One of those gay people wandering around

[One of those gay people wandering around]

[beingcuteismything]

Okay something that bothers me is the fact physics is seen as the more prestigious of the three main sciences, with biology at the bottom and chemistry in the middle. Like. I doubt most people could name a famous biologist, but they could name 5 famous physicists. Why are Albert Einstein and Stephen hawking household names but Norman Borlaug and Jonas Salk aren't?

Not to dismiss the accomplishments of Einstein or Hawking, or their genius, but their actual tangible contributions to society have been miniscule compared to that of Borlaug or Salk who have each saved LITERALLY hundreds of millions, if not billions, of lives each. Half the food on your plate was probably grown thanks to Borlaug and Salk is the reason half your siblings didn't die of polio as a kid.

Sure Einsteins theory of relatively is important for modern satellite communications but really though how can it compare?

This is coming from someone who studied physics. I love physics, and years ago when i was at uni I looked down at biology and so did everyone else studying physics. And I know others did too. Retroactively of course I know this was so very wrong.

If society as a whole started treating biology with more respect then maybe more students would go into that field. If we had rockstars of medicine and agricultural science that were household names rather than just physicists? think of how many more lives could be saved, how many more lives could be improved.

I'm not saying physics isn't important, and more scientists of any kind is always good, but proportionally I think societies priorities are a little skewd.

[elusivemellifluence]

ALT

Relevant xkcd

[greenwire]

Jonas Salk was a household name in his lifetime, and people do know the names Richard Dawkins and Louis Pasteur and Charles Darwin. But biology has been demoted to a "soft science" in recent decades, a phenomenon I can explain with a single image:

My prediction is that you will see this happen with chemistry next.

[One of those gay people wandering around]

[seriousjones]

no offense I haven’t heard a girl talk at length about pumpkin spice anything in years and I can’t remember the last time I went six hours without hearing a grown man making fun of how obsessed girls are with pumpkin spice lattes

[imoldbutimstillintothat]

Grown men are obsessed with making fun of girls so they don’t have to think of their own numerous and pathetic flaws.

[One of those gay people wandering around]

[literallyrad]

“you support gay rights so you must be gay”

i support animal rights do i look like a fucking alpaca to you

[literallyrad]

turns out i am gay

[monsieurenjlolras]

holy shit how’d this alpaca learn how to type

[mywitchcultblr]

Diversity win! The alpaca is gay!

[adreamthatsworthkeeping]

[trapped-in-a-trance]

@hellsite-hall-of-fame

[One of those gay people wandering around]

[bogleech]

It’s funny how science fiction universes so often treat humans as a boring, default everyman species or even the weakest and dumbest.

I want to see a sci fi universe where we’re actually considered one of the more hideous and terrifying species.

How do we know our saliva and skin oils wouldn’t be ultra-corrosive to most other sapient races? What if we actually have the strongest vocal chords and can paralyze or kill the inhabitants of other worlds just by screaming at them? What if most sentient life in the universe turns out to be vegetable-like and lives in fear of us rare “animal” races who can move so quickly and chew shit up with our teeth?

Like that old story “they’re made of meat,” only we’re scarier.

[mikhailvladimirovich]

HOLY SHIT THEY EAT CAPSAICIN FOR FUN

YOU GUYS I HEARD A HUMAN ONCE ATE AN AIRPLANE.

A HUMAN CAN KEEP FIGHTING FOR HOURS EVEN AFTER YOU SHOOT IT

humans are a proud warrior race with a pantheon of bloody gods: Ram-Bo, Schwarzenegger, etc.

REMOVING A LIMB WILL NOT FATALLY INCAPACITATE HUMANS: ALWAYS DESTROY THE HEAD.

WARNING: HUMANS CAN DETECT YOU EVEN AT NIGHT BY TRACKING VIBRATIONS THROUGH THE ATMOSPHERE

WARNING: HUMANS CAN REPRODUCE AT A RATE OF 1 PER SPACEYEAR. DESTROY INFESTATIONS IMMEDIATELY

THE HUMAN MOUTH HAS OVER THIRTY OUTCROPS OF BONE AND POWERFUL JAW MUSCLES.

