Today, I survived death once again…
I had only gone out to bring some food for my family, when a missile struck near a charity kitchen. In just a second, I could have been another name on the list of martyrs.We live in tents. No safety, no enough food, no clean water. We die on the way to find a meal… and we die if we go without it.
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
30 days of continuous and permanent closure of the crossings in all directions, 30 days without a single morsel of food entering Gaza, 30 days of famine and the return of genocide
Eid has come to the Gaza Strip, but the Israeli aggression has not ended. The occupation is still practicing ethnic cleansing against us and our children. The situation here is catastrophic. Please continue to help.
captured from an ambulance. captured. from an ambulance. do not stop speaking about palestine please
Bro absolutely COOKED with this.
If you listen to this testimony you'll understand why documenting sexual violence against women in Palestinian society is not as heavily talked about as sexual violence against men. A lot of women are told/pressured not to say anything if they are sexually assaulted by Israelis because of the social implications against themselves and the male members of the family.
Sometimes women are not allowed to leave their villages without men in Palestine, like my grandmother couldn't leave without her dad or brother while she was in Palestine but outside it she freely came and went where ever. My other grandma left her village and studied as a nurse in Palestine but only because she was with her sisters and brother. Even in the 90's my mom, who freely went out of Amman and even dormed outside of Amman, where her parents lived, she had to go with her younger brother to visit Jerusalem (the only time she ever went to Palestine as an adult) because her family was so scared she would be in danger from Israelis.
Like it's an unspoken knowledge that Israelis can and will sexually assault you at checkpoints or just randomly and no one even cared for 75 years, which is why talking about how israelis face sexual assault from Palestinians is so bewildering because it's like a complete reversal of reality. Even my parents are worried to let me visit Palestine with an American passport because they dont want something to happen to me at a checkpoint. It's so shocking to me that no one cares about the sexual violence Palestinians face when it permeates literally every aspect of Palestinian society.
The war has returned, and death once again claims the souls of Gaza, as if pain never leaves, and life refuses to grant it justice.
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this is mohammeds new fundraiser, please support him and his family if you can, israel is bombing gaza again
Yesterday, they almost took my cousin. A bunch of armed men came into my aunts house, and forced him to show them his passport.
His luck is that he isnt an alawite. Otherwise he might have been shot, just like many others have been.
But others in my family ARE alawites. My other cousins, my uncle. They are afraid, they cant leave the house.
And the syrians in europe are celebrating their new *freedomn*. Look at whats happening and tell me that is freedomn.
This whole thread is horrifying
This sounds like a shitpost but people should be allowed to be horny. As in, sexuality is just part of life for most people and there’s no reason for consensual sexual behavior to be punished. A celebrity getting “caught” at a sex club shouldn’t be a scandal. No one should be fired for having a fetlife profile outside of work. Nudes getting leaked shouldn’t be career-ending. Denying and hiding (consensual) sexual interests doesn’t make anyone more professional, it just makes everyone more repressed. And sterilizing ourselves to be better work drones isn’t productive, it’s just creepy. I’d rather my surgeon get absolutely railed on camera and come to work in a good mood, frankly.
I would play the shit out of this.
Please support this game! I've been following it forever and the developers obviously put a lot of love into finally repping my people as Not Just Generic Bad Guys To Be Slaughtered in QuickTime Events, but the unabashed horse girls we truly are. I really love how outspoken she is about representing proper care and compassion for these animals in the industry too.
Found it! Reblogging to kickstart when I’m at my laptop.
Rachel Corrie, an American citizen, was murdered, repeatedly run over by a bulldozer as she stood in defense of Palestinians.
Her family was threatened and anyone who spoke about her was smeared as an antisemite including Alan Rickman who wrote and directed a play about her.
To this day she is remembered and honoured as a martyr in Palestine.
While, at the time, her death was mocked in Israel by putting her face on pancakes.
There is a street named for her in Ramallah. The Palestinian people will never forget her.
If anyone is interested, I just found this foundation that looks like it was created by her parents and talks a little about her life and shares some of her emails and stuff. Since I just found the foundation, I don't know much about it but I thought people might be interested.
Don’t forget that the supreme court of israel declared her death was an “accident” on August 28th 2012. And cleared the murderer of all charges.
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The rain is falling now, pray for us my friends that it does not penetrate our torn tent, my children are asleep, please, and donate to us to fix it, please
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I'll never get enough of ethel cain @mothercain
this is so sick, omg
They are feeling more empowered so keep a watchful eye on who is around you.
For those wondering what each one is (Left to Right, Top to Bottom):
He's also the former US Secretary of Labor and served in the administrations of multiple US presidents but yes, he is the father of sam reich game changer man
#im sorry was no one gonna tell me Sam Reich Game Changer is the son of the former US Secretary of Labor#not to take away from the initial message (even though like yeah we been known)#but like that feels like information tumblr would be more forthcoming with in their praise of that show
Why do you think the dropout cast all joke about him being a nepo baby?
The reason he's the CEO of dropout is because when collegehumor was dying and the cast all wanted to keep working together and having fucking jobs, he was the only one in a mass of starving artists who could afford to buy and try to resuscitate it. That was a massive financial risk and the fact that it seems to be working is nothing short of a miracle. Everyone thank former US Secretary of Labor and general champion of worker's rights Robert Reich for raising a son with financial security.
For raising a son with financial security and a drive to get other people financial security too.
Sam is the guy that capitalists want to pretend Elon Musk is when they talk about "job creators"
PS: @samreich and @robertreich are both here on Tumblr, which also says something good (also @dropoutdottv )
