No Fate

i'm riya. this is me. sometimes i like to pretend flat-earth theory is real so i can imagine myself dangling my legs off the edge and staring into the void

[lizardsister]

hey boss i can't come in today it's a sunny day and there's a lovely breeze coming in through my window, yeah it's rustling the branches of the tree outside that's finally bloomed so it's pretty serious

[machine-saint]

we justifiably give Biden a lot of shit but I think "at least 3" is the funniest possible response to some right wing dipshit asking you how many genders there are

[madnessofmen]

wait it gets better

[thedoubteriswise]

what a headline

[dappermouth]

Strange roadside buildings where you shouldn’t ever go.

[saccharinescorpion]

I’VE GOT THE VOICE OF THE MANY IN MY THROAT 

THE TEETH OF A FROG AND THE TAIL OF A GOAT

[perrfectly]

[architectureofdoom]

Genkai Undersea Observatory, Karatsu

[blackpyrefly]

alan moore writing watchmen in like 1986: wouldnt it be horrifying if superheroes worked for the government

hollywood and the us military now: arent these superheroes who work for and with the government awesome

[headspace-hotel]

Evil biology facts that fill me with Fear :)

hey, I heard y’all like evil biology facts like knowledge about horse blood types.

well! today I was researching alternative biochemistries extraterrestrial life could use and. man. I think Earth life is fucked up enough for me thanks

biological dark matter. WHAT DO YOU MEAN MY BLOOD HAS DNA IN IT FROM NO KNOWN SOURCE. YOU CAN’T JUST SAY THAT COME BACK HERE

One specific cave that has been sealed for 5.5 million years and has developed an ecosystem completely dependent on chemosynthetic bacteria.

Was anybody going to tell me that bacteria have decided iron is yummy and are eating the Titanic, or was I supposed to just read that myself

Terrible Berry (yes, that’s what the genus name means). This whole thing is so fucked up. These scientists were testing whether radiation could be used to kill pathogens in food, so they dosed a tin of meat with enough radiation to kill any known living organism (as one does) but guess what, it still fucking spoiled because of THIS BASTARD FUCKER.

(seriously, why is it like this? WHY has a bacterium evolved to chill in radioactive waste like it’s a soothing Jacuzzi tub? What does it know that we don’t know?)

(ANSWERS. I WANT ANSWERS, YOU CHERNOBYL ASS BITCH.)

Cursed worm, which has no mouth or digestive system and depends entirely on five (5) different species of bacteria, which consume hydrogen sulfide, hydrogen monoxide, and carbon monoxide, for food. How do you, a worm, even...figure out how to do...all that?

Bone worms. At least they like their bones already dead. I still could have gone without knowing this was a thing.

“Oh, parasitic plant, that sounds c—WHAT THE FUCK IS THAT THING”

I am like half convinced this is made up. Seriously, bacteria grow their own electrical wires and we just let them?

[headspace-hotel]

To clarify

Evil (affectionate and admiring)

[uglymelon]

They took the unkillable bacterium and put a Disney song inside of it.

“In 2003, U.S. scientists demonstrated D. radiodurans could be used as a means of information storage that might survive a nuclear catastrophe. They translated the song "It's a Small World" into a series of DNA segments 150 base pairs long, inserted these into the bacteria, and were able to retrieve them without errors 100 bacterial generations later.”

[headspace-hotel]

*opens worldbuilding notebook* *takes further notes*

[great-tweets]

Beware!

[rayvenreayes]

Avoid sci-hub too👀

[queeranarchism]

From Ask for PDFs from People with Institutional Access

[dowereallyneedthis]

If you want to read an academic article that's behind a paywall just email the author and ask politely if they will send you the article. Most academics will be thrilled that you want to read their work and will gladly send it to you.

[42ds]

PSA

[the-promise-has-been-made]

I cannot stress the above point enough.

In case you don't know this, authors of articles in scientific journals do NOT GET PAID. We do not see a single cent for getting our articles published. Whatever the journal makes you pay to access their content, the authors do not see anything of that money. So yeah if you want to read an article behind a paywall, absolutely contact the author, be nice about it, and chances are they will happily provide you with their paper just to spite whatever journal is pocketing their money. No one hates the academic publishing industry more than researchers.

[oudenonoma]

This

[toastbutteregg]

[lmaonade]

we should be able to rotate desktop programs freely

[lmaonade]

i want to use my computer like t his

[midnightmoon991]

Day and Night

[vikingofficial-deactivated20241]

Hey, hey guess what the Ever Given has as cargo. Guess what it's hauling. Go ahead. Think of the most ridiculous essential thing it could be shipping that would cause a shortage. Ready?

[vikingofficial-deactivated20241]

It's toilet paper.

[ekho-ekho-ekho]

I arrive at the Suez Canal

Cargo: loaded

Dick: doodled

Boat: horizontal

Despite the best efforts of the international community, I cannot be forcibly removed from the Suez Canal.

[achilleius]

Humans, monsters, heroes, villains—to Victor it was all just a matter of semantics. Someone could call themselves a hero and still walk around killing dozens. Someone else could be labeled a villain for trying to stop them. Plenty of humans were monstrous, and plenty of monsters knew how to play at being human.

[nasa-official]

“Many adults are put off when youngsters pose scientific questions. Children ask why the sun is yellow, or what a dream is, or how deep you can dig a hole, or when is the world’s birthday, or why we have toes. Too many teachers and parents answer with irritation or ridicule, or quickly move on to something else. Why adults should pretend to omniscience before a five-year-old, I can’t for the life of me understand. What’s wrong with admitting that you don’t know? Children soon recognize that somehow this kind of question annoys many adults. A few more experiences like this, and another child has been lost to science. There are many better responses. If we have an idea of the answer, we could try to explain. If we don’t, we could go to the encyclopedia or the library. Or we might say to the child: “I don’t know the answer. Maybe no one knows. Maybe when you grow up, you’ll be the first to find out.”

— Carl Sagan