Tales from an American Wasteland

Happy birthday, Sally Ride. You would have been 75 today. you died just 3 years before gay marriage bans were ruled unconstitutional in the US, legalizing gay marriage in every state. You turned down being NASA's administrator multiple times to remain in California, where you lived with your secret long-term partner, Tam O'Shaughnessy. Thank you for paving the way for young girls into STEM fields. Thank you for your brave actions in the Challenger disaster investigations. Thank you for befriending Svetlana Savitskaya, the second woman in space and a cosmonaut, regardless of politics or borders. I wish I could say you'd be proud of how far we've come in 14 years, but I really can't.

Crying because Grace reached the closest thing to immortality a human can get - it's going to be millenia before he's forgotten. And I don't mean in a general 'saviour of the world' way, I mean in a 'knew him personally and he was dear to them' kind of way.

Posting this iconic piece of media that I just NEVER found online isolated except in an archived reddit thread

RIP Marjane Satrapi, author of the amazing graphic novels Persepolis about living during the fundamentalist revolution in Iran in the 70’s and 80’s. She also created the animated movie based on the graphic novels, which is where these gifs come from.

Carnivorous plants doin this is so funny to me

The more the merrier. The more the safer. Pride is an act of solidarity and a giant Fuck You to the people who want to erase us. Let Hetero Jessica have fun and also let her be counted as an ally. We will always need the allies.

always thinking about this image