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With @staff 's recent post saying 1/4 of this site is LGBTQ going around, I'd like to see what the actual demographic is
So!
would you identify yourself as:
LGBTQ+
not LGBTQ+
unsure/questioning
Please reblog for bigger sample size!
Let's have the conversation about UBI.
Let the actual data and facts end the bad faith arguments.
I was a participant of the now cancelled UBI pilot in Ontario Canada. I was happier, safer, was able to move and work at better jobs.
And oops there it is. Better jobs.
Better jobs
It's a class barrier. They need a poverty class to function
#people being able to leave jobs that maltreat them is a threat to capitalism
Being able to force every last job in existence to make itself sufficiently respectful, acceptable, and worthwhile to the worker that someone will choose to do it when NOT goaded by the threat of starvation is probably both the greatest positive effect UBI would accomplish AND the real reason it faces so much opposition.
We celebrate the purported geniuses who discovered the cure--but we don't acknowledge that discovering a cure means nothing unless and until we get the cure to the people who need it--an enterprise we've failed at to a remarkable degree over the last 70 years.
Also barely any people know that one of the biggest contributors to preventing and tackling tuberculosis was a trans man named Alan Hart. He was able to save countless lives in the 1900s despite an onslaught of transphobia that followed him wherever he went.
After transitioning in 1917, Alan L. Hart helped alter medical history
[OPâs image is the office whiteboard meme with the text: Since 1958, when tuberculosis became curable, the disease has killed more people than died in World Wars 1 and 2 combined. And yet we don't study it in our history textbooks, because we do not want to reckon with the reality that the most important historical forces are not generals or kings, but systems of resource extraction and distribution that we all participate in, and that rob the most vulnerable among us not only of quality of life but of life itselfâ]
Wikipedia gives an excellent little summary of Hartâs impact in the detection of TB:
Hart became interested in their [X-rays] potential for detecting tuberculosis. Since the disease often presented no symptoms in its early stages, x-ray screening was invaluable for early detection. Even rudimentary early x-ray machines could detect the disease before it became critical. This allowed early treatment, often saving the patient's life. It also meant sufferers could be identified and isolated from the population, greatly lessening the spread of the disease.... By the time antibiotics were introduced in the 1940s, doctors using the techniques Hart developed had managed to cut the tuberculosis death toll down to one fiftieth.
In 1937 Hart was hired by the Idaho Tuberculosis Association and later became the state's Tuberculosis Control Officer. He established Idaho's first fixed-location and mobile TB screening clinics and spearheaded the state's war against tuberculosis. Between 1933 and 1945 Hart traveled extensively through rural Idaho, covering thousands of miles while lecturing, conducting mass TB screenings, training new staff, and treating the effects of the epidemic.
An experienced and accessible writer, Hart wrote widely for medical journals and popular publications, describing TB for technical and general audiences and giving advice on its prevention, detection, and cure. At the time the word "tuberculosis" carried a social stigma akin to venereal disease, so Hart insisted his clinics be referred to as "chest clinics", himself as a "chest doctor", and his patients as "chest patients." Discretion and compassion were important tools in treating the stigmatised disease.
... In 1948 Hart was appointed Director of Hospitalization and Rehabilitation for the Connecticut State Tuberculosis Commission. As in Idaho, Hart took charge of a massive statewide x-ray screening program for TB, emphasizing the importance of early detection and treatment. He held this position for the rest of his life, and is credited with helping contain the spread of tuberculosis in Connecticut as he had previously in the Pacific Northwest. Similar programs based on his leadership and methodology in this field in other states also saved many thousands of lives.
By now, thanks to people like Hart, we know how to detect and treat TB. We could invest in a worldwide campaign to eradicate it, but the rich countries that are able to fund this are not willing to do so because the people dying donât live in rich countries. In the words of the executive director of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria â Mark Dybul: "we have the tools to end TB as a pandemic and public health threat on the planet, but we are not doing it.". Before covid, tuberculosis was the leading cause of death worldwide from a single infectious agent, and it looks like it will reclaim that status in 2023.
in rare moments, it's particularly pleasing to be called a bitch. you are standing there and the dude is fuming because you won't let him take home someone too drunk to stand. you are standing there and not letting karen yell at the barista about the mask policy and this lady absolutely wants to kill you so badly.
standing there and you're objectively, 100%, doing-the-right thing - and you're a bitch! and it's kind of like - you know what, thank you, i am a bitch right now. now you got my hackles up, bark bark. you are standing there, telling this asswipe of a person not to be a bigot - that if things have to get hairy, they will get hairy like a wolf. you've been good for a lot of your life! very well-behaved. your teachers called you a delight once. you get nervous ordering takeout over the phone.
but right now you're a bitch! you are wearing someone else's skin. you are not a name, a person. just a bitch. and it's well and truly freeing. it's rare - very - but it happens to hit just-right. and you're standing there with your ears roaring from adrenaline and you're like, oh. i'm a bitch! i'm a bitch! i'm being a huge fucking bitch! and now, my love! i'm gonna be your big fucking bitch of a problem!
