onethirdofimpossible

Okay, I was just going to reblog this without commentary, but I can't keep this to myself. I'm a PhD student in environmental science and this is my fucking highway.

The first published study about climate change (that I am aware of-- feel free to point out if there's an older one) is an 1896 paper by Svante Arrhenius. He pointed out the link between the greenhouse effect and changes in atmospheric CO2.

Plate tectonics, which the geoscience community now recognizes as near indisputable, was a fringe theory until about the 1960s.

Just in case anyone thought that climate change was a "recent fad" in research.

onethirdofimpossible

Okay, I was just going to reblog this without commentary, but I can't keep this to myself. I'm a PhD student in environmental science and this is my fucking highway.

The first published study about climate change (that I am aware of-- feel free to point out if there's an older one) is an 1896 paper by Svante Arrhenius. He pointed out the link between the greenhouse effect and changes in atmospheric CO2.

Plate tectonics, which the geoscience community now recognizes as near indisputable, was a fringe theory until about the 1960s.

Just in case anyone thought that climate change was a "recent fad" in research.

shrimpsisbugs

today Meatball abruptly realized that there are refugee office plants in the kitchen (they have been there for weeks) and has decided his singular purpose in life is to eat them 

surprisedentistry

we put up a 4 foot tall step-through baby gate when we brought the plants home, but it turns out he can actually squeeze his body through the bars. not in a dignified way, mind you. but he can 

surprisedentistry

we have foiled him with a two-gate system: a short one with small openings that he can’t squeeze through, and the tall one that he can’t jump over. he is now sitting outside our kitchen door rattling the gates with his stupid little mitten hands like an animated ghost prisoner in a Spirit Halloween decoration 

dentalectomy

update: we underestimated him

surprisedentistry

why are your doors closed to the public��

evil-dad-evil

is this the same Meatball with the Hanukkah sweater????

surprisedentistry

it sure is 

you may also know him as the Meatball who tried to jump into my toilet and the violent sweatervest-wearing accountant cat 

numberlover1729

tiny accountant harasses human, eats plants

surprisedentistry

i mean he has to find some way to unwind from his high-pressure job 

surprisedentistry

update:

the-one-the-only-derpghost

So how do you guys… get in there anymore?

surprisedentistry

well my original game plan was opening the white gate and kind of shoving my body through the gap between the wood gate and the grey gate and i am excited to announce that this was not a good idea at all

surprisedentistry

update: was woken up at 7 AM this morning by Meatball repeatedly taking a running leap at the gates, bouncing off the top one, and then sitting on the floor outside the kitchen beeping confusedly 

surprisedentistry

HOW

surprisedentistry

this is our current game plan. stay tuned

imhereformysciencefriends

please continue to give us updates this is the funniest post on this site

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renthony

*Long-suffering sigh*

Look, I've said before that I think the proship/antiship argument is the most asinine possible way to frame any discussion about what is and isn't "allowed" in art. I refuse to label myself as "pro" or "anti" because the topic is much, much, much larger than fandom ships. "Pro/anti" is about the most asinine, useless, bonkers way to frame anything about this topic.

All that said, if you reblog a post from me and add some shit about how "proshippers should die," I need you to know, from the bottom of my heart, that you are a shitty person, and I am going to block you. Wishing death on someone for what they engage with in fiction is a reprehensible position, and you can see yourself out.

And while we're here, I am begging everyone wrapped up in the discourse to go read literally any book about the Hays Code. Personally, I recommend Pre-Code Hollywood: Sex, Immorality, and Insurrection in American Cinema; 1930-1934 by Thomas Doherty if you aren't sure where to start.

If your reaction to a piece of fictional art in which no real people are harmed is to wish death on someone, you need to take about ten steps back, sit down, and chill the fuck out. That is not well-adjusted, healthy, or kind behavior. That is Hays Code shit.

canadianwheatpirates

I also like to plug Stuart Hall's chapter "Encoding, Decoding" (page 90 here) as an introduction to how Media/Cultural Studies overturned the "media can brainwash you" theory and replaced it with the "media can maybe affect you but it's really complicated" theory

fairuzfan

Inside Israel's million dollar troll army

Fake grassroots group Act.IL, funded by Israel, aims to "influence foreign publics."

https://electronicintifada.net/content/inside-israels-million-dollar-troll-army/27566

Block! Don't interact! Stop talking to zionist sympathizers and others! They are trying to distract from the cause!!!

nz45south

I present to you a drama, comedy, horror. This story killed me three times.

vampire-crimson

"for the first time"

garrettauthor

I am howling with laughter and I cannot tell my children why

fail-boat

The shelter where I volunteer got some new hissy babies and we were making progress with socialization yesterday.

thinkveganworld

Play video, sound on.

anabsolutebisaster

There was this old lady who lived across the street and cats would just appear at her house. They’d never really be seen again, and she had a cat of her own with a collar and all who never really left the house but would spend most of the day by the bay window. But the rest were just a revolving door of random cats. Which naturally meant kittens would pop up too.

So one time when I was doing my high school volunteer hours at this animal shelter, she showed up and said she had some kittens to drop off and some to pick up. I thought it was weird but I figured she fostered them and so I assumed she fostered cats and that explained the amount of random cats I’d see at her place (turns out she’d lure strays in for spaying/neutering and then take them to shelters around the area for socializing and ideally adoption).

