#should be well funded

[fishyfishyfishtimes]

My study partner and I got to weigh our rainbow trout, and wow have they grown! They came to us weighing an average of 10 grams, and only in a month’s time even the smallest fish have doubled in weight! There were some very hefty guys too, from a randomly selected group of fish the biggest weighed 81 grams, a massive amount of growth considering how small they were before! We’re aiming for an average weight of 100-150 grams, so we’re well on our way there.

To weigh the fish, we put them under anaesthesia so they wouldn’t be too stressed about the situation or thrash around in the weighing bucket. Here’s a picture I took of some rainbow trouts still coming to from said anaesthesia, absolutely zonked:

You can see some drastic size differences between different rainbow trout individuals. Not to worry, every fish recovered and was swimming normally with their buddies after a few minutes!

#so far there has been only a singular fish death after one jumped out from the tank in the night but we solved that issue with a lid #besides that the rest of the ~100 fish have been doing mighty well! they swim actively and look healthy #its hard not to get attached to these little guys! i was greatly looking forward to seeing them again #hmm i should get a tag for my fish research #maybe just fish research? #yeah thats good #fish research #nothing super fancy research since im not writing a paper; but this is sort of pre-research! #perhaps its nicer to not have to handle the funding hell that is actual research to be honest

[ifindus]

Cross-country season has started! Fifa!talia is out, FIS!talia is in!

Most of the athletes on the GBR team are Scottish and they all live in Norway most of the year. Norwegians have such a love for them and some of them even speak Norwegian fluently. Two years ago, they lost funding from the UK government and it looked like they would have to quit skiing all-together. Then, rich Norwegians began sponsoring them and now they are training with a private Norwegian team and funded by Norwegians 💖

#hetalia #aph norway #aph scotland #hws norway #hw scotland #scotnor #🥺🥺🥺 I love them so much #FIS!talia #can't wait for the World Championship in Trondheim 2025!!! #I'm going to volunteer for it and am putting “nation host” as my first choice #I am such a fan of cross-country it's my everything #I love sports ok? #but especially cross-country #there's def some AU potential there as well #a swedish athlete got frostbite on his private parts racing in Finland this weekend #just thought you all should know #also I think it's amazing that norwegian people are so passionate about the GBR team #they even had a fund-raiser to raise money for them when they were cut off by their own country #and private Norwegian people just sponsoring them full-time??? What a support!! #They even got a documentary mini-series on NRK

[rawliverandgoronspice]

What's incredibly annoying and well worth noting is that the US basically made itself un-boycottable in the West. Our infrastructure is baked within the rules of the US, through the rules of the US. If we ever do initiate a boycott (and lol we would never politicians and businesses would never do such a thing), entire countries stop working. Not to mention the actual risks.

And in which world is this normal and acceptable.

#thoughts #politics #because let's be real we SHOULD be boycotting the US as well as Israel #18 billion dollars to fund a genocide is beyond anything anyone should stand for #but for example the US owns SO MUCH of our comms infrastructure in france #and that's just one thing

[carpisuns]

theOrEticalLy . if I opened commissions at some point. would there be. a smackerel of interest . ??

#i have never opened them bc it’s intimidating and I don’t know how to price things!! #but mostly bc i work full time w a good salary so I don’t really need side things to make money #like it feels selfish to suggest that people should pay me to make fanart?? When #a) I already do that for free bc i enjoy it lol #and b) there are so many creators out there who are struggling to make ends meet #and I am privileged enough to generally not have to worry about that #this would be just like extra spending money to fund my scented candle habit DHDJDN #and the clothes I just bought while trying to Discover My Vibe and Finally Be Myself (at age 28 lol) #also tbh it would likely be reinvested in other commissions bc I buy commissions fairly often lol #anyway. idk the idea of commissions always sounded cool but also guilt inducing and scary #it feels weird and silly bc it would make me have to take my art seriously if that makes sense?? #like me saying ‘I think I’m good enough at art that people would buy it from me.’ that feels so bold and like. arrogant or something dhjsjd #coming from me I mean. just a silly little guy who still struggles to draw human limbs properly #ok I’m thinking about how I’d have to make a commission sheet and put a dollar sign on my art and I’m aaaaaaa #and I’d have to execute exactly what people want and what if I can’t!!! #omg ok maybe noT help lol #well im not committing to anything rn im simply. asking a question while the dash is asleep and then running off to bed seeya #i think part of me always wanted to try commissions to see if I could be a Real Artist about it ?? #and potentially end up with like. Portfolio pieces ?? #why I would need an art portfolio I don’t know. I am an editor. What do I think I will be doing here #ppl left comments on my animatic that have been giving me crazy what if thoughts. sit down #don’t look at me #ohhh swirly brain thoughts I need to sleep

