people are way too comfortable being dismissive of children and teenagers. if a toddler comes up to you and starts explaining skibidi toilet lore or if a 13 year old asks you if you want to hear about their mha ocs you have to listen with utmost sincerity or at least pretend to. this is the only way you will get into heaven.
genuinely depressing how people will dismiss the interests kids have because all it does is make them retreat into shame and never want to talk to you about anything again
people don’t share information with you for no reason. nobody walks up to someone and starts explaining something they enjoy for no reason. If it doesn’t pertain to a task or a mutual goal or a nearby danger, they’re telling you, “I want to share a connection”, and that’s equally important. If you push them down, they’ll stop trying. Don’t make kids stop trying to build connections. Don’t make kids stop looking for people who love them
marine biology is so scary because it’s such a small field. i was giving a talk on cetaceans and afterward a woman approached me with her husband and she said, “you did very well. [husband’s name] actually pioneered the research and published the first paper on that. We were very impressed by you.”
Which is such a scientific interpretation/public education win I will cherish forever but also for the rest of my life any time I give a talk I will be haunted by the knowledge that the world’s leading expert who literally discovered/invented the topic might be in the room,
which is like, the opposite of what you’re supposed to do for stage fright. In fact I never used to experience stage fright but now I will.
There are limitations to the benefits of being a marine biologist
This is completely nuts and absolutely mandatory. “Cementimental - Untitled Harsh Noise Graphic Novel”. Surrealist book-object; harsh noise album in paperback form. 300 pages of pixel-noisescapes, created soley using the antique mac paint app LightningPaint. How can I not get this gem.
I really do. I loved it as a kid and still do. It’s probably one of my favorite beverages ever. And yet, I don’t know if I will love it forever. One day, you may hear me say “Eww, orange juice is gross, bring me some carrot juice instead.”… even though I hate carrot juice now. Who knows! It’s a possibility - people change.
Does that mean I shouldn’t buy orange juice today, just because there’s the possibility that I may feel differently in the future? Would it make me a liar or a bad person to drink it now if I change my mind later?
Of course not. That’d be very silly! Why would I deprive myself of something that makes me happy now, just because of the “What if”?
Obviously my juice preferences are not directly compareable to identities or feelings but this core idea goes for that as well:
A possible future doesn’t invalidate the current reality. “You shouldn’t identify as X now because you may change your mind later” makes as little sense as “Don’t drink juice now, you may stop liking it later”.
The urban fantasy show I actually want to see is a hospital drama with a dedicated wing for supernatural illnesses.
Vampirism. Lycanthropy. Cheap spells gone wrong. A woman brought in for her prenatal has to be told her baby is a lindworm. Someone is literally being followed by the anthropomorphic personification of the Black Death.
Someone somewhere out there is having their perception of the world irreparably shattered by the knowledge that magic is real, and at the other side is a team of doctors who have to roll their eyes and pull out Grimm’s Complete Fairy Tales because some high school kid tried to go Carrie with a cheap spellbook and turn all the kids at prom into frogs, and the doctors have to wrangle a couple dozen teenagers into admitting if they have a true love who can break the spell.
i think part of the reason lost media videos are so fun is that it more ethically scratches the same itch as true crime. a bunch of people online being amateur sleuths and going down rabbit holes is a lot easier to enjoy when theyre looking for a cereal commercial from 1991 instead of liike bothering the families of murder victims
Saw this Trucks Discourse on facebook and I’m not part of that world but yeah that one on the left is delightful and I really had no idea just how wasteful and pointless the other kind is until this comparison
it’s so sad that they’ve been selectively bred for size and aesthetics over their health. look at that pushed-in muzzle—there’s no way the one on the right can breathe properly
because people are saying “germany has banned irish” or even “germany says the irish arent white” (literally please learn how to read): this is about the occupy against occupation camp for palestine in front of the bundestag and only affects the camp and surrounding areas. doesnt make it any better but the state or city have not just banned a language period and yes you can travel to berlin and speak your mother tongue
but why are they doing this? there are now so many protests and gathering for palestine around the city that the cops simply do not have enough translators to check if anything illegal or anticonstitutional is being said in arabic (and now in any other language because the protests are getting bigger and berlin is a very multinational country), but its not like they did only accurate translations before, they kept accusing people of saying things they did not say to denounce the protestors of course so its not like they are so interested in accurately following and representing the speeches and music on the camp site but its a requirement they got from the interior ministry for constitution protection nonetheless. they allowed arabic after 6pm that day because thats probably when they got to book a translator/get an arabic speaking cop on site.
for people asking for sources (youre not going to find this in a newspaper): go visit matt’s page
There is a conversation to be had about the fact that Taylor Swift’s album is being played in its entirety across all of iHeartRadio’s 868 stations, pushing out the opportunities other artists might have had to get radioplay. That’s the literal definition of a monopoly. No wonder she’ll hit the top of the radio play charts with this maneuver, because at least 65 minutes (if not the back side of the album, which would take it to nearly twice that length) across EIGHT HUNDRED AND SIXTY EIGHT STATIONS will be dedicated to her, artificially boosting her radio play and decreasing everyone else’s. In this essay I will—
ALT
