pov are you about to read flagrantly wrong information

divorce is so funny. like never mind

You put posts underwater so that it is clear it is a screenshot of a post and not just a reblog or whatever. I hope everyone can understand this so we can all move forward

also to drown them for their sins

i have watched this film 3 times in the past 2 days. so good. one of the best animated films i think i’ve ever seen.

text from my dad (2021) - my dad

“i’ll admit that my main problem with this is that i haven’t asked”

submitted by @cornandcoconutsoup​

Original text for context

op this provides no context

Meeeeee :333

Just found out my facebook birding group is public because my cousin (a lawyer who is not into birds) casually said to me “saw you couldn’t identify a willet the other day… pretty embarrassing”

yknow i was wondering why i recognized this guy and then the username watermark finally caught my eye. and yall. its him.

WHAT?

I was going to just leave this in the tags but no, I've seen too many people misunderstand this and it's very simple and easy to explain so I don't know why anyone who shares this fun fact doesn't use this analogy.

so if you took a few leaves and threw them into a blender and pulverize them to as fine a paste that you could they would still be green. this is because chlorophyll has a green PIGMENT in it. now I can't speak to the base color of blue jay feathers so we're just going to talk about blue macaws for this example. If you went and put a Blue macaw feather in a blender and pulverized it to the finest powder that you could you would get black powder. this is because blue macaw feathers have black pigment in them, but they reflect blue light because of a microscopic bubble texture on the surface.

to explain it further, have you ever seen one of those little rainbow hologram things? like how they'll put a holographic Crystal or sparkle pattern on like a Pokemon card?

yeah that motherfucker, if you tried to scrape the top layer of this card off to get the hologram "pigment", you wouldn't get bubkis. in fact if you scrape the top of this card very lightly, the yellow part would still stay yellow because it's yellow because it is PIGMENTED, but the hologram where you scratch it will stop being holographic. now it will still have the pigment underneath it because that is pigmented but the rainbow effect comes from a TEXTURE on the top.

you could even put these kind of holograms on chocolate, are you following? it's a texture!

it's the same reason that bubbles are rainbow colored despite being too thin to see pigment in them.

IT'S A TEXTUREEEEEEE!!!

blue pigment will always be blue, you can crush up a Rose and use the Rose goop to color something else the color of that Rose! leaves, bones, clay, rocks!! that's pigment! disturbing its structure will not change the color because its a PIGMENT!!!

but a blue macaw? a pigeon's neck? a raven's feathers? and a blue jay apparently? that's a texture.

"yeah that's how color works" NO!! bubbles are clear!!! they just happen to have a broad spectrum iridescent TEXTURE, and some bird feathers have a short spectrum of iridescence.

bird texture

i like what you're going for but color isn't always inherently pigment only. just cause something isn't the pigment blue doesn't mean it isnt the color blue? all pigments are colors but not all colors are pigments? i mean thank you for the science though.

I mean, I think you're missing the point in that this is just describing a difference between a couple of ways that colors can exist beyond our perception. it's clarifying why that fun fact is relevant, what its really trying to say, and why the response of like, "that's how all color works, that fun fact is wrong and patronizing" is both inaccurate, and flattening a real truth unnecessarily.

when something "is blue" vs. "looks blue", that's a useful distinction to understand; I know that my computer screen is not Actually Blue, but rather is shining blue light at me to look blue. when it turns off, the screen is black. which is also different from the black of a dark Tumblr theme.

maybe I specifically am not doing anything with that understanding, but isn't there inherent value in understanding the world around us a little more?

there are even more distinctions between "blueness" of objects.

there are objects that look blue because they are emitting blue light (like a blue LED, or a very hot object that is so hot it is glowing blue)

there are objects that look blue because they reflect blue light but absorb other wavelengths of light (like an object painted blue or anything with blue pigment)

there are objects that use light scattering to appeal blue (like the blue-jay feather in the example) and these will look blue only if you shine blue light on them, but if you shine a light from behind the feather, they will not appear blue.

there are even some objects that appear blue because they absorb wavelengths other than blue and re-radiate them out as blue. these can include taking higher-frequency energy like ultraviolet light (example: fluorescent materials, these will glow under a blacklight and will emit visible light even if there is no visible light shining on them) and they can also included, rarer materials that can combine lower levels of lower-frequency energy such as red and green light, to emit a smaller portion of blue light (these materials are uncommon and are usually specially-engineered materials, such as those used in inexpensive, low-efficiency solar panels to slightly boost their efficiency.)

so like, color is more complex than a lot of people realize. there is a whole infinite spectrum of wavelengths, and we not only only see a small subset of this range, but we only really see 3 points in the range of visible light.

