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Sending my Love to Armenia

I realize I’m a day late here, but I figured it was still worth posting a few thoughts.

Yesterday was Armenian Genocide Remembrance Day. I am blogging about it here because something that has given me a profound appreciation for the significance of the Armenian Genocide is learning so much Armenian history incidentally in the context of Hellenistic, Roman, and Byzantine history. If you look a map of Armenia today, you might come away with the impression that Armenians have been a relatively minor people in the Middle East.

This impression would be quite mistaken. Armenians have played a major role in history in this corner of the world. They were formerly much more numerous and geographically dispersed throughout the spectacularly rugged lands of Eastern Anatolia and south of the Caucuses. Here are some interesting things I’ve learned about Armenia:

Armenian is an Indo-European language, meaning it goes way back. But the Armenian alphabet was invented by one guy in the early 5th century AD. It looks a little something like this: Ես սիրում եմ Հայաստանը

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weird girls

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it’s dangerous to go alone, take this

Devil’s Hole pupfish are so mysterious to me. Why are they blue? Why are they so beautiful? They live in a mysterious yucky geothermal pool with no end in sight with at least two sets of human remains at the bottom. Every time there is an earthquake, they flee into the depths of the cave and start fucking en masse. Their population fluctuates between like 35 and 550. Sometimes they randomly stop breathing for up to two hours and just sit there.

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look at these handsome gentlemen

such good dogs

Their home!

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yall still use shinigami eyes right? i feel like i dont see people talking about or referencing using it as much as i used to. i also seem to see marked stuff either green or red just less frequently. did something happen there that i missed or did folks just forget about it? i really appreciate it and def use it still so i’m curious!

if you don’t know what I’m talking about this is shinigami eyes, it’s a browser extension that indicates if users or news media or people online are trans-friendly (green) or anti-trans (red).

i know i dont usually post non art but this is kinda important…

shinigami eyes obviously isnt perfect - it can be gamed, and since it relies on volunteers with varying understandings of transphobia and what support means it can get both false positives and false negatives - but its a very useful tool. especially since you can tag ppl yourself

if youve ever been like “but how am i supposed to keep track of all these fash memepages and crypto-turves im not supposed to rb from” this is your answer. tag them. (and this isnt just aimed at allies, i see plenty of trans ppl sharing posts from ppl who want us dead)

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EXTREMELY good point!! i have a personal rule of β€œif a person is marked red, and reblogs from two other red marked people, they’re anti-trans” which works almost all the time. Also you can use it to mark strong exclusionists and transmeds as anti-trans as well, which is really useful.

And it’s not just for trans people!! I highly recommend that allies use it as well, especially for the reporting feature.

It is actually explicitly not for exclusionary beliefs other than trans-exclusion. If you actually click on the link, which takes you to the Shinigami Eyes home page, there is an entire section about guidelines on how to label, with examples.

Not enough to mark as anti-trans
Being a conservative, a SWERF, a bad or mediocre ally, ace-phobic, being concerned with “free speech” and giving voice to “both sides”.

The extension is only used for specifically marking trans-friendly or anti-trans things, and nothing else. If you want to use it for other things, it’ll show what you’ve marked back to you immediately, but not necessarily show that to anyone else. 

Also it explicitly states that it is hand-monitored. So again, while it will immediately show to you what you’ve marked, it won’t display that marking to anyone else until it is confirmed in their database. I don’t know if that database has been updated/monitored recently or how exactly that works. 

How does it know how to color each page?
The initial version has been created through a mix of manual labeling and machine learning, but you can contribute with your own labels.
Is there a mechanism in place to prevent malicious/fake reports?
Yes. While your overrides are immediately visible to you, changes are included in the publicly visible dataset only if they pass some trustworthiness criteria (including human validation).

Also yes, it is available as a browser extension for: Chrome, Firefox, and Firefox on Android (experimental). See the links above to install. 

Also, for those discussing that they only or primarily use tumblr in the mobile app: you can do periodic checks on desktop with shinigami eyes. It doesn’t have to be an always-monitored thing to be useful. You can go through your queue, likes, reblogs, followers, and who you follow periodically to check for flagged users. From there, I might will find a post or several that have one or two anti-trans users indicated in the notes. By then going to their blogs I can then find their network and block them and mark them as anti-trans in shinigami eyes. Just do that every now and then and that is often enough.

For an always-on method, I highly recommend using tumblr’s filter (aka blacklist) function to filter transphobic terms, tags, and dogwhistles. This will work on both tumblr mobile and desktop. See my post about that here, with suggested tags and terms to filter

Hi yall I’d really appreciate if you could reblog this version of the post, with my additions. I keep seeing folks reblogging versions without my additions or who have clearly not clicked on the link or read any of the website, spreading rumors about what the extension is, who uses it, how it’s used, and how it works. I know posts will always get away from you after a certain amount of spread but it’s still frustrating! I’m not gonna defend it as perfect because I didn’t make it, but at least read the website for yourself before making big claims. 

