#smart drugs

[loudlylovingreview]

Aina Marzia: “Parable of the Sower” Is Now, Says Gen Z

Imminent drought, rising sea waters, destructive borders, a vanishing middle class, “smart drugs,” Big Pharma, privatized public schools and cities, and a governing body with the slogan “Make America Great Again.” These are all themes from Octavia Butler’s postapocalyptic novel Parable of the Sower.  Published in 1993 and set in 2024—the protagonist’s first journal entry is July 20, 2024—the…

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Nootrópicos: o que são e quais os benefícios das “smart drugs” ?

Apesar do nome estranho, os nootrópicos são a nova tendência da alimentação e suplementação devido aos benefícios que trazem à atividade cerebral. Também conhecidos como “Drogas inteligentes – Smart Drugs”, são substâncias naturais ou sintéticas que prometem melhorar a performance cognitiva, aumentando o foco, atenção, memória e os níveis de energia. O nutricionista clínico e esportivo e…

[newsbites]

News from Australia, 14 June

A group of Australian nuclear survivors and relatives are calling on Prime Minister Anthony Albanese to sign the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons.

Survivors shared their experiences of the British nuclear testing program in Western Australia and South Australia, which began in 1953. Karina Lester, daughter of a survivor, highlighted the lasting scars of nuclear weapons on the earth and on people. Survivors and advocates hope that signing the treaty will address the damage suffered by individuals and communities affected by nuclear weapons testing.

2. The Yoorrook Justice Commission in the state of Victoria, Australia, extended an invitation to non-Indigenous people to make observations about past or ongoing injustice experienced by Indigenous Australians.

Submissions were previously only open to Indigenous Victorians. The commission heard evidence from First Peoples, the government and other organizations and is scheduled to run until June 2025, making recommendations to the government. The invitation to make referrals is part of the truth-telling process, which is seen as an important part of the healing process.

3. Independent senator David Pocock has criticized fearmongering about the Indigenous voice proposal and expressed concerns about misinformation.

The debate on the Indigenous voice continues in parliament, with a final vote expected next week and a referendum scheduled between October and December.

4. Researchers at the University of Melbourne found that consuming so-called "smart drugs" to improve mental performance may lead to poorer performance on complex tasks.

Drugs like Ritalin and Modafinil are often used by people without conditions like ADHD who believe they boost cognition. Researchers gave 40 healthy participants one of three drugs or a placebo and asked them to tackle a complex task that mimicked real-life problems. Those given the drugs spent significantly more time on the task and tried more combinations, but all the extra effort didn't translate into better performance.

[pocketramblr]

It was genius of btaa to say "Bruce gives himself nightmares on purpose via microdosing on fear toxin, so that he can come up with contingencies and strategies to avoid outcomes he wouldn't have thought of otherwise", and it was even more genius of btaa to simply not have Dick appear for the rest of the season with no explanation, implying that Bruce benched him off-screen to avoid risking his actual death. Which I'm sure the thirteen-year-old accepted totally gracefully

[kiddokori]

baru cormorant is an incredible book series

[spaceandbones]

Guys help me out for the sake of a bangin university au what would chrollo's major be

[scoobydoodean]

Dean's plan to defeat Doc Benton | 3.15 Time Is On My Side

[creativitycache]

Alright apparently I’m now outnumbered in my small office for not carrying anything defensive like pepper spray, a taser, or a metal baton every day.

[ngc-5194]

man i love fandom. where else can i go to see so many people all uncritically agree with the stupidest takes imaginable just because they're widespread

[mulders-too-large-shirt]

my favorite scully moments from s2

after the x-files are shut down, she gets moved to teach at the academy, and in episode 1 she does a little monologue on how a person’s body is a physical manifestation of a lifetime, which one of the students describes as “spooky”

when mulder sneaks off to puerto rico in the same episode, she goes into his place to try and figure where tf he went, and prevents his sneaking about being caught by the investigators who broke into his home with the power of feeding his fish

lecturing about the dangers of eating raw steak in episode 2, then getting lost down a rabbit hole of worm science

when no one was answering the door in episode 3, she just walks in. this made me laugh hysterically, i cannot explain. both of these guys WILL enter your home.

every single time she is a bit of a medical nerd, like when she learns about the surgery that allowed people to survive without sleep in episode 4, which she describes as “incredible”

