#franciscana

[aperint]

Capilla Franciscana del siglo XVI

Capilla Franciscana del siglo XVI #aperturaintelectual #fotoaintelectual #RaymundoDHernandez #foto #capilla #Ecatepec #franciscana Raymundo D. Hernández Reyes

Por: Raymundo D. Hernández Reyes La #fotoaintelectual de esta semana es de una pequeña pero sofisticada Capilla Franciscana del Siglo XVI que se encuentra en el municipio de Ecatepec y forma parte del casco de la Hacienda donde fue fusilado José María Morelos y Pavón.#RaymundoDHernandez#foto#capilla#Ecatepec#franciscanaLas oportunidades que he tenido para ir a este lugar se han dado en los…

[oknews]

Monja franciscana reconocida por su servicio a los pueblos indígenas

Una miembro de la congregación de las Hermanas Apostólicas Franciscanas ha sido reconocida por su trabajo con los indígenas de la provincia de Cagayán, según un informe publicado en la Conferencia Episcopal Católica de Filipinas (CBCP). Minerva Caampued es la ganadora del Premio Santa Teresa de Calcuta otorgado por la Fundación AY del Grupo de Empresas Yuchengco y los Jaycees de Manila. “A través…

[remandodulcedeleche]

Another one and my personal favorite: the franciscana (Pontoporia blainvillei)

It lives in the coasts of Brasil, Argentina, and Uruguay, mostly in the Río de la Plata estuary. It’s the only species of river dolphin that lives in salt water. It also has the biggest beak to body ratio of any cetacean.

look at that beauty!

I think it's sad that most people always think of bottlenoses as the "classic dolphin" since its the one that's always used for shows, and always think of dolphins as just straight grey when in reality there's so many varieties with so many different amazing patterns

Look at the common dolphin! They have a gorgeous X pattern and even some dull yellow/gold!!

Hourglass dolphins have gorgeous white streaks

Spinner dolphins have really pretty banding as well, AND they have a really sleek cute silhouette!

The atlantic spotted dolphin!!! Theyre spotted!!!!!!

and the pantropical spotted too!!

Dusky dolphins have a gorgeous airbrush look going on like straight out of a 2000s fantasy illustration

Striped dolphins sure have stripes!! How cool!!

And these I've shown you aren't even all of them at all, there are so many of them:

There's so so so many different types of dolphins people dont know about this isnt even all of them and some are SO gorgeous and underrated because people just dont know they exist so I'm here to fix that

[bocadosdefilosofia]

«También una proposición no está sino en la mente o en la palabra o en lo escrito; entonces sus partes no están sino en la mente o en la palabra o en lo escrito; pero las sustancias particulares no son de este estilo. Resulta entonces que ninguna proposición puede componerse de sustancias. Pero la proposición se compone de universales, entonces los universales no son sustancias en modo alguno.»

Guillermo de Ockham: Suma de lógica. Grupo Editorial Norma, pág. 70. Santafé de Bogotá, 1994.

TGO

@bocadosdefilosofia

@dias-de-la-ira-1

[cucuruchoenguatemala]

Esta es la procesión que todavía tiene turnos en la Quinta Semana de Cuaresma 2023

¡Todavía puedes cargar esta Quinta Semana de Cuaresma!

Si todavía estás buscando cargar en esta quinta semana de cuaresma 2023, te queremos contar que hay una Iglesia que aún cuenta con turnos tanto para cucuruchos como devotas. Y es que la quinta semana de cuaresma es para muchas personas el culmen de una jornada cuaresmal donde participamos en muchas procesiones, cargamos y vivimos anécdotas que jamás vamos a olvidar. Como en toda manifestación…

[edsonjnovaes]

Brasiliense?!?

profjulioneto. Reel – Facebook O sufixo eiro em “Brasileiro” como formador de gentílicos, palavras que indicam procedência ou naturalidade, parece se dever ao fato de que a palavra, ao nascer, designava uma profissão e não uma origem, os naturais do Brasil seriam conhecidos como brasilianos, brasilenses ou mesmo brasileses. Sérgio Rodrigues – Veja. 30 abr 2013 Se prevalecessem as regras…

[alphynix]

Romaleodelphis pollerspoecki was a dolphin-like toothed whale related to the ancestors of both modern oceanic dolphins and beaked whales, living in coastal waters covering what is now Austria during the early Miocene about 22 million years ago.

