But this One Thing I Know

30 something Christian lady,  bi, cis she/her. gamer, married, nerd. friendly! Ask is Always open.... feel free to say Hi.

[birdandmoon]

Signs of spring, ranked.

Preorder my new humorous birding dictionary and get an adorable button!

[bestiasilvanus]

Was anyone gonna tell me Vincent Martella, voice of Phineas Flynn on the Disney Channel original show Phineas and Ferb is on some absolute king shit on his twitter or did i just have to see this amazing series of tweets myself?

There’s more just go fucking look yourself

[baphonnicula]

BOY’S ON SOME REAL KING SHIT LEMME TELL YA

[machinaux]

I have to add this gem

[invinciblerodent]

[invinciblerodent]

you guys are so right, I should have added the best part

[askrobouteguilliman40k]

This meme ages like a fine wine every year that passes.

[doctorprofessorsong]

As an older queer, allow me to say: the walls of the closet are load-bearing. It is our job as a community to stand in front of that door and tell everyone who wants to peek inside to fuck off.

There are so many reasons a person may choose not to come out and there is no reason a person would owe the public or a stranger that information. Certainly it's not owed simply because someone is famous.

We have fought for decades to make it safer for people to be open and authentic about themselves, but we are not yet there. And even if we were, the closet would still be something we need to maintain for those who are not ready to reveal that part of themselves.

[tiuhtaviuhta]

We need to be talking about wearing PPE while doing textile work. You would never dream of stepping foot inside woodworking studio without goggles and ear protection when using the machines, yet I have never seen respirators or masks available in weaving studios or other textile workshops where we work with materials and machinery that kick up a lot of dust that ends up in our lungs. Allergies develop with prolonged exposure! Cotton lung is a thing!

I've been working mainly with linen for couple of years, unprotected, and every time I get an illness the after-flu cough sticks around a little longer. After a long day of weaving I can feel the itch in my throat that lasts days. Please can we normalise protecting ourselves from long-term exposure to textile dust🙏

[mikkeneko]

I'm reminded of that anecdote a few years back about a new scientist doing fieldwork for the first time who went out into the snowy woods in jeans in a t-shirt, got soaked in an icy creek, and when the senior members of the team tried to send him back to the vehicle to warm up so he didn't get hypothermia, laughed it off as a thing that doesn't happen to people in the modern era.

you! yes you too! can still be vulnerable to afflictions of the past! even if you're doing it as a Fun Hobby!

[thepioden]

And textile-adjacent fumes! Dyes, paints, and glues often have VOCs - that's Volatile Organic Compounds and they are REALLY BAD FOR YOU. If you are processing raw fiber or dyeing yarn/fabric/leather, or if your craft involves adhesives, please make sure you have good ventilation and a appropriate hand/eye/breathing protection.

[mixelation]

things ppl often get wrong in academia AUs (specifically ones in modern university settings with focus on graduate students & professors):

no one is spending enough time complaining about writing

hierarchy is wrong. your grad student TA is not a professor or faculty and might not even be considered an employee. that 32 year old man is not a full professor no matter how talented he is or how old you think 30+ is, and he should be talking more about "the tenure clock"

grad students only ever taking or TAing classes & never doing research or working on their thesis/dissertation. there are masters programs with no thesis component so i'm sure there are ones that have no research requirement, but you can't get a PhD only taking classes

everyone has too much money. but also if it's set in the US there's an obsession with accumulating student debt for positions that generally you would not have to take out loans for

relationship with academic advisor never sufficiently unhinged

not enough discussion of stats where it's obvious everyone only barely understands what's happening

[mixelation]

"what is a sufficiently unhinged student-advisor relationship?"

link to the article

[myspace]

Six flags commercial from 2004 you most likely forgot about.

[patrochilles-or-bust]

The audacity. I would never forget about such a cornerstone of culture.

[trans-gothic]

[dat-eyebrows]

@gendernewtral holy shit what??

