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[guerrillatech]

[cryptid-sighting]

People opening a box that needs a knife using their bare hands

[lino-nyangi]

you can watch the documentary on the tantura massacre (1948) for free on youtube here. no disturbing footage but a lot of important testimonies.

[moneystcroix]

how the hell did i manage to log into this acct i'm so confused

[rickieedd]

Let’s hear for a woman who had to spend many years hiding that she lended her voice to a doll that has spend the last 60 years inspiring young girls.

[neonprotagonist]

her name is chris anthony lansdowne! dont worry, op didnt omit her name, tumblr formatting just makes it so that its cut from the photoset!

[vague-humanoid]

'Symbols of white supremacy': Judge refuses to end taxpayer funding for Confederate statues

A federal judge sided with Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and dismissed a lawsuit seeking to end taxpayer funding for Confederate tributes.The la

The lawsuit filed by Jacksonville resident Earl Johnson Jr. claimed that using taxpayer money to fund Confederate monuments violated the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and sought a declaratory judgment against DeSantis and mayor Lenny Curry, reported First Coast News.

"These monuments are symbols of white supremacy ideology," Johnson said. "These monuments were put up during Jim Crow and reconstruction times. This isn't about history."

DeSantis and Curry filed a motion to dismiss the complaint in October, but it was struck down a day later. The judge granted an amended motion to dismiss last month because Johnson had not shown "he has sustained or is in immediate danger of sustaining a direct injury associated with Confederate tributes on public land."

[skyorange223]

Turn your face away

[thundergrace]

For the First Time Ever, Human Rights Campaign Officially Declares ‘State of Emergency’ for LGBTQ+ Americans; Issues National Warning and Gu

June 6, 2023

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) — the nation’s largest lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ+) civil rights organization — officially declared a state of emergency for LGBTQ+ people in the United States for the first time in its more than 40-year history, following an unprecedented and dangerous spike in anti-LGBTQ+ legislative assaults sweeping state houses this year. A new report released by HRC today — LGBTQ+ Americans Under Attack [.pdf]— details more than 75 anti-LGBTQ+ bills that have been signed into law this year alone, more than doubling last year’s number, which was previously the worst year on record.

[moneystcroix]

tumblr had randomly nuked this blog for me and apparently just as randomly returned it but anyways, i'd already moved on over at @krakhatoa if u want to keep in touch

[moneystcroix]

tumblr had randomly nuked this blog for me and apparently just as randomly returned it but anyways, i'd already moved on over at @krakhatoa if u want to keep in touch

[moneystcroix]

tumblr had randomly nuked this blog for me and apparently just as randomly returned it but anyways, i'd already moved on over at @krakhatoa if u want to keep in touch

[moneystcroix]

tumblr had randomly nuked this blog for me and apparently just as randomly returned it but anyways, i'd already moved on over at @krakhatoa if u want to keep in touch

[moneystcroix]

tumblr had randomly nuked this blog for me and apparently just as randomly returned it but anyways, i'd already moved on over at @krakhatoa if u want to keep in touch

[moneystcroix]

tumblr had randomly nuked this blog for me and apparently just as randomly returned it but anyways, i'd already moved on over at @krakhatoa if u want to keep in touch

[normal-horoscopes]

Among puritan Christians in the 1840s, many believed that material disease was due to material sin. You do bad things and you get sick.

This eventually morphed into the idea that spiritual disease is therefore caused by spiritual sin. I.e. you think bad things, you go insane.

John Harvey Kellogg was an innovator. He sort of blended the two, popularizing a new category; the physiological sin. Eating unhealthy, disrupting the natural balance of the body, is a sin against the natural order of the body as God ordained it, and he punishes us with chronic illness.

[normal-horoscopes]

His followers were banned from:

Sex, masturbation, all meat, salt, grease, fat, dance, gambling, coffee, tea, alcohol, or warm water of any kind.

[cheerycheesecake]

why warm water????

[normal-horoscopes]

Excites the body. JHK considered man's natural state to be an unfeeling resting neutrality. All biological excitement was a sin.

[normal-horoscopes]

Yes. The cereal guy. As in Kellogg's Cereal. That guy.

[salamencerobot]

.... That explains the whole "bland cereal means no sex" idea, to be fair.

