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"capitalism breeds innovation" was only ever true in the mid-2000s when cell phones kept getting more and more fucked up
^ healthy and diverse breeding practices
^ wild inbreeding in pursuit of uniformity and an arbitrary ideal of breed "purity" resulting in gross health complications
‘Wrong Century’ by Czech comic Tomáš Kučerovský … I love this one and please read the great article, Abducted by Art, from National Catholic Register explaining the “real” history and meaning behind the Rubens’ original depicted in this great piece. The article starts:
Me gusta! Simple, elegant, eloquent, and finely balanced with a little unexpected punch, just like an (admittedly minor) work of art should be.
Abducted by Art
1st anniversary fan favorite
interesting. tell me more
ICE now tackling press.
Source.
Interview where he talks about what happened.
A photographer for Getty isn't even a journalist so much as an archivist. ICE violently disrupted the apolitical documentation of what they were doing, violating any and all rights that might flimsily stand in their way. It would have been just as wrong had they done this to an MSNBC reporter hellbent on a spin, but now Abernathy's neutral action as a photographer has been rendered necessarily political by ICE's violence.
They know what they're doing is objectively evil. They have no intention of stopping.
previous tags from @nihilisticspacequeer, which provide a bit of context for why Abernathy threw his (extremely expensive) camera
NEW SPREADSHEETS ARE UP
hello PWHL fans, I return with my penalty spreadsheets, updated for Season 3. If you want more, I will keep these updated and continue adding data/visualizations to them on my website, which is here.
As of the end of the Sirens Frost game this afternoon, here's some fun data:
The rivalry heat map again showing that Sirens/Victoire is not just in my mind but also on the ice, although this is surely influenced by all of those game misconducts handed out for the fight in DC. (This is showing number of penalties in each matchup). Sirens remain the most penalized team with 52 penalties on the season, but also the most fouled against team, with 61 penalties taken against us.
I've classified each penalty according to their type in the rulebook (more info on the website), and here's a breakdown of penalty types by team. Restraining infractions remain the most common, followed by physical infractions.
If you're curious about the way this breaks down as far as severity goes- minors are 2min pens, majors are 5min pens, misconduct is anything more than 10mins. Minors obvs most common, those misconducts are coming primarily from that fight again I believe.
Here are your top ten most penalized players, both by number of penalties and number of PIMs. No comment.
If you're curious what the top 5 most common penalties in the league are, I can help! Minnesota loves tripping, Ottawa hooking, Toronto interference, Montreal roughing, and Ottawa and Toronto tie for the lead in holding.
Last but not least, we see a relatively even split as far as proportions of penalties taken- Minnesota, Boston, and Vancouver are the goody two shoes of the league, while New York, Ottawa, and Toronto take the Problem Child end of the spectrum.
As always, pls lmk if you have any suggestions or if there's any kind of specific visualization you want to see! I'm still working on my player safety commission spreadsheet for this season, but I'm really glad I have this up at least:)
no sirens W ….. now it’s just ee oo :(
I can't even be sad though cause like
It’s a Sirens game day in the Twin Cities, and it would feel really weird to me to do my normal posts without addressing what Minnesota communities are going through right now. ICE is terrorizing the state, and none of what is happening is moral, legal, normal, or justified.
I’m going to be making a donation today to the Immigrant Defense Network, to support the work Minnesotans are doing to keep their neighbors safe. If you can, I encourage you to do the same, or to donate to one of the orgs below, to support folks who are afraid to leave their homes, and bail protestors out of jail when they’re arrested for resisting government violence.
Frost fans, my heart is with you. Keep each other safe. No human is illegal and absolutely no one deserves what ICE is doing right now.
