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âDonât call Trump supporters nazis, it hurts their feelings.â
Yes, this is real (link to tweet). Yes, Tucker Carlson is literally repeating Nazi propaganda that aided the genocide of the Romani during the Holocaust. Yes, I am furious.Â
(Also, although there is a large population of Romani in Romania, they arenât indigenous to Romania. Theyâre a diasporic group originally from northern India.)
Romani and Jewish have been screaming at the top of their lungs for years about neo-fascism in Europe, and Americans were totally aloof.
Then neo-fascism reared its head in America, but Roma and Jews were left out of the conversation in terms of people being impacted, because our oppression was âover.â
Now Tucker Carlson is on live TV using slurs and Nazi propaganda about Romani people, and Iâm 90% most people on the left are just going to ignore it.
Itâs fucking starting y'all. Itâs happening again.
If youâre not Jewish or Roma PLEASE BOOST THIS.
did the aliens from star wars just enjoy that band in the cantina playing the exact same fucking song over and over again or was it a situation like that diner with Whats New Pussycat on repeat
considering that han solo was in that cantina, I think we all know the answer
and then when i was about to request the song for the seventh time, my buddy chewbacca, genius that he is, stopped me and said ârrrRrrrghghghhHhâ. and that is when the afternoon went from good to great.
and weâre staring at this one guyâgreedoâand heâs like staring at his caf cup like this, and heâs been onto us since the beginning, and heâs sitting there and his hand is shaking, and he had this look on his face like oh, like he had just gotten his thirty-day chip from anger management, and heâs staring like this, and the fourth song fades out, itâs dead quiet, thenâand i donât know if you know this, but the song begins very quietlyâDAH duh DAH duh DADADAAAAAâand he goes âgoddammit!â and pulls out a blaster
*goes up to a polyamorous triad* so which one of you unspools the thread of fate, which one measures it, and which one cuts it?
Join prof.Peach in the greenhouse this week as we talk about bulbasaur, their common issues and how to remedy them.
*the recipe is acceptable for dogs (and humans) unless you know they have an allergy to any of the ingredients.
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My dad:Â âSo if your pronouns are they and them, how should I refer to you when I brag about you? My daughter? My son?â
Me:Â âMomâs just been calling me her kid or her child.â
My dad: âI shall call youâŠmy Eldest Spawn.â
I feel like itâs worth noting that he was wearing a Cthulu t-shirt when this happened.
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Here is a baby button quail falling off a spoon
Polished Malachite Stalactite - Copper Crescent, Congo
*looks around*
Is
Is anyone gonna say it
malachite is a poisonous mineral. please do not fuck the malachite stalactite
@lizaleigh do you know any rock people that can confirm/deny because I am very curious and really donât feel like getting into a conversation with my geophysicist brother that MAY somehow get back to the fact I saw a malachite that looked like a weird dildo.
âŠsadly, I am not on good enough terms with any of our partner geologists to just attach this to an email with the subject line: âEXPLAIN.â Although I think @mollisaurus is a mineral person. Thoughts?
oh geeze, iâm kinda rusty on minerals but malachite is just copper carbonate and is really common in both antique and modern jewelry so i think like if you were really gun-ho about it you could go ahead and put it wherever you want?
Itâs really only a problem if youâre polishing or cutting it. The particles would be bad to breathe. Itâs rather porous too, so I would worry about bacteria growing. Well, being literal anyway⊠Better to leave the poor thing alone. ._.
I mean it kinda depends on where you stick it because malachite does not like acidic environments very much and the malachite will degrade and also might dye your bits blue-green as the copper dissolves out.
So use a condom when fucking rocks is the takeaway here.
Oh my god guys itâs poisonous
It is super poisonous
There is a reason we do not use it in make up any more
Not even with a condom, do not fuck the rock
Try this one instead.Â
malachite literally explodes in water does it not?
I⊠no⊠I think youâre thinking of pure sodium?
