#which was very vaguely described

[labradorduck]

So as far as I can find you can only have your Canadian citizenship revoked if you committed fraud on your application

This is a good thing

The reasons supplied for revoking Elon's citizenship are:

Elon Musk has engaged in activities that go against the national interest of Canada;

He has used his wealth and power to influence our elections;

He has now become a member of a foreign government that is attempting to erase Canadian sovereignty; and

The attempts of Elon Musk to attack Canadian sovereignty must be addressed.

Sorry to be unfun but we don't want the government to be able to revoke citizenship for reasons such as "activities that go against the National interest of Canada" that's a vague statement

If the government can take away his citizenship it opens a door to take away other people's citizenship

Yes it should be addressed but carefully in a way that doesn't fuck over others.

There's a petition on the House of Commons site to strip Elon Musk of his citizenship, backed by Charlie Angus. Petition e-5353. Petition e-5353 - Petitions

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[orykorioart]

TAZ Sapphic Week Day 5: Haunted

Couldn’t finish what I originally scheduled for day 5 (so itll have to be pushed back), but I still wanted to have something. So let’s have a quick experimental Lureen (if that is the ship name?) angst! Because that little scene in the GN really got me 😔✌️.

[ganondoodle]

me taking so long to get chapter two of destiny going bc i am slow tm and also keep getting distracted with the totk rewrite and my stupid gamedev dreams has the additional negative side effect that by now the happiness, motivation and feelings of validation i got from tags on my comic work has basically run out and now i have to keep working on it through sheer determination (and spite) alone q^q

[asfdhgsdkjhgb]

had quite the night drive earlier this evening.

[vulturevanity]

normal thing to say about your dear friend who you think is really cute and charming and hard-working and basically the perfect wife material

[himblebo]

When you want to visit the Alhambra but mom’s like “we got the Alhambra at home”

[electoons]

my psychiatrist was trying to explain that a lot of my depression and anxiety probably stems from my trying to force myself into a (neurotypical/allistic) mold that i wasn't made for and that it's nothing to be ashamed of and she listed elon musk and bill gates as my fellow autists and that made me cry harder

[queenlucythevaliant]

Some off-the-cuff thoughts on overspiritualizing patterns in science

I remember watching a talk in middle school youth group about laminin, the "molecule that holds your whole body together" which was supposedly shaped like a cross. The suggestion, basically, was that the cross's image was integral to our molecular makeup and that this was part of God's design in a very Significant way. I was a burgeoning STEM girl, so I taped a diagram of a laminin up next to my bed for a while.

(As I would later find out, the whole laminin thing had/has some reach among Christians. There are T-shirts and everything)

Fast forever to spring of my freshman year as a microbiology student. I take my first course in cell bio, and I learn that laminins are actually one of many families of ECM glycoproteins. They aren't really any more significant in "holding the body together" than collagens, elastins, or fibronectins. They're very important, yes, but ultimately just one type of adhesive protein among many. And! They also do a bunch of other stuff that's way cooler than just. Adhesive.

While some laminins do bear resemblance to a cross when diagramed, it's really only because they have three subchains. Some are t-shaped, but others are y-shaped, and those don't look anything like a cross. Also, when they're in situ rather than in a nice, neat diagram, they tend to be all floppy and then they look even less cross-like.

Source

And when I learned about this I was oddly relieved. It felt like I was right about something that I couldn't even put into words, and that somehow the field of what I could call glorious had grown wider.

Christians are called to see and marvel at the presence of God in creation. I love doing that! I see God left and right through my scientific studies. Yet I also know that the human brain is pattern-seeking and that we are prone to pareidolia. I honestly don't know that there's a substantive difference between seeing the cross in some laminins and seeing Jesus on a piece of toast. It's all just seeing patterns that arise from something else (in the case of laminins, being able to bind three different molecules at once) and attributing spiritual significance. God is sovereign and maybe in the grand scope of his vision for creation it means something, but in terms of seeing God's hand in science I just find it so... small?

