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A comic about looking after yourself, your loved ones and your mental health during the tough times ahead. I started this last November, when people were hurting so hard it was difficult to function - Iâm sorry it took me so long to finish it. Â Everyday activism you can do when you feel powerless. And when you feel stronger, Punch back.
1970âs feminist vandalism. Via Layla Rafaoui
Wild!
Gotta rb this every time it dashes across my feed
This is one of the most positive millennial threads Iâve ever seen
Its why weâre so anxious and sad all the time
This is one of the most positive millennial threads Iâve ever seen
Its why weâre so anxious and sad all the time
Incels and other sexist men canât see a woman doing something incredible without fuming and trying to discredit her. Theyâre now dissing on Katie Bouman, who helped write one of the algorithms that got us the black hole picture, saying she was just an assistant (they donât know what assistant professor is), and using Andrew Chael, her colleague in the Event Horizon Telescope team who helped write one of the codes, as ~the true person behind the codes who is being erased by this anti-men society~ or whatever. Theyâre even saying crap like âlmao women really donât do shitâ. Andrew took to Twitter himself to call bullshit on that.
If y'all can spread this thread to counter such narrative itâd be great.
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Normalize apologizing to children.
Normalize doing right by children.
Normalizing telling children YOU were wrong
Normalize listening to children when they see the solution to a problem.
Black Hole Update
Hello! Iâve seen a lot of people talking about Katie Bouman and her work on the black hole picture, and sharing around photos of her excitement when they got the photo, and Iâm glad that sheâs getting recognition. However, while Bouman herself has emphasized that the project was a team effort, a lot of people seem to be overlooking or erasing the very notable contributions of some of the other scientists who worked on it, and that doesnât sit great with me, so Iâm here to draw attention to a couple of them as well.
This is Andrew Chael. He worked with Bouman on the algorithm to construct the image of the black hole and did most of the raw coding for it.
Speaking of that algorithm this is Mareki Honma, who is the man Iâm given to understand was its original inventor. Here he is announcing the photo at a press conference in Tokyo.
And here is a link to Harvardâs page on all the contributing members of the Black Hole Initiative, including Bouman and these two!
Letâs celebrate each and every one of them, they all did great work.
Funny how gay people are allowed to love being gay but trans people arenât allowed to love being trans or else theyâre faking đ€
WHAT I MEAN is both gay and trans people are made to feel like predatory freaks, they both face extreme bigotry from people outside the community that causes terrible feelings of self hatred and internalized prejudice. And yet its normalized for gay people to feel immense pride and happiness over their identity, while the idea âno one would ever want to be transâ is deeply ingrained into the trans community. Weâre expected to hate ourselves and weâre expected to wish we werenât trans. But that mindset is just a symptom of self-loathing and internalized transphobia. We should be able to love ourselves, we should be able to have that same ammount of pride as cos gays, we should be able to say âyeah being trans can suck a lot sometimes! But itâs a part of who I am!â We should be allowed to not want to chang ourselves on such a fundamental level, because itâs okay to be trans. If gay people can feel pride in being gay without being called fakers then so should trans people.
Hey I would appreciate if people reblogged this version instead cause yall like to put words in my mouth
Hey OP where were you ten years ago when it was NOT okay to be gay, it wasn't legal ANYWHERE, and you WERE expected to hate yourself? By all means, I want the trans community to reach the level of acceptance that the gay community has -- and I don't wanna hate on you with lines about patience or a battle well earned or whatever, but let me just say -- I'm SURPRISED I am accepted in my life time. In my childhood, gay marriage was not an inkling of a thing on my mind. Choosing that "lifestyle" meant I would never be accepted by society and would be cut off my family and I "chose" it anyway. (The phrase "isn't a choice" literally exists because that was how it was presented to us - that it was a thing we were actively doing out of defiance or something, rather than it being recognized as our passive default nature.) Now we have legal protections, but most of us? Still don't have our families. It's great that the broader world legally has to be nice to us, and we fought for that -- but we still have a long way to go. And we're in it together.
i love it when you accidentally meet eyes with a stranger in public and you flash a quick polite smile and they look at you like they wish you were dead in a ditch
Iâve seen this several times on my dash and always with southerners being confused in the tags why the rest of the US is like this, and as a southerner, I have to say, SAME. Like, thereâs plenty to hate about the south, donât get me wrong, but at least in general we have public courtesy down to a science. I ordered at a Sonic out West once and the guy specifically had someone take over his headset so he could come out and shake my hand because he was from Tennessee and it was the first time since he moved West that he heard anyone say âYes sir.â And itâs justâŠ. Automatic for me? And this polite smile thing, people will jump and glare and Iâm just trying to be friendly not awkward? What else is a socially anxious southern child to do upon accidentally making eye contact? Look down and hurry away? Isnât that rude??? Someone explain why is smiling met with such anger I am confused and afraid.
