A Commonplacer Follows His Brush

A Commonplacer Follows His Brush

saywhat-politics:

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Incredible!

Kansas city, Missouri votes 11-1 to make the city a sanctuary city for gender affirming care.

It has looked at the anti-trans laws passed in the legislature, and said, “enforce it yourself.”

These are some of the best protections of any city out there.

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beardedmrbean:

I imagine this was taken so they’d have evidence that yes it is the cat doing it

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blondejaneblonde:

prismatic-bell:

bear-of-mirrors:

the-home-kvetch:

alexseanchai:

dduane:

Tempted to think of this merely as another stage of “What Fresh Hell Is This.”

The glass cliff, on the other hand, refers to the phenomenon by which women are more likely to be appointed to senior executive positions during times of organizational crisis, making them less likely to succeed. These newly appointed executives may confront internal board resistance, operate with less time flexibility, and ultimately receive shorter tenure than their male counterparts. And, when a woman CEO is terminated from her position, she is more likely than not to be replaced by a male (the “savior effect”).

He’s stepping down so people don’t pay attention to Tesla recalling 1 mil. cars.

They’re WHAT???

Also the woman named is an alt-right Trump supporter so….

It’s the second large recall this year! 🤗 The first was 350k cars in the US in February. The year isn’t even half over.

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autisticexpression:

Hollywood has no concept of what 5th century Romans looked like. If I’m watching a movie about the final days of the Western Roman Empire, I should be seeing zero togas. It’s like if you made a movie about the Trump administration, you wouldn’t have people dressed like the founding fathers. That’s how wrong it is.

This is what 5th century Romans looked like:

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I think the problem is that pop culture has this theme park version of history that treats time periods like distinct worlds with no fluidity between them. In Roman Times, people dressed like this vs Medieval Times when people dressed like that. But that is obviously not how time works. The end of the Western Roman Empire led directly into and overlapped with the Middle Ages, and the aesthetics we associate with medieval Europe were already long established.

On a related note, the “barbarians” didn’t dress like you think they did either. Less of this:

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More of this:

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(Art by Angus McBride)

Again, the end of the Western Roman Empire was the beginning of medieval Europe, and it already looked like it.

The notable exception was the Franks, who apparently really did dress like that:

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There really is an exception to everything, and it’s usually the French.

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miss-m-calling:

“He slept, the asters in the garden unloaded their red thunder into the dark.”

— Anne Carson, “Book of Isaiah” (Glass, Irony and God)

Respectfully King Arthur himself could not pull me out of you

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wlwaluigi:

spaced0lphin:

les-etoilessss2:

This is fucking hilarious

Get you a man who’s like

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actualaster:

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Where do I sign the petition to replace statues of shitty people with statues of Pikachu

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tikkunolamorgtfo:

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thestrawberrydreams:

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link to the relevant section on Wikipedia

Man I hope they cancel standardized testing, any education professional can tell you it’s a bunch of useless horseshit that does nothing except make students and teachers miserable while utterly failing to accurately gauge understanding.

This Wikipedia section is a little bit misleading. In the 1920s and 1930s, universities didn’t need the pretense of a standardized test to refuse admission to Black students—they were openly refused admission on the basis of their race. Sweatt v. Painter wasn’t until 1950, and Brown v. Board of Education wasn’t until 1954.

The SATs were originally primarily intended to ferret out any Jewish students who could masquerade as white, but lacked some of the cultural knowledge that the SATs tested for.

There were often race-based quotas at the time (for example, Milton Winternitz, Dean of Yale medical school from 1920 to 1935, explicitly instructed the admissions committee to “[n]ever admit more than five Jews, take only two Italian Catholics, and take no blacks at all”), and the main concern was that additional Jewish students would be able to sneak in.

Since there is a significant percentage of Jews that we might today call “functionally white” or “conditionally white” based solely on appearance, Jewish “infiltration” into white cultural spaces and ultimately into the white gene pool through intermarriage has long been considered the beginning of the end—the gateway to complete freedom of interracial marriage and raising interracial children and ultimate “destruction” of whiteness/white purity.

Unfortunately for the white supremacists, Stanley Kaplan figured out how to game the system, race-based quotas and school segregation are now illegal, the SATs (still far from perfect) have been re-worked multiple times to be somewhat less discriminatory, and slowly but surely we’re infiltrating everything 😘

(But yes absolutely I am still ready at a moment’s notice to destroy ETS and CollegeBoard. It’s still like. a bad system.)

