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Hey. I'm Jen, 28, and this is my personal blog. (I use all pronouns) My RedBubble can be found here: https://www.redbubble.com/people/cajunhusker
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#oh it was definitely sailor moon#i forgot about that and was gonna say vampire knight#but it was definitely sailor moon
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shout out to all my not traditionally masculine trans guys:
to the ones who don’t feel comfortable calling themselves a man, so they’re always guys, dudes, or boys
to the ones who still love their old “girl” clothes, the skirts and dresses and bright colors
to the ones who love makeup and nail polish and perfume
to the ones who dont bind or dont pack; to the ones who like having the chests and junk they already have
to the ones who dont want hormones or surgeries
to the ones who shave their legs or dont like body and facial hair; to the ones who still have long hair
to the femboys and the fairies and the girlyboys
to the ones who have a high ambiguous voice and like it that way
to the ones with weird genders, complicated genders, fluid genders, non-conforming genders, genders they take so seriously, genders they can’t be bothered with
i love you so much <3 you are men after my own heart <3
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I distinctly remember being called all sorts of fucked up shit for talking about the split attraction model. Great times, truly. (also came out as ace around this time and starting making ace art towards the end of this time period)
I'm a lot more aggressively out these days because of everything that happened on this website
I don't think younger/newer users fully grasp the shit show that ace discourse was around 2014-17
It was so hostile that, to this day, discussions that begin to derail just enough can make me physically nauseous, some specific mockery trigger crying sessions years later. We lost most accounts with any sort of ace positivity. There was no information, no support, and all this damage was done predominantly by other queer people.
All this to say that you, however you identify yourself, should be engaging with aphobic comments the same way you do any hate. We don't sugarcoat or try to be comprehensive with people who are blatantly racist, homophobic or terfs, so why give it a pass just because it's coming from a queer person? I see how this tolerance goes and it's done enough damage as it is.
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Okay, this could really be something!
“This is one of the most exciting things we’ve seen in a really long time,” said Shaw. “This is a really finely honed tool. To be able to sit there and say to your patients that you’re offering them something that’s effectively like the Fat Duck at Bray versus McDonald’s – it’s that level of cordon bleu that’s coming to them … The patients are really excited about them.”
The vaccine is an individualised neoantigen therapy. It is designed to trigger the immune system so it can fight back against a patient’s specific type of cancer and tumour.
Known as mRNA-4157 (V940), the vaccine targets tumour neoantigens, which are expressed by tumours in a particular patient. These are markers on the tumour that can potentially be recognised by the immune system.
The jab carries coding for up to 34 neoantigens and activates an anti-tumour immune response based on the unique mutations in a patient’s cancer.
To personalise it, a sample of tumour is removed during the patient’s surgery, followed by DNA sequencing and the use of artificial intelligence. The result is a custom-built anti-cancer jab that is specific to the patient’s tumour.
...If your tech vocabulary's up to it, see also the abstract/article in the Lancet.
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So we all know that Tumblr is US-centric. But to what degree? (and can we skew the results of this poll by posting it at a time where they should be asleep?)
Reblog to increase sample size!
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fatphobia and ableism is so insidious. You can look up like, food, and it'll say "eating a lot of food causes diabetes" and you're like oh dang what? I thought we didn't know the cause of diabetes. So you look up what causes diabetes and it says "we still don't know what causes diabetes" bruh they're just making shit up to give people eating disorders
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we've been living in this apartment for two months now, and while we've observed most of our new neighbours (my slavic Windowsill Watcher Grandmother gene already activated), I don't think they had the chance to see us often enough to recognise us yet.
I do know, however, from my observations, that the tiny funny dog upstairs is called Gucio. I've passed him once or twice during his walk and heard his owners use the name - and, while both the dog and his owners are oblivious to our existence, Gucio became an apt topic of discussion in our house. you know, we hear barking, ha, that's Gucio, he must be home alone again! or there's a stick left by the building door, that must have been brought by Gucio and he was forced to abandon it before entering! a household name, really.
yesterday as I was leaving to go to the store, walking down the narrow staircase, there he is! tiny funny looking dog, slightly startled by me suddenly appearing on the floor he just reached on his tiny funny looking legs.
"good morning Gucio!" I say joyfully, the most natural thing in the world.
well. remember that Gucio doesn't really know me. so he looks at me in the most flabbergasted way a dog can look at a person. he is positively aghast. agog! not sure how aware dogs are of their own names but he seemed genuinely puzzled at the apparent stretch of social convention.
and as I try to contain my laughter, I see his owner standing on the stairs below. the woman is sort of awkwardly frozen, speechless, and she looks at me.
"you... know each other?" she asks.
is that not the funniest way to phrase it. is this not the funniest question she could have asked. ma'am do you know my dog? you went to school together perhaps? you've met? do tell, are you old friends? maybe you worked together? you know each other, my dog and you? this dog? you know him? he knows you? he never mentioned you I'm afraid
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Y'all, the world is sleeping on what NASA just pulled off with Voyager 1
The probe has been sending gibberish science data back to Earth, and scientists feared it was just the probe finally dying. You know, after working for 50 GODDAMN YEARS and LEAVING THE GODDAMN SOLAR SYSTEM and STILL CHURNING OUT GODDAMN DATA.
So they analyzed the gibberish and realized that in it was a total readout of EVERYTHING ON THE PROBE. Data, the programming, hardware specs and status, everything. They realized that one of the chips was malfunctioning.
So what do you do when your probe is 22 Billion km away and needs a fix? Why, you just REPROGRAM THAT ENTIRE GODDAMN THING. Told it to avoid the bad chip, store the data elsewhere.
Sent the new code on April 18th. Got a response on April 20th - yeah, it's so far away that it took that long just to transmit.
And the probe is working again.
From a programmer's perspective, that may be the most fucking impressive thing I have ever heard.
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In honor of pride month coming soon, I'm doing a giveaway!
Today (April 25) through May 7th at 6PM EST, you can enter for a chance to win a copy of my book, The Coffee Table Book of Pride Flags!
This book is full of around a hundred different pride flag designs, descriptions, and a little bit of history. For people who have been following me for a while, you'll see the pride flags I've been working on for years across this book. And it'll look wonderful on your coffee table!
So, how can you enter?
Reblog this post
Follow this blog (lawofcollage)
Be over the age of 18 and willing to share your address with me
Be within the United States
Want a copy of your own but can't enter, don't want to wait, or want more than one copy? You can order here:
IngramSpark (the cheapest option)
Bookshop
Amazon
BarnesAndNoble
Good luck!
P.S. I am aware this is a little early, but I'm keeping in mind printing times with IngramSpark so that it will get to the winners before Pride Month actually starts.
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Think about this quote like all the time and how it really undermines so much shit in capitalism
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the problem with being creative is that you start to feel very guilty when you haven’t created anything in a while
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