@14thcdisability
Eternal doctoral candidate currently at University of Waterloo. Medieval disability stuff. Modern disability stuff. Occasional humorous history stories. Queer, disabled, joyful. She/They. Always check the alt-text for bonus jokes.
The economist Alan Cole recently became a folk hero for betting his life savings that DOGE would fail, and winning. But it turns out the Musk and Trump loyalists he took to the cleaners are only slightly more gullible than political, financial, and media elites. www.offmessage.net/p/elites-mag...
During these days of pain and fury, having an outlet is crucially important. For some of us, it's creative work.
I thought this might be a good time to share some things that I've figured out over the last– oh, thirty-five years of doing this:
The Picts carved many different beasts on their stones in the Early Medieval. Some real, some imaginary, a few somewhere in between. I set out to learn how to use the style to draw a few animals that they never did...
Recognising, stigmatising, and punishing.
You don't get to "do something bad" just because you want to. Fuck you, asshole, grow some ethics.
Ahaha and also no, no it cannot.
If you require the blessing of the governor to be in office, you have one party rule
Metal art depicting two strange creatures outside a parking garage in Squirrel Hill
Scary parking garage monsters
Pittsburgh, PA
It’s easy (more easy than accurate) to dismiss academic critics of generative AI as uninformed or emotive, which is often anyway code for “moralizing.” But it’s remarkable how much gen AI boosterism requires feigning ignorance that theft and impersonation are widely seen as wrong, for good reasons.
"Jennifer Schuessler has meticulously documented the destruction since the beginning... But there’s something about seeing a callow young man blank out when asked why he destroyed so much that really brings home the mindless destruction of this campaign." www.lawandchaospod.com/p/doge-bros-...
I mean, objectively, it's good that bad people continue to put their bad thoughts in discoverable writing, but you'd think maybe they'd learn not to write down stuff like this.
This is VERY cool.
Yeah, who could ever have predicted this one?
#WomensHistoryMonth 🌸🌸🌸
An unfurled medieval birth girdle, showing illustrations of the three nails of the Crucifixion, talismans and Christ's side wound.
A medieval English birth girdle, an amulet offering protection for women during childbirth. It's inscribed with protective prayers, charms and other talismans.
You can consult the entire MS online now! (Harley Roll T 11)
searcharchives.bl.uk/catalog/040-...
Global antiquity! 🌎 “Ancient inscriptions written in Indian languages [= Old Tamil] have been discovered on Egyptian tombs in the Valley of the Kings.” The graffiti discussed here is so cool and indicate Indian travellers to Roman Egypt in the 1st-3rd centuries CE www.livescience.com/archaeology/...
Greatest honour of my career so far. As founding editor I'm proud to announce @edinburghup.bsky.social Studies in Late Roman History. The world's first book series exclusively dedicated to the core domain of Late Antiquity. Like to discuss proposals or manuscripts? Reach out!
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I know any sequential artists that could pick-up a 4-page gig in the next month or so? Comedic piece about a knight who finds it easier to go on quests and fight dragons than to simply tell a lady that he loves her. For a larger project, you'd have to draw plate armor + a horse in three panels.
Step 1: Expand SCOTUS.
Step 2: Weaponize Dobbs.
"Oh, is Chadha long-standing precedent? That's cute, because in Dobbs, this Court embraced the idea that an old case isn't precedential if one of us really doesn't like it. And several of us really don't like it. So ... bye."
A group of about twenty purple and wavy tentacle-like fingers rise from orange fir needles covering the ground. This fungi is named purple spindles for good reason. This group of spindles stands about eight inches tall at its highest.
This weird fungus is Alloclavaria purpurea, better known as purple spindles. They're so tentacley!
📷 Canon R5
Canon RF 100mm f/2.8L IS USM
M, f/8, 1/4, ISO 400
Stack of 5 images
11/9/24
Northern Oregon Coast
#mushroom #fungifriends #mushrooms
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The difference between the various kinds consists in the time they take to ripen-the early kind ripens in 60 days-and also in their size. Ulpicum also comes in this class, the plant called by the Greeks Cyprian garlic, or by others antiscorodon; it holds a high rank among the dishes of the country people, particularly in Africa, and it is larger than garlic; when beaten up in oil and vinegar it swells up in foam to a surprising size.
pliny the elder DID mention aioli in his historia naturalis! i found the quote!!! his contemporary columella also mentions beating garlic and oil with a pestle but suggests administering it via nostril to those afflicted with tongue distemper, so im discounting that. for ONCE a primary source!!!!
That is where I started really enjoying it, that gear shift. I wasn't going to read it for myself after listening to a bit with a friend, then I saw a post about the galactic politics and dialogue on personhood and got sucked in!
🧵 THREAD: What’s Happening to Disabled CDC Employees ♿️ 🌻
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🚨 CDC has two processes for disabled workers: Medical Telework & Reasonable Accommodation (RA). The agency is deliberately blurring the line, funneling employees with chronic disabilities into the weaker process. ‼️
There isso much going on in that headoine. I could spend an hour dissecting that screenshot on itsownwithout even getting to the article!
Tl;dr I absolutely agree with you!
And I would rather perform being a person who cares about others than perform selfish shitbaggery any day of the week!
*Everything* we do in public is performative somehow. We are constantly asserting our identities, reinscribing them with our bodies in a million myriad ways we barely even register consciously. But people conflate that with the sort of performativity that is *only* performance and deception.
U.S. Dept of Heath & Human Services’ post on Facebook on the left reads: You can’t defend women if you can’t define what a woman is. This week at the UN Commission on the Status of Women, the United States stood alone in support of women and against radical gender ideology. One nation one vote one backbone. America doesn’t outsource values. On the right an article from the Daily Wire’s headline reads U.S. stands alone defending women in gender identity fight at United Nations. A white box above it reads “Defend women? you attack them , silence them, and mock them. Releases the Epstein files.
The ghouls at HHS really thought they were on to something they posted this garbage yesterday on Facebook.
Keep your hands & policy decisions out of women’s health & trans health.
I know it’s difficult given that this admin is full of white men who like to ignore the word “no.”
Every journalist & editor who spent the summer of 2024 flogging stories about Joe Biden’s cognitive decline should be shunned & never allowed to show their faces in polite society ever again
read Marx
Dinneman is basically the opposite to the Sexy Lamp trope. Pretty much every female character is individual, consequential, and has her own story and motives. Even the Ex is given some reasonably dignified closure eventually.
