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I get shit from people at work for wearing a pride mask with a power fist on it from time to time, weird looks, snickers, pointing and laughing, but once in a while I'll get meek little "I like your mask :)" comments from people passing by, nods and waves from others, I saw a kid with the nonbinary flag painted on their shoes shopping with their dad, a trans woman completely relaxed when she saw me, and two girls walked around holding hands, carefree. That I think. That is worth it. To let others know that they are safe.

friendly reminder that the satanic temple is an official recognized religion in america and therefore if you're a member you can't legally be denied an abortion, due to them believing in bodily autonomy & right to reproductive healthcare :)

Hell of a loophole lmao

Wow I don’t understand math at all

I think my brain just stopped working

100% is just another way of saying twice more likely. So 100% more basically means multiply the number you do have by 2.

Imagine how many woman are scared to have kids because of that statistic

This is why I took stats instead of calc. Because I don’t build engineer bridges in my everyday life but I sure do read studies that affect how I might live my life if I misinterpret them.

I’m terrible at numbers and math but I knew this and I really take it for granted. The average person definitely assumes, quite understandably, that “600% INCREASE!!!” must always mean a whole lot even if it literally only means that one of something is now six of something. Politicians probably take a shitload of advantage of this confusion.

just remember that increased BY and increased TO are very different things.

Oh god I didn’t even think about that whole other layer of confusion. Yeah if you’ve got 100 people and one of them is sick, that’s 1% of them who are sick, so if it “increased BY 100%” then that means now two people are sick. If it’s “increased TO 100%” then all 100 people are sick.

I was recently introduced to the concept of being a “receptive bilingual”, or “passive speaker”. Essentially, its a speaker of a language who has had enough exposure to have an advanced comprehension of it (reading/listening) but little to no active command of it (writing/speaking). I think its so fascinating! I wonder how many of us are receptive bilinguals?

the idea that “technological advancement” should strive for the elimination of mentally ill, autistic or physically disabled people, instead of easier and better accommodations that allow us to live healthy and fulfilling lives, is ableist 

I don’t understand what this post is saying…medicine should stop striving for cures because it’s discriminatory towards sufferers of mental and physical illness or disability?…um

This is one of the very best breakdowns of the different models I’ve ever seen. Thank you! :)

happy pride to tom ”i’m an actor, of course i’ve had gay sex” hardy