silly motherfucker with a cool hairstyle

important and encouraging

Found a great (free) documentary on the Freedom House Ambulance Service here- https://www.wqed.org/freedomhouse/ (has captions too)!

EVERYONE SHUT THE FUCK UP SCIENTISTS AT THE SCHMIDT OCEAN INSTITUTE HAVE FOOTAGE OF A LIVE COLOSSAL SQUID FOR THE FIRST TIME EVER !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

🦑‼️🦑‼️🦑‼️🦑‼️🦑‼️🦑

for context, scientists have know about these mfs for like a HUNDRED YEARS but only now have they actually seen one ALIVE !!

archers gloves vs digital artist gloves being opposite of one another

Much like how archers and digital artists are mortal enemies

Behold, the digital artchery glove!

….but Wait…

…….!!!

FUCKA YOUUU!!!!!

Ok but wgat if we held hands…..

and we both had carpal tunnel syndrome 😳

not carpal tunnel syndrome 😫

this website really has ruined me… i didnt catch the G, so i spent like 4 minutes scouring the second pic for thee Lucky Luciano 😭

hand in unglovable hand

reworked my xisuma design for the upcoming may challenge (which i will try to participate in but we'll see how it goes)

apparently it does not go without saying, but if you're in high school and you're writing a college essay and have to talk about a big challenge you overcame, never ever and i repeat NEVER talk about your mental health. don't do it. it doesn't matter if you're stable and healthy now, do not talk about it. just don't. ok this has been a PSA.

uh query why not

there are very few cases where a student can pull this off without sounding like a liability to the university. the admissions office is not your friend. they may be progressive on paper, but 1000% they will avoid recruiting students who may "present problems" later on down the line. nobody wants to have it on paper that they admitted someone with mental health concerns and then later have to fight a lawsuit where something happened to the student in the dorms.

my #1 rule on this for college essay writing is you can talk about mental health only in the context of another tangible life event. your mother had cancer, this is how it affected you, this is how you dealt with it. you had a shitty childhood, this is how you survived, and you're out of that situation now. do not talk about medications you took / are taking. do NOT talk about self harm. if you go anywhere near these subjects, you need to have an absolutely unimpeachable writing style and way of contextualizing it that firmly establishes that you are far beyond that point and will not go back.

you are sending your essay into a black box where you do not know the personal politics of the people at the admissions table. mental health stigma is very very real. you can make a point of challenging it once you get into the university, but do not stake your admissions on it! don't risk losing out on that opportunity to make a point. there are ways to write around it. you can communicate the same depth of meaning without disclosing absolutely everything.

It's very endearing to me how many people are willing to keep an eye on a video feed so they can push a button and let a fish in the Netherlands get to the other side of a dam.

It is genuinely baffling to me, in a very kind and positive way, especially coupled with the local news continually going several shades of 'wtf, this thing is a roaring success again and we don't quite get why'. They've already quadrupled their capacity for simultaneous clicks and it's still nowhere near enough and there's just... Bewilderment.

But to come back to point 1- Citizen Science fills a hole in the soul that wanted to go out on adventures and discover things when we were younger, but the study of it was hard or we didn't have the money or our schools were garbage. But you don't have to have a degree to do things like... press a button or download and use an app, or count or transcribe notes.

Anyways- here's some Citizen Science links if the Fish Doorbell makes you feel happy and you yearn for more ways to help scientists do stuff:

Foldit (folding proteins)

Fathomverse (sea animals)

Project Monarch (butterflies)

Bioblitz, an event where citizens identify as many species in an area within a period of time

Species Watch (animal species)

BOINC’s Compute for Science

Zooniverse is a website that hosts information on many citizen science projects

Label trees in aerial photos

Count cells in fossils and modern leaves

Digitize Atmospheric Data

Count penguins

US-based Citizen Science Database

eBird (bird identification)

Merlin (bird identification by sound)

iNaturalist (nature identification)

MapSwipe (collaboration between several Red Cross organizations and Doctors Without Borders, update vital geospatial data)

Smithsonian Archives Transcription Center

trying to explain to tumblr that the Middle Class in not their enemy

saw someone say that someone complaining about only having 7k in savings makes them contemplate “doing something bad”

you know that 7k covers like. one hospital visit WITH insurance, right?

“people who make six figures shouldn’t be allowed to complain —“ most people who make six figures are, these days, solidly middle class. where i live, a combined household income of $110k is *lower middle class*.

“people who can afford homes —“ are typically 400-600k in debt for them. also if “can own your own home” is your threshold for the rich you are contemplating eating, i think you are genuinely stupid

“boohoo your investments dropped, stop complaining rich boy” idk how to tell you this but. most of us have a retirement account. you should probably open one

If one grain of rice represents $200,00, which is the median net worth of an American (and more than half of Americans have less than half one grain of rice for this analogy), compare to the visual of Elon Musks combined net worth of $400 BILLION DOLLARS:

Can we please be serious and focus on the billionaires who are dismantling our country and selling it for parts?

Saw a post about how Sam is Brennen's foil but Vic is Sam's foil

This is like one of those art house horror movies with symbolism I don’t understand except I understand what this is trying to convey perfectly holy crap

Same energy 

nominee for best tiktok of 2020 holy shit i got chills

This was originally about the inital phase of the pandemic and lockdowns but honestly? This is the exact mood I’m feeling right now watching the US descend into fascism

hey, don’t cry. life-sized standee of dropout ceo sam reich 900ft underground, okay?

They did it. They changed the game.

item found // artifact > Golden Apple