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bibliosaurus

the caaaats

lifeinpoetry

Sweet mother, I cannot weave – slender Aphrodite has overcome me with longing for a girl.

Sappho, from Sappho: A New Translation of the Complete Works tr. Diane Rayor (via lifeinpoetry)

#the more i look at this the more i love it#aphrodite just slam dunked this poor lady into the gay zone#can’t get anything fuckin done today too busy getting wrecked over girls#aphrodite i had some shit to do today i was gonna make a new chiton#aphrodite could you please stop mopping the floor with my face i had chores#not cool#my mom’s not gonna understand this aphrodite#she’s going to be like ‘okay well do the dishes’#HOW CAN I DO THE DISHES WHEN I AM THIS GAY APHRODITE#HOW??

(via rainbowbarnacle)

micdotcom

Donald Trump has come under fire from many people for suggesting American troops in Iraq stole money. Now one of those vets who actually handled the money, Corbin Reiff, is speaking out. Trump recent screw ups have begun to take their toll on his popularity and poll numbers.

lulabo

You also need to know that Renee Elise Goldsberry is 45. (I would have guessed 35, and only that because I know her as Evangeline from One Life To Live and that was a while ago, so I had a frame of reference.) And the reason that’s relevant is: She gave a very emotional speech about how she, essentially, spent what the industry tells women are their Prime Acting Years trying to have children (she ultimately gave birth to one, and adopted one). In acknowledging that she got both the family AND the Tony for which she wished, she was expressing gratitude for her blessings, but also giving a poignant nod to the fact that women SHOULD be told that their prime career years are, in fact, ALL OF THEIR YEARS. Every last damn one of them. (To wit, Jayne Houdyshell, who won for featured role in a play, is 62.) We do not expire when we hit 30, or 35, or anything beyond it. We ripen. WORK.

Heather, Go Fug Yourself (via lulabo)

#we ripen

kelsium

Apparently Clinton wants to “get back into the spirit of 9/12.” Which, if anyone recalls, was a fucking terrible, frightening time to be anywhere in America where you weren’t one of the masses jacking off to war drums. I can’t believe anyone with a clue thinks it’s been long enough that this is a thing you can say without irony. What 19 year old intern contributed that line?

ackb

Actually, I am pretty sure you can blame this one on someone in their 40s or 50s, like me.

I can see how it might sound terrible—I agree it’s an awful soundbite—but I actually really get what she means here. That’s how I remember those days too. There was a sense of political solidarity and connection I’ve never felt at any other time. All over the world people were crying and waving American flags. People I had been brought up to be afraid of—Russians, Chinese, Iranians—were crying right along with us. And here at home we reached out to each other. Everyone was fragile and we were more patient with each other. We talked to neighbors we hadn’t talked to before. There was a quiet hum of understanding on the subway and divisions fell away. There was deep loss and sadness and confusion, but we were in it together.

It was only days later, as details about the suspects began to emerge and there began to be attacks on Muslim Americans (and Sikhs) and the build up to war, that things really turned. And when they turned, they turned to absolute shit, and then suddenly things were ten times worse than they were before.

But it wasn’t like that right after. There was a real moment of hope. Just a moment, but it was there. That’s what she’s talking about.

I’m not at all saying it was that way for everyone. I’m sure there is an enormous range of experiences that differ—that’s what makes it a terrible soundbite. But listening to her talk, man, I know exactly what she means and I absolutely agree.

#well said

micdotcom

Igor Volsky, Deputy Director of the Center for American Progress Action Fund, spent much of yesterday calling out our lawmakers who claim to have thoughts and prayers for the Orlando victims but accepted money from the NRA. Ted Cruz’s tweet may have been the most hypocritical of all.

misterelguapo

We blindfolded 15 homophobes and asked them to hit piñatas with a stick. The piñatas were actually deadly Asian giant hornet nests. What happens next will warm your heart.

gracielovessjesus-deactivated20

This is disgusting bigotry against Christians at its finest.

imcisgender

I love the part where this post never mentioned Christians but you saw the word homophobe and jumped to your own defense anyways.

