Soph, 28, they/them. A uk traditional artist. Check out my art in #magpie sketches. Bluesky for ramblings - https://bsky.app/profile/turquoisemagpie.bsky.social Instagram for sketches - https://www.instagram.com/turquoisemagpie/?hl=en
so i hauve covid rn and i must say, American cold medicine is the absolute bees knees. You go to a UK pharmacy and they tenderly press like eight (8) paracetamol into the palm of your hand... God FORBID you're sick in France, i had to scour every pharmacy in Paris for something that wasn't HOMEOPATHIC PASTILLES. meanwhile last night i took the last of my stash of Nyquil that expired in 2019 and it was like getting hit by a fucking baseball bat (affectionate). press X to timeskip. LOVE me a cheeky little medically induced coma. you can really feel that it's a precursor to meth. i know that everything is fucking awful over there my friedns and my heart goes out to every one of you but if you need one small bright light of national pride in this time of strife please know that i envy you your cold medicine every day
i once took an american antihistamine pill just a basic one for seasonal allergies and i had to immediately lay down and while doing so i vividly hallucinated that i was a steerage passenger on the titanic resigned to my death as my cabin filled up rapidly with water. then i blacked out and when i woke up again my allergies were gone for the entire season.
In movies like The Wizard of Oz and Pleasantville, characters step out of a muted, black-and-white world into one full of rich, vibrant colors. Experts at NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and elsewhere around the agency have figured out how to do something similar by translating data into sound, creating “sonifications” that allow you to more fully immerse yourself in the cosmos. Ready to dive in?
If you’ve ever gazed up at the Moon or stars, you’ve likely felt a visceral sense of awe and wonder, or perhaps a profound connection with the cosmos. Turning observational data from our telescopes into corresponding frequencies can open up a similar experience to those who are blind or low-vision, while enriching the experience for others, too. The results range from celestial and ethereal to mystical and otherworldly — sometimes downright spooky!
Turning data into sound may seem unconventional, but it’s really not that different from the data visualization most of us are accustomed to. Every image from a space telescope is an extension of what we’re able to discern via human senses. Scientists often use special filters and data processing techniques to make subtle features in the data easier to study and interpret.
Only a small portion of the electromagnetic spectrum, the full range of light, is visible to the human eye. But many telescopes are designed to capture other wavelengths of light, like our Chandra X-ray Observatory and our James Webb Space Telescope, which views infrared light. Visualizations and sonifications are key to translating the data they send back into forms we can perceive and interpret. Both give us more ways to understand what our telescopes are detecting.
You may be more familiar with the concept than you think! You probably associate “radio” with sound, right? But radio waves are just another form of light. When you tune your radio to a specific frequency, it picks up those electromagnetic waves and turns the information they carry into vibrations in the speaker, creating the sound waves you can hear.
Usually the cosmic objects featured in a sonification aren’t actually creating sound. But sometimes they really do! A black hole sound machine in the middle of the Perseus galaxy cluster sends pressure waves rippling out into the cluster’s hot gas. The gas is dense enough that sound waves can travel through it, creating a note humans can’t hear (some 57 octaves below middle C). But with help from a good cosmic DJ, we can bring that note into the range of human hearing.
Sonifications aren’t just for scientists. You can make one yourself! Hearing Hubble allows you to choose from 10 breathtaking views from our Hubble Space Telescope. You pick the instruments, scanning pattern, harmony, and scientific information you want to use to create a symphony that represents the image in sound! When you’re done composing, share your masterpiece on social media and with family and friends.
Still haven't gotten your fill? You can explore more NASA sonifications and listen to a NASA+ episode about sonifications. To hear more about the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, check out the special series our Curious Universe podcast is releasing!
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When you meet Edward Elric he gives off the impression that he's the short-tempered hot-headed "violence is the answer to all life's questions" kind of protagonist, and it's in fact incredible character craft that he's actually the character who ends the series with a negative-3 kill count.
