qoph @qoph@octodon.social
#Mefite (DM me for name). Non-Ivory Tower academic. she/her. "I beseech you in the bowels of christ think it possible you may be mistaken" Oliver Cromwell 1650
This sculpture just hit me in the stomach. Anyone knows where it is? So perfect..
@Are0h Your Star Wars post the other day is what really hit home. Rather than dismissing certain behaviours as coming from a "small minority that doesn't represent all of us" etc, we SHOULD be calling the behaviour out!
Those two things are directly connected. One directly follows from the other.
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Jeff Bezos is already $40 billion richer this year—while the typical Amazon worker has made just $12,000 https://money.us/2JdUqJV
https://twitter.com/MONEY/status/1004049101196091393
Vocal science from 1980s still true now: at 15:00, Serious violent physical action like trying to lift piano, we have to grunt like "Huh!" cuz need to close the vocal folds, to stabilize the breath pressure in lungs, which gives shoulder & back muscles a firm base to work against. Laryngectomy means no vocal fold closure, & u have to retrain other muscles to take over that function. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8VpgvqN-53o
RT @SamSykesSwears@twitter.com
Stages of a Toxic Fandom:
1. I love this
2. I own this
3. I control this
4. I can't control this
5. I hate this
6. I must destroy this
RT @jessamyn@twitter.com
“What do you do?”
"I'm a librarian"
"PAID TO READ ALL DAY!!!"
"Not really...."
* dramatic shushing sounds *
"Actually I do have one finger gesture..."
"I hated my childhood librarian!"
"I'm sure the feeling was mutual."
RT @anildash@twitter.com
Good explanation of how extremist axe-grinders take over “neutral” online platforms and push out any reasonable people, creating an environment of increased radicalization. https://twitter.com/wordmercenary/status/990933242130960385
RT @helpmeskeletor@twitter.com
I speak a little bit of white person and I’m fairly sure:
‘You’re being oversensitive why does this always have to be about race?’
Translates to:
‘We have a good thing going here don’t you dare ruin this for us.’
RT @EffinBirds@twitter.com
"@eff has joined the ACLU and a coalition of civil liberties organizations demanding that Amazon stop powering a government surveillance infrastructure." #privacy #surveillance
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/05/amazon-stop-powering-government-surveillance
RT @nkjemisin@twitter.com
Remember, it's now *policy* to take children away from their families and do "whatever" with them. We know some of the children ended up trafficked. Barely a month after SESTA-FOSTA, the US government is *facilitating* trafficking. https://twitter.com/taramurtha/status/1000027138957955074
Apparently Jeff Bezos makes $28,000 (the median yearly salary of an Amazon employee) every 9 seconds.
He's on the way to becoming the world's first trillionaire.
The inequality is mind boggling. How do you actually, concretely, undo this kind of madness?
(Content Warning!)
"But she never said 'No'" https://ift.tt/2KTHu8e
Just a reminder to the @NFL@twitter.com and their decision today... https://twitter.com/SlyngCartoons/status/916302958429593606
When Will the Media Stop Honoring Angry Men?
As the GOP and much of the mainstream media flail about looking for a "reason" for school shootings, the real problem goes largely unexplored. What are we going to do about America's angry misogynist problem?
https://www.damemagazine.com/2018/05/23/when-will-the-media-stop-honoring-angry-men/
Noëlle the 8-Bit🏳️🌈🎄
a bird discovers a capybara's hidden off switch
#invasiveSpecies #HammerheadFlatworms
Giant Predatory Worms Quietly Invaded France, And Biologists Are Shocked
Hammerhead flatworms, which grow to a foot or more in length, do not belong in European vegetable gardens.
The predatory worms are native to Asia, where they happily gobble up earthworms under a warmer sun.
Nobody noticed for ages.
https://www.sciencealert.com/multiple-giant-predatory-worm-species-invaded-france-and-no-one-noticed
I want give random Black folks hugs when I see us out and about at the store, walking down the street doing regular shyt. I just want to ask "are these white people bothering you? Are you ok?"
