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Scientist extraordinaire and tabletop RPG enthusiast. Moderately Musical. Part-time cat. Incidentally, if you're looking for a generally amazing person, you should check out this cat here.

[honeyedheartss]

finally finished the comic based on the post by @rollercoasterwords

[wordfather]

shoutout to the guy who created a parody account of cinemasins where instead of pointing out every single flaw in a film, he just pointed out things he liked about the movie. you're so right cinemawins its so much more fun to like things

[lastoneout]

CinemaWins once said "Every movie, with very little exception, is someone's favorite, I like to find out why." and that sentence alone is worth more than every single thing the CinemaSins guys have ever created.

[villagewildflowers]

The legacy of France can and should only be remembered as one utterly stained by (or, more accurately, formed from) its brutal colonialist and imperialist endeavours.

[siwar-fen-deactivated20240307]

@sissa-arrows source (french)

How a massacre of Algerians in Paris was covered up

French police killed at least 100 people in 1961, throwing some of them into the River Seine to drown them.

this part is especially triggering for me, since i learnt this past 17th October, that my Grandmother, who was 15 years old at the time, arrived with her mother at this horrific scene a bit too late and was nearly arrested by the police. I can't imagine what would have happened to her if they had left the house earlier.

[sissa-arrows]

The rare white people who witnessed this on the right side of history said that one of the things they won’t forget is how they fellow white parisians turned into informants for the police and how during all of the night they called the cops on the Algerians who managed to hide or escape.

Over 200 Algerians were killed that night over 500 if you count the one killed in the following nights but thousands more were arrested (over 10000) every single ministry was an accomplice they used to public buses to transport them kept them in a stadium because the precincts were not big enough… While the people killed were men and women, the people arrested were a huge majority of men. So the following days the women and children started calling for a peaceful march to ask for their husbands and fathers to be released. This time they knew that the public opinion wouldn’t look kindly to it if they killed them. So the police instead arrested the women and sent them to a psychiatric hospitals saying they were unstable and needed to be locked inside. Luckily the director was a good man so he refused to lock the women inside the hospital saying they were perfectly sane but he also refused to let the police take them. So he waited until the police left to help the women leave back to their places.

There’s a documentary about it (I don’t remember if the psychiatric hospital was in this documentary or in an other) made by an Algerian woman in the diaspora in France. It’s filled with testimonies and a woman explains that when her husband left for the protest he told her to take care of the children and that if something happened to him she needed to make sure their children would go to school school and be good students. He survived to October 17 but was found and killed by the police on the 19th.

Lastly in 2021 Macron pretended to atone for what happened and with the police prefect they went to pay their respect on the bridge where most of the massacre happened and they went to put flowers. He was the first president doing it. Except after doing it in front of the camera the police then stopped the peaceful march that the survivors and the families of the victims organize every year and they kept them from putting flowers there and pay their respect. Macron did a lot of fucked up shit but pretending to acknowledge a massacre from the police while using the police to stop Algerians from paying their respects to the victims was really the thing that stayed in my mind the most. Nothing says “we actually don’t regret sending the police against a peaceful protest of Algerians and will do it again” as well as sending the police against the peaceful march organized by the descendants of those killed and by the survivors…

[mohabbaat]

december???? what next??? 2024?????

[heidi8]

And an evergreen reminder from a few years ago.

[kittydesade]

[blueteehood]

[beaft]

bringing my little typewriter to work with me is always fun because so many customers do a double take and go "what on earth is that" and then i get to infodump about my best friend the neo alphasmart 3000 who has seen me through many dangers

[goudzwart]

That is such a fascinating device!

Does it just store whatever you're typing on a memory device?

[beaft]

(cracks knuckles) okay SO! this is essentially just a portable keyboard with a screen, it has eight blank documents available to work in (you navigate between them by pressing the file keys at the top). "home" takes you to the top of the page, "end" takes you to the bottom, ctrl-w displays the word count. once you're done with a file, you connect the keyboard to your PC using a cable and press "send" and everything you've written is transferred over. it's an absolute godsend for people like me who get distracted within seconds when writing on a laptop or a phone. you can adjust the text size, but i keep it large because it stops me from going back and editing what i've written. (i'm a firm proponent of the "write now, edit later" method - my first drafts are always crap and i typically don't read through them until the whole thing is done.) also you can pour superglue into it and it still works fine which is a great quality for any electronic device

[brennacedria]

Modern Mina Harker

[ashenprincx]

Everything You Know About Obesity Is Wrong

For decades, the medical community has ignored mountains of evidence to wage a cruel and futile war on fat people, poisoning public percepti

"For 60 years, doctors and researchers have known two things that could have improved, or even saved, millions of lives. The first is that diets do not work. Not just paleo or Atkins or Weight Watchers or Goop, but all diets. Since 1959, research has shown that 95 to 98 percent of attempts to lose weight fail and that two-thirds of dieters gain back more than they lost. The reasons are biological and irreversible. As early as 1969, research showed that losing just 3 percent of your body weight resulted in a 17 percent slowdown in your metabolism—a body-wide starvation response that blasts you with hunger hormones and drops your internal temperature until you rise back to your highest weight. Keeping weight off means fighting your body’s energy-regulation system and battling hunger all day, every day, for the rest of your life.

The second big lesson the medical establishment has learned and rejected over and over again is that weight and health are not perfect synonyms. Yes, nearly every population-level study finds that fat people have worse cardiovascular health than thin people. But individuals are not averages: Studies have found that anywhere from one-third to three-quarters of people classified as obese are metabolically healthy. They show no signs of elevated blood pressure, insulin resistance or high cholesterol. Meanwhile, about a quarter of non-overweight people are what epidemiologists call “the lean unhealthy.” A 2016 study that followed participants for an average of 19 years found that unfit skinny people were twice as likely to get diabetes as fit fat people."

