Maybe I should leave this untitled

I really have no idea what's going on here anymore. Feel free to try and find out, I haven't used tags since 2013. 20-something from Finland, just here reblogging for my own amusement.

[enkli]

[meemiaddiktio]

fast fashion vs nopee fashion

[depsidase]

[books-are-portals]

Kuha on niin hyvää puuta

[byjove]

Movie about a depressed and rather morbid autistic man planning to commit suicide and picking up a number of odd jobs in an effort to raise enough money to meticulously plan and prepay for his funeral so his mother doesn’t have to worry about it after he is gone. He begins to connect with people and enjoy life for the first time while working part time as a greeter in the funeral home, helping an eccentric old lady organize her basement, walking 7 dogs and maintaining a feral cat colony for a guy with a broken foot, playing a number of bit parts in local ads and stocking the shelves at the convenience store at night. In the end, he has befriended many of his neighbors and he decides he does not want to die and goes back to school to become a funeral director instead.

[byjove]

He is popular at his funeral home gig because he keeps accidentally saying things that are very reassuring and death positive. Because he wants to die. He eventually donates his funeral fund to the old lady’s granddaughter after her sudden death so she does not have to sell her grandmother’s prized possessions to pay for her funeral.

[byjove]

The old lady gifts him one of her ceramic cats at the beginning of the film which he reluctantly accepts out of politeness. Near the end of the film, he adopts a friendly cat from the cat colony that looks remarkably like the ceramic cat and names it after her, signaling his commitment to surviving and caring for his cat the way the old woman lived for her ceramic collection.

[romanceyourdemons]

whenever i look into a historical monarch who doesn’t get talked about much and is just kind of a blank spot in my understanding of the historical narrative, 95% of the time what i find is pure white hot blistering capability. a pencil pusher for the ages. a 39 year reign with no more than three hours of sleep a night. there aren’t any good stories from his reign because he systematically caught and stopped all catastrophic good stories before they could start. you shrimply must respect it

[wtf-scientific-papers]

Submitter comment: I'd like to submit this '[s]tudy of defensive behavior of a venomous snake as a new approach to understand snakebite' not for it's topic (worth studying!) but for it's insane methodology, which... well, I'll just let the researcher speak for himself:

[Q: Why did you decide to do this experiment?

A: Snake behavior has been generally neglected as a field of research, especially in Brazil. And most studies don’t examine what factors make them want to bite. If you study malaria, you can research the parasite that causes the disease—but if you don’t study the mosquito that carries it, you will never solve the problem. Up until now, the popular wisdom was that the jararaca would only attack if you touched it or stepped on it. But that was not what we found.

Q: Why did you need to be the victim?

A: The best way to do this research is to put snakes and a human together. In this case, the human was me. We put the snakes inside a ring on the floor of our lab until they got used to it, then I stepped in wearing special protective boots. I stepped close to the snake and also lightly on top of it. I didn’t put my whole weight on my foot, so I did not hurt the snakes. I tested 116 animals and stepped 30 times on every animal, totaling 40,480 steps.]

From the recent (aptly named) interview: Researcher steps on deadly vipers 40,000 times to better predict snakebites

[dragongirl-casca]

[verybadatwriting]

[image description: screenshot of the transcript of the interview reading as follows.

Q: Did you feel safe?

A: That is a good question! I chose the protective boot based on the opinion of experienced colleagues at Butantan. They were leather boots covered in foam that went 3 centimeters above my knees. I felt 100% safe, and the jararaca bites never punctured them. However, when I was doing simulations with a rattlesnake, one punctured the boot, and I was bitten.

Thankfully, I was in the best place I could be. The Butantan Institute is a leader in antivenom development, and I was very well-assisted at its hospital. Unfortunately, I discovered that I am allergic to both antivenom and snake toxins. I had to take a 15-day medical leave.

Q: Did you reconsider working with snakes after that?

A: No, this is my passion. I love working

/ end id]

[sundropfox]

Space Dragon

He lets the stars in the sky appear.

[myfairynuffstuff]

Erika Toliusis (b.1969) - Pacific Angel. 2022. Oil with palette knife on canvas.

[sunshinetheinspiration]

@teaboot

[teaboot]

Painted with a FUCKING PALETTE KNIFE?

[bewbin]

LETS BRING BACK 1337 SPEAK 

[bewbin]

why do i even try 

[bunney]

I THoUGHT YOU MEANT THE YEAR

[esoanem]

my l0rd, t3h p34s4nt5 4r3 r3v01t1ng! W3 mu5t s411y f0rth 4g41n5t th3m 4thw1th!

