"I Jiggle, Therefore I Am" Is My New Life Motto

I dunno man, I just think the constant harping about how trans men's bodies are ruined and infertile is, like, bad.

I'm less concerned about their ability to have babies than I am about them developing permanent disabilities, or being in constant pain, or becoming incontinent.

Do you want to know what is scary? The fact that, in all of the observable universe, there is a single place where there is NOTHING. Literally NO. THING. And it looks like this. Say hello to “Bootes Void.” 250 million light years of literal nothingness. THIS is horror.

Top 10 Largest Moons In The Solar System: Ganymede, Titan, Callisto, Io, Moon, Europa, Triton, Titania, Rhea & Oberon.

Image credit: Kevin Gill /Joseph Brimacombe /Stuart Rankin

An Ode to the flesh that houses me!

How close is Jupiter to being a star ? 

In an interesting article, Astronomy.com ponders how close is Jupiter to being a star, and could it maybe one day become on. 

When it comes to stars, Mass is all that matters (there’s a joke hidden in that statement, groan !!) 

A star becomes a star when the pressure at the centre caused by gravity is sufficient to fuse Hydrogen, and as it turns out, the mass of Jupiter is about 85 times less than the mass required to cause that kind of fusion to occur. 

So, unless Jupiter finds 85 times it’s mass and obtains it, it’s nowhere near the size needed to become a star, and is very unlikely to ever be so.

There is however a middle way, because it turns out that Hydrogen as H2 isn’t the first thing to begin fusing, H3 (deuterium) can begin to fuse at much lower pressures, around 13 times the mass of Jupiter. 

If this did happen, it would make Jupiter a brown dwarf, but again, 13 times it’s current total mass is unlikely to happen. 

https://astronomy.com/magazine/ask-astro/2020/10/ask-astro-could-jupiter-ever-become-a-star

My mom sent me photos of my great-great grandmother. I asked “wasn’t this when women were only allowed to wear dresses?” And my mom said “she did whatever she wanted to do. She was wild”

One of my favourite twitter trending topics I’ve seen in a while: #GirlsWithToys.

This came as a response to an Astronomer’s remarks that Scientists are ‘boys with toys’.

Glad to see such a strong response from the women of STEM. :)

Kitty Tsui

A woman isn’t a doll by Julia Tsvetkova

real women have body hair – and it’s normal real women have periods – and it’s normal real women have body fat – and it’s normal real women have imperfect skin – and it’s normal real women have wrinkles and grey hair – and it’s normal real women have muscles – and it’s normal

On 20 November 2019 Russian activist, artist and feminist  Julia Tsvetkova was arrested and put on house arrest two days later, charged with “production and dissemination of pornographic materials”. She was also accused of spreading “homosexual propaganda” to minors, and was later fined.

On 9 June, prosecutors confirmed that Tsvetkova was still due to stand trial, provoking real life protests and online outrage. Tsvetkova would be forced to answer for several cartoonish drawings of naked women  with captions that read “Real women have body fat – and it’s normal” or “Real women have wrinkles and grey hair – and it’s normal”.

If convicted, Julia faces prison terms up to 6 years. 

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