Gonna Make it Through this Year

Those are my Teeth Soil Student in Eastern Washington. Mid-level content aggregation of: Wizards, Warhammer,Destiny 2, Natural Sciences, Art, and the Tumblr Oral History. 23, established 2012. fuck around and find out, Bi, Inattentive ADHD, Jew-in-training

[mini-wrants]

The thing that’s always missing from the “women didn’t fight for the right to work they were already working they fought to get paid” is that many women also very much wanted to work.

Women wanted to be lawyers and engineers and chemists. They wanted to use their brains in challenging and interesting ways. They wanted to get the satisfaction from solving problems and inventing new shit and getting attention for it.

I know not everyone is born with intellectual curiosity or drive or determination but some people are and many of those people are women.

[mini-wrants]

[mini-wrants]

Literally.

[cugzarui]

as a chemist i would like to say BWAHAHAHAHAHA

[alexseanchai]

image description at explainXKCD:

explain xkcd is a wiki dedicated to explaining the webcomic xkcd. Go figure.

[flareonfloof]

its a bit easier for astronomers

[nerdynonnativenarnian]

NO! Where’s the non-metals and metaloids?!

[flareonfloof]

are they hydrogen or helium

[nerdynonnativenarnian]

oxygen, carbon, sulfur, xenon, iodine, neon, etc etc.

[flareonfloof]

ooo okay i see the confusion. you're listing off a bunch of metals there

[nerdynonnativenarnian]

…. You’re breaking my chemistry nerd brain. Hhhuuuhhhh???

[flareonfloof]

im an astrophysicist

[nerdynonnativenarnian]

but but, science is science?!

[flareonfloof]

and different fields of science have different conventions and definitions for their unique contexts

[katzeregi]

[starlightomatic]

assorted comments on an insta post of a chart listing the 18 cities with the highest jewish populations

[note: this post is to spread awareness so non-jews see what the situation is. if you’re jewish and would be harmed by reading this — don’t.]

bonus: mr. big brain over here thinks he’s onto something

[starlightomatic]

[carfuckerlynch]

hey does anyone have that poem. about the author seeing two boys cuddling on a hotel lobby couch, where he refers to it as something like an island of safe anonymity or smth. its been 5000 years my college boyfriend had it written out and pinned to his wall

[carfuckerlynch]

THANK YOU @witchoflight it is indeed "on traveling together" by Kayleb Rae Candrilli

[dataandphilosophy]

“For example, if you’re trying to convince people to boycott a segregated store, your object is to convince them that boycotting the store will have a strategic effect, not that desegregation is morally important. For whatever reason, on a cognitive level human beings have a really hard time with this. Smucker cites an example of a Lefty roleplaying session where people were tasked with selling an action to people who agreed with them on principle but didn’t see the strategic merit of the action. Surprisingly, the sellers couldn’t make the conceptual switch to sell strategic merit: instead, they doubled down on THIS ISSUE IS IMPORTANT — even though it had been stressed to them that the people they were selling to bought into the importance of the issue. People react poorly to “this is important, so do WHATEVER I SAY”; they want to be convinced that what you’re proposing will work.”

Source.

[myfootyrthroat]

Also from above:

“Bob Wing, a grassroots organizer, explains this nicely: “If winning feels impossible, then righteousness can seem like the next best thing.” But righteousness is not conducive to getting normies to join your team if your team cannot demonstrate ability to, at least sometimes, win. Nor does righteousness help you make real inroads with regular people.”

[bbcwhereareyou]

Somewhat related, my favorite comic strip of all time:

[altrnvte]

On this day, my birthday, 9 years ago, I received the Destiny 1 collection.

If you told me then this is how it'll come to an end 9 years later, I think I'd still love the game for this long all the same.

[altrnvte]

Thanks for everything. Ad astra.

[seat-safety-switch]

There's a lot of overlap between horse people and car people. Well, I don't mean specifically about horses and cars. It's generally bad if those two things overlap. In spacetime at least. I forget what we were talking about. Can I start over?

One of the greatest fantasies of horse people is to have enough room to store and safely maintain a whole bunch of horses. That's the case for cars too, even if their maintenance needs are a little bit less dire. Ignoring a palomino for a couple of weeks is not going to just mean "clean the ethanol gunk out of the float bowl," it will probably mean that you're going to be facing some well-earned animal neglect charges. So maybe there are some differences, which is exactly why they invented poor horse people.

In the grand tradition of all mercantile capitalism, poor horse people love horses but don't have the money to maintain them. Instead, they are willing to do a bunch of unpaid labour in exchange for the opportunity to ride your horses (which they need anyway, in case the horses forget what being ridden is like, and decide to eat random toddlers instead.) Horses are a luxury good, after all. With cars, this doesn't really happen. They're more egalitarian. If you're too poor to be able to afford a car, you simply finance a Nissan Altima, and never think about voluntarily enslaving yourself to the guy down the street who has a investment-grade Ford GT.

How do we keep cars from following the line of horses? Surely we don't want them slowly becoming an obsolete mode of transportation, maintained by a harem of serfs. My proposal is that we make equines cheaper. Through massive overbreeding of horses, and the subsidy of horse food and conversion of urban Airbnbs to horse apartments, I think we can add at least ten million horses to our city over the next five years. Everyone who wants one will be able to have a horse, which will leave absolutely no time to own a project car. Of course, someone will still need to take care of those project cars, and I humbly volunteer.

