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https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cwydx34kzlvo
"Vanderhorst had been under the influence of MDMA and three litres of vodka she had consumed on the night of the offence last September, her lawyer Michael Hill told the court."
three. liters.
i support women's wrongs
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it's a shame that the trope of a character who looks 12 but is actually 300 years old is usually just used for ick fanservice because on a paper i think the psychology of a person stuck in permanent childhood has a lot of interesting story potential. unfortunately i would not trust a fandom with that character with a 100ft pole.
everyone loves to hate terfs until they realise that it actually entails rejecting bioessentialism entirely and then suddenly you’re “taking things too seriously” and you “don’t have a sense of humour” like i’m sorry but saying protect the dolls doesn’t make you immune to terfism it has seeped into every corner of mainstream feminism and unless you’re actively searching it out and checking your own biases you will always be at risk of sharing a space with terfs
“Only women can—” nope. “But all men—” nah. “The divine femininity of—” gonna stop you right there. “Everyone born ama—” if you finish that sentence I’ll kill you. “Men don’t experience—” you’re wrong. “Gender isn’t real but sex is imm—” *loud incorrect buzzer*
It also goes without saying that bioessentialism inherently can’t be trans inclusive no matter how hard you try. “All men including trans men—” probably not. “This is only a woman’s issue—” is it really? “Afabs only—” why? “All trans men are like—” what? what are they like? finish the sentence i dare you.
At the risk of sounding anti-intellectual, I think that college should be free and also not a requirement for employment outside of highly specialized career fields
At the risk of sounding like an effete intellectual, I do actually think you should be allowed to just take college courses indefinitely
technically you can, if you don't care about degrees.
Free Harvard courses. Free Courses from Stanford. Free Courses from MIT. Free courses from Yale. Free courses from Princeton.
Free courses on Coursera.
Free Courses on EDx Free Courses on Alison
For paid, there's The Great Courses+/Wonderium. 20$ a month for unlimited courses.
When searching, the phrases you're looking for are Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs), or you can do a general search of say, "free online college courses." Oh, and so you don't get surprised like I did, have an avoid: Hillsdale College is a conservative Christian site and not a valid MOOC place. Sign up with them and you will get things like THIS IS WHY THE LEFT IS TURNING YOUR KIDS TRANS AND GAY in your inbox.
@yourunderwaterskies I wanted to say thank you so much for adding these links, seriously, they've been life-changingly helpful to me-
And I also wanted to mention that humanitarian organisations have free courses too, like the Red Cross on international humanitarian law.
Learn more about the Red Cross International Humanitarian Law (IHL) Program to train policy professionals, government officials, academics,
Kaya is a free humanitarian learning platform which offers hundreds of training opportunities across a range of key topics, including the hu
George Takei was so excited to do this shirtless episode. He spent all his free time doing push-ups for a week before they shot this.
they were going to give him a katana and have him be a samurai, but he didn’t want to be stereotypical, so he told the execs that he could fence and they wrote in references to the three musketeers instead
he could not, in fact, fence
he spent the weekend before shooting learning how
Not only that, but he found he liked fencing, kept it up, and became a master fencer.
When I had the privilege to hear him talk at AwesomeCon 2015, he informed us he is a master fencer. It was a very clear implication that he is still fencing at his advanced age. No wonder he’s so healthy.
He had far too much fun with this episode and it shows.
Hikaru Sulu, our first Space Pirate.
Reblogging for all this cool trivia
And also for George Takei running through the Starship Enterprise with a sword and cackling sinisterly
Reblogging for ALL of this, and for the coolness of George Takei still kicking butt with a sword to this day!
Reblog if you trust George Takei with a sword to protect you
“In the end, [Takei] loved his sword-fighting scene so much he held onto the rapier for several hours, poking stage hands with it and engaging in mock duels off the set.” – IMDB’s trivia
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they got married btw
oh you’re not kidding
pride month!!!
Is that a miette?
Pride for you! Pride for a thousand years!!
you COME OUT to miette? you come out to her as queer? oh! oh! pride for mother! pride for mother for One Thousand Years!!!!
I'm so glad that that truncated fucking ran-into-a-wall-at-speed tadpole-ass looking squirrel only lives in high altitude forests in Borneo bc this means I am extremely unlikely to encounter one in my day to day life. thank god
Hello.
DID YOU MAKE THIS BLOG SIMPLY TO TORMENT ME
I can go upside down.