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porcelain corsets by Joyce Spakman - instagram
âLady Tilda and the Dragonâ
Or âMom Knightâ which is what I kept calling it for most of the time I worked on this. This was my story for Valor, a fairy tale anthology I was in last year! Itâs a really great book, and Iâm so glad I got to be a part of it. You can purchase a copy here.
oh my god this made me almost cry for real
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iT's fUnY beCAusE mEn aRE DumB
No dumbass, it's funny because women are usually left out of these pictures. And most of history. While actually, you know... living full lives and contributing to society. Just like men do. But men are always in the fucking picture.
This isn't a comic about men being dumb, it's a comic about women being forgotten, ignored, and excluded. But you were so ready to be pissed at mean feminists that you took something personally that absolutely wasn't and got offended by something that wasn't being said.
The artist was a man but women still got blamed for the âmisandrist jokeâ by a redpiller calling himself a âbig dick americhadâ
i love this dude heâs made a bunch of other âmisandrist jokesâ as well
This might be the funniest reply Iâve ever seen in my life
I AM WHEEZING
That rabbit/hare post is messing me up. Iâd thought they were synonyms. Their development and social behavior are all different. They canât even interbreed. They donât have the same number of chromosomes. Dogs, wolves, jackals, and coyotes can mate with each other and have fertile offspring but rabbits and hares cant even make infertile ones bc they just die in the womb. Wack.
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are more genetically compatible than These
and thatâs why morphology-based phylogeny has Issues
@aviculor
The problem is perspective. People always think dogs are the âstandardâ animal, the metric to use for whether or not two organisms âlook likeâ theyâre related. When in fact theyâre a massive outlier due to the fact that we fucked up this lineage of wolf beyond recognition with selective breeding. Itâs why people always say âbreedâ when they mean âspeciesâ, especially when talking about groups like lizards which canât even be defined cladistically since some of them are closer to snakes than each other. To say nothing of fish.
I once read an article that emphasized there is no such thing as a fish. Sharks and rays, lamprey, lobe-finned fish like lungfish and coelacanth, bichir and sturgeon, and of course the multiple infraclasses of more âmodernâ fish groups are all only very distantly related to one another. Theyâve maintained semi-similar body structures only because there are limited ways to efficiently move through water as a vertebrate.Â
This
And this
Are more distantly related from one another than you and I are from a lungfish
Which is absolutely fuckin wild.
Not only that, but all of us air-breathing land vertebrates, all the lizards and chickens and people and frogs, are closer to one another than those three âfishâ are to one another as well.
these
are genetically closer than these
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are genetically closer than these
and my personal favorite, it really fucks with peopleâŠ
these
are more genetically similar than these
COOL.Â
just the other day, one of my friends mentioned this book, âDinosaurs: A Concise Natural History,â which apparently has a (tongue in cheek) chapter that argues that Cows are actually Fish.
I think about British Airways Flight 5390 a lot
OKAY STRAP IN because this is one of the WILDEST stories in aviation history.
In 1990, a British Airways BAC One-Eleven, captained by Tim Lancaster and co-piloted by Alastair Atchison, was cruising at 17,000 feet.
Around 15 minutes after take-off, flight attendant Nigel Ogden entered the cockpit to bring the pilots something to drink. One second everything was fine. The next second, the pilot's side window blew out from the force of the pressurized cockpit. Even though he was strapped in, the force of the explosive decompression ripped the captain out of his chair and pulled him though the window.
The flight attendant immediately leapt forward and grasped the captain's belt. The force was so strong - due to the plane's speed - the captain slipped and was pulled almost entirely out of the plane, but the flight attendant caught his leg. The captain laid on the roof, then the side of the fuselage (the above image is an inaccurate recreation - the side window was smashed) and the flight attendant's entire arm was soon outside of the plane, gripping him.
(Recreation from the show Mayday at the point of decompression)
At the same time, the event caused the autopilot to disengage, and the captain's body hitting the flight controls caused the plane to enter into a deep dive. The throttle was set to full power and could not be accessed due to debris, meaning the plane was descending rapidly. The co-pilot, experiencing hypoxia, fought to control the plane's dive while allowing it to continue descending to a level the passengers/crew could breathe at. He attempted to contact air traffic control, but the wind made communication impossible, so he broadcast a mayday signal. Finally, he was able to re-engage the autopilot and level the plane out at a breathable altitude.
Soon, the flight attendant's entire arm was burned from wind shear and frostbite, and his grip began to slip. The other attendants entered the cabin to see what was wrong and took over holding the captain's body. Seeing the blood covering the windows from the captain's severe wind sheer burns and frostbite, the attendants and co-pilot knew he was dead. However, they could not let his body go because it could smash into the wing, horz stabilizer, or engine, and bring the plane down.
For 30+ minutes the co-pilot flew a jet plane with an OPEN WINDOW and his co-worker's body hanging along the side of the plane. Finally, clearance to land from ATC came across over the sound of the wind and the flight attendants were able to dislodge the captain's ankles from the flight controls without letting him go. The co-pilot successfully landed the plane.
