Bagels, Heists, and Bagel Heists.

Two more Journey to Rivendal postcards ♥ lighting above Midgewater marches and a knife in the dark ♥

well i mean, not wrong // credits: @screamingemonight on Instagram

My final pic for last years @iwaoiweddingzine

Like I know the main referrent for House of Usher is probably Succession, but it reminds me of a Benoit Blanc movie in terms of its ability to assemble an entire squad of the Most Loathsome Types of Guy in the world and then have bad things happen to them.

late night thoughts

More of vtm madness, my elder daeva im preparing for a session

finding out there's a frankenstein ballet and that it was in october of last year…DEVASTATING

look at this. look at these. im foaming at the mouth

Modern Graphic Lotr Design : Imagine if Middle Earth was real and if the land would have developed though centuries, how the packaging of the food would look! The pack of stickers is still in progress, I hope I will finish soon the colors !

Something a bit different than my usual posting but I've been working on some small embroidery projects in my spare time and I've finally finished one before running out of steam

It's nothing much but it's my unwindy little hobby so I don't strive for perfection :) (the back is. a mess.)

every single time

by threadhandedjill

one of the best academic paper titles

for those who don't speak academia: "according to our MRI machine, dead fish can recognise human emotions. this suggests we probably should look at the results of our MRI machine a bit more carefully"

I hope everyone realises how incredibly important this dead fish study is. This was SO fucking important.

I still don’t understand

So basically, in the psych and social science fields, researchers would (I don't know if they still do this, I've been out of science for awhile) sling around MRIs like microbiolosts sling around metagenomic analyses. MRIs can measure a lot but people would use them to measure 'activity' in the brain which is like... it's basically the machine doing a fuckload of statistics on brain images of your blood vessels while you do or think about stuff. So you throw a dude in the machine and take a scan, then give him a piece of chocolate cake and throw him back in and the pleasure centres light up. Bam! Eating chocolate makes you happy, proven with MRI! Simple!

These tests get used for all kinds of stuff, and they get used by a lot of people who don't actually know what they're doing, how to interpret the data, or whether there's any real link between what they're measuring and what they're claiming. It's why you see shit going around like "men think of women as objects because when they look at a woman, the same part of their brain is active as when they look at a tool!" and "if you play Mozart for your baby for twenty minutes then their imagination improves, we imaged the brain to prove it!" and "we found where God is in the brain! Christians have more brain activity in this region than atheists!"

There are numerous problems with this kind of science, but the most pressing issue is the validity of the scans themselves. As I said, there's a fair bit of stats to turn an MRI image into 'brain activity', and then you do even more stats on that to get your results. Bennett et. al.'s work ran one of these sorts of experiments, with one difference -- they used a dead salmon instead of living human subjects. And they got positive results. The same sort of experiment, the same methodology, the same results that people were bandying about as positive results. According to the methodology in common use, dead salmon can distinguish human facial expressions. Meaning one of two things:

I cannot overstate just how many papers were completely fucking destroyed by this experiment. Entire careers of particularly lazy scientists were built on these sorts of experiments. A decent chunk of modern experimental neuropsychology was resting on it. Which shows that science is like everything else -- the best advances are motivated by spite.

My new favorite genre of picture is a very special thing that most animals (and humans!) do: face nuzzling as an act of greeting/comfort/intimacy. thank God that this is happening all over the world right now

Isn’t it wonderful?!

had to continue the compilation:

Doctors explaining hysteria in 1846

this is literally the only funny thing i have ever seen in my life, which includes a summa cum laude BA in the history of art

The destruction of Gaza, by USA weapons.

Victorian perfume bottles.

Two more technicolor podcast scribbles

The Turin one was for a dragon special

There won’t be time to wake the others.

vice news

ironically i am working right now so i can’t do a full post on this like i would really prefer to do… but these are the most cartoonishly evil people that you could possibly imagine, even in a society as flawed as the one we’ve built for ourselves. these are bedrock groups devoted to protecting the american worker and consumer. massive huge giant waving red flags 🚩

i am telling you this is going to snowball into something nobody wants to see. the only upside is that this might actually lead to a worker uprising. this is fucking ghoulish.

Corporations are the enemies of every living thing, and billionaires are their collaborators.