#science totally fucks

[lucky-luciano-117]

I am a vaguely not elementary school aged human and I cannot get enough of They Might Be Giant’s “Here Comes Science” album. It’s totally the cool science teacher kind of thing, but I can’t get enough

#they might be giants #they #might #be #giants #here #comes #science #here comes science #science is real #science fun #science totally fucks

[endusviolence]

Rowling isn't denying holocaust. She just pointed out that burning of transgender health books is a lie as that form of cosmetic surgery didn't exist. But of course you knew that already, didn't you?

I was thinking I'd probably see one of you! You're wrong :) Let's review the history a bit, shall we?

In this case, what we're talking about is the Institut für Sexualwissenschaft, or in English, The Institute of Sexology. This Institute was founded and headed by a gay Jewish sexologist named Magnus Hirschfeld. It was founded in July of 1919 as the first sexology research clinic in the world, and was run as a private, non-profit clinic. Hirschfeld and the researchers who worked there would give out consultations, medical advice, and even treatments for free to their poorer clientele, as well as give thousands of lectures and build a unique library full of books on gender, sexuality, and eroticism. Of course, being a gay man, Hirschfeld focused a lot on the gay community and proving that homosexuality was natural and could not be "cured".

Hirschfeld was unique in his time because he believed that nobody's gender was either one or the other. Rather, he contended that everyone is a mixture of both male and female, with every individual having their own unique mix of traits.

This leads into the Institute's work with transgender patients. Hirschfeld was actually the one to coin the term "transsexual" in 1923, though this word didn't become popular phrasing until 30 years later when Harry Benjamin began expanding his research (I'll just be shortening it to trans for this brief overview.) For the Institute, their revolutionary work with gay men eventually began to attract other members of the LGBTA+, including of course trans people.

Contrary to what Anon says, sex reassignment surgery was first tested in 1912. It'd already being used on humans throughout Europe during the 1920's by the time a doctor at the Institute named Ludwig Levy-Lenz began performing it on patients in 1931. Hirschfeld was at first opposed, but he came around quickly because it lowered the rate of suicide among their trans patients. Not only was reassignment performed at the Institute, but both facial feminization and facial masculization surgery were also done.

The Institute employed some of these patients, gave them therapy to help with other issues, even gave some of the mentioned surgeries for free to this who could not afford it! They spoke out on their behalf to the public, even getting Berlin police to help them create "transvestite passes" to allow people to dress however they wanted without the threat of being arrested. They worked together to fight the law, including trying to strike down Paragraph 175, which made it illegal to be homosexual. The picture below is from their holiday party, Magnus Hirschfeld being the gentleman on the right with the fabulous mustache. Many of the other people in this photo are transgender.

[Image ID: A black and white photo of a group of people. Some are smiling at the camera, others have serious expressions. Either way, they all seem to be happy. On the right side, an older gentleman in glasses- Magnus Hirschfeld- is sitting. He has short hair and a bushy mustache. He is resting one hand on the shoulder of the person in front of him. His other hand is being held by a person to his left. Another person to his right is holding his shoulder.]

There was always push back against the Institute, especially from conservatives who saw all of this as a bad thing. But conservatism can't stop progress without destroying it. They weren't willing to go that far for a good while. It all ended in March of 1933, when a new Chancellor was elected. The Nazis did not like homosexuals for several reasons. Chief among them, we break the boundaries of "normal" society. Shortly after the election, on May 6th, the book burnings began. The Jewish, gay, and obviously liberal Magnus Hirschfeld and his library of boundary-breaking literature was one of the very first targets. Thankfully, Hirschfeld was spared by virtue of being in Paris at the time (he would die in 1935, before the Nazis were able to invade France). His library wasn't so lucky.

This famous picture of the book burnings was taken after the Institute of Sexology had been raided. That's their books. Literature on so much about sexuality, eroticism, and gender, yes including their new work on trans people. This is the trans community's Alexandria. We're incredibly lucky that enough of it survived for Harry Benjamin and everyone who came after him was able to build on the Institute's work.

[Image ID: A black and white photo of the May Nazi book burning of the Institute of Sexology's library. A soldier, back facing the camera, is throwing a stack of books into the fire. In the background of the right side, a crowd is watching.]

As the Holocaust went on, the homosexuals of Germany became a targeted group. This did include transgender people, no matter what you say. To deny this reality is Holocaust denial. JK Rowling and everyone else who tries to pretend like this isn't reality is participating in that evil. You're agreeing with the Nazis.

But of course, you knew that already, didn't you?

Edit: Added image IDs. I apologize to those using screen readers for forgetting them. Please reblog this version instead.

