Queer Nerdy Abuela

32 y/o queer non-binary book addict Puertorriqueñe y muy orgullose de serlo I nerd out over too many things to list, I'm an easy crier, and borderline obsessive in my stanning

[mo0nfishing]

diva cups, diva swords, diva wands, and diva pentacles

[makingqueerhistory]

Kagendo Murungi — Making Queer History

A Kenyan feminist, LGBTQ+ rights activist, filmmaker, and producer, Kagendo Murungi consistently returned to a central question throughout b

A Kenyan feminist, LGBTQ+ rights activist, filmmaker, and producer, Kagendo Murungi consistently returned to a central question throughout both her work and life: who produces images of African people, who controls their circulation, and who is allowed to appear within them? For Murungi, these were not just abstract concerns but urgent political stakes, inseparable from broader struggles over power, representation, and survival. Though she would ultimately spend much of her life in the United States, Murungi nevertheless operated deliberately across intercontinental cultural, political, and grassroots contexts, building a practice that treated media not only as a site of expression but as a tool for intervention. For over two decades, she tirelessly worked to connect African diasporic storytelling with transnational organizing, insisting that cultural production and political advocacy were not just parallel efforts, but mutually reinforcing ones.

[jewishbarbies]

so christopher nolan drilled into an active historical site to rig a scene, dumped a bunch of plastic skeletons into the ocean with no plan to fish them out, and ruined an actual Viking ship on loan from sweden and refuses to pay for damages. all for that garbage movie.

[jewishbarbies]

Owner of Viking ship used in The Odyssey says studio has not paid bill for damage

Swedish nonprofit alleges cost to repair replica was $6,000 but Universal – which made $264m on film’s opening weekend – has not stumped up

Concerns about prop disposal as filming on new Nolan film comes to a close | www.italianinsider.it

looking for a news outlet to pick up the archeologist drama over this but you can google the practical effects used for the cyclops and find the pictures pretty easily

[jewishbarbies]

Nolan’s "The Odyssey" Has a Colonialism Problem

Despite Morocco’s hopes that its film industry would reap rewards, the blockbuster’s success will be tainted by controversy surrounding film

and it gets even worse

[sith-shenanigans]

*looks at polyamorous triad* so which of you is the soldier and which is the poet and which is the king

[sith-shenanigans]

this is the perfect reblog post cancelled

[junewild]

incredible innovations on the beverage front

[sally2033]

The world is forgetting us while we are still fighting to survive.

I am not writing this for attention. I am writing because my family is still trapped in a nightmare that has not ended. Every day is a struggle to find food, clean water, and the most basic necessities. Every day we wonder how we will make it through the next one. The world may have stopped talking about us, but our suffering did not stop. If you see this post, please do not pass by. Reblog, share, and support us if you can. Your kindness can help a family survive another day. We are exhausted, but we have not given up hope. ❤️

Emergency: Help Nader save what's left of his family

Hello everyone, my name is Sahar! I am organizing this fundraiser on behalf of a dear friend of mine in Gaza and his family. I have been tal

✅[Vetted by @/90-ghost and @/el-shab-hussein]

[json-derulo]

having the Aviation Accident Investigations Autism™️ has actually done wonders for the way I process and respond to my own fuck-ups

[json-derulo]

And I don't just mean "oh, my little work mistake is actually nothing compared to a fiery crash that kills people," either. The reason commercial flight is so many orders of magnitude safer than any other form of transportation is because after every accident and incident, an independent regulatory body investigated it with the express goal of figuring out exactly what happened, why, and how to prevent the same thing from ever happening again—not to root out which person deserved the blame or the liability.

It's a simple, shockingly effective idea. It's also worlds away from how most people approach their own mistakes and the mistakes of others.

[json-derulo]

Because it’s never just one person’s fault. And even when it is, it still isn’t. 

The sharpest, best-trained pilots make worse decisions when they're tired or sick or stressed out, so there's two of them. The most dedicated and experienced air traffic controllers garble an instruction over the radio sometimes, so pilots are trained to always repeat clearances back to catch misunderstandings quickly. The best and brightest maintenance mechanic still overlooks a screw or misconnects a wire once or twice in her career, so aircraft systems are built with two or three or four layers of redundancy, and pilots are exhaustively trained to deal with failures safely. 

Everyone eventually has a bad day. Every component breaks down. Every computer gets a bad a Windows update and spirals into a reboot doom loop. If it’s possible for one person’s mistake to domino into a mushroom cloud of a fuckup, then that task is too critical to be one person's sole responsibility. The accident sequence starts with the design of the system—so how do you improve the system to keep it from happening again?

[json-derulo]

oh yeah. The “modern commercial aviation is the safest form of transport” thing only applies to planes, btw. A helicopter is a beautiful metal horse that wants to break its legs and die so so so badly

[fuckyeahchinesefashion]

OP: How to create floating Chinese shufa/calligraphy (cr夏末）

[moodsandtenses]

There's something hilarious about how so much subsequent media has positioned Vampires and Werewolves as, like, binary opposite entities, and then you read Dracula (1897) and realize that wolves are that guy's preferred solution to every problem. You'd say something to Dracula about "ah yes, werewolves, vampires' great eternal enemies," and he'd just be like "you mean my subcontractors?"

[moodsandtenses]

I'm really enjoying the growing consensus in the notes that there's an Eternal Rivalry Between Vampires and Werewolves now, entirely because the werewolves, sick of Dracula's bullshit, have unionized.

[crazy-pages]

I mean, yeah. He chucked a wolf into someone's living room through the window. Not an open window either. Fuck that noise.

[depsidase]

[imherefortheforthefanart]

I mean truly

[strombolicious]

[teathattast]

reblog to do this w your mutuals

[travertine-]

Is @why-animals-do-the-thing still a thing...? All I saw in the reblogs was that manta form mating chains but this is not one.

[why-animals-do-the-thing]

I honestly don’t know much about manta behavior, but I found the original source for this video, which states that this is actually the end of a mating chain that turned into a mating ball.

The video was taken by a nature photographer with a Master’s degree in Marine Biology with Oceanography, so I’m fairly confident we can trust his call on the behavior shown here.

The best part is these are known individuals in the region! Project Manta does a lot of research on manta rays around Lady Elliot Island - they’ve named these four Mark, Carlos, Flora Hilda May, and Renata.

Here’s the original video with original audio, caption below.

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[polyamorousmood]

It really says something that a lot of monogamous people consider polyamorous and aromantic to be "opposites" but every polyam person I know took one look at aromantics and said "they're just like me for real"

[silosworld]

Poly folks x aro folks in the sense that "alloromantic heterosexual monogamous people view love and sex as an entirely different entity than me, and that makes life kinda strange"

[rincent-van-uggh]

[aromanticofficial]

official aro-polyam solidarity post

[polyam-aro-culture-is]

Might’ve already reblogged this but it needs to be said again

[ina-gartens-weave]

video ive been thinking about for days

[ranthaven]

“All of us don’t have the same eyes” is my key takeaway here. This is 100 percent correct.

[catmask]

you know how they sent victorian people to the beach for their health. you need to sit outside for your health now. okay?

[itstimetogo]

the only “data centers” we need are public libraries

[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

[jethroq]