Aquila Vela

22 • they/them • I will block empty blogs and bots

[shnowyfox]

it would be so awesome

it would be so cool

[shnowyfox]

ig since this is getting some amount of attention i'll also use this post to educate about the problem to the best of my ability (if anyone wants to chip in about it be my guest im certainly not the most qualified). and yes i get yall are upset about the porn bots but this isn't about bots this is about our sisters being harassed and threatened and having their accounts wrongly terminated. 2 years ago The CEO of Tumblr continuously terminated a trans woman and her alts and then continued to harass her on Twitter, threatening to call the cops if she continued to dispute the wrongful terminations of her blogs. Threatened to call A Person With A Gun to her home over an "explode him with hammers" type post. Trans women have been a continuous target for unjust termination by Tumblr's moderation staff regardless of their blog's content for years, and have failed to step in against users who harass trans women for a long ass time.

funnily enough kym has like the most complete and comprehensible coverage of the ceo's little stunt that i've found so far. link to their article

An animated like button is not enough to excuse the mountains of bullshit they put trans women through on this site.

[niwandajones]

Bail Organa: "I must play the long game, the quiet game, subtly undermining the Empire from within using mostly legal channels."

Also Bail Organa: "I was Yoda's getaway driver after he tried to murder the Emperor."

[rederiswrites]

Just watched Adam Conover (of Adam Ruins Everything) make such a solid point that I think we should spread far and wide. Yes, having AI write your emails is lazy, sure, but people love being lazy. We need to really emphasize that sending AI emails (or using AI responses on social media, or publishing AI flyers, or or or) is rude.

It's rude. You're making someone take their time to read something you couldn't bother to write. You're telling them they were so unimportant you couldn't be bothered to actually take the time to say something yourself. And frankly, you're lying about it while you're at it.

It's rude.

[katsdom]

The above is doubly true if the content of the email is something that will be important to the person receiving - especially something that affects them negatively. They see that this thing that affected them so much didn't matter enough to you to write it yourself. I was a bystander to such a thing not long ago and it was just awful.

[perception-filter]

staring at the dessert menu and twirling my hair and going "should I be baaaaddd" until the autistic girl I'm eating with says "there is nothing bad about eating dessert. it is a morally neutral action"

[catchymemes]

[waterloggedgarden]

someone could probably say something pretty about fossils, constellations, and stars in the sky

[karl-von-moor-official]

poem inspired by this rock and also by @two-bees-poetry

[tysonfurybattlepass]

public defenders get behind me. i’ll defend you this time

[tysonfurybattlepass]

“so you like criminals?” I LIKE THE RIGHT TO A FAIR TRIAL.

[sharrrrknight]

Yknow the lil fanfic trope where a character, usually non-human, purrs like a cat. In this case it would obviously be Rocky but what if it was Grace instead hear me out-

[mankillercalledbunny]

The answer to "How did these Ancient People do this????" is basically always

1. A lot of dudes. Just a ton of fucking people from beginning to end of the process.

2. Ancient people weren't stupid, they just figured shit out the same way we do: fuck around until you find out.

3. We're gonna plan this out and it's gonna take ten fucking years, and you will cope.

4. Sticks and string are surprisingly versatile and can be used for a variety of purposes, like moving stuff and making sure things are even and go in the spot you wanted to put them in!

5. I want to make this easier and more efficient to move. If I put this on the round thing and push, it will move. If I put this in water, it will move. If I get some animals and rope and have a whole bunch of them drag it, it will move. All of these things are a better option than one guy trying to pick the whole fucking thing up.

[mankillercalledbunny]

"I'm not calling the people who believe in this conspiracy theory racist" I am. They're racist. Maybe not out of malice, but the fact that they believe in this is in itself racist. These conspiracies are always about brown people. Machu Pichu, the Pyramids, Göbekli Tepe, Easter Island, it is ALWAYS POC. It's never the Parthenon, it's never the Colliseum, despite the fact that these were built around the same time as some of the other sites these conspiracy chucklefucks like to throw around, it's never something fucking European. It's always "primitive people" with "stone tools" and "no understanding of modern engineering" so "clearly someone must have taught them this or given them the technology because CLEARLY they were just too Primitive and Savage to figure it out themselves." Fuck off with that shit.

