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i'll be okay

[tpwrtrmnky]

the real answer to almost every "does [identity A] belong in [identity B] spaces" question is actually just "these spaces are informal social groups and if you're cool you can hang, don't worry about it"

[tpwrtrmnky]

You can be Homer Simpson at the lesbian bar. It's fine. Don't worry about it.

[lizardlicks]

not without those fire exits I'm not. have fun in your death trap, ladies

[what-even-is-thiss]

A lot of people can’t stand toddlers but tbh they’re my favorite age group of people. They’re not quite old enough to understand lying yet but are also starting to get original ideas so you get to witness unfiltered pure human problem solving right in front of you.

Yes sometimes that results in an entire box of Cheerios being spilled onto the floor but what’s innovation without some mistakes here and there?

[catiartcos]

Breath of the Coast

[this-is-a-love-story-isnt-it]

The anti-gravity indicator, "Rise" saying hi 🤣🤣

[pandasandshinythings]

Meet RISE

I keep seeing people mention how cute it is that the Artemis crew is playing with a plushie but I really want this little boy to get his flowers too!! Lucas Ye, an 8 year old from California, designed this plushie by hand. He won a contest, beating out thousands, to create the zero gravity indicator the crew would take on board to show the world they hit zero G.

I just know somewhere he’s watching the live streams or interviews and has the biggest smile on his face!! How awesome to see something you handmade end up in space being bopped around on a historic mission and doing endless cartwheels right in front of the entire world. I hope he’s the happiest kid right now! 🥹 I’m so happy and proud of him!!

So much thought put into his design!!

[pandasandshinythings]

I absolutely LOVE how much this post has blown up and love that people are giving this boy some love!!

A few things I learned since someone asked “why did the one on the craft look different with a handle?”

So I did some digging and learned more facts!!

After Lucas won the contest, he handed his creation over to NASA. His original was made via needle felt and NASA needed to update it using space safe and flame resistant materials. They gave it to their seamstress team (yes, you heard that right, they have a large seamstress team because everyone has a place at NASA) who then recreated it detail for detail using safer and lighter materials.

They added the handle on top to make it easier for the astronauts to handle in bulky gloves and also added a tiny pocket at the very bottom. This pocket contained a USB card where millions of people submitted their names before the mission. RISE was not only to represent zero gravity but to also represent US GUYS!!! 😭 RISE safely carried all our names with them to the moon. He was humanity.

NASA is VERY good at incorporating the human aspect into everything!!

Lucas was invited to the takeoff event in Florida with his family where he had his original RISE creation with him watching at the Kennedy Space Center. He was there on the ground watching his creation go to space and I think that’s so cool!

As a side vent, I’d like to add this is why the structure has changed from STEM to STEAM in recent years. There are threads on Reddit of teachers actually mad about adding “arts” to a science and math curriculum but RISE is exactly why. We needed this to visually show science. We needed RISE and the patches that were designed by someone to represent the mission, that United people. The crew had to take special photography classes beforehand to learn how to take pictures in deep space and also how to appropriately describe what they were seeing to relay back to Earth. The pictures we are getting from the telescopes in space would mean nothing if there wasn’t a component of art to it. The seamstresses at NASA aren’t scientists but they work directly with engineers and their line of work is artistic and creative. Art and science coexist. Just like art and Geography exist because someone has to make the maps. This is why I am all for it staying STEAM instead of STEM.

[wiisagi-maiingan]

"Why do old people always have their tv/ringtone/phone volume so loud? 🙄" Because aging causes hearing loss.

"Why do old people always have the brightness so high and the text so big on their phones? 🙄" Because aging causes vision loss.

"Why do old people struggle to do [insert 'basic' task like using remotes, doing things on electronic devices, cooking food, etc]? 🙄" Because aging causes cognitive function loss.

I'm sorry that you can hear that elderly person's phone call from across the bus and I'm sorry that that elderly person's phone is blinding in a movie theater and I'm sorry that you are inconvenienced by that elderly person not knowing how to open a PDF but can you please have some fucking compassion? Many people start experiencing these changes (from aging, not other conditions) in their 40s and it gets progressively more likely to happen as they hit their 50s and 60s and loss of physical abilities and cognitive function just get worse and worse. Maybe it's frustrating to you to have to help a 60 year old open a file in their email, but it's a million times more frustrating to feel your own mind and mental capacity slip away while knowing that there is absolutely nothing you can do about it.

[josketches]

copy, moon joy!

[alyxdrawsthings]

All this moon news has been so exciting 🌙

[doberbutts]

“trans men don’t experience misogyny because they’re men thus cannot experience women’s oppression”

I hate to tell you this but even cis men experience misogyny if they step a toe over the line of what our incredibly sexist society sees as “proper” for a man. You really don’t think that a man with interests or expression the world sees as “female” aren’t treated with violence?