Although only known from a single fossil skull, this cetacean was probably around 3m long (~9'10"). It had a long snout lined with over 100 small pointed uniformly-shaped teeth, and the bony walls of its inner ears were well-preserved enough to show that it was able to hear narrow-band high frequency sounds – a specific form of echolocation that has convergently evolved multiple times in various modern and extinct toothed whale lineages.

Based on the presence of ancient river-mouth deposits in the area where Romaleodelphis was found, it may potentially have been capable of traversing between marine, brackish, and freshwater environments similar to the modern franciscana.

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References:

Bavarian State Collections of Natural History. "'Astonishing Results' – Scientists Reveal Secrets of Mysterious 22-Million-Year-Old Dolphin Skull." SciTechDaily, 15 Nov. 2024, https://scitechdaily.com/astonishing-results-scientists-reveal-secrets-of-mysterious-22-million-year-old-dolphin-skull/

Sanchez-Posada, Catalina, et al. "Romaleodelphis pollerspoecki, gen. et sp. nov., an archaic dolphin from the Central Paratethys (Early Miocene, Austria)." Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology (2024): e2401503. https://doi.org/10.1080/02724634.2024.2401503

Wikipedia contributors. “Romaleodelphis” Wikipedia, 06 Nov. 2024, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romaleodelphis

[lascitasdelashoras]

Roman Loranc - Iglesia Franciscana, Vilnius

[elbiotipo]

Genetic/cybernetic mods of the Biopunks

This only covers personal mods of course, since artificial inmune systems are ubiqutous (and actually every resident of the Argentine Confederation has to update them yearly or else you'll get a visit from the genedarmes)

Marcos: Biological tattoo on his forearm that allows him to "taste" certain protein sequences, over time he has developed an intuitive sense of them. It's connected to a computing system that processes biological data and also has a USB (or equivalent rather) port that can be used for bioengeering or to play music. Enhanced eyes that see in the low infrarred and ultraviolet. Also, hair that glows blue in the dark.

Florencia: Spots in her hair to host flowers and other plants. Ability to digest cellulose and to generate animal-based nutrients and vitamins. Possibly a THC production implant, who knows.

Ariel: Encrypted personal computer in his forearm, never talks about it. One of his fingers is a multitool and he loves making you guess which one.

Melanie: Implanted cat ears and tail, fully functional (though her brain shifted a bit to learn how to control the tail). Purple eyes with cat-like iris and night vision. Her fangs are natural though.

Marina: None so far! Still not wholly sold in the idea.

Pancho: Literally an uplifited cyborg Franciscana dolphin, with a mechsuit to walk on land and communicate (by mech don't be fooled, he's about the size of a big dog)

[religion-is-a-mental-illness]

By: Colin Wright

Published: Dec 2, 2024

In the annals of academic absurdity, there are moments that make even seasoned critics pause in awe. “Loving the Brine Shrimp: Exploring Queer Feminist Blue Posthumanities to Reimagine the ‘America’s Dead Sea’” is one such moment. This is not a parody—though it reads like one—but a “serious” paper, or so the author insists. In what is best described as a surrealist love letter to brine shrimp, the author, Ewelina Jarosz (she/they), wades through a soup of critical theory, environmental activism, and performance art, asking the reader to reconsider their relationship with brine shrimp—not as mere crustaceans but as symbols of queer resilience, ecological ethics, and, somehow, hydrosexual love.

