@127leilas

it all began when i was the only girl who could not do the cup song.

they slash them?????

obviously overall in my ideal world i think all scientific papers should be open access but like. any paper 20+ years old should especially be open access

@hakeacarapace no worries! i do get access to most things through my institution, it's just an ethical thing for me - imo it's unjust for any science to be locked behind a paywall, especially when it has been largely funded by public money, and especially when the publication is old enough to be in college itself

researchers don't get paid to publish papers (in fact we often have to pay to publish them if we want them to be open access) or for providing peer review (quite a chunk of labour, and hugely important). most research scientists (at least here) are largely funded via government grants, which are in turn funded by the public via taxes - and the general public can't even fucking access them unless they have money or connections to an institution (which is in and of itself a class barrier). these publishing companies make billions upon billions of dollars. it's unjust and unethical

so basically i think the publishing industry is a huge scam and should die

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Quarters only, please [x]

(done in procreate)

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This is not anthropomorphization but genuinely something theyre known to do. I've heard divers say octopuses and cuttlefish get fascinated by hand gestures and will sometimes respond to them like. We probably do look like we have little cephalopods on the ends of our arms, to them. Like we're always putting on a puppet show.

found a twitter tweet that was like "oh yeah content warning hatoful boyfriend has a lot of gore and violence" and every single person in the notes/retweets/qrts/whatever the fuck terms twitter has was going "WHAT THE FUCK IT HAS WHAT" and i find that hilarious because. large amounts of gore and violence is a tremendous understatement about the amount of stuff that goes down in hatoful boyfriend

my full trigger list for hatoful boyfriend (and its sequel), for anyone curious is:

just on the off chance anyone reading this doesn’t know what Hatoful Boyfriend is

very upset i can't find a specific cat sculpture I like

FOUND THE BITCH

by Karen fawcett

barbie day

Ken Starmer absolutely obliterated by a front page.

i think it shld be more widespread for ppl to read aloud to each other as a means of spending time together. like even just a bunch of adults sitting together reading wikipedia articles or something

TIL that because of a mistranslation Jimmy Carter told the Polish people in 1977 that he desired them carnally and that he had left the United States to never return.

via reddit.com

Imagine being a Polish citizen and you hear the American president say he’s here to fuck and he’s not leaving

funniest tiktok exchange of all time

ariana grande is dating spongebob omg

its just the spongebob from the musical so not the real spongebob sorry

Relationship goals ♡

Which of these would you rather see on your dash?

Hey @staff. This is a perfect example of why collapsed reblogs is such a bad idea. Seeing the full thread, you go like this: 😮 ooh, that's cool 😀 "they're free," hehe! 🤣 "16 cents," perfection!!

I have achieved joy, I feel positive feelings toward Tumblr, I want to engage, I want to stay, my eyeballs land on more ads, you make more money, everyone wins! 🎉

Seeing the collapsed thread, you go like this:

😮 ooh, that's cool 😐 "16 cents"? yes, that's literally what the pic shows, not sure why you felt the need to say that

There is no motivation for me to uncollapse the reblog chain—it looks like a boring conversation about the denominations of coins. And even if I do uncollapse it, you've ruined the joke by showing me the punchline before the setup. I am sad, Tumblr is boring, I go elsewhere to entertain myself, I see less ads, you make less money, everyone loses. 😥

Reblog chains are the best thing about Tumblr. They are your unique super power. They are the thing that makes people screenshot Tumblr and share it around. Why on earth would you kneecap them??

I don't know exactly how you plan to implement this. Give people the option to keep them collapsed if there truly are people who are annoyed by how long they can get (you already have a version of this feature), but don't collapse them for everyone or new users by default. Please. It will make Tumblr so much more boring.