Sparkly Micah take 2

yep, they even say as much. "The core of what we oppose is 'anti-discrimination.' That is too much of a sacred cow."

like, these people are just straightforwardly segregationists and, in the case of heather mac donald especially, gutter racists

2024 Trans Girl Scouts To Order Cookies From! This year, consider ordering your Girl Scout cookies from a trans girl scout to make their day!

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BUY THEM FROM TRANS SCOUTS

YOUR COWORKER'S NEICE CAN GO EAT SHIT

a tidbit about Tim Allen experiencing his first emotion while filming Galaxy Quest with Alan Rickman

The more lore I learn about the best Star Trek movie ever made the more I love it

This! I actually think literally everyone’s life is valuable not just Westerners or white people

‘Love Stinks!’: RISPCA will write your ex’s name in a litter box for Valentine’s Day In exchange for a $5 donation, the RISPCA said it will write the name of your ex in a litter box used by their shelter cats.

In exchange for a $5 donation, the RISPCA said it will write the name of your ex in a litter box used by their shelter cats.

www.wpri.com/dont-miss/lo...

ATTENTION VISUAL ARTISTS:

Chicago University's 'Nightshade 1.0' Learning Algorithm 'poison' filter is now live for public use:

Unlike 'Glaze', which only makes your art irreplicable, Nightshade actively damages any learning database it gets added to.

nightshade.cs.uchicago.edu/downloads.html

is it time to bust out my "bigfoot is bears" photo collection again? if your mental image of a bear is a thick-furred, fat glossy male bear in autumn, you're probably not prepared for how weird their proportions can look in spring, or when walking upright, like they frequently do.

Ha, I was right, it is supposed to be a sock...but a really weird one 🤔

I think it should have some kind of heel turn about where the ribbing starts, or else the distance between the toe and that weird thing on the bottom should be greater. In order to, you know, make a sock that fits a human foot.

You get your valentines yet?

Each card has an illustration & pun on one side, & a fact about the illustrated species on the other.

It's not just for kids. Hand 'em out to coworkers, neighbors, we ALL need squid facts.

They start shipping Jan 25th.
Squidfacts.bigcartel.com

#SciArt 🧪

I suspect it's some kind of weird-construction sock. There's quite a few patterns out there for making socks in novel ways.

Colonization is, according to the oxford dictionary, the process of settling among and establishing control over the Indigenous people of an area. So decolonizing means unsettling, it means relinquishing control.

It does not mean cops in ribbon skirts or child welfare workers in orange shirts.

Sitting around waiting for baseball ⚾️ Season.

California State University (CSU) is the bedrock of public higher education in California. It's an unparalleled engine of upward mobility for the nearly 500,000 students (!) throughout the system, many of them first-gen or from minoritized groups.

The faculty make this miracle possible.

PAY THEM.

Bextraordinary Creatures - One-Skein Dragon pattern by Rebecca Stone This is a pattern for a “One-Skein Dragon.”

🧶Pattern published! One-Skein Dragon now available on Ravelry. ✅

www.ravelry.com/patterns/lib...

Harvard morgue theft ring stole body parts, sold brains and turned human flesh into leather The suspects “stole dissected portions of donated cadavers, including, for example, heads, brains, skin, bones, and other human remains," an indictment says.

yknow maybe this should have been the big Harvard scandal rather than the plagiarism thing www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

We are not in the polycule slutcloud, but we are of the polycule slutcloud 😂

Kickass band name tbh 🤔

OK, yeah, that makes sense. I took it as a hypothetical; there are definitely exes that I don't want to see anymore, but in general, if it's safe and possible, I'd prefer to be friendly 🤷‍♂️

Lol, you can't even see mine for the alt text tag lmaooo 😂

A quadrant diagram like the Political Compass, but it about monogamy vs. nonmonagamy. The quadrants are labeled, starting with the upper left and going clockwise, "biblical patriarch" (red), "#tradlife" (blue), "practical progressive" (yellow), and "polycule slutcloud" (green.) As with the Political compass, my dot lies at the extreme lower left corner (anarchist/polycule slutcloud.)

