Watermelon salads are so underated. I mean I get it... it's a lot more work to take something from an A to an A+ but like, in the right context it's so worth it!
get out of the summoning circle you stupid little fruit
thinking about how spike had one sex dream about buffy and concluded that he was in love with her.
thinking about buffy having confirmed sex dreams about spike as early as season 4 and repressing them. thinking about buffy in season 5 delighting in beating the shit out of spike. thinking about buffy also being on the receiving end of spike’s chivalry in season 5 and being repulsed by it. thinking about buffy in season 6 teasing herself by spending her free moments in spike’s company. thinking about buffy pining. thinking about buffy also giving in to her darkest desires finally forcefully kissing spike and then beating him up before they fuck a building down. thinking about buffy cutting off her relationship with spike because she’s done with the self harm. thinking about buffy in season 7 saying she feels for spike. thinking about how she never kills him even when he begs because she’s not ready for him to not be here. thinking about buffy admitting she needs spike. thinking about buffy letting spike treat her tenderly and comfort her in touched. thinking about buffy finally done repressing her feelings for spike and telling him she loves him right before he dies to save the world.
Communicating with my cat is so crazy, it’s like, you watch my back for predators when I sleep. You meow only because you know that I vocalize often, but the words I use are nothing to you unless they’re associated with things relevant to your little baby life (food, for example). You slow blink at me because you feel safe with me. You point your ass at my face, indicating that you trust me to watch your back for predators, because you feel safe with me. You sit in my lap and sleep pressed against my side because you need to warm yourself up, and you trust me to warm you. I know this because I have access to information. If I didn’t, these things would be weird to me. I call you Lulu, but you don’t need a name for me; you have your senses to identify me. You smell me to identify me. You nuzzle me with your head to mark me as family with your scent. We ARE family. You are both the baby I feed and the elderly little lady who watches over me. It’s a very special and pure interspecies bond. I have a concept of “love” that is metaphysical, conceptual; you have an instinctual bond to those that you “trust” to help you survive (and that you, in turn, help to survive). You DO aid my survival on an emotional level that you can’t possibly understand, because you try to aid me on the physical level that comes naturally to you. Who said survival of the fittest has no room for love? We share the pure love of deep friendship because you and I must survive. My creature, Lulu, my best friend. My stinky.
The comments and tags on this post have been very sweet, I really love hearing about everyone’s cats. Feeling a little self-conscious because this drunken emotional outburst (seriously, I had a few drinks, looked at Lulu, and started crying and writing this) has been tagged as poetry a few times. Now I wish I could go back in time and edit it for flow and word choice, but it’s too late now…
ridw-ali95 asked:
Hey since some of linguistic fields are part of STEM
Source: https://twitter.com/begusgasper/status/1691493001938571264?t=d88KzJuw968h-_CSoD3RBg&s=19
Some linguists were and are still researching quantitatively before, and they work with numeric and data as well, Do you know why and how it took so long for it to be considered as STEM previously? 😅
Thanks and stay healthy and hydrated as usual
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whowantstobeaphd answered:
Linguistics is a STEM subject because it is a Science.
Why Linguistics and Psychology often aren’t considered to be STEM sciences? Probably sexism.
Math, Chemistry, Physics, Biology, Computer science are generally male dominated fields, while Linguistics, Psychology, and (iirc) Sociology are generally female dominated fields. So we’re seen as “soft” scientists (and probably because we don’t make bombs as well).
Also, the argument that qualitative work isn’t “science” drive me insane. People aren’t just numbers. Using mixed methods gives you a better idea of who and what you’re exploring and can possibly help you make generalisations from your results (we have to generalise because we can’t test everyone). Doing purely quantitative work has led to a lot of misunderstanding of outcomes in my opinion and, at least in my department, I’ve been hearing a lot more people talking about how there needs to be a bigger push more mixed methods.
Anyone have any other thoughts? @redstar-winterorbit @after-perfect @no-chill-scientist @sprachgefuehle @thiswilldragon @smileystudies @esoanem
and @ anyone else who wants a go.
Linguistics is a science just like any other field that advances testable hypotheses to explain data and then does those tests to iteratively improve its explanations
That's all science is
It's a social science, in that it studies an aspect of human society and social interactions, and because of that the data is often non-numeric, but numbers aren't a prerequisite of science
Physics (which is what my degree is actually in) may be pretty close to a lot of people's idea of a prototypical science, but it's actually a pretty unusual one. That level of mathematicalisation just isn't possible in most fields, even within the "hard" sciences like Chemistry or Biology
That doesn't make those fields less scientific, it just makes them different
Mathematical modelling (the sorts of maths you see a lot in physics, but not much elsewhere) is a very powerful tool for doing science, but it's just one of many, and it's also only really practical when dealing with very simple problems (before it rapidly becomes extremely unwieldy and chaotic)
Physics is successful at using it because physicists study extremely simple problems. The "soft" sciences can't because the problems they study are so much more complicated
This does allow physics to look "deeper" into the problem (in the sense that the scale at which physicists consider the problem is further removed from the scale at which social scientists tend to consider theirs), but that's just because we're playing on easy mode being able to use maths
Even so, it's not social science isn't "deep" (in this same sense). If you tried talking about government and binding with most laypeople you'll get a similar response to if you try to explain gyroscopic precession or a lot of other aspects of classical physics
I definitely also agree that a large part of this bias is sexism. Physics is seen as masculine and good, whilst biology and social sciences are seen as feminine and dismissed as wishy-washy nonsense without rigour, but this is bullshit
This has been a bit of a rambling rant, but yeah, the "soft" sciences absolutely are doing science, they're just doing it on hard mode, and (in significant part due to sexism) your mental image of a prototypical science is one doing science on easy mode
me, having deeply fallen out of the practice of writing poetry: I can’t write any more, I am now a Talentless Hack
the voice of my 11th grade journalism/12th grade creative writing teacher who rly did know everything: if you stop writing for a while the words will build up and stagnate. to clear the water, you will have to open the dam completely, and accept the fact that what initially comes out will not be palatable
This. This is so true. Starting again is more important than what you actually write. You are rusty. You’ll build up momentum again. All you need to do is start.