HUMAN BITES CAN BE FATALLY INFECTIOUS EVEN TO OTHER HUMANS

WARNING: HUMANS CAN AND WILL USE IMPROVISED WEAPONS. SEE CLASSIFIED DATA LABELED J. CHAN.

HUMANS CAN PROJECT BIOWEAPONS FROM ALMOST EVERY ORIFICE ON THEIR BODY. DO NOT INHALE

OH GOD THE HUMANS FIGURED OUT DOOR HANDLES OH GOD OH GOD

[prokopetz]

More seriously, humans do have a number of advantages even among Terrestrial life. Our endurance, shock resistance, and ability to recover from injury is absurdly high compared to almost any other animal. We often use the phrase “healthy as a horse” to connote heartiness - but compared to a human, a horse is as fragile as spun glass. There’s mounting evidence that our primitive ancestors would hunt large prey simply by following it at a walking pace, without sleep or rest, until it died of exhaustion; it’s called pursuit predation. Basically, we’re the Terminator.

(The only other animal that can sort of keep up with us? Dogs. That’s why we use them for hunting. And even then, it’s only “sort of”.)

Now extrapolate that to a galaxy in which most sapient life did not evolve from hyper-specialised pursuit predators:

• Our strength and speed is nothing to write home about, but we don’t need to overpower or outrun you. We just need to outlast you - and by any other species’ standards, we just plain don’t get tired.
• Where a simple broken leg will cause most species to go into shock and die, we can recover from virtually any injury that’s not immediately fatal. Even traumatic dismemberment isn’t necessarily a career-ending injury for a human.
• We heal from injuries with extreme rapidity, recovering in weeks from wounds that would take others months or years to heal. The results aren’t pretty - humans have hyperactive scar tissue, among our other survival-oriented traits - but they’re highly functional.
• Speaking of scarring, look at our medical science. We developed surgery centuries before developing even the most rudimentary anesthetics or life support. In extermis, humans have been known to perform surgery on themselves - and survive. Thanks to our extreme heartiness, we regard as routine medical procedures what most other species would regard as inventive forms of murder. We even perform radical surgery on ourselves for purely cosmetic reasons.

In essence, we’d be Space Orcs.

[friendlytroll]

Our jaws have too many TEETH in them, so we developed a way to WELD METAL TO OUR TEETH and FORCE THE BONES IN OUR JAW to restructure over the course of years to fit them back into shape, and then we continue to wear metal in out mouths to keep them in place. 

We formed cohabitative relationships with tiny mammals and insects we keep at bay from bothering us by death, often using little analouge traps. 

And by god, we will eat anything. 

[siderealsandman]

• We use borderline toxic peppers to season our food. 
• We expose ourselves to potentially lethal solar radiation in the pursuit of darkening our skin. 
• We risk hearing loss for the opportunity to see our favorite musicians live. 
• We have a game where two people get into an enclosed area and hit each other until time runs out/one of them pass out
• We willingly jump out of planes with only a flimsy piece of cloth to prevent us from splattering against the ground. 
• Our response to natural disasters is to just rebuild our buildings in the exact same places. 
• We climb mountains and risk freezing to death for bragging rights
• We invented dogs. We took our one time predators and completely domesticated them. 
• On a planet full of lions, tigers and bears, we managed to advance further and faster than any other species on the planet. 

Klingons and Krogan and Orcs ain’t got shit on us

[moniquill]

We drink ethanol (in concentrations high enough to be used as an effective as microbicide or a solvent!) for the express purpose of achieving blood toxicity and disrupting normal brain function… AS A RECREATIONAL ACTIVITY!

On the same subject, we also deliberately incinerate assorted substances and then inhale the particulate-heavy smoke and vapor resulting for the same effect. EVEN IN THE FACE OF SAID SUBSTANCES BEING CARCINOGENIC, BECAUSE WE JUST DON’T GIVE A FUCK.

[therobotmonster]

Humans do not have biological castes. Kill their commander and another will take its place. Soldiers left alone on a planet will start farming and manufacturing to survive. Farmers and manufacturers will take up arms and kill you if pressed. Just because two humans look different doesn’t mean they cannot do each other’s jobs.

Breeding does not kill them. A single human can mate dozens or hundreds of times in a lifetime. They often do so as recreation. Xenobiology team six believes they do not have a mating season but this is too strange to be true.

