#incontrovertible proof

[iwritenarrativesandstuff]

Maybe we’re getting a protagonist switch. Maybe Dazai will be Chuuya’s Oda

Hm well. They don't have that kind of dynamic (and Chuuya doesn't really need that kind of push that Odasaku gave Dazai) and Dazai isn't the protagonist... but it would be kind of interesting if injuring Dazai (if not outright killing him) would be the event that would kickstart more focus in the main manga on Chuuya and the whole "his will not be an easy path". I previously thought something would have to happen with Mori (I still kind of think that) but this might just be enough to get the ball rolling.

I actually theorized months ago that having Dazai "die" temporarily might be interesting from a story standpoint and for what it means for our characters. If Chuuya believed that he killed him? YIKES. I can't see him handling that well, though no doubt, he'll push his feelings down and soldier on. Perhaps this could set up some Atsushi and Chuuya interactions? Pretty please?

#thanks for the ask! #bsd #bsd dazai #bsd chuuya #storyrambles #soukoku #skk #bsd season 5 #bsd spoilers #oof if you want something evil i just thought of #what if this is what leads into finally seeing how chuuya reacted when dazai left. maybe there was a surety there that he wasn't dead #because dazai wouldn't die. he's like a cockroach etc etc. so chuuya while annoyed and hurt by his leaving at least knew he would be alive #only to be faced with incontrovertable proof of his death. by his own hands no less. #god what a sick perversion of their dead apple scheme. dazai so sure chuuya could fight through the brainwashing. #he fought through corruption after all to punch him. chuuya is strong... but it wasn't enough #chuuya so confident that dazai can't possibly be dead. he'd bet his life jumping out a plane on that. and yet. he is mortal after all.

[queenlucythevaliant]

Some off-the-cuff thoughts on overspiritualizing patterns in science

I remember watching a talk in middle school youth group about laminin, the "molecule that holds your whole body together" which was supposedly shaped like a cross. The suggestion, basically, was that the cross's image was integral to our molecular makeup and that this was part of God's design in a very Significant way. I was a burgeoning STEM girl, so I taped a diagram of a laminin up next to my bed for a while.

(As I would later find out, the whole laminin thing had/has some reach among Christians. There are T-shirts and everything)

Fast forever to spring of my freshman year as a microbiology student. I take my first course in cell bio, and I learn that laminins are actually one of many families of ECM glycoproteins. They aren't really any more significant in "holding the body together" than collagens, elastins, or fibronectins. They're very important, yes, but ultimately just one type of adhesive protein among many. And! They also do a bunch of other stuff that's way cooler than just. Adhesive.

While some laminins do bear resemblance to a cross when diagramed, it's really only because they have three subchains. Some are t-shaped, but others are y-shaped, and those don't look anything like a cross. Also, when they're in situ rather than in a nice, neat diagram, they tend to be all floppy and then they look even less cross-like.

Source

And when I learned about this I was oddly relieved. It felt like I was right about something that I couldn't even put into words, and that somehow the field of what I could call glorious had grown wider.

Christians are called to see and marvel at the presence of God in creation. I love doing that! I see God left and right through my scientific studies. Yet I also know that the human brain is pattern-seeking and that we are prone to pareidolia. I honestly don't know that there's a substantive difference between seeing the cross in some laminins and seeing Jesus on a piece of toast. It's all just seeing patterns that arise from something else (in the case of laminins, being able to bind three different molecules at once) and attributing spiritual significance. God is sovereign and maybe in the grand scope of his vision for creation it means something, but in terms of seeing God's hand in science I just find it so... small?

You could spin so many four-chain or four-domain proteins or goodness knows how many other molecules into images of the cross if you pick the right diagram. You could take every pattern of three in nature (and there are many!) as an image of the Trinity. If you really, really wanted to, you could take every six in organic chemistry as a sign of the beast, which would be hilarious in its misguidedness. It just becomes so literalistic and dull so very fast.

Look! Wouldn't you rather talk about the fact that laminins begin to appear along the edge of a developing lung at just ten weeks of human embryonic development, suggesting that they play a role in alveolar morphogenesis? That they're present in the neural stem-cell niche, which makes them an attractive candidate for helping to treat degenerative neurological conditions? I want to go back to whoever gave that talk that I watched in youth group and shake him and say, "God did that, and you're still hung up on the fact that laminins have three subchains?"

