Materials Bience and Engiqueering

The random thoughts of a bisexual materials scientist and engineer in Ohio. She/her/hers pronouns. Married and poly. Mom. I also run http://obiopride.tumblr.com/

[anello81art]

💖 Un'altra rivisitazione di una stupenda illustrazione della maestra #naokotakeuchi è stata fatta. Spero vi piaccia ❤️🙏

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[kristalknobb]

Illustration for Cosmopolitan, June 1974 Detail

[pharahsgf]

it always makes me sad to see the cropped image on my dash cuz like

the original specifically centers bi women’s sexuality & that context just gets cropped out 😔

[materialsscienceandengineering]

3D-printed material to replace ivory for restoration of artifacts

For centuries, ivory was often used to make art objects. But to protect elephant populations, the ivory trade was banned internationally in 1989. To restore ivory parts of old art objects, one must therefore resort to substitute materials—such as bones, shells or plastic. However, there has not been a really satisfactory solution so far. 

TU Wien (Vienna) and the 3D printing company Cubicure GmbH, created as a spin-off of TU Wien, have now developed a high-tech substitute in cooperation with the Archdiocese of Vienna’s Department for the Care of Art and Monuments and Addison Restoration: the novel material “Digory” consists of synthetic resin and calcium phosphate particles. It is processed in a hot, liquid state and hardened in the 3D printer with UV rays, exactly in the desired shape. It can then be polished and color-matched to create a deceptively authentic-looking ivory substitute.

Beautiful and Mechanically Stable

“The research project began with a valuable 17th-century state casket in the parish church of Mauerbach,” says Prof. Jürgen Stampfl from the Institute of Materials Science and Technology at TU Wien. “It is decorated with small ivory ornaments, some of which have been lost over time. The question was whether they could be replaced with 3D printing technology.”

Read more.

[prokopetz]

Bro, your Generic Fantasy Media™ is showing us a 20th Century English speaking hero decked out in 16th Century German armour using 12th Century Italian weapons to stab 9th Century Vikings in what appears to be a pastiche of 14th Century Romania, and the fact that this character is Black is the part that offends your commitment to historical accuracy?

[bare1ythere]

When you see a really good post but there’s some form of guilt tripping to reblog it added on at the end

(ID: A screenshot of Marge from the Simpsons looking dismally at the camera with one arm raised. A caption underneath her reads “It’s true, but I’m not reblogging it.” End ID)

[wheezel]

Me: overall agrees with and is interested in post

Post: “But I bet you’re just gonna skip past this bc you don’t care 😒”

Me:

[homo-sex-shoe-whale]

My favourite fact about chess ever is how Garry Kasparov, a Russian grandmaster and former world chess champion, once said during an interview:

"Well, in the past, I have said that there is real chess and women’s chess. Some people don’t like to hear this, but chess does not fit women properly. It’s a fight, you know? A big fight. It’s not for women."

Only for Kasparov to get absolutely obliterated by Judit Polgar, a Hungarian woman, a few years later.

[homo-sex-shoe-whale]

Another fun fact: Judit Polgar, at the time of receiving her grandmaster title in 1991, was the youngest player to EVER receive the title at only age 15. Judit Polgar is straight up a chess legend. She was also the youngest player to ever be inducted into the FIDE top 100, ranking 55 at only age 12.

Judit has defeated numerous other chess legends, such as Anatoly Karpov, Viswanathan Anand, and Boris Spassky, all former world chess champions. She has even won a match against Magnus Carlsen, who is the current world chess champion as of 2021. When I tell you this woman is a beast I mean she is RUTHLESS.

Famously, in 1994, during a match with Judit Polgar, Garry Kasparov cheated, taking back a move after realising it was losing, even though this is very much against the rules of chess. At the time, Judit was only 17. Imagine being so good at age 17 that you make the world champion cheat!

Anyways. Stan chess legend Judit Polgar because she is a beast!!!!!

[homo-sex-shoe-whale]

Yet another fun fact: her sister, Susan Polgar, is ALSO a chess grandmaster and was women's world champion in 1996!

