"The romantic undertones of the Adis/Operator interactions made me uncomfortable!" Thats...the point? It's meant to be uncomfortable. It's a representation about how the connections between people, especially those seen as less independent (read: disabled, children, both), are used as tools by those in power to further their own ends. It's a classical tale of political marriage. Two people, who don't want to be married and don't really understand the implications of it, being forced into a situation as a symbol of an agreement or an alliance to fulfill other people's whims. It's a case of our autonomy being violated, and when the one thing that would have allowed us to live with that violation, to cope with it, is taken away, we lash out. Our support structure (cause Margulis was, frankly, a terrible mother) was taken out from underneath us, and we lashed out in response.

This has gotta be one of the funniest things I've ever seen. 😂😂😂

Remember to eat, my loves! There's a whole world of delicious joy awaiting you!

For those who need to hear it. To be ten pounds overweight is barely noticeable. To be ten pounds underweight is cause for concern if not outright alarm.

The primary health impact of being fifty pounds overweight is medical neglect. The primary health impact of being fifty pounds underweight is organ failure.

Skinny =/= healthy. You can not underfeed yourself into balanced nutrition. You can not subtract your way towards a healthy diet. You can not exercise all the spare calories off because bomb calorimetery is a joke of a scientific model that would have been laughed out of any other field.

hey, yeah, quick warframe lore question, why is the tower made of meat?

Friendly reminder that you're not required to publicly take sides in any geopolitical conflict you don't understand.

Listen if the study of ancient humans doesn’t make you at least a little bit emotional idk what to say.

I started crying today at the museum because they had reconstructed the shoes of Otzi the iceman.

Either he or someone he knew who cared about him made these shoes out of grass and bear skin and twine and he was wearing them when he died over five thousand years ago.

And a Czech researcher and his students did reconstructions of these shoes and wore them to the same place where he died to test them out and they were like yep! These shoes are really cozy and comfy and didn’t give us blisters while hiking!

Is that not just the coolest shit ever????

Come, you wounded,

Come, you broken,

You harmed by church,

By people who you once loved.

Come, you grieving,

Come, you bleeding,

You pained by saints,

By people who you once adored.

The cross has room enough for us

Queer, strange, curious.

The wounds of Christ are big enough

To hold us all inside.

Come, you outcast,

Come, you orphan,

The communion table is always open.

“There is a cyborg hierarchy. They like us best with bionic arms and legs. They like us Deaf with hearing aids, though they prefer cochlear implants. It would be an affront to ask the Hearing to learn sign language. Instead they wish for us to lose our language, abandon our culture, and consider ourselves cured. They like exoskeletons, which none of us use. They don’t count as cyborgs those of us who wear pacemakers or go to dialysis. Nor do they count those of us kept alive by machines, those of us made ambulatory by wheelchairs, those of us on biologics or antidepressants. They want us shiny and metallic and in their image.”

― Alice Wong, Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-first Century

haaattee that ✨ is associated with ai. that’s my emoji, not urs. you’re NOT whimsy.