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what you donât get is science exists because people can love. medicine exists because people love each other enough to want each other to live long healthy lives. astronomy exists because someone loved the stars and the planets enough to track them through their ever changing position in the darkest night. science exists because humans are curious little creatures and we want to know the world around us and understand it like it does us. we know stars and planets worlds away, weâve sent cameras worlds away, all because we love the universe, and we also put love in those satellites!! we sent the sound of a 100 languages, lovely messages, the sound of rain and a laugh, all out there just in case thereâs someone in the universe looking for us like we do them, and so that they know that they were never alone, and we sent them the most simple loving things we could find.
science exists because people can love
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Iâve posted them before, but have some more Picasso bugs because they are so dang cute.
Sphaerocoris annulus, Scutelleridae (Jewel Bugs). Found in sub-Saharan Africa
Photo 1 by alastair61, 2 by nielspouldreyer, 3 by bartwursten, 4 by b_louboutin, 5 by azizhingora007, and 6 by also_sprach_susscrofa
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'fairies dont exist' WRONGââcyerce elegans
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For the first time, researchers have found evidence that underwater ecosystems have pollinators that perform the same task as bees on land.
Just like their terrestrial cousins, grasses under the sea shed pollen to sexually reproduce. Until now, biologists assumed the marine plants relied on water alone to spread their genes far and wide. But the discovery of pollen-carrying âbees of the seaâ has changed all of that.
Over several years from 2009 to 2012, researchers from the National Autonomous University of Mexico filmed the spring nocturnal wanderings of crustaceans among beds of turtle seagrass, Thalassia testudinum.
Looking through the videos, they spotted more invertebrates visiting male pollen-bearing flowers than those that lacked pollen â just like bees hovering around pollen-producing plants on land.
âWe saw all of these animals coming in, and then we saw some of them carrying pollen,â lead researcher Brigitta van Tussenbroek told New Scientist.
The concept was so new, they invented a new term to describe it: zoobenthophilous pollination. Before that, researchers had never predicted that animals were involved in pollinating marine plants.
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everyone's masc til they have to put on the customer service voice
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beauty standards are so fucked up what happened to i love your body because it's you. what then.
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*visibly shaking* has anybody else noticed how beautiful everything is?
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Peder Mork Monsted
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âDid you see the way that little girl looked at me? Kids. Little kids. They grow up believing that they can be a hero if they drive a sword into the heart of anything different. And Iâm the monster? I donât know whatâs scarier. The fact that everyone in this kingdom wants to run a sword through my heart or that sometimes I just wanna let âem.â
âWe have to get you out of here. Over the wall. We wonât stop until we find some place safe, okay? Weâll go. Together. No matter what we do, we canât change the way people see us.â
âYou changed the way you see me... Didnât you?
NIMONA (2023), based on the comic by ND Stevenson, who came out as transgender in 2022
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âUnfinished Paintingâ â Keith Haring
This painting was left intentionally incomplete. Haring began it when he was dying due to complications from AIDS, and knew he didnât have much time left. The piece represents the incomplete lives of him and many others, lost to AIDS during the crisis.
âAIDS Memorial Quiltâ â Multiple
This quilt is over 50 tons heavy, and one of, if not the, largest pieces of community folk art. Many people who died of AIDS did not receive funerals, due to social stigma and many funeral homes refusing to handle the deceasedâs remains, so this was one of the only ways their lives could be celebrated. Each panel was created in recognition of someone who died due to AIDS, typically by that personâs loved ones.
âUntitledâ (Portrait of Ross in L.A.) â Felix Gonzalez-Torres
This pile of candy weighs the same amount as an average adult man. Visitors are encouraged to take some of the candy. As they do so, the pile of candy weighs less and less. This is a commentary on how AIDS deteriorates the body of those who have it. Gonzalez-Torresâ partner, Ross Laycock, had died due to AIDS-related complications the same year.
The SF Gay Men's Chorus
This photo was taken in 1993. The men in white are the surviving original members. Every man in black is standing in for an original member who lost their lives to AIDS.
âElectric Fan (Feel it Motherfuckers); Only Unclaimed Item from the Stephen Earabino Estate, 1997â â John Boskovich
After the death of his lover, Stephen Earabino, from AIDS, Boskovich discovered that his family had completely cleared his room, including Boskovichâs own possessions, save for this fan. An entire person, existence and relationship had been erased, just like so many lives during the AIDS crisis. Boskovich encased the fan in Plexiglass, but added cutouts so that its air may be felt by the viewer, almost like an exhalation. In a sense, restoring Earabinoâs breath.
âBlueâ â Derek Jarman
This was Jarmanâs final feature film, released four months before his death from AIDS-related complications. These complications had left him visually impaired, able to only see in shades of blue. This film consists of a single shot of a saturated blue color, as the soundtrack to the film described Jarmanâs life through narration, intercut with the adventures of Blue, a humanization of the color blue. The film's final moments consist of a set of repeated names: âJohn. Daniel. Howard. Graham. Terry. Paul". These are the names of former lovers and friends of Jarman who had died due to AIDS.
âUntitledâ (Perfect Lovers) â Felix Gonzalez-Torres
Created by the same man who created the previous untitled piece, this piece was also inspired by his loverâs deterioration and death due to AIDS. This piece consists of two perfectly alike clocks. Over the course of time, one of the clocks will fall out of sync with the other.
In a letter written to his lover about the piece, before his loverâs passing, Gonzalez-Tourres wrote, âDon't be afraid of the clocks, they are our time, the time has been so generous to us. We imprinted time with the sweet taste of victory. We conquered fate by meeting at a certain time in a certain space. We are a product of the time, therefore we give back credit were it is due: time. We are synchronized, now forever. I love you.â
Please feel free to reblog with more additions
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"he was so insane for this" and it's just the hero of hyrule wearing a cunty little outfit
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DESTROY / CREATE
something something your body is your own so make it completely and utterly yours <3
[IMAGE ID: an old anatomical drawing of a person with each section of the body labelled. there are pink incision lines over the mouth, chest, and groin area. a white heart is over the chest. "destroy the body created for you" and "remake yourself in your own image" are in bold white text with a pink shadow, the text is distorted/wavy. there are scissors, scalpels, and stars decorating the background which is black. END]
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The 2023 Gender Census is now open!
[ Link to survey ]
The 10th annual international gender census, collecting information about the language we use to refer to ourselves and each other, is now open until 9th May 2023.
Itâs short and easy, about 5 minutes probably.
After the survey is closed Iâll process the results and publish a spreadsheet of the data and a report summarising the main findings. Then anyone can use them for academic or business purposes, self-advocacy, tracking the popularity of language over time, and just feeling like weâre part of a huge and diverse community.
If you think you might have friends and followers whoâd be interested, please do reblog this blog post, and share the survey URL by email or at AFK social groups or on other social networks. Every share is extremely helpful - itâs what helped us get 40,000 responses last year.
Survey URL:Â https://survey.gendercensus.com
The survey is open to anyone anywhere who speaks English and feels that the gender binary doesnât fully describe their experience of themselves and their gender(s) or lack thereof.
For the curious, you can also spy on some graphs and demographic data for the incoming responses here.
Thank you so much!
[ Link to survey ]
Image credit:Â Avery at Tradescantia Hub
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your life will be wonderful because you will make it wonderful, and it will be full of love because you are full of love.
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Crinoid Fossils can be found in some UK rivers and were once thought to be fairy coins. Sometimes called âStar Stonesâ.
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