Experiment, Fail, Learn, Repeat

Did you step on it?

I forgot it was there & stepped on it, plummeting through the concealed trapdoor into the cellars. Please send help.

I can’t see anything! It’s pitch black down here. All that’s visible is my eyes.

Just make sure there isn’t a second, more dangerous pair of eyes somewhere around yours

Hey

i would like to officially thank sesame for its seeds, its oil, and of course its street

in retrospect it's pretty funny that the most used computer port for many years just completely sucked shit to the point of there being normie memes about it

I mean when your biggest tech issue is "takes an extra 10 seconds (at most) to plug in if you're not paying attention" that's pretty good! Imagine if you had a printer and the printer's biggest problem was that the paper took a few tries to insert into the tray. You'd want to fuck that printer.

I'd want to fuck that printer.

growing up as a cis girl the patriarchy told me “you’re a girl because of the way you were born, there is nothing you can do about this, you have no say in your gender” and i hated being a girl because it wasn’t my choice it was a prison and the trans community told me “you’re a girl because you say so, your view of yourself is the most important thing, if you change your mind that would be ok” and it made me proud to be a girl and feel empowered in my gender and i wasn’t trapped anymore and then terfs come along and tell me “you’re a girl because of the way you were born, there is nothing you can do about this, you have no say in your gender (but like in a woke way)” and they somehow expect me to be on their side?

if you respond with some terf shit im blocking you lmao

I’m so happy someone wrote this because I feel the same was as a cis girl. I felt pressured to be feminine and went full nlog because I felt too ugly and fat to be “feminine” and I was in an academic setting where it’s a nono. Then the trans community was so proud of their femininity it made me feel gratitude for being born a woman. Trans youtubers empowered me to buy my first skirts and dresses and I no longer felt “stupid” for doing it. I took another colleague that felt “stupid” for being feminine dress-shopping once and we’ve been friends ever since and she now dresses up all the time and tries to feel cute and feminine and I’m so happy to see her like that. The trans community destigmatized being feminine for cis women more than any girlboss feminism I’ve seen and we owe it to trans women.

It makes me deeply sad when cis people put their resentment at their own gender onto trans people who experience euphoria for having the same gender. I love getting to see cis people doing the exact opposite of that. I think everyone benefits from examining their gender and finding what makes them euphoric, from realizing there are no rules and seeing that not as a destruction of their experiences but as an oppurtunity to construct a more healthy self conception. If being a woman doesnt require resenting being a woman, is that not permission to free yourself from the resentment, a freedom to love yourself and your gender with reckless abandon? I hope more cis people can learn this lesson. I know its one I have imparted to people in my life, and benefitted from when I received it.

sometimes i feel ive got to

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The way men view women in movies is so funny because Rey with the Force shouldn’t be able to do all that and Carol Danvers with Superpowers shouldn’t be able to do all that but Singular Cop Dude with No Powers Trapped In A Building can take down 20 genius terrorists Alone (Die Hard)

wow people big mad on this post to-nite…. stay pissed off boo that doesnt make it less true

Chickens love to peck at hard things to make a variety of interesting sounds and my new ladies have just discovered The Tin Fence.

They're also a big fan of Chipped Ceramic Plate if you feel like experimenting

Ooh I have some leftover floor tile fragments, I should give them some of those.

I've seen people give their chooks kids you xylophones and they love them!!

Mine are a big fan of sealed plastic bucket of water sealant paint that we haven't moved yet.

My old hens loved Window and every day I feel blessed that my new ones haven't discovered it yet.

Mine have an old mirror, parrot toy with tiny bell, metal toy pan. All of these things make fun sounds when pecked 👍

I should get them a wind chime

Idk you may quickly regret Wind Chime

I regret my chickens every day

TIL any chicken coop can be an entire all-percussion orchestra bangin out the tunes

i've been reading this recent report from the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy titled "SCIENCE: A NEW GOLDEN AGE" first thing: it is all contradictions second thing: it is a detailed and accurate expression of what the powerful tech people think about science third thing: i don't think "the market" can replace the doge-cut science should you read it too? idk, maybe for knowing your enemy etc

i will attempt to summarize the report: science isn't profitable. science takes too long. scientists don't do enough groundbreaking work. scientists are bad at deciding who gets more funding. scientists have too much power over the world. too many "pointless" projects get funded. big projects require too many people for too few "big results". maybe scientists should try learning to do things with their hands. universities are expensive and wasteful. DEI is bad bc it distracts from making money today. things don't go fast and big anymore (like going to the moon). there are too many things to keep up with. why can't science go faster. why can't science produce results. unlike the slow and wasteful and small-brained scientists, AI can be trusted to produce results. In conclusion, let's do DIFFERENT things and be profitable. Easy.

the major offering of this report is that is tells you exactly what the current administration wants to hear from scientists. if i were in charge of a research group i'd make it required reading.

there is currently a trickle of federal funding for scientific research and i've been hearing from a lot of people that it might begin to increase in the near future but even if that happens, a point of caution: they will expect results. and yes, sometimes that will require working on science things but that's not what they're trying to fund. they don't care. they want the results. does any of that make sense? no. do they care? no.