Kara Dreamer (alt) ⚧ @kara@eldritch.cafe

Vampire Association with Bats is very recent, in most of the Old World Vampirism was associated with Owls which is why the Latin word for Owl is also for Vampire, Strix, which is where you get Strigoi/Strigoaica/Strigoica, Strigun, and various other names for Vampires in Europe, Also Werewolves were historically either a vampire or witch in wolf form, and a witch was a living vampire.

New chapter of Practical Witchcraft for Outcast Teens and shit is rapidly approaching the fan https://thunderandherbs.co.uk/prose/penny

@kara yeah, but bigotted people tend to not get what science is, they think it is something you can pick and choose what believe, they could find life on titan tomorrow and I bet bigots will find some way to say "this is PC gone too far." or "Damn those SJWs planting life on Titan so we accept their transgender agenda" or some bs.

@fluttergirly @kara I subscribe to the idea that the uninitialised sexuality of humans is prolly something like bisexuality, or pansexuality but certain genes get turned off, and giving the complexity of much of the gene pathways it can be practically infinitely complex with maybe hundreds of genes, and even more reg and promoter regions and number of increase expression or decrease could lead very large variation.

A lot of people assume DNA is pretty much you have this so you'll look like this or similar thing, but you have many layers of coding on top of that, firstly a gene could be a regulatory of another gene, promoter, or it could be protein coding. A protein coding gene can code multiple proteins via Alternative Splicing , and Methylation, Acetylation, or Phosphorylation of histones can change expression of the gene, in fact when you learn something new this is happening in your brain.

@fluttergirly @kara Evolution doesn't care for the individual necessarily, just the whole, many phenotypes may lead to a reduced chance of reproduction, but allow more care to be given to kin, like if there are two brothers one is gay, and one is straight for example, the straight brother ends up having a child, then the gay brother being childless may give more hands to care for the child, a decent chunk of the gay brothers genes are also with his straight brother.

if you "FOSS OR DIE" fucks spent half as much time lowering the barrier for entry for everyone who says "i'd love to use FOSS tools but i don't have the skills/time/physical or mental energy/computing power to run a [proprietary/capitalist software] alternative" as you spend shitting on people who can't adopt that aforementioned FOSS alternative, you FOSS fucks would have singlehandedly shut down the entire proprietary software industry by now.

I just saw someone in the US (not here) telling people that if it's over 90 degrees and you see homeless people in distress you should call 311 and the police are "legally required to give assistance".

DO NOT DO THAT.

Please do not call the police on homeless people.

Or anyone, really.

Research your local shelters, resources, cooling center, etc. Do not call the police.

But yea my point is biology is weird and wild and expecting every human to be 100% the same in fields like sexuality and gender is preposterous @u@

fun fact there are a good chunk of less defensive and territorial wasps that sting humans much more rarely

@kara oh yeah me neither but if we’re going by fanfiction me and sans should start writing vows 😆 lol

Secret witch tip: use your own nicknames and words for herb and plants and things so when you write your spells down people don’t know wtf your saying lol

These are basically my tools not ~all~ of them there’s definitely other things I’d want to include but yeah 😊 #tools #witchcraft

I find it interesting that many of the compounds in various herbs we call antioxidants are either acting like antioxidants by being a pro-oxidant that has a higher affinity for the proteins for supressing endogenous antioxidant pathways, or they act like antioxidants in healthy cells but cause oxidative stress in malignant cells.

@kara @mona *runs out of an office building where xe of course does not work, having raided the supply closet. pens, markers, paper clips, file folders scatter from xer bundle as xe runs* MOAR SHINIES

The 2nd Law of Thermodynamics isn't a hashing function, the nature of a hashing function requires some discarding of information in many cases (as you can't fit it in a set number of bits) but neither the 2nd law or hashing truely discarding info, hash discards it from the perspective of the computer that information is dumped into the universe, but in the case of entropy once information is created it can't be destroyed, the 2nd law is more Stegography than hash.