[whentherewerebicycles]

IT’S HERE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

#IT HAS ARRIVED #i just finished reviewing benefits and wowowow the parental leave stuff isn’t perfect but it’s WAY WAY better than my current or prev job #basically 6 months guaranteed & most of it is paid just not paid at 100% of your salary #but enough that I should be fine #everything else looks good too I’m just trying to negotiate conference funding + getting my annual parking pass covered lol #and then my dad wants to look at everything too #but I should be able to accept by the end of the day if all goes well!!!!!!! #and then I can give notice tomorrow I think!!!!

[the-grove]

One of the worse feelings is feeling like you fucked up a recipie with some of the few ingriednents you have in the house. Just like, if you played it safer you would still have those ingriedents for something else and just ugh.

Seriouslay the small pleasure of being able to mess up a dish because you can just order a pizza or toss something up real quick is just. Frustrating

#second dish we messed up this week too. #x.x #and because i wasnt freling well earlier in the week we used uo more funds then we should have on ordering out. and just scream #i hate being poor

[idkhowtopickausername]

I’m glad that a lot of people are being radicalized by the experience of seeing in a clear and direct way how awful U.S. imperialism is but also a bit alarmed by the number of people who don’t seem to be

#does the fact that your tax dollars are funding this and phone calls and marches are not making a difference not bother you enough for you #to restructure your ideology around it? #like the number of people who are just like oh well there’s nothing we can do about it you should just not be so upset #is infuriating

[baejax-the-great]

Some people are not meant to succeed at things and if i think back to all my scientific grant application responses, I think I remember some PI out there very bluntly and confidently telling me I was one of them

#actually the problem I'm having now was very similar to my scientific problems #which was that nobody cared enough about peripheral nerves to fund research about them #AND they didn't know enough about peripheral nerves to accurately assess my grant #'why not just study this agonist this is a waste of time' #well sir motoneurons don't have receptors for that particular agonist so the study would be quite boring #still lolling at the person who marked Northwestern as a subpar research institute #like honestly I should have been allowed to DQ their score ONLY based on that #someone should have seen that and gone oh this person is a nutcase let's strip them of their position #but no #my future was determined by these goons

[ditzydoodiary]

i need a tutorial on how to live a happy life in a household with an elderly person and a mother and her child with 2 very conflicting disabilities. sooner rather than later pls ) I'm losing my mind)

#I AM SO TIRED #my mum has me/cfs #and i have autism and adhd #so as you can imagine those 2 things don't go very well together #i can't drive and get myself places by myself because of my disability #but she can't drive for too long either or else she'll have a flareup #we literally can't win #like every situation there's a disagreement because none of our needs fit with each other #because of her disability my mum can't work or get a job #and neither of us are on disability funding either #so we are like. dirt poor #my mum gets paid $600 aud every two weeks #which is literally nothing !!! wtf !!!! #i hate the government #why do they give us literal scraps then tell us to be grateful we're even getting anything #like no ??!!!?;? #why should we be grateful for the bare minimum if we aren't being treated right #they give us less than a crumb and hink that's enough to live #like why should i be grateful for that #oh and also #the elderly person is suspected to have develeoping dementia #so that makes our lives ten times harder than they already are doesn't it #anywho ranting over ig #but yeah. someone help us lol #autism #me/cfs #disabled

[treecakes]

fall registration opens in another couple weeks and i’m hoping desperately that the gis lab opens up an online section like they did for this semester…. because the in person lab is right when i want to take a rarely-offered anthro course….

#wasn’t going to take this anthro course but it’s rarely offered and i started considering another master’s and i think i should. take this #course. it wouldn’t matter for applications most likely but it would defintely make me feel more. adequate. #in my knowledge base. also i should talk to that professor abt this masters i want to know what she thinks abt it because it’s. really #pushing students towards her field specifically. and i’d like to see what she thinks. #i’m between two programs at that school and a couple programs elsewhere #but ideally that school. i hope in like a couple years when i apply it goes well…. i need to save up funds before then lol #for visa reasons……

