There’s A Website Where You Put In Two Musicians/artists And It Makes A Playlist That Slowly Transitions

“ENGLISH OR SPANISH? WHAT THE SIGMA? HAWK TUA” I thought about killing you yesterday, and it disgusted me. I thought of carving a hole into the cavity of your chest, reaching in with my bare hands, seizing your heart between my fingers, and crushing the delicate clockwork lifegiver into so much gore and so many giblets. Tick, tick, tick, as I hold it delicately in my palm, in an instant, SQUISH! Gone. I thought of watching the light leave your eyes, and it disgusted me. Not because of the horror of the scene, which usually would terrify me. Not because the thought had entered my head at all, rising from the deepest pits of hell, which would usually be enough to frighten me. What disgusted me is that to do that, I would have to touch you. I. Loathe. You.

Ppl be like “it’s too early/late to nap” I am simply closer to God than you. You are just incapable of understanding.

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

The Conversation

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.

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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.

I'm curious. Reblog this if you know how to cook

I don’t even care if it’s macaroni, ramen or those little bowls you stick in the microwave. Please, I need reassurance that most of the population on tumblr WOULDN’T STARVE TO DEATH if their parents couldn’t fix them food or they couldn’t go out to eat. 

“Laios is too autistic to fuck”

Terrible take, lame, weak crops, infantilizes autistic people

“Laios is too autistic to fuck normal”

Excellent, wonderful, borderline canon

Well well well

do i even want to know..?

Sure! Here, have this bundle of green leafy parasitic red berry bearing plants I found hanging upside down in a doorway bound in a red ribbon on Christmas Day!

do not be mean to Baldr be nice instead imo

Ok y’all brace yourselves cuz I just learned about a new animal

Yes, that is an animal. Yes, scientists refer to it as the purple sock worm. No, that’s not it’s real name, silly, it’s real name is Xenoturbella!

When these deep-sea socks were first discovered, no one knew what the fuck they were looking at (and, really, can you blame them?). They have no eyes, brains, or digestive tracts. They are literally just a bag of wet slop. DNA analysis initially seemed to indicate that they were related to mollusks, until the scientists realized that DNA sample was from the clams they had recently eaten (yes, they can eat with no organs. We don’t know how.)

Scientists then analyzed the data again and tentatively placed them in the group that includes acorn worms, saying that their ancestors probably had eyes, brains, and organs, but simplified as a response to their deep sea ecosystems.

Later DNA testing has since shown that they are their own thing! Xenoturbella, along with another simple and problematic to place creature called acoelomorphs, belong to their own phylum called Xenacelomorpha! This places them as the sister group to all bilateral animals. So, they just never evolved brains, eyes, or organs. They are a glimpse at a very primitive form of animal that never bothered to change, because apparently what they do works. Rock on, purple sock worm.

I don’t register the value of coins i just see shiny and think “give??????? to friend?????? yes i will give to friends!!!”