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Internet Elder, He/They, Asks are currently: Open AuDHD Goth Hobbit gamer who is MARRIED

[beardedmrbean]

[vivian-the-barbarian]

@uwathebestgirl

[the-eldritch-angel]

I think this one speaks for itself

[sometiktoksarevalid]

[ezra-didntreallyfall]

[thoughtkick]

“You are worth finding. Worth knowing. Worth loving. You and all your one million layers. Always hold that close.”

— Danielle Doby

[tboy-cock]

hey so trans men are being forcibly detransitioned in prisons in the hopes to preserve their fertility. and the president admitted this but it didnt even start under him its been happening. why arent we talking about this? why isnt this a discussion?

[thoughtkick]

“A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.”

— Walter Winchell

[tboyoceanus]

I love trans men and the world is better every single day for having trans men in it

[orrinspeaks]

Can't sell my pearls from my mother. No one is wanting pearls, apparently. Fresh water pearls from China, stringed into a necklace.... beautiful, but worthless.

Tried to do plasma today, but don't have an address here so we didn't qualify.

Today is my last day with Planet Fitness. No more bathrooms, showers, water, or a place to wash my under clothes.

I am sorrowful, and barely clinging to hope. We have to spend money to dump our tank and fill our city water. Out in the wilderness of the desert and our food slowly dwindling.

I am terrified.

[pupisized]

[snoopylovessoup]

[softytothecore]

[u-me-and-insomnia]

[orrinspeaks]

I can barely breathe. Today is the day I buy Benadryl or the cheapest knock off I can find!

Allergies, plus all this crap happening, add on barely any sleep for 2 weeks now I am about to lose sanity.

I'm disassociating so badly and trying to hold it together rn. It is so dry and hot, and everyone says it will get worse.

I wasn't made to be in this area! I hate everything here. It's a retirement town, every place is expensive, the weather, the lack of natural water features or rain, no free museums , no free parking, and the job market is balls.

I don't know anyone here and no one seems to want a friend. I was hoping to find friends here, but to no avail.

I am starting to feel hopeless. I wanna go back to my humid little area with it's rivers and lakes. With people who will give a friendly Good Morning.

I miss my Ideba...

[nourishedbytime]

It’s insane how every headline is like ‘Cubas power grid collapses’ as if it’s something passively happening out of the blue. As if it isn’t the u.s. energy/oil blockade on Cuba causing this, as if it isn’t the u.s. cutting off Venezuela’s oil exports to Cuba, threatening others w punishment should they provide support to Cuba. But no the power grids just randomly collapsing no agent no nothing according to these headlines and articles. & perhaps they’ll make the very astute observation that it seems like the u.s. created the conditions for this to happen (who would’ve thought?) but only as an afterthought, sandwiched between two paragraphs about how disruptive and unfortunate and pitiful these blackouts are, with quotes cherry-picked to exploit the Cuban interviewees’ pain while maintaining the myth that this is all happening in a vacuum and there is somehow no rightful resistance against the empire

[anthonyhurd]

Feeling kinky?

[lonelywoodland]

📷: Hannes Stier

[ayeforscotland]

Every so often online you’ll hear about a woman who spilled McDonald’s coffee on her lap that sued McDonald’s. It’s touted as the prime example of a frivolous lawsuit, and McDonald’s have put in a lot of money to spin the case that way.

I'm sick of seeing that lie peddled by clickbait news sites and popular accounts trying to ridicule her with "Oh you didn't expect coffee to be hot?".

What actually happened should radicalise you.

In 1994, Stella Liebeck, who was 79 years old, spilled coffee on her lap while in the passengers seat of the car. The coffee was dangerously hot and caused third-degree burns over 16% of her body including her inner thighs and genitals.

*Warning - Very graphic images of the burns*

Image 1.

Image 2.

Stella originally tried to settle with McDonald's for the cost of her medical care - $20,000. They only offered her $800.

Throughout the case it was discovered that McDonald's were selling coffee between 30-40 degrees higher than other places. That change in temperature causes third-degree burns much faster, if it had been from somewhere else she would have had roughly 20 seconds to wipe away the coffee and avoid third-degree burns.

McDonald's were behind the smear campaign against her, so whenever you see anyone spread their misinformation, you can now correct them.

[mjalti]

[david-goldrock]

Smart woman next to an unbelievable achievement is a picture niche that will never get old

[awnerd]

Then you’re gonna love this photo of Annie Jump Canon.

Working at Harvard in the late 1800’s and early 1900’s as a “Computer”, Annie Jump Cannon cataloged stars using their spectra from photographic plates, in an effort to understand the mysteries and peculiarities of stellar spectra.

This was hard, detailed, nuanced work. By 1889, three years into her work, she had classified over 1,000 stars. By 1913, she could classify 200 stars an hour. She could classify three stars a minute, just by sight. Using a magnifying glass, she could classify stars down to 9th magnitude, 16 times fainter than the human eye can see. And she did this all with exceptional accuracy.

Over the course of her career, she personally classified more than 350,000 stars, accounting for a mind-boggling 98% of all contemporary stellar spectra classifications, a feat that wouldn’t be bested until the 1990’s with automated digital sky surveys.

Cannon used these classifications to develop the Harvard spectral classification system (O–B–A–F–G–K–M), organizing stars by surface temperature and physical properties.

It is hard to overstate just how foundational her work was to modern astronomy and astrophysics. Her classifications have enabled more than a century of breakthroughs in stellar structure and evolution, including the understanding of how stars change over time and how temperature, luminosity, and composition are related. The system underpins the Hertzsprung–Russell (HR) diagram, one of the most important tools in astrophysics, and remains embedded in modern research, from stellar population studies to galaxy evolution.

The immense scale of her work was itself a massive contribution to astronomy. For comparison, before Cannon, star catalogs contained between 600 and 4,000 stars. Her work single-handedly proved that large-scale stellar classification was both feasible and scientifically valuable. She helped establish systematic star catalogs as a core method of modern astronomy and laid the groundwork for astrophysical research on stellar structure, evolution, and populations that continues today.