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stoneparchment

@ stoneparchment @possumpat.io

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(biologist - artist - queer)

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  • anime
  • tabletop

You’re the only magician that could make a falling horse turn into thirteen gerbils

  • Moe's Finale (Created by KiddieJay) (Warning: Covers Depression and mental health topics)

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  • Was a really touching story that cut deep about serious mental health issues...

    ...until chapter 18 where the author goes off the deep end with reductive manosphere bs...

    Gonna be a no from me

  • Big, beige ’80s PC case started out as a joke, but it’s becoming real in Japan

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  • AAAHHH

    I NEEEEED IITTT

  • Is it weird to try to behave perfectly?

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  • You didn't mention it, but have you considered how it would feel if you had a bad day and didn't live up to this standard?

    You're framing it like a moral philosophy, but feeling anger is not a morally bad thing. Neither is jealousy, or selfishness, at times. It's just part of the human experience, and we can avoid it most of the time, but occasionally we're going to need to focus on ourselves and our needs and our feelings.

    Similarly, it's impossible to avoid having an ego 100% of the time. Honestly, it sounds like this quality is part of your identity-- would you like yourself less if you lived up to this standard imperfectly?

    I don't think it's unusual to want to be a good person and to want to control our worst impulses. But to describe it as "trying to act like a saint", and saying you're "deaf to your own needs"-- those are concerning statements.

    I don't think anyone can speak for you or guess what's going on from the outside. But if I were you, I'd be exploring if there's fear underlying these impulses. Fear of judgment: how do you think the world would perceive you if you stopped being so strict about it? Fear of badness: how does it feel when you have a bad day and you fail to be perfect? Do you resent yourself? Fear of impurity: do you feel like other people are bad when they have these natural reactions? Do you fear being like other people who are experiencing and dealing with normal feelings?

  • This hair product remains effective up to 230 degrees C which is really handy because when I'm exposed to ovenlike temperatures, my first thought is "Oh no, my hair!"

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  • rule

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  • bogus

  • What’s behind the widening gender wage gap in the US?

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  • I want to point out that in the article/interview you posted,

    1. the expert disagreed with the interviewer that the causes of the gap are biological in nature, and
    2. that they both agreed that the causes of the gap are undergoing rapid change due to social factors from the covid pandemic, and they bet it will be decreasing over the next few decades

    Figured I'd clarify in case anyone read your comment and got confused about what the expert was saying :)

  • “Agony” and “Suffering” as Alabama Experiments with Nitrogen Executions

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  • Yes, this is true. Using an inert gas doesn't cause CO2 toxicity, but rebreathing atmospheric air does.

  • “Agony” and “Suffering” as Alabama Experiments with Nitrogen Executions

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  • I want to warn anyone thinking of trying this: don't.

    Obviously there's the don't commit suicide part, and that's the most important part. But also, as someone who has unfortunately spent time considering various methods, I can tell you: don't even consider doing it this way.

    Genuinely sorry to be contradictive, but you absolutely would have been in a painful situation if you'd continued. The only explanation is that you didn't get to the point that your body 100% takes over from you and forces a desperate, painful, writhing attempt to get air.

    You would die of increased CO2 concentration in your blood long before you actually ran out of oxygen. That increased CO2 would be very painful. Like, lizard brain stem absolutely taking over, full panicking levels of painful. Don't try it!

  • Teens Say Trump’s Former Personal Aide and Project 2025 Higher-Up Made Them Uncomfortable in Chats

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  • It's not the same dude. Dog murderer is Kevin Roberts, this guy is John McEntee

  • me when- when tall women

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  • I like how the artist included the one cyclone turning the opposite direction (on the right, hair blowing the other way)

    ... if you know you know 😎

  • ‘Help us’: Guam's nuclear radiation survivors’ plea to the United States

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  • ... their government IS our government. Guam is a US territory.

  • Autocorrect Rule

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  • Women are not included in those polls

    ... accurate

  • Android games for girls?

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  • Oooooh I have some ideas! Some of these are paid/premium (but NOT micro transactions) and some have mild ads. But I share the distaste for data-mining, money grubbing, brain-melting-ad-ridden games, so I'm certain they are on the least intrusive end of the spectrum.

    I really love biology (I'm a biologist...) so these are both pet games and usually breeding/evolution games!