Exactly!! When I moved to Missouri I was baffled at how rude everyone is! Like I saw someone I knew at Walmart and stopped to chat and they didnât even stop! They just went âhiâ and moved on. Like????
And when I moved here I made cookies for the neighborhood, cuz thatâs what you do and the first place I went they said âwe donât eat things with sugarâ and shut the door.
Like why do yâall hate everyone so much?
Iâm Canadian and am also confused
Well yeah everyone knows Canadians are the friendliest people in the world
Iâm from Indiana and Iâm pretty sure if you donât talk to someone you know In Wal-Mart for at least 5 minutes you go to jail
No but that would still be rude in kentucky
You are expected to talk for at least 15 minutes, say goodbye (like, a âtake care yâall, tell me how that knee is doinâ) and then you talk for another ten minutes, move a little further apart and say goodbye again (âwell I better get going tell your nana I said hiâ) and then you talk for a while and say goodbye one more time (âIâll see yâall at church on Sunday/school/Jo-mart/Nanaâs funeralâ) and move on to the next person
And donât even get me started on food etiquette
Itâs not a south v. west thing, itâs a city thing. Thatâs why New Yorkers are the purest version of this. And itâs why I get both sides. I grew up in a small town in Northern California, and it was proud of all the small town things â âyou can leave your door unlockedâ and all that. I got a job for a while as a bank teller, and this coworker of mine had moved there from New York. I liked him (I tend to get along with folks) but a lot of people thought he was rude. âshortâ âimpatientâ even âbruskâ were some descriptions of him, not just from our coworkers, but from the bank customers too. They complained because he always rushed them, never wanted to make small talk, etc. One day I was working next to him, and I heard him verbally pushing yet another customer along, just racing him through the transaction against his will, and I thought, Iâm gonna say something to him about it. As soon as the customer left though, before I could say anything, my coworker goes âdamn I hate people like that, get to the front of the line and want to tell me their whole life story. So RUDE!â So I say something like, how is he the one that was rude to you? And goes, like he canât believe how stupid Iâm being, â not to me, to all those people in line behind him that want to finish up here and get on with the rest of their day! Youâre at the bank, you know why youâre here, you step up, you do a polite greeting and get the fuck down to business. Everybody has shit to do, and they canât do it until you shut up about your life story that zero people drove down here to listen to. Itâs so selfish! I canât stand people like thatâ  Since then, Iâve lived in San Francisco, and L.A., and Montgomery Alabama, and Germany and Portland and Oakland and a bunch of little ass towns like Suisun Ca, and Kenwood and all kinds of places, Santa Cruz and Rohnert Park. And Iâve thought about the thing that guy started me noticing. Itâs true. The closer in to a city (and the larger the city) the more the concept of polite changes from âhow you are effecting the person you are communicating withâ to âhow you are effecting the people packed in around youâ In Oakland there are like, zero grocery stores (Oakland is literally documented as a âfood desertâ) and so the best grocery store in Berkeley is also a favorite grocery store of Oakland residents and it is⊠full. Youâll spend a full 30 minutes in the snake of cars circling around in the parking lot waiting for somebody to finish shopping and leave so a parking spot opens up. Once inside, itâs more of the same. Shopping carts are cart-front to ass cheek. You literally canât reach onto a shelf for a box of cereal without waiting for somebody to give you a break in traffic. Sometimes you get stuck standing in a single spot for several minutes, boxed in on all sides. Iâve only been twice, and I swear to all holy gods that if I saw two people trying to catch up on chit chat while we all tried to maneuver around them, I would been reaching for my murdering stick. Itâs called skype motherfuckers, go the fuck home and talk to each other, jfc, the rest of us are trying to make a deadline for some other shit we gotta get done today. Now, going back home, to small town Nor Cal, yeah, I donât want to be rude, Iâm gonna stop and say hi, Iâm gonna ask about your family, Iâm gonna rack my brain and remember that you had a sick cat or a trip you were trying to take or an interest in boats, and Iâm gonna ask about that shit, fuck yeah tell me about how the tomatoes are coming in this year, I hear the birds are worse than ever. Anyway, city folk ainât rude, they just polite different; suitable for city life.
