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Letter to 97.1 St. Louis: Drop Allman

Letter to 97.1 St. Louis: Drop Allman

Jamie Allman, left, recently threatened Parkland survivor David Hogg in a tweet. Trigger warning for threat of r*pe At least three advertisers have pulled their ad buys from Jamie Allman’s show on FM NewsTalk 97.1 in St. Louis, Missouri after the radio and tv host came under fire for a threat he made against David Hogg, a survivor of the Parkland mass shooting, in a tweet I won’t post here but is…

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This Is Not Okay: A Student Speaks Out

This Is Not Okay: A Student Speaks Out

guest post by Sydney L. This is not okay. We had a fire drill at school today. An unplanned fire drill. Everyone immediately freaked out. Whispers of “what if it’s a trick?” “Should I text my mom?” “What if I get shot?” Went through my classroom. We were genuinely terrified that we were going to die. This is not okay. My teachers first words were not telling us where our class goes during a fire…

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A Wish for the Second Coming

Image manipulation by Rosie (orig. photog. unknown) I wish he’d come back, this savior of yours This perfect being you’ve been telling me about since I can remember Who slept and ate with the criminals and outcasts you despise. I wish I could summon him as easily as goblins This being of light and omnipotence The one whose love outshines all but whose judgement we’re meant to fear (you don’t, do…

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Regarding Grace

Regarding Grace: My thoughts on rules for inclusion in the #MeToo club.

Let me start by saying that I believe and support Grace and I think Aziz Ansari has some important self-reflection to do regarding his decision to wear a “TimesUp” pin to the Golden Globes in light of his behavior (which, while he hasn’t denied it, he hasn’t exactly taken responsibility, either). He’s certainly not alone in needing to reflect on performative allyship without accompanying action,…

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New Comic Re: Nazis and Both-Sidesism in 2017

New Comic Re: Nazis and Both-Sidesism in 2017

It’s been a while since I made a comic, but I found a new site to make them on and this has been kicking around my head. So many things don’t make sense these days, but this logic I just can’t abide. I hate to think of how our children’s children will see us when they look back. Anyway, here it is: MMAS the Comic – Teaching 2017: Charlottesville See it on Facebook and Twitter. Description: Frame…

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I Was Mobbed and Assaulted at a Conservative Rally

I Was Mobbed and Assaulted at a Conservative Rally

Trigger warning for mob intimidation and physical assault. It has taken me nearly a month to be ready to write this. It may not be coherent, but it is true to the best of my ability to tell it. Just over three weeks ago, on May Day, a crowd of Trump supporters swarmed me, trapped me, worked together to intimidate me, and finally one of them physically assaulted me when I fought back.  I was live…

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We Deserve Better Men

We Deserve Better Men

Content Note: SA/CSA/gaslighting Me, age 2 or so To the men, related and unrelated to me, who used my body from age three to 41, who felt entitled to take from me without my consent in nearly every way, I deserved better. To the men who told me that I lied about what happened to me, that what happened to me was my fault, that what happened to me wasn’t really what it absolutely was, I deserved…

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The Rape Culture Candidate

The Rape Culture Candidate

Trigger warning: rape, rape apologism, and all associated fuckery.  For some of us, it’s been obvious—and ignored by the mainstream—for far too long: Donald J. Trump is rape culture incarnate. His overt misogyny and objectification of women, and the fact that he has a well-documented history of abusing women both verbally and physically, meant that many of us, while disgusted, were not even…

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Not All Men, But These Ones

Not All Men, But These Ones

Trigger Warning for the many ways we experience violence at the hands of (not all) men. I saw a quote a while back that hit home for me. I can’t find it now, but it went something like this: The issue is not that all men are violent. The issue is that nearly all women have experienced violence at the hands of men. The sad but true fact is that while not all men are violent, men do commit violence…

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Actions Speak Louder Than Prayers: Be the Helpers

