How do I tumblr?

tumblr please stop telling me to wd40 a mouse

biologists will be like this is a very simplified diagram of a mammalian cell

chemists will be like this is a molecule

okay but this is what the best render of a human cell looks like

They are not kidding

We are full of so many fuckign guys

This is actually a full on interactive map! You can put your cursor over any structure to focus on it and see its name, you can focus on all the structures that are part of a specific pathway and, when you click on proteins, you open it up on PhosphoSitePlus, which is a curated database of proteins and their post-translational modifications. It has a helpful description and summary for each protein!

This is a HUGE complementary resource for learning molecular biology! It really helps to make sense of each individual pathway and it puts everything into perspective. It only focuses on human, rat and certain other animal cells, so it won’t have all the pathways one would wish to see… But for the pathways it does include, consider opening the image and accompanying it as you learn or revise them!

oh wow, thank you for the additional information, i had no idea, that’s so much cooler than just the flat picture.

we are in a universe made of universes made of universes made of…

$215 million in Republican anti-trans advertising / 1.6 million transgender people over the age of 13 in the US =

Roughly $134 in anti-trans advertising for every trans person in the United States.

There's a good amount of evidence suggesting that these ads probably didn't move many actual voters, as anti-trans messaging has not been particularly effective. But social conservatives will likely use this year's election results as evidence that the anti-trans campaign message is one to be repeated

absolutely flabbergasting to see people who have so enthusiastically succumbed to despair. like okay denethor, but some of us are gonna actually face the armies of mordor in battle nonetheless.

This is the level of hyperanalystic bullshit I live for

not so fast, in the review of gusteau’s anton ego compares gusteau to chef boyardee or hector boiardi with a tone implying that boyardee is dead and in history

given that gusteau died shortly after this and the will takes 2 years after death

assuming that ego’s review was the same year that boiardi died then the absolute EARLIEST the movie can take place is 1987

and about the incredibles, when looking for the scene with the newspaper i stumbled across this

a headline from 2002, and given that lawsuits generally take a while and september to december is really quick for the banning of supers so let’s say they were banned in mid 2003, at the EARLIEST incredibles can take place in 2018, with ratatouille taking place sometime in between 2003 and 2018

assuming that was a mistake, thunderhead died november 15 1958, a date where superheroes would’ve been illegal if incredibles 1 took place in 1962

and adding onto the impossibility of the date being 1962 his death is included in the shutdown reports of the national supers agency

so the year in which the movies take place is impossible to find because the staff of the incredibles couldn’t chose a date and commit to it

I take it back

This is the level of hyperanalystic bullshit I live for

IS NO ONE GONNA MENTION THAT THUNDERHEAD IS GAY?!?!

OMG OMG OMG

“loves kids, adopted single father of 5 children, raising them with help of his roommate, Scott” 

oh my god, they were roommates

YALL THE ONION BOUGHT INFO WARS IN THE BANKRUPTCY AUCTION

THIS IS THE FUNNIEST POSSIBLE OUTCOME ARE YOU KIDDING ME

"Why are you still on tumblr, it's a dead site" Tumblr is the ONLY site that still works in the way of -Follow this person, see their posts- instead of -you stopped scrolling and stayed on this post for .2 seconds longer than others, here's 100 more posts like it- I hate algorithms. Tumblr has its many issues. But at least I keep my choice of what I see.

A very useful thread on Bluesky:

(There is a lot more. Rather than give you all the images, I've copied the full text below.)

I was one of the people they very successfully convinced that v for vendetta was inevitable, and it's fucking not. They're more likely to have a shutdown for the first year than deport en masse, since it would take a massive increase in ICE employees that just isn't possible (they sit at about 20k employees in ICE and border patrol, and they need at least 250k people to pull it off but actually more like 400k, and that's just not happening). But they want us debilitated by fear. We're doing so much of their work for them already this way.

utenanthy I drew 4 my gf -_-

himbo this, bimbo that. in my day there was mambo, and there were five of them.

Project 2025 ain't gonna roll out all at once. So what we're gonna wanna do is make passing each individual part of it as difficult as possible, so there's less to undo once we finally get this country back on the rails.

Resist every step and do not get distracted by stupid bullshit. Distracting people with stupid bullshit is one of Trump's favorite political techniques. We saw it all over the place in the first term.

Trump will say something like "You know the Hispanics actually punch kittens, it's what they do."

And the news will be like "TRUMP SAID HISPANIC PEOPLE PUNCH KITTENS" for three weeks.

And while they're doing that the Republicans in Congress have quietly deleted healthcare.

Do not get distracted by stupid bullshit. Trump is a dancing monkey whose greatest asset is the ability to yank the spotlight off of everyone else. Keep your eyes on Congress.

at some point we gotta acknowledge that getting the majority of your news and takes and general opinions from tumblr is not meaningfully different than getting it from tiktok even though on here it's in textual form. understanding the world through the lens of viral videos vs understanding it through breathless unsourced text posts written by dykeastarion69

#this is what made me switch to actually reading news sites regularly some years ago#(and when something's controversial or doesn't seem quite right I look up multiple news sources to try to get a fuller picture) (@thirddoctor)

A quick reminder that the Associated Press is totally free, and also often covers the news stories that Tumblr users say no one is covering. NPR is also free. So is ProPublica.

Also, here's a chart that might be helpful, in terms of determining bias and reliability: Interactive Media Bias Chart

All this + SIFT

One more thing before I go bury myself in a pile of blankets:

To everyone who voted Democrat for the first time, every former trump supporter who voted for Harris, everyone who voted for the first time, every Republican who did not want this result and voted for Harris, thank you.

I got a text from my cousin who has voted third party for decades who voted for a Democrat for the first time yesterday.

My aunt who voted for trump in 2016 and who's husband is a proud MAGA sent me a Snapchat late last night saying she is one of the women who secretly voted for Harris.

A former friend from college who used to be deep in the Republican party posted on Facebook yesterday that he voted for Harris.

I know you aren't the only ones.

I see that you tried.

don't really want to electionpost but it is hanging over all our minds. I fear that he won because he is our true face. That this fascist abomination that is coming is more truly representative of what the USA is than what came before.

Of course a government and people are different. But in a time where community is so important, I am disheartened to be surrounded by people whose values are so fundamentally incompatible with mine.

he's one of our faces. and he's the face of a powerful hegemony. but he is not our only or the 'true' face. we have a lot of them-- historical and cultural figures alike. Fred Hampton and Malcolm X and Joseph Smith and Cesar Chavez and Tupac and Taylor Swift and John Brown and Kim Kardashian and PT Barnam and that scammer socialite Ava Duverney are also our faces.

sometimes we do choose this face. it's a part of us. and not a small part. but it does not erase the others. that's a part of this face's power. to terrify and suppress and pretend that it's the only face we've ever had and the only one that matters. and it's powerful enough and cruel enough to force us to believe it. because its power is consolidated where the other faces are diverse and dispersed. but it isn't the only or truest and it never has been. resistance may not have won often and their stories may be denied and downplayed, but they are always there and they are as real and as important and as consistent as the hegemony is. just at a disadvantage.

you are right

i must resist my sadness...

not the sadness, just the hopelessness. it is sad. you get to be sad.

and about this you are even righter

Hazel McNab, Last Light, linocut.

Ungentle reminder that if I were a disinformation tumblr account, what I'd be doing now is getting people on the left to blame other people on the left for this election outcome. Divided we are weak and unable to organize to protect each other and resist.

The Fascists won because there were a lot of fucking Fascists. Stop cannibalizing your allies and assign blame where it belongs.