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roaring titan full body image

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Source: Tumblr user @jadafitch / jadafitch.com

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That's Megaera from the first game with an undercut and different lipstick:

I don't think Melinoe is supposed to know what she looks like, but the devs clearly expected players to recognize her... Most people don't seem to, though. Maybe if the hot-pink whip was draped over the arm facing the camera?

hades 2 was my 9/11

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You'd think more people would be talking about the reveal of the shadow duelist

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You'd think more people would be talking about the reveal of the shadow duelist

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ALT:

[275a] and now you, who are the father of letters, have been led by your affection to ascribe to them a power the opposite of that which they really possess. For this invention will produce forgetfulness in the minds of those who learn to use it, because they will not practice their memory. Their trust in writing, produced by external characters which are no part of themselves, will discourage the use of their own memory within them. You have invented an elixir not of memory, but of reminding; and you offer your pupils the appearance of wisdom, not true wisdom, for they will read many things without instruction and will therefore seem [275b] to know many things, when they are for the most part ignorant and hard to get along with, since they are not wise, but only appear wise.

Source: Plato. Plato in Twelve Volumes, Vol. 9 translated by Harold N. Fowler. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1925.

what are your thoughts on the validity of the concept of "cognitive offloading"? i like ai for the most part but i do worry that it might make me dumber at remembering things or doing hard cognitive work.

instead of answering this ask, here's an unrelated excerpt from phaedrus:

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The actual study: https://doi.org/10.1038/s44321-025-00258-8

S. V. Beentjes et al., “Replicated blood-based biomarkers for myalgic encephalomyelitis not explicable by inactivity,” EMBO Mol Med, Jun. 2025, doi: 10.1038/s44321-025-00258-8.

Abstract

Myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) is a common female-biased disease. ME/CFS diagnosis is hindered by the absence of biomarkers that are unaffected by patients’ low physical activity level. Our analysis used semi-parametric efficient estimators, an initial Super Learner fit followed by a one-step correction, three mediators, and natural direct and indirect estimands, to decompose the average effect of ME/CFS status on molecular and cellular traits. For this, we used UK Biobank data for up to 1455 ME/CFS cases and 131,303 controls. Hundreds of traits differed significantly between cases and controls, including 116 significant for both female and male cohorts. These were indicative of chronic inflammation, insulin resistance and liver disease. Nine of 14 traits were replicated in the smaller All-of-Us cohort. Results cannot be explained by restricted activity: via an activity mediator, ME/CFS status significantly affected only 1 of 3237 traits. Individuals with post-exertional malaise show stronger biomarker differences. Single traits could not cleanly distinguish cases from controls. Nevertheless, these results keep alive the future ambition of a blood-based biomarker panel for accurate ME/CFS diagnosis.

News report on that recent finding of hundreds of biomarkers in the blood of ME/CFS patients (which has now been replicated), but I'm only really posting it for one reason.

People with ME - or chronic fatigue syndrome - have major differences in their blood compared with healthy individuals, experts are suggesting. University of Edinburgh researchers said their findings could pave the way for a "game-changer" diagnostic test. Prof Chris Ponting said: "For so long people with ME/CFS have been told it's all in their head. It's not. We see it in their blood." However some critics of the study said researchers had "overstated" the significance of their work.

Oh which critics? I mean they found hundreds of biomarkers in thousands of patients compared against over 100,000 controls and the results have been replicated, how is that "overstating"? That's pretty overwhelming evidence.

Alan Carson, professor in neuropsychiatry at the University of Edinburgh, said the researchers overstated the significance of their work. Prof Carson said: "If one wants to ask is ME/CFS a figment of the imagination, then this study shows it is not. "However, to claim blood biomarker differences prove that a condition is 'not all in your head' fails to appreciate that both physical and mental illness can show similar types of results."

Oh Alan Carson, close personal friend and protege of Michael Sharpe and Simon Wessely and the current face for the psychosomatic school now that the other names are too well known and discredited. And really Alan, what mental illness shows up as hundreds of biomarkers? And wouldn't it then be perhaps germane to inquire if that is not in fact a physical illness? I fucking hate these people. I hate the stranglehold they have over media where even an article on the physical proof for the illness gets a little aside from one of these freaks. Fucking hell.

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It did, and it was common across many cultures all over the world, and this is very well-known. The terms you want to look up are "levirate marriage" and "niyoga".

it was finally permitted by the Deceased Wife’s Sister’s Marriage Act 1907, which does exactly what you would think and absolutely no more; that would have to wait for the the Deceased Brother’s Widow’s Marriage Act 1921 and various extensions until the Marriage Enabling Act 1960 made them all redundant.