And, their sister Sofia Polgar, is ALSO a chess international master! Meaning that all three Polgar sisters are chess masters!

[idkinsertfanreferencehere]

also, she's Jewish! Bobby Fischer refused to play her because of this. She played in the men's league, and at the height of her career was 7th in the world

[canaa]

Note, the reason for this is that their father, a researcher, decided to perform an experiment with the goal of proving that innate talent is not as much a factor as work - that 'genius' can be taught, essentially. He literally looked for a wife who would help him with this. He found a woman who was interested by the idea and agreed to marry him and have his kids so they could be his experiment. He decided on chess as the medium for the experiment because it has clear goals and rankings. He himself was not especially good at chess, nor was his wife. He taught his daughters chess from a very young age - at age five, his first daughter, Susan, won a local competition against people more than twice her age. I'm not saying their accomplishments aren't their own - they absolutely are! These are three phenomenal ladies who have brilliant skill. But their unusual upbringing is the root of why all three of them are chess champions. What I would like to know is how he encouraged them to love chess, rather than making it feel like a chore to them. Because that is the most important key, I feel. It won't help if you start a kid on something young but go about it in a way that leads to them resenting it! And he very easily could have raised three daughters who wanted nothing more than to hurl a chessboard at his head. Somehow, he didn't, and *that's* the interesting part to me.

[saint-dionysus]

Yeah, I see a lot of people in the notes and tags saying stuff like "imagine how much IQ that family has" or "they must have some crazy chest genetics". Which is funny since they were actually born with the purpose of disproving the idea that talent is a genetic trait and that things like IQ are racist, abelist, and sexist ideas made up to inflate the egos of white cis men.

[theroguefeminist]

This is exactly why there is a separate league for women's chess and why women don't tend to compete with men: because of the social disadvantages that result in men being encouraged to learn, practice and study chess from a young age without bias against their gender. It doesn't surprise me that exceptions to this rule were women whose parents did not believe in innate genius or talent and specifically sought out to teach them to be chess champions. These women had the same advantages that most male chess players have. It just goes to show it is a purely circumstantial advantage not genetic or innate.

[simonalkenmayer]

When I was in highschool, my culinary teacher gave me the greatest gift of all- the actual recipe from red lobster, he worked there for a little bit. I haven’t made a batch in forever but I’m excited.

[thantos1991]

The cheese bread biscuits from red lobster?!? Teach us dear anon submitter!!!

[peanut-for-your-thought]

TEACH US ThE SECRET

[mekau]

@thantos1991​  @peanut-for-your-thought​ @simonalkenmayer

This is the easier recipe, taste damn near the same but less work, but it also makes like 48 biscuits:

8 cups Original Bisquick™ mix 

2 2/3 cups milk cups shredded Cheddar cheese (8 oz) 

1 cup butter or margarine, melted 

1 teaspoon garlic powder 

1 teaspoon parsley 

1 teaspoon old bay seasoning OR onion powder 

 Preheat to 450 

mix bisquick mix, cheese and milk until a soft dough forms.  don’t over stir, it mixes pretty quick grease a pan or put parchment paper down Put dough balls about 2 inches apart, and put in oven. MAKE SURE the oven is completely pre heated, if you put it in before hand the biscuits will come out nasty. Bake 8-10 minutes.  Melt the butter in the microwave completely. Add parsley, seasonings and stir. 

 Once biscuits are done, should be brown on the bottom, pull them out and let them sit for a moment before covering or dipping them in the butter. Dipping upside down means more coverage. 

NOW, here is the recipe I actually use:

This recipe makes 10-12 biscuits.

3 cups all purpose Flour 1 tablespoon baking powder 1 tablespoon sugar 1 teaspoon salt ¾ teaspoon cream of tartar ¾ cup butter or ½ cup butter ¼ shortening 1 and ¼ cup milk 

Preheat oven to 450.  Combine flour, baking powder, sugar, salt, and cream of tartar.  Using a blender/pastry blender, cut the butter into the mixture until it looks crumbly.  make a well/hole in the middle of the mixture and pour ALL the milk in at once.

