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(The Grio)The incident reportedly took place this weekend in McKinney,
Texas – where a resident was having a pool party. Allegedly, neighbors
were concerned about the large group of black children who were in
attendance at the event, and called the police to intervene.Authorities arrived immediately to the predominately white neighborhood
and proceeded to chase and handcuff the frightened partygoers without
providing much information as to why.At one point in the clip, an officer can be seen pinning a young girl in
a bathing suit facedown into the grass while grabbing her by her
braids. She and her friends hysterically scream as she is cuffed. The
adults in the neighborhood are seen helplessly watching on as the girl
sobs.All throughout the clip several detained young boys try to explain to
the police that they just arrived to the scene and were not involved in
whatever complaints had been made. They also appear confused as to why
they have been cuffed. The video ends with the officer chastising the
boys for “being part of the mob.”Smh you see how the cop jumped out the car mad for no reason he fucking tripped over his own feet
smh he threw that 90 pound girl on the ground and put both his knees in her back his full body weight smh if u cant handle a 90 pound girl without using extreme force u dont need to be a cop fuck was the point of that
All of these cops literally disgust me. Anybody that abuses their power should be stripped of it and anybody that inflates their power by belittling others deserves to be thrown in jail theirselves.
Listen to him yell “get your asses on the ground”…. What right does he have? Could you imagine a doctor calling a patient of theirs a piece of shit? The power they have is supremely more great than that of a COP. Like sit your ass own filthy ass down.
Tbh I wouldn’t be surprised if he had skid marks in his underwear
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I bought the tiles!
AND I found them for cheaper than the price Home Depot had listed (back when Home Depot still believed they existed)!
I AM VICTORIOUS!
I got the ‘retailer’ list from the manufacturer’s website and set about to just calling them all, since brick-and-mortar stores rarely put prices online. One was a dud, but the second called the manufacturer and got an excellent price per square foot.
He also told me what the List price is (something that seems to be top secret, most of the time), so now I know that the supposedly-discount place in Bellevue was selling this ‘discounted’ tile at twice the list price. Ha. Ha.
It’s still more than I budgeted for initially, but that’s my own fault for having taste. It’s $200 cheaper than what I thought I was going to be in for last night, and it’ll arrive in the first part of the week I took off to work on the house.
Flush with my victory, I have used the energy to run five loads of laundry. ADULTING.
I take back my admission of blame. I’ve decided it’s my parents’ fault that I have taste.
That’s what parents are for, right?
Woot! 1337 adulting skillz there, for sure.
And aye, quite definitely your parents’ fault.
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Furious Filipino nurses take on the Daily Mail’s racist smear
Furious Filipino nurses take on the Daily Mail’s racist smear
Protesters vent their anger outside the Daily Mail’s offices in west London last Saturday (Pic: Guy Smallman)
Up to 600 Filipino health workers and supporters rallied outside the Daily Mail’s west London offices last Saturday, to defiant chants of “End racism…
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Caution – post nights rambling ahead.
Yes, yes, as usual caveat reader – I’ve been awake (bar a 2 hour lie down during which I vaguely slept) for around 35 hours. Aren’t nights fun. Oh, no, they suck.
Anyhow, there was a bit of angst yesterday – well, the night before. The licensure office in WA sent an e-mail saying (very politely) “Your application is missing bits, so uh, we can’t process it”. Having had to do the rather specific sacrificial dance to obtain the cheque that I’d had to send I was not overly delighted at the prospect of having to obtain a new one (and the additional cost wouldn’t hugely help). But having had a quick e-maily chat with them – they’re holding the application ready for the CGFNS assessment of my transcripts. Neither of the letters appear to have actually arrived there yet (the earliest left the UK around the 26th May – so it’s not entirely surprising).
Also, the camera situation left me a little dissatisfied. After a bit of pondering I’ve sucked it up and bought a Lumix G2 with a new 14-42mm lens. I’d’ve liked a better, more interesting lens. But that’s what I’ve got available.
