Beta-lactam allergic

Silence - "I was undergoing a clandestine covert mission for the boss of the *R&D DEPARTMENT* when another of my bosses found me and gave me a free makeover."

Skadi - "Some old guy who I helped out once gave me these clothes as a disguise from the Spanish Inquisition so I'd stand out less. No, I did not ask why he had a sultry outfit in my size just lying around."

Said boss is their company's CEO's adoptive mother

That CEO is the ex-girlfriend of the woman Silence has "it's complicated" style romantic tension with.

Said CEO wasn't one for fashion, and got most of her outfits set up by the now ex-girlfriend.

The boss doing the makeover is like "I'm gonna dress you up real nice to wow the people close to you wink wink"

She dressed up Silence in the same goddamn clothing vibe as the CEO.

Jara over here like "I know what Saria likes: Off the shoulder jackets worn like capes, with brown and gold clothes underneath" and Silence just "????"

Can anyone give advice as to why there's no [Options] setting available in MS Word for me?

I just used this fix to roll my Word program back to an earlier version, and so far it's working:

When you say it has no right to exist, that Israelis should all "go back to where they came from" and calling for its dismantlement and takeover by Palestine, what you are actually advocating for is the destruction of native lands by a colonising force.

this picrew + the last song you listened to :]

anyways @casual-wizardry @kanameows @queriesntheories @athenam aaaannd @skyistheground

weeeeeeeee

listening to the Tenet soundtrack on repeat and spoiler! Meeting Neil is my favorite :3

[-Specifically poisoning pigeons in the park]

@lemmylemons @f1zzlest1ckzz @iris-echos @bruhmaster32 / @bruhmaster42069 [I can never rember what acc you're using sorry-!] @sulfurbonfire @outedastrans @rottnstrwberriez @sami-lamb-420 @groovywellie @axxloe @serenecocoa @cybermeep @apothecrowley @noodle-gurl @letmelickyoureyeballs @spocks-got-a-glock @flora-is-drowning-in-fire @antfarm-antoni @odiemodie16 @blueluminaryinfluencer @victorianitt @sapthegoldendragon @phoebesoftiecakes @mariheadspace @s1eepyfr0g @seffius @kubbley @thecommonmold @kinky-jelloshot @nemeyuko @v0gons @marighould @4shlyjwilliams @spoonbendersanonymous @mikaissomeone @42-dont-panic @kaydoesart @alfsicle @fossil-creek @leoxer @eh-nigmatic @tiny-bird-of-sunshine @willtheweirdrat @megamegamegastar @verysleepyfrog @veryferaldistributions @scream-fanatic @oddballcobblebot

also sorry I listen to music off YouTube like a weirdo

tagging @the-oh-in-24601 @the-hand-man-44 @waffle-bubbles @somuchformax @cityoftheangelllls and anyone else!

Thanks for the tag!

tee hee

The picrew was really fun…

This song was used in one of the Final Fantasy Games. The funny thing is I haven't even played any of the Final Fantasy Games. I downloaded this album because "Blaze" is on it & decided to listen to the rest of the album. So I know a Final Fantasy song because I'm a Gundam fan (Blaze is from Iron-Blood Orphans, usually abbreviated as IBO).

russian invasion of Ukraine: 24.02.2022 - 24.11.2024

Crimes of russia against the media and journalists in Ukraine.

-762 crimes against the media and journalists were committed by Russia in Ukraine during two years and nine months since its large scale invasion of Ukrainian territory.

Categories of Violations

92 journalists and media workers killed in total; 12 of them died while performing editorial assignments

14 journalists are currently missing

29 times journalists were kidnapped

41 journalists were wounded

2 attempted murders

21 TV towers shelled

44 incidents of shooting into journalists

22 editorial offices sized/ruined by russians

35 incidents with switching off Ukrainian broadcasting

83 death threats, intimidation of journalists

94 cyber crimes

329 media outlets closed down due to Russia's invasion

10 digital blockades of Ukrainian media in russia

Sometimes intersex people have a complicated experience with being "assigned" a sex. Sometimes an intersex person is assigned female at birth and then coercively or even forcefully reassigned male later, usually during puberty. So in order to identify as a women they would need to subvert their assigned male status.

