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Hello! :] I draw and write gay stuff I also queue stuff a lot art acc: @nutmeg-on-a-stick

[thecollectibles]

Art by Frank Liu

[planeo2paper]

flowers for the doctor

[ozempicofficial]

[elvyn]

Qifrey

[orpheuslament]

lets out one truly pitiful little whimper & then goes back to doing fucking whatever

[dykesbat]

when your writing doesnt match up with the quality you have in mind

[exxos-von-steamboldt]

[delicatefury]

I just googled this and… yes, it’s absolutely real.

And there are so many articles and videos and discussions. Like, the scientific community is buzzing about this.

So much research will have to be redone because the data was absolutely compromised, off by orders of magnitude, by using standard lab gloves.

The world is probably not horrifically contaminated by microplastics. Sterile laboratories, however, are contaminated by latex and nitrile gloves.

Thank God someone bothered to check.

[beardedmrbean]

>I just googled this and… yes, it’s absolutely real.

Sources beyond dude just trust me, for the skeptics.

Scientists shocked to find lab gloves may be skewing microplastics data

Scientists may have been unknowingly inflating microplastics pollution estimates, and the surprising source could be their own lab gloves. A

https://www.technologynetworks.com/applied-sciences/news/scientists-lab-gloves-may-be-causing-an-overestimation-of-microplastics-411138

Nitrile and latex gloves may cause overestimation of microplastics, U-M study reveals

Nitrile and latex gloves that scientists wear while they are measuring microplastics may lead to a potential overestimation of the tiny poll

Nitrile and latex gloves may cause overestimation of microplastics - Phys.org (it’s a pdf)

An Embarrassing Mistake May Have Skewed Microplastics Research All Along

Researchers discovered a standard piece of lab equipment has added thousands of microplastic ‘false positives’ per each square-millimeter un

Ordinary Lab Gloves May Have Skewed Microplastic Data

Ordinary Lab Gloves May Have Skewed Microplastic Data: That doesn’t mean microplastics aren’t a problem, though

That should be enough

[3liza]

how did they not fucking account for this. sorry but this is really really stupid

[trans-girl-nausicaa]

this is so funny.

[ruffboi-mags]

@3liza they didn’t account for it because they didn’t realize it was an issue. The particles the gloves are shedding are not microplastics but they are similar enough in composition and under an electron microscope that because the scientists didn’t know to account for them, they didn’t realize that’s what they were seeing.

Also they DID account for contamination in WET sample preparation, because they’d already learned previously that the nitrile gloves could contaminate wet samples, but this was the first discovery that they were contaminating DRY or AIRBORNE samples as well.

All of this was very clearly laid out in just the last provided link - i didn’t even have to read all of them to learn this, I read like 3 paragraphs of the nautil.us article and I was able to learn what happened and why it hadn’t been accounted for.

Like, I understand the frustration, but this is the sort of thing that has to be DISCOVERED before it can be accounted for, and this is what that kind of discovery looks like, and berating scientists for not already knowing something science hadn’t yet learned is kind of a pointless and bad faith approach to things.

We’ve learned that a lot of the studies done on microplastics in our environment were not actually accurate, and had unintentionally incorrectly inflated numbers of microplastics in their samples due to this issue, which means that while microplastics are still obviously a problem, they’re not as overwhelming large of a problem than we thought! This is a good thing! Science has done its job and we have learned new things and can now do even better science! There’s no reason to be angry at or berate the scientists who’ve gone before. We know better now. That’s the important part.

[machine-unlearning]

When I (M29) was a young boy (M7) my father (M35) took me into the city (X167) to see a marching band (M23, M21, M22, F22, M24, M25, F21, M

[machine-unlearning]

He said “Son (M7) when you grow up (F33) would you be — wait what”

[shitpostingkats]

I know the picture frame is recurring motif through the whole series, but I've always found these two chapter covers side by side to be particularly striking. The many many layers of Qifrey versus Olruggio remaining the same through every slice of time.

[ruporas]

sleep a little longer (id in alt)

[butchesofcain]

i need more mel medarda back tat appreciation posts

[rainboneish]

I believe in the “King Dean is doing vivisections to try and figure out what makes witches witches” theory and I’m a little worried he’s gonna do it to Bel but at the same time I think he’s politically savvy enough to know that he can’t just do that to one of the Wise without repercussions so I don’t actually think that he would risk killing Beldaruit while he is under his care, he’s too careful and playing the long game for that

(Which is part of why I find Eoleo scarier than king Dean, cause kids are more unpredictable and impulsive than adults (and also cause Eoleo is trying to manipulate other children who might be less aware of what he’s doing than a seasoned politician like Beldaruit))

He’s more likely to run minor experiments (ie blood tests) and just use him and Rili as a hostage than to actually do any kind of permanent physical harm

(I also don’t believe that Deanreldy is evil per se, I don’t think he’s purely power hungry and evil, he genuinely seems to care for the good of the people (while at the same time being a hypocrite cause he didn’t evacuate the ghettos) and rightly criticizes Witch society on some issues but he also wants to consolidate all the power in himself and will abuse his power to gain more)

Just like Beldaruit showed his ugly side while dealing with Custas (pointed cap witch high society is quite classist and elitist in general and even Bel’s disability and general benevolence doesn’t absolve him of similar prejudice/abuse of his position)

The whole dichotomy between the Ezrest family and the Witches both abusing their power in a way is fascinating and I love how it interacts with the separation between magic and medicine and isn’t just a one dimensional “political ruler craves more power” plot line the way it seems to be with the other royals in the Peninsula

The whole emphasis/conflict around the separation of medicine and magic through multiple major characters is extremely interesting to me (on a personal level cause I am in the medical field) and I love how much this story deals with ableism and medical ethics

[riatsunisan]

My first fanart for wha and it's old man yaoi

[nutmeg-spam]

otto getting arrested before he’s even released omg clock that

[wordfather]

doctor diagnosed me with oc sickness in the brain; the ocs will spin around in my brain forever and ever

[monards]

smth smth science is the accumulation of hundreds of years of human passion & collaboration and has been considered against what was allowed & normal for the time at multiple points in history despite how integral it was to humanity's progression -> and its soooo good when a character is regarded as having a "lack of humanity" in their pursuit of it bc it shows the cyclical nature of how people who don't abide by other's standards of what it means to be 'human' are regarded as inhuman despite how every aspect of their passions & actions perfectly encompassing how human they are -> bc "humanity" is (if anything) even better encompassed by smbdy's lack of conformity to a single standard, and desire to reach further -> and for smbdy to have so much passion and desire to achieve a new level of knowledge is the very definition of human

[espikola]

That one Sonic meme redraw because GENUINELY it saved my life soooo many times goated rule