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Also, the actual authors of academic papers don't make their money off of people subscribing to journals, so they're often happy to share their work with curious people.

2026-06-29 13:57:23 CEST

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PRO TIP: if you want access to an academic paper, but you don't have a subscription to the journal, you can often get the paper for free by emailing one of the authors. There is nothing academics love more than people taking an interest in their nerd shit (affectionate).

2026-06-29 13:55:04 CEST

Access to scientific journals should be free.

2026-06-26 15:51:29 CEST

Wait, does "symphony orchestra" just mean "big orchestra"? Is that all that fucking means?

2026-06-22 04:24:07 CEST

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✋🔺✋?

2026-06-20 17:30:30 CEST

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Uruguay is on about 98% renewable energy, which is great for us! What's less great is that we are not immune to other effects of oil on the global economy.

2026-06-14 12:48:07 CEST

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I mean, I've had top surgery now, but before that, hmmm... If the Pokemon people made binders, there would be a few I'd be tempted by.

2026-06-14 03:12:03 CEST

I saw someone in a transmasc community asking where to find a South Park themed binder, and it’s like wow, there are trans people who have nothing in common with me on this big, beautiful Earth.

2026-06-11 22:32:05 CEST

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Kind of like this.
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2026-06-11 22:02:16 CEST

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Like I read this and immediately imagined the "PRESIDENTIAL ALERT: THE GIRLS ARE FIGHTINGGGGG" meme but with jingle bells playing.

2026-06-11 22:00:12 CEST

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This is simultaneously a really funny and kind of beautiful way to view it, to me. I feel changed.

2026-06-11 20:14:21 CEST

I REQUEST HELP. When I was a kid in the 90's to early 00's, I remember seeing a museum exhibit showing how horses were once believed to evolve from very small horses to modern day horses in order of gradually increasing size. It explained that when carbon dating was discovered, however, the remains were dated, revealing that horses have gone up and down in size throughout history/prehistory. Does anyone have any resources about this? #biology #evolution #EvolutionaryBiology #horses #prehistory

2026-06-07 17:31:23 CEST

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OHH ok, with that context, I'm able to find resources about it. No idea if we have a movement about that in Uruguay, though, so I won't vote in this one.

2026-06-07 17:04:17 CEST

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Hmm, I'm not sure what a social sovereignty movement is.

2026-06-05 21:57:54 CEST

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Ha! Just be prepared for. You know. Human cannibalism.

2026-06-05 21:55:33 CEST

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Anyway, don't go to the Wikipedia article about human cannibalism unless you want to learn like a LOT about human cannibalism.

2026-06-05 21:48:29 CEST

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It's just a real Dead Dove: Do Not Eat situation over there.

2026-06-05 21:44:54 CEST

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It's not even that I ran into anything that should've been surprising, I guess? It's just that uhhh there's a lot of details about human cannibalism over there on ee en dot wikipedia dot org slash wiki slash human underscore cannibalism.

2026-06-05 21:43:17 CEST

The Wikipedia article on human cannibalism is really interesting, but watch out.

2026-06-05 05:52:05 CEST

Insane to me that "tortilla wrapped veggie dog" is one of the foods your sims can make in TS4, at the same difficulty level as grilled cheese, macaroni and cheese, and vegetable dumplings. Like, that's not a meal. That's depression food. That's something a drunk bachelor would make because he doesn't want to put on pants.

2026-06-05 00:00:08 CEST

Trigger warnings and exposure therapy are not opposing concepts. Exposure therapy is something that's done in a controlled environment with a trusted licensed therapist and, crucially, with consent. Trigger warnings allow people to control their exposure to potentially triggering material outside of that controlled environment.

2026-06-01 00:00:43 CEST

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I don't know.
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2026-05-31 23:42:35 CEST

something something Obama Noble Snowman

2026-05-31 23:37:03 CEST

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*touches space where poll originally was was* Something terrible happened here.

2026-05-29 02:32:39 CEST

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Polls that would summon the inquisition in another time.

2026-05-20 20:09:08 CEST

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Also, there's the MMR vaccine, the HPV vaccine, new vaccines for various cancers and malaria are in testing right now.

2026-05-20 17:18:32 CEST

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If "Big Pharma" were a single entity pursuing profit with no regard for human life or suffering, it wouldn't be in their best interest to, say, develop effective vaccines. But it's more complicated than that.

2026-05-20 17:16:38 CEST

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I don't think it's that simple, though. Remember that the pharmaceutical industry isn't a single entity, it's a complex system made up of loads of different people with different motives. The people in power are primarily profit driven, but they're also competing against each other. I don't think the "Big Pharma just wants to treat people for life, not cure or prevent disease" model holds up to scrutiny if you look more closely at how the industry behaves.

2026-05-20 02:07:13 CEST

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The idea of "a cure for cancer" is kind of incoherent to begin with, because "cancer" is the word we use for a whole class of diseases, and it's very unlikely that there will be a single cure for all of them. But also, like, what do you mean when you say "capitalism is keeping us from curing cancer"? Under what system do you believe that cancer would be cured already?

