so these little dudes are on display where I work and this conversation between various groups of visitors viewing them happens CONSTANTLY
Visitor 1: Aww! Look at the cute little caterpillars!!
Visitor 2: Oh!! cute!!
Visitor 3: No! it says they’re called silkWORMS.
All: Ewww Worms! Gross!
like…. the appearance of the animal did not change?? their name did not add or subtract any attributes from them?? also no one ever says anything like “oh well they’re cute for worms” they just immediately take back what they were saying before because of the word “Worm”
And they’re not even worms?? They are caterpillars. They’re just called that because they were named by people who didn’t bother to check for legs or consider that worms do not turn into moths.
They’re also very soft. Touch one! Even softer than most caterpillars.
fandom culture is weird because like “hey let’s roleplay hardcore sex in languid painful detail” is a like buddy thing to do. friends do that. this is my best friend we enjoy watching movies together, braiding each other’s hair, and making characters from animes we like emotionally 69
It is a true gesture of friendship to write your friend’s kink.
USB Ports: My phone never dies now and it doesn’t even noticeably drain my battery
Seat Warmers: just some cheap usb heating pads i got off ebay. because i’m not moving, i get cold really easily. this keeps me nice and toasty
Cane Holder: just a piece of pvc pipe i zip tied to my chair and some velcro to stop it rattling
Side Bag: this is made for a pram but its sooooo useful! the big pocket has three sections which can hold drinks, phones, whatever, and the little pocket unzips and i keep loose change in it
Legrest Holder: This bit of velcro holds my leg rests out of the way so i can get closer to a table. i normally sit cross-legged when im not moving. Also i coated the legs in rubber paint. i bang into things a lot and also its purple and pretty
Umbrella Holder: this is where my umbrella sits when i’m not using it -and- Drink Holder: This holds my drink bottle. its also made for prams but its great to have easy access to water. -and-
Bag Holder: Also from the pram section, i have these little clips on my handles that hold plastic bags. i can carry a whole cart worth of shopping on these
Umbrella Stand: this is a microphone stand, velcro and zip ties. it all folds away neatly but it will (hopefully) keep me dry without costing me my only free hand
Feel free to reply or message me if you are looking at modifying your chair and want some tips!
This is awesome! I feel like a lot of this stuff should just… come with the chair, though. Or there should at least be options you can buy [like the pram (aka stroller for us Yanks) stuff] instead of having to Macgyver an umbrella stand yourself.
These things should absolutely come as part of the chair. Design for disability is some of the most stagnant design i have ever seen. Its something that needs to change, but until it does, i’m gonna keep making my own mods
No, that is NOT what this is. You’ve taken an amazing medical invention, a total game changer, and made up some stupid, faux-deep sentence fragment for it that is a complete falsehood. You should be embarrassed and ashamed, honestly.
This is a ghost heart. What they’ve done is taken a pig heart and stripped it down to, basically, a cell framework that they can use to BUILD A NEW HEART UPON. You could inject stem cells into this framework so that a newly formed personalized heart can be transplanted into a donor with a significantly reduced chance of rejection. FUCKING AMAZING. It’s not been done with human tissue yet, but the promise this given to people who need hearts – or kidneys or livers or whatever – is beautiful. Science is beautiful.
And it’s IMPERATIVE to mention that a woman, Doris Taylor, at the Texas Heart Institute developed this. And she started with a rat heart and worked up to he bigger, more complex (and more human) pig heart. What a total bad ass.
So look, quit making shit up, learn to do a reverse image search on stuff you find on the internet, and STOP ERASING WOMEN IN SCIENCE.
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The corrected information
WOMEN IN SCIENCE
The fact that rejection rate would be LESS which is VITAL
this is really interesting
Plus, hearts are made of muscle, i.e. meat. If you drain all the blood out, the heart is still pretty much the same pinkish-red color.
Ok I know this has probably already been discussed, but what I love about the “The girl murdered Snoke” bit is that, for anyone to believe that, they have to believe that Rey single handedly (1) defeated Snoke, (2) the entire Praetorian guard, AND (3) Kylo Ren all by herself.
A) Pretty sure Hux is not that dumb and has already put 2 + 2 together
B) I’m really wondering what Supreme Leader Dumbass’s propaganda machine is gonna be cranking out on that front – because anything that sticks to that story is gonna paint Rey as this almost insurmountably powerful being.
Rey: Hi, I’m Rey-
Entire units of stormtroopers + whole villages of local populations: RUN FOR YOUR LIVES
Every time Rey appears on the screen run by awolnation plays in the background
someone make an edit of this I’ll pay you $3 and a dozen muffins of your choice baked by yours truly
no one ever rly talks abt the good robot noises transformers have gotta make…. like whirl’s systems going “beep beep beep beepbeepbeep!” when he gets Pissed, or rodimus’s whole chassis rattling and the mechanical “click” of his fire systems roaring to life, or rung’s eyebrows making lil pinging noises as he moves them + they clack against the tops of his optics….. i just….there are so many wonderful concepts here
alright but I just made up a critter who’s, like
y’know those terrible rich guys who buy artifacts on the black market just To Have and how they are 100% going to bring all sorts of curses upon themselves?
So one of those guys’ house is struck by lightning and burns down with his artifact collection (oh, and him) inside, and somehow that influx of energy kinda stirs up a good half a dozen spells/curses/doses of magic/what have you from all the artifacts, and it winds up as a very confused entity who was supposed to be a vengeful spirit
except that the guy who owned all the stuff is dead?? and all the stuff is burned up so nobody can put it back or anything??
so there’s just this very confused new being who suddenly exists and has no idea what to do with itself now, and proceeds to attempt to stabilize itself by fixing itself to whatever scraps of artifacts it can find in the ashes, and then anything else that gets its attention.
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