This is such a great explanation, and really important.
An officer-involved shooting is being investigated by the...
There is something rotten happening in Georgia right now, and almost no one is talking about it. Early Sunday morning, an Atlanta activist/organizer, Oscar Cain, was gunned down by Atlanta PD. They claim he had a weapon, which is suspicious on its on, but how in the world do you kill an activist against police brutality as heâs running away? On top of that, no one knows about it until almost a week later?! My heart is breaking right now for his friends in the Atlanta Black Lives Matter movement who are reeling at this loss. This is the 26th officer-involved shooting investigation of 2019, marking Georgia as one of the deadliest places for civilians being killed by police. Please help support memorial efforts by donating via CashApp @ $StandForOscar. We demand justice for Oscar Cain!
the statue in the bottom right is Le gĂ©nie du mal, carved by guillame geefs to replace a different lucifer (known as either Le gĂ©nie du mal or Lâange du mal) carved by his younger brother. why did joseph geefsâ lucifer get removed from the cathedral? it was too sexy. the statue was too sexy by far.
st. paulâs cathedral in liĂ©ge went from one lucifer, whom they called âtoo sublimeâ and removed because he was distracting âpretty penitent girls,â to another lucifer, who theyâve left there for 170 years even though heâs so hot that satanists visit the cathedral to meditate in the presence of this Most Sexy Of Lucifers
hereâs how i imagine that went down.
liege cathedral: hmm. you know what we need? a nice satan for our church. letâs ask joey geefs
joseph geefs: sculpts this
liege cathedral: no!! too hot!! now we all want to fuck lucifer! we need a different satan. letâs ask⊠the sexy lucifer sculptorâs BROTHER. yes. willy geefs is older so he definitely doesnât want to fuck lucifer
guillaume geefs, who DOES want to fuck lucifer, and the only sign of his being older than his brother is that the lucifer he wants to fuck is somewhat older: sculpts this
liege cathedral: shit. well we donât have any more money for lucifers so i guess weâll keep this sexy lucifer
mlm, straight girls, and satanists in the vicinity of liege: NICE
Another woman utterly failed by our societyâs devaluation of womenâs reproductive health. We canât wait around for male doctors to decide what we need to know. This is why we need to take control and educate ourselves about our own bodies.
and hereâs some comments i saw under the post. why is this a pattern?? why is this a recurring theme?? why is this information not common knowledge? what the fuck are doctors doing??
This is news to me so letâs share it so people will know!
Gross tmi: but i passed a pretty big clot after having my daughter. It was about the size of a baseball. It actually hurt worse because while 15 hours of labor opened my cervix, i passed the clot in 30 minutes. I knew it was a possibility because of my midwife and reading, but everyone Ive told after this (mostly other pregnant women) were shocked that this could happen.
In our culture, itâs much more common to do deep research about what family cars we want to buy than we do about childbirth when we âre pregnant.
Tmi: I passed a huge clot after birth in the bathroom of my hospital room and called the nurse sobbing because I didnât know it was normal. She treated me like an idiot, but NO ONE told me it was a possibility. And the pain associated with healing for the first couple of weeks after birth was worse than the labor imo. Again, I had no idea. They didnât tell me a thing besides âsitz bath regularly and change your pads.â Before discharging me from the hospital.
I was most definitely told about this in school. Fucking hell, 4-6 weeks of bleeding? My periods were/are bad enough, why the hell donât we get told this?
I didnât know it could last so long, wtf? Is the bleeding inevitable after birth?Â
Bleeding is inevitable after birth - your uterine wall is shedding a fuck ton of lining. It can last from three to six weeks (possible longer) and it tapers off.
More TMI - I passed a MASSIVE clot after my fourth birth. At this point I already knew this could happen - itâs normal. What I DIDNâT know, was that I had caused it.
My post birth contractions were so bad after the birth that it felt like full transition labor. And they donât give you anything for the pain. So I used a hot water bottle, without the nurses knowing, and it caused me to bleed even more. I lost so much blood that by the first time they sat me up to go to the bathroom, I fainted. It took three more tries until I could sit up.