Their appendages are not designed for hitting, so they developed special training to make them very good at hitting anyhow. 

The proteins making up their bodies are toxic and cause prion disease. Do not touch anything humans have touched. Do not consume earth foods. Fire does not adequately remove this contamination.

Humans perceive sixteen times the colors we do. Do not hide in bushes or vines from humans. They can distinguish your pelt from the foliage with ease.

We tried venting waste gas into the tunnels to kill the humans when they attacked. Turns out they breathe it. 

Everything on their planet came from a single biological strain. They developed comprehensive genetics BEFORE they developed space travel. 

They lack radio receptors and cannot be brought into compliance with right-thought simply by broadcasting to them. Even after we learned how to translate it into sound-waves one of their hatchlings drove the Great Authority mad by responding to every demand with a single question: “Why?”

[silentstep]

#an individual human being is actually a microbiome in its own right—you are dealing with a legion each time you approach them     #they carry pathological agents inside their deep tissues and this is advantageous to their health     #one of the most widespread and resilient viruses on their planet is treated as mildly hazardous—even though it causes     #massive disruption to the body’s homeostasis     #(their young offspring endure multiple rhinovirus infections EACH YEAR yet they seem unperturbed by this)     #they have developed such long lifespans that now their primary threat is their own body’s degeneration     #humanity has literally figured out how to survive so long that their body gives out under them     #and they are not satisfied with that     #stupid willful vengeful survivalists who treat mortality like a challenge    

[littlekittenluna]

I am speechless

[cause-of-chaos]

We are the real terror to the aliens. That’s why they don’t come around

[aniseandspearmint]

HERITAGE POST

this is the OG humans are scary space monsters post!

[disgruntled-foreign-patriarch]

yesss

[laarisita]

@hellsite-hall-of-fame tell me you’ve got itttt

[One of those gay people wandering around]

[userhamilton]

:)

[traincoded]

fairly produced in bangladesh and india? love that only the german part of the supply chain has names. real trust me the brown people i can't credit or tell you the names of are definitely being treated fairly energy. don't even know a single brand in india that has a good supply chain. really dislike this.

[traincoded]

actually still thinking over this, like this t-shirt is almost the perfect microcosm of why attempts to address climate change through consumer choices in the imperial core is basically a wash. it is obviously not climate change friendly to make a t-shirt in bangladesh and india, ship it to europe to print designs on it and then reship everywhere else.

why not print in bangladesh? why not print in india and ship from there? there are dozens of on demand printing services in india. because this is how capitalist production under imperial relations works. poor countries in the global south are only good for providing raw material for dirt cheap. the real value add, the finishing touch has to happen in the western world, which will pocket the largest share because its perceived as the "sophisticated" part of production. imperial profits then get distributed to the western world, so even the working class in europe now is complicit in the exploitation of the global south.

[One of those gay people wandering around]

[spring-sent]

Terfy “anti trans” posts: men can’t be women so they shouldn’t call themselves lesbians or enter female exclusive spaces

Trans anti terf posts:

[callioscope]

Transwomen: Oh you think I’m a man? Could a man do this? *makes violent sexualized threats about their fantasies of torturing female bodies*

[killjoyfem]

Reblogging this to remember Eloá Cristina Pimentel, who was held captive in her own home by her ex-boyfriend for over 100 hours before being executed by him after he shot her in her vagina. She was only 15 years-old; he was 22.

This case took place in Brazil, where I am from, and I remember watching in horror when I was a young girl, as it played out on the news and the media made a circus outside her apartment and turned her nightmare into entertainment, relentlessly, until it killed her.

They (a media outlet, not even the police) even called her captor during these 100 hours and said he was just a “misguided, good guy”.

This is a deeply misogynistic sentiment that reflects real life violence against women. When someone writes things like that, they’re not only disrespecting victims like Eloá, they’re letting you know exactly how much they hate women.

[One of those gay people wandering around]

[female-eren]

For some reason it bothers me very much when people describe old women as "grandma" instead of just saying woman. "In Howl's moving castle an 18-year old girl is turned into a 90-year old grandma" she literally doesn't have any children or grandchildren. "A picture of a grandma and her pet rooster in Kyiv 1980s" she's a woman. We don't know anything about her family status. Just say woman

[killjoyfem]

That’s because we, as a society, default to the belief that women are meant to be mothers. So when we see an older woman, it’s almost unthinkable she has no grandkids, that she is, god forbid, happily a spinster, or something scary like that. Just imagine!

