"nothing is real atoms never touch each other youve never touched anything in your life" ok. well when i pet my dog he is soft and when he licks my hand it is wet and that is far more real to me than whatevers going on at an atomic level

what my atoms are doing is their fucking business man i'm busy trying to stop my dog from eating tissues directly out of the box

nuclei don't touch, but the nucleus is not the core of reality. reality is made of electrons dancing. reality is made of bonds.

you pet your dog and the atoms that are you brush up against the atoms that are him, and the electrons that are you press into the electrons that are him, and both of them change their movement.

electrons of course are not really particles and do not really move.

you pet your dog and the electron-orbitals of your skin overlap with the electron-orbitals of his fur, and both are changed by the contact. you are not made of little motes floating alone in a void. you are a single unfathomable chord formed of a trillion vibrations, and so is he. and the note you play is changing at every moment by what you touch and how you breathe, and so is his. and atoms do not really have edges, and to touch is to interact, and when you put your hand on your dog the universe does not know that you are separate. the song expands to hold you both.

I am the REGRET of a GOD, YOU-

ALOK VAID-MENON Getting Curious with Jonathan Van Ness 1x03 (2022)

Alok’s book report of The Biopolitics of Feeling: Race, Sex, and Science in the Nineteenth Century by Dr. Kyla Schuller

You’re right and you should say it

Tailor Birds “Sewing” Nests

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Babe wake up, there’s a bird that can sew!

look at him 😭

That thing looks like it's made of plastic and chewing gum

He's doing his best.

you weren't there

Smoky doodle

I remember them being a lot more prominent in the show for some reason

Just wanted to remind you all that you have a date today!! You didnt forget did you??? Quick grab your wallet and shoes we cant be late to dinner, it is a date with markiplier after all 🤭

BUTTERFLY IN THE SKY trailer A documentary about LeVar Burton's Reading Rainbow

LeVar Burton currently runs a podcast series called LeVar Burton Reads where in every single episode, he reads a short story from diverse range of authors

I highly recommend it.

This is just an interest check but would anyone be interested in getting a pixel art commission from me? I mostly enjoy making simple shaped characters but I guess I could simplify/chibify whatever gets thrown at me.

Examples of my recent stuff:

Hey, fellow space nerds, NASA just released its own free, zero-ad streaming service with all kinds of space-themed documentaries - and a few about Earth, too.

Ok yes "more male characters with big naturals" but are you normal about trans men/transmasc folks who have tits? Are you normal about them not binding? About them not wanting top surgery or not wanting to bind?

Are you normal about cis men with gynecomastia? Are you normal about gynecomastic men not binding, or not wanting top surgery?

ARE YOU NORMAL ABOUT REAL LIFE MEN WITH BIG NATURALS?

5 simple exercises to awaken dormant muscles

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I appreciate this video a lot--people don't realize how important it is to start slow if you're trying to come back from a completely sedentary lifestyle, and they get really hurt as a result. Straining your muscles too much, too suddenly can land you in the E.R. and the wrong joint injury can permanently affect your mobility, so please start with absolute basics and easy stretches!

LOUDER FOR THE PEOPLE IN THE BACK