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vaiyamagic

sandandglass

Professor Stephen Hawking believes Zayn might still be in One Direction - in a different universe

Did everybody but me know that Bryan Fuller (Hannibal Creator/Writer) wrote the Deep Space Nine episode Empok Nor? And a bunch of other Star Trek episodes? Like what the heck

Dude, I posted this six years ago and I read this and I was like, holy shit he did??? That’s nuts, who posted this???

It was me. I posted this.

crystalwitch-in-the-tardis

pbrim

highhoneypiee

Pick a bottle any bottle lol

artisanalbooty

I recently read an article about a therapy group for depressed people who had all attempted suicide at some point. The breakthrough question for them was, “If your goal was to be just as miserable as possible, what would you do?” Most of them listed things like not getting enough sleep, or isolating themselves from everyone… the list goes on, but the point is, they listed things they already do. But now they saw those “coping mechanisms” for what they really were: things that were actively making their condition worse.

I read that article at 2:00 AM, asked myself, am I TRYING to be miserable tomorrow? And it was easier than usual to put my phone down and fall asleep. Even my intrusive “lying down” thoughts about meaninglessness and existential dread were easier to suppress when I framed them as things I’d think about to purposefully make myself feel as awful as possible.

Fuck that is helpful

thatmissannie

Imagine: Its 2025. You're getting pulled over. A community representative approaches to let you know you have a taillight out. They don't need your license and registration, they don't write you a fix-it ticket. You're back on the road in less than five minutes. You swing by the store and grab a new light, not because you're afraid of what the city will do to you, but because you respect your community and know that having all your lights working is part of the driving privilege.

Your neighbors got into a loud spat a few weeks ago and without fear or hesitation, called a domestic assistance number. A counselor arrived and was able to talk the couple down and suggest solutions for their disagreement. No one was hurt, the kids participated in the discussion, and it's been quiet ever since.

Your friend has been struggling with addiction and you fear they might be a danger to themselves or others. You call a substance abuse specialist and they talk you through ways to help your friend get treatment. They offer to send an agent out to speak with your friend directly and provide information on harm reduction centers in your area.

Black and brown people are no longer being exploited through tickets and fines to pay for police. Trust is slowly being fostered in the community.

Teachers are being paid a living wage and students are being given more time, attention, and education. Books are up to date and classrooms are optimized to keep up with technology.

Trump is out of office.

It’s been a very long time since the name of a murdered black person was used as a hashtag.

Casual racism is no longer tolerated. The KKK has been classified as a terrorist organization. The Confederate flag isnt flown and has been removed from any official state flags or insignias. Most Confederate monuments have been taken down and placed in storage or museums.

You trust the investigation force to deal with crime the same way you trust firefighters to put out fires.

That's what 'defund the police' looks like. What we've seen in the last few weeks shows how overreaching and power-drunk many officers are. We asked too much of them and then called them heroes despite evidence to the contrary. We let them think that they could get away with anything, including murder. Its time for change.

Copied and pasted.

Read this post, then reread it again.

kjuw89

Signal boost

antique-scarecrow

This explains the concept better than anything I’ve seen. And it brought tears into my eyes.

monchursouls

I hope that this comes to be

Link to original tweet thread.

vaiyamagic

phoenixonwheels

READ. EVERY. WORD. OF. THIS. Account of a medical team out in St. Paul last night.

cycopompadour

livelovecaliforniadreams

@cycopompadour it’s Never Have I Ever on Netflix. I watched it and it was alright. I would say it’s a teen comeday/drama centered show aimed at pre-teen to teens.

thenighttrain

does anyone else feel themselves slipping back into the worst versions of themselves because of this pandemic and lockdown and just everything

ratboi24601

if y’all want “billionaire superhero adopts child and mentors him in superheroing” so bad just read fuckin batman like the rest of us

vaiyamagic

shymagnolia

so I got into grad school today with my shitty 2.8 gpa and the moral of the story is reblog those good luck posts for the love of god

shymagnolia

okay so i just got my dream job??? a week after applying to it?? and now i’m thinking….maybe this is the good luck post

