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Heroines: Violet Szabo / Pearl Witherington / Noor Inayat Khan 🌹 Fangirling over Agent Carter, I’ve been reading a lot the past few years about the S.O.E.’s French Section female agents and I wanted to draw a little homage (Jan. 2018).
My personal library’s ever growing WW2/Resistance/SOE section and some pictures from various pilgrimage trips under the cut
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Adding this because it seems worth adding:
Thanks @lakritzwolf and @stabbyflower for asking questions and finding answers.
FYI, Agatha Christie's volunteer work during WWI was at a local hospital for service members. Eventually she trained as a dispenser (US term is generally pharmacy tech) and - gasp - put on the *payroll*!!
Her first book, The Mysterious Affair At Styles, used her pharmacy knowledge. Her favorite review of the book was from an industry journal.
In WWII, Christie updated her certification and worked in a hospital pharmacy near her apartment in London.
Okay, so I try hard to cover global queer history, and this isn't marking a stop to that, but I am aware that most of my audience is American, and I want to address them very directly right now.
Google Removed Pride Month From Its Calendar App, and Stonewall National Monument's "LGBTQ" status was changed to "LGB" on the government website. This is the beginning of the erasure of queer history, not the end. I don't know what the future of the United States looks like, as someone who studies queer history and has done so for many years, I want to share some tools with you.
Now is a good time to prioritize local queer history, Making Gay History is a great project, so is the Digital Transgender Archive, but also check your city and see what resources there are.
Read and buy books about queer history. I have an affiliate list with some of the books I personally recommend.
If you use Google Calendar, repopulate that resource with so much queer history with a free queer history calendar plug-in, it has names from queer history that you can also learn more about for free when they come up. As the author of these articles, feel free to save them, print them off, whatever makes them freely accessible as suppression get's worse.
Use your local library. Email the board about book bans, request banned books, request queer books, and make your voice heard.
Make queer art. Share queer art. Protect queer art. Here is some public-domain queer art to use as you wish.
Keep up with queer news, THEM and Pink News are both great resources.
All of these tools are currently freely accessible with an internet connection. Queer history is a community responsibility, do your part.
Thank you @jstor for this beautiful new addition to the Ides of March shenanigans
Valent-ides, if you will
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With vanilla extract being a meme, I wanted to share some black history of Edmond Albius a black slave who revolutionized vanilla pollination.
He used a technique he learned of pollinating melons to polinate the orchids to create the vanilla beans. Vanilla was rare and a luxury mainly due to only being able to be pollinated by its natural pollinator in Mexico.
unfortanely, he didnt receive any money for his discovery despite being called the main man who revolutionized pollination, he died in poverty...
everyone say thank you Edmond
The Perchten were here (not Krampus!). My own camera conked out, so here are some pictures by the Nazgul, plus the miniature masks we bought to support them -- the Nazgul's Firebird mask, and my own Werewolf.
Mun on pakko kysyä, koska meen ihan kohta hulluks kuinka kukaan joilta oon kysynyt ei tiedä ja edes google ei anna tuloksia tälle haulle
Tiedätkö mikä on kalanpääpälli?
tiedän
en tiedä
tiedän ja olen syönyt (bonuspisteitä sulle)
teidän ja osaan valmistaa (voitit pelin)
Saa reblogata et mahdollisimman moni vastaa
Voisko mun nakkisormet osata kirjoittaa edes kerran
Mä itken täällä
Urbaani sanakirja tosiaan ties mistä puhun wow, toisaalta en itse kuvailis kalanpääpälliä kalakukon kaltaiseksi.
Kalanpääpälli miten mä sen muistan on mun papan eräästä Karjalaisesta reseptikirjasta. (Pappa pakeni Laatokan Karjalasta Suomeen kun se luovutettiin Neuvostoliitolle.)
Reseptikirja pitäisi periaatteessa olla jossain kotona tallessa, joten kun käyn siellä seuraavan kerran niin koitan etsiä ja jakaa reseptin tänne. Kukaan tuskin tulee sitä ikinä käyttämään, onhan se ihan perkeleen näköinen ruoka.
Noniin vihdoin, resepti jota kukaan ei halunnut
@lyselkatz so it turns out we do eat fishheads here as well
The care of deceased military personnel and the maintenance and supervision of National Cemeteries were among some of the special services entrusted to The Quartermaster General. [...]
The outbreak of WW2, brought about a complete reorganization of the War Department. Fighting forces in 1942 and early 1943 were obliged to improvise their own Graves Registration Service, and tactical units were responsible for collecting and burying their own dead.
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Disposition of WWII Armed Forces Dead - PDF Booklet
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They say dead men tell no tales, but the troops who fought and died told their stories to the men of the Graves Registration Service.
