Physicist. Elf.

Woman-adjacent trans enby parent. Scientist by training and inclination, techie by trade. Here for my fandoms, politics, friends. Bailing out? Find me on Twitter, Dreamwidth, That Other Social Network under this handle.

[my-random--thoughts-deactivated]

Your daily dose of fluffy animal content ♡

[proton-wobbler]

Royal Flycatcher (genus Onychorhynchus)

This bird is being properly held in the photographers grip and is not being antagonized into doing this threat display. Flycatcher are well known in the banding world for being difficult to photograph, as they love to be dramatic about literally anything. It's most likely this video was the last thing that happened to this bird before being released.

(I'm not affiliated with the banding station that captured this bird, just a bird bander myself and want to reassure people the bird is indeed fine)

[naamahdarling]

Pretty effective defense display given that if I saw a bird do that I would definitely fucking LEAVE. What kind of Pan's Labyrinth shit is that?!

[thehmn]

This is driving me nuts and I hope there’s a Dane or two who remember the title of this Danish movie.

It was about a soldier who returned from war with PTSD and went on a traumatized paranoid rampage and eventually hid in a forest where people were trying to get to him. Sorta like the first Rambo but more realistic.

I mostly remember it because people at the time asked the Danish military why they allowed the film crew to use their weapons and vehicles when it showed the military in such a bad light and they responded “Because it’s realistic if a bit dramatic. War is hell and it’s important that people understand that”

[arodabi]

Sometimes i feel like younger queer kids are getting a bit to bold with openly talking to people they don’t know In The Context Of:

More than once i have had a younger/same age queer person come up to me in public settings and say something about “finding other gays” or clearly clocking me as nonbinary and I’m like :)))))))) hey buddy I’m here with my conservative parents can you fucking not out me :))))))))

Just say you like my outfit or hair and move on, fuck even tell me you like my shoelaces. Don’t call me gay and limp your wrist at me when you don’t even know me? Especially when there’s a bunch of ppl around?

[the-gayest-tuba]

i was out with my ex once when three *very* young queer kids, like thirteen years old, came up to us and asked us “are you guys, you know…” and did the limp wrist thing at us. one of them loudly exclaimed that it was so cool to meet other queer people in real life. this was in public in an unbelievably conservative area - we didn’t even feel safe holding hands because we were surrounded by Mormons. we got lucky that day, but I’m begging y’all to remember that the world doesn’t work like the internet. other queers are real fuckin people. don’t do this shit. OP is right; tell me you like my jacket, or my patches, or the rainbow spokes on my wheelchair, but don’t out either of us!

[life-on-the-spectrum]

This used to be standard operating procedure not even ten years ago: NEVER OUT OTHER QUEERS, even if they’re supposedly already out. Never assume that it’s okay to let third parties know that so-and-so is queer. Ever. You never know when you’ve found the one uncle with the heart condition that they can’t bear to risk telling, or the one neighbor who’s just threatening enough that they don’t mention it around, or even the grandma that they haven’t gotten around to mentioning it to yet. You might have just ruined a very important milestone for someone, or you could have put them at actual risk of harm.

Also… stop freaking assuming. If you don’t see a pride flag on them, please don’t just assume. You can’t tell ANYTHING about a person’s gender or partner preferences by what they’re wearing on any given day, what their hair looks like, or whether or not they’re using makeup. You legit cannot, and you look like a jerk when you try.

[astra-the-dragon]

this is even more important now that Trump is in power.

some people will be choosing to live in the closet and it is not your job to pressure them one way or the other.

protect your lgbtq siblings - honor their choices - and never talk to cops, collaborators, and snitches.

[stele3]

Younger queer people have grown up in a better world, but we’re in a time of backsliding right now. Do NOT out other queer people. Also, I’m not gonna tell you how to present yourselves in public………..but please, I am begging you to re-evaluate HOW safe you are in the current climate.

[rfpreiwaphase]

it sucks

but if you have elders

they lived through other times when it sucked

we can’t make you listen to us, but consider how lucky you are to have resources, and don’t waste that

[doberbutts]

Man but the notes on that post really are just tumblr showing they have no idea how anything works.

"report to your local animal abuse people not to cops" local animal abuse people would be animal control. Animal control officers are cops.

"rabies is treatable if you go to the doctor right after the bite" rabies is PREVENTABLE, not treatable. There is no cure for rabies. If you suspect you came into contact with a rabid animal, you need to get a series of rabies vaccinations to prevent the virus from taking over your body. This is not a treatment and it only works if you go right away. If you show any symptoms of rabies it is too late.

