#Optics matter

[ehliena]

Ok, Kon lifting Tim like all the other supers bc monkey see, monkey do, but Tim is Smart so he gets Kon to use TTK on him so it looks like Tim is flying too.

[ouroboros-hideout]

RABBLE ROUSER MAG ISSUE 02

Vlad Volkov 06/???

[atopvisenyashill]

i’ve decided to become a “aegon will claim rhaegal, the dragon named for his father, partially as a way to cement his claim against dany/the lannisters, and if jon claims a dragon at all it will be viserion as a narrative tool to get him to explore his feelings on being both aegon’s bastard baby brother and his feelings towards now being technically a cousin to the rest of the starklings when he has centered his identity around being their brother & ned stark’s son for so long” truther, and i can’t lose here bc we’ll never get another book anyway. check and mate suckers!

[mueritos]

Hey, don't be offensive to pigs, their cute, not an insult to cops

Anyways their basicly k.k.k members anyways, soo

(Because I saw the keep cops out of pride thing, I agree, but I like pigs)

[Ugh, never mind I sound weird, this is anon now so you can make fun of me]

LOL its no worries, i actually love pigs but i see their depiction for cops as an outlier to their otherwise epic personality.

I will say though: be mindful of saying this to people who are calling cops pigs. I've gotten this comment over the years and at the best it sounds cheesy and overused, and at the very worst it sounds very uhh "i care more immediately about the optics of animals than i do about showing solidarity with people who are experiencing police brutalization". I'm just letting you know and anyone else who reacts to that drawing in the same way that you may or may not get mixed responses if you voice this sentiment out loud.

regardless, i'm glad you're with the ACAB movement and your solidarity is needed!! fuck cops!!

[faaun]

procrastination is starting to have its consequences finally

[ef-1]

girlhood

[piovascosimo]

saw oppenheimer yesterday, nolan is such a mediocre director, it´s amazing he gets so much praise and love. everything is so studied and there is so little soul in his films. out of the ones i´ve seen, oppenheimer is clearly the worst. the first half is a very boring badly told recap of his life, then we get a slightly interesting moment where they build the bomb and cillian is great at expressing his conflicting emotions when it works. but!

then we get another full hour of manipulative bs, where every line and look feels like a wink to the camera, where we see how corrupt and paranoid the american government is. it could have been a great bit of cinema in the hands of someone more capable, bc that is a fact and there is so much to explore here. but nolan only uses it to absolve oppenheimer, and make us feel sorry for him, a brilliant man with good intentions who tried his best. i found it revolting. the story should be why so many scientists agreed to, when so many others declined, to help the us military to build such a thing, and to go forward with it even after hitler killed himself. this film barely touches that, you can intuit that it was ego, the common insane american superiority complex and need to be the best, but you can´t find any of that here. it´s a bland and banal film that says very little about the monstrosity of men.

[starheirxero]

imagine sending a robot to a torture room

and the torture is the captcha test

HELEPEPAHSOQJS

you check on them hours later and they're just pitifully crying at the images on screen like "please i've already chosen all the stoplights and motorcycles in these images why are you still not letting me pass."

[scopostims]

stimboard based off the animated parts of the "boogie man" mv by lucy :•]

[ID from alt: A 3x3 stimboard of 9 GIFs.

GIF 1: A shadow of a hand with long fingers moving a rapidly spinning grandfather clock.

GIF 2: An animation of alternating white and red stairs forming, then quickly turning into a spiral.

GIF 3: A looping animation of moving backwards through rapidly closing doors.

GIF 4: A paper craft of a blindfolded person pulling their ribcage open, where many eyes open in side the chest cavity.

GIF 5 (center): An animated person falling into a spiral of wardrobes, before into a chair, staring on as two wardrobes open to ghouls playing a guitar and drums.

GIF 6: A paper craft of eyes looking around from a hole in a door, its hands holding onto the edge of the hole.

GIF 7: An animation of the back of a person's head as many white lights move past them.

GIF 8: An animation of an eye crying blood into someone's open palm.

GIF 9: A papercraft being moved around that looks like a TV with a hallway on the screen, and a person at the end. As it moves, it looks like you're looking around the hallway.

End ID]

[cementcornfield]

if i HAD to put a timeline on it, i'd guess the contract gets done after all the preseason games? so he would have no pressure to participate in those at all (or the joint practices) and then he'd have around 2 weeks to prepare for game 1?

[sea-jello]

wouldn’t it be fun if the squip not only optic blocked michael but also made jeremy completely forget about him

[blackgoliath]

also i feel like probably 80% of the anons to jewish-vent crying about how they were soooo oppressed for being zionist are made up lmao zionists love making shit up to add to their victimhood narrative

[whydoifeelthisquiet]

Morality OCD sucks

[wraithsoutlaws]

feeling insane bc i was actually considering making 'no coincidence' karla in game fdsklafjkalfjkafa

[muirneach]

MUTUALS LETS GET OUR GLASSES AT NEIL YOUNG OPTICAL??????

[bpod-bpod]

Reining-in Flaviviruses

Flaviviruses have existed for thousands of years and still hit the headlines, most recently with Zika virus. They can fatally infect the human brain. Your body defends against them by making the protein interferon type I (IFN-I). How IFN-I affects the ability of flaviviruses to infect different cells (tropism), which determines the infection's spread, isn't clear. Researchers investigate by infecting the brains of normal mice and mice genetically altered so they're unresponsive to IFN-I, with the flavivirus, Langat virus. Combining optical projection tomography (OPT) with MRI revealed virus distribution in the brain (pictured). In normal mice (two views left), the virus only infected grey matter in sensory brain areas. In mutants (right), it spread further, infecting white matter. The team revealed the spread into white matter-targeted cells called microglia. Normal mice brains had more IFN-I activity, which protected microglia, uncovering IFN-I's role in viral tropism.

Written by Lux Fatimathas

Image from work by Nunya Chotiwan, Ebba Rosendal and Stefanie M. A. Willekens, and colleagues

Department of Clinical Microbiology, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden

Image originally published with a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

Published in Nature Communications, April 2023

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