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I know what's going on here... 🥚

a digital recreation of edward hopper's "nighthawks" featuring four characters inside of a diner, all in the style of Nintendo Miis

I recreated Edward Hopper's "Nighthawks" using uDraw for the Nintendo Wii (and also turned all the people into Miis)

the fundamental disconnect between the manosphere and reality is that they are incapable of understanding that this is - according to every woman I’ve ever met - the sexiest thing a man has ever done

Old rides included, Rocket Rods hands down. Current rides only, Submarines. Bonus points for Mr. Lincoln if it's considered a "ride".

I'd recommend buying used/vintage if possible (metal vs plastic parts, minimal-to-no computer parts) - local sewing/quilt shops may have repaired models to sell. I'm partial to Singer - true vintage models great, also love my y2k-era Singer Simple. Read the manual of whatever you buy.

Joke Describe your perfect date. That's a tough one. I'd have to say April 25th. Because it's not too cold. All you need is a light jacket.

Happy Light Jacket Day to all who celebrate

This B&N preorder sale, which cOnVeNiEnTLy falls just before Indie Bookstore Day, consider making one (or more!) of your preorders at your local indie. Invest in your own community 💕

Vote for the best of the internet I just voted in The Webby People's Voice Awards and checked my voter registration.

Everything is terrible but here is one thing that isn't: the Rebel Spirit podcast, a labor of incredible love from @akilahhughes.com and me about trying to make real change in the face of history, is up for a Webby and I NEED your vote. ENDS TODAY. PLEASE VOTE.

vote.webbyawards.com/PublicVoting...

Vote for the best of the internet I just voted in The Webby People's Voice Awards and checked my voter registration.

this Webby Award shit is way too tight and I am basically funneling ALL MY STRESS about *waves hands in all directions* into this one goofy award. Please vote Rebel Spirit if you have a moment: vote.webbyawards.com/PublicVoting...

concept: one of those special-edition book subscription boxes but their editions are cheap mass market paperbacks with lovingly airbrushed 90s cover art

What It Feels Like, Right Now When I was in college in North Carolina, I flew home to Pennsylvania for the holidays. My mother and father were going through a divorce at that point (a divorce that should’ve happened many …

Wrote a thing. Maybe it's a thing you wanna read, I dunno. We'll see. *lays it gently at your feet*

With age, I am understanding things I never understood when I was younger.

ONE of those things, is the value of doing Fucking Anything™.

Taking ANY action, inspires other people to take action. This ripple effect is more powerful than the original Anything™ you do.

Shot is from The Last Jedi, IMO one of the 3 best Star Wars movies and no I will not be arguing with you about this in the comments. We're in a dark and smoke machiney future space room lit by some faint window light. A very pale Kylo Ren, sans scary mask, stands in the middle of the room as if frozen in time. He's wearing black pants with the waist hiked up pretty high like how older dad's wear pants, and he's shirtless and pretty swol. There's a lot going on here, even though there's not really much happening if that makes sense. No caption.

Eastern Monarch Butterfly Population Nearly Doubles The population wintering in central Mexico's forests occupied 4.42 acres, up from 2.22 acres during the previous winter.

Who wants some good news?

The overwintering monarch population, which had plummeted last winter, has doubled this winter! www.worldwildlife.org/stories/east...

If you find the setting please share. There's no need for an extra sidebar like that, omg.

There have been people less than helpful in my journey here. I wanted to acknowledge those too, bc I know I am not unique in this experience. No thank you to the physics study assoc that made me sing songs about how women couldn't study physics without sleeping with the professor, the day I stepped into university life. No thank you to the 5th year physics student that decided to assign me a stripper name within the first minute of meeting me in the physics coffee corner in my first year. No thank you to the technician that was responsible for onboarding me on the use of the cluster in my third year who raised his eyebrows and asked me if that meant I was some sort of computer girl. No thank you to the senior researcher that sent me utterly inappropriate texts after a conference, then proceeded to apologise months later by telling me they had not been meant for me anyway so no hard feelings remain hopefully And no thank you to him for attending every conference I've been to since. No thank you to the people who told me that it was surprising that I was doing a PhD since I was a girl. No thank you to the man who mistook me for a coffee lady at a conference, and after having to correct him two times that I did not work there, responded with you should consider it. No thank you to the researcher that asked me what I was wearing underneath my outfit during a conference. No thank you to the physicist who declared to a room full of other physicists that biologists don't know how to design an experiment. No thank you to the people who have called me scary instead of strong and intimidating instead of intelligent. And finally, no thank you to the exec board of the TU Delft, whose knee-jerk reaction to being held up a mirror about the social safety at the university, was to sue the party holding up the mirror instead of looking at the problems they highlighted. ... You have made me feel like I do not belong in science & I cannot forgive you for that.

A friend included this anti-acknowledgement section on her PhD thesis. She also added the proposition: “Systematic bullying and undermining of girls and women in STEM starts early on and is the reason why they do not stay in science and related fields.”
Absurd we still need to go through this
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The Democratic Party is going to lose a lot of people, and for the first time I feel like I could be one of them.

Everybody (me included) is getting bogged down on the details of events at NIH et al. Fatal mistake. The big picture is Musk/Trump are trying to shut down all gov-funded Medical/Disease research in the US. Have to understand that to have any hope of stopping it. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/act-now

As with so many other things, there’s no official explanation for Trump’s “shutting down government-funded cancer research” policy. But with Trump pretending to care about cancer treatment at his joint address, we can rule out woowoo nonsense as a rationale. The only available explanations are evil.

Finland ends homelessness and provides shelter for all in need - scoop.me In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Why? The country applies the "Housing First" concept agains homelessness.

“In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment & counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back into a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.”

An oral norovirus vaccine tablet was safe and elicited mucosal immunity in older adults in a phase 1b clinical trial An oral norovirus vaccine tablet is safe and induces strong mucosal and systemic immune responses in adults aged 55 to 80 years.

In the US alone, each year, norovirus causes ~20 million acute gastroenteritis cases, 70,000 hospitalizations, up to 800 deaths, at a cost of ~$10.6 billion annually.
An pill vaccine shows considerable promise in a clinical trial, establishing mucosal immunity
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

If you're 60, 69.1% of all job growth since your birth occurred under Democratic administrations.

If you're 45, that number is 74.7%.

If you're under 30, the number is 100%.

In Oversight today, my colleagues stuck to their usual script: blaming immigrants for all crime & claiming Dem mayors are too soft. Well, I was curious to know if they’ve ever had an immigrant with a criminal record that they could recall. Tune in!

ADHD people screenshotting and bookmarking everything because they’re afraid of losing ideas only to never look at them again because the archive is now its own overwhelming problem: [the meme image of Pedro Pascal lying on the floor looking at his phone with a funny little smile on his face]

more seen than I care to be, if I’m honest