FKA thebiobabe

she/her/hers science, anti-racism, and activism.  Questions/Corrections are welcome, TERFS are NOT.

[boofinator]

Tiles

[4x01]

saw a tiktok of a mother taking her very tiny daughter to an art museum and she’s just walking around going “whoooa” “woooaah” to everything but then they got to a marble statue of a nude woman lying on her back and the girl points and goes “mommy🫵” and i just immediately welled up with tears and all the comments are just laughing about it and of course it’s funny but how are you not insanely moved by the way art connects everyone on earth from a centuries-old sculptor to a toddler in 2023

[petrichara]

Mother and baby viewing Van Gogh's Madame Roulin and Her Baby at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, US. By the Boston Herald

I’m not sure how to look at art by Lynda Barry

[ink-the-artist]

Why I Captured This MRI of a Mother and Child

A venerable symbol of human love, as you've never seen it before

[redwooding]

Now THAT is a cool and very sweet ending.

[theoneofwhomisblue]

Mouse MD

[owlservice]

He needs mouse bites to live

[laughingsquid]

Photographer Raises Baby Pangolin Saved From Poachers in the Documentary ‘Pangolin: Kulu’s Journey’

[pngblog]

[adurot]

I have just learned that Mountain Goats are NOT, in fact, actual Goats.

[adurot]

I have never heard of this band. I AM in fact referring to the animal.

[adurot]

But wait, there’s more!

[adurot]

[thoughtportal]

[h4h4n0tfunny]

This one got me good 🤣

[ayeforscotland]

As American-funded groups in Scotland ramp up their protests against abortion healthcare, it’s worth a reminder that they don’t give a flying fuck about the women they claim to care for.

Since Texas banned abortion, sepsis rates have soared and the maternal mortality rate has risen by 33%.

Texas Banned Abortion. Then Sepsis Rates Soared.

ProPublica’s first-of-its-kind analysis is the most detailed look yet into a rise in life-threatening complications for women experiencing p

[tgirl-thucydides]

[guerrillatech]

[justsomeantifas]

Rest in Power, Edward Crawford. 

[kilowattsup]

“Crawford is the second high-profile Ferguson protestors to be found dead of gunshot wounds in recent months. Darren Seals, a well-known activist in the community, was found shot dead in a burning car on September 2016. His case remains unsolved. Maria Chappelle-Nadal, a member of the Missouri Senate, tweeted her belief that Ferguson protestors are being hunted.”

“Crawford’s father Edward Sr. told the Post-Dispatch that he died of a gunshot wound, which police are treating as self-inflicted. Crawford Sr. told the newspaper that his son had been in “good spirits,” recently, and was in the midst of training for a new job and moving in to a new apartment.” 

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[chilewithcarnage]

[liberalsarecool]

The 'all lives matter' MAGA pro-lifers are a Christofascist eugenics movement.

[librarycards]

many ppl smarter than me have said this already but attacks on trans people’s personhood + attacks on immigrants’ & refugees’ personhood + attacks on disabled people’s personhood is directly connected bc both are imagined as threats to a white supremacist eugenic national body, there is a concrete reason that we are all being targeted simultaneously and dramatically and it is because fascism needs to constantly reproduce to survive

[librarycards]

I say personhood deliberately bc we gain nothing by reifying the white supremacist & inherently exclusionistic construct of the “human”

[librarycards]

Make no mistake. As long as the “human” is supreme. Someone will be subhuman.

[librarycards]

Before this gets toooo big, I’d like to cite a VITAL reading to think about the fundamental link between white supremacy and/as human supremacy. That is Sylvia Wynter’s opus, “Unsettling the Coloniality of Being/Power/Truth/Freedom.” She breaks down the genealogy of the human under white-Christian supremacy and the cultural shift from religious discourses of human/white supremacy to enlightenment medico-scientific ones. You can read it for free here.

[liberalsarecool]

Elon and DOGE have access to your banking info and can drain your account.

Russia needs money? Maybe they will access your life savings. Putin is Musk ally.

Speak out against Musk? He will target dissent.

Want to file a complaint? They got rid of CFPB, Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.

This is beyond apocalyptic.

[palestinian95]

Now is absolutely the time we should be talking about Gaza nonstop. Cowering will not protect us.

Please don't stop helping us or talking about us. At least any donation makes a difference in our lives. A donation helps us fight famine.

[bloodmoonlich]

From r/fednews

And if you haven't been following what's happening to federal employees, here's AP's summary:

A comprehensive look at DOGE's firings and layoffs so far

Thousands of federal government employees have been shown the door in the first month of President Donald Trump’s administration.