#astronomy random users

[tippitv]

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* You awaken to 12 new followers. They all have a user pic that looks like someone’s prom photo on insta or the world’s most cheerful customer service rep getting railed from behind

* Whoever’s railing her has no head. He could be from Sleepy Hollow. There are legends

* not one of them has a bio, not even a fake one

* instead they have a string of unrelated words and random emojis like Tennessee 🤑 Dungeon 🐼 Astronomy 🤐 Ants 😈

* They have a name that isn’t a name it’s something like Shqunkg144

* Were there 143 other Shqunkgs who came before?

* How many will there be after you click report/block?

* it is endless, everyone is a pornbot

* You start to wonder if you are one

* with trembling hands you take out your drivers license to check your own name

* You are Shqunkg145

#tumblr bots #tumblr #gothic meme #regional gothic

[mochablogger]

★ You seem lost, hold my hand and I'll show you the way! ★

★ Intro:

☆ Hi hi hewwo! You're talking to Mocha (full name: Mocha Cuppy) and lemme tell you what else you could call me!! (Note: try not calling me by my full name at times <3)

Cuppy

Cupster

Cupperoo

Len/Leni (Reserved for close users only)

Violet (Reserved for close users only)

Honey Cuppy (Reserved for @moonsprout-sys only)

Cupid (Reserved for @trashbins-stuff only)

Candybon (Reserved for @roastymarshy only)

Roomie + Dandelion (Reserved for @rubixisanidi0t only)

Violet Cream (Reserved for @not-bluboy only)

Any other silly nickname you could come up with! (Moots only; ask first before using!)

☆ Pronouns!!

She/they/xe <- xe/xem is most preferred!!

Heart/heartself + cupid/cupidself (Reserved for @trashbins-stuff only)

☆ I am a minor so let's be appropriate here <3

☆ I'm 🇰🇼!!!!

☆ I'm commonly known as 'the ourple goober' :3

☆ I can speak: English, Arabic, French (a little bit), Korean (a little bit) and Spanish!

☆ I study astronomy, geography and biology!! ^^

☆ I am a digital/traditional artist, animator, VA and writer! <- Silly author of 'The Traumatized Cup'

☆ I am sensitive and can get upset easily. Please don't upset me; you will NOT like the result.

☆ To make our conversation friendly and more understandable, please use tone tags! (They really help)

☆ My happy day is on 16 Feb mehehe >:]

☆ I'm a multi-fandomist and I am very ✨random✨. I am socially awkward soo yea :)

☆ 100% needs therapy 💯

☆ I am bound to disappear for a period of weeks with no explanation 😇

☆ I'm non-binary, demigirl and queerplatonic!!

☆ I play badminton and chess (woah who taught you that??)

☆ @moonsprout-sys is my platonic partner, @blairdrawzstuff is my bestie and @trashbins-stuff is my best buddy >:] I LOVE ALL OF YOUU /p <3333

☆ Dooble requests are still open but as for custom OCs they are closed because I have enough requests and once they are finished I'll resume :]

☆ I've finished 46% of the comic for @the-dreamcatchers-series 💥

☆ I know how to drive a car accurately but I don't have a license :] and btw how come I didn't crash my dad's car??? /silly

☆ I'm claustrophobic in irl (I've fainted in my bus twice) and I'm also prone to get airsick (I've never travelled on the sea before so I never got seasick tho :])

☆ I love to cook n read in my free time :3

☆ My blog is sfw and can be viewed by all ages!!

☆ I swear a little bit while venting or when I am upset I hope you don't mind 👉👈

☆ Wanna make fanart? Tag #fanartforcuppy and @ me!

★ Reference sheet for my objectsona !!

This will be updated as time goes by!!

More sillay stuff below! ⬇️

★ Fandom list

The Object Show Community (OSC)

Murder Drones

The Owl House

The Amazing Digital Circus

Solarballs

Countryballs/Polandballs

Animation Vs Animation/Minecraft

The Henry Stickmin Collection

Sonic the hedgehog

Among Us

★ DNI (Do Not Interact) list

NSFW (Not Safe For Work)

People who are neutral/against Palestine

Pedophiles, zoophiles and necrophiles

S3xual and religional themes

Porn bots/any type of bot

Racists

Homophobes and transphobes

Proshippers

Zionists

If you match with any of these things mentioned above, kindly fuck off or you will be immediately blocked.

★ Common tags

#cuppy art - artworks digital and traditional

#cuppy doobles - silly doobles that mean ABSOLUTELY nothing

#cuppy asks - asks about my well-being

#cuppy requests - request drawings

#cuppy animation - animatics and animation <- barely doing any lol

#cuppy ramblez - watch me talk like bla bla bla

#cuppy reblogz - reblogs

#roomiez lounge - used when talking with my fellow Roomie, @rubixisanidi0t!!

★ Other blogs (still in the making!)

@mochablogger - Main blog; you're currently here!

@the-dreamcatchers-series - The Dreamcatchers' Site!

*This intro is still in progress. Thanks for reading so far! You now may let go of my hand.

#pinned intro #pinned post

[spoonicksmaximus]

Big the Cat Isn’t Real in Frontiers

In regards to Sonic Frontiers, something has been eating away at me since I completed the game, and I couldn’t find anyone else talking about it, so here I go! I understand that there have been comics released surrounding Sonic Frontiers, but I have yet to look into them, my analysis here is from the game itself, the animated prologue, and technically the Twitter Takeover, though they don’t mention Big at all from there. Sonic Frontiers Spoilers. 

I legitimately believe that the Big the Cat that appears in Frontiers is not real. When Sonic first meets Big, he’s already in cyber space. Upon this encounter, I thought his random appearance was a reference to Adventure 2, in which he’d randomly appear in strange areas. Still, Knuckles, Amy, Tails and Eggman are all trapped in cyber space throughout the game, so surely Big must also be trapped as well, correct?

Sonic: “Big!? What are you doing here? HOW did you get here? What even IS here?” Big: “I dunno. I was looking for fishing spots and wound up here.”

Seems like a simple enough explanation at first. In character, at least. On top of that, much like everyone else (excluding Eggman), he has his own “memory tokens,” which in this case translated to Purple Coins, solidifying he was definitely, probably, trapped in cyber space. 

Yet, by the end of the game, I couldn’t help but notice that Big was not with the cast of characters leaving the island. 

In fact, we never saw him get sucked into cyber space in the first place. There’s proof that everyone else was seen in the PROCESS of being trapped, except for Big. Eggman went into a forest, did a thing and it immediately backfired before the game had a chance to begin, Tails, Amy and Sonic were all on the Tornado when they got trapped, and Knuckles got his own animated prologue justifying his reason for being here.

