@thatmgslikerguy

Hey guys I just bought this cool cylinder from some guy in the flea market parking lot, not sure how it works but when you take the lid off it makes your camera all grainy, super cool!

@shemetalonmygeartilitsrising

Hey guys, I have an update, and there's a few lies going around in the notes so I figured I'd clear those up while I was here:

First of all, no, I did not "confirm it was was fake" on Twitter, I originally posted this video to a private but fairly big discord, someone there took it and put in on Twitter and later told everyone it was a joke because they were getting quite tweeted too much. That person is not me, I don't even have a Twitter

Second. Apparently this is something called cesium, it's super radioactive and that's why the container is so heavy and thick. I ended up having a really bad burn on my hand after I messed with it for a few more days, they ended up having to take some of the muscle off of it and a ways up my wrist to try and save my arm, this is what it looks like when I unwrap the bandages (I'm not going to show the hand because it looks WAY worse🤢 and I don't want to make yall puke)

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Anyway, be careful what you buy from strange guys at flea markets! They might just be trying to kill you!

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guy discovered demons are real and then the demons took him. damn.


Kids, don't play with this kind of shit.

I don't know if this whole thing in the original post is real or not but i had the same initial reaction as @therealchickensoup in notes.

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As an explanation of the mentioned incident:

Tl;dr version of the video - apparently, there have been these cases where empty capsules from old medical machines have been "misplaced" or outright just left behind like this in various places all around the world (usually in abandoned war zones or when there wasn't enough money to pay a specialized cleaning crew so the stuff just got abandoned and forgotten) and every now and then they get rediscovered by random people, causing death or serious life long consequences to hundreds of people before they are contained.

As for why it does that weird stuff on camera, it's most likely because of SEE - single event error - an effect radiation has on electronics where, if a particle hits a sensor (like camera's photo chip), RAM memory unit, or processing core with enough energy, it disrupts normal function of the device temporarily, in this case by creating that visual snow. Other example that comes to mind is this short video from Rosetta space craft landing at the surface of the comet. It's camera was created specifically to withstand the radiation of the open Space and yet it still filmed tons of "snow" aka heavy particles flying all over the place.

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My theory about why the cilinder vid looks different from this is that unlike the comet with particles going every direction from all possible sources in the whole universe, hitting the camera mostly at an angle, the cilinder is the only source of the radiation around and instead of messing up with pixels in line as those nuclei fly through, they hit the thing sqare on and only ever disrupt a singular pixel at the time. But like tens of thousands of them every second by the look of it. Which is a lot.

So yeah, the original post seems legit (in which case RIP) but even if it wasn't, the message it conveys is a serious one. That cilinder is not an object of honor. It does not contain anything valued. Don't buy random unexpectedly heavy metallic items of unknown origin from strangers. If something suspicious like this seems to be glowing in dark or is warm to touch without an abvious reason or if it upsets your phone's camera or causes a discoloration of white paper when you set it on, GET AWAY FROM IT, DON'T MOVE IT, DON'T THROW IT TO SOME OTHER RANDOM PLACE, DEFINITELY DON'T SELL IT ON A FLEA MARKET, CALL 112 OR 911 OR FIREFIGHTERS AND TELL THEM THAT YOU HAVE A SUSPICION THAT YOU MAY BE IN A POSESSION OF SOME RADIOACTIVE MATERIAL AMD YOU NEED HELP ASAP, THEN CALL YOURSELF AN AMBULANCE AND TELL THEM THE SAME THING

Hopefully no one following me or reading this post has to ever do any of those things, but in case you do... I hope that i was clear about how dangerous this shit is.

News, everyone! It's been made into a video by the same guy who did the one on the Goiânia incident

Tl;dr It's fake, the original video was first posted on twitter by a rubber pony fetish account because op was bored. However, PLEASE watch the video in full, it's an entire rollercoaster

ok wait what's everyone's character assassination pet peeve. like a trait writers or fans will give a character that is fairly insignificant but so blatantly ooc that it ignites the most primal of rage. mine is whenever i see sonic the hedgehog smoking

The irony to this is that I'm pretty sure there's official art out there with sonic smoking 😭

Edit: I think this is it

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THEY MADE HIM SMOKE AND LITTER??? ON GOD

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phew i'm glad there was a reasonable explanation for this

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This is fucking embarrassing ‘journalism’ from the BBC.

Guy goes to an NHS doctor, flat-out states the nature of his investigation and gets behind the scenes information on assessments.

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Then he hits up three private clinics actively looking for an ADHD diagnosis, has his friends fill out witness forms, and is shocked when he receives a diagnosis.

An utter disgrace.

Turns out, if you go and lie about your symptoms, they’ll diagnose you.

