I'd be proud

David Tennant, all and any derivative caracters. Carmilla, Orphan black and Ointb are slowly taking over my life. CURRENTLY ON EXAM HIATUS pray for me please.

[breadedtilapia-deactivated20210]

My town is gone.

If you’ve been watching the news and paying attention to California, you’ve heard about the Camp Fire.

In a matter of hours, the fire jumped to 20,000 acres. This morning it reached 70,000. My town of Paradise, where I’ve lived my entire life, was consumed entirely. Very little containment has been reached and the situation is absolute hell.

My house was one of the first to go.

My mom and my sisters and I barely got out, in separate cars, and we got separated for 10 hours. My mom and little sister were stuck in Paradise with all my pets in the flames until my stepdad was able to get gas to them so they could get out. My cat was lost, and I personally was only able to grab an extremely small amount of my own belongings because I was helping my mom to grab important documents and photos and to get the pets situated.

We are now homeless, with no clue where to go from here, and desperately in need of help to get food, clothes, supplies, anything. My mom has been disabled for 3 years and we survive on a single income from my stepdad, who is a firefighter. His friends have been hurt trying to fight this. We have a dog with us, and two guinea pigs, and a bearded dragon.

My mom set up a fundraiser, even though we are not at all the type to ask for so much help.

Click here to support Firefighter Fam Lost Home Paradise organized by Marissa Nypl

Cal Fire Family We lost our home in the Paradise Camp Fire yesterday. We didn't get to grab necessary items or clothing. We are lucky to be

☝️ That’s the last image of our house that I took this morning. It is now ashes and rubble.

If you can donate, it would mean the world to us, to help us get back on our feet. If you can’t, please share. Anything helps no matter how small.

[dfjks74r78hdg-deactivated201603]

a new law is about to be passed in Saudi Arabia that will allow the government to execute people for coming out or being openly gay online.

ignoring the fact that this is literally something out of some kind of dystopian novel, in the interests of safety i’ve emptied out my face tag and may temporarily deactivate or password protect this blog.

please reblog this and get the word out, and if you pray, please pray for me and my fellow Saudi LGBTQ+/MOGAI family.

[nicenonbinarythings]

ALSO, for those who need it [x]. its a post on erasing all traces of yourself from the interwebs. 

[kidspointofview]

this is not something to read and keep to yourself. please spread this around. may Allah keep everyone safe.

[saddest-cat-hours]

Damn, save some for the rest of us

[space-owl]

This is like the opposite of that dude sliding down a snowy hill with classical music

[dont-offend-the-bees]

unstoppable force vs immovable object

[benegesserwitch]

starcrossed lovers

[lutzlig]

[a-small-soul-deactivated2017120]

It got so much better

[blogofeggspast]

OH MY GOD IT GOT BETTER

[isnthatwizardlyood]

I GOT SHILLss

[elleroseblogs]

Sometimes self care is studying for that test. Sometimes it’s cleaning your room. Sometimes it’s having that conversation you’re afraid of having, confront that person you’re afraid to confront. Sometimes it’s not just wrapping yourself up in a blanket and relaxing. Sometimes instead, it’s taking action against the problem.

[obscvred]

[joebidensanonymous]

Joe Biden has a message for fraternity guys

If you don’t stop your brother from raping a girl, you are an accomplice 

[mrs-jamie-wellerstein]

TELL ‘EM JOE 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

[sacrificethemtothesquid]

So today started out dumb, but this afternoon was AWESOME.

I’m on the porch attempting to construct a railing for the stairs when I notice a weird noise. Like, a kind of droning or buzzing? And it’s getting loud. So I investigate. It’s coming from the neighbor’s yard. 

It is a metric fuckton of bees. I have never seen so many bees in my life. It is a fucking swarm of bees, and I have been reading about bees because I got a wild hair a few weeks back about wanting a hive of my own, but haven’t yet convinced Husbandthing, and there is suddenly a SWARMING HERD OF WILD HONEYBEES IN THE NEIGHBOR’S YARD.

I see postings on the neighborhood page all the time for feral swarm collection, but I also know the guy in the house across the alley just set up a hive. “Hey I think your hive escaped,” I text him. 

He calls me back about three minutes later. Turns out, the swarm he was supposed to get never came; the company went out of business and his order got cancelled, and he’d found out HALF AN HOUR AGO. And he says he’s got a friend who is a professional beekeeper, and he’s going to go pick her up and would it be okay if they came and got this swarm please please please?

So Bee Neighbor and Professional Beekeeper show up and immediately don bee suits. Apparently there is fierce competition for feral swarms, and the swarm in the neighbor’s tree is HUGE, and also twenty feet off the ground, and Bee Neighbor wants them very badly. 

The tree the bees are in is in a yard belonging to neither of us, so we go knock on the door, but there’s no answer. I knock on the house adjacent to it, but that guy’s not home either. Finally, I text the neighbor on the other side of me to see if he’s got contact info for the property owner, who is incredibly shy and in three years has never made eye contact. No luck. 

