I recently had surgery, and at the time I came home, I had both my cat and one of my grandma's cats staying with me.

- Within hours of surgery, I wake up from a nap to my cat gently sniffing at my incisions with great alarm.

- I was not allowed to shower the first day after surgery, and the cats, seeing that The Large Cat is not observing its cleaning ritual, decided I must be gravely disabled and compensated by licking all the exposed skin on my arms, face, and legs.

- I currently have to sleep with a pillow over my abdomen because my cat insists on climbing on top of me and covering my incisions with her body while I sleep (which is very sweet but not exactly comfortable without the pillow). She also lays across me facing my bedroom door, presumably on guard for attackers who may try to harm me while I'm sleeping and injured.

That's love. 🐈‍⬛🐈❤️

cats are so very unclear on what is wrong with us but they want to help

Last time I had a really bad migraine my cat curled herself round my head and purred sympathetically, and actually stayed there through two of her normal mealtimes. It wasn't until I was able to stagger to the kitchen and grab a protein bar for myself that she gave a very small, polite miaow to the effect of "while you're up... could you get something for me too?"

This machine kills AI

This is the most satisfying story I've read in a long time

*places an orange just outside a fairy ring to see what comes out* science is more of an art than a science

*the orange grows legs and skitters away*

Fascinating results *places a banana in the same spot*

*clawed hand reaches out of the ether and drags it into the ring, leaving ragged claw marks in the soil as it disappears, back into the ether from whence it came*

“let’s go to the extreme.” *places a pineapple in the same spot*

Real scientists would keep putting an orange in the same spot to make sure the results are consistent before moving on to other fruits or different spots.

The only valid response to this post.

We’re working up the complexity levels of fruit until we feel there is enough evidence to support the judicious placement of a volunteer twink

You sit down, we haven’t seen what’s happened to the pineapple

#this is tumblr we’ve all seen what’s happened to the pineapple

tags via @sylveondreams

im laughing so hard because no matter what song you listen to 

spiderman dances to the beat

no matter what song ive been testing it and lauing my ass off for an hour

hey guys do you want to circulate the heirloom dancing spiderman again i feel like we could stand to do that

People who think sheep are killed for their wool are so hilarious to me. Does your barber slit your throat whenever you get a haircut?? Are you a returning customer to Sweeney Todd? Lmao it grows back, fools.

This is completely ignoring the fact that the sheep's soul is stored in its wool. So sure, the body remains, but the spirit, the essence of the sheep, that's gone forever, and then as the wool regrows a new soul moves in.

What

Same for me, I get a new soul with every haircut. That's why my personality changes so much.

Tumblr citizenship means being completely unsure if the person posting about sheep souls is being 100% serious or is just taking the piss.

how dare you say we piss on those poor sheep, haven't they suffered enough

how dare you say we

piss on those poor sheep, haven’t

they suffered enough

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

1888 Portrait of a woman from the Ekerkunst family (photo by Jan Mieczkowski, Leopold Türkel)

(Museum of Warsaw)

When the retouching guy shows up to work hungover (look at her waist area)

While that is probably the worst 19th century photoshop example I’ve seen to date, I’d like to thank retouch guy for providing such a good example to show that even though something’s a photograph doesn’t mean her waist was actually that size because even in the 1800s, people were editing their photos.

my brain always likes to see these ‘un-retouced’ so here’s a rough go at it. I just modified the parts I was sure were edited around her waist in the original, but they also often smoothed out people’s skin, softened jawlines etc. so 100% possible there’s additional editing. (it actually looked like there might be two rounds of waist editing but could just be the scan, so I stuck to the obvious portions)

reblogging again for the addition- thanks!

Teamwork..................................................................................

Me, when they made the U-turn:

^ my exact reaction

The Bolshoi has nothing on this choreography.

