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From 300 to 3,000: how Australia brought the numbat back | The Optimist Daily
The numbat, once reduced to just 300 individuals, has been downlisted from Endangered to Near Threatened after 40 years of targeted conserva
Tragic they didn’t include the picture. Here is a numbat, what a delight.
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i’ve started looking at weight and health the way i look at class and income and it really puts a lot of things into a new perspective.
let me explain: in america at least, the lower class have significantly worse health outcomes, even when accounting for other factors. just being poor is enough to make your overall health worse. we don’t know that being fat makes your health directly worse, like the data just isn’t there, but for a moment, pretend it does.
imagine going to the doctor with a health problem and the doctor looking at your chart and saying well, this problem will be less severe if you go up an income bracket. have you thought about becoming rich? it would really help. start by saving a little money every month.
ridiculous, right?? very few people successfully go from working class to rich, it just doesn’t happen on a large scale in society. maybe for a time you pick up some overtime hours, spend a little beyond your means, and appear rich. but eventually you burn out, your car needs to be repaired, and you return to being working class.
we do have this data: only some people can successfully lose large amounts of weight, and only a tiny fraction of people who lose that weight actually keep it off for more than a year. telling people to lose weight for their health is just absurd because they almost certainly can’t do it any more than they can double their income for their health.
and yet i see it everywhere. a little poster in my work breakroom tells me to improve my blood pressure by losing weight! a psa on the radio says you need to take care of your heart by losing weight! we can’t even conclusively prove that weight is the cause rather than just correlated with a lot of these problems but here it is offered anyway: have you tried being rich?
You hit the nail on the head. A lot of people tend to try and invalidate fatphobia as a form of oppression by saying its not an immutible quality like race or sexuality or gender. The old “you can lose weight, i can’t become white/straight/cis” argument.
That’s because fatphobia is a lot more like classism; i.e. it’s a form of bigotry that is only TECHNICALLY changeable. They’re both seen as a lot more changeable than they actually are, for all the reasons you’ve listed.
today I learned that in 2008, the city council of florence overturned dante’s sentence of execution if he returned from exile. yes, dante’s inferno dante, who died in 1321.
but the funniest part of this is not that they were debating the exile of a man who has been dead for over 500 years.
the funniest part is that the vote was 19-5. five people voted to uphold dante’s exile.
The objectively funniest part of this is actually that the city that holds his remains, Ravenna, refused to give his remains back. This was a ploy from florence to have his remains moved back for the tourist money and its been ongoing for a long time. Florence had a fake tomb built in the city to trick people into visiting, and have tried to force the return of the remains.
His actual caretakers have been very steadfast in keeping them hidden, moved, or generally out of reach to respect his choice in life to never, ever, ever return to florence, even when he was first offered the chance to return. This is at this point an almost millenium long feud that florence is really, really mad about losing
so basically the five people who wanted to uphold his exile were in the right
You're completely skipping over how funny this actually was. So Florence was actually using Catholic law to try and get Dante back, cause technically you're supposed to be buried at the church you were baptised in. So when a Medici, the ruling family of Florence, became pope Leo X he ordered Dante's bones to be returned. He slso ordered Michelangelo to build a mausoleum.
Anyway Ravenna couldn't refuse the pope and handed Dante's casket over to Florence. Another part of Catholic law is that opening someone's casket is desecration and a one way ticket straight to hell. So Florence was skeptical that Ravenna send them Dante and decided to do the unthinkable and opened his casket. It was empty, but Florence couldn't say so because if they called out Ravenna they'd have to admit to desecrating the corpse of their so called beloved poet. So they just pretended it didn't happen till Dante's bones were found behind a wall a couple hundred years later and again interned in a crypt in Ravenna.
Also a friend of Dante had his original grave in Ravenna inscribed with the text:
parvi Florentia mater amoris
Translation:
Florence, mother of little love
nice medievalism you’ve got there. why is it entirely in shades of grey and brown
someone remind these guys that the concept of color existed prior to the 17th century
basically every illuminated manuscript has got everyone from nobility to regular fucking guys in colorful clothing that frequently gets over the top like this guy’s helmet and his fucking horse’s outfit, but every recent medievalism is like hey let’s desaturate it all and make it grey for no fucking reason
medieval people also drew dragons and shit though so I’m not trusting them
I know you're probably trying to be funny but I'm making a serious historical point with images from a manuscript that exclusively depicts real historical figures. a dragon in the margins of a manuscript or in a bestiary doesn't negate drawing clothes and people accurately or period-accurate use of color??
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Atala Butterfly (Eumaeus atala), family Lycaenidae, Ft. Myers, Florida, USA
The host plant for this butterfly is the Coontie, the only cycad native to the continental U.S.
photographs by Joaquin Garcia
Carlo and Manrico bonding over "one of the people I love most came to visit me in prison to tell me I was saved and then die in my arms, only for my evil powerful relative to decide he was going to kill me anyway"
People -and therefore characters- can have self-esteem issues while also being convinced they are the GOAT, and I think not aknowledging that often gets in the way of character analysis.
"pretending to be confident, but deep-down actually insecure" is definitely a character type that exists, but "genuinely confident but there are a few things she doesn’t trust herself with," or "genuinely hyperconfident in her abilities but entirely unsure of her worth beyond that," or "genuinely hyperconfident in herself but if you push these 3 mental pressure points in a specific pattern she will be a sobbing mess on the floor" are characters who exists as well. And they're all beautiful.
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Guangxi Cave Gecko (Goniurosaurus kwangsiensis), family Eublepharidae, Guangxi, China
ENDANGERED.
photograph by Adrian Ng
The Court of Kayumars, Page from the Shahnameh (Book of Kings). Ottoman Empire, 16th Century.
Dayton Art Institute.
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Cherubino
Helmet Gurnard aka Flying Gurnard (Dactylopterus volitans), family Dactylopteridae, order Syngnathiformes, found in shallow waters throughout much of the Atlantic Ocean
photographs: Saviour Bonnici, Beckmannjan, Xoriguer