#transgender #trans history #transsexual #transphobia #Magnus Hirschfeld #holocaust #holocaust denial #book burning #j.k. rowling #jk rowling #just in case you missed what i mean by all this: go fuck yourself anon :) #trans people have always existed #and we will always exist #if you really wanna pick a fight with me over well-documented history then you better bring in some sources to back your shit #queer history #queer #lgbt+ #lgbta+ #lgbt #lgbt history #edit: i finally got around to those damn image IDs. i am so very sorry for totally forgetting that's my bimbo moment of the month #also real quick i thought about adding an image of the actual building but the only one i can find has a Nazi parade in front of it #it was taken the day of the book burning raid and honestly if i were to include it then i'd add it to the first few paragraphs #and i think the story's better told when you uphold the hope Magnus Hirschfeld and all the researchers he worked with had #also keeps being brought up: yes Hirschfeld was a eugenicist. it was a popular belief set that was only discredited after WW2 #Hirschfeld died in 1935. he literally didn't live long enough to see science turn against those beliefs and practices #considering how he changed his mind on transitions i like to think he would've changed his mind on eugenics too if he'd lived

[nevertheless-moving]

“The other day,” Skar added, “he was talking about what he’s doing there. It sounded an awful lot like he was learning how to read.” The men shifted uncomfortably. “So?” Kaladin asked. “What’s the problem? Sigzil can read his own language. Storms, I can read glyphs.” “It’s not the same,” Skar said. “It’s feminine,” Drehy added. “Drehy,” Kaladin said, “you are literally courting a man.” “So?” Drehy said. “Yeah, what are you saying, Kal?” Skar snapped. “Nothing! I just thought Drehy might empathize.…” “That’s hardly fair,” Drehy said. “Yeah,” Lopen added. “Drehy likes other guys. That’s like … he wants to be even less around women than the rest of us. It’s the opposite of feminine. He is, you could say, extra manly.”

Different possible explanations for this scene, to be taken up depending on which headcanon would be the funniest for a given fic:

While being gay is more broadly acceptable than being unmanly, conflating gender roles with sexuality is not uncommon; the other guys have just gotten more than one drunken lecture from Drehy about how he hates being treated womanly just because he likes dick. Kaladin was obviously working those nights.

Under Vorinism, Gender roles are rigid, but a range of sexualities are perfectly fine. The ardent who visited Kaladin's hometown was just a freak who hated gay people so much it was unreal, and took great pains to explain to the boys of this isolated rural town the unhinged idea that marrying a man was OBVIOUSLY womanly and therefore Bad. He mostly unlearned that shit after joining the army but is a bit confused. It doesn't come up often.

There was one (1) elderly queer couple in heartstone growing up, and one of the men was super gnc, which made people uncomfortable but his parents always told him that you shouldn't shame people for harmless joy. so, yeah, Kaladin just sort of figured that in a relationship between guys, one of them is the woman. He assumes Renarin is gay and I mean. He's not wrong. Part of the reason he never accepted friendly offers of soldier companionship. Not that there's anything wrong with it. He never asked Drehy who was who, because its none of his business and he didn't want to know.

the only times Kaladin has personally ever noticed being attracted to another man is when the guy was doing something womanly. Is it a kink? Is it an extremely dense man needing someone to stand on top of clearly marked social signposts and wave their arms for him to even register them as a sexual being? who knows! not Kaladin! he doesn't have time to unpack any of that. anyway he assumed that all same sex attraction worked the same way and obviously never actually talked about it with a living person. actually I'm expanding this to cover all of Kaladin's sexuality just to make him extra stupid. first time he noticed Tarah was when she punched a dude.

#stormlight archive #oathbringer #kaladin stormblessed #cosmere #yes for that last one it means he finds sigzil talking about science research and Taking Notes on his training kinda hot #that might have been part of why he agreed to be studied but he's totally professional about it okay #also he may have Noticed Hoid playing the flute like that but that's not why he stopped to listen to him! #and falling in love with Shallan after she pulled a Shardblade out of her ass... #fuck this headcanon works shockingly well i'm cracking myself up #if you have other alternate takes on the weird little homophobic scene of all time please please let me know #nevertheless cosmere

[chipped-chimera]

Gotta say nothing shows the level of americanisation of media/internet than with this eclipse. Last year state in Australia (Western Australia) had complete totality of an eclipse in a dinky little town up north. It was inundated with tourists from around Australia and the world - we even had NASA scientists fly in for study.

I'm based in the only city of our hugeass state (Perth) and while we didn't get totality it was probably the most significant eclipse I've seen in recent memory. It was present in shadows, and there was a significant temperature drop during the experience.

