Tales of Interest

retrogasm: Whom ever made this is a genius!

Mon, 20 May 2013 07:42:58 +1000

retrogasm:

Whom ever made this is a genius!

What if…the one word Brienne of Tarth said to save her life was “Doctor!” …...

Sun, 19 May 2013 19:44:25 +1000

What if…the one word Brienne of Tarth said to save her life was “Doctor!” … Or “Pond!”.

*this is as far as I go to fanfic land

"[T]his particular young lady, like most of the other patients Dr Thomas treats, is indigenous, and..."

Sun, 19 May 2013 11:04:09 +1000

“[T]his particular young lady, like most of the other patients Dr Thomas treats, is indigenous, and she lives in the Northern Territory. And despite sixty per cent of the indigenous women Dr Thomas treats with facial fractures being victims of domestic violence, the outcry is yet to occur.
But why is it that when a woman gets told not to breast-feed in a Sydney café, a brief social media campaign was all it took to get a news story up and a mob of mothers out protesting. Good on them, for sure, but why aren’t more of us joining those already fighting to improve the situation for indigenous people, particularly indigenous women, victims of violence and abuse at a rate higher than most of us could imagine? According to figures from Family and Relationship Services Australia, the risk of a woman in the Alice Springs being assaulted is 24 times is higher if she is indigenous. Aboriginal women comprise about 0.3 per cent of all Australian women - but they account for 14 per cent of assault hospitalisations. Come International Women’s Day, how many of us stop to think about these victims?”

- Melissa Davey: The violence in our own backyard

Yep.
(via clambistro)

This is Thin Privilege: I’m not sure how to phrase this in terms of thin privilege, but I just...

Sat, 18 May 2013 00:13:13 +1000

This is Thin Privilege: I’m not sure how to phrase this in terms of thin privilege, but I just...:

sleepydumpling:

thisisthinprivilege:

I’m not sure how to phrase this in terms of thin privilege, but I just have some important information I feel like I need to share.

Before I became a freelance writer, I worked in a hospital. I was a clinical coder. What that means, is that whenever anyone checked out of the hospital, we read their notes, and then assigned numerical codes to designate what their diagnosis was, and what treatments they received. These codes are then reported to the World Health Organization for statistical purposes.

While I was working there (circa 2006) when the “obesity epidemic” panic started, they changed our co-morbidity list. That is, the list of other things - usually chronic disorders - that we mark on the forms (if there’s room) that are wrong with the patient, such as asthma or diabetes or heart disease that may or may not be related to the actual reason they are in the hospital. If an asthmatic breaks their leg, asthma is listed as a co-morbidity, even though it has nothing to do with their broken leg.

They changed the co-morbidity priority list and put obesity near the top. Like, if we only had room for a few co-morbidities, we had to work the list from the top down, and put the top ones first. So if someone came in with a broken leg and they had high blood pressure, a severe mental illness, and an enlarged prostate, and they also happened to be fat, if there was only room for one code on the form, we had to list obesity instead of any of the other problems and if there was room for more than one, obesity had to be listed first.

This is why there is a recent sudden “rise” in obesity related illnesses. There are not more fat people or more diseases related to being fat. It’s just that the people who collect the statistics are now required to report fatness as a priority over actual diseases.

(This was in the UK and the change in the co-morbidity list was a nation-wide change in operating procedure. It is also probably true in the US, though coding there is different and less accurate due to health insurance playing a part in what is coded.)

(emphasis mine-FA)

I got a bad case of gastroenteritis a few years ago and had to go to the hospital to rehydrate etc. The first thing the doc wrote on my intake card was “OBESITY”. I bet that got coded somewhere.

Bad data! Bad!

Found and Filed: Etsy accused me of not assembling my synths by hand, demanded photos, and shutdown my shop (2/2)

Wed, 15 May 2013 08:12:26 +1000

Found and Filed: Etsy accused me of not assembling my synths by hand, demanded photos, and shutdown my shop (2/2):

wilwheaton:

wtfbyrne:

Link to part one - http://tiny.cc/6mb3ww

—— ——- ——- ——- ——-
May 12, 2012
From: Etsy Marketplace Integrity
To: me

Hello,

This is (representative’s name) from Etsy’s Marketplace Integrity Team. Thank you for your interest in selling on Etsy.

…

How this is any different from all the jewellery sellers on Etsy whose products are made of findings, chain, beads and stampings (that octopus one is EVERYWHERE) made in factories by other people I don’t know.

Let alone all the copyright infringers and people who are clearly selling crap from a warehouse.

Outstanding beehive hair! vivatvintage: Latest, 1964

Tue, 14 May 2013 17:13:06 +1000

Outstanding beehive hair!

vivatvintage:

Latest, 1964

feeownah: sailornelly: Beyonslay (40) from Gotham Girls -...

Sun, 12 May 2013 22:10:20 +1000

feeownah:

sailornelly:

Beyonslay (40) from Gotham Girls - Roller Derby Idol No.3

The best blooming blocker I have EVER seen! -le sigh-

someone please remind me to get low when blocking and not just hitting with my shoulder?

