honestly even the highest concept sci-fi seems tame once you learn BioSteel™ Goats exist irl

What the fuck are you talking about

you know. the spider goats. the goats spliced with spider genes.

they shoot bulletproof webbing out of their udders!

ok ok that last part’s not technically true, but the truth is still pretty nifty:

ko-fi

May I add the fantastic glow in the dark cats. They’ve been tagged with a gene from jelly fish that causes them to glow and that can be passed down. Was used to help study how other genes were passed.

for those wondering, yes glow-in-the-dark jellyfish cats are a real thing and they are helping scientists with AIDS research

I love how this reads as if the cats are actively choosing to assist with scientific research.

The Felidae

I mean the whole damn point of the Nativity story is that the supposed son of God (interpret Jesus how you fucking want, of course) was born to a couple of poor, exhausted peasants in the stable for the inn, and his first bed was a feeding trough for animals. That would nowadays be like a poor couple where the mother gives birth in a parking garage behind the motel because they couldn’t find a better place and nobody else would take them in. It’s a pretty gritty setting, and the idea is that God was reborn in some of the rock-bottom lowest circumstances. The only thing majestic was all the angels and shit, and of course motherly love

I get that a lot of the art portraying Madonna and Child as fabulously wealthy europeans in splendid robes and golden light was meant to glorify God + whichever nobility was sponsoring the artist, and while of course it’s genuinely beautiful art, it just always struck me as horribly missing the point, which is that the supposed son of God started in incredibly humble circumstances, among the kind of people that everyone else looks down on

‘Massacre des Innocents’ by Leon Cogniét, 1824. Although the Feast of the Holy Innocents is in a couple of days time, this painting is still really relevant in that it portrays Mary as how She really was: a scared refugee mum, so fearful that Her son was going to be one of the Innocents killed by King Herod.

My new favorite mordern interpretation is this work, José y Maria by Everett Patterson (http://www.everettpatterson.com)

The only thing that bothers me is it has “Antipas” below Herod. That’s the wrong guy. Herod Antipas was de jeur (but not de facto yet) king of Galilee at the point of the nativity, but his father Herod the Great was still the king of Judea (or he was supposed to be - the timeline is a bit murky via the Gospels contradicting the historic record). If Herod the Great had in fact passed by the nativity (contradicting the completely fictitious Slaughter of the Innocents account) than Herod Archelaus was king of Judea, and would be until Rome removed him in favor of direct governorship in 6 CE.

Marrying your cousin

if the usamerican civil war was happening now instead of the 1800s you would see posts on here like "im literally disabled and i need a slave to function"

So was the goat just ritual as part of the Lumen emergent religion, or was it supposed to play a medical role in the experiment?

They have a division made to play a band song for Mark S. When he completes the 25th file, do you realy think they won't have a division to sacrifice goats to their boss-god?

My headcanon on Choreography and Merriment is they ran an experiment on whether you could sever off practicing an instrument and the outie have the trained abilities (since non-biographic memory does seem to go the other way). Having an employed severed division of musicians is just the after effects of that.

A lot of weirdness like that started to make sense back in season 1 when I realized that severance was Lumon’s product.

lumon's department sizes are so funny. "how many people do we need to refine some super important data?" uhhhh four i guess. at most. "what about the company marching band?" fuck ur so right. we need a company marching band with like fifty people. this is of prime importance to the lumon mission.

Once I realized (back during season 1 but season 2 confirmed it in universe) that Lumen’s product was Severance, a lot of the weirdness made sense.

They have more severed people then they need for the actual labor because they’re experiments. So they get put to work at weird extra jobs.

