...we're on each other's team

Just chillin'. 35. A member of the Rebel Alliance. "The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion."

[retrogamingblog2]

[soranatus]

Our first look at Alek and Sharp’s character models, and the background art for Leviathan (2025) at Anime Expo 2024

[soranatus]

Previews of Alek and Sharp at the beginning of Leviathan (2025)

[itskyalenotkyle]

[outandaboutinthehelicarrier]

Add school loans and this is 100% accurate to my life.

[marzipanandminutiae]

reading letters from 1818 is wild

“it’s that time of the year when I get colds for no apparent reason again” have some Clairitin hon

[marzipanandminutiae]

But also we’re not becoming allergic to everything nowadays like certain white moms fear. Allergies have always existed. They were just talked about differently

Like “oh clams always ~turn my stomach~”. Or “what a pity he was taken from us at age 5”

[rosslynpaladin]

“Well we didn’t have all this fancy chronic illness stuff in the Olden Days, what did people do then??”

They died, Ashleigh. 

[explorerrowan]

This is a picture tracking bullet holes on Allied planes that encountered Nazi anti-aircraft fire in WW2.

At first, the military wanted to reinforce those areas, because obviously that’s where the ground crews observed the most damage on returning planes. Until Hungarian-born Jewish mathematician Abraham Wald pointed out that this was the damage on the planes that made it home, and the Allies should armor the areas where there are no dots at all, because those are the places where the planes won’t survive when hit. This phenomenon is called survivorship bias, a logic error where you focus on things that survived when you should really be looking at things that didn’t.

We have higher rates of mental illness now? Maybe that’s because we’ve stopped killing people for being “possessed” or “witches.” Higher rate of allergies? Anaphylaxis kills, and does so really fast if you don’t know what’s happening. Higher claims of rape? Maybe victims are less afraid of coming forward. These problems were all happening before, but now we’ve reinforced the medical and social structures needed to help these people survive. And we still have a long way to go.

[samuraifuckingfrog]

[outandaboutinthehelicarrier]

The students at my center were talking about what to do in a shooting situation last week.

They’re 4th, 5th, and 6th graders, talking about hiding, running, or standing and fighting. Think about that - 9 -12 year olds, talking about trying to fight a gunman to stay alive.

Little did they know their conversation would become more relevant this weekend. What a sad time to be a teacher. With the insanity that has gripped our nation in the last few years, I pray each day that our walk onto campus isn’t our last.

[hersheyhipster]

Do Your Fucking Research *Nicki Minaj Voice*

[bcpk-deactivated20210131]

Wow… Lmao.

[paulwalkersdogwalker]

Some people threw white paint on it a few years back.

[knowledgeequalsblackpower]

They want to be a victim so bad.

[softjunebreeze]

Fun Fact: That’s a statue of the fist which Joe Louis used to knock out Max Schmeling, Hitler’s favored heavyweight boxer in 1938. Schmeling won the 1st bout by knockout in round twelve, but Joe Louis came back in the follow-up match and laid him the fuck out in the 1st round.

[strixobscuro]

Fun Fact: Schmeling was hated by the Nazis for losing to a black man and for having a Jewish manager, and he hated them right back, stating in 1975 that he was glad he’d lost the fight because the thought of  the Nazis using him for propaganda purposes sickened him. He also personally saved the lives of two Jewish children and later became lifelong friends with Joe Louis.

So maybe don’t refer to him as “Hitler’s favored heavyweight boxer”…

[thefingerfuckingfemalefury]

Thank you for this additional info!

Reblogging this for the added facts and so people know that Schmeling wasn’t a Nazi or Nazi collaborator and was in fact a good man

[prominent-afro-history]

“Joshua Beckford learned to read fluently by the time he was two and a half and taught himself to touch-type on a computer before he could write using a pencil. He can speak Japanese, practices medical surgery on a computer simulator and has completed more than 1,000 maths problems.”

[blackgirlsprettythings]

Can we please reblog our children!!!

[scorpioqueenphoenix]

HOW THOUGH??? HOW IS THIS AMAZINGNESS POSSIBLE. 

[talesofthestarshipregeneration]

resources

[trapcard]

Black. Excellence.

[gehayi]

This amazing little boy who plans to be a neurosurgeon and an astronaut, the youngest person to ever attend Oxford University, is ”the face of the National Autistic Society’s Black and Minority (BME) campaign.“ (And his father and he discuss what it’s like to living with autism [or with an autistic kid]).