This paper is part of a growing tradition of postmodern scholarship that prioritizes ideological signaling over intellectual rigor. Following in the footsteps of infamous works like the 2016 “Feminist Glaciology” paper—which posited that glaciers are gendered—“Loving the Brine Shrimp” sets a new standard for academic ridiculousness. Its culmination in a cyber wedding to augmented reality brine shrimp makes feminist glaciers seem like a grounded scientific pursuit by comparison. But before we arrive at the nuptial climax, let’s examine how this spectacle unfolds.

Love at First Shrimp

The article begins innocuously enough, discussing the ecological crisis facing Utah’s Great Salt Lake. However, it doesn’t take long before it veers into woke lunacy with concepts like “hydrosexuality,” which refers to a “more-than-human sensuality and sexuality emphasizing fluidity and relationality” that “offers a cultural understanding of water as a non-binary substance connecting all bodies of water on the planetary scale.” Hydrosexuality, she argues, challenges the “hegemonic notion of the autonomous and bounded human subject” by embracing “watery thinking.”

If you’re struggling to imagine what any of this means, join the club. The author’s language is a masterclass in obfuscation, using terms like “hydrophilic logic” and “multispecies ethics” to mask the fact that she’s anthropomorphizing liquid.

The absurdity intensifies when she links hydrosexuality to the brine shrimp, praising these creatures for their “swirly sexuality” and reproductive versatility. Apparently, the shrimp’s ability to reproduce via live birth or parthenogenesis (which the author incorrectly calls “pathogenesis” throughout the paper) is a triumph over binary thinking, making them paragons of queer resilience that subvert the oppressive structures of settler-colonial science. Yes, really.

Settler Science and Capitalist Cysts

The paper is rife with accusations against “settler science,” a term the author uses to describe any scientific practice associated with Western colonialism. She argues that early studies of the Great Salt Lake objectified its ecosystem, reducing the brine shrimp to mere commodities. Even the shrimp’s Latin name, Artemia franciscana, is critiqued as a tool of imperial domination. Naming a species, she asserts, reflects a “biology of empire” that erases Indigenous ways of knowing. By this logic, taxonomy itself is a colonial plot.

The author also condemns the commercialization of brine shrimp, particularly their use as fish food and their reinvention as the whimsical “Sea-Monkeys” pet marketed to children. This, they say, constitutes “environmental violence,” a term that appears to mean anything they dislike about human interaction with water-based ecosystems.

Drawing from perspectives offered by queer death studies (Radomska et al. 2021, p. 2), the brine shrimp’s ambiguous status and reproductive agentiality, hovering between the “living” and “non-living” in a state scientifically referred to as cryptobiosis, were reinvented for entertainment, concealing environmental violence.

To support their critique, the author invokes “low-trophic theory,” a concept they describe as prioritizing the ethical interdependence of organisms in an ecosystem. While the principle itself might have some use, the author’s application of it veers into parody. She laments the capitalist exploitation of the shrimp’s reproductive system, framing the harvesting of brine shrimp cycts as a form of ecological oppression. This is all delivered in the impenetrable prose of critical theory, with phrases like “queer ethical field studies” and “feminist blue posthumanities” sprinkled heavily throughout.

The Cyber Wedding to the Brine Shrimp

The paper reached peak woke in a section titled “Loving the Brine Shrimp,” which recounts a performance art piece called Cyber Wedding to the Brine Shrimp. This event, staged on the receding shores of the Great Salt Lake, involved artists, scientists, and augmented reality brine shrimp. Participants made vows to the crustaceans, marched in a procession, and capped it off with a communal bath in the lake. The author describes this as “making love to the lake,” a phrase that may haunt frequent swimmers of the Great Salt Lake for the rest of their lives.

The wedding was not merely symbolic; it was, according to the author, an act of environmental advocacy. By expressing love and commitment to the brine shrimp, the participants hoped to challenge capitalist commodification and foster “multispecies solidarity.” The participants even asked the brine shrimp for their consent to marry, which the shrimp apparently gave telepathically to some participants, while the author seemed content in problematically assuming their consent after proclaiming, “I didn’t hear a no.”

The use of augmented reality (AR) technology added another layer of surrealism. Instead of interacting with real brine shrimp, participants directed their vows toward a giant AR projection of the creatures.

