#if BC gets a police review board

[ipsen]

How about Quinx Squad and Haise in the Vtuber au???

you got it champ

(for the purposes of the invisible timeline in my brain, haise and kaneki are separate characters!)

haise:

leader of V’s second gen set of vtubers, The Quinxes, similar to how arima leads The Quinques (Squad 0)

the most popular of The Quinques that wasn't arima, so V decided to try and give him his own spinoff group to try and wring out some extra cash.

they have yet to have a good turnout.

haise still has other values though; he doubles as a TA for the quinxes, who are all college students at a V-run university. his reports on the place regarding them and the university itself are used by V to keep tabs on certain individuals.

his ignorance and earnestness are exploited, much to arima's disdain (but what can he do about it, right?), but it is simultaneously a thorn in V's side, as he shows mercy even to people who hurt him. a double-edged sword.

he doesn't watch eto's streams; the way she so easily advocates for violence against people she doesn't personally know unsettles him

mutsuki

similar backstory as canon, trying desperately to hide it

a member of V, in exchange for the truth about the death of his family not condemning him. was selected for the quinx project based on his demeanor and someone wanted to see what this new "representation" fad was all about.

he has the lowest viewership/subscribers of the quinxes, but he technically makes the bar in regards to numbers. plus, the other quinxes get along with him, and haise defends him to the death so he is allowed to stay

V has been trying to get him into their assassin department. he hasn't accepted or refused, but the bar for viewers is getting higher...

urie

art student with a minor in history

has a vtuber model, but he travels the most out of the quinxes and so becomes more of a vlogger instead. it's surprisingly popular, so V doesn't complain.

his dad died for one of V's underground wars. he swears vengeance on the mafia that got them killed. this is why V lets him travel around as much as they do; his revenge is easily manipulated.

does independent investigations in his spare time to try and locate his father's killer. reports any information he finds via anonymous tips to the police, which are then cross-referenced with V's agents

uses his share of sub money and dono's in order to fund trips.

saiko

candy-aesthetic vtuber as a side gig when not slacking off in college. she reviews anime and plays video games, and part of it goes into funding her sub for her main mmo.

she's in school on a scholarship because her mother forced her to go to "finally make something of herself". saiko's not very happy about it, but at least she gets free room and board away from all that.

she likes vtubing, but she doesn't actually have control of her share of the money; that goes to her mother.

raid shadow legends meme (ironic)

most popular of the quinxes for her energy and voice. it's gratifying but a little creepy to her.

shirazu

doesn't go to college, but hangs out in haise's office sometimes.

his sister's cancer treatment is funded by V, and though he's not exactly thrilled about being a vtuber, anything to help haru, right?

raid shadow legends meme (unironic)

he gets along with saiko and mutsuki, but his relationship with urie is rocky (mostly bc urie gets to travel the world, something shirazu is subconsciously jealous of as someone tethered to his sister)

posts pictures of his sick motorbike on social media

his personal account, which is super far removed from his vtuber one, has a gofundme for haru

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”what about the second gen quinxes” workin on it

Pretty high order! But I did it!! Thanks for the request!

(as usual, accepting more)

[if-you-fan-a-fire]

“POLICE QUELL ANYOX PARADE,” The Province (Vancouver). February 4, 1933. Page 1.  --- Peace Restored After Demonstrators Make Dash For Town. ---- COMPANY STATEMENT --- VICTORIA. Feb. 4. (CP) Keeping their firearms in their holsters and using their flsts. thirteen officers of the provincial police stood off a body of approximately 400 strikers at Anyox on Thursday evening, repelling two attempts on the part of men to get into the town. In a third attempt the men joined up with another party at the Beach Mine. Order was immediately restored and the affair has simmered down to peaceful picketing of the plant, provincial officials were advised. 

Briefly reviewing the facts, a spokesman for the government said that the situation was well in hand and adequate measures were being taken to see that order Is preserved. It must be understood that the province would not provide relief for men who refused the offer of work, he added. 

Advices to the government showed that the majority of the large number of men at Anyox wish to continue at work. 

MAY CLOSE DOWN. Provincial officers at the scene were reinforced today, and latest reports showed that all was quiet. Representatives of the men have given an undertaking that no damage to property is intended. Provincial officials were chiefly concerned with the possibility that the plant might be permanently closed down by the operating company, which has not sold any copper since 1931 but maintained operations to give employment at the site. 

In a statement Issued today. Mr. Charles Bocking, president and managing director of the Granby company, declares: 'Recently radical agitators entered Anyox and succeeded In forming a union, known as the Mine Workers' Union of Canada, which is identified 'with the Workers' Unity League of Canada and the Red Internationale. 

"On Monday, January 30, these radicals, made up almost entirely of the foreign element employed at the mine and smelter, held a meeting and presented certain demands to the company officials, some of which were an increase in wages, reduction in board, and recognition of this union, advising the officials that if these demands were not met. they would call a strike at the mine on Wednesday, February 1, and would shut down the remainder of the plant on Friday February 3. 

WILLING TO WORK. "The company was unable to meet their demands, as the property had been operated at a heavy loss for the past two years, and has declared that under no circumstances would it recognize this radical union. As a result, the men have carried out their threats, and at this writing the plant is closed down entirely, with the exception of the heat, light and water system. 

"More than half of the employees have not joined the union, and desire to work, but. by reason of widespread intimidation of these loyal workmen and their families, they have been forced to abandon their work, and as a result over one thousand men, who have been regularly employed by the company, are now Idle. 

"There have been some clashes between the strikers and the police and at the present time a serious situation exists and the company is unable to operate.

"The plant at Anyox has, at the earnest solicitation of it local officials, operated for over two year for the benefit of its loyal workmen and the company regrets that by the actions of these foreign laborers, influenced by Communist agitators, the works have been closed down."

[AL: Again, company and provincial police hand in hand to crush a strike, and blaming Reds and foreigners for labour strife - and the newspaper publishing straight up propaganda for the company. Not a surprise - it’s a BC tradition (and Canadian tradition.)]

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#5

it really warms my heart that chocolate guy is trending as his name and not as "chocolate guy". idk why but it just does

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#4

tweets i had to screenshot about love is blind

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#3

somebody free george mackay from the shackles of war films

See the full post

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#2

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[id. a tweet by @/TonyKaron which states: "S. African police in '87 attacking the coffin of Ashley Kriel to seize the ANC flag that draped it; Israeli police attacked the coffin of #ShireenAbuAkleh today, trying to seize Palestinian flags. Apartheid regimes waging war on their victims, even after death".

The tweet has two photos accompanying the text. The first is a black and white photo depicting the Apartheid South African police officers attacking South Africans at Ashley Kriel's funeral. The second picture is a colour photo depicting Israeli forces attacking Palestinians at Shireen Abu Akleh's funeral attempting to seize the Palestinian flag off her coffin. end id.]

2,157 notes - Posted May 14, 2022

My #1 post of 2022

funny how there was nothing complicated about russia/ukraine, how ukrainians making molotov cocktails were not terrorists but were rightfully defending their land but for all these years no one wanted to speak up about palestine bc palestinians were terrorists for throwing stones at military tanks and the whole situation was too complicated.

more than 500 people have been detained and 170 injured at al-aqsa mosque. the israeli forces have raided the mosque time and time again in this holy month of ramadan.

israel has bombed gaza yet again.

they have targeted journalists, who cover their crimes.

and not forgetting the many innocents who have lost their lives at the hands of israeli forces, such as 18 year old Hanan Khdour who was killed in a military raid in Jenin or Ghada Sabateen, a widow and mother of 6 who was killed by Israeli forces for no apparent reason.

there is nothing complicated about this. there is only the oppressor and the oppressed.

[id. a person holds up a black board at a protest with the following statement written in white text: "it is not a "conflict" if 1 side has the guns & the other is praying". the words "not", "1", "the guns" and "praying" are underlined. end id.]

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book is available for free download here ➡️ https://muse.jhu.edu/book/22218

Jul 11, 2013 - Issue 524

BlackCommentator.com: Somebody “Fixin’ to be Killed” - A review of We Will Shoot Back: Armed Resistance in the Mississippi Freedom Movement - A View from the Battlefield - By Jamala Rogers - BC Editorial Board

Mississippi: Armed SNCC members abduct white night riders and release them after giving them a warning. A white cop gets knocked unconscious by a black man for slapping a 14-year-old black girl. Armed brothers do a citizens’ arrest when ambushed by the Klan and deliver one of the attackers to his father, the chief of police.