2026-05-20 02:05:08 CEST

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For example, I just saw someone say "capitalism is keeping us from curing cancer", and I don't think that's a coherent statement.

2026-05-20 02:04:38 CEST

I'm no capitalist. I have a lot of complaints about capitalism, to put it lightly. But also, sometimes it seems like the word "capitalism" is used by leftists as a stand in for any problem that's difficult and painful.

2026-05-19 17:03:08 CEST

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I think that as a general rule, horror media that focuses on parasites does so because people find parasites particularly unnerving, not because the creators are particularly interested in parasitology as a topic. This is bad news to me, a person who is autistic about parasites.

2026-05-19 16:59:51 CEST

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Parasites like cordyceps evolve alongside their hosts for millions of years, and their host manipulation is a result of highly specialised natural selection. You're not gonna get something that manipulates an ant nervous system suddenly manipulating a human one.

2026-05-19 16:57:39 CEST

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(I can't watch it because of PTSD, not because of snobbery, to clarify.)

2026-05-19 16:56:33 CEST

I've heard that The Last Of Us (game and show) is good. I can't watch it. But I'm begging people to understand that it's soft scifi, and cordyceps fungi are not in any way a realistic threat to humans.

2026-04-06 10:43:33 CEST

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The most obvious answer I was missing is flooding, which can connect bodies of water that aren't usually connected. But apparently fish eggs can also be transported on the bodies of birds.

2026-04-06 10:42:19 CEST

Do you ever have a question that you feel like is probably stupid, but then you look it up, and it's not stupid, it's interesting? Anyway, I just googled "how do fish get into ponds".

2026-03-25 13:57:13 CET

Do you think the Nazgûl ever explored each other's bodies?

2026-03-22 14:04:25 CET

One of the hard things about learning a language is that you have to be so bad at it for so long before you're good at it. This is probably a problem with learning in general, actually.

2026-03-19 18:05:16 CET

I was trying to draw a scorpion earlier, an exercise that has convinced me that for some species, getting stung by a scorpion is preferable to drawing one.

2026-03-14 05:59:02 CET

I don’t think my depression is active right now, but I’m still listening to ASMR meant to comfort depressed people. Sometimes I also watch those videos of parental figures saying they’re proud, even though my parents both say and demonstrate the fact that they love and are proud of me regularly. I am like a much more harmless, internet based version of the guy in Fight Club who lies to get into support groups he doesn’t belong in.

2026-03-14 04:54:31 CET

I have a problem where if I feel nauseous at the same time as I listen to unfamiliar music, I become convinced that the music is causing the nausea, even when I know it's caused by something else.

2026-03-11 17:39:29 CET

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I feel like if more people listened to various sex workers about what they do day to day, there would be less confusion and stigma about this.

2026-03-11 17:34:37 CET

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I'm not saying ASMR is always sexual. It isn't. But it's not morally better if it's not sexual.

2026-03-11 17:33:43 CET

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I feel like ASMR fans are quick to try to distinguish themselves from people who look at porn and/or pay sex workers, and like, it's fundamentally not that different. ASMR is a sensual experience, often provided by creators on the internet, that's used for pleasure and stress relief. We've just got this big, arbitrary circle we've drawn around certain sensual experiences and labelled "ICKY SEX STUFF".

2026-03-11 17:29:11 CET

I wish ASMR fans would stop acting like big, misogynistic babies whenever an ASMR creator also does sex work.

2026-03-09 22:12:29 CET

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If you do the bare minimum, most cursory research on the male loneliness epidemic before you post about it, you'll find out that it has nothing to do with men not having girlfriends and everything to do with men not having friends. In 2024, according to Psychology Today, 28% of men under 30 reported having no close social connections. That's a fucking crisis.

2026-03-09 22:10:32 CET

A mutual elsewhere said she's "joining the fight against the male loneliness epidemic on the side of the epidemic", and it's like welp. Guess that's an unfollow from me.

2026-02-26 07:02:02 CET

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This sounds like a shitpost, but unfortunately it is very real. It's called "tendonitis" and it could happen to you.

2026-02-26 06:56:13 CET

Playing The Sims 4 because it's one of the few games that doesn't exacerbate my wretched Gamer's Lump.

2026-02-14 18:32:49 CET

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That said, I think they should maybe rethink this part of the farm animal menu.
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2026-02-14 18:32:17 CET

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I'm really loving the game, btw. Starsand Island just came out in early access on Steam, and it's really good! A bit rough around the edges still, but that's to be expected.

2026-02-14 18:06:19 CET

I saw this unnamed animal on my farm in Starsand Island and said "Why is your name just Rabbit?" out loud. And Derek immediately went "Why is YOUR name just Rabbit?"
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2026-02-13 21:41:48 CET

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Anyway, please boost the poll. I'm genuinely curious and I don't know how eye contact is done.

2026-02-13 21:39:06 CET

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It occurs to me that I'm asking this on the Autism Website.

