Tranquility

[exxos-von-steamboldt]

[delicatefury]

I just googled this and… yes, it’s absolutely real.

And there are so many articles and videos and discussions. Like, the scientific community is buzzing about this.

So much research will have to be redone because the data was absolutely compromised, off by orders of magnitude, by using standard lab gloves.

The world is probably not horrifically contaminated by microplastics. Sterile laboratories, however, are contaminated by latex and nitrile gloves.

Thank God someone bothered to check.

[beardedmrbean]

>I just googled this and… yes, it’s absolutely real.

Sources beyond dude just trust me, for the skeptics.

Scientists shocked to find lab gloves may be skewing microplastics data

Scientists may have been unknowingly inflating microplastics pollution estimates, and the surprising source could be their own lab gloves. A

https://www.technologynetworks.com/applied-sciences/news/scientists-lab-gloves-may-be-causing-an-overestimation-of-microplastics-411138

Nitrile and latex gloves may cause overestimation of microplastics, U-M study reveals

Nitrile and latex gloves that scientists wear while they are measuring microplastics may lead to a potential overestimation of the tiny poll

Nitrile and latex gloves may cause overestimation of microplastics - Phys.org (it’s a pdf)

An Embarrassing Mistake May Have Skewed Microplastics Research All Along

Researchers discovered a standard piece of lab equipment has added thousands of microplastic ‘false positives’ per each square-millimeter un

Ordinary Lab Gloves May Have Skewed Microplastic Data

Ordinary Lab Gloves May Have Skewed Microplastic Data: That doesn’t mean microplastics aren’t a problem, though

That should be enough

[computerspace]

[letters-to-lgbt-kids]

My dear lgbt+ kids, 

Here’s a reminder that social media can muddle up your perception of what’s a common opinion. 

A very tumblr example for that is young people arguing to normalize fictional male characters being straight - despite heterosexuality already being the standard assumption outside of queer fandom spaces.

This is one example but not the only one. It’s often much less obvious than this. You may encounter someone arguing against a specific homophobic point and be left with the assumption that this is a widespread belief in your community and that your family or friends may believe this too - but you live in a whole different country with a very different religious or political ideology, and you likely would’ve never encountered this specific belief. 

These examples (missing fandom context and missing culture context) may feel quite different but they can lead to the same issues: 

you may interpret neutral behavior as hostile and react defensively to it, potentially making social connections harder 

you may feel excluded, unsafe or threatened in situations that are actually low-risk, potentially lowering your quality of life 

It’s easy to believe that you would not fall for a wrong assumption like that - but we all rely on context clues for understanding and we all can get confused if context is missing. 

In offline life, time and space often offer these clues. Many people instinctively understand that something that’s a common opinion in their workplace may not be a common opinion in their friend group and vice versa (note that I say many and not all here - context clues can be hard everywhere for some people). 

Being aware of this doesn’t immediately make you immune to it - but it can help you to pause and reflect before you react. It’s a good exercise to occasionally stop while scrolling and ask yourself some questions: not just „Is this true?“ but also „In which circumstances is this true?“. 

With all my love, 

Your Tumblr Dad

[ed-recoverry]

Reminder that abusers can be abusive by accident.

Reminder that abusers can genuinely, wholeheartedly believe that they are doing you a favor by abusing you.

Reminder that some abusers never apologize because they genuinely, wholeheartedly believe their abuse was for the better.

You’re allowed to know and acknowledge this and still be upset!

Explanation is not an excuse.

Some people abuse purely to cause a victim pain.

Others abuse for more complicated reasons.

But that doesn’t negate the fact that they abused you.

Even if there were aggravating circumstances, you are still allowed to still be mad at your abuser. You were not in control of their circumstances in their life and it was unfair you had to suffer the consequences.

Abuse is abuse, no matter the circumstances.

[novelconcepts]

Hey, man, c'mere. Listen. Get in real close, this is important.

You're gonna make stuff again. You're gonna make stuff you're proud of. You're gonna make stuff you're excited to share. You're going to feel that overwhelming drive to create, not just the frantic I want to want to you're stuck in now. You're going to have awesome ideas, and you're going to make them into reality. You're going to create again. You're still an artist. You're still a writer. You're still home to the same passion you had before. You'll find it again. It's not gone. It's just resting. Let it rest. You're going to make stuff again. I promise.

