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@passive-aggressive-groaning
people who do a PhD are running from something
The last of the classically trained tumblrinas
ancient roman women whose husband keeps looking at the neighbour's boy quintus and he never looks at her that way and she can't even chainsmoke in the kitchen because they don't have marlboro blues in ancient times. and she can't even go to the club because they haven't discovered drum and bass music yet. her friend clodia's having visions of a woman named doechii but neither of them knows what that means
you learn something new everyday. unless you're a historian. then you learn something old
Soo Joo Park and Molly Bair wearing Iris van Herpen inside the CERN Large Hadron Collider
Just escaped from Hell thanks to the incredibly convenient road leading directly out! Apparently it was paved with good intentions? Thanks for those, everybody! They worked out great, just like always!
#i. yeah. terribly profound in a fairy-tale way #there was a door-to-door religion salesman i talked to when i little; kept hammering on about people getting tempted down the Road to Ruin #and i (genuinely confused) asked why more people didn't follow because surely Ruin was the best place to go if you wanted to help #he looked poleaxed and wandered away. i guess i can't blame him - i was about 9 and looked maybe 6. so that must have been unnerving for him #but that was my confusion with the whole heaven/hell set-up for years; surely heaven needs saints like a fish needs a bicycle #hell is where there is work to do (tags via @thoughtsformtheuniverse)
Christian Dior - Fall 1998 Couture
1. Eating meat is morally neutral 2. There are many ethical ways butchering has been practiced for a long time 3. factory farming is unethical due to the abuse faced in the animal's life, not bc it results in the animal's death 4. Ethically raised and sourced meat is expensive and/or hard to find in many places 5. *there are people who CANNOT subsist on a plant based diet* for varied reasons, largely disabled folks - (allergies/GI disorders that already limit what a person can eat, people in recovery from restrictive eating disorders, people with ARFID and other sensory processing disorders) and people with little money and time on their hands to cook. 6. Vegans who are adamant about animal rights often have a major blind spot as to human rights abuses; the meatpacking industry is terrible for those who work in it, yes, but people are laboring hard for your grains and produce too, often in unethical conditions and for little pay, and Vegans will treat you like you're doing some kinda "gotcha" and spit vitriol at you whenever you point this out 7. It is not Wrong to eat only plant based certainly but when people start acting like it gives them a moral highground it shows starkly how little regard for fellow humans these people have 8. Just because YOU are disabled/broke/etc and can sustain veganism does not give you permission to harass somebody who says their disability or finances prevent it 9. The most ethical way to eat, if you can achieve it, is by buying things with a short supply chain that were grown locally by properly-paid laborers
10. there is currently no way to get vitamin B12 in a vegan diet without supplementing, and vegans have increased risk of nutrient deficiencies unless they meticulously plan their diet and/or take other supplements as well. I don't love the idea of advocating for a wholesale switch to a diet reliant on vitamin/supplement companies' products
11. leather, which is a very useful material for many purposes, is a byproduct of the beef industry. all currently available leather alternatives are plastic, which causes large-scale environmental destruction including but not limited to animal habitat loss (yes, even the "pineapple" and "cactus" leathers- they're processed with so much plastic that they are essentially just plastic by the end). no beef = no leather = increasing plastic dependence. ditto wool, but this is about materials related to eating animals, so. leaving that out for now
I’m not a vegan, but it’s a goal for me, and it should be for anyone who cares about climate change. People don’t want to make the personal sacrifices necessary to do it and can’t handle admitting that, so instead of saying it’s a goal that we should be working towards, we get defensive posts about vegan strawmen.
This is mainly in relation to US statistics, but I’m sure it’s applicable to most countries, if people care to look up their own numbers.
1) Combining enteric formation and manure management, animal agriculture in the US accounts for 36% of human-caused methane emissions. The comparative pound for pound impact of methane is 28x that of CO2. This information is available from the EPA. https://www.epa.gov/ghgemissions/methane-emissions
2) The US imports 3.0-4.4 billion pounds of beef annually. This information is available from the USDA. https://www.ers.usda.gov/data-products/charts-of-note/chart-detail?chartId=111038
3) Beans and rice are cheap as fuck. Chickpeas, too. A vegan diet is on average LESS expensive than a standard American diet. https://www.pcrm.org/news/news-releases/majority-us-adults-misinformed-about-cost-eating-plant-based-diet
“a low-fat vegan diet cut food costs by 19%, or $1.80 per day, when compared with a Standard American Diet” (Kahleova et al., 2024)
“eating a vegan diet could cut consumers’ food bills by up to one-third” (Springmann et al., 2021)
“plant-based consumers spent less on food than any other consumer group” (Pais et al., 2022)
For the vast majority of people, personal preferences are preventing the switch, not finances.
4) In 2005-2016, 95% of adults in the US were deficient in at least one micronutrient (Reider et al., 2020). B12 supplements are available at Target for less than $5 a bottle.