Personal essays being a requirement of college applications was ALSO used to “out” Jews, while simultaneously allowing well-connected gentiles with poorer GPAs to get in.

If I recall correctly, the Dean of Yale Medical School in the 1930s had a very specific, hardline admissions rule: “Admit no more than five Jews, and no [Black students] at all.” It wasn’t just the medical school, either; Yale had a quota on Jewish students until the 1960s (as did McGill in Canada).

Instead of learning from their history, many of elite schools have opted to repeat it by placing new quotas on Asian students. To quote this article by Jason L. Riley:

Back then, Harvard argued that Jews were excellent students with deficient personalities. Their social characteristics were described as “different” and “peculiar.” They were accused of being clannish and focusing on their studies to a fault. Harvard maintained that it was trying to create a certain type of environment on campus, and Jews were a poor fit… Harvard is still making that argument, and the courts are still indulging it. In her ruling, Judge Burroughs writes that a “partial cause” of racial disparities in admissions rates is that “Asian American applicants’ disproportionate strength in academics comes at the expense of other skills and traits that Harvard values.” She says it’s “possible” that the Asian applicants “did not possess the personal qualities that Harvard is looking for at the same rate as white applicants.”

Meanwhile, here in the UK, colleges at Oxford and Cambridge are finally being called out for failing to offer places to Black students, to the point where they’re actually discouraging those students from bothering to apply at all. This article from 2017 said “Only three Oxford colleges and six Cambridge colleges made at least one offer of an undergraduate place to a black British A-level student in each of the six years between 2010 and 2015.” (A-Levels are the exams used for uni placements in the U.K., they don’t have the SAT).

Anyway, this is a long way of saying same century, different bullshit.

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silentstep:

endless—-pain:

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By Wealthy Loser on Instagram

#TEMPORARY AND SMALL JOY IS STILL JOY NONETHELESS   (via smokeandsong)

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fruitpilled-peachcel:

fruitpilled-peachcel:

where’s that photo of that shepherd dog being comforted by one of the sheep he guards after saving them from a wolf attack

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love and gratefulness and kindness on planet earth

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coriesu:
“The Annunciation
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coriesu:

The Annunciation
J. Kirk Richards                    

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Ask me my “Top 5″ anything…

theonlylivingboyinnewyork:

I’m in the mood to write lists. Make me write lists.

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Saddest thing ever is reading an academic paper about a threatened or declining species where you can tell the author is really trying to come up with ways the animal could hypothetically be useful to humans in a desperate attempt to get someone to care. Nobody gives a shit about the animals that “don’t affect” us and it seriously breaks my heart

“No I can’t come out tonight I’m sobbing about this entomologist’s heartfelt plea for someone to care about an endangered moth”

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This is how I learn there’s a moth whose tiny caterpillars live exclusively off the old shells of dead tortoises.

[Image description: text from a section titled On Being Endangered: An Afterthought that says:

Realizing that a species is imperiled has broad connotations, given that it tells us something about the plight of nature itself. It reminds us of the need to implement conservation measures and to protect the region of which the species is a part. But aside form the broader picture, species have intrinsic worth and are deserving of preservation. Surely an oddity such as C. vicinella cannot simply be allowed to vanish.

We should speak up on behalf of this little moth, not only because by so doing we would bolster conservation efforts now underway in Florida, [highlighting begins] but because we would be calling attention to the existence of a species that is so infinitely worth knowing. [end highlighting]

But is quaintness all that can be said on behalf of this moth? Does this insect not have hidden value beyond its overt appeal? Does not its silk and glue add, potentially, to its worth? Could these products not be unique in ways that could ultimately prove applicable?

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because we would be calling attention to the existence of a species that is so infinitely worth knowing

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I was so inspired by this I made it into a piece of art for a final in one of my courses for storytelling in conservation

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You are all lovely and kind and correct, but let’s also name the moth: Ceratophaga vicinella

I can’t find any information on how to promote or donate to moth conservation, but the tortoises are endangered, and support to habitat conservation in Florida, Georgia, Alabama, and Mississippi are a good way to help both the tortoises and the moth!

https://www.nature.org/en-us/get-involved/how-to-help/animals-we-protect/gopher-tortoise/

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