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[Lien @Jacksonsrule]

March 25, 1911.Frances Perkins watched 146 women jump from ninth-floor windows. The Triangle Factory doors were locked-owners wanted to prevent "theft." The women had two choices: burn or jump. The sound of
bodies hiing pavement repeated over and over. She stood there and made a promise: never again. Twelve years later, she became first woman in a presidential Cabinet. She built the laws that gave you weekends, overtime pay, Social Security. Every protection you have at work exists because one woman watched people die and spent
54 years making sure it never happened again. Remember her: Frances Perkins.

[么 ꜱ ᴀ ᴍ ꪜ, @___TheGOOdWitch]

"it's a woman's choice"

PERIOD!!!

[͏b͏l͏a͏n͏c @dqveed]

notice how the bear realized she wasn't interested and left her alone without calling her an ugly bitch

[rose @wynrosei]

Do you realize how badly you have to treat a mammal to stop it from reproducing?

[Sarah Ironside 💙 @SarahIronside6]

Oh, so a rapist can impregnate a woman against her will and then legally kill her if she tries to get an abortion. Republicans hate women.

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

Finnish scientists trucked in real forest dirt and grass and laid it over the gravel at four daycare yards. They let the kids dig around in it for a month. The blood tests came back with changes the researchers hadn’t expected to see so fast or so clear.

The study ran at ten daycares in two Finnish cities with 75 kids aged three to five. Four of the yards got the forest treatment: about a tennis court worth of soil and grass laid over the gravel, plus planters and peat blocks the kids could dig and climb on. Three others stuck with their normal gravel yards. The last three were daycares where the kids were already visiting real forests every day.

After one month, the variety of bacteria living on the kids’ skin shot up, and the kind that helps train the skin’s immune defenses jumped the most. Their gut bacteria started to look like the gut bacteria of the forest-visiting kids. Their blood showed more of the immune cells whose job is to keep the body from freaking out at harmless stuff like pollen and peanuts, and overall inflammation dropped. The kids on the plain gravel yards showed none of this.

Childhood asthma in the US doubled between 1980 and 1995. Food allergies in kids jumped 50 percent between 1997 and 2011, then jumped another 50 percent between 2007 and 2021. And peanut allergies in one-year-olds tripled between 2001 and 2017.

The Finnish researchers think one of the reasons is simple: kids today don’t get dirty enough. 37 percent of American preschoolers now spend an hour or less outside on a normal weekday. Their immune systems are getting trained in environments stripped of the bacteria humans have always lived around.

Aki Sinkkonen, who led the study, put it in plain words: “It would be best if children could play in puddles and everyone could dig organic soil.” The Finnish government is now helping pay for daycares across the country to make the same changes.

[Alex Veremeyenko @alex_verem]

Let me trace the timeline here because nobody's connecting it.

Step 1: Scrape the entire internet. Every book, every article, every conversation, every piece of art, every forum post. Do it without asking. Do it without paying.

Step 2: Train a model on all of it. Call it "artificial intelligence."

Step 3: Go to BlackRock's Infrastructure Summit and announce: "We see a future where intelligence is a utility, like electricity or water, and people buy it from us on a meter."

Step 3 is where you sell people's own knowledge back to them. On a meter.

They took the collective output of human thought, compressed it into a model, and now they want to charge you by the token to access a version of what you and everyone you know already created.

One Reddit user put it perfectly: "They stole all this data from us, the people, our life's work, creativity, art, by devouring the internet and blowing through all copyright laws. Now they want to sell it back to us in the form of a utility."

Imagine if someone photocopied every book in the public library, burned the library down, and then opened a subscription service for the copies.

That's the metered intelligence business model.

And they're pitching it to infrastructure investors as though they invented water.

[✧ @cessonmute]

Leave girls alone. Leave women alone. Let us exist without harassment, enjoy things without mockery, succeed without resentment, and live without constant disrespect.

[goma @soigomaa]

A bird has never paid rent to live in the sky. A tree has never paid to stand in a forest. The sun has never been charged for rising. The river has never paid to flow.
Yet humans spend their whole lives trying to earn permission to exist on earth

[Jill Filipovic @JillFilipovic]

Teen births are way down. Unintended pregnancy rates have also dropped substantially, especially among teenagers and women in their early 20s. By contrast, intended pregnancies among women in their late 30s and 40s have jumped to record highs. More women are using contraception, so they’re having children when they want them. More women are delaying having children because more of them are finishing high school, going to college, and working for pay. They can afford to be pickier about partners, and so divorce rates are down, too.

THIS IS ALL GOOD.

[goma @soigomaa]

we live on a planet where trees warn each other of danger through a fungal network. Where octopuses dream.
Where elephants return to the bones of the deceased and stand over them in silence. Where bees use dance to communicate where to fly and where the flower is.
Where crows remember the faces of people who were cruel to them and pass this memory to their children.
Where ants build cities. Where cats purr at a frequency that accelerates the healing of bones.
Where, after a forest fire, the first thing the earth does is grow flowers.