Stand With Minnesota is a hub for supporting, learning, and taking action to support Minnesotans impacted by ICE and federal enforcement.
elaborating on the post i made last night, women’s hockey is where it’s at if you watched heated rivalry and want to see it happen irl!!!
the montreal victoire have a married couple on a line together (captain marie-philip poulin and assistant laura stacey), which led to this iconic line. and yes that’s them wearing shirts of it at their bachelorette party
as for RIVALRIES let’s talk about the OGs, captain of the american team julie chu and captain of the canadian team caroline oullette, who now are married and have children together!! they played against each other in THREE olympics
not to mention current rivals, girlfriends emily clark (assistant captain of the ottawa charge) + jamie bourbonnais (assistant captain of the new york sirens) who met and played together on team canada
the vancouver goldeneyes have TWO couples on it now, captain ashton bell + rookie nina jobst smith and veterans michaela cava + emma greco, who are finally reunited after playing against each other on different teams last year
and that’s just a small percentage of the players who are together!!!
anyways the PWHL season is on now, watch it (on TSN/CBC/Sportsnet in Canada and on YouTube in the USA/internationally) if you want to see actual gay hockey players
This is not from a fanfic or romance novel... this is from a real news article about how Marie-Philip Poulin and Laura Stacey fell in love.
This amount of individualism is exactly whats gonna kill us all btw
Let people do drugs let people transition let people have weird freaky sex let people get stupid tattoos let people get cosmetic surgery let people eat junk food let people get their tubes tied let people jerk off let people wear ugly clothes and have outdated hairstyles let people do whatever the hell they want with their own bodies why tf do you care so much????
Let people be fat!!!!!
Actually though let people be fat. Let people be disabled. Let people be intersex. Let people have bodies that look different than what you think they should look like.
hate to break this to you but if you call yourself self aware but you are only aware of your faults and never acknowledge your strengths you are not self aware. you just repackaged your self hatred
Self aware means the whole self.
You are more than your faults.
You are more than your sins.
You are more.
Instagram story from the daughter of Robin Williams
GenAI stans found dead in Miami (it's also...something how genAI has brought out people's anti-social behavior, like why the fuck do you think someone would want to see an AI-generated video of their dead loved one???)
the thing so many people don't understand is that the reason wikipedia is generally not accepted as a source has nothing to do with accuracy. wikipedia is (generally) extremely accurate! the reason wikipedia isn't allowed as a source for school is because it's a summary of other sources. wikipedia has correct information, but it gets that information from OTHER places, which are either primary or secondary sources, which lends them credibility that wikipedia technically lacks.
so yes, wikipedia is a GREAT resource to learn new things! but if you want in depth, specific, and creditable sources, don't use wikipedia! use wikipedia's cited sources!!
a source is the answer to the question "says who?"
and wikipedia doesn't say things, it says here are things other people said about this.
a source is primary (first hand) or secondary (second hand). So a primary source is "i experienced the thing" and a secondary source is "i interviewed the person who experienced the thing." Wikipedia is a tertiary (3rd hand) source, meaning all they do is say "so and so interviewed the person who experienced the thing, and THEY said" and if you're interested in very correct information you want to cut that game of telephone short and go look at that interview yourself. You don't want to be this person
Because she is wrong.
SO. When you look up "steam engine" on wikipedia you will see this sentence: "One recorded rudimentary steam-powered engine was the aeolipile described by Hero of Alexandria, a Hellenistic mathematician and engineer in Roman Egypt during the first century AD.[8] "
but remember wikipedia doesn't say that, wikipedia says someone else said that. Who? That's what that footnote [8] is for! When you go down to the footnotes, you'll see that footnote 8 says: " "turbine". Encyclopædia Britannica Online. 18 July 2007."
according to wikipedia, the Encyclopaedia Britannica said it in their "turbine" entry. And not the print version, the online version, as of July 2007 with a link. Well i clicked on that link, and the online Encyclopaedia Britannica no longer has that exact page or entry. The source is missing.
This is why it is important to check the sources. I want you to know this is the first footnote on the first entry i thought to check for this example. The very first source i checked! and the listed source is missing or wrong.
