hope is a skill
hope is a weapon you are trained to wield
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You cannot hide this in the tags, bestie. This is too lovely to keep a secret.
I must hope.
Hope is the eye-opener.
Hope is the little spark that brings total revolution.
I will behold my hope.
I will permit it to take root in me and around me.
And when it has gone past, I will continue to seek its path.
Where the hope has been, there will be life.
And I will join others in hope.
this is a typo in a textbook written by the professor of this class, it cost me $105, i will be sharing with the world
reminder to:
I just would like to thank everyone who ever reblogs this so that it somehow ends up back on my dash because I usually need the reminder (especially the drinking water one)
Of all posts to see with a million notes, I’m glad it’s this one.
Studies show that approaching youth with a bystander-intervention model is actually a lot more effective for reducing sexual assault, and it is also more enthusiastically received than programs that bill themselves as anti-rape.
We can tell youth that they are basically “rapists waiting to happen” (anti-rape initiative), or we can tell them that we know they would intervene if they saw harm happening to someone and we want to help empower them to do that (bystander intervention). The kids jump in with both feet for the latter! It was amazing to see children (and young boys in particular) excited to do this work and engage their creativity with it. Also, studies show that not only do they go on to intervene, but they also do not go on to sexually assault people themselves. Bystander intervention also takes the onus off the person being targeted to deter rape and empowers the collective to do something about it. It answers the question in the room when giggling boys are carrying an unconscious young woman up the stairs at a house party, and people are not sure how to respond and are waiting for “someone” to say or do something.
Richard M. Wright, “Rehearsing Consent Culture: Revolutionary Playtime” in the anthology Ask: Building Consent Culture edited by Kitty Stryker
This is also, btw, how the US drastically reduced drunk driving in the US. Telling people they shouldn’t drive when intoxicated made absolutely zero difference. A slogan-and-ad-campaign for “Friends don’t let friends drive drunk!” changed drinking culture. Going after the bystanders is quite often the most effective thing to do in any social change.
Ok this is the best one i've seen.
Nothing like inhaling massive amounts of plant semen all summer
*grabs you by the shoulders* listen don’t get it twisted you CANNOT get it twisted. those are plant penises, NOT the sperm. once the pollen lands on the female structure in question, THEN it germinates and makes the sperm. do you know how many college biology students are threatened by this misinformation each year?? how many fall victim to the classic blunder??
obsessed with this person organically deriving the alternation of generations in the tags of this post
the alternation of generations is, I think, one of the hardest things for people to learn going into plants just because it’s unthinkable to us that anyone would add extra steps. why would you do this when the penis and the vagina could simply remain on one’s body, and then one could have sex and give birth like an animal, the obvious simplest way to reproduce as stated by the animals? and the answer, which I hyperfixtated on for months in 2022-23, is that it’s really Fucking complicated and you actually need to be a calculus understander and equation chef (which at this moment I am not) to get to the cutting edge of the outsourced penis problem. like under further inspection the alternation of generations reveals itself as not a baffling quirk, but rather as primordial-ooze level plant architecture with sticky threads of cost and benefit in every Got Dam green agal descendant on the planet, and at a certain point you actually can only discuss the raw source of the madness in graphs and theorems. it’s a 100% dark academia madness inducing topic with many twists and turns.
anyway my overall review is that it was really funny when ferns had cheat codes to it, would have loved some of that in the newer flower story arc in part because it’s the closest thread I can grasp to actually understanding something (presumably????) deeper about this weird sex system from a flaw/exploit it had (and still has in ferns, to be fair), but flowers just seem to treat it like something to compensate for and patched it in an update, so reducing the gametophytes down as small as possible and leaving the female ones attached directly to the sporophyte IS surprising when people learn about it. you would never even know they had any kind of wild sex cycle because half of the stages are microscopic and protected behind like 8 layers of tissue, which makes sense because yes they’re ‘vulnerable’ stages but it’s still annoying of them to do to me personally, you know?
not a huge fl*wer enjoyer (I <3 disgusting plants with twisted lore) and less so am a commercial fl*wer enjoyer (find it unsettling when they’re named a barcode) but whoever was responsible for mums DID kinda did go off with it I cannot deny
me: can’t even walk down the damn street anymore without a bee trying to tell me about the flowers 2 inches to my left like they’re mother nature’s best gift to earth and everybody
me when I see a plant in a decorative pot that’s been bred so all the flowers bloom at once in a continuous rounded dome kind of growth habit: and I can touch it you say? with an open palm?
I was recently in Kazakhstan (for funsies not work) and found some very cool lichens on the Asy Plateau
Some gorgeous Cetraria
MASSIVE Cladonias
And Xanthoparmelias worth writing home about! (by that I mean sending pictures of them to the nomadic lichen expert from my hometown)
Finally put an Interlibrary Loan Request in for Mutants of Maize it looks great on the list amongst all the research materials on Inuit culture (zero corn culture) gotta keep em guessing 😎
first of all, same. second of all the mutants of maize is such a gem especially if you can get the 2nd edition that’s like 400+ pages instead of the original 60-ish pages for expanded mutated corn content. i was thinking about the corn in that book that a accidentally glows under UV light just the other day (doesn’t do it on purpose, just makes a byproduct that glows instead of one that doesn’t, as we all have at one point or another). also i think the concept of a book that’s just all the worst ways they can be bad at it is just really funny, like a corn cringe compilation
one would think that with only 10 chromosomes there’s not much to get wrong but as it turns out, 10,000 years of breeding does something to an mfer
Reblog for soup girl
REBLOG FOR SOUP GIRL‼️
Stan was not prepared
cant lie this is hilarious to me
I would honestly listen to a three minute long song about pints with the lads
I am glad that the people of Ireland are united in the belief that Hozier is, as lovely as he may be, absolutely shite craic. Himself included. Sound lad, deLIGHTed to see him doing well and all but I would not have him round for cans, on my life.
Is there a word that’s a mix between angry and sad
malcontented, disgruntled, miserable, desolated
smad.
there are two types of people
i’ve only seen this legendary post in screenshots
It’s always so cool when you find these legendary posts and the OPs are not deactivated. It’s like, the gods still walk among us.
hey guys we can all agree its like, incredibly sad and fucked up when a trans man feels like he has to apologize for being a man, right. like even jokingly. it’s very concerning that people have created an environment where a trans person is expected to be apologetic about their identity, right.
“sorry to add another straight white male to the world 😔” no brother I’m glad you exist. being able to live your life as YOU is something you had to and will continue to fight for and we can’t afford to be apologetic about it. trans existence is always a celebration.
This was the way I felt back when I was transitioning and it sucked. TERF-ass talking points about trans man were rife Everywhere online to me then. I used to joke about it felt like climbing into a burning trash can on purpose.
And you know what. Not only was it miserable, it's fucking bullshit. Being a man is a wonderful and beautiful thing to be. Being a man ain't inherently Evil or Bad. We shouldn't be out here inventing binary essentially 2: It's Reversed Now So It's Good Actually.
Being a mans beautiful. Bein' masc rules. You got folk in this world I promise will gas you up and celebrate you livin', and folks who make you feel cruddy about it aint worth apologizin' to.