(and the freckles + flower earrings combo were also a fave)

when she scans the piece of metal that came from duane barry in a grocery store in episode 6, and the cash register goes crazy. and she denies involvement and just walks away LMAOOO <- honestly i'd do the same!!

she wakes up from her coma in episode 8 and wants to write a thank you note to the nurse that took such good care of her, only to learn no such nurse ever existed. scully got to witness the paranormal for once!!!!

in episode 9, someone brings up a volcano scientist in conversation, and she says she had heard he was brilliant, which means that somehow she is keeping up with volcano news. she is a woman of many layers.

being deeply worried about this scared looking grad student she just met, and once again not waiting for an answer to enter her room and figure out if she is okay

(and when said grad student is being consumed by a fungus, scully thinks quickly enough to get herself locked behind a door, keeping herself safe, despite being handcuffed and otherwise looking death by fungus in the face)

in episode 11, mulder walks into his office, only to learn she has been there and has been going through his stuff since 6 in the morning. queen of getting results!

in the same episode, an old man overdoses on mushroom pills, and she shifts into Doctor Mode, yelling about “ventricular fibrillation” and “milligrams of lidocaine” and it was, like every other time she goes Doctor Mode, so deeply satisfying to watch

when she meets the two cops in episode 12, and can immediately tell they are having an affair and that the detective is pregnant, and despite the detective pleading with her not to tell a soul, the absolute MILLISECOND she is reunited with mulder, she spills the tea. and he is SHOCKED! <- arguably my favorite moment in the entire series so far

(and, to make the woman feel more comfortable, she confesses to also having had feelings for coworkers before which. elaborate on that, please)

but she really does care; when the detective ends up in the hospital, scully brings her a change of clothing <3

when she is so shaken by what she sees in episode 13 that she goes to the FBI’s onsite therapist; she’s too scared to tell mulder how she feels because “i don’t want him to feel like he has to protect me”

(as if there was ever going to be a choice; he is the protector and he Will protect, it's just his nature)

((and then later sobbing into his arms, realizing she doesn’t have to always put on a front))

toads start falling from the sky in episode 14, so she rationalizes that they likely came from a nearby tornado. this is a scully-approved theory.

they’re investigating a murder in the same episode, and a teenager starts pouring her absolutely horrific trauma out to both of them, scully holds her while she sobs into her jacket

honestly any time either of them know weird information, i love it. she says that it would take hours for a snake to eat a man and then weeks for it to digest in episode 14, and mulder makes some funny remark but it’s sooo endearing to me. she knows her snake facts.

then in episode 15, she notes poison in someone’s blood, but specifically that the poison comes from pufferfish eaten in Japan… girl i’m crying, she just knows stuff!

during that same case, they get rooms near each other like always, and she knocks on a door thinking it’s mulder’s. he doesn’t answer. she walks in and hears water running, so she just talks to him through the door to the bathroom. and i love this so much. i love that they are close enough to just walk into each other’s rooms and talk from behind the door while the other showers. it’s such married behavior.

working on the case in episode 16, we see her at home wearing a flannel, checking her computer, still serving looks but now giving casual

(and seeing the art she keeps on her walls- little postcards of beach scenes <3)

in the same episode, she knows mulder left to go get himself in trouble, so she bursts into skinner’s office to ask for help. but she feels bad for barging in on skinner, so she apologizes to him. which was very sweet.

when mulder is gone, she goes to his apartment to look for clues, and falls asleep on his couch

(and when X knocks on the door, she knows he is hiding something, and screams at him to tell her where he is)

this whole monologue from episode 17, which i loved more than life itself:

“several aspects of this case remain unexplained, suggesting the possibility of paranormal phenomena. but i am convinced that to accept such conclusions is to abandon all hope of understanding the scientific events behind them. many of the things i have seen have challenged my faith and my belief in an ordered universe, but this uncertainty has only strengthened my need to know, to understand, and to apply reason, to those things which seem to defy it”

(and that is just Her, isn't it? the need to understand, to rationalize. the worldview shaped on science- if she doesn't understand something, it's because a key piece is missing, and she'll find it. because the world Has to work that way, has to be bound by a greater logic, even if it is yet to be understood. to imagine otherwise would be impossible, to imagine otherwise would be to abandon hope in everything, and she cannot abandon hope)

