Month: August 2018

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radical-eirini:

tbh if you think that cis lesbians are super highly scrutinized for transmisogyny and there’s just this horrid epidemic of cis lesbians being unreasonably called terfs i think the correct way for you to address this issue is to log off. some popular cis lesbian blogger you like a lot getting called out for being awful to trans women on tumblr is literally not remotely a representation of what actually happens in real life and you’re edging hard on “conspiracy theorist” territory if you think cis lesbians are just being constantly and systematically attacked for suspected transmisogyny in real life by evil all-powerful trans activists or something… if you logged off you’d probably realize tumblr social dynamics do not extend to the real world and most transmisogyny from cis lesbians, even in its most blatant forms, goes by with nobody giving a shit because trans women are a small and powerless group of the population and few people even care about us.

aka14kgold:

sequinedably:

Report: Baylor Secretly Infiltrated Sexual Assault Survivor Groups

According to a report from PR Week, Baylor officials placed a mole within several support groups for sexual assault survivors as a way to control their messaging and keep the university from looking bad.

Baylor currently faces a Title IX lawsuit from 10 anonymous former students for their alleged serial mishandling of sexual assault cases over the past decade, and Baylor football players have been accused of committing 52 rapes over four years. 

[Matt] Burchett reportedly used his role as the school’s chief event planner and student life liaison to gain the trust of the [survivor] groups. He would pretend to help them organize activities, all while siphoning information back to Baylor officials and to Ketchum, a PR firm retained by the school in the wake of reporting on its handling of sexual assaults.

[…] He also reportedly tried to get them to adopt more university-friendly rhetoric in their public communications.

annleckie:

macgician:

gjume:

steampunktendencies:

“The paternoster elevator at Prague City Hall. These door-less, continuously moving lifts are the 1860s invention of Peter Ellis, an architect from Liverpool, and were once popular all over Eastern Europe and Germany before production ended in the 1970s over safety concerns. ” Video courtesy Jada Yuan

you ever just instantly develop an irrational fear

my toddler brain immediately thought “in what brutal manner will you be crushed if you don’t get out at the last floor” but it turns out thats not one of the ways they will kill you

OMG I saw one of these in the restored Metropolis and couldn’t figure out how it managed those turns thank you. Plus I had no idea this was a real thing in the real world.