[One of those gay people wandering around]

[transatlantic-accent]

Porn-critical Billie Eilish. I feel really bad for her. Too many women have been groomed into watching this shit that dehumanises us.

Billie Eilish says she started watching 'violent' porn when she was 11 years old: 'It really destroyed my brain'

The 19-year-old singer said she believes her struggles with sleep paralysis and night terrors were rooted in her exposure to "abusive BDSM."

Insider

[tzov]

Yessss queen

[supermusicallee]

[One of those gay people wandering around]

[quinntheestallion]

I love how everyone seems to know “gender is a social construct” but constructed by whom and for what purpose is conveniently left in the dark or considered an unnecessary detail.

Since nobody likes saying it: it’s constructed by males with the explicit purpose of conferring themselves with power at the expense of female human beings. Less dominant males will be punished if they fail to contribute to or threaten masculine social power. All female human beings will be punished by default. It’s not hard.

[quinntheestallion]

They really got you to believe gender is your own little adventure and personal self-expression project instead of the brutal,hierarchal system of male dominance and female subjugation it's been for the past several thousands of years lmao

I won't lie, The Patriarchy kinda ate with that rebrand. Like gagged us. Literally. Gender Jacked patriarchy is like a cockroach who grew wings.

[One of those gay people wandering around]

[jackthebard]

Just remember. There is no such thing as a fake geek girl.
There are only fake geek boys.
Science fiction was invented by a woman.

[sourcedumal]

[shuttersmiley]

Specifically a teenage girl. You know, someone who would be a part of the demographic that some of these boys are violently rejecting.

[foxsan]

Isaac Asimov.

[sim0nbaz]

yo mary shelley wrote frankenstein in 1818 and isaac asimov was born in 1920 so you kinda get my point

[divinedorothy]

If you want to push it back even further Margaret Cavendish, the duchess of Newcastle (1623-1673) wrote The Blazing World in 1666, about a young woman who discovers a Utopian world that can only be accessed via the North Pole - oft credited as one of the first scifi novels

Women have always been at the forefront of literature, the first novel (what we would consider a novel in modern terms) was written by a woman (Lady Muraskai’s the Tale of Genji in the early 1000s) take your snide “Isaac Asimov” reblogs and stick it

even in terms of male scifi authors, asimov was predated by Jules Verne, HG Wells, George Orwell, you could have even cited Poe or Jonathan Swift has a case but Asimov?

PbbBFFTTBBBTBTTBBTBTTT so desperate to discredit the idea of Mary Shelly as the mother of modern science fiction you didn’t even do a frickin google search For Shame

[validcriticism]

And if you want to go back even further, the first named, identified author in history was Enheduanna of Akkad, a Sumerian high priestess.

[gunthatshootsennui]

Kinda funny, considering this Isaac Asimov quote on the subject:

Mary Shelley was the first to make use of a new finding of science which she advanced further to a logical extreme, and it is that which makes Frankenstein the first true science fiction story.

[deathcomes4u]

Even Isaac Asimov ain’t having none of your shit, not even posthumously.

[touchofgrey37]

You know what else was invented by women? Masked vigilantes, the precursor to the modern superhero. Baroness Emma Orczy wrote The Scarlet Pimpernel in 1905. The character would later inspire better known masked vigilantes such as Zorro and Batman.

[geekinlibrariansclothing]

Got that?

Originally posted by newyorkbellco

[bettieleetwo]

Stick that in your international pipe and smoke it

[la-knight]

I have literally been telling people this for over a year.

[athenadark]

the first extended prose piece - ie a novel, was not, as many male scholars will shout, Don Quixote (1605) but The Tale of Genji (1008) written by a woman

[thepsychicclam]

The first autobiography ever written in English is also attributed to a woman, The Book of Margery Kempe (1430s).

[ladynorbert]

The day may come when I find this post and do not reblog it, but it is not this day.

[fragments-of-sappho]

Women invented language while men were hunting. I mean…

[lesb0]

we gotta bring back this energy to tumblr 💓♀️

[hadesoftheladies]

women hunted, farmed AND invented language