((and maybe the idea that the world being something she cannot perfectly comprehend is a failing of her own understanding makes me a little emotional. but still))

she says that the whole loaves and fishes deal was a parable in episode 21; she is not a biblical literalist

(she then makes some sassy remark about things generating spontaneously, and mulder laughs in the corner. good to know he thinks she is funny)

every single time she answers the phone, she says “mulder, it’s me”, and idk i just think it’s so endearing

she thinks she might have been infected with a killer disease in episode 22, but mulder calls, so she tells him she’s okay and to take care of himself out there.... those are the last words she chooses, just in case they never talk again </3

and every time she says unsettling things, like “could be the residue of burnt human flesh” or “darkness covers a multitude of sins”, both in episode 23, i eat that up

reassuring her student who has just become a detective that she is doing just fine!!!

and then going to said student's funeral when things do not turn out fine... she loves her students that she taught for like 3 months so much :(

getting pulled aside by skinner and her bosses after mulder just acted wild in episode 25, and denying that she had seen any top secret files even though they say they will fire her if she lies lmaooo <- she is a ride or die!!!

but also going to his place, demanding assurance that she is doing the right thing by assisting him, and i love that. i love a character who will break all of the rules as long as they believe they are doing the thing that is morally Right, and that definition is so deeply her own, but she is committed to it, and she'll do anything to stick by it. and he just says something about getting the code that he wants broken, and despite how awful he's being, she goes through with it anyway because it's the Right thing to do.

later, her being the one to realize that mulder should not leave the house after his father was killed because he will be the prime suspect (he does not listen to this sound advice)

he stumbles into her place with a million degree fever, and she carefully lays him down in her own bed, despite the fact that he is soaked in his dead father's blood. and she takes care of him.

this one honestly deserves its own post because it is so incredible, but: shooting mulder with enough precision to get him to knock off his wild behavior that was going to make him look like he killed his dad, but not actually HURT him, then finding out krychek was putting LSD in his water, knocking him out, and driving 2 days to New Mexico to get him where he needed to be. AFTER he had been acting wild because he was inadvertently drugged, and had accused her of spying on him and being a traitor. that level of love is deep. very very deep. she is a Lover.

[theunvanquishedzims]

Targeting Emmitt Otterton was genius, actually

We know him as a florist and a family man, and most people get distracted by the naturist club, but Emmitt works for the mob. Specifically, he's the florist for the biggest wedding in Tundratown and Little Rodentia, the crime lord Mr. Big's daughter.

If you haven't seen the bonus shorts that were released after the movie, there's an episode framed as a reality tv episode following Fru-Fru as she plans her wedding. At the end there's a throwaway line about the wedding flowers being Midnicampum holicithias, followed by a smash cut of the bride and guests going savage.

These seemed to be a trendy new flower in Zootopia, new enough that people wouldn't recognize the bulbs or know the terrible effects they can have on people. You know who did know? Otterton. He was on his way to consult with Mr. Big, where he would explain how the flowers got their nickname "night howlers" and discourage Fru-Fru from using them in her wedding, or else follow safe handling procedures.

He wasn't a random attack. He was deliberately targeted to prevent him from telling Mr. Big, paving the way for the Big family and all their guests (and likely polar bear bodyguards) to go savage, opening a power vacuum in Tundratown and Zootopia's crime scene, as well as shaking the faith people had in their leaders. Another short followed Mr. Big as he rose to power by looking out for the polar bears and establishing Little Rodentia. He was a beloved community man, he and his sweet young daughter going savage would be a shocking event that would make animals large and small feel unsafe around predators.

I like how the movie climax happened, an intimate moment of trust and betrayal between Judy and the establishment, and between Judy and Nick. But I also like how clearly they were setting up for the big confrontation to be Gazelle's backup dancers being targeted so they would attack her onstage. And the original Zistopian concept was dark fun, but there's still plenty of danger and intrigue in the final version to play with.

