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On related note, a few years ago, the Entomological Society of America officially discontinued the use of "gypsy moth" and "gyspy ant" as common names for Lymantria dispar and Aphaenogaster araneoides. L. Dispar is now known as the "spongy moth," so named for the appearance of their eggs, but I don't think a new common name has caught on for the ant species yet.

These changes we brought about, in large part, by the advocacy of Romani people in academia. You might not think that bug names are a very serious issue, but I believe that language matters. These species became known as "gypsies" because their attributes were likened to certain stereotypes and negative perceptions of actual Roma, so the continued use of those names reaffirmed those negative associations in the public consciousness. Slurs and pejoratives can never be truly decontexualized.

In my mind, one of the biggest obstacles that Romani people face when we are trying to advocate for ourselves is a lack of recognition as a marginalized group that deserves the necessary consideration. Even for seemingly trivial matters, like bugs or comic book characters, the way that people talk about us-- and talk down to us, when we get involved-- is telling. So, I always think that changes like this are a win, because it means that people are willing to learn and grant us the dignity we deserve. And there's nothing wrong with wanting to effect change in your own field, even arts and science.

#so glad to know the correct name for the moths

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The Toronto Public Library has removed "If I Must Die" by Palestinian writer, poet, professor and activist Refaat Alareer from its display.

If you're an author, writer, academic or reader you can contact TPL to voice your opinion on this decision to censor Palestinian poetry. Who to email here and here.

#obviously not the most important thing here but these challenges only work #where library workers are not organized & libraries are not clear about their values #decades-long commitments to 'neutrality' impede library staffs' ability to truthfully inform their communities or engage in solidarity #in philadelphia unionized library workers fought back & explicity resisted the idea that displays must be 'balanced'

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Nancy L. Moore (Canadian, no DOB listed)

Lacey Shadows, 2017

Acrylic on canvas

36 x 48 inches

Private collection

#more light more light

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i am so mad in my heart all the time!

#how could one live like this! just so mad! in my heart! at all times! #a thick & useless feeling like picking at the skin on a healing burn #a program i have wanted to do for nearly a full calendar year is happening tomorrow at least #everyone say 'good luck kestrel girderednerve we hope your terrible cardboard wind tunnel program is fun' #because if it isn't i WILL be doing just absolutely unbearable posts

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Bazen öylece rüzgarın ahengine dalar insan. silkeleyip dururken yemyeşil çimenleri..

A momentary breeze..

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Hey everyone, please consider buying the 2024 itch.io Palestinian Relief Bundle- it's 373 games, game-making assets, tabletop roleplaying games, zines, and comics for a minimum of just 8 USD! They have a goal of 100,000 USD, and as of the time I'm writing this post, they have 8 more days to reach it.

Link will be in the reblog!

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Matazo Kayama

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The Metropolis of Tomorrow - art by Hugh Ferriss (1929)

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i think rice with things on it & also some sort of sauce is like basically the best food genre tbh

#my SPICY TOMATO LAO GAN MA is in the mail after it being out of stock for months and i am so excited to put it on rice #food

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A little-discussed detail in the Lavender AI article is that Israel is killing people based on being in the same Whatsapp group [1] as a suspected militant [2]. Where are they getting this data? Is WhatsApp sharing it? Lavender is Israel's system of "pre-crime" [3] - they use AI to guess who to kill in Gaza, and then bomb them when they're at home, along with their entire family. (Obscenely, they call this program "Where's Daddy"). One input to the AI is whether you're in a WhatsApp group with a suspected member of Hamas. There's a lot wrong with this - I'm in plenty of WhatsApp groups with strangers, neighbours, and in the carnage in Gaza you bet people are making groups to connect. But the part I want to focus on is whether they get this information from Meta. Meta has been promoting WhatsApp as a "private" social network, including "end-to-end" encryption of messages. Providing this data as input for Lavender undermines their claim that WhatsApp is a private messaging app. It is beyond obscene and makes Meta complicit in Israel's killings of "pre-crime" targets and their families, in violation of International Humanitarian Law and Meta's publicly stated commitment to human rights. No social network should be providing this sort of information about its users to countries engaging in "pre-crime".

#genocide #privacy

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the thing about the american labor movement (one of many!) is that you can look at one of the most privileged & high-profile trade unions in the world, representing specialized workers in a market with growing profits, and you'd expect that they at least would be getting along just fine, but instead their employers are fucking with their equipment & lying about it as they get injured while wearing see-through pants on national TV. and like sure, the major league baseball players association is not strictly representative, but jesus fuckin christ man that's bad

#anyway power to the UAW organizers in chattanooga & here's to a revitalized labor movement #i'm mostly kidding about the MLBPA but the fanatics pants + gambling scandals + dangerously slippery juiced ball + sticky stuff thing #like. fuckin ridiculous. absolute clownshow. they should let mad max loose on manfred #sorry for sports on main

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MSHA silica standard enacted!!! mining workers now have a federal silica dust standard in line with other industries, cutting the acceptable limit by half. the new rule also requires mine operators outside the coal sector to provide similar free health exams to miners

#industrial dust disease #just really good news. alongside all of the problems with mine dust enforcement and workplace safety more broadly #MSHA budget is much more reasonable than OSHA's relative to the scope of their remit #but they still rely on self-reporting. so. #the rule actually publishes on the 16th. but let me have this

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#go blind in service of lace #!!!

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Rivers in the desert of Baja California, Mexico by Adriana Franco

#arterial

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Typography Tuesday: Passover Edition

This Haggadah is color coded to indicate the age of various parts of the text, creating a visually striking historical commentary.

Haggadah.   Polychrome historical Haggadah for Passover. [Hagadah Meʹir ʹenayim] With a commentary, interpretative translation, introd., notes, references, and bibliography, by Jacob Freedman. Illus. in color from rare medieval Haggadah mss.  Springfield, Mass., Jacob Freedman Liturgy Research Foundation, 1974.

#let all who are hungry come and eat

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#PICCOLO