Enuma Elish

My name's Medi/Lio and I love dragon men and insane lesbians. Anti. (They/he)

[exxos-von-steamboldt]

[delicatefury]

I just googled this and… yes, it’s absolutely real.

And there are so many articles and videos and discussions. Like, the scientific community is buzzing about this.

So much research will have to be redone because the data was absolutely compromised, off by orders of magnitude, by using standard lab gloves.

The world is probably not horrifically contaminated by microplastics. Sterile laboratories, however, are contaminated by latex and nitrile gloves.

Thank God someone bothered to check.

[beardedmrbean]

>I just googled this and… yes, it’s absolutely real.

Sources beyond dude just trust me, for the skeptics.

Scientists shocked to find lab gloves may be skewing microplastics data

Scientists may have been unknowingly inflating microplastics pollution estimates, and the surprising source could be their own lab gloves. A

https://www.technologynetworks.com/applied-sciences/news/scientists-lab-gloves-may-be-causing-an-overestimation-of-microplastics-411138

Nitrile and latex gloves may cause overestimation of microplastics, U-M study reveals

Nitrile and latex gloves that scientists wear while they are measuring microplastics may lead to a potential overestimation of the tiny poll

Nitrile and latex gloves may cause overestimation of microplastics - Phys.org (it’s a pdf)

An Embarrassing Mistake May Have Skewed Microplastics Research All Along

Researchers discovered a standard piece of lab equipment has added thousands of microplastic ‘false positives’ per each square-millimeter un

Ordinary Lab Gloves May Have Skewed Microplastic Data

Ordinary Lab Gloves May Have Skewed Microplastic Data: That doesn’t mean microplastics aren’t a problem, though

That should be enough

[nofilter-cory]

Dog

[gottfrieds]

personally I think it's wild that we can accept that people outside of a specific marginazlied group can be subject to and affected negatively by aspects associated with those people's oppression, with no one being wholly unaffected or excluded, except for One specific group who has apparently decided no one else can be affected by theirs. okay

[undergroundwubwubmaster]

No immune system 🤝 50 000 year old immune system.

[creekfiend]

it's interesting to me to see like. within queer communities the thing where if you said "things are really fucking stressful and awful for us right now and it's giving us a lot of really terrible feelings that don't have an outlet" ppl are like "yes, true" and then if you're like "it's far easier and safer to vent that frustration and fear on accessible members of your own community than it is to try to vent it on the people who are actually in power" they would be like "yes, true" and if you said "it feels better to justify venting that frustration and fear and anger if you can frame it in head as very important and righteous, rather than admitting that it's a coping mechanism being utilized by a fallible human being undergoing very difficult circumstances" they'd say "yes that's also true"

but if you're like "this is relevant to your own current behavior" with the implication that the intracommunity thing they're currently big mad about is actually not as important and righteous as they're casting it in their head, it's like "no no. not MY behavior. mine is rational and I am correct. the issue I am fighting with other queer people about like rats in a sack IS actually the most important issue to be addressing right now"

and like

this is stuff I have to constantly watch out for in my own behavior! it is absolutely absolutely a thing, and absolutely something we ALL deal with and are capable of engaging in. it's ramped up in intensity the last year or two and I don't think that is a coincidence. I wish we were more capable of this level of analysis of this stuff without getting defensive.

and like, again, it isn't like it's evil. I don't think it's GOOD to do, but as I said, it's the completely understandable behavior of a human being under considerable stress. we need to cut ourselves a break in order to be able to be honest about what we are doing sometimes.

[fanficmemes]

Babygirl I know fandom history that you wouldn’t even care about

[mikkeneko]

i know fandom history that even I don’t care about

[antlershade]

well, i know about lump fish

[cyber-seagull404]

Good to see we’re all on the same page

[fortzancudo]

i literally feel like im going to be sick trying not to laugh at this at my desk like i feel faint

[plumbo-gummite]

the smuckling smumbler

[necrotranscjk]

An important tweet

[sighinastorm]

This is such a "common sense" way of putting it. Everybody memorize this for spitting it back out whenever needed.

[skin-slave]

Never thought I'd have the opportunity to say this again: Reducing women and girls to their vaginas and then forcing them to show those vaginas to strangers is not a feminist ideal.

[crazysodomite]

Oh my god

[amberthetransvixen]

[gayteensupreme]

"queer-owned business" means nothing. OpenAI and Palantir are both queer-owned businesses.

