turning notes upside down

Truncated text of tweet from MrPitBull, Mar 11, 2026:

She kept finding women in laboratory photographs from the 1800s. Then she read the published papers—and every single woman had vanished. Someone had erased them from history.

Yale University, 1969.

Margaret Rossiter was a graduate student studying the history of science. She was one of very few women in her program.

Every Friday afternoon, students and faculty gathered for beers and informal conversation. One week, Margaret asked a simple question: "Were there ever any women scientists?"

The faculty answered firmly: No.

Someone mentioned Marie Curie. The group dismissed it—her husband Pierre really deserved the credit.

Margaret didn't argue. But she also didn't believe them.

So she started looking.

She found a reference book called "American Men of Science"—essentially a Who's Who of scientific achievement. Despite the title, she was shocked to discover it contained entries about women. Botanists trained at Wellesley. Geologists from Vermont.

There were names. There were credentials. There were careers.

The professors had been wrong.

But Margaret's discovery was just the beginning. Because as she dug deeper into archives across the country, she found something far more disturbing.

Photograph after photograph showed women standing at laboratory benches, working with equipment, listed on research teams.

But when she read the published papers, the award citations, the official histories—those same women had disappeared. Their names were missing. Their contributions erased.

It wasn't random. It was systematic.

Women who designed experiments watched male colleagues publish results without giving them credit. Women whose discoveries were assigned to supervisors. Women listed in acknowledgments instead of as authors. Women passed over for awards that went to male collaborators who contributed far less.

Margaret realized she was witnessing a pattern that stretched across centuries.

Women had always been present in science. The record had simply pushed them aside.

She needed a name for what she was documenting.

In the early 1990s, she found it in the work of Matilda Joslyn Gage—a 19th-century suffragist who had written about this exact phenomenon in 1870.

In 1993, Margaret published a paper formally naming it: The Matilda Effect.

The term captured something that had been hidden in plain sight for generations. Once you knew the term, you saw it everywhere.

Her dissertation became a lifelong mission.

For more than 30 years, Margaret researched and wrote her landmark three-volume series: Women Scientists in America. She examined letters, institutional policies, individual careers. She gathered undeniable evidence that women in science had been consistently under-credited and structurally excluded.

Her work faced resistance. Many dismissed women's history as political rather than academic. Others insisted she was exaggerating.

Margaret didn't argue emotionally. She presented data. Documented cases. Patterns repeated across decades and institutions.

Eventually, the evidence became undeniable.

Her research helped restore recognition to scientists who had been erased:

Rosalind Franklin, whose X-ray work revealed DNA's structure—credit went to Watson and Crick.

Lise Meitner, who explained nuclear fission—omitted from the Nobel Prize.

Nettie Stevens, who discovered sex chromosomes—received little credit.

Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin, who discovered stars are made of hydrogen—initially dismissed.

And countless others whose names had nearly vanished.

Margaret changed the narrative. Science was no longer just the story of solitary male geniuses. It became a story of collaboration that included women who had been written out.

Stop backing up my fucking files.

Stop asking me to back up my fucking files.

Stop taking my fucking files off my fucking computer.

I don't want a fucking reminder in three fucking days. Let me fucking say no.

Here's a text tutorial to get rid of that shit on Windows 11.

Here's a video tutorial to get rid of that shit on Windows 10.

Here's a video tutorial to get rid of that shit on Windows 11.

Oops, did I say painting? I meant quilt.

The quilt is by fiber artist Nancy Hershberger (@hershberger.nancy on insta).

@need-him-pregnant-poll

as promised. NOW VOTE MY BOY

1) Yue Qingyuan is a side character from the author’s least popular novel

2) Yue Qingyuan is frequently headcannoned as a big, giant, bear, and is canonically an older brother figure/sect leader/strongest sword wizard of several generations— WHILE AT THE SAME TIME being a pathetic pushover that misses his wife so bad

3) Yue Qingyuan has a soul eating sword that wants to kill him, and I have no idea how it would react to a pregnancy

4) As many have claimed before, the longer he is pregnant, the longer I cannot harvest the fetus for my abortion shrine (don’t ask)

5) After everything he has gone through, I’m not convinced Yue Qingyuan would make any noise giving birth. Completely silent operating room until the baby starts crying

6) His big fat milky tits will get even bigger and rounder. Don’t you want that? Don’t you want big round hairy tits full of milk? Please, do it for me at least?

