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THE SWIMMING PIC HAS ME SOBBING 😭😭

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since it’s a scary time to be trans: refuge restrooms is an app which maps gender-neutral/single-stall restrooms. it’s community-mapped, so it’s possible you might be the first person to log the restroom locations, but hopefully it’ll help some people.

please reblog this post if you’ve got trans followers. stay safe.

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So… I got a notification from the State Department at like 8 PM Pacific that my passport was approved, and I was quietly thankful and stunned bc my legal gender in Oregon is listed as X, or undeclared, and that's what's on my passport. I'm pretty sure someone(s) worked late to get the X passports done today.

I was already really grateful to whoever in the Seattle Passport Office worked late to get these things processed on the last Friday before That Man gets back into office... and then I got a notification that my passport shipped at fucking midnight Pacific and whoever got that shit out the door so it couldn't be picked up on Monday and like, denied and shredded?

They're my fucking hero.

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male nude - gustav klimt (1880) // 9x01 // the dying gladiator - pierre julian (1799) // patroclus - jacques-louis david (1780) // 9x03 // male back with flag - michelangelo (1504)

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tumblr night shift is crazy everyones ready to die or ready to fuck

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Why do they keep accidentally making him look like the coolest person alive don’t they want us to hate him

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The #AllLivesMatter degenerates love the two-tier style of justice and complete disregard for children.

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you guys made luigi mangione trend for days and I need to see the same energy for brianna boston. she is a 43 year old mother of three who ended a phone call with blue cross blue shield (after being denied a claim) “delay deny depose, you people are next” and is now being held under a 100,000$ bond and could face FIFTEEN years of prison if charged. she has no weapons, her record is clean, and yet she is being held behind bars. they are afraid of the public and are trying to subdue. do not let them!!!! be outraged that our freedom of speech is being threatened!!!!! deny defend depose! free brianna boston!

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My favorite detail about Jurassic Park is that it has a baked-in justification for any and all retcons it might need to make due to paleontology advancing forwards.

Because there is not a single dinosaur that has ever appeared in Jurassic Park.

Not one. Not in the books. Not in the movies. Not ever.

"Now what John Hammond and InGen did at Jurassic Park was to create genetically engineered theme park monsters." ~Alan Grant

Grant says that in a moment of cynicism. It's part of his arc for the film. But it's not inaccurate. What Jurassic Park has, what it's always had since the very first novel, are "Mostly Dinosaurs".

"And since the DNA is so old, it's full of holes! Now, that's where our geneticists take over!" ~Mr. DNA

It's impossible to recover a fully intact gene sequence from an ancient amber mosquito. Cloning a pure dinosaur would have been completely impossible, and so the park filled in the gene sequence with whatever works. Frog. Lizard. Bird. Whatever they need to get the result they are trying to get.

Every single dinosaur is a chimeric beast made up of mostly dinosaur and a bunch of other stuff that some scientists thought would achieve the appropriate dinosaur-like result.

"Nothing in Jurassic World is natural! We have always filled gaps in the genome with the DNA of other animals. And if the genetic code was pure, many of them would look quite different." ~Dr. Henry Wu

Which, from a writing perspective, is fucking genius. Because now you have a preset excuse for each and every plot hole your movie has.

Like. Why don't the raptors have feathers? Because of the chimera DNA.

Why do dilophosaurs spit venom? Because of the chimera DNA.

Why do T-Rexes have movement based vision? Oh, they don't. But Rexy does. Because of her chimera DNA.

Why is the Spinosaurus so fucking big? Because of the chimera DNA.

Why are the velociraptors mislabeled? Because Hammond's a dipshit.

Like. I've always marveled at the way Jurassic Park started out by giving itself a blanket excuse to be wrong about every single thing it ever said about the central attraction of its franchise. It's honestly beautiful, and allows the series a degree of immortality well into the era where we know better about its animals.

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We have already averted truly apocalyptic levels of global warming.

Yes, read that again. Let it sink in. This is what the science now says. We have already averted truly apocalyptic global warming.

To quote David Wallace-Wells, author of The Uninhabitable Earth, from his huge feature in the New York Times:

"Thanks to astonishing declines in the price of renewables, a truly global political mobilization, a clearer picture of the energy future and serious policy focus from world leaders, we have cut expected warming almost in half in just five years... The window of possible climate futures is narrowing, and as a result, we are getting a clearer sense of what’s to come: a new world, full of disruption but also billions of people, well past climate normal and yet mercifully short of true climate apocalypse." (New York Times, October 22, 2022. Unpaywalled here. Emphasis mine. And yes, this vision of the future is backed up by the current science on the issue, as he explains at length in the article.)

So we've already averted truly apocalyptic warming, and we've already cut expected warming IN HALF in just the past five years.

The pace of technology, of innovation, of prices, of feasibility, of discovery, of organizing, of grassroots movements, of movements in other countries around the world, have all picked up the pace so fast in the last five years.

Renewable technology and capacity are both increasing at an exponential rate. It's all S-curves, ones that look like this:

-via The Economist, June 20, 2024.

How much more will we manage in another five years? Another ten? Another twenty?

I know the US is about to fucking suck about the environment for the next four years. But the momentum of renewable energy is far too much to stop - both in the US (x) and around the world.

(Huge shoutouts to India, China, and Brazil for massive gains for the environment in renewables, and Brazil for massive progress against Amazon deforestation.)

We're going to get there.

Say it with me. We're going to get there.

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I can't wait to punch up this video essay a bit bc like.

Why do so many queer folks think "cis boys with gynecomastia" 1. Were not studied like lab rats by John Money as hermaphrodites 2. Would all want their tits removed because they all are binary cis guys, ignoring that most of them are 15 and are riding the waves of peer pressure and pressure from every aspect of society to not be intersex

River Gallo, Salvadoran filmmaker, actor, and intersex activist, was born with a penis but no testicles. As a kid, they were told they'd have prosthetic testicles implanted to help them appear more like an average male. As a teen, the surgery happened. I can only assume that, at the time, they sort of went along with it and agreed that it'd help them, because they were raised being told "You are wrong but this will fix you." I also agreed to shit as a teen under that pressure.

Nowadays, River presents their gender like this and feels upset and violated that they were pressured into a surgery they never wanted nor needed:

So when you're talking about "cis boys with gynecomastia" getting surgeries they "wanted" as teens, you're reinforcing systemic intersexism AND transphobia. Why assume all of these kids would be cis in the end? Why assume all cis people wouldn't be okay with their sex not conforming? I'm literally in that latter group and I was forced onto sex normalizing hormones as a teen that I consented to under coercion. Why is systemic intersexism reinforced within the queer community?

Why the fuck do trans people especially keep saying "cis boys with gynecomastia" like. Say intersex. It's not a dirty word. And given around 40% of all intersex respondents to a Trevor Project survery were cis (meaning 60% weren't cis) yall are really fucking up by saying shit like that.

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does anyone have that one painting with the ghosts standing in the water?

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i’m gonna go out on a limb and say that not everyone knows who anita bryant was. she was famous for being an anti-gay activist and ruining the lives of millions of gays in florida bcoz she was also a spokesperson for the florida citrus commission and used her activism to destroy specific anti-discrimination legislation in miami dade county. today she died, and we are alive. so FUCK anita bryant and long live faggotry, dykery, and transgenderism.