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has anyone seen my pet bacteriophage its name is styrofoam and its about [hand touching the floor] this tall
One of the most annoying genres of people on the internet are people who act like they believe science is one single monolithic thing. Like, you'll see an article saying something like "scientists studying the movement of tectonic plates", and then in the comments there'll be several smug people saying "smh why are scientists doing this instead of finding a cure for cancer", like. Why would a geologist be doing that.
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If you canāt imagine a middle ground between seeing trans men as ājust cis womenā and seeing trans men as āexactly like cis men in every wayā, you still have work to do.
Trans men are men just as much as cis men are, absolutely. We also have different experiences from them because weāre trans: different relationships with gender, different understandings of manhood and womanhood, different positions under the patriarchy, different experiences with childhood and manhood and masculinity and oppression.
Weāre not any less men for being trans, but we are different from cis men by virtue of being trans.
Thatās why statements like ātrans men are men, which means if you try to differentiate trans menās experiences from cis menās, youāre saying they arenāt actually menā donāt make any actual sense. Why do we need to be like cis men in order to be men? Why is the only legitimate kind of manhood you can conceptualize the cis kind?
Cis manhood is not the gold standard of manhood, and insisting that the only way trans men can be men is by adhering to what cis manhood is- is ultimately transphobic. Our experiences with transphobia, misogyny, and our unique position under the patriarchy do not make us any less men.
Beat that into your heads: cis manhood is not the gold standard of manhood. Erasing trans menās experiences does not āvalidateā our genders, because cis male experiences are not the standard to which every man must adhere.
(Specifying trans men rather than all transmascs, bc many nonbinary transmascs might relate to this, but not all transmascs actually want to be seen as men in the first place.)
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met gala is famous and rich people dressing up as birds for a night to me.
These fucking techbros are so fucking childish. "Let's rebuild the twin towers as AI Bots With Lasers" is the most 8 year old idea I've ever heard.
Then again, 9/11 TWO on the AI Laser Buildings would rule
is that the sears tower in the background???? thatās the wrong city????
People horrifically fucking up facts about evolution and genetics too support their stupid beliefs or to seem smart and ārationalā is probably one of my big pet peevesĀ
Yeah. An enormous number of racists, misogynists, homophobes and transphobes Iāve met eventually whip out something about evolutionary biology and they never, ever, ever, ever have the slightest shadow of even a half-right idea what any of it means or ever cite a claim ever actually made by a scientific study.
Hereās a quick handy reference list or anyone who isnāt sure:
Homosexuality does exist in almost all social species.
āAlpha malesā are not a real phenomenon and in fact the most aggressive males tend to be the least reproductively successful.
āSurvival of the fittestā simply means that the success of a species hinges on how well it āfitsā its environment. It does not mean that stronger or smarter individuals are supposed to succeed. Those things can even be a detriment in nature by wasting too many resources.
āRaceā is not a biological concept. Someone who looks different from you has the same human genes, just a different grab-bag of dominant traits.
Evolution is not a march towards higher complexity, more intelligence or even more adaptability. Itās just a fluctuation of characteristics dictated by environmental pressures and mutation. A slime mold isnāt āless evolvedā than a hawk, just adapted for success under different parameters.
People didnāt evolve āfrom apes.ā Itās more complicated than that. We are a category of ape, sharing a common ancestor with the other apes.
No human on Earth is ācloserā to an evolutionary ancestor than any other. We all descended from the same one.
Neanderthals were also a āsiblingā species of ours. We didnāt evolve from them.
Some of us did, however, cross-breed with Neandethal man. It is exclusively non-African races, such as white people, whoĀ still carry hybrid human/Neanderthal genes. Whoops, sorry āwhite purityā skinheads, youāre actually mixed with a whole other species.
Some more stuff!
Humans are actually more genetically homogeneous than most people suspect. This is possibly due to a population bottleneck at some point in our evolutionary past. Two chimpanzees from different sides of a jungle are likely more genetically different to each other than any two human beings in the world.
Our big brains may help us use tools, but what was really principal in their development was the need for empathy, communication, and cooperation.
Humans. Are. Social. So social it drove an incredibly energetically costly increase in our brain size.Ā Donāt believe anyone who says its our nature to fight āevery man for themself.ā Weāre humans, not bears. We fight for each other.
And we always have. Fossil remains are found of ancient humans who bore signs of crucial mobility impairments that lived to notable ages. Some even have sticks or other mobility aids ā community care and support is our way. We donāt cast off those with impairments, we stand by them.
Human sexual dimorphism is on a decreasing trend. Our ancestors had greater difference in canine size and overall size. Our dimorphism gap has gotten smaller.