Actions Speak Louder Than Prayers: Be the Helpers

via Equality Florida’s GoFundMe As I struggled to form words to begin this post, a CNN notification just popped up to tell me that—as the world reels from the terror attack on Pulse, a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida, which killed at least 50 people and injured at least 50 more making it the “deadliest mass shooting in US history”—police in Los Angeles have in custody a person who was armed to…

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Pro Bono Editing Services for Marginalized Writers

Pro Bono Editing Services for Marginalized Writers

Everyone—especially everyone writing for publication—needs an editor. Unfortunately, not all publications employ copyeditors, and not everyone can afford to hire an editor to polish their work before it goes live. As an editor with 20+ years experience, this is a need I can help fill. I am offering one short-form editing slot per month to Social Justice writers from  marginalized groups,…

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Polished Malachite Stalactite - Copper Crescent, Congo

[xekstrin]

*looks around*

Is

Is anyone gonna say it

[brambledboneyards]

malachite is a poisonous mineral. please do not fuck the malachite stalactite

[zdravomilla-deactivated20220114]

@lizaleigh do you know any rock people that can confirm/deny because I am very curious and really don’t feel like getting into a conversation with my geophysicist brother that MAY somehow get back to the fact I saw a malachite that looked like a weird dildo.

[lizaleigh]

…sadly, I am not on good enough terms with any of our partner geologists to just attach this to an email with the subject line: “EXPLAIN.” Although I think @mollisaurus is a mineral person. Thoughts?

[mollisaurus]

oh geeze, i’m kinda rusty on minerals but malachite is just copper carbonate and is really common in both antique and modern jewelry so i think like if you were really gun-ho about it you could go ahead and put it wherever you want?

[vulcanology-geology]

It’s really only a problem if you’re polishing or cutting it. The particles would be bad to breathe. It’s rather porous too, so I would worry about bacteria growing. Well, being literal anyway… Better to leave the poor thing alone. ._.

[thepioden]

I mean it kinda depends on where you stick it because malachite does not like acidic environments very much and the malachite will degrade and also might dye your bits blue-green as the copper dissolves out.

So use a condom when fucking rocks is the takeaway here.

[rosenagldky-deactivated20201223]

Oh my god guys it’s poisonous

It is super poisonous

There is a reason we do not use it in make up any more

Not even with a condom, do not fuck the rock

[nassadii]

Try this one instead. 

[naughtylittledragon]

malachite literally explodes in water does it not?

[rosenagldky-deactivated20201223]

I… no… I think you’re thinking of pure sodium?

Malachite is however water soluble, which really just means it will poison you quicker

[reclusiveandelusive]

This is both hilarious and cool as fuck because you’re getting all this information on minerals and rocks. You’re also watching people argue over wether or not you can fuck this rock

[bijoux-et-mineraux]

I go on hiatus for a week and come back to find tumblr molesting my post, but hey, at least we all learned something so yay tumblr, you just keep on  being you.

[aimee-b-loved]

I’m still not sure if I can fuck this rock.

[adulthoodisokay]

I’m looking into it.

[adulthoodisokay]

UPDATE:

[buzzfeed]

Today in “I’m so sorry, coworkers, it’s for Tumblr,” I brought this post to the attention the science reporters at BuzzFeed. Dan Vergano did a some research and weighed in on the question “Can you use malachite as a dildo or is it toxic?”

The answer is “It’s probably fine, just wash it first and maybe use a bunch of lube.”

[sprigglebearstudios]

Oh man this got so much better than the last time I saw this post

[0hcicero]

This is my favourite. Science side of tumblr: asking the REAL questions

[badscienceshenanigans-deactivat]