Please vote for him. I beg you. I will shrivel up and die without his breast milk to sustain me

We can do this everyone!!!

As for those undecided. . . .

Hey robot enjoyers! Did you know Yue Qingyuan is part sword? He may not be able to turn into a car (to my knowledge) but in many xianxia settings swords are a major form of transportation so it's not too far off! This is not a bit by the way Yue Qingyuan has a unique connection with his sword Xuan Su that ties his life force to said blade. If you like metal Yue Qingyuan has plenty.

Do you like orphans with tragic backstories and incredible skill concerning physical feats? Yue Qingyuan has both in spades! He may not be related to any circus performers (probably not anyways) but being the head of a cultivation sect he is extremely physical powerful and skilled in combat! He also has a very tragic backstory and found family that he both finds and loses but could he find it again? With your help maybe so!

Do you like a character that will go to the ends of the earth for someone they love? Well Yue Qingyuan experienced torture beyond comprehension and then walked into an obvious trap set by the most powerful man in the world and faced thousands of poisoned arrows for the mere chance of saving the life of the one he cared for. In another instance he literally traded his life force to fight for those he cared for deeply. Using his body to carry a child in exchange for someone he loves would certainly not be going to far for a man who has done so much already.

PROPAGANDA:

[Gomez]

"It's not fair if Morticia's the only one hogging all the pain of childbirth. Her hubby wants some too!"

"t4t Gorticia. That is all."

[Yue Qingyuan]

PROPAGANDA:

[Gomez]

"It's not fair if Morticia's the only one hogging all the pain of childbirth. Her hubby wants some too!"

"t4t Gorticia. That is all."

[Yue Qingyuan]

Flamingos can survive in low oxygen, high altitude, high temperatures, low temperatures, high alkaline, they can and will drink boiling water and they can be completely frozen at night and still get up the next morning

(animal death) this is a real undoctored photograph (*though the body was stood up for the shot) of a dead flamingo on the surface of lake natron, a lake so salty and so alkaline that it’s naturally carbonated like soda and would eat through your stomach lining if you drank from it.

When this photo went viral years ago, most people assumed this poor flamingo must have been killed by the lake.

It is actually the lake where 75% of its global population are hatched. This is a photo from the same lake:

RATING: RELIABLE

Flamingos can survive in high altitudes, hypersaline conditions, and caustic lakes.

Source: ‘All flamingo species have evolved to live in some of the planet’s most extreme wetlands, like caustic “soda lakes”, hypersaline lagoons or high-altitude salt flats.’

They can survive water so alkaline it burns human skin.

Source: ‘More than a million lesser flamingos breed in Tanzania’s Lake Natron, for instance, a lake fed by hot springs with water so alkaline that it can strip away human skin (one pioneering flamingo researcher named Leslie Brown spent months in Nairobi General Hospital after burning his legs wading out to observe where the birds nested).’

They can drink water at near-boiling temperatures.

Source: ‘They can drink water at near boiling point to collect freshwater from springs and geysers at lake edges. If no freshwater is available, flamingos can use glands in their head that remove salt, draining it out from their nasal cavity.’

The lakes they inhabit can freeze overnight, and the flamingos can survive once it thaws in the morning.

Source: ‘The birds may seem to epitomize the tropics, but they also live in the Andes, 15,000 feet above sea level, where they rest on lakes that freeze around them overnight.

“You’ll see them sitting there like snowballs, frozen on ice,” Dr. Arengo said. “And as the temperature warms up, they thaw out, fluff themselves up and go about their business.”’

The photo is indeed from Lake Natron, taken by photographer Nick Brandt. The content of the lake chemically preserves animal corpses that die there. You can see more photos of this here.

It is also true that 75% of Lesser Flamingos are hatches on Lake Natron.

Source: ‘The lake’s landscape is surreal and deadly—and made even more bizarre by the fact that it’s the place where nearly 75 percent of the world’s lesser flamingos are born.’

Some species of Flamingo eat cyanobacteria or algae.

For example: I can't read any ABO AUs set in England or France because while I can suspend my disbelief far enough for a gender trinary set up, I can't suspend it enough to believe those two countries would still be distinct entities in a alternate history where Richard the Lionheart could have impregnated Philip II.