Before you start to romanticize about the good ole days, I should remind you that life in the South for black folks was dangerous and volatile. Any challenge to the traditions and system of white supremacy was met with raw violence. And Mississippi? Well, there’s a poignant reason why Nina Simone penned a song titled, “Mississippi Goddam.” People - mostly black - lost their lives in the freedom struggle as they fought to break down barriers to voting, employment, public accommodations and other aspects of life that were forbidden to African Americans because of racism. This is the backdrop for We Will Shoot Back: Armed Resistance in the Mississippi Freedom Movement by Dr. Akinyele Umoja.

We Will Shoot Back informs us that blacks were not the only ones who had to be in fear of their lives. Racist whites who got between armed black men and women and their struggle for civil and human rights apparently got a lesson in fear.

Though not intended by the author, the book came out in the heat of the gun control debate. In some segments of the black and brown communities, the notion of disarmament is seen as making them vulnerable to attacks by the state or white supremacist groups. Particularly in black communities where the carnage of young men is becoming the norm, We Will Shoot Back could elevate the public discourse on guns in the context of self-defense as opposed to the primary way people should resolve conflicts.

Most of us have heard about the legendary Deacons for Defense. Through exhaustive research and interviews, Umoja introduced us to many other unsung heroes and sheroes (although not surprising the historical documentation was scant on women’s contribution to armed resistance in the south). Men and women like Hartman Turnbow, Rudy Shields, Robert “Fat Daddy” Davis, C.O.Chin, Ora “Miss Dago” Bryant, Luella Hazelwood and many more. Their inspirational stories affirmed that black folks stood with dignity, unflinchingly looking in the face of pure hatred and forged on to re-define their futures.

In We Will Shoot Back, Akinyele Umoja goes further than dispelling a long held myth that black Mississippians were too paralyzed in fear to defend themselves and actively participate in the freedom struggle. And that the omnipotent Klu Klux Klan kept the black community in check. He confronts head-on the stereotype that black southerners were docile, head-hanging, cheek-turning second class citizens.

Umoja takes the reader to the time when black Mississippians were forced to embrace armed resistance for their own survival; blacks faced the realization that their government offered no pretense of protection and could not be relied upon. In many cases, local government officials, along with law enforcement, were part of the same white mobs terrorizing black communities. Umoja chronicles the inextricable and critical role of armed resistance in the advancement of the southern freedom strategy that ultimately led to the passage of the historic Civil Rights Acts of 1964 and 1965. Boycotts and armed resistance were the primary means of effectively organizing for change during this period.

Umoja documents a sophisticated labyrinth of disciplined, well-organized communication networks, safe houses, haven towns and armed residents who, much to the chagrin of local authorities, used local gun laws to their advantage. The special expertise of Vietnam veterans was also tapped.

These armed organizers and citizens did not sell wolf tickets and their threats were not idle ones. Sometimes the brothers were moved to publicly display their arms as a deterrent or to telegraph their sentiments as when Deacon of Defense member, Claude Brown, told white officials that “some peoples fixin’ to be killed…ain’t all of them going to be Black”. Vintage photographs in the book illustrate the armed sentries set up for round-the-clock duties. It was not uncommon for the armed resisters to rough up blacks who dishonored the boycotts.

The protection was extended to courageous residents who dared associate themselves with these forces who were bringing down the walls of white supremacy. When families opened their homes to freedom fighters, it automatically put them in the crosshairs of racist terrorists. Cattle was poisoned, property destroyed, loans denied and a host of other intimidating tactics were used first before escalating to the more life-threatening tactics. Communities were organized not just for their own self defense but to defend any freedom fighter who came into southern towns and cities to support them in their struggle for democracy and equality.

Everyone wasn’t especially excited about this new model of defense. The book highlights an example about how the Deacons of Defense provided protection for the major civil rights groups who vowed to continue James Meredith’s “March against Fear” after he was shot trying to integrate Ole Miss University. Dr. King, Roy Wilkins and Whitney Young were opposed to the Deacons participating in the march. Dr. King conceded to the idea once it was clear the march would maintain its nonviolent character. Wilkins and Young would have none of this and high-tailed it back to New York. The pragmatist that he was, Dr. King went on to make the distinction between “defensive violence and retaliatory violence.”

The armed resistance in the Mississippi Freedom Movement continued under the Black Power era. Its intensity had changed with the two major pieces of civil rights legislation and the decline of the KKK. We Will Shoot Back takes us through the period of Provisional Government of the Republic of New Africa (PGRNA) establishing it boundaries and program and through the demise of the United League. For almost twenty years, blacks understood the ugly period of segregation and terror and organized themselves to live another day and prepare for the next battle in the war against white supremacy and racism.

Whether it’s poetic justice or karma, one circle is complete. A young, lanky attorney with a big afro was part of the Republic of New African delegation who came to organize Mississippi in the early 1970s. He was Chokwe Lumumba. Lumumba was recently sworn in as mayor of Jackson, MS.

BlackCommentator.com Editorial Board member and Columnist, Jamala Rogers, founder and Chair Emeritus of the Organization for Black Struggle in St. Louis. She is an organizer, trainer and speaker. She is the author of The Best of the Way I See It – A Chronicle of Struggle.

[jaimelallred854]

Get The Vehicle Inspected Before Travelling Inter State

The safety inspection effectively captures the state of the car right now. It is not a checkup for preventative maintenance. Brake pads for example will pass the provincial inspection with 3mm remaining because the minimum spec is 2mm.

 Although 3mm is practically worn out but continues to function, a professional would unquestionably advise getting it serviced soon.

Your register agent for Out of Province Safety Inspection SE Calgary advances your exemption request to the Transportation board for review when you submit one. The transportation board would provide your register agent an inspection exemption if your application were granted. The out-of-province vehicle inspection certificate you would typically require is replaced with the inspection exemption.

Only when a vehicle is imported from another province or you receive a notification from a police officer ordering an inspection are you required to conduct one for cars and light trucks. The most frequent reason for this service, even though all light duty inspections are the same, is for out-of-province vehicles to be registered in BC.

The out-of-province vehicle inspection has exemptions. You could not be required to pay if the car is brand-new and came from another province, provided there is no history of flooding or other irreparable issues.

The Out of Province Car Inspection SE Calgary of many older cars imported from out of province can change the course of the automobile or truck's life. The expense of compliance may be excessive if maintenance and repairs have previously been gravely ignored. Unless, of course, it's a precious and unique vintage car, the inspection is likely a blessing in disguise for a car with extensive rust or structural damage to get the car off the road.

[yarnings]

I’m rapidly losing faith in my government’s ability to open up safely (I mean, aside from how badly things were handled initially. While I agree that too many services were “essential”, I also think that most of the criticisms I saw were over estimating how many things we could shut down, partially because many of them under-estimated how long we needed to shut down for). Most of the province is supposed to be going to phase 2 reopening, based on where infection rates are the worst. This includes where I am. i.e. where we have 75 official active cases (15 per 100k), and we’re not only climbing the ranks for which health units are doing the worst, our number of cases is going up fairly rapidly. (We’ve been “top” 10 all along, now we’re “up” to number 7).

And what’s happening means that either we (as a household) open up along with the province or get left behind. Sure, it’s very clear that we shouldn’t go to church unless we feel safe and well. But when that comes with an announcement that there’s no more streaming... (Also, they’re not going to have space for everyone who wants to go. Even if 30% capacity allows us to meet the physical distancing requirements, that’s still not enough space.)

Obviously we don’t have to join a 10-person bubble. But if we don’t, will there be any bubbles left by the time it’s safe?

It isn’t just that I don’t want to have to properly isolate. (Although having to put up with only online shopping for up to 10 weeks or longer would be hell.) If my husband gets sick, the lab has to shut down for 5 days. And that will shut down everyone’s work, not just the work that’s done on site, because the work on-site is feeding everyone’s data. So that’s a lot of people I’d screw over if I got sick. (I’m also not sure that the lab can run without him for long, although I suppose he might be able to do a lot of it from home.)

