In the Seattle airport, every restroom I found was an all-gender restroom.

So I thought I’d share what it looks like, because exposure reduces fear.

This is an all-gender restroom. Pretty normal – except there were no queues like there always are for women’s restrooms. I washed my hands next to a male pilot. A mom and her kid were on the other side. Pretty ordinary. Not scary.

Each stall is a private room. There are no doors on either end that close off the coridor between toilet rooms and the row of sinks.

Parents can accompany children of any gender at any age, which feels safer for everyone and actually does a lot to protect kids.

(I’ve also been in restrooms like this in Scandinavia.)

I found it about as scary as standing in line for coffee next to a man.

This may be the most boring Substack post ever. Which is … Kind of the point.

I hope that in sharing what has been so vilified as scary I can dispel some of the fear that’s been whipped up. When women and SA survivors are told we are in danger before we even have a chance to assess a situation for ourselves, needless harm is done in exchange for political ideology.

Let’s keep calm and carry on …

(Tell me: are there gendered or neutral washrooms where you live?)

– Dr Deborah Vinall

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“Sonder — noun.

The realization that each random passerby is living a life as vivid and complex as your own – populated with their own ambitions, friends, routines, worries and inherited craziness – an epic story that continues invisibly around you like an anthill sprawling deep underground, with elaborate passageways to thousands of other lives that you’ll never know existed, in which you might appear only once, as an extra sipping coffee in the background, as a blur of traffic passing on the highway, as a lighted window at dusk.”

– John Koenig, The Dictionary Of Obscure Sorrows.

(https://everythingisamazing.substack.com/p/the-horror-of-mr-souths-brown-paper)

– Mike Sowden

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I love this ad! No wonder the establishment is shitting bricks 🧱 💩

– I Fucking Love Australia

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There’s something strangely beautiful about the Fibonacci sequence. 🌀✨

It starts incredibly simply:

0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34…

Each new number is created by adding the two numbers before it.

That’s it.

But from this tiny rule, something fascinating begins to emerge. As the sequence continues, the relationship between neighboring numbers gets closer and closer to the famous Golden Ratio — around 1.618. And this is where things get really interesting. 👀

Fibonacci-like patterns show up in the way sunflower seeds are arranged, in pinecones, flower petals, branching plants, and other natural growth patterns. 🌻🌿

Why?

Because nature often has to solve a simple problem: how do you grow, arrange, or pack things efficiently without wasting space? And surprisingly, patterns related to Fibonacci numbers can emerge from those simple growth rules. The sequence itself has been studied for centuries, yet it still feels almost magical:

Start with two tiny numbers. Follow one simple rule. Keep going. And suddenly you uncover a pattern connected to geometry, mathematics, growth, and structures found throughout nature. Maybe that’s what makes Fibonacci so fascinating. Complexity doesn’t always need a complicated beginning.

Sometimes, all it needs is one simple rule repeated over and over again. 🌀

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– Science Is Fun

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There have been thousands of generations of humans, and you are alive to witness the first photo of a Sunset on another World.

This is a real photo of the sunset on Mars.

– Curiosity

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