Month: May 2015

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*watches person I blocked for kink-shaming make small talk with kink blogger*

…????

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#for a moment I thought it might be because of the person’s ‘moderate’ stance on kinks #except said stance is that it’s okay to *have* kinks as long as you never talk about them or consider them important to who you are #which rather seems to preclude kink bloggers #(*and* last night I ventured into the person’s blog archives looking for a poem about gender I saw a while back) #(the one written by a medieval Jew who would probably have considered themself a trans woman if their culture had had the concept) #(I promised my mother I would look for it) #(and of the blogs I was following at the time that were most likely to have reblogged it) #(one of them was them) #(I didn’t even *find* the damned thing) #(point being I have had too many reminders that this person exists for one day) #((also if you’ve read this far and know where to find that poem let me know)) #tag rambles #oh look an original post #vagueblogging #this post has been delayed by an unspecified amount of time for enhanced vagueness

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Happy Smallpox Eradication Day

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ilzolende:

rageofthedogstar:

Today’s a good day for sharing one of my favorite essays:

It was in Ancient Egypt, where it attacked slave and pharaoh alike. In Rome, it effortlessly decimated armies. It killed in Syria. It killed in Moscow. In India, five million dead. It killed a thousand Europeans every day in the 18th century. It killed more than fifty million Native Americans. From the Peloponnesian War to the Civil War, it slew more soldiers and civilians than any weapon, any soldier, any army (Not that this stopped the most foolish and empty souls from attempting to harness the demon as a weapon against their enemies).

Cultures grew and faltered, and it remained. Empires rose and fell, and it thrived. Ideologies waxed and waned, but it did not care. Kill. Maim. Spread. An ancient, mad god, hidden from view, that could not be fought, could not be confronted, could not even be comprehended.

…

35 years ago, on December 9th, 1979, humanity declared victory.

This one evil, the horror from beyond memory, the monster that took 500 million people from this world – was destroyed.

You are a member of the species that did that. Never forget what we are capable of, when we band together and declare battle on what is broken in the world.

December 9th was when it was first declared eradicated by a group of scientists. Their conclusion was endorsed by the WHO on May 8th, 35 years ago today.

Happy Smallpox Eradication Day, everyone! [stims excitedly]

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#smallpox #history #the power of science #proud citizen of The Future

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last-snowfall:

defectivevorta:

ppl on ds9 angrily blogging about problems with the plumbing, the electricity, that one corridor that’s always full of debris because it’s the first to go whenever the station is attacked. “@staff you can move the fucking space station closer to the wormhole by somehow making it lighter but my bathroom still has a cardassian toilet”

“@staff i just want to be able to use a replicator without it destroying my ability to process language is that so much to ask”

“@staff i just found a pocket of anti-gravity in the habitat ring??? bug or feature?”

“@staff-”

“I AM WORKING ON IT” types Miles O’Brien, his communicator blowing up with notification after notification. so many notifications. Miles O’Brien thought he knew what he was getting into when he joined @staff. Miles O’Brien just wants to sleep. “I LIVE HERE TOO YOU KNOW”

Sisko assigning the account to that one Vulcan intern, who writes a program that assesses the messages, current repairs status, and fakes replying.

At first everyone breathes a sigh of relief.

Six months later the program has created itself a holographic form and can be found drinking heavily with Vic.

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#Star Trek #DS9 #anything that makes me laugh this much deserves a reblog #oh look an update

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THE ULTIMATE ANSWER TO WHETHER OR NOT BREASTS ARE SEXUAL ORGANS

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justice-turtle:

swoobats:

kaitlifts:

khaleesi-lifts:

Do they produce haploid gametes (either sperm or ovum) that can fuse to ultimately form an embryo? No.
Do they transport gametes? No.
Do they house the fetus during pregnancy? No.
Are they involved in the reproductive system of mammals? No.
Well what do you know, looks like they aren’t fucking sexual organs.

I know that a few of you might need to read this, just for clarification.

omg can you imagine a baby growing in a boob

twins

Milk creation isn’t involved in reproduction?

(That’s not even getting into the assumption that “sexual organ” means “reproductive organ”, when the people this is aimed at are probably using it to mean something more like “erogenous zone”.)

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#body horror?