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I love game changer

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Hello to all the new folks who have followed recently, and thanks for the love on my posts!

I do not post regularly, but I am working on sharing more. All of my original posts are things from my own collection, which consists mostly of vintage sci fi paperbacks from America. I have been collecting for about 20 years at this point! I have moved hundreds of books from place to place, including halfway across the country and back.

I am happy that there are still folks on Tumblr who appreciate weird old book covers and the like. My name is Stephanie, and it’s nice to meet you, fellow nerds. Don’t hesitate to drop me an ask and let me know what your favorite book is.

(Mine is Fahrenheit 451, in case you didn’t already guess!)

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Hearing about the Ice War on Europa is the one and only time I've ever been sad I'm not a twitter user. It's not enough to get me to go there but I'm enjoying seeing shit about it second hand.

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My favorite thing to say when someone won't do something for me is, "Aw, c'mon, it's my birthday this year," and if they catch on and say, "What are you talking about? This YEAR? Everybody has a birthday this YEAR," respond with, "You're really gonna act like this on everybody's birthday?"

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tiktoks with vine energy

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Do we get to learn how it came to be in your grandmother's dining room?

something i always forget but then am delighted to remember is one time in the seventies my grandmother went to an art history lecture at the met and the lecturer put up a slide and was like “this is a very dope statue, no???? anyway one of the bronzes is missing :(” and my grandmother was like, “…..hm”

and then during the Q&A very politely put her hand up and said, “hello i have good news!! i know where the missing bronze is” and the lecturer was like, “come again please?” and my grandmother went, “yeah, it’s on my dining room table, do you … want it?”

anyway it’s in the met now but please take a moment to imagine being like, a tired art historian who’s teaching a poorly-attended art history lecture for the general public and some random woman in the audience raises her hand and instead of asking you about why watercolors are pretty just reveals to you the location of a famous missing statue

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tiktoks with vine energy pt. 2

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btw the katy perry/bezos' girlfriend/other four irrelevant billionaires 10 minute space stunt was not the first all female expedition no matter how much they try to market it as such. the first all female mission was in 1963 with soviet cosmonauts Valentina Tereshkova, Irina Solovyova and Valentina Ponomaryova - all three of which were working class and had to pass incredibly hard exams to be chosen from 400 potential candidates. just in case we started falling for the propaganda machine again

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i feel like tumblr doesnt know about the pain and suffering that is english tap water,,,, girl there are stalagmites inside me

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This paints such a beautiful picture

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things that happened to me when i was a woman in STEM:

an advisor humiliated me in front of an entire lab group because of a call I made in his place when he wouldn't reply to my e-mails for months

he later delegated part of my master's thesis work to a 19-year old male undergrad without my approval

a male scientist at a NASA conference looked me up and down and asked when i was graduating and if i was open to a job at his company. right before inquiring what my ethnicity was because i "looked exotic"

a random male member of the public began talking over me and my female advisor, an oceanographer with a pHD and decades of experience, saying he knew more about oceanography than us

things that have happened to me since becoming a man in STEM:

being asked consistently for advice on projects despite being completely new to a position

male colleagues approaching me to drop candid information regarding our partners / higher ups that I was not privy to before

lenience toward my work in a way I haven't experienced before. incredible understanding when I need to take time off to care for my family.

conference rooms go silent when I start talking. no side chatter. I get a baseline level of attention and focus from people that's very unfamiliar and genuinely difficult for me to wrap my head around.

like. yes some PI's will still be assholes regardless of the gender of their subordinates but, I've lived this transition. misogyny in STEM is killing women's careers, and trans men can and do experience male privilege.

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Stop memorizing my attack patterns. That's fucked up. Who let you do that.

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my little cousin confidently declared that mother nature had a counterpart named daddy electric and i feel like this concept needs to be explored

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