[iamoutofideas]

DIY shingles

[swarnpert]

like the disease or the roof tiles

[iamoutofideas]

whatever

[petalpetal]

[vinesforall]

James: Maybe we shouldn’t get too greedy. That’s when things fall apart.

Meowth: Don’t worry that pretty blue head o’ yours, I got a plan.

James: [offscreen, lowkey annoyed] It’s lavender.

its lavender  

[spooksandwheezes]

this bitch said “,okay,”

[raviposting]

Shane: “If you are going to kill me, turn the right one off.”

[music note as flashlight turns off]

Shane: “Okay!”

[toastbutteregg]

[catchymemes]

“My mom has 5 sets of china (don’t ask) and put them in her pool prior to being evacuated from fires in northern California. The dishware survived!”

[ap-kinda-lit]

Mom priorities

[hyratel]

@biomechanicalfishhorror @ocoree @gallusrostromegalus

[gallusrostromegalus]

1. To quote an old engineering proverb: “If it looks stupid, but it works, it’s not stupid.”

2. I love that the two lawn chairs are in there too.

[brightfell-deactivated20211019]

The science world is freaking out over this 25-year-old's answer to antibiotic resistance

[mindblowingscience]

A 25-year-old student has just come up with a way to fight drug-resistant superbugs without antibiotics.

The new approach has so far only been tested in the lab and on mice, but it could offer a potential solution to antibiotic resistance, which is now getting so bad that the United Nations recently declared it a “fundamental threat” to global health.

Antibiotic-resistant bacteria already kill around 700,000 people each year, but a recent study suggests that number could rise to around 10 million by 2050.

In addition to common hospital superbug, methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), scientists are now also concerned that gonorrhoea is about tobecome resistant to all remaining drugs.

But Shu Lam, a 25-year-old PhD student at the University of Melbourne in Australia, has developed a star-shaped polymer that can kill six different superbug strains without antibiotics, simply by ripping apart their cell walls.

“We’ve discovered that [the polymers] actually target the bacteria and kill it in multiple ways,” Lam told Nicola Smith from The Telegraph. “One method is by physically disrupting or breaking apart the cell wall of the bacteria. This creates a lot of stress on the bacteria and causes it to start killing itself.”

The research has been published in Nature Microbiology, and according to Smith, it’s already being hailed by scientists in the field as “a breakthrough that could change the face of modern medicine”.

Before we get too carried away, it’s still very early days. So far, Lam has only tested her star-shaped polymers on six strains of drug-resistant bacteria in the lab, and on one superbug in live mice.

But in all experiments, they’ve been able to kill their targeted bacteria - and generation after generation don’t seem to develop resistance to the polymers.

Continue Reading.

[island-living-vetmed-chronicles]

Yes. All the yes. Women in STEM deserve ALLLLLLLL the applause. All of it. And cake. All the cake, too. 

[brightfell-deactivated20211019]

The science world is freaking out over this 25-year-old’s answer to antibiotic resistance: from Edward the Booble http://bit.ly/2MABk2O via IFTTT

[andrewiam]

I love this solution because it’s just… So simple. Everyone is getting deeper and deeper into pharmacology trying to find new stuff and new combos that’ll overcome bacterial resistance (while Big Pharma rakes in the profits) and this student was like “what if.. We just.. Physically rip it the fuck apart?? What’s it gonna do? Develop resistance to me cutting a bitch?”

Iconic

[slapspert]

Medicine: How do we defeat anti-biotic resistant super bugs?

Shu Lam: What if we just beat the shit out of it?

[xpropriate-deactivated20240423]

Privileged folk ridiculing safe spaces is so funny as if men don’t refuse to enter “girly” stores and have “man caves”, as if white people don’t avoid black neighbourhoods, as if straight people don’t ostracise gay people from their social circles, like who’s really the one with the safe spaces lol

[saitoblush]

that’s the thing about power dynamics. Your boss has no problem entering your work space randomly, while you can’t enter his office as freely. Same mechanic is happening here, only that when you refuse to let your boss (privileged people) enter your space (safe space), they feel offended because they think they’re entitled to entering your space all the time.

[isucklipz]

^^^^^

[everythingfox]

Baby fox steals fish from fisherman (🔊)

[samantha-kirkland]

[kalessinsdaughter]