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i think i was assuming β€œexclusionists” was referring to people who don’t include asexuals n stuff like that, which is why i said β€œexclusionary beliefs other than trans-exclusion”. shinigami eyes is only for indicating trans-positive or -negative profiles, people, and websites. so the way i was reading that comment was that they were recommending using the tool to mark things other transphobia, which it isn’t! hope that makes sense! sorry for the confusion! transmedicalism does fall under transphobia and trans-exclusion. and bigotry towards nonbinary people is included under transphobia, even though not all nonbinary people identify as trans. again, sorry for the confusion! my bad

I love coming across polls they’re like little checkpoints of self reflection. After lots of thought I can say that my favorite reptile is a turtle.

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Citizen insurgency and role of Andean women 2023-02-03 

By Linda Lema Tucker .  sociologist

Women are being protagonists of this great story that is yet to be written: the protests of the citizen insurgency. These days, in Lima, great days of democratic struggle are taking place, in which hundreds of women, from the most infinite corners of Peru, with loud and forceful voices, demand the resignation of Dina Boluarte, the closure of Congress and Constituent Assembly.  

They left behind their children, the harvest, the cattle. They have broken the private sphere and have joined political affairs, to propose solutions to old problems that are still unresolved. They have faith that a new dawn in Peru is about to arrive. In protests they are distinguished by their colorful and bright skirts, their woven llicllas that they carry on their backs and shoulders, and their wonderful Aymara or Quechua language. They are not willing to return to their towns until Dina resigns, because her resignation is to fulfill that promise they made to the sixty murdered Peruvians, who would fight until the end, until this dictatorial regime abdicates. They carry in their memory and are the inspiration of their struggles, the story of brave Quechua and Aymara heroines, who preceded them as inspiration. They also know that this is a new time, in which the collective force has to overcome the old that has to lay the foundations for a rebirth of a new state, in which forgotten sectors of the country participate in power in a constitution of a new republic.

Women, the streets and the new leaderships These days, with great intensity and force, women march through the streets of Lima, launch harangues, sing and dance huaynitos, demanding the resignation of “la Dina”, as they usually call her. We have walked blocks and blocks with them, until the police surprised us and repressed us with tear gas. The gas suffocated, when I saw that, in their saddlebags, they carried handkerchiefs and vinegar to avoid burning in the respiratory tract. We continued marching and he heard the loudest proclamation, “Dina, murderer, the people repudiate you.” Until arriving at Plaza Dos de Mayo, where a commission of women waits for the compañeras to get sandwiches and drinks. That solidarity surprises me. But it is striking to see new women leaders, Quechua and Aymara, who, with braids, flip flops and a Peruvian flag tied around their necks, continue to harangue with surprising force, offer interviews and express their feelings and opinions about the meaning of the struggle. of their communities and towns. They do not stop demanding Boluarte’s resignation, saying: “She ordered our children and brothers to be killed and has not asked for forgiveness. She is a ruthless woman, who is militarizing our towns to continue killing us.“ This energetic political possession with which women speak is an expression that something important is happening in deep Peru.

They continue to protest in the central streets of Lima, in addition, they have done so in districts called exclusive, San Isidro and Miraflores, where, before, some “gentlemen” believed they belonged to them. Let us remember that, not long ago, Andean women were kicked out of Larcomar in rejection of their ways of dressing and customs of a country that, paradoxically, has a multiethnic and multicultural origin. In addition, for many years, the program La Paisana Jacinta was broadcast on television, which constituted an insult and a racist attack on the dignity of indigenous peasant women.

That is why, the insurgency that is developing now against this regime, is marked by the historical accumulation of so many abuses, discriminations and violence against the majority of the population that has an indigenous origin, therefore, the necessary democratic change must come from the original peoples in order to eliminate so much pain and establish a different destiny for millions of Peruvians.

