Time 2 get spoopy

goryfluff:

Nautilus expedition live streams (+ their commentary)
2020 / 2021 / 2022

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jumpingjacktrash:

hey i have a question for millennials and zoomers: did y'all grow up thinking you have to save the world single-handedly?

i’m not trying to be a dick, i genuinely want to know what happened here. cuz gen x mostly grew up thinking we’d die of nukes or reaganomics or aids before we hit thirty, and i’m wondering if our sorta… traumagenic failure to plan? … has somehow resulted in this crusader mentality and like scrupulosity epidemic i’m seeing around now.

did we do this?

As a millennial, with the way we (and later Zoomers) were treated by… Pretty much everyone made it very clear we couldn’t rely on our parents or grandparents generations to help us. There’s also the fact that millennials in particular were in the weird inbetween stage of “no internet” to “internet is everywhere”, so we had to learn to deal with all this information and community older generations didn’t have.

Granted, I’m looking at this from a white, working/lower-middle class upbringing; I’m sure non-white millennials/Zoomers might have had a different experience.

abnerkrill:

Lori Petty in Tank Girl (1995)

@camillacantdance

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nataliewynn:

I know you’re all very busing inventing the genders, but I posted a new video uwu

spadesandforks asked:

Quarterly reminder that I wuvvv you and you're wonderful.

I’m awful at taking compliments, but thank you! I love you too!!

macgyvermedical:

Just a heads up:

If you are on Medicaid in the US you probably have not had to renew your coverage since March of 2020.

You WILL have to renew this year. The first renewal packets are getting sent out this month (March 2023). If you do not respond to them your Medicaid coverage will be terminated.

If your coverage is terminated, you have 90 days to appeal before you need to start the whole application process over again.

Please watch for this packet and fill it out if you get it! Don’t lose your coverage!

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the-sappho-of-lesbos:

Source - Stolen Glances: Lesbians Take Photographs

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spadesandforks asked:

TBF, I think the real concern is the lack of Jim Hanson puppets in Shrek 1984.

Also Warwick Davis

spongebobssquarepants:

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charlesoberonn:

xiranjayzhao:

Video Source

The French president Macron is trying to raise their retirement age from 62 to 64 (and 67 for some?). French people have protested peacefully for 2 months but yesterday his government went ahead and invoked an article in their constitution that allows them to force the bill past the National Assembly without letting its deputies vote on it. Now Paris is burning ☺️

The trash collectors have gone on strike and so 7000+ tons of garbage has been piling up in the streets, then they get set on fire by protestors at night ☺️

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If you’re wondering - “Retirement age at just 64 and they’re burning shit down? In my country I can’t retire until 65/67/70+!!”

French people have kept it low BECAUSE they burn shit down if it’s threatened ☺️

Macron should be glad they’re not pulling out the guillotines.

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doberbutts:

Unbiased Condition: Why Some Men Appear to Have Polycystic Ovary Syndrome - Endocrine News

It is believed that polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) can impact up to 10% of women but according to new genetic research presented in March

Endocrine News

Here it’s an expanded article talking about the same study but it doesn’t say “-like” in the headline 😘

Anyway there’s an amab version of PCOS and discovering that amab people can have PCOS without having ovaries was actually A Really Big Deal because it’s helping doctors figure out how better to treat it because, obviously, continuing to treat the symptom of the ovaries is not working probably because it’s possible the “ovary” part is not as critical as once thought because a whole subset of people get the bulk of these symptoms with the same genetic markers but don’t have ovaries.

I love how when I provide sources people act like they’re allergic to words and reading.

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ilovedirt:

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weaver-z:

Fondly remembering the time that a cat owner casually entered their calico Maine Coon in a cat fancier’s competition and the judges lost their minds because the cat was 1) male and 2) able to bear children

Anyway here’s Dawntreader Texas Calboy as a silly lil kitten

Here’s an excerpt from one of the articles about the drama his entry caused among the Cat Fanciers that I thought was very earnest and sweet <3

And also some of Calboy’s children!

@pangur-and-grim

He is fearfully and wonderfully made!

ALT

I was about to say he would technically be an intersex king (not because I dislike the concept of trans cats, just bc intersex rep is sorely needed too) but I did some more reading on this icon and actually found the article OP referenced.

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He’s not your usual male calico kitty as it turns out. That’s already cool and rare, but he’s even cooler and rarer than that!

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Calboy is a chimera!! Which is really fucking cool of you ask me. The chances of having a male calico this way are slim to none, but the mad lad still exists! What an icon. I would die for Calboy.

Everyone in the tags of this post @ cat show judges

Originally I was looking for an adult picture of Calboy

(He’s so pretty 🥰)

But I also found a source for the article screenshotted above! And folks it’s WILD. It’s an incredibly interesting read if you happen to love hearing about niche hobby drama. It’s also just a fantastically written article!

