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Hi! You can call me Mossy. He / Him, Trans ally, Anti-Fascist, Anti-Censorship, Anti-GenAI, Pro-Privacy, Pro-Palestine 🍉 🍉 🍉

[mossbyrn]

The first accurate map of our Milky Way galaxy

with data from ESA's GAIA mission in taken over the last decade

Several trillion stars were logged.

This really is what our galaxy looks like. We could never travel several thousand lightyears to take pictures from outside our Milky Way, so this the best we can do for now.

1 kpc = 3,260 light years

or 30.9 quadrillion km / 19.2 quadrillion miles

[devincastro]

[tguzz]

I will always reblog this

[bradspace3000]

still remember how revolutionary this ad felt 10 years ago

[annesophiewashere]

excuse me but it still feels revolutionary

[stevviefox]

Keep reblogging until it feels normal everywhere.

[ruffboi-mags]

For context: this came out in 2011 in Australia. Same-sex marriage would not be legalized until December 2017.

It was only legalized in 8 US states (the 8th only a few months before), and wouldn’t be legalized nation-wide until 2015.

It was only legal in TEN COUNTRIES in 2011. We wouldn’t hit 20 countries until 2017. (Australia was 23rd)

As of today (April 14, 2026), I believe only 38 countries have fully legalized same-sex marriage. Out of somewhere around 200 countries in the world. That’s only ~19% of countries.

This is still revolutionary.

[interestingmistakes]

Reblogging this manually. Op doesn't want credit for fear of being terminated.

[tpwrtrmnky]

A lot of the time when I point out that some right-wing policy is proven to not achieve the thing it purports to have as a goal, people rightly point out that the real goal is the negative outcomes that do happen.

Which is correct!

But this is often framed as me approaching the right wing naively by the respondent.

That's not the case at all. I know they're evil. The goal is to demonstrate that they're lying by exposing the way the rhetoric fails to line up with reality.

This has to be ongoing work because someone new has their political awakening every day. Every day, someone needs to learn that the right wing position is wrong on all levels, not just the obvious ones.

[realflaminglily]

there will be people out there who still think the war on drugs (as the absolute first thing that comes to mind) is a legitimate social cause against an antisocial blight on society. if you come out the gate with (the very true statement) that it's actually been a deliberate campaign to target minorities and other undesirable groups to the ruling class, you're going to sound like a clueless conspiracy nut

whereas if you come with a very defensible, statistically supported point of "it doesn't work and has never worked" you can open the door to the follow up question of "why did the government do it in the first place, and (in many cases) why are they still doing it?"

[tpwrtrmnky]

This, exactly.

The play is to:

Demonstrate that the policy doesn't work

Demonstrate that the people enforcing the policy have everything they need to know it doesn't work

Provide the context of what the policy achieves in the absence of its "intended" outcome.

Remind people that the purpose of a system is what it does.

Then, instead of being a non-sequitur claim you're just pulling out of thin air, the conclusion is the most reasonable way to assemble the provided puzzle pieces.

[coolerpine]

Did you know I'm gay? 🌈✨

[mothmiso]

Bush Bay, Antigua (2) (3) by James Petts

[loafpile]

chemically dependent on cuddles

[evilwizard]

hey guys so the hero that keeps barging in my tower seems to be using some sort of chronomancy called “quick saving.” have we figured out any counters for that yet or what’s the deal

[le-dreadmau5]

Ok so Dallas, Texas now has a Trans Pride Mural dedicated to Marsha P. Johnson and Sylvia Rivera and I’m living for it

[ssylas]

This gave me fucking chills.

[manuciruja]

awww the like button turns into a rainbow when you press it! that's so cute...hey staff what's with all the trans women you keep nuking?

[manuciruja]

i think we should be ridiculing them more for this. you don't get to try and go all "queer website" when your staff likes to go on nuking sprees targeting the trans fem users

[factbot]

[despazito]

the second radish is 29 feet away

[tranarchist]

[kompanie-mutter-deactivated2021]

this is legitimately the funniest post on this site

[frostfyrezero]

Happy pride, fellow gays

[unhingedfaggot]

Tumblr added a pride flag flourish for pride month that very specifically doesn't have trans colours. After months of undeniably transphobic moderation and randomly banning people. Happy fucking pride.

[slimespecter]

misc critters

[blondiesdomain]

Traveled this weekend. I got some oversized wooden dice at an antique shop and a copy of Alice in Wonderland from the 1920s

[feather-bone]

Creature mail! I'm extending the deadline a lil bit this month bc I posted about it so late and I'm very pleased with this set - become a patron by June 5th for these woodland creatures in your mailbox. :3c

[ardri-na-bpiteog]

happy pride month to everyone except transphobic "LGB" gays