#statistics.

[lakecountylibrary]

LIBRARY WRAPPED

You checked out... probably some stuff? Thanks for doing that :)

Used our wifi maybe? For something?

Look we actually don't know what genres you read or how many times you renewed Gender Queer.

We don't want to know.

Our gift to you is privacy.

Take it.

Be free.

[auto1ysis]

full  name. born simply as ambrose, as last names weren't deemed necessary within the cult. upon escaping, he'll introduce himself as ambrose becker, using linda's last name on all official paperwork. nicknames.  there's not one specific one he goes by, beyond oddball being used occasionally at the clinic. your muse is free to come up with something, though. title. the apostasy, the host. rank. specialist first class within the compound. a foot solider. originally selected for the officer track, had ambrose stuck around. date  of  birth.  october thirtieth. verse dependent, but typically written as twenty - seven years old. zodiac. scorpio — known for being intense, passionate, and transformative.  gender. cisgender male , using he / him pronouns.  species. born entirely human. upon injection of the Being's dna, he's slowly begun to merge with the symbiote, evolving into something beyond this plane. ages. ten to eighteen years old ( footsoldier within the compound ) , eighteen to twenty - one years old ( on the run with linda ) , twenty - one to twenty - seven years ( an established nurse, attempting to deny his past and future ). romantic  &  sexual�� orientation. demiromantic and bisexual. relationship  status.  assuredly single. ambrose is nearly incapable of sharing the trust that comes with being in a committed relationship. has slept his way through nearly all of his coworkers and associates, though. occupation.  footsoldier ( previously ). nurse ( current ). ceo of ascenscion healthcare ( eventual ). affiliations. ascension healthcare conglomerate ( previously ) , carenow urgent center ( current ).

birth  location.  agrais, the compound located on lundy, an island in the british channel. current  location. a small town in the southern usa. nearly completely forgettable, if not for their ( josephine & ambrose's ) impact on the town. languages  known. fluent in english, proficient in british sign language. he's slowly picking up some spanish. parentage. one of the last of the kidnapped children, ambrose has no idea who his parents were. he's grown to consider linda as family — an aunt, in a sense. siblings. in the literal sense, none that he knows of. however, all footsoldiers are raised to consider each other as siblings, comrades in arms. significant  others.  linda becker — originally head of the research and development department of ascenscion healthcare, she'd go on to recognize the horrors brewing and help ambrose escape. josephine — his literal other half.

faceclaim. milo ventimiglia as peter petrelli. hair  color.  a dark brown, not exactly black. eye  color. seemingly dark brown. warms in the light. height. exactly six feet tall. distinguishing  features. a scar spanning vertically up his spine, dancing around the vertebrae. long healed, the flesh is still puckered and touch warmer than the skin surrounding it. ambrose received the wound during drills. another thing scar, this one in the middle of his inner elbow. the injection site for the imbuing process. this scar is cold to the touch. tattoos & piercings. upon escaping, ambrose plays around with self expression. it's in the middle of clinicals that he elects to get his ( left ) nipple pierced, mostly just to see what it's like. later, he pierces his right earlobe with a simple stud. for his twenty - sixth birthday present to himself, ambrose eventually gets a black hole tattooed on his back, centered among his shoulder blades. ( ref. x , x , x )

positive traits. altruistic , kind , gentle , caring , charming , charismatic , courteous , daunting , dexterous , steadfast , studious , jovial , humble. negative traits.  acerbic , impulsive , dishonest , opinionated , possessive , sly. temperament. phlegmatic-melancholy: this blend combines the calm, adaptable nature of the phlegmatic with the analytical, insightful, and detail-oriented qualities of the melancholic. they may be seen as thoughtful, reflective, and reserved, with a preference for planning and organization. they are often independent, questioning, and thorough in their approach, but may be more reserved and less outwardly emotional than a pure melancholic.  moral alignment. lawful mess — right and wrong are only right and wrong according to your morality, and it changes regularly on any given day. there's probably no one that believes in you more than you believe in yourself and that's something to admire.

[raskolnikovsneighbor]

coffee shop by my house hired a new barista who is extraordinarily hot and flirts with me incessantly but she also makes the worst - and i truly mean the worst - coffee i’ve ever paid for. atrociously bad. just another of god’s little jokes

[sleepy-bebby]

[limbcom]

"Holding your hand doesn't have to mean that I accept your friendship," the liar said to the truthful, trying to lie in front of the only person who understands his intentions.

He knows, of course, that the liar did not lie. For the liar is also the truthful.