[Meidas_Charise Lee @charise_lee]

@ashleytheebarroness #ashleytheebarroness
“Once you understand harm reduction, you start seeing it everywhere. Not as approval not as perfection sometimes people are just trying to keep each other alive while systems fail them.”

[Liz Is Amused @lizisamused]

The main reason I never wanted to be a SAHM: the women in my family & neighborhood were.

And they... never really got time off.

After work, the dads would hit the gym or a sport or the bar with their buddies or the TV. The wives would cook & watch the kids.

On weekends, the moms would still cook, clean, do laundry, take the kids to extracurriculars (the dads did often join for this at least), run errands, & watch the kids. The dads would golf or fish or play more sports or watch movies.

On holidays, the moms would plan & host the events & cook & clean up while the men watched football.

It just always seemed like such a raw deal to me. There were exceptions to this rule, but they were *exceptions*.

The weird myth was that the men were sparing the women from work, but the exact opposite seemed true: the women worked *more*. They didn't get weekends or holidays off.

Even once the kids were in school, most moms I knew volunteered at the kids' schools.

And it was so weird when guys joked their wives were balls & chains when the women were chained up harder than the men ever were 🤷🏻‍♀️

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

Grow up watching your parents fight, and by age 12 your brain looks like a soldier's coming home from war. The same alarm circuits keep firing whenever someone gets angry near you. None of these kids were diagnosed with anything. Their brains had already changed.

Scientists at University College London scanned 43 kids in 2011. Twenty had documented family violence at home. When the researchers showed them photos of angry faces, the danger-detection parts of their brains fired exactly like they do in combat soldiers. The kids' brains had quietly learned, before they could put it into words, that anger means danger and danger can come from anywhere in the room.

That study was about violence. But Martin Teicher's lab at Harvard's McLean Hospital has spent decades showing yelling alone does similar damage. Verbal abuse from parents physically changes the parts of the brain that handle language and sound. The long-term hit on adult mental health is about the same as being hit, or watching one of your parents get hit.

And this is common. In 2024, UNICEF estimated 400 million kids under 5, about 6 in 10 globally, regularly face violent discipline at home: yelling, hitting, or both. In a Portuguese study of more than 5,000 ten-year-olds, 57.7% reported a household member regularly shouting or yelling at them. It was the single most common bad thing in their lives.

Teicher's team also found that the brain's memory and stress center physically shrinks by about 6% in young adults who were maltreated as kids. Vietnam combat veterans with chronic PTSD show roughly the same drop, about 8%, in the same area.

The damage doesn't stay in the lab. The CDC's most recent youth survey linked 89% of teen suicide attempts and 85% of teen suicidal thoughts to bad experiences before age 18.

But the same brain that absorbs fear can absorb safety. Romanian orphans moved into stable foster homes recovered real ground. Across decades, Teicher's research has shown that warm, predictable parenting physically builds up the part of the brain that helps a kid stay calm, and quiets the alarm system over time.

A child remembers the fights. They also remember who came back to fix things afterward. Both leave a mark.

[Yves ౨ৎ @yvessirae]

Unfortunately I think maturing as a woman is realising that misogyny is so ingrained in everything and quite literally impossible to avoid. It's in our media, it's in our light hearted conversations. It's in the expectation that your mum will have dinner ready. It's the man staring down your shirt on the train. It's in the jokes you overhear at the pub. It's that one line in your favourite TV show. It's your male relatives sitting down after Christmas dinner. It's the conversation you have with a 'well meaning' man at your hospitality job. We're tragically used to it.

[Kia 🧸ྀི @xevekiah]

hating cats is rooted in misogyny. ironic how dogs are “man’s best friend” but women who love cats are “crazy cat ladies.” Cats teach consent, boundaries, autonomy and love that is earned not entitled.

[goma @soigomaa]

Boys aren't raised to be men.They're raised to not be girls. That's the root of so much misogyny. Society doesn't teach boys empathy, emotional honesty, or respect for women as equals, it teaches them to suppress vulnerability, dominate,and fear anything "feminine." They're rewarded for aggression and punished for kindness. And when adulthood hits,these habits don't just vanish, they manifest as entitlement, objectification, and sexism.

[The Figen @TheFigen_]

This should be taught to all girls.

[PAYWALLMEN.COM @ICONOCLASTIAE]

The #1 cause of death for pregnant women is homicide.

Men kill more pregnant women than the top 3 obstetric causes combined.

It’s not “hating men” to cite this FACT.

[𝒶rα˚˖𓍢ִ໋ @yslmammi]

Unpopular opinion: Men are naturally more submissive then women. They make better soldiers bc of this. As women we make much better leaders. We don't navigate from our egos and we can listen, that's why we excel in law, art, teaching, business, engineering and healthcare