Interesting Links for 13-06-2019
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- Brexit: Leaked cabinet note admits UK not ready for no-deal exit on October 31
- (tags:UK Europe doom )
- A woman decided to start walking down the street like a man. Spoiler: it didn't go well
- (tags:women men psychology behaviour walking )
- This Deepfake of Mark Zuckerberg Tests Facebook's Fake Video Policies
- (tags:Facebook fraud video )
- No-deal Brexit will be 'commercial suicide', manufacturers tell MPs
- (tags:uk business doom europe Conservatives )
- Artificial islands in Scotland date back to 3700BC
- (tags:Scotland archeology )
- The colours associated with the cardinal directions in Chinese, Turkish and Lakota (which is why the Black Sea is black)
- (tags:language colour geography )
- Radiohead Donates Money to Climate Change Group Instead of Paying Ransom to Hackers
- (tags:money theft music radiohead )
- A soldier talks about realistic depictions of war in computer games
- (tags:games war reality )
- The original creator of Men in Black still isn't making royalties from the movie
- (tags:movies money fraud )
- This badass Edinburgh photo shows two ladies in long dresses and hats rock climbing in the 1900s
- (tags:climbing women history scotland )
- I had no idea Florence Nightingale was gay!
- (tags:history LGBT lesbians )
- The Funniest Math Joke is "Base 10"
- (tags:numbers funny )
- The thirteen countries where being an atheist is punishable by death
- (tags:Death atheism )
- Lucy told the Crisis team 11 days in a row, that she was suicidal. They didn't believe her & they didn't act to help her. Now she's dead.
- (tags:suicide mentalhealth OhForFucksSake )
- Christian Right tips to fight transgender rights: separate the T from the LGB
- (tags:bigotry conspiracy religion USA )
A woman decided to start walking down the street like a man
Date: 2019-06-13 03:14 pm (UTC)Re: A woman decided to start walking down the street like a man
Date: 2019-06-13 03:15 pm (UTC)Re: A woman decided to start walking down the street like a man
Date: 2019-06-13 03:40 pm (UTC)(didn't actually SAY anything to me mind, just pushed his leg into mine for five minutes)
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Date: 2019-06-13 06:09 pm (UTC)Re: A woman decided to start walking down the street like a man
Date: 2019-06-14 01:00 am (UTC)Re: A woman decided to start walking down the street like a man
Date: 2019-06-14 01:01 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2019-06-13 03:17 pm (UTC)9. Yep. That ripoff is still in progress. And now the MIB movies are a Disney thing, right? Aircel - which used to be based here in Ottawa - got bought by Malibu, which got bought by Marvel...and I know the original artist, Sandy Carruthers. He's also still just getting by.
15. So that's still ongoing, too, dammit.
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Date: 2019-06-16 06:08 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2019-06-13 04:37 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2019-06-16 06:00 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2019-06-13 04:56 pm (UTC)I'm a woman. Men refused to get out of my way when I was using a walking-stick.
Men refused to get out of my way when I was using a four-wheeled walking frame (and they were VERY surprised when this resulted in the steel walking frame banging into their shins).
Men refuse to get out of my way when I'm using a power wheelchair, and then they get verbally aggro at me when I continue in a straight line and they are forced to move aside or have their foot run over. [I'm not doing this just to prove a point: people on foot have a much smaller turning circle than people using a wheelchair do. Also tight turns aggravate my back/hip/leg pain for days or even weeks.]
Apparently gender rules about women giving way to men supersede common sense.
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Date: 2019-06-16 06:00 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2019-06-13 06:26 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2019-06-13 06:44 pm (UTC)I actually do this a lot now. Not the super aggravating hey I'm taking all the space, shove over to let ME pass thing, just not getting out of my way and taking the space I, a fellow human being, should have when there is space for two people or more. Same things on public stairs, public seats. Don't care if I have to use my elbow, stomp some feet, sit on some bag or press uncomfortably into someone's leg or just plain stop walking so the other person has to move. If some people who clearly saw me want to pretend I don't exist, I'll do the same.
And yeah, it's not just men, women in groups do it a lot too now. But men are still the stupidest about this.
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Date: 2019-06-16 06:34 am (UTC)There was one empty seat - a priority seat, next to an elderly man. He was sitting on the aisle side of the seat, thus completely blocking access to the window side of the seat, despite being a very slender man.
I needed to sit or I would fall down and/or badly aggravate my back pain for days/weeks/months.
I asked him to move. He ignored me.
So I started lowering my bottom slowly into the seat, assuming he'd move.
He didn't.
So I sat on him.
Oh, how he howled!
"You SAT on me!"
Well, yeah. You're a very slender man, you don't get to take up two whole priority seats when I really need one.
And I gave him plenty of warning.
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Date: 2019-06-13 06:50 pm (UTC)This thread is heavily Islamophobic and the same goes for the Twitter account judging from recent tweets. I'm not sure what it's doing in your list, tbh.
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Date: 2019-06-13 06:52 pm (UTC)*Sigh*
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Date: 2019-06-16 06:33 am (UTC)There was one empty seat - a priority seat, next to an elderly man. He was sitting on the aisle side of the seat, thus completely blocking access to the window side of the seat, despite being a very slender man.
I needed to sit or I would fall down and/or badly aggravate my back pain for days/weeks/months.
I asked him to move. He ignored me.
So I started lowering my bottom slowly into the seat, assuming he'd move.
He didn't.
So I sat on him.
Oh, how he howled!
"You SAT on me!"
Well, yeah. You're a very slender man, you don't get to take up two whole priority seats when I really need one.
And I gave him plenty of warning.