This is literally the most heart warming story I have read on Twitter so far.
I think this is exactly what friends should do, and I feel everyone deserves people like this.
A barn rasing:
a collective action of a community, in which a barn for one of the members is built or rebuilt collectively by members of the community.
because you cannot, you CANNOT, build a barn on your own, and without it, you will not be able to survive.
What a fuckin’ gem of a sentence. “What we did today was a barn rasin”
“Not all heroes…”, etc., etc. This is one way heroism looks.
When I finally told my friends I was dealing with chronic fatigue and having a hard time getting around, one of them organized a timetable. She tracked down everyone’s schedule and everyone committed to being on-call for at least a few hours a week in case I needed a ride somewhere or help with laundry etc.
She knows I’m really anxious about texting people and planning out logistics, so she just elbowed in and lifted that burden from me. On any given day, I could look at a chart and know exactly who was already willing and able to help. And it helped with the isolation, too - turns out, it’s nice to see friends even if it’s just for a 20-minute pharmacy run.
The fatigue improved eventually and I didn’t need that level of support anymore, but lord, what a blessing it was. And I would never have asked for it.
I have a hard time asking for help, trusting people who want to help, and even knowing what kind of help I need. But my friends even helped with those things. That was like… meta-help. They came up with a solution that wouldn’t have occurred to me as an option - because they knew me well enough to do that. And all I had to do was let my struggle be visible. I’m tearing up just remembering. I love them so much.
*sees a cop wounded by his car* omg!!! *rushes to the car and picks up the dispatch radio* OMG hiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii!!!!~~ ^-^
a, like no.
im gonna like respond appropriately and handle the situation effectively.
i’d put the radio microphone in my mouth and make loud kazoo noises
So this cop tried to draw his gun on what he himself described as “some kids jumping around in a parking garage.” and while doing so, shot himself in the leg, then just fucking died right there. As far as anyone can tell, the kids he was trying to shoot just left as this idiot bled to death beside his cruiser lmao
Side note: the department eventually ruled it a suicide, but the general public consensus that that’s pretty much the best way they could rule it for their own image when “He accidentally shot himself in the leg after turning off his body cam and trying to murder children, then just bled to death next to his car” makes them look horrible on so many levels.
btw. being kink positive means ALL kinks even the ones you think are “immoral” or whatever the fuck. “but what about-” especially that one. no sex act between consenting adults is immoral actually. kill the cop in your brain.
of course that doesn’t mean you have to be comfortable with every kink. it’s fine to have limits for your own personal stuff. but if you judge people based on what they do with their consenting partners, I cannot stress this enough, you are being a bad person.
Steps to judge if a sex/kink thing is okay:
1. are all involved parties adults? (including planned observers)
2. did all involved parties give informed consent while able to give consent meaningfully (including uncoerced)?
3. did the actions stay within the bounds of said consent, not adding on new things while someone was unable to meaningfully consent?
if yes to all three: IT’S FINE
if it passes all three conditions and you still think it’s morally wrong: you’re judging based on your own sense of disgust, not any reasonable moral framework!
if you are trying to say “okay but what if…”: did you read what i just fucking said??
you don’t have to like it. you don’t have to interact with it. you don’t have to look at it. but you do have to tolerate it and not condemn its practice based on your personal feelings!
bringing this post back with my lovely gf’s addition in case any of y'all haven’t seen it yet
Judging people based on their sex lives and kinks is blatant invasion of privacy. You wouldn’t want someone going into your room and saying your tastes were bad and taking it upon themselves to “fix them”, so don’t do it to other people.
Ultimately I think it’s okay to eat octopus even though they’re hella smart because I know if a human baby fell in the ocean and a hungry octopus was near it would definitely eat the baby. We just have solid land advantage which makes the stakes skewed
How is bnha anime of the decade…… they aren’t even anime of the hour of the minute of the second
The notes on this post were so toxic that staff just axed em
1969………
Yes, when the original post is deleted from the server (not just the blog, but the Tumblr servers), there is no root post for notes to be added onto, and also no root post for time to be counted from, so it starts from zero. Most computer operating systems use Unix, which was launched in 1971 with the epoch date of midnight on January 1, 1970 as 1. Therefore zero is one second behind that date: December 31, 1969. Also, very unfortunately, this also means nobody except you and anyone you reblog it to will see this explanation, as you cannot open the notes to see comments when there are no notes.