[m0tel6mxzzy]

yeah but then mckay used cassie as a human flashlight and traumatized her

anon i 100% think mckay is toxic for cassie. i don’t agree w the harmful things he’s done to her, i just think my one critique of euphoria is that they took a black male character and made his storyline with assault dependent on cassie, a white girl’s perspective. mckay is also adultified by his father from a young age and nate is babied and told he can do whatever he wants as long as no one is looking. that’s specifically bc black parents know their kids don’t get the same advantages, we don’t get the option of “screwing up” bc of anti blackness and racial bias.

from my perspective, mckay’s upbringing 100% has to do w race and how many in black households (i say this as a black girl) are taught by our parents to “toughen up.”

i think the writers don’t fully understand just how much race has to do w mckay’s trauma.

i don’t even think sam levinson fully understands, bc i watched malcolm and marie and think he has room to improve on writing black male characters who have race as a significant issue in their lives. he underwrote mckay and used malcolm as a venting board because some reviewer didn’t like assasination nation. this contrasts to how he writes zendaya as rue and marie—who has characters that have specifically gone thru the experiences sam has and do not as greatly have race as a subject weighing down their lives.

i am not at all saying him shaming cassie is ok. it was wrong for him to do it. i’m just saying the writer’s made the mistake of taking a black character’s trauma that intrinsically has to do w race just as much as gender and reductive ideas of how men should act, reduced it to only how cassie feels, and thus mckay has been heavily underwritten. which is why i want him to go to therapy and get over cassie. for both their sakes.

there’s many people who look at euphoria and can’t even tell mckay was hazed, and that’s because the show made the mistake of putting his hazing storyline in cassie’s perspective. that’s just concerning to me.

btw (i’m not sure if ur responding to me saying mckay isn’t as bad as nate, but i’ll give my reasoning anyway) nate is a parallel to mckay w/o all the privilege. specifically bc he isn’t rich and white he can’t just get away w whatever he wants. mckay would know not to do illegal shit bc black ppl, esp in the us like where he’s from (our police system was built on the grounds of racism) know and altercation w the law can be deadly.

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#but i would guess there’s more to it than that and we just can’t figure it out bc they’re withholding that aspect of connor’s backstory

My Top Posts in 2021

#5

i’m sorry but it’s so funny to me to go into the wwdits tags and see people talking about nandor and laszlo being “confirmed bi/pan” this season. like yeah true the concrete acknowledgment is nice for sure i definitely get that. but were y’all not considering it “confirmed” when they literally fucked each other in season 2

184 notes • Posted 2021-09-17 14:08:23 GMT

#4

tumblr can’t even get spambot sugar daddy porn blogs off their site where nsfw content is banned because their reporting process is dogshit so i would love to know how they’re planning to police people who get reported for reposting paywalled content and screenshots of paywalled posts, which is inevitably what everyone on this website is going to do as a way of dunking on anyone who tries to put their fucking tumblr posts behind a paywall

286 notes • Posted 2021-07-22 02:24:55 GMT

#3

“well yeah that’s the OBVIOUS response but seriously, think about it on a deeper level. why can’t we root for flawed women as a society? why are female leads not allowed to be villain protagists? where are our likable and sympathetic antagonists who are women?”

“no dude seriously i feel you and think that’s a completely valid point about a very real and interesting issue and if we were talking about ANYTHING else i would be so on board with you right now. but like. again, she DOES kill and skin puppies so she can make them into fur coats”

389 notes • Posted 2021-02-24 07:34:09 GMT

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instead of a weird Premium Tumblr subscription model that is literally useless due to alternatives like Patreon and Only Fans that Tumblr stands absolutely no chance of realistically competing with how about you let me tip on posts??? like literally if y’all have to both monetize this site AND rip off another platform can you just steal the fucking Twitch Model™️??? let me donate based on my enjoyment of the content i could consume for free and then take your stupid finder’s fee you dumb little website

like “ah this post made me laugh. here is a dollar op. thank you for the serotonin”

“these gifs are really good and they must have taken a long time and also i got paid today so here is $5”

“so true, beloved mutual. here is $3. just because. why not”

“this person’s hot take is so terrible that i want to reply ‘here’s my two cents, shut the fuck up’ and literally donate two cents before i block them just to be petty. and i don’t even care if tumblr takes one of those two cents. in fact, in many ways that is even funnier”

✨ lean into the chaos of this platform and the impulsivity of your userbase you absolute buffoons. i am begging you ✨

1245 notes • Posted 2021-07-22 01:49:35 GMT

#1

this is humiliating

7050 notes • Posted 2021-03-18 16:19:17 GMT

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more haunted house au! tagging @zacs-of-rwby again

ozpin and glynda are tense bc glynda had a miscarriage. both are quietly devastated by it, with glynda throwing herself into her work and ozpin shutting himself away from the world. in a way, taking care of the ghost kids is bringing him back to life. 

ozpin ISN’T ozma’s reincarnation in this au, they just look alike, like the mom and the dead bride in disney’s haunted mansion movie.

the younger kids, usually oscar and ruby, sometimes forget that ozpin isn’t their father, so ozpin will occasionally hear a little voice yell “daddy!” when glynda isn’t around. 

the kids are occasionally visible, but entirely nonverbal. ozpin isn’t sure if its trauma bc of their deaths or just how ghosts work.

Ozpin is very good at determining which invisible ghost kid is which. like *chandelier shakes like someone fell to the ground above it* Ozpin: Nora! Stop horseplaying with Pyrrha!

ozpin writing a guide to how ghosts work and everyone slams it on amazon reviews.

ozpin and glynda have guests over--like, glynda’s sister is a really snooty mean lady--and the kids prank them out of the house. they throw things at her, they keep her up at night, she thinks she’s going insane, while ozpin is in the background, sipping hot chocolate and thinking “this is what you get for visiting without warning, BRENDA.”

*Yang, pushing brenda out the door* Ozpin: Don’t let the door hit you on the way out!

the kids make a game out of trying to get glynda to believe. ozpin is the referee who “enforces” the rules like “no direct contact” and “no writing in spilled flour or other substances”

Ozpin wants to get to know the kids better, both because he’s living with them but also because they’re dead kids, he wants to help them move on. So he starts to research the family outside of ozma’s journals. 

He discovers that the police originally suspected that ozma killed the kids due to the unnatural way they died and also because he killed himself right after the interrogation the police did. ozpin immediately discounts this theory bc ozma loves his kids so much

no one really suspected salem; she was considered a socialite and beloved by the nearby town, but her disappearance after the deaths was weird. ozpin’s research shows no sign of salem, not even appearing in other cities. She just... vanishes. 

and ozpin starts to doubt the “death by carbon monoxide poisoning”. he calls up the real estate agency to ask about the furnace and learns that the previous furnace was old, but in great condition. Plus, why didn’t ozma and salem die too? gas leaks everywhere, not just into the kids rooms. 

So ozpin decides to ask the kids. He originally tries a spirit box but either it doesn’t work or the kids don’t like it so there’s no response. 

Of course, it could also be the nearing anniversaries of their deaths that’s making the kids silent. 

He decides on a ouiji board and try to contact them then, a few days before their death day. Only... he doesn’t contact the kids.

“Is there anyone here right now?” YES

“What is your name?” S A L E M

[ilguna]

i also have a list of shit my history teacher (this year) has said and done so I will share it with you:

warning: its really fucking long bc he would say/do shit MULTIPLE times a day

goes onto the next slide, “it’s a meme, get it?” proceeds to explain the meme (its the hey arnold meme with the first)

also goes onto another slide, with the twitter opinion meme. at the end of the paragraph it says “this class smacks, I’m lit”

“I’m going to beat up your brother. i am going to pummel him.”

On the 6th day of class he finally realized that there was a total of 6 guys and the rest were girls

student: “You should not put it in (as an assingment)”. teacher; “laugh out loud, im dead”

he was teaching us how to write a DBQ, the computer had a pop up saying that the battery was low, and then a spider shows up out of fucking nowhere, hanging from the ceiling. he CLAPS it, jokes about eating it, and then sets it on his desk (not in the trash can 2 feet away) so he can “deal with it later”

his endless military stories, specifically ORANGE DESERT

he wrote “if you would have had your thinking skull on” on my first DBQ

him saying “I hate this” after typing a word wrong multiple times while teaching us DBQ’s lmfao

“For the lols”

Threw a box of tissues across the room into the trash can

threw a box of tissues at a student

he had this obsession with throwing expo markers at his whiteboard, trying to make it land on the metal part so expect that a lot.

“Do you want me to drown him in a bathtub?” (which was about a student’s dog that had separation anxiety lmaoo)

Sang the rain drop, drop top song

The collars on his shirt turned up

“He’ll be beaten for that distraction” (after his son called him during his lesson and he willingly answered)

“Stay woke” 

“It was a hot boy summer for him”

expo marker landed on the metal thing for once thanks to a towel that was there

kyle (it must have been a story or something i dont remember)

He woah’d at some point

HAHA so there was a kid in my class that had got caught with a bong on the second week of school and he was suspended. when he came back to class, we were going over what the south grew in the U.S. very early on into colonization. and he used the bong kid as an example of a tobacco farmer

tried to eat a balled up paper

“important revolutionary war stuff”

“My bae, George Washington”

“They could’ve killed g-dubz, but they didn’t”

called george washington “g-dubz” frequiently

“Facts”

“Swagtastic”

he got excited over a military general (baron friedrich von steuben) for being a gay military general--”That was very well respected!”

