Good morning lovely people of Mastodon. Have a most wonderful day and remember to be kind.
We were supposed to get heavy rain and storms in the last days. Nada. A little rain teased us for a while, but that's it. No storms. Hopefully they will still get here, or I will feel cheated. #Today#Life#JoinIn#Weather#Kindness
Hello fellow Mastodonians, I hope the day is your best day, and that you are calm and happy.
We are bracing for thunder and heavy rain from lunchtime, for the rest of the day. But at the moment, it is warm and humid.
Share your kind nature around, it is infectious, make everyone catch it, so they will be kind too.
I feel like the forced birth pipeline starts very early - insisting that girls and women fit into gender norms and prioritize marriage and children above all else. Making them critical of their bodies and appearances to serve this purpose.
I even think transphobia is another manifestation of this - reducing people to their “biological” functions and using that to determine where in the societal hierarchy they fall. The same thing has been done with race time and time again.
This is why you can’t fall for what appear to be academic debates about “when life begins” and “are trans kids in sports getting an unfair advantage.” It’s never about those things at all, and in fact, those are deliberate, reasonable-sounding talking points generated to try to recruit more people to bigotry.
I like this insight, trying to put these individual issues into a more organized picture. I think Journalism needs to do more of this. Too much we cover each action and indignity as if it were some surprise, isolated, modular incident that is unrelated to all others. In doing so, we don't get the big picture. There is a LOT of that going on these days.
This work also resonates with an essay I wrote in 2012, "Language Defines Our Lives". It had gone offline when Salon magazine's Open Salon forum was retired, but it's available via the magic of the Internet Archive. I think you'll find it interesting and relevant.
Jupiter's moon Europa is believed to have a subsurface ocean and potentially the chemical ingredients to permit life. A landed mission to Europa is one of the top long-term aspirations of planetary science, to understand Europa's potential habitability and to seek signs of life.
Who knew that the key to lifting oneself out of #depression was by looking in one's junkmail. In the junk world: I'm getting packages every day, I have hard as a rock erections, sexy naked pictures of women to look at, and I've been approved for a tonne of different kinds of products/services! LMAO! If only my real #life was so exciting. #Internet#minutia#randomness#querky#funny
Back with you guys. Internet has been restored. I survived 2 days without it. Yes, 2 days! It was a nightmare. We are all so connected now, it seems impossible to live without connectivity. Everything we do is online.
Hope you guys are all doing well, and life is treating you well. Have a great day.
Fell down the rabbit hole of finding some new people to follow. The joy of discovering new accounts because of a boost of another is kinda great. Life doesn’t always permit the time to leisurely browse, but today it did.
New result from the Cassini spacecraft Cosmic Dust Analyzer
Evidence of phosphates in the subsurface ocean of Enceladus, an icy moon of Saturn, confirms that the water is alkaline. The finding provides clues about the geochemistry and origin of this moon and its ability to support life.
Very sad day. Our lovely dog Lola has been diagnosed with an inflammatory brain disease which has made her unable to use her back legs. Came on very suddenly. Am hoping medication will improve her condition and give her some quality of life. 😭 #dogs#life#love#photo
Good morning beautiful people. That means, all of you.
Another Friday has rushed around, and another weekend looms. I wish you Kindness, happiness and love.
Because someone else is not nice and kind, doesn't mean you need to be like them. We have to be the majority, if we want to make the World a better and happier place. Take care and have an awesome day.
Just read the #mangaI Sold My Life for 10,000 Yen per Year. Enjoyed its bittersweetness. I s'pose living every day as if it’s one of the last days of your life (as long it’s not actually so, unlike in the manga), through which you would (reasonably) prioritize yourself, could be a way to #happiness. Also, while real life is in the way (compelling the protagonist to make the choice to give up his life), #love did prevail (convincing others that Miyagi really exists). You should give it a read!
But one thing shocks me is how candid the depiction of #death in this work, where #life is not worth living if one cannot enjoy the present: the protagonist sold his remaining lifespan as he realized that work is fruitless. Nowadays, the lack of hope of a better future is driving many to spend all their money in a desperate attempt to live in the moment. For them, it’s a life well spent; but collectively, is that not a kind of slow-bleeding death? Must people resort to that to be #happy?
Following the #death spiral (pun intended), I then read the #manga (and then watched the #anime movie) of I Want to Eat Your Pancreas. The optimistic girl, realizing not having much time left, lived her remaining days by hanging out with the secluded boy, trying to understand him. Of course, ultimately #life is about surprises and the girl’s life ended unexpectedly, but the boy’s life was changed; now he and her best friend inherits her spirit. It’s hard to not cry at this masterpiece.
With Enceladus making the headlines for the detection, in data taken by the Cassini spacecraft Cosmic Dust Analyzer, of phosphates originating in its subsurface ocean, let's enjoy this 2015 Nature cover featuring some simulated eruptions from fractures in the moon's surface.