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if you read in a frog paper “specimen was released in the field immediately after capture” chances are very good that what it actually means is

“i dropped the damn frog and despite the fact that we fell all over each other no one could recapture it”

blueelectricangels

sometimes when i am sad i go read through the tags on this post, because they are 70% other biologists saying things like “AND ALSO FUCK FIELD MICE” and “THAT CRAB ALMOST BROKE MY FINGER” and I am reassured that I am not the only one who has bobbled a wood frog right into their cleavage.

plus six or seven people who just….can’t figure out what a frog paper could possibly be. (guys it’s…a scientific paper. about frogs.)

and this one

which made me laugh despairingly because i mean

bro you don’t even know.

jumpingjacktrash

what is the code entomologists use for “i stepped on it, i’m so sorry, it was dark out and the specimen was very small”

coolmanfromthepast

“Impromptu dissection was performed under less-than-optimal lighting conditions.”

jumpingjacktrash

‘impromptu dissection’ is an alarming phrase in any context and i thank you for it

inky-petrel

What’s biologist for “the little fucker BIT me and I yote it into the undergrowth on reflex”?

tawghasa

“Specimen was removed from the study pool due to abnormal interaction responses”

vilkalizer

I am reblogging this 98% for the second to last comment holy shit I’m fucking choking

elfwreck

I’m enjoying the tags/replies discussing the proper conjugation of “to yeet.” I am in favor of the decision that the future perfect is “will have yitten.”

woefully-undercaffeinated

Expanding this, NASA has a few gems from their report language:

"Underwent unplanned rapid disassembly" -- it exploded, and it wasn't an explosion we wanted to happen

"Lithobraking maneuver" -- it stopped because it hit the goddamned ground.

"Engine-rich exhaust" -- the engine bell melted or evaporated, or the engine ejected itself out the back of the rocket without having a very good reason to do so.

"Fishing orbit" -- the craft is in the ocean instead of space and we didn't mean to put it there

"Thrust was observed along an undesired vector" -- the engine leaked and the rocket spun off into oblivion.

"Wearing his manager hat" -- a moron who shouldn't be an engineer (a reference to the infamous quote "take off your engineer hat and put on your manager hat" in the meeting in which the Challenger was cleared for launch)

"Received an unrequested transfer" -- he's dead.

creations-by-chaosfay

Laptop recs?

I have no money to spare for a thing so frivolous as this, but here we go.

Currently, sitting at my PC desk causes intense pain in my hip. This is die to the cyst and flap tear, which require surgery to fix. After surgery, I will be on bedrest, but no idea how long because hEDS is gun like that.

I would really like to work on my book. Writing by hand is not an option, so don't suggest it. What I need is a laptop. Preferably, a wide one or the means to have a wide keyboard. I have arthritis and osteoarthritis in my hands and wrists, and hEDS. This has resulted in me requiring a specialized keyboard, which is in two pieces I can shift to comfortable positions. Can't really do that with a laptop keyboard.

Laptop requirements:

Not a tablet

An outlet for me to insert a little thumb drive, or at least an adapter to use one.

ideally, an headphones jack ir an adapter so i can use them.

Can use scrivenr, the program I use writing

Minimal bloatware and what is present can be removed

Does not function at a snail's pace. I need mine as speedy as my PC.

Bonus points for a wide keyboard. The standard size messes me up from my hands to my shoulders. I need to be able to type without requiring days or weeks of recovery because the cramped space messed up my already bad joints.

Extra bonus if I can disable the camera and speaker, seeing f as these come default now. That stuff creeps me out.

I can apply some sort of cover over the screen to elimate glare. I have a non-glare PC monitor because any other kind results in setting off seizures. The monitor also keeps my eyes from feeling like they're gonna bleed. If there are laptops without glare, I may cry with joy.

Not chrome or apple. No ai ever at all.

It could be months before I see a surgeon because I need one familiar with hEDS. Too many are not. Plus, finding an orthopedic surgeon is gonna be difficult. Apparently, it's not a popular field for medical students to sign up for.

Reply or reblog with suggestions. The laptop will be used for writing, and probably watch movies. No gaming at all. I'm currently stuck with using my recliner, and I can't even use my shower chair because pain.