Big, on the other hand, did not. All we get is a line of dialogue claiming he did.

It also became known to us that cyber space is a collection of data pulled from the users’ memories. 

Sonic: “Yo, so did Cyber Space actually interact with my brain?” Sage: “It was designed to catalogue neural networks, among other things, so yes.” Sonic: “Alright, hear me out: do you think all those locations I visited were pulled from my memories?” Sage: “That is plausible. It imported the data of your memories and applied it to your surroundings so you could comprehend them.” Granted, Sage is technically speaking hypothetically herself, but knowing how Sonic lore works, we have to take this as canon information. Taking this at face value, we have to assume the cyber space we visit as Sonic is pulled from his brain.

Which is why it’s strange that at the end of the game, or DURING the game, Big is never technically mentioned outside of his fishing spaces. It would also explain why things like ring boxes

or springs

appear in the virtual lake at all. These are from Sonic’s memories!  

You could also argue that being the reason why some of the things you catch look... well... 

... strange, to say the least. (Sega’s turning the frogs gay, huh?) 

If this is still all in Sonic’s perception, it’d also make sense as to why the blue-ringed octopus or the anglerfish look radically bigger than their real-world counterparts.

Could it just be that Sega didn’t do their aquatic homework? Like they didn’t do their basic research on hedgehogs or on geology/astronomy? I refuse to believe that completely preposterous outlook. Sonic saw a picture of an anglerfish and an octopus, and just like ME at AGE 5, assumed they must be the roughly the size of a bear. (Side note, I’m aware that some anglerfish can grow up to 3 feet, and Sonic’s 3 feet, but this is still an absurd size comparison). 

That said, there are still things like the Hermit scrolls that occasionally show up, and Big literally sells you Eggman’s diary memos. One could argue, those things literally couldn’t be in Sonic’s memories. However, cyber space is a communal space. Apparently you can find out information from just about anyone in there. 

Tails: “While you were online it opened up a flood of data. It was way too much to process, but I did get a glimpse of the Ancients’ personal data.”

Based on this evidence, we can turn to Big, and question his role in Frontiers. He’s a merchant, he’s kind of a punchline, and he provides a break from typical gameplay (also a way to skip obnoxious memory token grinding sessions). 

There’s... no reason for him to NOT leave cyber space. His presence in each fishing spot doesn’t suggest he is benefitting from his stay, nor is it assumed that he enjoys his time there. So why doesn’t he leave with them? Big simply tells Sonic that he was looking for fishing spots and ended up in cyber space. However, cyber space recreates itself for Sonic so that he could comprehend it. The Big we spend time with is very likely to be Sonic’s idea of Big, his memory of Big, or cyber space’s excuse to grant Sonic data. It could even be The End/spooky sky voice’s way of forcing Sonic to progress, disguising itself as Big, however my only evidence for that claim is during Sonic’s corruption, Big is not seen anywhere trying to assist Sonic. Even Eggman was there, not helping, but present.

Other than that, that theory is a stretch, even by my standards.

In any case, it was odd to me that Big was totally ignored throughout the game. He’s by no means the most popular character, but if we are to assume it IS the real Big, why would they leave him in cyber space? Why wouldn’t Sonic attempt to free him as well, or at the very least talk about him with other characters? 

It may seem like Big is just a wacky character, who just happened to be at the wrong place at the wrong time as usual. But if that was all there is to it, why is this such a... Big... Mystery? Thank you for reading out my entire existential crisis. Please have a wonderful rest of your day. Play Frontiers, it’s fun.

#sonic frontiers #big the cat #sonic frontiers spoilers #theory #don't spoil the comic I haven't been able to read it #yet #if anyone has evidence disproving this theory I'm all ears! I'd love to discuss Sonic with people #even if it's a weird topic to have a conversation over #Again if the comic explains it in depth I haven't read it and I will eventually #It really was keeping me awake at night #this idea that the big we were talking to isnt real #sonic the hedgehog #miles tails prower #amy rose #knuckles the echidna #eggman #analysis #a game theory #rant #long post #sage the ai #prologue

[siriuslygay1981]

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Introduction post!!

You can call me Star/Basra/Bea, I go by them all :).

They/them! (but also all pronouns, just use they/them more!!)

Queer(not really labeled.) Poly!

I like cosmology/astronomy, writing, music and reading! I'm a writer, an artist, I love learning new things and I am always looking for friends

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Things I'll post Abt:

Marauders era, Harry Potter, Stranger things, Good omens,Marvel, DC (specifically batman-robin-redhood stuff) and Anime! Writing and in general probably random rants about whatever thing I've watched/read recently. I will reblog the most random post that I relate to or just want to reblog too ofc. I might post art sometimes ! My writing

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hate comments

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I give permission to use any idea I've written/talked about as long as it's credited and I'm tagged (I'd love to see it :) ) Unless I've mentioned otherwise

Beta reader applications are open! If you wish to be a beta reader for any WIP (published or not) let me know!

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I won't do inc3st, I won't do illegal, I won't force myself to write what I don't vibe with and I'll tell you that.

I'll do NSfw, I'll do any ship, any scenario! I might even do x reader. I'll link my stories from my Tumblr on my pinned post too. You can request in Asks or messages.

I'll be posting my own stuff that I want to post until someone asks for SMTHN specific!

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Black brothers angst-

Regulus Dying-

Dorlene Word prompt -

Rosekiller word prompt-

Jegulus- Fluff mostly. Right before Regulus leaves for the cave.

Rosekiller quote prompt thing-

Wolfstar Short-

#pinned post #pinned intro #siriuslygay1981 #writer #artists on tumblr #bea asks #baz asks #star asks #queer

[mars-the-artist]

Random headcanons about some Genshin Impact characters

Characters included: Mona, Diluc, Childe/Ajax, Venti, Kaeya, Jean, Yae Miko, and Ayato.

Ayato is the boy next door, always a goody two shoes along with his sister and butler

well...he really isn't your goody-two-shoes kind of guy, he does sneak out sometimes when he hears a party going on, or to see you-~

Mona would occasionally talk to you on the phone about her favorite subject, astronomy.

You probably don't specialize in that, and she knows that, so she explains majority of what she talks about. Making sure that you understand by asking questions about the topic

Yae Miko and you are both book worms, and you both always talk about the books you both are currently reading.

She'd tease you about some of the you read, either it be romance or murder. But you get her back with another tease, saying ''You should read it, maybe you'll be in love with it', miss lady fox of the local shrine '

Jean has always taught you how to defend yourself; that's what makes you both good friends.

