Category: General
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Indian suffragettes take part in a huge march through London demanding votes for women, to mark the coronation of King George V, 17 June 1911 –
reminder that suffragettes of colour in the UK are being completely erased in the new *feminist* film Suffragette starring Carrie Mulligan, Meryl Streep, Helena Bonham Carter and the other white wonders of Hollywood. Even women like Sophia Duleep Singh, the daughter of the last damn Maharaja of the Sikh Empire are being ignored.
goddammit
Seconded
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Anti-Vaxxers Accidentally Fund a Study Showing No Link Between Autism and Vaccines
Anti-Vaxxers Accidentally Fund a Study Showing No Link Between Autism and Vaccines
So an anti-vax group spent $250k to fund a ten year long study trying to prove vaccines cause autism only for the study to conclude there is no link hahahaha
when you try your best but you don’t succeed
LOVE THY DATA. LOVE NOT THY HYPOTHESIS. FOR THIS IS THE WAY AND THE MEANS AND THE PATH TO THE TRUTH!
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please do not let ferguson die out like everything else big does. do not let this die out. do not let this continue on for three days and then everyone forget about it. do not let this happen.
queue this post up 3 days from now, a week from now, a month from now, a month from then. make sure even if you forget your blog will remember.
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So, I don’t appear to have infected everyone else yet
So, I don’t appear to have infected everyone else yet
I saw Adams and Rea, with my beloved, at Edinburgh fringe festival awhile ago, and I love all their songs, but this one in particular, at this time of year, stays stuck in my head a lot. Often at totally inappropriate times…
I mentioned it to Kathryn, and now it’s often stuck in her head too…
Shadesofmauve, this one is for you…
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Medicine should never have been privatized in the first place. The concept of profiting off of human desperation and the need for life-saving medicine is, philosophically, intrinsically, and morally wrong both as a fundamental concept and in practice. The fact that Martin Shkreli was ever able to buy an AIDS drug and increase its price 5000% is indicative of a problem even bigger than a truly evil, despicable, and selfish human being; it is indicative of the problem of the current system of for-profit pharmaceuticals with obviously inadequate price regulation.
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you know I thought we had a 2 week holiday for Christmas but I guess I was wrong
also how Christmas break is for getting together with relatives and celebrating but when it’s a Muslim holiday then it gets turned into the religion prohibiting a person from education
I like how we get from ‘can I take Eid off’ to an argument that God is in favor of people learning mathematics. Sir, she didn’t ask you if God likes math.
BTW, tip for everyone, don’t ask them if you can take the class off. Tell them politely but firmly that you will not be in, because Eid, or Yom Kippur, or whatever, and that you are aware that you’ll need to make up the material. If they have some draconian ‘miss a class and die’ thing, it should be in their damn syllabus, and in that case, talk to student affairs.
OMG this email is the most condescending, “enlightened Christian atheist” bullshit I’ve ever read, and I’ve read articles by Richard Dawkins.
“God wants you to learn and to succeed in life.”
I mean, sure, but…
“Mathematics is a creation of God.”
Okay….?
“God wants us to succeed in life. I do not know any religion which prohibits learning on religions holidays. Do you?”
¬_¬ Well, Sir, that depends on what you mean by prohibit and what subject you’re proposing we should be learning. Also, maybe you shouldn’t be teaching a person what they should be doing with regards to her religion since 1. you are obviously not learned AT ALL about Islam and 2. she didn’t ask you.
Mathematically speaking, from a purely objective analysis of an intricate array of factors on multiple dimensions, this professor is a complete asshole and is probably breaking the law.
You don’t ask them whether you can take off. You ask them to give you any assignments you will be missing in advance, so that you do not lose time while you are out. It’s not up to them whether you will be in class. I don’t know where this professor teaches, but I’m going to take a guess that in the student handbook, there is a statement about how the school gives off for religious observances.
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After all that effort
So I’ve chased all across Bristol (telephonically, and via web, and occasionally in person), and then a while back had the random chance meeting with the guy at Fred Baker cycles who said he could repair my BSA three speed hub.
Then, yesterday, part of it unscrewed itself. Apparently, you can just screw it back in, but since the bike could do with some general loving, I decided after last night’s night shift, to haul myself from the pit of bed-land and make my way to Fred Baker*. Their phone was engaged and engaged and engaged, and then about 1/3rd of the way there I managed to reach them.
…and discovered both the mechanics that knew about archaic things like BSA hubs have left, and been replaced. The shop’s been sold…
…I can’t say I was in a happy mood as I drove back. Indeed ‘grumpy’ is the word that springs (unbidden) to mind.
Having grumped home I tried to find the shop that they said one of them had gone to (but which ‘might not be open yet’). Eventually I tried Bool’s Bicycles… who referred me to ‘Roll for the Soul’. A Bicycle workshop and Café at which I occasionally eat – because they do an insanely good veggie burger. Oh so good. So, so, so very good.
It turns out that Ryan there is an expert in BSA hubs…and keeps spares for them in stock. And can look at the poor object next week. I might, actually, have my bike back with a full compliment of gears by next week! That is insanity. I’ve put up with her not working for years and the place I ate lunch at could have fixed her.
Poot.
* I was contemplating selling the bike last night, but gradually came to realise I’d really be very sad if I did, because it’s such a delightful object.
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I saw this step-by step tutorial of how to Gird Your Loins and it needed to be readjusted.
