ping ponging back and forth between seeing immense beauty everywhere and feeling deeply like i am in hell

Imperial passport of Kublai Khan “I am the emissary of the Khan. If you defy me, you die.” 1240 A.D. [886x960]

i hate it when i cant even write a poem about something because its too obvious. like in the airbnb i was at i guess it used to be a kids room cause you could see the imprint of one little glow in the dark star that had been missed and painted over in landlord white. like that’s a poem already what’s the point

you get it. you get the themes. i dont have time to do it justice. just look at it its on the ceiling

reblog if you enjoy napping, being cozy, being conked out, snoozing, wrapping up in blankets, sipping a hot drink, catching some z's, hugging a plushie, or otherwise relaxing and resting

i like how this post gets circulated the most around evening. like yes gang settle down! we know when it's bed time!

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.

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.

Don’t worry, this is a common area of confusion with my students:

Increased BY X% => multiply the initial thing by X/100 for number of affected

Increased TO X% => multiply the total of the thing’s group by X/100 for number of affected

Medieval salt glazed pottery with Godzilla motifs

..............I love him so much. 😩

her: i’m coming over you better not be trent reznor spinning in the closer by nin mv when i get there

my dumbass:

1. Classic Tabby

[Source: Metatron Eyes Maine Coons]

2. Marbled Tabby

[Source: BangkokCats]

3. Mackerel Tabby

[Source: FI*RuusuLinnan Ingrid]

4. Braided Tabby

[Source: Brindle Way Toygers]

5. Spotted Tabby

[Source: NitroKatz Savannahs]

6. Rosetted Tabby

[Source: Liberty Bengals]

7. Ticked Tabby

[Source: King Size]

8. Servaline Tabby

[Source: Akilah Cat] [AAFP Position Statement: Hybrid Cats]

This is what posting your artwork after a mutual posts a big life update feels like

➸ “This is a sentence.”

➸ “This is a sentence with a dialogue tag at the end,” she said.

➸ “This,” he said, “is a sentence split by a dialogue tag.”

➸ “This is a sentence,” she said. “This is a new sentence. New sentences are capitalized.”

➸ “This is a sentence followed by an action.” He stood. “They are separate sentences because he did not speak by standing.”

➸ She said, “Use a comma to introduce dialogue. The quote is capitalized when the dialogue tag is at the beginning.”

➸ “Use a comma when a dialogue tag follows a quote,” he said.

“Unless there is a question mark?” she asked.

“Or an exclamation point!” he answered. “The dialogue tag still remains uncapitalized because it’s not truly the end of the sentence.”

➸ “Periods and commas should be inside closing quotations.”

➸ “Hey!” she shouted, “Sometimes exclamation points are inside quotations.”

However, if it’s not dialogue exclamation points can also be “outside”!

➸ “Does this apply to question marks too?” he asked.

If it’s not dialogue, can question marks be “outside”? (Yes, they can.)

➸ “This applies to dashes too. Inside quotations dashes typically express—“

“Interruption” — but there are situations dashes may be outside.

➸ “You’ll notice that exclamation marks, question marks, and dashes do not have a comma after them. Ellipses don’t have a comma after them either…” she said.

➸ “My teacher said, ‘Use single quotation marks when quoting within dialogue.’”

➸ “Use paragraph breaks to indicate a new speaker,” he said.

“The readers will know it’s someone else speaking.”

➸ “If it’s the same speaker but different paragraph, keep the closing quotation off.

“This shows it’s the same character continuing to speak.”

Here’s the matching grublet to the Bee Cube I posted yesterday! This piece is for an art show by @strangecattoys and organized by @blindbagtoyaddict on May 4th. It’s called Little Shit, Big Deal and all the art is 2 inches or smaller! I’ll have five themed cubes with matching grublets in this show! Thank you to @KaypeaCreations for photographing and editing pictures of my pieces for me 🥹❤️ I’ll be making YT videos on how I made each design.

i think we should remind musicians they can absolutely make up little stories for their songs btw. it doesn’t have to be about them at all. you can invent a guy and put him in situations to music. time honoured tradition in fact.

Romanticizing my villain arc (going to therapy)