[josephbrassey]

“Haha remember when murder-hornets were gonna be a thing? What a nothingburger.”

Yes, because the Washington state government activated like a sleeper-cell and ruthlessly, systematically hunted them down and annihilated them.

“Y2K came to nothing amirite?”

Yes because an army of software engineers working around the clock, losing sleep, and busting ass till the last minute prevented it from happening.

“Remember the hole in the ozone layer?”

You mean the one that was fixed through rigorous world wide government action?

One of the root problems of our society is a refusal or inability by media to articulate that all those “it’s gonna be an apocalypse” disasters were not disasters because we collectively did something about them.

The good news is this is actually quite correctable. I maintain my firm belief that we as humans are capable of solving almost all of our problems, when we decide to do so.

And I still think that’s going to happen. I don’t know when or how, but I do know that abandoning hope won’t help bring it about.

And I refuse to let the cynics own a chunk of my heart.

[gudamor]

Happy Smallpox Eradication Day

[charmwasjess]

Having someone ask ChatGPT in a meeting is like being a grown-ass professional adult in a room full of other grown-ass professional adults trying to solve a problem, while a colleague with one of those baby toys that makes animal sounds repeatedly presses the cow button. And we all have to stop what we're doing and listen to cow go moo and say "wow hm yeah that's not really what we're asking but the cow does definitely go moo, good thoughts"

[1000-life-hacks]

[the-forest-library]

kill the imposter syndrome in your head because not only is there someone out there doing it worse than you, they’re also using chat gpt to do it

[cosmikazie]

hey remember when people said we gotta keep talking about this and then two days passed and it just went quiet. anyways

[elierlick]

Yet another new study debunked the basis for the anti-trans sports bans. It was never about sports but for creating legal avenues for exclusion and abjection. This is one of the largest analyses ever conducted, involving 52 studies and 6,485 trans people. Read the study here.

[lucieslucidity]

post so nice had to reblog it twice and force it down everyone's throats

[fleshengine]

At minimum about 4.5 thousand people liked this without reblogging it.

We gotta fix that.

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

[theforceisstronginthegirl]

For people who have never seen a cow I’ll explain:

Cows are covered in cow shit. All the time. Even clean cows who get bathed regularly have cow shit on them. But listen to me. Normal dairy cows are not getting baths. They have cowshit on them, the splash back from their cowshit gets on udders. So does cow urine. Also listen mud gets on cow udders, cow hair, bugs, and other nasties will get in the milk. But most importantly: cow shit. There is so much cow shit involved with cows even in the cleanest and healthiest dairies. Cows shit a LOT. Also for some reason cows like to lie down in cowshit. You will have a whole pasture with no cowshit and they will find the most disgusting pile of cowshit you’ve ever had the misfortune to smell and they lie right in it.

When cows were milked by hand this was a problem- when cows are milked with machinery this is a problem. Cows are animals and they shit. A lot. And it’s going to get into the milk. And listen. You do not want to drink cow shit germs in milk. And milk can be filtered all you want and it is- but germs? gotta cook those fuckers out. So you don’t get sick from the cowshit.

TLRD: cow shit.

[aqueerkettleofish]

Also, the whole "unnatural process of pasteurization" is just raising the temperature to a certain point and holding it there-- how long depends on how high you do it. (In large quantities, this is often about 145F/63C for a half hour, but if you're working on a small batch, you can go for fifteen seconds at 161F/72C.

That's it. No weird chemicals. No sinister udder technique.