The author describes the procession and bath as transformative, blurring the boundaries between human and non-human bodies. For most readers, however, this spectacle is less an example of profound ecological insight and more a testament to the unchecked excesses of woke performance art masquerading as legitimate scholarship.

I am not sure if you’re sufficiently prepared for this, but below I present to you Cyber Wedding to the Brine Shrimp in its entirety, which has been appropriately overlaid with Mystery Science Theater 3000 silhouettes by my good friend Dr. Rollergator.

[ Watch: "Cyber Wedding to the Brine Shrimp" ]

A Crisis of Peer Review

While the paper’s content is laughable, its publication raises serious questions about the state of academic peer review. How did this article, brimming with jargon and palpably absurd, make it through the editorial process? Are journals so desperate to appear progressive that they’ll publish anything cloaked in the language of decolonization and queerness? The answer appears to be “yes.”

However, one thing is certain: the academic community must reckon with the consequences of allowing such work to proliferate. At a time when public trust in science is already dismal, papers like this undermine the credibility of legitimate scholarship. When even the most basic standards of coherence and relevance are abandoned in favor of ideological grandstanding, the credibility of academia itself is at stake.

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As we reflect on the surreal spectacle of Cyber Wedding to the Brine Shrimp and its academic context, one thing becomes clear: we need a term to capture the moment when scholarly work crosses the line from odd to outright ludicrous. I propose “marrying the shrimp” as the academic world’s answer to “jumping the shark.” From now on, this phrase will signify a project so absurd, so detached from reality, that it becomes a parody of itself.

Let’s explore how this term might find its place in academic vernacular:

“Oh Steve? Yeah, he really married the shrimp with his last research project.”

“Yeah Sally, your thesis wasn’t groundbreaking, but at least you didn’t marry the shrimp.”

“That journal used to have standards, but now they’re marrying the shrimp left and right.”

The phrase could also be used preemptively, as a warning to those teetering on the edge: “Careful, Karen. Your proposal on the patriarchal dynamics of Tupperware parties is dangerously close to marrying the shrimp.” Or, as a compliment when someone narrowly avoids absurdity: “I thought your case study on the history of medieval cheese wheels was going to marry the shrimp, but you really pulled it together!”

In an era where intellectual rigor often takes a backseat to performative absurdity, it’s important to keep a sense of humor about the bizarre trajectory of academic publishing. After all, what else can we do when purportedly serious scholars convene weddings for brine shrimp or ascribe nonbinary identities to water?

Alas, these are the times we live in.

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How did we ever let these mentally ill retards gain institutional and societal-wide power?

[joseandrestabarnia]

TÍTULO: Crucifixión con Santa Catalina, San Francisco, San Buenaventura (?) y San Juan AUTOR: Bernardino Giovanni Scotti y Giovan Stefano Scotti FECHA: 1490 - 1495 MATERIAL Y TÉCNICA: Tempera DIMENSIONES: 243x143 cm INVENTARIO: 5511 La pintura data aproximadamente de 1495 y procede de la iglesia franciscana de Sant'Angelo en Milán. A falta de documentos, la atribución a los escotos se realiza sobre una base estilística, gracias a las afinidades encontradas con una pintura de tema similar conservada en Como, en el refectorio del monasterio franciscano de Santa Croce en Boscaglia pintada por Felice Scotti. De hecho, el cliente es el mismo (orden franciscana) y las figuras de los dos ladrones, el grupo de Marías y el santo obispo también son idénticas. Ambas obras están influenciadas por un ambiente cultural en el que convergieron la lección de Mantegna así como las experiencias locales de Bergognone, Zenale y Butinone y en el que se formaron las personalidades de Gaudenzio Ferrari (recordado por Lomazzo entre los alumnos de Stefano Scotti) y Bernardino Luini.

Información e imagen de la web de la Pinacoteca de Brera.

