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“Judith Love Cohen, who helped create the Abort-Guidance System which rescued the Apollo 13 astronauts, went to work on the day she was in labor. She took a printout of a problem she was working on to the hospital. She called her boss and said she finished the problem and gave birth to actor Jack Black.
"Judith Love Cohen was, at various times in her fascinating life, an engineer who worked on the Pioneer, Apollo, and Hubble missions, an author & publisher of books about women in STEM and environmentalism in the 90s, a ballet dancer with the New York Metropolitan Opera Ballet Company, an advocate for better treatment of women in the workplace, and actor Jack Black’s mother. From an obituary written by her son Neil Siegel after her death in 2016:
“'My mother usually considered her work on the Apollo program to be the highlight of her career. When disaster struck the Apollo 13 mission, it was the Abort-Guidance System that brought the astronauts home safely. Judy was there when the Apollo 13 astronauts paid a "thank you” [visit] to the TRW facility in Redondo Beach.‘”
“She finished her engineering career running the systems engineering for the science ground facility of the Hubble Space Telescope.
"During her engineering career, she was a vigorous and tireless advocate of better treatment for women in the workplace. Many things that today we consider routine - the posting of job openings inside of a company so that anyone could apply, formal job descriptions for every position, and so forth - were her creations. She had a profound impact on equality in the workforce.
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Chinese retail site Shein recently faced criticism for offering Palestinian flags for sale at £4.25, while a search for the Israel flag yielded a broken link.[…]
Moreover, all free deliveries to Israel have been canceled.
lol
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Hey, if you’re a minor and you’re following my blog, I just need you to be aware:
You have been on this earth for fewer years than my cat has.
She turns 20 this week, everyone please say happy birthday 🥳💖
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erté in the dress: 100 ideas that changed fashion forever - marnie fogg (2014)
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bonerpill-deactivated20230602:
no no, I know what you’re thinking but it’s actually amazingly great, keep watching.
Oh wow did not see that coming
The kind of public service announcements humans SHOULD be watching.
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“he’s a beefcake and a nerd, you know damn well his focus is solely on you and how you feel. he’d probably buy you food after too”
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“he’s a beefcake and a nerd, you know damn well his focus is solely on you and how you feel. he’d probably buy you food after too”
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Look. Politicians. I’m gonna be real with you. If you want people to make more babies you need to make the work week shorter and minimum wage higher.
You don’t need to be wealthy and never busy or whatever to raise kids but ideally or arguably at bare minimum you do need the time to find someone to boink and the income to have at least a 2 bedroom apartment. And currently a large chunk of having child age people do not have either of those things.
People don’t have the time to be making babies. People who would happily have four kids can’t afford the space or childcare. People who would want to be homemakers and stay at home parents need to be working as well as their partner to feed two people let alone three to six.
I wanna have kids someday. Idk when I’ll have the money for a big enough apartment, potential adoption or fertility clinic costs, healthcare for dependents, childcare, etc.
Why aren’t young people having children? Uh, how? In this economy?
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🐱 What are their names??
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At a party and a guy was telling me about how one of his coworkers was complaining about how he thought his dealer was lacing his heroin with cocaine and then the party guy was like “but his dealer was his brother” and I said “that’s some cocaine and abel shit” and the joke flopped so hard but I stand by it so I had to share it somewhere
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That last comment isn’t even a joke they are literally part of the Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors group.
these same ppl are working RIGHT NOW to stop us from doing anything to stop fossil fuel use and slow global warming!
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