So…we trespass. We get my extension ladder, and Bee Neighbor climbs the tree while Professional Beekeeper stands on the ladder and walks him through the swarm collection. Turns out, you just shake the swarm into a box, and as long as the queen makes it into the box, the rest of the swarm will eventually follow. Bee Neighbor has never collected a swarm before (this is, in fact, his very first swarm of bees ever) and it takes the two of them the better part of an hour in the tree trying to shake the swarm into the box. 

Bees eventually get into the box. Bee Neighbor gets out of the tree without dying, and Professional Beekeeper examines the swarm and makes pleased noises. At this point, the box is the neighbor’s driveway, and about two thirds of the swarm is still milling around the box all confused. Since the neighbor isn’t home and we can’t contact him, he risks coming and parking right in the middle of a huge cloud of bees. Professional Beekeeper doesn’t want to move the box too far away, because we risk the milling bees losing the queen’s scent and never going into the box. An equidistant point between the current location and Bee Neighbor’s yard is the top of my recycling bin. 

So they put the box of bees on my recycling bin, and I text Husbandthing.

Now I have a box of bees that I am babysitting. They’re being all lazy and dopey and bumbling around. I think I might be in love. Bee Neighbor will pick the box up later tonight and put them in his hive, and then the bees will be MY neighbors too!!

THIS HAS BEEN THE BEST DAY EVER

[primarybufferpanel]

#beekeeping #also we left a note on the absent neighbor’s door #hi sorry we trespassed #but as you can see from your security cam footage #there was a giant cloud of bees #and we came and got them #we figured you did not want a yard full of bees #and we will love them #yours very sincerely #the friendly neighborhood bee team [Tags by @sacrificethemtothesquid]

[oodlyenough]

love when i can’t figure out how to google something elegantly, type an undeniably stupid phrase, and then… somehow… get exactly what i was looking for

thanks google u always have my back

[isnthatwizardlyood]

but...why?

[neuromedical]

Looking at something truly gross

People, usually: Eww, what the fuck is that *looks away*

Med students: Eww, what fuck is that *looks closer*

[homotology]

*cautiously pokes the thing™*

[currentsinbiology]

Folk contraceptives lead researchers to drugs that block fertilization

Two chemicals found in anti-fertility folk medicines block a key step in fertilization—the meeting of egg and sperm—and may make effective alternatives to today’s hormone-based contraceptives, which sometimes cause side effects.                                

The chemicals are effective at low doses that seem to have no adverse effect on egg or sperm, other than to prevent the sperm from pushing through the cells that congregate around the egg and an enveloping membrane called the zona pelucida.

They work by stopping sperm’s power kick, which is normally stimulated by the hormone progesterone secreted by cells surrounding the egg and makes the sperm’s tail whip forcefully to propel it toward and into the egg.

The chemicals could serve as an emergency contraceptive taken either before or after intercourse, or as a permanent contraceptive via a skin patch or vaginal ring, say researchers at the University of California, Berkeley. Human sperm take about five to six hours to mature once they enter the female reproductive system, which is enough time for the drug to enter the system and block the kick.

Also, because the chemicals prevent fertilization, they may be a more acceptable alternative in the eyes of those who object to emergency contraceptives, such as Plan B, that prevent the implantation of a potentially viable fertilized egg.

“Because these two plant compounds block fertilization at very, very low concentrations—about 10 times lower than levels of levonorgestrel in Plan B—they could be a new generation of emergency contraceptive we nicknamed ‘molecular condoms,’” said Polina Lishko, an assistant professor of molecular and cell biology, who led the team that discovered the anti-fertility properties of the two chemicals. “If one can use a plant-derived, non-toxic, non-hormonal compound in lesser concentration to prevent fertilization in the first place, it could potentially be a better option.”

Lishko, first author Nadja Mannowetz, a project scientist, and former postdoctoral fellow Melissa Miller will report their findings online May 15 in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Hormones surrounding the egg trigger hyperactivation in sperm cells. The whip-like motion of the sperm’s tail provides the power kick it needs to penetrate and fertilize the egg. Credit: UC Berkeley graphic by Carin Cain.   

Compounds extracted from two plants, thunder god vine and aloe, prevent hyperactivation in sperm, the power kick necessary to fertilize the egg. The compounds are potential emergency contraceptives. Credit: Carin Cain, UC Berkeley        

[sixpenceee]

Mother of Pearl Shell Skull Carvings by Gregory Halili

[jackthebard]

Just remember. There is no such thing as a fake geek girl. There are only fake geek boys. Science fiction was invented by a woman.

[sourcedumal]

[shuttersmiley]

Specifically a teenage girl. You know, someone who would be a part of the demographic that some of these boys are violently rejecting.

[foxsan-deactivated20140515]

Isaac Asimov.

