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As a minority member of the profession, a recipient of impoverished training and unhelpful attitudes, aware that her image would be scrutinized in a way that self-portraits by male artists were not, a woman artist had to think hard about her presentation of herself. Producing a self-portrait meant reconciling the conflict between what society expected of women and what it expected of artists. The problem for women – and the challenge – was that these two sets of expectations were diametrically opposed. The answer was a creative defensiveness. It is only through understanding the women’s desire to out-manoeuvre the critics by anticipating their responses that one can begin to make sens of why their self-portraits look as they do. They wanted to show that they were as good as painters past and present, but dared not risk looking boastful. They wanted to sow themselves at work, but could not look peculiar – no dirty work clothes or untidiness, no overly dramatic self-presentation – because they could not risk comment on their appearance or their morality.
Frances Borzello, Seeing Ourselves: Women’s Self-Portraits (via pintoras)
First Polls open up in 34 days for voting for our new Prime Minister, my friends!!!!
Heres the main 3 parties plans and comments on Indigenous affairs, moving forward!!
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PLEASE REBLOG THIS EVEN IF YOU’RE NOT CANADIAN!!
This election is MASSIVELY important for Canada, for EVERY person in this country (and those planning to come here from other countries!) who is not a white, cis, hetero, able-bodied middle-aged male.
To every person who has ever reblogged an American politics post: PLEASE reblog Canadian politics for the next month! I know it’s boring and not aesthetic but this is a big deal.
American politics AFFECT CANADA GREATLY! We have seen a massive rise in conservative, alt-right, and islamophobic movements and political parties since 2016. We have seen a rise in violence since 2016. Quebec implemented law 21, an islamophobic law which bans religious symbols for anyone working in public office. This includes public school teachers, meaning children are exposed to a system centered around white-supremacist ideologies. This is super fucking important!
I don’t beg for reblogs, but I cannot express enough how crucial it is for us to go out and vote next month. Please follow @allthecanadianpolitics if you’re Canadian and figure out who you are voting for, how you’re getting there, etc. Plan ahead and GO VOTE!!
Update: British Museum Torpedoes Greek Request for Loan of Parthenon Sculptures
The British Museum rejected on Monday the Greek PM’s proposal to loan the Parthenon Sculptures for the 2021 bicentennial celebrations, saying that Athens must first acknowledge ownership to the Museum.
“A precondition for any loan would be an acceptance of ownership of those objects by the Trustees/the Museum”, a British Museum spokesperson told Greek daily Ta Nea.
Such a response has killed the Greek premier’s initiative in its tracks as Athens has reiterated that it would not cede rightful ownership of the priceless sculptures to the British institution.
“As this is a matter of theft, it automatically excludes ownership rights,” Greek Culture Minister Leda Mendoni told Skai TV on Tuesday. Read more.
Regarding the Amazon Rainforest
I barely have followers here, but here we go:
The Amazon Rainforest has been burning for the last 16 days straight. The Brazilian government says the wildfire is caused by the winter itself, since it doesn't rain a lot there... in a rainforest. It is actually, partially true. Winter is indeed a dry season and wildfires may happen, specially close to the Cerrado (a brazilian biome similar to the african Savanna), but what they're not telling us is that:
The deforestation has increased 80% since last year
The native peoples and animals are being slaughtered for their lands (legally protected green areas)
The government is hiding and lying about scientific data, saying that environmentalists and NGOs are communists trying to destroy the nation. They are brainwashing people to think that sustainability is terrible for the economy
Our Minister of Environment is couldn't care less about the environment and is only there to support the livestock producers and give them what they want. The President and his Minister won't put a single dollar on environmental safety
The wildfires are just so huge that its black smoke and ashes reached the skies of São Paulo, a state over 2.000 kilometers away from the Amazon.
We are hostages or our own government
I could just keep going all night about how our environment is being threatened by this new government. We need every single help we can possibly can.
Please don't let this go unseen. Search for yourself, talk to people about it, make noise, be angry and be scared. Let the world know about it and demand action. This is not about Brazil, is about the planet. The Amazon Rainforest is one of the most important biomes in the world, being responsible for the climate, rains, biodiversity, carbon sequestration and life itself.
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It’s a literal recruitment tactic used by white supremacist groups and terrorist cells.
How to help Amazônia:
You can donate to SOS Amazônia which is one among the 100 NGOs selected as “The Largest NGOs in Brazil”.
> > > ( ENGLISH: //doe.sosamazonia.org.br/en ) < < <
And remember: - 1 USD is 4,04 reais. - 1 EUR is 4,47 reais. If you donate only $2,50 USD (10 reais) you’re helping a lot.
