bobbyfiend

[bobbyfiend]

Just came here to say I prefer my social media not run by anti-LGBTQ troll richpersons.

That's all.

#tumblr

[bobbyfiend]

Hey, tumblors,

Bummed that the CEO of this sometime-cool (not cool) site is an anti-trans asshole? Come to fedi. Me, I like mastodon. There are several great instances, like mstdn.social and c.im

Are they as fucked up as tumblr? No. Do they have the level of deranged weirdness you've come to expect? No. But with your help we can change all that.

#ceo #tumblr #fuck off #mastodon #fediverse #migrate #already

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RIP Isabel Fall

a lot of you need to be a lot more chill about cishet passing people and couples still being part of the queer community

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Extra nuance: The "multiple comparisons correction" thing is like, you got 15 salmon and you showed them some pics. You did MRIs to see if they recognized expressions. You ran the stats: nothing. But know you're right (or at least that you really need tenure), so you look at a different part of your data for the answer: again, nothing. Come on, it's got to be there. You look at your data another way: nothing. And another: nothing. Finally, after like 20 tries you find a combination of features in the MRI scans that, when run through the stats formulas, that supports your hypothesis (or at this point maybe just some hypothesis). Hooray! Success!

When you do "multiple comparisons" like that, you're giving yourself extra (cheating, bad) chances for your data to show the pattern you want to see, or some kind of pattern you find interesting. If you keep going, you'll probably find something, but the more times and ways you look, the more likely it is that what you "found" is just a fluke of your specific 15 salmon, not something that really exists in salmon in general.

Correction for multiple comparisons means using (well established, btw) processes to nerf your statistics in controlled ways to reduce the likelihood that you'll find something in your data that is just a random sampling oddity instead of an actual Thing That Happens in the whole population.

one of the best academic paper titles

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"I'm sure I'm not training this leopard to eat faces just because I let him eat a few faces now."

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An indie band trying to make it big in their medium-sized city. They have a quirky indie band name like That Weird Dark Hairy Thing We Saw Under The Freeway That One time. It's just a fun thing. People comment on how silly but memorable it is.

Then they start to get kind of big. They play shows. The lead singer finds themself saying things like, "Hello, Altoona! We are That Weird Dark Hairy Thing We Saw Under The Freeway That One time!"

And then the lead singer--all of them, actually--thinks for two seconds, Am I that thing? The thing we saw? Because they did see it. All of them. In third grade, out exploring parts of their town their parents had said were off-limits. In the twilight they saw it, and it terrified and discomfited them in ways they couldn't explain and couldn't forget. They had biked home as fast as their big-kid legs could carry them.

That was over a decade ago. They never spoke of it, but they all knew, and they were reminded every time they played for a new audience. Every time, they individually wondered, Is that what it was? It was me? I am the thing?

And then the drummer would count off One, Two, Three, Four, and they would sing a song like "Debbie and Jimmy Kissed in Cleveland."

#microfiction #weird #dark #hairy #thing #band names

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2023 -> 2006

"how dare you hide this in the tags" -> "you sir have won the internets"

"none of these words are in the bible" -> "thats enough internet for today"

"op check your carbon monoxide detector" -> "were you on drugs when you made this"

and so on and so forth

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Okay you have to stop saying things are "fxcking" whatever, like "fxcking amazing" etc. This is disrespectful cultural appropriation and somethingism toward the tiny minority of people here who have actually had sex.

#fuck #there i said it #fxck #fxckin #i just like saying it #this is so stupid #even I have a hard time posting it

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Guys im seris stop saying "dxmn" this and "dxmn" that did u know "dxmn" is short for "damned" and refers to actual souls n hellll? when u say "that is a dxmn fine bxxty" or smth you are contributing to the marginalization of actual sinners in the realm of asmodeus.

#dxmn #hxll #profanity #sensitivity #parody #probably #or is it

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No gods, no masters (except math)

I’m not even mad, that’s amazing

#anarchy #graffiti #math

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This is the way.

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Hell yeah brother

Hell yeah brother

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I have a friend who (a) is an architect and (b) grew up with a mom who had OCD. She and her siblings were required to carefully unwrap every gift, not damaging the wrapping paper, and fold it up nice and smooth. Mom would file all of this by color and pattern in a filing cabinet. Nobody was allowed to use new wrapping paper if they had suitable reused paper, which they always had. (To/From tags were also filed in a drawer for that purpose). She described gift unwrapping as a stressful, unpleasant part of Christmas.

Eventually she did something about this.

Starting in the 1990s (when she was in architect school, I think) she started taking pics of her family throughout the year. Digital cameras were not cheap or high-resolution back then, but she had a plan. Did I mention she was an architect? She had a huge plotter (maybe 3 feet wide). She began making collages of the least flattering photos of her family members from the previous year--stupid looks on faces, caught gulping a drink or mouth full of hot dog, maybe finger up the nose, scratching butt, etc. She printed these collages on her huge-ass plotter and used that to wrap each person's gifts.

Not even her OCD-affected mother could stand to keep and file that paper. It was now OK to damage and throw away (or burn) wrapping paper.

And that's how she got her family to at least a partially enjoy ripping the wrapping off gifts at Christmas without nervously glancing at mom every five seconds to see if they were going to get snapped at. She even got her other to feel the enjoyment of impulsively unwrapping presents. I would argue she also created a tradition of ephemeral art celebrating the mundane realities of her loved ones.

here’s a hot take: giftwrap is dumb, 95% of the time you can just hand someone the thing and accomplish the same task. Society has conditioned us to love wrapping shit up for no reason, probably by gift wrap industry people.

#hack #ocd #parents #christmas #gifts #gift wrapping #fuck the police #malicious comliance #ephemeral #art #butt scratching #nose picking #probably

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Conservatives: Criminals should all be put in prison

+

Conservatives: Our justice system doesn't put innocent people in prison

+

The US incarcerates a larger % of its population than any other nation

=

Conclusion: Americans are the worst people in the world

Incarceration rates by country; per 100.000 people (top 10 countries).

Highest: 🇺🇸 USA - 629

by Maps_interlude

#Prove me wrong #preferably by #reforming #USA #justice #system #prisons

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this is from a real diary by a 13-year-old girl in 1870. teenage girls are awesome and they’ve always been that way.

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This is awesome! I tied a Turk's head knot out of some earbuds with wires one time. This is even cooler (because knitting!)

#knots #knitting #electronics #art #abomination #happy type

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This one fucking hundred percent.

Monogamy itself is fine. It's awesome for many people. Monogamy as a mandatory system with no alternatives creates deeply fucked-up incentives and behaviors. For one thing, everyone who doesn't have a satisfying, happy, healthy monogamous relationship is some degree of lonely, miserable, and/or desperate. Therefore they're vulnerable to another monogamous (or cheating) relationship that is mediocre, unsatisfying, or even abusive, as long as it is slightly better than the shitty relationship they are in right now.

I never really know how to phrase it but I always found it really amazing how much easier less nerve-wrecking dates are when you already have a loving partner back home waiting for you.

#polyamory #nonmonogamy #systems #loneliness #abuse