i made my cat listen to the audio clip in from the article + he loved it
I called my skittish kitty, Aislynn, into the bedroom and up onto the bed next to me, and I played the Cozmo’s Air for her. No reaction. But she’s my “suckler” kitty, who does nursing paws and drools on stuff when she is happy. So I put on Rusty’s Ballad instead. And she stopped moving, just staring at me like she’d found god. Then she closed her eyes. I played it again and she carefully laid down with her head near the speaker of my laptop. I paid for and downloaded the whole song immediately and halfway through playing the full song, my other cat came into the room and stared at the computer like she had also found god, and now they are both laying near me listening with their eyes slitted and their ears ticking.
Hi! A Zine I edited/illustrated/contributed to just came out. It’s a spin off frm an online magazine of the same name my friend runs, featuring essays by women about film and visual culture, including topics like Gendering Cyborgs, reclaiming Millennial Pink, ordeal cinema and mental health in horror
Digital copies start at £1 (GBP) with options to donate more, if you’d like! 50% of profits will go to local housing charity Changing Lives, who work w homeless youth, DV survivors and they’ve have been heavily involved in working w survivors of sex trafficking rings – so it goes to a rlly good cause! And a good zine!
I did the first lot of donations from this the other week! Thanks to everyone who bought the zine, we were able to donate about £20!
£11 pays for a week’s worth of meals for service users, so that’s rlly great!!
the other 50% of the profits are basically My Pay for making this, so you also paid for like a week’s worth of meals for me. So thanks for helping to keep the lights on over here 🤗
When a handful of Westboro Baptist Church members showed up Saturday at the funeral of Orlando shooting victim Christopher Leinonen, counterprotesters donning large, white angel wings were there to shield mourners. Members of the Orlando Shakespeare Theater put together the wings as a symbolic but also literal screen between the WBC and funeral attendees. An Orlando Police tweet later proved the efforts to stop the WBC worked.
Okay, but I’m actually crying tears of frustration, because the article doesn’t even mention the history behind this act.
There’s a reason this was undertaken by a theatre company. It means they knew The Laramie Project. It means they knew that the idea for the angel wings came from their use to block the WBC at the funeral of Matthew Shepard, a gay college student who was murdered in Wyoming in 1998.
The original “Angel Action” was a counterprotest organized by LGBTQ activist Romaine Patterson, who had been a friend of Shepard’s in high school. This is part of our history. We’ve been shielding our loved ones from hate groups while we bury our dead for decades – and that deserves acknowledgement.
No protected person may be punished for an offense he or she has not personally committed. Collective penalties and likewise all measures of intimidation or of terrorism are prohibited.
This technically counts, as students are civilians, and thus considered a “protected person”. So yes, collective classroom punishment breaks the fourth Geneva Convention, and she should be rewarded for standing up for human rights and doing her research.
Power-move: accuse your teacher of a war crime using knowledge they supplied you with
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