some movie studies with friends, 10 mins per picture! It's fun playing with shapes rather than lines! No perfection here babeyyyy. recognise any of these movies? 💚

the twitter thread the artist created after this was one of the best situations i have ever seen in my whole life:

Somebody give this ignoramus a piece of actual shark skin and tell him to rub his face with it, let him find out just how “smooth” sharks really are.

Somebody did. I use it as a pillowcase because it’s so smooth.

But buddy.

Shark skin feels exactly like sandpaper. It is made up of tiny teeth-like structures called placoid scales, also known as dermal denticles. These scales point towards the tail and help to reduce friction from surrounding water when the shark swims. … In the opposite direction, it feels very rough like sandpaper.

((Here m8 https://www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/fish/discover/sharks/basics ))

Buddy. It’s smooth. The link you sent me led to a website that described how smooth they are. I dunno, maybe you don’t know how to read?

this post is transcendent

You’re thinking of dolphins. Dolphins are the ones with smooth skin that feels like a rubber beach ball.

Source: I’M A MARINE BIOLOGIST

No, I’m thinking of sharks.

Source: I’m a superior marine biologist

captain afab is honestly a very relatable character because whomst among us does not have some great beast that has eluded us all our lives. mine, for instance, is a decent night's sleep.

Ahab. I meant fucking. captain Ahab.

y'all are gonna make this a whole thing aren't you

top 5 things people have said in the tags on this so far:

Cismale is sending me.

I keep thinking about all of the disabled activists and people before me who stranded themselves on the 4th floor of buildings for weeks and crawled up stairs and fought with airline staff and schools and doctors and refused to stop existing in the face of injustice and bigotry no matter how big and scary and hopeless it seemed. Every time I get angry and scared the protests that lead to the creation of the ADA pop up again and remind me that disabled people are so much fucking stronger than anyone has ever given us credit for, and I can't help but be proud of that. And I know not all disabled people feel like we should take pride in our disabilities and have flags or whatever, but I think not just living, but thriving, in spite of a world that wants us dead and gone, in the face of both illness and persecution, and how we've not only bought ourselves forward, but uplifted the disabled people around us, secured more equal futures for everyone who will come after, and truly changed the way so many abled people have seen us for the better is something to be damn fucking proud of.

We have always been here and we always will be, there will never be a world without disabled people because being disabled is not bad, it's a natural part of the human experience and yeah it sucks some times but even when it sucks we have fought to build beautiful, unique, happy lives with people, both like us and not, and that should be celebrated.

The first sign of human civilization is the healed femur. The body of the profoundly disabled person who would have needed help to even just eat being carefully laid to rest after decades of a full, happy life. The medicinal plants showing even before we were entirely human we were doing what we could to not just survive, but alleviate suffering while we're at it. Above everything, evolution selected not the baby who can walk and eat and be quiet, but the one that can ask for help.

Disabled people are not just angry cockroach motherfuckers who refuse to die, we are proof of humanity's HUMANITY. Proof that natural selection selected a species that takes care of each other. From healed femurs and medicinal plants to vaccines and IVs and insulin to now, we are driven to help one another, we are at our strongest when we don't leave our most vulnerable behind. And I am living proof of that. My mother is living proof of that. Every disabled and chronically and/or mentally ill person I know is living proof of that.

And I don't know about the rest of you, but will carry that shred of humanity's true nature inside me like it's my fucking soul. I am scared and angry and hurt, but I have a lifetime's experience being scared and angry, and I can shake off the kind of pain that would make Atlas crumble to dust like it's nothing but a stiff fucking breeze. Disabled people have always been here, turning fear and anger and pain into joy and beauty and connection, and I'm not going to let everyone who came before me down. I'm not going to give up. Not now, not ever.

It's okay if you're disabled and you've hit your limit, you're too scared and tired and hurt, I won't blame you. But I won't abandon you, either. I might not be able to right all of the wrongs in the world, but I'll be strong, I'll carry all of you with me, I will not give up.

As I've said before, society hates a cripple who won't die, so we must spite them and live anyway.