Actually it’s because rhe notes were so crazy nasty staff said they could exist.
How is bnha anime of the decade…… they aren’t even anime of the hour of the minute of the second
The notes on this post were so toxic that staff just axed em
1969………
Yes, when the original post is deleted from the server (not just the blog, but the Tumblr servers), there is no root post for notes to be added onto, and also no root post for time to be counted from, so it starts from zero. Most computer operating systems use Unix, which was launched in 1971 with the epoch date of midnight on January 1, 1970 as 1. Therefore zero is one second behind that date: December 31, 1969. Also, very unfortunately, this also means nobody except you and anyone you reblog it to will see this explanation, as you cannot open the notes to see comments when there are no notes.
Actually it’s because rhe notes were so crazy nasty staff said they could exist.
modern social media should stop offering “sync with your phone contacts to follow them” options and start offering “block all your phone contacts so they never see your account” options
If the right way is too hard, fuck it. Do it the wrong way.
Folding clothes keeps you from getting the laundry done? Stop folding clothes. Put a basket in your room and throw your unfolded clean stuff into it right out of the dryer, it’s fine.
Rinsing dishes off keeps you from loading the dishwasher? Load them dirty and run it twice.
Chopping onions keeps you from making yourself dinner? Buy the freezer bags of chopped onions.
You forget to take your meds and don’t want to get out of bed to get them? Start putting them next to the bed.
Can’t keep up with the dishes? Get paper plates. Worried about environment impact? Order biodegradable ones online if your local store doesn’t have one.
Make the task easier. Put things where you use them instead of where they “go.” Eliminate the steps that keep you from finishing the task. Eliminate the task that is stressing you out.
I wish I could say I’m an amazing linguist and could give you my take
on creating languages for fiction, but I’m not and I can’t.
So seems kind of strange I’m doing this post, right?
Well, recently I spent a good deal of time researching how to
actually make a constructed language (the term for a constructed
language is “conlang,” by the way), so I could create one for a
manuscript. It was easier than I was expecting (and yet more complex
than I was expecting at the same time), and super fascinating! So
I wanted to do a recap/review of my experience for anyone else out
there looking to do this from scratch. If I can do it, chances are so
can you! (For the record, I don’t speak any other languages.)
I used a couple of resources, but I found this guide to be my favorite.
As Always, Start with the Basics
The
idea of creating a language can seem really daunting, especially when
you look at conlangs like Tolkien’s Elvish or Star Trek’s Klingon–which
are essentially full “complete” languages. But like just about
everything, you don’t need to start with a huge complicated language,
you need to start with the bare basics, and you know what’s amazing
about the basics? Everything else builds off them!
And as an added bonus, for books, you don’t actually need a complete language, you just need to give the impression
of one. (However, if you are the type of person who really gets into
this, you might have so much fun that you don’t stop and that’s cool!)
At
this point, some of you may be wondering if it’s really necessary to
even create a language–that depends on the project, the effect you
want, and your personal opinion. Because I want to expand my conlang to
other projects, I decided to create one–even if I only needed 4 - 6
sentences for my current WIP. 😂🙈
The Very Basics
If you’re like me, when you think of creating a
language, you think of coming up with words and sentences. But guess
what? Those aren’t the very basics! Sounds are.
So if you are going to create a language from scratch, it will go in this order:
Sounds –> Syllables –> Words –> Sentences
Roughly.
You might have already made up a few words, and that’s okay. You can
break what you have down to syllables and sounds, and when you identify
those, build from there.
Selecting Sounds
Each of the three sources I used (including a
linguist briefly), said to start with sound. If you aren’t really sure
how to do that, I’ll get you going in this section.
So,
there is this thing called the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA),
and it includes every sound of every language (even has clicks!). If
you’ve looked up words in the dictionary, you’ve probably noticed
symbols like this:
That’s how to pronounce the word using IPA symbols.
You can go to InternationalPhoneticAlphabet.org and click on the symbols to hear the sounds. The chart is also organized based on where in the mouth (and how) a sound is made.