Malachite is however water soluble, which really just means it will poison you quicker
This is both hilarious and cool as fuck because youâre getting all this information on minerals and rocks. Youâre also watching people argue over wether or not you can fuck this rock
I go on hiatus for a week and come back to find tumblr molesting my post, but hey, at least we all learned something so yay tumblr, you just keep on being you.
Iâm still not sure if I can fuck this rock.
Iâm looking into it.
UPDATE:
Today in âIâm so sorry, coworkers, itâs for Tumblr,â I brought this post to the attention the science reporters at BuzzFeed. Dan Vergano did a some research and weighed in on the question âCan you use malachite as a dildo or is it toxic?â
The answer is âItâs probably fine, just wash it first and maybe use a bunch of lube.â
Oh man this got so much better than the last time I saw this post
This is my favourite. Science side of tumblr: asking the REAL questions
*biologist crashes through the underbrush* Ok so hereâs the thing though Malachite is not poisonous to YOU. BUT fucking this stalactite will probably wreck your vaginal flora and leave you with a gruesome infection within a couple days. Want details? SO GLAD YOU ASKED, âCAUSE HERE THEY ARE. âą Malachite is not copper oxide. Itâs Cu2CO3(OH)2. Like most carbonates itâs water solubleâ thatâs how it became a stalactite in the first place! And technically any given chunk of âmalachiteâ isnât just malachiteâ itâs a mix of various copper carbonates & oxides. This will become important later. ⹠When malachite dissolves it makes a bunch of copper (Cu++) ions. Cu++ is GREAT at killing bacteria and fungiâ so good at it that sprays with Cu++ get used a lot as a spray in agriculture to stop plant disease. It takes such a large dose to harm larger organisms that copper sprays are used a lot in organic agriculture (like Bordeaux mixture). So bottom line, yes malachite is technically nontoxic to humans. But it kills bacteria when it dissolves and releases Cu++. âą Malachite dissolves somewhat slowly in waterâ but vaginal secretions arenât just any water. A healthy human vagina has a pH of 3.8-4.5 and a salinity of about 0.9%. Itâs also warmer than your average underground cave at 37°C (or 98.5°F in American meat units). As luck would have it, acidity, salinity, and warmth all make malachite dissolve faster. ⹠In other words, the human vagina dissolves malachite. ⹠I have no deeper explanation for why human females can dissolve rocks with our genitals. It simply is. ⹠Gonna to take a quick moment to point out that sex toys that dissolve when you use them are maybe not the best investment. ⹠Anyway the key question now is âhow fast does the human vagina dissolve malachite?â Are we talking geological timescale, a Nazis-in-Indiana-Jones situation, or something in between? If the reaction kinetics of dissolution are very slow, then thereâs nothing to worry about. An encounter with a stalactite would have to last years for enough Cu++ to leach out to cause problems. If itâs quick then weâre in trouble. ⹠Unfortunately it looks like nobody really knows. One of the best sources on how malachite dissolves & precipitates in waterâ an EPA document on how to avoid too much Cu++ in municipal drinking water systemsâ helpfully says âThe kinetic constraints on the formation of these solids in water systems are largely unexploredâ (p. 42) because end equilibrium points is all you need to run a city water system safely. In other words, the experiments that would tell us how fast malachite dissolves in various types of water just donât exist because nobodyâs ever needed to know before. So weâd better assume itâs going to happen reasonably quickly, #for safety. âą So in best scientific fashion, weâre just going to bullshit our way ahead using what facts we DO have on hand: endpoint equlibria. ⹠Is there any info out there telling us what equilibrium concentration of Cu++ we get in salty acidic water at body temperature? Almost! One J.F. Scaife published some great data on this back in 1957. TAKE IT AWAY, SCAIFE.Â