Maybe that information was proven incorrect and removed, maybe the online version and the print version were edited to be more consistent between them and this entry was changed, who knows.
So now, if you say "wikipedia says it" as your source, not only are you wrong because wikipedia doesn't actually make its own claims as a primary or secondary source, you might also be wrong because the secondary source has retracted their assertion of fact.
Now, if you look at what the footnote [8] was providing a source for it was talking about the aeolipile, and simply searching "aeolipile" on Encyclopaedia Britanica does turn up an entry confirming the information, so the Encyclopaedia Britanica is still a source that says what wikipedia says it does.
Now we all usually accept recognized encyclopedias as sources, it's like saying a word is "in the dictionary" but if you were trying to be VERY accurate, you want to cut the game of telephone even more.
So where the Encyclopaedia Britannica online says "aeolipile, steam turbine invented in the 1st century ad by Heron of Alexandria and described in his Pneumatica" you'd want to check their source the same way we just checked wikipedia's source.
So in that case, you would find a translated copy of Pneumatica, which was written by Heron of Alexandria in 1589, and you would check what it said for yourself, and list that as your source. And you'd still have to put WHICH translation, by who, because at some point somebody might come along and say "we now know that So-and-so's translation contained an error, translating [this thing] as "that thing" making this information inaccurate .
This is why sources are so important. Without proper sources, we're all just saying what our best friend's sister's boyfriend's brother's girlfriend heard from some guy, and the actual truth is going to steal his best friend's car and skip gym class instead of proving anything.
So yes to the whole sources thing, but who *doesn't* get cited and what facts do and don't make it into the article are the other reason you should not trust Wikipedia at face value. https://www.wired.com/story/one-womans-mission-to-rewrite-nazi-history-wikipedia/
Ksenia Coffman’s fellow editors have called her a vandal and a McCarthyist. She just wants them to stop glorifying fascists—and start citing
the purest form of serotonin is when a cat looks at u and u go like “what?” and it meows at u
like, that is a very unspecific response I still have no idea what you want but I applaud how adorably you meowed all the same, well done
This post led me to reminisce on the nature of cat’s meowing, and I have a funny story
I befriended a feral cat once who had spent her life in the forest without human interaction. I was worried about her because she had a paw damaged from an old injury and was emaciated but obviously nursing kittens that were hidden away somewhere. It took me weeks of putting out food and sitting across the yard every evening for her to trust me even a little and when she decided we were friends and she expected dinner every night she started coming to my door and trying to call for me in the evening, but she didn’t meow. Why would she? Cats only meow naturally as kittens when their vocal chords/ears aren’t fully developed, adult cats communicate with vocalizations that aren’t audible to humans. She probably tried making noises I couldn’t hear to call me but ended up sticking to the one I always responded to- a horrible yowling growl that she had made at me when we first encountered each other in the forest. Except once we were friends she would make this noise while purring and rubbing affectionately against a nearby tree or the porch railing (because she didn’t want to touch me yet). This understandably freaked my family members out but I was touched that she had taken the time to find a way to basically yell FUCK OFF in an affectionate way.
Fast forward to when she finally trusts me enough to bring her hidden kittens out of the forest to me, long story short I gained their trust and put them in this big pen, that I had previously used to keep chickens in, so they’d be safe and to keep her from having another litter. Except she was already secretly pregnant again! (Fix your pets, guys, they make SO many babies) and ended up having her new babies in this pen. I kept my distance, sitting on the outside once they were born until she seemed comfortable enough to let me come inside. The kittens were a bit wild, hissing viscously at me as soon as they opened their eyes, but they warmed up to me. There were four of them and soon they all wanted to be the center of attention during the twice daily play sessions. I’d be playing with one and another would meow insistently behind me and I’d immediately answer them and give them love, teaching them that humans could be friends that answer their needs- making them adoptable once they were weaned. Mama cat (Artie) would just watch me play with them, and I guess she was doing some thinking because one day when they were about a month old I was playing with them and one meowed behind me. I was confused because I hadn’t realized there was a kitten behind me and when I turned, there wasn’t. The only cat there was Artie looking at me really intensely. I turned back around to the kittens and I heard the meow again, I turned back to Artie and responded in the way I always did with the kittens “yes baby?” And she meowed again in an exact imitation of her kittens! After that she would.not.shut.up. It was like she had cracked some kind of code, meowing for attention and snacks and just to say hi. Her two older kittens, the ones she’d had in the forest, had never meowed at me either but started to once they saw how I responded to their mom. and I find it endlessly fascinating because before that it had never occurred to me that cats only meow at humans because they were taught by other cats to keep meowing past kittenhood because that’s the best way to get a human’s attention.
