absolutegibberishandnumbers:

jokes to make after failure that aren’t self-deprecating:

1. I’m the best to ever do it
2. Nobody saw that (best if said loudly)
3. No one’s ever done it like me
4. I could be President/they should make me President
5. Behold, a mere fraction of my power!
6. The public wants to be me soooooo bad
7. I’m an expert in (thing you just failed at)
8. How could this have happened to god’s favorite princess?
9. Nothing ibuprofen and a glass of water cant fix
10. I’m being sabotaged

You don't have a male or female brain – the more brains scientists study, the weaker the evidence for sex differences »

mckitterick:

liminalweirdo:

a-book-dragon:

rb to make a biological essentialist mad <3

“This collapse is a telltale sign of a problem known as publication bias. Small, early studies which found a significant sex difference were likelier to get published than research finding no male-female brain difference.”

the notes on this are toxic - to help clear up any misunderstanding, here’s the actual science paper:

Dump the “dimorphism”: Comprehensive synthesis of human brain studies reveals few male-female differences beyond size

With the explosion of neuroimaging, differences between male and female brains have been exhaustively analyzed. Here we synthesize three dec

sciencedirect.com

in short: brains are brains

makingdonalddrumpfagain:

aurin-avenir:

“Creative people have trouble recognising their skills as skills, because eventually they feel like second nature. This stuff really is valuable, if it wasn’t, people wouldn’t be stealing it. Creativity doesn’t feel special or unique until you realise people have to plagiarise it.”

— Hbomberguy on plagiarism.

jojos-birdwatching-adventure:

allthingswhumpyandangsty:

sometiktoksarevalid:

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stjohnstarling:

stjohnstarling:

stjohnstarling:

Ever since starting to publish romance novels I’ve been checking out the romance books at the thrift store specifically for the clinch covers, as a reference for what I might want to do with my own books.

As a culture we mocked these to extinction but I think we were just afraid of their power. The modern clinch revival still hasn’t reached the heady heights of what they were doing in the 80s! The vintage covers can be really quite explicit. These ones in particular were steamy enough they had to be hidden on an inner flap.

This episode of the Smart Bitches Trashy Books podcast where they interview Shirley Green and Sharon Spiak, who were romance novel cover artists in the 80s, is a fascinating look at what a huge industry these covers were. Did you know they had whole photography studios full of props to make these? They’d take photos and turn those over to a painter who’d make something like a couple of these a day. They had it down to a science.

Here is a particular favourite of mine, also by Sharon Spiak!

geocaprican:

pro-gay:

people reblogging this talking about the english language. fuck the english language. the fascinating thing here isn’t how you pronounce it, it’s his amazing teaching skills. monolingual people be quiet for once challenge

I really felt and shared her “Wow”

weirdoughnut:

odinsblog:

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