Christ tae fuck. This sounds inhumane.
https://nebula.tv/videos/simon-clark-pros-and-cons-of-doing-a-phd/
It doesn't need to be like this. They need to increase stipends to AT LEAST *actual* living wage in that area FOR THOSE HOURS. And hazard pay, if they keep the stupid fucking working conditions.
Update: now with youtube links
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GKUu--wnWtE
https://www.youtube.com/@SimonClark/search?query=phd
40% of ALL shipping emissions is spent to transport fossil fuels: oil, coal, "natural" gas -- arsenic and rabies are natural too, ffs.
We can reduce energy demand through better efficiency (like LED lighting) and updating transport and heating to electrical sources.
We need not just Electric Vehicles for cars but also BUSES, TRAMS, and TRAINS. And cable cars right above the street, you know?
We can power boilers with heat pumps, which are just refigerators that run both ways. (nyehehehe.)
https://nebula.tv/videos/simon-clark-3-strategies-to-beat-climate-change/
Stop Fossil Fuel Subsidies. Invest in renewables.
Nationalise the Fossil Fuel Industry.
Write to your local representatives. Start conversations in your communities. Connect with other people and organisations like Mutual Aid groups. Consider a letter writing campaign, visual aides like inforgraphics and simple posters.
more info: https://lgbtqia.space/@MxVerda/114175453019347140
and specifically https://nebula.tv/videos/simon-clark-climate-change-is-already-irreversible/
Got tips, corrections, suggestions, experiences, or questions? Reply! I'll do what I can to offer ideas, links, discussion, and social connection.
Heat Pumps: refrigerators that run both ways.
omg wait. Het Pumps: shoes that denote utter straight-ness.
He Pumps: description of masc person who doth lift.
H Pumps: uhhh, probably a biology or chemistry thing? Like H is Hydrogen, so just one proton (+1 positive charge, +1 atomic mass in the nucleus) with maybe a neutron or two (+0 charge, +1 atomic mass in the nucleus). So an H pump would probably just be a proton pump, like the opposite of what you give people for stomach ulcers? Cuz acid is more protons, giving a stronger overall positive charge.
E Pumps: come on, this is a free trans chick joke. Or maybe like e-girls, or both tbh. Are e-boys a thing? Are e-boys just fem bois in a more cyber punk aesthetic?
#art #prompt #idea #free #OpenSource #PublicDomain #RoyaltyFree #please
The Official Music Video for Money For Nothing. Taken from Dire Straits – Brothers in Arms.Dire Straits – Live 1978-1992' is out now (UK/ROW). Out January 19...
Thing! Documentation win! https://werd.social/@ben/114174601738232961
Yes, I know the EU is imperfect and racist as all fuck! Good thing still good! We need specks of improvement to keep going, gdi!
This is absurdly great, but I haven't read a single blog post or news article about it. A fully open source, offline-first alternative to Notion that's a collab between the French and German governments because they want to host documentation securely and on their own terms. THIS is what Europe should be doing. https://docs.numerique.gouv.fr/ #opensource
Also there's an event in Albany, NY state, USA on 19th March 2025 about this bill or something.
Go! If you dare -- and can do so sustainably or feel is worth overextending for.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JtVXUWqIYBg
#RegulateUtilities #Utilities #Energy #Electricity #CostOfLiving #AffordabilityCrisis #US #UnitedStates #USA #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #America #TurtleIsland #Heat #Cooling #Household #NewYork #NY #NewYork #NYstate
pornartists unite! a new copulation ... process? has been detailed!
Hey look! good news. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ochgnYc4hXg
I'm totally onboard with Anti-Elon Tesla stickers. It's a little nod to "hey, I don't like him either, but this car still meets my needs for now, and I can't swap yet or I would have by now". Makes sense to me.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9tMmGxLG2tQ
now I want to draw a sketch where a teacher introduces "cis Chad" who "identifies as a man" and "enjoys masculine hobbies, so he'll get along well with all you young men here." etc
#queer #queerness #LGBT #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #LGBTQI #LGBTQA #LGBTQIA2 #LGBTQIA2S #bisexual #trans #bi #lesbian #gay #homosexual #transgender #transexual #gender #sexuality #diversity #beauty #expectations #cis #straight #kink #kinky #pride
oooooh https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YrJ1p2074Rg
Hormones are chemical messengers that your cells release to send and receive signals between other cells in your body.
Ghrelin, for example, signals when your body wants you to eat, so it makes you feel 'hungry'. (Subject experts: pls add corrections, ty.)
You may know the hormones called progesterone, testosterone, or estrogen.
Everyone produces these hormones in different amounts, regardless of assigned birth sex, HRT (which cis, trans, AND nonbinary people can use), or felt personal gender.
(IDK best phrasing for respectful, precise clarity with near-zero risk of misinterpretation. Open to suggestion.)
Wait, wait. Menstrual ASTHMA?? Ok, maybe I need to pay more attention.
But yeah, like, it's not (all) individual men, masculine people, and nonbinary or agender people who look like them lumped in.
It's the systemic reinforcement of valuing ANYONE over ANYONE ELSE. That's it. The shitty hierarchical thinking needs to stop and we all benefit.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-e1Z4AlOdmE
omfg. If you hate your spouse and can't do couples counselling, DIVORCE THEM. LEAVE THEM. YOU BOTH DESERVE HAPPINESS AND CONTENTMENT. The kids don't deserve you sniping at each other, Robert. Find your own passions in life, Brenda. Split up already!