📢Cuteness alert!📢
We’re feeling all aflutter with excitement for a brand-new bundle of fluff on exhibit! This adorable puffin chick (puffling) hatched on July 19 and currently weighs just over 1 pound.
Whalecome to this big, bayutiful world, little fluff nugget! 🎊🐥
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It is exhausting how many people seem to refuse to give unaligned non-binary people the same level of compassion as they do masc or fem aligned trans people. So many people seem to completely understand how much constant misgendering can affect a person, that many trans people are forced to stay closeted and that being closeted is not a privilege even if it reduces the risk of being targeted by bigots, that many trans people can't transition due to lack of access/support/health issues... But the same people that understand that for trans men and women will forget all of that when it comes to non-binary people, especially those of us unaligned with concepts of feminity or masculinity. Suddenly people will act like every non-binary person who "looks cis" is making a conscious choice to do so, and that they are fully comfortable and happy with that choice. People will go from treating misgendering as a serious issue to acting like nb people should just brush it off. People who understand that infighting and comparing who has it worse within the queer community distracts from real progress will start talking about nb people as if we have no real problems and just want to feel oppressed. Leftists will start to sound like alt-right incels complaining about "special snowflakes" and "safe spaces" when they talk about non-binary people.
It's utterly exhausting and it's infuriating how many people seem to not even notice this.
Non-binary people face a huge amount of invisibility and infantilisation. Non-binary people spending their lives being misgendered and hiding away in the closet are not privileged for that. Non-binary people face the same obstacles in medical transition as any other trans person. Non-binary people discussing our own struggles on our own posts or in our own spaces doesn't take away from other trans people. Non-binary people have a right to take up space and participate in the wider queer community without be treated like we're intruders.
Stop treating non-binary people like we're "basically cis" or "trans-lite," stop acting like trans issues don't affect non-binary people. Treat non-binary people with some compassion or just leave us alone.
Aren't NB and gender queer and agender and GNC folk under the trans umbrella?
If they want to be.
Not everyone does.
Anonymous asked:
“ooh garlic salt isn’t real” yeah well neither is your MARRIAGE after i’m done FUCKING YOUR HUSBAND and afterwards he eats my delicious cooking that i seasoned with GARLIC SALT. FUCK YOU
redstonedust answered:
i think. you sent this to the wrong person. but im enamoured with your energy. you can have my metaphorical husband you deserve her
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i dont even get a numerical score... the economy is in shambles
well now that you said it i'm not gonna fix it
Do you write music with the view of being politically active and delivering a message or does it just happen and the rest follows?
#this is a perspective I’ve only seen from people who truly think broadly and sympathetically about life#like he’s literally right I’m sorry and people who aren’t white or cis or straight learn so so SO early that your existence is political#not inherently but because white cishet men have crafted society in a way it’s impossible for it not to be#and ignoring that isn’t going to make you ascend above it god I’m so tired of having to explain that to people#I’m tired of people’s experiences in both places of privilege and place of oppression being used to scapegoat what we all can see#like look at his example!#‘going out for a dance on a Saturday night’ means something different if you’re poor if you’re gay if you’re a racial minority#’walking into a shop’ who owns it how often do you go is it a big box store or a small owned business is it walkable#there’s pOLitiCs in all of that! in ever aspect of your life!#ESPECIALLY if you take your life experiences and turn them into art of any form (via @twentyfour-mp3)
Friendly reminder that Hozier’s first music video, in 2013, involved him literally taking his life savings and using it to make a protest video about anti-gay actions in Chechnya. This was not a popular position at the time, to the point that damn near every interviewer asked “so, are you gay?” because they literally could not figure out why he cared so much.
Incidentally, after the first few times of saying “no, I’m straight but it’s important,” he started saying “you can think that if you want.” ALSO not a popular position at the time. Adam Lambert’s entire career had been derailed only four years before because he dared to be openly gay and sexual about it.
He literally came out swinging like Muhammad Ali and has not stopped. And he finds it odd that people find it odd! Like he was asked if he was aware of his “lesbian cult following” and seemed genuinely puzzled why he has a lesbian cult following (and, later, just a massive queer following in general) and it’s like. Honey. You loved us first. You loved us more and harder than most people were willing to. When it was unpopular to even whisper about how maybe queer people shouldn’t be seen as inhuman actually, you grabbed a megaphone and screamed. You risked not just losing a career, but never having one at all, to stand by us. You loved us. We’re just loving you back.
Anonymous asked:
Robert de Niro in heat and I’m not apologising
beholdingslut answered:
i forgot heat was the name of a movie and i had my finger on the block button
scientists in the 1990s, putting a Get More Purple gene attached to a harmless plant virus into an already purple petunia: please get more purple
the petunia, sensing an apparent honest to god Get More Purple Disease, using the previously undiscovered RNAi antiviral ability to shut down all other purple genes along with it just in case: you put VIRUS in petunia? you infect her with the More Purple?? oh! oh! her children shall bloom white! jail for mother, jail for mother for One Thousand Years!!!!