The reason for the camera upgrade is that I wish to do some video recording. Kathryn and I have store-related-plans which call for being able to make some videos. The Lumix G2 adds in 720p capture with image stabilisation. It’s hardly cutting edge tech, but it is good enough for podcasting outside. Some stuff will obviously be captured with the vastly superior 4k capabilities of the OnePlus, which is also much more easily grabbable. But the Lumix offers niceties like control over depth of field, optical zoom, the option to use other lenses…
…which might make for some interesting stuff.
We’re going to be holidaying in Norway this year, possibly also in Sweden and Denmark, and travelling through Germany and the Netherlands. So we’ll have a chance to play with it…
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Why is this hilarious?
I just learned of a medieval counterpart to the modern Magic 8-Ball and the pulling flower petals “He loves me not” thing.
Tyromancy.
Cheese divination.
I thought it was a joke, but apparently people actually did this – reading the number of holes / patterns of mold etc like other fortune-tellers read tea leaves.
Also, young’uns would try to discover the name of their future spouse by writing potential names on different pieces of cheese, and the one that grew mold first was considered right.
And people would ask general questions of the cheese, write possible answers on pieces, then put them all in a cage with a hungry mouse, and whichever was eaten first was true.
…None of this should surprise me, since it fits in with other things that humanity has done to Find Answers From Chaos, but somehow cheese lacks dignity.
(That and the fact that “tyromancy” sounds like the magic of kings, or maybe the magical control of T-rexes.)
What do you mean, ‘Cheese lacks dignity’. Of all the dairy products, cheese is without doubt the most dignified. And telling the future from cheese? It makes complete sense to me.
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Nichelle Nichols (Uhura on the original series):”Whoopi Goldberg, she’s just marvellous. I had no way of knowing that she was a Star Trek fan. When I finally met her it was her first year on the Next Generation.
She loved the show so much and she told her agent she wants a role on Star Trek. Well agents go ‘Big screen, little screen, no, you can’t do that’. Well you can’t tell Whoopi ‘You can’t do that’.
And so they finally asked, and they had the same reaction at Star Trek office, specifically Gene. And she said, ‘I want to meet him and I want him to tell me to my face. If he tells me he doesn’t want me and why, I’ll be fine.’
Knowing Gene he had to take that challenge, and so he met with her. She said, ‘I just wanted you to tell me why you don’t want me in Star Trek.’
Gene said, ‘Well, I’ll just ask you one question and I’ll make my decision on that. You’re a big screen star, why do you want to be on a little screen, why do you want to be in Star Trek?’
And she looked at him and she said, ‘Well, it’s all Nichelle Nichols’ fault.’
That threw him, he said, ‘What do you mean?’
She said, ‘Well when I was nine years old Star Trek came on,’ and she said, ‘I looked at it and I went screaming through the house, “Come here, mum, everybody, come quick, come quick, there’s a black lady on television and she ain’t no maid!”’ And she said, ‘I knew right then and there I could be anything I wanted to be, and I want to be on Star Trek.’
And he said, ‘I’ll write you a role.’
I know I’ve reblogged this before, and I will undoubtedly do it again.
It matters. And no amount of saying that we’re post-racial or that racism isn’t a thing or that “they just chose the best actor for the role” or otherwise trying to cover up for it will make it okay to keep relegating actors of color to secondary roles, villain roles, stereotyped roles, or no roles at all, and it sure as hell won’t make it okay to keep whitewashing CHARACTERS of color out of the story by casting white actors to play then.
Remember how Martin Luther King Jr. convinced Nichelle Nichols to stay on the show?
I said “Dr. King, thank you so much. I really am going to miss my co-stars.” He said, dead serious, “What are you talking about?” I said, “I’m leaving Star Trek,” He said, “You cannot. You cannot!”
I was taken aback. He said, “Don’t you understand what this man has achieved? For the first time on television we will be seen as we should be seen every day – as intelligent, quality, beautiful people who can sing, dance, but who can also go into space, who can be lawyers, who can be teachers, who can be professors, and yet you don’t see it on television – until now….”
