#it's like straight dopamine

[rabid-reads]

am...i about to binge read 20+ books of purring blue alien smut?

[danandfuckingjonlmao]

people always talk about edwin being an older ghost, and he technically is, but he doesn’t have any more experience being a ghost than charles. he was in hell from the moment he died to the night he met charles. he died at 16 and then did not get a chance to go through any growth or learn anything in hell other than torture—he lost those 70+ years. functionally, neither of their afterlives start until they meet, and they have to (get to) learn how to be ghosts and how to exist in this form on earth together every step of the way. anyway, what are you procrastinating right now? i’m procrastinating an essay that was due 4 days ago AND an essay that’s due tomorrow 🤠

[ogachukwu-the-freak]

Enjoying batfam content and being hit with anti sentiments on the mainstream then immediately checking out the batcest tags even though I'm barely more than a casual shipper like I'm detoxing after coming into contact with a radioactive substance

[dumbbullet]

Aqua Regia is a mixture of nitric acid and hydrochloric acid, named by alchemists because it can dissolve the noble metals gold and platinum.

idk if anyone else bought the Yolk vinyl for TMBTE but they apparently upgraded it to solid gold and it gave me Thoughts.

[vampiremourning]

anyway as soon as i pry myself off this couch im gonna share some screenshots of bg3 protags on my sideblog. just gotta like. reach the desk first.

[k-phoenix]

hello! i would love to hear the rant about PET scans :3

Holy shit so okay I'm in the train for the next 20 minutes, and I _know_ that's not enough time to get into all of it, but I could rant about this for hours, so. Maybe we cap this at 20 minutes. [20 minutes later] Okay so I wrote a huge wall of very boring text that barely started getting into it, so let me provide way less detail, actually:

It is massively expensive. A PET scanner costs a lot. And it's not a one time purchase, and then you can do scans, no, you wish. You also need some very expensive equipment to create radioactive tracers (which are what is used to do a PET scan) on site, because that stuff needs to be created fresh (under an hour) before every scan. To create the tracers is ALSO incredibly expensive. A single PET scan costs multiple thousands.

This also means that PET research makes use of as few participants as possible. A study with 15 participants is considered big. You simply cannot infer from 15 participants to the whole population. This also means that, statistically, it is highly likely that you don't find an effect even though it exists - meaning if your PET study looks for the effect of A on B, it is highly likely that it will find that A has no effect on B even though it does - simply because you didn't have enough participants (if this explanation doesn't make sense, let me know, and I can explain in detail)

This, together means, that an absolutely absurd amount of money is used for research that, by design, will not find results, because to find results, they would need more participants and even more money.

Because scientific publishing is a shitshow at the moment, research that doesn't find results very rarely gets published, especially not if you can't even be sure whether the result is right. So absurd amounts of money put into research that doesn't even get published.

And I haven't even talked about the results they did find and issues with them. Don't ask me to explain those. Don't tempt me to put hours into writing a multiple page essay that nobody will read.

So, in conclusion: PET is an absolutely amazing feat of engineering that is magnificent in detecting cancer and with it we could learn so. Much. More about the brain and how it works. But to do that, a lot of the basic organisation of how we do science would first need to change. Many labs would have to collaborate and be okay with making the collected data openly available, so appropriate sample sizes (=numbers of participants in a study) can even be achieved (Here's a paper on that). That probably won't happen, though.

Now, obligatory note: one of the professors who taught me about PET is a man who wrote an extremely controversial paper about exactly this stuff, despite also using PET in his research. If you like niche drama in science, look into this paper and all the articles that are responding to it.

[volivolition]

Is the Wip game finished? Can I still ask for stuff? If I still can, can I get a snippet from the one that give me the most rot (meet the parts)? If no, then I'm just swinging by to say hi how are you doing? <3

HI RED!! thank you for swinging by, im doing better than earlier!! my ear is getting better and im eating pizza :]!

okay so TECHNICALLY it's no longer wednesday, but i LOVE spoiling my fics so of COURSE you can have a snippet from Meet the Parts hkjh <33 you are always free to ask anytime, i will always be happy to share bits of my stories <3 AND SINCE THERE'S NO RULES I CAN SHARE MORE THAN THREE LINES!! here's like, a whole React Speed thing i just wrote :]

LOGIC – Along with Coach and Sparks – Flighty and Fingers too, I suppose – they're why you have trouble sitting still for long periods of time. The attention deficiency disorder... Or are they exacerbated by it? I still haven't figured out which is the cause and which is the effect...