In exchange of being taught self defense; you taught her how to calm down so she doesn't get burned out. Which does get in her head sometimes, but sometimes you have to drag her out of the Knights of Favonious headquarters

Kaeya met you at Angels Share, he remembers the night clearly that he'll bring it up now and then

Apparently you were too drunk that you even blacked out, so maybe that's why you forgot everything, but he said maybe you both kissed after talking about your life and what you both did for a living.

Diluc took your offer of wanted to be a bartender since he knew you always had it in you.

He seen how you would struggle with certain recipes, so as a result, he would stand behind you, holding your hands as he shows you how to perform the recipe perfectly.

The moment you saw the harbinger, you knew his life was tied with yours.

Since he was such a rich guy, you'd thought he was a snobby boy, but after meeting Trucer, you understood that maybe Childe isn't such a bad guy afterall... Now he gives you gifts and flowers as a sign of him crushing on you.

Barbados-I mean Venti has been by your side ever since his fellow bard friend died.

Both of you are immortals, but the only difference is that he is an Archon, while you are an adeptus.

He doesn't care if you both were forbidden from loving each other or not, he loved you and only you. He sings you songs and let you pet and take care of Divalin when he was a small lizard!

Hello again weebs and normies! It's your fellow stranger on the internet making content for you to read! I hope you love this post and hey! I am on hoyolab as well; my user is Archonsdiscple! So follow me there as well! Love you all and have a great time out there!!

#mona x reader #mona megistus #genshin mona #mona x you #childe #ajax x you #ajax x reader #venti x you #yae miko #yae miko x you #diluc x reader #kaeya x you #ayato x you #jean x you #genshin impact

[sweetheartdollii]

Introduction 2 My Blog ! 🎀🧁🐬 ୭₊˚

📧 > Hii! Im Dolly im 4teen!! this is my 2nd blog were i mainly post about things i like and my interests!! my main blog is @pinkpigtailsprincess im mainly making this blog 2 find mutuals with the same interest as me and mainly just 2 have fun!!

my interests ୭₊˚ ! ; Sanrio,lalaoopsy,bratz,barbie,monster high,strawberry shortcake,kpop girl groups,dress up games,kpop girl groups,anything pink!,roblox,cute tv shows and movies,hair,fashion,music,anime,manga,doll aesthetics,fnaf,dork diaries,dear dumb diary,loa,reality shifting,astronomy,gyaru,music,sugarbunnies,makeup,plushies,pinky street dolls,fancy nancy,pinkcalicious,mezzo piano etc!!

random all about me!! ୭₊˚ ! ;

🎀; i honestly dont have a certain aesthetic its mainly jsut things i find cute!!

fav animes; jjk,tokyo revengers,smile pre-cure,kny,soul eater,one peice,peach girl,nana,ohshc,sailor moon,bleach

fav shows ; strawberry shortcake,my little pony,bratz,monster high episode,my scene webisodes,as told by ginger,power puff girls,barbie life in the dreamhouse,tdi,the game,ugly betty,lizzie mcguire,totally spies,6teen,winx, ja’mie private school girl

fav movies ; sisterhood of the traveling jeans,all barbie movies,all bratz movies,all monster high movies,legally blonde (original & all sequels),mean girls,girls just wanna have fun,girl interrupted,clueless,the clique,one on one,16 wishes,charmy kitty in wonderland,sleepover,but im a cheerleader,bratz the movie,just my luck,get a clue,the parent trap,bridesmaids,just go with it,the proposal,prada to nada,eloise at the plaza,white chicks

ult kpop groups + biases;

new-jeans + heyin

kara - hara

girls genaration + jessica

twice + tzuyu + nayeon

ive + wonyoung

le sserafim + chaewon + yujin

enhypen - niki + jake + heeseung

nmixx - lily + sullyoon + kyujin

-after school,wonder girls,s.e.s,baby v.o.x,BoA,Lee hyori,red velvet,f(x),T-ara,AOA,Loona,Stayc,Girls Day,Orange Caramel,sistar ,jun hyo seong

other socials !! ⭐️

pint; https://pin.it/7axzFhmeh

spotify; https://open.spotify.com/user/6uoc61m2m84lswv465b8j6yv1?si=Byndq1CNRQSzRlhTfIGH3A

#pinkalicious #twice #le sserafim #girls generation #newjeans #kara #enhypen #aoa #lee hyori #strawberry shortcake #lalaloopsy #totally spies #monster high #bratz doll #barbie #dollblr #dollygirl #fnaf #dork diaries #mezzo piano #pinkcalicious #ugly betty #barbie life in the dreamhouse #life size #gyaru fashion #agejo gyaru #hime gyaru

[duck-mann]

+ welcome to my mind +

Heyo! I’m @duck-mann! This is a blog where I’ll post my arts, doodles, random thoughts, and much much more!

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my brain worms work hard to make stuff so thank you for enjoying it :>

I enjoy many fandoms. Such as, (but not limited to) Omori, Wings of Fire, FNAF, Genshin impact, Danganronpa, Pokémon, and various different animes.(Would love to be introduced to more fandoms)

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My favorite color is yellow! :DDD

I go by any pronouns, and you can either address me as my user or you can address me as Finn/Fen

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I like Birbs, reptiles, cats, raccoons, and just animals in general lol

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I do both traditional and digital art! If you want me to make ya something- just ask! (I may be busy, but eventually I will do it)

my mission here is to just bring others a bit of happiness with my arts and stuffs! (Also I enjoy doin dis)

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fun facts: I have a rat (pet rat to clarify)

I like reading (anything- give me recommendations if you want!)

I’m into astronomy (in the nerdy way, yeah.)

You’re probably reading this 👍

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thank you for reading and looking at my blog!

#masterpost #post

[firefallvaruna]

14 questions, 14 people

I was tagged by: @lunarlegend

Nickname: Fire, "the Enabler" (because I love Enabling my friends' shenanigans. Especially @omgfloofy )

Sign: Saggitarius (sun), Aquarius (moon), Capricorn Rising

Height: 5' 1"

Last Thing I Googled: Accessibility guidelines for borders on form field elements to pass minimum contrast recommendations

Song Stuck in my Head: "Scream" from FFXIV

Amount of Sleep: Probably 8 hours? I'm a hardcore night owl, but slow as molasses in the antarctic to rouse in the morning. I imagine I more or less get 8

Dream Job: Exactly what I'm doing! Senior User Experience Designer for the e-commerce side of a fashion label

Wearing: Matching gray lounge sweats

Movies/Books that Summarize You: Uh, not really? I'm way too fickle

Favorite Song: Right now? "Scream" from FFXIV; overall -- too many. Again, I'm a fickle fae goblin creature

Instrument: Piano, clarinet, french horn, tried bagpipes for reasons(tm) -- but it's been ages. I could probably make a lot of sour-goose noises these days and that's it

Aesthetic: Astronomy, beach vibes, my house has kind of an artsy-fartsy organic modern meets MCM aesthetic

Favorite Author: - Print: Anything from A Book Apart. - Fanfiction: @breakfastteatime, @every-lemon, @avianscribe

Random Fun Fact: I used to fly stunt kites competitively in the 1990s -- it's why I'm such a beach bum.