[todayisafridaynight]

ok yea but don't forget about what daigo did in yakuza 4. how could he throw away his most valuable officer like that? he made such terrible decisions there. he was not a good choice and kiryu should have known better. (i am not prev anon btw but i do agree with them)

i didnt forget: i make fun of him every other day for it actually. His Widow Era, i dub it

but in all seriousness i never said daigo was perfect or the "perfect choice"- every time i defend him i emphasize that he isn't perfect and more or less joke about yayoi being chairwoman. but i don't intend to make him seem perfect- i just want to say he's not totally helpless and he didn't run the tojo into the ground like people seem to believe. daigo making one fuck up that got resolved in a week isn't fair enough grounds to brand him a failure for his twelve years of service

plus, who else was kiryu supposed to choose? we already went over how kashiwagi isn't the kind of man to lead people- guide, sure- but not lead. and majima surely didn't want to lead the tojo, he hardly even wanted to be there. kiryu made it clear his options were exhausted and anyone but daigo would be an irresponsible choice (and that was made evident with the likes of shindo running around). again, it was a gamble, and luckily daigo managed to work things out despite his inexperience and hasty inauguration

BUT this ask has inspired me to make a general timeline of daigo's career complete with W's, L's, and things totally out of his control so we can all come to our own conclusions on whether he was cringe fail or not

text version below, left to right:

(Post-Y2) Daigo's Inauguration - January, 2007

Peace Period - January 2007 to March 2009 (2 years, 2 months)

(Y3) Daigo is shot in an attempt to protect Kazuma Kiryu's land - March, 2009

Peace Period - March 2009 to March 2010 (1 year)

(Y4) Daigo is cornered by Isao Katsuragi and the police - March 2010

Peace Period - March 2010 to December 2012 (2 years, 9 months)

(Y5) Daigo slips from the Tojo to visit Tatsuo Shinada and causes a potential rift between the Tojo and the Yamagasa family - December, 2012

(Post-Y5) Daigo resolves the tension between the Yamagasa family and the Tojo Clan - December, 2012

Peace Period - December 2012 to 2015 (3 years)

(Pre-Y6) Daigo, alongside Goro Majima, are framed and arrested for the fire in Little Asia - 2015 to January 2017 (~2 years)

(Post-Y6) Daigo and co. are released from prison, deciding not to get revenge for Kiryu's sake - January, 2017

Peace Period - January 2017 to Late 2017 (~1 year)

(Pre-Y7) The Tojo Clan is pushed out of Kamurocho as a part f the Kamurocho 3K Plan (Late 2017)

Daigo, Saejima, and Majima are forced into hiding - Late 2017 to Mid 2019 (~2 years)

(Y7) Daigo and Masaru Watase put an end to the yakuza and go legit as a security company - Mid 2019

#snap chats #i could probably also include daigo's charisma being able to recruit mine #mine's involvement in the tojo is what gave them grandiose funds #tho i excluded it since we don't see that tree bear fruit- if anything it just makes a problem in Y4 💀 #i did consider daigo's arrest in 2015 as out of his control- not to mention majima was arrested a well #it wasn't that daigo made an agreement with the police they literally just came and arrested him and majima #unlike Y4 where he had the choice of whether or not to work with the police #i've marked the jima's hiding as out of his control though i guess you can argue it was in his control #but it was a long-term plan so it's like. EHHHHH up in the air ig #yes the tojo was pushed out but it was also a long-term plan to protect them and liberate them from the government #it's an L or a W depending on how you see it #i feel like im missing something but im tired and put more effort into this than i should have #if we wanna talk bout daigo's capabilities as a chairman i'm all ears because i am that post i just rb'd about becoming your pfp #for now im making a hijikata compilation bye

[deityofhearts]

every time I have to go to the bank I am aware that they can see that one of my savings accounts is named “save your fucking money” and it’s in the ““secret” money” category (secret itself is in quotation marks)

#deity dialogue #I went to the bank recently so I have my main savings account now as well as my moving funds (empty) and my just in case/extra money funds #(also empty) #I should be starting at my new job soonish and being paid two weeks from that date which is fun!! #hhh money I want money #my plan is to split each check three ways if possible #it entirely depends on like bills and necessities #but like my main account is for like bills and necessities and if I have money left over after all is said and done MAYBE a treat idk though #I also need to start carrying at least $20 on me at all times physically #but I just don’t go many places and never think to withdrawal money #plus finding atms is annoying #but also I don’t wanna withdrawal money at someone’s like job #I’ve had too many customers do that right when I opened my register and it fucks uo my register #ofc I would go ‘hi I was wondering if I’m able to withdraw x amount of money if not I understand’ but I just don’t wanna annoy retail #workers

[ink-asunder]

Class of 09 makes me feel so normal /gen.

