Emma Smith @greenestbeancreations@mastodon.art

♲ @diane_a@pluspora.com:

❝Since her death in 1979, the woman who discovered what the universe is made of has not so much as received a memorial plaque. Her newspaper obituaries do not mention her greatest discovery. […] Every high school student knows that Isaac Newton discovered gravity, that Charles Darwin discovered evolution, and that Albert Einstein discovered the relativity of time. But when it comes to the composition of our universe, the textbooks simply say that the most abundant atom in the universe is hydrogen. And no one ever wonders how we know.❞ — Jeremy Knowles, discussing the complete lack of recognition Cecilia Payne gets, even today, for her revolutionary discovery. (via alliterate)

OH WAIT LET ME TELL YOU ABOUT CECILIA PAYNE

• Cecilia Payne won a scholarship to Cambridge.

• Cecilia Payne completed her studies, but Cambridge wouldn’t give her a degree because she was a woman, so she said to heck with that and moved to the United States to work at Harvard.

• Cecilia Payne was the first person ever to earn a Ph.D. in astronomy from Radcliffe College, with what Otto Strauve called “the most brilliant Ph.D. thesis ever written in astronomy.”

• Not only did Cecilia Payne discover what the universe is made of, she also discovered what the sun is made of (Henry Norris Russell, a fellow astronomer, is usually given credit for discovering that the sun’s composition is different from the Earth’s, but he came to his conclusions four years later than Payne — after telling her not to publish).

• Cecilia Payne is the reason we know basically anything about variable stars (stars whose brightness as seen from earth fluctuates). Literally every other study on variable stars is based on her work.

• Cecilia Payne was the first woman to be promoted to full professor from within Harvard and the first woman to head a science department at Harvard. She also inspired entire generations of women to take up science.

• Cecilia Payne is awesome and everyone should know her.

Just wanted to say that I admire and love people who openly ask for mutual aid. You are taking care of yourself and your loved ones by admitting you need help and asking for it in a culture that heavily shames and discourages it, and you honor people with your trust in their goodwill.

Did you know that the Metropolitan Museum has a huge online collection of art that's in the public domain, that you can browse through and download high res versions of?

Here are some examples of the things you can find there!

https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search#!?searchField=All&showOnly=openAccess&sortBy=Relevance&offset=0&pageSize=0

#MastoArt #ArtReference #CC0 #PublicDomain

Communist wife, communist life

Just because they provide you with the means to live doesn't mean they have the right to do whatever they like to you. Your consent or lack thereof, desire, will, thoughts and feelings still matter.

€65 per month is nothing to support a community of thousands of artists, but it is a lot for one person to afford. And that's where we have to ask all of you for help!

We have two places where you can donate to •ART:

https://www.patreon.com/mastodonart
https://liberapay.com/Curator/

Forgot to make this public...

Need Feedback / One Handed Typing / Accessibility / Disability / Injury

A post looking for help related to accessible keyboards is over at : https://pleroma.kemonine.info/notice/A4MzM0rF8HFCmCOXvk

Could use some feedback from folks

Sunny is a Black Trans Disabled Person who is seeking Housing due to their sublet being up soon. They are looking to raise $700 in funds for a deposit to move.

Venmo @salmations
Cashapp: $mxsunny
PayPal.me/SamMarksPa
#MutualAid @mutualaid

Hey folks, the DWP have reduced our benefits again, so if you'd like to help a trans disabled couple survive, please retweet and consider donating if you can. Thank you! https://ko-fi.com/A231B07

The Gender Census is now at 23,600 responses, ish.

Only 12% of respondents are 31 or older. The best ways to share the survey link to catch the attention of the 31+ crowd are Facebook and one-on-one sharing. Can anyone post the link on Facebook? :)

https://www.smartsurvey.co.uk/s/GenderCensus2021/

A Black Jewish non-binary person needs to raise $3,000 more in February to pay their bills

https://twitter.com/thespinsterymc/status/1361150970621808645?s=19

Cash app: $ymcmedia
Venmo: ym-carrington
PayPal: spinsterymc

#transcrowdfund

✨ Request ✨

I've started my Master, my research question so far surrounds the idea of what electronic platforms add to the portrayal of queer bodies as others, often intermingling with beastly and monstrosity metaphors (often very positively)

I want to find queer creators of electronic art with a focus on body or emotional experiences. Twine hypertext, games, bots, poetry online, even twitter feeds or instagram.

If you wanna talk then DM or email ceciliewriteswords@gmail.com

Sailor Moon says

I don't trust celebrities, and it's hard to take people seriously who do trust them.