If there was a viable dynastic future with Richard, Philip would have climbed him like an oak and dragged him to the altar if he had to. It's a match that makes perfect sense from both their points of view: Philip gets Aquitaine back under French rule, the best general in Europe on his council, and a powerful check on the Angevins... then unexpectedly (after Henry the Young bites it) the entire Kingdom of England for his Capetian dynasty. Richard meanwhile gets to stick it to his father, secure Aquitaine's prosperity, and gets the leverage to start pushing for his mother's release. Then when Henry kicks the bucket Richard doesn't actually have to be King of England in anything but name: Philip can run the countries and unify the Crowns and what not while Richard runs off to go Crusading.

Plus they also like, loved each other and stuff and being able to get to be together long term instead of being torn apart by politics would have been cool. But I'm mainly obsessed with the historical and dynastic implications.

In this AU, it’s unlikely that an Anglo-Frank union could last due to differences in succession laws between the two realms. What would happen if an Alpha died without an heir? Would Betas be treated similarly to Alphas for succession purposes? Could succession pass through Beta or even Omega lines? Succession laws were quite difficult to change, with modifications to royal succession often resulting in civil and/or international wars.

Let's contemplate this little summarization of–

A Template for the World-Building of a Historically-based Terran Omegaverse AU

· Ask yourself these questions on legality wrt establishing succession and inheritance:

How would the socioeconomic and geopolitical implications of Omegaverse settings be influenced by, let's say, prehistoric anthropology, which in layman's terms = how far back was the Geological Age that saw the rise of the Omegaverse, i.e. the premise of when the biology of the ternary Alpha/Beta/Omega sexual castes first developed—perhaps the binary sexes began to show obsolescence during the late Pleistocene Epoch, similar to the gradual degeneration of the appendix—let's say the Holocene Epoch: so, would it be before the Ice Age when the earliest humans appeared, or at the beginning of modern human history after the Ice Age ended when humans rose to dominance who then joined together to form the first hunting bands, then clans/societies and started establishing rank and/or assigning duties? Keep in mind that the earliest lineages were based on maternal bloodlines, since paternity tests didn't exist in those days; however, that changed when male priests and kings who practiced early animistic religions realized that without a man's seed, women could not bring forth children, which eventually led to entry to the priesthood being barred to women, due to the rising belief that wombs were only empty gestational chambers where microscopic people that came from men's seed were deposited to grow until viability, even though women were attuned to the very first figures of worship; the rites honoring the natural cycles of earth and sky crossing paths with the sun and moon were increasingly conducted by men, who did not have a moon cycle their bodies were attuned to, and so they either created new figures of worship that made a better case for male attunement, or destroyed/denigrated references to female deities. In the Omegaverse, that likely translates into the justification of the transfer of power from Omega-centered households/royal courts/temples to being led by Alphas instead.

Would tasks be stratified along the lines of historical gender roles: for instance, Alphas become designated as those who go forth to hunt/gather and/or conquer/protect, Betas as those who offer care/support to the household which evolved into defining and upholding the law, especially those pertaining to hate crimes perpetrated upon the underprivileged caste(s) seen as weaker and disadvantaged due to societal norms/prejudices/discrimination, leading to the prevalent practice of masking one's caste in social situations, and Omegas as those who establish/improve upon agricultural practices by staying home to manage/rule the household/farm/settlement/realm—archeological journals have published articles citing evidence from ancient burial sites confirming that women were increasingly relegated to societally weaker roles upon the advent of agriculture, whereby burial chambers of high ranking females tended to contain significantly fewer treasures than males of equivalent rank, as the number of tombs of honored female hunters and/or warriors quickly diminished to the point of rarity by the Iron Age—or would Alphas subordinate any other biological caste, which could lead to mass protests and/or strikes that would be suppressed to reestablish order within the perceived hierarchy and regain the productivity of cottage industries? What, if any, are basic human rights in the Omegaverse from this point onwards? Where does the buck stop and revolution begin? What would be the Omegan equivalent of Jeanne d'Arc?

What biological advantages did this give our ancestors in a survival situation—would these increase the odds of protection and/or a successful mating?

Is A/B/O biology expressed as genetic traits inherited at conception and manifest upon reaching adolescence, or are they an epigenetic response influenced by environmental factors, up to and including the gender caste(s) of the parents, and/or statistical scarcity of the population of a particular caste?