Occamās razor is the principal that whatever is the simplest explanation is probably the most likely one. Donāt believe someone who says the reason we evolved bipedalism is so that males could carry gifts to females to woo them. Yes, this is a real ātheoryā on how bipedalism evolved.
Skin tone is an adaptation of UV levels vs vitamin D levels. Both come from the sun. UV is harmful, so where sun is plentiful populations develop a darker skin tone for more protection. The skin needs sun to create vitamin D, so where sun is scarce, the skin tone lightens to allow more sun in. This is literally all it is.
Final thing: No oneās mind is really equipped to fully understand how long a billion years is, or a million, or even tens of thousands of years. Evolution takes place over a loooong time. Its very, very, slow, slower than we can really comprehend. We canāt āstand in the wayā of natural selection by caring for our ill. We donāt need to āhelpā evolution in any way. It inevitably happens, but not on any sort of timescale we could possibly affect, so donāt fall for anyone that tells you not to āstand in the wayā of natural selection. Thatās fascism, and its utterly pseudo-scientific.
Not to mention natural selection doesnāt have a āwillā that you can stand in the way of. Its not an entity with wants, its a millions-year long process. And its impossible for our decisions to āstand in its way.ā Our decisions to care for one another are what brought our species where it is, plain and simple.
something thatās been happening recently and really bothers me is the way people try to erase my transness.
a cis person telling me i āwas always a boyā
being treated like a cis man
i know this is the way some trans people want to be perceived and i respect that. but. for me, being trans is integral to my identity. the way i move through the world and interact with others is largely shaped by the fact that i spent the the majority of my life being perceived as a girl/girlfreak/weirdgirlfag.
iāve been publicly out as trans for almost 6 years but i did not pass in the slightest until about 10 months ago. i was not mistaken for cis until i started college. being trans is an important aspect of myself that people need to know about me in order to understand me as a person. when people choose to dismiss it as just a fun fact or something that can be ignored, even if in the name of allyship, they dismiss an important part of me.
i was not always a boy. i was a girl on the elementary school playground facing sexism for the first time. i was a girl on the soccer field where āfeministā was hurled at me as an insult. i was a girl on a wrestling mat, explaining to her coach that no one would practice with her because she was a girl. i was the only girl on my high school wrestling team for my first two years there. even when i knew i was not a girl, i was still treated as such so i still learned how to interact with the world as if i was being perceived as a girl.
and i am not a cis man. like i said, i spent almost 18 years of my life being perceived as girl or girl adjacent. while i do aim to look like a guy when out and about, i want the people who know me, the people who take the time to talk to me, to know i am trans. if i want to have any sort of relationship with someone, they need to know i am trans, the same way they need to know i am autistic. to treat me as if i am cis, as if i am incapable of understanding what it is like to be a woman, erases the first 18 years of my life. a friend of mine told me not to use ābitchā in front of her because i am a boy. and while i respect her request, i do wonder if the fact that i have been called ābitchā before ever occurred to her. i wonder if sheās placed me in the box of āboyā and forgotten that i could have once been in situations where i had to tell people that they could not call me a bitch in any context.
i wonder when we will be at a point socially where people realize that transness is not just something to be celebrated until it can be hidden.
beginning to think iām a bit more bisexual/pansexual than i originally thoughtā¦
No matter how much I pass, Iāll never hide the fact that Iām a trans man. If Iām gonna be a queer elder, I gotta own the queer part. Kids gotta know that thereās a way. Thereās a future. Thereās a world where they belong because Iāve shown that someone like them has belonged here before. Itās possible to get old and wrinkly and die like every other person. That weāre not some special exception to life, an affront to the cosmos, or natures dirty little secret. Weāre as much a part of earth as the trees and salt. That there is joy in being yourself fully, that there is love to be found when you make yourself know. That there is a future, but first I have to get there.
"nontransitioning nonbinary people who did nothing except change their name, pronouns and label"
ah, so you mean nonbinary people who *checks notes* have transitioned.
you are still trans if you donāt socially transition! you are still trans if you donāt medically transition! you are still trans if you donāt transition in any way at all! you are still trans if you donāt want to transition! you are still trans if you canāt transition!
the only thing that can make you not trans is being cisgender!
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city of tears from hollow knight. such a good songā¦
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imagining a deeply ooc a1 studying for his cell bio exam instead of me. putting all my suffering onto him⦠heās answering questions about proteolysis and proto-onco genes. he would never sit in a dining hall in his pajamas for four hours, much less be a stem major but i like to picture him suffering with meā¦