A surprising article to find on the Huffington post. I think, especially towards the end, there's still a saturation of healthism and diet talk (just of the "clean eating" variety), but the information about weight discrimination is absolutely on point, especially within the medical field ignoring decades of research.

Not only do we know that weight loss isn't sustainable or possible, we also know that weight discrimination kills, in a myriad of ways. If you actually care about "health" then start unlearning your weight bias NOW and realize that fat people are just people who are a different shape.

And this article doesn't even touch on "the obesity paradox"(the fact that fat people survive heart attacks and injuries BETTER THAN thin people) or the fact that dieting, especially "yo-yo dieting," is a better predictor for heart disease than weight, and that many of the fat people who have cardiovascular diseases have a long history of dieting that (understandably) didn't work.

encouraged to rb but fatphobes will just be blocked.

[goldenaltar]

okay guys hashtag not sponsored but tonight we went to a market and there was a man. this man's name was SEAN and he sold CERAMICS that happened to be in the trans pride colours and it was definitely an accident but he said "oh cool :)" when i mentioned it and wasn't weird so ally points for that one.

he also told another customer while we were there that he knew his wife was gonna be mad with him because she packed a bunch of paper bags for him to give to customers and he left them in the car which, relatable to us all.

anyway @teacupsandcyanide and i were channeling nadja and lazlo tonight (picture: a short dude in a frilly white shirt and deep blue frock coat, walking arm in arm through the night market with a being of many genders in all black with a witch's hat and a black lace veil over their face.) he told us we were the best dressed people in the market and that he gonna give us a deal because of it. he also told us he was excited because this was his first (!!) market selling his wares.

he was selling teacups for $aud35 a pop and when i went to buy two he gave them to us for $aud50 for the PAIR?? and i was like aw omg thank you :) and i said i wished i could buy more but i just couldn't afford it (not joking: would buy all of my crockery from him if i could.) and then he got a shifty look in his eyes and picked up a tiny milk jug i'd been looking at earlier and told me to TAKE IT??? FOR FREE??? and i was like NO OMG YOU NEED TO MAKE MONEY??? and he insisted and i took it because IT'S SO CUTE. but i'm genuinely concerned that this man may actually be losing money because he's too nice to people, hence this post:

look at his ceramics. feast your eyes.

and follow him on instagram and tiktok. and then i will finally feel i have repaid him.

[teacupsandcyanide]

You forgot that as we were leaving he was like “neither of you happen to be called Georgia, right?” And when we were like “no ??? But tell me more I must know” he showed us one little mug he’d set aside. He’d stamped the name Georgia on the underside and he was like “I’m gonna give it to the first person I meet called Georgia” with such whimsy in his eyes. 10/10 stall holder, top lad Sean

[higgsbison]

Vetinari's Terrier: out

Dearheart's Unusually Large and Completely Blonde German Shepard: in

Set in future where Vimes breaks both his hips on the job and Vetinari's seen with a single gray hair in public and they have to retire.

[psychuan]

i think one of my favourite things about the Ankh-Morpork City Watch books is that "The Crime is not The Crime."

Feet of Clay opens with a murder, but the Crime is the repression of sentient beings.

Jingo opens with an attempted assassination, but the Crime is conspiracy to commit mass murder (also known as war.)

Thud! opens with a conspiracy AND a murder, but the Crime is the the perpetuation of bigotry.

Night Watch opens with a murder, but the Crime is... well at that point the Crime is the injustice of the city.

[snippit-crickit]

GIRLS NIGHT1!!! Angua and Cherri, oh gods i love this duo theyre adorable,,,

i also tried doing a disco elysium and discworld fake screenshot,,, (( i suck at thinking of cool names for things so i took the skills names from @higgsbison post where they did an interactive disco elysium and a discworld crossover !! )) aand some more character interactions, sam and sybil this time

^ ( inspo'd by this post i saw ))

[fourdiagnosesinatrenchcoat]

She would hate this phrasing but my faith in the Church of Granny Weatherwax is being revived by this latest reread of the witches books. Her exchanges with Mightily Oats are so vital.

[arkodian]

This is part of my ongoing Discworld jacket embroidery project. Of course Great A'Tuin has to be on there. And of course it has to be the biggest one of them all.

I'm going to put the finished product in my masterpost, but I'm so proud of the thing that I have to put it in an extra post beforehand. Enjoy!

[wrens-roost]

"This is Ankh-Morpork, you know. We've got extra pronouns here."

GNU Terry Pratchett

[songthursh]

Alright, I will start with this one then - everything starts with the glorious revolution and everything starts with the night watch 🌸

[snippit-crickit]

colored sketch of angua from discworld,,, i love werewolves so much theyre awesome AWOOOOOOO

go girl,,,

[vysogotaofcorvo]

IN A DISTANT and second-hand set of dimensions, in an astral plane that was never meant to fly, the curling star-mists waver and part . . .

See . . .

"GNU Sir Terry Pratchett" - L-Space Wiki / Ursula K. LeGuin / "Terry Pratchett" - Wikipedia / "GNU" - Urban Dictionary / Going Postal by Terry Pratchett / Reaper Man by Terry Pratchett / Brandon Sanderson / Paul Kidby / The Colour of Magic by Terry Pratchett

[higgsbison]

happy glorious 25th of may