cas-swift

castironjackelope

A classic post

pleasedestroycomics

Drinking tea. ♪～(´ε｀ )

pleasekeepwarm.com

pleasureheadsalon

Happy 7 years with Pleasure Head Salon, Meredith! We are lucky to have you!!! #pleasureheadsalon #luckyseven

#that's my beautiful best friend in the middle yall #shes the best!#meredith

mooonbride

If you don’t understand why people don’t like the big bang theory, once in an episode the cast was at a comic store browsing and a woman walked in, and one of the leads said “Is she lost?” and that was the joke.

odinsblog

Why is it in Germany you can’t go a hundred yards without appropriately seeing a marker where Jewish families were taken to their death, but in the South you can’t walk a hundred yards without seeing a monument to men who defended slavery? In America, racial tensions have never been repaired. Never even been addressed.

Bryan Stevenson, founder of the Equal Justice Initiative (via odinsblog)

fuckyeahhanandleia

onthursdays

#as much as I love (love) the tension between leia and han on hoth and speculating where it came from (they had sex) #there must have been a couple long months where it was this #han couldn’t keep up the disaffected nonchalance forever he wasn’t even very good at it to begin with #leia couldn’t be guarded and grudging all the time; not when she had this pair of unlikely boys slip into her life #filling the void that was alderaan with laughter and pranks and whining and commentary on how akbar was wearing his whiskers #it becomes a very common sight—commander organa in the hangar; sitting on a barrel or a stack of crates #talking at luke as he does pre-flight checks on the x-wing or keeping up one-sided conversation with han and chewie as they work on the falc #(“do you ever stop talking princess?” han asks once #but it’s fond it’s immeasurably fond and she scrunches up her nose as she tries not to smile #he’s always trying to make her smile) #only one day she looks up from her hands—she had been gesturing with them as she spoke; a habit she picked up from breha #and there’s han #sitting right there his face turned up to her and a look of wondering attention on his face #it’s so startling she falls silent; swallows whatever she had been about to say #“oh I didn’t mean—you don’t have to stop” han says apologetically. “I liked that one.” #“what was I talking about?” leia asks and she feels suddenly hot; stupid—she hates how close he is #how soft his eyes are on her #how he says “non-human labor movements” and then actually leans forward on his elbows and listens #how she can’t help glancing at his mouth sometimes; incidentally #she hates it all she hates how sharp and significant and vital it makes everything she hates how she can’t #stop feeling like something’s been taken out of her #and given to someone else; not a vital organ nothing so essential #but still something she would rather have kept safe in her control #(she wonders what would happen if she leaned forward too)

ineptshieldmaid

Paging @deputychairman

deputychairman

SO RELEVANT TO MY INTERESTS

deadcatwithaflamethrower

I love this photo.

#yes please #star wars #leia and han #otp

helenaofthewilderness-deactivat

Not Famous Enough? Navajo Nation Loses Urban Outfitters Case

The largest tribe in the United States could not prove it was “famous” enough to win a trademark case against the hipster fashion giant.

The Navajo Nation lost two counts in a multi-million dollar lawsuit against Urban Outfitters because the tribe’s trademark is not “famous” enough, the court siding with the fashion giant’s argument that “Navajo” is a generic term for a style or design.

The Indigenous tribe—the largest in the United States—had to prove that the term “Navajo” is “widely recognized by the general consuming public of the United States” to move forward with the trademark dilution case, which few courts have been able to prove, said New Mexico’s District Judge Bruce Black on Friday.

maishazjohnson-blog

This is so shitty.

invisiblelad

this is the text book example of cultural appropriation.

bibliosaurus

Are you KIDDING me

#native americans #navajo #native erasure #this is some bullshit right here #fuck urban outfitters man #just another thing in a long list of them being super shitty

mcdyke-deactivated20171112

being a female means needing to see 10 different doctors to get a proper diagnosis because they always think you’re exaggerating and/or lying

leftiesneedrights

define proper diagnosis. I mean, does that just mean the diagnosis you want?

mcdyke-deactivated20171112

no :) it means going to 10 different doctors who disbelieved your symptoms until the 11th found cysts on your ovaries :) which may mean infertility :) sit on a cactus :)

cobra-23-deactivated20151224

I call bullshit

40yodater

Of course you do. Like the first 10 doctors. 😒

cobra-23-deactivated20151224

I call bullshit on the story. If you think you have an issue you should see a specialist not just your PCP.

