“Close Up“ by | André Hohenthal
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Scary part: I have heard of all of these.
"our son made it through the war to come of age, let's fucken party! rsvp only if you're a little bitch who's NOT coming. all y'all not dead of alcohol poisoning by morning (lmao losers) get dunkt on"
Finland, when a new store opens:
baby me, sorting m&ms by color and then into a gradient: now this is how you have fun!
I did not know that!
“Since her death in 1979, the woman who discovered what the universe is made of has not so much as received a memorial plaque. Her newspaper obituaries do not mention her greatest discovery. […] Every high school student knows that Isaac Newton discovered gravity, that Charles Darwin discovered evolution, and that Albert Einstein discovered the relativity of time. But when it comes to the composition of our universe, the textbooks simply say that the most abundant atom in the universe is hydrogen. And no one ever wonders how we know.”
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Jeremy Knowles, discussing the complete lack of recognition Cecilia Payne gets, even today, for her revolutionary discovery. (via alliterate)
OH WAIT LET ME TELL YOU ABOUT CECILIA PAYNE.
Cecilia Payne’s mother refused to spend money on her college education, so she won a scholarship to Cambridge.
Cecilia Payne completed her studies, but Cambridge wouldn’t give her a degree because at that time there's not much exposure for woman, so she said to heck with that and moved to the United States to work at Harvard.
Cecilia Payne was the first person ever to earn a Ph.D. in astronomy from Radcliffe College, with what Otto Strauve called “the most brilliant Ph.D. thesis ever written in astronomy.”
Not only did Cecilia Payne discover what the universe is made of, she also discovered what the sun is made of (Henry Norris Russell, a fellow astronomer, is usually given credit for discovering that the sun’s composition is different from the Earth’s, but he came to his conclusions four years later than Payne—after telling her not to publish).
Cecilia Payne is the reason we know basically anything about variable stars (stars whose brightness as seen from earth fluctuates). Literally every other study on variable stars is based on her work.
Cecilia Payne was the first woman to be promoted to full professor from within Harvard, and is often credited with breaking the glass ceiling for women in the Harvard science department and in astronomy, as well as inspiring entire generations of women to take up science.
Cecilia Payne is awesome and everyone should know her.
Photograph: Schlesinger Library.
[Image: Black and white photo of Cecilia Payne sitting at a desk, a book open in front of her.]
actual diary entry from when i was in 5th grade oh my god
heterosexuals need to see our suffering the violent deaths of our friends and lovers to know glitter on a queer is not to dazzle but to unsettle the foundation of this murderous culture defiant weeds smashing up through cement you think Oscar Wilde was funny well Darling I think he was busy distracting straight people so they would not kill him
— CAConrad, from “Glitter In My Wounds,” We Want It All: An Anthology of Radical Trans Poetics, eds. Andrea Abi-Karam & Kay Gabriel
lyrics from a youtube commenter: At the beginning: Tako (to the donkey): “Come…!” Tatuli: “Tako, have you brought a friend with you?…” Tako: “Yes, mother donkey…” - Kakhetian jokey verses - Kakheti - beautiful region in east Georgia, best known for its excellent wines, majestic table songs and jokey verses Play, my chonguri*! Play, my dear! Chonguri - musical instrument, similar to panduri Girl, look here, why are you looking away? Haralale dariv daralale Haralali haralale dariv daralale (x 2) I went to the forest to gather wood, I cut a tree in a ravine! Oh, girl, how I like your beautiful neck! Haralale dariv daralale Haralali haralale dariv daralale (x 2) Don’t pester me, boy, my joy and sorrow! Is that your nose or Shakriani* bridge? Shakriani - village in Kakheti Haralale dariv daralale Haralali haralale dariv daralale (x 2) Grow, my green corn! Grow and become a grain field! Why didn’t your grandfather, while dying, take you with him? (x 2) Haralale dariv daralale Haralali haralale dariv daralale (x 2)
Yuliya Litvinova - Fairies and the peasant girl (2019)
this little freak keeps sneaking into my garden and rubbing himself all over my flowers??Hello?????
Real, male bees don’t go after flowers they stay home, that freak is a herself
googling ‘bee genders’ as I dictate this post
The more you google bee reproductive biology the more absurd it is that we’re applying the words male and female to them. Their actual genders are worker, drone and queen. The queen is capable of both asexual and sexual reproduction. Bees born of unfertilized eggs become drones that are capable of fertilizing eggs. Bees born of fertilized eggs become workers, but can also potentially become a queen depending on how they are fed during the larval stage.
Use whatever the fuck pronouns you want to describe bees because they’re all equally incorrect projections of human worldview onto an insect species. Bees don’t experience mammalian sexual dimorphism in a biological sense nor do they experience human gender dimorphism in a sociopolitical sense.
diversity win, the freak sneaking into your garden and rubbing themselves all over your flowers does not fit into a human biological or sociopolitical framework of sex and gender!
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