But if you want to give the impression of a real
language, you shouldn’t just jump in and pick a bunch randomly, because
there are natural reasons certain sounds occur together and others
don’t.
You think I know all the ins-and-outs of those rules? No way! But this video will help guide you.
Some of the common sounds in languages include: p, t, k, s, h, m, n
Some
sounds are voiced, some are not (compare how you say the “p” sound
with the “b” sound–they are essentially the same, but “b” requires your
vocal chords). If a language has the voiced version of an obstruent
consonant (ex. “b”), it will also have the voiceless version (“p”), but
not necessarily vice versa. Most languages have at least one nasal (such
as “m” or “n”) and one (what’s called) liquid (such as “r,” “l,” or
“w”)
Most languages have five vowels, but every language has at least two.
Most languages have 20-30 sounds. But if you want a distinct language with more “character,” it might be smart to go with fewer.
Making Syllables
I thought I had a good understanding of what a
syllable was. After all, I remember clapping words out like “ap-ple” and
“bas-ket-ball” when I was in elementary school. And as a native English
speaker, that was good enough for me.
What I didn’t know was that in other languages, there are actual rules for syllables!
That’s when I realized my understanding of syllables was rather narrow.
But don’t worry, it’s still not too crazy.
You can handle it.
In
general, a syllable is made up of these components: the onset, the
nucleus (hey, bet you didn’t know we had sciency terms), and the coda.
So
in the syllable “bas” (for “basketball”), “b” is the onset, “a” is the
nucleus, and “s” is the coda. Bas. Ket. The “k” is the onset, “e” is the
nucleus, and “t” is the coda.
Every syllable has a nucleus (almost always a vowel), but not every
syllable has an onset or a coda (for example “ap” in “apple” doesn’t
have an onset, and the “za” in “pizza” doesn’t have a coda).
Some languages have rules for codas.
Hawaiian
is what’s called an “open syllable” language. That means none of their
syllables have a coda. They all end on the vowel. Have you noticed?
Ho-no-lu-lu. A-lo-ha. O-ha-na.
Other languages have codas, but only certain sounds can be a coda.
Mandarin
has set codas. Only “n,” “ng,” and “r” can be codas. So every Mandarin
syllable will end in “n,” “ng,” “r,” or a vowel (nucleus) as an open
syllable.
i wish more people were aware the vast majority of crisis lines have the power to call the police and will call the police on you if you express that you’re suicidal because i see crisis lines being spread all the time in leftist spaces but most people don’t add the information about police and i think that can be really dangerous. it’s fucked up that crisis lines can do that and i really fucking hate it and i wish that it was more widespread knowledge so that people could make informed choices about the resources they access.
here’s a post with alternative lines that don’t call the cops.
This post is getting a ton of reblogs all of a sudden, so I thought I’d share some more info and address a lot of things people are saying in the comments.
Anytime advocates criticize 988 or other crisis hotlines, I always see a lot of crisis line workers come online to say “We only call the cops in really severe situations! You have to be actively harming yourself/have a plan/tell us that you’re actively suicidal! We rarely call the cops, as long as you don’t tell us you’re suicidal you’ll be fine!”
And I think that is a misleading statement that is ignorant at best, and actively harmful at worst. It’s true that according to 988’s stated policy, counselors should only call the police when someone has a “desire and intent to die and has the capability of carrying through on this intent.” However, 988 has a huge transparency issue–this one investigation found that there was a Houston call center where 65% of their calls to law enforcement were unnecessary. Many survivors can tell you of stories where we called the line, said that we were safe, did not have a plan, and were not going to attempt, and still got the cops called on us. I once called the lifeline, expressed that I was having a hard night but was not at all suicidal, and then ended the call, only to wake up to cops banging on my door. There really is not oversight about this–counselors are encouraged to loop in law enforcement and emergency services if they think it’s necessary, which leaves a lot of room for individual counselors and centers to make their own decisions. Survivors know that there are many, many circumstances where cops are called against their own policies–we’ve lived it, and no one listens when we speak up about it. Even without the data, we know that this is happening.