Anyway, thatâs not the point. The point is, the next morning I passed a clot the SIZE OF ANOTHER PLACENTA I KID YOU NOT, and I know what is and is not normal. So I called for the nurse and through the door told her I had passed a huge clot, and her response was - âItâs not big. I know what big is.â She hadnât even looked. So I rolled my eyes and said, âYeah, no. Itâs big, Iâm telling you.â
So, sounding extremely put upon, she asked me to open the door. I did, and after a long pause she goes, âOkay, yeah, thatâs a little big.â
YOU DONâT SAY.
The point Iâm trying to get across is that this shit is so common - women not knowing this stuff is so expected, and it keeps getting reinforced. People donât expect you to know anything, donât teach you anything, and then make you feel like youâre totally ignorant and a burden for your lack of knowledge when THEY WONâT SHARE.
Fucking learn EVERYTHING you can when it comes to childbirth, girls. It is the single most empowering thing you can do for yourself. And if you missed something, thatâs okay. But the more knowledge you arm yourself with, the more in control of your situation youâll be.
A few post partum tips:
DONâT use a hot water bottle - lol.
ONLY pads - NO tampons. Tampons can cause severe infection, not to mention, you probably donât want to be shoving anything up there any time soon.
If youâve had stitches, sitz baths DO help relieve the pain. Another great pain reliever? Dampen some pads and freeze them. Let one thaw slightly and use it on top of another pad. This will help with the pain as well as reduce swelling. Change the pad out as soon as itâs thawed completely. This REALLY helps on the first couple days after giving birth.
If you pass a clot, donât sweat it. Even the one I passed, which was fucking massive, just required that we keep an eye out to make sure it didnât happen again. If it does, talk to your doctor.
Take a pain killer half an hour before nursing. Because YES - your uterus is contracting after you give birth, to get back to its original size, and nursing causes much stronger contractions. Taking nursing-safe painkillers wonât prevent the pain, but it will reduce it.Â
Buy disposable underwear for the first few days after birth. They will get VERY dirty. Or use your ratty old pairs that youâre ready to get rid of. Double up on pads - line them all the way up your ass-crack. I am so serious. And wear dark pants.
Pee in the shower. You do NOT want to wipe down there right after birth because ow. Peeing in the shower lets you just rinse afterwards. Especially if youâve had stitches, peeing in the shower, with the shower-head rinsing AS you go, keeps stinging to a minimum. And fuck everyone else - keep on peeing in the shower until you feel ready to move back to toilet paper. Middle of the night and need to pee? Get your pants off - get in the shower and just go.
This is just a few things, but PLEASE feel free to send me an ask if you have any questions about ANYTHING childbirth/pregnancy/nursing related. I have four incredible kids. Iâve done it all - c-section, vacuume birth, episiotimy, stitches, with an epidural, without an epidural. Iâm here.
âŠ.I know I keep reblogging this but people keep adding super important information.
I feel like no one tells women this stuff because if a woman was even a little on the fence about having a baby before this would kinda make them run for the damn hills.
âŠ..you are correct, typing.
300% EXTRA SURE IâM NOT HAVING BABIES.Â
peri bottles, witch hazel or anti-pain anticeptic spray are your friends. Also passing large clots after birth is a WARNING SIGN. Bigger than a half dollar is a sign that you have not passed your entire placenta (this is most common in hospital vaginal births where the mother is not allowed to naturally birth the placenta and instead has it ripped out by the doctor) if there is any placenta left in your uterus you can get extremely ill. This happened to both myself and my mother in law
WOW I didnât know any of this and Iâm terrified of what more Iâm unaware of about my own body :( Honestly when will we fucking abolish this taboo about the female bodyâŠ
I had pretty great sex ed in school (lots of contraceptive information, and totally acknowledged that teenagers might have sex) and all of this is news to me.
And, as a 28-year-old person with a uterus, Iâm extremely appalled Iâm just learning this.
Long, but very important information, even for those who donât plan to have children, because you will almost certainly know someone who will, and you might be able to to help them. Or at least increase your level of empathy for them.
âŠHOLY HELL. REBLOG TO SAVE A LIFE, SERIOUSLY.
people loooove to make out like pregnancy and childbirth are this beautiful thing that a womanâs body is made to do, and leave out all this incredibly important and scary info.
the healthcare system fails women in so so many ways, especially around sexual and reproductive health, and it needs to stop.
