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I know that “MFG” is an abbreviation of “Manufacturing” but literally every time I see it my brain reads it as “motherfucking”, and I honestly prefer it that way

#sorry not sorry #orchestra

through-a-historic-lens

On 28 January 1917, Carmelita Torres, a 17-year-old Mexican maid who worked in the United States, refused to take the mandatory gasoline bath given to day labourers at the border, and convinced 30 other trolley passengers to join her.

Her protest spread in what became known as the bath riots. Torres was one of many workers who crossed the border between Juarez and El Paso each day. In the name of public health, Mexican workers were frequently subjected to degrading and humiliating treatment. They had to strip naked, brave, undergo a toxic gasoline bath, and have their clothes steamed. The stated aim of the programme was to kill lice, which can spread typhus. However, it was not applied to everyone crossing the border: just working class Mexicans.

In addition to gasoline being poisonous, it was also a deadly fire risk. A group of prisoners in El Paso being treated with gasoline were burned to death in an accidental fire. Furthermore, US health workers were secretly photographing naked Mexican women.

On January 28, anger at the practice finally exploded, and within a few hours Torres had amassed a crowd of several thousand mostly women protesters. They blocked all traffic and trolleys into El Paso. They pelted immigration officers with rocks and bottles when they try to disperse them, and when US and then Mexican troops arrived they received the same treatment. The riots were eventually suppressed by the soldiers, and Torres herself was arrested. This appeared to have the effect of discouraging future protests.

The enforced bathing and fumigation of Mexican workers with toxic chemicals like gasoline, and later DDT and Zyklon B, continued until the 1950′s. The use of Zyklon B at the border appealed to scientists in Nazi Germany, who in the late 1930′s began using the agent at borders and in concentration camps for delousing. Although notoriously they later used it to exterminate millions of people in the Holocaust.“

escarabangel

@ the gringos in the notes whining about how they didnt know this and how their education system is shit…

1- the US consistently ranks higher than mexico in education

2- WE dont use that excuse, no one else but you does. google is free, shut the fuck up

3- if youve ever used that excuse you are now legally obligated to read about the following (on the internet, which again is free and you have access to)

operation condor

jacobo arbenz and how the US installed a brutal dictatorship in guatemala in order to turn the country into a banana republic

banana republics in general (no, not the brand)

the school of the americas + how the US government is directly responsible for most of the violence we have had to face in latinoamerica

the tlatelolco and corpus christi massacres (see above)

the mexican dirty war (see above)

the 43 missing students of ayotzinapa and the CIA and DEA’s role in the mexican drug war + the mérida initiative/plan mexico(see above)

the plaza de mayo mothers + the death flights and how the US put both Videla and Pinochet in power (see above)

how the nazis based the holocaust off of the genocide of indigenous peoples comitted by the US (this is something that the nazis EXPLICITLY stated, btw.)

how the US’s response to the jewish refugee crises of the 1930s led to more people dying in the holocaust

operation paperclip

the US-backed dictator fulgencio batista + all of the atrocities that he was comitting in cuba before the cuban revolution

most if not all of these have articles on wikipedia (i linked them), which again you can access for free RIGHT NOW. if you fail to do this i will hack you to pieces and feed you to the dogs. you have no excuses for being ignorant

infinite-archive

derinthescarletpescatarian

And that's what's great about it

only-tiktoks

hamletthedane

Best part is the background commentary from the other seventh graders:

Student 1: How does he do that???

