Francois the taco

Remember when that cop pepper-sprayed students in 2011? UC Davis paid $175K to scrub it from the internet’s memory https://t.co/5prbgrx1WL

"In 2011, the stallion Peyo and his rider, Hassen Bouchakour, were known both as competitors and show performers. Peyo is a horse with his own temperament, who doesn't like to be caught or petted.

Despite these character traits, this stallion was seen to choose members of the audience after shows or competitions, deciding to get close with them and spending time at their side. In these moments, his personality seemed to shift completely to a softer, more protective side.

After a long time of observation, Hassen understood that his horse always chooses people in a physical or psychological weakened state.

Hassen then decided to approach different specialists to try to understand this behavior : veterinarians, but also neurologists, psychologists, psychiatrists, and different specialized doctors.

After 4 years of research and studies, which included testing more than 500 horses (including Peyo's own offsprings), Peyo was declared by scientists the only horse to present such a cerebral operating mode.

The medical and science team following him quickly realize that Peyo is able to detect cancers and tumors in human beings.

After years of competition and showmanship, Hassen and Peyo left that world to enter a radically different one : one of medecine, solidarity and human dignity."

Peyo and Hassen operate through a charity : Les Sabots du Cœur, which takes them around different hospitals and medicalized facilities in France. Each month, they're able to reach around 20 different persons in the final stages of an illness.

Their Instagram : @docteur_peyo

At first I didn’t read the url and I was slightly disturbed, but I’m okay now.

D: What book do you hate that most others love?

I’m gonna be real honest with you, and you may not like the answer, but I really don’t like The Narnia Chronicles. It just… doesn’t click with me. I still appreciate the gesture though! :P

At first I didn’t read the url and I was slightly disturbed, but I’m okay now.

D: What book do you hate that most others love?

I’m gonna be real honest with you, and you may not like the answer, but I really don’t like The Narnia Chronicles. It just… doesn’t click with me. I still appreciate the gesture though! :P

At first I didn’t read the url and I was slightly disturbed, but I’m okay now.

D: What book do you hate that most others love?

I’m gonna be real honest with you, and you may not like the answer, but I really don’t like The Narnia Chronicles. It just… doesn’t click with me. I still appreciate the gesture though! :P

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My grades slid dramatically. I was having to appeal nearly all my results with my professors, and was mercifully granted extensions by all but one of them. (Which, if you’re out there Ronald: stub your toe and step on lego for the rest of eternity.) And then our Revolutionary Cultures prof. assigned a group project, and paired us at random with our classmates. And I knew, I knew I was just going to be a dead weight so I went to my new buddy and told them we should go to the profs office and ask for her to be switched to someone else who wasn’t just going to drag them down. And my new best buddy for the rest of the semester looked at me, looked at our assigned project, and very gently started to cry as she told me “I was just about to say the same thing to you,” and then tearfully told me her mum was dying, and the only reason she hadn’t dropped out to take care of her was because her mum wanted to see her graduate. She’d been given six months and we graduated in five. Provided we finished this class. And we were both out of appeals and leniency time.

It’s probably one of my most vivid memories from the whole college experience, just sitting on the floor of the Renaissance Lit corridor hugging someone who until a moment ago had been a relative stranger known only in passing, and trying to tell them it would be okay, we’d get the paper done. And we did. We scraped a C- together between the two of us and we managed to coast over the passing mark for the class and were allowed to graduate with abysmal but passing marks.

And I still think about her all the time. Especially when I wind up in group projects for work, and it feels like no one else is shouldering any of the burden, I make a note to reach out and say “hey, you don’t seem to be engaging with this much, are you okay?”

And a lot of the time it shocks people. They’re not expecting earnest concern for their lack of interest, and you find out things like their kid is sick, their dog just died, they’ve got health issues going on, or sometimes they just don’t know where to begin with the project and didn’t want to tell you that because they were frightened of being judged or perceived as lazy when they’re just overwhelmed.

Post: “But I bet you’re just gonna skip past this bc you don’t care 😒”

Me:

and so many other kids were like “well they’re dead why don’t you use that grave to learn” and he was like “no that’s very illegal and also incredibly disrespectful if they have living descendants”

When you’re at an excavation and end up finding human remains (this doesn’t matter if it is a grave or anywhere else) that night when eating dinner, you will sit by yourself excluded from the rest of the archaeologist. this is so you can pay your respects to the human that you found, and try to make some peace with them.