Furthermore, even if individual call centers have better policies and are strict about only calling in cases of actual suicide attempts, there are plenty of centers that do not strictly follow policies and call law enforcement frequently. When you call 988, there is no guarantee which call center you’ll get routed to. Even though it’s supposed to be the local center to you, if that center is busy, you will get rerouted to one of the national overflow centers. There is no way to accurately assess the risk of getting the cops on you when you have no way of knowing what center you’ll get routed to, their internal policies, and their oversight process. And yet, there is almost no transparency, and this information is not made available to people unless they spend time going through the website and privacy policy. This goes against everything in the Crisis Caller’s Bill of Rights, and does not treat suicidal people with the respect, transparency, and compassion that we deserve.
A lot of advocates and researchers I’ve spoken to think that the statistic that “only 2% of Lifeline calls involve law enforcement” is an understatement. Requests for more specific data through freedom of information acts have been hard to accomplish. Even if it is only 2% of calls, according to this data that would be 100,000 calls involving law enforcement per year. That’s over 270 crisis calls with the cops per day. That is an incredibly high number, representing really serious risks to the people calling for support. Thesearticles talk about some of the harms, including instances of police murder after cops became involved, arrest, involuntary hospitalization, and more. Suicidal people deserve much better: we deserve care that enables us to access support we need and that respects our autonomy, instead of care that actively endangers our wellbeing.
overall, if you work at a crisis line, I really think that you need to reevaluate what your role is and confront the ways you are complicit in an oppressive and carceral system. If you want to do any type of ethical work within the system, you need to be able to grapple with the harms of the system, and listen to what suicidal people say about the best ways to support us. Calling the cops on any of your suicidal clients actively endangers us: we deserve systems of care that don’t come armed with guns and the power to incarcerate us. Reacting defensively to survivors pointing out the very real harms we’ve experienced will not help suicidal people access care and support. It creates more barriers and further traumatizes us.
for anyone who wants to learn more about mad pride and liberatory antipsychiatry, check out my mad liberation tag, especially this post about alternatives to psych hospitalization.
reblogging again because of the amount of comments saying that I’m lying 💜
I feel like I want to explain to young tumblr users who weren’t born yet that MulderxScully was a revolutionary ship. No, it was not queer but that is not the only way to be revolutionary.
In the 90s when The X Files was airing, media was like misogyny soup. Yes, there were exceptions. But casual sexism was so ubiquitous it was like we were all frogs simmering in it and if you dared to say, hey, uh, isn’t this joke a little shitty to the wife? Or maybe this female character could do something other than pose and ask questions so the male lead can answer them? Then you were a hairy feminist outcast loser.
Scully was a lot of things but she was not that. All the “You’re not going to believe this, Scully!” memes are based on the fact that Mulder, an attractive white dude, wanted nothing more in his entire life than to share his passions with this tiny redhead. Was he nuts? Yes. But on many other shows, he would have talked down to her, would’ve ignored her, would’ve mocked her. He didn’t.
When you go back and watch The X Files, there’s these moments where Mulder and Scully look at each other like, “wait did Jack Black really just say that” and the significance to fan history isn’t just the sexual tension. It’s that, yeah, and the origin of the word ship, and the ‘will-they-won’t-they’. But the most important thing about those looks is how they told the audience that Mulder was looking to Scully for something. A man was looking at a woman and asking with his eyes “what do you think about this?” Was he also saying “and do you want to bone about it?” Yeah, yeah he was. But the first thing was sexy as hell.
Respecting a woman’s expertise and folding information she provided into his worldview was a revolutionary thing for a man to do on television at the time. Thank you for coming to my MSR ted talk.
I happened to be writing for a TV magazine back in the early 90s, and remember getting the very first tape (VHS! hah!) of The X-Files to review. I watched it about five times, and of all things that hit me and I couldn’t stop squawking about in the article that resulted was the complete upending of the usual dynamic between male and female characters. It wasn’t just the respect for Scully that Mulder displayed (even in that first episode where he was deeply suspicious and wary of a new partner being forced on him, and before he had the opportunity to fully appreciate her expertise) but it was the inversion of trope of the unreliable, flighty female and the rock solid, dependable man. A tv show that actually allowed the main lead to have EMOTIONS! That allowed the female lead to be analytical, and head-first, and possibly even smarter than him!
