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not to be insensitive but some of the salem witch trials were so funny bitches like “i saw her at the devils sacrament!!!” girl... what were YOU doing at the devils sacrament 👀

If you're feeling anxious or depressed about the climate and want to do something to help right now, from your bed, for free...

Start helping with citizen science projects

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Explainer: what is citizen science?

Public participation in science is increasing, and citizen science has a central part in this. It is a contribution by the public to researc

What's a citizen science project? Basically, it's crowdsourced science. In this case, crowdsourced climate science, that you can help with!

You don't need qualifications or any training besides the slideshow at the start of a project. There are a lot of things that humans can do way better than machines can, even with only minimal training, that are vital to science - especially digitizing records and building searchable databases

Like labeling trees in aerial photos so that scientists have better datasets to use for restoration.

Or counting cells in fossilized plants to track the impacts of climate change.

Or digitizing old atmospheric data to help scientists track the warming effects of El Niño.

Or counting penguins to help scientists better protect them.

Those are all on one of the most prominent citizen science platforms, called Zooniverse, but there are a ton of others, too.

Oh, and btw, you don't have to worry about messing up, because several people see each image. Studies show that if you pool the opinions of however many regular people (different by field), it matches the accuracy rate of a trained scientist in the field.

I spent a lot of time doing this when I was really badly injured and housebound, and it was so good for me to be able to HELP and DO SOMETHING, even when I was in too much pain to leave my bed. So if you are chronically ill/disabled/for whatever reason can't participate or volunteer for things in person, I highly highly recommend.

Next time you wish you could do something - anything - to help

Remember that actually, you can. And help with some science.

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elbowsmelbow

4 months ago

affirmations

i am a complex organism brutally engineered by uncaring forces of nature

i am a product of billions of years and trillions of deaths

i am building a machine greater than myself

i am able to make phone calls and appointments

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elbowsmelbow

1 week ago

A digital illustration in a painted style featuring a fullbody character over a plain grey background. The character is a drow / earth genasi, with dark warm purple skin, orange eyes with black scleras, silvery freckles and metallic streaks on their hands and arms. They have coily hair arranged in two braids on the sides and worn natural on the top, with it falling towards one side. They're wearing an outfit consisting of a poncho with star motifs, blue pants with stars and moons in them, and short boots with little metallic stars. They are also wearing purple glasses and golden jewelry, while posing and smiling towards the viewer.

Here's Urion on a very thrifted wizard-core outfit! Based on few pieces we found while searching second-hand stores. Even if I couldn't get clothes, I get to put them on my OC, as a treat. Despite the looks, Urion is actually a (drow/earth genasi) bard. But everyone can be a funky wizard, as a treat!!