solient

@solient.bsky.social

40+ Transfeminine author and artist. 🏳️‍⚧️ FFXIV, medication management, trauma recovery. Reskeets an unhealthy amount of politics and a healthy amount of smut. https://archiveofourown.org/users/solient https://patreon.com/solient

Needing some help. My wife was admitted to the hospital for a stomach condition; my ability to work is scanty but need to raise some funds before our car gets repossessed (8/7) and our internet canceled (8/10); if anyone has anything to spare it would be most helpful 💙 ___ ko-fi.com/riendonut/go...

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this trens of carflation is not even new - Nader hit on the same point in Unsafe at Any Speed, which is over sixty years old now it took regulatory action to solve it then, it'll take the same to solve it now

And the KIDS Act, please call about the KIDS Act too! Don't let anyone tell you your voice doesn't matter, we can fend this off as many times as we need 🙏 Thanks again guys you are genuinely so cool

People kicked off about medical trials on non consenting research subjects and eventually we won the helsinki declaration on medical ethics. There's no cop in the world in charge of enforcing the helsinki declaration. It's just a formalisation of the idea that you need medical consent for research.

Everybody warned me that as I got old I would have a harder time recognizing the world around me but I thought that would happen in actual old age, not when I was 38 fucking years old.

Something I think those of us who grew up in 90s or earlier are going to have to internalize — and will always struggle to remember — is that US voters no longer accept the fiction that politics is a contest between liberal and conservative ideas, rather than faction-based culture war by other means

“Is there anyone who thinks we should start using letters in our counting, and if so how should we start?” Guy who invented Roman numerals: “Well, I for one.”

The Boeing Integrated Manned Interplanetary Spacecraft (IMIS) was a 1968 design for a Mars mission. Boeing estimated that this design could launch its first mission in 1985. It would use five NERVA rocket stages, each fired and discarded throughout the 460 day flight.

IMIS, a long rocket-like spaceship