Liesl (she/they) 1990. pisces. queer. white. ∞ i love fruit, tea, science, and hockey. my gay wife and i live with our cattes. b.sc psych (bio) mcl » m.ed ed/psych ( 802 » 518 » 717 » 423 » 802/518 ) literally 100% mobile and virtually no tags. hockey sideblog: @tres-bien-desbiens bear sideblog: @bearyparfait (katmai season!)
shout out to everyone here for the cogsci/neuropsych takes. please know that sometimes i only post horse memes instead of smart takes.
one thing about scientists is that we only have two modes: 5-10 paragraph analysis, and smooth brain laughing at the worst memes on earth
i'm liesl. queer white usamerican-canadian. i grew up in new england (quebec border), and currently live in appalachia (tennessee). i'm in neuropsych and cognitive (neuro)science research, with specific interest in: epigenetics in heritable neuropsych conditions (especially psychotic disorders); addiction research, biopsychosocial models of stress and wellness in individuals, communities, and populations; secular addiction and post-carceral rehabilitation. my current research is on social media, generative AI, behavioural addiction, and models of social and self connectedness in determining outcomes (specifically aiming to describe why some AI chatbot users experience psychosis or are driven to suicide, among other detrimental outcomes).
i am always always always willing to talk about these topics and will in fact invite myself onto posts to host a mini-TEDx on these topics and others in my field. please let me know if you are in my field or an adjacent field, i would love to talk to you about research!
my hockey sideblog: @tres-bien-desbiens (pwhl, nhl, iihf, olympic/worlds, some wnba, some ncaa, ice dance and figure skating)
my bear sideblog: @bearyparfait (currently in katmai bear cam mode, but i also post a lot of bear art and other bears on there.)
i am an adult and i post about "adult topics" on this blog. i trust each and every one of my followers to decide if they are ready, able, and willing to see these topics. if that is not you, i encourage you to unfollow or block me.
(blog and cut content note: abuse, CSA, mental illness)
i am disabled. specifically, i am epileptic, and the type of epilepsy i have often impacts my mood, personality, and memory. my mind is organized into a system, which has been present to my knowledge since at least age 6. i do not really engage with plural discourse, mostly because my experience is intimately informed by my autism and the specifics of my CSA experience.
i do talk about my experience as a CSA survivor, typically not graphically, but i do acknowledge the levels of abuse, coercion, manipulation, and my own experiences with my father having severe cptsd and schizophrenia (which would likely now be diagnosed as schizoaffective). i also have cptsd and have awareness of generational trauma and the legacy of cyclic abuse, and i talk about that, too.
i am a prison abolitionist and support reforming our criminal justice system from retribution-based to rehabilitation-based. i believe most people can be rehabilitated, and acknowledge the criminal justice system as legalized slavery which disproportionately impacts black and brown people in poverty.
a few more rent-lowering gunshots:
trans siblings are always welcome here 🏳️⚧️
all members of the 2slgbtq+ are supported and welcome here, including nb, gnc, and aspec. exclusionists need not apply. none of us are free until all of us are free.
bodily autonomy is a non-negotiable human right for all people, which includes children, disabled adults, those who have uteruses, trans people, and racialized people. the usamerican medical system is distinctly unjust to these groups.
abortion should be legal, accessible, and free. the only requirement is you are pregnant and want to not be pregnant. i support catholics4choice.
i'm culturally catholic, a long-standing critic of the church (and officially an apostate). i will voice both support for positive actions by the church and strong criticism for past and continued wrongs. the latter will be much more frequent than the former.
nuanced AI views, but generally against LLMs as a consumer product, supportive of gen AI in biology and diagnostic research settings, critical of water and other ecological concerns wrt data centres. gen AI chatbots are a plague. gen AI cannot make art or be creative; these are human endeavours.
my stepdad was an evangelical and i have a lot of opinions about evangelical usamerican christianity, mostly critical. i talk about the role of churches in southeastern us communities, especially in terms of disaster response, as well as the role of churches in addiction treatment and charity work.
southern folks deserve respect for their cultures, histories, and humanity. i will talk at length about systemic inequality, literacy issues and the death of free public education, and rural society.
gender is a social construct and there is no inherent difference between men and women that is not socially mediated. raise all children the same.
okay don't bother sending hate i will just block u lol
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Something that gave H.P. Lovecraft nightmares is the work of my favorite artist. In "At the Mountains of Madness" he specifically mentions "the strange and disturbing Asian paintings of Nicholas Roerich."
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another huge piece of advice: separate out 'tidying', 'cleaning' and 'organising' in your head. they're not the same thing and a lot of paralysis and overload comes from either misidentifying what your space needs, or trying to do all of them at once with conflicting goals.
TIDYING means clearing space, making your environment orderly and inviting. it usually entails removing clutter from surfaces, clearing the floor so you can move around easily, and creating psychological ease by putting everything visibly in its place. It's very visual, and can also involve things like straightening picture frames, squaring pillows, folding blankets on the couch, etc. It reduces chaos and noise and makes a space comfortable.
ORGANISING means sifting through belongings, ensuring that what doesn't need to be kept is thrown out and what does need to be kept is kept well. This often means categorising by room and function – teaspoons go in the teaspoon drawer, and the teaspoon drawer stays in the kitchen. It can also mean indexing things so you can find them easily (markers sorted by colour, paperwork divided into topical folders, books alphabetised) and preserving things (moving photos out of direct sunlight, keeping open flour in a sealed container, sleeving trading cards).
