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A family of cheetahs sleep with the forest guard every night. When the Forest Dept. heard about it, they decided to check the veracity of the claim by installing a CCTV camera. This is what the camera recorded! Just amazing.
Kitties will be kitties 🐈⬛
(piece of a) carrot + straw = carrot stamp/brush
stomping the shitty white color pigments onto a damn piece of fabric with that damn carrot stamp/brush like a maniac:
- Jack Morava, mathematician
Entanglement gif for Quanta Magazine, based on sketches by Mark Van Raamsdonk:
Mark Van Raamsdonk imagines entanglement creating space-time gradually: Along the outside of the figure, individual particles (dots) become entangled with each other. These entangled pairs then become entangled with other pairs. As more particles become entangled, the three-dimensional structure of space-time emerges.
Atom Heads Olena Shmahalo
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Concept character: locals//folk who live in a strange universe of kokedama & quantum space-time foam. From a commissioned interactive storybook that never happened. I like these guys.
2012
fractals. everything is fractals.
THIS THOUGH everything is fractals - the branches on a tree, the veins in your body, lightning, snowflakes, river networks, and so much more.
These dudes are fucking legit. They don’t just show up one day in court, either, they actually make friends with the kids and let them know they have a support system and that there are people in the world who care about them and will always have their back. And less important, but also cool, is that the few times a couple of them have come into my cafe, they’ve been super friendly and polite and when I told one of the guys that I noticed his Bikers Against Child Abuse patch and wanted him to know how awesome I thought he was because of it, he got kind of shy and blushed and said, “The kids are the awesome ones, we just let them know they’re allowed to be brave.”
The source is long, but so, so good. These men and women are available in 36 states, 24 hours a day to stand guard at home, in court, at school, even if the child has a nightmare. Many of them are survivors of childhood abuse as well, and know what it’s like to feel scared and alone.
In court that day, the judge asked the boy, “Are you afraid?” No, the boy said.
Pipes says the judge seemed surprised, and asked, “Why not?”
The boy glanced at Pipes and the other bikers sitting in the front row, two more standing on each side of the courtroom door, and told the judge, “Because my friends are scarier than he is.”
Actual tears.. hnngh
Show me more of people like this, world. I give up on humans too easily.
where do i sign up for this,i want to be in this gang
This is fucking amazing. It may be out of character for me to say this but rock on
Bikers Against Child Abuse was founded in 1995 by a Native American child psychologist whose ride name is Chief, when he came across a young boy who had been subjected to extreme abuse and was too afraid to leave his house. He called the boy to reach out to him, but the only thing that seemed to interest the child was Chief’s bike. Soon, some 20 bikers went to the boy’s neighborhood and were able to draw him out of his house for the first time in weeks.
Chief’s thesis was that a child who has been abused by an adult can benefit psychologically from the presence of even more intimidating adults that they know are on their side. “When we tell a child they don’t have to be afraid, they believe us,” Arizona biker Pipes told azcentral.com. “When we tell them we will be there for them, they believe us.” ( Article)
More about BACA, from their site
My parents are a part of this organization and they are metal af
They go on runs to protect the child if they feel even the slightest threatened no matter where. If the child needs them to go on vacation with them, they do. Bikers come from across the nation to watch over and take shifts for these kids. And the best part is once you’re adopted into this family as a BACA kid, you’re always one. Even when you’re 40 and the perp gets released from jail, they’ll come meet with you and find your best options for avoiding the person and maintaining the life you’ve built for yourself. Once a BACA child, always a BACA child. In Florida, there’s 100% rate for identifying the perp based on the child’s testimony. Why? Because BACA stands with the child and supports the child so they feel comfortable enough to point out their attacker.
What’s better than a badass biker gang being on your side???
NATIVE AMERICAN CHILD PSYCHOLOGIST WHO IS A BIKER AND NAMED HIMSELF CHIEF HELL YES I’M HERE FOR THAT AND BIKERS BEING BAD ASS TO PROTECT KIDS. HELL YEAH.
it’s back! I will always reblog BACA
Damn good people.
