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A bit late here, though.

*pinches nose*

Fellas, is it cultural appropriation to inherit your family's culture but you don't pass the blood quantum test?

The Dainix and Tess pins arrived today and I'm excited to have the squad together!

Patient: I've been outside and I'm telling you it's zebras.

Doctor: Are you sure you're not imagining things?

Patient: I saw the stripes.

Doctor: Some horses pretend to be zebras for attention.

Patient: We're in the savannah.

It's impossible for us to observe a universe that doesn't allow us to exist, meaning that the universe we do observe (our universe) will necessarily have properties that allow us to exist, no matter how weird or unlikely those properties may be.

The same thing goes for nuclear proliferation. In order for us to observe a world in which humanity has had the ability to destroy itself in nuclear war for the better part of a century, we have to live in a world where not only has that capacity existed, it also hasn't been used. That means that every close call, no matter how weird, has to have played out that way because we are in a world where it didn't kill us all. Of course the world is weird as fuck: we're the end result of decades of narrowly avoided catastrophe.

The diplomacy, economics, and random fucking bullshit that led to this moment could, for all we know, have been impossible any other way. Maybe in the world where the pepsi cola company never has a navy, the soviet union gets twitchy in 1988 and the world ends. Maybe in the world where Jimmy Carter doesn't get into an altercation with a swimming rabbit, he's just a little too arrogant in a meeting and escalates when he should defuse. Maybe in a world where reagan isn't married to the og hollywood throat goat, he's slightly more stressed and hits the big red button one day because he heard they got black people in russia.

If I only knew where to write to or where to go to, I should feel easier; but no one has heard a word of Jonathan since that last letter. I must only pray to God for patience.

It must be very difficult for Mina to purposefuly ignore all of the silent signs that could be interpreted as Jonathan being actually dead. Mina's character is constructed as a proactive, and understanding person who is capable of managing all of the stuff she handles in life, but it seems that Mr. Swales managed to touch upon something that Mina cannot solve nor touch in the narrative, if Jonathan is actually dead then she will never know what happened, nor be able to solve it since it's a fundamental part of the human experience that she knows it cannot be escaped.

Im mainly thinking of Marshall’s early career, before he became the first Black Supreme Court Justice. He was a traveling attorney for the NAACP, and won 29 of the 32 civil rights cases he took against the Supreme Court, including ending “Separate But Equal” doctrine via Brown v. Board of Education in 1954 and resulted in a ruling that segregation was unconstitutional.

He was a master of using the words of the system against itself to force it to lose by its own rules, often being able to use existing sociological data to prove the ways that Black people were not just being discriminated against, but were being disproportionally harmed by segregation. He was responsible for releasing a large amount of legal shackles placed on Black people in the US as a whole, though he did focus hard on school desegregations - in part because he had been rejected from schools on account of being Black himself, including Maryland’s state law school.

This is obviously a brief summary, but this is the kind of person trans women need fighting for us specifically right now. Who knows the fucking pains of how we are treated and the horrific segregation, discrimination, and danger trans women face personally. The system aint gonna *save* us but having people do their best to toss a wrench in the gears killing us Officially and slowing things down means even one more person might survive, and even one more person surviving than would otherwise is a win.

oh, Sisyphus! i got you

Swirly boy

Ferrets are good with letting people know what they do and don’t like, and with the way hes just gone floppy, hes having a blast.

a. She’s 5′ 11″ and can never find pants long enough for her legs or shirts long enough for her arms.

b. She hates synthetic fibers as much as I do and it’s difficult to find natural fiber clothes that aren’t made of cotton

c. She’s a biologist and would physically fistfight microplastics if given half a chance

So her gift from mom and dad for her birthday was a sewing machine. Not a super expensive one but a good solid serviceable one.

And recently she asked “So where do I GET wool or linen and thread that isn’t polyester” and mom was like ‘go ask your sister’

“Bets, u know I’m a 15th degree blackbelt of buying shit on the internet”

cotton and Silk thread; https://redrockthreads.com/

Linen thread and wool fabric; https://burnleyandtrowbridge.com/ (they’ve got wool stuffs and worsted wool fabric for $15 a yard! I just got three yards of navy worsted wool I’m making a constellation winter skirt from)

More linen thread and wool; https://wmboothdraper.com/ (just ordered wool broadcloth to make a coat)

Silk fabric (THE best place to get silk lining fabrics and raw silk fabric):https://www.dharmatrading.com/

A varying assortment of wool and silk and cotton and even some leather, use coupon code  spring2020 for 50% off your full order, worked yesterday when I bought some stuff there; https://metrotextilesnyc.com/

The Linen Lab has a variety of weaves, weights, and colors available