Even numbers and vowels are smooth. They just are. I never really questioned how I thought about them, but they absolutely are.
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Even numbers and vowels are smooth. They just are. I never really questioned how I thought about them, but they absolutely are.
This absolutely makes sense to me.
Yes - absolutely holds true for that too! And again on a personal level as a small and anxious cis woman - trans and non binary people are no more scary than anyone else, I’ve not had any scary interactions but people desperate to police gender and remove rights do scare me.
Anyway, tl,dr; fear of something doesn’t equate to a genuine threat and shouldn’t be treated as such, and the fear response of these people is just as frightening to others than any fear they themselves feel 12/12
So I’d like to see that reflected in discussions around this. Perceived threats look different to different people, but the reporting on this seems very one sided. To me masked men after dark look distinctly threatening. A legitimate concern, if you will. 11/
Also men wearing masks over their faces to do stuff after dark? That’s scary, especially if you’re a woman walking home alone. And given experiences of behaviour of men dressed like that, that doesn’t just feel like a perceived threat, but s credible one 10/
However I have had multiple scary interactions with random British men wearing union jacks or St George’s flags. Abuse shouted at me from a van as I walked home, being grabbed at in railway stations, one guy deliberately belching in my face 9/
And as someone who is scared of a great many things in life, I’m not actually more scared of asylum seekers than anyone else in society. I’ve not ever had a scary or even worrying interaction with an asylum seeker. 8/
“You can’t live in fear” - no, you totally can, I have for years. You need to manage and challenge your fears, but eliminating all the things that scare you is not a reasonable solution 7/
This actually seems worse in the US in some ways, as people have shot someone who was in no way a threat to them, but because they thought they were a threat, that’s a legitimate response. But I digress 6/
I know direct confrontation - particularly at a protest situation is unlikely to change minds (although it’s good to show the views are not universally shared) - but even in interviews nobody seems to challenge the idea that perceived threat is not necessarily an actual threat 5/
“These people are afraid for their families because of asylum seekers” - ok, but can we unpack why and push back in that? since diagnosis and therapy, my everyday life has involved determining whether my fear response to something is actually reasonable, something these people never seem to ask 4/
However the way people’s fears are discussed in the media really bothers me - absolutely acknowledge the feeling of fear but you can’t uncritically accept that fear of something automatically means the thing you’re afraid of is a genuine threat 3/
I live with anxiety disorder, and have my whole life. It’s pretty well managed with medication now, but it means I am frightened about a lot of things a lot of the time. Something you have to learn with this, is being scared of something doesn’t actually mean it is a credible threat 2/
A personal thread about perceived threat vs actual threat, fear and flags, because recent events around asylum seekers in the UK and the flag based responses, and the way they are discussed in the media is really bothering me 1/
It’s a strong name
Surely not just the one gun?
Isn’t hanging them off street furniture round roads a risk for distracting drivers? Plus a risk putting them up there too - messing about with gantries, bridges and street lighting doesn’t seem sensible. Deck your own shed out with them if you want but this doesn’t seem safe.
Artist: Loryn Brantz
Its more of a saxophone solo than a question really
To be fair the author is also dead.
Trying to drink my own body weight in cups of tea today. It’s as healthy a coping mechanism as I can muster right now.
Ironically, all you’d see are red flags
Excellent thread of folk horror nightmare fuel
The painting of Union Jack or Irish flags on paving in Northern Ireland is done as a form of intimidation & ‘ownership’. Recently, British Loyalist paramilitaries have painted Union flags outside homes of ethnic minorities to intimidate them & scare them to leave. Starmer is playing with fire
You couldn't script this stuff. The flag fanatics are defacing war memorials now it seems www.cornwalllive.com/news/cornwal...
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well on the one hand it's bad for democracy and social cohesion that Keir Starmer is trying to appeal to the racists by pretending to be one of them, but on the other hand it's not actually working and the racists still don't want to vote for him
When big breakthroughs are required, Hattie can't be stopped.
Letter in Times today
Also do you not have cabbages in Tring?
I know the Wallabies weren’t from the Romans
Did Romans introduce cabbages and edible dormice, or was that untrue as well?
Another primary school lie. Times tables might have been the only fact I was taught at this rate.
I think stinging nettles were brought the UK by the Romans? Or is that urban legend?
Uni of York digital accessibility for teaching training mega mix:
Impressive to graffiti in comic sans
Big popular accounts add alt text to you screenshots challenge (impossible).
More properly phrased as "Sorry for the delay on this train - this was because neither our trains or railway stations are properly accessible."
I can’t imagine it would be good… it’d also weird - if you were vulnerable before and still have same condition or medical history, surely you’re still vulnerable now?!
Bears are far more sympathetic though.
Yeah, it’s awful the Covid jabs are so expensive and that relatively few people can get them for free
Best of luck
I actually think human rights are a good thing. Apparently that’s a bit controversial now.
I always buy a flu one but the covid one is very pricy, plus less widely available.