I could say nothing, I just stood there realizing every word that he was saying was the truth. He said, “Gene Roddenberry has opened a door for the world to see us. If you leave, that door can be closed because, you see, your role is not a Black role, and it’s not a female role, he can fill it with anything, including an alien.”
At that moment, the world tilted for me. I knew then that I was something else and that the world was not the same. That’s all I could think of, everything that Dr. King had said: The world sees us for the first time as we should be seen.
It matters, man. It honestly does. It mattered then and it still matters.
Some great anecdotes which bear much repeating.
That moment when someone reblogs your reblog and you’re all like “I’M REBLOGGIN’ THIS AGAIN”
This is why I get mad when I’m told that it should be enough that the author explains it after the fact. No. A child should be able to look at the screen and see themselves. Without commentary, without explanation (other than the obvious b/c children need to learn), without ambiguity. Representation isn’t “oh yeah, they released that information in an interview 6 years later”. It’s this. Right here.
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From “Chicago”, 1927
I have no use for these gifs, but share them for their General awesomeicity.
From “Chicago”, 1927
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“In the gallery beyond: more dead.” – The Goldfinch, Donna Tartt (hardback)
It’s literally “love is for the weak” ????
“It was, like most of the rooms in the Institute, an unused bedroom, meant for visiting Shadowhunters.” – Clockwork Prince
LIKE LITERALLY ACTUALLY WTF
“All righty. I’ll leave you to it, then.” – To All The Boys I’ve Loved Before by Jenny Han.
This young man’s credentials were satisfactory, my father and my aunt (who had always looked after the children’s welfare) were satisfied, and I acquiesced. – Crooked House – Agatha Christie
“Alas! My own hand feels as light as a feather.” – The Return of the King
Oh, God.
“There was Eru, the One, who in Arda is called Ilúvatar; and he made first the Ainur, the Holy Ones, that were the offspring of his thought, and they were with him before aught else was made.”
-The SilmarillionOkay so
The nearest book to me right now is The Fountainhead.
So I thought “oh boy, this’ll be PERFECT”
Instead, I got, “It was the year 1892.”
Ayn Rand always screws things up.
could be worse
mine’s blank XD
I don’t know yet, sir, I’ll keep you informed
– Heart of Valor…oh dear:
‘Remember, questions on the NCLEX-RN exam are not designed to trick you.’
Hrm, perhaps it shouldn’t be a nursing text book. Let’s go with the next nearest…
‘But the mere existence of individual variability and some few well-marked varieties, though necessary as the foundation for the work, helps us but little in understanding how species arise in nature.’
Damn you Darwin.
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Click-click-grck.
So, good news first: The Transcripts are away. Cardiff and UWE have sent my transcripts to the states to be analysed by a process of analysis which should allow them to say yay (or indeed nay) to me taking the NCLEX. I’ve continued to practice NCLEX type questions and am improving too. The important statement about it not actually relating to real nursing practice but to an imaginary perfectly staffed world full of people performing impeccably and patients who tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth – that helps with assessing the questions. So yay.
In good-but-not-good-news. It turns out my Lumix G1 camera body is fine. The G1’s lens, however, is kaput. I took it down to LCE today and they let me try a new lens on my G1’s body – fine. My lens on a G5 body – initially slightly erratic then after a couple of not-quite-focussed-right-but-thinks-it-is autofocus manoeuvres it reports the lens is not attached and we are left with ‘oh look it’s not working’. This is sort of upsetting. Mainly because I had largely concluded that the bizzare behaviour was most likely down to the camera, not the lens. I’d therefore happily persuaded myself that the 80 quid G2 body on ebay would shortly be mine. Now, technically, what I should do is just fork out for a new lens and keep the G1 body…
A new lens – probably around 70 quid (they’ve recently sold on ebay for between 50 and 130…!). Which should make me more-or-less happy. But…
Trading in the old body and buying a G2 with a new kit lens is about 90 quid. G2 gives me a year’s guarantee on it all and 720p video which my G1 does not have.
This, given that we’re planning a trip to Norway/Sweden and have ‘plans’ – for which another camera that can record video would be good? Well… Well it’s quite tempting. Let’s put it that way.