That orange box is how many moles of dissolved Cu++ Scaife got from sticking malachite in some water that had 0.171 moles NaCl/L (body salinity is about 0.154 moles NaCl/L so this is slightly less salty than people) at 30°C. Heâs got no acidity in there, and again the salinity and temperature are slightly lower than people. But this is probably the closest weâre going to get to data on how malachite behaves in vaginas anytime soon, folks. From this we can take away that if you leave malachite alone in a vagina youâll get AT LEAST 9.12 x 10^-4 moles/L, or 5.8 ppm, of Cu++ at equilibrium. ⹠Recall from above that most âmalachiteâ isnât actually pure malachite, itâs a mix of various copper carbonates & oxides. The EPA document elaborates: â[T]raditional âeyeballâ identification of malachite by its blue-green color is extremely unreliable, because almost all cupric hydroxysulfates, hydroxycarbonates, hydroxychlorides, and even fresh cupric hydroxide can be some shade of blue-green. âŠÂ Thus, the uncertainty in the computed copper concentration in equilibrium with malachite is at least about a factor of 2 ⊠until further experimental data focusing on this problem is generated.â In other words, âdo your math and then double how much Cu++ you think is going to be in the water, just in case.â So that gives us 11.6ppm Cu++, at equilibrium, with malachite in a (til now!) healthy vagina. ⹠Next step: do we have any idea what happens to bacteria in acid conditions with copper? OH MY GOD WE TOTALLY DO. Gyawali et al 2011 checked this out in the context of âso what if we rinsed tomatoes with a solution of lactic acid and copper, because that would be a safe & organic way to get rid of E. coli?â So now this post has officially ruined stalactites, vaginas, and tomatoes.
^This would happen. These are the counts of 4 E. coli strains exposed to various levels of lactic acid & Cu++ for 8 hours. This table only shows the end counts but it represents the death of 99.7% of bacteria*. âą Losing 99.7% of your vaginal flora is seriously bad news. Youâre looking at really good odds of a yeast infection, bacterial vaginosis, and/or other infection issues. And thatâs if youâre lucky enough to not be in the 4% of the population or so thatâs sensitive to skin contact with copper. ⹠The good news? Biochemically speaking, youâre probably ok to put it in your butt. Itâs not as acidic or salty in there, plus thereâs a huuuuuge stockpile of gut microbes right upstream that can quickly repopulate the colon after spelunking is complete. However this stalactite is not flared at the base so it is the wrong shape for putting in your butt. Do not put this stalactite in your butt. ⹠This all looks like fun and games, but I think itâs really interesting that the internetâs mistake in concluding that this stalactite is fuckable is very similar to the mistake made by the Flint water management system. Hear me out. ⹠Central to the Flint lead poisoning crisis is that authorities only looked at & tested Flintâs water in its central treatment plant before it went out through the pipes. Not after it went through the pipes. They did not consider what would happen biochemically as it went through the pipes and metals started dissolving. ⹠Similarly, in concluding that the stalactite is fuckable, the internet only considered the stalactite itself. Not the biochemical processes that would happen to it as it, welp, went through the pipes. ⹠Media frequently reports that the Flint Riverâs water is âcorrosive,â leading many to believe the river is full of industrial waste. This ainât the case. Youâd need industry to fill a river with industrial waste, and industry left decades ago. Thatâs why Flintâs so poor. So what IS in the water? Road salt. Plain old stupid road salt. The old Detroit-based source didnât have salt because it came from Lake Huron which has a large, mostly rural watershed. Meanwhile the Flint River runs through a lot of towns, making it slightly salty as everything melts down in spring. And as we recall from the stalactite experience, a little salt is all it takes to get metals to dissolve. âąÂ Information on this engineering problem was not coming through clearly from the engineering or chemistry sides. It took a biologist, pediatrician Mona Hanna-Attisha, to document the real-time results and provide the data to kick-start a high-level investigation. ⹠Morals of the story: when dealing with a biological system pls consider asking a biologist, your vagina and/or city could depend on this âą Pls use a condom when fucking any water-soluble material âą Still donât put the stalactite in your butt -3/10 do not recommend
OK, I havenât reblogged this before now but the final post takes it to a whole new level and I can no longer resist.Â
fine, this is the Best Tumblr Post
What a wild fucking ride.
