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article: “I suspect that a bit of the steam has gone out of the LGBT thing,” Backman told the right-wing outlet, staying ahead of the issue. “There may be the odd protester, but if they have got armies of PR people laser-focused on that then I suspect it may be OK.”

me: no surprises there... fuck them

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The one procedure you can use to help reduce your radiation exposure in ANY experiment is to: - evaluate the amount of time you will handle radioactive material by performing a dry run. - whine and complain until someone else does the experiment for you. - control your intake by putting on an air-supplied isolation suit, like astronauts use. - shield yourself by keeping a big, heavy floor-to-ceiling sheet of lead in front of you. - distance yourself by buying multi-million dollar robotically-controlled remote manipulators.

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You are using an open vial of radioactive sample and are leaving the lab for lunch. Before leaving the laboratory, you must: - leave it on any bench unattended. - leave it in the radiation work area with a hand written sign that says, "Don't touch this stuff!" - put in a locked box or locked refrigerator. - shove it in an unlabeled drawer that is not locked. - put is behind a large centrifuge so nobody will see it until you get back.

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To notify Radiation Safety that you have place an order with a vendor, you must: - send a letter to Radiation Safety after you receive your order. - get on the EH&S website and fill out the Radioactive Material Order Notification Form. - email Radiation Safety. - phone Radiation Safety. - do nothing! Radiation Safety personnel are clairvoyant and can read my mind.

Anyway, in my end of things, when I see an expression of revulsion at the general sentiment of "I love girldick," I'm going to dip from the whole discussion, because a person who thinks that "I love girldick" is generalizably a completely objectifying, dehumanizing, and unwelcome sentiment in the topic of our many different bodies is, to my mind, a person who I will not trust about myself and my body or anyone's body. Cuz like, I do love my girlfriend's dick and stuff, that's a part of our relationship. It's not all of it and there's a bunch more to it, but in a general way, if I didn't tend towards so much bloviation, I could just as easily express my feelings about our bodies as "I love girldick," and that's fine.

It's at best incredibly naive to expect any kinda queer trans intersex etc body conversation to somehow exclude the mundane connection of crass horniness to our physical embodiment, and at worst deliberately puritanical. We aren't holiday decorations hung up to act as pretty symbols of an abstract idea. We're people and the messiness around how we do or also do not fuck and cum and love and sweat and fight and shit and piss is a part of that. Some of us are freaks and terrible at expressing ideas and we look weird or we're poor or we don't fit a conversation about bodies comfortable or we're disabled or even just plain lecherous - the line between feelings and form is pretty narrow.

To me, a person who isn't comfortable with me talking about cock gobbling or having penis breath is not equipped even remotely to handle how to fuck with a colostomy bag, just for example. Or vice versa, also like, not everyone fucks, it's not all about fucking, but there's a lot of stuff that's messy inside outside and around a body. You don't have to love all of it but ya gotta get cozy enough to live with it.

We need to start commenting under other people's posts about how to properly warn for flashing lights and eyestrain. We need to be emailing and calling companies about their possibly triggering advertisements that could induce seizures. We need to stop tolerating ableism and start speaking up for the more vulnerable.

Also, stop putting epilepsy warnings. That's like saying "warning: schizophrenia" on a post including unreality or "warning: dyslexia" on a post with a typing quirk. First off, the disability mentioned isn't the only group of people that this could trigger. Second, it doesn't truly get the message across and instead makes it worse for those with the disability-- scrolling through the epilepsy tag on Tumblr should get you to view the content of other epileptic people, but no, you just get a bunch of flashing lights and eyestrain, even though you could instead tag for, oh I dunno, flashing lights and eyestrain.