[princesastudies]

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hiiii everyone! i’m the girl behind princesastudies, so lovely to meet you ‪(՞ .ˬ.՞)"‬ i’ll start with some basic info about me!

❦ nombre: Lola

❦ edad: 19

❦ pronombres: she/her/ella

❦ intereses: las lenguas (estudiando español y ruso ahora, y mucho de mi blog es dedicado a aprenderlas); micología; biología marina; moda; todos tipos de arte, poesía, y hornear

❦ locación: estados unidos >-< específicamente minnesota, en el media oeste

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i would love for anyone with similar interests to follow me so we can be mutuals! i truly miss the days when studyblr was a rich, active, and closely knit community ꒰ᐡ´т ‧̫ т ̀ ᐡ꒱🐾♡

here’s some of my goals moving forward!

❦ begin 100 days of productivity on monday, july 3rd (it’s sunday the 2nd as i write this)

❦ advance to B1 in spanish by the end of the summer

❦ fully complete duolingo spanish course by new year 2024

❦ pick up russian on memrise again

❦ advance to section II of duolingo russian course by the end of the fall

❦ write a diary entry in TL daily or every other day

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last but not least, here’s a few blogs that inspire me! ·̩͙ᜊ( ^ᴗ^ )ᜊ·̩͙

@gatostudies @rivkahstudies @emmastudies @studyign @studyquill @studie-s

that’s all, thanks so much for reading! make sure to stay focused & hydrated ʕ'-ω-'ʔ✧

likes & reblogs for exposure are greatly appreciated!!

[gwendolynlerman]

Verbs and Cases

Accusative

верить в (to believe in)

извиняться за (to apologize)

напоминать (to remember)

обижаться на (to take offense)

обращаться на (to turn to)

обсуждаться (to discuss)

поддерживать (to support)

рассматривать (to consider)

Dative

восхищаться (to admire)

доверять (to trust)

жениться на (to marry)

приспосабливаться к (to adapt to)

противостоять (to resist)

радоваться (to rejoice)

учить (что-нибудь) (to teach something)

содействовать (to contribute)

соответствовать (to correspond to)

удаваться (to suceed)

удивляться (to be surprised)

Genitive

бояться (to fear)

видеть (to see)

заметить (to notice)

ждать (to wait)

желать (to desire)

касаться (to touch)

кричать на (to shout)

лишаться (to stay)

ожидать (to expect)

оказаться от (to turn out to be)

отличаться от (to differ from)

придерживаться (to adhere to)

сердиться на (to be angry with)

состоять из (to consist of)

спросить у (to ask)

требовать (to demand)

Instrumental

извиняться перед (to apologize in front of)

любоваться (to admire)

мириться (to reconcile)

напоминать (to remind)

наслаждаться (to enjoy)

настаивать на (to insist on)

присмотреть за (to watch over)

руководить (to lead)

смеяться на (to laugh)

ухаживать за (to take care of)

Prepositional

заботиться о (to care for)

разбираться в (to understand)

разочаровываться в (to be charmed by)

содействовать в (to contribute to)

сомневаться в (to doubt)

сосредоточиться на (to concentrate on)

упрекать (to reproach)

[girltalk]

dream life: visualizing goals ⋆ learning every day ⋆ taking small steps ⋆ staying curious ⋆ believing in possibilities ⋆ trusting the process ⋆ embracing change ⋆ believing in myself ❤︎

[soracities]

"Absolutely no one comes to save us but us."

Ismatu Gwendolyn, "you've been traumatized into hating reading (and it makes you easier to oppress)", from Threadings, on Substack [ID'd]

[paper-mario-wiki]

HEY wanna read but annoyed on where to find copies of books?

Here's an archive with millions of PDFs of books and papers and magazines and essays and stuff.

