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“Why’d you do that?” Please remember that I am using what I’ve seen in humans to mimic them

NooOOO

HE’S FINE YOU GUYS 

(ask @spatialheather she told me so)

Good news, everyone!

I’m pretty sure those are ptarmigan tracks, not those of a rabbit who got scooped up by something! They’re birds that hop through the snow and then leave those snow-angel imprints when they take off.

I’d also honestly be kind of surprised if a predatory bird swooping down on a prey animal just left nice clean imprints like that and not a bigger disturbance in the snow.

fun words :

Cute gender neutral things to call your partner

There is a parallel universe where Tumblr is actually a great functioning site

its exactly as shitty but every other social media site is worse by comparison

This is a documented thing! It occurs most often with hearts but can happen with any transplanted organ. It's called 'cellular memory' and I wrote a whole paper on it during my freshman year of uni. It's also why some transplant recipients experience new preferences, thoughts, and sometimes behaviors their donor was known to have. Like favourite foods or drinks, subtle changes in personality (like becoming a bit more daring, etc), and more. It's usually temporary as the organ adjusts to its new person's preferences, experiences, habits, etc. It's fascinating and awesome and I would love to study it in-depth someday.

Which is why I want all of my organs upon death given to the same person. Hostile takeover from within.

I'm just trying to figure out what situation would require multiple organ transplants all at once.

Doctor: well the bad news is that all of your everything is fucked. The good news is that someone with an odd final request just died

oh you wanted chocolate atop your boston cream donut? too bad. that chocolate is for the paper bag you stupud bitch

I can't stop thinking about this reddit post on soapmaking dude

I cannot express what an insane recipe that is. No one else could grasp it either

Like beeswax doesn't. It kinda just stays as beeswax in the soap. The lye has nowhere to go with it. That liquid seeping out of the soap? The brown and clear drops?? That's lye. That's straight up lye. This mf made the soap equivalent of the Chernobyl elephants foot.

Quick reminder that if you touch lye with your bare hands, it will react with the fatty oils on and in your skin to create soap molecules.

That means it will give you chemical burns while creating human soap.

OP’s comment about the soap equivalent of a Chernobyl elephant’s foot is on point.

Lye (aka sodium hydroxide) turns hydrocarbons/fats into soap.

You are a hydrocarbon.

Please be careful when making soap, because You are a thing that could be used to make soap. And nobody wants to bathe in human soap, no matter how much rosemary you put in it.

[talking about my favorite characters] okay so THESE two come in a bonded pair and if i think about them too hard i start taking poison damage

Shiny Duo

do we fuck with the Spoke (sprite and coke)

there are divine wonders in my Spoke

painted the divine wonders in your spoke, boss! o7

OH MY GOD

as a reminder, you, yes YOU, are not immune to conspiratorial thought patterns. or generally being manipulated or lied to

it does not matter how intelligent you are, how much schooling you’ve had, the life experience you’ve had, you are NOT immune to falling down a bad pipeline into alt right thinking. we’re in a high emotion environment right now with very suspicious stuff going on, and this is the perfect environment for people to accidentally get swept into conspiracies hate groups or just straight up cults.

please make sure you have verifiable sources for everything you share, make sure you know the warning signs of pipelines, and keep a good eye on yourself and your friends

for some personal examples

my mom has multiple bachelors and masters from various universities, including one in psychology. very smart woman. she now believes in bleach as medicine and antisemitic conspiracy theories

my grandma and grandpa are both registered democrats, grandma being a nurse and grandpa being extremely gifted in stem topics and top of his class in theology in college. you don’t even fucking want to know the shit they post onto facebook now

keep an eye on what you read right now and for the next four years

The thing about being clever is that it's easier for you to invent a believable story about why things are the way they are. Every scientist knows that you have to ask falsifiable questions about the world because it's so easy to come up with clever or non intuitive ideas that are, in fact, dead wrong.

Check your work. How would you know if you were wrong? How would you know if someone else was? What kinds of data would show you? What kind of data would be enough to change your mind?

Conspiracism is about emotions and narrative. Make sure that you peg the narrative of your understanding of the world to things that can be checked independently of your emotional state.

Shoutout to the guy with the white cane at the emergency access door who heard me say "hello sir" and just dropped his head, sighed, and went "this isn't the entrance, is it." Either you're going thru some shit or you're a very funny criminal doing his best and I appreciate that

for the record I am aware that the white guide cane typically denotes low vision, it was just the absolute and immediate total certainty with which this man clocked "polite customer service voice correcting an error" and skipped every stage of grief on his way to acceptance

"ummm you know the writer only included that because they have a FETISH right?" is always so funny to me as a disparaging comment, because imagine if people spoke that way about nonsexual interests. "the lord of the rings? didnt the author only write that because he was interested in linguistics? thanks, i'll pass" "yeah, i used to love spongebob as a kid, but i can never see it the same after finding out stephen hillenburg is a marine biologist :/"

Remembering when I went over to my female teacher's house in 5th grade and saw that she lived with another female teacher & went home going "wow, so teachers really do all live together!" & then my family had to explain to me what lesbians are

This reminds me of when I was a kid and my very Scottish grandma did child minding for extra money. At one point she looked after these three siblings that were adopted from Guatemala. The kids had two moms. It was the 90s and I'm Canadian.

Now, you would think that even in the 90s most adults would see two women who live in the same house and have adopted children together and think "Harold, they're lesbians". My mom certainly did, internally, but my grandma never brought it up, leaving my mom to wonder whether my grandma was being uncharacteristically discreet or if there was something about the situation my mom was misreading.

One day my grandma needed a hand with something to do with the kids, so my mom came over to the house, whereupon she noticed that the two women who lived together slept in one bedroom, and said "ohhh, they're lesbians."

To which my grandmother indignantly rebutted, "they're not lesbians, they're Scottish."

According to my grandmother, you see, it's cold in Scotland, so women live and sleep together all the time and women who do this are not lesbians, because it's cold (????). Therefore, upon noticing two women living together in Western Canada, adopting children together, and sleeping in the same bed together year-round, my grandma had mentally categorized these women as Scottish.

I just....I just learned that there's a word in the English language...for when you run into someone to hug them with all the enthusiasm and strength you have....I learned that it's called glomp.

My God, English has so many words to describe physical intimacy, I'm in love