“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

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

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.