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Asper | 29 | SoCal

[aspereal]

it’s been a while, coming

perhaps overdue by a couple years

i feel like i’ve been on this blog long enough

on my part: long enough for most of the folks who look at it

i think maybe it’s time to archive it, pick up my bags and head somewhere new or something

for ppl who see this, it’s been really nice! great even

i hope for you- you find all the things that settles your heart easy and makes all the changes in your life hold as few sorrows as possible

[aspereal]

For anyone who is still around.

[shoyowo]

Hey remember when US and Russia was all like “We’re the best!!! We’ve won the space race!!!!” But India sent a kick-ass space probe to Mars and the whole mission was fuel efficient, costed less and a roaring success in the first try and then they were like “…..wait no that can’t be true” and still have the audacity to call us “underdeveloped” or only view us as a ‘third world country’? :)

For anyone who needs more info, the probe was called Mangalyaan (which literally means space probe vehicle) or Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM) and you can also get more information here and here

[shoyowo]

Remember when NYT mocked India for this very thing and an TOI (a major indian newspaper) responded with this? :)

They were being racist asf and we were till respectful literally fuck you if you think ‘third world counties’ can’t be better than you

[shoyowo]

white people can and should reblog this

[seriesofnonsequiturs]

and shout out to the women engineers integral to the launch

“Indian staff from the Indian Space Research Organisation celebrate after the Mars Orbiter Spacecraft entered Mars’s orbit.

On November 5, 2013, a rocket launched toward Mars. It was India’s first interplanetary mission, Mangalyaan, and a terrific gamble. Only 40 percent of missions sent to Mars by major space organizations—NASA, Russia’s, Japan’s, or China’s—had ever been a success. No space organization had succeeded on its first attempt. What’s more, India’s space organization, ISRO, had very little funding: while NASA’s Mars probe, Maven, cost $651 million, the budget for this mission was $74 million. 

This was not the only success of the mission. An image of the scientists celebrating in the mission control room went viral. Girls in India and beyond gained new heroes: the kind that wear sarees and tie flowers in their hair, and send rockets into space.”

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[ambrosiadarling]

there’s a movie adaptation of this! it’s obviously more dramatized/they use different names but i really really loved the movie! it’s called mission mangal and it was the first time i had heard of this and i was so surprised that literally? no one talked about it??? what they accomplished is incredible.

[lastbenchpapers]

ALSO, Mangalyaan launched in 2013 and was meant to be a 6 month mission. It’s been in orbit around Mars now for more than 5 years and has enough propellant to keep going for even longer.

[sunlit-cashmere]

“The kind that wear sarees and tie flowers in their hair, and send rockets into space.”

FUCK YES. THIS IS THE TYPE OF REPRESENTATION I’VE BEEN HERE FOR!!

I love how the dudes at back are pure happy!!

[jareckiworld]

Deborah Sengl — Von Schafen und Wölfen (Of Sheep and Wolves)  [taxidermic preparation, wax, 2008]

[memewhore]

[ceruleandaydream]

[nothorses]

OKAY this is fucking sick though because the reason for mummification- and the reason we have a lot of ancient Egyptian art and artifacts still around today- is because they believed that as long as images of them still existed, their spirits in the afterlife would still exist. It’s a form of immortality.

Now we’re literally resurrecting them in all these ways and!!! That’s immortality, baybee!!!

It also makes me wanna kill the victorians who ate mummies and stuff. like I know they’re dead now but if I could kill them twice I would

[bogleech]

reblogging both for the interesting commentary but also that fucking noise

[sovietnam]

[jurisffiction]

unimaginably cruel

[aspereal]

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[saltycharacters]

My curse is that I have so much bottled up oc lore but can only talk about it when someone asks very specific questions about my characters

[bhujangan]

Simple explanation of the bills that farmers in India are protesting - in TikTok form!

[jaaneymann]

hey non indians are encouraged to reblog this actually since what the indian government hates most is word of their terrible governing spreading outside of india! 

[sabertoothwalrus]

I see posts like these about other kinds of reminders, but never about glasses! Here’s your reminder to give your glasses a good clean!

[rumiensze]

doggie bowl

[radicalurbanista]

February 6, 2021. St Louis

Inmates at St. Louis Justice Center demonstrate against the US genocide occuring in prisons. Inmates are being left to die, and are in some cases being punished with exposure to COVID-19. Despite earlier pleas and protests within and outside of the jail, safety conditions have not improved. The COVID pandemic is in its 10th month now.

For people incarcerated in US prisons, COVID infection rates are triple the outside rates and mortality is double the outside rate.

