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Blind people must save a lot on electricity.

They do actually!

I had a blind professor, last semester, and I swung through his office to make up an exam. It was a while before I knew he was in there because he was sitting with the lights off. I finally went in, apologized, and took the exam by the light of a nearby window (which was fine). Forty-five minutes into dead silence he panicked and yelled in this booming voiced, “WAIT, YOU CAN SEE!!!” before diving across his desk to turn on the lights. I’m sure he was embarrassed but I thought it was endearing and it highlighted a large aspect of disabled life that I hadn’t previously considered.

hotmolasses

Sort of relatedly I once had professor who was deaf, but she had learned to read lips and speak so she could communicate easily with hearing people who didn’t know sign language. One day she had gotten off topic and was talking a little about her personal life, so that one of the students said “Oh, I know, I grew up in Brooklyn too.”

She stared at him for a long time and then said “How do you know I’m from Brooklyn?”

And he said “You have a Brooklyn accent.”

She said “I do?” and the whole class nodded, and then she burst out laughing and said “I had no idea! The school where I learned to speak was in Brooklyn. I learned by moving my mouth and tongue the way my teachers did. So I guess it makes sense that I have their accent, I just never thought about it.”

wrote-my-own-deliverance

My moms a sign language interpreter, and she’s signed with people from all over the US. According to her, when she signs with people from the south they sign with a “drawl.” They have slower hand movements and exaggerate certain parts of the sign. People from the Midwest sign very fast and people from the south sign very slow.

So we were at a restaurant once and my mom started interpreting for someone who was trying to order and she was like “oh you’re from the south!”

And they were like “how did you know that?”

And she said “you sign with a drawl.” And they were really surprised that it came through that much.

It’s really interesting that even when not speaking verbally accents and heritage come through.

urbanfantasyinspiration

Humans are so fucking fascinating

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kpfun

Bonus:

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plant-folk

The full rotation of the Moon as seen by NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter.

frogmp3

she is WHAT? sickening

lookskindadeadinside

I’m not even kidding I teared up a lil

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mom

starshein

This is the most beautiful thing I’ve ever seen

YOURE TELLING ME THIS IS WHAT THEY’VE BEEN SHOOTING PROTESTERS WITH????

katjohnadams

YEP! These are meant to be skipped into the ground and then spin into people’s legs and dissuade people from advancing or move them away. FIRING THEM AT PEOPLE’S HEADS IS 100% AGAINST THE PROPER USE. AND THEY ARE SHOOTING THESE AT MEDICS. DOCTORS, EMTS, AND NURSES. AT CLOSE RANGE. THESE CAN BREAK YOUR SKULL. THEY ARE NOT A JOKE. THIS IS LESS LETHAL LIKE A BASEBALL BAT IS LESS LETHAL THAN A SWORD. BOTH STILL CAN KILL.

scottishwobbly

I only found out today they’re meant to be fired at the ground to bounce back at protesters… I don’t think I’ve ever seen the cops use them that way

thatdiabolicalfeminist

They’re also often actually metal with a thin coating of rubber.

ms-demeanor

Hi.

Your buddy from the ammo industry here.

1) these are absolutely not supposed to be fired directly at people, they are supposed to be fired indirectly.

2) they can kill and seriously injure people

3) this type of “rubber bullet” (often called a “foam baton” or “rubber baton” round) is a lightweight projectile that will nonetheless fuck you up. I’ve loaded and worked with foam batons and rubber shot for a long time and in all the time I’ve worked with people who were loading and firing rubber bullets with police departments I’ve never encountered any version of a 37 or 40mm baton round that has a “thin layer of rubber over a metal core,” which is a description I’ve seen a lot of in the last few days and wanted to correct.

nevercure

And yet…

ms-demeanor

Yep, ACAB.

What I will say, and I know it’s cold comfort, is that everyone in photos like these has an incredible case against these PDs because the rounds they’re firing say right on the casing that they’re not to be fired except by properly trained users in appropriate ways so either this is a trained person who ignored the training and can be held liable or this is an untrained person whose department should be held liable

They 100% know this is not how these are supposed to be used and they are intentionally misusing them in ways they are aware make the weapons more lethal and will later claim they didn’t know better. They’re lying, and everyone should know they’re lying.