I’m tagging: @omgfloofy @snifftheraven @goramidiot and anyone else who might want to do this? (IDK, I always kind of cringe at this part because I'm always secretly afraid I'm being annoying.)

[userstuf]

★ RANDOM ASTRONOMY USERS ★

• satrnvie

• marrrsz

• venustuf

• uvnivrse

• cnsteltion

fav/reblog if u save or use ✿ dont repost it

#astronomy #astronomy users #astronomy random users #planets users #venus users #saturn users #mars users #users #messy users #short users #random users #ig users #instagram users #twitter users #tumblr users

[yubinzita]

Neptune Users

n6ptune

ifneptune

nept-ne

iS2neptune

neptunezzzz

— like or reblog if you save/use

#tumblr users #aesthetic usernames #random users #indie users #astrology users #neptune usernames #neptune users #messy stuff #carrd users #twitter users #astronomy users #tumblr usernames #free users

[apod]

2020 September 12

A Thousand Meteors Video Credit & Copyright: Greg Priestley

Explanation: Over a thousand meteors flash through the night in this intriguing timelapse video. Starting in April 2019 the individual video frames were selected from 372 relatively clear nights of imaging from an automated wide-field observatory in rural New South Wales Australia. Arranged by local sidereal time, a timekeeping system that uses the positions of stars to measure Earth's rotation, the frames follow the full annual progression of constellations through the wide field of view seen from 33 degrees south latitude. They capture a diverse array of meteors including sporadic meteors, bright fireballs, and shower meteors (plus a lightning sprite), during the period. All frames were processed consistently and so show real variations in the local sky conditions.

∞ Source: apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap200912.html

[izacore]

dumb question from someone who's really late to the skamfr fandom...what does eliott's ig user SRODULV mean? (otteli is really obvious though lol). thx!

sorry i’m answering so late but this question took me back to better times. basically, when s3 started airing we quickly found out that they gave eliott an insta account called enter_polaris where he uploaded random pics/drawings that we couldn’t really get much from. then we realized it’s a puzzle, and that all of them together put in the right places would form a hint for us. i remember people trying to figure out what it all means, we were reading about stars and astronomy to find anything and solve it but we still didn’t know why we actually do it and what purpose it would serve. then, i think the day before le premier, eliott added the last piece and changed his bio to: not my main account. and the fandom went feral cause it meant that he actually had his personal profile. and it was such a big deal back then cause eliott was actually the first even to get any kind of social media. anyway, it took fandom like an hour to get the answer. the puzzle created a sentence that said to enter polaris trust ceasar. long story short it turned out that if you decipher polaris with the ceasar code you’ll get srodulv. and that’s how that account was found, we realized eliott was documenting his relationship with lucas so far and we actually got a perspective on his own feelings and thoughts. truly, their s3 social media game was something else and i miss it so much.

#ask #everything about s3 was perfect sigh #ameliaselevens

[hopeaterart]

I’m gonna be there: Chapter 14

Aka Jazz cover of Deja Vue plays in the background

“Thanks for dropping me, man!” Joey told his brother in law as he left the car, his store right in front.

“You’re welcome.” Sadao answered, Joriko getting out of the car only to come back to sit at the front. “You’re sure you’re gonna be fine finding your way through the subway by yourself? I know they’re pretty different than what you people have in the states...”

“Yeah, don’t worry about it!” Joey reassured him. “The worst that’ll happen is me calling you to pick me up.”

“That’s exactly what I’m scared of. Take care.” Sadao said as he rolled the window back up, ignoring Joey’s protests as he drove away. He turned toward his niece. “So, how’s school? Are you doing well?”

“I’m having some difficulties with science.” The younger girl admitted, her uncle making a disbelieved noise.

“Really? But I thought you wanted to go into astronomy later?”

“I know, but- there’s just so much!” Joriko complained, throwing her hands in the air. “I don’t know where to focus...”

“If you need help, you should probably ask your teacher. Or Holly and I could get you a tutor.” Sadao started, letting his niece moan in despair before continuing. “There’s nothing shameful in asking for help. If someone tries to make you feel bad for admitting you need help, you have my permission to kick them in the balls. And the rest?”

“You really mean that?”

“Of course, I don’t joke about kicking people’s balls. Now, what about the rest of your classes? If you’re doing bad in sciences even though you like them, I can’t imagine how you’re doing in math.”

“I’m actually doing great, it’s just- so boring!” Joriko complained. “And useless, too! In what everyday situation would I need algebra!?”

“Joriko, sciences and mathematics are more closely related than you’d think.” Sadao told his niece in a deadpan tone. “And you haven’t told me how you’re doing in the rest of your classes.”

“I’m doing okay. They’re boring, but I’m doing okay.”

“Jesus christ, you become more like Jotaro each day. In a few years, you’ll probably cripple the local gang activity before randomly locking yourself in prison because you think you punched someone too hard.”

There was a pause, and then Sadao and Joriko burst into laughter, the mood light. He could almost forget what Holly had told him, that his younger niece had been Stand users the entire time without him knowing, and it meant that his brother probably had been too.

Almost. He tried not to think about it.

The moment was broken as they heard a car horn from behind. Sadao looked in the rear-view mirror, frowning at the beat up car behind them. He let them pass, only for the car to suddenly slow down in front of them, the gas coming from it nearly blinding his view. “Piece of shit car driver...” He muttered under his breath, honking the horn two times.

“Why did you let him pass?” Joriko asked, turning toward her uncle as said uncle grit his teeth.

“How was I supposed to know he was going to slow down right in front of us?” Sadao countered, Joriko humming in understanding as her uncle rolled down the window, sticking his head out and screaming at the driver to hurry up already. He came back inside when the driver made a sign to let them pass, grumbling about how they should have stayed behind.

“Looks like they remembered how shitty their car was!” Exclaimed Joriko, laughing to herself as Sadao made a mention of language. 

Suddenly, Sadao saw something out of the corner of his eye, and after some quick, last minute maneuvering, successfully avoiding another, out-of-control car, which crashed into a lamp pole. The shorter man stayed frozen for a moment, before the driver of the other car came out, yelling obscenities at him.

