Acamuna

Hi, call me Squeaky or Camille ~ they/he ~ Adult ~ ~ I reblog a lot of stuff and occasionally make comments or art ~ I (used to) always tag things, just not always with comments ~ I like friends, don't be afraid to say hi! ~ Check out my art blog, @squeaky-arts, (commissions are open) ~   I also have a Fallen London sideblog, @the-black-cat-of-london

[lum1natriiix]

happy iron lung day to all who celebrate

[wifegideonnav]

“bits to use in everyday conversations”

[aralintheobsessive]

if you want butterflies, you need to live with caterpillars.

i am not being metaphorical, i work in a garden center, stop buying plants 'to bring in the bees and butterflies' and then immediately poisoning every caterpillar that dares to consume a single leaf

you will not get butterflies if you kill all the things that turn into butterflies! what are you doing!

[aralintheobsessive]

getting a lot of responses to this going 'ok but it would be good as a metaphor though' so I will accept a metaphorical interpretation as long as you ALSO (!) promise to be considerate towards larval forms of insects specifically and biodiversity in general, deal?

[gorgynei]

in the age of repression and purity culture, getting more perverted is the only morally correct course of action

[gorgynei]

#(thousand-yard sex-disinterested aroace stare) cool opinion. love seeing this same sentiment 10000 times a day on this website

im also aroace. being disinterested in sex and romance is still sexual perversion in the eyes of the state. get more perverted in whichever direction fills you with the most joy!!!!!!

[meabeck]

[josephbrassey]

“Haha remember when murder-hornets were gonna be a thing? What a nothingburger.”

Yes, because the Washington state government activated like a sleeper-cell and ruthlessly, systematically hunted them down and annihilated them.

“Y2K came to nothing amirite?”

Yes because an army of software engineers working around the clock, losing sleep, and busting ass till the last minute prevented it from happening.

“Remember the hole in the ozone layer?”

You mean the one that was fixed through rigorous world wide government action?

One of the root problems of our society is a refusal or inability by media to articulate that all those “it’s gonna be an apocalypse” disasters were not disasters because we collectively did something about them.

The good news is this is actually quite correctable. I maintain my firm belief that we as humans are capable of solving almost all of our problems, when we decide to do so.

And I still think that’s going to happen. I don’t know when or how, but I do know that abandoning hope won’t help bring it about.

And I refuse to let the cynics own a chunk of my heart.

[gudamor]

Happy Smallpox Eradication Day

[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

[3liza]

how did they not fucking account for this. sorry but this is really really stupid

[trans-girl-nausicaa]

this is so funny.

[jimsjorts]

Very important context from the University of Michigan article linked above:

That’s not to say that there is no microplastics pollution, the U-M researchers are quick to say.

“We may be overestimating microplastics, but there should be none. There’s still a lot out there, and that’s the problem,” said McNeil, senior author of the study and U-M professor of chemistry, macromolecular science and engineering, and the Program in the Environment.

As microplastic researchers looking for microplastics in the environment, “we’re searching for the needle in the haystack, but there really shouldn’t be a needle to begin with,” said Clough, a recent U-M doctoral graduate.

Is this a potential source of contamination in studies? Yes. Is there still a worldwide microplastic pollution problem? Also yes.

It will be very interesting to see the results of follow-up studies that take this into account.

[fawnpalmer]

quarterly reminder that if i reblog something ai-generated it is 110% and always an accident and for the love of god please tell me so i can delete it from my blog

[thegirlwiththemooglehat]

I follow this lady on instagram who rescues cats, and i have been thinking about this video for literal months. behold the transformation of this wretched little beast

(x)

[whatsallthisnow]

I could not have anticipated that transformation if you had told me ahead of time

[what-even-is-thiss]

The thing about being trans is that once you come to terms with it it’s really just whatever but The Cis People insist upon being weird about it

[what-even-is-thiss]

Once you’ve been out of the closet for a while and are surrounded by people who are at the very least neutral and respectful about the trans thing it just becomes a whatever part of your life and all these people claiming that you’re ruining society and passing laws against you kinda feels like a swat team storming into your house while you’re just eating spaghetti.

[what-even-is-thiss]

Bro why are you banning me from using the bathroom I’m literally just eating spaghetti

[what-even-is-thiss]

No I’m not eating spaghetti in the bathroom. I’m eating spaghetti in a normal spaghetti location and they’re banning me from the bathroom anyways.

[nikosonn]

what if…

[docholligay]

Possibly my spiciest take is that it's actually good to have people you respect and like that have some dogshit takes.

I think part of what is making young people lonelier, in discussing why they're increasingly isolated, is that they're so afraid of meeting someone who doesn't hold their same beliefs, and instead of being just core beliefs it is kinda ancillary shit.

It's actually okay to disagree even on social topics! Even on some political ones! But I mean, online you can start with "i love this mutual but they have a really bad/uninformed opinion about x media"

I know this is IMMEDIATELY going to be taken in bad faith, and yes babygirl, you are so right, I DO want you to go make best friends with both the KKK grand wizard AND your nearest nazi leader.

But seriously, as someone who has spent two decades doing community organization: finding ways to connect with different people is so so so important. There are people i follow here who ate 80% smart and their brain falls out of their head 20% of the time and that is GOOD FOR MY MENTAL ECOSYSTEM AND GOOD FOR LEARNING HOW TO BE A PERSON

LET'S ALL GO PISS ON THE POOR

[mikkeneko]

[feefal]

Seraph in the headlights

[feefal]

This is the celestial deer in natural lighting, turns out it’s actually a pigeon…?

[polybatcest]

i think sometimes when you get worried that your friends don't like you, you just gotta ask yourself "am i being dick grayson sobbing that bruce wayne doesn't like me while laying directly in front of the giant custom portrait bruce got commissioned of us to display in his living room?"

[callisto-art]

I had to make some ARTemis! I know this isn't my usual fanart, but I'm a huge space nerd, and I've been watching the Artemis II mission all week, and I felt compelled to make some art for their last day in space.

The Artemis II crew are such incredible, kind, smart people, and they, along with everyone at NASA and CSA on the ground, reignited the spark for exploration of the cosmos and appreciation of our (comparatively) tiny, precious, "spaceship Earth" in so many people. Which I think is beautiful, and incredible, and EXACTLY what humanity needed, right now.

They sent us their love from the moon, and re-entry through the Earth's atmosphere is one of the most dangerous parts of their journey, by far, so let's send them our love from Earth, too! <3

[tansytaseis]

how it feels to be playing Character with your friend

[butts-bouncing-on-the-beltway]

"Just because I'm right, doesn't mean I'm being helpful" is a vastly underrated thought process that I strongly encourage others to get comfortable with

[whatbigotspost]

Hey op thanks for fundamentally rearranging my molecules in some helpful way this fine evening

[mimsymars]

Feels like Tumblr is the right audience for this one

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

Is this the mermaid who has feelings about stupid fish names

[mysteryteacup]

Goth fish!