity in this region than atheists!"

There are numerous problems with this kind of science, but the most pressing issue is the validity of the scans themselves. As I said, there's a fair bit of stats to turn an MRI image into 'brain activity', and then you do even more stats on that to get your results. Bennett et. al.'s work ran one of these sorts of experiments, with one difference -- they used a dead salmon instead of living human subjects. And they got positive results. The same sort of experiment, the same methodology, the same results that people were bandying about as positive results. According to the methodology in common use, dead salmon can distinguish human facial expressions. Meaning one of two things:

Dead salmon can recognise human facial expressions. OR

Everyone else's results are garbage also, none of you have data for any of this junk.

I cannot overstate just how many papers were completely fucking destroyed by this experiment. Entire careers of particularly lazy scientists were built on these sorts of experiments. A decent chunk of modern experimental neuropsychology was resting on it. Which shows that science is like everything else -- the best advances are motivated by spite.

[nipuni]

Roommates!

[vvwhim]

JUL 1969

[king-lena]

i kinda feel like back in the day cas would get kinda frustrated with sam simply bc he was not dean. like sure there was the abomination thing but i feel like his biggest gripe was just why are you not dean?