*biologist crashes through the underbrush* Ok so here’s the thing though Malachite is not poisonous to YOU. BUT fucking this stalactite will probably wreck your vaginal flora and leave you with a gruesome infection within a couple days. Want details? SO GLAD YOU ASKED, ‘CAUSE HERE THEY ARE. • Malachite is not copper oxide. It’s Cu2CO3(OH)2. Like most carbonates it’s water soluble– that’s how it became a stalactite in the first place! And technically any given chunk of “malachite” isn’t just malachite– it’s a mix of various copper carbonates & oxides. This will become important later.  • When malachite dissolves it makes a bunch of copper (Cu++) ions. Cu++ is GREAT at killing bacteria and fungi– so good at it that sprays with Cu++ get used a lot as a spray in agriculture to stop plant disease. It takes such a large dose to harm larger organisms that copper sprays are used a lot in organic agriculture (like Bordeaux mixture).  So bottom line, yes malachite is technically nontoxic to humans. But it kills bacteria when it dissolves and releases Cu++. • Malachite dissolves somewhat slowly in water– but vaginal secretions aren’t just any water. A healthy human vagina has a pH of 3.8-4.5 and a salinity of about 0.9%. It’s also warmer than your average underground cave at 37°C (or 98.5°F in American meat units). As luck would have it, acidity, salinity, and warmth all make malachite dissolve faster.  • In other words, the human vagina dissolves malachite.  • I have no deeper explanation for why human females can dissolve rocks with our genitals. It simply is.  • Gonna to take a quick moment to point out that sex toys that dissolve when you use them are maybe not the best investment.  • Anyway the key question now is “how fast does the human vagina dissolve malachite?” Are we talking geological timescale, a Nazis-in-Indiana-Jones situation, or something in between? If the reaction kinetics of dissolution are very slow, then there’s nothing to worry about. An encounter with a stalactite would have to last years for enough Cu++ to leach out to cause problems. If it’s quick then we’re in trouble.  • Unfortunately it looks like nobody really knows. One of the best sources on how malachite dissolves & precipitates in water– an EPA document on how to avoid too much Cu++ in municipal drinking water systems– helpfully says “The kinetic constraints on the formation of these solids in water systems are largely unexplored” (p. 42) because end equilibrium points is all you need to run a city water system safely. In other words, the experiments that would tell us how fast malachite dissolves in various types of water just don’t exist because nobody’s ever needed to know before. So we’d better assume it’s going to happen reasonably quickly, #for safety. • So in best scientific fashion, we’re just going to bullshit our way ahead using what facts we DO have on hand: endpoint equlibria.  • Is there any info out there telling us what equilibrium concentration of Cu++ we get in salty acidic water at body temperature? Almost! One J.F. Scaife published some great data on this back in 1957. TAKE IT AWAY, SCAIFE. 

That orange box is how many moles of dissolved Cu++ Scaife got from sticking malachite in some water that had 0.171 moles NaCl/L (body salinity is about 0.154 moles NaCl/L so this is slightly less salty than people) at 30°C. He’s got no acidity in there, and again the salinity and temperature are slightly lower than people. But this is probably the closest we’re going to get to data on how malachite behaves in vaginas anytime soon, folks. From this we can take away that if you leave malachite alone in a vagina you’ll get AT LEAST 9.12 x 10^-4 moles/L, or 5.8 ppm, of Cu++ at equilibrium.  • Recall from above that most “malachite” isn’t actually pure malachite, it’s a mix of various copper carbonates & oxides. The EPA document elaborates: “[T]raditional ‘eyeball’ identification of malachite by its blue-green color is extremely unreliable, because almost all cupric hydroxysulfates, hydroxycarbonates, hydroxychlorides, and even fresh cupric hydroxide can be some shade of blue-green. … Thus, the uncertainty in the computed copper concentration in equilibrium with malachite is at least about a factor of 2 … until further experimental data focusing on this problem is generated.” In other words, “do your math and then double how much Cu++ you think is going to be in the water, just in case.” So that gives us 11.6ppm Cu++, at equilibrium, with malachite in a (til now!) healthy vagina.  • Next step: do we have any idea what happens to bacteria in acid conditions with copper? OH MY GOD WE TOTALLY DO. Gyawali et al 2011 checked this out in the context of “so what if we rinsed tomatoes with a solution of lactic acid and copper, because that would be a safe & organic way to get rid of E. coli?” So now this post has officially ruined stalactites, vaginas, and tomatoes.

