In Your Heart

okay good now i can reblog the post

I think you should, as a basic matter of self-respect, not treat anyone else as above you in any inherent fashion.

By spring 1962, construction had begun on the biggest screwworm factory yet, at an abandoned Air Force base near Mission, Texas. Eventually capable of producing more than 200 million screwworm flies a week, the Mission factory was a grotesque marvel of insect-producing efficiency. Operating 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, it was, in essence, a 76,000-square-foot artificial wound. Trays full of meat, blood, and water, each one heated to the exact right temperature to stimulate screwworm growth, moved through the facility on a monorail system timed to the lifecycle of the screwworm. Eggs would be placed in on the trays, hatch into larvae, and collectively feed on the bloody nutrient sludge, creating a “seething mass that is difficult to believe unless you’ve seen and smelled it.” After several days of growth, the larvae would wriggle out of the feed and fall into a water-filled trough, which gently carried them into sawdust-filled trays where they would pupate. The pupae would then be collected into canisters, which in turn were loaded into large casks containing highly radioactive cobalt-60. The irradiated, sterilized pupae were then packed into cartons, loaded into refrigerated trucks, and sent to distribution centers, where they would eventually hatch, be loaded onto planes, and dropped by the millions.

idk why people are still trying to do "hear me out"s on tumblr

I want to fuck Antoni Gaudi's unbuilt Hotel Attraction skyscraper design

On this, 6 July 1919, Magnus Hirschfeld, Arthur Kronfeld, and Friedrich Wertheim opened the Institute of Sex Research in Berlin, Germany. It was the first sexology research center in the world. Hirschfeld, prior to the Institute of Sex Research, had run the Scientific Humanitarian Committee which campaigned for LGBTQ+ rights and tolerance. It held a library on gender, homosexuality, and eroticism. Arthur Kronfeld was a famous psychotherapist at the time, and Friedrich Wertheim was a dermatologist. The Institute led groundbreaking research and treatment pertaining to gender and sexuality. It provided various endocrinology and surgical services, among them early gender affirming surgeries as facial feminization surgery and gender affirmation surgery. Hirschfeld worked with the Berlin police department to curtail the arrest of transgender people and to issue individual’s transvestite passes. Alongside this, the Institute provided contraception and information about contraception, even though spreading information on birth control was illegal. The Institute held the first comprehensive collection of works about sexuality, in particular homosexuality. Hirschfeld, a gay man, published works and even a film advocating for tolerance. The Institute provided homosexuals with psychological treatment to help them learn how to navigate a homophobic society and helped to provide community. It also was one of the first research and medical institutions to provide comprehensive care and recognition of intersex people. Hirschfeld advocated for intersex people to have the right to determine if they wanted genital surgery upon reaching the age of 18 as opposed to infancy. The Institute collected photographs of intersex cases to understand what Hirschfeld termed “sexual intermediacy.” The Institute had a significant collection of medical documentation and specimens pertaining to human sexuality and gender identity, which was later destroyed by the Nazis. This is one of hundreds of stories featured in our book, Be Gay Do Crime, available here: https://shop.workingclasshistory.com/products/be-gay-do-crime-everyday-acts-of-queer-resistance-and-rebellion

"Don't say skinwalker, it's taboo!!" discourse on this site is funny because

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