(tw below for blood)
(Taken same day as the incident)
BUT HERE'S THE KICKER: when they reached the ground and evacuated, they realized THE CAPTAIN WAS NOT DEAD.
He SURVIVED being outside the fuselage of a jet airplane traveling 550mph at 17,000 feet. His only injuries were extensive - but mostly superficial - frostbite and windshear burns, bruising, fractures in his hand, and shock. He has since stated that he remembers the event and was conscious for much of the time he was outside of the fuselage. The only other injury was the flight attendant's frostbitten/windshorn arm. Captain Tim Lancaster returned to flying five months later.
(Captain Tim Lancaster in bed several weeks after the incident, with flight attendant Ogden (+ Ogden's wife) above him and co-pilot Alastair Atchison to the far left, along with the two other flight attendants)
Why did this occur? Because the plane had received maintenance the day before, and the maintenance supervisor did not check he was using the correct screws in re-installing the windscreen.
(Recreation)
So yeah: you can apparently survive clinging to the side of a jet airliner traveling 500+mph at 17,000 feet.
Wow! Didn't expect this many likes for an aviation post.
Just a note that I was wrong - it was the front pilot's windscreen, not the side-window! I'm used to looking at Boeing windows with different positions :)
If y'all want the full story & more analysis of what exactly went wrong, Mayday: Air Investigations did a pretty decent special on the incident. It's free on YouTube here (and here on dailymotion if you're outside the US).
xiran jay zhao on twitter
Tweet transcript:
White people - when you ask POC questions, I wish youâd ask less âis it ok if I [do a certain thing]?â and more âwhat are your thoughts on [certain thing]?â
The first makes me uncomfortable bc youâre demanding a clear Yes/No that no single POC has the right to give.
It puts the burden on ME to repeat for the countless time that we are not a monolith and others may feel differently before giving my opinion and even then, I worry that you might take my answer and run with it bc Iâm not sure youâre conceptualising our individual diversity.
But if you ask âwhat are YOUR thoughts?â instead, it shows me youâre aware that youâre getting the opinion of a single person and youâre not expecting me to speak for a whole group of people. Only then do I feel safe giving my thoughts.
Ultimately, you need to focus on listening respectfully and seeking out perspectives from a variety of POC instead of trying to get a magic Permission Pass on whether you can do [certain thing]. I mean, the final judgement on whether to act is YOURS to make.
ALSO it is very transparent when youâre more concerned about Not Getting Cancelled than listening to POC our of respect... like seriously can stop acting like weâre coercing you or making your life difficult just because we have opinions đ©
Gay USA (1977) dir. Arthur J. Bressan Jr.
The text is from a poem by Black Lesbian poet Pat Parker (pictured) . My copy is from Naming The Waves Contemporary Lesbian Poetry - ed Christian McEwan 1988.
THE LESBIAN AGENDA IS SUCCEEDING
Hey did you know that this is literally just pink colonialism?
in this month, which is both pride and indigenous history month, please unpack ur âi wanna move to a farm w my wife uwuâ shit and realize it holds an inherent expectation of access to land stolen from indigenous people. itâs irresponsible to move to a rural area to ââlive off the landââ without giving serious thought to whose land it was before white settlers took it over and how you can work to undo that theft. becoming a white settler yourself ainât it.
Iâve been seeing alot of these kind of posts targeting white people who want to purchase land, and as a native person myself, the hostility is really unfounded. I get what itâs all going for but itâs just barking up the wrong tree. Yes, the land is stolen. And it was stolen a long time ago, and many aboriginal people were hurt when the land taken and abused. Thereâs nothing wrong with a few people on the internet having daydreams about managing a farm.
I wasnât able to discern race from either of the above two responses, so Iâm not going to make any assumptions, but I have seen a few of these posts posted by white people. So, if youâre a white person, instead of crying âcolonialism!â Out on the internet because people want to own a farm, actually go out and help native people. Learn their cultures and languages, and help preserve them. Donate your time and money to fundraisers and organizations that help native people. Guilt shaming other people for purchasing land that was long taken from us long ago doesnât actually help natives! If youâre looking for places to donate, please help the local Indian Bands in your provinces, states, county, etc. Do a cursory search on the internet or ask around near where you live. Youâll find something that you can actually do to help someone who needs that help right now.
For example, Iâm Haida- from the north-west coast people who live on Haida Gwaii. Our language is dying, and only twelves dozen speakers are still alive after heavy erasure. You can learn some of the language here (for free!:
http://www.haidalanguage.org/
And even watch a recent documentary to see what life on the island is like today, (Iâm not sure if you watch it for free or not, I purchased a Blu-Ray copy of the film):
http://haidagwaiifilm.com/
You can even donate some money to the Haida museum on the island:
http://haidagwaiimuseum.ca/support-the-museum/
This is some research I just did right now. Please, if youâre concerned about what has happened in the past, and what you can do to fix it, please do something worthwhile. Getting mad at strangers who want to own some land doesnât get native people anywhere.
The actual article is worth reading if you have the time (itâs a pretty fast read with lots of pictures) - one of the ranchers highlighted is a member of the Lakota nation.Â
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