tweeter @frienem does the best HDB cosplay I've ever seen in my life

The occupation actually enters and invades the Rafah crossing. I appeal to your consciences to leave me a sum of money via the link to my wallet on PayPal. You are the only hope for me and my husband.

reblogging with an update: Samera told me last night she believes she has covid. her son, Mohammad has been working tirelessly to share this campaign on IG, and they’ve raised nearly €20k but are still extremely far off from their goal and with Samera potentially covid positive while having other medical issues she’s told me about, i really wanted to reblog again with this update and hopefully help them get some more donations.

Real Talk: It is gratifying on a molecular level to revisit something super-formative from very early adulthood in your late 30s. 🤙 Finally finished up Barney Calhoun from Half-Life 2 and debuted him at Calgary Expo last weekend.

Gotta say to all the folks who recognised this: your kindness and enthusiasm still has me over the moon and will for QUITE a while.

Next steps: finish up the CR2 Pulse Rifle and wear this nerd again at Otafest in two weeks lol.

BARNEY MY BELOVED (and @teadrunktailor my beloved, you never miss)

“Tom” 1970s

Eurovision is the absolute easiest thing in the world to boycott. It's not food owned by one of 5 food conglomerates. It's not tech that corporations have made essential. There's no "support the devs" logic to be even considered. It's literally just noise that is forgotten in a week.

This year it's noise that will be forgotten in a week that is actively supporting one state that's committing genocide to another state they're actively suppressing any discussion about.

watch out, this one might be tricky

Free Palestine!

PLEASEEE let’s take a moment to appreciate one of my favorite moths ever, the southern African slug moth

Truly a delightful little beast

camping out on the quad until the university divests, i’ve never been in such a diverse group of people and i’ve never experienced this level of community and camaraderie before

one of the original vietnam war protesters at colombia just spoke and the entire quad was dead silent as we listened to her story and her urgings. again, i have never been more connected than when i’m with this community of people.

going into day 5, no slowing down or stopping.

there was a very inebriated white guy here last night at like 3:30 and i had the absolute delightful pleasure of standing there ignoring everything he was saying, which included such gems as “theocracy is a cancer” (what does that have to do with anything?), “so if you had to choose between the taliban—“ (i didn’t hear the rest of this question because he was rather too drunk to form complete coherent sentences), and “liberals!!” (like just the word shouted rather passionately. i don’t know if it was an accusation or an exclamation or what.)

there was also a completely different white guy recording who came up to me and my group asking “what would you do if i told you i was jewish?” to which we replied “half of us here are jewish, we have challah, do you want some challah? shabbat shalom!” because we LITERALLY just finished praying and singing for shabbat. i mean like quite literally ten minutes prior. it’s both hilarious and frustrating when people try to use judaism as a “gotcha” because on the one hand, that guy chose the worst possible group to approach with that question (we had multiple leaders of the jews for justice organisation present) but on the other hand, he didn’t actually give a fuck about jews. if he did, he would have noticed and recognised the three people with kippahs and all our candles and the challah we had out. but no. judaism is just convenient to them.

anyway, we persist!!

easily one of the quietest days so far, but tomorrow there is a planned counter protest so we’re all preparing for shit to go down. it’ll be day 6 of our encampment so we’ll see how it goes!! there’s easily a hundred of us camped out and more are coming to counter the counter-protest, but we don’t have a good idea of numbers yet.

on a more positive note, we’ve had a lot of culture-sharing events and moments!! a rabbi (who just got back from palestine) came in for shabbat and led us all in prayer before giving a short speech, we all had a traditional palestinian meal, there were people doing henna and people teaching palestinian dances as well as shared yoga sessions and some more speakers.

we’re not going anywhere!! we keep us safe!!

imagine if you will, a fairly dry survival crafting game in which you live in a bunker and must periodically venture out to scavenge food, set up turrets for attacking monsters, etc

now, your computer inside the bunker has a game-inside-a-game on it which is a charming farming sim of undeniably greater quality and scope than the survival game you're playing. therefore, the object of the game becomes to keep your bunker secure so you can play the farming game more.

now, once you achieve the highest rating in the farming game, a secret shop inside it unlocks, and one of the novelty items you can purchase is a game console, giving you access to games-inside-a-game-inside-a-game. most of the games for it are typical mobile shovelware, but one of them is a highly polished, extremely brutal precision platformer with amazing level design and production values exceeding that of the survival game and farming sim combined.

it is only at this point that the purpose of this entire contrivance becomes clear: to create the most deranged speedrun community the world has ever seen.

Robot disabilities. Robot who charges slowly and loses power incredibly fast and is always tired. Robot with malfunctioning lenses and can’t process visual information properly. Robot that can’t process anything too large and at a fast rate or else they’ll shut down. Robot with limbs screwed on too loose/just can’t attach correctly, so if they’re not careful they fall out. Robot disabilities,,,

The whole "the brain isn't fully mature until age 25" bit is actually a fairly impressive bit of psuedoscience for how incredibly stupid the way it misinterprets the data it's based on is.