^This would happen. These are the counts of 4 E. coli strains exposed to various levels of lactic acid & Cu++ for 8 hours. This table only shows the end counts but it represents the death of 99.7% of bacteria*. • Losing 99.7% of your vaginal flora is seriously bad news. You’re looking at really good odds of a yeast infection, bacterial vaginosis, and/or other infection issues. And that’s if you’re lucky enough to not be in the 4% of the population or so that’s sensitive to skin contact with copper.  • The good news? Biochemically speaking, you’re probably ok to put it in your butt. It’s not as acidic or salty in there, plus there’s a huuuuuge stockpile of gut microbes right upstream that can quickly repopulate the colon after spelunking is complete. However this stalactite is not flared at the base so it is the wrong shape for putting in your butt. Do not put this stalactite in your butt.  • This all looks like fun and games, but I think it’s really interesting that the internet’s mistake in concluding that this stalactite is fuckable is very similar to the mistake made by the Flint water management system. Hear me out.  • Central to the Flint lead poisoning crisis is that authorities only looked at & tested Flint’s water in its central treatment plant before it went out through the pipes. Not after it went through the pipes. They did not consider what would happen biochemically as it went through the pipes and metals started dissolving.  • Similarly, in concluding that the stalactite is fuckable, the internet only considered the stalactite itself. Not the biochemical processes that would happen to it as it, welp, went through the pipes.  • Media frequently reports that the Flint River’s water is “corrosive,” leading many to believe the river is full of industrial waste. This ain’t the case. You’d need industry to fill a river with industrial waste, and industry left decades ago. That’s why Flint’s so poor. So what IS in the water? Road salt. Plain old stupid road salt. The old Detroit-based source didn’t have salt because it came from Lake Huron which has a large, mostly rural watershed. Meanwhile the Flint River runs through a lot of towns, making it slightly salty as everything melts down in spring. And as we recall from the stalactite experience, a little salt is all it takes to get metals to dissolve.  • Information on this engineering problem was not coming through clearly from the engineering or chemistry sides. It took a biologist, pediatrician Mona Hanna-Attisha, to document the real-time results and provide the data to kick-start a high-level investigation.  • Morals of the story: when dealing with a biological system pls consider asking a biologist, your vagina and/or city could depend on this • Pls use a condom when fucking any water-soluble material • Still don’t put the stalactite in your butt -3/10 do not recommend

[astolat]

OK, I haven’t reblogged this before now but the final post takes it to a whole new level and I can no longer resist. 

[odinsblog]

Talk about speaking truth to power…

I want to applaud Ashley Williams, the #BlackLivesMatter protester who confronted Hillary Clinton and demanded an apology for Clinton’s use of “superpredators with no conscience and no empathy, who need to be brought to heel” when she used dog whistles to refer to Black youths as little more than animals, as she advocated for Bill Clinton’s notorious 3-Strikes crime bill (which disproportionately targeted and imprisoned Black people).

Clinton replied, “You know what? No one has ever asked me about this before. You’re the first one to ask me about it.” 

Besides noting the obvious problem with Ms. Clinton apparently needing to be publicly prompted before it ever even occurred to her to apologize for saying something so casually racist, if there are people who have spoken to her about this, then I hope they feel sufficiently empowered to step forward and make Mrs. Clinton have to explain her obfuscation.

I find it very hard to believe that no one at all has ever spoken to her and never asked about this before.

And once again, all respect to Ms. Ashley Williams. Disruptive action protests take a lot more than planning and coordination - it also requires guts. I’m a soon to be 32 year old Black man who is an inch shy of 6 feet tall, tipping the scales at 185 pounds, and I seriously doubt that I would have had even half the courage needed to do what Ms. Williams so bravely did.

From Bree Newsome to Sandra Bland and beyond, my people are stepping up and speaking out, and I am so proud.

Thank you.

[ferretail]

Hating terfs = hating females.. Sorry to break it to u tumblr

[ilovedeco]

this is legit one of the worst posts ive seen on tumblr dot com

[ferretail]

Good to know you hate females then

[ilovedeco]

im a girl??? i dont hate other girls wyd pal

[radroach1994-deactivated2019082]

i dont hate females i just hate gross transphobic motherfuckers that promote and encourage transmisogyny and sexist stereotypes/norms 😊

[sidisi]

Hating Donald Trump = hating everyone who has hands.. Sorry to break it to you Tumblr..