Internationally? News probably didn't make a blip.

Meanwhile I'm sitting in my office overhearing the BBC on the tv (so british news) talking about an American solar eclipse like it's more significant? 🤷‍♀️

Anyway here's some of my pics of our eclipse last year: we had 72% coverage where I was, managed to catch some of the crescent shadows beneath our paperbark tree (I thank tumblr for bestowing this knowledge years ago).

#kerytalk #science #I guess it's science #it was fun watching the broadcast because the reporter just lost train of thought at totality and you can hear people cheering #and screaming #just gleeful humanity #also Pink Floyd went up there in the lead up and did a concert so that's pretty fucking BALLER #for my state that's apparently 'offbrand texas' #idk what texas is like but if jack shit happens there and all the bands miss you - uh yeah that's us #jokes about WA splitting off from the rest of Australia are so strong they made it into fucking cyberpunk 2077 lore I shit you not

[stuckinapril]

i really am the kind of bitch who loves reading textbooks huh

#not to be obnoxious but i totally do #i keep saying i don't have time for recreational reading but my biochem textbook? organic chem? physics? psych? chem???? #i WILL get burned out eventually. i will. but rn i'm having sm fun w my full study days. #absolutely salivating to start sarah bakewell's at the existentialist cafe soon #a stack is sitting in my bookcase waiting to be read. i miss reading like i used to. i miss it sm #but i just got done w an intense study session and so. much. serotonin #i've just been studying and working out and taking walks and applying my lip balm and spritzing on a yummy perfume and vibing to music #and. as always. minding my own fucking business #studying and consuming knowledge is actually part of my self care routine. if i don't i feel like utter shit #someone talk science w me i would literally fall in love w u #p

[kafka-pilled]

did glados praising you for being such an excellent test subject in portal make you so horny that you failed the final chamber at first because you were obedient and stayed in the incinerator or are you normal

#look my medical/science kink was already strong but glados. fuck #my praise/obedience kinks totally fucked me over playing both those fucking games #anyways uh. please tell me this happened to others too and i’m not alone in wanting to be a good obedient subject #audibly moaned when she called me a very good subject #portal #glados #medical kink #tagging as that cause i’m not sure if science kink is a thing. fuck it #science kink #hornyposting #lavender rambles #experimentation kink

[naamahdarling]

*

#my dad just congratulated my bf on his first maniversary #for his first T shot #dude is totally down with it and enthusiastically suportive of the quote neater than shit unquote science behind it all #and supportive of the work mf bf does in the community and of his social transition #and im crying because im so fucking lucky #the dude is 78 #we are so lucky #i hope to GOD i can marry my boyfriend before he dies #but the fucking social security shit may make that impossible legally and risky even if it's just a spiritual union #because they do hold having a long term serious partner against you and the word boyfriend has way more plausible deniability #than the word husband #i hate this country and the savagery with which they treat us #but at least my dad knows what we are and loves us not despite of it but including and embracing it #so im very very grateful tonight

[blue-hi]

so um. i hope it's ok if i ask for people's opinions?

i'm scheduled to go to work at the museum tomorrow but we're also supposed to get a blizzard in my city tomorrow, totaling to about 3 inches or even some more. this is my first winter with a car so i haven't really ever driven in these conditions, and drivers in my city. aren't fantastic. there's a shitty turning move named after the drivers in my city if that's any help. schools are shut down across the county, and the mayor has told nonessential city workers to stay home

i know i'm going to have to learn to drive in this weather eventually, and i have an suv, so it's not like i have a small car or a sedan or anything, so i feel like i'm overreacting but

i feel like calling off tomorrow.

my managers are super reasonable people and i really like them and they really like me, and if i were to call in tomorrow and say i don't feel safe traveling to work they'll probably understand. but i know that'll put more strain on them and my other coworkers who are brave enough to travel, and because i like them so much, i feel guilty about calling off. like i'm taking advantage of the goodwill. which i don't want to do

i also don't want them to think of me as a coward. i mean, i know i can be, but i don't want other people to know that and judge me for it. it's also been a while since i've had to deal with snow, period (we didn't get a lot last year)— is 3 inches a lot?

am i overreacting?