I LOVE YOU SCIENCE TUMBLR
IT GOT BETTER!!!!
Ahem. @buzzfeed things have gotten (even) more interesting on the malachite fucking front.
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kids toy sale at work right now and hull sainsburys store manager came into work other day and was telling me that 2 women nearly ripped an iggle piggle in half down the toy aisle fighting over who was gna get itâŠ.. LOVE you hull. your women know how to FIGHT
They really do. Thereâs another story about this old woman whose taking an axe to a telegraph pole they put outside her house. She said itâs ugly so itâs coming down. Itâs the spirit of the hessle road matriarchy.
HERE HE IS!!!!
The pumpkin boy!!!
I think the closest I come to understanding Vault-Tec is when I consider how tempting it would be to run Fallout 76 in part as a social experiment by assigning karmetic values to certain actions. On one hand, you could wind up with servers full of people who just want to collaborate and fix the wasteland together, shining paragons of what humanity can accomplish when they unite for a common goal. On the other, players whoâve regularlly been blocked for griefing or harassing behavior that drops their karma deep into the negative digits wind up in the Bad Place server⊠where you can only move to a better server by raising your karma. Which means the only way out of the Bad Server is learning to cooperate with others or at least to live and let live. âFallout 76 is a terrifying hellscape full of bitter assholes!â one game reviewer says, having little idea heâs just revealed he, too, is an asshole. How long before the players wise up to the scheme, and if they do figure it out, who could they really hold accountable other than themselves?
The Good Place irl
Sounds like fun.
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Iâm gonna go ahead and be a film snob and talk about why this is one of my favorite shots from TOS. (I could also say that itâs one of my favorite scenes, because the entire scene actually consists of a single shot.)
We donât see a lot of bald expressions of emotion in film and television, especially if that emotion is fear or sadness or vulnerability. Dramas will give us some tears, but they always cut a way after a few seconds because a closeup of someone crying is deeply uncomfortable and most movies and TV shows arenât in the business of making their audiences uncomfortable. It just doesnât sell well.
But in this scene the camera never looks away. It follows Spock as he sits down at the table, and it circles him as he cries. But there are no cuts. We donât even get music to create some distance, make it all a little more palatable; we just hear sobs and mumbled math equations.
Itâs absolutely excrutiating. It would be excruciating no matter who we were watching, because we are so unaccustomed to seeing unadulterated emotion. And then thereâs the fact that itâs a man. And that itâs Spock.
Fifty years later and this is still one of the most daring filmmaking decisions Iâve ever seen on TV (I of course canât be exactly sure who made it, but Iâm assuming it was the director of the episode, Marc Daniels). This shot lasts 1 minute and 45 seconds. Weâre in the middle of space and in the middle of a high-stakes episode where the crew is going crazy and the ship is going to blow up or some shit and everyoneâs lives are in danger, but we pause 1 minute and 45 seconds to have an uncomfortably human moment with an alien who doesnât even want to be human, and itâs so awful and amazing.
#this is one of the things that makes me love TOS infinitely more than AOS #because when AOS wants to show that Spock is a deeply emotional being #they make him angry #angry and violent #macho bullshit that doesnt even come close to the raw vulnerability #of Spock sobbing to himself because he never told his mother he loved her #and that was a spock whose mother was still alive!! #it is so much more meaningful to show spock weep than to show him angry #and the thing is #in this episode the virus is supposed to strip them down to their core #and at his core spock is not angry or violent #spock is a terribly vulnerable man #lost and unsure and feeling so strongly and loving so deeply that it moves him to tears THESE TAGS HOLY SHIT @galaxydorks
So true!
Here is an excerpt from Billâs Star Trek Memories.