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

To be clear, farmers do wash and sterilise cow teats and milking equipment with iodine, they're not just squeezing sewage into your milk or anything. But it only takes one overlooked teat or little wrinkle or distracted worker to get bacterial contamination in the milk, and dangerous bacteria really, really love eating milk. All farming is messy; the occasional slug trapped in your lettuce or bug crushed into your flour won't hurt you, but all the stuff that babies love in milk is also stuff that harmful bacteria loves, and under ideal conditions a salmonella or e. coli population can double every 20 minutes. In the milk, it's gonna double slower, but it's gonna double a lot faster than you'd like, especially since the milk you buy is going to be between many hours and many weeks old depending on where you get it. All milk should be assumed to be contaminated until pasteurised. Buying raw milk from a dedicated farmer who knows and bathes all of her cows and milks them by hand and got that milk that very morning is safer than buying raw factory milk, but in the same way that driving 3 drinks over the alcohol limit is safer than driving 5 drinks over the limit. Just get the pasteurised milk.

[raucous-indignation]

Louis Pasteur was a French chemist, pharmacist, and microbiologist renowned for his discoveries of the principles of vaccination, microbial fermentation, and pasteurization, the last of which was named after him.

[goblinofpeacelol]

Hi I grew up drinking raw milk my parents used to drip it into myfucking eyes when I got pink eye (I got pink eye a weird amount as a small child) we only really stopped when our local farmer stopped selling it I hate raw milk it just tastes bad I don’t like two percent either and really only like whole milk after potato chips or with cookies and I’m frankly lactose intolerant I’m not really drinking any milk any time soon but it was not fun drinking it you have to shake it and it’s just not great

@forebodingmusicstartsplaying

[forebodingmusicstartsplaying]

Why you summoning me? Like what do I have to add? I don't like raw milk because it's very thick and tastes strange. But also as far as I knew, the issue with pasteurized milk was not just the temperature, like yes... I think that would still be considered sterilizing, but whatever, it's like cooking chicken, same principle. Anyways I thought the issue was more the additives that are put in as the milk is pasteurized. If you get raw milk then if you are kinda crazy about that or are allergic or sensitive to some common type of additive, like my siblings, then getting raw milk usually resolves the issue.

Like don't get me wrong I'm sure there's some people that are just that stupid and think that it's the heating up part that is bad, but my siblings would have the most horrendous stomach issues when they drank pasteurized milk, but raw milk didnt do shit. We only switched to goats milk because it was cheaper and did the same thing.

[goblinofpeacelol]

I simmmoned you bc I enjoy your opinions on stuff like thid

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

There are no additives in pasteurisation. It's JUST cooking milk. That's it.

You can also, separately, add stuff to milk. You can make lactose-free milk with enzymes, you can fortify milk with vitamins like folate or extra calcium. You can do this to both pasteurised or non-pasteurised milk. The only reason that folate-fortified and lactose-free and other milks with additives are also pasteurised is because milk legally has to be pasteurised to sell it as food in shops. The pasteurisation has nothing at all to do with additives.

[nasajpl]

We know that we cannot take the current President's statements at face value. But in light of Trump's recent speech where he claimed that he's "saved" NASA and always supported them (which isn't true), I wanted to elaborate on some of this.

He's slashed the budget, forced removal of DEI history and contributions at NASA, and caused many NASA workers' unemployment. I have worked closely with people in these spheres and know that the budget cuts have deeply jeopardized the future space missions, space exploration, and space science.

My close friends and colleagues, especially those relying on DEI programs, have had such a difficult time during this administration, and we still are. This program found some success with Artemis II and beyond in spite of the current administration's lack of support and lack of funding.

You can read more details here.

[cardassiangoodreads]

This is all the more reason you guys have to stop circulating shit about Artemis II being “US army propaganda.” Along with that it just isn’t, all those arguments are various forms of associating this with Trump “but leftishly.” In fact I don’t think he should get credit for a program from an agency he’s done everything he can to kneecap at every turn. You don’t have to give it to him!

[thebiscuiteternal]

The White House's proposed budget for 2027 slashes an additional 3.8 Billion (yes, with a B) from NASA's budget to fund his dumbassery in Iran. He does not give a flying fuck.

[lonestarflight]

Apollo 17 vs Artemis II

[mementochao]

Despite everything, it's still you.

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That's really cool actually

[tanoraqui]

#excuse me but are you telling me that the Apollo pic is made with the help of the SUN and the Artemis one with the help of the MOON??? #that's actually so poetic i want to cry

@gorandomshesaid wait i need to sit with this one. wait.