Growing up my parents taught me that if youâre too sick to [insert responsibility here] then youâre too sick to [insert something that makes you happy here].
It took me a really long time to unlearn this. When I would get sick or have a âbad dayâ I would deprive myself of anything that made me happy. Watching movies, eating something I enjoyed, going for a walk, playing video games or just browsing online looking at funny cat videos. I wouldnât let myself do these things because I was always told that if Iâm too sick to go to work, or do homework, or go to school then I must be too sick to play Mortal Kombat or watch Unsolved Mysteries lol.
Whenever I wouldnât feel good, which I later learned as an adult was due to sleep deprivation caused by my ADHD and depression (and of course the depression itself would cause me to feel like shit), my parents would tell me âif youâre not throwing up, then youâre not sick.â And when I would stay home from school (or even work in my later teen years) my parents would make sure that I didnât have any âfun.â No TV, no movies, no games, no going outside, no arts and crafts, no books, no nothing. Just lay in bed and feel miserable.
Iâm happy to say that I no longer do this to myself. Now when Iâm having a bad day or Iâm sick (cold, flu or whatever) I allow myself to do the things (within reason lol) that I actually love doing. If Iâm not too sick to step outside for a few minutes then Iâll go for a walk. Iâll watch my favorite movies and if itâs a bad day or a cold (something that doesnât hinder my appetite too much) Iâll eat my favorite foods. I donât guilt trip myself anymore for having a âsick day.â
Just because youâre sick (whether physically, emotionally or mentally) doesnât mean that you canât do things you enjoy. Youâre not any less sick because you watch TV. Youâre not any less sick because youâre playing video games.Â
Actually you SHOULD be doing these things when youâre not feeling good because they make you feel better. The better you feel, the faster your heal.Â
Thank you! I needed to read this.
oh. oH. OH. I needed this omfg
why are there so many posts about asexuals being immune to sirens. people. sirens donât lure you in with sex (necessarily). they sing about whatever it is that you want most. they could sing about mothman or cinnamon toast crunch and guess what then your asexual pirate is fucking dead
this is the only kind of ace discourse i ever want to see on my dash. the only kind. ever again. good job
Do you think the sirens would be grateful that they finally get some variety?Â
âOh my god we can finally just sing about pasta thank the fucking gods.âÂ
Iâm not asexual but Iâm fairly certain sirens would do a far better job luring me into the depths with a song about pasta rather than sexâŠ
I mean.Â
âWHAT THE FUCK STAY AWAY FROM THE ROCKS.â
âFUCKER THEY SAID THEY HAVE FETTUCCINE CARBONARA AND HOT GARLIC BREAD OVER THERE HANG ON BITCH.âÂ
This is true; Odysseus heard them promising him knowledge of the future. Â So the next time you see artwork like this:
Remember those sultry naked chicks are saying âWeâll tell you the winning lotto numbers.â
Them: âWe have unlimited wifi at incredible speeds~â Me: *diving headfirst into the water*
This post is a blessing
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Oh my god sirens were literally scam websites
being a macroorganism is so stressful. i want to know what my cells are doing. I donât like how unsupervised they are
my cells govern themselves, Iâm mostly just a figurehead
my body is a constitutional monarchy and i am its powerless queen
New rule, non muslims canât say the word jihad. Until you stop conflating a word that means personal struggle with faith and temptation with terrorism youre just not allowed to say it.
Iâm not a Muslim but I just thought I would reblog this because I think itâs definitely worth listening to.
Itâs totally okay for non muslims to reblog this, and i encourage it. Im just glad youâre listening.
Oh god, finally someone said it. Every time I see words like âjihadistâ I want to scream, but Iâm not Muslim, so I wasnât sure I should say anything.Â
Jihad means struggle. It doesnât mean holy war or anything like it. In fact, there is no word in Islam for holy war, because the nature of Islam does not leave room for holy war. Islam has a juridical system, not a Pope who can just say âGo wage holy war.â Conflating the personal nature of jihad with violence is so very gross and it needs to stop. Period.
Actually, thereâs another word non-muslims in the media shouldnât use:
Allahu Akbar. Itâs not a statement of terrorism. It means âgod is greatâ. Itâs something we say to praise our lord. Itâs what we say when we pray. Itâs not a statement of terrorism. Allahu Akbar doesnât mean terrorism stop using it as one
I would really appreciate it if non Muslims understood this