Like, it's not JUST realistic writing. It's that when I was a teen, I told outrageous lies about sex and drugs and unreasonably cruel treatment. Just like, for attention and to get out of trouble and as a way of coping with the REAL traumatic shit I was going through. Most of the time it was just exploratory behavior! (Idk if THAT'S usual for teens, but I have autism and psychosis, which can incentivise exploratory behavior.) And finally seeing THAT represented in such a mundane slice of life style of story kinda helped me stop repressing and forgive myseld about that shit. Yeah it was wrong, but I was a fucking traumatized teen, and a pretty normal teen on top of that. I'm not going to hell for that shit, yknow?

#when i became a young adult i hung out with a LOT of much more progressive people #and i always felt judged and inferior because just Normal Teen Behavior was SO fucking evil to them. #yyeah it was wrong to be bigoted and mean as a teenager but like. i think ur shame should be directly proportional to your impact. #and then they called ME fake for having the southern 'howdy' attitude. like. you guys literally lie and make nice #yall are fake as shit #anyway holding down with other (vastly peronally improved) rural kids really healed me as well. #we go from talkin abt social equity and needing to dismantle systems and fund support systems for marginalized and disprivileged communities #to reminiscing about wanting to stab ppl when we were 14 and it is so good for my healing acrually #🦌 #posting on main cuz a couple of my mutuals will be interested i think

[halomancer-2]

I think being autistic does actually make me inherently better at animal handling because I, too, have been yelled at for growling and biting when everyone ignored my previous warnings and didn’t set clear boundaries

#my roommate’s always like Wow my dog responds so well to you! #yeah bitch I set clear expectations and consistent rules and I don’t yell at him #and I pay attention to his body language and the rituals he creates #literally it’s not that hard #ya she got him to train as a service dog LMAO #she doesn’t have the money to send him to a trainer and the time to do it herself #when I recommended she pull from the emergency fund (because his reactivity is getting BAD to the point of borderline aggression) #she was like ‘who has an emergency fund for their pet :P’ #BITCH IDK IM NOT MAKING $30+ AN HOUR WITH A 401K AND FULL INSURANCE PACKAGE #THATS WHY I DONT HAVE A DOG?? #just an in-the-works shrimp tank that I do in fact have a small emergency fund for #it’s your job as a responsible pet owner to attend to your animal’s needs. if you can’t do that you shouldn’t have a pet #and she fucking undermines the training /I/ give #like I was teaching him to find a toy when someone knocks at the door to redirect his energy and prevent barking #but now whenever he barks at the door she YELLS at him to find his toy #so I had to stop training that area because like. what the fuck am I gonna do??? #notably I am the only person who can consistently get him to stop barking at the door #completely unrelated to the fact that I’m calm and give him treats when he stops barking #and comes over to me and chills out #goddddd I hate her she shouldn’t have any animals ever #anyways what was I saying. #oh yeah I’m the only person in this apartment who should ever be allowed to have a dog #this is also why I dont plan to get one! I recognize that the college life is simply incompatible with responsible dog ownership #(unless EVERYONE is REALLY onboard which. lmao good luck.)

[the-casbah-way]

Bestie how are you doing? I haven’t checked up on you in a while, how are the cats? How’s the job, that sucks I’m sorry (I’m assuming your job is still annoying)

i'm not doing great but as always i stay silly. my cats are ok, justin is very cold though because he's still outside. he'll be ok soon. and i only work my corporate job outside of term time so right now i'm just doing my other job which is much nicer so it's not bad. thank you <3

#decided i'm going to empty my uni fund to pay for justin's vaccinations #since i didn't raise enough money online #if everything goes ok he should be indoors in like six weeks #how will i pay to finish my degree now you ask. well. never you mind that #(sobs)

[izzy-b-hands]

Yesterday, in light of things going not so great to poorly for myself and others, I hoped for today to be kinder...

My fucking bad apparently y'all, I jinxed us. I'm not hoping shit for tomorrow, good or bad or neutral, I'm just gonna exist and try not to break anything, fuck's sake

#text post #I picked a bad day for a t break so we'll see if that lasts into the evening or not #should it? yes probably. will it? not gonna guarantee it #bc rn just. nothing is working for the extra funds sites other 'fun' sites aren't working well either #and in between that there's just absolute shit or terrible news everywhere seemingly abt everything like jfc #the temptation to go back to bed is v present but that'll just fuck up my sleep schedule so even that's out for today #just do not have the patience and spoons like fuck's sake let me do SOMETHING USEFUL #i'm considering doing some writing but part of me is just. idk. nothing feels good rn but writing at least is Doing Something