[addamatic]

Happy ten years of being so old no one knows what 1337 is

[dragon-in-a-fez]

it is like talking to a fucking g3n13 with you people

[thegeekgene]

Someone at an old job asked why I wanted to write up the meeting minutes for our team and I said 'i wanna control the narrative' and they were like 'what' and I pointed out that no one was gonna remember what we said in six months and so my interpretation of the meeting would dictate the assumed reality of what happened

"none of you ever send corrections when I offer the draft so y'all have consented to my version"

"we don't read that shit"

"you must trust me implicitly to create our shared reality that's so sweet"

That's how several coworkers decided I was a supervillain and how I learned several coworkers didn't understand record keeping as like a CONCEPT

[snarpreplies]

[kingscrown666]

[undeadentropy]

What a highly specific and devastating word

[houndmother]

deriding things as performative is anti third space

[houndmother]

im sitting on a patio at my favorite cafe rn and im hand stitching them hem of a dress im working on. and i can see why someone would say im being performative by working on something like this in a public space. but frankly theres no element of that. i just want to work somewhere that isnt my apartment. i want to be in public, i wanna chat with strangers, i wanna see the world. it’s nice to hang out somewhere that isnt my home!

[houndmother]

what i mean is when you say people are being performative you discourage them from doing shit they love in public. and thats no way to foster the world we want to see.

[vitariesocks]

just received the best text message I’ve ever had. from my mom

[vitariesocks]

2 pics. no caption

[scorchroots]

I've never loved anyone as much as I love Ursula Le Guin

[thepromiscuousfinger]

[prokopetz]

Flavours of unreliable narrator:

Lying to the reader

Lying to themselves

Simply misinformed

Not paying attention

Has weird priorities

Assumed you knew

Hates you personally

Bad at communicating

Easily sidetracked

Will believe anything

Has weird prejudices

Just kind of dumb

[ruttotohtori]

Saimaannorpan pyydyskuolemat yli viisinkertaistuneet viidessä vuodessa – nousu ei selity kannan kasvulla

Pyydyskuolemien määrä oli jo hyvässä laskussa, mutta viime vuosina suunta on kääntynyt huonompaan suuntaan.

Saimaannorppien pyydyskuolemien määrä on rajussa nousussa. Viime vuonna pyydyksiin kuoli 11 saimaannorppaa. Tänä vuonna norppia on kuollut pyydyksiin jo 10. Metsähallituksen tilastojen mukaan vuonna 2021 ainoastaan kaksi norppaa kuoli pyydyksiin. Nousu ei selity sillä, että saimaannorppakanta on kasvanut, vaan nousu näkyy myös silloin, kun pyydyskuolemien määrän suhteuttaa kannan kokoon. Viime vuonna 2,1 prosenttia norpista kuoli pyydyksiin, kun vuonna 2021 määrä oli vain puoli prosenttia.

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Viime aikoina on löydetty kolme norppaa, jotka ovat kuolleet kalastusrajoitusten vastaisiin, eli laittomiin pyydyksiin. – Jostain syystä tällaisia vaarallisia pyydyksiä on vesillä enemmän kuin aikaisemmin. Tai ainakin niihin kuolleita norppia on nyt tullut tietoon enemmän sivullisten ilmoitusten kautta Alakosken mukaan asialle ei voi juuri tehdä muuta kuin tiedottaa kansaa kalastusrajoituksista ja norppaturvallisista pyydyksistä.

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Alakosken mukaan pyydyskuolleisuus on saimaannorpalle ihmisen aiheuttamaa ylimääräistä kuolleisuutta, joka tällä hetkellä lisää lajin sukupuuttoriskiä. – Jos pyydyskuolleisuutta ei saada nykyisillä toimilla vähenemään, on myös rajoitusten ja valvonnan riittävyyttä tarkasteltava uudelleen.

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Asetuksen vastaisista pyydyksistä, joihin kuolee norppa, tehdään aina ilmoitus poliisille. Viiden vuoden aikana Itä-Suomen poliisin alueella ei yksikään tapaus ole edennyt syyttäjälle saakka. Alakoski ei muista tapauksia, joissa joku olisi joutunut rikosoikeudelliseen vastuuseen pyydyskuolemasta. – Valitettavasti on hyvin epätodennäköistä, että tekijä jää kiinni. Laittomissa pyydyksissä harvoin on omistajatietoja, joten poliisin on vaikea selvittää, kenelle pyydys on kuulunut. Mikäli norpan kuoleman aiheuttaneen vaarallisen pyydyksen Saimaaseen laittanut henkilö jäisi kiinni, häntä voitaisiin syyttää esimerkiksi luonnonsuojelurikoksesta, josta seuraus olisi norpan korvaaminen valtiolle. Ohjeellinen korvaushinta on tällä hetkellä 11 667 euroa.

[moon111111]