#God is so so big and as a result the horizons of science are ENORMOUS #very often when Christians talk about science it's with a tone of ' #see! look we found it! the God molecule! incontrovertible proof of the divine!' #and like. my brothers and sisters in Christ. God didn't create the world for us to prove our way to him #he created a world that shouts and cries his name but we have to know HIM first! not the other way around #you're not gonna find God in Laminins if you're fixated on it being this big significant Thing that Proves that GOD SIGNS HIS HANDIWORK! #you can absolutely meet him there if you take the time to marvel at the glory of a molecule this versatile #about which we can ask questions! and draw closer to our creator by understanding his creation better! #just. i feel such a grave responsibility and a glorious joy towards promoting scientific literacy among Christians #it's hard to describe but in a lot of ways it's the thing i want most to do with my life #also to be clear: not trying to vague-post about anyone #Kaylie's post about quarks did inspire this but only insomuch as it skirted right up against this subject #about which i clearly have a lot to say #the original post was gleeful and charming and I'm so glad that you're enjoying your physics book! #just. i think it's important not to fixate on the symbols at the expense of the actual wonders of creation #wow I am such a woman in stem #good grief #pontifications and creations #all truth is god's truth #endless forms most beautiful

[freakwiththeknifecollection]

It's kinda laughable to me when people bring up Meg telling Jo that Dean only saw her as a little sister as like, definitive proof that's how he felt. Like demons never lie just to fuck with people

#Dean's blatant advances are 'up to interpretation' but the word of a demon is incontrovertible #yes when Jo asks if demons ever tell the truth Dean says yeah sometimes #but that was meant to make her BELIEVE that what Meg said is true (you know for angst reasons. also as a good reason for Jo not to be on th #show for awhile) not proof that she was telling the truth #people also assume that what Meg said about how her dad died was true which I mean it's very believable but #we also can't know that for sure #ALSO has anybody considered that maybe Meg said Dean only sees her as a sister because that's what Sam thinks? #Sam's perception is also not sound. why wouldn’t Sam believe that if Dean never slept with her? because up until then Dean had been very #promiscuous. so if he didn't try to sleep with her he must not like her right? #Sam wasn't listening to the wrong place wrong time conversation he doesn't know that #and again all of this speculation literally doesn't matter because we KNOW it was a lie because actions speak louder than words #em rambles #not to be bitchy on main but. come on #also please for the love of god do not use this post to bring up Zachariah's au okay Zachariah's au didn't mean shit because it wasn't real

[fideidefenswhore]

The earldom of Ormond passed through the general line rather than being limited to heirs male. Hunsdon's claim was, therefore, based on the assumption that the earldom should have passed from himself to his father by virtue of their descent from Thomas Boleyn's eldest daughter, Mary. [...] The earldom, therefore, consisted of a title only, to which Elizabeth had no claim because she was 'daughter and heir of Anne, youngest daughter of said Sir Thomas Bullen, late Earl of Ormond.' Hundson reiterated that, since his grandmother was the eldest daughter, his earldom ought to descend to him. [...] Such evidence is compelling. Had he been mistaken [...] Elizabeth [I] could easily have corrected him and claimed the earldom for herself to dispose of as she pleased.

Mary Boleyn: The True Story of Henry VIII's Favourite Mistress, Josephine Wilkinson

#hmm but also wasn't the earldom of ormond taken from him ... was this reverted by parliamentary acts? #i remember elizabeth passed smth reverting all statutes what was it 'contrary to her mother'? #mary was the elder sister and i'll die on this hill and altho i have no incontrovertible proof im convinced she was the middle sibling as #well...idt this disproves it. it might have done had george had descendants #but he had no heir to contradict this claim so it would've reverted to second eldest (mary) #anyway. this book title. let me mind my business... #im pretty sure that was elizabeth blount. #granted a baronry vs granted a knighthood... 11 years? after their marriage?? #btw all you have to do is glance at the dates to realize pgreg wrote a complete historical fantasy lol #not only in making mary the younger sister #but in hviii carrying this torch and only having exiled them at anne's behest and this becoming oh-so-evident bcus he #'immediately favored them' after anne's execution #william stafford was granted a knighthood after his service in scotland #which was btw. two years after mary boleyn died . #like by that logic he favored him as a sign of a favor to the poles (he married dorothy stafford the same year) which would obviously be #ridiculous... in the context of the 1540s #josephine wilkinson #elizabethan

[submarinerwrites]

you will never convince me that walter skinner wasnt in hopeless doomed love with dana scully. bc he was.