REACTION SPEED – Point is, we got zoomies! Can't sit still. Always more to do, more to see, more to say.

YOU – "Are you why my leg is always-"

REACTION SPEED – Bouncing, yep! Fingers tapping, hands flapping, feet moving, words flying- hey, if you had wings like me, we'd never be touching ground.

YOU – "You have wings?"

KIM KITSURAGI – He jots this down with an interested hum.

REACTION SPEED – Yes! Books, what- which animal–

ENCYCLOPEDIA [Medium: Success] – You have the hovering wing type of trochilidae – hummingbirds, colloquially – with their ability to rotate their wingspan at the shoulder and elbow joints to create maximum lift. However, though you exhibit some iridescent feathers associated with the birds, your wings also connect to membranes, which share the Voronoi tessellation of the species anisoptera, the common dragonfly.

REACTION SPEED - Yeah, exactly! I'm a hummingbird and a dragonfly. Both of 'em. :)

[likedbyuarmyhope]

i’m going back to 2019 y’all want anything

[teammightypen]

asking for prayers tonight for some car troubles i had today. going to have it towed tomorrow morning. changing my whole day’s schedule around this problem. need car for work on tuesday and job interview in city 2 hours away on wednesday. on top of stress over schoolwork and said job interview and other obligations. cried on and off for like two hours today because hormones also suck this week. i know it’s all gonna work out in not very long at all but i also know that some very real action steps lie between now and then. please pray for me to stay grounded, to trust in Him, and to still be able to get all of my other things done in time

[youwillfindilluminating]

okay okay yeah the internet is almost too obsessed with pedro pascal and yet... uhh... when he said, “it’s okay baby girl, I got you,” I did, in fact, lose my mind

[gr1an]

i miss the cherry mountain group

(has gone 24 hours without consuming content about them bc they watched all the POVs in one day)

[imaginmatrix]

Waiting for comments on fics is sometimes nerve wracking because you don’t know whether they hated it or you just happened to post at a time when 60% of your readerbase is asleep and there’s no real way to tell

[celepeace]

Sometimes I'm surprised that monster hunter isn't more popular among the creature design and spec evo corners of tumblr, at least the portions that also play video games, and then I remember that it's just about as hard as soulsborne games (I'd argue some specific entries are even harder) but doesn't have any of the atmospheric or story elements to attract people. It gets by on sheer gameplay alone and isn't a pvp game either. There is no way to make the game easier besides picking one of the less mechanically complex weapons and git gud. If it wasn't for the neat dinosaurs I couldn't think of a game less alluring to the average tumblr user

[badolmen]

Going insane over the accidental parallels in the traffic life series tonight.

3rd Life Desert Duo and Double Life Soulmates

Last Life team BEST and Limited Life team TIES

Double Life Relationship and Limited Life Submarine

3rd Life Widows Alliance and Double Life Divorcees (and Limited Life Secret Alliance)

Limited Life Bdubs and Scar Clocker Brothers and 3rd Life Bdubs kills for Scar because of a clock

Double Life Box Boys/Scarlet Pearl Tower and Limited Life Froggy Mountain/Toad Tower

And that’s just the alliances and teams and stuff the call backs during sessions to the previous series? The Cleo+Etho+Impulse totally not jealous of Bdubs partner that series (Of course he’ll [Etho] abandon you; Bdubs is on the other team. Is he [Impulse] treating you right Bdubs?). Shadow Queen and Red Winter King. End crystals are a good way to blow yourself up + return to the Nether roof. The fishing rods. Oh is Froggy Pearl’s familiar this season? Better not kill it - you remember what happened with Tilly. Arson Cleo (+Scar). The Pufferish of Peace and the Mean Gills weapon of choice being a pufferfish. Jimmy is always the first one out [Limited Life pending]. Tango and his fear of TnT minecarts.

Some of its silly jokes and some of its drama kid stuff but at the end of the day every new series is echoing the friendships and betrayals that came before, intentionally or not. It’s poetry to me.

[mihari]

God please someone invent a cure for seasonal depression or whatever the fuck it is I'm feeling. I'm so sick of feeling nothing and just sitting here every day and staring into space.