God's worst soldier Edward Elric. Showed up as the youngest member of the Amestrian army, took millions of dollars from them, never followed a single order, helped dismantle their fascist regime, left with a lower kill count than he arrived with, then fucked off to go be a house-husband. Character of all time.
The AI boom has changed literally nothing about my day to day life except I now have to work harder to get access to reliable information, all the important admin work is being done wrong, and I keep getting DMs letting me know the perfectly ordinary and plausible photo I liked was actually a fake image generated by a fascist to generate views and churn out ad money for the purpose of funding their tree-powered puppy-flushing toilet
massachusetts place names: alewife, braintree, mashpee, tewksbury, lawrence, throckmorton, quaggabog, new cuckfield
new jersey place names: ho-ho-kus, hoboken, secaucus, weehawken, egg harbor township, pompton lakes, whippany, lesser cumtown
greater maryland place names: accident, intercourse, timonium, toddville, bowie, halfway, cocked hat, bala cynwyd, dolur rhydd, butler, street
virginia place names: lynchburg, leesburg, blacksburg, harrisonburg, fitzhughburg, allen shop corner, bowler's wharf, divine right of kings plantation, hitler did nothing wrong court house, burgsburg, central garage
Video summary: Tiktok by @pippabarnes - clips of a person with alopecia applying colourful makeup and other decorations to a bald spot as part of very dramatic looks, narrating now her relationship to her bald spots has developed over time
[ ID from Alt: a reply that reads: Except youre completely ignoring that villains are hot to queers because theyre gay coded in Hollywood. And idk if you've been on tumblr before... / End ID ]
your pal says something mean about a fat person in shorts this summer you SAY, "oh so they're supposed to get heat stroke because of your sensitive ass?" (fat people deserve to wear weather appropriate clothing)
you're getting ice cream with your friend and they make a comment about the fat person eating an ice cream cone you SAY, "oh then I guess you don't want ice cream, let's go." (fat people don't need to earn food even for enjoyment)
you're at the beach and a fat person is laying out and your dad says something rude about it you SAY, "I think they look comfortable. It's good they're getting some sun. I bet they work hard all year for this vacation." (fat people deserve to appear in public)
telling a someone you like their stretch marks does NOTHING for fatphobia and will NEVER make your friends and family think twice about their shitty learned hatred.
Speaking up like this is a thing that actually works. I know, because I've tried it, and it has led not only to people stopping this behavior, but also to them changing their views.
And if they don't stop? If they make no efforts to change, or if they purposely keep doing it just to annoy you? Then it might be a sign to stop hanging out with them. People who are that persistently disrespectful are not safe to be around.
loving parent: because there's a manual in every board game
child: oh
child: why don't they sell cars in bookstores
loving parent: because when you're buying a board game, what you're really buying is the rules, and those are in the manual. a car manual with no car can't drive you, but if you have the manual to a board game you could play it without the pieces. there are people who can play a game of chess just by saying where they're moving the pieces and imagining the board, but it's very hard so they give you a board and pieces to help you.
loving parent: That's why you never see Mousetrap in bookstores. Because you can't play it with just the manual.
No kill shelters result in animals dumped on the highway and tossed in the river because the rescues wont take them. That’s the part they never tell you.
Meanwhile the spca will take every animal, and if they have to euthanize them at least it will be done kindly and not via neglect or cruelty.
