my dad always said "we come from the mediterranean branch of the swedes" to explain why our family is Like That so honestly i think it's fate

eating prosciutto. yelling at ferrari through the tv. you met me at a very italian time in my life

The single most important skill for a self employed person is acting like you believe you have a real job. I have mastered this about 75% of the time.

oh that's just a regular American with autism I'm pretty sure 😂

Maryland, English mum, Swedish dad, autism.

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oh also! I'm less than 500 away from 50k on YouTube, so if you didn't know I had a YouTube account, now is your last chance to say you got in at the ground floor!

I can't help but think about the nerves of steel those people had to cultivate to do high-speed flips on a slippery surface with blades on their feet only for figure skating to have a reputation as a sissy sport

I studied music at uni and every year began with a debate on the question of "what is music?"
I went through SO MANY definitions ("noise with artistic intent!" "art created on the medium of time!") before concluding that the only good answer to "what is music?" is "fuck off and let me practice."

instead of arguing about whether AI art is art we should put to bed the asinine question of what "counts" as "art" and just all agree that AI art sucks

epic handshake meme. One arm is labelled "neurotypical women trying to hurt your feelings on purpose." The other arm is labelled "autistic men trying to pay a sincere compliment." The handshake is labelled, in quotation marks, "'It's really cool how you don't care too much about how you look!'"

full respect to that second group's intentions but please do not accuse me of not caring about my appearance lmfao i put a lot of work into being this cute ✨✌🏻

this post brought to you by everyone who asks if my Big Baby Taylor (a 15/16ths size guitar) is cartoonishly humungous or if I'm just a teeny tiny baby. The answer is that I'm a teeny tiny baby (read: completely normal sized woman)

gonna need the manufacturers of Everything to realise that half of the men are smaller than the average man and half of the humans aren't men

yeah that's a baby

LOVE when insects are so fuzzy and round and big-eyed they actually manage to activate my maternal instincts. Ten million generations of foremothers sitting in my brainstem trying to convince me this moth can breastfeed. Being a living thing is so unserious <3

An enlightening essay in @theconversation.com by Benoit, Helm, & Bordy about the recognizing Indigenous science for its important role in the original discoveries of fossils in southern Africa, especially trace fossils (tracks). 🧪🐾🪨⚒️🌍 #ichnology

somebody is in my youtube comments replying to dozens of unrelated comment threads to say that Jesus and Elijah are about to be reincarnated as women and then join together in a lesbian marriage, and I just wanna say this is one of the best psychoses I've ever had the pleasure of witnessing

now accepting friend group applications from dudes named axel, sven, and magnus i guess lmfao

i didn't THINK i was systematically collecting all the men with scandinavian names in the dc area and then i hopped on partiful and added a harald, hans, anders, and gustav to an event and uhhhhh

making a video about Charon and Pluto and being flooded with comments saying "this is why Charon should've been called Proserpina" is making me ornery all over again about the internet romanticisation of the myth that was, until very recently, known as "the rape of Persephone"

as a woman on the internet, there's no amount of stupid that you can sarcastically pretend to be that will actually read as sarcasm, because there's no limit to how stupid your interlocutor is willing to believe you are. In a sane world this would be funny but this guy WOULD just believe me 😭

Green Card Interviews End in Handcuffs for Spouses of U.S. Citizens

This is cruelty beyond belief

Stephen is American. His British wife entered the US legally, didn't commit any crimes, was entitled to a Green Card

At her final interview, ICE agents swarmed her, took her 4-month-old child from her arms, and detained her

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...

AND responding to "I don't believe in a categorically special human consciousness" with "what, so you're not thinking?" is equivalent to responding to the above with "what, so you don't believe in stars?"

demanding science explain human consciousness is like demanding science explain constellations. you drew a picture around the stars and then asked why the stars have a picture on them. checkmate atheists, i guess

4) we have literally no way of knowing what the inner life of a lizard is like

3) I am also not convinced there's a hard line between the consciousness water fleas are doing and the non-consciousness that plants are doing

1) consciousness isn't a Thing that we /have/, it's a bunch of things we're /doing/
2) there is no hard line between the consciousness we are doing and the consciousness that water fleas are doing

i love social media scicomm cause sometimes you're blowing people's minds with mass extinction poetry and sometimes you're scrolling through science papers idly wondering if you could get away with naming your daughter "oscarella"

love telling the "humans can't be animals because we have consciousness" crowd that I also don't believe in consciousness

like it's kind of an oversimplification of my actual beliefs, but it makes them 404 so bad I LOVE it

ts cracked me up 😂