The Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA) was just reformed so that disabled people can’t sue public businesses for discrimination because it would be discrimination against that business.
50% of all US murder victims by police officers are disabled
Bathrooms, entryways, seating, parking, and other public spaces are segregated for disabled people
Disabled children are required to go to segregated schools
Disabled people can’t…
- Get married without losing their health insurance which is a death sentence
- Have savings accounts
- Have more than $2000 at any given time
- Own or inherent property
- Own jewelry worth more than $100 or other items worth more than $500 without reporting them to the government
It is legal for a parent to murder a disabled child if they consider that child an undue burden
This is an extremely short list of things you are leaving out of your social justice
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Author: marcythewerewolf
Lotta Tolkien on my dash tonight, lads
Discworld HC: After Jingo, Carrot (raised underground, redhead), Angua (creature of the night, raised in fantasy Germany), and Cheery (underground species of people, also pseudo-German) had terrible sunburns. Carrot was worst off because he chose to take his shirt off in the desert, but all three of them spent several days passing around a pot of aloe Sybil sent and trying to look intimidating to subordinates with their skin peeling off. They’ve lived in Ankh-Morpork, where the primary weather is fog. They didn’t know the sun could do that.
Jaguars Literally Cannot Resist Calvin Klein’s ‘Obsession for Men’
This is 100% real zoo-based research, guys.
Using perfume for scent enrichment isn’t new – it’s pretty common, especially for carnivores – but the idea to study engagement with scent enrichment as a way to facilitate better in-situ conservation research is a really cool new take.
“In 2005, a group of scientists from the nonprofit Wildlife Conservation Society were working with big cats at the Bronx Zoo, conducting perfume trials to figure out which scents would encourage cheek-rubbing in cheetahs, ocelots, snow leopards, and Amur tigers in order to apply their findings in the field. (…)
The researchers found that captive male cheetahs spent an average of almost 15 minutes in contact with objects sprayed with Obsession for Men. (…)
“Since big cats are so elusive and naturally rare, we use a variety of non-invasive techniques like camera trapping and hair snares to study their populations,” said Devlin in a follow-up email. “Researchers may sometimes apply a scent lure to a camera trap, for example, in the expectation that the unusual scent will pique the cat’s curiosity and the cat will linger in front of the camera trap. ”This longer observation period gives scientists a better chance of identifying individual jaguars by the rosette patterns on their fur, which are unique as a fingerprint, Devlin explained.She added that jaguars are drawn to Obsession for Men because they’re curious and want to mark their territory by adding their own scent through cheek-rubbing.”
It’s not the perfume itself that the cats are into, though – it’s the binder, which contains a synthetic version of a molecule found in civet scent-gland excretions.
Jaguars Literally Cannot Resist Calvin Klein’s ‘Obsession for Men’
lifethe-universe-andeverything:
Since I’m a giant Classics nerd I made some Greek pottery inspired Easter eggs
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By copyrighting his property as an artwork, he has prevented oil companies from drilling on it.
Peter Von Tiesenhausen has developed artworks all over his property in northern Alberta. There’s a boat woven from sticks that is gradually being reclaimed by the land; there is a fence that he adds to each year of his life, and there are many “watching” trees, with eyes scored into their bark.
Oil interests pester him continually about drilling on his land. His repeated rebuffing of their advances lead them to move toward arbitration. They made it very clear that he only owned the top 6 inches of soil, and they had rights to anything underneath. He then, off the top of his head, threatened them that he would sue damages if they disturbed his 6 inches, for the entire property is an artwork. Any disturbance would compromise the work, and he would sue.
Immediately after that meeting, he called a lawyer (who is also an art collector) and asked if his intuitive threat would actually hold legally. The lawyer visited, saw the scope of the work on the property, and wrote a document protecting the artwork.
The oil companies have kept their distance ever since.
This is but one example of Peter’s ability to negotiate quickly on his feet, and to find solutions that defy expectations.
I feel like this is really important.
Art as resistance
“Developments in the twentieth century turned attention away from these consolations of religion for the parents of gravely ill children. Massive public health campaigns during the first half of the century largely dropped nineteenth-century religious rhetoric to emphasize how childhood deaths were preventable through voluntary human action. Talk of God’s will was replaced by talk of proper medical and hygienic interventions. Public health nurses and doctors increasingly viewed acceptance of God’s will not as an important spiritual goal but rather as a sign of fatalism, inadequate willpower, or a failure to appreciate the benefits of modern medicine.”
— Janet Golden and Emily K. Abel, “Modern Medical Science
and the Divine Providence of God: Rethinking the Place of Religion in
Postwar U.S. Medical History” (2014)
So I stumbled onto the Etsy shop of this academic who–in real life–is an expert on cuneiform–and on the side, makes little trinkets with Sumerian on them and OH MAN THIS SHOP HAS MADE MY ENTIRE WEEK
For the price of about thirty bucks, you too can have a clay necklace that says “Like a farting butt, the mouth brings forth too many words” in the oldest written language on earth
https://www.etsy.com/listing/537034173/choose-your-words-carefully-like-a?ref=shop_home_active_23Or a necklace that declares “I have ferocious features that exude sexiness”
https://www.etsy.com/listing/540406774/i-have-ferocious-features-that-exude?ref=shop_home_active_54Or be the ultimate hipster and anti-capitalist before capitalism even existed with “Wanting more riches when already wealthy offends the gods”
https://www.etsy.com/listing/543598245/wanting-more-riches-when-already-wealthy?ref=shop_home_active_6Sumerian erotic poetry? Got it. Sumerian drinking songs? Yep. A little something for everyone on your Akitu gift list.
Guys, if you’re interested in acquiring your own cuneiform tablets, I highly recommend that you check out this shop. It’s a great way of getting accurate replicas while both supporting an academic’s work, and, most importantly, avoiding the trade of real, often illegally acquired artefacts. You get your tablet that says “beer is good, travel is bad”, and the real tablets stay in museums where they belong – it’s a win-win situation.
(Little reminder that if you’re near Geneva, Switzerland on 27-28th April, you can make your very own cuneiform tablets, hieroglyphic papyri and much more at our ancient festival!)
Get one that says “Copper ingots, highest grade purity, quality 100% guaranteed!”
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