QueerMaddScientist

I sew, I write, I do rocket science. I am gay and currently really into historical fashion and also pirates

[queermaddscientist]

Don’t wanna do hw. Wanna run away and be a pirate. Who’s with me

[thecollectibles]

Art by GA IS

[lasaraconor]

Kidd Gorgeous -Nightfish 

[thetableintheback]

[image description: a gif parodying edward hopper’s nighthawks. it depicts the diner filled with water and various fish swimming around inside it. the light from the diner casts reflections through the water onto the street outside. /end description]

[digitalisnarcissus]

Every time someone mentions H.G. Wells I have to readjust to his pronouns because I accidentally internalised the canon of a 00s Syfy show where he's secretly a woman.

He doesn't come up often enough that it stops happening, and I fear one day I'll need to discuss him and slip up. I'll pull my classic did you know move but it'll be "facts" from a long dead TV show about cursed objects.

[queermaddscientist]

Hardcore same

[queermaddscientist]

[viralfrog]

[notsafeforbinary]

[lillylikescats]

I'm an electrical engineer and for the longest time I was saying that electricity and electronics isn't magic, but think about it.

You literally have to collect rare stones from remote locations, put them into specific formations to work. All of this gets written down in symbols which don't make sense to the uninformed. It gets powered by energy which can not be seen in most cases.

Like what else do you want. What's your standard for calling something magic.

[transcribepaige]

"It doesn't stop being magic just because you know how it works."

Terry Pratchett, The Wee Free Men (Discworld #30)

[rocketsaurus]

PUBLIC COMMENTS ARE OPEN FOR GENDER IDENTIFIERS ON US PASSPORTS

Right now, you can submit a comment for consideration on the proposed changes to US Passport law that will include requiring a change from "Gender" to "Sex" on all passports and require that people identify with their sex assigned at birth.

THIS IS THE LAW THAT WOULD BAN TRANS PEOPLE FROM UPDATING THEIR IDENTIFICATION

Please take a moment to click through and submit a comment. This kind of thing is fast, easy, and is one of the many ways to show your support of the trans community to the people that need to know how many of us there are.

[rocketsaurus]

YOU HAVE TWO MORE WEEKS TO COMMENT

This is an excellent low effort way to make a clear statement to the government that you do NOT support the unnecessary and expensive process of changing everyone's passport just so that a tiny population that has done no measurable harm to society can feel afraid.

Public comments are one of the many tactics we have to show the people in power how many of us are willing to stand up and say fuck this. Stand up and say fuck this in every single place that you can.

[stephenroot]

Writing Effective Comments

[sanguinarysanguinity]

Will accept comments up to March 17, 2025.

[naamahdarling]

There's only 12,000 comments. We can do better!

[digitaldiscipline]

there are many unexpected hierarchies to being a marine biologist

[toastbutteregg]

[capitalismkillz]

I love this meme because I think humans 10,000 years ago or 100,000 years ago would also like it

[weaselle]

the heat of the fire draws air straight up from the center over the fire. This draws the air in from the sides in a circle around the fire creating an air current, which means air is being blown toward the fire from all sides. When you sit on one side of the fire, it blocks some of the air moving toward the fire from that side. Now there is more air being blown toward the fire from the side opposite you. This pushes the smoke your direction. When you move to the other side, it just makes the same thing happen over there. The smoke actually literally does follow you around no matter where you sit. Because physics.

[dorkichiban]

in other words what you actually need at the fire is other people sitting around the fire with you to balance it out ;~;

[baeddelicto]

[queermaddscientist]

It ain’t perfect but it’s the best jackrabbit I’ve drawn yet

[soracities]

when e.e. cummings said “i’ll live my life if it kills me”

[softspringsolace]

when andrea gibson said “i suppose i love this life, in spite of my clenched fist.” & when ellen bass said “to love life, to love it even when you have no stomach for it”

[typewriter-worries]

when james baldwin said, “this is why one must say yes to life and embrace it wherever it is found-and it is found in terrible places; nevertheless, there it is;”

[queerpontmercy]

when Mary Oliver said “it is a serious thing / just to be alive / on this fresh morning / in this broken world”

[queermaddscientist]

Oh hey, this is my wine drunk “fall in love with life, even when you cannot bear to live it,” post, but said with more eloquence

[queermaddscientist]

Fall in love with life, even when you cannot bear to live it.

[celestial-fang]

The creature who fell in love with the light

[Watercolor and gouache, based on ‘The Fog Horn’ by Ray Bradbury]

[lazer-screwdriver]

This comic makes me so stupid emotional. She might have never known.

[paintingpuff]

saw this comment and i had to

[990000]

simongerman600

[brunhiddensmusings]

i was going to say ‘i have no idea what to do with this information’ but then i realized its a handy guide to generate fake words that sound english

[holdup-andrememberthetime]

“What to do with this information”: kick ass at hangman

[dragonanarchist1155]

Also useful for simple codebreaking and decoding an unhashed simple letter cypher.

[cannibalcaprine]

the rocky wastes…

[lazer-screwdriver]

This comic makes me so stupid emotional. She might have never known.

[paintingpuff]

saw this comment and i had to

[queermaddscientist]

Dude I love this

[662607015]

having a freeze response to stress is so funny in the context of normal adult stressors. millions of years of evolution are trying to tell me that the email will not find me if i stay very still and do nothing