Hiroaki Takahashi - Shotei, Tokumochi Moonrise [1936]
Source: shi-saa
Andor + Onion headlines part 3, because I’m choosing to drown out my end of season depression with more memes.
Flag of the Talking Heads (Based on the album Speaking in Tongues)
from /r/vexillology Top comment: Home…..is where I want to be
PAIR CAST IRON LION FORM LOG RESTS
Butterscotch Auction
happy PRIDE i’m here i’m queer and i believe the land should be given back to the proper indigenous stewards.
Non-Natives reblogging this are great and wonderful
Please remember that "land back" does not mean "indigenous people are mystical elves with innate epigenetic wisdom of land stewardship and they don't belong in big cities," nor does it mean "non-indigenous people can't be farmers." What it DOES mean is that "non-indigenous farmers should be paying the equivalent of property taxes to the native governments their land was stolen from." It means, "there's a great deal of indigenous scholarship on sustainable agricultural practices that farmers should be taking into account, because indigenous agriculture was more advanced than European agriculture at the time Europe invaded the Americas and western agriculture *still* hasn't caught up in terms of figuring out how to produce equivalently high crop yields without compromising the ecosystem." It means, "non-indigenous farmers should be in an intellectual discourse with indigenous agricultural scientists and indigenous peoples that still do traditional farming, figuring how to repair the damage western farming practices have done to the ecosystem."
It also means that indigenous peoples should regain the right to sustain themselves on the land according to the practices they want, and they should have free reign to perform their cultural practices and protect their holy sites, as opposed to the current model where if they try to honor their dead on public lands they get violently removed.
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RATING: RELIABLE
The above is from this article from The Guardian. The images are from MYA Network. The caption on their website reads:
Source: ‘When a sperm and egg get together, the body creates tissue in order to support the developing pregnancy. Here are photos of that tissue from 5-9 week pregnancies. This is called the gestational sac, and it’s like the “house” for the pregnancy. Inside this sac there are cells that have the potential to become a fetus but there is no visible embryo at this stage. We rinsed off the blood and menstrual lining (decidua) for these photographs.’
The published images sparked a lot of debate, leading to the story being picked up by other news outlets. For example:
Source: ‘Last week, the Guardian published images of pregnancy tissue after abortions in the first 10 weeks of pregnancy. The small size and appearance of the tissue were shocking to many. We have all absorbed, knowingly and unknowingly, the pervasive anti-abortion narrative that a pregnancy resembles a tiny baby starting in the earliest weeks. Though an early embryo can be seen under the magnification of ultrasound, it can take months for it to be perceptible to the naked eye.’
Source: ‘People have responded in disbelief, citing the (magnified) images they’ve seen on ultrasounds. […] ”Think of the illustrations on pregnancy and medical websites. The Mayo Clinic, one of the preeminent medical organizations in the country, shows week-by-week illustrations of embryonic and fetal development without any context of scale, like the rulers in the MYA photos.’
As stated in the article, whilst people talk about a ‘heartbeat’ at 6 weeks, there is no heart developed at this stage - only a group of cells that will become part of the heart.
Source: ‘But what exactly do we mean when we talk about a “fetal heartbeat” at six weeks of pregnancy? Although some people might picture a heart-shaped organ beating inside a fetus, this is not the case. Rather, at six weeks of pregnancy, an ultrasound can detect “a little flutter in the area that will become the future heart of the baby,” said Dr. Saima Aftab, medical director of the Fetal Care Center at Nicklaus Children’s Hospital in Miami. This flutter happens because the group of cells that will become the future “pacemaker” of the heart gain the capacity to fire electrical signals, she said.’
It should also be noted that the images show an embryo, not a fetus, until the 9th week.
Source: ‘In human pregnancies, a baby-to-be isn’t considered a fetus until the 9th week after conception, or week 11 after your last menstrual period (LMP).’
The co-founders of the MYA Network responded in a New York Times article.
Source: ‘Many people, even those who support abortion rights, did not believe the photos were accurate. Some insisted we had deliberately removed the embryos before taking the photos. The images weren’t consistent with those often seen in embryological textbooks, magnified on ultrasounds or used in anti-abortion propaganda; these enlarged images are not what you see with the naked eye after an abortion. A Stanford gynecologic pathologist has validated our photos, but many people could not believe the pictures were presented unaltered.
I’ve never seen pictures like this.
it's so funny to me that conservatives think the reason university students become more liberal is because of the actual course material and not like. the fact that universities in the US introduce are oftentimes the first place Americans are introduced to a walkable environment with affordable health care, with community spaces for any affiliation under the sun where they give you free resources and cheap food. with included public transit and opportunities for training in your field of choice. and you realize that for how much you're spending on tuition/taxes, yeah, you do deserve these things, it would be insane not to have those. and then you graduate and go back to having to buy a car to drive 20 minutes to the grocery store.
In honor of Day of the Dead, here’s a repost of my comic about the San Francisco Columbarium and the man who spent 26 years restoring it.
This comic originally appeared on Medium at The Nib. Go check out my other work there.
Emmitt and the Columbarium.
Anonymous asked:
*multiplies you by 1*
Ach im the exact same but a process has occurred
Fucking Christ.
IF ONLY SOMEONE COULD HAVE FORESEEN THIS.
Fired Eating Disorder Chatbot Becomes Depressed, Develops Eating Disorder
Is there a way with filters to whitelist certain terms but block similar ones?
