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cynicalprude-deactivated2024061

"women didn't invent anything"

arakkne

Thank you Evelyn Berezin!

scorpion-squadron

Women invented pretty much every major piece of technology, before they were completely pushed out of computer science. Programming languages, compilers, wifi, blue tooth, word processors, and so so much more!

introvertsnation

catchymemes

Artist credit

thevastnessof

do NOT feel bad abt scarfing down a tub of raspberries. there is NO reason at all to ration them like other delicious treats bc they WILL mold as soon as theyre out of your line of sight

transylvania12345-deactivated20

losing it at this photo of the counts puppet not being used. literally he looks like hes just taking a nap on set or something

i-count-words-in-posts

transylvania12345-deactivated20

ITS SUCH A FUCKING HONOUR I COUNT WORDS IN POSTS

worm-on-a-blog

hey! take it easy soon, if you can.

malainn

i woke up at 4am to watch the sunrise and this beauty came and landed on me

kedreeva

The moon came down from the sky at dawn, to find someplace safe to rest, and she found you!

thenib

Jorge Gonzalez in our NATURE issue.

naturepunk-palace

If anyone is wondering, nature deprivation like this is hugely damaging to mental and physical health and increases risk of recidivism

seluvian

And that’s by design.

dearest-loveliest-elizabeth

I think about this every hour of every day of every month by the way

ayeforscotland

The sequel ‘Skull Measuring for beginners’ is scheduled for 2025.

burninglights

a list of factors that CAN cause poor outcomes and fatalities in blood transfusions:

being crossmatched with the wrong A/B/O, RhD/rhesus, or HLA group

Blood that isn't properly screened for blood borne disease, increasing the risk of transmission of HepC, vCJD, and HIV/AIDs

massive transfusion protocols, which have been associated with a minor increased risk in hemolytic transfusion reactions, air embolism, hyper- and hypo- kalemia (blood potassium), magnesia (blood magnesium), and calcemia (blood calcium)

Improper storage of blood and blood products like plasma/FFP and platelets

A list of factors that there have no substantial scientific proof of being linked with poor outcomes and fatalities in blood transfusion:

the sex of the donor

Currently, in the UK, there via a shortage of blood donors; in particular donors from Afro-Carribean backgrounds, whose blood is more likely to be a HLA match for transfusions for sickle cell anaemia and beta thalassaemia sufferers.

I guarantee you that if you've gone into haemorrhagic shock, or are at risk of sickle cell crisis, the absolute last thing you're going to be thinking about is the sex of your donor, because without blood — no matter who donated it — you're going to die.

Blood transfusions save lives — no matter the donor's sex — to say that donor sex is related to adverse outcomes is at best, blatant misinformation with limited if any scientific backing, and at worst, modern day phrenology that's playing dice with people's lives.

(The data Rowling uses comes from 3 trials, all of which agree that a. further studies with wider sample sizes are needed, and b. the cause is likely due to an immunological factor rather than anything to do with endocrinology. Also, bias of interpretation is A Thing, folks.)

esoanem

(via @thatlittleegyptologist )

stunningly-lesbian

Yo I spent a year working in the UK blood donation service and just want to add some things to reassure people.

Blood is always checked. Comprehensively. It doesn't matter if it's someones first donation or their hundredth. There are multiple checks before you even donate, and we send samples out to get them tested for any blood borne diseases long before the blood makes it's way into anyone. We sort the blood by group ourselves and it's always at least triple-checked on our end. Then it's checked again at the storage site, and once again in hospitals. We all have access to a massive, comprehensive database with every single donor. The bags are clearly labelled and barcoded.

If there was a single fatality linked to a blood donation, there'd be a massive outcry, and an even more massive internal reaction. Part of why the UK system is so careful is because of the mad cow outbreak, which was related to transfusions and honestly still gave some of my coworkers flashbacks. Everyone is constantly guarding against anything like that ever happening again.

The only significant difference between "male" and "female" blood is very slightly different haemoglobin levels. Donated blood with a different haemonglobin level will not kill you. It's meant to be higher than yours, because thats part of the fucking point of blood donations. Higher haemoglobin helps people your blood carry oxygen and helps your body with basically every vital function. Which is why we test haemoglobin levels on site and only accept donations from people with higher than average.

So yeah, one single difference. You know what this incredibly risk-averse, comprehensively research-led system said how trans people might affect that? That they don't. Our full training was literally "treat them like their identified gender"

So no, a donation from someone with the "opposite" sex won't kill you. You know what will kill you? Propaganda like this.

We have literal evidence in living memory of what happens when mass hysteria is whipped up over blood donations. My parents lost one of their best friends in Mexico during the AIDs crisis, because the media wouldn't stop screaming about contaminated blood and how it would kill you and your entire family. He died in his thirties from a fucking nosebleed.

JKR cares more about clinging to her transphobia than she does about the very real deaths that could come from this. She cares more about clinging to relevancy than she cares about the lives of the people who somehow still see her as worth listening to. Her morals are a joke on a cosmic level and I hope she rots.

roisesb

Give blood (UK link) https://www.blood.co.uk/

It's good there are cool chairs and biscuits

roach-works

im still so baffled as to how you could tell what sex the blood you got ‘actually’ was, since red blood cells DON’T HAVE DNA. of all the cells in the human body to try to ascribe the properties of a biological, intrinsic, immutable sex, the red blood cells are probably most absurd ones to pick. they have no dna! none! that’s where your chromosomes are! and your blood cells have a grand total of zero x’s or y’s! they’re physically just not built like that!!! holy shit!!!!

it really demonstrates the absurdity of terfs pretending like their cause is at all scientific, rather than a deeply superstitious and irrational misunderstanding of the human body right down to the most fundamental, basic particles. you could dissect a million blood cells for twenty years, and you won’t be able to find a scrap of gender in any of them.

but it’s easier to just lie on the internet.

roach-works

correction: red blood cells do have mitochondrial DNA which you inherit from your mother and which can be used in a limited way to identify people in like, forensic situations, because you could try to compare the mitochondrial DNA from like spilled blood at a crime scene to that of a sample fresh from a person to see if it matches.

it’s still not the DNA of a nucleus and it still doesn’t contain information about your gender.

stars-bean

The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh (1977) dir. John Lounsbery and Wolfgang Reitherman

illwithaj

Me and my Doc

junkfoodcinemas

All right, kid, here’s the deal. At any given time there are around 1500 aliens on the planet most of them right here in Manhattan. And most of them are decent enough. They’re just trying to make a living.

Men in Black (1997) dir. Barry Sonnenfeld