but actual objects can display color for a variety of reasons, including emitting light directly, reflecting light back (which it may do selectively), scattering light selectively in complex ways, or absorbing light and re-emitting it at different wavelengths.

to figure out which of these is happening, you will need to change the ambient lighting around the object. like you might not know an object is glowing until you turn off the light, but if you do, you will see it immediately. fluorescent items might also not be immediately evident until you use a blacklight, which shows ultraviolet light but with minimal visible light. the scattering effects will only be evident if you shine light through objects from behind or from different angles. and some of the more subtle wavelength-recombining aspects may not come out until you shine lights of varying different qualities and combinations of wavelength on the object.

like basically this is why you can have some objects that look the same under one lightbulb, but look different under another lightbulb.

color is really complex and it's kinda fascinating to think about.

I think color is cool to think about in more ways than just pigment! I didn't mean to be rude about it, I just think that reducing color to purely pigment doesn't make sense.

I think bluejays can be blue without having blue pigment cause the way light reflects off of them due to texture is still just blue. But wow this is such a cool thread, I have learned so much!

awesome story. black doctors and nurses are the best.

We need more of this

I'm not a PoC but this is just incredible, *exceptional*, culturally sensitive patient care, period. Absolutely should be shared with every healthcare professional I know.

We should always keep in mind that we are treating an entire person, not simply their condition, and the effects seemingly minor kindnesses can have on them long after they leave our care.

If you want to support black doctors who are just starting out, Farrah-Amoy Fullerton, a fourth-year med student at the University of Alabama at Birmingham just set up a way for people to help black fourth year med students transition to their residencie. This often means moving to a new city where they won't get a paycheck for weeks. Black students are also less likely to have access to generational wealth to keep them afloat during school. So if you have a few bucks and want to buy a graduation gift for a future black doctor, check out this article or search #medgradwishlist on twitter.

We need more black doctors to because doctors are often untrained on how to diagnose conditions in black peoples vs white people and are taught black have a higher pain tolerance and just a whole bunch of other ridiculous things........ black people need black doctors

What kinda pisses me off about that architecture in Africa Twitter thread is that it primarily focuses on European definitions of what “good” architecture is—permanent, typically stone based designed structures that fit a specific sort of aesthetic that can be deemed such. The Somalia section of it in specific is just Italian colonial architecture that has nothing to do with ethnic Somalis but instead an architecture style that was introduced by an imperial force that hardly considered them humans. As to how Somali tent making, which is traditionally very complicated, is not seen as a form of architecture worth talking about is beyond me. I mean even the Smithsonian has a replica of a Somali tent home:

How is this not architecture! It’s a dwelling! It has a planned structure and yes it’s mobile, and yes it can be taken apart when need be but it’s still architecture even if not in the traditional sense. It’s still a complex and designed structure, this isn’t just some random thing people do. And this tent could’ve been used for the majority of someone’s lifetime and yet have been all around the easternmost part of the Horn of Africa along with them. This specific type of dwelling in itself isn’t just Somali but it’s shared by pastoralists going into even Southeast Africa (primarily those speaking Khoe languages) so when we do this whole national architecture thing in Africa we’re both ignoring the various facets and diversity of architecture multiple different ethnic groups have but also the shared history of some constructions that span far beyond drawn up borders.

It’s like people only talk about Africa having anything noteworthy if it’s being used to counter Westerners with parameters of success and worth that they themselves imposed—and it’s done in the dumbest fashion possible.

tags from @katawapu:

There is a beach on Suquamish land, near Seattle, where the remains of Old Man House- a massive, beautifully-constructed modular longhouse that Chief Si?al (Seattle/Sealth) lived in- are still under the ground. They can't really excavate the remains now: the land, which is supposed to be Suquamish tribal land, was once confiscated by the US military on the promise that they'd return it to the tribe, and then instead sold to some wealthy white people to build million dollar beach mansions on.

Just to add an example to your point that like... even when there is physical evidence of architectural history, even buildings hundreds of feet long with direct ties to the namesake of one of the largest cities in the US, there are still so many layers of disrespect in the way of it being truly valued anyway. To the point that the vast majority of the people who walk right on top of Old Man House don't even know it's there.

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it would be cool if fat dudes without big beards were considered hot sometimes too.