The epitome of a real man / woman / person / any gender or lack therreof is "respecting other people, including with conflict resolution AND constructive critique WHEN ASKED (or urgently required)."
Don't want to vaccinate yourself or your family? Look up measles. Learn why people donated to eliminate polio. Guess what got rid of smallpox? You don't want diptheria. Oh yeah, and consider whether you want to host a shitton of malaria parasites in your blood and liver cells.
#NotAllMen #ButTooMany #YesAllMen #like #ItsTheSexism #Inequality #hierarchicalThinking #Hierarchy
also one comment he's replying to said nonsense about too many [sic] sexual partners.
if someone with a vaj fucks someone with a dick 50 times, compared to fucking 50 people with a dick once, there is no difference, fuck off.
But *even if there were*, the only notable difference is that they would not want to fuck the commenter. That is the consequence. Which... I mean, the commenter is either happy or unhappy with that, but no one else's business in any event.
It doesn't fucking matter. Let informed consenting adults fuck (or not).
If you do not wish to observe or participate, then do not. Anything else is outside the realm of enjoyable, pleasureable, worthwhile sex.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IE8IkIQs8cY
ehhh, I mean, to take advice is different from "note what someone says (and their experiences), then bear that information in mind when making decisions."
And sometimes things ARE just hard, like ridiculous PhD conditions or systemic discrimination.
But yeah, everyone has their own plural biases. That is how information filtering and processing works. Otherwise you would do a 1:1 regurgitation.
omg, villain designs generally are usually awesome.
oh noooooo she became a tech bro foal!
https://youtu.be/mA3YiyBydZ8?t=475 huh, hadn't heard of the Boyfriends webcomic.
Also yes, I am Nerd (fem boi version), but green hair, not pearlescent. Was Prep tho.
And yes, my parents did unironically make inappropriate comments MULTIPLE TIMES about my sex life / worth as a person. "Normal" parent behaviour. Don't do that.
Also like... why did people hate it then? Was it literally JUST the proud queerness? WTF? It's cute as hell???
Who cares if it's an ad? The important parts are in the gd medium itself, ffs.
omg whaaaaaat
https://youtu.be/mA3YiyBydZ8?si=Xwe2jNrBPz5ra5r-&t=1740
also idk when but at some point (I think in the past 12 months?) I heard "pro shipper" but to mean people shipping (essentially) ... cartoon (...?) CSAM-related content.
But for idk how long before that, I just figured it meant "is not against shipping characters". Yeah, no. That. That was, not a comfortable conversation.
Idm shipping. I do mind whatever tf that is.
I gotta say as well, Quinn keeps dogging the dialogue, but it's in the author's additional langauge? It's not a damn book.
As long as you get the intent, then communication has occured.
oh no, okay. I don't need to raise my blood pressure again. ... Wait, I kinda do actually; having extra salt does make me less dizzy when I stand up.
But point remains: if you didn't know about the Hays Code, please look it up. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bUVOQDhIQow
If you don't understand why the Hays Code was bad, then please imagine life as someone whose life is deemed unworthy of sympathising with, dehumanised, and shunned once outed.
Imagine you grew up knowing your group of people was widely disliked and campaigned against as a matter of "public decency" for hundreds of years before your parents were born.
And imagine what your peers and their parents and grandparents think, having grown up with that shitty, highly-filtered media. Imagine what space there is for you to know yourself in a world that seems to want you to disappear to make their lives simpler.
huh. I should get around to playing this.
https://nebula.tv/videos/mia-mulder-yt-the-left-doesn-t-care-about-trans-women-mia-mulder/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UazEHGljNc8
People with less power than you have won't ask but need to know:
"Do you see me as a person?" and "Can you [accept when you] make a mistake?"
If either answer is 'no', then you are unsafe.
"Do you see me as a person?" doesn't mean either self or a sycophant.
Other people are individuals, separate from yourself, who each did not experience exactly what you did.
Scientists have made a satisfying and intriguing physics discovery some 16 years after it was first predicted to be a possibility: a quasiparticle (a group of particles behaving as one) that only has an effective mass when moving in one direction.
oh yeah, omg.
thing!! do thing, m'yes.
https://mastodon.social/@JNSLCT/114179795876489542
.... fuck it. My term of address is now not "ma[d]am", "sir" or even "ser", but m'yes.
I wish to make they (who dare refer thus to myself) appear as madd'uns, plotting against us all!
FUCK. Should that be 'they' as the subject of the phrase, because "... they who dare / they refer to"?
Or 'them' as the object of the phrase, because "I make them..."?
Linguists, help! I flouder yet!
I get it, but jfc that thumbnail and title nauseates me. Genuinely evocative in a deeply unpleasant way.
Now for the video!
https://nebula.tv/videos/foreignman-the-cuckocracy-of-musk/
Cute thing with nice people.
Sometimes the straights and the cis and the cis straights (??? Still royally confused by them, but ok) are okay.
Whether he's "secretly" evil or not, his actions bring harm to people around him. If he truly cared about his impacts on others, then he would care enough about their wellbeing to notice and TRY to change his behaviours. At best, he is a blatant example of what privilege / power does to blunt your social awareness.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9riONyJ7GgY
Ugh. I hate the rest of this shitty clickbait.
@MxVerda That's an odd one. I guess it depends on the broader context of the conversation and their opinion of rage what they expect you to do.
Do *you* think you hold a lot of rage? Is it a problem for you?
Rage can be a useful motivating force, or an exhausting rumination treadmill.
If this person matters to you, maybe ask them to elaborate.
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