[sheree-says-stuff]

if you're under the age of 18, please stay away from substances and sex.

i know it's normalized, i know people will pressure you to do all sorts of things, and i know it feels like you have to do it all to prove something. but for the love of God please don't. i really don't mean to pull the "you're too young to understand card" bc i'm not much older than you at all, but your brain isn't experienced enough to rationalize consequences of substances and intimacy, especially if you're not educated on it.

you can put yourself in some seriously dangerous situations this way. it's not worth it. once you're an adult and you've educated yourself, you can do anything you want. just be safe. you're not an exception-- you too can accidentally get pregnant or get an incurable STD or drunk drive or green out.

again, i know all of it sounds fun, but people around you can and will be stupid and disregard your safety. so take care of yourself and focus on things that make YOU happy. focus on new hobbies and skills and build on those. learn something new. trust me, you're infinitely cooler if you have a hobby and stay out of trouble.

you're not an exception, so don't be a statistic. stay safe.

[spaciebabie]

gifted kid burnout except i was never gifted they call me mister normal mister normal kid burnout

[thenocarts]

Re-ani headcanons because I haven't been able to draw these freaks in a while and I NEED to do something

Herbert berbert

•He HATES board games because he sucks so bad at them, nobody ever wanted to play with him and he refuses to let anyone explain the rules to him now

•His diet before the reagent consisted of oatmeal, cigarettes, fentanyl and cock, now he just mixes reagent with alcohol

•He wasn't that much of an asshole when he was younger, sparkly eyed thing he was, then the incident happen (he started trying to be god)

•He's IP banned from editing wikipedia

•He can tap dance, the theater gays kidnapped him when he was 14 and he learned against his will

•Despises theme parks but loves fairs

•Actually a pretty decent singer, and has a flare for the theatrics but will blush and murder if you comment on it

•Having said that I think it's hard for him to blush, even more so after the reagent, his blood is probably gooey

•i think he had some floppy grades, he was either first in class or didn't show up 90% of the time, it depended on how relevant he thought the class was

•Trans of gender

Danny boy

•He comes from a very Cristian conservative family that he cut off years before re-animator started because he's friends with a lot of queer people

•He also is weird about his sexuality, he thinks he's not allowed to be anything but straight even tho he knows he wouldn't be judged by anyone that matters to him

•He fucking loves hotdogs, his favorite food in the entire world, could survive just off that for years

•Has done yoga with older women before

•Golden boy of every school he ever was in, straight A's, never miss a class be it raining or snowing, if he was sick he crawled to school, had to be restrained

•Due to being with no family at like 15, he NEEDS constant reassurance and love because he feels like a failure and a heathen

•He's also, a little fucked up and evil but refuses to confront that fact and blames Herbert for all his evil acts

•He was always a little into fitness but after meg's death he became an extreme gym rat to cope and punish himself, that's why he's so jacked in bride

•Sneezes like a kitten

•Has never even been near the smell of a cigarette and it would kill him on the spot

Megan Hotwheels

•She is the only smart person in that whole ass movie (this is an objective fact)

•She's super into horror, she loves slashers and monsters, everything gorey and scary it's right up her alley

•Not that much of a girly girl, she just puts on the act for her dad, she does like girly stuff tho, she fucks heavily with pink and dresses just not in a cisgender way

•She's very artsy as well, she can paint a mean portrait and sometimes sells them for a little extra cash

•She is the one that found Rufus as a kitten, little flea infested miserable creature, her dad hates cats so she gave him to Dan and is the main corporate behind the fat shaming of her son

•Can roller skate!

•Her mom died when she was very young, she was murdered at her old home and it made her be extremely paranoid for a while, she never feels completely safe even tho she moved towns and they caught her killer

•She has her hair cut in a bob because she pulls at it when anxious and it's the shortest she's allowed to have

•She got bullied when she was younger for being a freaky little kid with huge wet eyes obsessed with killers

•She has a weird relationship with her dad, she loves him but it's frustrated by him because he believes she's this tiny little fawn of god who can't be exposed to the evils of the world, meanwhile she has fucked nasty and probably done some weed, she's an adult and he treats her like a kid

•Shes super into indie bands that not even God knows exist

•"Im probably nonbinary but my dad is dead so idc about that rn"

[noxstrages]

Guy who takes HRT so fucking wrong

[summae]

I don't know where the overlap of tgaa fans and ACD Holmes fans is but are people aware that the reason as to why anaesthesia doesn't work on Sholmes is because his original version used to abuse opioids