“He had a ton of swagger”--referring to ben franklin

“His nickname was the swamp fox. You guys can call me that”

The snowball fight story--his brother was friends with a kid he hated next door. my teacher challenged the kid--Eric--to a snowball fight. In preparation, my teacher had froze snowballs, and so when he did have the fight, he LITERALLY knocked Eric out and left him on the front lawn unconscious (he was an elementary school kid)

one time he gave us the punishment quiz by accident, tried to make up for it by giving everyone the answer to #6. however, it turned out to be wrong so he just gave us all 100′s instead

another military story of the goat he bought from an old man with his buddies. unfortunately they had to kill the goat to eat, but the FACT that my teacher said this “a cute little goat--you know, baaa?” as if we didn’t know what a goat was 

He was the golf/hockey coach!! so not only would he talk about beating up the kids in the golf club

he would also do random golf swings all the goddamn time! with no gold club or ball, it was just air.

“You are about to get clowned, young lady”

pronounced pamphlet as pamplet fora good part of his teaching career (another story he told us)

“It’s definitely not the declaration of independence you mouth breather!”

George washington = bae on a powerpoint

“you tied me up real good”

“France also popped off”

Compares the Connecticut compromise to ppap (with the song and everything!)

Told someone to shut up after they suggested that Iowa was the least populated state (he’s from Iowa)

hick iowa, to be exact

Wrote 23 as 32, realized his mistake and said “oop im dyslexic”

“If it’s a purge, I’m killing everybody”

“Federalism, not onion!’

“Who’s the dumbass guy? Ducey!” (our state governor)

he got arrested once. his mugshot is on google images and everything

he got arrested bc some guy was destroying his house w a baseball bat at a party his friendw as throwing (but it was at my teachers house). my teacher respectfully punched him and brought him to the front lawn. called the cops when the guy wouldnt leave and ended up being arrested too. teacher thought his career was over and threatened the guy the entire way to the police station

“laugh out loud!”

“We beat the begeezus out of a bunch of british people”

pronounced wolf as woof

“Who was his daddy? Who’s his daddy?”

Called a swim cap a bonnet

“Kick!”--then proceeds to kick a tennis ball. before that he had just thrown it to get out of his way

“Jesus, you’re a big boy”

for like 2 weeks straight he used that same tennis ball to try and erase a whiteboard. and im not talking rubbing it on the board, he fucking threw it at the wall, getting it off little by little. he eventually gave up, though

“I’ll snot rocket into the trash can”

“Cause I realize most of you are morons”

was obsessed with the cowboy boogie

“Every time I cough, my tail bone hurts”

“Do i look normal?”

“I look like an old man”

“Shut up your faces”

“I see you back there, queen”

“Some of you girls need to learn from this article”--the article was old & about girls being submissive

“that would hurt some people’s feelings, but I’m not gonna show it hurt mine”

“He’s just--’meow’”--about his cat

he had a sweater that had his face on it, photoshopped over a boxer that a student gave him. he wore it during winter

flicked a tennis ball across the room with a hockey stick. hit the coffee thermo on his desk, stared for a couple of seconds, and THEN realized that it was open

First off, all you kids making memes about dodging the draft--we don’t want your dumbasses anyway” --continued to rant for a few minutes after that

he HATED the national anthem with a burning passion

“I’m old as shit”

also, his cat’s name IS meow cat

more expo marker throwing

“Hey there handsome”-- to the teacher next door

“Henry clay is going to haunt you until april” (unfortunately we didnt make it that far into the school year bc of covid. disappointed that i didnt get to be haunted)

Singing electric avenue

“but here’s the tea”

“Flagstaff is like--” *reaches as high as he can to put expo marker on the wall

“I’m adopting all of you, and we’re moving to saudi arabia”

teacher: “I’m gonna break bowers kneecaps in front of you. you still want to be on strike?” not bowers but a different kid: “no...?”

Cleaned the shades in the middle of him explaining something

“You know your pinky toe? this little roast beef?”

THE TURTLE SOUP STORY. when my teacher was still a kid, he found a turtle in the wild, and brought it to his grandparents house (they owned a farm). he took care of the turtle for a while, even after his grandfather found out. until one day he came home and saw blood everywhere, went to find the turtle to see it was gone. then found his grandfather chopping up the fucking turtle so they could have it for soup for dinner. his grandfather literally made him fatten up the turtle so they could eat it

“Did mr.*****--?” (referring to himself in 3rd person, also blocked out to protect privacy)

“i’m going to staple your nostrils closed. staple, staple. ‘I can’t breathe mr.*****!’ should’ve done your DBQ!!”

his pedo stache 

stood with a paper and smiled, thinking that a student was taking a picture of him when it was really the paper

doesn’t know who gaston is???

him: “I’m going to staple your noses together. One staple” Student: “*****’s piercing parlor!”

*singing* “beauty and the beast”

“I’m going to tackle you”

more random golf swinging

“What’s up (my name)?” me: hi *he then hits the bun on the top of my head on his way in the door*

And he did it again the next day

he literally made kids compete with pastries

which reminds me, he brought donuts in 2 days in a row like a week after that and make us (his first hour) take bites bc he realized he didn’t want to eat it. one of the girls was glad to take it from him, everyone else told him no

“Good morning (my name) how are you?” me: “I’m sick again... do you need help? (with the door)” him; “Actually, yes” (normally he can open the door even when his hands are full but there was a stack of pop tart boxes that were as tall as him so) i opened the door, he goes in and says, “thank you (my name), for not being rude”

the following quotes are for the Hot Seat

Student: “what do you do--?” him: “you’re in the hot seat!”

“Some people cry”

“La *****, luxurious”

“You sit here, and you stare (into the projector light)”

basically everyone in the class had to answer a question as a review. there was a stool in front of the smartboard, perfectly placed so that the projector light would LITERALLy be in your eyes. i actually got the question right on some miracle.

“2 points of weed?”

“Can I get some of that hot leaf?”

“They will make more drugs! You can’t do that much drug!”

“You guys bullied me and stole it”

“Whole rest of the nation sucked an egg”

“Whelp, let’s just kill myself”

“Do you guys know david chapel?” *sigh when everyone says no*

*some girls singing the national anthem* Him: “no! none of this, none of this!”

“Calibri’s for idiots” (the font)

“The only thing that was in--shit”

“and uncle sam--gettin lit”

“Their daddy--UH--”

“They’re going to blame the jews--my people” (he got a dna test done, he’s not actually jewish)

“Whatever you say, boomer”

“Use my words to plagiarize in college”

“I’m jewish, that’s offensive”

“Tell him he gave me instant cancer”

Me: “can i go to the bathroom?” him: “I’ll allow it”

him: “He’s antisemetic and it hurts my feelings” student: “what does that mean again?” him: “Hates jews :(”

“You guys can call me kingfish if you’d like”

~ after we said no to the nicknames, we tried to make one for him ~

student: “cornhusker!” him: “no, that’s offensive... and it’s also nebraska”

student: “corn picker!” him: “no--that sounds like a racist term or something”

“Unless corona really does take over--” (thank u, mr. for ruining the school year”

Student: “how old was she (his mom) when she had you?” him: “thirteen”

“My mom just turned 40 the other day...” (a joke)

him: “My brother got t-boned by a semi truck last night” Student: “Why are you laughing?” him: “Because he lived.”

“Yeah bc I would hide out in a public school with 300 new kids a year” (about him not living in iowa so he’s hiding out in az to get away from his “criminal record” (refer to the 1 time hes been arrested))

“Baby death?”

“Their family has more money than jesus”

*Standing outside the door yelling “CORONA” to students walking in”

“Hey I’m *****, f-word, blah, blah”

“We should fight our cats.”

“OH that’s a big chonk cat.”

“Mortal Kombat is pretty cool. I haven’t played in 25 years”

he told us in class once that we shouldnt open the front door if cops show up at a party. just to shut the blinds and be a little quieter bc the cops cant legally open the door

also one time he had a gun pointed to his face but he never finished that story bc he never liked it

during quarantine he set a DBQ as 1000 points (and i still didnt do it)

and “Here’s the tea, kiddos!”

honorable mentions: all the time he’s sent out emails bc theyre fucking hilarious

[nat-20s]

@tumorravenus3

okay so a: i am very flattered that my opinion matters at all to you asjdhjhdajkd thank u and b: i know you didn’t ask for like a book review/ review of jenny t colgans doctor who work in general but HERE WE GO

when i said in the blood is very hit or miss for me i do mean it’s VERY hit and VERY miss. The BANTER in it is absolutely top of the line and some of the ten and donna character moments that happen in the canon of the book i am ABSOLUTELY going to eat for power such as:

1. ten and donna having skipping races sajdksj

2. ten+donna+bunks beds+ toblerones

3.there’s a whole bit where they banter about being police officers and ten is like “only if i get to be the rogue who doesn’t play by the rules” and donna is like “you’d need a leather jacket” and you can FEEL the flashback to nine and ten being like NEVER MIND. also they are actively trying to investigate a murder while doing this. they are at the crime scene and trying to figure things out before the actual police come. they are. so stupid. and i love them.