#i have incontrovertible proof. if you even care. #txf

[aldieb]

sometimes i get sad that i didn’t try for a fulbright bc i was too sickcrazy. then i feel fine again bc it was 2020 so it would’ve sucked regardless. then i end on sad bc le guin met her husband when they were both on fulbright in france and that is both adorable and a cool flex

#text tag #still thinking abt academic achievement unfortunately. yuck #‘why do you think you would also meet your spouse there?’ well i love pattern matching and we were also both in [redacted] and… deep sigh… #we are both libras so there. incontrovertible proof

[musical-chick-13]

No one:

Me: THE "UNSEX ME HERE" LINE IS NOT LADY MACBETH ENGAGING IN GENDER FUCKERY OR SHATTERING THE GENDER BINARY, SHE IS EXPERIENCING INTERNALIZED MISOGYNY AND SAYING THAT SHE WANTS ALL OF HER """FEMININE""" QUALITIES TO BE SUPERNATURALLY REMOVED SO THAT SHE CAN COMMIT MURDER WITHOUT GUILT OR SHAME OR FEAR BECAUSE SHE ASSOCIATES THOSE EMOTIONS WITH BEING A WOMAN PLEASE JUST GO WATCH AS YOU LIKE IT OR TWELFTH NIGHT

#ALSO this is not to tread on anyone having headcanons or different interpretations of her gender identity #I'm just so tired of people acting like THIS line is intentionally meant to be hashtag-based or incontrovertible proof that she's some #sort of girlboss feminist icon. that's not what it means! that's not why it's there!! #this man's work has PLENTY of gender fuckery that ISN'T mired in internalized sexsim LADY M IS NOT MAKING A COMMENTARY ON THE PATRIARCHY #okay I'm normal now #(<-lie)

[eggy-tea]

This just in: I am shockingly cruel and have no love in my heart for poor little cats.

#source: jesse cat #incontrovertible proof: i have not yet taken him for a walk around the property to inspect the grass today

[opencommunion]

someone in the tags on one of my posts about the ICJ case said "this is all a farce," and I agree that the ICJ is enmeshed with western imperialism and that the UN doesn't seem to be capable of much beyond political theater, but I think dismissing the entire case is incredibly disrespectful to South Africa's legal team, and to the Palestinians they're intervening on behalf of, who have a right to have their oppressors charged in every single court with jurisdiction, regardless of how we feel about those courts. the UN itself may be a joke but I didn't see anything farcical about the way South Africa's team presented their case. this trial is unprecedented in the history of the Palestinian liberation struggle and regardless of how the court rules, it's going to expose both the incontrovertible proof of genocide and the failure of western legal and governmental bodies to prevent it, and that will have repercussions

[mindalpaeng-i]

i guess my thoughts for now is that they’re a really great band and i really love their music and their art and i think that if they were allowed they would continue to make really great art, but for the last long while it seems that one thing after another isn’t allowing them and it’s kind of sad to think that they could slowly fizzle out instead of continuing to be great

#like i think what we’re all looking for is one big incontrovertible proof that they’re still Great Artists #not thy what they’ve been releasing is Bad. but it’s not like. cohesive. cogent with their body of work #not cogent wrong word but #like it doesn’t FIT #i’m waiting for something that FITS #proof

[hassibah]

"A police report and an interview with a former Zionist operative form the basis of Avi Shlaim's claim that he has uncovered "undeniable proof" of Israeli involvement in bombings which drove Jews out of Iraq in the early 1950s, the British-Israeli historian told Middle East Eye.

