“So my planet is mostly ocean, with a few small islands.” “My planet is covered in so much plant life, it’s affectionately nicknamed the Green Planet.” Your fellow starship crew members then turn to you. “So what about you? What’s it like on Earth?”

On Earth, there is a lot, and there was probably a lot more.

Before reaching the stars, being covered in 71% by water, it was nickname the blue planet.

On it's way to the moon, a photo of our planet was taken and was baptised "The Blue Marble". Another photo, in a different context gave it another nickname. Taken by Voyager 1, it had been for the longest time the furthest photo taken of it, and so was named for what it was : "Pale Blue Dot", a single pixel in a vast cosmos.

On its surface, however, terrains where very diverse. A continent of ice with the lowest temperatures, gigantic sand deserts, tundras, plains big enough for anyone to feel trapped, forests of every kind, one of which being actually a gorgeous single tree clone colony, montains chains that crossed continents, aride lands, savanas, jungles so lush and brimming with life, meadows of wild flowers, paradisiac islands, and then some...

The tilt of our planet and the proportion of land to sea lead to a great climate diversity, each having its ecosystem.

Earth is beautiful. And we tend to forget it.

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Early one morning, you start your normal routine of making coffee, but when you pull your favorite coffee mug from the cupboard, you find a very small dragon curled up in the bottom, sleeping contentedly.

I rarely used my mugs. Every morning was a orange juice glass to take my pills with. And yet today, coming home from the winter cold, I was craving a hot chocolate.

The astronomy mug, that gives info on the solar system when heated, being out of commision due to a trip to the dishwasher, I reached out for the one with a green wavy pattern. My scaly mug.

My hand must be numb from the cold, I didn't expect it to have this weight. An instinct or a habit, or checking if it wasn't too dusty, I had glanced inside to see... something?

For a moment, I thought it was a lizard, they were on every outdoor wall a few day ago, when temperatures spiked to a confortable range, but how would it have gotten inside and. It wasn't. There is wings. And tiny horns. My heartbeat grew faster as tears rose to my eyes. Not funny brain... I know I took my meds, this isn't fair.

I reached inside, inspecting to touch the bottom of the mug, the image of this gorgeous little dragon vanishing before I knew it. But I touched it. It made a noise. It perked up to look at me. I was... I'm actually petting it. My head is spinning. I have to sit down. Slowly. Don't worry. Oh! Give me my finger back, I might have food for you.

This didn't make sense. Dragons shouldn't make sense. The closest to dragon there was was a varanus from Komodo, and countless agamidea. And yet, here I was, searching for the industrial chopped bacon pieces I had planned to use with the cheese slice for a meal.

Back to the table. Opening the pack, it's their head jotted out of their porcelain home, sniffing vigorously. One by one, they took them. First wary, and quickly trusting but, even wary isn't right, they didn't try to flee, to hide... They just approached slowly.

I'm probably dreaming at that point. Being in bed is less ridiculous than dropping bacon pieces in an empty cup. But I wanted to believe it. I want so much this to be real. Once again, without thinking, I had offer my hand. They got on it. I was carrying them. Oh, they're reaching for my arm- no, my sleeve. Ouch, they got tiny claws, but they're scratching my whole arm! They stopped. I can feel them, just below my shoulders. Is it their tail? Is it their wings? Both (?) are wrapping up around my skin. They're standing vertically and yet, they stopped. I can feel it's breath. I can feel their tummy scales. Are they sleeping?! Yep, they are clearly back to sleep.

I might have to go get more groceries. And maybe install something near the heater.

Rest well.

So... Animation vs Coding (Avc())...

Well can all agree that Yellow is just dreaming near TSC's cell, right?

How do they choose which sand to be the glass and which sand to be the sand in an hourglass... Imagine you and your best friend were two grains of sand and you had to be in the hourglass and your bestie had to be the glass. Ur together but youve never been more apart. A Sick and twisted practice hourglassery is...

This was me off 1 chocolate croissant

Facing the fear of drifting apart, one changed, as grain, in order to be with the other forever, even if that means trapping them.

They're giving me mouse hormones to make me small and squeaky

They're giving me horse hormones to make me long and freaky

they're giving me stork hormones to make me slim and beaky

they're giving me morse hormones to make me … …. --- .-. - / .- -. -.. / -… . . .--. -.--

Theyre giving me russian hormones to make me cheeki breeki

They're giving me ghoul hormones to make me strange and creepy

they're giving me shape hormones to make me bouba kiki

they're giving me nap time hormones to make me tired sleepy

they're giving me reptile hormones to make me croc and snakey

Experiment:

Reblog this post and add a poll of your own to the reblog. You can make it a poll about anything. Let's see how far it goes.

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There's more of 'em!

Awesome!

The fuck did I just witness?!!

Since when is there screamer ads on this website?!?

Just scrolling and boom, full screen ad, just a x button up top.

Is this because of the format? Like I'm in 3/4 split screen but like what?