…..not even six hours later i got an offer of a well paying full time long-term job with free room and board in queens in nyc, allowing me independence and a way to escape an abusive situation and an unhealthy environment

likes charge reblogs cast, folks, this is the good luck post

jvlianbashir

sisko: mr garak it appears the station needs your help once again

garak: [lana del rey voice] who, me? i?? [laughs] why, commander, i couldn’t possibly. i’m just a tailor. a humble tailor. a simple, vapid, gay tailor. i only know about trivial, homosexual things like scarves, textiles, classic literature, mimosas–

sisko: mr garak, how many times do i have to tell you? we don’t HAVE that stereotype in the future anymore!! now, you can either help us stop dr bashirs dragon age 57 mod from 3D printing snakes onto the promenade or i’m having you extradited to breen!!!

apersnicketylemon

Jewish people: Never Again means now Jewish people: When we say Never Again we don’t mean just us Jewish people: This is the same exact way this started for us last time Jewish people: We’re being arrested for trying to do something and they aren’t letting people know what’s happening or how many have died Jewish people: These are concentration camps, start calling them that. Goy, repeatedly: Uhhh, calling them that diminishes the suffering of The Jews, so you shouldn’t make those comparisons!!

Goy can (and should) reblog but don’t comment.

teratomat

No. I will not be participating in the orgy, no.

#MEEEEEE

teratomat

I have Van Helsing DNA in my blood.

great examples of wordplay in hadestown

“the river styx was a river of stones” (sounds like sticks and stones)
“i also play the lyre.” “a liar?! and a player too?!”
“and they’re giving me hell back in hades….”
“whole damn nation” vs “whole damnation”
“I CONDUCT THE ELECTRIC CITY!”
“women are so…..seasonal.….”
the double meaning of “i do”

animatedamerican

“down there it’s a bunch of stiffs / brother, I’ll be bored to death”
“give him your hand, he’ll give you his hand-to-mouth”
“the boy kept singing loud and clear, / ‘cause everybody knows that the walls have ears”

hermitknut

“Witchcraft — stereotypically, and in cases of actual witch panics — has always been associated with femininity, but it is associated more specifically with marginalized women who have very little worldly power. Old women; poor women; women who were mentally ill, or overly argumentative, or just disliked. The Salem witch panics rippled out from the supposedly “occult” activities of an enslaved South American Indigenous woman and a handful of white teenage girls, most of whom worked as domestic servants. A witch is a woman pushed to the edges of society. Yet that same marginal status gives the witch a terrible, shadowy power. She is the threat you don’t see coming, the person you write off until it’s too late: the crazy old woman on the edge of town, the one you laugh at and insult and ignore, until one day you wake up and your livestock have all died, your crops have been blighted, your milk has soured, and your stores of grain have turned to rot. A witch’s curse was not a trivial or silly thing in the small, rural communities that gave rise to these panics; it was the difference between survival and starvation. The terror implicit in witchcraft is that the people who supposedly have the least power in our communities may, in fact, have the power of life and death hidden in a back pocket; that, when you address a woman, you can never be sure whether she is powerless or massively, malevolently powerful, and that any slight or insult you inflict on her may come back to haunt you, or even ruin your life. Which is to say: Of course Brett Kavanaugh and his defenders are afraid of witches. Witches exist, pretty much entirely, to keep the Brett Kavanaughs of this world in line. […] Witches talk to the press about you. Witches put your name on a spreadsheet and highlight it in red. Witches testify in front of Congress, voices shaking but eyes clear and true. Witches get you fired and don’t feel bad. Witches don’t accept your apology; witches don’t back down to assuage male pain. Some men go their whole lives punching down at women, and for the most part, they get away with it. The witch is the woman who finally punches back. You won’t know what she is until you’re on the floor spitting out teeth.”