[onenicebugperday]

@milk-bong submitted: I took a jade plant home from San Francisco a few weeks ago. When I got home I found a little chrysalis(?) attached to it so I put that branch in a jar, and later this moth(?) appeared in there so I assume it's from the chrysalis. Apologies for the poor photos, but do you have any idea what it is? I'm hesitant to release an unknown bug from another region into my region.

Definitely never release a bug that came from another location unless you can 100% identify it. As far as I can tell it's some type of tortricid moth, and maybe something like an orange tortrix, Argyrotaenia franciscana. They're found only on the west coast from Canada down to Mexico, so if you're outside of that range, I would not release it.

[todademariablog]

03 de Janeiro – Santíssimo Nome de Jesus

Neste dia 3 de janeiro, a Igreja celebra o Dia do Santíssimo Nome de Jesus. São Bernardino de Sena dizia:

“Este é aquele santíssimo nome desejado pelos patriarcas, esperado com ansiedade, suplicado com gemidos, invocado com suspiros, requerido com lágrimas, dado ao chegar a plenitude da graça.”

O culto ao Santíssimo Nome de Jesus teve início nas celebrações litúrgicas do século XIV. São Bernardino de Sena e seus discípulos foram os grandes propagadores desta devoção. Em 1530, o Papa Clemente VI concedeu pela primeira vez à Ordem Franciscana a celebração do Ofício do Santíssimo Nome de Jesus.

São Bernardino costumava carregar uma pequena imagem com a Eucaristia de onde saíam raios, tendo ao centro o monograma “IHS” – uma abreviação do Nome de Jesus em grego (ιησους). Posteriormente, a tradição devocional atribuiu um significado às letras:

- I: Iesus (Jesus);

- H: Hominum (dos homens);

- S: Salvator (Salvador).

Juntas, as iniciais significam: Jesus, Salvador dos Homens.

Santo Inácio de Loyola e os jesuítas adotaram esse monograma como o emblema da Companhia de Jesus.

O Nome de Jesus, invocado com confiança:

- Ajuda nas necessidades corporais, conforme a promessa de Cristo:

“Estes milagres acompanharão os que crerem: expulsarão os demônios em meu nome, falarão novas línguas, manusearão serpentes e, se beberem algum veneno mortal, não lhes fará mal; imporão as mãos aos enfermos e eles ficarão curados” (Mc 16,17-18).

No Nome de Jesus, os Apóstolos deram força aos aleijados (At 3,6; 9,34) e vida aos mortos (At 9,40).

- Dá confiança nas provações espirituais.

O Nome de Jesus lembra ao pecador a figura do “pai do filho pródigo” e o bom samaritano; ao justo, remete ao sofrimento e à morte do inocente Cordeiro de Deus. Além disso, protege-nos de Satanás, pois o diabo teme este Nome, que o venceu na Cruz.

- Concede bênçãos e graças no tempo e na eternidade, conforme disse Cristo:

“O que pedirdes ao Pai em meu nome, ele vo-lo dará” (Jo 16,23).

Por isso, a Igreja conclui suas orações com as palavras: *“Por Jesus Cristo, nosso Senhor.”* Cumpre-se, assim, a palavra de São Paulo:

“Para que ao Nome de Jesus se dobre todo joelho no céu, na terra e nos infernos” (Fl 2,10).

Oração de São Bernardino de Sena:

“Ó Nome glorioso, gracioso, amoroso e animoso! Por ti se perdoam todos os pecados, vence-se o inimigo, curam-se os enfermos e, nas adversidades, os que sofrem encontram coragem e consolo. Tu és a glória dos que creem, o mestre dos que pregam, a força dos que trabalham e o remédio dos que estão em necessidade. Ao calor e fervor do teu fogo, os bons desejos encandescem; as orações recebem bom despacho; as almas contemplativas se arroubam; e sumamente se alegram os que já triunfam no paraíso.

Com os quais, por este vosso Santíssimo Nome, fazei que reinemos, ó dulcíssimo Jesus.”