As Sadao’s bafflement switched to rage, storming out of his car to snap right back at the other driver, Joriko stayed in her seat, processing what had happened. The timing with the other driver had been just too neat for it to be a simple accident. And where did that shitty car from earlier go!?

Was... was that guy after her family too?

“AND STAY OFF THE ROADS IF YOU’RE GONNA BE DRIVING LIKE AN ASS, CHINCHIN!” Sadao finished as he came back in the car, the driver that had almost crashed into them just standing there and looking like an idiot as the short man drove away. “Sheesh, I know I’m not the most well-placed to call other drivers assholes, but this is bullshit- Joriko, you okay?”

“Do you think that the driver from earlier might be after us too?” Sadao’s eyebrows shot up to his forehead, but he simply turned his eyes back to the road, rifling in one of his pockets.

“Don’t worry. If anyone’s after us, they’re gonna show up at the house, and your aunt will take care of them. They won’t go after us in a random street of Tokyo.” He reassured, getting out of a pack of gum out of his coat. “You want it? It’s Meiji Watta.”

“Cola or grape flavored?”

“Cola.” Joriko nodded, taking the gum from her uncle and popping the sweet in her mouth. 

As the cotton-candy texture shifted into something more akin to actual gum, she started talking again. “Why are people after us anyway?” Joriko asked her uncle. “I mean, did dad do something to them?”

“Oh no, your dad didn’t do anything.” Sadao reassured her. “It’s business on Holly’s side of the family. I didn’t understand everything, but there’s some guy named Dio who’s a vampire with a grudge against her ancestors, we think he might be possessing the corpse of her great-grandfather, and he’s sending people to try and kill us.”

“... okay. That explains why Joey-san is here. But why where we also attacked?”

“People are idiots.” Sadao shrugged. He then thought for a moment, before adding. “Then again, out of Holly, Jotaro and I, I’m the only one who is a 100% down to murder, and I did, so they might have a point in thinking we’re dangerous.”

“Sheesh. It’s still not a reason to go after me and my sister.” Joriko answered, before looking in the rearview mirror. She gasped. “The shitty car from earlier is back!”

“Open your window and flip him off.” Sadao told her, smiling to himself when his niece did just that, giggling the entire time.

“I like going in a car with you.” Joriko told her uncle as she rolled the window back up. “It’s fun!”

“Yeah, no one in the family is going to be agreeing with you on this one.” Sadao said in a deadpan tone even if he was smiling. “Apparently, me “getting my license at gunpoint” means I’m a “danger to the public safety”.” He explained, doing air quotes as Joriko’s eyes widened like saucers.

“You got your license HOW!?”

“Do not yell in the car, Joriko.” Sadao snapped at his niece, who pouted. He took a deep breath. “Sorry for that. And I promise you the story isn’t as bad as it sounds. You see-” The car behind them honked, pulling a groan from both of them. “Hold on-” The older man rolled his window down, and stuck his head outside. “FUCK OFF!”

He groaned as he came back inside, rolling the window back up. Joriko blinked. “Can we put on some music?”

Sadao nodded. “Of course!” Joriko turned on the radio, the beat of a popular pop song filling the car almost immediately as she started singing along to it, her uncle tapping his fingers on the steering wheel along with rhythm.

As they turned a corner to a less populated street, the radio suddenly started fizzing out. Sadao frowned in confusion, before a voice filtered into the car. “You do realize you don’t stand a chance right?”

The older man groaned as his niece blinked in confusion. “Let me guess. You were sent by Dio to kill the Kujo family?” He snarked. “Because I’ve got some news for you, dipshit: vampire fucker doesn’t actually care about us. He’s after my wife and son. You know, the guys with Joestar blood in their veins?”

“... well then, lead me to them, give up your daughter, and I’ll spare your life.” The voice over the coms said, and Sadao sighed in exasperation.

“1) That’s my niece, not my daughter. 2) Over my dead. Body.” He hissed. Before he could get an answer, he turned the radio off, rolled down his window, stuck his arm out, and flipped the car behind them off.

There was then a sound not unlike gunshot sounding out, and Sadao retreated his hand inside of the car, yelping in pain. He frowned at the deep wound on the back of it, which had also ripped to shreds the bandages covering it. Joriko gasped.

“Joriko.” Sadao started calmly, rolling his window back up as he started to pick up speed. “Keep your head down, and give me my phone, please.” He calmly asked, holding his good hand out for his niece to give him his phone.

As he calmly dialed Joriko’s school, explaining to them that his niece is feeling sick and may not show up today, the teenager summoned her Stand, Saturnz Barz’s blue stardust falling into the car like freshly fallen snow, before fading away as the planet’s bobbed into the backseat. “If he wants trouble...” She started.

“We’ll give him trouble.” Sadao finished, hanging up before doing a 180 and hitting the gas pedal, the wheel’s screech only muted by the two Kujo’s matching screams for blood.

The razzed right past the car that was following them, back into the main street as Sadao started maneuvering around the other cars, setting a location on his GPS as Joriko kept an eye on the car by using the rearview mirror. “So... what are you gonna do?”

“What can you do with your powers? I need a short version.” Sadao asked his niece, who looked surprised for a moment before smiling.

“I can make things levitate, set them on fire, create small storms, stop things from moving, cut things, create harmful gases, and freeze things.” She explained, each planet bobbing when she mentioned their abilities, not that her uncle could see them.

He did, however, nod in understanding with a smile on his face. “Adaptable to any situation, then. Just like you.” Joriko gave a big smile at the compliment. “You think you can use those fancy powers of yours to slow him down? I’ve got a plan.”

His niece nodded, making the planet numbered ‘4’ phase out of the car to start a storm behind, Sadao starting to speed up and veering around the other cars in the road, ignoring every single Japanese traffic law in the process. Joriko smiled as she saw the car behind them starting to slow down. “It’s working!”

“Good! If I don’t lose my license after this, then I’ll never lose it.” Sadao noted, looking around to make sure no police officers were around. “Is he still behind us?”

“Yeah... should I find a way to destroy the car?”

“No, that’s not necessary. When I tell you, can you make one of his tire pop?”

Joriko looked at planet #6. “I can do that.”

“Good- GET DOWN!” Joriko crouched as Sadao more-or-less slid down his seat, a sound not unlike bullets being shot sounding out as the back window, upper parts of the seats and front window were destroyed by bullets. As the sound stopped, Sadao started the radio back on as he sat in his seat properly. “WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH YOU!?” He yelled at it, and was answered y a sly laugh.

“Should’ve surrounded when you had the chance!~” The voice from earlier taunted, and Sadao grit his teeth.

