Month: June 2017

arctos-sleuth replied to your post:

I’m watching Ghost Adventures. Either three dudes…

They got fucking high and then went looking for a skinwalker on Navajo land where none of them will go.

One of ‘em used himself as the catalyst (offering? sacrifice? host?) for some sort of “”pagan”” cult ritual, something about summoning demons, and then walked off by himself to go sit in a temple in a cave. 

I really hope they never run into anything seriously dangerous, they are gonna get possessed and/or eaten.

bettsplendens:

I’m watching Ghost Adventures.

Either three dudes are freaking themselves out over random glitch signals, or three dudes are pissing off ghosts and using themselves to summon things. 

I’m not sure which outcome is funnier.

I do know which one is more alarming.

These morons are gonna get themselves possessed by something sooner or later. That, or they’re gonna rile something up and it’s gonna drop a wall on them.

bett-splendens:

hexiva:

bluedogeyes:

Pyrostremma spinosum (Giant fire salp)

“Pyrosomes, genus Pyrosoma, are free-floating colonial tunicates that live usually in the upper layers of the open ocean in warm seas, although some may be found at greater depths. Pyrosomes are cylindrical- or conical-shaped colonies made up of hundreds to thousands of individuals, known as zooids. Colonies range in size from less than one centimeter to several metres in length.

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Each zooid is only a few millimetres in size, but is embedded in a common gelatinous tunic that joins all of the individuals. Each zooid opens both to the inside and outside of the “tube”, drawing in ocean water from the outside to its internal filtering mesh called the branchial basket, extracting the microscopic plant cells on which it feeds, and then expelling the filtered water to the inside of the cylinder of the colony. The colony is bumpy on the outside, each bump representing a single zooid, but nearly smooth, though perforated with holes for each zooid, on the inside.

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Pyrosomes are planktonic, which means their movements are largely controlled by currents, tides, and waves in the oceans. On a smaller scale, however, each colony can move itself slowly by the process of jet propulsion, created by the coordinated beating of cilia in the branchial baskets of all the zooids, which also create feeding currents.

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Pyrosomes are brightly bioluminescent, flashing a pale blue-green light that can be seen for many tens of metres. The name Pyrosoma comes from the Greek (pyro = “fire”, soma = “body”). Pyrosomes are closely related to salps, and are sometimes called “fire salps”.

Sailors on the ocean are occasionally treated to calm seas containing many pyrosomes, all luminescing on a dark night.” (x)

Can we talk about how that scuba diver saw this massive colonial tunicate tube and was like I GOTTA RIDE THAT

@adhesivesandscrap Sea blorps!

everythingyouthinkyouknowisalie:

bett-splendens:

You know what’s creepier than yet another “they’re a villain because they’re insane and/or greedy/evil and happen to also be insane” supervillain? 

The rational ones. 

The ones who aren’t hurting people because their mind forces them to. The ones who are hurting people just because they want to. The ones who are truly, genuinely malicious, without any excuse or reason. 

Not to mention that constantly portraying mentally ill people as villains is, y’know, not a great thing. 

Kinda wanna see something with a superhero who’s somewhat mentally unstable, portrayed accurately and in a positive light (not in that “my mental illness makes me a special magical snowflake” way, the “this mentally ill person isn’t a freak or a monster” way), and is up against a perfectly rational villain. 

Yes, this

I love villains, and anti-heroes who do what they do because they enjoy it, or because they can. And they do it well.

Give me a villain who does their thing as a side project, or to amuse themselves. Someone who really just don’t care about the damage they inflict, not really, because they enjoy being the bad guy.

Whoops, just destroyed most of a town in a scuffle with this newly proclaimed hero, that was fun, same time next week? 
Not now, dear, I’m having fun crushing this annoyance. 
Ohoho, well aren’t you interesting? So much spark, and fight still left in you. Lets take out that rage and hurt and fear and play with it shall we?

Give me heroes who make mistakes, who don’t know what they’re doing, who mess up and realize that and it mucks with their heads. Give me heroes who are trying to do the right thing and mess everything up

Heroes who come out of nowhere, out of nothing and have no back up, no power, just their wits and battle strategies from playing rpg games 

Heroes who come out of a building and are afraid, hurt, bruised, bloody and broken. Have them pick up a piece of piping or a handful of pebbles and grit and throw it into the enemies face.

Heroes who lay awake and night shaking with fear and memories replaying in their head of the ones they couldn’t save.

