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nemainofthewater · 5 minutes
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a post-doc was doing a guest seminar at my institute and at the beginning of his presentation he was explaining why he chose birds for his evolutionary analysis - so he said "well first of all, because birds are the best and most interesting animals and it's fun to study them" and a few professors in the room gave him a very serious nod
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nemainofthewater · 9 minutes
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"if you ship this thing it's because you're too naïve to understand that it's toxic and that you wouldn't like a relationship like this" actually it's because I see one of them as a mentos drop and the other as a bottle of coke zero and I want to watch the mess they'll be together
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nemainofthewater · 10 minutes
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It's maybe in poor taste to share things my snudents write but this is my favorite response from their midterms. The snudent in question was defining the key term "Puritan":
"[Puritans] believed England was becoming a bit too Catholic. So they moved to America to show England how to properly run a religious community. They're probably most known for failing at this."
She is not wrong
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nemainofthewater · 12 minutes
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Dancer doodle
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nemainofthewater · 14 minutes
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Twitter AU!Laurence writes incredibly informative and improbably clear work emails but unfortunately his life events make them all sound like that one “against my best wishes I have been shot” professor email meme at least 60% of the time:
From: William Laurence, [email protected]
To: Temeraire Flight Crew
7 minutes ago
Hello all,
Unfortunately, I have to reschedule the training exercises, and I will have to take leave on Thursday. Against my best wishes, I have been shot in a duel and am being treated in the ER. Temeraire also has the plague, and the court date for my high treason trial is set for Friday. Admin hours are still 11-12 on Mon/Wed, with your first lieutenant. If I am not hanged, the exercise will be moved to Monday of next week. Keep reviewing the maneuvers, and remember to maintain your harnesses.
Respectfully,
W. Laurence
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nemainofthewater · 18 minutes
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is that piece of media actually bad, or is it just not following the blueprint you projected onto it? is that work actually not good, or are you just demanding something from it that is absolutely antithetical to its themes, genre, tone, and narrative goal? is that story actually poorly written, or do you just dislike that it is not the specific things you wanted from it that it never set out to be, never was, and never is going to become? is it actually bad, or is it actually well-executed and you just dislike the story it chose to be because it isn't catering to your specific desires and expectations?
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nemainofthewater · 19 minutes
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CANNOT get over this dude's commitment to the bit
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nemainofthewater · 2 hours
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wolf 359 is a show that poses many important questions such as “how much training do you REALLY need to go to space,” “is it still a war crime if you’re light-years away from the nearest living soul,” “how many times can you send one guy into the limitless void before he gets pissed enough to kill you about it,” “what if the ship of Theseus was a person,” “how many different ways can you kill someone without them dying,” and of course, “would that be fucked up or what”
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nemainofthewater · 2 hours
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I understand why they started using CGI cats in movies and shows, it's really hard to get a cat to do what the script says, but I think it would make better art if they just released a cat on set and the actors had to improv around whatever it did
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nemainofthewater · 2 hours
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You know how there's a subset of martial arts Tiktok where people post short vids of them doing a quick routine/choreography?
People in Gotham post blurry clips of the Bats, and a few martial artists challenge each other to reproduce the moves. One vid goes viral and more people start to give it a try, including non martial artists, who just meme with the choreography/try to imitate some moves just in good fun (and whoa some dancers and gymnasts do surprisingly well)
It naturally gets back to the Wayne brood, except, of course, the real challenge for them is to fail in a believable way.
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Tim, on camera: "I was nearly good enough for the Olympics, surely I can do that...? Let's find out."
[cue footage of him falling down, cartoon-style, right as Damian was walking by and getting both of them drenched in Dami's smoothie]
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Jason sees the compilation someone made of Bruce's ridiculous attempts at reproducing the moves (Tim and Steph roped him into their shenanigans.)
Two days later, a video of Red Hood goes viral: it's him condescendingly explaining how to throw a punch and challenging Bruce Wayne to do it properly because "no Gothamite should be so shit at fighting"
Bruce is verklempt when he watches it, because some of it is word-for-word how he taught baby!Jay
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Tim gives Damian blurry, grainy footage of Black Bat to imitate. After that, Dami spends days hounding Cass for training because he nearly broke his nose tripping over his own feet.
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Dick flawlessly lands a flip in front of all the others with "ASSERTING DOMINANCE" written on screen before winking at the camera.
Right before the video cuts, Tim's voice can be heard saying, "Whatever, your ass is still flat compared to Nightw—"
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nemainofthewater · 2 hours
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You are a shapeshifter who has secretly taken on many fake villain personas across the world. Your goal is to fight each hero you meet with a persona that embodies said hero’s worst traits, forcing them to change for the better in order to defeat you.
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nemainofthewater · 2 hours
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MXTX Family trip AU - Where are they going? ( •̯́ ₃ •̯̀)
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nemainofthewater · 2 hours
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Wedding in Cangyan Sea (option two) | DFQC & XLH | CH, XF, SQ View all art CLJ 360°
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nemainofthewater · 2 hours
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Kind of hilarious to me how poorly the title "Mob Psycho 100" localized to English-speaking areas. To someone whose first language is English, it scans as:
Mob (Yakuza, Mafia)
Psycho (violent person with "crazy" behaviors)
Thus: a particularly violent member of organized crime.
But in Japanese it scans as:
Mob (background characters in crowd scenes in manga or anime)
Psycho (short for psychic)
Thus: a psychic who looks/acts like someone you'd never pick out of a crowd scene in a comic.
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