#eclectricity

[peachyfnaf]

waving. hellooo tsams (and even general dca) community!!! i have found an art thief on pinterest, and would greatly appreciate some help getting their stuff taken down :)

this is the link to said art thief's profile

and here is a screenshot of just a small amount of stolen art that i could find by scrolling down through their profile. there's a lot of popular artists in there- huh? much more than just my art has been stolen by this person. (and obviously, none of what is shown is mine. or about 98% of it is- there might be 1 or 2 of my drawings in here lmao)

so, now that we know about this- how do we fix it? how do we get this person's blog taken down? here's some step-by-step instructions of what to do!

click this button right here

select "report" (there's also a "block" option, which is up to you whether or not to use after you report)

select whichever one applies to you!! for the second one, you gotta *find* the art piece they stole from you, copy its link from the pinterest post, and then go through a rather annoying process to get it taken down, but it'll be worth it to get rid of this person. but, if you really don't wanna go through all that though (which is completely fair, its annoying as hell) then just mark "spam" instead. You're not lying about that, either

and that should be it!! remember to always plaster your signature all over your art, fellow artists. thank you for the help dca gang, now toodles :)

[frabecks]

Exterior - Transitional Exterior Ideas for a sizable exterior remodel of a one-story, transitional gray home with mixed siding and a shingle roof.

[saeori]

Porch Backyard a sizable image of a transitional screened-in back porch with decking and an addition to the roof

[cyberramble]

This might sound stupid but I associate Chonny Jash's 'The Mind Electric' cover with the ship GEXHels (Grian x EvilXisuma x HelsKnight) so hear me out;

• The Heart Acoustic - HelsKnight

• The Mind Electric - EvilXisuma/Exodus (as that's what I call them)

• The Soul Eclectric - Grian

[irrfahrer]

It’d been months, but Ben still remembered how to bypass whatever it was Ziv thought passed for security in under two minutes. 

He strode into her medicine shaman’s hovel, tossed a small sack on the center table. 

“Miss me? Brought you something.” 

Herbs he’d found on his journey. Then he took up on one of her cushions like a great Tooka and sank down. 

“It’s dark out there,” he said of the galaxy. “I missed you,” he admitted. “Don’t kriffing laugh, though. I’m being more honest now than I’ve ever been.”

Ben made finger guns at Ziv and blaster sounds through his lips. 

“Laugh and I’ll shoot you in the foot.” 

The roots to Bens boots scuttled away from him soundless like a pack of whistled back poisonous snakes. Of course, Ziv had no mechanical Security beside a lock on the door of the old stranded freighter, for her actual security were the grassblades around the whol glade connected with the fungal network of the whole planet. Of course, Ziv had no mechanical Security beside the password on the durasteeldoor of the freighter, that was easily to find out as it where simply the numbers “1 1 1 1 1”, for her actual security were the thorny roots slithering semi-sentient over the floor of the cargoroom she had repurposed as a room to live in. Of course, Ziv had no mechanical security beside the freighters durasteel door when she could make those thorny roots crush a intruder with a single thought the second they stepped close enough to her home. Accordingly the Tynnan was not in the slightest suprised when Ben waltzed in, considering the fungal network had whispered to her through small eclectric impulses since his ship had landed on the planet and instead she only grinned mildly, flicking her ear in his direction like a humanoid would wink: “Awww, you missed me? That I could almost kriffing believe, if there would not be the fact that you haven´t been here in kriffing months, so the ’ missing me’ could not have lay that hard on your kriffing sweet mind, eh?” There was no malice in the Tynnans voice and the leafs growing on the ranks covering the floor, ceiling and walls trembled quietly as if they belonged to a body that was shaking from a amused chuckle. The freighter she had found was old and in the last centuries before Ziv had moved in it it had been half overgrown by the roots of an tree, chaining it to the ground of the forest. Accordingly the rusty freighters scuttles were covered by layers of moss and treeroots, wrapping the inside in a deep black veil.

“Last time I checked it was nighttime, so of course its kriffing dark outside. You want me to make you a nightlight?” With a sharp claw the young woman pointed to the fruits hanging from the ranks ont he ceiling that glowed flickering like candles, dyeing the small room in a orange, warm hue: “ I could grow you one, but honestly, when I remember  the state of your kriffing ship, I am not sure that my poor, little plant would not die one week in your kriffing care, Ben.” She stepped away from the kitchencounter where she had been working before and walked over to Ben, taking in deep sniffs from the air around him to worried figure out his mood, his health, if he had been sleeping well and how he was feling through the pheromones in his scent. She was worried. Genuinely worried. Worried for him. Worried over what had made him visit her: “I missed you too, though, thanks for kriffing asking. Welcome back, Benny-cub. Please do not kriffing shoot me or I will bite and we both know that your fingers will not be part of your body anymore if I kriffing bite and I think you want to keep your kriffing fingers.”

Fluttering her frostwhite lashes Ziv sat down next to the other on the pillow, purring sweetly: “So tell me, when I have you already in a kriffing honest mood for once, what was so kriffing creepy in the dark outside that you came running back to my little home? Did a little spider made you kriffing cry?”