You are a very lucky person if you don’t realise just how revolutionary this was.
(And I was a women’s studies major at the time, so was pretty steeped in a wide range of media, and still I tell you - REVOLUTIONARY.)
(plus they were both so hot it was insane even before Scully was allowed to dress a little less dumpy scully)
I’m still insane about these two. The X-Files permanently rewrote my brain.
recently learned that the “UNDERSTAND THE CONCEPT OF LOVE” sample from jet set radio future is legendary Black activist Kwame Ture denouncing the apartheid state of israel
If you write down the results and properly format the paper, it even counts as science!
When I was in college, there was a solid year where our lgbt group did this with two bathrooms at the end of a hall that were used by like, maybe 20 people. They would put up gendered signs and we kept stealing them. And then we started writing random things on the walls INCLUDING full word for word copies of personal ads from the back of 1980′s advocate magazines.
It got to the point where the building management was on a hunt trying to find who was doing this and we had to start hiding our faces so as to not get caught on the security cameras. Our faculty advisor came down to the office one day and was like “do you guys know anything about this” essentially as we’re trying to close a comically full drawer of stolen bathroom signs, and we’re like “no” and they were like “great.”
They never caught us.
Achievement Unlocked:
The Gay Science
Perform gender perception experiments without getting caught.
After getting over the initial shock and heartbreak of this tweet and this reply, it hit me that (and I don’t know if this is a cultural thing here in the middle east or an Islamic one)
A child has to be named even if they’re stillborn.
For a child to not be named, that means there’s no one left to name them. They were killed along with their entire family.
I hoped I was wrong, but I checked the list of victims of Israeli attacks and found this:
Israel has ended 47 Palestinian bloodlines over the course of this genocide (or perhaps more), so you might think that this little detail isn’t that important, but I don’t think we should get used to cruelty of this proportion, no matter how consistently Israel commits it.
I hate. I hate him so fucking much. The audacity of this man to joke about this shit.
Oh *haha* remember that time that 250 people froze to death in their homes while I went on a little beach vacay? Let’s joke about that the *night before Texas has its biggest freeze since*
@instructor144 what’s the opposite of strength and honor? Because that’s literally what this dude’s got going.
Ted Cruz is a worm. He is not a man, and he is certainly not a Texan.
My husband was born in Ohio, raised in Texas, and will tell you he is a Texan by choice. My father-in-law, may he rest in peace, was a Texan. My brother-in-law, who I heartily disagree with on almost everything, I will give him this, he is a Texan. My sisters-in-law are Texans.
Ted Cruz is a bag of flesh that somehow makes air purse through inflated fleshy pustules that fools the people into voting against their own best interests.
Ted Cruz is a dangerous being, don’t get me wrong; let us never forget that he’s ambitious, not for a second let us forget that, but he is not, has never been, and will never be, a true Texan.
He moved to Texas from…Massachusetts? Or Connecticut, I forget which, PURELY for political advancement motives.
May everything he sets his hand to fail; may his plans wither on the vine; may he ever and always be a laughingstock, and his name be forgotten save for use as an insult.
Hey, don’t insult worms that way, they do useful things for the ecosystem and they recycle.
Mm, how about he’s an invasive parasite wet fart of a man?
HOW ARE YOU HAPPY WITH THIS!!! HOW ARE YOU CELEBRATING. YOUR BREAD IS MISSING ITS BREAD!!!!! YOUR BREAD HAS NO BREAD IN YOUR BREAD!!!!
This guy says it has a “light and airy crumb” YEAH ILL BET!
@smallshrimphell
Like what kills me is that this is actually pretty impressive. Working with high hydration dough is difficult on it’s own but at 106%!? And to work it just enough to develop the gluten so it doesn’t collapse while also keeping all the gas is hard. Timing the proof would have also been difficult. Looking at that crust they must have a really good oven set up as well. Hot as hell. Probably done in a preheated dutch oven.