Because people in the notes are not getting this, let me explain:
No-kill shelters TURN AWAY animals. When they’re full - and they often are because most of these no-kill shelters are small - they stop taking them in. While they are “taking their time to find the right homes for every single animal”, many other animals never get in the door. Somehow they don’t count those animals, or track what happens to them. A success for them doesn’t include the ones they turned away. They’re taking their time because they can.Â
The No-Kills who brag about 100% adoption rates are the worst, because they tend to reject the most. The animals who will be difficult to adopt out? They just don’t take those. Special needs? Too old? If they’re going to be hard to adopt out, they can claim to be full, even if they’re not.Â
They are telling owners they absolutely cannot take their fifteen year old cat because they are full of litters of kittens. Adorable kittens that will turn over quickly, and boost their adoption numbers. So what happens to the fifteen year old cat? After days of being rejected at the shelters they get dumped on the side of the road somewhere, or worse.Â
You cannot imagine the VOLUME of animals that a city shelter deals with. The kill shelters are not allowed to turn anyone away. The difficult cases, the special needs, the elderly, the feral. The dog that bites, the cat that pees everywhere. Every animal is going to be taken in and treated with kindness. They are going to be assessed and treated for their fleas and conditions and behavioral problems. They will get their time on the adoption floor. They will get the best chance possible to find a new home. And if it’s not possible, they will be humanely euthanized, and that cage space will go to the next animal who is already waiting for it. It never stops. While you were working on the paperwork to adopt out 1 cat, three people brought in 4 more. It’s a numbers game that you cannot win if you aren’t turning people away.
A lot of times kill shelters get the animals that the no-kill shelters refused to take. Maybe their owners bring them. Or maybe they got literally thrown in the garbage, abandoned, or put in a bag and tossed in the river, when the no-kill shelter said they were full. The police and rescuers will bring these poor injured animals to the city shelter where they will be cared for. The volunteers will spend days and weeks trying to wash the tar out of their fur, or treat their broken bones, or whatever other horrible thing has happened to them. They will feed and house them. They will put most of them in new homes. They will save many many more animals, by orders of magnitude, than a no-kill shelter ever will. A no-kill shelter will brag about dozens or maybe hundreds of adoptions. Kill shelters are dealing in thousands of successful adoptions, and they still have to euthanize because it just isn’t enough. There are just so many animals to take in.
And then, after all this, the No-Kill Shelters get to claim the moral high ground somehow, and self-righteous types will refuse to adopt from the only shelter that takes absolutely everyone. It’s infuriating.Â
[ Begin ID: Three screenshots of a twitter thread by @/hannahschramm4. The tweets read:
The difference between a “kill” and “no-kill” shelter is so misunderstood and prompts me to write a 7 tweet rant on why you need to know the difference and give equal support to both
Municipal shelters are more often tagged as “kill shelters” because they are contractually obligated to serve the community they reside in. If Cleveland City Kennel, Lorain County Kennel, and others alike get a call for an animal they HAVE to bring it in regardless of their
current volume of dogs. So if they have 20 kennels and all are full they must bring it in regardless. Contrasting, private shelters (more often “no kill” shelters) have the ability to pick and choose when and what to accept into their shelter. They do not have to exceed their
max amount of animals. So going back, people often boast that they’d never support a “kill shelter”, never volunteer for one, never adopt from one, never even visit one. And essentially, that’s the problem. Since they are contractually obligated to take in an every animal in their
municipality and they get no adoptions, inadequate staff, no support from the community, no adoptions animals are senselessly euthanized because of the stigma that they are creating themselves. If we all showered municipal shelters with the same love “no kill” private shelters
got, euthanasia wouldn’t even be considered because kennels would open because the community supports them and adopts/fosters/etc. “Kill shelters” aren’t full of monsters who hate animals, they’re typically minimally staffed with volunteers that work so hard to save every single
animal with little to not supports from their community. thanks for coming to my TEDTalk, support your local shelters. All of em :)
This thread is excluding situations where animals have no other option but euthanasia, for example: overly aggressive animals or incurably sick animals. No shelter is exempt from those heart breaking cases! / End ID ]
usually when you have a stomach bug your body is like yes sir we'll get this punk out of here, 48 hours tops. then you get a cold and your body is like I dunno ... between a few hours and eleven months ... maybe a week minimum .... you gotta understand we're short staffed
tbf to the body, stomach bugs are easier to flush out since they are already in The System That Flushes Things Out From The Body, and that includes BOTH ends.
with a cold you gotta wait for the macrophages in your blood to start Eating Everything, and they are. not big. it takes them a while. please be more considerate of your macrophages in the future, theyre doing their best
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