[catmask]

tbh when i hear some people talk about 'breaking cycles of abuse', it becomes clear pretty quickly who has come to understand that phrase to mean 'since i was a victim of abuse/neglect by my parents/caretaker/s i will do everything to be nothing like them' and that is all. its not a completely flawed way of thinking either - something that hurt you would very likely hurt someone else; through empathy we learn to understand not to hurt others the way we were hurt too.

but what 'breaking cycles' looks like is more complicated than just not being your parents/caretakers - it's about recognizing how the things that happened to you changed you and how you can heal so you don't hurt someone else in turn. the survival skills you learned in an unhealthy enviroment often translate to poor if not unhealthy interpersonal skills in an enviroment where things ARE safe.

its a difficult pill to swallow for a lot of survivors of abuse (trust me, i know) because we have a tendency to simply want our pain to be recognized. by painting yourself as "absolutely nothing like my abuser" you can abstain from recognizing your own harmful tendencies and live comfortably in the role of victim hood for the rest of your life. it can be tempting to do this especially when so many people will do their best to deny what you experienced - almost like leaning into a stuck door that just won't budge.

the problem with this is if you never recognize that being mistreated made it so you LACK a lot of what other people learned from a loving enviroment, you can hurt people pretty badly even when doing your best just not to replicate what your parents/caretakers got wrong.

this also hurts for victims because, when it comes down to it - it's not FAIR. you were hurt for no reason, and most of us will never hear an apology or even admittance from the person who did it - so why do YOU have to change? why do YOU, the person hurt unjustly, have to put in the work?

and i mean. that's what breaking a cycle is. it means pushing against what's fair and comfortable deliberately so that you can stop something that's been repeating. it's work. its not just recognition of pain, it's the purposeful healing and treatment of it. but thats scary, and it's not fun, so a lot of people fall right back into it. its a lot easier said than done.

[gilkiduss]

I don't use my tumblr much anymore so if this post breaches containment I don't have to worry about it.

Nobody is transmisogyny exempt. No one. Cis, trans, doesn't matter. It affects everyone. There is no type of bigotry that doesn't affect everyone to some degree, even cishet white men. Some people are notably affected less, but very, very few people will remain completely unaffected (and anyone who does probably has enough money to solve both their problems and everyone else's).

Trans bathroom laws are a prime example of this. They are pretty much explicitly meant to target trans women, but have also led to butch cis women (especially black butches) and any other cis woman deemed "not feminine enough" as well as trans men being harassed or assaulted. And that's transmisogyny! Someone thought these people were trans women and thus assumed they were well within their rights to harm them.

This shit happens all the time. Laws restricting things like housing and other income-based essentials meant to quietly target black people? Poor white people get caught in the net. Misogyny leads to society viewing emotions other than anger and discussion of feelings as "feminine"? Men end up isolated and lonely and depression skyrockets. (I'm old enough to remember the "male suicide rate" talking point from MRAs; misogyny was the root cause all along, aka the thing the evil feminists they argued with were trying to fix.)

I think it's disingenuous to try and argue that certain groups are "transmisogyny exempt". It's not a contest to see who transmisogyny hurts more, trans women are always going to be hurt most, but it's also harmful to others within the community and outside of it. It would legitimately make the world better and safer for everyone if we minimized or even eliminated it.

You push back against transmisogyny because you don’t want your sisters to be harmed by it first and foremost. But in the process you are helping other groups that would be harmed by the same bigotry that affects them. Net positive for everyone. No need to create what's basically another "woke" gender binary by denoting someone as "tma" or "tme".

[intriga-hounds]

Me: (hears suspicious chewing) hmmmmm better turn on my flashlight

Baz:

Me: ok never mind :)

[garydoodles]

@pangur-and-grim

These strange beasts have given me much joy over the years

[pangur-and-grim]

[catboybiologist]

Imagine if a like 8 foot tall guy that looked kinda like an alien species just kinda showed up at the house you rent a room in and crashed on the couch and at first everyone hated him but you kinda just accepted this weird massive kinda-human alien species thing as a part of your group even though he's like twice the size of everyone else there

[catboybiologist]

Cuz that's literally happening to sea lions in San Francisco right now

[catboybiologist]

So there's two species of sea lion in North America: the California sea lion, ranging along California (including Baja) but not ranging into the north coast or into oregon

And the Stellar's sea lion, which are WAY bigger and live in Washington, British Columbia, and Alaska

A male Stellars sea lion showed up in SF like a month ago and just kinda. Didn't know what to do, and joined a colony of California sea lions, and is just kinda chilling there now.

[catboybiologist]

Weird vagrant species happen from time to time, but this is just a particularly funny instance of a highly social species getting very lost, and just trying to blend in with its closest nearby relatives

[pangur-and-grim]

I can't handle this

[pangur-and-grim]

remember?? how it used to be?