40yodater

Like the 4 “specialists” I saw for the crippling numbness in my face and legs I had for over a year while they told me it was “stress”? When it was finally found that I had scars on my brain and spine? Those “specialists” we’re male neurologist who wouldn’t give me an MRI because “women stress too much”. Go fuck yourself.

beesplosion

MY SPINE WAS BROKEN FOR 2 YEARS BECAUSE MY DOCTORS TOLD ME I JUST HAD BAD CRAMPS AND REFUSED TO TAKE XRAYS. FUCK YOU AND YOUR ENTIRE LIFE. WHEN WILL BOYS REALIZE THEIR EXPERIENCES ARENT STANDARD???? I ALSO LOVE THIS IDEA THAT YOU CAN JUST GO TO A SPECIALIST WHENEVER YOU WANT LOL IF OUR PCP DOESNT BELIEVE US WHEN WE TELL THEM OUR SYMPTOMS THEY ARENT GONNA REFER US TO A SPECIALIST YOU FUCKING MOLDY WALNUT

proudly-pro-choice

My parents began noticing something large in my throat, saw a specialist….Guess what? Told me to lose some weight..even though I wasn’t overweight. I would have my period for weeks at a time. Was told that it was teenage hormones and stress.

Two fucking years later I attempted suicide they ran a battery of tests as required and bam! They find out that I have untreated Hashimoto’s. The “thing” was a goiter. Possible symptoms of an untreated thyroid disease is the goiter, unexplained weight gain, and depression. All they had to do was test my blood, but they said young people don’t have thyroid problems. 😒

-Allie

tikkunolamorgtfo

Ten years ago, my mother—who is a pretty tough cookie—started feeling both ridiculously wired, anxious, and incredibly emotional. Every doctor she saw told her she was going through early menopause, even though she was still menstruating. Her health declined to point where she was barely sleeping, losing weight, and crying constantly, which was a huge red flag because my mother never cries. Finally, she went to see another doctor 2.5 hours away who referred her to an endocrinologist. And what did the endocrinologist say? He diagnosed her with one of the most advanced cases of Grave’s Disease he had even seen, and said if she had gone just a few more months without being treated, she could have FUCKING DIED.

Also, it turned out that her thyroid levels had been moving out of the normal range in a progressive pattern for years, but nobody bothered to look at her past test results until after the diagnosis. They would just do a test, see that it was “in the normal range” and leave it at that. She could have caught it before she even had symptoms, instead of basically being accused of having hysteria.

celestial-cat-prince-deactivate

i had a brain aneurysm/hemorrhage ten years ago, doctors still tell me im faking my disability BECAUSE YOU CAN TOTALLY FAKE LIMITED MOVEMENT OF THE LEFT SIDE

symphonicsadness

My sister had intercranial hypertension which was causing headaches, dizzy spells and loss of vision, and you know what the hospital told her? She was being a hysterical girl and making it up. A few weeks later she spent roughly a month in hospital and had several lumbar punctures to relieve her RECORD HIGH spinal pressure that was causing so much strain on her brain and optic nerves she was being sent blind.

fail-sage

Everytime I see this post (and it’s been a good 5/6 times), it has different stories and experiences of women who have been horribly mistreated by doctors and it just blows my mind that this is so big. It’s absolutely disgusting how terribly women are treated in the medical world and something needs to be done about that.

kirawords

my friend lea had back pain, then pain in her legs and feet, and then numbness. despite seeing 7 different doctors over 2 years, by the time they found the cancer it was inoperable. chemo and radiation didn’t work. the cancer spread. she died and left behind a 5 year old daughter.

kaijuno

A few years ago I would go through spells where I literally could not stand on my own and I couldn’t get out of bed. I would be freezing and too weak to eat. I would keep having heart palpitations as well. I got up the money to go to a clinic and they told me it was just stress and to basically just work on chilling out. I saved up money for a few weeks to do this and I pretty much get a “chill out” from them. As time went on it got worse, most noticeably the heart palpitations were happening almost constantly. I went again to a different clinic and was told it was normal and that it was probably stress. They did no tests, and they told me it would “just go away”. Two weeks later I ended up collapsing going down some stairs, and at the hospital it was discovered that I had such severe anemia that my heart could barely keep up with trying to get enough oxygen to my body. I had developed left ventricular hypertrophy (my heart muscle is too big) and because of them ignoring me and dismissing me I’m at a much higher risk of heart attacks and stroke now.

