maddy™

25 idek what to put in a bio

[anxietyproblem]

[omtai]

Does anyone care if the boulder is happy does anyone imagine the boulder to be happy? Or is everything about that other guy

[secretchordstyx]

this trend of shitting on peer-reviewed academic studies in favor of tweeting “we already knew this was happening” is so soul-crushing. not to be an elitist cunt, but we have got to open the schools again. people genuinely seem to have forgotten that their personal lived experience isn’t indicative of the larger population, AND IF IT IS…… then you need researchers to support these assertions from a relevant data pool instead of a blog post from 2013 💀

[wereinawildworld]

is this thing on (bg3 durge playlist)

okay so i haven't posted on tumblr since i was a teenager but i made a playlist for my durge and needed to share it somewhere

her name is cecily and she's actually a character that I played through a full dnd campaign a few years ago. she was always one of my favorite characters so i obviously had to play her in bg3.

idk if this is spoiler worthy but the playlist is loosely in chronological order and the game starts at no way back

[quasi-normalcy]

Culture is so obsessed with the idea of lone geniuses that it doesn't really appreciate that most of the progress of science (and likely every other discipline) occurs collaboratively, in babysteps, and usually through a lot very tedious, utterly unsexy, work.

[quasi-normalcy]

[fousheezy]

This is what’s so faulty with our short sighted coverage of scientific discoveries. You hear politicians question why we spend money on science studying insect wings and then decades later that research gets used by NASA for the most efficient way to fold/unfold solar panels on spacecraft. All of science is connected and useful because it enhances our understanding of the universe

[disredspectful]

When lasers were discovered they were called “a solution without a problem”, noone had any idea what to use them for. Since then they’re revolutionised communications and SO many parts of technology. CDs, DVDs, printing, fast internet, laser etching for making computer chips, laser eye surgery, spectroscopy, LIDAR measurements of weather patterns, barcode scanners, cooling atomic clocks, nuclear fusion, microscopy, LED technology and materials research. I’m probably not even scratching the surface here. Fund theory and fundamental science research.

[quasi-normalcy]

It's actually kind of heartening, lasers; because before they were invented, their only real antecedents in science fiction were things like rayguns and heatrays and what not. But it actually turns out that their usefulness as a weapon is extremely limited, whereas their usefulness for just about everything else is incredible. It's one of the occasions where we flipped the "Dual Use" coin and it landed very solidly on the good side.

[bowditch]

when people complain about wasted funds on things that don't "help" anyone, like space research, my favorite fact to share is that it was research into small rocket propulsion systems that gave us the mechanism that makes airbags work. space research has literally saved lives.

[violetutterances]

I wish Mythbusters was still around so we could see them fuck up a Cybertruck

[p0ll]

Will you reblog this and say in the tags what book you're currently reading, or which book you most recently read?

Yes

No

Not reading anything currently & don't remember the last book I read

Voting ended onAug 20, 2025

[hanfocus]

© dxstty

[aristotlewritesagain]

One of my favorite things about the fanfiction community on here is you can always tell when Ao3’s gone out.

[noah-wyles]

[akm87]

[speedlimit15]

i think if your account has existed on this site for a certain number of years you should be grandfathered into ad free browsing. a decade seems reasonable like if you signed up in 2012 or prior you have tenure

[hickeywiththegoodhair]

Were you a victim of the Mishapocalypse? You might be entitled to compensation

[gaynfl-moved]

not to be an american but like. air conditioning is the greatest invention of all time.

[yourfirstwife-deactivated202509]

#mycentralAC #mygarbagedisposal #myhamburger #myicewater

[theconcealedweapon]

[glowcowboy]

gonna take a hot shower and put on a big t shirt and my undies and i’m gonna sit on the floor and color at my coffee table like im 6 years old again and then i’ll feel better

[of-earthandlight]

This works btw

[yugiohz]

DID MY YAOI STICKERS ARRIVE

[yugiohz]

it was my bachelor’s degree 😑

[soracities]

"Absolutely no one comes to save us but us."

Ismatu Gwendolyn, "you've been traumatized into hating reading (and it makes you easier to oppress)", from Threadings, on Substack [ID'd]