There is. No. Unskilled. Labor.

there's an loudass construction yard down the road from my work and I just heard a man's scream from that direction followed by silence 😐

never mind they started up again 👍

That was my childhood. Loud bangs and listening and waiting for a follow up noise. I hadn't noticed how stressful that was until last week when the elevator technician who's remodeling the elevator in my building loudly dropped something downstairs and my 41 year old self was transported back to my 10 year old body trying to hear whether dad's still alive or buried under something.

So, I've had some thoughts about more granular tips for reading longer, slower-paced books with unfamiliar vocabulary.

Another option: try the "serial reader" app. It'll break the books up in 15 minute chapters and will give you a portion to read every day.

Remember Dracula daily? Like that but with any book of your choosing.

yesterday i was ringing up an old man at work and he asked if i wanted to see his pride and joy, pulled out his wallet, and in the place where you’d keep a picture of like your family he had this

Life in Code: A Personal History of Technology

by Ellen Ullman

a while back I made a post along the lines of "every STEM major should have a required 'history of science' course that's just all about previously wrong and bad scientific theories like sperm all containing homunculi and spontaneous generation" and I got a lot of responses like "but STEM majors already have gen ed requirements!" and would not understand why I was specifically asking for a course that would teach people about why science is not infallible and does not exist in a vacuum and THIS IS EXACTLY WHY ACTUALLY

Reblogging for commentary regarding STEM-centrism, historical understandings, and society. Also, because my best friend is an expert on the history of eugenics. Yale fucking recruited her for a tenure track position and normally I don’t lose my mind over higher ed brand prestige but this woman has been infiltrating PWIs as a black visibly Muslim woman for her entire academic life and Yale don’t just hand out TT positions. She’s a fucking BADASS. Dr. Ayah Nuriddin.

I agree that scientists and engineers need a broader understanding of social problems, but I have some concerns about whether humanities classes really do a better job of staving off eugenicist ideas. They might just teach people to express their eugenicist ideas in a more palatable way. Many STEM grads are eugenicist, so are many humanities grads.

Would a history of eugenics or pseudoscience or scientific oppression class help? Maybe? It might raise questions, at least.

Would general "ethics" classes help? Only if they're taught from a specifically anti-eugenics/anti-ableist lens, which... is not guaranteed. I've known people who've dropped out of medical ethics classes because of the sharply pro-eugenics bias of the curriculum.

Because in an ableist society, in an ableist academic institution, every academic field is ableist. Biology teaches you how to medically exterminate disabled people. Ethics teaches you how to bypass hard-won consent and confidentiality rules for the greater good of coercing disabled people. Philosophy teaches you to ask the hard questions about whether disabled people are really people. Literature teaches you that disabled people are metaphors for abled people's experiences. Sociology teaches you that the existence of disabled people is a social problem. Political science teaches you how different frameworks deal with the social problem of disabled people. Economics teaches you that disabled people are a financial burden on society. History should teach you why Nazism is bad, but may not teach you to generalize the lesson that other bigoted ideologies that don't directly call themselves "Nazism" are also bad, and, in the vein of a little knowledge being a dangerous thing, people who know a little bit about Nazism and eugenics are very eager to explain to disability advocates that Well, actually, the Nazis gave eugenics a bad name, but if we went back to good, pure, American eugenics...

Look, I'm being very negative; I know not all these subjects are always taught in an ableist/eugenicst way. But they sometimes are.

And I just don't see any indication that humanities grads, as a whole, are any less ableist/eugenicist than STEM grads, as a whole. Or that either group is any more or less ableist/eugenicist than non-college-grads, as a whole. STEM grads working in tech say horrifically ableist things? So do humanities grads working in the education/nonprofit sectors.

Maybe I'm just bitter and cynical because of how many humanities and social sciences people I see who think they're not ableist because they know the right academic, politically correct terminology to express basically the same policy positions as openly eugenicist tech bros. But I don't think humanities professors will solve this one. Dr. Nuriddin does seem really cool, though.

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"Isn't it exhausting being someone you're not?"

"No! Isn't it exhausting being the same?"