I realized today that the main reason for the “hot fat dude must also include beard” thing is part of the whole “fat people are required to perform a higher and more perfect expression of gender”.

like usually this sort of thing is more easily identifiable in fat women, who have to be hyper feminine to be considered “attractive” by the mainstream.  but I sort of blinked today and realized, oh.  fat men must have beards to be attractive for the same reason fat men must wear suits and look dapper to be attractive, just like fat women have to have perfect eyeliner and wear cute pinup clothing.  higher, more intense expression of gender, executed perfectly and without flaw is required for fat people to be seen as attractive.

i think it’s important to mention a major thing a beard does, other than potentially act as part of a performance of masculinity, is cover double chins. i legitimately feel leaving that out is a major oversight. double chins are societally reviled and rarely ever depicted in supposedly fat positive art.

i’ve known fat women to literally tape the skin of their neck up under their hair to try to get rid of them– not to mention trying to contour them away with makeup. (i’ve personally done both. let’s talk about the utter misery of trying to exist in public with your skin taped and painted in place, terrified if any of it fails you will be treated as disgusting.) and fat men must grow a beard, and just the right kind of hyper-groomed beard, lest they be labeled disgusting neckbeards. fat people of all genders are compelled to “learn their angles” for photos, so they can create the illusion of not having double chins if only in still images. do you know how many photos with loved ones your fat friends duck out of because they can’t know how it will turn out, and don’t want to be mocked?

accept double chins as normal. accept that you can be attracted to people with double chins. stop requiring heightened gender performance and discomfort from fat people. stop forcing tape and makeup and beards and tactical angles on fat people.

you ever take a uquiz and realize halfway through that you don’t respect the author and their opinion is useless to you

everyone shut up except this person

blablabla discourse straights don't belong at pride is such bullshit

listen sometimes cishet partners of queer folks give off such queer energy I think they belong at pride. example: my friend Will, partner of a bi nonbinary gal who is the fiercest trans ally I know and one of the first guys to ever invite me (a Trans man) to a boys nights out. 95% of his friends are queer. everytime we all hang out its a queer space, basically a pride party. he's our friend, he belongs here. anyone who says he doesn't belong is an ass. we brought him with us.

"straights don't belong at pride" ok congrats on announcing to the world that you have no friends, bro pride is a hangout and a protest! it's a party! it's a revolution!

"being an ally means not taking up space" dude being an ally means being a friend. Taking up space doesn't mean you can't be there it literally just means don't talk over other people. If you're at pride and you're not queer, just be a friend.

I was saying this to my brother, but heck, other people may also find it interesting: a thing that really helps clarify this for me is that my dad absolutely belongs in Jewish spaces. He's not Jewish, he was raised protestant and these days is pretty much agnostic and fully nonpracticing, but he didn't convert when he married my mom.

But he's not even like a 'guest' at Jewish spaces - when he went to Purim at my uncle's congregation in costume to watch us participate in the Purim shpiel he wasn't there as a guest, he was there as a member of the community - yeah, a community that he might not have joined on his own, but what would that even mean 'on his own' - he's been married to a Jewish woman for more than 40 years, parenting at least one Jewish child for more than 30, he helped me write essays in the lead up to my bat mitzvah, signed off that I'd read my hebrew homework to him, stepped on a glass at his wedding to my mother, and let the old ladies coo at his pirate shirt at purim. No, he's not a Jew, but he is a community member.

If he started proselytizing or something obviously that would be different (but also like. i am extraordinarily confident that's not a problem we're going to have to face), but the idea that we have to protect all spaces from outsiders completely fails to acknowledge that there are plenty of people who blur the lines between 'outsider' and 'insider' because that's what human society is, that's central to what makes our world beautiful. I'm not saying that there's never a moment when it's reasonable to say 'not for this'. But public events like pride sure aren't it!

Naomi Shihab Nye’s Beloved Ode to Kindness, Animated

[text reads: “Of course, even the best-intentioned of us are not capable of perpetual kindness, not capable of being our most elevated selves all day with everybody. If you have not watched yourself, helpless and horrified, transform into an ill-tempered child with a loved one or the unsuspecting man blocking the produce aisle with his basket of bok choy, you have not lived. Discontinuous and self-contradictory even under the safest and sanest of circumstances, human beings are not wired for constancy of feeling, of conduct, of selfhood. When the world grows unsafe, when life charges at us with its stresses and its sorrows, our devotion to kindness can short-circuit with alarming ease. And yet, paradoxically, it is often in the laboratory of loss and uncertainty that we calibrate and supercharge our capacity for kindness. And it is always, as Kerouac intuited, a practice.”]

hey so maybe switching to threads, infamously managed by one of the worst data scraping companies of all time, isnt the play guys

heres just PART of what they're trying to track when you download the app:

to list what they attempt to track:

please for the love of God, dont download threads.

addendum: threads is so bad that it's literally banned in All Of Europe because it violates the GDPR, aka General Data Protection Regulation.

Just read a perfectly fine fanfiction that took place in Germany but something that stood out to me was a chapter where the characters walk across a field and is approached by the farmer yelling at them to get off his land.

