#the disordered cosmos

[wickedjr89]

The Disordered Cosmos by Chanda Prescod-Weinstein Book review

[accessible-tumbling]

Plain text: Radical Leftism via Science Starter Pack

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Radical Leftism via Science Starter Pack

[mimpism]

hey sprout I know your gay and shit but maybe don’t ignore your old bff…!!

I think a lot of people forget that like, Shelly and Sprout USED to be close until she introduced him to Cosmo. I’m not hatin on Cosmo, but imagine you introduce someone to your best friend and they DITCH you for that other person. Actually egregious I fear.

what the apology cake says up close

sprout’s trying to say sorry but I don’t think Shelly wants to hear that right now🙁🙁fumblin in front of the fine shyt Sprout lock in

[asadgirlwithaprettymind]

I swear I have the most beautiful cats…I’m obsessed

[cosmogyros]

I dislike it so much when a documentary has somebody speaking one language and then another language is overlaid on top of the same audio WITHOUT DELETING THE BACKGROUND AUDIO COMPLETELY ARGH

(edit: like this)

I'm watching this (very interesting) Arte documentary right now, and first there was a Dutch scientist speaking English, while a German narrator spoke the translation of his words into German in the foreground. Then a few minutes later there were a bunch of people speaking French in the European Parliament while it was, again, dubbed into German for the documentary.

But like... my ears are compelled to listen to both things at once! I can't help but listen to the interesting accent the Dutch guy has in English, or recognize words and phrases the people are saying in French, at the same time as I'm trying to focus on the German foreground dubbing.

It's so overwhelming, I hate it, and I so intensely wish documentaries would blank out the background audio completely when dubbing over it >:(((

[ralexsol]

Yknow sometimes I wonder what life is worth living for. But then I'll sit outside in the sun on a warm, bright day with two cats and a gentle, cool breeze in Spring and read a physics book written by a black queer agender woman. And it's like wow. So this is peace

[whats-in-a-sentence]

By embracing the conclusion that the universe we know is a rare but every-so-often-expectable statistical fluctuation from a configuration of total disorder, we're quickly led into a quagmire in which we lose all understanding, including the very chain of reasoning that led us to consider such an odd explanation in the first place.*

* A closely related point is that we should convince ourselves that the world we see right now just coalesced out of total disorder, the exact same reasoning – invoked anytime later – would require us to abandon our current belief and, instead, attribute the ordered world to a yet more recent fluctuation. Thus, in this way of thinking, every next moment invalidates the beliefs held in each previous moment, a distinctly unconvincing way of explaining the cosmos.

"The Fabric of the Cosmos" - Brian Greene

[corvigae]

Me: Not all of my OCs have to be autistic and/or ADHD. Some could have other mental health struggles - for example, Ori has severe social anxiety.

Also me: Hm. Okay, but have you considered - he has severe social anxiety because he's autistic?

[acet0ne]

I see, or really hear, the audio that's like "Being a fictive is fucking wild 'cause I went.." (and so on), and I just want to talk about how real that audio really is and how different you may seem from what people perceive as your "canon" (as bad as it sounds).

For example, I am, unfortunately, an Alastor fictive. I am an aroace man who lives in a small house with my wife, Rose, whom I am in a queer-platonic relationship with, as we are both AroAce and my (somewhat adopted) daughter.

To put it briefly, I've done a lot, and a lot has happened in my source. But now? Now I'm close friends with BEETLEJUICE and a girl who is the self-proclaimed #1 Ghost fan. Surprisingly, I have a good relationship with people in my source, who I used to hate, and the same with my partner systems. I won't go into it because I'm not sure they'd want me to, but I'm best friends with the oddest combinations, but I love and appreciate them.

So yeah, being a fictive is odd, but it's not terrible. In fact, I quite like it.

[tenth-sentence]

This suggests that there is nothing, even in principle, that can take place within a Planck square, because any such activity could support disorder and hence the Planck square could contain more than the single unit of entropy found by Bekenstein and Hawking.

"The Fabric of the Cosmos" - Brian Greene

[asadgirlwithaprettymind]

cheeeeeezzzzzzz 😻

[cosmogyros]

(continuing on from this last post, because you can't add videos in reblogs...)