People born with a micropenis or other forms of ambiguous genitalia pretty much have a 50/50 chance of being assigned male or female, it's kind of up to the doctor or ever how that doctor is feeling that day. What this means is that someone who was assigned female can have an identical body to someone who was assigned male. This means that an afab person can be born with a penis and go through a fully masculinizing puberty. Even if they're afab, they may feel the need to go on hrt, get bottom surgery, and go through a transition process that is identical to that of an amab trans women.

Some intersex people don't consider their physical sex to be either female or male and may feel the need to transition to a body that they feel is female/male, regardless of what their agab is.

Essentially: Afab doesn't mean "fully recognized and viewed by society as female" nor does it mean someone with a typical female body/experience. It describes an event that happened at the beginning of a person's life. This event can have an effect on the experiences of people later in life but for intersex people specifically this event is often either traumatic or just plain inaccurate and doesn't describe how we actually live.

Many intersex people, regardless of agab, feel as though they have to transition (both socially and medically) into their gender. Sometimes this takes the form of people who were assigned female and have transitioned into being women.

As for "cis women who aestheticize and objectify trans women" - just say you don't see hormone disorders as intersex. Fun fact - for most of my life, I was diagnosed with PCOS. For all of my life, I had parents and doctors neglecting heart issues. Parents who got angry when I wanted to see a doctor.

Then I found out I had CAH this entire fucking time. Which looks like PCOS in certain aspects, but isn't. CAH comes with critical heart issues and is often met with cosmetic surgery on infant genitalia to reduce clitoral size, despite this not impacting the heart.

I didn't know I had that fucking surgery until this year despite being sexually active for nearly 20 years and always having complications and weird looking labia! :) My lifelong heart issues never even got medicated until I was 28!! My parents intentionally medically neglected me to avoid me finding out I was intersex!!

I'm saying this, not because I consider myself a trans woman (I don't), but because intersex people with hormone disorders are OFTEN who you bigots are referring to when you're talking about "cis women who aestheticize and objectify trans women" or "cis women fetishizing intersex people" or anything else in that fucking horrible, obnoxious, intersexist realm. Hormone disorders are called hormone disorders because doctors want intersex traits to be a fucking disorder. Not because of the heart issues or other actually treatable issues that ARE DISORDERED! And y'all aligning with this mentality is so fucking horribly bioessentialist and nasty.

In the last few years (3-4 years) the WikiProject Indigenous peoples of North America, which was originally created to improve the quality and coverage of native issues and native articles on wikipedia, has been hijacked by a small number of users with an extremist agenda. They have been working diligently over the last few years to change the definition of both what it means to be an Indigenous American and even what it means to be state and federally recognized.

The four or five key players (Mainly Editor Yuchitown, Bohemian Baltimore, ARoseWolf, (now retired editor CorbieVreccan, Netherzone and Oncamera) who are part of the “Native American Articles Improvement Project” started implementing these changes slowly, but they started pursuing their goals aggressively after November 2023, when state-recognized tribes retained their voting rights in NCAI. Essentially, after the movement to delegitimize state-recognized tribes failed officially, the key players doubled down on altering and controlling the flow of information about Native Americans through Wikipedia.

The talk page of Lily Gladstone’s article has a relevant discussion here. Initially, the leaders of the WikiProject removed any reference to her being a “Native American Actress” and instead had her as “Self-identifying as Blackfoot” and “Self-identifying as Nez Perce” because her blood quantum was too low to be enrolled in either tribe.