“Once again, I’d rather die than let anyone in my family get in danger.” The musician told the radio.

More laughter streamed out. “You really think you stand a chance!? You haven’t even realized the purpose of my attack!”

It’s when the smell suddenly hit Joriko, who frowned in worry. “Ojisan... the car is covered in gasoline.” Sadao frowned in worry, and had the time to take good whiff before seeing the driver behind take a wire with sparkling electricity on it, the cable somehow extending to his car, and then the fire caught on.

“WHAT THE FU- WHEN DID HE FIND THE TIME TO- JORIKO PUT THE FIRE OUT!” Sadao screamed, taking a sudden turn to another street and speeding up even faster. 

Joriko snapped out of her trance, making Saturnz Barz’s fourth and last planet start to cycle around the car. The effect was instantaneous: whatever wasn’t smothered by red particles was put out by extreme cold, her breath fogging up and what was left of the windows frosting up. “Can I pop his tire now?” Sadao nodded with gritted teeth, and she sent out Planet #6 to send a ring at the car chasing them. 

The front-left tire pretty much blew up at the impact, their chaser veering off the path as Sadao turned, stopping the beat-up car in a turning toward Joriko. “Alright, so here’s the plan...”

-

Their chaser grumbled as he regenerated his tire. He hadn’t seen the red-ice storm to put out the gasoline fire coming, nor did he see them finding a way to pop his tire. And not just in any way either: they had used another Stand to do it, which meant he had to put in actual effort to regenerate it.

He tracked their car back to the small green area it had suddenly stopped in a few minutes ago, only to stop in surprise at the sight: the black, sleek car had crashed into a tree. “They... crashed.” He started laughing. “They crashed! And as thus!” The enemy Stand User declared, laughing madly and pointing his finger to the sky. “Sadao Kujo is dead! I win! This story draws to an end-”

Suddenly, two weights dropped onto the roof of the car, and two pair of hands took a hold of his arm. A strange orb with the number one started floating around his arm, and he suddenly felt weightless. “Oh, please!” A young feminine voice exclaimed. “My uncle’s the driving force of the story! Without him, it wouldn’t exist!”

“And trust me,” A rough, masculine voice continued. “You don’t my role to become someone to be avenged.” The pair of hands tugged, throwing him out of the safety of his car easily and revealing Sadao and Joriko Kujo standing atop of it. Both of them were missing their hats, alongside Sadao’s coat and Joriko’s chain which had stayed in the car, and multiple orbs were flying around the younger girl.

“What!? But how-”

“I crashed my car on purpose, noroma. We’ll have to replace it,” he looked at the banged up front of his black car, which looked somewhat crunched from the impact with the fence. “but I can still drive us home.” Sadao explained, jumping down from the roof of the car and helping his niece down. “And then, we hid in that tree over there. You really should have thought twice before engaging me in a car chase.”

“Yeah! Sadao-ojisan’s got his license at gunpoint!” Joriko laughed as Sadao got a knife out. “You never stood a chance!”

“W- wait,” their enemy started cowering. “You’re not going to kill me, are you? I’m just in this for the money!”

“I don’t care about your reasons.” Sadao hissed. “I killed someone for threatening to harm my son. You actively threatened my niece’s life the moment you tried to get that car to crash into us. And as far as I’m concerned, once you start hurting others, it becomes easier each time- Joriko, you alright?”

The younger girl was suddenly looking very uncomfortable. “Can we... just beat him up? I don’t- I don’t want to kill him.” She explained, tone unsure.

Sadao nodded after a moment. “Can you keep him on the ground?” Joriko nodded, her mood already picking up as the fifth planet of Saturnz Barz came to circle around their enemy, increasing his own weight until he couldn’t move anymore, the uncle-niece duo coming near him with malevolent smiles.

After kicking him forty-seven times and leaving with a warning to ‘stay the fuck away from them’ (Sadao’s words), they got back into the beat-up car, Sadao starting it as Joriko fidgeted. “So... what now? Are you gonna bring me to school?”

“Do you have science today?”

“No.”

“Then I’ll let it pass this time. You want to buy some sweets on the way ba-” Sadao’s phone started ringing, and he quickly answered it. “Yes?”

“...”

“Hi Holly!~”

“...”

“What?”

“... ... ...”

“I’ll be right there.” Sadao started up the car, suddenly looking more worried than he had looked the entire time they were being chased. “Joriko.”

“Yeah, what?”

“When we get home, you stay in the car until I tell you it’s safe to come out, got it?”

“Wha-”

“Got it!?” Sadao asked again, tone more urgent, and Joriko just nodded, wondering what her aunt had told her husband to put him in that state.

She, after all, hadn’t been told about the murder of Sherry Polnareff.

#writing #My writing #sadao kujo #kujo sadao #jojo #JJBA #JoJo's Bizarre Adventure #Jojo no Kimyou na Bouken #OC #not my oc

[soft-ris]

📻cp event, im introverted and very shy but open up more around my friends. i like joking around and making people laugh at at least a few people think im funny, ive also been described as kind of eccentric. i sort of go through phases where ill be really interested in something for like a week and then move on to something else by the next week lmao, but i pretty consistently like video games, bugs, and creepy stuff. i like sharing random interesting facts but sometimes they can be morbid. 1/2

im autistic and have some pretty bad mental health problems so whoever im with would have to deal with that kind of stuff. im also very touch starved and crave physical affection a lot lmao. some of my other interests are astronomy, nuclear energy and renewable energy even though idk much about any of them yet. for the 3 characters im picking bruno, mista and risotto. i hope this is enough im not super good at describing myself 👉👈 WAIT i change my mind for my top 3 if thats ok, i want either bruno mista or polnareff (part 3 pol). im sorry ris

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Cupid’s Pick for your match made in heaven is...

... Bruno!

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I’m autistic and have some pretty bad mental health problems so whoever I’m with would have to deal with that kind of stuff.

I matched you with Bruno specifically because while Mista and Polnareff cares for and are loyal to the people they consider family or friends, the both of them are the type to be taken care of rather than taking care of others. They care for you, that’s for sure, but they aren’t as good with trying to take care of you compared to Bruno.

Bruno has been putting many people ahead of himself for a very long time. He has a really big heart and has the capacities and abilities to be this way, so by default, Bruno would know how to tend to your needs better than Mista or Polnareff.

Bruno also always knows what to say, and he also has the resolve to see things through no matter what as long as it’s for a good cause. Mista and Polnareff imo is a bit clumsier in that aspect

I’m introverted and very shy but open up more around my friends.