Imagine befriending some weird giant with the wrong number of legs that you met in the forest who seems nice enough but doesn’t seem to be able to hear you, until your friend explains that all they can understand is fuck off! And I’m a baby give me love!
the purest form of serotonin is when a cat looks at u and u go like “what?” and it meows at u
like, that is a very unspecific response I still have no idea what you want but I applaud how adorably you meowed all the same, well done
This post led me to reminisce on the nature of cat’s meowing, and I have a funny story
I befriended a feral cat once who had spent her life in the forest without human interaction. I was worried about her because she had a paw damaged from an old injury and was emaciated but obviously nursing kittens that were hidden away somewhere. It took me weeks of putting out food and sitting across the yard every evening for her to trust me even a little and when she decided we were friends and she expected dinner every night she started coming to my door and trying to call for me in the evening, but she didn’t meow. Why would she? Cats only meow naturally as kittens when their vocal chords/ears aren’t fully developed, adult cats communicate with vocalizations that aren’t audible to humans. She probably tried making noises I couldn’t hear to call me but ended up sticking to the one I always responded to- a horrible yowling growl that she had made at me when we first encountered each other in the forest. Except once we were friends she would make this noise while purring and rubbing affectionately against a nearby tree or the porch railing (because she didn’t want to touch me yet). This understandably freaked my family members out but I was touched that she had taken the time to find a way to basically yell FUCK OFF in an affectionate way.
Fast forward to when she finally trusts me enough to bring her hidden kittens out of the forest to me, long story short I gained their trust and put them in this big pen, that I had previously used to keep chickens in, so they’d be safe and to keep her from having another litter. Except she was already secretly pregnant again! (Fix your pets, guys, they make SO many babies) and ended up having her new babies in this pen. I kept my distance, sitting on the outside once they were born until she seemed comfortable enough to let me come inside. The kittens were a bit wild, hissing viscously at me as soon as they opened their eyes, but they warmed up to me. There were four of them and soon they all wanted to be the center of attention during the twice daily play sessions. I’d be playing with one and another would meow insistently behind me and I’d immediately answer them and give them love, teaching them that humans could be friends that answer their needs- making them adoptable once they were weaned. Mama cat (Artie) would just watch me play with them, and I guess she was doing some thinking because one day when they were about a month old I was playing with them and one meowed behind me. I was confused because I hadn’t realized there was a kitten behind me and when I turned, there wasn’t. The only cat there was Artie looking at me really intensely. I turned back around to the kittens and I heard the meow again, I turned back to Artie and responded in the way I always did with the kittens “yes baby?” And she meowed again in an exact imitation of her kittens! After that she would.not.shut.up. It was like she had cracked some kind of code, meowing for attention and snacks and just to say hi. Her two older kittens, the ones she’d had in the forest, had never meowed at me either but started to once they saw how I responded to their mom. and I find it endlessly fascinating because before that it had never occurred to me that cats only meow at humans because they were taught by other cats to keep meowing past kittenhood because that’s the best way to get a human’s attention.
Imagine befriending some weird giant with the wrong number of legs that you met in the forest who seems nice enough but doesn’t seem to be able to hear you, until your friend explains that all they can understand is fuck off! And I’m a baby give me love!
