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I like when fic length/book length/movie length is its own punchline

happy fourth of july to the philippines ONLY

happy june 12 to you

keep thinking about how I wrote in my dissertation about how every time a new form of public/social space emerges it's immediately popular with kids and teenagers who see it as a chance at freedom and then adults colonise it and kick them out. this happened with malls in the 80s and diners in the 50s and pool halls in the 20s. my dad was doing research on this trend in like 1975. and I was like "yeah so this is going to happen to the internet" and then five years later every government suddenly decided to ban kids from everywhere online. I hate being right especially when I don't even get paid for it

sometimes being a fan of something means not wanting them to make any more of it

Siberian crane (Leucogeranus leucogeranus)

developing the hots for ryan gosling because of project hail mary is so fucking embarrassing I swear to god. that is a conventionally attractive man. a noted hollywood heartthrob. he's even blond, are you kidding me? did he win people magazine's sexiest man alive? I don't know. I'm not going to check but it wouldn't surprise me at this point. it's such a mainstream taste. such a clichéd celebrity crush. like oh I fancy ryan gosling and my favourite drink is coca-cola and my favourite snack is ready salted crisps. jesus christ. 'b-b-but i only like him when he's in a science pun tshirt and playing a dorky-awkward loner type!' doesn't matter. he's still ryan 'ken from barbie' gosling. it's so trite. I feel like the weird nerd girl in a teen coming-of-age romcom falling for the super popular jock. don't I know that I have a reputation to uphold here? cringe.

has anyone noticed recently that it's expensive

times like these really make you appreciate pouring river water in your socks

NO! Where’s the non-metals and metaloids?!

are they hydrogen or helium

oxygen, carbon, sulfur, xenon, iodine, neon, etc etc.

ooo okay i see the confusion. you're listing off a bunch of metals there

…. You’re breaking my chemistry nerd brain. Hhhuuuhhhh???

im an astrophysicist

but but, science is science?!

and different fields of science have different conventions and definitions for their unique contexts

you ever think about how a clock face is a dial because sundials existed and there is no reason they could not have made a pair of linked drums with numbers on the exterior and a frame the norm? you ever think about how the number of minutes in an hour (and thus the length of a minute) and the number of seconds in a minute are to do with divisibility and nothing intrinsic about the periodicity of time? you ever think that the same is true about the number of hours in the day and thus the length of an hour? you ever think that all units of measurement are essentially arbitrary and initially human-centred and related to "ease of maths" and "ease of measurement" [i.e. divisibility/multiplicability, this is the same length as my arm, etc, easy reference points] and are not intrinsic or even fixed? you ever think about how this is evident in the way that just about every human culture to exist had its own methods and measurements? you ever think about what this suggests about the world? you ever think that the guy (non gender specific) who invented the concept of numbers probably didn't even realise they were going to have all these freakish rules and was just trying to keep track of sheep or some shit?

well i don't and neither should you, it's sinful

unfortunately very true. Doing Better does not always mean never being upset or never being triggered or never having trouble. often Doing Better means experiencing those things and being able to keep going/cope healthily/move on. if you’re in a bubble with no sensation, if you’re numbing yourself out, that’s not what recovering really is. it won’t help you have a happier life it’ll just make your world smaller and smaller until you can’t fit anywhere anymore. gotta learn to make peace with the hard stuff too, that’s the only way to keep going

i know the way people talk about their pets now is probably how we’ve been doing it for all of history. a cat owner in ancient rome saw their cat lounging on the dining pillows and commented “he thinks himself to be the senator claudius 🤣”

The first attested cat in Japan was given to a young 9th century emperor and his diary about it includes such gems as 'I affixed a bow about its neck, but it did not remain for long.", "The color of the fur is peerless. None could find the words to describe it, although one said it was reminiscent of the deepest ink.", "When it lies down, it curls in a circle like a coin. You cannot see its feet. It’s as if it were circular Bi disk." and "I am convinced it is superior to all other cats.” Basically posting about how his void is the best little void and so good at getting really round