5) Are vegans NOT advocating to end human rights abuses for farm workers? I’ve never seen someone who brings up this point give a shit outside of responding to made-up vegans online, so I do, in fact, think it’s a “gotcha.” Over 90% of US soybeans are used for animal feed (https://soygrowers.com/key-issues-initiatives/key-issues/other/animal-ag/). Farm workers are already growing and harvesting soybeans, they’re just being fed to animals that are then processed by another set of workers, who happen to be subject to higher rates of mental health issues than the general population (Slade et al., 2021).
6) Considering again that >90% of soybeans go toward animal feed, land use (e.g., not all places can sustain crops) is not a valid argument outside of a few specific biomes. Other land is already being used, and the crops are being indirectly imported as animal feed, we’re just using additional significant amounts of land for animal agriculture.
7) A short supply chain is good, but we should be working towards a short supply chain without animal products, which is ideal for all the reasons above.
I have to go to work, but here are a couple more resources on environmental impacts:
Livestock production drives 14–18% of global greenhouse gas emissions. Learn how meat affects climate, water, and biodiversity — and what so
Most cultures in the world have embraced a meat-eating lifestyle, as has been the case since agriculture became a prominent food supply thou
Enchanting Ecosystems Crocheted by Melissa Webb Envelop Interior Spaces with Verdant Fibers
favorite type of word: names of genres that tell you nothing without context. literary fiction. popular music. interactive fiction. lets invent a new genre called experiencable media
additions: speculative fiction, art film, point and click, simulation game. anything that makes you say "i sure hope so"
"high concept" is the worst of these. i'm a professional author with 14 books and i don't know what that means
the phasmid in disco elysium has to be in the 99.99th percentile of effectiveness for characters that, when i actually interacted with them first, changed my perception of the entire world a piece of media had built up. like DE, pre-phasmid, has some wondrous magical realism kind of elements that appear more as you progress (the existence of the pale and its whole deal, harry’s skills allowing him insight he should not have, etc) that juxtapose some of the more gritty and real aspects (we’re investigating a murder here. and an extremely politically and emotionally charged one at that) but i just feel like the phasmid’s appearance really solidifies that yes, this game does feature serious topics and interactions that are desperate and sad and violent, but oh my god we have to keep going. like oh my GOD we have to keep living so bad. there’s hope and here is wonder still undiscovered by the rest of the world. there’s more to see out there and while we have that we have to continue seeking it out. things can be strange and impossible and beautiful and so sad at the same time and i want to see it all. all bc this big fuck-off insect that looks like a clump of reeds told me to do it for the working class. nods. okay phasmid. okay
“Tact, like empathy, is based on a certain form of mutual understanding. But while empathy implies the idea of entering someone else’s mind inasmuch as it is linked to the presumption that ‘I know how you feel’, tact exists to create a form of bonding between individuals that is not based on the idea of intrusion but, conversely, on the respect for existing boundaries, and on a willingness not always to assume that one knows. While empathy requires resonance and proximity, tact is there to restore distance, and to accept the difference between the individuals involved in order to protect and preserve their dignity. Tact is based on an attention towards otherness.”
— Katja Haustein, “How to Be Alone with Others: Plessner, Adorno, and Barthes on Tact” (via mehreenkasana)
As I have yet to see this being talked about on my dash as much as it should, I'll use this opportunity to write a post myself for once. Of course, I'm talking about the Big Fucking Octopus paper that was released yesterday.
To put it simply, Ikegami et al. studied the fossilized remains of the lower beak of several octopus specimen, in the orders Vampyromorpha, Cirrata, and Incirrata. What's crazy about the studied specimen is that the beak size is positively enormous, with one described species having a bigger beak than the Giant Squid (A. dux), the largest (by length) living invertebrate today at a maximum recorded total length of nearly 10 meters. Extrapolating the beak size to the total body length, the researchers calculated a size of ~2.8 to 7.7m for the smaller species, and a whopping ~6.6 to 18.6m for the larger one!
The team of researchers also studied the wear patterns on the beaks, and found wear patterns consistent with crushing bone and other hard materials. This suggests these large cephalopods would often prey on vertebrates, such as plesiosaurs and mosasaurs.
Naturally, these spectacular sizes have immediately sparked strong responses in cephalopod research circles, both positive and more cricital - as it is supposed to be. This includes criticism on the size calculations, and I'm eager to see any rebuttal papers coming up soon.
Either way, even following the more conservative estimates this species was huge. I know what will be living in my head rent-free the coming days. If you want to read more, the paper is open-access (yay!) and can be found below. If you have made or seen any paleo art based on this publication, please tag me! I'd love to see it. I promise I'll check my notes next month.
Shin Ikegami et al., Earliest octopuses were giant top predators in Cretaceous oceans. Science 392, 406-410 (2026). DOI: 10.1126/science.aea6285
Paleoart by Yohei Utsuki, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Hokkaido University.
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for art directors with funds, there’s backlash to the smooth ai slop aesthetic. @deathtostock on instagram talks about it more in the link below.