[ @kylo-wrecked ]

[bakurapika]

oh yes another garage sale tag sale adventure from today, when i bought the album

was browsing things and this girl (who i learned by overhearing arguments with her mom and brother is 18) told her mom (i think) that she was high right now. and i kinda snorted and she looked over at me and went "OH SORRY!!" like that was a customer service faux pas lmaoo

and i was like , it's ok, i just moved here from colorado. so like yknow. and she laughed

they also brought out some vinyl that she and her brother didn't know had been donated by grandma to the tag sale and began squabbling (fun sibling fight way, not annoying way) over who will get dibs. when they were elsewhere i asked the mom if i could look thru. the 18yo looked over and im like IT'S OK I WILL ASK YOU FIRST... i found one (blues brothers soundtrack) and she gave me the go-ahead to purchase it lol . and i was able to confirm today that my goodwill record player works ! despite leaving the record in the hot car with my sims game and thinking it'd be fine bc computers get hot so cds are durable. and then later remembering that oh shit that is not fine for vinyl. but it seems ok

anyway, different sale, but i was just bragging to my discord friends AND my mother (so in other words, everyone i know) that i looked up the $12 stand mixer i got, and it retails for $200 - $300 https://www.walmart.com/ip/Hamilton-Beach-Eclectrics-4-5-Quart-Kitchen-Stand-Mixer-Model-63227/8111077 so THAT is pretty neato! :)))

now i just ... need an oven that doesn't give me a headache to turn on that my mom thinks is in my head but that i am p sure is due to the gas it uses

[sciencenewsforstudents]

It’s frog dissection day in biology class in the new film The Addams Family. Wednesday Addams thinks she knows what to do. First, she leaps on the table. Then, raising her hands to the sky, she shouts, “Give my creature life!” A device that pulses with electricity now shocks a dead frog waiting to be cut open by the kids’ scalpels. The electricity then bounces from one frog to another. Suddenly, frogs are hopping everywhere — a bit groggy at first, but apparently as alive as ever.

This wild scene isn’t one you’ll be able to recreate on dissection day in your own science class. Electricity can’t jolt the dead back to life. Still, this scene has a lot in common with experiments that happened hundreds of years ago. Back then, scientists were learning how electricity kicks muscles into motion.

Today’s researchers know that electricity can do a lot of amazing things — including help shape the body in the first place.

Muscle powerhouse

Skeletal muscles help animals move and breathe. These muscles move because of tension in their fibers. This is called “contraction.” Muscle contractions are triggered by signals that start in the brain. The electrical signals travel down the spinal cord and to the nerves that reach into muscle.

But electric impulses also can come from outside the body. “If you’ve ever shocked yourself on something, your muscles contracted,” explains Melissa Bates. A physiologist at the University of Iowa in Iowa City, she studies how bodies work. Bates focuses on the diaphragm. That’s a muscle that helps mammals breathe.

Shocking a dead frog might make its muscles twitch and get its legs to wiggle. Still, this animal couldn’t hop away, Bates points out. That’s because leg muscles can’t make their own electrical signals.

As soon as a frog hopped away from the source of electricity, the game would be up, she says. “It would fall down and be limp and not able to move.” (This applies to the muscles in a hand, too. And that has left Bates wondering how Thing — a hand without a body — can move at all.)

There are some muscles in the body that can power themselves. Involuntary muscles, such as the heart and muscles that move food through the intestines, supply their own electric impulses. In an animal that has recently died, these muscles continue to function for a while. They can keep contracting for minutes to upwards of an hour, Bates says. But that won’t help the frog make a getaway.

It is possible to use electricity to revive people when they are having a heart attack. For this, people use machines called defibrillators (De-FIB-rill-ay-tors). This isn’t reanimating the dead, though. Defibrillators only work “in something that appears lifeless but still has some of its own electrical potential to reboot that system,” Bates explains. Electricity helps get heartbeats back to a regular rhythm. But this won’t work if the heart has stopped beating entirely (which happens when it has lost its ability to make electrical impulses).

The frogs from biology lab have probably been dead for quite a while and preserved with chemicals. They couldn’t be revived with a defibrillator because they wouldn’t have any heart electrical activity left to jump start.

Twitch, twitch

Wednesday Addams’ froggy antics, while impossible, call to mind experiments that scientists did in the late 1700s. “That was the first hint that electricity is an important part of our body,” says Bates. Back then, people were just starting to see what electricity could do. Some shocked dead animals to figure out how electricity made muscles move.  

The most famous of these experimenters was Luigi Galvani. He worked as a doctor and physicist in Italy.

Galvani mostly worked with dead frogs, or rather their bottom halves. He would slice open the frog to reveal the nerves that ran from the spinal cord to a leg. Then, to study how a frog’s muscles respond to electricity, Galvani would wire up the frog’s leg under different conditions.