Now, you’ll want to add the cheese, which for this recipe you’ll want to use ¾ to 1 cup sharp cheddar.  Use a fork to stir/fold the mixture just until the mixture is all moist. Do not over mix. Use a spoon or scoop, and scoop 12 onto a parchment paper or a greased pan surface. You’ll want to put them 1 ½ - 2 inches apart.

Bake for 10-14 minutes, until the bottoms are brown.

½ cup butter or margarine, melted ½ teaspoon garlic powder  ½ teaspoon parsley  1/3 teaspoon old bay seasoning OR onion powder

Melt the butter, mix and either dip the biscuits in or cover them with a brush/spoon. If there is any left over it goes super good on french bread too. 

[simonalkenmayer]

You are a queen among bees.

[miamitu-illust]

he’s a little confused but he’s got the spirit

angsty bonus:

after a long and heartfelt hug he and Iroh had The Talk™ gay edition

[littlegoythings]

For many in the Jewish community, so-called "Christian Seders" are "100% cultural appropriation"

Why many Evangelicals are baking challah crosses, roasting lamb Jesuses and overlooking 2,000 years of harm

[shadowsphere21]

All I ever needed was the One

Like freedom fields where wild horses run

When stars collide like you and I

No shadows block the sun

You’re all I ever needed…

Baby, you’re the one…”

“The One” (1992) by Elton John.

This is a piece I did for @artimas as a Spring Solstice thank you gift. This is Kunzite and Venus in a piece I named after the song in which the lyric is written, The One.

Venus and Kunzite float in a sensual embrace near Venus’s namesake planet during the Silver Millennium. Castle Magellan hovers high above, shining it’s ethereal light upon the passionate couple. A half-wreath of dahlias and roses, along with cosmic lights, surround the couple as they surrender themselves to each other.

[bunnylover726]

The harmful ableist language you unknowingly use

Some of our most common, ingrained expressions have damaging effects on millions of people – and many of us don't know we're hurting others when we speak.

[m4ge-deactivated20210331]

buying peaches is so stressful because you have to consume them so quickly…it’s like the moment the cashier types in that number the alpha peach turns to its brothers in the bags and says “alright listen up boys, it’s time to remember your training. i want to see immense bruising by sundown. i want to see you near inedible by sunrise. remember it is better to die a free man than to be eaten.” you gotta wolf down all of your peaches at the check out counter while the trader joe’s employees eagerly look at the Peach Consumption Countdown Clock and cheer you on. these peaches have sensors on them that can tell when they come into contact with human hands so they can begin their self-destruct sequence like you’re in a spy movie and the peach just relayed a message to you about the whereabouts of jimmy hoffa’s decayed remains

[bunnylover726]

Oh man, this reminds me of the time my mother in law bought 50 pounds of peaches. She came over my house with all these peaches and I think I ended up taking the day off work to help her use them up. Homemade peach jam, peach pie, peach syrup for iced tea, canned peaches, etc...

Anyway, if you end up with a few (3) leftover peaches and don't want to eat them right away, the link I added makes one small jar of peach syrup to add to iced tea (or icecream!) along with a chunkier sweet peach topping that can go on pancakes/waffles. Enjoy!

Homemade Peach Simple Syrup for Iced Tea

Making your own Homemade Peach Simple Syrup with fresh peaches is an easy and such a delicious flavor to add to iced tea.

[memeuplift]

[cowpokeprose]

Hey, gay working class and gay rural interests, aesthetics, and culture belong within the wider LGBT+ community. Country music belongs in gay spaces. Camo and trucker caps and work boots belong in gay spaces. Trucks and doorless jeeps and shitty old beaters belong in gay spaces. GEDs and high school educations and blue collar jobs belong in gay spaces. Being broke and looking like shit belongs in gay spaces. The community isn’t owned by the wealthiest San Fransisco and New York gay-geoisie. Their interests, appearances, and beliefs do not define queerness. 