And all in service… of this. The texture of the bread must be terrible. No fluffiness to it, all tough, thin strands of bread. Crust is probably lovely, but a crunchy dark crust is only nice when it covers lovely light, fluffy, soft bread. It’s the contrast of those textures that makes it work. I like an open airy crumb as much as the next bread maker but this is ridiculous.
Sometimes, things that are more work to make… are worse
This is none pizza left beef but homemade bread edition
None bread center crust center air
This isn’t done for eating. This is done to see if you can do it.
This is the food Famine was serving at the Diner in Good Omens.
this thread is perfect
Obviously I have to reblog this. The contrast of the technical and the inedible is just too interesting. Just so long as I don’t have to eat it.
“War crime is a category which is starting to sound meaningless to us because everything we do qualifies as one” is not the brilliant defense of your actions you think it is
Every day those skeleton lesbians are on my dash beating the shit out of each other or making out or playing mario kart. I don’t even know what kind of media the locked tomb is. Is it a tv series? A collection of plushies? A webcomic? A limited edition beverage with an oddly detailed lore behind it? Perchance. All of these questions and more could be solved by a simple google search, yet I kind of like having something that I have no context for - or understanding of - cross my dash occasionally. Adds a bit of spice. McGriddle and Shark? I hope they get gay married. I hope this isn’t a queerbaiting situation or whatever. I hope they have lots of skeleton babies and their coffee shop continues to thrive. I hope they finally kill the onceler.
Why are people so stupid I just saw an ig reel of an artist being like “tee hee we weren’t allowed to record at this nude life drawing session but I took a risk!!! Here’s my processes I videoed” you idiot thats such a huge violation of that model’s privacy. They’re not saying you can’t record because they hate you they’re saying that you can’t record to keep the model out of a potentially exploitative environment that’s such a shitty thing to do. They have rules for those sessions for a reason and as an artist you should be trying to make the situation as respectful and comfortable as you can for the model you’re drawing and that includes keeping your fucking camera device in your pocket
Also they put a kind of nsfw song over it and idk how to articulate this but it feels really shitty to take a person who’s literally just doing their job as a figure model and not only record when asked not to but then also portray them in a sexual light for no reason. Like life drawing sessions are not sexy in the slightest and the models are not there to be sexualised and its not right to do that to them. If you can’t abide by the boundaries established in life drawing sessions then you don’t respect the model that you’re drawing and you shouldn’t be there in the first place because it’s a very delicate situation that can go south and hurt people very easily
Idk maybe I’m being overdramatic over this but if did any of that shit my professors would literally have kicked me out of the program
when I was a little kid at some point I got upset with my parents because I didn’t have a crucifix in my bedroom and they did- I was like why do YOU get to be safe from vampires??? you’re okay with me getting my blood sucked???? so we took a little trip to the catholic store but the one closest to us was run by a group of nuns that had been moved here from romania. I got a little baby pink cross and this sweet old nun was like ‘aww, is this a baptism gift?’ and I was like no. I need to be protected from vampires. and she immediately got SO serious and was like 'this is the best one we’ve got, you’ll definitely be safe’ and since she was literally from vampire land I was convinced she was like, van helsing. like the whole time my parents had been laughing about how cute my fear was but she literally Knew dracula and was taking my concerns seriously I held this over my parents for so long lmfao
We NEED to put sex and magic back on the pride flag right now
I’m fed up of people being like yea we need magic but not the sex one, sex positivity is vital to the lgbtq+ community it is not invalidating to asexual people to celebrate gay sex as something that is positive and beautiful and natural. We should be celebrating all the aspects of our community and this can include both asexuals and sex positivity
IMAGINE
PROGRESS AND HISTORY FLAG
There is a genocide happening
OP is a shit starter and community divider. They’re likely a paid disruptor.
imagine if we could only care about one issue at a time and also we had to be psychic and know the whole future forever and care about the one issue that’ll happen in a year
Reading a book with even vaguely old timey dialogue fucks up my language abilities so bad for days.
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I just responded to an informal email with “unlike the rest my present difficulties, this one was entirely my fault, but at least it’s easily remedied.”