No doctor will ever get my respect like the woman in the ER who checked me for claws and fangs because I told her I was turning into a werewolf and could feel it and let me know gently that she couldn't find any but that didnt make it feel any less real, like THATS how you do it, other doctors who just flat out told me I was wrong take notes

This is how you treat us!

i am reblogging this as someone who does not have delusions and often makes shitposts about werewolves, and i just want all my followers to know this is not a joke!

i am so glad you had this positive experience, and i hope this sort of kindness catches on with doctors and the general public.

Look when someone is in a confused or compromised state, no matter why,

and they are your medical charge,

it is vital to continue to treat them with dignity. Like that. Reassure them with visible practicalities that you acknowledge their fears, will not belittle them, and can show them facts to help them cope.

THAT is the proper compassion of a Healer.

Can I just add that, if you like me have delusions where everything bad that happens is your fault, the doctor shouldn't be like "Yeah, you're probably right" but try to reason with you in a respective way. OP's doctor did it right, but some of the notes make it look like people think delusions must be agreed to always, when doing so can be detrimental to the person's wellbeing

This is my favorite addition to this post because it’s true. When dealing with delusions you need to avoid the extremes - DO NOT tell the person flat out “you’re wrong”, “thats not real” or worst of all “you’re crazy.” BUT DON’T ENCOURAGE THE DELUSION EITHER! Let’s take my werewolf delusion, for example. Doctors who have flat out told me “that isn’t real” haven’t helped because for me it is real and no amount of you saying it isn’t will change my perception. It makes us feel alienated.

But someone saying “You ARE transforming into a werewolf but i have a poition thatll stop it! :D” is just as dangerous because you’re furthering a delusion which could get someone hurt. its also manipulative. we’re psychotic, not children.

So what DO you do? Acknowledge that the situation is frightening. If possible, give them the objective facts (ie, i don’t see any monsters; your mom hasn’t said anything to make it seem like she’s going to kill you) while also acknowledging that for them, it is real. Most of all, ask what you can do to keep them comfortable and safe.

Sorry for the long addition but when I made this post it didn’t occur to me apsychotic people would look at it for advice on how to handle an actively delusional person. I’m glad it’s resonating with people, though

I remember when I told a doctor someone had replaced all the veins and arteries in my body with wires and I was no longer a person. she very gently checked me over for any wounds where they could have made the incisions to put the wires in, and took photos of the places on my phone to prove it. all the places I felt were the entry points were out of my sight, behind my ears and in my back and stuff. then she offered to get me an xray if they could fit me in, but it might take a while. I declined because I didnt want to take up space for people who need it, and honestly at this point I trusted her enough to tell me if I had wires. she brought my husband in and showed him how to check me over for wounds and wires, then she asked me if I had any questions. I went back into the waiting room, feeling like I wasn't stupid and I felt much safer.

she came into the waiting room later to check if I was okay, and I felt safe, cared for, trusted and believed. she told my husband she put a psychiatrist on standby in case I got freaked out again, and told me she understands how I feel, and that she can't see anything but she gets how scary it is for me and she's on shift for a few hours and to ask for her by name if I need reassuring again.

I felt safe. I felt believed. that's how you do it.

I frequently struggle with worries that my memories are made up- either that they were forced onto me by someone else, or that I made them up myself.

I was panicking about this to my girlfriend, and she said the most helpful thing, that I felt should have been obvious to me, but I needed to hear it from someone else.

"Even if they are made up, the feelings that they're giving you are real."

Even if someone's delusions, paranoia, or general worries seem completely nonsensical to you, the feelings that they're having right now are very real, and they deserve to be treated with respect.

The same goes for depressive/suicidal episodes.

At one point, I was terrified of the future and of myself, of how I ended up in the present when I wasn't deserving my past.

My mother saw that wasn't going well, and brought me to another room.

I explained what I was feeling, I cried, how death seemed peaceful, how it had been years since I was stuck, lost, in a maze. How instead of a proper exit, I had simply found a pit, that I didn't know where it would leed me, that I attached a string to it, and continued my search for another way out.

When I was done, she was in tears, she took me in her arms, I felt good, until...

"Don't do it." It echoed, it hurt. She burned the string. I was back at the start, more lost than I was for the past year.

And I don't want to be hurt like that again.

I can't talk to her about that again.

Please, be careful with what you say.

There's no need to burn the string to continue the search.

Cute, who's gonna tell her they update those pictures?

No-one, and I'm gonna tell you that even if they update them, the previous ones are still archived literally one click away.

Cliff Hug

The name 'wisdom teeth' implies that there are also strength teeth, dexterity teeth, constitution teeth, intelligence teeth, and charisma teeth

#fangs are the Charisma teeth

Oh absolutely prev! But if we stay with the human mouth, that'd translate to the canine.

So we have molars, premolars, and incisors left. And perhaps, baby teeth, to have a sixth one.

Molars and premolars are the STR and CON ones, from their bulkiness, but hard to say which is which.

I'd guess baby teeth as INT for their frailty, dies to a 1d4 punch of a kid, and DEX for the incisors as a Finesse weapon.

There we have it.

