prev post but sun protection is beauty industry propaganda too. SPF makeup powders and sprays have been loudly touted as “makeup safe” ways to apply SPF to your face but upon testing have proved to be largely ineffective and misleading about their coverage, even as a top-up. not all sunscreens were formulated equally
Just to clarify OP, you mean “makeup” versions of sunscreen and not just regular sunscreen?
A few months ago my mom got our dog a really nice like $60 dog bed that Ellie just absolutely refuses to sleep in because she’d rather be in bed with my mom or on the couch. So my mom gave Josh and I the bed to see if Vincent would like it and it’s an immediate hit, he jumped in as soon as I put it down and won’t move
I’ve never seen this cat knead before and now he can’t stop!
If anyone wants to know where the UK is currently at, disability campaigners have lost a battle over making it a legal requirement for high-rise flats to have an evacuation plan for disabled residents.
See I hate calling the cops and arguably one of the most satisfying parts of my job is when someone is doing dumb shit and I can resolve it without my employers calling the cops but that being said sometimes on occasion I have no choice but to call the cops and when that happens I would really really really love it if the operator didn’t take it as an invitation to fucking argue with me
Operator: Hello
Me: Is this dispatch?
Operator: No, what is your situation
Me: Security at XYZ, please connect me with dispatch
Operator: What for
Me: I’m security at XYZ, there is a theft in progress, please connect me with dispatch
Operator: Have they left the building?
Me: They have concealed several hundred dollars in equipment into bags and are preparing to leave the building
Operator: But they’re still inside?
Me: Yes
Operator: Have they been asked to leave?
Me: No, they have weapons and we cannot approach, please connect me to dispatch
Operator: Have they threatened anyone?
Me: No. We have not approached
Operator: Well you see then they have not committed a crime
Me:
Me: Are You Fucking Serious
Operator: It’s just the law
Me: I know the law. This is my job. They are moving towards the exit with the concealed equipment
Operator: Have they left with the items?
Me: They are on their way to leave with the items. A car has pulled up outside
Operator: Call us back when they’ve left
Me:
Me: Are you fucking serious
and on the other end of the stupid spectrum there is, “You are doing something stupid and if you keep doing the stupid thing then SOMEONE will call the cops and I’d rather we all just chilled out instead” which works 99% of the time, but that last 1% is just
Me: Hey, bud. Heard the owner found you smoking in the bathroom. You doing okay
Them: Fuck off
Me: Yeah, fair enough. Listen, I don’t wanna bug you, I just wanna ask if you could move like twenty feet that way? The owner is a bit freaked out and I can probably get them to chill if they see you’re off the property
Them: I said fuck off, I’m not going anywhere, you can’t tell me what to do, fuckin goof
Me: Okay, that’s fine. I’m just doing my job. Not trying to get you in trouble or start a fight. I’d really rather not deal with the cops today anyway you know, haha
Them, pulling out a knife: Are you fucking threatening me
Me:
Me: Do you have any idea how much overtime I have to do now
i want you all to know that there is an artist (carmen papalia) who, after he started using a white cane, assembled a 12 foot long white cane and began using it in downtown vancouver. the length of the cane made it functionally useless as a device and the only purpose it served was making him an obstacle for sighted people. dare i say… 2019 goals
therapist to sighted patient: long cane isnt real and it cant hurt you
carmen papalia:
[id: a dimly lit photo of carmen papalia using his 12 foot “long cane” piece. he walks casually behind it. the cane takes up the majority of both the photograph and the sidewalk.]
Okay I went to a conference where this guy was a keynote and he’s so fucking cool. He’s done a ton of art around disability rights. The twelve-foot cane is really cool, but here are some of my other favourites:
From the series on replacing his cane, this is one where he replaced his cane with a megaphone and would stand at intersections repeating “I can’t see” until somebody would stop and help him cross the street
Another cane replacement, this time replacing it with a high school marching band who would change the music depending on if there was something in the way or not.
A museum intervention where he got people at the MET to go through the museum with their eyes closed and experiencing touching things he’d gotten permission to touch (the floor in this image) and just exploring a visual art museum blind.
The Blind Field Shuffle, in which he has dozens of people form a conga line behind him with their eyes closed and leads them on a blind tour of the city - literally the blind leading the blind.
Wish I could find a better photo, but this is a museum gallery he curated where the works are almost at floor height, making them accessible to children, little people, and people in wheelchairs, but requiring abled people to bend down or sit on the floor in order to see them properly.
In short, this man is amazing and I love his work.
id’s in order
[begin id 1 of 5: a photo of carmen papalia from the upper torso up holding a megafone to his face while walking on a sidewalk. He is at the forefront of the image in the camera’s left corner, and the megafone takes up a lot of the corner. behind his head stretches the sidewalk and road, with a fence and trees on the other side of the sidewalk on the camera’s right. he’s speaking through the megafone with a neutral expression. it has captions that read: “I can’t see you” four times. end id 1 of 5]
[begin id 2 of 5: a photo taken across the street from where carmen papalia is standing at a crosswalk and facing the camera with a marching band behind him. the marching band’s conductor has his back to the camera and is in the middle of conducting as some people watch from the camera’s right. end id 2/5]
[begin id 3/5: a photo of two people who are kneeling on the floor of a museum, one has straight mid length dark hair, the other has long hair tied back. The one with their hair tied back is guiding the other person’s hands along the floor, both look happy. there are museum goers in the background and to the camera’s right. end id 3/5]
[begin id 4/5: a photo taken of carmen papalia walking down a sidewalk towards the camera with his cane. he is leading a long group of people who have their eyes closed. half the line is approaching a turn in the sidewalk that the others have already taken. most of them look happy. Carmen and people close behind him have more neutral faces. there is an onlooker from the camera’s right who looks like an officer of some type, his expression is neutral. end id 4/5]
[begin id 5/5: a photo taken from a low pov of a museum display where all the images are close to the ground. Someone is standing close to the camera but facing away, i think it’s carmen papalia. there are a few people sitting on the floor looking at the artwork. end id 5/5]
I’d best be seeing that anti JKR energy for this twilight show too bc Smeyer continuing to profit off the Quileute tribe is not cute
I keep seeing people on Twitter being all “I’m sure they’ll be more respectful and mindful of the Quileute tribe this time around.”
Except, they won’t be. Even if they get actual Native American actors to play these characters, even if they bring on a Native American to serve as a cultural advisor, it wont matter. Why? Because Smeyer appropriated a real Native American tribe and twisted their culture and history in her fantasy books for her own profit.
This fictional Quileute Tribe is and always will be disrespectful to the real life Quileute tribe.
The Quileute Tribe is still taking donations to move out of the immediate tsunami zone as of April 2023. Instead of directing attention to this TV series if/when comes out (and even if it doesn’t honestly), please consider supporting the tribe financially here if you can afford it.
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