4. Donna is one of the tardis’s favorites :’)

5. Ten is literally about to (almost) jump to his death and he does THIS

Like what???? The fuck????? Im crying im going feral im LOSING MY MIND. YOU MUST KNOW THAT, TO ME, YOU ARE THE OPPOSITE OF THAT?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?      

F U C K 

6. wilf thanking ten for making his granddaughter happy :’’’’’’)

7. Donna and Ten have been separated for less than a DAY and yet when they finally get to talk on the phone they both start beaming. they love each other so fkucking much u guys.

8.one of the aliens is like “the doctor usually makes people afraid. Are you not afraid?” and donna replies “nah, he’s all right” which is pretty iconic she doesn’t give a FUCK about his reputation

9.Ten has a line that’s “oh, it is so much better for me when you’re here, Donna” which makes me. so fucking sad in the context of everything. im. hh.

10. there’s another really good bit they do where donna is defiantly like “i can handle some torture!!” and then she immediately whispers to ten “i cannot. I cannot handle torture. not even a little. i WILL tell anybody anything under torture. if you think i can withstand a little bit of torture while you figure out something clever, i cannot.” 

That being said. the overall plot of the book and some specific descriptions that im kinda like..yikes? I can’t quite articulate what is so ehhhhh to me but some of it comes across as very “kids these days and their internet” but also simultaneously like “people these days are so SENSITIVE” and it’s very. mm. i mean rage virus spread through the internet is unlikely to be...good? as a plot. and every time the book got back into the actual story i was either like. bored or kinda irritated? i dunno but it was grating

Also, and I didn’t notice this across the board with Jenny’s writing (i LOVED time reaver) but when she had to write Donna on her own it felt off? it kinda seemed like she couldn’t decide whether or not she actually liked Donna? In general though in my humble onion a LOT of writers struggle to write donna on her own which is weird bc she shouldn’t?? be that hard??? Donna is, like, SUPER easy for me to write and im far from a professional so like. what gives.

Tldr: don’t necessarily be afraid for her tentoo and rose stuff. a mixed bag is better than a bad bag and there’s a lot of aspects of her writing that i personally like and some that i personally dont and if she decides to fight for my rights and more thoroughly explore that tentoo is half donna than her sins will be forgiven

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The Tsuranga Conundrum

It’s funny how I saw everyone raving about the first two eps this series while I thought they did their job well enough without Grabbing me, and then when I finish an episode and go into the tag expecting to see people agreeing that it was solid and the series has hit its stride I............don’t see that.

I can’t believe we’re actually halfway through s11

@BBC pls fund the show enough to get all thirteen eps at this rate in a few years we’ll be getting miniseries that are six eps long

at least Chibbs’ speciality is character but we’re still missing out on spending time with them and getting to expand on them

glad to see the tardis in its natural habitat: and junkyard planet

ah yes the thing you do when you see a bomb is......not move.....

there are two Docs on board

geddit

bc Doc Brown

I think this is the first time I’ve seen him do acting rather than standup/panel shows but imdb tells me he’s done a fair bit

‘I'd say it was more of a volume than a chapter’ that line just felt so Doctor™

always the show off

but I do wonder what was in that volume

I saw someone talk about how the people on the ship’s reaction to the Doctor suggested that it was not all good but there was enough to know that they can let her take charge

I like that we got to see the Doctor have a moment of just....kinda blind selfishness

I’m just waiting to get a moment where the companions are scared of her, when they realise some of the stuff she’s done and what she’s capable of

I’ve said it in p much every review so far but I’m can’t wait for the Doctor to be furious

the jettisoned escape pod felt very 42

except Martha came out of that a fair bit better than Astos

man there was a moment there when I thought the sonic might be a goner

but then I remembered about merchandising

‘oh yeah sync the old ocular recorders it's obvious’

lots of good quality Thirteen Hand On Hips Leaning this ep

Yaz basically gently police interrogating Ryan about his life lol

Ryan :((

poor guy saw both his mum and his nan die

I made a note at this point in the ep that I was genuinely curious about how they were going to solve the p’ting issue

OH YEAH THE P’TING

I saw a review say it was too cute to be a serious threat but I thought it was just right

and man....the cgi was top notch

and the post-explosion p’ting was a level of happiness I aspire to tbh

its little fACE

though could they not have just ejected it when it was stunned? I guess it would have come back

but yeah I thought the p’ting problem gave a very engaging narrative framework for the ep 

like there was lots of good character stuff but the plot that linked it all was solid too

'bit Poirot’

while I love Thirteen primarily being a Doctor of hope I do hope it’s kinda....something she’s telling or reminding herself to keep herself on track

and that we get to see that slip a bit later on

‘yeah we're blokes aren't we’

the scenes with Yoss and Ryan and Graham were so good

Ryan encouraging him was <3

'while you've been mucking around on youtube I've been learning useful life skills’ Graham really makes me laugh

and him always looking away at the squeamish bits is #relatable

(why is this the second ep of tv this week I’ve watched that has involved operating to get a baby out....though at least this one showed nothing)

I can’t believe I’ve not seen a gifset yet comparing Thirteen’s antimatter speech to One’s speech about the birth of stars

that’s the second time Thirteen has mentioned siblings (though not directly about herself this time) and it does make me wonder........

HAMILTON

‘I'll be so embarrassed’ ‘and dead’

again nice seeing that glimpse of the Doctor a little too focussed on their brilliance (in the context of helping people)

ok listen I honestly do not think I have ever laughed at this show as much as I did about baby Avocado

idk if it was actually that funny or just the way they played it but genuinely I think I had to pause the ep for a sec I was laughing so much

truly a Classic Earth Ballad moment

the ending of the ep was beautiful

as a whole it was a properly solid ep I really enjoyed

a good take on base-under-siege and worked in the trademarked Chibnall character work

and the more I see people complain about the ep the more I’ll defend this

Really excited to properly see Yaz take the spotlight next week and I have a slight feeling we’ll be getting to see some anger from Thriteen or at least some more hints of the less-than-perfect Doctor that lies beneath...but that feeling is based on nothing so we’ll just have to wait and see

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Ever found yourself floating aimlessly around the alphabet soup of UK government departments doing data, wondering who's responsible for what? Or lost track of all the interesting initiatives that you might be able to get involved with or learn from?

I'm delighted to be running a new project with the ODI that tries to help with that. We're mapping data responsibility and initiatives across the UK government here, so please do tell us what we've missed and comment on what we've already got. It'll be open for comments until Friday 10 September, so you have all summer to contribute.

There's a launch page explaining everything here, and we're also going to be publishing a blogpost a week focusing on a particular area of the ODI manifesto. This week is infrastructure week. Keep an eye on the ODI blog for future ones.

In other news:

A date for your diary - the 22nd Data Bites will be taking place on Wednesday 8 September at 6pm, thanks to ADR UK and the ESRC. Details will appear here in due course - which is also where you can catch up on the previous 21 events.

I'm also chairing an event for IfG at this year's Labour Party conference - more here.

I'm really sad to see this news about Understanding Patient Data (full disclosure - I'm doing some work for them at the moment). Natalie has done a terrific job, and I really hope their work is able to find a home elsewhere - it's more important than ever, given recent events.

Nick Timmins' new report on how the Department for Education handled the pandemic is well worth a read. Warning: contains mutant algorithms. Diginomica pull out some lessons on those here; my piece from last summer on that is here; and there are more links below.

If you enjoyed this account of what allegedly happened to that Spectator piece on Marcus Rashford (h/t Alice), pour yourself a cup of tea and enjoy this story of something similar from my time at the Media Standards Trust.  