My budget is currently $0, but the most I would ever consider paying for something I need just for writing is maaaaaybe $800. If you decide you wanna buy it for me, that's awesome.

I really wanna write my book.

mamalaw1021

@thebibliosphere is who I would look to.

thebibliosphere

I really like the Asus laptop I got last year for traveling home to see my sick family member.

It’s the ASUS Vivobook Go 15 OLED (E1504F), which at a quick glance is retailing about $349.

I specifically picked it because of migraine/neuro issues, and their screen tech is some of the best/most affordable I’ve found on the market.

I get severe, debilitating migraines from normal LED screens—the kind that land me in the ER because I can’t see/stand/speak/throw up so badly my neck and collarbone subluxate (thanks, hEDS).

The ASUS zero flicker screen tech combined with their low blue light and OLED screens means after two years I can finally use screens again without crippling myself for weeks at a time. If you needed even less glare, you could probably find a way to put an anti glare film on it—which is what I used to do with my LED screens, but I haven’t needed to do it with this.

Unfortunately all of their models are coming loaded with Windows 11, which has the AI enabled as default which as far as I can tell runs like dogshit for everyone because of the bloatware.

I didn’t want to fuck around trying to uninstall it and just went full Linux install, which I did have to tweak a little because it didn’t like the AMD processor, but once we figured it out (I say we, @mothman-etd went on reddit and the kind souls on the Linux board immediately knew how to fix it) it’s been running like a champion.

I don’t use Scrivener (currently using Ellipsus) but you can get it to work using Scrivener 3 using Lutris to make it compatable. You specified the need for a wider keyboard, and I don’t know if that would be wide enough for you, but I have very small hands and find this keyboard to be a little too big for me, so mileage may vary?

I forget if the Windows install let me disable camera and mic, but it does come with a little camera blocker thing which I keep closed as default and I have it all turned off via my Linux install. (I think Mint was the recommended install to get it working.)

I hope some of this information has been useful.

good luck with surgery and recovery and your quest for a new machine ❤️

fantasymind231

Ms-demeanor does a computer market guide on @okay-computer and sometimes shops for them on @ifitbleedsitleads

linguisticparadox

If you do Linux Ubuntu and want a more classic-windows-like UI then I recommend specifically Kubuntu, or you can do Ubuntu and add the KDE desktop. Linux Mint is an excellent lightweight Linux distro that works well on older hardware, while Ubuntu/Kubuntu are more like a full Windows install (although still lighter-weight).

woefully-undercaffeinated

I recommend checking out FreeGeek, they refurbish donated laptops and install Linux Mint onto them. You'll pay far less for a laptop than you normally would, you won't have to deal with intrusive AI, and you'll be helping to prevent a computer from going in a landfill.

augustshaped

ladyshinga

#I just want to point out that looms in the 18th century were massive#people didn’t really weave at home at this point#so these were huge and semi complex machines about the size of a mini cooper#and I just love the idea of ‘get out your 18th century loom’ like it fits in a craft drawer somewhere

this was pretty much the joke, yes - was talkin w/my mom about those tutorial videos that go "this is an easy DIY thing, super cheap!" then suddenly the next shot is of them using expensive tools most people do not already own

bamfcoyotetango

Hey, hey @systlin don't you have access to one of those?

systlin

Her name is Mabel and I need to get my hands into her and dislodge about 110 years worth of spiders

woefully-undercaffeinated

For some reason my Tumblr feed sometimes only loads the last reblog of an entry rather than the entire chain. Taken alone, @systlin's statement was a wee bit confusing

elli-incarnate

Okay, hear me out.

One of the quiet background realities of the Star Wars galaxy is that it is spectacularly bad at labor. Not just “late-stage capitalism” bad, but structurally, culturally, and institutionally allergic to the idea that workers should have enforceable protections. You’ve got child soldiers, child labor, debt slavery, corporate fiefdoms, and a Republic that can field a galaxy-spanning bureaucracy but somehow never gets around to standardizing “maybe don’t enslave people.” The Empire of course doesn’t fix this; it industrializes it.