[meltedgarment]

I've been looking for such archives, thanks

[fealty-to-thee]

you’ve been traumatized into hating reading (and it makes you easier to oppress).

i was not going to publish this essay because i don’t like to yell but here the fuck i am.

the first link broke, here you go

[creatingblackcharacters]

BEGGING us to read nonfiction every now and then. Like. Words on page. It doesn't have to be the only thing you do, but you gotta keep in practice with it. No easier people to subjugate than those who question nothing they're told.

[louisegluckpdf]

holy quaternity

[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.

[weeee]

Time shifting

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I wanted this but the original poster is transphobic

[anarchopuppy]

This is called the "analog loophole" and there's nothing anyone can do to stop it. They can encrypt and copy-protect all they want, but eventually the file has to be sent to a speaker and/or screen, and it has to get there in a human-readable form because that's the whole dang point

The simplest way to exploit the analog loophole is just pointing a camera at a screen or a microphone at a speaker, but direct recording is also always possible and always will be. Anything that can be displayed can be saved and displayed again

[autumngracy]

Back in the day, people also used to share software over the radio with this technology. Because computer programs and files are really just sets of binary code, and that code can be turned into audio tones.

The resulting audio file can be played over the radio (sounding a bit like the old dial up noise, as it's just two quickly oscillating notes) and recorded to a cassette tape, which you can then give to your computer to "decode" back into 0's and 1's, which gives you the program file. You can then run it as if you'd installed it from a disk.

NPR did a very cool podcast about this.

[supremecodemagenemica]

Acoustic coupler - Wikipedia

Lads. We used to put phones on computer peripherals.

[songoftrillium]

This, btw, is the real reason Apple removed the audio jack.

[confused-robot-cat]

How the flying shit do I plug a VCR into my computer tho

[alamuts-lair-of-madness]

With an USB adapter like this

[mdstroup2142]

I just realized, I got to make sure my VCR and CRT TV still work. I still had them when I got my PS3. So I tried this with that. So the first time I ever "streamed" is on a VHS somewhere.

[byjove]

Cemeteries are not wastes of space. Historical cemeteries ESPECIALLY are not wastes of space. The fact developers are continuously foaming at the mouth to destroy them and put a strip mall up in their place should make you even more determined to help maintain them. In urban areas, they are a haven for wildlife. They are a green space. If you are too afraid of death to utilize them for that purpose, that is on you.

[lesbianartandartists]

Zoe Leonard, I Want a President… , 1992

[gael-garcia]

They Do Not Exist (1974) by Mustafa Abu Ali (watch)

from PalestineCinema.com:

Salvaged from the ruins of Beirut after 1982, Abu Ali's early film has only recently been made available. Shooting under extraordinary conditions, the director, who worked with Godard on his Ici et Ailleurs (Here and Elsewhere), and founded the PLO's film division, covers conditions in Lebanon's refugee camps, the effects of Israeli bombardments, and the lives of guerrillas in training camps. They Do Not Exist is a stylistically unique work which demonstrates the intersection between the political and the aesthetic. Now recognised as a cornerstone in the development of Palestinian cinema, the film only received its Palestine premiere in 2003, when a group of Palestinian artists "smuggled" the director to a makeshift cinema in his hometown of Jerusalem (into which Israel bars his entry). Abu Ali, who saw his film for the first time in 20 years at this clandestine event noted: "We used to say 'Art for the Struggle', now it's 'Struggle for the Art'"

[zeh-e-aashiqui]

Oh, my shimmering moonchild, my wild and wondrous tide—happy birthday to you. You are marrow-deep magic, heart-first in a world that barely remembers to feel. You are the hush before the storm, the shelter in the chaos, the lullaby that memory hums long after it's gone.

May your spirit stay soft as seafoam, and strong as the pull of the tide. Be the ocean you are meant to be— shifting, sacred, ever-knowing, ever-changing. May you carry stories in your spine, and love in your fingertips, and memories folded neatly between heartbeats. May sorrow never harden your glow, and may you always return home to yourself, wrapped in the arms of your own compassion.