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Tokyo shift

Olympic records are being broken at a record pace* (The Economist)

How the Olympics became bigger and more diverse* (The Economist)

What the Tokyo medal table tells us halfway through the Games (BBC Sport)

Russia and Kenya take the podium in the athletics doping contest* (The Economist)

Tokyo Olympics: Will Team GB beat its record-breaking performance in Rio? (Sky News)

20 Chinese gold medal contenders at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics (South China Morning Post)

Olympians are probably older — and younger — than you think* (Washington Post)

The Fastest Men In The World Are Still Chasing Usain Bolt (FiveThirtyEight)

Here's how Sydney McLaughlin of the U.S. won the 400-meter hurdles at #Tokyo2020, breaking her own world record (New York Times - more here)

Katie Ledecky's historic week, day by day* (Washington Post)

The Climber: Adam Ondra | The Hurdler: Dalilah Muhammad | The Gymnast: Sunisa Lee | The Swimmer: Simone Manuel (New York Times)

Viral content

Why are Covid cases falling in the UK?* (FT)

Excess deaths in your neighbourhood during the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic (ONS)

COVID-19: Sewage surveillance reveals 'widespread increase' of coronavirus in England last month (Sky News)

Covid travel: which countries are on the green, amber and red lists? (The Guardian)

Tim Spector: the data explorer who uncovered vital clues to Covid* (FT)

Which Americans are against the jab?* (The Economist)

Chart: Less than 0.1% of vaccinated Americans tested positive for COVID-19 (Axios)

America is plummeting down the global vaccination league table* (The Economist)

Florida’s hospitals set a bleak pandemic record* (FT)

How Europe, After a Fumbling Start, Overtook the U.S. in Vaccination* (New York Times)

Side effects

Why the pandemic is not making your rent cheaper* (New Statesman)

New York City Homebuyers Are Back, and They’re Looking for Deals* (Bloomberg)

Net worth

How Google quietly funds Europe’s leading tech policy institutes* (New Statesman)

Explore different settlements on the balance of power and what they mean for the future of the Internet (Demos)

Ransomware attacks rise despite US call for clampdown on cybercriminals* (FT)

Environment

Planetary ‘vital signs’ show extent of climate stress — and some hope* (FT)

How heat dome has sparked worst wildfires in a decade across parts of Southern Europe (Sky News)

Beyond human endurance: How climate change is making parts of the world too hot and humid to survive* (Washington Post)

Race

The 'ethnic data gap' on voters - and why it matters to parties and pollsters (Sky News)

Hollywood reaps the rewards of becoming more diverse* (The Economist)

UK

The first ever machine generated map of the @UKParliament treaty procedure (UK Parliament)

Favourability towards Boris Johnson falls to lowest level since October (Ipsos MORI)

Productivity: firing on all cylinders (IfG)

Mathematician Hannah Fry: ‘I’m sure there’s lots of tutting — but not to my face* (FT)

Everywhere else

‘It’s Huge, It’s Historic, It’s Unheard-of’: Drug Overdose Deaths Spike* (The Upshot)

Elon Musk’s Outrageous Moonshot Award Catches on Across America* (Bloomberg)

Police shootings continue daily, despite a pandemic, protests and pushes for reform* (Washington Post)

People in the West are least worried about hurtful speech* (The Economist)

An Inca highway still benefits people living nearby* (The Economist)

German election 2021: The New Statesman’s poll tracker* (New Statesman)

Meta data

Information health

Statistics informing quarantine requirements for arrivals to England (Office for Statistics Regulation)

Review of NHS Test and Trace (England) and NHS COVID-19 app statistics (Office for Statistics Regulation)

What we mean by trustworthy use of patient data (Understanding Patient Data)

The future of Understanding Patient Data (Understanding Patient Data)

Lord Bethell’s new phone (Good Law Project)

UK government defends deleting all trace of job vacancies after appointing Matt Hancock's lover to health department board (Business Insider)

Education, education, education

Schools and coronavirus: The government’s handling of education during the pandemic (IfG)

The UK A-Level ‘COVID-19 algorithm fiasco’ and lessons for the enterprise (diginomica)

Four things government must learn from the A-level algorithm fiasco (me from last year for IfG)

More from last summer (W:GC)

Even more from last summer (W:GC)

Ensuring statistical models command public confidence: Learning lessons from the approach to developing models for awarding grades in the UK in 2020 (Office for Statistics Regulation, from March 2021)

AI got 'rithm

Hundreds of AI tools have been built to catch covid. None of them helped.* (MIT Technology Review)

I’m sorry Dave I’m afraid I invented that: Australian court finds AI systems can be recognised under patent law (The Guardian)

Bias in Artificial Intelligence (Harvard Magazine)

The ethics of recommendation systems in public-service media (Ada Lovelace Institute)

Britain can set 'gold standard' in ethical artificial intelligence - industry report (BCS)

ICO baby

The Information Commissioner's Office is letting us down*  (Telegraph)

Response: ICO’s priorities and impact of our work (ICO)

New guidance on direct marketing and the public sector (ICO)

Thread (Tim Turner)

Information Rights Strategic Plan: Trust and Confidence - annual tracker (ICO)

UK government

Introduction to Data Quality course launched (Government Data Quality Hub)

A new model for modelling (Actuaries in government)

Six reasons why digital transformation is still a problem for government (NAO)

govcookiecutter: A template for data science projects (Data in government)

Radar – more than just wave detection (Defra digital)

Driving technology convergence and reuse in our Future Borders and Immigration System (Home Office Digital, Data and Technology)

The longlist (Civil Service Data Challenge)

Cabinet Office eyes ‘geographical capability map’ for civil servants (Civil Service World)

Next step in plans to govern use of digital identities revealed (DCMS)

Building a single sign-on for government: What we’ve learnt so far (Services in government)

ESRC launches opportunity to inform data infrastructure strategy (UKRI)

Keeping old computers going costs government £2.3bn a year, says report (BBC News - CSW had this last week)

2021 Deane-Stone Lecture: Ambitious, Radical, Inclusive and Sustainable: How a National Statistical Institute evolved through Covid-19 (Sir Ian Diamond for NIESR)

Taking the wiki

Left-leaning Wikipedia is no match for my shelf of dictionaries* (Telegraph)

There are 11,656 athletes at the Olympics. Guy Fraser wanted them all on Wikipedia (The Guardian)

A sense of place

‘X’ Marks the Spot: Officials Map a Route Out of the Pandemic* (New York Times)

What 3 Words is a Mess

Dis and that

Disinformation: It’s History (CIGI)

Why Generation Z falls for online misinformation (MIT Technology Review)

It's a jungle out there

Why Amazon’s £636m GDPR fine really matters* (Wired)

The slow collapse of Amazon’s drone delivery dream* (Wired)

Open for the best

Natalia Carfi to carry the torch of openness (Open Data Charter)

Tech spec experts seek allies to tear down ISO standards paywall (The Register)

The promise of open-source intelligence* (The Economist)

Private parts

Estonia says a hacker downloaded 286,000 ID photos from government database (The Record)

Here’s how police can get your data — even if you aren’t suspected of a crime (Recode)

Everything else

The social value of data (Bennett Institute)

BIG TECH’S DUTY OF CARE (New Economics Foundation)

Inequality just went stratospheric. Can we bring it down to earth?* (Prospect)

A New Tech ‘Cold War?’ Not for Europe. (AI Now Institute)

THE TIME TAX: Why is so much American bureaucracy left to average citizens?* (The Atlantic)

Can data cooperatives sustain themselves? (LSE Business Review)

medConfidential note on the PRUK green paper and DARE project (medConfidential)

Measuring internet poverty (Brookings)

Data don’t lie, but they can lead scientists to opposite conclusions* (The Economist)

Opportunities

JOB: Head of Digital Data & Digital Democracy (London Borough of Newham, via Martin)

JOB: Executive Director (Digital Freedom Fund)

JOB: Senior Data Analyst (Common Wealth)

JOB: Visuals Project Editor - Visuals (The Guardian)

JOBS: Data for Science & Health team (Wellcome Trust)

JOB: Data Journalist (Tech Monitor, New Statesman Media Group)

JOBS: Data and Digitalisation programme (Ofgem, via Owen Boswarva)

JOB: Head of Strategic Communications and Engagement, Centre for Data Ethics and Innovation (DCMS)

JOBS: Economic Advisers - The Digital and Tech Analysis team (DCMS)

JOBS: Modelling Hub Analyst Roles, Data & Analytical Services Directorate (MoJ)

JOB: Director of Analysis (MoD)

RESEARCH FELLOWSHIP: Data, Visualisation and Storytelling (The National Archives)

JOB: Product Manager - Data (BBC, via Jukesie)

And finally...

Vennerable

In celebration of John Venn's 187th birthday today, here's a poem in the form of a Venn diagram. (Brian Bilston)

*whispers* that's not actually how they work, but fine, it's funny (@StandingHannah, via David)

[protecticarus]

PROMPT: Todd somehow sees Dirk talk to Riggens for the first time (in 1x03). I mean like it's unnerving as hell to see cheerful, kind-hearted Dirk look so terrified and hurt (he's about to cry lmao this scene breaks my heart and im crying) especially when Todd hasn't really seen this side of him ever. So like he's just like wtf?? dirk?? my ball of sunshine?? who is this man and do you want me to kill him for you??? bc i will

yes! I love this prompt because I am a dirk!angst fan (what’s wrong with me) & this is our first look into the blackwing side of dirk’s story & therefore it’s easy to put todd into that situation as well. plus I love me some protective todd.