[sim0nbaz-deactivated20170205]

yo mary shelley wrote frankenstein in 1818 and isaac asimov was born in 1920 so you kinda get my point

[fancyeliza-deactivated20200804]

If you want to push it back even further Margaret Cavendish, the duchess of Newcastle (1623-1673) wrote The Blazing World in 1666, about a young woman who discovers a Utopian world that can only be accessed via the North Pole - oft credited as one of the first scifi novels

Women have always been at the forefront of literature, the first novel (what we would consider a novel in modern terms) was written by a woman (Lady Muraskai’s the Tale of Genji in the early 1000s) take your snide “Isaac Asimov” reblogs and stick it

even in terms of male scifi authors, asimov was predated by Jules Verne, HG Wells, George Orwell, you could have even cited Poe or Jonathan Swift has a case but Asimov?

PbbBFFTTBBBTBTTBBTBTTT so desperate to discredit the idea of Mary Shelly as the mother of modern science fiction you didn’t even do a frickin google search For Shame

[cryptovalid]

And if you want to go back even further, the first named, identified author in history was Enheduanna of Akkad, a Sumerian high priestess.

[gunthatshootsennui]

Kinda funny, considering this Isaac Asimov quote on the subject:

Mary Shelley was the first to make use of a new finding of science which she advanced further to a logical extreme, and it is that which makes Frankenstein the first true science fiction story.

[deathcomes4u]

Even Isaac Asimov ain’t having none of your shit, not even posthumously.

[velocigrey-deactivated20160825]

You know what else was invented by women? Masked vigilantes, the precursor to the modern superhero. Baroness Emma Orczy wrote The Scarlet Pimpernel in 1905. The character would later inspire better known masked vigilantes such as Zorro and Batman.

[geekinlibrariansclothing]

Got that?

[bettieleetwo]

Stick that in your international pipe and smoke it

[la-knight]

I have literally been telling people this for over a year.

[athenadark]

the first extended prose piece - ie a novel, was not, as many male scholars will shout, Don Quixote (1605) but The Tale of Genji (1008) written by a woman

[thepsychicclam]

The first autobiography ever written in English is also attributed to a woman, The Book of Margery Kempe (1430s).

[ladynorbert]

The day may come when I find this post and do not reblog it, but it is not this day.

[adragonwithbalanceissues]

I think my least favorite Hetero Trope is when the girl eats a burger or whatever and the dude is like “Wow, I like a girl who can eat” like what the fuck did your last girlfriend do, photosynthesis?

[determined-mind-deactivated2025]

[girlwhorpsalot]

I needed this.

[mentalmentalhealth]

Thank you to all the people who posted this so I ended up seeing it. I really needed this right now. Thank you!

[the-sanders-sides]

“not all men” you’re right. thomas sanders would never do this

[thatsthat24]

If you’re referring to sneaking a fry off your plate while you’re in the bathroom… I actually probably would, I’m not gonna lie. 

[oneiriad]

I’m a little bit fascinated by Sensate society such as it’s being unveiled in the second season.

Because clearly, there is a society. A remarkable one and a pretty well-organized one - I mean, between the Archipelago network and how apparently even Sensates in Nairobi has access to blockers, despite trustworthy medicine in general being shown to be hard to come by in Kenya - this society is well organized and probably has some form of - if not government, then at least people able to make decisions in emergency situations, such as ordering Puck to quarantine himself.

And obviously this society is going to be very, very slow to let our heroes in.

Part of it is that obviously every sensate we’ve met so far is pretty paranoid about accidentally connecting with - well, the wrong sort of sensate. Which is a very reasonable fear to have. On a shallow level, well, do you want someone like Puck following you around? Of course not. Far more serious though and probably a recent development in response to the BPO hunting sensates - and, as we see with Wolfgang, if the BPO gets there hands on just one member of a cluster, they can extract information to get their hands on the rest.

But also - I think Sensate society works partly on introductions and partly as a vast family network. I think that usually, newborn Sensates will be guided through the process by their parent. Their parent will explain what they are, will arrange for them to start meeting trustworthy Sensates in their geographical area. Will help them integrate into Sensate society.

And, of course, the usual Sensate will have lots of Sensate relatives. Their own cluster, their parent, their parent’s cluster, older and younger cluster siblings, cousins, etc. I wouldn’t be at all surprised if there are Sensate clans claiming descent from particularly remarkable Sensates.

But our heroes are orphans, which is already a strike against them. Which is probably not an unheard of situation, except - well - they’re not just orphans. They’re the children of a collaborator. Their mother’s surviving cluster-sibling is trying to help them as best he can - but clearly Jonas is compromised as well.

There’s quite simply nobody to vouch for them.

I suspect that prior to BPO whoever stumbled across orphan Sensates would have been expected to either act in loco parentis or at least ping the Archipelago for somebody willing to play the part. But now? Connecting to an unknown Sensate is not something anybody’s particularly willing to do in the first place, and connecting to the cluster born to a BPO collaborator?

[genderbinaryisforlosers]

*:･ﾟ✧* the cluster as babies ✧ﾟ･: *ヽ(◕ヮ◕ヽ)