#unfortunately. i am the type to ask permission from people before i do something that makes me feel guilty. #i did come to work by accident twice last week when i wasn't actually scheduled (misread my schedule. oops! it worked out) #so it balances out for me to not come in when i am scheduled? #that logic doesn't work but. hmm. #i just. i respect the people i work with a lot. but i'm also fucking terrified #i also imagine it'll be totally dead tomorrow. on account of the #on account of the blizzard #unless grammy and grampy want to take little timmy to the science center because school is canceled #in which case fuck them

[felidaefatigue]

genuinely pondering what i actually want to do for the next 50 years because im pretty sure life is going to become... Not unlivable in the sense of humans cease but so completely and utterly Not This that i feel like any goals need to be achieved asap if they rely at all on global systems

#honestly if it wasnt such a horrifying thing to do to a living being id seriously debate having a kid now lmao like Thats How Bad #purely for the science of the process fascinates me #which OBVIOUSLY IS NOT A GOOD REASON and thus No on top of all of the MANY MANY MORE reasons of NO #but like if there ever was a cut off time it would be noe #now #lowkey kinda makes me sad its such a hard no too cause as much as i dont want to raise a human i think my partner would be amazing at it #like if we lived in boomer era but less misogynistic and i could have one n he just like does the rest i could live with that level of risk #LOL still fucked up methodology for offspring but like THERE IS 1 AND ONLY 1 timeline that id be cool with it #and this is not that timeline #but also ik it hurts him too likes hes on the same page of haha not in this reality thats fucked up but he Totally Would otherwise #ANYWAYS thats not even the whole point #just like. general. #like if i want to just go build a house or something and empty my savings. #just any wild dream #cause i gebuinely do not know if money is going to be a stable concept much longer

[angeltism]

talked to the councelor and we looked at the minimum admission requirements for local universities. and talked abt how the class average isn't something to judge myself on. and how 80s are good grades and i should (and will) talk to my teacher for the one class i got a 65 in. and see if i can do better. phew.

#➳ the fool speaks #also apparently i AM eligible for one medal at the end of the year if i figure out what my total average is.. #tf were my notes last semester im pretty sure i did good. i can average an 85 or more #and hey maybe if i go a little extra tryhard in like.. uh.. english. or. maybe not uh #ok if i try super hard in one of my classes. like really obnoxiously. i could maaaaaybe get an award specifically for that ?? hm #but for now we are just aiming to uh. fix the 65??? bc wgat the fuck hello !!!!!! but heyy it's fine. we will talk to the teacher :] #and uhhhhhhhhhhhh who knows. maybe I'll ask my science teacher what I could do to get a better grade? #if i participate more in class. and don't flunk the test i have tomorrow.. i could get more points and probably get closer to a 90? #uh #we'll see

[starsandnoodles]

Strong Bad is so oddly satisfying to draw

As a bonus have SB, Homestar, and Marzipan as objects

Marzipan is a broom btw. I just let her keep her dress B’)

#homestar runner #homestarrunner #h*r #hsr #homestar #strong bad #marzipan #homestartherunner #using the gay tags #strong bad is trans I don’t make the rules #also he’s a Tamale candy not a bean XD #Homsar would totally be a cupcake hear me out- #I recently speed ran Homestar Ruiner on my laptop using a drawing tablet #you can play SBCGFAP on a fucking drawing tablet #I drew these in earth space science #the plush is right next to me #I’m going to stop adding tags now

[piningprecussionist]

hey hi uh would you be able to check if y'all have The Land Before Time IV back in stock yet?

Sure thing- one moment.

*Kim turns to the monitor and pulls the keyboard a little closer to herself before she starts typing away. After a minute, she slides it back to it's original spot and turns back to the customer.*

It looks like we do, yeah. It should be in our Kids and Family section- let me know if you need help finding it.

#pine.txt #asks #anon #rp #kim pine #sp comic #spvtwtg #spto #spvtw #not in standard continuity #(ooc: not changing my answer but i DID just realize i totally could have answered this like it was from the time it was still missing...) #(ooc: could have been funny maybe idk. and now neither will any of you /j) #ooc: i need everyone to know that i just made an insanely intense effort to see if there was a canon section of no-account that i could use #+here. #ooc: i did not. literally the only labeled bin in the comics is ''canadian🍁“ and there are a couple of signs in spto i couldn't make out + #+but the ones i could (which was most of them) didn't seem applicable #ooc: so i am. giving them a kids & family section. or bin- at least #((ooc: some of the spto section/bin names: anime- science saru- directors- discount [10%? memory bad]- action- romance)) #((ooc: there are more but. again. memory bad. and also they weren't what i was looking for so i wasn't trying to remember tbh)) #((ooc: i used the references we were given that i have in my official art tag and also went frame by frame through a clip of the #((ooc: fuck i hit enter. l. Anyway i was going through an unfinished clip of rocie and ramona's fight. and also all the kim clips that take #+ place there.)) #ooc: also! just a fun little thought i wanted to throw out there. if any scotts wanted to rp what that movie return might bave looked like+ #+that could be funny lol #roxie*** and ramona fight #HAVE*** looked like. ugh

[opens-up-4-nobody]

...