[tumbler-polls]

For USAmericans: height converter

[biophonies]

when I drew this comic 3 years ago I had NO idea how far it would reach. I'm happy to finally share a corrected version with proper abbreviations, and even MORE state names of indigenous origin ♥️

however, the goal of this comic was to inspire people to do your OWN research on indigenous history. To question everything we have been taught, and everything that has been pointedly left out. This erasure, this “forgetting”, of history is not just of the past… it is happening now. - Across so-called Canada, the US, and US-occupied islands, native women are victims of murder at 10-12x the rate of non-native people, and are the most likely to go missing without being searched for by the law. - Native reservations have the highest rates of poverty in the US, with over HALF of tribal homes with no access to clean water (with more joining this list by the year) - Native people are 6-10x more likely to be unhoused than the rest of the population, and native teens suffer suicide rates higher than any other demographic. This list of modern day genocide goes on (thank you for compiling @theindigenousanarchist <3) and yet take a look at those environmental stats!

Native people manage to do SO much for the planet as a whole - thanklessly - and with all this stacked against them. Don't even get me started on kin fighting in south america. Could you imagine if there was help? #landback is resistance to genocide, and it is the key to saving our warming earth.

So look into it and the other hashtags, cuz a cartoon goose ain't a substitute for a proper education. Love to my grandparents who always kept a map of tribal territories of turtle island on their wall, to speaking on our Tsalagi & Saponi heritage. Love & solidarity forever, happy research, and happy #indigenouspeoplesday

LANDBACK.ORG

(Also, if you care to support the artist, I'm publishing a book ! and writing another - a fantastical afroindigenous graphic novel - that I post exclusively about with tons of other art on my patreon.)

[very-gay-alkyrion]

Like to charge, reblog to cast

[guiltyidealist]

On your MOST FOLLOWED blog on Tumblr,

[botanyshitposts]

I bought a 30 year old car and drove it cross-country back home. The other day I was taking some of it apart to work on it, and all manner of seeds and other flora that are not indigenous to my region came tumbling out. There was Spanish moss so old it turned to dust when I touched it. This plant matter traveled 3 decades and 2,000 miles to be here with me. How about that huh

this is also modern megafauna dispersal. seeds will be like oh man im so ready to fall off, i have so much food and water saved, if only a very strong and fast creature beyond my comprehension would carry me 2000 miles to a soil patch that looks like this one but different. nothing has changed

[tawnysoup]

[podddcasttt]

Friendly reminder that if you talk about how representation is important and how there's not enough diverse media, I implore you to seek out the media that already exists. And if you live in an area with a public library, go to see if they're available at your public library. And then go check them out.

As a librarian, it is demoralizing to see how low the circulation statistics are on lgbt+ books and books by BIPOC authors. I include them in displays and readers advisory, but people still don't check them out as much. Libraries only have a finite amount of resources, including space. We don't get a book then keep it forever. If not enough people check it out, we have to get rid of it to make room for more books. And when James Patterson Book #69 gets checked out 30 times in one year and cool, subversive Sci fi novel with a Black trans woman main character has never been checked out once, the librarian (me) has to make a hard decision.

If you're looking for something tangible and easy to do this pride month, look for lgbt+ books (there are millions of lists online that you can find. It's easier than it's ever been to find diverse books) and check them out from your library.

No time to read? Look for a short story or poetry anthology and just read as much as you have time for. Or just check out a book cus it looks interesting and read as much as you can. We have movies too.

As cool as it would be for me to just keep the books I want and get rid of the ones I don't, I have to listen to the community on matters of collection development. And the community tells me what books they want by checking them out and leaving the ones they don't want on the shelf.

If you think this doesn't apply to you because you live in a progressive area and obviously the books are being checked out, you're wrong. I once worked in a community with a large lgbt population. Those books were not getting checked out. If you want to tell me you live in a conservative area and your library doesn't have any diverse books, you are legally obligated to check the catalog before replying to this post. I currently work in a conservative community and we have lgbt+ and bipoc books. And if you still cannot find any, you are legally obligated to see if your library has a collection request form that patrons can fill out before replying to this post.

[phantomstatistician]

Fandom: Phineas and Ferb

Sample Size: 3,208 stories

Source: AO3

[wearenotjustnumbers2]

"Why is there no doctors or scientists or educated people in gaza?" Because Israel is killing them all. The majority of the population in gaza are under 18, Israel kills them before they get to college, and also kills the ones who do.

[noosphe-re]

"There was an exchange on Twitter a while back where someone said, ‘What is artificial intelligence?' And someone else said, 'A poor choice of words in 1954'," he says. "And, you know, they’re right. I think that if we had chosen a different phrase for it, back in the '50s, we might have avoided a lot of the confusion that we're having now." So if he had to invent a term, what would it be? His answer is instant: applied statistics. "It's genuinely amazing that...these sorts of things can be extracted from a statistical analysis of a large body of text," he says. But, in his view, that doesn't make the tools intelligent. Applied statistics is a far more precise descriptor, "but no one wants to use that term, because it's not as sexy".

'The machines we have now are not conscious', Lunch with the FT, Ted Chiang, by Madhumita Murgia, 3 June/4 June 2023