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new bad tumblr feature idea: every blog gets assigned an impact factor calculated based on the ratio of the number of reblogs that all of your posts have received to the number of all posts you've published. there's no way to turn off its display
As a scientist Urbanshade's experiments on Sebastian make me so fucking mad. Partially because of the ethics sure but mostly because they completely threw out the scientific method?????
Like the purpose of the experiment was to give humans gills right? But then they hit the man with SEA SNAKE and BLUE WHALE DNA like what the fuck???? You want this guy to grow gills so you modify him using creatures that don't have gills??????? At least the mantis shrimp kind of makes sense even though they don't have fish-like gills like the other three gilled candidates. Were they just changing him for fun or something like wtf that completely derails your objective what if potential gill development was stunted by the introduction of non-gilled animal DNA
Which brings me to my other point that I'm So Fucking Mad about: they used the DNA of MULTIPLE CREATURES on ONE TEST SUBJECT???? It's heavily implied that Sebastian was the first (if not one of the first) to go through these tests, but where's the fucking control group???? Why are you using multiple independent factors??????? You should have stuck with ONE creature and ALTERED the dosage and effects over MULTIPLE test subjects to see what worked, and if no results came of it THEN you move on to a different creature. If you put a shitton of things in one guy's body it's impossible to determine what was resulted from what alteration, thus preventing successful experiments from being properly replicated sans side effects because you don't fucking KNOW what caused it to be successful in the first place
And SPEAKING of test subjects there's no implication that they attempted animal testing first before moving on to human subjects????? Like they just discovered DNA alteration and went "whoop de doo let's go fucking crazy" and just starting rewriting people????? That's so fucking stupid. There probably WERE other subjects but they fucking DIED due to gross negligence, which would slow the progress of the experiment AND waste resources. And, you know, killing people is wrong or whatever
Like why didn’t you perfect genome splicing before moving on to human subjects? Throwing shit at the wall and hoping something sticks is EXTREMELY unprofessional and it's a miracle they got results at all. There's no way Urbanshade could exist irl because stockholders would drop that shit like free taco bell on vine (although I suppose Urbanshade has other methods of making money, so this is a moot point but it still makes me SO FUCKING MAD)
Ok that's it for now there's more problems I have with Urbanshade but this is specifically about my gripes with Sebastian's experiment thank you for coming to my TED talk
random astronomy facts about venus
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✩ venus: an underestimated planet ✩
In traditional astrology, venus is often reduced to the “lesser benefic,” a sweet but secondary counterpart to jupiter. she’s painted as light, decorative, concerned with beauty, pleasure, and romance—but rarely seen as powerful in her own right. yet when we look at venus astronomically, her story tells us otherwise:
venus is the hottest planet. it's hotter than mercury despite mercury's proximity to the sun. a day on venus is longer than its year — and it spins backwards (retrograde rotation)! explanation:
.𖥔 ݁ ˖ a venusian year (orbit around the Sun): venus takes about 225 Earth days to complete one orbit.
.𖥔 ݁ ˖ a venusian day (one full rotation on its axis): venus rotates super super slowly — it takes about 243 earth days to spin once. that’s longer than its year!
.𖥔 ݁ ˖ retrograde rotation: most planets (including our blue planet) rotate eastward, so the sun appears to rise in the east and set in the west. venus spins the opposite way (westwards), so on venus the sun would appear to rise in the west and set in the east.
.𖥔 ݁ ˖ the sidereal day (true rotation relative to stars) is 243 earth days.
.𖥔 ݁ ˖ but because venus rotates backwards and also orbits relatively quickly, its solar day (sunrise to sunrise) is about 117 earth days. so, if you were standing on venus (ignoring the crushing atmosphere), the sun would cross the sky once every 117 earth days.
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if we honor venus as she is—not just the “lesser benefic,” but the planet of heat, reversal, and rhythm—we see her true role in our charts: venus is not just about romance; she’s about alchemy of desire. venus is not just about beauty; she’s about the fire that forges harmony. venus is not just about attraction; she’s about the magnetic force that rewrites destiny. venus doesn’t need to chase power—she already bends time, burns hotter than mercury, and spins against the current. that’s not weakness. that’s sovereignty.