Consider me fucking shocked.

thank you, random white man, for this insight on the condition known to be underdiagnosed in women and people of color

i found the article and it's like, comparing and contrasting private and public clinics I think? It's a little opaque to me (American) what the significance of this is

I'm not sure what the point of this was. Like, the article doesn't really even touch on what his methodology was—it doesn't actually state whether he was filling out the forms honestly, and knowing how an evaluation works and going into the evaluation with the goal of "demonstrating" something about an evaluation infuses inherent bias into everything

this is just yet another thing that serves to create paranoia about people getting prescribed stimulant meds. Something that, in the USA, is difficult to the point that it blocks people from obtaining the care that they need all the time, and i know in many other countries it's even harder

Like, why did he feel the need to do this to begin with. I'm sure that if he went to several different doctors trying to get a diagnosis of chronic constipation, he would get one, because listening to a patient when they bring a concern up to you is Your Job as a doctor

@headspace-hotel uk person checking in! when you go public for an adhd assessment, waiting lists are YEARS long with often no indication of when you'll finally be seen. thus, many people – who are desperate for care – will pay money (which you don't have to do for public healthcare) to go private.

so basically it's stigmatising people who were so desperate that they were willing to find £1,000 to get help.

So this asshole was actively taking precious opportunities and resources away from people who need them?

Is your conclusion “he tried to prove that private clinics are bad, something something, less people will be able to go to private clinics for these resources as a result” or “he took 3 diagnoses in private clinics which could have been 3 other people’s diagnoses and resources”?

He seems to have bypassed the atrociously long waiting list for the NHS appointment - which he biased anyway by disclosing his investigation to the NHS doctor.

He then fabricated symptoms to three private clinics which require two other people to validate his symptoms - all in a bid to frame them as predatory.

This could have been an investigation into underfunding of the NHS and absurd waiting lines forcing people to use private clinics. Instead the story became ‘ADHD is a fun trend and you can just pay to get a diagnosis’.

It’s malicious journalism that casts doubt in the public’s mind. Some people are now not going to believe other people’s ADHD diagnosis on the back of it.

we also want to challenge his assumption that private clinics apparently taking less time to diagnose obvious adhd is a reflection on their lack of diligence - it's much more a reflection on how much more gatekeepy the nhs is encouraged to be, especially when it's about "invisible" or mental health or neurodivergent conditions (we had 11 hours of meetings before getting diagnosed autistic by the nhs at 55 - a diagnosis six different other autistic people had spotted right away)

you see this with gender care too, nhs gender care (assuming you ever make it to the top of a six year waiting list) is like "yes come and see us for a year before we'll consider hrt for you - but not if you're fat or have mental health conditions because fuck you" while private clinics are like "yes we confirm that you are trans, why on earth would we make you wait?"

Yeah, I wonder if the NHS considers the entire time from the start of assessment. Their ‘thorough assessment’ is someone else’s frequent misdiagnosis and the doctor even not believing them at face value.

you’re twelve years old and you break your father’s hand when he hi-fives you. the first thing you learn is that the smallest slip up can hurt the people you love. your (foster) father smiles and says it’s okay (it’s not). 

your parents are not your parents. the idyllic farming community that raised you is not your home. you’re a You-Don’t-Know-What from You-Don’t-Know-Where. all you know for sure is that you’re not human. 

so you can fly. so you can run fast. so you can lift cars. so what? why do you even have this power? what should you even do with it? 

your father said do what’s right, so that’s what you do. 

you stop a robbery. the man’s knife shatters against your skin and you see the same fear in his eyes that you saw in your father’s when you were twelve. you catch a falling child before it can hit the water. his mother looks at you like you’re a god. 

they love you, even though they don’t know you. the most powerful man in the world hates you because they love you. 

you wanted to write when you were younger. you wanted to tell stories that needed to be told. you never wanted to star in them. you never wanted super-geniuses and demi-goddesses looking to you for advice; like you have any idea how to handle threats to reality itself. you’re just a kid from smallville who’s trying to do the best he can with what he’s given. 

you try and get back to the farm as much as you can. it feels normal being back among the open wheat; where everyone smiles because you’re that nice Kent boy. 

when you were younger, you pretended to fly, hands out to your sides and running through the tall grass by the river. it doesn’t look as beautiful from on high; the details get lost and the colors of your hometown blur together from a mile above ground. 

the problem with flying is that it puts you so far above people you care about

“oh but Superman is such a boring c-“ shut up shut up shut up forever.

One of the keys to Bruce and Clark’s friendship is Bruce going ‘powers shmowers you think your godlike strength makes you infallible and above people? You’re just some dude in a cape. Who’s an idiot.’

Clark: Oh thank God. This guy gets it.

Bruce *expecting arrogance*: wait what

Clark: yesterday I accidentally locked myself out of my apartment in my underwear trying to get the mail and I forgot I could just break the door open. I stood there for an hour waiting for the locksmith to open before I remembered.

Bruce:….