#i say goodbye to my boss tomorrow #not like officially officially bc im still employed into August so we have meetings #and hopefully we'll collaborate in future on projects and i have papers to write with her still #but like this is the last time ill physically see her bc shes not coming back until August and ill b gone by then #so its like. sad. bc shes my science mum. today she was complaining abt some stupid politics stuff #that went on this week in the department and she was like i kno i should b more professional but i feel like since ur leaving now #were more colleagues and friends. and im like 😭 god dammit ur gonna make me fucking cry #i came this this school to work with u and u were so great. i was so lucky to have ended up in her lab #bc i didnt kno wtf i was doing and shes not perfect but i learned a lot from her and ill b really sad to not b working with her so much #but thats how it goes. ill have to make her something cool as a parting gift #god. thatll b a fucking pain but she deserves something that takes a lot of effort #were meeting tomorrow to go over a protocol but im not sure if that's actually what were doing or if theres a surprise involved #bc she likes to do that and it stresses me the fuck out. she's been wanting to get me ice cream for the last 2 months so that might actually #b what's happening. or both could b happening. ugh. anyway. just me crying abt how im gonna miss my boss who im literally seeing tomorrow #im gonna have to giver her a painfully earnest letter abt how great she is and apologize for kinda having a breakdown #i mean i wasnt totally nonfunctional but like. it was not good and im sure i kinda sucked to b around #but whatever. god. the move it finally on the horizon. it finally feels like its getting real #unrelated

[movietonight]

"no atheists in foxholes" but it's me performing a libation for an ancient greek goddess in the hope to get rid of a curse that I definitely don't believe in haha help

#macks musings #I believe in science but like what the fuck is going on #Anyway Aphrodite and I are totally besties now right?

[flowergirlmiwa]

every single time ive ever seen anyone say something about "body language" it makes all the alarm bells in my head go off

#my post #actually autistic #to pretend it's a reliable science is one thing but in ANY context it makes my skin crawl #just dont use this term at all and dont determine the way people feel based on that ever just literally don't. #it's fine you don't have to #i'm telling you to never take A TOTAL STRANGER'S body language when youre not even in front of them #and use that to justify to yourself why they felt this way or that #it's fucking weirdo behavior #stop it

[strawberrycircuits]

after your posts about it, i played portal 1 and 2 again and it’s amazing how much the facility feels alive, like in the beginning of 2 when glados is first waking up again and the walls are moving back into place they move so fluidly as though their the lab’s first deep breath in a long long time

ok 1. :o!!!! you replayed it bc of me what!!!!!!! 2. oh my god I KNOWWWW !!! something I've been noticing a lot of this go round is the panels you can see actively replacing and refitting themselves at the beginning of chambers, like glados is putting that last little retouch on it she can before you have to occupy that space for the next little bit. I just got done with the first escape sequence (which, btw, I have a new appreciation for in how it really endears you to wheatley. hes genuinely helpful and it's nice to have someone say "oh you're okay!!!" when you get out of a tricky situation when you. yk. Don't get that for the majority of the game. well done on the writers parts, it makes the twist all the more devastating when it happens hehehe!!!) and watching glados use the facility to her advantage to disadvantage you-- moving panels to trap you in small spaces and reveal turrets and even going so far as to move the chambers themselves in an attempt to crush you...... aaaah!!! and seeing the inner workings of the facility feels so much like seeing the guts of the place, especially when you get to the turret assembly part and all the bits with the tubes.... like girl that's intestines!

#I know i rag on wheat all the time #but i genuinely believe hes on par with glados in terms of how well written he is #they poured so much attention and depth into these bots and their stories man ........ this game is bursting at the seams with- #creativity and love for the project. yk. #also shoutout to that panel that just smacks itself against the wall at the start of one of the chambers. and the one that dances w a cube #< not sure if its supposed to convey like. glados's mental state having just reawakened? but i always thought of it as like #the panels literally have a mind of their own and will do whatever they want if a. given a power source [ie glados] #and b. not kept in complete and total control by an external force [ie... glados...] #i get that vibe from a lot of things in aperture. that they have their own whims and wants and if left to their own devices (lol) #that is something they would pursue. but they cant and therefore they dont. #aperture science figured out how to make a sentient computer and went ok. lets make everything sentient! :) #surely this will be a great idea with no ethical ramifications ^_^ #<someone remind me to talk about the portal 1 cores vs the portal 2 cores it fucks me up when i think ab their differences.......