[andylovesfoury]

After some time, Ive finally realized what I needed. And now I feel guilt, because what I needed has always been here with me. Four and Yuki love me so much, theyre always trying to help me. Yet I felt like nobody loved me, that I had to find other people to love me. But theyre right here, with me. They never left me, they have always been here. And they will never leave me

I love them so much, I feel safe with them. They bring me so much happiness. Theyre the best thing that could have happened to me, they truly make me feel loved

I was trying to find love for so long, when love was right here with me. In my head, living with me, right next to me. All this time, all I needed to be loved was to love myself in some way. I love being a system, I love being plural, I love my insys partners, I love all my headmates and alters. I might not talk to all of them, but they truly make me happy. They make me feel at home. Theyre my family

[the-gay-goblin]

Only day you can reblog this

[vigilantsycamore]

Next time you can reblog will be on 26th January 2025

[mist-the-wannabe-linguist]

Us, arriving to Austria to a tiny family hotel owned by an elderly lady

Us: speak only limited German

Lady: barely speaks English

Us:

Lady:

Lady: Czech? Slovak?

Us: Czech

Lady, to herself: Czech, that's a Slavic language right

Lady: understand Yugoslavian?

Us:

Us: yeah that works

[eastern-lights]

Shit like this can really only happen in Europe. Reminds me of the time I took my best shot at ordering at a restaurant in Spain in spanish. The closest language to spanish that I actually speak is latin.

Waiter: Germany?

Me: No, Czechia.

Waiter, in a heavily accented but intelligible Czech: Why didn’t you say so before! We get you guys here all the time!

[krcmelound]

Já v roce 2019 na Ukrajině: OK, takže když použiju tohle staročeský slovo, přidám polský sloveso, své chabé znalosti záhoráčtiny a řeknu to s ruskym přízvukem, tak to projde.

[mist-the-wannabe-linguist]

[Me in 2019 in Ukraine: ok so if i use this Old Czech word, add a Polish verb, my poor knowledge of the Záhorie dialect of Slovak and say it with a Russian accent, it might pass]

Reminds me of the time when we were in Poland and I tried to order a burger using a truly unholy mix of Slovak, Russian and Ostrava dialect (which in itself is like an unholy mix of Czech and Polish).

I did get the burger

[orion-the-onion]

[mmaurysiek]

[#my grandpa called this "Slavic Esperanto"]

I know Ukrainians who can do this on purpose and masterfully, and it was mind-blowing to hear a speech as immediately understandable to an audience of native speakers of three different native Slavic languages, not just two languages as is common

[alamuts-lair-of-madness]

During one student exchange I (a Pole) got acquainted with two students from Czechia and Russia. At first we talked in English or German, but after a while we’ve noticed, that we could understand each other’s native languages just fine. And if some word was unknown in one language, another one had the right synonym.

*Each of us talking in their mother tongue*

Me: Bla bla bla.

Russian: I don’t know this “bla”.

Czech: Oh, we have “bla”! We also call it “that”!

Russian: Oh I know “that”! It’s a very old version of “this”.

Me: Oh, we have “this” too, but it means something slightly different.

German acquaintance: Was für nen Scheiß zieht ihr da ab? o_O

[leseigneurdufeu]

the reason there aren't slavic people in the bible is that they wouldn't have been surprised or awed to hear the disciples speak in tongues and be understood by people of many nations at once

[alexfeelyx]

Slavs walked away from the Tower of Babel mildly inconvenienced.

[invisiblefoxfire]

As a non-native speaker of Czech who is only conversationally proficient and has terrible grammar, let me tell you, no one was more surprised than I was to discover that I can understand Slovak just fine. And when the two moving guys finished hauling my furniture to my new apartment and we were chatting a bit before they left, I discovered that the reason I'd had a little trouble understanding one of their "accents" was because he was speaking Ukrainian the whole time.

[treba-neco-napise]

"Slavs walked away from the Tower of Babel mildly inconvenienced." killed me

[mist-the-wannabe-linguist]

[bakwaaas]

You gotta understand that some people never really grow. They never learn their lesson. They never recognise their mistakes, they never acknowledge their faults, they never admit they were in the wrong. You will never receive an apology from them, and you will never see their behaviour change.