[gendernewtral]

an update to my insulin pump (a model which is highly recommended by doctors because it has software you can update, unlike other models) would allow my doctor to see more of my medical data because of the way my pump would now function.

i technically had the choice not to update it, but if i didn’t, my insurance company would not cover the cost of fixing or replacing it if something happened to it. they could say that the damage came from not updating the system, even if the damage was completely external.

some of the software updates have been beneficial, and have made my life easier. however, the choice to use these new system has always been made for me. i can’t afford to replace this $3000 device that allows me to live without injecting insulin upwards of five times a day.

disabled people already live in a world that is hypermanaged by people who have absolute control over our health and safety. anyone with a prosthetic, hearing aid, or pacemaker can face the same problem i did if the manufacturer decides they need to exert their presence in our lives more than they already do. the “cyberpunk dystopia” is already here, and if you want to change the ever-growing vice grip of “smart technology,” help disabled activists. we’ve been here all along.

(if you want a short primer on what it’s like to be disabled and rely on technology, read Jillian Weise’s personal essay in Alice Wong’s Disability Visibility).

[rythms-of-synthax-deactivated20]

Quote of the day

[baffledtreesquid]

I’m seeing a lot of people saying this post changed their brain chemistry, and as a neuroscientist I wanted to say yes!!! Yes it does!

Wanting something requires dopamine signaling, but liking something doesn’t.

If you have a mental illness/disorder that affects dopamine, you might feel that you don’t want to do the things that you like. You do still like them. You will appreciate having done them.

Let your likes guide you.

(If you want to read more, here’s one experimental paper about it. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5171207/ This theory called the incentive-sensitization theory was originally created to explain behaviors in addiction but can be applied elsewhere as well)

Rewards are both ‘liked’ and ‘wanted’, and those two words seem almost interchangeable. However, the brain circuitry that mediates the psych

[snototter]

A lilac breasted roller (Coracias caudatus) in Hwange National Park, Zimbabwe

by Ngaire Hart

[positivewordaday]

[elsannaheadcanon]

Dear fanfic authors and fanartists, you’re doing fine.

[loucifersbitch]

everyone needs to get weirder, yes, but also get kinder. get more supportive. get more loving. be good to your fellow fans, especially the creatives who give you art and gifs and fics and fancams and and and. treat each other well because on tunglr dot hell, we are all neighbors. and neighbors look out for each other

[wholesome-animal-images]

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

one thing I respect the hell out of is little kids lying down on the floor in public. they have had ENOUGH and are ready to go HOME and are willing to be a HUGE INCONVENIENCE about it. we can learn so much from them

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

still thinking about how much WORSE running errands is for kids. they aren't even your errands! sure it sucks for adults, but kids are 1) forced to tag along, 2) no personal investment in the outcome, 3) get no say on location, duration, timing. a kid stuck in a grocery store aisle while their parent gossips with an acquaintance is a Hostage Situation. at the bare minimum hostages should be allowed to lie down and get some rest

[penpaladinjules]

My oldest kid was especially intolerant of extra bullshit during errands. He wanted a list of where we were going, and would get irate about new ones being added to the list after we started. He called this rule “No Secret Trips,” with special contempt reserved for the bank.

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

i think your kid should be put in charge of a major government agency. i want him ruling the FDIC with an iron fist. i want him usurping total control over the Department Of Motor Vehicles

[djkoenig-deactivated20140905]

(◡‿◡✿)

(ʘ‿ʘ✿) “what you say ‘bout me”

(ʘ‿ʘ)ノ✿ “hold my flower”

[chronically-ill-dandy]

✿＼(｡-_-｡) “Kick his ass, baby.  I got yo flower.”

[chronically-ill-dandy]

Fun fact

After my response, O.P. said “YOU RUINED MY POST” and that’s the one reblog I wish I could find

[glorianas]

[lenfanttterrible]

[thatkindoffeminist]

[kiwinning]

[sensoryoverloadistry]

The Grad Student Shuffle- Christ Fleming

[throesofincreasingwonder]

[catherinebunnington]

when you see something that needs to be done and you think “someone should take care of that” just remember that you’re someone

[moosekleenex]