You can see some of the discussion here:

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Lily_Gladstone

Eventually they relented and changed her category to being “Of Nez Perce Descent” but you can see in the discussion that they are referring to an article that these editors (Yuchitown, Bohemian Baltimore, and CorbieVreccan) themselves appeared to have mostly written and revised:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Native_American_identity_in_the_United_States

This statement is very much at odds with even the government’s description, as seen below;

The DOJ Office of Tribal Justice Office on their webpage “Frequently Asked Questions About Native American”, question “Who is an American Indian or Alaskan Native” states:

“As a general principle, an Indian is a person who is of some degree Indian blood and is recognized as an Indian by a Tribe and/or the United States. No single federal or tribal criterion establishes a person's identity as an Indian. Government agencies use differing criteria to determine eligibility for programs and services. Tribes also have varying eligibility criteria for membership.”

In addition, “List” pages have been created on Wikipedia for federally and state recognized tribes. The Wikipedia “List” page for state-recognized tribes is inaccurate in its interpretation of state recognition and not supported by expert reliable sources--(1) Cohen’s Handbook of Federal Indian Law 2012 edition, (2) NCSL.org current stand on state recognition (not the archived list from 2017 which NCSL no longer supports), (3) Koenig & Stein’s paper “Federalism and the State Recognition of Native American Tribes: a survey of state-recognized tribes and state recognition processes across the United States” (both 2008 & updated 2013 in book “ Recognition, sovereignty struggles, and indigenous rights in the United States: A sourcebook”)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State-recognized_tribes_in_the_United_States

State-recognized tribes who have received recognition through less formal but acceptable means have been moved from the Wikipedia list page on state-recognized tribes to the Wikipedia list page of unrecognized or self-identifying organizations.

The Wiki page "List of organizations that self-identify as Native American tribes", in particular, is being used to purposely defame legitimate Native American individuals who are members of the tribes/Native communities that are on this list. 

By the parameters set up on Wikipedia, only the colonizer’s governments can acknowledge who is Native American through either federal recognition or state recognition. If an individual is not a member of a federally or state-recognized tribe, then it is determined that they cannot be Native American and are, instead, considered “self-identifying” or only “a descendant of ...” (example Lily Gladstone). As a result, Native individuals are currently being tagged as “self-identifying” and their names are put on “list” pages that strongly imply they are “pretend” Indians.

These editors have indicated that they would like “self-identification” to be the default setting for any people who they deem do not fit within the parameters that they themselves created within Wikipedia.

Moreof, these editors are admin and senior editors within the Wikiproject Indigenous Peoples of North America, and are being called in specifically to weigh on Native Identity, and any project involving any Indigenous Group.

Any attempt to correct misinformation, add information, or change any of these articles is often met with being blocked, reported for various offenses, or reported for having a Conflict of Interest, whether or not that is actually applicable. They have use this strategically in many different pages for many different individuals and groups within the scope of their Wikiprojects.

While changing things in Wikipedia does not change the truth, it is a way to control how most people take in information, and thus they hope to manipulate the narrative to better suit their goals.

This is quick and messy but:

Here is a link to the google document with the other state recognized tribes (Including yours) that were edited by these editors. This is an incomplete list so far that only goes back to September 2023 but I am going to add to it. If you can add to your own part of this list, and send your complaints and information to the arbitrator committee (the email is below) with the involved editors, this will help our case.

The  more tribes who complain, and the more Wikipedia editors complain, the better our case will be. 

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1YNDEjLTrrZ_mMIRCVxtvt69FwCYpJWKs71lBhWa5a9M/edit?usp=sharing

The place to make complaints on Wikipedia is oversight-en-wpwikipedia.org , and

arbcom-enwikimedia.org . It is most helpful to have an editing account on Wikipedia, because Yuchitown and the others will try to defend themselves using Wikipedia methodology and make anyone who confronts them look like the aggressor (see the other tribes who tried to fight back on Wikipedia I found).

The more people and tribes make complaints the more likely it is that this will work and we can rid ourselves of these monsters.

Some of the tribes I have spoken to are taking legal action against these editors. Any groups affected by their policies should also reach out to the news to make knowledge of this more widespread.

Thank you

Bohemian Baltimore is also involved in indigenous Australian topics so it extends to more than the US

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2024_May_17#Category:Extinct_Indigenous_peoples_of_Australia

Bohemian Baltimore has also made some edits against LGBT Wikipedia consensus and received some comments on it on his page for re-categorizing Aromantic and Asexual people as potentially being excluded from the LGBTQ+ community. 