2026-02-13 21:33:48 CET

When you make eye contact with someone, do you:

2026-02-13 20:57:29 CET

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Bad Bunny: "...Chile, Argentina
Uruguay..."
Me:
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2026-02-13 20:55:10 CET

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I FEEL KIND OF STUPID ABOUT IT. And I know it's probably way different for people who were born here or in any of the other Latin American countries he named, of course. But I did get like kind of choked up.

2026-02-13 20:51:21 CET

I've only lived in Uruguay for a few months, but I still got emotional when Bad Bunny mentioned named Uruguay in the halftime show (which I watched later on YouTube. Because my mom made me. But I'm glad she did).

2026-02-13 19:38:38 CET

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Basically, he acted startled and suddenly jumped off Derek's lap, where we found the scorpion. I'm not sure if he was stung (it's not a species that gives severe stings) or if he just got startled or something, but that's what happened.

2026-02-13 19:36:37 CET

We think Moon Rover the cat may have been stung by a scorpion last night, but it wasn't severe.

2026-02-13 19:30:00 CET

If bicycles had gone extinct in prehistory, and we didn't have carbon dating yet, what order do you think bike paleontologists would think they lived in?

2026-02-13 19:25:20 CET

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I realise the song isn't just literally about cars (see the last verse), but the part that IS about cars is not relatable to me as someone with car anxiety.

2026-02-13 19:23:16 CET

I love the song Cars by Gary Numan, but it does not reflect how I feel about being in cars ever.

2026-02-13 17:29:20 CET

who wants to freak out with me

2026-02-13 17:24:10 CET

Ash told me she saw someone referring to Leon Kennedy as a "femboy", and this is just the "this is the most butch a woman can be before Twitter starts getting scared" of Resident Evil guys. Leon Kennedy is not a femboy. He is not even a twink. He is a full out hunk with a pretty face.

2026-02-11 19:12:57 CET

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You're apparently supposed to fill it almost all the way up with leaves, put lukewarm water in it, let that soak, and then put a little hot water in it at a time and drink. It's very astringent and very caffeinated.

2026-02-11 19:11:23 CET

I think I just made mate correctly for the first time, and if I'm right, you're actually SUPPOSED to make The Mate That Kills You.

2026-02-11 16:50:58 CET

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BUT. BUT. IT'S RIGHT THERE

2026-02-11 16:49:07 CET

For a while, my sister and I were both learning Toki Pona. At some point, we were translating media titles into Toki Pona, and the translation of "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" translated back to English as something like "Bupi the Blood Hunter Hunter".

2026-02-11 16:14:01 CET

For some reason, Tumblr has decided I'm interested in every post ever tagged "Christmas". Friends, it is February and I am Jewish.

2026-02-11 16:10:10 CET

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Fortunately, you can just buy ondansetron (a very effective antiemetic) here.

2026-02-11 16:09:29 CET

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It was probably partially the state of my old house, because it got a lot better when we moved. But it's not all the way gone.

2026-02-11 16:08:45 CET

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I've had problems with nausea for years, and no doctor can explain it.

2026-02-11 16:06:27 CET

I hate when I have nausea after not eating for too long, and I think "Oh, this will get better if I eat a bit", but then GUESS WHAT MOTHERFUCKER.

2026-02-11 15:55:41 CET

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ANYWAY I built it up in my head a lot but the actual conversation was no big deal in this case.

2026-01-23 21:17:47 CET

We are not going to see the Antarctica documentary because my mom is nursing a hummingbird back to health.

2026-01-16 18:11:26 CET

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Oof, I'm sorry. I was thinking that like, if someone's blocked, they don't have to deal with the people who've blocked them? But I guess it doesn't always work out that way?

2026-01-15 13:19:34 CET

Is my truck in this game making weird noises, or was the song I'm listening to produced by Trent Reznor? An investigation.

2026-01-04 12:31:53 CET

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It is cute! But I would like to get it out of my house in some way that does not harm it, if possible.

2025-11-30 16:10:39 CET

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As I understand it, it comes from generative models in statistics, a term that's existed for some time.

2025-11-30 15:46:16 CET

People are once again twisting themselves into knots trying to distinguish between bad AI they hate and good AI they like. The comments on this on Bluesky are full of people claiming it's not generative AI, and therefore could be a good thing. And I agree that it's a good thing, but also, it's generative AI. https://www.npr.org/2025/11/29/nx-s1-5604290/atlantic-hurricane-season-forecast-ai-google

2025-11-28 13:08:32 CET

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And like, that's understandable, because about 80% of the names I've heard here in Uruguay are entirely new to me.

2025-11-22 12:41:22 CET

A lot of people talk about having had early signs of being trans that involved being gender nonconforming, and I had those too. But I also had the opposite for a while when I was really little: I tried so hard to be a girl, because I knew I was supposed to be, that I bought hard into the whole pink and purple, frilly dresses, play makeup, aspiring to be a cheerleader or a ballerina thing.

2025-11-12 19:46:16 CET

He’s just sitting there like a human man. What am I supposed to do?
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