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Heya, I’m Jam.

[shanyushahollander]

somebody is def going to take this the wrong way considering that this is tumblr dot com, but as someone who was in an (among other things) financially abusive cult, it is… really eerie to log on here and see people regurgitate the exact same arguments leadership used to bilk thousands of dollars out of us 🧍🏻‍♀️

[shanyushahollander]

like ‘if you have a cent of spending money to your name, you have enough money to donate to us, and it’s selfish and counterrevolutionary for you to want to keep it’ is the verbatim line they used, and many people in our organization ended up trapped in cycles of debt/dangerous living situations as a result. i have nothing against mutual aid in principle but there are absolutely 1. blatant scammers and 2. bad faith actors willing to use various forms of emotional manipulation/abuse to get what they want on here, and it legit scares me how this website promotes gullibility as a virtue

[funnytwittertweets]

[butchniqabi]

oh. i just found out that the writer of the vincent van gogh doctor who episode wrote it as a tribute to his sister.

[butchniqabi]

Richard Curtis wrote, "So – here’s the thing – the key reason I wrote this episode – was out of love for my sister Bindy. She was a gorgeous and brilliant person, 2 years older than me. She loved Vincent Van Gogh and life. She couldn’t have been more full of generosity and joy.

But half way through her life she was hit by depression and intermittently it hurt her for the rest of her life. And a few years before this show, like Vincent, she took her own life.

And in the key scene of the episode - when they bring Vincent to the future... that was me trying to show Bin how glorious she had been in our lives - and how nothing could change that.

And then also to deal with the fact that mental health issues are hard - and the capacity for joy, as I know Bindy did know how much she was loved, is intertwined with the immense difficulty of the illness sometimes...

So taking her own life wasn’t a failure by her, or a rejection of all of us. It was, as they say on Love island, what it was."

[tilthat]

TIL Nuclear power is actually better environmentally than coal.

via ift.tt

[rainy-days-will-never-end-deact]

Atomophobia is a big oil plot tbh

[the-furry-butler]

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

[bigwordsandsharpedges]

Newer designs are even better. For example, a molten salt reactor can be designed so that it physically can’t go into core meltdown. Because the radioactive fuel is dissolved in a molten salt compound, an overheating reactor can simply melt through a barrier, pour into a shielded chamber, and solidify back into a solid form. 

The best example uses liquid fluoride salt and radioactive thorium, which is cheaper, more plentiful, and less suited to weapons than uranium. 

[simplyahole]

Have ANY of you played fallout?? No thanks

[thepleasuregoblin]

What an absolute galaxy brain take

[constanzeofficial]

[vonisv]

[noxtheox]

[drowned-princess]

“I know this is a nuclear power plant that can’t go into meltdown, but have you not played the game about nuclear weapons destroying the world?”

[biggaybunny]

afhfdssfgds the plot of fallout is that a fossil fuel shortage LED to nuclear war so this is even more of a galaxy brain take.

[einherjar1312]

Has anyone of you heard about Nuclear wastes? They take centuries to degrade. Sure, USA and Russia don’t have to think about it, they can just dump them into siberia or the Nevada desert, but countries like France, UK, Germany, etc.. we have no space for nuclear waste to properly store it for the amount of centuries that it takes for it to become less harmful and who knows if the barrels that store them are not leaking? Nuclear energy is a short term solution to coal. Heck, central and east europe got hit by the nuclear disaster that was fucking chernobyl. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-level_radioactive_waste_management https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radioactive_decay

[bigwordsandsharpedges]

France already gets 80% of their electricity from nuclear power. I think they store the waste in a very deep mine, in rural Finland, far away from people.

Nuclear waste only takes a long time to degrade if it comes from uranium. It’s very inefficient, and 90% of a “spent” fuel rod is still enriched uranium.

Uranium was only used because the government wanted a “dual use” technology that could also be used for nuclear weapons. Thorium is very bad for building bombs, but it’s very efficient in reactors.

Almost all of the thorium is consumed, leaving a small amount of weakly radioactive waste which is easy to contain. It only lasts for 200-300 years.

Some thorium reactors are designed as “waste burners”, which can consume uranium waste and transmute it into weaker elements that last for centuries, not millennia.

[supreme-leader-stoat]

We’re also figuring out how to turn uranium waste into electric diamond batteries. So you know, there’s that.

[enki2]

[maykitz]

sacré bleu...somebody âs deepthreauxted ze eiffel toweur

[sweatermuppet]

dreamy sigh followed by agonized sobbing

[livedinthecastle]

i have such a profound hate for stories that go 'what if just some guy like literally just some guy was thrown into these horrible circumstances with huge stakes' and then take it back and go 'haha he is not just some guy, he's the specialest little boy in the planet, last in a long line of specialest little boys, it was in his blood all along'

[kyzrael-reita]

Screens. Neon Genesis Evangelion (1995)

[theycantalk]

allergies

[willow-wanderings]

For anyone wondering why this happens: the body language cues that humans use to mean “I’m not interested in contact, please ignore me and leave me alone” are the same body language cues that cats use to say “I’m not a threat to you and we could chill together if you want.” The term “i speak cat” is kind of a misnomer because 95% of cat communication is NON-VOCAL. Cats who want to chill will look at you and then look away and/or blink slowly when you notice them staring. They will fold up their body to be smol and non-threatening. They will yawn and purr and act like they don’t care you’re there. All of these things say to a cat “we’re cool, bro, we should hang out.” Humans trying to avoid contact will adopt a closed body posture (legs close together, arms crossed, head down/slightly hunched over); to a cat that looks like trying to be smol and non-threatening. Humans trying to avoid contact will try to watch other people without the other person catching on to being watched. So they look and then immediately glance away when acknowledged; to a cat this says “yeah, I know you’re there but I’m ok with it, we’re cool.” Humans trying to avoid contact will keep fairly quiet and act bored to discourage interaction; to a cat that says “you can tell I’m totally ok with you being around because I’m not actively screaming and showing displeasure at your presence.” If you’re allergic to cats, learn some cat body language so you stop accidentally inviting cats for a snuggle when you actually want them to avoid you.

[aichu-dechu]

I used to tell my friends that if you wanted the cat to avoid you, step one was to yell “KITTY!” and come running at her and try to pick her up without her permission. Et voila, the cat now wants nothing to do with you. They never believed me for some reason.

[dadmondmiles]

[image description: cartoon of three cats and the legs of several people at a social gathering. One cat, curling around a person’s leg, says “Over here, I found someone with allergies!”]

[pancakeke]

I've been waiting for him to say this lmao

[gaybastich]

[antiqueanimals]

The First Book of Mammals. Written and illustrated by Margaret Williamson. 1957.

Internet Archive

[meladoodle]

i got this photo with gus from breaking bad and the conversation went like this

me: “hey can you pretend this banana I found outside is a gun?” him: “it is a gun” me: “shit you’re a good actor”

[phluphfy]

tumblr allowing titties again is cool and all but are they gonna do anything to un-blur all the accounts that have been blurred for things like titties.

[thirstybipeach]

Tumblr isn't doing it themselves, but I was able to get this blog unflagged manually! I went through the process at the end of this page, and in the comment field for the form just put "blog now conforms to new Community Standards," and in about two hours I was unflagged!

[namesonboats]

Artist Qistina Kalidah. Artstation.

[amithompson-h]

[explodikid]

The original Covenant cover