WHERE IS THE REST OF YOU
"character deserved better" (but they were never going to get it that's the stuff great tragedies are made of) vs "character deserved better" (but the writers really blew it)
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i've been phasing the phrase 'google it' out of my vocabulary and going back to 'look it up'. fuck you youve lost your generic trademark privileges
seconding these tags by @ragsy: #if the social consciousness has decided that duckduckgo is the Only Othet Search Engine#might i suggest 'go duck yourself'
Wh-Why is Bottom Storage called Bottom Storage....? 😂
I couldn’t find the og post so I had to yoink this off reddit, but:
IT’S A THING™ AND THIS POST NAILS IT
Every day, people on this site commit acts of heresy that would have got them burned at the stake in the past.
it’s what our heretic ancestors burned at the stake would have wanted
OP wove a traditional Chinese-style cover for her essential balm. Cnetizens also shared their handmade woven cases.
(fengyoujing风油精, literally wind oil essential, like tiger balm, it’s a daily household item in China. The light green liquid has a strong refreshing scent. Dab it on your temples and neck in summer to stay awake. It relieves itching and swelling from bug bites, especially mosquito bites, and eases dizziness and mild car sickness too.)(cr国家特级铲shi官)
Chinese textile terms
Putting my hanfu/textile cheat sheet here so more people can reference it. Disclaimer my Chinese is mid. I made this so I could browse Taobao better. Will probably update this as I learn more.
Fabric terms
- fabric: 面料 miàn liào, 布料 bù liào
- material: 材质 cáizhì
- fiber: 纤维 xiānwéi
- blended: 混紡 hùnfǎng
- outer materials: 外料 wai liào
- auxiliary materials: 辅料 fǔliào
- jacquard: 提花 tí huā
- brocade/damask: 锦缎 jǐn duàn
- floral satin/brocade: 花缎 huā duàn
- satin: 缎面 duàn miàn
- gauze: 纱 shā
- embroidered: 绣花 xiù huā
- embroidery: 刺绣 cìxiù
Fiber contents
- polyester: 涤纶 dí lún, 聚酯 jù zhǐ
- acetate: 醋酸 cùsuān
- viscose: 粘胶(纤维) zhān jiāo xiānwéi, 粘纤 zhān xiān
- rayon (artificial silk): 人丝 rén sī
- rayon (artificial cotton): 人棉 rén mián
- tencel: 天丝 tiān sī
- lyocell fiber: 莱赛尔 lái sài ěr
- tencel-linen: 天丝麻 tiān sī má
- linen: 亚麻 yà má
- cotton-linen: 棉麻 mián má
- cotton: 棉 mián
- ramie: 苎麻 zhù má
- wool: 羊毛 yáng máo
- real silk: 真丝 zhēn sī
- silkworm silk: 蚕丝 cán sī
- fragrant cloud gauze/gambiered Guangdong silk: 香云纱 xiāng yún shā
Clothing terms
Hanfu: 汉服 hànfú
Short: 短 duǎn
Unlined shirt: 衫 shān
Long robe: 袍 páo
Yuanlingpao: 圆领袍 yuán lǐng páo
Round collar: 圆领 yuán lǐng
Vertical collar: 竖领 shù lǐng
Stand-up collar: 立领 lì lǐng
Parallel collar: 对襟 duì jīn
Half sleeve: 半袖 bàn xiù
Pipa sleeve: 琵琶袖 pípá xiù
Cross-collar long gown: 交領長衫 Jiāo lǐng chángshān
Straight robe: 直裰 zhíduō
Pleated skirt: 百迭裙 bǎi dié qún
Beizi (outer garment): 褙子 bèi zǐ
Baofu (bellyband): 抱腹 bàofù
Raccoon sleeves: 貉袖 háo xiù
Ming dynasty/style: 明制 Míng zhì
Song dynasty/style: 宋制
Motifs
- bamboo leaf: 竹叶 zhú yè
- bird: 鸟
- butterfly: 蝴蝶 hú dié
- cat: 猫
- cloud: 云
- crane:
- dragon: 龙
- feather: 羽毛
- fish: 鱼
- fishscale: 鱼鳞
- heron:
- jellyfish: 水母
- kingfisher: 翠鸢 cuì yuān
- phoenix:
Colors
- ombre: 渐变
- white: 白色
- grey: 灰色
- black: 黑色
- brown: 棕色
- red: 红色
- orange: 橘色
- yellow: 黄色
- green: 绿色
- cyan: 青色
- navy: 藏青色
- blue: 蓝色
- violet: 紫色
if qui gon had been anakin’s master, anakin prob wouldn’t have gone to the dark side. not necessarily bc he’d been a better master, but bc obi wan would be the cool older bro he’d sneak out w and confide in instead of the fake father figure he felt the constant need to rebel against. ‘palpatine has been asking me to spend time with him…’ ‘NEVER trust a politician. wait, hold. why the kriff is a decrepit thing like him trying to hang out w a 12 year old’ ‘I’m in love w padme. I want to get married!’ ‘u still have a rat tail’
what anakin never gasped was that he already had the chill, cool master that toed the code in his designer boots who took shots on the job, mind tricked locals, encouraged stealing speeders, teased anakin about his crushes, was incredibly vain about his appearance based on the six bottles of hair spray he probably went thru every morning……. if obi wan was a peer / mentor figure it’d be soo much more obvious
master obi wan: you are strong and wise and i am very proud of you <3
anakin: you and your precious jedi code can get fucked