— The Brett Kavanaugh Backlash Will Make Witches of Us All (via brutereason)

Source: medium.com

mysoleisred

Things I want in the next 5 years

- a stable job that i love

- enough money to live comfortably and travel

- a fulfulling relationship

w-ander-lusts

Putting this out into the universe

do you ever get into one of those moods where your heart aches and longs for something so deeply but you dont know what and your heart is like a stubborn toddler screaming i want it !!!! please give it to me !!!! And you’re desperately like i don’t know what kind of emotionally fulfilling experience to give you at 3 PM on a Wednesday !!!!!!!!!

nasa-official

Petition to stop using the phrases “hard sciences” and “soft sciences.” Different fields of science shouldn’t be pitted against each other. A hierarchy of importance shouldn’t exist among scientific fields.

Instead use phrases like “physical sciences,” “social sciences,” “life sciences,” “medical sciences,” etc. You better get across what field you’re actually talking about and don’t put down anyone’s work in the process! It’ll take time to make advances in interdisciplinary research, let’s start by leveling the field to make it possible

Remember too that the ‘soft sciences’ weren’t considered soft until women started practicing them in numbers. The delegitimization of a science goes hand in hand with sexism.

that move to reclassify biology as a soft science now that it has more women in it? it’s not sneaky. we can see that shit.

crimefighterphd

It’s also a distinction that falls apart when you think too much about it.

Is it about how much math is used? Because social science can involve a shit-ton of hard math (check out computational social science), and biology, despite becoming “softer” over time (as @anaisnein notes), is more maths & CS heavy than ever in all specialties (judging from all my PhD buddies).

Is it about how physically tangible the concepts are? Because I’m not sure dark matter qualifies, and a lot of what we know about quantum mechanics was largely theoretical & unproven for years, and we still don’t have a very intuitive understanding of how some of it works. We’ve just had longer to work on these problems than problems from other disciplines, but that’s a poor metric for “hardness.”

Is it about the steepness of the learning curve? Maybe, because sure, psychology 101 and sociology 101 are more intuitive & easy to grasp than physics 101 - we use normal words that normal people know, & most people in these classes are humans, so they have, you know, experience with these concepts - but when people are making these comparisons, they’re often mentally comparing psych 101 to work at CERN, and that’s…just not a fair comparison. Start imagining all of the working parts you need to pin down from psychology, sociology, public health, education, neuroscience, and biology in order to understand human behavior, & then imagine all of the work in computer science, data science, and statistics you need to learn in order model & test this behavior. There’s a reason I refer to myself as a social scientist rather than anything more specific - studying humans well requires a vast amount of knowledge from a large number of disciplines. Let me know how long you think that’ll take you to master…

Is it about the importance of the problems? I’ve heard physicist revel in the fact that they are investigating the fundamental fabric of our universe. And sure, that’s super awesome!! I love physics findings!! But are you telling me you don’t also care about the health of our planet? Or what’s living in our oceans? Or how to cure diseases? Or how are genes work? Or how to stop crime? Or how to better educate our children? Or how to live a more fulfilling life? Or how to prevent or treat mental illness? Sure, the universe will outlive us, but you have to live on this planet now, and your kids and your grandkids and your great-grandkids have to live on this planet in the future. Are you telling me that investigating problems that may make yours or their lives better is not of comparable interest to you??

What’s left? Perhaps the degree to which you can bullshit through the degree without knowing what you are doing? I might give you this one. In undergrad, you would’ve been hard-pressed to fake your way through our chemistry program, but you might’ve eked by in our psych program and probably could’ve done so in our soc program. But you’re not going to be hired in that field doing that job. The people who call themselves “social scientists” are not those people, not it’s a poor way to categorize disciplines.

So tell me…what exactly is a hard or soft science again?

surroundedbyselcouth

And part of the problem is that at this point “science” is a pretty meaningless word? What exactly is science? There’s so much stigma against things that aren’t obviously STEM that it becomes almost necessary to call everything by the same name even when there are real differences (for instance, I, a biologist, work in a chemistry lab and am much more likely to interact with chemists, physicists, biologists of various specialties, and even geologists than I am to interact with psychologists, sociologists, linguists, etc). So either we need new names to describe what we actually work on day to day, or we need to get to the point where we can actually appreciate all the different things people do (I vote let’s work on the latter option).

Isn't science just systematic empiricism? I wouldn't say the word is just meaningless in an of itself. Although I do see your point with the rest of it.