Is A/B/O considered a spectrum where Betas could lean towards Alpha/Omega characteristics/behavior, or would the biological caste expressions be hardcoded where Beta bodies look intersex, with fully functional reproductive organs?

Would the formation of harems be encouraged, under what circumstances (e.g. infertility, alliance with higher ranking clans usually in return for monetary gain or power, etc.), and would this cause hierarchical competition for a mate's favor/patronage; in addition, how would top/bottom dynamics and/or kinks be regarded/negotiated?

How does all this influence the determination of which marital unions/progeny would be considered legal (agnatic/cognatic/morganatic, etc.)—would the concept of lineage follow paternal/maternal lines or A/B/O lines, how does that impact inheritance/succession laws especially when establishing the senior house versus cadet branches, and would the laws favor primogeniture/ultimogeniture/coparcenary birthright for the granting of estates/lands, titles and/or hereditary office such as lordship/Karta, asset transfer, etc.?

What if other societies/nations follow different lineage laws/suzerainty—royals/nobles were commonly given in marriage to allies/enemies to produce viable heirs who would supposedly unify the relevant parties via assimilation into the ruling structure; how would the resulting conflict involving the nobility rallying around various royal heirs due to ideological differences be resolved—would civil and/or international wars leading to a dynastic split become the established norm due to historically documented difficulties with modifying succession laws, or would mediation/arbitration settle matters, in which case who would be considered the ultimate authority, especially if there was religious incompatibility? How would all this impact the path to kingship/empery, how would the laws of heraldry work, the importance of bardcraft to track potential future allies and past traitors, how alliances were formed/discarded, the reasons/ways that wars were fought, the recruitment of which phenotypes for certain types of light/heavy infantry versus cavalry, the differing ways that fighting styles were taught, the crafting of female armor versus male armor because of the differences in the average height/weight, body shape and center of gravity?

Considering historical settings required the breeding of heirs, homophobia would likely be defined as unions between those of the same biological caste such as A-A and/or O-O (though not usually B-B) regardless of sex and/or gender, unless female Alphas and/or male Omegas present with fertility/gestation/childbirth difficulties (leading to perisexism), in which case Betas could become the dominant caste, but then what are the consequences if Betas are unable to reproduce because of the evolutionary conditions in that universe, but could legally arrange/command the marriages of their fecund family members; if so, would Beta caste heirs be selected via adoption and/or from Beta children born to their Alpha/Omega siblings and/or orphaned cousins, all of whom might be considered second class citizens or maybe even chattel in this type of society?

· And now for questions wrt modern societal norms, expectations, guidelines, products, etc.:

Would the term 'nuclear family' need to be redefined as a triad rather than a couple; and if there are children, can they now call themselves a pack/clan, or would more members be required?

Would a regular feature of the home include a large conversation pit which also doubles as the area for pack cosleeping, and is there a soundproofed rut/heat room nearby, in addition to the regular bedroom(s)?

Should everyone wear something that covers the neck glands to prevent accidentally flashing an intimate area, or would this type of restriction only apply to Alphas and/or Omegas?

Can we assume that there exists a vast range of pheromone suppressants/dupes/masking agents on the market: patches, sprays, roll-ons, pills, injections, etc., and would there be a black market for experimental suppressants that have yet to go through human trials which are available only to the ultra-wealthy who can afford the fines if caught?

How does having animalistic traits such as estrus cycles, pheromones, and rut/heat affect the establishment of policies for sick time off and/or parental leave as versus the un/expected breaking of pack bonds for bereavement leave?

Would traditionally conservative religious groups enforce/urge a time of seclusion for those in estrus similar to the barring of entry into temples for women on their period?

Are there support groups for those experiencing discrimination whose outer appearance doesn't match their scent?

@sagewiththyme You know that's a fascinating point because I figure the two options are a) no one really remembers what happened at the end because of magic bullshit or b) they play it off as a really elaborate but fully planned performance.

And the second one - can you fucking imagine.

Imagine one of the most popular bands in the world have this ongoing lore bit that they're actually demon hunters and they're always referencing it in their songs. And then one day a new boy band pops up and gets wildly popular with an over-the-top-cutesy hit. They're so soft and sweet and respectful. They're called Saja (Lion) Boys and they're all like "join the pride!" How cute!

