A woman is beaten every nine seconds in this country. Just to be clear: not nine minutes, but nine seconds. It’s the number-one cause of injury to American women; of the two million injured annually, more than half a million of those injuries require medical attention while about 145,000 require overnight hospitalizations, according to the Center for Disease Control, and you don’t want to know about the dentistry needed afterwards. Spouses are also the leading cause of death for pregnant women in the U.S.
A knitted anatomy lesson by Shanell Papp
Papp on the project:
To make the work, I borrowed a human skeleton from the university and collected anatomical textbooks. I also managed to track down a mortuary gurney for displaying the work–a mortuary gave me a gurney after a renovation…they were looking to get rid of it since “people are were getting too fat for the gurney.” I also worked in an old hospital turned history museum. I also went to open house day at a local funeral…they gave me a decorative pen. During my graduate studies, I was granted open access to the gross anatomy lab, though I was long finished making LAB/skeleton at this point. I was given access to draw, look around…. It is always funny how specimens are collected and cared for.
So much cool knitting in this world.
Police spies: in bed with a fictional character →
Of the 11 undercover police officers publicly identified, nine had intimate sexual relations with activists. Most were long-term, meaningful relationships with women who believed they were in a loving partnership.
Usually these spies were told to spend at least one or two days a week off-duty, when they would change clothes and return to their real lives. However, Jenner, who had a wife, appears to have lived more or less permanently with Alison, rarely leaving their shared flat in east London.
It was an arrangement that caused personal problems for the Jenners. At one stage, he is known to have attended counselling to repair his relationship with his wife. Bizarrely, at about the same time, he was also consulting a second relationship counsellor with Alison.
jesus
‘Another woman said she had been psychologically traumatised after discovering that the father of her child, who she thought had disappeared, was Bob Lambert, a police spy who vanished from her life in the late 1980s.’
Seriously, stop everything you’re doing and watch Amazon’s newest commercial. The ending is worth it.
I think Amazon just won.
Woah. Plot twist much?
OMG LOVE
i smiled so fucking big
FUCKING YES.
I smiled so hard. Eek bananas! Amazon is the coolest.
Now that’s how you do it.
Yep, they may dodge taxes and contract neo-nazi’s to ‘guard’ immigrant workers but boy is their advertising progressive!
Capitalism kills. Bosses are conditioned to see the worker as so much refuse to be sucked dry of profits and tossed aside. Health and safety is always secondary to the pursuit of maximum profits. (This goes double when the worker is “temporary” as well as when s/he is Latina/o).
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‘They were not thinking of him as a human being’
By the time Carlos Centeno arrived at the Loyola University Hospital Burn Center, more than 98 minutes had elapsed since his head, torso, arms and legs had been scalded by a 185-degree solution of water and citric acid inside a factory on this city’s southwestern edge.
The laborer, assigned to the plant that afternoon in November 2011 by a temporary staffing agency, was showered with the solution after it erupted from the open hatch of a 500-gallon chemical tank he was cleaning. Factory bosses, federal investigators would later contend, refused to call an ambulance as he awaited help, shirtless and screaming. He arrived at Loyola only after first being driven to a clinic by a co-worker.
At admission Centeno had burns over 80 percent of his body and suffered a pain level of 10 on a scale of 10, medical records show. Clad in a T-shirt, he wore no protective gear other than rubber boots and latex gloves in the factory, which makes household and personal-care products.
Centeno, 50, died three weeks later, on December 8, 2011.
this story really hurts me. I interned at a refugee resettlement organization in chicago two summers ago and refugees and asylees were “LUCKY” to get a job at a plant like this. and they were fully documented.. ugh ugh im so sad for all of my fellow refugees and immigrants out there.
Does corporate capitalism inspire institutionalized cruelty?
This portion really stands out:
“The EMT’s were horrified and angered at the employer, for not calling 911 at the scene and further delaying his care by transferring him to a clinic instead of a hospital,” Galassi’s memo says.
John Newquist, who retired from OSHA in September after 30 years with the agency, said the case was among the most disturbing he encountered as an assistant regional administrator in Chicago.
“I cannot remember a case where somebody got severely burned and nobody called 911,” said Newquist, a former compliance officer who investigated more than 100 fatal accidents during his career. “It’s beyond me.”
A virus about to insert its genes into a microbe. One of trillions of viruses that live inside us and may keep us healthy. More details at The Loom.
is it just me, or is this bacteriophage kind of cute?
It’s not just you :)
I was speaking with a Black friend of mine earlier today about this and he brought up a great point. The Elite, White media can literally stir an entire Nation into a frenzy over the massacre of 20 suburban white children but simply overlook the deaths of over 100 Black children in Chicago. Wake up, People, you are being played by the Government and the Media. All children should be equal in the eyes of our Government.
Truth.
“They don’t give a fuck about us” - Tupac Shakur
We talked about this in my history class last week. The media is absolutely absurd.
Signal boosting the fuck out of this.
if anyone wanted a list, here they are. all 107 children.
Think for yourself. Question authority.
ladders may be considered to be a special and perhaps degenerate case of stairs
Saltasaurus loricatus (“lizard from Salta”)
Chordata/Reptilia/Saurischia/Sauropodomorpha/Titanosauria/Saltasauridae/Saltasaurinae
- Late Cretaceous (80 - 65 Ma)
- 40 ft in length and 8 tons
Described in 1980
Location : Argentina
Diet : Herbivore
Never be in a hurry; do everything quietly and in a calm spirit. Do not lose your inner peace for anything whatsoever, even if your whole world seems upset.