The dead have been cleared from the smoky battlefield and are on the stripping line at the Graves Registration Service...
Caring for American dead was a critical job—one nobody wanted
Learn about the Graves Registration Service during World War I and World War II. This section provides resources to understand their job, th
Hey wise people of tumblr, in the interest of having resource materials PHYSICALLY available for people to find
what are some actual books on or covering reproductive health that are as current/accurate as possible and that might help a person make thoughtful, informed choices about contraception, pregnancy, etc. and dealing with complications (miscarriage, pregnancy-onset conditions)?
there have got to be some clinic staff or advocates with sources that aren't just websites or similar
i don't know that this will be exactly what you're looking for, but they may be useful, and are, in my opinion, good things to have around. there's a series of books published by hesperian health guides that can be purchased as paperbacks (store on their website) and can also be downloaded from the links in this post. the books were (are) intended for use in community/village healthcare situations where access to routine medical care is limited, and are written to be as straightforward and accessible as possible.
while they're primarily focused on prevention of illness, etc, they also include extensive guidelines about how to treat common illnesses and injuries, how to handle pregnancy and childbirth, and provide guidance about when you need to get someone to an actual doctor.
where there is no doctor is a discussion of general health concerns, including reproductive health, childbirth, first aid, common illnesses, etc. you can download the 2010 edition of it from the internet archive.
where women have no doctor is a much more specific and detailed discussion about reproductive health, as well as other often-gendered concerns like domestic violence, rape, and general health. it talks about abortion and complications from it, contraception, childbirth (and potential complications), breastfeeding, sexually transmitted infections, etc. again, you can download the 2010 edition of it from the internet archive.
a book for midwives is written for community-based midwives. it is far more detailed than either of the other two books, and offers a lot of information about contraception, the normative progression of pregnancy, complications from it, emergency contraception, and (some discussion of) abortion, including how to perform a manual vacuum aspiration. it is very much written with the expectation that the reader will be in a place where they can learn from other, more experienced healthcare workers, and many things discussed aren't safe to do if you haven't received hands-on training. it may still be useful information, and 'safe' is a fairly context-specific word. you can download the 2010 edition of this book from the internet archive.
i want to be clear, again, that these books are not aimed at fluent english speakers in wealthy western countries. the language is simple, and may seem reductive or unnecessarily gender essentialistic. it is decidedly not inclusive language. in this instance, this is a feature, not a bug, because they're written to be as broadly accessible as possible. the information and guidance provided is solid, and can be lifesaving.
if you're concerned about ongoing access to health care, about reproductive care, about community health, or even just about your own personal well being, you could do worse than to have a copy of these around.
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HOLY COW!
Newsreel archivist British Pathé has uploaded their entire 85,000 film archive to YouTube. This is an amazing resource. British P
British Pathé was once a dominant feature of the British cinema experience, renowned for first-class reporting and an informative yet uniquely entertaining style. It is now considered to be the finest newsreel archive in existence. Spanning the years from 1896 to 1976, the collection includes footage — not only from Britain, but from around the globe — of major events, famous faces, fashion trends, travel, sport and culture. The archive is particularly strong in its coverage of the First and Second World Wars.
This is an extraordinary resource. (making a note to go hunting for some things...)
NEW FISH JUST DROPPED
I KNOW that playing God is morally wrong, but holy HELL, it looks fun.
Why is it playing God? We aren’t violating any natural laws. God set the parameters of the universe to allow these things. There’s nothing wrong with it, there’s no hubris in learning more about how to manipulate the universe around us.
We made a whole-ass fish.
The reason this was accidental BTW is because they used paddlefish eggs as a negative control group for a breeding experiment on sturgeons because the scientists, quite naturally, assumed that they were SO unrelated it would be genetically impossible for them to mate. Like. I cannot stress enough to you how these creatures last related ancestors were
140 MILLION YEARS BACK.
If you don't know how far that is, that's basically the start of the cretaceous. Let me simplify that for you even further. Chimpanzees and humans seperated, what, 5 or 6 million years ago?
This is basically like if humans could hybridise with THESE THINGS.
This is the sort of thing that should be impossible. They used those eggs to be ABSOLUTELY 100% SURE NOTHING WOULD HAPPEN.
And then THEY GOT FISH OUT OF IT.
Like. You can quite clearly understand why they didn't think anything would happen. WE ARE MORE RELATED TO BLUE WHALES THAN THESE THINGS.
THE AMERICAN PADDLEFISH AND THE STURGEON ARE SO COMPLETELY UNRELATED THAT THIS IS NOT PLAYING GOD. IF ANYTHING THIS IS AN ACT OF GOD.
