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Jenna (noun): Aries, waterbender, airy; master of avoidance and escapism; occasional poet & graphic maker; feminist and professional napper. passionate about fictional characters and not much else...
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heedra

unsung benefit i think a lot of ppl are sleeping on with using the public library is that i think its a great replacement for the dopamine hit some ppl get from online shopping. it kind of fills that niche of reserving something that you then get to anticipate the arrival of and enjoy when it arrives, but without like, the waste and the money.

bonus it ALSO fills that dopamine hit of in-person shopping. “oh I didn’t go in looking for this but hmm, I’m tempted… I can’t resist… oh ho ho I have made some irresponsible decisions at the library today [carrying my stack of ten random books]” and then it doesn’t even matter if you don’t like them because a) free b) you’re gonna give them back anyway

Librarian here! Please please please please PLEASE do this! We don’t have any way to know if you read them, and we don’t care! We’re happy to see those books go out because that helps our stats. And that affects how much money we can get.

So grab that silly paperback romance, and maybe this new YA fantasy, oh and check for the new movies too! And don’t forget to check Libby and hoopla for music and ebooks and e-audio.

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straight friend groups be like: *blonde girl* *chad* *the funny one* *kyle* *brunette girl* *frat boy*

gay friend groups be like: *passive aggressive food YouTuber* *canadian NHL star* *harvard law student with a pornstache* *tiny unbeatable beer pong champion* *frat star slash science nerd with a 4.0 GPA* *loud and emotional 6′4″ econ major* *overexcited goalie* *ginger bob the builder* *nursey*

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Heres the thing you gotta understand about statistics. 

“Increases your chances by 80%” does not mean “there is now an 80% chance”. 

If your chances were previously 10%, your chances are now 18%, not 90%. 

if your chances were roughly 1%, they’re now just slightly less than 2%. 

thats how that works. 

Wow I don’t understand math at all

‘if you have a baby after 35, the chance of deformities goes up by 100%’ is a line I hear alot.

It goes up from .5% to 1%

I think my brain just stopped working

100% is just another way of saying twice more likely. So 100% more basically means multiply the number you do have by 2.

Imagine how many woman are scared to have kids because of that statistic

This is why I took stats instead of calc. Because I don’t build engineer bridges in my everyday life but I sure do read studies that affect how I might live my life if I misinterpret them.

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bogleech

I’m terrible at numbers and math but I knew this and I really take it for granted. The average person definitely assumes, quite understandably, that “600% INCREASE!!!” must always mean a whole lot even if it literally only means that one of something is now six of something. Politicians probably take a shitload of advantage of this confusion.

just remember that increased BY and increased TO are very different things.

Oh god I didn’t even think about that whole other layer of confusion. Yeah if you’ve got 100 people and one of them is sick, that’s 1% of them who are sick, so if it “increased BY 100%” then that means now two people are sick. If it’s “increased TO 100%” then all 100 people are sick.

Reblogging again for that last addition.

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Heya guys. Sorry for posting this for the billionth time. But maybe if you guys would like to give my posts about patreon a boost it would mean the world to me. I know I post this a lot and I don't take any help I receive for granted. I've only been able to make two new drawings since February. Bc every day I have been working almost 9 hours. I'm sick nearly every other week, my lymph nodes are swollen n I've been feeling incredibly depressed. I am from the global south, in the philippines, government help is near nonexistent. I am the sole caretaker of three disabled people. My mom can not do any housework, she is a full time wheelchair user, she needs care 24/7, insulin, adult diapers and kidneys that are under threat of failing if we don't watch her health, my dad has a chronic heart condition and my sister is autistic with a very low frustration threshold. Both my parents are diabetic, and I am the only person in my family who can work. I currently have three jobs, one in publishing, but I have a morality clause which means the publishing house can take back every single penny I make if I or the author fail to meet certain expectations. Anyway.. I have been working nonstop, my scoliosis is untreated and extremely painful, n for the past few four days I have been rationing a single can of spam and a few potatoes. Would mean the world to me if you guys could pick up a print, or subscribe to my patreon, or reblog any of my old art or send me a tip on ko-fi or anywhere else. Sorry and thank you again. I remake these a lot, but I sincerely don't take any of the help I receive for granted. Thank you again.

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My patreon

https://www.patreon.com/littlestpersimmon

My tipping jars

I was not wanting to repost this again. But some life updates. It happened again. Part of my room rotted away, and I didn't notice. Cleaned out and ate about 7 of my textbooks and four of my beloved manga.

