This Resonated With Me So I Had To Quickly Draw It HAHA They Only Have One Eye Each Because Of Budget

If you're feeling anxious or depressed about the climate and want to do something to help right now, from your bed, for free...

Start helping with citizen science projects

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Explainer: what is citizen science?

Public participation in science is increasing, and citizen science has a central part in this. It is a contribution by the public to researc

What's a citizen science project? Basically, it's crowdsourced science. In this case, crowdsourced climate science, that you can help with!

You don't need qualifications or any training besides the slideshow at the start of a project. There are a lot of things that humans can do way better than machines can, even with only minimal training, that are vital to science - especially digitizing records and building searchable databases

Like labeling trees in aerial photos so that scientists have better datasets to use for restoration.

Or counting cells in fossilized plants to track the impacts of climate change.

Or digitizing old atmospheric data to help scientists track the warming effects of El Niño.

Or counting penguins to help scientists better protect them.

Those are all on one of the most prominent citizen science platforms, called Zooniverse, but there are a ton of others, too.

Oh, and btw, you don't have to worry about messing up, because several people see each image. Studies show that if you pool the opinions of however many regular people (different by field), it matches the accuracy rate of a trained scientist in the field.

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I spent a lot of time doing this when I was really badly injured and housebound, and it was so good for me to be able to HELP and DO SOMETHING, even when I was in too much pain to leave my bed. So if you are chronically ill/disabled/for whatever reason can't participate or volunteer for things in person, I highly highly recommend.

Next time you wish you could do something - anything - to help

Remember that actually, you can. And help with some science.

Wow! Ocs! Or... 2 of them at least?

I never drew these two before; they were part of a comic I was planning when I was still a bit too new and awkward with art (aka everything I drew was a head turned 3/4s and I did NOT know how to draw bodies lmao) but I had dreams and goals so I wrote it up anyway, leaving it for future me to draw.

Then I became a vtuber and a lot of things I was planning to do kind of got forgotten about. But I'm thinking a lot lately about all sorts of things, and a vtuber friend of mine posted a song in his discord that made me think of these two 😭 so I had to draw them 😭

To summarise, it's a light-hearted non-linear storyline, in which Oliver, an alien, watches Ouran High School Host Club, decides to shapeshift into someone that looks like Tamaki Suoh, and goes to earth bc he's like.. an earth weeb now. And the first hot and gender girl he sees is the girl he chooses to be his friend who will show him around earth. She's like 'ok bet,' and thinks he's lowkey weird, but like he's nice and cute and a bit naive and she's not an asshole, so she decides to play along with his alien bit. [She does find out he's an alien later, but she genuinely just thinks he's being a goofball or something]

Eventually they meet [I don't remember her name, possibly Sophia?] who enters the scene and wants to be an idol so bad, so she drags them into it lmao. You can probably guess that Oliver thinks this is fun, and Nico is just like lmao ok I'll hang out. Basically they just do dumb shit together, some of it about his alien-ness, some about the music stuff, Nico is the straightman of the group, it's just a good time. And the side/subplot is Nico's brother Zac meeting a gorgeous beautiful wonderful genderfluid cutie whose name I also don't recall (😭) and it's just cute and they date or whateverrr

don't have the time to go any further with this, take it as it is, amen <3

Me and my 600 wips are just CHILLING right now

They're bathing they're chilling ☺️ sweet boys lovely boys ☺️ would never harm a soul ☺️

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Hey everyone, I know it's going to be a busy day for a lot of people, but Google enrolled everyone over 18 into their AI program automatically.

If you have a google account, first go to gemini.google.com/extensions and turn everything off.

Then you need to go to myactivity.google.com/product/gemini and turn off all Gemini activity tracking. You do have to do them in that order to make sure it works.

Honestly, I'm not sure how long this will last, but this should keep Gemini off your projects for a bit.

I saw this over on bluesky and figured it would be good to spread on here. It only takes a few minutes to do.

Jason and the annoying kids he didn't want (and that he's only like 4 years older than)

Just missed them a little bit 🥺🥺

Duke appeared!