#science and progress

[scampdoodle]

Merry Christmas! Have a Jayvik under the mistletoe

[yummysake-saucegay]

The most Jayvik coded song to ever exist :') Please watch in HD! If you enjoy it please help me get noticed since I have zero reach :'3 I might edit and polish it a bit more

https://www.tiktok.com/@laxislazuli/video/7469205691408895265

[itistimetodisappear]

SPOILERS for outer wilds. Don't read unless you've played it.

Outer Wilds is really a memento Mori like no other. Many narratives describe death, show grief, sometimes in beautiful ways. And you may feel it empathetically, you may ever cry. But there's still a barrier between you and it. It is not actually happening to you. Outer wilds induces the 8 stages of grief in you, completely naturally. You don't even realise that's what's happening.

Of course the game understands what's happening, and it respect you so much. It's not tragic or morbid. In fact it never frames what's happening as 'sad' per say. It's just happening. It's so gentle with the subject matter and you don't understand why until the end. Outer wilds put a lot of the chaos of real life grief into perspective in such a kind way. Invaluable for my personal development honestly.

[notthissh-tagain]

Collaboration, exploration, and unsexy tedious work advanced us all.

Culture is so obsessed with the idea of lone geniuses that it doesn't really appreciate that most of the progress of science (and likely every other discipline) occurs collaboratively, in babysteps, and usually through a lot very tedious, utterly unsexy, work.

[politijohn]

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[moastudiess]

Daily Productivity Challenge: 4/10

04.08.2025~ Getting started on my complexity theory homework that was due yesterday :D, also working on my computer graphics GPU programming project on the side. Working towards finishing the wrapper assignment for my Bayesian Net project as well :)

[aanonyarty]

i can fix him

(works in progress)

[silveredcircuitry]

a Progress Flag version of the Mad Science Pride Flag for pride month! now featuring oil black, chemical bottle brown, and stained labcoat white

Other flags and all the stripes to make your own below

all flags and colourbars in this post are free for anyone to use for anything as long as it is not hateful, and ideally with credit.

[nemfrog]

"Different stages in the growth of a bean plant and a pea plant."

Science problems for the junior high school. 1938.

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[scampdoodle]

I thought it would be Viktor’s devotion to Jayce that would lead him to strip away his humanity, but it was his devotion to Jayce that saved him. I’m so normal about this.

[liquidatorbruntfca]

while glaringly obvious plot holes, chasms in logic and painfully missed opportunities are inevitable in any long-running series/franchise, the one star trek plot hole that has kept me up at night more than any other, the one that with each episode, twists the knife further and further, is the fact that Captain Kathryn Janeway did not come up through engineering. like HUH???

i’m only halfway through season 2 and very rarely does an episode go by where Janeway doesn’t find an excuse to make her way to engineering. the second something goes wrong with the ship that woman is SPRINTING to see what’s going on with her own two eyes (and usually her hands too). like in S1 E1 of Voyager, they get flung 70,000 light years from home, and one of the first things she does is run to engineering.

i know i know, she was a science officer, something something captains need to be proficient in all domains aboard a starship, yada yada - yes, Janeway has a reputation for going above and beyond when it comes to knowing her shit, but her level of comfort and familiarity with engineering, her ability (and desire) to run around, ask questions, complete tasks and essentially function as a regular member of the engineering crew indicates to me more than just ‘she’s smart’ (see: “Warp Particles!”)

TLDR: Kathryn Janeway was, is, and always will be an engineering girlie to me and i will die on this hill

[loudclan-clangen]

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

in other news, congrats to the newest heirs of the Healer and Leader positions…

AAAAAAAAAAUUUUUUGHHHH NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO NO NO NOOOOOOOO

and a bonus, the "definitely not sisters":

Thank you! This art is so sad in the best way! I love the idea of covering wounds with animal pelts and the song lyrics are 🤌*mwah* perfect. Also I appreciate the pelt you drew belongs to the rabbit from Moon 25! Fun fact I colored that rabbit using Dashpaw's palette (minus the dark brown, that was to bring it out as the focal point) to foreshadow his death. I didn't really expect anyone to notice, especially because it was one of the first moons with shading, but it did make me feel like an evil mastermind.

It's difficult for the living and the dead to communicate to each other, but starclan cats definitely still know what's going on with the clan! So yes, Fiercestripe would have found out that she saved Thorn, but no, Dashpaw can't talk to his brothers. Dancepaw's ghost sense isn't strong enough to be able to make out any words, and Songpaw can really only see or hear Eklutna.

It was a combination of both. Fiercestripe refused to sell out the fleeing she-cats, and also didn't want the farm cats anywhere near Loudclan. Part of it was an emotional "This is my home and I don't want any trace of you in it" and part of it was a pretty rational "Owlstar's an idiot and Tundrafrost only sees the best in people and there's a non-zero chance that they fall for Coal's charismatic bullshit and end up allying with them". I can say as the author that they wouldn't have, but Fierce only had a few moments to weigh her choices and she made the best decision that she could.

Thank you! Can you tell I learned from old Riverspirit speedpaints? I watched them religiously as a kid.

[sex-obsessed-lesbian]

What are your sexiest adjectives?

Prompted by a partner calling me "pliant" last night and me just fucking MELTING about it:

What are your hot-button adjectives to be called in a sexy context?

For me, faves include:

needy

desperate

pliant

good(tm)

[politijohn]

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[yellodisney]

[moastudiess]

04.30.2025~ Daily Productivity Challenge 6/10

Probabilities and effective study rituals before my last final exam :))

I’ve fully claimed my boyfriends’ room while he went long boarding and I’m planning on compiling every possible set of notes I can get my hands on for this open note exam