And then they announce a new concert and you get there and it's fucking this. They're all dressed as demons/grim reapers. Surprise, "Saja" meant Jeoseung Saja all along! They're singing about how they're here for your soul and they relish in your pain, just a stunning 180 from their previous personas.

And then while you're trying to process the emotional whiplash the fucking demon hunter band bursts in and beats the shit out of them with the most insane pyrotechnic show you've ever seen in your life. They "kill" the boy band demons and then you never see them again. The whole band was a fucking psyop for Huntrix to play up the "demon hunters" bit.

Except, uhhhh. We didn't expect them to get so popular so fast? They For Sure weren't supposed to make it to the final round of the Idol Awards. Like, for Legal Reasons. We were almost visibly panicking on stage when they announced that! I mean, do you know how it would look once it eventually came out that Saja Boys were working for us? "Oh, you planted a fake band so you could win the competition!" No joke. I mean, that is a pret-ty clear conflict of interest there. You know?

The Idol Awards are all about the fan's choices, and we just accidentally rigged the game.

The Saja Boys had to win the Idol Awards, now, but there was no chance. They only had two songs, Soda Pop and Your Idol. We couldn't have them push up the debut--I mean, we thought about it, Your Idol's a banger song and it totally would've given us a run for our money--but we'd have to follow it up with This Is What It Sounds Like, first off, and second, 'killing' the Saja Boys onstage would be like. The Media equivalent of announcing we won, like the Fans didn't have a choice in the matter. At the Idol Awards? Ha. Yeah. That's a no-go.

And I mean. Soda Pop is catchy but not that catchy guys, c'mon. We were totally gonna cream them with Golden.

So we were all scrambling. Rumi and Mira and I were trying to write and choreograph a brand new song, Takedown, something good but not Good Enough To Win, to maybe prolong the Rivalry, you know? To make our comeback all the more sweet. But it was all such short notice, and the song wasn't working, and Huntrix never gives a shoddy performance, on principle. We couldn't do it. But it was looking like the only way we were gonna legitimately lose was if something... happened during the competition.

Like, obviously the Saja Boys weren’t a “real” band, so it makes sense they’re not coming out with new music, and since they’re “dead”, of course all their official band accounts have gone quiet, but like… someone would have had to be portraying the band members, right? Even if you wave that off as them being some of the same actors who portray the “demons” at their concerts, someone would definitely have to be lending their voices for the songs. Who were they? They couldn’t have been well-established in the industry, otherwise they’d have been recognized too quickly and the ruse would have been up, and something like this would have been a huge break for new performers.

So why’d they just disappear?

Where are the actors?

So Tianlang-Jun is a fox and Su Xiyan is a bunny.

Shen Qingqiu after waiting too long to read the script because Luo Binghe got to it first lol: YOU MADE OUR SECT PLAY ZOOTOPIA FANFICTION?!?!

Then when he learns about Su Xiyan’s death: IS THAT THE ABORTION COMIC??!??!?!?!

Of course there is also a polar bear, hamster couple who get way too much screen time. After the plays success it creates a rich debate and fandom culture (Liu Mingyan is having a field day) and the abusive relationship portrayed by the polar bear, hamster couple discussion is what makes Mobei-Jun realize that his courting efforts are frowned upon in human culture so he just keeps getting Shang Qinghua poisonous flowers and dead beasts instead.

Shang Qinghua internally: I get it my king! You can kill me very easily!! Have I not proved my loyalty?! :((((

This goes triple platinum in the demon realm who are absolutely entranced by the fortitude of the hamster demon and their beautiful love story, who end up creating far more violent spin offs lol.

All the animals within it aren’t native to Proud Immortal Demon Way, since Airplane excluded them for his abominations, and this causes a boom in nerds who draw fanart of what those animals might have looked like. It looks like how we used to draw dinosaurs. The theme is actually that demons and humans aren’t so different and can coexist harmoniously and it, of course, is not well received by Huan Hua Palace who clocked that the evil step father ugly hare is actually the old palace master.

Also Zhuzhi-Lang retells the new popular play to Tianlang-Jun.

Tianlang-Jun:

So he breaks out and kills the Old Palace Master. The end :)

PS: Baby Binghe is Pikachu.