broski obi wan: you are strong and wise and I am very proud of you <3
anakin folding under zero pressure: I’m having nightmares and palpatine tried talking to me again and said dark side would hold the solution to my problems and
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Sometimes art just makes you STOP in your tracks, and this is one of them for me. Female sculptor @brigittelajoinie had created this powerhouse of a metal sculpture: "La Femme qui marche" (2017) - photographed by @zoeforgetphotography
Materials: Reinforced steel, steel, glue, pearl, gold leaf, oil patina, recycled elements (wire mesh, rubber, horsehair, plastic soldiers and horses, buttons).
She got the idea for the study while walking with her advisor at Stanford to discuss her thesis topic, and the paper she eventually published in the Journal of Experimental Psychology in 2014 is sharp enough that it should have ended the seated meeting on the day it came out.
She ran 4 experiments on 176 people. Same person tested twice. Once sitting, once walking. The creativity tasks were the standard ones psychologists have used for decades to measure how good a brain is at generating novel useful ideas.
81% of participants in the first experiment produced more creative ideas while walking than while sitting. In the second experiment, 88%. In the third, 100%. Every single person walked into a more creative version of themselves. On average, people generated 60% more novel useful ideas the moment their legs started moving.
The skeptical question is the obvious one. Maybe it was the fresh air. Maybe it was the scenery passing by. Maybe it was the change of environment doing the work, not the walking itself.
Oppezzo killed every one of those explanations with one experimental decision. She put people on a treadmill facing a blank wall. No scenery. No fresh air. No environmental change. Just legs moving in place while staring at white drywall. The 60% boost held.
Then she ran the experiment that closed the case completely. She took participants outside in two conditions. Half of them walked through a Stanford courtyard. The other half were pushed through the exact same courtyard in a wheelchair. Same outdoor stimulation. Same scenery passing at the same speed. The only difference was whether the legs were moving.
The walkers produced dramatically more novel high-quality ideas than the wheelchair group. The outdoors did almost nothing on its own. The walking did everything.
She also tested the opposite kind of thinking. Convergent thinking. The kind where there is one right answer and you have to narrow down to it. Word puzzles where 3 words share a hidden fourth word that connects them. The seated participants did slightly better on these. Walkers got slightly worse.
Walking is not a general intelligence enhancer. It does one specific thing. It opens up the divergent search inside your brain. The part that generates options. The part that produces unexpected connections. The part that takes a problem and finds five ways into it instead of one.
When you need to converge on the single right answer, sit down. When you need to find the answer in the first place, get up.
The mechanism is now well understood. Walking selectively activates what neuroscientists call the default mode network, the system inside your brain that runs when you are not consciously focused on anything. The DMN is where mind-wandering happens. Where memories cross-reference each other. Where ideas that have been sitting in separate folders inside your head finally bump into each other.
When you sit at a desk and force yourself to concentrate, you suppress the DMN. When you walk at a natural pace, the executive part of your brain gets just busy enough handling the walking that the DMN comes online and starts doing the work that focus was blocking.
The most useful finding in the entire paper is the one almost nobody quotes. The boost did not turn off the moment people stopped walking. Participants who walked first and then sat back down stayed elevated. Their next round of seated creativity work was still significantly better than people who had been sitting the whole time. The rest lingered for at least several minutes after the legs stopped moving.
You do not need to do creative work while walking. You need to walk before the creative work. The brain holds the state.
Edited down a long tweet. (x)