Floating gator crossing your dash.

Presh Talwalkar uploaded this video on his channel MindYourDecisions yesterday, a I wanted to find alternative solutions to this puzzle, or more accurately, a slightly altered version of it :

FInd c,s and t, different integers, such that the concatenation cst , multiplied by three, equals the concatenation sss.

Notation : [x] means the concatenation of x a constant number of time. Exemple : The powers of 10 can be written 1[0].

cst × 3 = sss = s × 1[0]1[0]1 = s × 3[3][6]7 × 3 So, cst = s × 3[3][6]7

In the video, he gave 4 as a solution, and after a bit of brute forcing, I found 49, so I wondered if the s = 5×10ⁿ-1 would work as a general case.

s = 5×10ⁿ-1 = 5[0]-1 s × 3[3][6]7 = (5[0]-1) × 3[3][6]7 = 5 × 3[3][6]7 × 1[0] - 3[3][6]7 = 1[6]8[3]5 × 1[0] - 3[3][6]7 = 1[6]8[3]5[0] - 3[3][6]7 = 1[6]4[9]8[3]

All calculations can be done by hand, and would you look at that : 1[6]4[9]8[3] , 4[9] = 5[0]-1 = s

Indeed : 1[6]4[9]8[3] × 3 = 4[9]4[9]4[9]

Now I'm gonna do a python program to brute-force other solutions...

Will update soon.

Strange case for s = 5[0] : t = ∅ s × 3[3][6]7 = 5[0] × 3[3][6]7 = 5 × 3[3][6]7 × 1[0] = 1[6]8[3]5 × 1[0] = 1[6]8[3]5[0]

1[6]8[3]5[0] × 3 = 5[0]5[0]5[0]

As for the others : 47714381 × 3 = 143143143 ✔️ 142809476 × 3 = 428428428 , but t start with 0, so it doesn't concatenate well ❌ 264597931 × 3 = 793793793 ✔️ 285618952 × 3 = 856856856 ✔️ 298965632 × 3 = 896896896 ✔️

We could moreover speculate that the solutions seems to come in pair : 143+856 = 499+500 = 999

103+896 = 206+793 = 428+571 = 999

And... 034367701 × 3 = 103103103 068735402 × 3 = 206206206 190523857 × 3 = 571571571

I... don't know why.

And it seems to continue for higher ranks :

We already saw 4999 and 5000,

41237457079 × 3 = 123712371237 82474914158 × 3 = 247424742474 91942527586 × 3 = 275827582758 95242857619 × 3 = 285728572857 292095876254 × 3 = 876287628762

1237+8762 = 4999+5000 = 9999 2474+7525 = 2758+7241 = 2857+7142 = 9999

250858419175 × 3 = 752575257525 241390805747 × 3 = 724172417241 238090475714 × 3 = 714271427142

Presh Talwalkar uploaded this video on his channel MindYourDecisions yesterday, a I wanted to find alternative solutions to this puzzle, or more accurately, a slightly altered version of it :

FInd c,s and t, different integers, such that the concatenation cst , multiplied by three, equals the concatenation sss.

Notation : [x] means the concatenation of x a constant number of time. Exemple : The powers of 10 can be written 1[0].

cst × 3 = sss = s × 1[0]1[0]1 = s × 3[3][6]7 × 3 So, cst = s × 3[3][6]7

In the video, he gave 4 as a solution, and after a bit of brute forcing, I found 49, so I wondered if the s = 5×10ⁿ-1 would work as a general case.

s = 5×10ⁿ-1 = 5[0]-1 s × 3[3][6]7 = (5[0]-1) × 3[3][6]7 = 5 × 3[3][6]7 × 1[0] - 3[3][6]7 = 1[6]8[3]5 × 1[0] - 3[3][6]7 = 1[6]8[3]5[0] - 3[3][6]7 = 1[6]4[9]8[3]

All calculations can be done by hand, and would you look at that : 1[6]4[9]8[3] , 4[9] = 5[0]-1 = s

Indeed : 1[6]4[9]8[3] × 3 = 4[9]4[9]4[9]

Now I'm gonna do a python program to brute-force other solutions...

Will update soon.

Strange case for s = 5[0] : t = ∅ s × 3[3][6]7 = 5[0] × 3[3][6]7 = 5 × 3[3][6]7 × 1[0] = 1[6]8[3]5 × 1[0] = 1[6]8[3]5[0]

1[6]8[3]5[0] × 3 = 5[0]5[0]5[0]

As for the others : 47714381 × 3 = 143143143 ✔️ 142809476 × 3 = 428428428 , but t start with 0, so it doesn't concatenate well ❌ 264597931 × 3 = 793793793 ✔️ 285618952 × 3 = 856856856 ✔️ 298965632 × 3 = 896896896 ✔️

We could moreover speculate that the solutions seems to come in pair : 143+856 = 499+500 = 999

103+896 = 206+793 = 428+571 = 999

And... 034367701 × 3 = 103103103 068735402 × 3 = 206206206 190523857 × 3 = 571571571

I... don't know why.