Please, live anyway. I know if anyone can, it's us.

Abled people can rb this btw. And when I say I include mentally ill people in with disabled people I fucking mean it. I'm not tolerating ANY division anymore, I don't care if it's EDS or lupus or cancer or bipolar or autism or ADHD if you're disabled you're fucking disabled and we're in this shit together. Just like we always have been, and we always will be.

You don't have to be in a wheelchair to fight alongside me, and I will not leave you behind, so don't leave others behind because they don't have the exact same medical conditions you do. The BEST thing about disabled people is how we bridge gaps, big and small, how varied our communities are because we do not balk at the sight of the other or snidely insist that the only people who could ever understand us are our carbon copies. We are diversity incarnate, and we know more than anyone else that solidarity is everything.

We get there together or we don't get there at all. That's how it's always been and how it always will be. Unity above division, liberation above assimilation, radical acceptance and a vibrant, angry, joyous, rabid refusal to give up and die over all else. That's the plan. Stick to it.

“denied the catharsis of punishment” is an underappreciated but hugely effective narrative consequence imo 

#it’s so tasty and it comes in so many flavors#does the character self-loathe and feel anguished by what others intended as an act of forgiveness and grace?#does the character know they need to change but sort of madly wish they could trade the unceasing exhausting improvement journey#for a flash bang of slate-clearing repentance so they don’t have to *think* about it anymore?#is is a creeping horror as the character realizes no one is going to punish them because everyone else still thinks what they did was okay?#does the character have to live the rest of their life just feeling ever so slightly untrusted by everyone with no way to stop it?#sorry for leaving pretentious tags on tumblr dot com it will happen again 

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Not that anybody asked, but I think it's important to understand how shame and guilt actually work before you try to use it for good.

It's a necessary emotion. There are reasons we have it. It makes everything so. much. worse. when you use it wrong.

Shame and guilt are DE-motivators. They are meant to stop behavior, not promote it. You cannot, ever, in any meaningful way, guilt someone into doing good. You can only shame them into not doing bad.

Let's say you're a parent and your kid is having issues.

Swearing in class? Shame could work. You want them to stop it. Keep it in proportion*, and it might help. *(KEEP IT IN PROPORTION!!!)

Not doing their homework? NO! STOP! NO NOT DO THAT! EVER! EVER! EVER! You want them to start to do their homework. Shaming them will have to opposite effect! You have demotivated them! They will double down on NOT doing it. Not because they are being oppositional, but because that's what shame does!

You can't guilt people into building better habits, being more successful, or getting more involved. That requires encouragement. You need to motivate for that stuff!

If you want it in a simple phrase:

You can shame someone out of being a bad person, but you can't shame them into being a good person.

Fun fact, that was literally what inspired me to make this post!

i feel like this is important enough to put on here.

if you have any videos on youtube make sure this is unchecked

Hey do y'all remember several years ago when we were all freaking out about net neutrality being overturned? Well despite net neutrality's win in 2024, a federal court just overturned it.

For those who aren't aware, net neutrality is the simple principle that companies like Verizon and Comcast should treat all web traffic equally – not pick and choose based on who is willing to pay more or who they like best. Big Tech companies obviously don’t like that – which is why they spent millions lobbying against it over the years.

Now, these megacorporations will be able to seize control back over our Internet. The likely result? Throttled access to streaming services, monopolistic pricing that cuts out competition, and a slower, walled off, and less free Internet for all of us.

And unfortunately, rulings like this will only get more common now that the Supreme Court has overturned the “Chevron deference” – giving judges, rather than qualified public servants, a blank check to toss out protections like net neutrality, environmental safeguards, or food safety standards.

When Trump’s FCC repealed net neutrality back in 2017, they gave big corporations total control over our Internet – putting free and open access at risk.

Internet providers responded by exploiting their newfound power to speed up certain websites, and slow down – or even block – others. They failed to provide crucial Internet infrastructure in rural areas, low-income communities, and communities of color. They even slashed firefighters’ Internet access during severe wildfires.

