Random stuff

Shut uuuuupppppp

that post that's like "germ theory sounds crazy if you told a 19th century guy that tiny creatures live on everything hed think youre crazy" pisses me ORFFF the concept of microorganisms or "animalcules" was proposed in 30 BC!! the word was first used in literature in 1599! and has been around solidly in western scientific literature since ~1675 when a dutch guy called van leeuwenhoek observed some little guys (animalcules, translated from the dutch word dierken which means.. little animals) in rainwater (he pioneered microscopy) and was then appointed to the royal society (the leading scientific body at the time)! people knew and accepted that there were microorganisms around, the misunderstanding was that they thought disease was spontaneously generated (came from nothing) by miasma (stink) and was unrelated to the animalcules. if youd said hey what if those little guys... might be causing or living closely with disease? they probably would have been like. you sound like youve been talking to pasteur. the pasteurisation guy. who was not the first to suggest the concept but was the one who proved that microorganisms arent spontaneously generated and that if you add microorganisms to your milk it goes off. this was a long history of arguments within the scientific sphere until antiseptic technique guidelines in medicine and surgery were published and accepted (in the late 1800s)

yesterday my grandma found a penny on the floor and said to my grandpa “there’s that penny again, pa!” and i absolutely lost my mind because i couldn’t shelve the thought of a single panel Far Side comic of two old people on the front porch in the middle of nowhere and a giant penny angrily and inexplicably rolling through the wastes

shocked and appalled at the lack of bisexuality merch that uses hydrangeas

Like I might get shit for this but as a nonbinary person I think it’s sort of weird and transphobic/exorsexist to invent new labels that are “attraction to specific third genders” I’m so sorry. You’re forcing a new binary onto us. Now it’s binary vs nonbinary as if we’ve forgotten gender is a spectrum and a social construct.