Fat and exercise

Sun, 12 May 2013 21:38:14 +1000

thisisthinprivilege:

The assumption that fat people can’t posses skill at any sport really angers me. There are a number of fat pro athletes, including Olympians. In case you happen to be too lazy to look some up: Emmanuel Yarborough, Sarah Robles, Holley Mangold.

I am fat and just received my blackbelt in Taekwondo. Weight has nothing to do with speed, power, or skill. These are all things you train. A classmate larger than me just got his blackbelt at the same time and he schools me whenever we spar.

There are heaps of fat women in roller derby playing at every level. Beyonslay (now retired from derby) played for freaking GOTHAM (essentially the best league in the world), including on their all-stars team.

http://feeownah.net/post/11732214371/sailornelly-beyonslay-40-from-gotham-girls

http://www.myspace.com/ggrd/photos/46487656/tagged

There’s a few videos on YouTube of her in action, too. I want to be Beyonslay when I grow up!

Finally got new helmet and put name and number on it....

Sat, 11 May 2013 18:18:31 +1000

Finally got new helmet and put name and number on it. #rollerderby

Car full of derby gear! (at Reconciliation Place)

Sat, 11 May 2013 12:57:38 +1000

Car full of derby gear! (at Reconciliation Place)

asunburntcountry: semisetadrift: flaviia: letheian: fairmanra...

Wed, 08 May 2013 18:53:49 +1000

asunburntcountry:

semisetadrift:

flaviia:

letheian:

fairmanrants:

probably one of the greatest things i’ve seen

All I know is that I want to grow up to be the lady with all the poodles.

Feeling too blessed to stumble across this while working on a brief for Melbourne Central at work. Co-worker sleuthing unveiled this Daimaru closing down commercial:

For the Melburnians.

vivatvintage: Steak ‘n’ egg pie. 1964. Dear god...

Mon, 06 May 2013 21:05:07 +1000

vivatvintage:

Steak ‘n’ egg pie. 1964.

Dear god no.

SERIOUSLY

WHY

"Fashion is one of the very few forms of expression in which women have more freedom than men. And I..."

Mon, 06 May 2013 18:05:55 +1000

“Fashion is one of the very few forms of expression in which women have more freedom than men. And I don’t think it’s an accident that it’s typically seen as shallow, trivial, and vain. It is the height of irony that women are valued for our looks, encouraged to make ourselves beautiful and ornamental… and are then derided as shallow and vain for doing so. And it’s a subtle but definite form of sexism to take one of the few forms of expression where women have more freedom, and treat it as a form of expression that’s inherently superficial and trivial. Like it or not, fashion and style are primarily a women’s art form. And I think it gets treated as trivial because women get treated as trivial.”

- Fashion is a Feminist Issue: Greta Christina (via spring1999)

At the derby! (at Southern Cross Basketball Stadium)

Sat, 04 May 2013 17:25:10 +1000

At the derby! (at Southern Cross Basketball Stadium)

Cool place bro but JEBUS! THE PRICES! 0_o (at Shorty’s)

Mon, 29 Apr 2013 20:44:59 +1000

Cool place bro but JEBUS! THE PRICES! 0_o (at Shorty’s)

thumbcramps: hi guys! this is a comic i made for a final in my...

Sat, 27 Apr 2013 23:34:58 +1000

thumbcramps:

hi guys! this is a comic i made for a final in my comics in literature class. we had to do a research paper on a topic we’d discussed in class and then accompany it with a comic with a relevant subject. my paper was about hyper-sexualization of women in comic books, but i decided to broaden it out here as well as personalize it and make myself the subject and discuss something i’ve been subjected to in the convention circuit and on the internet as well as thousands of other women, as well as give a cue to thought about how the comic book industry as well as the video game industry and even just media in general (all of which are male dominated) push such ridiculous pressures onto girls and women.

also, it feels kind of silly to have to add this since i hope it’s obvious, but i am very aware that there are men that don’t subscribe to this attitude, and am incredibly grateful that these issues are brought to light to people other than the ones that are subjected to it.

anyway haha i have literally been staring at this for 9 hours i don’t even know which direction is up anymore. thanks for reading!!!

Photo

Sat, 27 Apr 2013 20:44:30 +1000

I need this coat! In red! And black! And maybe teal!

Sat, 27 Apr 2013 07:47:17 +1000

I need this coat! In red! And black! And maybe teal!

star-jockey: space dogz A vintage USSR postcard with an...

Thu, 25 Apr 2013 21:26:05 +1000

star-jockey:

space dogz

A vintage USSR postcard with an illustration of the dogs Belka and Strelka.

I really really love London but the coffee is 99% terrible. This...

Mon, 22 Apr 2013 11:12:34 +1000

I really really love London but the coffee is 99% terrible. This here mediocre Canberra coffee seems pretty good in comparison. #caffeinatedbeveragesoftheworld