[ferretail]

Great job comparing a man to women

[sidisi]

By making a sassy comment at me, a human, you are making a sassy comment at all humans, including women. way to disrespect women and also gay people and also zookeepers and also johnny depp you bigot

[makemeasammichrosie]

I don’t hate “females” or women for that matter, I just hate when people allow fear and bigotry to rule their lives and contribute to destryoing the lives of others. I do hate hands-havers, though, because Donald Trump. 

[bisexual-books]

Empty yearning, white nonsense, and Meg Rosoff

I am so angry at Meg Rosoff that I am practically shaking.   

For those who don’t know, Meg Rosoff is a white YA author who has written several award-winning books including one that has been made into a movie.  And in the fine tradition of clueless straight white people everywhere, Rosoff recently shot her mouth off on facebook in response to an article of Huffington Post about Large Fears, a childen’s book about a black boy who loves the color pink.  In the article, the author talks about how young queer black boys need representaiton in literature.  

And Meg Rosoff went off:

Can I just take a second to say, 

You can read the entire horrid exchange here, including Rosoff changing what she claims to be saying, being rude, speaking white nonsense, and inexplicably digging herself into a deeper hole.

Plenty of people have had really well-written responses, particularly this piece called The Unbearable Whiteness of Meg Rosoff, as well as great personal response from Kay M, Linda Sue Park, and others.  They are rightfully using this incident to call out white privilege in the publishing world and talking about the necessity of this conversation.  Rosoff has responded by blocking people who disagree with her on twitter.  

But it wasn’t just any black boys that Meg Rosoff was slamming.  It was the queer ones.  And that’s why I feel like I need to say something here.  

Dear Meg Rosoff:  

You have NO idea.  You have no idea the volumes of asks we get on this blog that sit unpublished, full of queer people desperate for characters who look or act like them.  You have no idea that they so often go without response because we can’t find things for these people no matter how hard we try.  Do we have books with Latina biromantic asexuals?  How about autistic bisexuals?  Asian trans girls?  Black boys who don’t know if they are really bi?  How about demisexual bisexual genderqueer people?

In almost three years of running this blog, I cannot think of a SINGLE black bisexual boy protagonist in YA Fiction.  Not one.  I only know of one black bisexual character in YA, Enki in The Summer Prince.  I went through our bisexual character tag and I’ve got nothing else.  Voluminous amounts of nothing.  I know of no YA books with black trans boys and very few with black gay boys (I know of none where they are the protagonist).  

Some days I log into our inbox, and it breaks my heart.  It is a vast expanse of human longing oozing out in desperate grasps across a digital void.  I see the numbers over the little envelope symbol and on some days, I dread clicking it.  I dread seeing that naked yearning that I can’t soothe.  I dread leaving it unanswered, staring at me every time I check the inbox, because I don’t have anything to give these people.  They don’t want what they have which is oodles and oodles of white straight people.  They want something more.  

And you know NOTHING about what they need if you think they want a goddamn pamphlet.  

So let me reiterate that Rosoff (and everyone else who might share her views) has no clue.  

She might have some cracked out white straight lady idea of what teens should get, but she knows NOTHING about what they want.  Or what they need.  Or what they reach out for with quiet desperation.  

Now I personally believe that living well is the best revenge, so go buy yourself a copy of Large Fears, the children’s book that started this all.  Give it to a queer black boy you know.  Give it to any child you know so they can know that queer black boys are real.  Give it to them because you can, because in this case you have something to give.  

Black queer boys are important and they deserve EVERYTHING that white straight boys (and girls) get in YA novels in spades.  They deserve books, not just pamphlets (the fuck?? pamphlets?  Seriously pamphlets??).  They deserve better than what we have to give.  And they sure as hell deserve a lot better than Meg Rosoff.  

- Sarah 

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They Are Not Trolls. They Are Men.

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