It’s so wild how many grown adults can’t grasp such a basic concept like “if you are nicer to strangers they will usually be nicer to you in return”
I work a job where I interact with the public. If my customers are nice and pleasant I will bend over backwards for them. If my customers are unpleasant I will do the absolute minimum as required to not get in trouble. I’ll never not do my job, but by god I can and will do the bare minimum.
Remember that the right person will never get tired of you even in the worst times
No, they will! But they’ll work through it, or walk away for a bit (i’m talking minutes to hours) and then come back.
People can love you and still need to get away from you for a bit. And there is nothing toxic about that — it’s good, in fact. It helps remind everyone involved that everyone has boundaries, and everyone needs time to themselves.
It’s okay. Calm down before you talk about something that made you angry while your loved one is sick. Be sure of what made you mad so you can discuss it together.
Love isn’t a one-way street, and it’s something that takes work. Part of that work is knowing when you need to step away.
I’m so proud of them!! 16 years old and having to deal with this shit. Discrimination has no age limit and these young boys did the right thing by walking off the pitch! They literally are setting an example and making these premiere league players look so dumb. Theres been PLENTY of incidents/instances where teams should have walked off, but they didn’t.
Chandrayaan-3 makes India the fourth nation to successfully land a spacecraft on the moon, joining the Soviet Union, the United States and China.
Not only that, but India is the first and so far only nation to land a craft on Luna’s south pole, which is a site of particular interest due to the presence of water ice. Congratulations to the Chandrayaan-3 team!
der Entwurf fürs Selbstbestimmungsgesetz ist endlich da, enthält aber leider einige Paragraphen, die diskriminierend sind und Misstrauen gegenüber TIN* Menschen ausdrücken, deshalb ist eine Eil-Petition gestartet, um die entsprechenden Paragrafen aus dem Gesetzesentwurf zu streichen!
Zitat aus der Beschreibung der Petition:
“Nachdem die zuständigen Ministerien den Gesetzentwurf Anfang Mai vorstellten, warnten zahlreiche Fachverbände und Selbstorganisationen Bundesministerin Paus und Bundesminister Buschmann eindringlich: Einzelne Regelungen im Entwurf führen zu Diskriminierungen und Ausschlüssen für trans*, intergeschlechtliche und nicht-binäre Menschen. Von diesem wertvollen Expert*innenwissen wurde im Kabinettsentwurf [der] Bundesregierung jedoch nichts berücksichtigt. Das ist ein unhaltbarer Zustand! Nach wie vor finden sich im Entwurf Formulierungen, die trans*, intergeschlechtlichen und nicht-binären Menschen gegenüber Misstrauen ausdrücken. Statt ihre Lebensrealitäten zu berücksichtigen, wird weiter Vorurteilen Raum gegeben.
Wir fordern Sie auf: Überarbeiten Sie den Gesetzesentwurf entsprechend der Forderungen der trans*, inter und nicht-binären Fachverbände und Selbstorganisationen! Nur so wird aus dem Entwurf ein wirkliches Selbstbestimmungsgesetz.”
tumblr lässt mich keine Asks schreiben for some reason 😭, also sorry fürs aus dem Nichts taggen, habe einfach alle aktiven (zumindest thematisch) deutschen Blogs, die ich von meinem Dashboard kenne, gelistet:
forever obsessed with the concept of Coruscant being what only can be described as haunted
its a giant planet with way too long and messed up history. apart from the general thing with overpopulation and pollusion and mutated animals roaming around the lower levels, the whole jedi order couldn’t sense sith presence there because the vibes are just that bad
it got everything: ghost of extinct species casually walking around the markets, cryptic messages picked up by comlinks that transmit from the places that cannot be found and are written in languages that have never existed, deep tunnels that appear from thin air and lead nowhere, places and levels that seem infinite and refuse to let out anyone who enters them forcing them walk in circles for hours, every month corrie guard faces the mundane problem of one of them getting possessed during patrol
shirt that says “i went to coruscant and all i got was force related psychological trauma”
“The entire British museum is an active crime scene” - John Oliver
[image description: two pictures, one above the other. The first image shows a statue originally from the Acropolis in Athens, now in the British Museum. The statue is a column shaped like a woman. It is labelled London. The bottom image is from the Acropolis Museum in Athens, showing the other five matching column/statues, with a space for the missing statue pointedly left open. This picture is shot from above and is labelled Athens.
image in savvysergeant’s reblog: screencap of tags from two people. Feeblekazoo’s tags read: the degree to which the Acropolis museum is designed to shame the British Museum is spectactular. butherlipsarenotmoving’s tags read: the acropolis museum is the most passive aggressive museum i’ve ever been to and i love it
/end id]
For those of you who don’t know museum drama, one of the largest and most famous parts of the British Museum’s collection is the so-called Elgin Marbles, which were looted from the Acropolis by Lord Elgin in the 18th Century. (The Acropolis is the hill in Athens, Greece which has some of the most amazing Greek ruins anywhere, the most famous of which is the Parthenon.) Elgin had (or at least claims to have had) permission from the Ottoman Empire to take stuff home with him, but a) this is one empire asking another empire if they can loot stuff from the other empire’s subjugated people, so, not exactly any moral high ground there Elgin, and b) he took a lot more stuff than the Ottomans said he could have.