[batmanisagatewaydrug]

my oldest cat is too self conscious to play toys but sometimes he'll post up next to one in a way that's very deliberate and possessive and he'll mournfully contemplate it for a while

[batmanisagatewaydrug]

he cringes when I blow catnip bubbles for the other cats but one time I caught him batting at the leather fringe on my thrifted motorcycle jacket and I don't think he's ever recovered from the embarrassment

[batmanisagatewaydrug]

it's this one btw

[batmanisagatewaydrug]

overrated????

[tim-official]

what world do people imagine their fursonae exist inside of. I love how undefined it is. some people are like "this is my sona Hryàxe, a hybrid dragon with ice powers who has been alive through three astral ages and toppled many kingdoms of men" and someone else is like "this is my sona he's an arctic fox named blurt and hes a barista in Toronto who loves to play mahjong." And then blurt and hryàxe are lovingly having sex on a tropical beach somewhere. and I'm like how'd they get to the beach

[theforsakenprince]

Whatever man this shit doesn’t even affect me

[snoopyoftheday]

snoopy of the day

[bad-love]

I just wanted to add this quote from the peppermint patty peanuts wiki page about Charles M. Schulz and his relationship with his gay cousin. The source here leads to a book that I did not read but the original source is Schulz's wife who confirmed this in an interview. If I can find the interview again I will link it here but uh. just in case someone tries to claim Schulz was a homophobe on this post again.

[bogcreacher]

dad lore

I’ve nixed most of the murder in my warriors anthro au but Mapleshade remains the same (now with a shlocky movie adaptation!)

[eulers-babe]

for no reason whatsoever here’s a reminder that if you consider yourself a leftist/punk/abolitionist/anarchist/radical in any sort of way and get called into jury duty, you are to become the most square person on earth during the jury questionnaire!!!

don’t be that guy who says fuck the police in the jury questionnaire! that just gets you sent home! if you want to generate change, interact with the case and use your jury vote for good! ESPECIALLY if it’s a high profile case!

[libraryogre]

Remember, when you're on the jury, a good "that cop's story didn't add up" will sway a lot more Chads and Karens than "fuck the police."

[damnfool-of-a-took]

Had jury duty, can confirm!

An innocent man is home with his family instead of spending his kids' whole childhoods in jail for "resisting arrest" when none of the cops could agree on why he was being arrested in the first place. (But it definitely had nothing to do with him being a Black man in a nice car, honest! 🙄)

And it still took like two hours of delibration after we'd heard all the evidence because one lady was so gung ho about believing everything the cops said, even when not a single goddamn one could agree with their own testimony, let alone their colleagues'.

Pointing out all the inconsistencies and admitted misconduct and letting people slowly come to their own conclusions as the trial played out was fucking hard, I won't lie. I can be patient, but it doesn't come naturally to me.

But. Yelling about how this was obviously a bs case would have shut everyone down and made them stop listening. Asking questions and letting people discuss how the cops tried to make xyz sound suspicious but it was totally normal, or about how if things played out the way the cops said then logically events should have proceeded in a totally different direction, and positing different theories that actually lined up with the evidence presented?

That got people thinking, and everyone realized that for a variety of reasons we all had reasonable doubts that the defendent had committed any of the crimes of which he was accused.

Being able to raise reasonable doubt among a jury of one's peers saves lives. If you get the chance, take it.

[genderkoolaid]

"Jury Room / The Holdout" (1959) by Norman Rockwell. One of my favorites of his. Particularly the gendered dynamic he depicts here.

[animentality]

[ekelgott]

This is literally just warhammer.

[katherinetheok]

I may not be Christian, but His Holiness has spoken: bring on the Butlerian Jihad, my friends

[batmanisagatewaydrug]

not to be a joyless hag but I've started seeing genderbent "yuri" shipping Markiplier and Ryan Gosling and I can't help but think of someone I recently I unfollowed for posting that they have an easier time caring about genderbent versions of boy characters than regular fictional women

[batmanisagatewaydrug]

and I'm also building some connections to that post I made about reading books by Black women (you know the one) and the people who would respond by saying something akin to "joke's on you, I only read fanfic 😜" as if that were some kind of clever loophole and not a demonstration of the exact thing I was talking about

[batmanisagatewaydrug]

like yes fandom is about fun or whatever but idk man at what point has your desire for no thoughts head empty uncritical consumption left you splashing around in something that's been blended down to an indistinguishable goo for the sake of avoiding anything remotely challenging. with the thing that's "challenging" here being. you know. giving a shit about women and Black people and like frankly anyone but your shippable white men (and honorary Markiplier).

[batmanisagatewaydrug]

don't make me tap the five year old teen vogue article, etc

Who Actually Gets to “Escape” Into Fandom?

All experiences of escapism are not created equally.

[donutdrawsthings]

I was thinking of a pride art challenge people could do with their OCs, because I thought it'd be cute! A queer/trans artist with their creations.

but then I realised that same challenge would be infinitely more funny with folks who have atypical or horror OCs