This entire debate, as lengthy and heated as it was, is almost entirely forgotten despite its relevance to popular discourse on more recent marriage issues.

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When my high school's more-openly-white-supremacist priest tried to teach us about "healthy friendships," the only example he could come up with was from a toothpaste commercial.

one of my formative experiences with sex ed was having sexual desire explained to my class by a catholic nun who was very clearly working on a purely theoretical model. she explained with like increasing mania that women and men are very different because men are "like microwaves" and women "are like crock pots" and the more confused the class (age 13) became the more frantic sister patrick stephen became until she was accidentally making the point that men and women are too much like different appliances to have sex with each other at all. we all felt quite guilty as this was the year twilight came out so we'd all just gotten horny for the first time. so we felt bad for her if anything

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Several people replying to this post say that, because they smoke cigarettes, they can state with certainty that cigarettes do "get you high". What logical error(s) might these people have made?

Many other notes and tags contain variations upon the statement "you can also find both these people [somewhere other than Tumblr]," citing a wide variety of different venues, both online and offline. Taken together, do these replies contradict the original post's premise? Why or why not?

The beauty of tumblr is that some people here think that cigarettes get you high and drinking once a week makes you an alcoholic, while others here started smoking at 13 and wouldn't even consider ketamine a drug because everyone does it. And both of them are on tumblr blogging about TV shows from 2005.

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He gets kicked for passive-aggressive whining.

The .XLSX of J Alfred Prufrock

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The possibility of what is called spontaneous combustion has been denied since the death of Mr. Krook; and my good friend Mr. Lewes (quite mistaken, as he soon found, in supposing the thing to have been abandoned by all authorities) published some ingenious letters to me at the time when that event was chronicled, arguing that spontaneous combustion could not possibly be. I have no need to observe that I do not wilfully or negligently mislead my readers and that before I wrote that description I took pains to investigate the subject. There are about thirty cases on record, of which the most famous, that of the Countess Cornelia de Baudi Cesenate, was minutely investigated and described by Giuseppe Bianchini, a prebendary of Verona, otherwise distinguished in letters, who published an account of it at Verona in 1731, which he afterwards republished at Rome. The appearances, beyond all rational doubt, observed in that case are the appearances observed in Mr. Krook’s case. The next most famous instance happened at Rheims six years earlier, and the historian in that case is Le Cat, one of the most renowned surgeons produced by France. The subject was a woman, whose husband was ignorantly convicted of having murdered her; but on solemn appeal to a higher court, he was acquitted because it was shown upon the evidence that she had died the death of which this name of spontaneous combustion is given.

-- Charles Dickens, 1853 preface to Bleak House

Started reading a comic where on the back page the author is like "I don't want to get into a bit religious debate but there is a lot of evidence demonic possession is real" and I'm like

Hmm, I'm not sure about that bob

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Mom suggests @snarp s brain problems were acquired on an outing to a disreputable inn

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Rude and stinky orange cat

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Source is Lelong Designs:

From their Etsy shop bio:

It all Started In Paris Lelong Designs is a family run business that was started in the mid 1950’s by my father Jean Lelong. He was working in the theatre at the time and started making earrings which he sold to the performers. They placed more and more orders and so it began.

In 1982 I started working as an apprentice when I was 16 years of age and ever since then we have been producing Art Deco & Art Nouveau inspired jewellery.

Every design we make is inspired by the Art Deco & Art Nouveau movements. We make all our jewellery from vintage French findings which were stamped from the original steel die’s dating from the 1890’s to the 1930’s.

Jess & Jean have been travelling to Paris 4-5 times a year to source Art Deco & Art Nouveau findings from the old factories that have been producing these pieces for over 130 years.

Sadly most of the old stamping houses have now closed down but we have managed to build an impressive collection of over 5000 different designs. We have also been acquiring vintage ’Pate De Verre’ Glass from the 20’s & 30’s. Pate De Verre is a technique where coloured glass is moulded into bold Art Deco shapes and then either etched with acid or layered with silver or gold leaf.

We also use vintage Galalith for our jewellery which is hand cut and polished to make one of a kind unique pieces.

Each piece of jewellery is silver or gold plated. All of our jewellery is nickel free and hypoallergenic. We continue to use the traditional technique of fired glass enamelling. Many of our designs are also set with diamante crystals and semi precious stones.

(Previously at lelongdesigns.com, but their active web presence now seems to be confined to Etsy. Risky!)

not a want, but a need

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They are trying to burn you at the stake

you are the joan of arc of tumblr to me

i'm gonna take this as a compliment i think

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Here

I want to see snarps cats