[cowpokeprose]

Me: It’s important to remember to be inclusive of gay people from rural backgrounds.

Parts of Tumblr.com: I have literally never heard of classism and thus have no frame of reference for the idea that I should be nice to people with stereotypically low class interests and so I will make fun of those interests now. 

Me: Ah so I see I have overshot where y’all are at

[fluffy-flock]

Everyone in the notes: Yas! I love farms! Love them chickens, farm core is my life!

Bitch we all know you like farm asthetique. What we want is support for the Actual rural southern queer community. The trailer park/pre-used prefab queers. The ones who are never going to get more than a 10th grade education and work dirty blue collar jobs with hard labor. And remember that this whole ass time we often have to lie about who we are so we can keep the shitty hard labor jobs that fuck up our bodies. And remember that these communities are also black and Hispanic communities?? I see y'all in the notes “this is so white, this is so white” like the entire South isn’t full of poc and queer poc who struggle even harder because of all this??

Broke: everyone in the rural south is white homophobic racists

Woke: the rural south has large populations of queer poc who get no support and no acknowledgement within broader queer culture past the “gay cowboy” asthetic

[lady-feral]

yeah, I grew up in trailer parks and cabins heated with a wood stove doing hard labor working on a factory chicken farm and installing fiberglass insulation, shingles, drywall, framing, plumbing, digging septic drain fields and tanks, etc. before I graduated high school. There are tons of rural queer people who are POC, disabled, uneducated, and poor as fuck.

[licensetocannibalize]

homophobes: the gays go to hell!!

lil nas x: fine *rides the stripper pole to hell*

homophobes: no, not like that

lil nas x: *giving satan a lap dance*

homophobes: please, stop. think of the children.

[journish]

CMBYN Analysis by a grad student who has never been good at writing academic papers:

In the beginning, Montero gives a small speech acknowledging that the themes of this video are parts of himself he has “hidden from the world, that he did not want it to see” but no longer does. He plays the role of Eve and the snake, both the innocent and the corruptor, the victim and the one who allows himself to sin. At the moment of corruption, Greek text from Plato’s symposium appears to burn into the tree of knowledge, reading “now when our first form had been cut in two, each half in longing for its fellow would come to it again” referencing the Greek myth of soulmates being two halves of one being who were separated at the creation of the world, also a myth well-known for acknowledging homosexual soulmates as well as heterosexual ones. The scene transitions to Montero playing new roles. He plays the role of the prisoner, the judges, and the stone audience. The prisoner admits to his homosexuality, both the joyful and painful aspects, the judges judge him guilty, and the stone audience literally stone him to death. This shows that he still judges himself for his sexuality, and often reacts negatively to his own perceived wrongdoing. The stoning also refers to the biblical interpretation of the literal punishment for homosexuality. His soul begins to ascend, but a miles-long pole appears, and in a visual homage to Lucifer’s fall from grace, Montero pole dances his way to hell. He proceeds to give a provocative lap dance to Satan himself. He has given up on feeling guilt or shame. He embraces what he once thought of as his mortal sin. He is unapologetically sexual in this final scene, complete with lingering crotch shots, tons of glistening skin, and the devil himself seeming to squirm in arousal from this display. In a tweet following backlash for this scene, Montero says: “yall love telling gay people we going to hell, then get mad when I decide to go?!” He reasons that if he is predestined for hell in their eyes, why should he not embrace his place there? He then proceeds to snap Satan’s neck and usurps his throne, crowning himself ruler of hell. The transformation from the innocence corrupted, to the guilty and persecuted, to this final, dominating form shows that he has fully accepted himself as he is, sin or otherwise. The use of biblical imagery in the music video show his internal struggle with the Christian objection to homosexuality and parody it in a way that is meant to provoke those who persecuted him, including his former self, and reclaim his sexuality in full spite of what others may dislike about him.

[connabeth]

this comment under lil nas x’s tik tok has me in tears