spacebabenumber-25

I went to the doctor with severe intermittent pain in my upper right stomach area that was so bad I had to miss school. Despite the fact that my period has been on a regular 3 month cycle for years, and I still had two months left until my period, my doctor told me it was period related cramps and or indigestion. 2 months later I’m in the hospital getting my gallbladder removed. It was so obstructed that there was gangrene developing my my system.

words-writ-in-starlight

So…everyone who’s given me shit for that one post (about medicine and equal treatment and shit) can just read this because I’m sick of defending my case.

hypergoomba-deactivated20171103

i know this post is already long but here’s a pretty good article about how gender bias in medicine is quite literally killing women. it focuses a lot on heart attacks but it applies to all areas of medicine

slightly-expired-memes

Yeah as someone who spent there entire childhood in chronic pain from bone deformity while being told by every doctor that it was “growing pains” and I was just sensitive I relate too fucking much

bluestar1937

Once I was having trouble breathing and swallowing. I could barely talk it hurt so much.

She immediately told me, before even giving me tests or looking at me, that it was not the flu. I did not even mention the word flu or anything related to it. I just said my throat hurt and I was having trouble breathing and swallowing.

She didn’t even look at my throat. She looked at my ears and told me it was liquid in the ears. She gave me medicine and sent me on my way. The medicine didn’t even have steroids (I have asthma).

A few days later it was so bad I couldn’t even swallow water. My mom and older sister took me to urgent care where the doctor had me stay way past them closing. Him and the nurses were concerned. He said my throat was so closed up he was surprised I was breathing! He and the nurses kept coming to check on me and seeing if the medicine they gave me was working. Around 11 something at night he said I could go home but warned my sister and mom to check on me constantly and if I gave the slightest hint I was struggling to breathe to rush me to the hospital.

The doctor from the urgent care even called me the next day to make sure I was okay. That is how bad it was.

missvetstudent-mba

3 general doctors, 4 specialists, 8 years before anyone thought to do an MRI on my knee. even then, the specialist told me he didn’t see anything, told me I just needed to immobilize my knee for 3 months. didn’t help, neither did PT. funny how when they did an MRI the same time next year, suddenly he saw something. even funnier was when they went into my knee and found out that my meniscus was just basically shredded completely in various places. or we could talk about just in general how women’s pain is downplayed. I completely severed a ligament in my ankle, but they told me that I needed to just take ibuprofen. I took so much to kill the pain that I gave myself a stomach ulcer. fuck anyone who thinks that women don’t have unfair treatment by doctors.

carpetenebras

No you don’t understand how frustrated I am that we always depicted the Apostles as old men, especially when it comes to during-Jesus-alive stuff.

They were probably late teens to early 20s, given the time and the description and some Biblical passages.

They were not ancient old men with long beards and wrinkles at the Last Supper.

They were young adult rebels with a cause.

shadowstep-of-bast

where my punk-rock apostles at

vikingqueen

I can’t remember where, but the bible says that Jesus was the only one who was old enough to pay the temple tax required by Jewish law, none of the disciples had hit that age. A quick google tells me that Jewish men pay it from the age of 20 - all of the disciples were teenagers.

nillions

Not all of them! Matthew 17:24-27 addresses the issue of the temple tax, in which Jesus tells Peter to get a four-drachma piece from a fish’s mouth to account “for my tax and yours”. In addition, Peter is the only person directly mentioned to have a mother-in-law; Jesus heals her in according to three accounts (Matthew 8:14-17, Mark 1:29-31, and Luke 4:38).

So! The “Disciples were ancient old men with long beards and wrinkles" factoid is actually just statistical error. The average disciple was under 20. Simon Peter, who lived with his mother-in-law and his fishing boat and payed the temple tax was an outlier adn should not have been counted.