Percussion.
Percussion.
A few months back, a small twitter hashtag got kind of crazy - #overlyhonestmethods
Its a hashtag full of scientists admitting shortcuts in research, along with the daily face palms and annoyances of a scientific lifestyle. Science is hard, yo.
I decided to steal some of the more popular tweets from the trending hashtag along with some random images of scientists from Google image search and combine them. This is the result. it works, I think.
The full album can be found here: http://imgur.com/a/x77kL
Ma nouvelle photo de profil !
NYPD Sued For Pepper Spraying Infant And 2 Children
A mother is suing the New York Police Department (NYPD) over what she says was an instance of police brutality where cops pepper-sprayed her three little children. Courthouse News Service reports that the mother, Marilyn Taylor, made the claims recently in court about the alleged August 9 incident.
Taylor says that police officers pepper sprayed her three children, who are 5-months old and 2 and 4 years old. She claims that as she was on her way to board a Manhattan-bound L Train, officers stopped her and her husband and accused them of trying to skip a fare. Taylor was pushing a stroller with her two-year-old through a service door rather than the regular turnstile.
That’s when the police officers allegedly pepper sprayed Taylor, and the spray hit her children. The lawsuit claims that “the pepper-spray caused the children to scream out and choked the two-year old, who went into fits of vomiting.”
Taylor was arrested, and she said that cops pushed her down the stairs so harshly that the handcuffs bruised her wrists and lower back, according to Courthouse News Service. The officers who carried out the alleged brutality are named in the suit: Maripily Clase, Suranjit Dey and Jermaine Hodge.
Taylor’s husband, named Dehaven McClain, had to get all three children home by himself.
A day after the incident, Taylor says she “received an adjournment in contemplation of a dismissal, meaning the charges would be tossed if she did not get arrested again within a certain time,” according to the news outlet.
The lawsuit provides more details on the aftermath of the attack. “After the attack, mother and father suffered ongoing eye injuries and all three children suffer emotional harms, and are now afraid to ride the subways and become afraid when they see police officers. The four year-old cried herself to sleep for weeks, and after the incident the two-year-old began waking up in the night crying for her mother,” the complaint reads.
Taylor has said that the officers have continued to harass her since the August 9 event.
The family is seeking punitive damages for what they say were civil rights violations, assault, battery, negligence, and violations to the state and federal constitutions, according to the Courthouse News Service. The NYPD did not respond to requests for comment.
white people who describe their nationality in fractions
Every time. When someone finds out my grandmother is Japanese they’re like “So you’re like a quarter Japanese? Omg but you look so white!”
Well, there’s a good reason for that.
It’s because I *am* white.
No man wants to say “I raped her” so we use “sexual assault”. No white person wants to say “I’m racist” so we use “privilege”. No Christian wants say “I’m homophobic” so we use “God said it.
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i would love to see these white people who are calling their racism privilege. All the white people I talk to about racism deny their privilege just as much!
(via osobigbear)Privilege is a result of racism. Denying privilege is a result of ignorance. Racism is a result of ignorance. It’s all a circle.
A friend of mine wrote a great article on the subject, titled “you are racist.” About how “racist” shouldn’t be some offensive buzzword and it shouldn’t really have the effect it does, as it’s not really intended to. If someone mentions that something someone does is racist, that should be a moment of self-reflection, not personal offence.
White people were brought up oblivious to these things, their privilege, their racism. To not recognize that is ignorant on our (white people’s) part.
Fuck the HRC! Fuck their mainstream/assimilated politics. Fuck their whitewashing of queer culture and conforming to the capitalist heteropatriarchal ‘norm’. Fuck their demotion of trans* rights in the queer struggle. Fuck them for dismissing queer POC issues while focusing all their attention to the gay white middle/upper class in return for donations. Fuck them for policing gender roles and identity and attempting to erase transvestism and drag from gay culture to make the community look more attractive to the heterosexual majority. Fuck the HRC for pretending to care for LGBTQ people when in reality, the L and G are the only acronyms they care to ‘help’. Fuck the HRC for refusing to recognize and help LGBTQ sex workers. Fuck the HRC for ignoring pressing LGBTQ issues like (youth) homelessness, high unemployment for transgender folks and unaffordable housing for elderly queers. Fuck the HRC for everything they’ve done to hurt queer liberation in return for the right to serve in the military and live a heteronormative lifestyle. Fuck the HRC!
A year ago today, US soldier Robert Bales murdered 9 children, 3 women, and 4 men in two separate villages in Afghanistan. He cut off their limbs and set them on fire. They were all civilians.
I wonder how many minuets of silence was observed by America in their memory. Or was American time too precious to be wasted in the names of these brown bodies?
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Neha Ray
Panjwayi Massacre. Don’t forget.
R.I.P.
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Let’s make this viral.
Reblog again
So powerful.
YES!!