So in that environment, formal labor law is either nonexistent, unenforced, or actively hostile. Which means if you’re operating in a sector where the state either can’t or won’t protect you, you get a classic historical pattern: workers build their own rules.

Enter the gray economies.

Groups like the Smugglers' Alliance (Legends) and the Bounty Hunters' Guild (new canon) look, at first glance, like professional associations for criminals. But if you squint at them through a labor history lens, they start to look a lot like early, proto-union structures — especially the kinds you see in maritime or extralegal industries on Earth.

Think pirate codes (yes actual ones, Pirates of the Caribbean didn't make that up). Think matelotage agreements. Think dockworker brotherhoods that predate formal unions.

Because what do these groups actually do?

They:

set norms for compensation and contracts

regulate competition to prevent destructive undercutting

provide a framework for dispute resolution

establish reputational systems (“you don’t honor contracts, you don’t get work”)

That’s industry self-governance in the absence of law.

Take bounty hunting. Without something like the Bounty Hunters' Guild, the field collapses into chaos: clients don’t pay; hunters underbid each other into oblivion; jobs get duplicated, interfered with, or sabotaged. And nobody trusts anybody!

The Guild steps in and says: here are the rules of engagement. Here’s how claims work. Here’s how you get paid. Here’s what happens if you break contract.

That’s basically a union crossed with a licensing board and a regulatory agency, just without any moral pretense.

Same with the Smugglers' Alliance. Smuggling is inherently risky, decentralized, and dependent on trust networks. If everyone is constantly betraying everyone else, the whole system stops functioning. So instead, you hash out agreed-upon routes and territories, informal protections against betrayal, mechanisms for information sharing, and consequences for breaking the code

Again: not altruism. Stability.

And the reason this emerges specifically in gray/illegal sectors is because they have to. The Core Worlds might pretend they have laws, but those laws don’t meaningfully protect the people actually doing dangerous, itinerant, high-risk work. So the margins of the galaxy — where enforcement is weakest and risk is highest — become the places where labor organization evolves first.

Which is very historically grounded.

On Earth, some of the earliest labor protections didn’t come from governments; they came from workers in dangerous, decentralized industries—sailors, pirates, miners—who literally wrote their own rules because no one else was going to save them.

Pirate codes, for example, often included:

compensation for injury

shared distribution of loot

limits on captain authority

Which is … shockingly progressive compared to a lot of contemporary working conditions (cough Amazon cough).

So in the galaxy far, far away, you end up with this ironic inversion:

The “legitimate” systems — Republic, Empire, megacorporations — are exploitative, inconsistent, or indifferent.

The “illegitimate” systems — smugglers, bounty hunters — are the ones building functional labor frameworks, because they need to survive.

And that feeds back into why the galaxy feels so unstable overall. There’s no universal baseline of rights. Everything is hyper-local, network-dependent, and contingent on whether you’re inside a system that has rules you can rely on.

If you’re a clone trooper? You are literally property.

If you’re a factory worker on a corporate world? Your protections are whatever your employer feels like offering.

But if you’re a smuggler or a bounty hunter?

You might actually have clearer expectations about your pay, your risks, and your recourse — because your “union” is the only thing standing between you and total chaos.

So yeah: the Smugglers’ Alliance and the Bounty Hunters’ Guild aren’t just flavor. They’re a glimpse of what labor organization looks like in a galaxy where the state has fundamentally failed to provide it.

Which is both deeply funny and a little too real.

azzandra

#you're telling me han solo is a union man? (via @professorsparklepants)

Han Solo look SO MUCH like a union man.

k-wame

C H I L L S

icarusinfreefall

reminder that adhd medication isn’t a luxury or preference, but a lifesaving medication. a 10 year long study in the usa showed that, when properly medicated, the rate of car crashes people with adhd get into goes down significantly–men’s rate drops by 38%, and women’s by 42%. the med shortage, denial of meds by doctors, rising prices, and war on drugs has killed–with such a car dependent society, not driving frequently isn’t an option, which means we need better healthcare and need it now.

https://shorturl.at/8VD8B

edit because i forgot to explain: short link is to an article by the washington post, it should be free to read

icy-moons

I’m pretty sure there’s also been a study that unmedicated ADHD increases the risk of developing dementia in old age. I’ll get back to yall when I find the study

icy-moons

Found it and here’s a Washington Post article if you don’t want to read a medical journal.

icarusinfreefall

@icy-moons thank you for this incredibly important addition!!! People with adhd are almost 3 times as likely to get dementia, and the way to prevent that is stimulant medication–more people need to know this

azcrowleyfell

Not to mention being properly treated and medicated for ADHD reduces the likelihood of developing an addiction or substance use disorder.