Greece has been asking for those statues and sculptures to be returned since they won independence in 1832. That’s right, 1832, 190 years ago. The British Museum has had a number of excuses over the years, one of the biggies of the late 20th Century being “we couldn’t possibly give them back because Athens doesn’t have a nice enough museum to display them” and ignoring Greece’s response of “we will BUILD a museum just for them if you will just give us our damn stuff back!“
Finally, Greece said “fuck you” and built a museum at the bottom of the Acropolis called the Acropolis museum. It is huge, it is gorgeous, the collection of objects is amazing and the educational bits (“this is what it is and why it matters”) are really well done. It’s probably one of the best archaeological museums in the world; it definitely is the best collection of ancient Greek artifacts in the world, both for the size of the collection and the way it’s displayed.
Oh. And it is amazingly passive-aggressive. Every single piece of the Elgin Marbles in the British Museum has an empty spot on display waiting for the piece to be returned to Greece. For example, there are a lot of pieces where Elgin took, say, the nicest (or easiest to remove) one of a set. The column/statue in the OP’s image is one of these. Friezes from the roof of the Parthenon are another example. The Acropolis Museum displays each one of these sets with space for the stolen pieces, along with a picture of what the stolen piece looks like and where it is. It is a giant middle finger at the British Museum, disguised as helpful information.
There’s no chance that the British Museum will return any of this in the next generation. It’s not up to the curators at the British Museum; they don’t get any say in this. The board of governors of the British Museum is made up of old posh English people who genuinely believe that the Empire was awesome and England has a perfect right to everything in the British Museum. They have set policies about what can and can’t be removed from the collection, and according to those policies nothing of any historical or monetary value can be given away or sold. And they actively promote the idea that their predecessors had a perfect right to loot the cultural heritage of the world, and that the museum has a perfect right to keep it forever. The only way to get anything out of the British Museum and back to its rightful place would be to completely replace the entire board of the museum with new people who think completely differently. And that’s not happening any time soon, alas.
By the way, the British argument that Greeks wouldn’t know how to care for the antiquities……. Greece has 206 archaeological museums. It’s not only incredibly demeaning as an argument, it’s also straight out false and misleading.
One thing (and with the massive caveat of I don’t disagree with the above in the slightest): the Board of Trustees isn’t like that. They’re not all white, they’re not all rich, and they’re not all English. By and large they’re academics. I was speaking to them the other week with regards to repatriation when I visited and they’re actually very much all for it (bar one or two exceptions…looking at you George) and are working on things. A group of 5 of them I can confirm actively loathe Elgin and the marbles room. The problem lies with the British Museum Act of 1968 (hereafter referred to as BMA68) which was a law created by the government to prevent anything within the BM, which the government owns but wants very little do to with unless you’re trying to repatriate fyi, being removed in the “national interest”. Repatriation is, annoyingly, illegal in the case of the contents of the BM. So the Board have been trying to change this by putting pressure in various areas to get the laws changed, and the government screws them by enforcing term limits for serving on the board and then trying to stack the board in their favour to prevent further action. It’s a game of politics and the government do not want to give up BMA68 at all.
I know we like to categorise everyone we’re up against in the fight for repatriation as “old, white, rich guys” but it’s not helpful when it is decidedly not the case. We need to be mad at the right people and focusing on efforts to change this ridiculous law. At this time, supporting projects like the International Training Partnership, which is the BM’s way of building a network of curators and training them so organisations like the British Government can’t say “hurr durr they can’t look after their artefacts” because actually they can, we trained them ourselves. The network of curators also allows them to build mounting international pressure. It’s not going to happen overnight, but the pressure is building now, I promise you.
“We need to be mad at the right people” is the crux of SO MANY THINGS
just a reminder that if you were rolled out the test roll-out with the new post headers without floating avatars/icons to provide feedback to staff (original post in source).
i know there’s already 3rd party fixes going around, but please take the time to send feedback to staff to get at least icons back in some capacity in the headers while this is still in beta testing mode.
old/current:
header being beta tested:
Thank you so much for sharing what the test looks like. That’s unbearable, would make Dash unusable.
