Miscellaneous Musings @acauthor - Tumblr Blog

The other day, me and a few others were talking to a teenage cousin of ours who had just entered the work force full-time. Incidentally, he had also just come back from his week of vacation. He was incredibly upset and near tears, saying that it is terrible how he has to spend every day working and his only "life" gets to happen in his designated 1-2 weeks off per year, and, in his words, "then you die."

A lot of the people listening in started laughing at him and saying that he needs to "grow up and get used to it." How brainwashed do you have to be to say these things, especially to a kid in distress? And especially when the kid is right? He is absolutely, 100% right.

We have so much evidence that this set up is not healthy physically or psychologically. We could absolutely find better ways to ensure things get done without making people feel like overused machines. Everything we do as humans should be about making our lives happier and easier so that we can enjoy this precious little time we have. Everything we do now is instead about making the select few happier while everyone else suffers.

Don't "grow up and get used to it." Keep that youthful feeling of injustice when you realize how unfair it all is. This is not natural. People made society this way and we can unmake it.

theweirdwideweb

darthmelyanna

I want to be very clear: I did not schedule this to post on Easter weekend.

shitposting-hobbits-to-gallifrey

I want to be very clear: I did schedule this to post on Easter weekend

valtsv

researching parrying daggers as a fun little treat and i'm delighted by how much every single one of these things looks like it's designed to be as annoying as possible

valtsv

this one is my favourite. it's called a swordbreaker. it looks like a weaponised version of snagging your clothes on a door handle. if you caught my blade in one of these things there isn't a force on earth that could deliver you from my fury.

juney-blues

deliver your fury with what? your sword?

altruistic-meme

a collection of my favorite tweets regarding the Ever Given in the Suez Canal

coolbeanscoolbeans

happy 1st bday to... this.

modmad

I personally am declaring this to be a new International Holiday

spaghettioverdose-deactivated20

Happy 2nd anniversary to the Suez Canal blockage!

fishmass

happy 3rd anniversary to the suez canal blockage

jvgsjeff

yahenni

doctor-wormm

please reblog this i spent way too long on what was supposed to be a quick edit

vancruejovi

Debbie Harry 💎

moniquill

There's a stairway to heaven and a highway to hell, but the midnight train goes anywhere. Trains are clearly the superior transit method.

heyitsphoenixx

the sun literally sets and casts a golden hue over everything every single day and we fucked it all up and invented paying rent

fugayyyku

File under: even more blatant proof cis people can joke about trans people without it being at their expense

guerrillatech

simariethehawk

and hilariously that is not why it is called that.

It is the circle of the bears cause of ursa major and ursa minor, and the circle without bears cause ya'know opposite part of the sky.

We lucked right into that one....

nerdfighterwhatevernumbers

#so what you’re saying is#the stars dictate whether bears do or do not exist in places

team-bear-arms-deactivated20220

Astrology is real but only for predicting where bears will be

the-tired-tenor

Bears do not travel to places they cannot see their gods

hugtheteadrinkthekitten

I've seen this post before but it only just occurred to me that there might be some sort of underlying reason that "places where bears are" and "places where people name stars after bears" overlap.

capricorn-0mnikorn

Reblogging for that last comment.

willowrunes

Oh yeah there's a part 2 of the horse desensitizing that I love.

🐎: Hey what's with that tiny predator, the one you're hold- WOAH WHAT THE FUCK WHY IS IT UP SO HIGH

genderkoolaid

I'm not sure where I read it - I think it was on the wikipedia page of that trans doctor from the 1920s, but I don't remember his name - but basically, it was talking about this trans man's experience being trans in the early 20th century, and his family's reaction. And it made a point of saying how his grandparents were entirely supportive and even wrote him as their grandson on their gravestones. And there's a similar story for a trans girl, also in a similar time period I believe, where her family took her to a doctor when she started Being Trans and the doctor's reaction was literally "Okay, she says she's a girl? Then treat her like a girl! Buy her dresses and call her by whatever name she wants!" and they did!!

Obviously transphobia still existed back then, and it was strong. But throughout time, there have been cases where people heard their loved one say "I am not that gender, that doesn't fit me," and their love and trust in that person overrode any prejudice or lack of understanding, and they just accepted them. Whether it's a doctor encouraging parents to treat their little girl like a little girl, or grandparents marking their grandson's gender in stone (even when, if I remember correctly, his parents had doubts), trans people have always had people who cared for us and believed us and supported us, despite what the rest of society might have said.

UPDATE: IT WAS ALAN L. HART, from his wikipedia page:

Hart wrote later, in 1911, of his happiness during this time, when he was free to present as male, playing with boys' toys made for him by his grandfather. His parents and grandparents largely accepted and supported his gender expression, though his mother described his "desire to be a boy" as "foolish." His grandparents' obituaries, from 1921 and 1924, both list Hart as a grandson.

crisantoflowerking

I think it's her you mentioned? I remember reading about her some time ago.

genderkoolaid

Yes, thats her, thank you!

soy-celeste-deactivated20230905

Her name is Katalin Karikó. Hungarian. Daughter of a butcher. Her thesis work became the basis of the mRNA vaccine technology. Read the article here.

rat-tail-butch

My favorite bits from the article include how Dr. Kariko celebrated the fact that the vaccines that used her mRNA research worked

“On Nov. 8, the first results of the Pfizer-BioNTech study came in, showing that the mRNA vaccine offered powerful immunity to the new virus. Dr. Kariko turned to her husband. “Oh, it works,” she said. “I thought so.”

To celebrate, she ate an entire box of Goobers chocolate-covered peanuts. By herself.”