[lilybee]

if you’re in the notes saying “this is wrong and cruel because everyone is capable of growth” you’re not understanding the post.

yes, everyone is CAPABLE of growth and change. everyone has the RIGHT to growth and change. but no, not everyone will CHOOSE growth and change. some people are not interested in and cannot be made interested in self-improvement or self-reflection. some people will go their entire lives refusing to admit they might be wrong or examine their own behaviors. some people will never, ever accept responsibility for the effects they have on people and the world around them. humans are varied; some are just always gonna be like this.

it is VITAL to understand this if you’re the kind of person who tends to pour energy into helping others, especially if there are already people knowingly hurting you who consistently show absolutely no interest in changing that behavior. you can’t forcibly make them want to change who they are. you aren’t going to find a way to convince them to suddenly care that their behavior is hurting someone.

the motivation to change and grow comes from within. others may inspire us, but WE have to decide we want to be better and work towards that. until they decide that for themselves, nobody else can do it for them. and they might never. people are mortal. we are a finite series of choices. it is entirely possible to make mostly selfish ones.

everyone CAN grow, but not everyone will. not everyone wants to, and nobody can force the desire to grow as a person on someone else.

[calebwittebane]

fucking hell man every online service now is becoming like Scan your face and bootyhole and provide blood sample to confirm you are over the age of 35 in order to view this post. warning! obscene imagery detected in the post. the photo included in the post promotes unhealthy perverted dangerous behavior i.e. taking off one's shirt. your employer has been contacted.

[cazort]

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[jeaniefranklins]

Sex scene as character study is so good. What is your relationship to your body? What is your relationship to your partner? What lessons have you absorbed from the culture about yourself as a sexual being? How much do you have to trust someone before being comfortable with intimacy? What fears and insecurities come to the fore for you when you take your clothes off? It's so good.

[headspace-hotel]

How do they communicate? How do they expect others to communicate? How well do they understand their body and their own capacity for pleasure? What do they tend to do to make their partner feel comfortable? How comfortable are they showing emotion in front of others? How much insight do they have into what their own emotions mean and are connected to? What are they focused on during the encounter? How conscious are they of exchanges of power and vulnerability? very very very good

[jessfink]

Yes. YES

[foolish-byron]

when i say "romanticise the ordinary" i don't mean "hide all aspects of your life that do not fit under some kind of aesthetic" but rather "strive to find beauty in all the little things because i promise you, happiness can be found everywhere"

[allthingswhumpyandangsty]

some of y’all will be engaging in witch hunt, accusing writers left and right and then wondering why more and more writers take their works down and don’t share them with you ungrateful losers anymore.

“this fic looks like it was created by ai” yeah that’s because ai was trained on human-made works and it was trained to mimic human-made works.

you claim you hate ai because ai harms real artists, yet you are out there accusing and harassing artists because “their vibes just aren’t right”. at this point, you are the ones who cause more harm — to art and the writing community — than ai does.

you are the ones killing art and writing community, the community you want to “protect against ai”.

so at this point, you’re killing the community faster than ai is. good luck when the community you want to protect has no human-made work left because you accused and harassed genuine artists/writers away and the only things that are left for you to read are actual ai-generated fics.

if you think a fic is ai and if that bothers you like it does me, quietly exit the tab and avoid their future works like a normal, decent person. because with every "this fic looks ai" comment, there's always a chance of you wrongly accusing an innocent writer and further harming the writing community as a whole.

[3liza]

99% of "mysterious disappearances" esp of people in their 20s who start acting weird for 48 hours and then vanish are not mysterious, thats just when a lot of reality-obliterating mental illness tends to kick in and it's pretty easy to get a short circuit in your brain that makes you go family guy death pose in joshua tree national park. it's not any less tragic, it's just a documented phenomenon and not particularly predictable. its a big reason the medical advice is for people with a family history of schizophrenia to completely avoid weed and psychedelics. "people just go crazy sometimes" is a principle of human health that used to be a lot more accepted prior to the american midcentury and to a certain extent thats a healthier way to conceptualize and prepare for the risk, as opposed to the modern assertion that anyone acting weird is dangerous and broken forever.