Discussion below: 

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Bohemian_Baltimore&diff=prev&oldid=1221854178#Aromanticism_and_Asexuality_are_the_A_of_LGBTQIA+_and_Intersex_is_the_I_and_is_inherently_an_LGBTQIA+_identity

What just happened is that Bohemian Baltimore, Oncamera, and Yuchitown in a three person "consensus" to change "citizen" to "member" for State recognized tribes, then Bohemian Baltimore created a new category for them, and reclassified all of their citizens with hyper speed. The discussion is still open.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Indigenous_peoples_of_North_America#c-Yuchitown-20240520000400-Oncamera-20240519193200

WE NEED A CELT TO CHECK ON THE CELTIC ISLES ARTICLES. Someone with knowledge of Wales, Ireland, Scotland, and the smaller Celtic nations. I’d do it if I had more knowledge of the area.

Essentially after the treaty of Waitangi was signed, according to the wiki, there was peaceful coexistence.

Firstly, I find the lack of talk about Te Tiriti O Waitangi to be terrible. The treaty and te tiriti are considered two different documents by the NZ government and we are taught as such in school. For those who don't know NZ history, British colonizers wrote a treaty in English, had it translated into te reo Māori and the translation was poorly done due to lack of equivalent words in Māori and malicious mistranslation. Because of that they are treated as separate documents and the government only upholds Te Tiriti, and disregards the treaty (the English version).

Secondly, there was never peaceful coexistence. Here is a page from the Waitangi tribunal, which is a government org run by Māori to uphold te tiriti https://www.waitangitribunal.govt.nz/publications-and-resources/school-resources/treaty-past-and-present/section-4/

aka only a few years after signing, there were more land wars. A generation is usually 20 years. So factually there were land wars only a few years after signing and not peace for 20 years.

That is misleading. The 2023 census says that Māori descent is anyone with Māori whakapapa, aka Māori ancestry, and Māori ethnicity is a self-determined cultural affiliation.

The census is a nation wide survey which everyone legally has to participate or be fined.

In Māori culture, if you have any whakapapa, you are Māori and can call yourself such and use it as your ethnicity on forms and such. Different Māori have different view on that as no group or even no iwi is a monolith, however the general view is that any Māori whakapapa makes you Māori.

It is extremely misleading to not have that explained.

Its a systematic failure. Wikipedia rewards seniority and number of commits on the platform. In Wikipedias logic, the editor-of-all-trades is more reliable and does not need approval for their changes.

On the otherhand, an expert in their field, who is also a first-time Wikipedia editor, has no credibility as far as Wikipedia is concerned.

And for bad actors, who have some seniority on Wikipedia its really easy to have the first-time-Wikipedia-user-expert-in-their-field suspended for an 'edit-war' or failure to adhere to Wikipedia rules and cultre.

This is even more likely if ones edit is just the removal of missinformation, since Wikipedia favors adding content and while deleting is viewed more sceptical.

In the end, Wikipedia is a rule-of-the-mob scenario. The articles are not necessarily by someone whos known about the subject for more than two weeks. And theyre not peer-reviewed. They are popular-kid reviewed.

I dont really think theres any solution other than for Wikipedia to pay actual scolars to review articles corncerning the lifes of people that are hate-crimed.

Wikipedia has the funds.

Disclaimer: I am no wikipedianer. I once tried to delete an instance of antisemitism from wikipedia: made an account, documented my changes, explained them on the talk page. Someone without an account, didnt explain anything; reverted my change and succesfully reported me for edit-warring when i reverted their revert. I then gave up on wikipedia.

Now, they haven’t changed much in the article and the changes were non-offensive but several users have been editing the page with misinformation, and some users have been active in trying to remove those edits. But also, the Wikipedia is riddled with misinformation regardless.

This phrasing is so off, as if Samis just don’t like the term when it is a SLUR. This is an offensive term and no one should be using it.