I know they wouldn’t consider themselves such, but these people are freaking heroes and the world is a better place because of them.
Hey folks, it talks about this in the article but its not mentioned in this post, BACA is a 501 © (3) charity that depends in part on donations to help pay for stuff like gas for their bikes. If you want to help, consider donating.
@copperbadge You like posting about heroes, Sam. Seems like this would be up your alley.
I love these folks! I’ve reblogged them before but it’s wonderful to see the donation information has been added.
Always reblog. Keep doing what you’re doing y'all.
Guys? This post changed my life. I saw this post. Forever ago. And thought it was only in america… and wished desperately that they could help me. But then I saw it again, during a bad episode, and checked their site. They aren’t just in the USA
They’re in Canada as well and probably other countries. I met and talked with a native guy who runs the place near me. His name is Shaman. I got in, and I’m considered a BACA child now. Despite being 17, turning 18 when I talked to them. They spent time with me when my abuser was over, they gave me therapy resources. They give you something called a ‘level 1′ where they go to your house with as many bikers as they can, i shit you not a solid 20-40 bikers came from even out of province, and met me. I got to choose my biker name and I got a vest with patches on it and my name on it. They all hugged a Teddybear before giving it to me, and told me if I ever felt the BACA bear was running out of love, to give them a call and they’d refill it for me, and then I got a ride on one of their bikes. Just a day or so ago I went to an annual party with them and they we ate food one of them cooked and had a lot of laughs.
I’ve never felt as loved as I did being a part of the BACA family. They also gave me dog tags with the names, and phone numbers of my 2 workers. So I can call them whenever I feel scared.
And it doesn’t end when you’re 18 either. As long as you get in contact/get your level 1 before you’re 18? you’re ALWAYS a BACA kid. I’m 18 now and they still invite me to parties, ask me if I’m okay, and are there for me. They’re still trying to find me resources for therapy.
I hope you all can read this, and reblog it knowing from someone who fucking been with them, that they are absolutely amazing.
If I ever don’t reblog this, it’s because I am physically being restrained against my will.
Supporting your local hero’s.
💞🖤💞 Carpe Diem 💞🖤💞
Had seen this before, but never realised that this is on an international level - there’s even a contact address close to where I live (in Germany), very cool (though hoping the only use I’ll ever have to make of it is for donations) ❤
Today I have pet a cat I met on the streets. It was a beautiful feeling. The kitty has hold their head tight against my hand. They purred. They seemed to enjoy the love I had to give. I am happy they accepted the love I had to give. I am happy because the kitty seemed to enjoy it as well.
But I am also extremely sad, because most of the time I do not know how to engage with anyone in any manner. So I am happy the kitty was happy about interacting with me. I miss emotional interaction with other living beings. I miss not feeling like a burden or trash or a parasite. I miss feeling like all this misery somehow has a purpose.
... Somehow engaging with this lovely kitty has made me sincerely happy today. It has made the depression less severe for a few minutes. I am thankful for that. I am thankful for kitty. I am thankful for our encounter.
I am also thankful this encounter has shown me I still have some access to my feelings and emotions. I am thankful for the effect this encounter had on me.
Thanks to unknown kitty.
Title: Entangled in diffuse bursts of hope (and also hopelessness)
I used colorful ballpoint pens for that quick doodle.
The word "Hope" is entangled into a torus-like loop. I used the rainbow colors in a gradient-like manner. I started drawing the "H" in dark blue, continued with the "o" in light blue, then the "p" in light green and light blue, then the "e" in light green. I continued with the spiral flowing out of the green e - looping it around the word "hope" until the radius of the spiral approaches zero in the letter "o". I went from green to yellowish, to orange to red.
Then I continued with the other side of that torus-like spiral/loop: I started at the dark blue "H" and drew the spiral around the word. I started with violet, continued with pink and then ended in red and closed the loop in the letter "o".
