I am a lone reed.

Wendy, she/her, 30s, pan, Tumbling since 12/16/10. Used to be a fandom blog but I'm no longer a fan and barely a blog

[vvendybird]

Quick about me:

Name: Wendy

Pronouns: she/her

Have lived in 4 different states (US) but currently live in California.

One year married to my partner of 10 years. (Tyler)

Intersectional feminist. Pro-choice, pro-science, pro-not committing genocide, pro-LGBTQ+

I’m an SLP and anti-ABA therapy.

Reblogs random fandoms, funny posts, occasional musings, and world events.

I have a sideblog where I write book reviews called @vvendyreads

Always feel free to say hi or chat as if we’ve talked before!

[flowerinaflame]

[hallogallo]

Smug face of a free man

[hollowboobtheory]

[lets-steal-an-archive]

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https://archive.org/details/vhsinstructionals

Instructional and Educational VHS Tapes : Free Movies : Free Download, Borrow and Streaming : Internet Archive

[berlynn-wohl]

me browsing this folder: omg omG I don’t know which one I’m more excited to watch, this Frontline episode from 1992 or this NOVA episode from 1984!!!

the NSA agent who can hear everything through my phone:

[digital-magus]

Yes… YES! fucking hell I LOVE this! Give them all to me!!

[roach-works]

IMMEDIATELY hit gold, thank you OP, i am respectfully stripping for you (1987)

[roach-works]

[neko-mancy]

just saw a "only one bed" fic with the major character death warning

[dontbreakthechain]

#i guess that's one way to solve that problem

[idabbleincrazy]

“This bed ain’t big enough for the both of us.”

[ao3commentoftheday]

would you?

[sweet-dignity-pegususgirl]

[lornasallydane]

Computer. Iris by the goo goo dolls. Loud enough to kill.

[kosmogrl]

you can begin again and again and again for the rest of your life

[cephalopodvictorious]

bugs is…. shrimp????

[dogpuppy]

[depsidase]

[mjalti]

[david-goldrock]

Smart woman next to an unbelievable achievement is a picture niche that will never get old

[awnerd]

Then you’re gonna love this photo of Annie Jump Canon.

Working at Harvard in the late 1800’s and early 1900’s as a “Computer”, Annie Jump Cannon cataloged stars using their spectra from photographic plates, in an effort to understand the mysteries and peculiarities of stellar spectra.

This was hard, detailed, nuanced work. By 1889, three years into her work, she had classified over 1,000 stars. By 1913, she could classify 200 stars an hour. She could classify three stars a minute, just by sight. Using a magnifying glass, she could classify stars down to 9th magnitude, 16 times fainter than the human eye can see. And she did this all with exceptional accuracy.

Over the course of her career, she personally classified more than 350,000 stars, accounting for a mind-boggling 98% of all contemporary stellar spectra classifications, a feat that wouldn’t be bested until the 1990’s with automated digital sky surveys.

Cannon used these classifications to develop the Harvard spectral classification system (O–B–A–F–G–K–M), organizing stars by surface temperature and physical properties.

It is hard to overstate just how foundational her work was to modern astronomy and astrophysics. Her classifications have enabled more than a century of breakthroughs in stellar structure and evolution, including the understanding of how stars change over time and how temperature, luminosity, and composition are related. The system underpins the Hertzsprung–Russell (HR) diagram, one of the most important tools in astrophysics, and remains embedded in modern research, from stellar population studies to galaxy evolution.

The immense scale of her work was itself a massive contribution to astronomy. For comparison, before Cannon, star catalogs contained between 600 and 4,000 stars. Her work single-handedly proved that large-scale stellar classification was both feasible and scientifically valuable. She helped establish systematic star catalogs as a core method of modern astronomy and laid the groundwork for astrophysical research on stellar structure, evolution, and populations that continues today.

[sandersstudies]

Annie Jump Cannon features as a character in the play Silent Sky, which focuses on another woman computer, Henrietta Leavitt. If you can find a showing near you, it’s a wonderful piece.

[bigphart69]

[xefyre]

oh fuck yum

[horreurscopes]

[lunawickedwitchofthewest]

why is it so comforting to know that even in 40/50s lesbians will always have the most unhinged lesbian drama

[yanwangdijunfensi]

tags @transezual

[sivavakkiyar]

Palestinian activist Leqaa Kordia freed from ICE after a year

The family and legal team of Palestinian national Leqaa Kordia, 33, have expressed strong relief after she was released from custody by US I

[omtai]

i had a dream i worked in an underwater restaurant and people kept ordering ice in their drinks and then getting mad at me when it would float away. and i’d tell them beforehand that the ice would float away & they’d be like lol no that’s not how it works just give me the ice. I’m fighting customer service battles never seen before

[shamesonlydaughter]

i really love this video it’s a poem to me