Italian scientist Luigi Galvani studied electricity in the body by wiring up frogs’ leg muscles in different ways. This image illustrates his experiments connecting nerves to leg muscles, which then contracted. CREDIT: Wellcome Collection (CC BY 4.0)

By this time, scientists already knew that an electric shock would make muscles twitch. But Galvani had questions about how and why that happened. For example, he wondered if lightning would do the same thing as the electricity made by his machine. So he hooked up one animal to a wire that snaked outside to a thunderstorm. He then watched those frog legs dance when they were jolted by lightning — just as they did with his machine’s electricity.

Galvani also noticed that when a wire connected a leg muscle to a nerve, the muscle contracted. This led him to hypothesize an “animal electricity” inside creatures. Galvani’s research inspired many scientists and created a new field of study that investigated electricity in the body.

Such work also inspired fiction. “There is an imagination that followed Galvani’s experiments,” says Marco Piccolino at the University of Ferrara. He’s neurologist, a scientist who studies the body’s nervous system. Piccolino, based out of Pisa, Italy, is also a science historian. Galvani’s experiments and those of the scientists that followed him helped inspire Mary Shelley’s novel Frankenstein, Piccolino says. In her classic book, a fictional scientist gives life to a human-like creature.

Sparking life

Nobody has figured out yet how to use electricity to make the dead come back to life. But some researchers have figured out how to hack cells’ electric signals to change how animals develop.

Michael Levin works at Tufts University in Boston, Mass, and at the Wyss Institute of Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass. As a developmental biophysicist, he studies the physics of how bodies develop.

“All of the tissue in your body is communicating electrically,” he notes. By eavesdropping on those conversations, scientists can crack the cells’ code. They also can play back the electrical messages in other ways to alter the body’s development, he says.

Messing with electric signals can change how animals develop. By changing the electric state of cells, researchers have made this tadpole grow an eye in its gut. CREDIT: M. Levin and Sherry Aw

Cells in the body have an electric potential (a difference in charge) across their membranes. This potential comes from how charged ions are arranged inside and outside of cells. Researchers can mess with this using chemicals that change where the ions can go.

Manipulating these signals has allowed Levin’s team to tell a frog tadpole to grow an eye in its gut. They also have gotten brain tissue to grow elsewhere in a frog’s body. They’ve even been able to tell nerves how to connect to a newly attached eye.

Everyone thinks genes determine how an animal develops. But “that's only half the story,” Levin says.

Bioelectricity could hold the power to fix birth defects, regrow organs or reprogram cancerous cells. Levin and his colleagues have already fixed birth defects in tadpoles. And they picture a day when electricity could be used similarly in medicine.

This is far from Wednesday Addams and her reanimated frogs — but so much better.

[ho-escooter]

D50 Sharing and civilian version electric scooter. 500W with 14 inch tire

[eclectic-halloween-witch]

Just a bunch of Hocus Pocus...

[baguettewriter]

For both of them! When and how do they get lethargic?

Thank you for asking! It’s much appreciated. 

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For Elizabeth/Liz, she only gets lethargic when she is feeling hungry or sitting for too long. She is constantly moving. Even if it’s something small like tapping her nails or her foot. If she is standing, she will be moving around. 

Meanwhile, Gina gets lethargic if she gets cold. She’s not used to the cold. She is always growing up around warm environments. Plus, at night, she puts her AC at a low temperature, 

[nbeenary]

op your url is galaxy brain

hehe, thank you!

[inveracities]

hate to be the bearer of bad news but masculinity peaked as a vibe when thor odinson lost an eye and learned to do lightning at will

[wildernessphotos]

Climate explained: could electric car batteries feed power back into the grid?

Climate explained: could electric car batteries feed power back into the grid?

petrmalinak/shutterstock

Alan Brent, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington

CC BY-ND

Climate Explained is a collaboration between The Conversation, Stuff and the New Zealand Science Media Centre to answer your questions about climate change.

If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, please send it to climate.change@stuff.co.nz

Why can’t I use the…

[creativeaxle]

Shredder Patches #abstract #digitalpainting Art Print by #creativeaxle at @society6 #digitalpainting #watercolor #brushstrokes #homedecor #wallart #homedecor #boho #eclectric Mockup source by #anthonyboydgraphics https://society6.com/product/shredder-patches-abstract-digitalpainting_print?curator=creativeaxle https://www.instagram.com/p/B9vcMnlHkY2/?igshid=1a6vyg30lrbv7

[chaosvice]

16 - cd collection

❛[   ☣ THE AGENT ≻ INQUIRES: A peak on what’s inside their... // ACCEPTING

.... cd collection

    A lot of the CDs Chaos has are from when he was younger, before he moved to things like ipods or more recently just a phone with Spotify. These were also before he really started to travel beyond the lab that was / is his home, so a lot of them are ones he discovered via the staff there and most of which are Russian-- - though not exclusively, of course. However, he’s always had a leaning towards electronic / dance or rock based music, which can surprise some. A small selection of some cds you may find are;

CoH - Enter Tinnitus

Mental Home - Black Art

Rakoth - Tales of the Worlds Unreal

Powerman 5000 - Tonight the Stars Revolt!

Svoy - Eclectric

Rammstein - Sehnsucht

Корни – На века

[jamesusilljournal]

eclectric, @slvrdsk, 2021