Both Mista and Polnareff are seen to be more sociable than Bruno, which is great in breaking the ice, but that may be uncomfortable for some because they’re just immediately friendly (if they don’t suspect you). They don’t mean any harm ofc, but Bruno is just gentler than they are in his social skills. He’s literally the perfect gentleman and friendly figure to ease you into opening up because he’s observant enough to know what to say at what moment. 

Bruno also has the ability to reign others in if he notices you being uncomfortable at some of the others’ extroversion. He also seems like the type to successfully help you be more open (without making you too uncomfortable) with his own friends and family.

I like sharing random interesting facts but sometimes they can be morbid.

I see you getting along well with Mista with this because he tends to share odd or morbid thoughts and theories himself. 10/10 in conversations revolving interesting facts because he would take those facts and turn it into a conspiracy theory involving something off the walls lol

Bruno would listen and try to share the facts he knows too, and also would dispel some if he has first-hand experience knowing it’s not true.

Polnareff looks like the type to enjoy perverted facts more than morbid facts tbh lol, but he is very impressed that you know so many things

I’ve also been described as kind of eccentric.

All three of time have no problem with this because I mean look at them? Or well, look at their stands?? To non-stand users, these 3 literally just look like they’re getting punched in the face or turned into an old man for NO reason LMAO

Bruno especially has no issue with this because he’s not the most ‘normal’ too, and he’s practically adopted a bunch of other people who don’t look or act the more ‘normal’ either, so you’re in pretty good hands with him because he doesn’t judge you like that

I sort of go through phases where I’ll be really interested in something for like a week and then move on to something else by the next week lmao, but i pretty consistently like video games, bugs, and creepy stuff. Some of my other interests are astronomy, nuclear energy and renewable energy even though idk much about any of them yet.

Bruno would indulge in your interests the most imo.

I can see him encouraging you to learn about your interests and even learn with you (if he has the time). But his ideal is motivating you to learn and then have you tell him all about it. I can see him as the type of person who loves it when you start talking about what you’re interested in.

Doesn’t mind joining you when you’re playing video games too! Although, ya gotta have patience with him on this because imo he’s not the most skilled when it comes to gaming

He’s also not that judgmental or creeped out with your enjoyment of bugs and creepy stuff. He seen worse in person, has actually killed people, so it doesn’t shake him when you tell or show him those kinda things.

I like joking around and making people laugh, at least a few people think I’m funny.

I can see all of them enjoying this trait of yours, but Bruno especially.

He likes that you want to make others laugh, and thinks its endearing that you want to make him laugh and feel joyful. Fills his heart up honestly because he’s always thinking of others, so the fact that you’re thinking of him and trying to bring joy into his and others’ lives? His heart swells at that, at the implied sweetness with this trait, whether your joke is a hit with him or not.

I’m also very touch starved and crave physical affection a lot lmao.

As long as you communicate this with Bruno, he will (try his best to) deliver. I see him as not minding PDA at all too, in fact it comes naturally to him, so he’ll always be touching you somehow in public (holding hands, his hand on your back, letting you loop your arm with his, etc.). I also HC him as someone who has lot of love to give, so once you let him know this fact, he’ll be sure to remedy it and channel most of his love to you in physical touch.

#jjba #jojo #jojo’s bizarre adventure #golden wind #vento aureo #bruno buccellati #bruno buccerati #cupids_pick

[yourwitchmama]

Tips on Having an Aesthetically Pleasing and Original Blog

I've been noticing a lot of copy cat witch blogs, so I want to give some tips I have learned and give you some insight!

When I first went on Tumblr back in 2010, I would look at popular blogs and take bits and pieces of what I liked from them to make my own. I was a copy cat blog. After doing lots of follow-for-follow and posting random pictures, I reached four thousand followers, but they weren’t real followers who followed me because they genuinely liked me. It made me feel miserable and I had no idea how my blog was so stagnant.  It made me feel left out. Fast forward to 2017, and I come home from working at Peet’s Coffee and I sit down, upset. It was October and I had been working with catty girls who had no spirituality whatsoever all week. I was being bullied by them for being goth/getting frequent compliments from customers.  I opened Tumblr and said “Fuck it. This is going to be a blog for me and if it looks stupid, oh well.” So I created @diamondrosegalaxy, and I pushed together my two favorite things. Astronomy, a goth aesthetic, and crystal witchcraft. I didn’t care that it would be different and I could possibly get criticism for including space in my craft since I have never seen anybody do it before. I wanted to look at it to calm my anxiety on my breaks at work. I was posting my own content and reblogging whatever I thought was cool, no matter how many notes it had. I have so many restrictions on that blog to hopefully not trigger myself. I wanted to keep my blog safe, and now that I get to share it with all of these people, I want to make everyone else feel safe by knowing my aesthetic is changing yet the rules are always the same. No pics of drugs, people, hard interior, bright pictures, etc. I wanted to give you tips on how to be your own big blog instead of copying other more currently successful blogs. It is like the knockoff brand of frosted flakes, and everyone knows it.  I am a visual artist, and I am going to give you some advice on how to create a blog that is cute, yet the real YOU.

-URL: Pick anything you want, don't worry about followers. The most popular blogs are sometimes jibberish. 

-Profile pic: Highly contrasted or filtered pictures are preferred since your icon is so small. People may not see the details that you do.

-Header image: I suggest using a horizontal photo. This has to match with the color of your blog, otherwise, it will clash and will be unappealing to the eye. You don't need to pick the exact color, just make sure it goes with it to make it flow. Your blog is an art piece, not just any collage. 

-Header Gif: Gifs are a great way to capture someone's attention, though sometimes they can be a bit intense. Yes, I will see your blog, but will I follow it just because my attention has been drawn to it? No. Most of the time, I see lots of blogs with unmatching flashing low-quality gif header images. That's great if you have a psychedelic blog or something intentionally annoying, but picking something that flows in a loop looks SO. MUCH. BETTER. Choppy flashing images can give some people anxiety. 

-Description: This is probably the most important part. This is one of the first things someone sees other than your three popular posts. If you search for your blog, you should type in your description. There are keywords that are in there, so choose them wisely. 

-Color: So color is tricky because you can set any color you want to your main page, but what other users will see when your Tumblr pops up could be a completely different shade that does NOT match your profile pic or header image. You can check the color of your blog by searching keywords (like your description) and scrolling through suggested blogs until you see yours. (it's there, I promise. You need to use the right tags! You can even follow yourself.) Once you figure out what shade your blog appears to be, you can alter the shade of your blog to hopefully change your outward appearance to a lighter or darker tint. This is the difficult part. You need to make sure that BOTH of these colors (the one that appears to others and the one that appears on your home page) match BOTH the inside and outside of your blog. 

