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KIROKAZE
Cosmic Funnies
Product Placement
Monterey Bay Aquarium
PUT YOUR BEARD IN MY MOUTH
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wallacepolsom
Jules of Nature
Game of Thrones Daily
if i look back, i am lost
Lint Roller? I Barely Know Her
official daine visual archive
he wasn't even looking at me and he found me
Show & Tell
shark vs the universe
NASA
ellievsbear
hello vonnie
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Fanfic Masterpost
Woops deleted the last one lol
First of all my neocities is not complete but it may be one day. https://akafish.neocities.org/
Secondly here's my currently finished fics I'm most proud of! Please read the tags!
Meeting Up (LoZ LU)
Count to Nine (LoZ LU)
Murmurs (LoZ LU)
El Under (Blaseball)
The rest of my Ao3's here.
Soul Mates! BONUS 13: Sword Art Online Alternative: Gun Gale Online Watchalong: FtF (Evil Lesbian Face Tattoos)
Fun fact: If you die while listening to Soul Mates!, you'll die in real life! Watch this GGO clip that I didn't realize was a star wars edit
Alt. episode titles: If You Girl In The Game You Girl In Real Life; It's Not Sword Art Online; Please Forcefemme My P-Chan
It's a classic watchalong bonus episode, which we haven't done in forever, so we were really excited to watch some bad anime (a thing we do regularly) for an audience. Just warning you: the next episode of Soul Mates! is definitely not about an SAO guy. Just trust me on this one.
All I want is women on screen, SAO is a complicated show with awful gender politics, Ivy figures out whether she likes this anime or just has SAO-induced Stockholm Syndrome, and we spend the first several minutes of this episode having DVD troubles. Fun fact: My laptop has an old-school disc drive! Don't fact-check this. Also, what's the difference between "disc" and "disk"?
See you next week!
I hope everyone loses the world cup and then the universe explodes
Trans Women Face More Injuries Than Cis Ones (It's Not Even Close)
A new study found that injury rates among transgender women are significantly higher than injuries among cisgender women, based on radiologi
❝Transgender women in the study group suffered 8x times as many head injuries as the controls, 36x as many facial injuries, and 5x times as many chest injuries.❞
So much for "protecting women".
For all those wondering why the title doesn't say this, it's because the study doesn't say this either.
While the cause of the injuries may be obvious, it's not technically known, and science speaks for what is known.
Some (a minority) of the trans women injured reported that it was violence, and some (a smaller minority) reported that it was intimate partner violence, but most did not report anything and the stats are just from the fact that they needed treatment and so went through the radiology department with their injuries.
Getting a lot of reblogs saying "undescribed" and "no image ID" etc, so please be aware that I did add alt text shortly after posting (it was a pain to copy on my phone so I did it on my desktop), but by then, it had already been reblogged by a couple of big blogs, so this alt-texted version is languishing, please do reblog it!
Shadow and Maria in PictoChat ☆
So every year, my aquarium does a captive lobster hatchery project (hence all the loblings). The reason we’re doing it is because in the wild, loblings only have a 1 in 25,000 chance of surviving their larval phase. They’re plankton as babies and everything eats them. Additionally, as the Gulf of Maine warms, they are having even lower survival rates because the blooms of copepods they feed on as babies are happening earlier in the year, and they’re missing it.
Obviously, the goal of this experiment is to grow the lobsters until they’re big enough to settle to the seabed and then release them, because they have a much higher likelihood of surviving to adulthood when they’re able to hide. Ideally, captive lobster hatcheries can boost the wild population and keep things stable, so we don’t have a major crash in a decade or two.
The first year we tried this was pretty bad. We had a lot of eggs, but very few babies. It turned out that the CO2 levels in the building spiked as more guests visited throughout the summer, and that settled into the water and threw off the pH and caused a chemical reaction that prevented a lot of the eggs from hatching. I think we ended up releasing three baby lobsters (which is still better than their wild survival rate but not great).
The second year was a little better. We added a de-gasser to the aquarium and got a ton of larval lobsters, but right as they were settling to the bottom we had a disease outbreak that killed most of them. We ended up releasing four babies at the end of the season.
But this year? Oh boy. We have so many lobsters that we had to release the first round early (usually we wait till September or October so guests can see them). We just released a total of FIVE HUNDRED AND TWENTY FIVE baby lobsters, and we still have over a hundred who haven’t settled to the bottom yet. I genuinely don’t even have words to explain how cool this is. OVER FIVE HUNDRED. We just added hundreds of lobsters to the wild population that wouldn’t have been there otherwise.
Conservation is so fucken sick
Politics is actually like…one of the top reasons to cut someone out of your life? Where the fuck did we get this idea it’s an invalid reason to abandon people? It’s literally your statement on how you think society should exist and what rights you think people should have and how. It ain’t fucking “My uncle Craig’s dead to me because he takes his sandwiches with the crust on” it’s “My uncle Craig has consistently stated a hatred of minorities and poor people for longer than I’ve been alive, of course I’m gonna call him a piece of shit”
fucking finally
it’s okay to do things that make your symptoms worse (as long as you’ll stay safe)
every once in a while you need to eat something yummy. or go on a walk. or a trip to the zoo. take a hot shower. cry your eyes out. dance. listen to music. draw for way to long. write. laugh. sit in a cafe with a friend. paint your nails. dye your hair. go on a run. pet a cat
sometimes you need to do things that are cathartic or make yourself feel alive. sometimes you need the reminder of why you’re fighting so hard to stay alive
this is your reminder that just because it makes your symptoms worse, it isn’t always the wrong thing to do. there can be value in these actions
If you think about it too, abled people do it all the time. Deciding to drink to excess at a party knowing they'll have a hangover. Going to a theme park knowing walking all day is going to hurt their feet by the end. We have the right to make those same decisions.