This is also false. The colonialism started way before that but the reason as to why the Wikipedia article claims there was “no interest” is in reference to Swedes and Norwegians not wanting to move north due to the harsher environment. Both the Swedish and Norwegian crown knew about the resources and potential Sapmi had, but could not utilise the land until later because of lack of manpower and incitement to move there by the regular population who primarily sustained on agriculture. Big parts of Sapmi is not suited for agriculture. It wasn’t until the 19th century where incitement to move to “Norrland” increased because of the resource rich land. Silver and other minerals were found in Sapmi, which caused many to want to claim land for themselves. With industrialisation came new technologies to utilise the forests and mining of minerals and many more wanted to move to Norrland to utilise these opportunities since poverty was affecting the country. One million swedes left for America during this time. The land in Sapmi was a perfect way for Sweden and swedes to sustain themselves and get out of poverty. But it is a lie to claim that there was a “lack of interest” in the land when it wasn’t as Samis were heavily taxed for living in their own lands as early as the 13th century.

During the 13th century, the samis of Sapmi were forced to pay a tax called the “birkarlaskatten”. There are written sources of taxations of the samis as early as the 9th century AD, but those sources cannot be verified to a certainty. Later, Sapmi was colonised by Sweden and Norway during the 16th century. Then the taxation was called “lappfogdar” and Sapmi was divided into different regions called “Pite Lappmark”, “Lule Lappmark”, “Torne Lappmark” and “Kemi Lappmark”. Samis were taxed for existing for CENTURIES.

Also, attempts to assimilate samis was done early. During the 17th-18th century there were attempts to forcefully convert the samis to Christianity, which was highly successful too. Most of what we know about ancient sami religion and cultural practices are written texts from Christian missionaries during the 1700s. The Norwegian crown sent out missionaries to Sapmi as early as the 14th century in attempts to assimilate them.

The film focused on exposing police/political corruption, and also did a nice job creating the criminal gang aesthetics of identical outfits, themed facepaint, etc (this was one of its many aesthetic choices that probably took inspiration from the Batman: Arkham video games).

So how do we combine these elements and realize Sean Kelly’s vision? Police gangs.

The real world is full of examples of gangs within major police departments like LAPD and NYPD. Officers in the gang often have gruesome tattoos, ritualized activities celebrating brutality, and tight-knit group dynamics. They’re often involved with drug dealing, protection rackets, and theft.

In the heightened reality of Gotham, why couldn’t a disgraced DA have a troupe of loyal “two-faced” cops whose riot masks are painted on one half?

Why couldn’t the short, scar-eyed police captain (from a long lineage of distinguished police captains, no less) run a precinct of thuggish cops with penguin insignias on their badges?

When the first wave of #DefundGCPD brings in new, experimental less-than-lethal weapons, why couldn’t groups of cops make their calling card the “laughing gas” grenades that produce extreme mood-altering effects (and sometimes leaves affected people in a permanent state of delirious, uncontrollable laughter), or perhaps the freeze-gun that leaves suspects encased in ice?

And what does the world’s greatest detective do with all his gadgets and his ninja stealth? He finds the evidence. Batman digs up the proof the cops and DA are trying to bury. He brings it to light and refuses to let it get swept under the rug. He makes sure justice is served.

And hey, maybe some police desk jockey gets mad that some masked antifa commie freak is locking up all his buddies? Maybe he starts working harder to cover up the evidence, spoof the GPS logs, edit the bodycam footage, whatever it takes to prove this Batman isn’t smarter than GCPD Lieutenant Nigma.

No matter where someone starts genuine teshuvah is always something that leaves me in awe. So why discourage that?

People can change for the better. As long as they take concrete steps of restitution rather than just saying an apology that might be meaningless, I'm fine with forgiveness. If someone who used to be a toxic bigot comes around & atones by trying to help the people they used to hate, then isn't that the best outcome. I understand people being burnt by enough bigotry to be unwilling to trust, so I don't hold it against those who wouldn't accept attempts at atonement. Trust in people or society, once lost, is hard to rebuild. But if we want our society to become better, then we need to hope that some of the current bigots atone.