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I bet my body fucking hates it whenever I get a piercing. Poor thing is like HEY THERE’S A PUNCTURE WOUND. IN THE FACE. A FOREIGN OBJECT IN THE PUNCTURE WOUND. And I’m like oh yeah lmao I know, it’s there on purpose. THE FUCK YOU MEAN IT’S THERE ON PURPOSE?? Yeah I got it put there on purpose, just heal around it. THE FUCK YOU MEAN IT’S THERE ON PURPOSE. WHY IS THERE A PUNCTURE WOUND WITH AN OBJECT IN IT. ON PURPOSE.
And I’m like chill, it’s sterile, we’re gonna clean it twice a day so it won’t get infected. I DON’T FUCKING CARE THAT IT’S STERILE. And I’m like wow the fuck you mean you don’t care? Do you want it to get infected?
YOU KNOW WHAT WOULD ALSO MAKE IT NOT GET INFECTED? NOT. HAVING. WOUNDS. WITH. FOREIGN. OBJECTS. IN THEM.
fyi, if anyone has ever been interested in donating to doctors without borders, they are tripling the value of any donation received until may 15 (up to $500k)
In terms of science communication and space exploration advocacy, Elon Musk has sent us back into the fucking Stone Age.
It’s hard enough to encourage the public to see the value in space exploration, especially when the problems facing society right now are so intense that space exploration seems frivolous and needlessly expensive by comparison (keyword “seems”) but now that this clown is the face of the future of space, it’s doubling, hell, tripling down on the idea that space exploration is a fantasy for bored billionaires that would rather fuck off to mars and escape the problems of earthly society (problems that they had a starring role in creating) rather than spend a penny of their wealth to help remedy them. Tale as old as time for a science communicator. Heard it a million times. But now it’s so much harder to get people to understand the other side of the coin because the nightmare scenario is already here and his name is elongated muskrat
To add a little bit of context as to what that value actually is… The thing I hear the most in this conversation is “we need to take care of this planet before we start thinking about other ones.” Yes, I agree. The well-being of our planet and it’s people should be out top priority. But we can’t properly take care of our planet if we don’t fully understand it.
The Earth does not exist in a bubble. It’s part of a dynamic and ever-evolving solar system, and galaxy and universe. He have to look at the earth in that context to be able to know and care for it. To care for a planet, we have to know how planets work. When doctors treat patients they look at the medical record, they look at family history, they look at symptoms and compare them to known diseases to find a diagnosis.
How did the earth form? What was it like in the past? Why did it change? That’s the medical record.
We’ve got the earths siblings in the neighborhood. Why is Mars a frozen desert? Why is Venus a molten hell scape? Could those things happen here? That’s the family history.
What kinds of things are floating around our neighborhood? Could they affect us? All this is necessary to diagnose the Earths problem, to anticipate the direction it’s going, and to help it heal.
And the minute we get an asteroid scare, that’s when folks start asking why we weren’t looking up 🙄
As a science communicator at a well known establishment, 10000x this. We have a student program that talk about Earth systems and how missions like Landsat were so useful to understand our own planet better FROM SPACE. I could go on and on but just, like, reread OP’s thoughts, they’re perfect.
James Gunn used to say that what we as a species need is a populizer of science, a sort of science prophet
I’ve always believed that we need to encourage creative and critical thought and curiosity, to get everyone thinking about how best to make the world and the future better, to imagine how to build a place we can look forward to, that not only feels safe for our children to live in but something wonderful
foundational to thinking this way and actually building a better future for everyone is growing empathy in all of us. only by better understanding others can we truly create something better
we need to promote and popularize doing science, using the scientific method as an approach to life, empathizing with and feeling connected to every other living being, and always asking the next question is how we get there
let’s start now, okay? what with the brewing class war as the oligarchs try to take over everything and demolish the good systems we’ve developed (like democracy), the timing is growing desperate
The point of officially naming a pet is not to actually use that name but to have a baseline from which to come up with every conceivable nickname to call them instead.
You bury a seed not because it looks nice in the dirt, but because the limbs that branch out will look nice in the sky
Congrats on contributing to the ancient tumblr tradition of turning shitposts into profound poetry
I’m a simple bitch. i believe the purpose of government should be to improve the lives of its citizens and protect its most vulnerable members. unfortunately i live in a day and age where this gets me labeled an enemy of the state
I’m watching Splash (1984) which is a romcom about a guy who falls in love with a mermaid, and when she chooses a human name she chooses Madison and guy says “that’s not a real name, but alright” which seems to imply that Madison was not a name until at least the 80’s and all girls named Madison are actually named after the mermaid. thought you should know
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