Give me the people who have no idea what they are doing but do it because they have nothing left. The ones who fight private battles everyday with themselves and the world at large, and now they have someone else to fight, and they throw themselves into the battle with everything they have because that’s the only way they know how to survive.

I’m watching Ghost Adventures.

Either three dudes are freaking themselves out over random glitch signals, or three dudes are pissing off ghosts and using themselves to summon things. 

I’m not sure which outcome is funnier.

I do know which one is more alarming.

thefoxwithremorse:

justsomeantifas:

also, lmao ERs treat drug addicts so bad that it harms fucking everyone.

Like, I had recently had surgery, left the hospital I had surgery at because I felt better, 7 hours later turns out I had an infection, could have died, and was in excruciating pain. I get to the ER, my dad tells them what happened, and that I needed pain medication, and let me tell you, I’ve been hit by a car, this pain was 10 times worse than having your tailbone broken but constant. 

So they check me in, and take an hour and a half to get to me. It wasn’t busy there, I remember distinctly it wasn’t busy, they even said it wasn’t busy. It took them an hour and a half of me in this horrible pain for them to read my file and figure out I had an infection and could die, so finally then did they give me pain medications.

Because as soon as you go into the ER asking for pain meds, you’re automatically an addict in their eyes. And this is bullshit for two reasons:

1) addicts are still suffering and deserve medical treatment, especially when it’s that severe

2) this drastically harms people who suffer from chronic illness/chronic pain/infections/anything really

They hate addicts so much they’re willing to let disabled people suffer in agony for hours, because they just don’t care, whats it to them if an addict is suffering for hours? 

[reminder you can die from withdrawal, so they should fucking be treating addicts just as seriously as anyone else]

You really think that these asshats who took the Hippocratic Oath would really exemplify such, like legitimately. These people swear to not cause undue harm or pain but instead we have a culture of demonetization and this often happens when we can’t relate to another humans.

We don’t see the struggle until we feel the struggle and that is sad, especially in such a bloody field.

golbatgender:

It’s important to include kink in sex education to protect children from predators. This is both so kids know how to avoid bad situations and also so parents can recognize when a situation is bad.

For children under 10, this looks like “Don’t do things that people online tell you to do without checking with an adult you trust to make sure it isn’t a predator, even if it just seems silly,” and “Be wary of adults who want to touch you or watch you do weird things for no reason, even if it’s something that seems harmless like letting them touch your feet or squishing up things. Any touch you don’t want is a bad touch.” This fits in well with other basics about bodily autonomy.

For preteens and younger teens, you can be more direct (they’ll understand that sex is a thing beyond just creating babies, whether they’ve been properly educated or not). Something like “Some predators might have requests that don’t seem explicitly sexual at first. If they seem to be getting something sexual out of it, or if it just seems too weird or if it makes you uncomfortable at all, don’t do it, or ask a trusted adult and alert any site mods, if it’s online.”

For older teens and adults, more of the above, plus showing examples of common “challenges” that are actually kinkbait. (i.e. writing stuff on your feet and taking pictures of it, stepping in slime or gross/painful things, questions about theoretically squishing or eating people, tying up yourself or others, “gallon of milk” type challenges that often cause vomiting.) At this point, the object is not just to prevent individual victimization, but to allow them to identify situations where children are being preyed upon.

In addition, knowing what kinks are means that people who have them are less likely to think it’s okay to trick others into doing them. If you emphasize that kinks are sex, people will realize that forcing them on others is not just a prank with a dirty secret, but actually sexual assault. Younger people with kinks (they often do start in childhood; sometimes they’re not explicitly sexual until around puberty) will learn not to put themselves in dangerous situations over things they don’t understand yet, and also that there isn’t anything wrong with them. In all cases, it should be emphasized that the kink is not the problem, but the predatory behavior and coercion of others into sexual acts. If the kink is portrayed as the problem, people won’t make the distinction between doing it with a willing partner and tricking people into it, and the cycle will continue.

Lack of education is why predators can get away with things like this. There probably aren’t very many of these predators out there, but the nature of the internet and meme culture means that just one can easily get a lot of victims through things that seem like ordinary challenges or surveys. IRL, once again people often don’t realize that something could be predatory if it doesn’t involve breast or genital contact. Education is what’s needed; driving kinks underground and acting like consensual kink is predatory just makes these situations more likely.