rotate it 90° counter-clockwise and you have a political compass

why do so many freaks go right to “there should be exams or tests before you have kids” when the real solution is better social services, robust infant and child development education that is accessible both financially and schedule/distance accommodating, and resources throughout any stage of a child’s life. genuine question like did you think about any social development before going straight to eugenics

Because many people are ok with eugenics, especially if applied to poor people, "bad people" and "idiots"

Maybe the most damming thing about Nolans odyssey is i haven’t seen a single gifset from it

shelley gets a lotta fuckin cred for ozymandias despite only writing like one and a half lines and then just straight up quoting that traveller from an antique land he met for the rest of the poem

remember that the first goal of communism is and always has been to destroy the middle class and they get to decide who is middle class

“Bourgeois” doesn’t mean rich, by the way. It means “middle-class urbanite”. The French Revolution was a bourgeois coup: the Jacobins were doctors and lawyers.

That is not what bourgeois as used by Marx means. It's important to not conflate the word bourgeois as used in French with the specific usage that Marx had in mind. Bourgeoisie as Marx used the term meant the self-employed and business owners; those who own the means of production. By proletariat, he meant wage-earners; people who make their living by working the means of production owned by others.

the world is running out of glassblowers and yet you want to become a fucking doctor

One of the most jarring moments of my university education was in a physics class when I was given a device that measures gravity and was told “this cost the university sixteen thousand dollars, but the only glass blower in the world who could make the glass springs inside it died so it’s literally irreplaceable. If you drop it those springs will shatter. Go fuck around with it for a day and take some measurements”

In the UK there's a thing called the endangered crafts list which I highly recommend if you fancy discovering some crafts you never even knew existed. Scientific and optical instrument making is considered 'critically endangered' and glassworking (scientific glassware) is just considered endangered, which is for 'crafts with a shrinking market share, an ageing demographic or crafts with a declining number of practitioners.' There's some other crafts in that category which are easier to teach yourself or go to classes on that list, like lithography, marbling or block printing on fabric, so it might be worth considering those if you're looking for something to try.

I just saw a video title on YouTube that said something like “Why is glass transparent?” And that’s an interesting question and I’m sure it’s great that the video exists but my first thought was like “Because glass is terrible, obviously.” Because it’s unwieldy and let’s out warmth and needs to be heated to hundreds of degrees to be shaped and turns into hundreds of tiny daggers if you drop it. Why the hell would we bother with that if it didn’t have some magical quality like being totally transparent despite being solid? Glass is transparent because if it weren’t, we’d use something else.

looking through my “me” tag and this is apparently what I was thinking 3 years ago

this is amazing and I’m really glad I reblogged that old bullshit post because I got to learn this

He bred so many Lapras that now he’s endangering other Pokémon

Feminine like Mary standing at the foot of the Cross. Feminine like St. Joan of Arc stepping into the battlefield. Feminine like St. Catherine of Siena advising popes and kings. Feminine like Mother Angelica berating politicians and world leaders on television. Feminine like Mary Magdalene washing the feet of our Lord with perfumed oil and her hair. Feminine like St. Teresa of Avila writing the Interior Castle in the silence of darkness. Feminine like St. Hildegard of Bingen balancing her role as abbess with writing poetry, play, chants, medicinal treatises, and theological analyses. 

i think we should start taking beloved archetypes for male characters and using them to make female characters. this woman is an asshole with a heart of gold. this woman is a loveable goofball. this woman is a cool but scarred lone wolf who just wants to protect people. this woman is a badass con artist who is always seen wearing an immaculate suit. this woman is a dilf