Clark: I’M AN IDIOT OK, I’m just a guy, I have no idea what I’m doing

Bruce: I hate how endearing this is. Stop making me like you

Clark: if I get my mom to make you lemon squares will you teach me how to pick a lock

Bruce: I SAID STOP

How Howl got into Ingary

A bunch of us on the DWJ mailing list were wondering about Howl’s past - where did he go to school, what field did he study in, how did he end up in Ingary in the first place. DWJ’s friend Minnow is on the list and asked DWJ.  Minnow kindly wrote down her memories of the response. I figure some of you not on the list may be interested, so here’s what Minnow told us (and gave permission for me to convey to the rest of the world, as long as she gets full credit for the execution):

“Howell Jenkins played rugby for Swansea University, and his doctoral thesis was on Spells – his first degree was in Philosophy (probably Philosophy with something-or-other, but his interest was philosophy). One day he found himself being pursued by the four brothers of a young lady he’d played ever so slightly fast-and-loose with (no surprises there) who were chanting “Blood for Blod!” as they chased him down the street. Each of them was a huge forward who seemed to plan to use Howell’s head for a ball.

Luckily a wing can generally run faster than a forward, and he stayed ahead of them as he made for the shelter of his sister’s house, galloping up the steep streets and skidding on the corners like a centaur.   He wasn’t a magical practitioner in Wales, but he had been reading some particularly interesting spells that week, and as he ran he recited one of them; his hand on the doorknob of the house he intended to take refuge in, he cried out the final word of this spell, and as the door opened found that instead of his sister’s hall, it opened into Mrs. Pentstemmon’s foyer.

Since the pursuit was hot on his heels, he didn’t hesitate, but dived through the door and slammed it behind him.

So now we know.  That’s how he got into Ingary.  Of course, once he had demonstrated such powerful and completely untrained magical ability, Mrs. P had to train him, or there was no telling what trouble he might cause by accident.

It really wasn’t her fault that after she *had* trained him, he still caused trouble both by accident and on purpose.  It was simply in his nature.“

Enjoy!

Source: http://dianawynnejones.livejournal.com/91775.html

My Argentinean housemate just got a book on proper American accents and I’ve never felt more attacked

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like why’s it gotta be so accurate

What’s fascinating to me is realizing that we simply ignore the glottal stop in every word that begins with a vowel when we speak quickly. Like unless you’re enunciating or speaking slowly you simply tell that glottal stop “fuck you” and hook the vowel to the previous consonant sound. Amazing. Glottal stops more like waste of time amirite

SUPER SALAD

Wtf we actually talk like this don’t we

idk who needs to hear this rn but suffering is not noble. take the tylenol

One time when I was younger I was refusing to take headache medicine and my mom said “the person who invented that medicine is probably so sad you won’t let them help you” and now every time I find myself denying medicine I just imagine the saddest scientist making those big wet eyes like “why won’t you let me help” and whoop then I take the medicine

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scientist when you don't take the medicine they developed to help your pain

Want to learn something new in 2022??

Absolute beginner adult ballet series (fabulous beginning teacher)

40 piano lessons for beginners (some of the best explanations for piano I’ve ever seen)

Excellent basic crochet video series

Basic knitting (probably the best how to knit video out there)

Pre-Free Figure Skate Levels A-D guides and practice activities (each video builds up with exercises to the actual moves!)

How to draw character faces video (very funny, surprisingly instructive?)

Another drawing character faces video

Literally my favorite art pose hack

Tutorial of how to make a whole ass Stardew Valley esque farming game in Gamemaker Studios 2??

Introduction to flying small aircrafts

French/Dutch/Fishtail braiding

Playing the guitar for beginners (well paced and excellent instructor)

Playing the violin for beginners (really good practical tips mixed in)

Color theory in digital art (not of the children’s hospital variety)

Retake classes you hated but now there’s zero stakes:

Calculus 1 (full semester class)

Learn basic statistics (free textbook)

Introduction to college physics (free textbook)

Introduction to accounting (free textbook)

Learn a language:

Ancient Greek

Latin

Spanish

German

Japanese (grammar guide) (for dummies)

French

Russian (pretty good cyrillic guide!)

Want to learn something new in 2023??

Cooking with flavor bootcamp (used what I learned in this a LOT this year)

Beekeeping 101

Learn Interior Design from the British Academy of Interior Design (free to audit course - just choose the free option when you register)

Video on learning to read music that actually helped me??

How to use and sew with a sewing machine

How to ride a bike (listen. some of us never learned, and that's okay.)

How to cornrow-braid hair (I have it on good authority that this video is a godsend for doing your baby niece's black hair)

Making mead at home (I actually did this last summer and it was SO good)

How to garden

Basics of snowboarding (proceed with caution)

How to draw for people who (think they) suck at art (I know this website looks like a 2003 monstrosity, but the tutorials are excellent)

Pixel art for beginners so you can make the next great indie game

Go (back) to school

Introduction to Astronomy (high school course - free textbook w/ practice problems)

Principals of Economics (high school course - free textbook w/ practice problems)

Introduction to philosophy (free college course)

Computer science basics (full-semester Harvard course free online)

Learn a language

Japanese for Dummies (link fix from 2022)

Ukrainian

Portuguese (Brazil)

American Sign Language (as somebody who works with Deaf people professionally, I also strongly advise you to read up on Deaf/HoH culture and history!)

Chinese (Simplified)

Quenya (LOTR fantasy elf language)

Reblogging to remind myself that retirement is the perfect time for some of these!

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