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Did you know that after they switched to blind auditions, major symphony orchestras hired women between 30% to 55% more? Before bringing in “blind auditions” with a screen to conceal the the candidate, women in the top 5 major orchestras made up less than 5% of the musicians performing.

The case of blind auditions for orchestras and how it dramatically changed the gender makeup of orchestras is a very illuminating example of gender bias, and an interesting possible way of countering it.

You can be sexist without knowing it. You can be racist without knowing it. This is not a moral failing; it is a moral imperative to remember that you are fallible, and take steps to limit the damage your squishy ape brain’s foibles can cause.

No because actually I’m not okay about the song ‘Stained Glass Eyes’ and what it shows us about Lestat. Because Claudia was his daughter, not his sister, not a mere inconvenience he was saddled with, yes he turned her to appease a devastated Louis so he wouldn’t go mad like Nicki, but Claudia was his fledgling. A child of his blood. He taught her to drive, to hunt solo, to play piano and chess, he took her to the movies and span her around the living room with Louis in Rue Royale. He bought her clothes, gifted her Gabrielle’s necklace on her birthday, was concerned about the hemline of her skirt (because he was her MOTHER and that was his BABY), and they had private little jokes together. She was the best of his vampiric self. Then at the trial, after every betrayal and nasty word between them, he didn’t have the strength to save both her and Louis. He picked Louis over her, but he stayed rooted to the spot as Claudia turned to ash, and… he stared right into her eyes until the very end. Her red eyes, red like the blood that restored her to life, the blood that he and Claudia used to playfully call ‘kill juice’ when she was still new to vampirism, the blood that spilled from his own throat during the Mardi Gras ball. Claudia looked at him, ‘like a child looking to her father’, and like Nicki before her, Lestat was helpless to what Armand was doing, another person he loved held to the fire and accepting their miserable fate, burnt to ash with their only remnants being the memory of their agonised eyes forever seared within Lestat’s mind. He failed his daughter, and he will never forget that.

Catholic church doesnt even allow divorce if domestic violence is involved and vatican city wouldnt exist nowadays without the help of Benito fucking Mussolini and yet theres always some motherfucker being like i hope the next pope is pro gay marriage. I hope I get a house from Santa Claus this year. I hope a horse is going to buy me cheese in the grocery store

Someone needs to tell parents everywhere that a child never complaining is NOT a sign of a mentally healthy child, and it is, in fact, the complete opposite of that.

taylor swift invited a guy who owns and operates an ice detention center to her wedding swifties can pack it up forever now your bitch is awful

yeah i hate concentration camps because i hate women you caught me

I don't want to buy mass-produced garbage from a big box store so I go to etsy but half of etsy is now dropshipped mass-produced garbage or AI slop so I go to the local arts and crafts street market but a ton of those booths are also selling the same generic plastic objects or identical stickers or 3D printed dragons so WHERE do I buy real trinkets and art from sincere freaks

Nuke canada now

Did y'all know that 70% of all mining operations in latin america and the caribbean involve a canadian transnational mining corporation?

The imperial core will see one of latin america's veins and go "is anyone gonna cut that open?" and not wait for an answer

when i worked for my australian civil/digging engineering megacorp they were working on setting up lithium mines hand in hand with the canadians. they are all complicit.

don't go into the humanities because they're unprofitable and don't go into stem cuz its getting torn apart right now and don't go into buisness because it's competetive and speculative and don't go into education because it pays like shit. Just lay on thr ground. Just lay on the ground.

The ancient world was full of textile masterpieces we can only imagine… but most of them have rotted away. So few of them have come down to us in these days that we think of metal and stone as the primary mediums for the oldest artworks. But there were tapestries and fabric work that would have rivaled the finest wrought gold and iron and the first cave paintings.