You could spin so many four-chain or four-domain proteins or goodness knows how many other molecules into images of the cross if you pick the right diagram. You could take every pattern of three in nature (and there are many!) as an image of the Trinity. If you really, really wanted to, you could take every six in organic chemistry as a sign of the beast, which would be hilarious in its misguidedness. It just becomes so literalistic and dull so very fast.

Look! Wouldn't you rather talk about the fact that laminins begin to appear along the edge of a developing lung at just ten weeks of human embryonic development, suggesting that they play a role in alveolar morphogenesis? That they're present in the neural stem-cell niche, which makes them an attractive candidate for helping to treat degenerative neurological conditions? I want to go back to whoever gave that talk that I watched in youth group and shake him and say, "God did that, and you're still hung up on the fact that laminins have three subchains?"

[famewolf]

shout out to one of the dice sellers at the con who was chatting with me about the metal dice I was looking at, paused for a second and gave me a strange look before saying 'do you like vampires by chance?'

to which i responded with 'it depends' and he was like 'I'll be right back I think I have a dice set for you'

and he came running back with this heavy dark metal set that had blood droplets along the spikes .... and was exactly the aesthetic i was looking for.

he said they didn't have that set out on display because they had so few of it and they were only showing them to people with a certain vibe LMAO which idk if that was a read or a compliment but I instantly bought them

[imaginarypasta]

i’ve been trying to get through hoh for literally like a week now but it’s so hard bc the way my fave nico is treated is absolutely ABYSMAL and i know it only gets worse

[sysig]

Psyche, she was meant to be weird this whole time (Patreon)

2018 “Cure” like: Lol you thought

It really is hard to translate her design to paper! Even just trying to get her body type down and decided on was tough - is she a bean? Not exactly, but she’s not hourglass either, or exactly chubby or round, but not just a rectangle?? I don’t know how to describe her, and that’s completely discounting her face. I do remember that she’s both very short (a little bigger than your average teddy bear but not by much, so around 2′6″?? Maybe??) but also rather wide so her proportions are all weird

The original look at her wide eyelash concept - still not sure :0 I imagine they’d be brightly coloured as well, probably hot pink or maybe a gradient of colours. She’s definitely meant to have some elements of eyestrain in her design

[spiria]

trying to give my stardew house that "visiting your aunt in 2004" vibe this run

[rexcaliburechoes]

ask game - KISS

spins a comically large wheel that just consists of the name "istorros"

god. okay. i've been looking for an excuse to talk about istorros. so i'm gonna take this as my sign to talk a little about him.

the real answer is sort of funny, because in my current file, he's romancing gale, so the last person he's technically kissed is gale. but story-wise, astarion, because of a bunch of funny shenanigans that happened behind the scenes.

here he is casting speak to dead for context (the only other reference i have of him is an Actual mugshot. lmao.)

[kutana]

a good portion of the mor.tal ko.mbat roster is asian therefore also poc!! please be wary.

[lesbian-in-leather]

For the WIP ask game: book, blanket, hat for 5, 9, and 14 ?

The Hunger Games AU has no books or blankets, but a singular hat:

"He also wore a lavender top hat with a pink ribbon, and his nails, lips, and even eyebrows were the same light purple as his suit, standing out against his dark skin."

There is even less luck in Villainous Violet! No one even has a hat so far :(

And apparently I just don't write about books or blankets very often because again, there is just a singular hat in Backstory:

"She wore a white dress and pastel pink belt tied around her waist with matching pink hat and shoes; her blonde hair in a simple style that suited her perfectly."

Send me a WIP title and a word to get the sentence that word appears in!

[rawliverandgoronspice]

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help I'm having a case of "game got out, many complicated feelings, beer in a dingey hotel room by the highway on my own", we'll get through it but I might cry about it a little bit at some point