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Love, Astromeda ✩₊˚.⋆☾⋆⁺₊✧
Dr. Paul Offit’s story is especially significant because it emphasizes how witnessing firsthand the devastating effects of rotavirus on young children—particularly those who died needlessly from dehydration—motivated him to dedicate his career to vaccine research. He has described this experience as formative and life-changing, highlighting that rotavirus was especially dangerous in developing countries, where access to clean water and medical care was limited. Even in the United States, before vaccines were available, rotavirus infections sent thousands of children to the hospital each year and could turn deadly quickly.
Born on This Day: Francis Bacon
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Hm... so the craziest thing is happening right now: my professor is basically pushing me to publish an article in an international scientific journal because one of his students depends on it to finally defend his thesis and get his doctorate degree. Meanwhile, I’m stuck dealing with a huge project for my own dissertation, which my master’s degree literally depends on.
Like... am I really supposed to figure out all of my research on my own with almost no guidance, while he keeps postponing every possible review meeting, and still manage one of the most important parts of someone else’s PhD process too? Haha, I don’t know, but that’s kind of insane, boss :)
btw, happy to be back on tumblr yayy !!
people who are like "i trust my immune system, i don't need to protect myself from viruses" - UNWISE!!!! i went hiking in 2011 and came away with a staph infection in my knee. it's been 40 14 years, and i still deal with fuckin staph nodules a couple times a year. our bodies do their best, but need all the help they can get!!! not to get whacked by a novel and immune system-dysregulating virus multiple times a year, me loves. a quarter of covid infections don't show symptoms, but can still fuck organs right up. the likelihood of illnesses like diabetes, heart attacks, strokes, myalgic encephalomyelitis, MCAS, POTS, brain damage, and more shoot up following infection, even *with* the help that current vaccines lend for 4-6 months. science says: the pharmaceutical interventions we have now are insufficient ⬇️
New findings could help explain why the immune protection generated by COVID-19 vaccines tends to decline over time.
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it sucks, but the government doesn't give one shit that the data indicates things are Not Good and SARS-CoV-2 Continues to Ravage Everyone. the govt doesn't care that most people hate the genocides they're conducting with our taxes. your voice and your life don't matter to politicians and their owners, as long as their profits keep rising. it's apparent with climate change, too, and their decision to not cut emissions via renewable energy, public transit, walkable cities, subsidized plant-based diets, a thousand viable strategies. in all of the above and more, those at the top are content to con innocents out of safe, secure, and healthy futures for their own short-term gain.
it's vile. we don't have to follow suit the way they want, the path of "look out for number one," "prioritize appearances and desirability even if it hurts," "ignore issues that seem like they don't directly affect me yet," or brush them off with a "that's not my problem," etc. look at the way they profit off of fox news, by encouraging selfishness, hatred, discrimination, bigotry, division. fox + murdoch et al hates to see us care about people we don’t know.
despite the corrupt scum in power, your life, my life, strangers' lives do matter. fuck everyone who insinuates otherwise. they're wrong. we all matter by virtue of existing. everyone deserves care. and because we all matter, we owe it to each other to try and do the right thing - to protect ourselves and each other by decreasing the spread of disease, and using our shared power to excise the rot at the top ❤️🩹😷✂️
deliverance
stars are born from clouds of dust and gas—
illuminating the skies, burning with purpose, shaping galaxies, and drawing the favor of life.
emerging from the unseen, a fusion of elements both wild and rare, blazing against the dark—defiant, radiant, unapologetic. refusing to be contained or named.
shifting shapes, breaking norms, guiding those who dare look up and see.
brilliance that unsettles the sky’s old order, a reminder that beauty thrives in difference, that the cosmos itself bends and breaks to hold infinite ways of being and shining.
even in collapse, even in death they rebel. supernova—leaving the world with more light than it found.
while earth is unforgiving, the universe adapts to itself. setting aside it’s order to make way for something new—allowing outsiders and foreign developments despite uncertainty.
galaxies are not bound by their planets, and stars owe no orbit.
no allegiance but to their own gravity.
they create, they destroy, they begin again and they remain unshaken by the pull of all that surrounds them.
galaxies are not governed by law. they’re ruled by the ability to adapt—to shift when gravity changes, to rebuild when stars collapse, to allow chaos and beauty to coexist without apology.
the universe knows that survival is not obedience, but transformation.
it is only earth that clings to rules carved in stone,
earth that fears what does not fit its narrow design. it forgets that all things—planets, stars, lives—were born from rebellion,
from dust daring to ignite and shine. we are made of that same defiance.
like stars, we burn and we change, and even in our collapse, we leave the world with more light than it began with.
stars know that they were never meant to follow someone else’s map of the sky.
