the lictor of thrash

a drunk, a pervert, a junkie and a sodomizer

[marveltournaments]

Yeah, this is over. Get fucked.

[soberscientistlife]

So many people do not understand the relationship between climate change and cold weather.

[headspace-hotel]

If you see this post it is important to send it to someone else so they too can understand

[chais-corner]

[shingojira]

chaos reigns 

[shingojira]

[shingojira]

i made the mod too

[fallout-lou-begas]

fallout heritage post

[marveltournaments]

Marvel's Next Queer Character (FINALS)

Anthony Masters (Taskmaster)

Dani Moonstar (Mirage/Psyche)

Voting ended onJan 30, 2024

[kim-hu]

FINALS, guys, he's IN THE FINALS!

It really counts now.

It's all come down to this.

So one last time, one final time l ask you:

VOTE TASKY

[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.

[epistemophagy-deactivated202404]

Unfortunately, this has not stopped people still using fMRIs to do junk science about exactly what makes trans people tick

[toastyglow]

at any given moment part of my brain is screaming I SHOULD BE EATING SMOKED SALMON RIGHT NOW. torment

[joaniejustwokeup]

I went to a college farther north from what I was used to. Not by much, but the cold weather, short days, and long hours spent in class or studying meant I was barely getting any sunlight and my mental health was tanking.

One night, after a good hour or two of stress-crying on my dorm floor, I went grocery shopping.

When I saw the canned fish section I was struck with such a profound craving that I dumped a whole assortment of packets and cans of fish into the cart- smoked herring, salmon, sardines, pre flavored tuna, just so much fish. I grabbed crackers to eat it on almost as an afterthought.

In the produce aisle they had herb plants and the smell of the rosemary almost made me cry again, so I grabbed one of those too.

When I got back I almost immediately started eating fish and crackers. I think I ate like two or three cans of what I bought? And I just felt so much better afterwards it was crazy. I planted the rosemary in a large mug and everything felt lighter, just a little less stressful.

I looked it up some days later and yeah, the omega 3s, vitamin D, zinc, and magnesium in fish are all things that can help with seasonal affective disorder and depression in general.

So my advice is if you find yourself craving fish, especially in the winter, just do it. Buy some salmon. Buy some kippers. Eat 👏 some 👏 fish! 👏 Your body might be telling you something, and you’ll probably feel a lot better.

[amayensis]

I have recently beaten TotK and couldn't resist the urge to draw Monster Hunter style icons of the dragons. I just love them so much! 🥰

EDIT: I had mirror stickers made with these designs, they're currently on my Ko-Fi shop! 👀

(Be considerate of others, no spoils in the comments!)

[pajamasecrets]

Andrew Robinson on playing Garak for the first time. 

[mrsmothmom]

OH MY GOD???

[dudekafkaesque]

goblin cat and squid grandma

[roach-works]

reblog if the girl on the right is just as beautiful as the girl on the left

[gingko-ghost]

They have teatime on Tuesdays!

[dudekafkaesque]

omg!!!!! 💛

[desinteresse]

I think gay people should do more depraved sex acts and make less ugly rainbow items

[fagesque]

i think gay people should do more depraved sex acts and make more, uglier rainbow items

[severian-fucks]

I literally followed you for the Gene Wolfe references in your url and blog name. BotNS is one of my fav books ever!

it literally changed my life! if you haven't read them i also recommend the black company novels by glen cook, not really like botns stylistically but also very good and underappreciated

[chumbie]

a lot of scantily clad women with numbers in ther urls are following me lately. they must be smitten with my devilish charm

[shamebats]

[holythefirm-deactivated20230530]

Some of the kindest women I have ever known looked like this

[thyrell]

[femmchantress]

[carriershoukaku-deactivated2025]

[saywhat-politics]

[original-oxford-comma-forever]

Stop having disgusting minstrel shows for "all ages" at gay clubs for fucks sake. A couple of years ago we were told drag was fine cause its "for adults", but now you have, almost out of spite, all these drag story times and bullshit activities with children.

How do you expect people to respond? You're trying to teach children en masse that their innate biology might be wrong, because a small subset of people have mental illness about it, and you're trying to conflate that sickness with natural homosexuality. Its bonkers.

[severian-fucks]

✂️ shut the fuck up

20 seconds · Clipped by DerGrueneReiter · Original video "Cake - Nugget (live)" by Francesco Sorrentino