[doberbutts]

“would you say that of other privileged groups? do you think white people experience racism?”

I mean sometimes they do yeah. I know a white guy with monolid eyes and zero known Asian ancestors and he absolutely experiences anti-Asian racism on a fairly regular basis because people think he’s mixed Asian/white. I know a woman who was told throughout her life that she was Native as an adoptee with no known history or background who experienced incredibly violent amounts of anti-Native racism until she discovered as an adult through DNA test that she is 100% white. I know white people who tan incredibly dark in the summer comparatively that are constantly accused of being mixed race and experiencing racism due to that, usually anti-Mexican racism perpetrated against white people with Greek or Italian ancestors.

Their ability to make it stop by saying “hey, I’m white actually” only goes as far as the person enacting violence on them is willing to believe them. They still have to live with the trauma and physical scars from the altercations. We live in a racist world and thus there will be violent people who force all others to pass a whiteness test and eliminating or harming the rest.

[doberbutts]

Got an ask that I just block/deleted but it was basically “so you think cis people experience transphobia!?!?!?!?” and uh

If you think cis butches don’t experience both transphobia and misogyny and homophobia for daring to be women who break gender roles while still holding onto their womanhood you’ve sorely misunderstood just how bad butches have it in this world sorry. If you don’t think cis queens experience transphobia and homophobia and misogyny for daring to be men who break gender roles while being loud and proud about it and still holding onto their manhood then you’ve sorely mistaken just how bad they have it in this world as well.

Not to mention all of the cis men who wear dresses and skirts and makeup and nail polish and heels simply because they like them who experience all of these things. All of the cis straight women who simply just exist but something about them doesn’t pass society’s “woman enough” test, leading to them being caught in bathroom bills and sporting rules and being attacked by people who mistake them for being transgender or gay.

Just like how straight people experience homophobia to such a degree that they literally beat their children out of any potential deviance from rigidly upheld gender roles and let politicians make jokes on national TV about how they’d drown their pre-teen kids if they came out as LGBT. Do you really think a straight kid still figuring themselves out hears that and doesn’t internalize that homophobia? Doesn’t rigidly hold themselves to some impossible standard so that no one could ever possibly think they’re gay? You don’t think straight teenage boys who maybe don’t pass some bully’s straightness test are getting the shit kicked out of them for “being gay” when, surprise, they aren’t? You don’t think all those kids being attacked by their priests and coaches and teachers are being told “this wouldn’t have happened if you weren’t gay” when they’re literally not gay? Do you know how many straight kids had close calls at my school that famously expels all gay kids, because someone made up a believable enough rumor? Do you know how many of them still got their shit kicked in even though administration ultimately decided to let them stay?

All bigotry is violent and all bigotry catches people it doesn’t “intend” to and hurts them as well. It doesn’t matter what someone’s label is, or if they even have one. It matters if the person enacting the violence is doing it because their victim didn’t pass whatever “acceptable enough” test they didn’t know they were being subjected to.

Everyone is at risk. Oppression doesn’t care what your label is. Some people are more visible targets than others, and as a result those people are the more common targets. That doesn’t mean no one else experiences it.

[doberbutts]

My first post to reach 2k without people clowning in the notes I feel so proud

[sophie-baybey]

[steadynightruins]

Interview with Rise the zero-gravity indicator plushie

[sobcat]

[cozy-airlessness]

these four deserve to be cherished i swear

Source: NASA (art002e013365, art002e013367)

[cheacegirl]

I think gatekeeping art is such a funny thing like. "Oh so this doodle I just made is art" yes next question. "So video games are art?" yes????? Bitch your essay you wrote on that book you didn't read in English class when you were 10 is art. Painting a fence is art. 2 sentence shitpost on Tumblr is art. Get on my level.

[bornt-urnge]

[can-i-make-image-descriptions]

[Image ID: Tumblr tag reading: #the deliberate act of creation is art next question /End ID]

[corporationkills]

i’m building a database.

[niceferatu]

man FUCK work-life balance. work should not be this central to our lives. the idea that we're meant to perfectly balance equal parts Work and Everything Else is so so dismal

[eyestrain-addict]

[lonestarflight]

Apollo 17 vs Artemis II

[mementochao]

Despite everything, it's still you.

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That's really cool actually

[tanoraqui]

#excuse me but are you telling me that the Apollo pic is made with the help of the SUN and the Artemis one with the help of the MOON??? #that's actually so poetic i want to cry

@gorandomshesaid wait i need to sit with this one. wait.