[blessedetherealfae]

Actually incorrect!!!!! His BROTHER was the Kellogg cereal guy - literally took the shitty bland-ass flakes he made with John before John started his own sanitarium (think of the old equivalent of a detox/cleanse luxury spa) and put sugar on them, and thus “Frosted Flakes” were born!!

[normal-horoscopes]

That's not correct. Both of them worked at the Battle Creek Sanitarium, which was established in 1866.

John Harvey Kellogg invented Corn Flakes, William Kieth Kellogg was a factory owner and designed the factory process to mass-produce them, and thus held the patent. In 1897 they started the Sanitary Food Corporation.

W.K. Kellogg knew the cereal would be more marketable if they put sugar in it. J.H. Kellogg thought that was a sin. The two had a falling out in 1906 over this, and W.K. split to form the Battle Creek Toasted Corn Flake Company, which later became the Kellogg Company.

[blessedetherealfae]

Oh thank you for the corrected info!!!

[normal-horoscopes]

I didn't read two whole biographies on this enema obsessed weirdo for people to be Slightly Wrong On The Internet About Him.

[halfricanloveyou]

please @normal-horoscopes expand on that enema thing. u can’t just mention that and not tell us.

[normal-horoscopes]

John Harvey Kellogg was obsessed with enemas. He was an early proponent of studying gut bacteria. He even worked at the Pasteur Laboratory in Paris for a while.

In 1936, he filed a petition for his invention of improvements to an "irrigating apparatus particularly adaptable for colonic irrigating."

Basically, he invented a chair that would pump water up your ass at over a gallon a minute, often followed by a half-pint of yogurt.

The irrigator was INCREDIBLY popular, notable people who used the irrigator were the likes of: Amelia Airhart, George Bernard Shaw, J.C. Penny, President William Howard Taft, Thomas Edison, and C.W. Post.

[yeehawcowbi]

CT I know you didn’t just say that the guy who was afraid of masturbation and warm water made a chair that blasted yogurt up your ass please say sike

[normal-horoscopes]

He also patented several designs for chastity cages.

[bogleech]

If you’re puritanical enough you just loop back around to a freak.

[normal-horoscopes]

Quick correction on this post: I stated that The Irrigator could pump water up an ass at a gallon a minute. This is inaccurate. It could pump water up an ass at more than four gallons per minute, faster than most industrial power washers.

[theprofessional-amateur-deactiv]

I came across a series of letters from his Battle Creek Sanitarium a few months ago (I’m an archivist) right as my boss walked by. He inquired if I had found anything fun recently.

Long story short, that was a conversation that started with “please don’t call hr, but I am gonna hardcore info dump about John Harvey Kellogg to you and I am gonna warn you, it is gonna get wild”

[cybermax]

Watch The Road to Wellville . It’s about that freak. It’s wild.

[rongzhi]

winter in northern china

[ponyboyfaceshopping]

by Gerard Donelan

[hormelfoods]

For historical context, this is about making a panel for the AIDS quilt, a memorial project which began in San Francisco in 1985. Due to the stigma surrounding both homosexuality and AIDS during this time, victims of the epidemic were often cremated and disposed of or buried without ceremony, their bodies unclaimed by their families or origin or held by hospitals rather than released to same-sex partners.

Each panel in the AIDS quilt memorializes a life lost to the disease. Each panel is 3′ x 6′ (approximately 1 meter wide and 2 meters long), the approximate dimensions of a cemetery plot. The quilt, which then consisted of 1,920 panels representing 1,920 individuals lost to AIDS, was first displayed in Washington DC in 1987. The public response was immediate, positive, and overwhelming, and the quilt began taken around the country to be displayed in more cities. At each stop, the names of the dead were read out loud. At each stop, more panels were added.

By the time the quit returned to the US capital in 1988, it had more than 8,000 panels.

The quilt continues to grow. Today, it has over 50,000 panels memorializing over 100,000 of our dead. It’s too large now to physically display in its entirety, but you can view the entire thing online. There are also curated virtual displays of just panels which honor the Black and native people killed by the virus because in the US (and likely abroad, although I don’t know enough about public health elsewhere to say so with confidence), communities of color are disproportionately impacted by epidemics, as we have seen time and time again.

You can learn more about the quilt and its history here, and you can learn how to add a panel to the quilt here.

[everythingfox]

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