    • Fish Tycoon -- This one specifically. A classic! Breed and care for cute fish!
    • Niche breed and evolve -- so neat and pretty educational about evolution/genetics. There's a slightly more complicated/difficult pc game if she decides she likes the nichelings/universe.
    • Pocket Frogs -- Simple, low stress collecting game. it would take years to collect all the frogs, and there's a relatively active community of people who trade sets of frogs to other people to help them complete collections. Would be fun to play with her friends at school!
    • Reigns Her Majesty -- a game about running a kingdom as a queen. When you die, you become your heir and retain some progress from your last lives. It doesn't fit the exact criteria you mentioned, but I think she might like it anyway!

  • Support for LGBTQ+ equality has decreased: GLAAD study

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  • GLAAD's Accelerating Acceptance is the most comprehensive survey we have to determine changes in public sentiment about LGBTQ+ acceptance. It's literally what I cite when writing research papers about queer issues. The difference is absolutely believable, and they validated the results with sampling bias in mind. There is no reason for you to cast doubt on the result like this, and it reads as disengenuine for you to do so.

    Also, you don't get to decide what queer lives deserve to be in articles about LGBTQ+ people. Thankfully.

  • Are you a Cash App user? You may be eligible for a piece of this $15 million settlement

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  • I don't think that's how this usually works?

    IANAL and also I'm a dumbass but from when I've participated in these things in the past (and therefore when I've read the fine print), by the time they're soliciting claims they have already gone through the entire process of confirming that the lawsuit is valid and deciding how much the company owes as a settlement. So once it reaches this point, the amount the company pays is already known, and it's just equally divided among all the people with standing who file a claim.

    So yeah, file a claim, because that's your money that you deserve because you have standing. But if you don't file a claim, everyone who did will just get a slightly larger amount of money

  • 'How could I have become so evil': Jewish-French director grapples with antisemitism

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  • The point this guy is trying to make is that people are conflating Israel, Judaism, and Zionism in ways that don't always make sense

    Like, the polls you're quoting are sentiments of Israelis, so this guy (and the vast majority of Jewish people in the world) are not included in those polls.

    Even within Israel, that's, what, 3-4 million people that disagree with that sentiment? And Israelis are only ~73% Jewish anyway?

    On top of that, tons of zionists arent even Jewish, they are even likely to be antisemitic tbh.

    So.. what you said sounds a lot like "I don't have anything against one particular group, but the sentiment of the citizens of this one country makes me second guess the perspective of a person in a totally different country just because they share one dimension of identity"... In essence, it sounds a lot like prejudice

    (free palestine, in case that isn't obvious)

  • YSK Americans, check to see if you can vote. Its real quick.

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  • because the very first thing you say in this post basically amounts to "I think I have the authority to decide the basis on which we determine who deserves to vote"

    like, yeah, most people can navigate to their secretary of state websites. And it's not really your responsibility to have to link the pages anyway.

    But doing it for that reason aligns you philosophically with people who think that the illiterate, the elderly, the poor, the disabled, the critically ill, etc. somehow don't deserve to vote. It aligns you ideologically with other people who think they can decide who deserves to vote, with people who want to disenfranchise others-- in essence, it aligns you ideologically with many Republicans

  • Is there a scientific calendar which uses a different reference than Jesus?

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  • Using Jesus as a reference is unfortunate, yeah, but any other world calendars have to pick a nearly equally arbitrary way to contextualize the start and end year.

    Take your pick: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Year_in_various_calendars

    I personally use "2024 CE" for "common era", with BCE referring to "before common era". This allows us to communicate relatively clearly with other people who use the Gregorian calendar without explicitly endorsing the birth of Jesus as the important event defining the switch-over between CE and BCE... A bit of a cop out, but

    Anyway have fun, there are lots of options

    Edit: also the one you're referring to in your post is the Holocene Calendar

  • $1 million starter home? It's the norm in 237 cities, according to Zillow

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  • I don't think you're wrong, but I think this might be over simplifying.

    For one thing, in the USA, our building codes and standard methods for making apartments makes it very difficult and space inefficient to make apartments with enough bedrooms for families. Affording a SFH is only so desirable because there aren't apartments big enough for families to grow into, and while moving to a rural area might allow for enough living space, now the family has to figure out how to have a job that supports them.

    For another, we don't make as many apartment-like buildings you can own part of. This deincentivizes staying in apartments, because with the way our real estate economy is structured, owning any real property is one of the best ways to secure a spot in the middle class.

    Another aspect-- a lot of desirable places to live have populations that literally and directly state they don't want to build more dense housing, they don't want people who can't afford the sfhs to live there. It's not just about pricing people out of homeownership, it's literally trying to gatekeep access to specific towns by class. Plenty of people would gladly accept living there even without SFHs, so the housing shortage is not caused by the people who want houses, and is instead caused by the people who don't want apartments next to their houses.