"rabies is fatal in animals but treatable in humans" rabies has a 100% fatality rate and is not considered a survivable disease at this point in time. If you contract rabies YOU WILL DIE. The "treatment" in humans is called the Milwaukee Protocol, only 14% of people survive it, and it leaves you with massive brain damage and effectively turns you into a vegetable. You do not return to a normal life afterwards. Very few people who have undergone this process are capable of doing more than laying in a hospital bed and eating and breathing through tubes. To my knowledge only one person was able to live a semi-normal life after years and years of ongoing therapy and was not expected to have made it even through her first year after treatment.

I cannot stress enough how rabies is unlike any other disease you may be thinking of. It's required on a federal level in this country to vaccinate pretty much any domestic animal that comes into contact with wildlife for one reason and one reason only: it is not considered possible to cure rabies and the spread of disease would threaten all mammalian life including our own if allowed to continue to propagate.

[magicratfingers]

adhd is fun bc everything I got taught is backwards

a good day makes good sleep

starting with a lil treat gets the work done

More things to do is less overwhelming

don’t make a plan just get in there

you’ll never take good care of what you don’t like so throw it out (this one is my favorite bc it’s easy to see what you don’t like)

[magicratfingers]

Incredible addition

don’t put the thing on the shelf put the shelf under the thing

[magicratfingers]

there is no work there is only fun there is no good it is only done

[gaynfl-moved]

Former Minnesota Vikings punter, Chris Kluwe, who was blacklisted from the league for standing up for marriage equality, speaks at a city council meeting where he calls Trump a Nazi. He is subsequently arrested and carried out by police.

[tikkunolamorgtfo]

I just want to clarify a few things, because I have a feeling some people may share this without watching the video in full and/or getting further details from related news articles:

Kluwe was there to specifically protest the installation of a [massively cringe] pro-Trump plaque. Per ABC News: "Kluwe, a Huntington Beach resident, was protesting the council's decision to place a plaque commemorating the public library's anniversary. The plaque included the words "Magical Alluring Galvanizing Adventurous," an apparent nod to President Donald Trump's Make America Great Again slogan."

Kluwe was not just arbitrarily hauled off by cops for speaking out against Trump. If you watch the video until the end, you'll hear him announce his intentions to engage in the "time-honoured American tradition of peaceful civil disobedience." From there, he defiantly approaches the stage where the seven [aforementioned cringe, right-wing lunatic] Huntington Beach City Council members are all sitting, knowing full well that he is about to be arrested and charged with disrupting an assembly.

Thanks to this deliberate act of protest, some of Trump's 24/7 news blitz will now be interrupted by images of a former NFL player being carted away by a gaggle of dour looking cops:

(this is a good thing, if that's not clear; I feel like too many people have forgotten about the tactical use of arrests by activists, especially during the Civil Rights era, to highlight injustice or disrupt a media narrative)

Anyway, kudos to Mr Kluwe for this, I hope more public figures will follow suit.

[colemckenzies]

you can make nearly any object into a good insult if you put ‘you absolute’ in front of it

example: you absolute coat hanger

[ggiornojo]

as well u can just add ‘ed’ to any object and it’s sounds like you were really drunk

example: i was absolutely coat hangered last night

[colemckenzies]

#i was gazeboed mate #i was absolutely baubled

[animatedamerican]

Meanwhile, “utter” works for the first (e.g., “you utter floorboard”) but somehow “utterly” doesn’t seem to work as well for the second (“I was utterly floorboarded”).

[nentuaby]

Utterly doesn’t work for drunk because it’s the affix for turning random objects into terms for *shocked*, obviously.

[animatedamerican]

… huh.  I thought that might just be the similarity to “floored”, and yet “I was utterly coat hangered” does seem to convey something similar.

I have to tell you, I am utterly sandwiched at this discovery.

[thepioden]

Completely makes the phrase mean “super tired”.

“God, it’s been a long week, I am completely coat-hangered.”

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

Something is

Something is wrong with our language

[rooksandravens]

Is it a glitch or a feature?

[cranberrybogmummy]

Feature

[s-peak-in-tongue-s]

this neat feature is called collocative substitution, and it occurs when certain words are strongly linked to certain context and/or phrases. when you read/hear a pair of words that usually wouldn’t go together, your brain fills in the context with what would normally be inferred, given the originally phrased pairing. thus, finding out that there’s a term for this phenomenon may indeed leave you utterly sandwiched. lesser known or less strongly linked phrases and pairings may not be able to translate substituted words to appropriately fit the inferred context, so you were not utterly floorboarded at the club last night, but rather you were absolutely floorboarded, and as this explanation continues to drag on, you may by the end of it find yourself completely coathangered from read it all.