[3liza]

you should have a rough outline of a plan for if any of your loved ones experiences psychosis, it really does happen a lot. UTIs can cause psychosis. taking drugs, even safe drugs, or prescription drugs, can cause psychosis. i was once prescribed a heavy regimen of vitamin D because i was deficient, but the doctor never told me to stop taking it, so i moved to california, stopped being deficient, and developed vitamin d toxicity with downstream hyperparathyroidism which triggered significant hypomania that was undetected and uncontrolled for yeeeeeeears. i just slowly got Weird and started making impulsive decisions based on slightly out-of-gamut beliefs. i drove cross country by myself to have a love affair. the love affair was real, the series of decisions leading to burning down my life in pursuit of it were based on not great brain function however. etc. you see what i mean. churchill mentioned depression being the "black dog who stalks us" (one reason for Churchgrim's multi-referential name) but theres another, stealthier dog called Insanity and it's closer to some people than others but man it sneaks up on you. every time i see one of those "guy gets weird and drives into the wilderness forever" missing persons stories i think "yeah i could totally pull that off"

[oarfjsh]

"van gogh cut off his ear what a lunatic" you are 3 nights of bad sleep, getting unexpected upsetting news and taking a substance as benign as coffee at the wrong time away from doing the same hope this helps

[predatory-fakegirl]

Not doing this in a reblog because this is a niche kink blog and I don’t want to start shit with a presumably well-meaning individual, but this shit makes me unironically way more dysphoric (not in a hot way) than if I just saw the tgirl drawn with stubble.

I get wanting to push back against caricatures but can we not loop all the way back around to prescriptivist gender essentialism?

Like, kink aside I am (mostly) a woman. I also have a bit of facial hair that I currently haven’t shaved, and I don’t plan to do so until it gets to the point where it bothers me on a sensory level. I’m not particularly dysphoric about it.

Until I read something like this, and am reminded that other people would see it as unwomanly. Not just cis people with dogshit opinions I don’t care about. Other trans women.

It’s a subtly different kind of dysphoria, I think. Instead of having my body not align with what I want my body to look like, here it’s having my body, whether or not it aligns with what I want my body to look like, not aligning with external ideas of what a Woman should look like. And sometimes those external ideas are of what a trans woman “should” look like.

And I see this a lot with how trans women tell people to portray trans women. That they should shave. That they should wear makeup. That they shouldn’t be visibly “clocky”. That they should dress femininely.

This also extends to ideas about how a trans woman should interface with sex. In an effort to push back against chasery “futa” style portrayal, I have read on many occasions people saying that trans women don’t like to top, that their dicks don’t get hard, that they cum in a certain way.

And none of these things are true about me. I shave only intermittently, I don’t like makeup at all, I wear feminine clothes only if I’m having a big outing where I wanna dress up, I like to top, and my dick functions in much the same way the average cis man’s does.

And I don’t feel dysphoric about these things normally, I generally like my body and my self-presentation. But what makes me dysphoric is the knowledge that other trans women would actually object to a portrayal of a trans woman who resembles me.

Let’s not just reinvent prescriptivist gender roles “but woke”, okay? Womanhood is not contained in the clean-shaven face or the makeup or the soft girldick.

You should not be mad that the caricature of a tgirl is drawn with stubble. You should be mad that they are a caricature and not a person.

[werewolfclaws]

i feel like this is a dying art called 'being a good human being' anybody else agree. anybody

[queen-mihai]

People forget that opinions aren't objective fact. Maybe something isn't that big a deal to you because you've been through worse. Would you tell someone with arms half your size that a box you're picking up isn't heavy? Or would you realize that it's just not heavy to you?

Or

Maybe it doesn't seem like a big deal because you can't see the full picture. It is impossible to see the intricacies of everyone's life.

The point is, yeah, if something is a big deal to someone, it's a big deal.

Sometimes the best answer is to just freaking be understanding with them and don't add "had a shitty argument and needed to explain my entire life to someone who can't help and doesn't care" to their list of problems

Empathy is a good thing

[education-system]

I think a lot of syscourse wouldn't happen if the majority of the community(being autistic) didn't take things literally. The amount of times we've come across people making arguments about how something can't literally be true when the people talking about that experience aren't even meaning it literally themselves. People discussing their perspectives of their reality are constantly taken as a literal grounded experience. Why are you expecting those with dissociative disorders to be grounded 24/7? It just doesn't make sense.

(Talking about arguments like you aren't separate people, the innerworld isn't a real place, ect.)

[cambriancrew]

I think one of the most frustrating cases of this for me, is the insistence that headmates, particularly in pwCDDs, can't die - solely because it's not always permanent like it is IRL. If it still feels like outerworld death, it's perfectly valid to be upset and grieve it as if it's the same. Grieving isn't this bad thing to be avoided at all costs. It's a healthy way to process emotions related to loss and regardless of what you call the loss of a headmate, shoving that grief aside because it may not be permanent is at best unhealthy.