I adopted twitter fairly recently, which perhaps makes it easier to leave. Mastodon feels far more comfortable to post pet pics, creative works and the like, and I invite all who are interested to find me there. I'll be checking in here to read until and unless it fades. Peace!
For #PhallusThursday one of the oldest depictions of a phallus, carved out of very fine-grained siltstone some 30,000 years ago.
According to the museum's label "apart from its purely symbolic meaning different uses are conceivable." ๐
On display at our branch museum...1/2
Ohhh, I can block the Twitter Blue reply guys all at once...they're always right at the top.
Hey! Hey...trans women are women! Climate change is caused by people! Healthcare is a human right! Birth control should be free and abortion should be legal!
Northwest Passage by the great Canadian songwriter Stan Rogers (1949 โ 1983). From the across the Atlantic on the west coast of Ireland, Happy Canada Day! ๐จ๐ฆ
It's Canada Day! ๐จ๐ฆ Except, conservative antivaxxers/freedom truckers have bastardized our beloved non-obnoxious flag by flying it from their vehicles all year long (flag poles are the only place where that is fine,) so I don't feel good about it anymore; here's a better version!
Part of Osteoarchaeology aka the thing I had to master to get my PhD in Palaeopathology is skeletal sex estimation. Which all TERFs think they are teh bestest at and in fact would fail at the undergraduate level.
Sooooo ....
It's a #SchulzTake ๐๐๐๐๐ฅฐ
Suuuure, go ahead & remove affirmative action.
AND remove legacy admissions.
And paid tuition.
And make all college acceptance done in a double-blind way, w/no identifiers.
And include free health insurance & transportation.
THEN I'll think your motivation is "equality."
The people of the Northeast are in a *good* mood today.
Typically on a long drive, Iโll get a couple confused/tentative honks for squid. Today Iโve had 4 extremely enthusiastic honkings. A Philadelphia man, a car full in NJ, a couple in CT, & just now a Mass duo. Love it!