Shlaim's autobiography Three Worlds: Memoirs of an Arab-Jew, published earlier this month, details his childhood as an Iraqi Jew and subsequent exile to Israel.

It also includes research about a number of bombings in Iraq which prompted a mass exodus of Jews from the country between 1950 and 1951, most of whom, like he and his family, ended up in Israel.

On Sunday, Shlaim told Middle East Eye that he had uncovered "incontrovertible evidence of Zionist underground involvement in the bombs". 

As part of the evidence, the historian cited an extensive interview he carried out with Yaakov Karkoukli, a former member of the Zionist underground in Baghdad in the 1950s. "

#iraq #iraqi jews #avi shlaim #finally we know

[vakarians-babe]

After a historic 6 week strike, the Temple University Graduate Students Association - the first graduate worker union in Pennsylvania - has WON.

When we went out on January 31st, I don’t think any of us thought that we would end up here. This was a long and arduous process that could never have been accomplished without everyone involved—and I do mean everyone.

Numerous news outlets have been reporting throughout the whole strike, but I’d like to run through what, exactly, it is we’ve done.

After well over a year of negotiations (we went to the table in January of 2022 after the administration delayed responding to our RFIs for months) and more than a year without a contract (it expired on February 15, 2022), we were stuck with an administrative team whose position was, resolutely, “we are happy with the contract as it is.” Their belief was that teaching and research assistants, who facilitate—at a conservative estimate—approximately one-third of all instructional work here on campus were “not a core function of the university.” Pay was structured around a tier-based system that generated inequity as part of its structure which ultimately manifested as race and gender based wage gaps, and that pay averaged out between 19k and 20k for the majority of our bargaining unit. We had only five days of parental leave in the event of childbirth. To cover a single dependent on the dependent healthcare plan required an individual to spend approximately 30% of their paycheck. There had been no substantive raises or adjustments for the cost of living since our first contract as a union.

During the strike, Temple university cut our healthcare and revoked tuition remission, attempting to break us through punitive bills and threats. They quite literally threatened peoples’ lives in addition to their livelihoods. International students were threatened for daring to exercise the rights they have as visa holders to engage in protected concerted activity. They attempted to break our will and our organization.

They failed. We didn’t.

On Monday, voting on a second tentative agreement closed. The contract negotiations team and the executive board unanimously endorsed that TA. It passed at an overwhelming 98% vote among our members. That TA, which will now become our contract, did the following:

Eliminated the tier system completely

Brought our pay up to 24k at the beginning of our contract, reaching pay of 27k by its end in 2026

Introduced 25% dependent healthcare coverage which, in addition to the pay raises, lowers the burden of single dependent care to just about 18% of one’s paycheck instead of 30%

Increased parental leave to 21 days

While this contract is not the most perfect contract, it is one of the largest single contract wins in recent history. It signifies an incredible amount of organizing power and it opens the door for future negotiations that will make TUGSA even stronger.

But more importantly, this strike and this contract are incontrovertible proof that graduate worker unions can win. They are proof that we can do it, and that administrations cannot expect to silence us through retaliation. We are stronger than them.

The fight doesn’t end here. The union of graduate workers, faculty, postdocs and more at Rutgers University has passed their strike authorization vote. The graduate workers at Duke University are fighting for their right to be recognized as employees, and that fight will soon be passed up through the nation to challenge rulings made at the National Labor Relations Board. Graduate workers at other universities in Pennsylvania and the Philadelphia area are moving to unionize. TUGSA continues to organize—our next contract negotiations will begin in less than two and a half years. Now is the time to support graduate workers. We cannot backslide. We have to fight for each other, because when we fight, we win.

#tugsa #templeunionmade #temple university #grad worker strike #strike #labor rights

[esmes]

put me inside flesh that is dying a ghost that wanders without rest buried by desires and weakness i understand please, don't take your love away from me aka incontrovertible proof that they are HAVING SEX, courtesy of @theriddletrades

#sweeneytoddedit #sweenett #broadwayedit #josh groban #annaleigh ashford #honestly they.... are the loves of my life #flinging myself into the sun! giddy with glee! sobbing my heart out! these two make me go through it all #last gif? the way he turns his face away and she SMILES to herself before nuzzling into the side of his face? #diabolical!!!! fade to black i am GONE #here for all variety of toddlovett dynamics but i can't lie: desperately!horny/reluctantly!horny for each other is my favorite #they're just sick. love it. can't get enough. #** #long post #otp: if you only knew #sweeney todd

[slyandthefamilybook]

What is the Accountability Archive?

