Wow wtf HIV/AIDS was discovered by Flossie Wong-Staal, an Chinese-American woman, and she’s the reason the HIV test even exists. AND THEN she invented the molecular knife that lead to treatments for HIV/AIDS. And she’s STILL ALIVE. We don’t hear about the contributions of Women of Color enough, my word. Madness.
Thank you, Flossie. 💜💜💜
an old tweet from mitski
Clint you've got to be fucking kidding me
between tiktok and youtube slop, kids these days are subjected to possibly one of the worst media diets in the history of mankind. unlike me who was raised on the same 10 commercials for corn syrup products cycling between variety shows, as nature intended
bring back tumblr ask culture let me. bother you with questions and statements
reblog to let people know it's ok to bother you with questions and statements
please bother me with questions and statements
"Pluto isn't a planet" Fine.
"Dinosaurs had feathers" Fine!
"Neptune isn't a beautiful oceanic blue, it's actually the same washed-out disappointing color as Uranus" I will kill you with my bare hands
Look how they massacred my boy
Oh and if you thought Uranus was boring before, boy have I got news for you:
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Terrified for the students in NY tonight.
Both Columbia and CUNY tonight.
The student reporters, through their panic and even tears and doing a great job.
It may be hard to find a working link for them, so many people are listening, but the above link or here might work:
LESS THAN THREE HOURS AGO: zionists were taunting a comrade at ucla's gaza solidarity encampment with a severe (possibly anaphylactic? with the context clues of "can go into shock" im leaning towards assuming it's anaphylactic) banana allergy by bringing bananas near the camp. i am genuinely of the belief that taunting someone with anaphylaxis like this should be considered attempted murder. this is fucking evil.
that was actually also ucla 🫠
two nights ago/the early morning of the 29th, zionist counter protesters did in fact release mice near the encampment. its claimed that the mice had been injected with something, i dont personally know how true those claims are, but regardless live mice were still released which is cruel and inhumane in its own right. i also saw a report of cockroaches being released last night, but i haven't seen a videos of that yet. i wouldn't put it past the ucla counter protesters though, theyve already proven to not care about seemingly any life, these creatures (and a comrades dangerous allergy) are just tools to them, everything they do seems like some attempt to "get back" at people who just want the genocide to end. these people are fucking cruel to their cores.
i also wanna mention some other particularly vile things zionist counter protesters at ucla have done, in recent days they have: called our comrades animals + said "go listen to your master", said they should "go to palestine" + "i hope they rape you", and even spit on our comrades + called them the n word. all of these things were caught on video. (all links lead to tweets with the videos of each incident.)
when i started my last director job at a university, they told me one of my duties would be to write all the chancellor’s letters. me: “cool. but why though?” them: “English isn’t the chancellor’s first language.” me: “I’m aware of that.” them: “the chancellor likes the suggestions that autocorrect gives him if he misspells something.” me: “Ah.” them: hands me a copy of a letter the chancellor sent to a donor who had just given a million-dollar gift to the university, which includes the following: ‘The profundity of your gift fills us with the greatest horror. In recognition we have prepared a special plague to compromise you and your family’.
Which is why to this day when I’m struggling to communicate in a different language, i remember the chancellor, who was Doing His Best, and i try to give myself a break.
Anti-mask policies and decision makers are using the momentum of anti-masking in the context of covid to also prevent people from accessing or using respirators to protect their breathing and lungs from other hazards -- things that were accepted in many industries as standard safety protocols before 2020.
"“During his first week, Complainant started coughing up black phlegm, his throat and tongue would burn, and he began having breathing problems due to excessive smoke and fumes from the cupola. He notified Sturgeon but nothing changed, and he was not provided a respirator.”
After not receiving a respirator, the lawsuit said the man went to the dispensary room and picked up a respirator himself.
He wore the respirator for the next week until the lawsuit said the safety supervisor saw him wearing it and “immediately became very upset; he rudely admonished the Complainant in front of his co-workers for wearing the respirator and demanded that he take it off immediately.”
According to the lawsuit, he told the safety supervisor he did not feel safe doing his job without it and was pulled into a meeting the next day where he was told he would not be allowed to wear a respirator.
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After the meeting, the complaint said he was assigned to shovel gravel for the day before going home for the weekend at the end of his shift. On Monday, his employment was terminated.
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) opened an investigation into the company after learning of the alleged retaliation, and the DOL said in a statement that OSHA investigators with the Whistleblower’s Protection Program found the company violated federal protections by terminating the employee who exercised their protected rights to request protective equipment."
The latest numbers coming from Gaza state that there are about 77,575 injured Palestinians as of April 28, 2024.
I honestly see this number as a very humble one, but regardless, I said this in 2014 and it bears repeating: considering the types of weapons Israel is using in Gaza, the overwhelming majority of these injuries are severe and critical. So when we say that well over 77,000 people are injured in Gaza, we're talking about tens of thousands of people who have ended up with a lifelong disability. Thousands of amputees with no proper care. Thousands who will not be able to walk or see again. Many won't be able to go back to school or work again. Burn victims without the means to reduce or take the pain away. Many on life support and many more who will not even make it.
So many open wounds, both literally and figuratively, that we need to keep present in our conversation about Gaza.
Very true! Even minor injuries can be life threatening considering practically all healthcare systems have been destroyed. Even the dehydrated children are expected to face lifelong cognitive issues because of Israel's starvation of the strip.
A huge crowd has formed outside of Columbia University demanding NYPD 'let the students go'
If you're in New York right now, please go to Columbia and join them
the sheer number of police?????
heavy police presence at columbia, SRG, SWAT and counterterrorism deployed
reports that everyone has been kicked off campus except students barricaded inside hind’s hall
listen to WKCR columbias student radio for live updates
