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Reviving a 30 year old idea with my childhood friend: the humble sporkion

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When you make a reference and someone actually gets it

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Story time:

In middle school biology, we did an experiment. We were given yams, which we would sprout in cups of water. We then had to make hypotheses about how the yams would grow, based on descriptions of yam plants in our books, and make notes of our observations as they grew.

Here’s what was supposed to happen: we were supposed to see that the actual growth of the plant did not resemble our hypotheses. We were then supposed to figure out that these were, in fact, sweet potatoes.

What actually happened was that every single student in every single class lied in their notes so that their observations perfectly matched their hypotheses. See, everyone assumed the mismatch meant they had done something wrong in the process of growing the plant or that they had misunderstood the dichotomous key or the plant identification terminology. And, thanks to the wonders of a public school education, everyone assumed the wrong results would get us a failing grade. We were trying to pass. We didn’t want to get bitched out by the teacher. Curiosity, learning, science - that had nothing to do with why we were sitting in that classroom. So we all lied.

The teacher was furious. She tried to fail every student, but the administration stepped in and told her she wasn’t allowed to because a 100% fail rate is recognized as a failure of the teacher, not the class. It wasn’t even her fault, really, though her being a notorious hard-ass didn’t help. It was a failure of the entire educational system.

So whenever I see crap like Elizabeth Holmes’s blood test scam or pharmaceutical trials which are unable to be replicated or industry-funded research that reaches wildly unscientific conclusions, I just remember those fucking sweet potatoes. I remember that curiosity dies when people are just trying to give their superiors the “right” answers, so they can get the grade, get the job, get the paycheck. It’s not about truth when it’s about paying rent. There’s no scientific integrity if you can’t control for human desperation.

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Shard but he's just a little more pointy and retains more of the original Metal Sonic look and scare-factor.

Plus trying on the Trooper/Neo Metal look with mixed opinions.

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and Done!!!!

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so I had a new roommate move in less than a week ago

…and this morning I discovered a really fun way to learn that he stores things in the oven 🩷

I guess this makes sense except for the fact that his cabinets????

are empty?????????????

(the food there was left behind by the last roommates)

PLUS

as far as I know, this is the only plate he brought 🥸 just the one.

anyway happy carcinogen wednesday I guess!!!!

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Okay, recently I fell into a rabbit hole of the superheroes from the Incredibles universe. It seems that a bonus feature from the 2004 DVD reveals more details about all the past superheroes and people are going nuts over it.

We have what it looks like canon gay and genderqueer superheroes, as well as a character that people are calling "Disney's version of the Homelander."

But sadly, this isn't about them. It's about Gazerbeam, a super that even though was already dead by the time the film takes place, was fundamental in helping Bob discover Syndrome's plans.

I found this deleted scene from Incredibles 2, and it broke me 😭😭😭

I get you Gazerbeam. I understand you completely 😭

@ariel-seagull-wings @thealmightyemprex @the-blue-fairie @princesssarisa @mask131 @tamisdava2 @theancientvaleofsoulmaking @maimoncat @geeky92

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sona variety doodles from like. any time in the last yr

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weevil 553

by @rafisteinles on instagram

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oh cool im sure that makes for really good performances

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Black people in the U.S. are seven times more likely to be falsely convicted of a serious crime like murder than white people, according to a new report published Tuesday by the National Registry of Exonerations. The finding is based on an analysis of exonerations for serious crimes in the U.S. over the last four decades, which found that Black people make up less than 14% of the U.S. population but account for 53% of exonerations in the country.

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This is legitimately one of my fav quotes from him

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Oh look, he makes clay!

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You guys! You can get the whole Murderbot Diaries series and have it benefit charity right now! I am so obsessed with it, I cannot recommend this series enough! And it helps feed people in need, what else do you want?!

Other works by Martha Wells, you say? Well if has that too, go look!!!