THE SCIENTISTS HAD NO BLAME IN THIS BECAUSE NOTHING LIKE THIS HAD EVER HAPPENED BEFORE
It sort of goes against the rules of genetics a bit.
Oh i forgot to add
THESE THINGS, FOR HYBRIDS, HAD A REALLY HIGH SURVIVAL RATING. LIKE 70% OF THEM SURVIVED.
To put that into perspective, getting a blue whale and a squirrel and trying to hybridise them is more sensible, and that wouldn't produce anything but getting you banned from science. Most animals that aren't plants can barely hybridise two degrees away from each other.
BUT THESE TWO ENTIRELY UNRELATED FISH create PERFECTLY HEALTHY HYBRIDS.
the scientists literally had to do the tests AGAIN just to be like "okay this is real right. This is actually like, not a fluke, this works right" and it worked again. They just Can!
It clearly wasn't a fluke. This is a fluke.
They beat me to that joke
A German decides to go on vacation to Poland. He arrives at the border, and he is asked a few questions by the customs agent:
"Name?" asks the Polish official.
"Klaus Schmidt", says the German.
"Age?" asks the official.
"32," replies the German.
"Occupation?" asks the official.
"No," says the German, "just visiting."
Oh I remember what the Luftwaffe thing was that makes it even funnier. They chartered a super fancy medbay plane during the pandemic to bring high needs patients to different hospitals to spread the load.
But like 1) The concept of being afraid of the Luftwaffe is still so ingrained into Belgian society that we still joke "Oh it's the Luftwaffe" whenever there's a jet or any loud sounds in the sky 2) the average person to be super sick during the pandemic was old enough to if not have experienced the war to at least have grown up in the shadow of it.
So having to say to these people "Hey the Luftwaffe is here for you specifically but they're super friendly this time they don't even have one bomb with them" You can imagine why this send some nervous laughter over the country.
I hate linguistic anthropology. Why? One of the most influential experiments in linguistic anthropology involved teaching a chimp asl. One of the most influential linguistics is named Noam Chomsky. You know what the chimp’s name was?
Nim Chimpsky.
Fucking monkey pun.
And this is in textbooks, in documentaries, everywhere. And everyone just IGNORES THIS GOD AWFUL PUN cause of how important the experiment was. But
BUT LOOK AT THIS SHIT. FUCKING NIM CHIMPSKY. I HATE THIS WHOLE FIELD.
Its not just the linguistic anthropologists.
There’s a group of very important genes that determine if your body develops in the right shape/organization… they are called the hedgehog genes, because fruit fly geneticists are all ridiculous. The different hedgehog genes are all named after different hedgehogs. And then someone decided to get clever and name one “sonic hedgehog” because this is just what fruitfly geneticists do.
Well sonic hedgehog controls brain development, and now actual doctors are stuck in the position of explaining to grieving parents that their child’s lethal birth defects or life-threatening tumors are caused by a “sonic hedgehog mutation”.
And this is why no one will invite the fruit fly people to parties.
Biogeochemical scientists, upon discovering the complex mechanisms that govern the storage and use of molecular iron on our planet, decided to call this cycle “the ferrous wheel”. We groaned about that for at least five solid minutes.
The phenomenon of sneezing when exposed to sudden bright light is called an Autosomal-dominant Compelling Helio Opthalmic Outburst. ACHOO.
Half a byte of data is a nibble.
Particle physicists went out of their way to call a particle a WIMP (weakly interacting matter particle) just because its weak so now you have physicists saying stuff like “one of the candidates for dark matter are wimps”
I love science
Still love that “Benevolent Sexism (BS)” caught on in psychology.
dw, if you do anything to do with gene phylogeny, you will eventually run into BLASTP and BLASTN search.
BLAST of course, stands for Basic Local Alignment Search Tool.
If you do RNA transcriptome assembly, you will eventually run into the Trinity Pipeline. Which. Has. Inchworm, Chrysalis and Butterfly as component steps.
If you keep going on doing RNA transcriptome assembly, you will eventually run into the Tuxedo suite. Compossed of TopHat and Cufflinks. And HISAT-StringTie-Ballgown. And Corset. Yes.
Anyway scientists love naming stuff.
The contraption, called Rodafonio, is designed by Cesar Alvarez, Barcelona.
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Say hello to the first non-binary they/them pronoun in Mandarin. It was created for the non-binary Chinese speaking people to express themselves. This is a combination of the characters 无(none) 他(he) and 她(she).
Source: https://www.instagram.com/p/CQt6kFDr05d/
hey @markscherz what kind of beast is this and why does it have bell bottoms
This is Cruziohyla craspedopus, and basically it has evolved to look like a leaf and not like a frog when sitting still during the day (they are nocturnal). Apparently bellbottoms break up your outline and make it harder for predators to recognise you as a tasty morsel.
