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thatgirlwhokeepsreading:

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straightboyfriend:

straightboyfriend:

there is no medical component to a trans kid transitioning

if a little trans boy comes out to his parents & is like 4 all youd do for his transition is cut his hair, buy a new wardrobe, & switch pronouns & possibly change names

no one is gonna put a little 4 year old on testosterone OR puberty blockers until theyre actually about to start puberty & then they give them a few years to really decide if they want to start hormones

a trans kid existing isnt “child abuse.”
child abuse is refusing to let your kid live their lives as they truly are & forcing them to present as a gender they arent

radfems who interact with this post will be blocked & your argument will not be read or even considered. i do not care about the opinion of a transphobe & my original post still stands.

a few years ago a kid in my preschool class transitioned socially and the only consequence was that as soon as her best friend discovered that changing your name is allowed she wanted to change hers to Detective

So stay with me here, but fun ballet fact: part of the reason you’re supposed to start ballet young is so you stretch and hold your joint in certain ways regularly enough that your body grows different. You know how men who do ballet look only sort of muscular but then like lift a whole ass person? Their muscles are trained to lie flat like that for flexibility, they don’t bulk up. Girl in your class who always stands in turnout? It’s likely not just habit, her joints probably sit like that now.

I started ballet when I was six and stopped after three years. I then took a break for three years, and came back and did jazz ballet (which has most of the same body mods but without turnout) and tap for another couple of years. And every physio who works on my body looks at my feet, hips and calves and goes “oh you danced”. I was never even flexible enough to do the splits, but you best believe I stand in turnout. I never went en pointe, but I’m 95% sure tap is the reason my feet have random spasms if I don’t take to them with a tennis ball once a week.

When I said I wanted to be a dancer at six years old, adults took that to mean I’d want certain permanent alterations to my body. Unlike with young trans kids, no one was looking to make sure I fully understood what I was getting into. And unlike with young trans kids, these changes were not reversible when I changed my mind. There wasn’t even a way to delay things to buy time (like puberty blockers), it was all or nothing. If I wanted to be a professional dancer, my normal ass joints were a ticking timebomb.

So like ~cis opinion~, but I really don’t have a lot of time for people getting feral about trans kids socially transitioning or going on blockers or even (when they’re old enough for it be relevant) hrt. Me “identifying” as a dancer at six years old was more physically impactful and less informed than if a six year old changed their name and grew their hair, but you don’t see any of the adults in my life getting accused of child abuse.

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angelbabyspice:

…what???

this is a universal experience because education is chronically underfunded across the world

Our “portables” as we called them look a bit different, but my elementary school had about six of them when I left. Then they tore down the old school and build a nice new one, presumably one with more classrooms. But now they’ve got a bunch of portables again.

The neighbourhood has gotten much denser - which is great! More neighbours, more kids! But yeah…you’d think they might’ve planned for this or something.

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burnt-scone:

My first thought when I realized it was Mermay was “I’m not a Fucking Mermaid!”

So here’s the crew as mer people, but not Jim.

A close up on buttons

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jareckiworld:

Margaret Nazon — Andromeda Galaxy  (triptych; velvet with beading (glass, plastic and organic material), canvas backing, 2017)

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I’m caught up with watching Picard and Discovery, and I’m so struck by how these shows are so…therapy-informed?

Idk if that’s the right way to put it, but it’s fascinating.

It’s obviously a reflection of changing times, attitudes, and reduced stigma about talking about mental health issues.

But if I have my facts right, Gene Roddenberry originally didn’t want ST:TNG to feature personal problems much. That show obviously evolved and we even saw Troi’s role as a psychologist and counsellor, but it was more shallow, and didn’t usually go beyond Barclay. These new shows just have a completely different tack.

On Discovery sometimes, as a viewer, it feels a bit much that everyone is able to come to mostly healthy resolutions about whatever their issues are, but like, if we accept that the future Star Trek illustrations has improved society in so many ways, it makes sense??

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i-homeostasis:

i-homeostasis:

dude seeing these Mega high quality images of the surface of mars that we now have has me fucked up. Like. Mars is a place. mars is a real actual place where one could hypothetically stand. It is a physical place in the universe. ITS JUST OUT THERE LOOKING LIKE UH IDK A REGULAR OLD DESERT WITH LOTS OF ROCKS BUT ITS A WHOLE OTHER PLANET? 

LIKE THIS JUST LOOKS LIKE IT COULD BE A PERSON’S BACKYARD. LIKE YEA A LITTLE DUSTY MAYBE THERE WAS A SANDSTORM BUT THAT’S COOL I’M JUST GONNA WALK DOWN TO THE STORE P S Y C H YOU’RE ON MARS BICH!

i hate to be rude and intrude on this post but we have decent pictures of the surface Venus too! 

#venus has a low render distance

See also below Saturn’s moon, Titan. Mars has a blue horizon at sunset so it looks even more Earth-like in this image:

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Also: Comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko

So it’s not quite snowing on Churyumov–Gerasimenko, unfortunately; the white specks are artifacts of cosmic rays impinging on the CCDs in the camera, as well as a rotating starfield in the background (since the comet is spinning). A few specks could be dust. But, holy shit, that’s the surface of a comet. That’s a spot you could in theory cling to for dear life sit down on. The Cliffs of Comet 76p are a place. 

If that isn’t the neatest shit I don’t know what is.

