Ivy “Choosing Violence Since 1987” Michaels

how is this literally any fucking different from telling a cis woman not to smoke cigarettes bc “theyll age you faster and make you ugly and leathery”??? hint: it’s not and if anything it’s worse!!! there are significantly better ways to help people quit cigarettes!!! fear and shame are not effective or ethical behavior modifiers!!! stop doing this!!!

there seems to be a fundamental disagreement between microwave oven manufacturers and the producers of microwave meals over whether the customer should know the wattage of their microwave or if such details should be abstracted away from them

the microwave rice demands 800 watts of power for 2 minutes, but all the microwave can offer me three settings: one low, one high, and one somewhere in the middle. I turn it to the one in the middle as I happen to know 800W is the average power of most microwaves. the light comes on and the bag of rice starts slowly turning, but rather than hearing the usual rumble of the microwave, I instead start hearing short snippets of conversation - words snatched from the ether. the lights flicker and a chill runs up my spine. the voices remind me of those "spirit boxes" ghost hunters use. I double check the setting on the microwave. "ah," I say, remembering that I had set it to medium,

@abalidoth this is your moment

This is why aliens don’t want us in their Starfleet.

Are you fucking kidding this is why aliens should be begging us to join their Starfleet. The precision?? The CONTROL?? The absolute mastery this driver has over their 20+ ton of steel is superhuman. This person could weave a mothership through an asteroid belt without making a single scratch on the hull. Foh “aliens don’t want us” aliens should be sucking our dicks.

In terms of science communication and space exploration advocacy, Elon Musk has sent us back into the fucking Stone Age.

It’s hard enough to encourage the public to see the value in space exploration, especially when the problems facing society right now are so intense that space exploration seems frivolous and needlessly expensive by comparison (keyword “seems”) but now that this clown is the face of the future of space, it’s doubling, hell, tripling down on the idea that space exploration is a fantasy for bored billionaires that would rather fuck off to mars and escape the problems of earthly society (problems that they had a starring role in creating) rather than spend a penny of their wealth to help remedy them. Tale as old as time for a science communicator. Heard it a million times. But now it’s so much harder to get people to understand the other side of the coin because the nightmare scenario is already here and his name is elongated muskrat

As a science communicator at a well known establishment, 10000x this. We have a student program that talk about Earth systems and how missions like Landsat were so useful to understand our own planet better FROM SPACE. I could go on and on but just, like, reread OP's thoughts, they're perfect.

Everyone go make excessive use of your local library's generous lending policies to borrow my books and read them for free. Thank you libraries.

im friends with lots of girls who r killing themselves little by little and that includes myself. but at least i can say we're friends.

if youre a trans girl you have to survive.

You have to stay alive even if it kills you 💪

Being into having all of my limbs torn off and having the holes fucked has really done wonders for my communication skills.

Hey kids. You should smoke cigarettes. The more cigarettes the better. Tobacco is bad for you but it looks really cool so you should smoke early and often.