(I was gonna make this an addition to another post but OP turned off reblogs while I was halfway through my deep dive so I'm making my own)

With any activism (or something trying to pass itself off as activism), especially list-making like this site, the most important question to ask is "why". What is the purpose? What do they hope to accomplish? How will this data be used?

The answer is......eh? The list is being compiled so that possibly someday some future historian might maybe think about wanting to form a committee to explore the possibility of..."understanding how 'power holders' manufacture consent". These power holders are, of course, politicians, but also journalists?, and "public figures", which is an extremely vague term. Am I a public figure? I certainly make my opinions public. So when these future researchers want to understand the nature of the current conflict, they won't need to look at the history of the region, the contemporary local politics as well as the international stage, and the personalities of the specific people involved. They'll just check out this eyesore of a website to find proof that slyandthefamilybook supports genocide. And future lawyers will be able to use this incontrovertible evidence to...sorry, to prosecute war crimes?????? Sorry, I couldn't help but laugh at that one. Well if I am on there it shouldn't be too hard to check. Surely a site called the "Accountability Archive" believes in transparency

Oh. Well. I'm sure if you pass their screening process they'll respond promptly from their encrypted archive-less email and definitely give you access. But don't worry. They have a "vision" of one day making this public. When are we the people going to be able to see the info? I want the juicy deets on who is and isn't a Zionist!

So, sometime in the future. Maybe. Probably. Well what kind of info are they collecting anyway?

Alright, seems normal so far. I appreciate that when talking about targeting of civilian populations or infrastructure they've remained impartial. I submitted a page from the ADL cataloguing US professors who celebrated Hamas' pogrom on 10/7. I will let you know how or if they respond

One thing I've noticed is the distinctly European spelling of some words like "dehumanisation" and "analyse". So who are these people even? They must have pictures, or names, or evidence of their bona fides. They claim to be "middle east experts" [sic] so surely they'll link articles they've written, or talk about degrees or accolades they've received. Something, anything to let us know that they're real serious people who know what they're talking about

Well that's......I mean that's not even an answer. You don't answer the question of "who are we" with "this is the purpose of our website". They have a Twitter, which despite being made in October 2023 (huh. weird) only made its first post in February 2024

The site itself went live on November 22, 2023, but according to Google was only certified as of 9 days ago

I'm not going to try to dig into who potentially runs the account. I don't want to doxx anyone. But this should give you an overview of what this site is and why you definitely shouldn't use it

#atlas entry

[a-dinosaur-a-day]

One thing that generally annoys me is when people say “evolution is just a theory”. BISH WE HAVE AT LEAST 70 YEARS OF PROOF! There’s the fact that there’s basal ceratopsians and then there’s Triceratops and Diabloceratops as an example of evolution.

We have so much proof it’s incontrovertible. We’ve watched COVID19 evolve in real time.

We know more about evolution than about gravity.

[brf-rumortrackinganon]

Y’all, respectfully, I’m not getting into discussions or speculation about Archie and Lili’s births/existence at this time, but here’s where I stand:

Yes, the kids exist. No, we don’t see them a lot, but there’s a lot of celebrities whose kids we don’t see. And yet we acknowledge they exist, so we should do the same for Archie and Lili. Harry and Meghan have made it very clear through their actions that they’re raising the kids American celeb-style and not British royal.

So let’s measure and assess the Sussexes by the celeb yardstick. It’ll piss them off.

That’s the only hot take you’re getting from me about the kids. The rest of it will have to wait till something happens that’s covered by official sources (like a palace announcement or a press scoop with incontrovertible proof).

I get that how the kids came to be (and where they are) is a popular topic and everyone wants to share their thoughts on it. You’re welcome to keep sending me asks but they won’t be posted. It’s not something I want to focus on now.