So she dropped off three extremely socialized and friendly kittens that I guess she had picked up 2 days prior. And then grabbed a kennel thing with five feral-ass kittens one of the donors found near a dumpster.

I had seen them earlier but the day manager told me they had just gotten them the day before and they had not been socialized because they were waiting for “the expert”. And I guess that was this lady. So she puts on these thick black gloves and goes “Sweetheart can you hold this for me? I gotta prep the babies”, and I held the kennel still while this woman just 100% no fear sticks her hand in there and grabs a kitten that is NOT happy about it. She then grabbed it by the head gently, wrapped a tea towel or some type of cloth thing around it, and then laid it down to do something that was like equal parts origami fold and burrito roll?? Idek. Point is the kitten was PISSED. But it couldn’t move or anything because she wrapped it and secured the wrap with one of them big old timey baby pins. And she did it to the others as well. It didn’t even take her 5 minutes lmaooo. Then she put them back in the kennel and went home.

I asked the manager about it and he said “Oh yeah she’ll be here in 2 days to drop them off. She has a M E T H O D.” And just as he said she showed up two days later, with 5 perfectly friendly kittens in tow!

I didn’t ask because I assumed she was a witch and also I didn’t care, but I had mad respect for her 😂

taraljc

I wish to meet this woman and also to learn from her so that I can do this magic

datcatisinsane

@cat-spotted

cat-spotted

CAT SPOTTED!!☆ฅ^•ﻌ•^ฅ

Tell me you love trans people more than you hate TERFS.

Tell me you love people of color more than you hate racists.

Tell me you love marginalized folk more than you hate fash.

Tell me you love queer people more than you hate bigots.

Quit telling me you're an ally. Show me you're an accomplice.

ralfmaximus

UnitedHealth uses AI model with 90% error rate to deny care, lawsuit alleges

For the largest health insurer in the US, AI's error rate is like a feature, not a bug.

https://arstechnica.com/health/2023/11/ai-with-90-error-rate-forces-elderly-out-of-rehab-nursing-homes-suit-claims/

UnitedHealthcare, the largest health insurance company in the US, is allegedly using a deeply flawed AI algorithm to override doctors' judgments and wrongfully deny critical health coverage to elderly patients. This has resulted in patients being kicked out of rehabilitation programs and care facilities far too early, forcing them to drain their life savings to obtain needed care that should be covered under their government-funded Medicare Advantage Plan.

It's not just flawed, it's flawed in UnitedHealthcare's favor.

That's not a flaw... that's fraud.

thexphial

I work in healthcare, and let me tell you, NO ONE denies care as much, as often or as blatantly badly as UHC. Not a one. It's known in the industry to be one of the worst insurance carriers around. DO NOT sign up for UHC this or any other open enrollment period. (I work in rehab and the things they deny are basic and hugely important to quality of life)

thexphial

I'm reblogging this again because I realized that I didn't include something important. If you have a plan with UHC (or any carrier, honestly) and you are denied something that you and your care team believe you need, ask your doctor to ask for a "peer to peer" review. This is a process in which the doctor speaks to another doctor in the company. It cannot be handled by AI and cannot be just denied without review by an actual doctor. Peer to peer!

NP train, engine number 1656, engine type 2-8-2 and engine number 1613, engine type 2-8-2 Eastbound, freight train; 9 cars. Photographed: at Marshall, Wash., July 31, 1938.

pastel-hutt-deactivated20180115

Plot twist: A fat protagonist has a compelling arc and stays fat the whole time, because using weightloss to signify personal growth is fucked up and also lazy writing.

theemancipationofjericomiguel

and she used her white privilege to propel the integration movement and stood up against the active and overt racism in her town. ya go tracy!!!

lilliephoenix

autumntides

10h

"In the instance an employer makes an illegal request for a photograph as part of a job application, you may submit a complaint to the United States Equal Employment Opportunity Commission." Successful violation fee collections are paid partially to the one who suffered the violation, which in many cases exceeds a year of work at these shit jobs. There's only two weak points to a corporation, and those are in the budget and in the supply chain. Hit them where it hurts.

kamikaze-kumquat

Fucking word.

Learn your rights!

ms-cellanies

AUTO REBLOG IN CASE YOU MISSED THIS THE 1ST TIME AROUND.  It is important to KNOW YOUR RIGHTS.

Holy shit??

Don't stop talking about the Palestinian genocide. IT'S WORKING.

CP train, engine number 5810, engine type 2-10-2 and engine number 5364, engine type 2-8-2 Eastbound freight train; 5812 pushing, 45 cars, 35 MPH. Photographed: near Stephen, B.C., August 4, 1938.

MILW LaHood, MT by larry zeutschel
Via Flickr:
Rerouting on Burlington Northern due to a derailment, the chase continues to the west end of the Jefferson River Canyon.

207-209-26

9-12-76

hatersmad

thinking about that one wordless calvin and hobbes sunday strip thats just calvins dad ditching his work to go play in the snow... its going to make me cry

hatersmad

ohhhh my god

brawtl

One of the all time best ones