[jillraggett]

Plant of the Day

Monday 27 February 2023

Even in the winter it is possible to find a few flowers on Hebe × franciscana. This evergreen shrub is very tolerant of wind and salt spray and so can succeed in very exposed maritime positions. On Orkney the Hebe species and cultivars will freely hybridise and seeds germinate in the stone walls.

Jill Raggett

[gonzalo-obes]

IMAGENES Y DATOS INTERESANTES DEL 29 DE NOVIEMBRE DE 2024

Black Friday, Día Internacional de la Solidaridad con el Pueblo Palestino, Día Mundial del Oso Hormiguero, Día Mundial de la Conservación del Jaguar, Día de No Comprar Nada (BND Buy Nothing Day), Día Internacional de las Defensoras de Derechos Humanos, Día Internacional del Ingeniero de Sistemas, Día de Concienciación sobre el Síndrome de Menkes, Año Internacional de los Camélidos.

Santa Iluminada y San Saturnino.

Tal día como hoy en el año 2012

65 años después de aprobarse una resolución en la ONU para la partición de Palestina que nunca se puso en marcha, es en el día de hoy cuando, mediante una votación celebrada en la sede de Naciones Unidas, se otorga el estatus de Estado miembro observador al declarado Estado de Palestina. (Hace 12 años)

1963

En Estados Unidos, el presidente Lyndon B. Johnson decide crear la Comisión Warren para investigar el asesinato del presidente John F. Kennedy, ocurrido una semana antes, y el del presunto magnicida Lee Harvey Oswald. Esta Comisión estará compuesta por siete miembros a las órdenes del presidente del Tribunal Supremo de Estados Unidos, Earl Warren. El informe se presentará el 24 de septiembre de 1964 y recogerá los testimonios de 552 testigos. Las principales conclusiones que se desprenderán serán que Oswald, marxista y antiguo miembro del Cuerpo de Marines de EE.UU., actuó en solitario y sin consejo o ayuda. El informe suscitará numerosas especulaciones en torno a la existencia de otros cómplices en el asesinato, además de posibles conspiraciones de Cuba, la URSS, el crimen organizado o los exiliados cubanos en los Estados Unidos. (Hace 61 años)

1947

La Asamblea General de Naciones Unidas adopta una resolución, que nunca se pondrá en marcha, en la que se pide la partición de Palestina en dos estados separados, uno árabe y otro judío, aunque manteniendo una unión económica. Pronto los árabes atacarán el territorio del nuevo Estado sionista iniciándose el conflicto árabe-israelí. (Hace 77 años)

1929

Richard E. Byrd, explorador y piloto americano, y sus tres compañeros sobrevuelan por vez primera el Polo Sur. Esta hazaña servirá para trazar mapas desde el aire de una extensísima parte de este remoto continente. (Hace 95 años)

1877

En EE.UU., tras anunciar el pasado día 21 que ha inventado el fonógrafo (un aparato que graba y reproduce el sonido), es en el día de hoy cuando Thomas Alva Edison lo presenta a la sociedad con enorme expectación. (Hace 147 años)

1814

En Gran Bretaña, el periódico "The Times", que se está editando desde 1788, se imprime por primera vez en una modernísima y rápida impresora de cilindros, cuyo corazón es una moderna máquina de vapor. (Hace 210 años)

1800

En Francia se adopta oficialmente el metro como medida de longitud, a la vez que se le define como la diezmillonésima parte del meridiano terrestre. Al tiempo se adopta como unidad de peso el kilogramo. (Hace 224 años)

1223

San Francisco de Asís, que se ha retirado en dos ocasiones a la ermita de Fonte Colombo, cerca de Rieti (Italia), para redactar una regla para la creación definitiva de su orden, bajo ayuno y oración logra que, en el día de hoy con la participación del cardenal Hugolino, la regla encuentre su forma final y sea aprobada por el Papa Honorio III, mediante la bula "Regula Bullata", en la que se autoriza por fin la Orden Franciscana. San Francisco fallecerá el 3 de octubre de 1226 y será canonizado en 1228. Logrará una renovación de la fe cristiana. (Hace 801 años)