If you donate only $2,30 EUR (10 reais) you’re helping a lot. About people saying “the minimum value is $10”: Even if you’re not from Brazil you can donate in REAL instead of donating in USD or EUR via Paypal, so… YES, you can donate less than 10 dollars or euros. (Just don’t change the currency to USD or EUR, Paypal converts your dollars/euros to reais.)
Please. Boost if possible, this is REALLY important.
Amid unrelenting chaos and violence, scientists and doctors in the Democratic Republic of Congo have been running a clinical trial of new drugs to try to combat a year-long Ebola outbreak. On Monday, the trial’s cosponsors at the World Health Organization and the National Institutes of Health announced that two of the experimental treatments appear to dramatically boost survival rates.
While an experimental vaccine previously had been shown to shield people from catching Ebola, the news marks a first for people who already have been infected. “From now on, we will no longer say that Ebola is incurable,” said Jean-Jacques Muyembe, director general of the Institut National de Recherche Biomedicale in the DRC, which has overseen the trial’s operations on the ground.
Source: Wired
windows users, save money using these free apps!!
other fab programs that are absolutely 100% free:
recuva - accidentally deleted something in the recycling bin? recover it back with this program!
speccy - tells you the specs of your computer, among other things
defraggler - defrag the SHIT out of your hard drive and clean it right up
This is a great post what makes it even better is that most of these you can get from Ninite which will download and install the latest versions of all available software ALL AT ONCE without you having to worry about adware or the annoying clutter (toolbars, changing your default search engine) that sometimes comes with their individual installers. So, yeah. Have at it folks.
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For posterity.
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Good lord this is awesome.
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I’ll add one more to this: Winderstat If you’re like me and constantly running low on space because you are never deleting old files and have no clue what is taking up all of your space then this is for you. It scans your hard drive and shows you which files are taking up space, what kind of file they are, and where they are located so you can easily take care of them.
Example (not mine):
It’s a life saver!
As someone who’s well acquainted with open source applications, I’m surprised Abiword isn’t on this list.
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And for reading ebooks and even comic books, there’s always Calibre. It sadly isn’t on mobile, however.
Another image editor is Krita.
Here’s a free video editor, as well; I’ve never done any video editing so I can speak on if it’s any good, but here it is regardless. It’s called Kdenlive and it’s a project of the same people who made the above Krita.
And obviously there’s always the option of ditching Windows altogether and using Linux :^)
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Krita is awesome!
Ugh that post has gotten me thinking about fat acceptance in a way I haven’t in years. I’ve read more studies about weight and health than probably any other topic I’ve ever researched. And every time I see someone wail about health I am just like
Did you know that in post-mortem examinations there is zero correlation between weight and levels of arteriosclerosis and related diseases found?
Did you know that people with an overweight BMI have the longest life expectancy, that those with an “ideal” and an “obese” have about the same life expectancy, and that being “underweight” raises mortality rates more than being “morbidly obese”?
Did you know that losing weight and then gaining it back is worse for your heart than remaining at the weight you started consistently?
Did you know that 95% of people who lose weight do gain it back, and there has never been a single documented weight loss program that has been demonstrated to keep the weight off for five years or more in the majority or even a significant minority of people? Like, telling people to lose weight isn’t much use if we don’t know HOW to make that happen.
Like I have read The Obesity Myth by Paul Campos and Rethinking Thin by Gina Kolata and Big Fat Lies by Glenn A Gaesser (Ph.D!) And Fat!So? and several other books that I don’t own and so don’t remember all of their names I spent like four years reading every single study coming out and looking at the methodology and noting which ones had huge holes or terrible methods and which didn’t (the holes were almost always in the pro-weight-loss studies) and like
Big Fat Lies has 27 pages of bibliography. 27 pages worth of scientific citation. The book content itself is only 197 pages. That’s a page of references for every 7 pages of book. Reading the book is just reference after reference and study after study. Most of these doctors (like Linda Bacon, author of Health at Every Size) started out the same way. They wanted to use the scientific method to find a real weight loss program or health solution that worked and could be proven to work, and so studied everything they could about weight and fitness only to find out that we didn’t need weight loss in the first place. That all the studies calling for it were lacking or nonexistent. That weight and underlying metabolic health have very little relation. That the history of our relationship with health and obesity has little basis in fact and a LOT of basis in capitalism, politics, and fashion. No, really, the association between weight and health was first proposed by insurance companies looking for ways to charge people more by claiming risk. They also charged tall and short people more. And people with different skin colors. When they got in trouble for charging people for things they had no control over and had no bearing on their health, they set out to prove that weight was controllable and that fat was unhealthy to make money.
These are also a lot of the same people who went on to invent the President’s fitness program, so if you went to public school you probably already hate them.
Anyway, if you want a place to start reading about the issue, this article is a pretty good launching pad.