Even court efforts to reduce the prison population are being disobeyed by local police departments.

Prisons aren’t race neutral, they were created to target and oppress Black, Indigenous, brown, and immigrant people.

Poverty produces underlying health conditions and is killing BIPOC at rates over double that of white Americans.

People are being left forced to die from COVID because the government doesn’t represent nor care about these community members. It’s a genocide

[guerrillatech]

[wodneswynn-deactivated-deactiva]

My favorite bit of folk medicine is that we’re supposed to take wormwood for intestinal parasites. It’s actually really effective, which is how wormwood got its name, but the reason it’s effective is that wormwood is literally just poison and it happens to kill the worms slightly faster than it kills you.

[yaoi-vodka]

That’s medicine BABEYYYYYY!!!!

No, but seriously, the reason plants have useful chemicals that we can use medicinally is because they have evolved those chemicals as poisons to prevent predation. Humans were just smart enough to figure out through trial and error how to balance these chemical extracts to counteract abnormalities in our bodies.

Like: “Hm. This plant toxin is a cardiac glycoside and increases heart output. In a healthy person, this is highly unpleasant and may even cause death. But… for my aging aunt over here who’s suffering from congestive heart failure… a little foxglove extract taken every morning with her tea would probably help her circulation and keep her weary heart kickin’ for a few more years.”

[dandelionwitch]

Medicine is the opportune application of poisons. Healers and poisoners are folks with similar skill sets and wildly different philosophies.

[higgsboshark]

@deathisforsissies

[hobbular]

dear @shitpostsampler i would like a pony and a cross stitch pattern for “Healers and poisoners are folks with similar skill sets and wildly different philosophies” please <3

[shitpostsampler]

[pbscore]

Looks like I’m gonna be full of ‘controversial’ opinions today so I’m just gonna be real about this next topic that’s been itchin’ at me for a while:

I genuinely don’t think a lot of white leftists understand just how integral anti-black racism is to keeping class oppression in power and they often gloss over their own internalized racism while using the argument of ‘uwu don’t assume all poor/rural white people are racists and have more compassion uwu’ as a way to try to ‘band’ together as a community of lower class people.

Here’s the thing, though: you CANNOT ‘defeat’ this class struggle, especially in the United States, if you CANNOT acknowledge the pivotal role that anti-blackness/racism in general has played in keeping poor communities struggling. Race has always played a part in determining rent, mortgage, education, and other basic human necessities within a community because if that community just so happened to have a lot of black folks in it, the ‘value’ of that area was inherently seen as ‘lower class’ or ‘unworthy’ of fair opportunities that could improve that area.

This should not be a surprise to ANY so-called leftist but I’m starting to see more and more white leftists try to weaponize the whole ‘don’t call rural white people rednecks, they’re not all racists’ and ‘we need to band together to defeat the rich and stop focusing on little things that divide us’ as a way to deter any deep conversation about the inherent racism involved in the class struggle.

Y’all really need to start reading more articles and books from past black/non-white leftists who have already talked about this entire subject YEARS before any of us became the ‘leftists who occasionally make good points on a public blogging platform’.

Because I’m tired of seeing white people complain about how poor/rural white folks are seen as racists and it’s ‘not fair’ to them while I’m an Afro Latino person who has lived in a rural area for MOST OF MY LIFE and has experienced nothing but racism from poor/rural AND rich white people, with no mercy.

White leftists need to stop using ‘class struggle’ as a way to band people together and actually work on their own internalized racism, do more research by actually READING information given about this subject by previous non-white leftists, and then confront the anti-black racism in their own communities. Especially if those white leftists live in poor and/or rural areas themselves.

Relying on black/non-white people to do all the heavy lifting for you and risk their lives by having to ‘educate’ rural/poor white people on how to be decent human beings to poc is not a good look.

EDIT: y’all can reblog this but if you start being disrespectful, I will block you.

[voidvelociraptor]

Antiblackness and racism is also the primary reason poor white folks vote against social safety net improvements, minimum wage increases, pro-labor laws (especially those that protect service jobs that are primarily held by poor black folks), infrastructure improvements and expansions, rent caps, changes in mortgage and debt laws that protect and benefit borrowers, and basically anything that would materially improve living conditions for poor people. Antiblackness is literally the foundation of conservative. anti worker propaganda, it's full of racist dogwhistles.

[pbscore]

☝🏽☝🏽☝🏽☝🏽☝🏽☝🏽☝🏽☝🏽☝🏽☝🏽☝🏽 These are facts, y’all! Thank you for your addition!