Feminism, social justice, art, nerdery, mermaids

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The Mermaid of Lily Lake by Andy Ivanov

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Republicans are obsessed with controlling women and/or denying their experiences. AOC strikes truest fear, a strong young woman, into the Right, writ large.

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the san francisco chronicle agreeing that david tennant slutty

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floating loafs on several degrees of squish

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Arya and Gendry crack: part 2

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“Winter” WIP

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Tall People Troubles

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cant relate

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pride 2019 13/30 | ace pride

check out queer as fact: a queer history podcast 

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

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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.

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

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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

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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

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hey not to add to the constant litigation of how women appear in media

but why do women in movies and tv never seem to wear their hair up? or at least very rarely, regardless of circumstances?

like not waitresses or cooks or women living in new orleans or moms breastfeeding new borns or zookeepers or cops in full tac gear.

what the whole entire fuck gives?

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“Superheroes should not have to worry about hair getting in their eyes” is one of the relatively minor hills I would be very willing to die on.

You can buy a giant pack of hair elastics for like $1, there is no reason to leave yourself vulnerable.

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or buns? or chignons? wanna see the only hair accessory i need when my hair is long?

catch me looking like a wholeass jackie o in 12 seconds.

if your character can run in heels, she better know how to put her hair up. the end.

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…. and now im thinking about that gif from the avengers cartoon that won’t stream here hip hip hooray for geoblocking where natasha puts her hair up one-handed with a hair stick

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one the exceptionally few instances of “yeah, that tracks”

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Mixed Media Art Prints

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(don’t let the memes fool you, i still get sad every time i rewatch gravity falls and realize there’s no more.)

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