Tell me WHYYYYYY we have dubbing one minute (awful, horrible, I can't understand what they're talking about in any language)

And then subtitles literally the next second (beautiful, peaceful, logical, I understand both languages effortlessly)

If you could do it in the second scene, why not in the first scene?! I'm so confused??

[whats-in-a-sentence]

The time line in Figure 9.2 places the phase transitions we've discussed in historical context and hence gives us a firmer grasp of the sequence of events the universe has gone through from the big bang to the egg on your kitchen counter.

The history illustrated in Figure 9.2 is manifestly not a chronicle of eternal, unchanging disorder.

"The Fabric of the Cosmos" - Brian Greene

[eva1casmoclinic]

Women have problems with intimacy, just like men have, and these issues should be addressed. Orgasmic disorder in women is defined as the inability or delay of a woman to experience a sexual climax (orgasm), even when sexual stimulation is sufficient.

[the-maddened-hatter]

Alright so I pretty much said all of this verbatim on a reblog of someone else's post, but I wanted to put it here on my blog too.

As I've mentioned before, I would *very* much like to see Peri canonically having a disability that causes him to use his wand/cane and not just have it be an accessory, and so I analyzed the episodes he's in that I've been able to see so far and came up with a few observations:

As much as I'd be unopposed to seeing it portrayed, leg issues don't really seem like a major deal to fairies in general given as Cosmo misplaced his for most of an episode and a pair of sticks were a good enough replacement for him to have fun at the arcade in human form (without even drawing human attention)

And Peri can apparently use his powers as listed above without his cane since he doesn't always immediately have it on his person (especially since Dev & Hazel took his cane in Lost in Fairy World and he didn't have any power or mobility problems)

But!

I *could* easily see him having some kind of magical fatigue issue or magical equivalent of hypotonia or balance disorder, since he's shown to be

very tired after a morning spent magically creating cupcakes (a probably small but very repetitive task that leaves him running low on energy)

When his stationary float is disrupted he remains seated instead of floating back up again

3. A minor contact/startle reflex is enough to disrupt his hover and cause him to immediately fall pretty hard if not very far

4. speaking of distance, he is shown to sometimes float a bit lower than his parents, which, while not consistent and likely just an animation choice, could tie in with the other points to support the diagnosis theory

However, pain may admittedly be more of a factor than the above images suggest,

he may not just be tired from shape shifting like I'd thought since right before that he was walking (albeit in horse form) and afterwards (low) cloud float is apparently easier and faster for him than just quickly trotting past his parents

He also didn't really seem to be having too much of a problem at all before he hit the ground

Where it goes to a definitely tired and possibly more pained look.

Maybe he didn't want to tell Dev that it was painful either out of pride or because he didn't want to potentially upset him and just went with "tired" because that was what he assumed. It'd be interesting to see if it happens again in a different form.

Personally I think it'd be cool to see both and have it be a chronic condition (directly magical or otherwise) that he already had before the series began (diagnosed or not).

If he's the first fairy kid born in a long time he probably would have been monitored very closely, but it may have taken a while for doctors to notice a problem since there was little reference for comparison and may have even caused some potentially serious problems that gave Comso & Wanda a bad scare, which could tie in pretty well with their developing a high amount of over protectiveness of him, and that in turn leading him to try and behave too far in the other direction (not seeking help when he really does need it, pushing himself way too hard and suffering the fallout which he then tries to hide, ect)

If he's undiagnosed but having the problems it could be interesting to see sort of an inversion of the "character must learn to accept their disability" storyline wherein he's more connecting certain events & symptoms and we get to see him adapting to accommodations and letting himself try different approaches moreso than to having new symptoms (though we as the audience may see these symptoms more or behaviors contextualized as symptoms where they weren't necessarily before).

Idk either way I just think it would be cool (and I've probably put away more analysis into this than will ever pay off lol)

also to everyone who draws him as a disabled mobility device user: ILY please draw more of it it feeds my soul

[talonabraxas]

“In all chaos there is a cosmos, in all disorder a secret order.” ― Carl Gustav Jung

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