only just remembered the conversation I had with the person who said they couldn’t read anything written by a lesbian because they were a bisexual and it would be seen as infiltrating a space that wasn’t intended for them and wasting resources that weren’t theirs to use and they were terrified of getting in Trouble.

“why are people afraid to read theory and history” the answers are sadder and more frightening than anything you can imagine

Once I was pottering around here on Tumblr and I stumbled across some random girl's blog and her pinned post was a multiple-paragraph tearful confession that she's fallen in love with a man and now identifies as bisexual so she'll be removing herself from her lesbian online community and she's so so sorry for the harm she's caused by violating their safe space as a non-lesbian, she genuinely didn't know, she thought she was a lesbian until this man came along and she's so sorry for accidentally deceiving the community and making them unsafe.

I think about that poor, poor girl a lot, and hope she found a healthier community.

Fun fact: the guys at our college’s geology department prop out the doors with their samples. I totally understand why but as someone whose work with samples is necessarily super delicate and sterile it fucks me up so bad

lol idk if you watch nautilus live at all but watching them process bio & geo samples side by side evokes exactly this Thing (the descriptions are gold too… “here are the 30 steps we use to preserve bio samples, and as for rocks, well, we let them dry, bag them, & put them in the Rock Box)

Good to know there’s enough Biologist Salt™ to go around

Paleontologists occupy a weird and highly uncomfortable slice of this Venn Diagram

in my own experience with geology most precautions with samples are to preserve the life and safety of the geologist, most of the rocks are fine. 

i am continually reminded of one of my colleagues, who wanted to collect a sample of gypsum on a field excursion but was too lazy to take off his backpack and get his rock hammer. so he said “eh, it’s soft enough” just fucking punched the rock until a piece fell off like it was fucking minecraft

Misty bank

"jerk off instructions" ... dont make me laugh, kid. i know what im doing

i had a dream where tornadoes were made illegal or something i just remember like a dozen police cars driving directly toward a tornado with their sirens on and all getting sucked into the tornado

"Adulting" is such a juvenile word we should give it a more dignified suffix. How about "Adultery"

Throwback Thursday: a helpful chart describing the major behaviors of dragons I made when I was 7

10/10 this rules

official dragon post