May peace find you in the hush of moonlight, may you be allowed to outgrow the versions of yourself that only knew survival. And may love, real love, meet you where you already are— not in your fixing, but in your feeling. May joy come quietly, in candle flickers and handwritten notes, in laughter that bubbles up like spring water— unexpected, refreshing, free.

May your heart remain tender, but guarded like a secret pearl. Say no to what tugs you away from your centre, and yes, to what waters your roots, what wraps your heart in velvet and says, "you don’t have to earn love—you are love."

Oh, how you are treasured, my tide-turning dreamer. Keep that heart open, but protected. Let your love pour, yes— but let it be returned in full. Let tears fall like prayer, let silences bloom with meaning, let your memories be museums you visit, not cages you live in.

Live richly, love fiercely, and cradle this life with reverence. For you—and will always be—my favourite water child— the current that pulls with quiet power, the calm that makes space for healing.

[zeh-e-aashiqui]

i highly recommend for women and girls to be intellectually curious and difficult to shame.

[sexchangedotcom]

the internet is a place for reading wikipedia articles and watching every movie for free. social media is an invasive species. never forget this

[blastdamage]

the paris catacombs are 1000x more fucked up than i imagined

[blastdamage]

did you know the cops once found a fully functioning movie theater with a well-stocked bar inside the catacombs and they when they tried to go back later to formally investigate it was completely emptied out save for a note that read "don't search for us"

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

Underground french cinema

[npd-vriska]

my little bro is part of the catacombs community and yeah, it's basically a fully autonomous society! enough that when my bro goes in on a friday night, they don't come out until monday for work- sometimes longer if they took days off.

some of the rooms have fully stocked pantries with cooking equipment, some have movies like the one described above, some have books you're allowed to just take but people always put back- every day people bring things from the outside. artists often set up galleries there. there are rooms with mattresses and hammocks set up for people to sleep. one of the room is just a place where people leave shoes for the fun of it.

this is Known, it's not a secret by any means. the catacombs are as big as paris itself, and people live there just as people live above. it's wonderful when you think about it.

[npd-vriska]

A little update! My little bro is now my little sister. Please don't misgender her :)

[canossa31]

your sister coming out of the catacombs like

[mystikmisfit]

✦ making lil discoveries ✦

⋆𖦹 3rd week of November ‘25 in my art journal & hobonichi weeks 💕🐛 11/17–11/23 🗝️⋆｡𖦹°‧★

I love writing my weekly to-do’s in my journal with some illustrations & then also creating a colourful scribble spread in my hobonichi weeks!! happy planning & journaling, frens!

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✶ my website ✶

[hellokittyml]

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[storybookprincess]

so a very long time ago, my dad worked with an arson investigator

this guy was often one of the first people on the scene following a suspected arson, once emergency services had done what they needed to do. at times, there were also civilians on the periphery. often, they were freaking out, and understandably so; their home or workplace had just, quite literally, gone up in smoke

this investigator wouldn’t try to calm them down. he wouldn’t comfort them or be a shoulder to cry on.

instead, he’d walk up to the person most visibly losing their shit, hand them a fire extinguisher, and say “hey, can you keep an eye out for any other fires, and if you see one, can you put it out with this?”

of course, there was no actual risk of another fire. he wouldn’t be on the scene investigating if there was even a chance that the fire wasn’t completely put out. but the bystander didn’t need to know that

because that person, without fail, would immediately pull it together, take the fire extinguisher, and stand guard. they were, at least temporarily, calm enough for this investigator to do this job

my dad has told me the parable of the fire extinguisher a hundred times, and i think about it a lot. i think about what it says about people and crises. i think about what it says about the grounding power of having a purpose. and i think about the importance of letting someone help me through something, even if that help is just going to be another casserole to throw into the freezer, because useless or not, that fire extinguisher might be the only thing holding them together