hey if you do shit like this i want you to fucking unfollow me right now, invisible disabilities exist and the people with them need accommodations like disabled parking
If you want to help disabled people, but refuse to acknowledge invisible illnesses exist/ demand proof of an illness, you’re not really for disabled people
Do not even speak to me if you do this. You have no idea who is and isn’t disabled. Placard up? Then theyre legal to be there. I just went through two years of trying to get the damn thing and I am gonna USE IT.
I know I don’t “””look””” multiply disabled. That’s not your call to make. I will definitely lose my attempt at charitable and zenlike calm if I EVER catch you doing this sh*t. I am still fully capable of ‘taking you to the cleaners’ as it were. I will collapse afterward, because Severe ME/CFS, but I WILL STILL DO IT.
Ppl be like “ I want an actual male gem, not just Steven.”
Jeez, it’s like having only one character
to represent your whole gender
in a group composed all of another gender
is a bit upsetting huh?
I wonder
what
that’s like
no really
can you
even imagine
what this lack of representation
MUST
FEEL
LIKE
This
post
isn’t
long
enough
none of the listed shows are named after the one female character, either
it’s actually physically impossible for me to not reblog this post.
I want to say I’ve reblogged this before, but I’m reblogging again for the brilliant addition of, “None of the listed shows are named after the one female character, either” because FUCKING THANK YOU.
mmmmmhm.
Every time I reblog this, there are new shows on the list.
Wow
it’s almost
as though
this happens
almost constantly
But normally you don’t notice, because it’s not about you.
I remember as a schoolboy being told by artist Roger Dean that Chris Ross’s SF book covers, featuring enormous space ships, were actually pictures of Vaccuum Cleaners, Irons, and things you’d find around the house. (Also being told by Roger that Chris Foss could indeed draw people and had illustrated The Joy of Sex.) Which meant I could never again see a Chris Foss spaceship without imagining it in a kitchen.
When you hit your elbow against something, but that specific point of your elbow
it’s…called your funny bone…
that gif tho
It’s not a bone actually- it’s a nerve that is exposed, specifically the ulnar nerve. The reason it feels so weird to hit it is that it’s not designed to deliver pain signals, so when you hit it it just wiggs out and sends Garbage signals to the brain, and the brain is just like “uh, dude- Ulnar, what the hell is this garbage?? You’re supposed to curl a finger and a half, and move some muscles in the forearm, why are you sending me this crap? How am I supposed to make this into sensory output?” And the Ulnar nerve is just like “dude dude dude, brain- what the hell is going on?!?” And the brain goes- “idiot. Fine. You’re on fire, freezing and being electrocuted. Happy?” And the Ulnar goes “holy crap brain!! I’m on fire, freezing and being electrocuted! What am I going to do!!??!” And the brain says “you’re an idiot ulnar. A damn idiot.”
This is how human anatomy should be taught
Instead my professor was just like “ur elbow has no pain receptors quick! pinch it!”
I WENT AND LOOKED INTO THIS AND DEADASS PLANET NINE HAS BEEN PUBLIC KNOWLEDGE SINCE 2016 AND WE HAVE ESTIMATES ABOUT WHERE IT IS BUT WE HAVE NO. CLUE.
IT’S 10 TIMES LARGER THAN EARTH.
WE THINK WE FOUND ONE OF PLANET NINE’S MOONS.
WE HAVE NO IDEA WHERE IT IS.
WHAT THE FUCK
*jaws theme*
Bitcg it’s real
Space is big guys. Like really really mindbogglingly big, even if we’re only talking about the space in our solar system.
That tiny green circle labeled “orbit of Neptune”? That circle has a radius of four and a half billion kilometers (2.3 billion miles). It’s 30 times as far away from the sun as the Earth is; light takes 8 minutes to get to Earth, yes? It takes 4 hours for light to get to Neptune. It is ridiculously far away, going by the standards we’re used to on Earth.
And look at how small is it compared to the predicted orbit of Planet Nine. The estimates for the semi-major axis range from 400 to 1000 times as far from the Sun as Earth is.
Notice that the orbit is an ellipse? Statistically, it’s likely that this planet is currently closer to the far end of the ellipse (the aphelion, or to be generic, apoapsis), because orbiting objects move slower at the aphelion so they spend more time there. Pluto orbits the Sun once every 247 years – anything further out is going to take longer still, so we can’t wait around for it to get closer and expect to see anything anytime soon.
There’s also viewing difficulties. The wikipedia article says that if it’s relatively close, it might show up on pictures from stellar databases, but if it’s further away (more likely) it’ll be too faint and require a stronger telescope. Also, in the part of the expected orbit that goes in front of the galactic plane, it would look like any back ground star and be harder to pick out.
That is how you lose a planet. More specifically, that’s how you have trouble finding a planet that you don’t know for sure exists yet, that might be invisible to all but the biggest telescopes, and that’s exact position isn’t exactly known.
Circus Tree: Six individual sycamore trees were shaped, bent, and braided to form this.
Actually pretty easy. Trees don’t reject tissue from other trees in the same family. You bend the tree to another tree when it is a sapling, scrape off the bark on both trees where they touch, add some damp sphagnum moss around them to keep everything slightly moist and bind them together. Then wait a few years- The trees will have grown together.
You can use a similar technique to graft a lemon branch or a lime branch or even both- onto an orange tree and have one tree that has all three fruits.
Frankentrees.
As a biologist I can clearly state that plants are fucking weird and you should probably be slightly afraid of them.
On that note! At the university (UBC) located in town, the Agriculture students were told by their teacher that a tree flipped upside down would die. So they took an excavator and flipped the tree upside down. And it’s still growing. But the branches are now the roots, and the roots are now these super gnarly looking branches. Be afraid.
But Vi, how can you mention that and NOT post a picture? D:
I am both amazed and horrified of nature as we all should be
I love how trees are like “fuck it, I’ll deal” at literally everything. Forest fire? Cool, my seeds’ll finally grow. Upside down? Branches, suck, roots, leave. What’s this new branch? Eh, welcome to the tree buddy.
I need to be more like tree
I continue to fear and respect out arboreal overlords.
what kind of professor did these students have that they needed to prove him wrong so badly that they literally dug up a tree, flipped it and put it back in the ground?
Sounds like y’all’ve never heard about the Tree of 40 Fruits. Well, it’s exactly as it sounds. Sam Van Aken, an artist based in New York, decided to try his hand at grafting (e.g. the process by which you attach the branches of a different tree to a host tree).
As artists are inclined to do he decided to push some limits and over the course of a few years he grafted over 40 different fruit onto the host “
including almond, apricot, cherry, nectarine, peach and plum varieties.”
It has a fruiting period lasting from July to October and this is what it looks like when blossoming.
Shit’s tight yo.
Also we have a group called the Guerrilla Grafters. A group who started in San Fransisco with the goal of grafting fruiting branches onto non-fruiting trees of the same type.
Most cities have fruit trees that simply don’t produce fruit because having all these would be a mess and inadvertently providing unregulated food to people comes with a lot of legal risks I suppose. These grafters seem to think otherwise and have taken it upon themselves to try and bring fruit trees back to urban areas.
HOLY SHIT
THE LAST ONE
Solarpunk as fuck!!
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