(I’m not sure if you wanted todd to interfere with the actual scene or to talk to dirk afterwards but this is what I ended up writing)

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“It’s all real, isn’t it? You really are what you say you are. Some kind of… Holistic detective?” Todd asks, already knowing the answer.

“I’m trying.” Dirk replies sincerely. “Is this enough proof? Will you help me?” He asks.

Todd can see the desperation in Dirk’s eyes, how much he really, genuinely wants Todd’s help. Todd doesn’t say anything right away, he still feels unsure about this mess he’s somehow been dragged into, but he also knows he will eventually accept it. There’s no way out for him, not anymore. Besides, something about Dirk just makes it feel like this is supposed to happen. Todd never used to believe in stuff like that. None of that ‘everything happens for a reason’ crap. Yet somehow meeting Dirk seems like something he was meant to experience. Somehow Dirk is supposed to be a part of his life. It doesn’t mean Todd is thrilled about the danger and illegal aspects it has brought him, but he knows he can’t walk away from it. From him.

“Fine.” He finally replies.

Dirk’s face lights up like a child’s on Christmas. He gives Todd a huge smile and pats him on the shoulder. Then he turns around and basically hops down the stairs. Todd is left standing in the hallway. There’s many things on his mind, most of them questions.

He turns around to go back to his apartment, but his feet stop moving before the thought really registers in his mind. After everything that’s happened, after the revelation of Dirk being… Whatever he is and Todd actually committing to this bizarre case they seem to be on, he doesn’t feel like going about things the normal way. He doesn’t feel like going into his apartment and sitting on the couch, chatting with his sister. It all feels… Different.

As quickly as he’d stopped mid-step, he turns back around to go after Dirk. He’s not sure why. He shakes his head, mocking himself for choosing to go after the man who broke into his apartment and claims that they’re friends instead of going back to the safety of his apartment. Then again, his apartment wasn’t exactly safe at the moment. A man had been killed there. It had been broken into. Twice. 

Todd reaches the stairwell that leads to the ground floor and he sees Dirk at the end of it, but something stops him. An ominous voice Todd doesn’t recognize.

“Hello, Project Icarus.” The voice says.

Todd has about half a second to wonder what the hell that means, until Dirk reacts.

“No..” Dirk whispers. “Leave me alone.” He says, but it comes out as more of a plea than an order.

A feeling of anxiety sets in Todd’s stomach. He’d come across all kinds of crazy people in the last few days, but none of them had made Dirk pale the way this man did.

“Svlad, we have to talk.” The man continues.

“That’s not my name anymore.” Dirk says defiantly.

Dirk isn’t his real name? Todd suddenly considers the things he knows about Dirk aside from his eccentric personality and comes up with nothing. He doesn’t really know anything about Dirk, or Svlad, or whatever his name was.

“Dirk then.” The man complies.

“I said leave me alone!” Dirk says with more power in his voice now.

Suddenly a man charges at Dirk and tackles him, both of them collapsing against the bottom stairs. Todd instinctively takes a rushed step forward, going through any self-defense techniques he’s seen on tv in his head, ready to pull the man off Dirk, but stops as the other man yells.

“Friedkin! Friedkin, goddamn it, get off him!” The first man orders.

Todd stays still, but on guard. These people were obviously not friends of Dirk’s and if the situation escalated, he would need help.

“He was escaping!” The younger man explains, still holding Dirk down.

“You release him now, soldier, that’s an order!” The older man yells.

Soldier? Who the hell are these people?

The man, the soldier, gets off Dirk and sits next to him on the stairs. Dirk scrambles to get up and basically wraps himself around the pole at the end of the staircase, grunting and panting franticly. He was obviously shaken, understandably so.

“Is this what you do now!? You just attack people!” Dirk screams once he’s recovered.

“Sorry, sir, I got confused.” The soldier says and gets up from the stairs and walks back to where Todd assumes his commanding officer is standing, out of view. Todd rolls his eyes.

“He seems like a winner!” Dirk comments sarcastically.

“Dirk, listen to me.” The older man says.

“Why? You have new lies to tell me?” Dirk comments.

Todd furrows his brow. What is Dirk’s history with this guy? In the short time he’s known Dirk, Todd’s never seen him so shaken or as defensive as he is around this guy. He lied to Dirk? About what?

“We need you to come back in for a debriefing.” The man says.

Debriefing? On what? Was Dirk… An agent of some sort? He couldn’t have been telling the truth about the CIA… He admitted it was a lie?

“Oh yes, why not, it’s only been sixteen years!” Dirk exclaims in frustration.

Sixteen years? Dirk must’ve been a teenager sixteen years ago? What kind of agency would employ a teenager? 

“Blackwing is under review. That’s why we bailed you out when the police brought you in. It’s the least you can do.” The man explains.

More and more questions form in Todd’s mind. What the hell is Blackwing? They bailed Dirk out?

“The least I could do?” Dirk repeats in disbelief. Dirk obviously didn’t think he owed these people anything. Todd started to feel like this situation was truly threatening.

“This is in your best interest.” The man says.

In Dirk’s best interest? Was Dirk in danger? Well, of course he was, Todd had experienced more danger in the short time he’d known Dirk than in his previous 30 something years of life, but was there more danger than he originally thought? Was someone specifically targeting Dirk?

To Todd’s surprise, his first thought was worry towards Dirk’s safety, not his own.

“You promised them something you couldn’t deliver. You promised me something and you couldn’t deliver.” Dirk says.

Todd frowns. This man had obviously hurt Dirk. Just a few minutes ago Todd couldn’t have imagined hearing the fear and bitterness in Dirk’s voice that was clearly present now. This made Todd worry.

“Dirk, I am not the enemy here.” The man says and takes a step closer to Dirk, now coming into Todd’s view too. Dirk quickly stands up and backs himself against the wall, like a scared animal. Todd suddenly feels the need to stand between Dirk and the man who scares him so.

“And you’re not a detective.” The man continues and Todd can see tears forming in Dirk’s eyes. “You’re going to get yourself hurt or killed if you-”

“I am on a case!” Dirk interrupts in a teary voice. “I have friends! And we found clues! We’re gonna solve a mystery! A real one! And some people think I’m a pretty good detective!” Dirk yells, the last words coming out shaky. He sounds like a child trying to defend himself to adults.

Dirk’s teary, shaky voice breaks Todd’s heart. Dirk takes so much pride in his title as a holistic detective and just earlier he told Todd how he was trying to live up to that title, and now this man was demeaning the thing Dirk put so much effort in? So much so that the man’s words made Dirk nearly cry? Now, Todd hadn’t exactly been on board this holistic detective train until a few minutes ago, but seeing the normally cheery, optimistic Dirk so sad and broken by just the sight of this man? It makes Todd’s blood boil.

Dirk kept panting and fighting tears as the man opened up his mouth again to speak, but suddenly Todd decided he’d had enough. He marched down the stairs, drawing the strange men and Dirk’s attention to him.

“Todd…” Dirk almost whispers, obviously surprised to see him.

“Who is this?” The man asks.

Dirk opens his mouth to speak but Todd beats him to it.

“I’m his friend. And I’d appreciate it if you left him the hell alone, now.” Todd says, coming to stand between Dirk and the man, trying his best to appear as intimidating as he could despite being the shortest of the four men.

Dirk looks at Todd, his eyes shining with unshed tears, his expression somewhere between shocked and grateful.

“This doesn’t concern you.” The man says.

“Like hell it doesn’t. I don’t appreciate people making my friends cry. Actually, I have a tendency to punch the daylights out of people who do that.” Todd replies.

“Todd.” Dirk says, his voice a clear warning, but Todd doesn’t break the intimidating staring contest with the older man.

“Do you want me to take him down, sir?” The younger man asks.

“No!” The older man and Dirk exclaim at the same time, the man’s voice giving out an order, Dirk’s tone more pleading.

“Dirk…” The man tries again.

“I suggest you get the hell out of here unless you want me to call the cops.” Todd says with no intention of actually doing so, since he is currently, possibly a murder suspect. “And I never wanna see your face here again. Or anywhere near Dirk for that matter.” Todd continues. 

The man seems unsure for a moment before nodding slowly. He walks towards the doors and then stops and turns back.

“I’m only trying to protect you, Dirk.” He says.

Dirk shakes his head behind Todd. “I don’t care. I don’t need you.” He says.

The man sighs and gestures for the younger man to follow him. Once both of them are out of the building, Todd turns towards Dirk.

“Are you okay?” Todd asks, adrenaline still burning in his body.

Dirk swallows. “Yes. Well, no. But yes. I’ll be fine.” Dirk mumbles. “Thank you, Todd.” He whispers.