It"s not executed in a "high-effort manner", but I wanted to share the idea. It helped me cope with the depression. It kept my mind busy, offers a positive message and is colorful.
when most people say this, it's because they think math is about solving equations or memorizing formulas.
but really, this is what mathematicians mean when they say math!
Groups are like, the ideal mathematical object to me. I may have never mentioned this on this blog before. But groups are so nice, almost nothing is as nice as groups to me. Everything about groups Makes Sense.
Regarding structure, yeah, totally. Vector spaces suffer because they're extremely predictable, they're all product spaces and they're all free, so in a certain way there just isn't much to say about them. You could never have the sporadic groups in linear algebra. On the other side of the coin, topological spaces are almost too general, you have to restrict your view to manifolds or CW-complexes or whatever before most of the topology really starts happening. Groups are just perfectly in the middle.
The fact that the axioms are simple is important too, although I think it's less about them being easy to remember and more about the fact that such a simple characterization can lead to such a structurally rich class of objects. So many interesting patterns emerge from this very brief set of requirements, it's nice.
Groups are the trilobites of mathematics. I think this aesthetic analogy holds in several ways. Relatively simple in structure yet possessing an enormous diversity. Ubiquitous but often overlooked. Just little guys.
Is it common you have to "re-install eye vision" again after you sleep? - as in you cannot use both eyes simultaneously, because at least one eye has a damn blurry vision, and the img of the one eye does not fit well to the img of the other eye... (The visual information needs fine adjustment....)
I think it is a fucked up sensory processing glitch of my brain. (Is it a feature or a bug?)
In the remote Arctic almost 30 years ago, a group of Inuit middle school students and their teacher invented the Western Hemisphere’s first new number system in more than a century. The “Kaktovik numerals,” named after the Alaskan village where they were created, looked utterly different from decimal system numerals and functioned differently, too. But they were uniquely suited for quick, visual arithmetic using the traditional Inuit oral counting system, and they swiftly spread throughout the region. Now, with support from Silicon Valley, they will soon be available on smartphones and computers—creating a bridge for the Kaktovik numerals to cross into the digital realm.
Today’s numerical world is dominated by the Hindu-Arabic decimal system. This system, adopted by almost every society, is what many people think of as “numbers”—values expressed in a written form using the digits 0 through 9. But meaningful alternatives exist, and they are as varied as the cultures they belong to.
this is so cool
Absolutely love it
I am absolutely showing this to my students.
The bread(/brain) crumb oven has been successfully refilled with a fine selection of nutrients.
(alias: I have finally eaten some trashy food. and can return to do silly and/or interesting stuff. )
I have too many interests, too few time, too few mental capacity and duuuh. it sucks. It would be nice to compress 72 hours into 24 hours - and only needing 1 or 2 hours of sleep time per day. Additionally it would be great to get nutrition via a power cable instead of needing to buy far too expensive food and half-heartedly composing very awful meals - the fastfood trash (a la microwave french fries or "Nudeltüten" or whatever.... )... or eating raw bread fresh outta the bread sack....
Eating is a waste of time. and buying groceries also requires far too much time Also: Buying groceries and eating is exhausting as fuck. The resulting exhaustion of these unliked activities increases the need for sleep and rest time and additionally elso reduces the time left for engaging with beloved special interests (which is a very helpful factor for actually reducing the exhaustion and "big sad" )
But sleeping and resting are awfully boring. It exhausts me mentally to be forced to rest and/or sleep. I hate laying in bed like a half-dead slice of bread.
This feels like an endless downwards spiral... duuuhhh.
maybe i am just too dumb to get my shit together and work more efficiently.
maybe I am like a sack of bread. It"s said you are what you eat. so perhaps its true i am a brain crumb crumbling into pieces of nonsense gibberish.
my brain is turning into slimy dough again....
There has been a lot of research about autistics over the years, but this one really took the cake!
This is what happened when researchers attempted to compare the moral compass of autistic and non-autistic people…