The articles below are free to access, they cite their sources if you wanna check out the studies themselves.

ADHD medication is not a gateway drug. In fact, teens and adults who seek treatment for their ADHD symptoms are much less likely to abuse dr

To reduce the risk of substance-use disorders, treatment with stimulant medication should begin prior to 9 years of age, according to resear

leebrontide

ADD-certified therapist here. These claims are ALL TRUE. I don’t have the link to hand but properly medicating ADHD also reduces anxiety and depression rates and I’ve seen it improve eating and sleep over the long haul, and improve aggression in young children.

Help Jacqlyn Get the Neurosurgeries That Could Give Her Life Back … Dave Scheiman needs your support for Help Jacqlyn Get Life-Chang

allthingswhumpyandangsty

every day I learn bot comments on ao3 are stooping lower and lower

anyway if you get a comment like this, chances are that they are bot and their goal is to do whatever it takes to get you to delete your work, most certainly (from what I’ve heard) it’s because they want to “safely” steal your work, use it to train their ai without you being able to rightfully claim ownership of your work since “there’s no proof that the work was stolen/was posted elsewhere first by you” because the original source has already been deleted.

THEY ARE ALL BOTS. at first it was “ao3 is deleting fics and your entire account will be affected unless you delete the fics yourself” then it was “this work contains contents that are illegal and they have already reported you and your fic to the police” (yes, that’s how desperate these bots are), and now it’s this.

report their comments to ao3 for spam—in this case, specifically, I think you may be able to report them for harassment too—and don’t pay attention to them, most importantly don’t delete your works, don’t feel discouraged by their comments. remember that they are bots and they mass comment something like this on people’s works at random to get people to delete their works. (or even if they’re not bot, they are still pathetic bullies who don’t deserve your time or attention.)

MORE ABOUT BOTS AND SCAMS PLAGUING AO3’S COMMENTS SECTION HERE

woefully-undercaffeinated

There is no science fiction writer in history imaginative enough to have predicted this kind of dystopia.

janmisali

hey, tumblr user anonymous here, just so you know one of your friends wants to blow up the moon so you should probably cut her out of your life and stop supporting her. yes obviously there's evidence for this, we have screenshots where she says "a lot of people think that I want to blow up the moon but that's not true", so basically she's completely mask-off about it. so yeah if you don't stop associating with her I'll have no choice but to assume that you too want to blow up the moon and I'll have to inform everyone else you associate with so they know how dangerous you are. thanks!

janmisali

the rule is that if an accusation is serious enough you're not allowed to deny it no matter how flimsy the evidence is. because like what if it's true and it just happens to be the case that none of the evidence we have for it actually supports the claim being made? then you'd be defending a Bad Person! do you really want to take that risk?

janmisali

just to spell it out in case you don't get it, "blowing up the moon" here is a stand-in for any sufficiently bad action that's perceived as so clearly evil that it's not worth the risk to question if there's actually evidence that the accusation is true. you can fill in the blank and this post turns into something tumblr user anonymous has said to me almost verbatim several times in the past week. it literally is exactly like this

ladyshinga

If you can do me a big ol' favor - my brother and his roommate are going through apartment hell right now and need some help, please click the link or share or... somethin'. I'm several states away and can't be there for him the way I wish I could as his big sister, but I can try to get him some help through community <3

prokopetz

Hopes of having my eventual funeral culminate in my flaming corpse being shot out of a cannon into the sea dashed by the fact that sea burial of non-cremated remains is required to take place at least 3 nautical miles (~5500 metres) from shore, while the longest-range pneumatic cannon ever constructed had a reported maximum range of only 5000 yards (~4600 metres).

drkrunch

Surely it only needs to be a pneumatic cannon if you're firing a LIVE projectile...

