truly insane how much of the past 3,000 years have been spent fighting over whose imaginary god friend is the best/most powerful…

human beings… room for improvement!!!

support your local nervous system!!

this is a life well lived.
this is what it’s all about.

“They’d never know that I was dreaming of becoming a professional ballet dancer. No one would think, Some day she’s going to make it into New York City Ballet,” says Ash.

dancemagazine.com/aesha-ash-ba...

For most of her career at the New York City Ballet she was the only African-American ballerina. Aesha retired from ballet in 2008 and started the Swan Dreams Project, a project that encourages African-American girls to become ballet dancers.

"Ballerina Aesha Ash wandering around inner city Rochester breaking the stereotypes about women of color and to inspire young kids."

OK GERTIE GOT MOVES!!!!

Most People Would Rather Die Than Think—In Fact, They Do.

Full Quote: "We all have a tendency to think that the world must conform to our prejudices. The opposite view involves some effort of thought, and most people would die sooner than think—in fact, they do so."

Bertrand Russell, 1925.

Gertie the dinosaur fuckin yeeeets this woolly mammoth in an early animation from the 1910s

EXPLOSION GANG!!!

1980s Carl Sagan: be careful America! Keep chopping down your attention spans and critical thinking skills and in a few generations youre gonna be cooked!!!”

2020s America: roasted toasted steamed broiled fried flambéed microwaved barbecued twice baked over easy with extra sauce

“One of the saddest lessons of history: If we've been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle…

It's simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we've been taken…

Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back.”

- Carl Sagan

my entire personality

So real

it's important to have role models!!!

This megatherium depiction always stuck with me too.

It reminds me of an anecdote Carl Sagan tells where he takes his son to the American Museum of Natural History and they reach the giant ground sloth, megatherium and his kid asks.

“Is that God?”

DIGGING UP THE PAST.

Full page of the original.

This was the book, I remember it vividly from elementary school.

GIANTS FROM THE PAST

This pic is from a paleontology book that came out in the early 1980s. I had it when I was a little boy in NH.

I remember seeing this woman and thinking thats who I wanna be when I grow up. She gets to study dinosaurs!!

Just found a copy of the book at the museum and it feels surreal.

We win! 🦖💖🦕

“People do not see you / They invent you and accuse you.”
― Hélène Cixous

TRUE TRANS TIMELINE

“The aim of Judith Butler’s ‘Who’s Afraid of Gender? (2024) is not to offer a new theory of gender but to examine how “gender” has become a phantasm for emerging authoritarian regimes, fascist formations, religious groups and trans-exclusionary feminists.”

Who’s Afraid of Gender (2024) discusses the conservative movement against transgender rights, abortion and feminism, which is coalesced under the "anti-gender movement".

Butler argues that the moment calls for solidarity between persecuted groups and a coalition of resistance.

"Hard times are coming, when we'll be wanting the voices of writers who can see alternatives to how we live now, can see through our fear-stricken society and its obsessive technologies to other ways of being, and even imagine real grounds for hope..."

Ursula K. Le Guin