The parts I find the most interesting are about how conservative the cat fanciers association is. This isn’t even all of the parts that talk about that.

People are so mad about this cat spefically because he has female colors. An animal who couldn’t choose how it was born. This is happening in Texas by the way. Hm. I wonder how they treat trans people over there?

Reblogging again for this crucial addition

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gemsofgreece:

Newly exhibited photos from the project Ένδυμα Ψυχής - Raiment of the Soul,  collaboration of photographer Vangelis Kyris and Bulgarian embroidery artist Anatoli Georgiev who present Greek traditional costumes, which are exhibits of the National Historical Museum of Greece. The exhibition is currently hosted in the Acropolis Museum, until March.

1. Attire of King Otto of Greece, 19th century.
2. Dress from Nisyros island, 19th century.
3. Dress from Zakynthos (Zante) island, 18th century.
4. Attire of Dimitris Mavromichalis, aide-de-camp of King Otto.
5. Attire of Stavros Tournikiotis, 19th century.
6. Urban dress of Old Athens, 18th century.
7. Dress from Zagori, 19th century.
8. Urban attire, 19th century.

See more photos of the project  x, x, x and x. 

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weirdmageddon:

the same person who leaked the no fly list earlier this year just published 2600 pages of email communications from 2019-2021 between known hate groups and conservative officials in the government and their intentional effort to dehumanize trans people. not making this shit up. holy fucking bingle moment

the emails - 2600 pages of hate

a collection of emails from 2019-2021 between dozens of anti-trans expert witnesses, US right-wing lawmakers and conservative legal groups

maia :3

i dont recommend looking through this for your own sanity but this should be spread everywhere, they’re caught in 4k happy womens day yall <3 undeniable proof of transphobes inciting manufactured moral panic and trying to strip away human rights

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lytefoot:

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hexpress:

gwyoi:

ty for stealing this one much appreciated

people in the notes suggesting it was “improper” for the juror to do this or that it “introduced bias” to the court proceeding 🙄 the ice agent in question accused a moc of assaulting him / resisting arrest. how is the agent being a white supremacist not relevant. what universe are you living in

Juror fined $11,227 after googling ICE officer's peculiar uniform patch | Boing Boing

A juror was held in criminal contempt and fined more than $11k for researching his case online. The man, named as Stephen Miele, told other

Boing Boing

As a member of the world’s SECOND oldest profession, I assure you this is just one of many ways the justice system is systematically fucked up.

For anyone who wants to know how to fact check something you are told while on jury duty without getting fined:

First, you need to understand that the rule that jurors can’t just google things is coming from a good place. Like imagine that you are on a jury that’s considering, say, a medical malpractice lawsuit and one of your fellow jurors comes into the jury room and says to you, “I think the victim’s expert was lying because WebMD totally contradicts everything they said.”

And you might be like, “But WebMD is notoriously unreliable website and the expert you’re talking about is a researcher from Mayo Clinic.” But this person cannot be swayed.

Like, we can all agree that would be bad.

So even though these rules can contribute to unjust outcomes as in the case above (and seriously, the fact that the defense attorney didn’t fact check that is probably grounds for legal malpractice), they also prevent jurors from just looking up bullshit online and taking it more seriously than the actual experts the court has put on. And I think in the era of anti-vaxxers/QAnon/COVID denial/etc., we can all understand why it’s a bad idea to trust that people can tell fact from bullshit online.

So in light of this, how do you as a juror fact check something?

The key here is that you have to ask the court for information. Jurors can ask questions of the court during deliberations, so if something you said sounds off to you, you can ask for more information.

The key term you want to use here is “credibility.”

The job of a jury is to decide what are called “questions of fact.” Long before the trial even starts, lawyers will have hashed out all the “questions of law” — like, what the statute of limitations is; what laws, exactly, were allegedly broken; whether the court you’re in even has jurisdiction; stuff like that. Jurors are responsible for deciding which side’s version of the facts has more credibility.

For instance, if the prosecution’s witness says X and the defense’s witness says Y, the jury is responsible for deciding which is true, X or Y. And you do this by weighing which one is more credible.

So in this case, if the juror had known to, he could have told the judge, “In order to properly assess the ICE agent’s credibility, I need more information about his tattoo. I have doubts about whether he was telling the truth about it, which would impact how credible I would find his testimony. Can the agent please provide evidence that it really is what he says it is?”

There are a lot of problems with our legal system, and I think one of the biggest is that jurors aren’t educated about what they can and can’t do. Juries have a lot of power, if (and only if) they know how to use it.

Reblogging for that last post, because frankly, “what to do as a juror” is one of those things the schools should really be teaching us. Serving on a jury is one of the most powerful rights of citizenship and everyone should be educated in how to exercise it correctly.

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