-Content: I think that there should be a theme, personally. You don't need one, but a lot of popular blogs are themed and aesthetically pleasing for a reason. I created many blogs because even though I may really like something, if it doesn't match my aesthetic, I don't reblog. Keeping a theme and scrolling through your blog to see if there aren't any posts that stick out is a good way to have an aesthetically pleasing blog. 

-Posts: I suggest posting a lot and posting frequently. If you post your own content, your blog becomes yours. You aren't only reblogging other peoples content anymore. I suggest posting CLEAR and high-quality pictures. You can take clear pictures by having a good light source. 

-Asks: For asks you can put a TON of hashtags and do something like "free tarot readings" or "Paranormal asks". When I started out I still got asks before I got a lot of followers. If you want someone to ask you questions, it needs to be about THEM at first. If you aren't popular and are not interacting with your followers, the chances of someone asking you a lot of questions about yourself is pretty low. It isn't because you aren't great, it is because they don't know you. Interaction is important!

-Interactions: Commenting positive things, reblogging content with only a few notes, and engaging in asks and conversations is a great way to build a community!

When you stop making and doing things for other people, you start to create something special. When you let go of the ego, accept yourself, create out of joy, and implement aesthetically pleasing tools, you will always have a beautiful and original blog. 

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#witchcraft #witch #witches #witchblr #tumblr #wicca #pagan #paganism #green #green witch #goth #paranormal #crystals #crystal healing #quartz #pastel #cozyaesthetic #cozycore #aesthetic #kitchen witch #tips #witchtip #witch tip #witch tips #crystal

[scifigeneration]

How technology can combat the rising tide of fake science

by Chris Impey

A crop circle in Switzerland. Jabberocky/Wikimedia Commons

Science gets a lot of respect these days. Unfortunately, it’s also getting a lot of competition from misinformation. Seven in 10 Americans think the benefits from science outweigh the harms, and nine in 10 think science and technology will create more opportunities for future generations. Scientists have made dramatic progress in understanding the universe and the mechanisms of biology, and advances in computation benefit all fields of science.

On the other hand, Americans are surrounded by a rising tide of misinformation and fake science. Take climate change. Scientists are in almost complete agreement that people are the primary cause of global warming. Yet polls show that a third of the public disagrees with this conclusion.

In my 30 years of studying and promoting scientific literacy, I’ve found that college educated adults have large holes in their basic science knowledge and they’re disconcertingly susceptible to superstition and beliefs that aren’t based on any evidence. One way to counter this is to make it easier for people to detect pseudoscience online. To this end, my lab at the University of Arizona has developed an artificial intelligence-based pseudoscience detector that we plan to freely release as a web browser extension and smart phone app.

Americans’ predilection for fake science

Americans are prone to superstition and paranormal beliefs. An annual survey done by sociologists at Chapman University finds that more than half believe in spirits and the existence of ancient civilizations like Atlantis, and more than a third think that aliens have visited the Earth in the past or are visiting now. Over 75% hold multiple paranormal beliefs. The survey shows that these numbers have increased in recent years.

Widespread belief in astrology is a pet peeve of my colleagues in astronomy. It’s long had a foothold in the popular culture through horoscopes in newspapers and magazines but currently it’s booming. Belief is strong even among the most educated. My surveys of college undergraduates show that three-quarters of them think that astrology is very or “sort of” scientific and only half of science majors recognize it as not at all scientific.

Allan Mazur, a sociologist at Syracuse University, has delved into the nature of irrational belief systems, their cultural roots, and their political impact. Conspiracy theories are, by definition, resistant to evidence or data that might prove them false. Some are at least amusing. Adherents of the flat Earth theory turn back the clock on two millennia of scientific progress. Interest in this bizarre idea has surged in the past five years, spurred by social media influencers and the echo chamber nature of web sites like Reddit. As with climate change denial, many come to this belief through YouTube videos.

However, the consequences of fake science are no laughing matter. In matters of health and climate change, misinformation can be a matter of life and death. Over a 90-day period spanning December, January and February, people liked, shared and commented on posts from sites containing false or misleading information about COVID-19 142 times more than they did information from the Centers for Disease Control and the World Health Organization.

Combating fake science is an urgent priority. In a world that’s increasingly dependent on science and technology, civic society can only function when the electorate is well informed.

Educators must roll up their sleeves and do a better job of teaching critical thinking to young people. However, the problem goes beyond the classroom. The internet is the first source of science information for 80% of people ages 18 to 24.

One study found that a majority of a random sample of 200 YouTube videos on climate change denied that humans were responsible or claimed that it was a conspiracy. The videos peddling conspiracy theories got the most views. Another study found that a quarter of all tweets on climate were generated by bots and they preferentially amplified messages from climate change deniers.

Technology to the rescue?

The recent success of machine learning and AI in detecting fake news points the way to detecting fake science online. The key is neural net technology. Neural nets are loosely modeled on the human brain. They consist of many interconnected computer processors that identify meaningful patterns in data like words and images. Neural nets already permeate everyday life, particularly in natural language processing systems like Amazon’s Alexa and Google’s language translation capability.

At the University of Arizona, we have trained neural nets on handpicked popular articles about climate change and biological evolution, and the neural nets are 90% successful in distinguishing wheat from chaff. With a quick scan of a site, our neural net can tell if its content is scientifically sound or climate-denial junk. After more refinement and testing we hope to have neural nets that can work across all domains of science.

Neural net technology under development at the University of Arizona will flag science websites with a color code indicating their reliability (left). A smartphone app version will gamify the process of declaring science articles real or fake (right). Chris Impey, CC BY-ND

The goal is a web browser extension that would detect when the user is looking at science content and deduce whether or not it’s real or fake. If it’s misinformation, the tool will suggest a reliable web site on that topic. My colleagues and I also plan to gamify the interface with a smart phone app that will let people compete with their friends and relatives to detect fake science. Data from the best of these participants will be used to help train the neural net.

Sniffing out fake science should be easier than sniffing out fake news in general, because subjective opinion plays a minimal role in legitimate science, which is characterized by evidence, logic and verification. Experts can readily distinguish legitimate science from conspiracy theories and arguments motivated by ideology, which means machine learning systems can be trained to, as well.

“Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts.” These words of Daniel Patrick Moynihan, advisor to four presidents, could be the mantra for those trying to keep science from being drowned by misinformation.

About The Author:

Chris Impey is a University Distinguished Professor of Astronomy at the University of Arizona

This article is republished from our content partners over at The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. 

#science #science communication #artificial intelligence #scientific literacy #climate change #climate change denial #flat earth #fake news #Conspiracy Theories