They have a marching band because they ran an experiment on musical talent and the barrier - whether people could make an innie for practice and the outie have the ability that results from the practice.

sooooooooooooo many things to scream about tonight but number one on the list is the difference in the ways dylan and mark's outies talked to their innies. from the get-go mark scout is nothing but patronizing to mark s. he created mark s as an escape from his grief, and now he wants to use mark s as a means to an end to save his wife and pick up his life where he abandoned it. he gets helly's name wrong and calls her 'the person you're seeing' because he doesn't recognize mark s's humanity. he sees mark s as an extension of himself, and he only loves gemma, so of course whatever mark s feels for helly can't be real or worth fighting for. and when mark s understandably doesn't see it his way, mark scout lashes out, calling mark s a child.

but then you have the letter dylan george wrote to dylan g. in three paragraphs dylan george talks to his innie like an adult, like they are peers. he's angry at dylan g, but at the same time, he understands why dylan g did what he did. he would have done the same if he were in dylan g's place. after years of being jealous of his outie, dylan g learns that his outie thinks he (dylan g) is the one to emulate, the self-assured badass. and where helena and mark scout made their innie's decisions for them ("i am a person. you are not.") dylan george breaks the cycle: he offers his opinion, but ultimately puts the decision back in dylan g's hands.

at the end of this season, dylan g is gifted agency. and after fulfilling his purpose, mark s steals his agency back.

ppl use "death of the author" to mean fucking anything they want on this site. i've seen people use it to fucking defend transmisogynistic jokes in movies??? thats literally the opposite of Death of the Author. thats Death of the Text. that's just not engaging with the conversation.

they practiced it on harry potter and now they just think it's three magic words that can absolve them of any media criticism

I am once again insisting that everyone actually read Death of the Author. It's like 7 pages.

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Death of the Author is the Intersectionality and Male Gaze of literary theory: a concept that is extremely useful but that is invoked by people who don’t actually know what it means despite it being well defined and originating in an accessible essay that people don’t read

For those not in the know, Henry Ford was a rampant antisemite and Nazi sympathizer. He published a book entitled 'The International Jew: The World’s Foremost Problem' in 1920 based on the conspiracy theory known as the protocols of Zion.

Henry Ford is also largely responsible for pioneering the conveyor belt system and setting off the domino chain of industrialization that lead to previously valuable workers being classified as unskilled and replaceable.

He also tried to create some freakish American town in the middle of the Brazilian rainforest literally called Fordlândia in an effort to have his own supply of rubber. His refusal to even attempt to understand local culture and climate caused it to be an unmitigated disaster.

I knew Ford was antisemite because a couple years ago I visited garden of lawyer who sued Ford, but I didn’t realize Ford and Hitler were bffs

Hitler’s “First Buddy” , if you will.

I didn't ask if it made sense to keep going. I said I'm going to kick your twisted evil ass.

@thatlittleegyptologist

His right ward shift of his public persona was a reaction to progress in unionization efforts in California. The culture war bullshit is to sell it to the rubes.

I’m not diminishing the harm the transphobia does! Just saying it’s a tool not the motive for these monsters.

THE ADVENTURES OF MILES O'BRIEN

"We got shot down by the Red Baron again."

Snoopy-type behavior

anyways tl;dr on that last post it’s like we’ve reached a point where in popular culture the ancient Greeks are remembered for their mythology and literature (and maybe Athenian democracy) while the Romans are remembered for their patriarchal imperialism, despite the fact that both cultures did plenty of both. and the consequence is that we’ve ended up with a bizarre quasi-gender binary where Greek stuff is for people who like mythology and literature and Roman stuff is for people who like patriarchal imperialism

@finelythreadedsky hopefully ok to reblog with your comments because this is literally exactly it!!

Antibacterial soap??? For your body???

I wash my wretched walking corpse with bleach and formaldehyde to prevent bacterial accumulation

You are an inspiration to us all

if you’ve had a significant surgery you’ve probably been told to shower with antibacterial soap, and they literally tell you not to use it regularly because it FUCKS your microbiome. you can tell, too- your skin feels fucking disgusting and weirdly sick for days afterwards

to specify: antiseptic hand soap can be fine if it's just your hands because you use those to touch everything in the world and then eat with em. helps cut down on the amount of germs and viruses and harmful bacteria you transfer into your mouth.

the rest of your skin can benefit from washing with soap and warm water, but antibacterial soap used as a regular cleanser can take it too far. you're actually supposed to have bacteria on you. your microbiota is a healthy and helpful part of your immune system. going scorched earth full sterilization on skin can make it dryer, weaker, and sicker.

Antiseptic soap for regular handwashing contributing to the development of superbugs. Antiseptic handwash is appropriate in a hospital, but regular soap and water is ideal for regular hand washing at home unless you have a specific immunocompromised situation at home.