I’ve come across this plot point a few times and I feel like it’s worth telling writers that most of Europe has some version of Right To Roam. The laws aren’t the same in every country but generally you’re allowed to walk and rest on private property like fields and forests so long as you don’t destroy anything or leave trash, but not gardens or fenced in areas. The owner of the land might put up a sign asking you to follow certain guidelines like no horses or keeping your dog on a leash but but there’s no real repercussions to not following the rules besides the owner eventually fencing the area off so people can’t enjoy it anymore.

I’ve personally walked around on a field while the farmer was harvesting potatoes with his big ass machine and collected the leftovers while my dog was trotting calmly besides me and he looked straight at me and didn’t care one bit because Denmark also has an old tradition of letting people collect what’s left as a form of charity (for my fellow Danes, that’s what “rev vi marken let, det er gammel ret, fuglen og den fattige skal også være mæt” means in the song Marken Er Mejet) This is just a tradition and not a law however so it depends on the farmer.

The very north of Europe like Norway and Sweden even give people the right to put up tents and camp on other people’s private land (except gardens and such). Again, the laws vary from country to country but as a rule of thumb you have more right to roam the further north you go and less the further south but if you want to write in a specific country look up the laws there.

Wow. Yall are really just allowed to exist in public huh?

It's not that I disagree with you that increased funding is important, but I also think it's important to look at why there's a need for funding and where it needs to go. The US actually spends more on education per student than the average of countries in the OECD. Part of the problem is that, as you said, a lot of education funding is local, so some districts in the US have less than $7k per student and others have upwards of $30k per student. The national average does not reflect the reality of many districts.

Other problems are nationwide. According to EdWeek, about 80% of school funding goes to salaries and benefits (this report is a bit outdated, but the percentage is consistent). A large part of "benefits" means health insurance. The US is the only industrialized country without universal health coverage. That's a huge expense on our education system that similar countries just don't have. The lack of universal health coverage also means that school is the only place many students receive any sort of mental health care, so we need to fund sufficient counselors within the education budget. Standardized testing is pretty much mandatory for students at several grade levels, and unlike other countries, we pay private corporations for our tests. Standardized testing takes up about 0.25% of the total K-12 education spending in the US. The US also has a severe lack of quality public transportation, so districts that aren't walkable have to provide transportation to their students, usually by buying buses and hiring drivers. Not to mention the whole host of social problems that schools in the US are expected to bandaid over, from food insecurity to overworked and underpaid parents to unsafe communities. So many of the issues we look to schools to solve really need to be addressed elsewhere. Free breakfast and lunch at school is a wonderful program and I will always support it, but it doesn't actually solve the problem of families not having enough to eat.

The rest of this is pure supposition, but I suspect there are many areas where education funding is not being used in the best interests of all students. There are the charter school scams, of course, which are just theft from the education budget. Many districts used packaged curricula that require the schools to purchase a subscription for every student every year. And we've all heard at least one anecdote of a school that spends oodles of money on its football team while other departments are chronically underfunded. I looked up administrator salaries and they're not outrageous. Superintendents average about $175k, which is well off but not like CEO salaries.

I think you make a great point about the costs coming from external problems, too- and I mentioned it in a reply, but even on an individual-teacher-level, college tuition being as high as it is becomes another barrier to entry. Lowering college tuition, cancelling student loan debt, and other movements toward that end also really help teachers & schools.

There are some non-traditional programs that can get you fully qualified and certified to teach without going through a traditional university, and with much lower expenses- but even then, teachers have to go through student teaching. In Washington, that's 14 weeks of full-time work that they cannot pay you for. 14 weeks without any source of income can be devastating, or just flat-out impossible, for a lot of folks.

Both of which are why a lot of teachers opt to forgo the certification and teach in private schools, charter schools, and other programs that don't require it; but anyone teaching in a public school must have that certification, by law, up to the specific standards of the state they teach in (which can also mean going out and paying for even more tests etc. if you're coming from a state with lower qualifications).

I'll add that overall, non-public teaching positions generally pay less, but the lower barrier to entry is really appealing, and can make it even harder to staff public schools- which is particularly bad for the students and families who can't afford or otherwise access those options.

"x ship is normalizing incest-"

Buddy

If game of thrones hasn't normalized incest by now (pulling over 10 million views in the 7th season alone) then a small fandom ship most certainly won't

Spn ran for fifteen fucking seasons, it ran for over a decade, and wincest was consistently one of the two or three most popular ships. And it had no measurable impact on real world abuse. Maybe you think fandom is uniquely dangerous (why, idk, but this tumblr after all) but a pretty good rule of fandom is that if Spn couldn't do it, fucking no one else is going to manage it.

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