But over 126,000 people spoke out and we were able to reinstate net neutrality – until now.

The time has come again to take action: please sign this petition from Common Cause so we can reinstate net neutrality.

It's truly fucked up how ancient Ancient Egypt really is. Like, the New Kingdom period of Egyptian history ended in the 11th century BC, and that's the one they call the New Kingdom. King Tut's reign was one thousand years before the time of Cleopatra. The Great Pyramid of Giza was older to the Romans than the Romans are to us. Ancient Egypt is just fucked up old and it blows my mind every time I think about it.

It blew my mind when I found out that all three of the Old, Middle and New Kingdoms were pre-Bronze Age Collapse. I had as implicitly assumed that at least the New Kingdom was post-Collapse.

just chillin' in the desert for a couple of thousand years.

hiiii local Egyptologist here coming in with a reminder that the Egyptians and/or the Mesopotamians (consensus flips every couple of years) developed writing c.3300 BCE. Which is *checks notes* about 700 years before they built the Pyramids (c.2600 BCE).

If we want to get to the start of Egypt's civilisation we have to go to c.6120 BCE. Roughly about 3000 years before the invention of writing and almost 4000 years before the Pyramids. This is called the Pre-Dynastic period and I encourage people to check out the Naqqada pottery because it's cool as shit.

Tutankhamun reigned c.1332 BCE which is 1300 years (1302 if we're being pedantic) before Cleopatra and 1300 years after the Pyramids were built. He's slap bang average.

The Bronze Age collapse happens *during* the New Kingdom as that period in Egypt's history doesn't end until c.1069 BCE and the BAC ends c.1150 BCE. Trust me, it had a punishing effect on Egypt with famine and tomb robbery being common.

Ancient Egypt was quite green. The idea that it was all a desert is that classic 'yellow filter' they use for foreign places in TV/Movies. They lived on the Nile. That big river that flooded once a year and left really beautifully fertile soil in its wake from which grew an abundance of life. It was GREEN. Yes there was desert, but nowhere near as much of it as people think there is.

So this vast amount of time should put a few things into perspective. Egypt's civilisation began in c.6120 BCE and ended with the death of Cleopatra in c.30 BCE. That's 6090 years. Yes. Six Thousand and Ninety.

So when we think of the Egyptians doing things and someone says 'the Egyptians did X' I'm going to ask you to ask yourself 'which time period of Egypt is that?' because SIX THOUSAND YEARS is a bit too long for one thing to be true for all of it.

Because Ancient Egypt was around for this long it really does the civilisation a disservice to reduce it to 'they always did this.' You wouldn't say any country in the world now is the same as it was 200 years ago or even 30 years ago for many of them. So lets not think that a civilisation that lasted nearly 6100 years was completely static. It would be beneficial to my mental health.

Anyway, Ancient Egypt is really fucking cool. Learn more about it please.

(tumblr doesn't let add videos to reblogs, apparently)

decided to post the full video from this story, in case the twitter post gets deleted.

the caption reads: "The most beautiful scene today"

you can see (and hear) people crying in the crowd. such an emotional moment. 🥹🥹

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Also worth mentioning the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, which also went to AI-related work (AlphaFold). AlphaFold essentially reinvented protein folding, a necessary component of lots of genetics research. What took weeks can now be done in hours, and a ton of completely novel research has already shown the tech’s impact.

IMO, AlphaFold is one of the best examples of AI solving a difficult problem and pushing an entire field forward. I think it’s always worth remembering that there are no bad technologies, only bad applications. AI technologies will continue to exist and get better as time goes on, and it’s up to us to make the best use of them.

The decade you’re given is the decade to which you’re transported. Your geographic location doesn’t change; only the time period changes. “Equivalent QOL” means a qualify of life that approximates the life you have now and anticipate being able to have in the future.

nosferatu? no. tuferatu. no es mi problema.

momentos despues de escribir esto vi otro post con el misma chiste pero en frances joder mi estupida baka vida.

bestie... el español es de europea...