Heyyyy~

Not sure why our dots are in *slightly* different places, but it's great being in the polycule slutcloud with you 🥰😘🔥🔥🔥

Fun Story: I dated someone whose dad was the President of a large CSU. They lived in a mansion overlooking town, had servants, none of them could cook for themselves, & everyone acted like a Schitt’s Creek character.

i eventually broke up with them because it was too weird.

Stunning development in scholarly publishing. NYPL will be digitizing "entire out-of-print backlists" of multiple academic presses and making them available.

The Scholarly Press Backlist Revival project shows a striking thoughtfulness in overcoming perceived and real IP and contractual barriers.

Yes. Here's a thread with a list and links.

bsky.app/profile/grub...

MARTIN: Now, in hindsight, of course, you know, everybody recognizes that this was a groundbreaking role. An African-American woman fourth in command on a spaceship in the 23rd century, you know, an officer, a leader. But you had actually planned to quit after your first season. Why? Ms. NICHOLS: Well, I grew up in musical theater. To me, the highlight and the epitome of my life as a singer and actor and a dancer/choreographer was to star on Broadway. And as my popularity grew once the show was on the air, I was beginning to get all kinds of offers. And I decided I was going to leave, go to New York and make my way on the Broadway stage. And a funny thing happened. MARTIN: Well, tell us about that funny thing that happened. (Soundbite of laughter)

Ms. NICHOLS: I went in to tell Gene Roddenberry that I was leaving after the first season, and he was very upset about it. And he said, take the weekend and think about what I am trying to achieve here in this show. You're an integral part and very important to it. And so I said, yes, I would. And that - on Saturday night, I went to an NAACP fundraiser, I believe it was, in Beverly Hills. And one of the promoters came over to me and said, Ms. Nichols, there's someone who would like to meet you. He says he is your greatest fan. And I'm thinking a Trekker, you know. And I turn, and before I could get up, I looked across the way and there was the face of Dr. Martin Luther King smiling at me and walking toward me. And he started laughing. By the time he reached me, he said, yes, Ms. Nichols, I am your greatest fan. I am that Trekkie.

Ms. NICHOLS: And I was speechless. He complimented me on the manner in which I'd created the character. I thanked him, and I think I said something like, Dr. King, I wish I could be out there marching with you. He said, no, no, no. No, you don't understand. We don't need you on the - to march. You are marching. You are reflecting what we are fighting for. So, I said to him, thank you so much. And I'm going to miss my co-stars. And his face got very, very serious. And he said, what are you talking about? And I said, well, I told Gene just yesterday that I'm going to leave the show after the first year because I've been offered - and he stopped me and said: You cannot do that. And I was stunned. He said, don't you understand what this man has achieved? For the first time, we are being seen the world over as we should be seen. He says, do you understand that this is the only show that my wife Coretta and I will allow our little children to stay up and watch. I was speechless.

MARTIN: But that's kind of a heavy responsibility, though. I do have to ask you about that. I mean the fact is you did put a side some of your own personal dreams to stay in that role. Ms. NICHOLS: Yes. Yes. Well, you know... MARTIN: And then you did three movies. And how does that sit with you now? Ms. NICHOLS: Well, it's interesting that you said, you know, you would run through the house and look. I met Whoopi Goldberg when Gene was doing The Next Generation and she had told me when Star Trek came on she was nine years old and she said she turned the TV on and saw me and ran through the house screaming: Come quick, come quick. Theres a black lady on TV and she ain't no maid. (Soundbite of laughter) Ms. NICHOLS: And that did something to my heart, so I knew that I had made the right decision, because as Dr. King said, you have been chosen.

in honor of the day, my favorite Star Trek story is the one about how Dr. King was the reason Nichelle Nichols didn’t quit after the first season because he told her how important it was for TV audiences to see a future where a Black woman engineer was right there on the bridge of that starship

What? No one had made the obvious dumb pun yet; it was necessary. I leave no good pun undeeded 🤷‍♂️