Forcing myself to edit this next email to sound like a 21st century human wrote it instead of sending “please pardon the delay in communication; I was still lacking in suitable images on Sunday. Happily, this last week’s endeavors have yielded better stockphotos of sexy lawyers”
“Dad may yet effect repairs with sufficient application of wood glue and clamps—it’s simply beyond my capabilities”—unsent text to my mom about a broken piece of furniture
So… a bunch of NFT grifters threw a party in Hong Kong this weekend and reportedly a bunch of attendees are now at risk of permanent eyesight damage because the promoters used unsafe lighting, and people are going to the ER…
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Found a picture of the stage setup with the UV lights
The contractor who set up the lights used bulbs that emit uv-c light, which is mostly used for sterilization
I did a quick search for the bulbs and almost every result mentions sterilization or germicide, I have to assume it’s impossible to purchase these, (in bulk! enough to light a stage!) without knowing that they’re for killing living organisms.
Yeah I don’t think this is something anyone reasonably deserves. I mean, we can roll our eyes at people dumb enough to pour all their money into the Stupidest Scam Ever, but I think ‘the lights at this concert meet basic safety standards’ is a reasonable assumption for anyone to make. I don’t interrogate the people at my local cinema about what kind of UV lights they have, I just assume they’re using normal ones that won’t send me blind. That guy up there is being weirdly forgiving of these penny-pinching arseholes (“you’re good guys” THEY BLINDED YOU AND YOUR FRIENDS WITH THE STUPIDEST SAFETY VIOLATION POSSIBLE) but this one’s entirely on the organisers.
Of course, the really stupid thing would be if they’re too addicted to the taste of boot leather to organise a class action lawsuit. They better sue. The organisers should be paying every cent of lost work, general suffering and medical care costs.
They used a different kind of UV light, one for sterilising things. It emits a kind of UV that kills living tissue.
I don’t know the details of the situation but I’ve heard people speculate that production of these sterilising lights was ramped up due to an expected surge in sales (due to Covid) that never materialised, so these guys probably went “oh sweet, incredibly cheap surplus UV lights someone’s offloading” and did no further research on the matter. I have no idea how true that is, though.
Quick bit of info UV ranges from 100-400nm in wavelength, the shorter the wave the more energy the longer the less energy, and the closer to visible light, like so:
‘Normal’ UV lights (aka black lights) are UVA, and usually towards the longer end. If you spent enough time under a black light it would cause tissue damage!
In fact that’s how tanning beds work, by using UV light to damage your skin until it produces melanin giving you a ‘tan’(oversimplification). In the long term that cumulative damage leads to skin cancer.
UVB is the next step up in energy, starting here you can damage your DNA directly. Most sunburns are actually caused by this wavelength.
Now we hit UVC. UVC has the highest energy wave! BUT it’s usually filtered out by our atmosphere. We are exposed to comparatively little UVC, which is good because UVC is very damaging to your DNA.
The specifics of why are very interesting but I won’t get into it. The general of it is that it causes your DNA to make mistakes, and those mistakes cause cancer. To the extent that labs can, and do, use UVC lamps to study cancer.
The reason UVC sterilized against viruses and bacteria is that it bombards and mutates their DNA until they loose their microscopic minds (DNA integrity).
This is why ALL UVC sterilization lights come with the warning “don’t use on eyes or skin!” because if not they could be suuuuuuuued BIG SUED. like Sue the T-Rex size sue, if you did and got cancer.
So I’m conclusion these guys should not just sue for time lost now, and pain and suffering now, but also for future likelihood of cancer.
While a couple hours exposure doesn’t seem like a long time, the fact that they show such strong symptoms of tissue damage…. It would not be surprising if a number of these people developed skin or eye cancer later on.
Hmm this did not end up being a quick bit of info at all
These people better file a lawsuit. They’d be the most pathetic people on earth if they didn’t. No cryptoscammer boot leather tastes as delicious as not being burdened with medical bills due to someone else’s absurd level of negligence.
The Milk Shark gets its common name from the Indian belief that eating its meat promotes lactation. They can be found around the world. Their range occurs from West Africa to southern Japan. They commonly swim in shallow waters which make them vulnerable to fisheries and 200 m deep below the water
*In case you’re wondering, yes this was strategic posting. How could I pass up the chance to not about about the Milk Shark after the Cow Shark from yesterday? 😂*
