Apollo 11--The Dish
So, in honor of the anniversary of the moonlanding, I'd like to share a little-known movie that I saw back when it came out in 2000 that I feel did not get anywhere near the recognition that it deserved: The Dish.
So, the premise, based on a true story, is that when Apollo 11 landed on the moon, the only satellite dish in the Southern hemisphere that could track it was in the middle of a sheep paddock in Parkes, Australia.
One of the things I loved about this movie is that for a lot of the news and moonlanding footage, rather than recreate it, they used actual footage that was broadcast and recorded at the time (in 1969).In case you're wondering how much of this movie is embellishment and how much is true, here's a fact versus fiction from the Australia Telescope National Facility:
So, if anyone sees this, and you can find it, please give this movie a try. Add it to your watchlist during the strike.
Asking for breeders to health test is not too much work. (Ensures dog is free of genetic health issues as much as possible)
Asking for breeders to breed temperamentally stable dogs is not too much work. (Ensures puppies will also be temperamentally stable as much as possible).
Asking for breeders to breed structurally healthy dogs is not too much work. (Ensures dog can function as a dog).
Asking for proof of correct temperament from an outside source like an evaluator, working/sporting test, or real world application such as actual work is not too much work (ensures dog can do what breeder claims they can do as much as possible).
These are like bottom of the barrel expectations for a “responsible” dog breeder. Asking for less is ridiculous. We are responsible for ensuring future dogs are healthy and stable and lowering such expectations below this point is like asking a bar on the floor if it can possibly go lower.
i know the wound man is supposed to be a medical teaching aid but i love that out of context it looks like someone was just like man fuck this one guy in particular
the idea that any space, community, or movement ever needs to be Kept Safe from the Fakers and the Infiltrators has done incalculable damage to every single fight for justice for every single vulnerable or marginalized group.
inform on your neighbors
beware of saboteurs
if you see something, say something
the paranoia is self destructive to creating a community effort for justice. you cannot protest the authority while looking over your shoulder, suspicious and untrusting of your own comrades, always wary of betrayal. and before you think this crazy - this is exactly how the US and USSR rendered their populations impotent to protest increasing fascism.
Twitter users will not survive the winter
Posts by people who don't follow anyone
Did you hear about the dude who dipped his testicles in glitter???
Pretty nuts
let's hear it for buff femmes and flimsy butches! i propose:
- weak butch wednesday
- buff femme friday
happy weak butch wednesday! kiss your local flimsy butch today 😍
happy buff femme friday! 💖💘💞💕 buff femmes may i please swoon into your arms thx
the celebration of flimsy butches and strong femmes goes double for fat femmes and butches! esp if they are trans!!
the snarky gay one is in love with the stoic one.
the snarky gay one is in love with the smooth talking prince.
the snarky gay one is making out with the smooth talking prince in an abandoned shed.
“The Barbie movie is just brand propaganda and you’re giving in to capitalism” I really really don’t care like I REALLY don’t care and btw marx isn’t going to fuck you
Stellina absolutely refuses to cross a doorway if butters is anywhere near it, despite me trying to explain that if you can see the cat then the cat cannot also be sneaking up on you. alas.
People sometimes get very attached to an understanding of disability that is rooted in biology, because they believe that is the only explanation that grants them permission to not function up to society’s punishing, impossible standards. But the reality is that neurotypicality’s punishing standards are not attainable to anyone, and so nobody should feel defective or broken for failing to meet up to them. While it may bring relief for a parent to believe their "pathologically demand avoidant" Autistic child is failing to meet standards because of something neurologically wrong with them, questioning the standards themselves will prove way more fruitful. If your child can’t sleep at night because of test anxiety, the problem might actually be the compulsory nature and high stakes of the test. If a kid screams and thrashes when forced to brush their teeth, comb their hair, and stuff their body into a restrictive, gender normative uniform, the problem might just be the whole forcing part, not the principled resistance of the kid. In the reactions of PDAers we see a body rebelling — against overloaded schedules, uncomfortable sensory stimuli, conformity pressures, and the impossible-to-meet expectations of hyper-individualistic capitalist life. That such rebellion is inconvenient to deal with is the whole point. Lovingly stewarding the life of a child will always be inconvenient. Introducing respect for another person’s needs into your existence will always cost you something, make you ease expectations, break some old rules, abandon some old goals. Adapting your expectations to the way a person actually functions is the sensible, humane approach. And unwaveringly sticking to the same expectations no matter how often those expectations fail is a sign of being unprepared to deal with reality. Who’s the ‘insane’ one in that equation, from a societal perspective? The disabled person who has clarity about who they are and what they cannot do, or the abled person who cannot accept it?
The line between binary and nonbinary trans people is nowhere near as clean as some of yall think it is