As originally scripted, the scene would have begun with Spock walking down a corridor openly sobbing. At that point, weâd cut away and find that another infected crewman has begun frantically running around the ship, slapping graffiti paint jobs all over the walls of the Enterprise. In subsequent shots, weâd find several more crewmen beginning to lose their inhibitions, and just when the pandemonium is beginning to overwhelm the ship, weâd come back to Spock.
Spock is now riding in an elevator, crying. He gets to his floor, and when the doors open, the graffiti guy runs up and paints a big black mustache on Spockâs face. At that point, Spock cries even louder. Leonard continues:
Now, thatâs very imaginative, very inventive, very theatrical and very funny, but I felt that it was not really significant or appropriate for Spock. I mean, Spock was crying⊠but so what? There was no context for it, no discernible root force, no underlying cause for whatâs going on. You know, in a strange way, this one-shot extra whoâs walking around doing the paint jobs all over the place is a lot more interesting than Spock, whoâs weeping. It seemed to me like we were wasting some really strong dramatic possibilities, all for the sake of an easy sight gag.
So I said all of this to John Black, and I also said that what I felt we really need to do her was a scene in which Spockâs basic inner conflict, the human versus the Vulcan, rises to the surface and motivates his tears. I mean this draft of the script found Spock fighting through all this emotion in public, and I felt that would be a terrible thing for Spock, because heâs a very private person.
So I said to John, âI think Spock would look for privacy when he feels the urge to cry. When he can no longer resist his tears, he would probably look for a private place in which to battle it out within himself.â
And Johnâs reaction was very negative. It was typical producer/writer-under-pressure kind of stuff. âCâmon, leave it alone because Iâm working on next weekâs script. Shoot it, just shoot it.â This kind of thing. And he complained about hurting the rhythm of the script.â
Iâve got to break into Leonardâs story here to explain that âit hurts the rhythm of the scriptâ is a sort of basic, all-purpose producerâs excuse thatâs fed all too often to actors seeking script changes. Good, bad, legitimate, frivolous, it doesnât matter. If a producer doesnât want to deal with your suggestions, heâll probably just tell you that what youâre suggesting âhurts the rhythm of the script.â Itâs the TV producerâs equivalent of âthe dog ate my homework,â or âthe check is in the mail.â Itâs just an easy, somewhat plausible excuse that generally has no basis in reality. With that in mind, Leonardâs determination and fiercely protective nature in regard to Spock drove him over Blackâs head to Roddenberry.
I called Gene about it, and I told him just what Iâd told John. In talking to Gene, I was very careful to be politically supportive of his producer but about an hour and a half later, here comes John Black out to the set. So now Iâm feeling, âAhh, this great!â Iâm feeling that someoneâs actually listening to me.
And Black was funny, he cam onto the set and said, âLetâs go talk someplace.â We went to my dressing room, and he said, âOkay, tell me your idea again. Daddy says I have to listen to you.â And I had already formulated a basic concept of the scene, so I said, âLook, John, just get me into a room, and write me a half-page, a quarter-page, where you see Spock walk down a corridor and slip inside a door. As the doors close behind him, heâll burst into this emotional struggle.â And John asked, âWell, whatâs this struggle all about?â And I said, âItâs about love and vulnerability and caring and loss and regret, versus C=pi-r-squared and E=m-C-squared. Spock is a scientist, he is logical, and he feels this canât be happening to him. Itâs that kind of struggle. Itâs logic versus emotion. Itâs rational control versus uncontrollable urge. With that in mind, going behind closed doors will speak to the basic privacy of the character.â
So John wrote that and some other stuff, six or eight lines maybe, and it was exactly what I needed. Spock was now able to slip inside a door, close it behind him, struggle for a moment, then cry. At this point, he would start babbling, and the cause of the internal struggling would become obvious. Problem was, when it came time to shoot this stuff, a whole new set of obstacles had to be overcome.Â
Marc Daniels, who was directing this particular episode, came up and asked, âWhat do you have in mind for this scene?â So, playing director, I said, âJust put the camera here, behind the desk. Iâll come in the door, Iâll walk toward you, Iâll come around, Iâll sit in the chair, and Iâll start this babbling conversation with myself, and Iâll cry. Now, if youâll dolly around getting closer and closer we can meet at the end of the scene. We can see Spockâs entire breakdown in one long dramatic shot.â
Okay, now itâs five-thirty, I got out to get my ears and makeup touched up, and the time is important because weâre on a very rigid schedule. With overtime being so ridiculously and prohibitively expensive, weâd have to wrap each evening at exactly six-eighteen. Didnât matter if you were in the middle of a sentence, come six-eighteen, we wrapped.
