Greetings Stranger!

Show me one scientist who doesn’t take notes on their arm.

Show me one scientist that DOESNT cook like this

I do this all the time

1986!!

Golden Girls was so incredibly progressive for its time and not even slightly afraid to be loud about it. They talked about queer people, about race, about ableism, and they made it central and overt. They talked about things that mattered, and they never punched down, and they were allies off the stage too.

Golden Girls was the best, and so were the performers. THE BEST.

“Beep Beep Bitch, You’re Gay!”

That last one is fucking moving istg

at last. the gaydar

The only pride flag I care about anymore

can I get a job as an editor but the only thing I do is correct when someone uses the word "prone" when they mean "supine"

Thats the context for this meme???

I feel like I've been robbed the whole time. This is magical.

this is better than anything id hope for the context

they got married btw

Ok but pls actually do this people. There is no such thing as a good person. Stop trying to be one and starting trying to do good instead

Is that a miette?

Pride for you!  Pride for a thousand years!!

you COME OUT to miette? you come out to her as queer? oh! oh! pride for mother! pride for mother for One Thousand Years!!!!

Back in 2020 @bimboopo started putting together a list of black webcomic creators! Boosting her post to this discussion to help people find some new things seems helpful but I don't want to skip over giving her visibility for it, so you can find her own post about the list and a link to it here.

As an added fun fact, the VAST and overwhelming majority of "sinus headaches" are also migraines. There is almost no such thing, ESPECIALLY when the sinus pressure and pain come with no actual runny nose or mucus in general. A migraine without the type of pain we've come to associate with it is called a silent migraine, and sinus pressure is one of the ways it can manifest, along with the usual weirdness like stroke symptoms (which I had when the migraines were at their worst. Stormy weather and progesterone together with pms had me lose the ability to comprehend human speech for about 15 minutes and it was terrifying).

People noting this anniversary reminding me again that it is such an insane failure of the pro-choice movement that we do not as a nation think of George Tiller as a civil rights hero and additionally a martyr at the level of MLK Jr. or a Kennedy. So, you know, do your part, etc.

Revealing the ignorance of my youth here, but who is this and what is she known for?

Anita Sarkeesian, feminist who interpreted media under a feminist lens. She did a series about video games and she was the subject of targeted harassment. That was the start of gamergate

Minor correction, the start of gamergate was based around a different reporter, Zoe Quinn, but they were both absolutely violently threatened over their involvement in video game criticism and development. A hate campaign was started by Quinn's ex-boyfriend when he wrote a post falsely accusing them of dating video game journalists in order to receive positive reviews on their own game, Depression Quest, which led other bad actors to accuse all women in the industry (Zoe identified as female at the time) of perceived sexual immorality. Anita Sarkeesian's brilliant Youtube series Tropes vs Women in Video Games (which everyone should watch, right now) sparked a particular nerve for criticizing popular games of killing and/or victimizing any important female character (there is a CHILLING bit that borders on ludicrous where she describes the plots of a seemingly endless parades of games as "In [title], [male player character's] wife dies, and you then have to rescue [his] daughter."). That series did actually make a huge change in the industry, especially when touted by progressive legacy developers like Tim Schafer (Monkey Island, Psychonauts), who went on to expand hiring in his company to front women and minority voices, but the shift didn't really show for a long time and echoes of the sexism that plagues the industry at its core are still rampant.

I can't remember exactly how it tied in (I was active in both scenes at the time but also I have terrible memory) but I'm pretty sure elevatorgate and the rest of the nu atheist bullshit played into this a lot, a heavy overlap between gamergaters and nu atheists. (And nu atheism was also a bit of a breeding ground for white supermacy, with how the antitheism and racism often went hand in hand)