Okay, so: there's a part of the human brain called the "prefrontal cortex" which is, among other things, responsible for executive function and impulse control. Like most parts of the brain, it undergoes active "rewiring" over time (i.e., pruning unused neural connections and establishing new ones), and in the case of the prefrontal cortex in particular, this rewiring sharply accelerates during puberty.

Because the pace of rewiring in the prefrontal cortex is linked to specific developmental milestones, it was hypothesised that it would slow down and eventually stop in adulthood. However, the process can't directly be observed; the only way to tell how much neural rewiring is taking place in a particular part of the brain is to compare multiple brain scans of the same individual performed over a period of time.

Thus, something called a "longitudinal study" was commissioned: the same individuals would undergo regular brain scans over a period of mayn years, beginning in early childhood, so that their prefrontal development could accurately be tracked.

The longitudinal study was originally planned to follow its subjects up to age 21. However, when the predicted cessation of prefrontal rewiring was not observed by age 21, additional funding was obtained, and the study period was extended to age 25. The predicted cessation of prefrontal development wasn't observed by age 25, either, at which point the study was terminated.

When the mainstream press got hold of these results, the conclusion that prefrontal rewiring continues at least until age 25 was reported as prefrontal development finishing at age 25. Critically, this is the exact opposite of what the study actually concluded. The study was unable to identify a stopping point for prefrontal development because no such stopping point was observed for any subject during the study period. The only significance of the age 25 is that no subjects were tracked beyond this age because the study ran out of funding!

It gets me when people try to argue against the neuroscience-proves-everybody-under-25-is-a-child talking point by claiming that it's merely an average, or that prefrontal development doesn't tell the whole story. Like, no, it's not an average – it's just bullshit. There's no evidence that the cited phenomenon exists at all. If there is an age where prefrontal rewiring levels off and stops (and it's not clear that there is), we don't know what age that is; we merely know that it must be older than 25.

The whole "the brain isn't fully mature until age 25" bit is actually a fairly impressive bit of psuedoscience for how incredibly stupid the way it misinterprets the data it's based on is.

Okay, so: there's a part of the human brain called the "prefrontal cortex" which is, among other things, responsible for executive function and impulse control. Like most parts of the brain, it undergoes active "rewiring" over time (i.e., pruning unused neural connections and establishing new ones), and in the case of the prefrontal cortex in particular, this rewiring sharply accelerates during puberty.

Because the pace of rewiring in the prefrontal cortex is linked to specific developmental milestones, it was hypothesised that it would slow down and eventually stop in adulthood. However, the process can't directly be observed; the only way to tell how much neural rewiring is taking place in a particular part of the brain is to compare multiple brain scans of the same individual performed over a period of time.

Thus, something called a "longitudinal study" was commissioned: the same individuals would undergo regular brain scans over a period of mayn years, beginning in early childhood, so that their prefrontal development could accurately be tracked.

The longitudinal study was originally planned to follow its subjects up to age 21. However, when the predicted cessation of prefrontal rewiring was not observed by age 21, additional funding was obtained, and the study period was extended to age 25. The predicted cessation of prefrontal development wasn't observed by age 25, either, at which point the study was terminated.

When the mainstream press got hold of these results, the conclusion that prefrontal rewiring continues at least until age 25 was reported as prefrontal development finishing at age 25. Critically, this is the exact opposite of what the study actually concluded. The study was unable to identify a stopping point for prefrontal development because no such stopping point was observed for any subject during the study period. The only significance of the age 25 is that no subjects were tracked beyond this age because the study ran out of funding!

It gets me when people try to argue against the neuroscience-proves-everybody-under-25-is-a-child talking point by claiming that it's merely an average, or that prefrontal development doesn't tell the whole story. Like, no, it's not an average – it's just bullshit. There's no evidence that the cited phenomenon exists at all. If there is an age where prefrontal rewiring levels off and stops (and it's not clear that there is), we don't know what age that is; we merely know that it must be older than 25.

mh computer tryin to say chimichangas I give uP

my favourite video

Look at this girl go! What a champ huh?

Finally, it has begun!! The rainbow trout are all grown and it’s time to give them a little spin in the swimming respirometer. This girl was understandably pretty shocked about being measured and weighed but she quickly recovered once in the respirometer — the fish is swimming against a certain water flow (here it’s about half a body length per second) and she seemed to immediately realise what to do. My supervisor explained that in earlier experiments with brown trout, the brown trout were more prone to not swimming at all and laying on the net in the back, but rainbow trout are more cooperative and raring to go!

In Mario Party 4′s Present Room, Shy Guy remarks that on Waluigi’s calendar, “every day is Sunday”. However, if you zoom in really close, you’ll see that Shy Guy is actually lying.

that son of a bitch