I have tripped up open staircases multiple times in my life but they seem to have added some glass panels and stripes in just to mess with perception further and make that more likely
Those stairs are nightmarish
It’s disappointing no journalists seem to be asking those questions though.
I really want them to start calling people out on this - which rights exactly do you want to strip people of? Which human rights are you not in favour of? They don’t ever seem to push back.
This is what communities are about. It isn't knuckle dragging morons disrespecting the flag to spread hate, it is people like Crystal Clean Windows. We saw it after the riots last year. The far right are not representative of local communities. H/t to @ottoenglish.bsky.social for the original post.
This is where the empty headed Flag shagging leads. Race hate.
I love the gatehouse museum - it has the most cursed mannequin displays!
I can
Congratulations!
She’s not wrong
Yeah, nobody ever thought to search the pretty patent shoes of little schoolgirls, so they made the perfect drug mules
just once i’d like to hear an established, successful artist look back at their work and say “of course, you couldn’t make that these days, because you can’t get funding for original work that’s not based on an established ip”
I wish we’d sung that in instant school
The lovely Christmas song
Yeah, I feel like I’ve missed something
More broadly on health, I find the 19th century engravings trying communicate and address public health issues fascinating - like “Monster soup, commonly known as Thames water” illustrating water pollution and “The Arsenic Waltz”, with skeletons dressed in fashionable arsenically dyed clothes
For reflections on disability, I love @liapas.bsky.social ’s embroidery pieces and find some of Frida Kahlo’s work around her own disabled body very moving - particularly the medical casts and corsets she had to wear which she painted
My very tired brain has caught up and realised you probably meant which track - Gotta Go Home.
It was a 1970s episode so I would assume original lineup
This was Boney M?! I only ever knew it as a sample #totp
Was Cliff a pioneer of teeth whitening? #totp
I nearly got hit by an uber, which coloured my view a bit
Although maybe publicly urinating where they hanged Dick Turpin is in the spirit of things.
Yeah, the recent Ebor was messy. I made the mistake of popping to the co op whilst it was on. Went home and hid.
It’s a classic! The umbrella held aloft is a fun alternative too
I don’t know how far the races and the carnage on the Knavesmire is a fitting inheritance to the Knavesmire Tyburn. I feel like the crowds may have had similarities.
It’s sad, but at least it’s got an actual connection! York just has similar vibes to the aesthetic
(Also hi, I think you recently joined a discord server I’m on)
The Harry Potter stuff is dying hard though, which given a total lack of any connection is so odd
Looking at that site, is that Jimmy in some of the pictures? I used to work with him at the NRM 😂
But I think York trades on being the most haunted city in Europe, Halloween half term is a big deal for tourism and honestly it makes more sense than the bizarre springing up of Harry Potter tours
York is really brilliant for how much of it is on the same street plan and how many buildings survive - you can visit so many cool historic sites - why make stuff up?
Cloth kits were the bomb - I had a jacket that had little animal toys in it
And it honestly fascinates me because there are loads of grisly goings on that are well documented - you can visit condemned cells, walk over burial pits, see where severed heads on spikes were mounted - but the actual history is never enough for some people, they have to add a ghost
I had to have start rite shoes because of my stupid wide feet
Bless you, but I was a clumsy nerdy child with weird feet, I was desperate for magic 😂
Being the Mahoosive nerd that I am, it will surprise nobody that I looked some haunted Yorkshire books and similar from early 20th c onwards, and most of the ghost walk stories do not appear anywhere until the 1990s. A few are longstanding but most appear when the ghost walks do.
Pretty sure that’s the magic key from the Clarks school shoes my feet were too big for.
What a beautiful infographic
My video about how LLMs are not search engines has led to many, MANY comments telling me that I should be using Perplexity. Some insisting that Perplexity does not hallucinate. Out of a list of 26 papers it just provided me (in "Research" mode) 4 were real. FOUR. 85% hallucination rate.
Stupid flare up has caused a lot of pain this week - it makes it really hard to concentrate.
As part of their - I do not know what’s happening with the typos today
Neither is John, apparently the Halloween soundtrack doesn’t count ad parting their back catalogue.
I think this might be my fave bookshop, it’s lovely
UK; English; cats mew, but if you’re transcribing the generic sound of a mew I would spell that meow
The Reform UK leader of Nottinghamshire County Council Mick Barton has banned a local newspaper from speaking to him or any of his councillors "with immediate effect". Because Reform can't stand scrutiny. So much for freedom of the press and free speech, eh? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Tbh I really don’t get on with cider. It’s why I had to leave the Westcountry- the shame of it.
Oh that’s stuff’s lethal
Relying on people to actually read their emails is always risky
I get commenters saying “I discussed the topic of this video with chat GPT” and I’m like, in that case I have failed
I choose to live life as if there is a dog (this is known as Pascal's Wagger)
Clean clothes? I think that’s fine isn’t it? Unless it’s about trying to impress people.
I have but it was ages ago and quite forgettable. So I have forgotten most of it. But it was one of those films where I’d have struggled to tell you the whole plot immediately after watching it, let alone years later.