This casual rant is like a primer on weight science. Amazing. I second their book recommendations, and would add to the list Body Respect by Drs Bacon & Aphramor, Body of Truth by journalist Harriet Brown, and What’s Wrong with Fat? by UCLA professor of sociology Abigail Saguy.
Staffer Ann supplies scrumptious sharky snacks to our sevengills for supper and for science!
Our largest sharks at the Aquarium are only temporary visitors here—by diving in and feeding each shark individually, we can keep track of their diet to monitor their health, and also learn more about their life histories before they return to the wild!
It takes a lot of TLC to care for these LTCs: Large Toothy Critters! Fortunately, Aquarist Ann is the best shark mom around 🦈❤️
Dive in with Ann and her buddy Kelsey as they hop into our sharkiest exhibit to feed a few of our residents!
IRON SNAIL IS THE FIRST DEEP-SEA SPECIES TO BE ENDANGERED DUE TO DEEP-SEA MINING
The Scaly-foot snail (Chrysomallon squamiferum), is an iconic vent gastropod known only found in three hydrothermal vents on the ocean floor east of Madagascar, living at more than 2500 metres deep. Its habitat covers only a few square meter of area, its total distribution area has been estimated to be at most 0.27 km2 . On 18 July The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) added this species to its Red List of Endangered Species.
This snail is the first deep-sea animal to be declared endangered, mainly because threat of deep-sea mining. Two of those three vents are currently under mining exploration licences. According to researchers, nearly all known hydrothermal vents in the Indian Ocean fall within a mining exploration lease. This area is relatively unexplored and one of the few place where mining interests are increasing. Commercial mining exploration licence has been granted to Germany from 2015 to 2030 and to Chine, from 2011 to 2026.
This species is the only known animal that incorporates iron sulfide into its shell and sclerites, as the scales of its foot are called. The nutrition of the scaly-foot snail depends exclusively on endosymbiotic bacteria.
Deep-sea mining impacts include the mining themselves, habitat destruction, disturbance of sediment and create plumes which suffocated surrounding marine life. Since deep-sea life has low growth rates, sites altered by mining in many cases do not recover.
- Photo: Chrysomallon squamiferum from the Kairei vent fiel, Central India Ridge, by Nakamura et al.,
- Reference: Sigwart et al., 2019. Red Listing can protect deep-sea biodiversity. Nature Ecology & Evolution.
[ Image description: A single scaly-foot snail. Its shell is dark, relatively smooth and does not present patterns of coloring or decoration, its foots presents scales]
On this, the First Day of Shark Week, we just wanted to say: We love sharks.
We hope you do too, because the ocean certainly does! Every healthy ecosystem in the ocean is teeming with sharks—though maybe not the ones you’re used to seeing on TV. The vast majority of the 400+ species of shark are less than five feet long, and their diets range from microscopic plankton to worms and squid, dead animals, fishes and marine mammals.
Sharks have been an integral part of the oceanic community since before trees were a thing, and are necessary to the continued health of the ocean, the heart of our planet’s life support system. We’re hard at work studying sharks here and abroad, and we’ll be sharing some of the cool stuff we’ve found out recently more this week. But above all else, we just wanted to share how much we love sharks. May these jawesome animals be around to inspire countless generations to come.
Thanks for reading, and thanks for being on Team Ocean.
Yeah SHARKS!
In case any of you are interested in this little article I found, a fourth grader in China turned in a Mo Dao Zu Shi x Journey to the West crossover for their homework and got the equivalent of an “A” from their teacher.
The story starts with Lan Wangji going to an ice cream shop to eat ice cream. He orders chocolate ice cream and when he gets his order, his good friend, Wei Wuxian arrives. So they have ice cream and chat. Then they finish and leave. On their way home, they run into Sun Wukong. Sun Wukong remembers that last time he met Lan Wangji, they got into an argument and he’s still mad about it. He picks a fight with Lang Wangji and Wei Wuxian, and the rest of this essay is about their epic duel.
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“We heard youse are behind on your payments to Fat Tony.”
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I ALMOST SPIT MY ROOTBEER
“Think you’re all aesthetic, huh? A real instagram Wiseguy! You want something to blog about? We’ll give ya something to blog about!”
live action ep 16
JFM got nerfed. they made him nice and completely ineffective. and that’s it. that’s the sum total of him.
tone policing, not forcing his kids to do anything they don’t want (HELLO WHAT?), and hoping for the best
sorry, did all the depth get lost in discarded footage?
that core melting hand guy was told more about his character it seems
woman in a victorian novel: *develops a fever from worrying too much*
me, shivering and sweating with stress-induced anxiety: wtf that’s so unrealistic lol
i saw lwj’s actor wearing high heels to match wwx’s height and now i can’t unsee it
ruins every scene lmao