Would appreciate if any of you guys could check out any of my socials, or buy a print or send a tip. Nothing will go to book replacements, everything will go to an exterminator and plywood to patch up the new hole. Sorry this is a bit brief. I don't really know what to say. I'm very sorry for this and thank you again.

our house w/c is technically just a cottage and made only w wood has a termite infestation, a portion of my room now has a hole, during summer. But most of the second level of our house, the floors are rotted and have like these spots that are sinking. Maybe any of my mutuals here will have a follower w disposable income. Anything helps genuinely. My #1 fear is homelessness so am a bit neurotic rn, barely able to work with my anxiety, as I have been homeless for almost 10 years, nearly half of my life, and my constant source of anxiety and depression. ! My iPad is my main source of income, as all my drawings are made partially on procreate, and my iPad storage was totally full, and I needed to buy a new device to safely put my files in, so spent some cash there. Anyone who would like to help, anything does. Thank you so much, guys.

Hello guys, apologies again for reblogging this. Our family cat passed away suddenly 2 days ago at the er vet, and I had to pay 200 usd out of pocket. Overall. Just an upsetting way to start the month, as termites have eaten some of my shirts, books, pillow cases and bedsheets. Currently battling a tooth abscess and in some pain, and the electricity bill is about to to drop, and trying to stay sane through all this. Have missed work for over three days now. Would appreciate if anyone could help me out of this muck, by picking up a print, subscribing to my patreon, or sending a tip. It's my birthday next week, any help will absolutely turn things around. Thank you so much.

Hey guys. Inprnt offering free shipping everywhere..maybe you guys can pick up a couple of prints from my store. My situation has improved only a little, but still in a vulnerable position . Would mean the world to me if you guys check out my store!

Hey guys. Rbing once more. It's my birthday tomorrow..nearing finishing all of my work and recovering from a heavy flu, all while battling the 53*c weather. Would absolutely appreciate if we can keep this in circulation for just a bit longer because our house continues to fall apart. Thank you!

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Lmao how is this real, "the ambient sounds of the world were wrong, sir"

Imagine paying Columbia-amounts of money to be taught by someone with kindergarten-level art literacy. Like, motherfucker, the wholeass point of 4’33” is to emphasize how every performance of live music is inextricably linked to the ambient sounds of the context in which it is performed!!!!!!! Paying attention to and thinking about the context of the performance is the point of the song!!!! If the point was to hear birds chirping and people walking, John Cage would have fucking recorded that instead. Insisting that art is only good when contains good things and makes you feel good things is baby-level art criticism. How the fuck is this dude a professor.

Actually I’m not done going off yet. This pisses me off so much. How can you teach the humanities and be so obstinately ignorant? Like bruh, if the chanting outside makes you feel uncomfortable and upset, maybe you should take about four and a half minutes to contemplate why you feel that way. During that time, you might consider things such as: why are there students chanting? What are they protesting? Why do they feel so strongly about this issue that they’re willing to disrupt their lives to bring attention to it? Should I also feel as strongly? Should I be protesting with them? Is my desire for silence more important than the students’ desire for justice? Why do I find the noise they’re making more upsetting than the genocide they’re protesting?

Being like “loud noise make me angy 😠” is so fundamentally incurious and baby-brained it’s honestly unbelievable

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Just remembered how, when I was first levelling up Gale, I thought, 'huh, he's got fairly decent Consitution for a wizard. Useful for gameplay purposes, of course, but I wonder if there's a narrative explanation?'

And not an hour or two of play later, learned that the orb - if left untreated too long - causes him constant pain, muscle spasms and disorientation. Gale and Tara did not immediately figure out how to treat his condition, which meant that he likely spent weeks or months in that state - and of course, whenever the orb acts up, he goes through it again. He probably endures it constantly through the end of act 1, after his treatment stops working.

Constitution, of course, is that the stat that represents ability to focus while being hurt. Endurance even after physical distress. Pain tolerance.

Yeah. I think there's a narrative explanation.

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ryttu3k

Video of Gale in pain due to the orb, text versions and other bits and pieces including dev notes.

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8pxl

ik it’s late af and not many ppl are on,,,, but i got my bookmarks in and im OBSESSED 😭 look how pretty they turned out 🥹🥹🥹

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