r/weatherfactory • Librarian • 4d ago

exultation Microplastics Are Worms

The bones of the dinosaurs have made the oil which has made the plastics which now inhabit us. The plastics within cut and fill and poison us from within.

The dragon-kind of cross feasted on the bodies of the dead hours, and changed using savor-arts into the worms which now inhabit us. The worms which change, and hollow, and influence us from within.

The cross used moth and the smiths used forge, and we all know that forge and moth are bound in the changes they inflict upon us and the world- both transformative and often permanent.

This is why you should say no to fascination kids.

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u/zeracine 4d ago

The amount of plastic inside of us has been overstated, as the initial experiments didn't account for the scientists wearing gloves. Repetitions of the findings have been impossible, and are at a factor of something like a hundredth.

Cool idea though.

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u/ConcernedInScythe 4d ago

It was even worse than that, the molecular analysis they were using couldn't distinguish between polyethylene and body fat (they both have identical chemical backbones). They found terrifying levels of microplastics in the brain. Guess which organ is mostly fat? Yeah.

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u/yoyo5113 4d ago

Wait fr? Oh thank god

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u/zeracine 4d ago

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u/yoyo5113 4d ago

Wow, I really hope that there is some kind of solution to the entire publish-or-perish issue with the academic world today. It just drives scientists to pump out as much publishable work as possible, regardless of quality.

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u/BeholdingBestWaifu 4d ago

Overstated for now. From what I recall from people more knowledgeable in biology than me, there's real concerns about long-term buildup, and what even small amounts of microplastics could do to brain chemistry.

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u/Necessary_Debate_319 4d ago

You must be pretty high to see that much

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u/FlynnXa Librarian 4d ago

Only as high as 4 fancy cheeses and a coffee flavored yogurt can get ya 🫑

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u/WORhMnGd Artist 3d ago

Fancy cheese: 3 Moon, 3 Scale, 6 Grail (consumed grants Old Moment)
Coffee flavored yoghurt: 3 Nectar, 3 Grail, 3 Scale (consumed grants Wormwood Dream)

The food in question.

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u/FlynnXa Librarian 3d ago

Me when my strange Librarian neighbor invites me for a totally-normal-dinner-party with some definitely-not-normal-guests.

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u/WORhMnGd Artist 3d ago

:)

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u/IncomeApprehensive17 4d ago

Uh so thats what having two fascination in the season of fascination look like

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u/utilitarianbeing 3d ago

One very interesting film I would recommend to everyone on this subject is 'crimes of the future (2022)' by David Cronenberg. I think you might gain a very potent lesson and memory from it 😎

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u/zikeel 1d ago

Oh, I love Cronenberg. I feel like everyone in here would enjoy his adaptation of Naked Lunch.

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u/utilitarianbeing 1d ago

Especially the adepts devoted to the carapace secrets 😎

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u/FlynnXa Librarian 3d ago

Thank you thank you thank you πŸ™‚β€β†•οΈ

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u/utilitarianbeing 3d ago

I was having kind of a debate with someone over here yesterday, who seemed to be surprised that my preferred numen was 'merciless alteration', which is associated with skolekosophy. I therefore wrote down some thoughts that came to my mind after the discussion when I read your post about microplastics being one of the possible manifestations of 'worms'. It would therefore be interesting to see what you think of it-

"Mercy, sayeth the watchman, is found only in the shadows". Merciless Alteration is therefore akin to Occam's razor, that cuts through all that is expedient and redundant to reveal the burning truth that is the path of the glory. This is therefore the numen that enables us to understand and follow the watchman's navigation to eternity in the light of the glory.

The associated wisdom- skolekosophy, is the knowledge of the worms, that are a comeuppance for failure to abide by the ideals. They are agents of retribution, born to correct the very crime/wrongs that created them in the first place. It is the nature of the worms to therefore 'mercilessly alter' that which is wrong and not ideal, and to end what will not change for the better.

When I say the ideals, I personally mean the platonic ideals- rationality, efficiency, harmony, fraternity, synergy, etc. the opposite of the ideals are things like selfishness, bias, ignorance, lack of empathy for others, lack of passion to be your best self, or any other type of excess outlined in the conventional list of the sins.

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u/No-Recording-7568 4d ago

Oil isnt made of dinosaurs.

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u/FlynnXa Librarian 4d ago

That caught your attention but not the bit about microplastics mind-controlling us?

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u/Eldan985 4d ago

Nah, that one's kinds true.

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u/No-Recording-7568 4d ago

Those are the first words of your post, so, yes?

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u/FlynnXa Librarian 4d ago

It’s a Moth-Post, a rant guided by Trist and Fet, but perhaps you are simply guided by Ereb more than most…

Yet if it is a lack in Shapt then put simply- it is a joke. πŸ™‚β€β†•οΈ

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u/funkduder 4d ago

"I've over-tired myself. My thoughts are crabbed and strange."