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i’m obsessed with how every single person can be stupid in their own special way and infinitely smart in another. simultaneously

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I was more or less stunned by what had happened. I had been prepared for criticism and ridicule - I was accustomed to them. But it had never occurred to me that people might want to hound and persecute me for my change in role. I had lived as a woman because that was my social standing, and had been made fun of and called 'half-man', and now when I had faced the situation and righted the grotesquely false position in which I had lived so long, it seemed that the public would damn me because I had once, perforce [by force, by necessity], worn skirts. I tried to get other hospital work. I went to the men who had been my chiefs and told them the truth and asked their aid in securing another position; to a man they turned me down. I tried to get other sorts of work and failed tor the same reason as soon as I gave my name. Then my family employed counsel and instituted proceedings to have my name legally changed; and the medical school from which I had been graduated served notice on us that if we persisted they would rescind my diploma and have me disbarred from practice.

— excerpt from Letter from Alan Hart to Mary Roberts Rinehart, August 3, 1921, on the subject of his transition from female to male and the impact of being publicly outed by a woman who recognized him. Alan Hart was one of the first men to get a hysterectomy in the US, and pioneered the use of X-rays in the diagnosis of tuberculosis, which ended up being crucial to treatment as the disease was asymptomatic early on.

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I've been thinking about this all day.

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absolutely amazing things happening right now. I had to triple check that these were real

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https://abcnews.go.com/US/scientists-confirmed-existence-200-million-year-species-thought/story?id=122773046&cid=social_twitter_abcn

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I'm begging you to turn the sound on

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it’s quick, it’s easy and it’s free:  pouring river water in your socks

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giant redwood trees really are so cool, they just have something incredibly special going on. it's hard to describe if you haven't seen them

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what the fuck

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so true

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The Great Torc from Snettisham, England dated from 100 BCE on display at the British Museum in London, England

This torc is one of the most elaborate golden objects from the ancient world. It is made gold mixed with silver and weighs over 1 kg.

Torcs are made from complex threads of metal, grouped into ropes and twisted around each other. The ends of the torc were cast in moulds and welded onto metal ropes.

Photographs taken by myself 2016