prokopetz

A human corpse would unfortunately be entirely disintegrated by explosive propulsion sufficient to achieve the required distance unless it was first enclosed in a sealed metal container, and the whole affair wouldn't really have the proper effect if the limbs aren't free to flail.

charlizetheronsbush-official

rocket sled?

prokopetz

Unfortunately, rocket-propelled corpse disposal at sea is specifically prohibited under environmental regulations because the rocket would constitute a non-biodegradable delivery vessel. Yes, this has apparently come up before.

fannishstuff

I gather from context that the canon has to be on land?...

prokopetz

For reasons I trust are obvious and therefore require no elaboration here, yes.

woefully-undercaffeinated

Rockets don't have to be non-biodegradable, though -- a solid-fueled rocket can have an outer casing and fins made of cardboard.

whatever618-deactivated20251212

Most people who "hate pedophiles" dgaf about children. How do I know? Most people in our society both hate pedophiles and mismanage children.

Let a child have the AUDACITY to say "No, I dont want to give you a hug" and watch the "pedophile-haters" decide that child is a rude, ill-mannered swine, LMAO.

Y'all will beat kids, demean them verbally, tell them to blindly obey you because you're #GROWN, ignore their agency, and prime your babies for ABUSE.

Only to say "people with bad thoughts about children should be exterminated." You ACT badly toward children.

I hate how this world treats the baby-people 😭 Y'all so wicked to them. We try and advance things and youse push back on everything. Racism, transphobia, misogyny, environmental issues, geopolitical conflicts, etc.

Few of you actually deeply wish to create a better world for the children of tomorrow to inherit.

So I truly believe this fixation on the "pedophile" is either disingenuous or a psyop pushed by our states that are the biggest abusers of children globally (USA, UK, Canada, etc).

"Pedophillic thoughts" are objectively not the main driver of CSA, it's the ability to exploit powerful systems that enables people to abuse kids - but you guys hate foster kids who made it out and can speak for ourselves. We literally talk about this ALLL the time. And yall HATE that we werent cannibalised by the bastard systems that make you "feel safe", that you blindly defend lmao.

I know survivors who have worried about being ontologically evil, because you guys also push this narrative that CSA survivors ARE pedophiles. Like, yall are not real. But please, assure me that the caricature of a pedophile exists to help us poor survivors. None of u clowns ever advocate for younger sex education and a remedy of our current consent culture..Children should be taught how to say no by not being punished for it. I WISH someone told me, you can reject adult authority if you dont want to do something with your body.

But yeah, yall do not gaf for real 😭😭😭

thedailypositivityblog

Redditors crashed the website with donations over $25k and 0 wishes left. via /r/MadeMeSmile

Click here and follow to get more daily positivity on your dash!

godisafujoshi

With the holidays here, thought this is worth sharing

momkat

This website is still here and some of the asks are heartbreaking. Like “Jamie wants a new pair of jeans because he’s never had new clothes before”. Or “Kayla wants a bag with her name on it for when she moves foster homes again.”

A lot of these kids ask for brand name clothing and it sounds pretentious but having one nice new fashionable piece of clothing means a lot when all your previous clothes have come out of black trash bags from charities.

silvermoon424

Btw, you can filter wishes based on gender, age, price, etc to help you find the perfect wish for you. This charity is LGBTQ-affirming (unlike a lot of religion-based charities that are unfortunately homophobic), so you can even look for nonbinary kids to donate to.

Also, I would really encourage people to be open to granting wishes made by older foster kids (14+) or young adults who aged out of the system and still lack family support. They’re so often forgotten.

specialagentartemis

If you don’t have a lot of money but still want to help give a kid a nice Christmas, there are lots of wishes that are $24 for stocking stuffers as well, or $15 for a sqishmallow!

https://www.onesimplewish.org

seananmcguire

I just want to add that right now, there are so many pending wishes for food. Kids are asking for food from the universe (and yeah, “kids” includes young adults just entering the work force–eighteen and hungry is just as morally wrong as eight and hungry).

redavexat

everydaylouie

ghost choir 👻 🎵

(soundcloud!)

Research finds that porn-related problems are predominantly caused by religious conflict. Clinically, this means people need help, but not n

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