For instance, if I block “spider,” it also blocks “Spider-Man” and “Spiderman”.
Does this work better with filtered tags (which are more specific, presumably) than filtered content? Or does it just look for the string in any text in a post, regardless of context?
ME: today was one of those “forget to eat and whoops it’s 9pm” days. DoorDashed a pizza, they delivered garlic bread; I reordered the pizza (DoorDash paid as it was an error). It finally arrived at nearly 11pm and I put it straight into the fridge; and i’m back in the same position as I was before - pizzaless.
STEPHEN FRY: I'm sure, logically, something weird should happen now, but I can't work out what.
Sokka: Aang y'know how you took away Ozai’s firebending?
Aang: I recall yes
Sokka: can I have it
Aang: …what?
Sokka: can I have his firebending. just for like ten minutes
Aang: what no
Sokka: why not I wanna prank zuko
Aang:
Aang:
Aang: okay five minutes
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This fukn post had me reeling so ofc I had to draw it
hi take everything I own
There’s more!
- Le français n'est plus la langue de Molière
- Le français n'appartient pas à la France
- Le français n'est pas envahi par l'anglais
- Le français n'est pas réglementé par l'Académie Française
- Le français n'a pas une orthographe parfaite
- L'écriture numérique n'abime pas le français
- Le français parlé n'est pas déficient
- Le français n'est pas massacré par les jeunes
- Le français n'est pas menacé par l'extension du féminin
- Linguiste, c'est un métier
Je sais que ça va intéresser les gens ici ça, une tribune contre les réactionnaires face à l'évolution de la langue
!!!! J’étais en train de composer un post dans ma tête
« Nous sommes atterrés par les erreurs et la désinformation des puristes qui s'appuient sur un état fantasmé du passé pour prôner une détestation des usages actuels »
« Nous proposons également de favoriser l’éducation aux nombreuses variétés de français, et cesser de prôner la supériorité d’une norme unique forgée à Paris. »
« [L’académie française] jouit d’un prestige devenu sans lien avec ses compétences, et s’est auto-attribuée l’ambition de bloquer l’évolution des normes linguistiques. C’est pourquoi nous proposons de créer un véritable collège des francophones, pour la remplacer désormais dans toutes ses missions en matières de langue […] »
(stares at the Office de la langue française)
he’s literally so right about everything
#he’s got the whole drag queen outfit but he’s still wearing the full suit. he even did the drag makeup over the mask
Friends! Country folk! Science nerds! Lend me your ears (ok not literally, put those back on)!
You’ve probably seen my face at this point and know that if there’s one thing I will consistently spam you about, it’s the Mütter museum.
The Mütter houses some of my fave people in the world- permanently- and it fully changed my life.
Recently the Mütter removed all of its online content, citing ethics and respect as their reasoning. However, the current leadership of the college of physicians of Philadelphia (who owns the museum) have made it abundantly clear that they do not like the museum at all. It makes them uncomfortable.
But it’s deeper than that. The current CEO has been heard saying that her life “would be so much easier if only physicians were allowed in the museum”. She has said that she hates walking through the museum. She said that “infotainment” was not a good reason for video content by the museum.
The current executive director of the museum has caused 13 staff to leave since she was hired in September 2022. She has done this at other museums (the Michener, for one). She really is pushing an accreditation for the museum. This would require the Mütter to rid itself of all of its original cabinetry- yes, the cabinets dating from the turn of the 20th century- and make more than $1 million in changes. But here’s the kicker! The fellows of the college of physicians of Philadelphia have actually discussed this at length in the past, and decided that it was not worth the time and money to do, because the Mütter is NOT suffering from a lack of visitors. In fact, there are so many visitors that you need to have a timed ticket to go now.
Neither one of these folks knew that the museum had an audio tour, nor that they had accessible mornings for folks with sensory issues, and “please touch” tours with amazing replicas of the remains and objects within the museum, so that as many people as possible could access the knowledge at the museum.
These people hate the museum and cite accessibility and ethics as their reasoning for content removal. However, if you talk to anyone who has ever watched any videos produced by the Mütter, they’d tell ya (and have told me on insta, and written full ass dissertations on the topic in one case, wherein they compared Mütter content with the content of the British museum and found that the Mütter was the only one that came out equal in terms of content and quality) that every person and artefact were treated with the utmost respect in them.
This is not a museum that highlights and praises colonial practices. This is a museum that helps folks with different disabilities, conditions, and experiences feel seen and respected. It teaches us about the history of medicine, in all of its nitty gritty detail, and let’s us discuss the issues inherent within it. This is a museum that celebrates the birthdays of its residents, when they are known- or at least it did, before the new leadership took over.
And the leadership want to change that. They want to gut the museum because THEY don’t like it, and assume that everyone feels just like they do.
So many of you have shared and commented on my previous posts, and I’m hoping that that will translate into you signing this change.org petition my colleagues and I created.
Remember with change.org that you have to click through the email they send you to confirm the signature. You do NOT need to donate, and in fact, please don’t. We don’t want your money. We want to show the board of trustees and the leadership of the museum that the public cares for the place they want to destroy.
For more info (and so you don’t just take my word for it), see https://whyy.org/articles/philadelphia-mutter-museum-online-exhibits-taken-down-why/
Thank you for listening to me yell from my soapbox. Please share this widely, and please sign.
