Stardust

@brightstardust
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US’ian. Voted for Harris. Salty.

Profile pic is a lineup of companions in the video game Dragon Age Inquisition: Cole, Dorian, The Iron Bull, Sera, and Solas.

Header image is the Ukrainian flag, because I support Ukraine in their fight for survival and freedom.

“Women who carry water for the patriarchy just so they can have a slightly longer leash and stand a few rungs up in oppression from other women, particularly marginalized women, make me a special kind of angry. Being master's favorite dog is still having a master and being a dog.“
—Allison Floyd

#feminism #quotes #women #patriarchy #resistance

#Himalayas

Plants are climbing higher across the Himalayas as the climate warms

The upper edge of continuous plant growth has moved higher across every Himalayan region examined over the past 24 years, according to a new study

https://www.earth.com/news/plants-are-climbing-higher-across-the-himalayas-as-the-climate-warms/

#ClimateChange #GlobalWarming #UpheavalClimate #ClimateInstability #MassAtrocity #pollution #ecology #environment #climate

Plants are climbing higher across the Himalayas as the climate warms

Alpine vegetation across the Himalayas is shifting uphill as warming temperatures and changing snow patterns reshape mountain ecosystems.

Earth.com
"Parents rights" is code for "let shitty parents be as shitty as they want", now you know.
@Nickiquote
Kraft also makes a hazelnut chocolate spread with no palm oil. I use to buy it regularly and IMO it was way better than nutela.
Now that I'm low carb I make my own by processing roasted hazelnuts until smooth, then adding cocoa powder and a sweetener. Not as good but no sugar, no palm oil.

Before Computers Were Machines, They Were Women. Here Are Six Places Where Human Computers Built Modern Science

From AT&T to NASA, women working as computers performed the calculations that made modern science possible. In the early 1900s, computing joined teaching and nursing as one of the few careers open to college-educated women, and it opened doors that few other professions could

by Diana Turnbow

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/blogs/smithsonian-american-womens-history-museum/2026/04/06/before-computers-were-machines-they-were-womenhere-are-six-places-where-human-computers-built-modern-science/

#womeninstem #computerscience

"How many girls are riding their bikes to school?" is a better measure of a country's success than GDP.

It tells you about so much more; about access to education, gender equality, road safety, the environment...

#KiaTikaKiaPono

To the people complaining these sex abuse cases have created a world where men now have to think 10 times before they touch a woman.

Yes, that's the point.

It's called consent. Welcome to human decency.

Basically expecting right-wing Christians to care about Jesus or the bible is like expecting Freemasons to do your garden wall without charging you. Yes, it's in the name, but
just awoke suddenly from a dream in which they invented the walking avocado as a replacement for the horse. the sheer amount of column inches devoted to discussing the supposed energy efficiency savings was insane