This is called Dignity of Risk, and it's an important concept in disability justice.
Everyone weighs their physical and mental/emotional health against one another in constantly shifting balance; inevitably, there are times when we choose to accept consequences to one for the sake of the other.
Infantilsing us by undermining our agency in the name of "protection" or "care" is yet another way that we are disabled by society.
we need to adopt this attitude on this website and start talking to each other like this or its over
encourage and uplift your fellow bloggers
abandonware should be public domain. force companies to actively support and provide products if they don't wanna lose the rights to them
Game companies hate emulation, but none of them seem to understand that a lot of us would just buy ROMs from them directly if we could. I don't want a fifth remake of Final Fantasy IV, I want to pay five bucks for the 3MB file you already made bank with thirty years ago. Nobody who wants to play something for the purpose of retro gaming is going to consider a $40 remake as the alternative option, and we're certainly not going to let the original dissappear. They're crying about opportunity cost for a product they're not even selling.
op i know you're probably talking about like, video games, etc, but this is also critical for research science - my lab has so much abandonware, either because the company's out of business, or the company decided to not maintain it, and it's a fucking nightmare. we have two windows 95 computers that are CRITICAL for performing experiments/data analysis because the software needed is abandonware. one of the main roles for a guy in my lab is to maintain these little dinosaurs because if they go out, we lose access to ~20 years of raw data for research. part of why is that these companies also make their own file types, and make it difficult-to-impossible to convert those file types without their specific software. by habit, i convert all research files to more generic versions (txt, pdf, tif, etc) so that i minimize risk of losing my shit, but some stuff can't be converted.
for example, we have a microscope that is perfectly functional, good microscope, but its software is abandonware because the company refused to maintain it. the company is still in business, still makes essentially the exact same software, but they made all of the old tech incompatible with new software to force people to buy the new microscope tech. it would cost a quarter million dollars to replace this microscope. this perfectly good microscope.
so like, i know a lot of people look at the original post here and go "well op just wants old video games to play" (which is valid! games companies should not be able to push shit to abandonware and then close it off) but also this is critical for like. biomedical research. if y'all had any idea how much basic infrastructure built on science relies on shit that is technically abandonware, you would probably be horrified.
#there is so much abandonware just...out there being used and carefully maintained#because nothing quite replicates the functionality
Goober Grove - Virginia Rosco shares a message to a neighboring state.
I hope young boys see me out and about in my fun ridiculous outfits and go “wait… that’s allowed? I can dress like that?”
enough miserable boys in t-shirts and jeans because that’s all they feel they can wear. wear a colourful cardigan. the world needs your colour and your spirit
Lmao the cardigan is the foundation for a miserable boy to gain light behind her/their eyes.
I’ve been the cause of a girl’s trans awakening before and it was absolutely wonderful. solidarity forever and ever and ever
TRUE FOREVER
Ok what is a cardigan and how many times do I have to break my way out of this same fucking eggshell
it's less of an eggshell and more of a seasonal moult. you are like an awesome lobster or a snake. each time you moult will feel a little more comfortable and a little more worldly. a cardigan is a knitted button up jumper/sweater. be free be cosy
Soul Mates! BONUS 13: Sword Art Online Alternative: Gun Gale Online Watchalong: FtF (Evil Lesbian Face Tattoos)
Fun fact: If you die while listening to Soul Mates!, you'll die in real life! Watch this GGO clip that I didn't realize was a star wars edit
Alt. episode titles: If You Girl In The Game You Girl In Real Life; It's Not Sword Art Online; Please Forcefemme My P-Chan
It's a classic watchalong bonus episode, which we haven't done in forever, so we were really excited to watch some bad anime (a thing we do regularly) for an audience. Just warning you: the next episode of Soul Mates! is definitely not about an SAO guy. Just trust me on this one.
All I want is women on screen, SAO is a complicated show with awful gender politics, Ivy figures out whether she likes this anime or just has SAO-induced Stockholm Syndrome, and we spend the first several minutes of this episode having DVD troubles. Fun fact: My laptop has an old-school disc drive! Don't fact-check this. Also, what's the difference between "disc" and "disk"?
See you next week!
RIP Sam Neill. He was part of my childhood as Alan in Jurassic Park but what I'll always remember him for is this story from Event Horizon:
“All of the crew has a flag on part of their uniform that indicated their origins, but they asked me what the Australian flag would look like in 50 years’ time. “My response was there would be no way that a Union Jack would still be on that flag. That is because I was certain it would be a republic by that time. “Second, it seemed to me that Australians would have sufficient generosity and common sense to replace that Union Jack with an acknowledgement of Indigenous settlement (Always was, always will be) for at least 60,000 years. “Both of these issues led me to be wearing a flag that looks the way it is - and it pleases me that I insisted on that."
if your without and you put nuts on it I don't make the rules snowflake
TRUCK
was made nuts that truck is trans if you got a problem take it up with god