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allthecanadianpolitics:

American women will be able to obtain abortions in Canada if the United States Supreme Court overturns Roe v. Wade and returns abortion law to the state level, says Karina Gould, minister of families, children and social development.

In an interview with CBC News Network’s Power & Politics on Tuesday, Gould was asked if American women would be allowed to access the procedure in Canada.

“I don’t see why we would not,” she told host Vassy Kapelos. “If they, people, come here and need access, certainly, you know, that’s a service that would be provided.”

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Tagging: @politicsofcanada

What’s important to note is that while Canada has no laws concerning abortion (just like, as others have pointed out - https://twitter.com/nolore/status/1521528971166461953?s=21 - we don’t have laws dictating when doctors are allowed to perform other kinds of surgery/procedures), we do have a problem with access.

I believe New Brunswick in particular has hard a hard time maintaining abortion services at hospitals and clinics.

So while this government is pro-choice, the funding from the federal government and the follow through from the provinces needs to be there in order that Canadians (and visiting Americans) actually have access to abortion.

While there are some federal regulations that ensure basic health care in Canada and the funding originates from the federal government, but it’s up to the provinces to actually provide healthcare. So it’s fairly easy for access to get eroded by successive governments that make cuts (targeted or not) or don’t safeguard the funding and access for abortion.

Nevermind other logistics Louie transportation. If you live away from a large urban centre, you may not have a local hospital or even a doctor nearby where you can easily end privately access an abortion. The greyhound buses are gone, so if you can’t get a ride and there’s no other means of transport/if you don’t have a car, that’s a whole other access issue.

(Before the pandemic when I still left my house regularly) I used to frequently see ads for those sketchy “pregnancy crisis centres”, where they basically guilt you into not getting an abortion and don’t provide you any info on it and misinform you.

TLDR: welcome American neighbours, but abortion access in Canada varies by region. Canadians, abortion is restricted by access, and governments that don’t like to spend money on healthcare will slowly strip away access, especially if you don’t live in a big city. Even then, in this post-pandemic time (lol the pandemic’s not over) where the healthcare system is backlogged and overrun, it’s not hard to imagine resources being strapped for abortion services too. Don’t be complacent.

leonardcohenofficial:

met gala theme: pon farr night at the vulcan nightclub

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Since I haven’t been on tumblr in ages I figured I’d post some original content.

I don’t know why this inflatable SpongeBob is wearing boxing gloves (?) or sitting in a dumpster. This was taken in 2018 right after I got my hair cut, in the days between my wedding and my honeymoon and I didn’t want to post it then because it seemed too dark for such a fun/happy time.

2022?? My child was born at the start of a pandemic and climate change is slowly burning/flooding the planet and my province might re-elect Doug Ford. This is finally the time for dumpster SpongeBob.

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tilthat:

TIL that in 2013 a scientist injected human brain cells into a mouse brain, which improved the mouse’s memory and capacity to learn

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To stop it from conquering the planet they injected human brain cells from an incompetent weirdo into a seperate mouse and then put the two mice in the same cage so the silly mouse will always frustrate the terrifying genius mouse’s plans

I wonder what they’re doing tonight

The same thing they do every night.

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milfmarthawayne:

to all the people who may be coming back here from twitter in light of elon’s purchase:

Oh.

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this is why the electoral college fucking sucks.

Without the electoral college, the determining factor of the elections would be California, Chicago and New York just because they have more people concentrated in one area. Our system is the best of the best and the people spoke. I’m hurt as well as most of America but the best thing we can do is keep an open mind, accept, and move on.

So what? Why does it matter if the majority of votes come from one area? If most of the people in the country want one person to be president, then that person should be president. Why should it matter where they’re from?

And that’s not even the reason the college was made in the first place. It was made for 2 reasons.
1. The founding fathers didn’t trust the citizens. They thought the citizens were too uneducated to make a good choice.
And 2. It’s easier to count the votes of a small group of people all in one place rather than millions across the country when there’s no cars or internet.

In today’s age, neither of those reasons are valid anymore. There is no good reason for the electoral college to exist. If the majority of people want someone as president, that person should be president.

Here is why the electoral college sucks:

Without the electoral college, every single vote would count exactly the same.  No vote anywhere in the country would be worth more than any other vote.  Now you may ask, but Raymond, isn’t it like this already?

NO.  IT FUCKING IS NOT.

Take Wyoming for example.  Wyoming has a population of 584,000 people.  They also have 3 electoral college votes. This means that each 194,667 votes is worth one electoral college vote in Wyoming.  Now let’s look at California.  California has a population of 38.8 million people and 55 electoral college votes.  This means that it takes 705,455 votes for each electoral college vote.  

A VOTE IN WYOMING IS WORTH 3.5X MORE THAN A VOTE IN CALIFORNIA.

It literally takes 3.5 times more votes to get 1 electoral vote in California than it does in Wyoming.  How tf is that fair?

Don’t come in here and tell me how it’s the best system and without it the only determining factor would be certain cities.  How does that even make sense?  Without it, a vote in New York City is worth the exact same amount as a vote in any other city, or town, regardless of population.  I personally would like my vote to count for exactly the same as anyone else.  My vote shouldn’t count as less because I live in a more densely populated city.

What a good explanation! ^

Fun fact: the [outdated and deeply flawed] electoral college system is also the reason George Bush became president.

It’s almost like starting out with proportional representation and then trying to morph it into first-past-the-post

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