This isn't a callout, more a subtle problem I've seen in queer/t4t/lesbian spaces. They tend to really look down on people who are attracted to men, especially cishet men, because of their own personal baggage with specific cishet men.
I know for me, discovering my bisexuality was about unpacking compulsive queerness; being surrounded by mostly lesbian transfems does weird stuff to one's brain. Yes I am actually attracted to men. No that's not a bad thing and I shouldn't feel weird about it. I can be queer in a straight relationship and its honestly really validating (trans-wise) when it happens. Bi/Pan is just as valid a sexuality as lesbian/straight :heart_bi: :heart_pan:
@AnarchoCatgirlism honestly for me it's mostly that I just don't think at this point I am able to trust and open up to someone who lacks the understanding of my experiences and struggles. That mutual "yeah, I know" is something that feels very important to me, at least rn.
I don't mean that I look down on people dating men or cis men or whoever. I try not to. It's just a bit foreign to me and I can't relate to that :c
@AnarchoCatgirlism in general I think the broader queer community can have an issue with anti maleness tbch. Like I am not going to act like there aren’t issues with masculinity in our society but folks can be incredibly aggressive with it. I get that people have trauma but I don’t think it is ever valid to just alienate people for things they don’t have power over. Like if a man isn’t shitty they are treated as a needle in the haystack or have their gender questioned. Personally I think that if we really think that gender is something that one can’t control then we need to stop judging people based on it and point to the things that are actually wrong.
In the US (and probably elsewhere), many mental health hotlines will call the police if a situation rises to crisis levels. Often that makes things much, much worse for hopefully obvious reasons. This acts as a deterrent for marginalized groups in need, and often we don't call for help even when we should because we're scared of the cops.
Here are mental health hotlines that do not involve the police. Please call if you need to ❤️
Don’t fuck with moon dust. No seriously, do not fuck with moon dust.
Absent any moisture or atmosphere, millennia of asteroid impacts have turned lunar regolith (soil) into a fine powder of razor sharp, glass-like particles. What’s more, the solar wind imparts an electric charge on the dust, causing it to cling to any and every surface it touches through static electricity. On earth, sand tends to get smoother over time as wind and water tumble the grains about, eroding their sharpness. Not so on the moon – lunar dust is sharp and deadly. This is Not A Good Time if you’re an explorer looking to visit our celestial neighbor.
During Apollo, the astronauts faced a plethora of unexpected issues caused by dust. It clung to spacesuits and darkened them enough that exposure to sunlight overheated the life support systems. Dust got in suit joints and on suit visors, damaging them. It ate away layers of boot lining. It covered cameras. Upon returning to the cabin, astronauts attempting to brush it off damaged their suit fabric and sent the dust airborne, where it remained suspended in the air due to low gravity.
Inhaling moon dust causes mucus membranes to swell; every Apollo astronaut who stepped foot on the moon reported symptoms of “Lunar Hay Fever.” Sneezing, congestion, and a “smell of burnt gunpowder” took days to subside. Later Apollo missions even sent a special dust brush with the team to help clean each other and equipment. We don’t know exactly how dangerous the stuff is, but lunar regolith simulants suggest it might destroy lung and brain cells with long-term exposure. 1
In fact the dust is so nasty that it destroyed the vacuum seals of sample return containers. We no longer have any accurate samples of lunar dust, “Every sample brought back from the moon has been contaminated by Earth’s air and humidity […] The chemical and electrostatic properties of the soil no longer match what future astronauts will encounter on the moon.” 2
Whats worse, the solar-charged dust gets thrown up off the moon’s surface via electrostatic forces. The moon doesn’t technically have an atmosphere, but it does have a thin cloud of sharp dust itching to cling to anything it can find.
And it probably isn’t just the moon. “A 2005 NASA study listed 20 risks that required further study before humans should commit to a human Mars expedition, and ranked "dust" as the number one challenge.” 3
The coolest solution I’ve heard about in next-gen spacesuit design is a mesh of woven wires layered into the suit. When activated, the wire mesh would form an anti-static electric field that repels dust. Quite literally a force field. 4 #astronomy#apollo#moon#lunardust
Hate youtube? You can download any video via cli using https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp. Its got a ton of other options too 😄 Default syntax: yt-dlp <video_url></video_url>
@AnarchoCatgirlism personally I dont use twitter, but my fiance does to keep up with things that dont post elsewhere and I learned that it can download twitter videos without having to pay or make an account.