Todd gives him a reassuring smile. “Sure.”

Dirk gives him a small smile, still a bit shaken from the interaction.

“Who the hell were those guys anyway?” Todd asks.

Dirk looks down at his feet. “It’s… A long story. And I’m afraid it’s not a happy one.” Dirk replies.

“Hey,” Todd says and places a comforting hand on Dirk’s shoulder, which gets Dirk to look up at him again. “It’s okay.” He promises. Dirk smiles a little more brightly this time.

Then Dirk sits back down on the bottom steps and sighs. Todd follows suit, sitting right next to Dirk and immediately placing his hand back on his shoulder. Dirk looks to Todd, as if to ask for permission. Todd gives him an encouraging nod.

Dirk takes a deep breath.

“They’re a part of a CIA operation called ‘Blackwing’…”

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if you have any fic ideas, please send me prompts! I’d love to write them. my inbox is open! xx

[jolie-guerrier]

Boxing: Knocking Out Racism and Inequality in America

Current boxing is as old as America. They grew up together, and like America herself, boxing is as glorious as it is severe. It's as delightful as it is base. From the wicked and banned "shows" in New Orleans to the "exposed knuckle" fights in the shantytowns out West, boxing grew up with America. It has been known as the "Sweet Science" and "the Manly Art of Self Defense," in any case "boxing is a game of showdown and battle, a weaponless war," setting two warriors in opposition to one another to do fight in the squared circle.

We can follow the historical backdrop of America's poor and disappointed through the curve of boxing's past. Prizefighting is a crystal through which we can see the history and battles of America's generally disappointed. Its saints of legend frequently epitomize the social issues of the day. From multiple points of view, the battle game fills in as a methods for "financial" progression. Creator and boxing antiquarian Jeffrey T. Sammons states in Beyond the Ring: The Role of Boxing in American Society: "The progression [of extraordinary fighters] had gone from Irish to Jewish... to Italians, to [B]lacks, and to Latin[o]s, an example that mirrored the financial stepping stool. As each gathering climbed, it hauled its childhood out of prizefighting and drove them into all the more encouraging... interests."

Image source Two warriors specifically embody the battle of their kin: the reckless Irishman John L. Sullivan, and "The Black Menace" Jack Johnson.

Boxing's Origins

Confining has its causes Ancient Greece, and was a piece of the Olympic Games in around 688 BC. Homer makes reference to enclosing the "Iliad." Boxing history specialist Michael Katz reviews the games crude roots:

Much like the primary American pioneers, prizefighting advanced toward the New World from England. What's more, similar to the pioneers, boxing's initial days were regularly brutish and vicious. Sammons states: "Like such huge numbers of American social, social, political, and scholarly foundations, enclosing began England. In the late 1700s, when the game existed uniquely in its crudest structure, prizefighting in Britain expected a demeanor of modernity and worthiness.

The early Puritans and Republicans regularly connected game playing with the severe governments of Europe, however as American adversaries of relaxation lost ground, the game immediately started to develop. In the 1820's and 1830's boxing, regularly called pugilism, turned into a mainstream sport among the American "workers who were not used to limitations upon beguilements and games."

As the game developed in ubiquity among the outsiders, so too did the legend of the person. For better or for more awful, the United States is a country weaned on the fantasy of the person. This is the American Dream, that central belief that we can all "pull our selves up by the bootstraps" and become fiercely rich, incredibly fruitful, and frantically satisfied. For almost 200 years the "Heavyweight Champion" was the crown gem of the brandishing scene, and the physical encapsulation of the American Dream. He was the hardest, "baddest man" on earth, and told the world's regard.

Sammons states: "[T]he physical man despite everything represents the capability of the individual and natural selection. He is the epitome of the American Dream, where the lowliest of people ascend to the top by their own drive and constancy. The slipperiness of that fantasy is irrelevant; the importance of the fantasy is in its acknowledgment, not its satisfaction." During the 1880's, nobody typified the physical man, or the American Dream, more than boxing's first incredible heavyweight champion, John L. Sullivan.

John L. Sullivan and the Plight of the Irish

Sullivan, otherwise called "The Boston Strongboy," was the remainder of the "uncovered knuckle" champions. The child of poor Irish migrants, he was a reckless and obstinate man who visited the "vaudeville circuit offering fifty dollars to any individual who could last four rounds with him in the ring." Sullivan broadly tested his crowds by guaranteeing, "I can lick any sonofabitch in the house."

"The Boston Strongboy" got one of America's first games legends when he reprimanded mogul Richard Kyle Fox, proprietor and owner of the National Police Gazette and the National Enquierer. Legend has it that one decisive night in the spring of 1881 while at Harry Hill's Dace Hall and Boxing Emporium on New York's East Side, Fox was so intrigued by one of Sullivan's bouts, that the paper magnate "welcomed him to his table for a business talk, which Sullivan inconsiderately declined, picking up Fox's scorn."

Sammons states:

Fox was irate and pledged to break Sullivan just as control the crown. He did neither one of the sullivans; beat any and all individuals, including a couple of Fox hopefuls." Sullivan turned into a global big name and American symbol "who had ascended through the positions without looking down on others. Sullivan accomplished more than manufacture an individual after, be that as it may; he raised the game of boxing. The prize ring presently spread over the bay among lower and high societies."

Sullivan turned into an image of expectation and pride for late Irish workers living in another, threatening area. Almost 2,000,000 Irish outsiders landed in America somewhere in the range of 1820 and 1860. Most landed as contracted hirelings and were viewed as minimal more than slaves in the new nation. Of those 2,000,000 foreigners, about 75 percent landed during "The Potato Famine" of 1845-1852. The Irish fled from destitution, sickness, and English abuse. "The Potato Famine" had killed very nearly a million Irishmen.

Creator Jim Kinsella states:

America turned into their fantasy. Early outsider letters portrayed it as a place that is known for bounty and asked others to finish them the 'Brilliant Door.' These letters were perused at get-togethers urging the youthful to go along with them right now nation. They left in large numbers on ships that were so packed, with conditions so horrendous, that they were alluded to as 'Pine box Ships.' (standard. 1)

The Irish landed in America penniless and frequently undesirable. A familiar adage summarized the frustration felt by American foreigners in the Nineteenth Century: "I came to America since I heard the boulevards were cleared with gold. At the point when I arrived, I discovered three things: First, the roads weren't cleared with gold; second, they weren't cleared in any way: and third, I was relied upon to clear them."

Kinsella says:

Our worker predecessors were not needed in America. Promotions for work were frequently trailed by "no Irish need apply." They had to live in basements and shanties... with [no] plumbing and [no] running water. These living conditions reared infection and early passing. It was evaluated that 80 percent of all babies destined to Irish settlers in New York City kicked the bucket... The Chicago Post stated, "The Irish fill our penitentiaries, our poor houses... scratch a convict or a homeless person and the odds are that [we] stimulate the skin of an Irish Catholic. Putting them on a vessel and sending them home would end wrongdoing right now.

Be that as it may, the Irish landed in America during a period of scarcity. Kinsella proceeds:

The nation was developing and it required men to do the overwhelming work of building extensions, waterways, and railways. It was hard, perilous work. A typical statement heard among the railroad laborers guaranteed "an Irishman was covered under each tie.

John L. Sullivan was the pride of the Irish during his amazing title rule between 1882-1892).

Student of history Benjamin Rader composed:

The competitors as open saints filled in as a compensatory social capacity. They helped the general population in making up for the enthusiasm of the conventional dream of progress... what's more, sentiments of individual frailty. As the general public turned out to be progressively entangled and systematized and as progress must be won progressively in administrations, the requirement for legends who jumped to popularity and fortune outside the standards of the framework appeared to develop.

During his decade long rule as champion; nobody caught the open consideration more than "The Boston Strongboy." He decimated Paddy Ryan in Mississippi City, Mississippi for the "Heavyweight Championship of America" in an illicit "boxing display" on February 7, 1882. The title belt was named "the $10,000 Belt" and was "something fit for a lord." Sammons states: "It had a base of level gold fifty inches in length, and twelve inches wide, with a middle board comprising of Sullivan's name explained in precious stones; eight different edges falcons and Irish harps; an extra 397 jewels studded the emblematic adornment."

In the wake of accepting the "$10,000 Belt," Sullivan pried out the precious stones and sold it for $175. He later proceeded to overcome his most despised adversary Jake Kilrain in the seventy-fifth round, denoting the last "exposed knuckle" title session in boxing history. Sullivan ruled until his knockout misfortune to a more youthful, quicker, increasingly talented contender named "Man of honor" Jim Corbett in the twenty-first round on September 7, 1892 in New Orleans, Louisiana.