Student 2, in a bored tone: he’s gay, he can do anything 🙄

jaskaliina

man this is so funny

Someone apparently got in the habit of tying the hair that broke free of their bow around their violin’s scroll and I couldn’t help but notice a strong resemblance

infinite-archive

centrally-unplanned

Lmao how is this real, "the ambient sounds of the world were wrong, sir"

brady-like-the-bunch

Imagine paying Columbia-amounts of money to be taught by someone with kindergarten-level art literacy. Like, motherfucker, the wholeass point of 4’33” is to emphasize how every performance of live music is inextricably linked to the ambient sounds of the context in which it is performed!!!!!!! Paying attention to and thinking about the context of the performance is the point of the song!!!! If the point was to hear birds chirping and people walking, John Cage would have fucking recorded that instead. Insisting that art is only good when contains good things and makes you feel good things is baby-level art criticism. How the fuck is this dude a professor.

brady-like-the-bunch

Actually I’m not done going off yet. This pisses me off so much. How can you teach the humanities and be so obstinately ignorant? Like bruh, if the chanting outside makes you feel uncomfortable and upset, maybe you should take about four and a half minutes to contemplate why you feel that way. During that time, you might consider things such as: why are there students chanting? What are they protesting? Why do they feel so strongly about this issue that they’re willing to disrupt their lives to bring attention to it? Should I also feel as strongly? Should I be protesting with them? Is my desire for silence more important than the students’ desire for justice? Why do I find the noise they’re making more upsetting than the genocide they’re protesting?

Being like “loud noise make me angy 😠” is so fundamentally incurious and baby-brained it’s honestly unbelievable

running-in-circles-tonight

Ugh I want to do something slutty

adventuresinstringrepair

Try listening to Mozart’s canon for three voices in B-Flat Major (K. 233/382d)

🫤

hezekiahwakely

I am extremely alarmed that someone managed to dig up this footage of me from college, and even more disturbed that they took the time to digitally edit it so that I am using a German bow

#bass #bassist #seriously tho I am a sewer possum and proud of it #orchestra #string instruments

adventuresinstringrepair

Is it just me, or does this viola have particularly child-bearing hips?

Talk about being generous on the low end… 😉

feiolinydd

Isn't that a Tertis-style viola? Makes it easier to shift to higher positions.

adventuresinstringrepair

I have no idea, but the fact that I keep misreading that as “Tetris” is making me chuckle

mischievousquokka

hold on let me google* something

*quack!

mischievousquokka

Okay this is... awesome actually.

There's this really nice video of a guy (probably a great viola player, they're one of the most overlooked species on the planet) who explains about Tertis and his specific viola type.

He also mentions John White's biography about Lionel Tertis. You can actually find that thing in book stores online, btw. Choose wisely.

He basically stated that op is perfectly right, more corpus is the core defining feature of the Tertis viola. It's got wider hips so it slaps harder. It's also thiccer for that purpose specifically. And I wish I was making this up. The objective was to give it a more piercing sound, like solo instruments require. When the sound is more mellow in general, your go for blunt force. And it goes twice as hard.

adventuresinstringrepair

Okay, so I went back and looked at the label, but there’s nothing on it about being modeled after Tertis viola, at least that I can recognize

And I also compared it to another viola of the same size to see if it was thicker, and weirdly, it only was at the bottom end

adventuresinstringrepair

Is it just me, or does this viola have particularly child-bearing hips?

Talk about being generous on the low end… 😉

feiolinydd

Isn't that a Tertis-style viola? Makes it easier to shift to higher positions.

adventuresinstringrepair

I have no idea, but the fact that I keep misreading that as “Tetris” is making me chuckle

mischievousquokka

hold on let me google* something

*quack!

mischievousquokka

Okay this is... awesome actually.

There's this really nice video of a guy (probably a great viola player, they're one of the most overlooked species on the planet) who explains about Tertis and his specific viola type.

He also mentions John White's biography about Lionel Tertis. You can actually find that thing in book stores online, btw. Choose wisely.

He basically stated that op is perfectly right, more corpus is the core defining feature of the Tertis viola. It's got wider hips so it slaps harder. It's also thiccer for that purpose specifically. And I wish I was making this up. The objective was to give it a more piercing sound, like solo instruments require. When the sound is more mellow in general, your go for blunt force. And it goes twice as hard.

adventuresinstringrepair