Fighters tied to history  Throughout these days, we have observed that women are united by history, that history that feminist women are now writing and that is being repeated today, by Andean women, university students, workers, housewives, and feminists, who they have joined the historic struggle in the streets, in the relief brigades, in the alternative press, in the aid of food on the highways, the women with multicolored skirts, flip flops and huaraca in hand, confront the police – like we have seen in the networks -, actions, all of women to put an end to a totalitarian regime, anti-women, as Micaela Bastidas did in Cusco, or Rita Puma Justo, in Puno, heroines who, like many others, raised their voice of protest and participated in historical episodes, against domination and gender violence, exercised by patriarchal and oppressive regimes, which considered indigenous women as an inferior race and gender.

https://www.noticiasser.pe/insurgencia-ciudadana-y-protagonismo-de-las-mujeres-andinas?fbclid=IwAR3sF6SsW1rbFRvTjfcjg6TGrVeTQ7P1uiekHjH5LohdfnxElqve66x6CJw

Citizen insurgency and role of Andean women 2023-02-03 

By Linda Lema Tucker .  sociologist

Women are being protagonists of this great story that is yet to be written: the protests of the citizen insurgency. These days, in Lima, great days of democratic struggle are taking place, in which hundreds of women, from the most infinite corners of Peru, with loud and forceful voices, demand the resignation of Dina Boluarte, the closure of Congress and Constituent Assembly.  

They left behind their children, the harvest, the cattle. They have broken the private sphere and have joined political affairs, to propose solutions to old problems that are still unresolved. They have faith that a new dawn in Peru is about to arrive. In protests they are distinguished by their colorful and bright skirts, their woven llicllas that they carry on their backs and shoulders, and their wonderful Aymara or Quechua language. They are not willing to return to their towns until Dina resigns, because her resignation is to fulfill that promise they made to the sixty murdered Peruvians, who would fight until the end, until this dictatorial regime abdicates. They carry in their memory and are the inspiration of their struggles, the story of brave Quechua and Aymara heroines, who preceded them as inspiration. They also know that this is a new time, in which the collective force has to overcome the old that has to lay the foundations for a rebirth of a new state, in which forgotten sectors of the country participate in power in a constitution of a new republic.

Women, the streets and the new leaderships These days, with great intensity and force, women march through the streets of Lima, launch harangues, sing and dance huaynitos, demanding the resignation of “la Dina”, as they usually call her. We have walked blocks and blocks with them, until the police surprised us and repressed us with tear gas. The gas suffocated, when I saw that, in their saddlebags, they carried handkerchiefs and vinegar to avoid burning in the respiratory tract. We continued marching and he heard the loudest proclamation, “Dina, murderer, the people repudiate you.” Until arriving at Plaza Dos de Mayo, where a commission of women waits for the compañeras to get sandwiches and drinks. That solidarity surprises me. But it is striking to see new women leaders, Quechua and Aymara, who, with braids, flip flops and a Peruvian flag tied around their necks, continue to harangue with surprising force, offer interviews and express their feelings and opinions about the meaning of the struggle. of their communities and towns. They do not stop demanding Boluarte’s resignation, saying: “She ordered our children and brothers to be killed and has not asked for forgiveness. She is a ruthless woman, who is militarizing our towns to continue killing us.“ This energetic political possession with which women speak is an expression that something important is happening in deep Peru.

They continue to protest in the central streets of Lima, in addition, they have done so in districts called exclusive, San Isidro and Miraflores, where, before, some “gentlemen” believed they belonged to them. Let us remember that, not long ago, Andean women were kicked out of Larcomar in rejection of their ways of dressing and customs of a country that, paradoxically, has a multiethnic and multicultural origin. In addition, for many years, the program La Paisana Jacinta was broadcast on television, which constituted an insult and a racist attack on the dignity of indigenous peasant women.

That is why, the insurgency that is developing now against this regime, is marked by the historical accumulation of so many abuses, discriminations and violence against the majority of the population that has an indigenous origin, therefore, the necessary democratic change must come from the original peoples in order to eliminate so much pain and establish a different destiny for millions of Peruvians.

Fighters tied to history  Throughout these days, we have observed that women are united by history, that history that feminist women are now writing and that is being repeated today, by Andean women, university students, workers, housewives, and feminists, who they have joined the historic struggle in the streets, in the relief brigades, in the alternative press, in the aid of food on the highways, the women with multicolored skirts, flip flops and huaraca in hand, confront the police – like we have seen in the networks -, actions, all of women to put an end to a totalitarian regime, anti-women, as Micaela Bastidas did in Cusco, or Rita Puma Justo, in Puno, heroines who, like many others, raised their voice of protest and participated in historical episodes, against domination and gender violence, exercised by patriarchal and oppressive regimes, which considered indigenous women as an inferior race and gender.

https://www.noticiasser.pe/insurgencia-ciudadana-y-protagonismo-de-las-mujeres-andinas?fbclid=IwAR3sF6SsW1rbFRvTjfcjg6TGrVeTQ7P1uiekHjH5LohdfnxElqve66x6CJw

Unionize with ur fellow pedestrians. They can’t run us all over

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this is how right of way works on college campuses

Also in a lot of major cities. Love to be an aggressive pedestrian <3

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Viddy game πŸ‘

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