Oh Cicero

Hey, I know it’s a new year and things are pretty scary at the outset.
But I’m here to tell you, of all the things in this world that are gatekept, hope is one of them too.
Just because you’re not hearing hopeful news doesn’t mean it’s not happening.
I have subscriptions to several specialized science magazines via institutional access, and I wake up every day to articles in my email like “We’ve just figured out how to catalyze the destruction of PFAS [forever chemicals] into harmless byproducts. Now we’re just trying to take it to commercial scale.” (Real story I read last month and sent to a friend who has deep anxiety about PFAS!!!).
For every big scary problem the mainstream news is capitalizing on through fearmongering, there are people behind the scenes, many of them scientists, working to ~~~ and succeeding at ~~~ solving them.
The news of the solutions are just often behind a paywall, whereas you’re free to consume as many stories of tragedy, crisis, and impending doom as you want.

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craftochism:

saja-star:
a phrase that kinda bothers me when talking about women’s historical roles in europe is “cooking, cleaning, and taking care of the children.” you hear it so often, those exact words in the same order even. and once you learn a little more you realize that the massive gaping hole in that list is fiberwork. im not an expert and have no hard numbers, but i wouldnt be surprised if fiberwork took up nearly as much time as the other three tasks combined, so it’s not a trivial omission.
it’s not a hot take to say that the mass amnesia about fiberwork is linked to the belittlement of women’s work in geneal, but i do think there’s a special kind of illusion that is cast by “cooking, cleaning, and taking care of the children.” you hear that and think “well i cook and clean and take care of children (or i know someone who does) and i have a sense of how much work that is” and you know of course that cooking and cleaning were more laborious before modern technology, but still, you have a ballpark estimate you think, when in fact you are drastically underestimating the work load.
i also think that this just micharacterizes the role of women’s work in livelihoods? cooking, cleaning, and taking care of the children are all sisyphean tasks that have to be repeated the next day. these are important, but not the whole picture. when we include all kinds of fiberwork—and other things, such as making candles or soap—women’s work looks much more like manufacturing, a sphere we now associate more with men’s work. i feel like women’s connection to making and craftsmanship is often elided.
Nah pop off queen you hit it.

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werefeathers:

andsorrowsend:
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kieranculkingirl:
teaboot:
brenna:
canthaveshitingotham-crucified:
canthaveshitingotham-crucified:
i hate it when i cant even write a poem about something because its too obvious. like in the airbnb i was at i guess it used to be a kids room cause you could see the imprint of one little glow in the dark star that had been missed and painted over in landlord white. like that’s a poem already what’s the point
you get it. you get the themes. i dont have time to do it justice. just look at it its on the ceiling
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Originally posted by dailypaulson

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casavanse:

david-goldrock:
deez-no-relation:
david-goldrock:
I find the fact that the closest mountain point on earth to the moon, the highest mountain and the tallest mountain are 3 different mountains to be a tiny bit disturbing
Explain
The world’s highest mountain is the most beloved, it is mount everest, the mountain that’s farthest from sea level. If you connected the other two to everest by a slide and put a ball on everest, it will slide down to the other two (in a frictionless perfect world)
The world’s tallest mountain is mauna kea, it’s almost 4000 feet taller than everest if you measure from base to top, most of it is underwater though
The world’s closest mountain to the stars is mount Chimborazo, it is both shorter and less high than the other two, but it is closer to the equator, so the bulge of earth makes it ever so slightly farther from the center, so it is closer to the stars
So yeah, 3 ways to measure, 3 results
Earth is weird

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enbycrip:

EDITED TO ADD: Sources from the OP in the comments

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attackdogz:

june-egbert-official:
sadomarxist:
Like to charge and reblog to cast Chinese scientists destroying the Insulin industry
the original tweet is from May this year but there has been an update!!
yay for the Chinese destroying the American insulin industry!!!!

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muffinlance:

lezbadeez:
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theotherwesley:

He was as tall as he was tall, and his eyes were the color they were. To describe his hair one would say that he had some. His face had all the features you’d expect, and none of the ones you wouldn’t. “There he is,” people would often say of him, but only when he was there. And they were right.

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