CLEANING means removing built up dirt, dust and grime, reducing the level of environmental contaminants and making your space sanitary. Bacteria are a fact of life, they love to hang out in dust and cling to pet hair and multiply on any given surface. Cleaning is how you keep that stuff in check, preventing it from building up to the point it affects your health. This means wiping frequently touched surfaces with disinfectant, sanitising utensils (doing the dishes), washing bedding and clothes (and yourself), and sweeping/vacuuming and taking out the trash to physically remove dirt from your home.
Tidying is not the same thing as organising – shove the mail, bills, dirty teaspoons and your gardening gloves in a drawer, and you've tidied the table. Sort the paperwork into piles by deadline, put the teaspoons in a cup, and roll the gloves together so they don't get separated, and the table is untidy but organised.
Similarly, a tidy or organised space can still be filthy. Just because all the yellowed newspapers and trash bags are sorted by date in the basement, out of sight, doesn't mean they're clean. A chaotic, cluttered space can still be very sanitary if it's being kept clear of refuse, and wiped and dusted often.
Sometimes tidying makes your space less organised, and vice versa. Organising often shakes out a lot of dust and makes the space dirtier. The classic "it's even worse than when I started" feeling is often the result of going into a room with the intent of tidying, then actually starting the task of organising instead. It's a lot easier to tidy an organised space, and organising first is usually the right instinct, but the distinction isn't intuitive so the sudden cluttering effect can be really demoralising. Remember they're three different things with different goals. Sometimes they overlap, but sometimes they conflict. That doesn't mean you're doing it wrong.
I was really hopeful that Gen Z would be the ones to break the cycle of talking about how Kids These Days are Everything Wrong In The World but folks are already being so negative about "gen alpha" and they're literally pre-teens
I keep seeing this specifically about manners, attention and literacy - three things that acting like being unskilled at are 100% on a child are genuinely BAFFLING.
They also have to be taught how to pay attention and how to have manners, but that's also not happening.
"Kids these days" are having their development utterly fucked over and people want to blame the kids that they haven't been taught shit about how to Be A Person, so they're just making it up and hoping they don't fuck it up because that will just get them in trouble/more blame.
I feel like being a kid has gotten insanely more difficult in many ways and we have to give these kids some grace and help them out where they need help.
like if they are being neglected by their parents and failed by their schools it is literally not their fault
yeah theres something to the fact that older folks will always complain about "kids these days" but also its part of being a community of humans that the younger ones will need help and guidance from the older ones
and being hateful and negative toward kids for things they can't control is bad. they did not ask to be born into this crap...
Sorry, Millennials, but recent paleontologist findings and hyolaryngeal apparatus reconstructions no longer support the hypothesis that "rawr" means "I love you" in dinosaur.
Billie Joe Armstrong literally wrote a song about coming out as bisexual as a teenager, and then like two years later wrote one that was pretty much all about dressing up in drag and getting fucked by/fucking guys, and y'all STILL say he’s a “straight ally” because he married a woman??
The same goes for Freddy Mercury and David Bowie. Both were openly bi. Both wrote (multiple) songs about their queerness. Both are pigeonholed as either “gay” or “straight”. They were both neither of those things.
hey remember when freddy mercury wrote a literal song about wanting to be allowed to be bisexual without it being a big deal and was incredibly obvious about it and then straighties went “oh lol look at how quirky queen is writing a song all about bicycles!”
Also let’s add Lady Gaga to the mix. She’s repeatedly shit on for Born this Way for not being part of the community when she is, in fact, openly bisexual and writes song about being LGBT
[Image 1: the “It’s free real estate” guy with the altered caption “It’s Biphobia”
Image 2: a picture of Chris Fleming with the altered caption “Okay, was anybody going to tell me that ‘Bicycle Race’ was about being bi or was I just supposed to learn that from a post about Billie Joe Armstrong myself?” End ID.]
its baffling that bisexuality is considered ‘invisible’ when theres a whole pantheon of the most loud rhinestone bedazled spectacles of entertainment being openly vocal that theyre bi
its like a simpsons bit where everyone ignores the blinking neon sign
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tl;dr pjackk is dead as a dog and the url just keeps getting reused and then deactivated
with pjackk "returning" and summarily dying badly immediately afterwards again recently, i was curious. for reference, here's a genuine pjackk from 2024.
this post identifies the original poster as blog uuid t:HuwUbWALH_henoZVntYRkw. not very interesting on its own, but the mustard gravy thickens.
14 july, 2026. this reblog, however, is identified as uuid t:tNMwxZMmAgBJnswr3_fn1g. and then; yesterday:
t:-ThK-Ibwire-Stwuc-vTDQ matches neither of the previous posts: a second pjackk imitation has hit the dashboard.
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Every work of art says things the creator hasn’t considered, but if you’ve really thought about what you’re trying to say then generally the additional dimensions you didn’t know it had are in alignment with your purpose, whereas if you think you’re making no cultural comment at all you are actually making a LOT of cultural comments, most of which will be unflattering to you
“I don’t want to make anything with cultural dimensions. That’s why I only write within the genre that is legally sequestered away from every other kind of storytelling because of my culture’s attitude towards depictions of sex.”