So now Jerry Finnerman starts to light the scene and itâs obvious that this will be our last shot of the day. Iâm in the makeup chair, getting touched up, and now in comes Cliff Ralke, our dolly grip, who was always a very supportive person, and he says, âExcuse me, Leonard, but youâd better get out there, because theyâre changing the shot you guys just talked about.â
So now Leonard comes out to the set, and the director has indeed changed the shot theyâd just agreed upon. Itâs important to note, however, that the reasoning behind this change, though not particularly sensitive to Leonardâs needs, was rational and perfectly valid. You see, as previously discussed, this shot would have entailed a one-hundred-and-eighty degree camera move starting from one side of the set, then slowly dollying completely around to the opposite end. This caused problems because the long, involved shot required a lot of lights and a time-consuming, involved setup that Jerry Finnerman didnât think could be accomplished without going into overtime. Finnerman discussed this situation with Daniels, and together they decided that the most efficient way to shoot this scene would be in a series of brief cuts, each of which could be lit quickly and with relative ease.
They were going to have Leonard enter in a wide shot, then cut. Next, in a slightly tighter framing, theyâd follow him as he crossed the set and sat down. Cut. An even tighter frame would catch the beginning of the speech, and they planned to cut once more, zooming to a close-up as Spock began weeping. This made sense in terms of production efficiency, but Leonard felt this shooting sequence would really damage the dramatic impact of the scene. He continues:
I said, âYouâre going to lose the continuity and fluidity of the scene if you shoot it this way. I will not be able to do it as well, and I think the end result will just seem choppy and phony.â
By now itâs five forty-five, and with no time to debate the situation, they got hold Gregg Peters, our first A.D., who was the equivalent of the hatchet man. He was the guy whoâd always call the six-eighteen wrap, and we all discussed the situation. Finally Marc Daniels said, âLetâs go for it. Letâs try to get it done.â
Now the lighting crew ran around setting up the shot, and I think it was about six-fifteen when they finally said, âWeâre ready.â Marc had me walk through it once, and by now production types were standing around behind the camera, looking at their watches and saying, âHe wonât make it. Heâll never do it.â So the tension was really mounting.
So basically I know this has got to be a flawless, one-take thing. Yâknow, Iâve got one crack at it before they shut us down for the night. If I were to screw up, weâd almost certainly have gone right back to the cut-and-chop scenario come morning. Anyway, this was the scene that Iâd asked for and fought for, and now the logistics of the situation were such that there was absolutely no room for error. There was a lot riding on this, and I wouldnât have been so adamant in my battling if I hadnât felt that this scene was extremely important. I felt like it merited my efforts, in that it truly defined, for the very first time, what the Spock character was all about.
Now the lights go on, the cameras roll and we nail it. They get the pan, get the one-hundred-and-eighty-degree dolly shot and the scene was ultimately worked really well in illustrating Spockâs inherent inner conflict. This went directly to the heart of what Gene and I had originally spoken about in regard to the character of Spock. It was an opportunity that I absolutely did not want to miss, and an opportunity to plant a seed in defining a certain edge of the character.
There is nothing funnier to me than poorly redrawn trollfaces made around the time everyone was mocking people who made rage comics