[lizawithazed]

I, like all linguists I have met or even heard of, have a deep intricate love-hate relationship with the English Language because of complete and total coathangering like this

[official-linguistics-post]

official linguistics post

[orangeflavoryawp]

"The forest was shrinking but the trees kept voting for the axe, for the axe was clever and convinced the trees that because his handle was made of wood he was one of them."

- Turkish Proverb

Okay, trees, I know it's hard to understand but those billionaires? That orange stain now in office? They're the axe, honey. They've always been the axe.

And we've never been anything but kindling to them.

[mexicaheart]

To be native to a place, you must learn to speak its language 

The quote on my painting is from the marvelous book “Braiding Sweetgrass” by the Potawatomi writer Robin Wall Kimmerer.

In one chapter, she writes about the extended, difficult, but infinitely rewarding process of learning the language of one's indigenous ancestors. When you do so, you engage with the earth which you inhabit, and learn to speak her language. Every word you learn is a victory, for our mother the earth, for our community, and for yourself, against those who colonized us and who sought to take away our identity and culture, and who seek to make the earth a thing, instead of our loving mother.

Even if you never learn to speak beyond the level of the smallest child, even if you only learn how to say “thank you” to the world which you inhabit, you will have scored a victory.

As Kimmerer writes, “so now my house is spangled with post-it notes in another language, as if I were studying for a trip abroad. But I'm not going away, I'm coming home.”

[sharingneedles]

IVE BEEN WAITING ALL YEAR TO POST THIS YOU DONT EVEN KNOW

[fuckyeahpaganism]

I’m crying. 

[for-fox-sakess]

i scheduled this a year ago..

[radical-eve]

[ironbound-oberon]

I have cochlear implants and I can only buy parts to fix them or upgrade then from 1 corporation bc of tech exclusivity. upgrades to get new processors for both ears cost $23k & insurance only covers 90% (and it’s “good” insurance)

cyberpunk dystopia is already here for the disabled. fight for universal healthcare, fight against capitalism NOW.

[evolvingessence]

[nerdsarresthugemanatees]

[normal-horoscopes]

You don’t actually believe lead can be turned to gold, right?

SEE HERES THE THING

IT CAN

ALCHEMISTS HAVE HADRON COLLIDERS NOW

[anarchocunt]

It has happened Anon

[screensavorstudios]

Hold up, you didn’t highlight that last part? The part about how Soviets ACCIDENTALLY Turned lead shielding into gold with an experimental nuclear reactor???

[xerohourcheese]

There is a ‘however’, however.

Due to the processes used, the resultant Gold is usually highly radioactive.

Or, if you prefer to use a more, arcane, vernacular, Cursed!

[normal-horoscopes]

YOURE JUST JEALOUS OF MY MICRON THIN LAYER OF FRESHLY TRANSMUTED GOLD

[meme-loving-stuck]

The wording of this post has always irritated me

Hadron colliders are most commonly used by physicists; alchemists were closer to, well… chemists.

[normal-horoscopes]

PHYSICS WAS INVENTED BY AN ALCHEMIST FUCKO

[normal-horoscopes]

ITS ALCHEMY ALL THE WAY DOWN

[wanderingchaos]

[siriciryel]

So you’re fussed that the naming convention for the two most major sub fields of alchemy means that the one that can and has done lead-gold transmutation isn’t the one that has the etymologically-closer name?

Nuclear physics and nuclear chemistry are very nearly the same field, anyway.

[sharingneedles]

IVE BEEN WAITING ALL YEAR TO POST THIS YOU DONT EVEN KNOW

[fuckyeahpaganism]

I’m crying. 

[for-fox-sakess]

i scheduled this a year ago..

[silkirose]

:/

[silkirose]

:0

[silkirose]

:)

[silkirose]

A little update <3

I still read all of your lovely replies! I have not given up on art my friends! I have even started my own webcomic on webtoon! It’s called Seth In Space and it would mean a lot to me if you would support me there! Love you all and happy halloween!!

[silkirose]

I’m so happy to tell you all that I’ve made great progress with my mental health!! To genuinely be able to say that I feel happy is so liberating and free! I know a lot of you are still in that dark place. I’m here to say that it does get better. Much better! I still have some tough days but progress is progress! Be kind and gentle to yourselves. I love you all and thank you to everyone who’s supported me over the years!

Here’s links to my commissions and projects! Commissions Animal Crossing Commissions Animal Crossing Tarot Cards Tarot Readings Seth In Space

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!

[prinnay]

Flowerfields