#irked

[evilhorse]

They didn’t bother to send Batman?! Typical!

#nubia and the justice league special #queen nubia #Nubia #green arrow #oliver queen #firefly #irked #team up #michael w. conrad #becky cloonan #amancay nahuelpan #dc comics #comics #2020s comics

[deadlandsqueen]

So like??? My Instagram was suspended. I don’t know why tho.

Like I was on last night. Wake up, go to school. Go on it and find I was suspended today. For what??? I want a reason for this, no warning no nothing? That’s annoying.

#confused here #rambles #irked

[newscast1]

A look inside Andrew Tate's super-polluting luxury car collection that irked Greta Thunberg

A look inside Andrew Tate’s super-polluting luxury car collection that irked Greta Thunberg

After the verbal spat between Andrew Tate and Greta Thunberg on Twitter over the former’s collection of supercars with high emission levels, we look at his super-polluting luxury car collection and its emission potential. New Delhi,UPDATED: Jan 2, 2023 17:18 IST Greta Thunberg’s response garnered traction quickly, with 3.9 million likes on Twitter. It trended on the platform for two days. By…

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#Andrew #Andrew Tate #car #collection #Greta #Greta Thunberg #irked #luxury #luxury car #social media #super-polluting #superpolluting #Tates #Thunberg #twitter

[wildbluesorbit]

Everyone refuses to say my name right no matter how many times I correct them and I usually let it go but today it’s going to be my 13th reason🙄

#irked #vexed

[dream-catcher-eternally]

You used to hear me,

I’ve never felt less listened to.

You used to see me,

Now I get less than a glance.

You used to enjoy my presence,

Yet I feel like an irritation- dare I say, a bother.

You used to make me feel at home.

I’ve never felt more alone.

-Isolated

#irked #friendship? #lonesome #spoken word

[whats-in-a-sentence]

More than ever, he saw himself as the leading citizen of the town. This so irked Bantam Cock Howard that one night in 1960, when Uhr had taken the chair uninvited at a meeting in the Court House, Howard called on all present to choose a chairman for themselves.

After some show of acrimony on both sides Mr. Uhr descended from his position. It was then proposed, seconded, and carried that Mr. Uhr take the chair.

The Chairman opened the proceedings by saying that he felt much obliged to Mr. Howard for what he had said as it caused him to be placed in a much prouder position than he was in before for he was now elected by the voice of the people, and he thanked them for the honour they had conferred upon him.

"Killing for Country: A Family History" - David Marr

#book quotes #killing for country #david marr #nonfiction #edmund uhr #self importance #irked #george howard #bantam cock #60s #1860s #19th century #courthouse #uninvited #chairman #meeting #elected #proud

[someplace-that-is-else]

GOOD AFTERNOON, LIKERS!!! How is your #tuesday going? The day was going by quickly. And so many errands going on...but here I was.

But...how was I? Let's find out. #Otherwise known as EDITING, TYPING, and WRITING.

EDITING. Slow and steady wins the race they say.

I have been more like #irked. LOL!!!

Editing/rewriting on HOW THE OTHER HALF LIVES has begun!!! So of course, my work schedule was all over the place. LOL!!!

However, it was good to be back to it after a break. Even better, I was going to have some wiggle room in the next few days. So I was going to be able to do something that I have not done in...well, a year apparently.

What was it?

Take my laptop out of my room. I needed to see if my #WIFI was back on the up and up anyway. And I could use the change of scenery anyway. Since most coffeehouses downtown no longer had sitting areas post pandemic, it meant that I really got to go and explore.

An adventure? A writing adventure? Yes, I was down.

TYPING. In case you missed it, my blog was up and live.

It could be found at https://someplace-that-is-else.tumblr.com/post/731188718537457664/traces-of-you-part-the-first

If you like it, be sure to leave a #comment.

WRITING. Still nothing. lol.

But it's been on my mind.

When I'm sitting in a coffeehouse tomorrow, #MeThinks that I'll do some scribbling. I can't wait.

So...an adventure awaits...

#update #editing #typing #writing #tuesday #writing community #otherwise #irked #wifi #comment #methinks

[macaronichewtoyz]

GRAAHHHH PUT FAT PEOPLE IN YOUR FUCKING VIDEO GAMES GODDAMNING !!!!!!

#clemposting #bg3 #idk some stuff about the game just. irks me. alot. #the character customization is ass im sorry #would you like to be one of these four conventionally attractive people

[pretendiamfamous]

Missing out on life with the people you "love" is saddening.

#personal #irked

[evilhorse]

I did not share my theology with you so it could be used against me.

#immortal x-men #x-men #hope summers #exodus #theology #quiet council #ribbing #irked #mutants #kieron gillen #lucas werneck #marvel comics #comics #2020s comics

[boitedeconcert]

Irked

Little Buildings, NARC. Fest '23, Newcastle, England. 15/07/23.

#Irked

[thirddoctor]

fandoms are still so transparently male-centric. I'm tired of hearing about people's """babygirls""" and the pathetic wet little guys they're obsessed with. have you ever spent a single second thinking about a female character's interiority

#Ranger shut up #I see so many posts taking for granted the idea that everyone's faves are guys #and it always irks me

[cmon-man]

hey sir can I be honest for a second? if you could not. catcall me at 5 in the morning that would be. quite nice.

#let me wait at the bus stop in peace #i am barely alive rn I don’t need this #ramblings #irked

[sodetectivefestival]

LOVE LETTER TO A WOMAN IN MY MIDST 600 WORDS MICROFICTION #WRITERBLR

I’ve seen how much you tried to be on the same level with me thought-wise. I cry myself to sleep every time I read men’s comments about you on social media.  I know I’m supposed to say you and I aren’t yet halfway through our love journey but, I am scared. I do not know how our neighbourhood will react since you left. I have tried to explain to myself to them in every humanely way possible. But their answers to me aren’t plausible. I’ve even went as far as letting them touch me; so that they might come to feel me and believe just how I’m not any different to any of them. But they still treat me like I’m a sub-human.

 I’ve never before openly declared my undying love for you. After I having realised how capable you’re in  keeping them quiet, I decided we have this water-front restaurant meeting. Because I believe in you, I know that you’d be able to to tell them how you and I mean to each other. How you won’t just let your guard down and have them tear us apart. I draw strength from knowing about all of them. Their likes and dislikes. I can even tell you a story about them; that could either make you forever hate me, or forever be loving and thankful towards me. For all of my time and effort I took in convincing you I was for real.

 Loving you gives me eternal goose-bumps. If you ever saw a man blush, you’d come to believe that love is a pure bliss. Love takes time. Love so fragile. I came to believe how much you love me the moment you turned your back on me. After watching you getting off your new car wearing only a short-skirt and a big smile, I knew you’d be back into my life for good. I was so glad to see you though my reasons for having called you and wanted to see you irked you.

 Consequences of us being away from each other for long are dire. You might’ve heard about the women who swore by me in your absence but, I’d like to assure you that none of what they had said is true. I’d have followed you wherever you went but my job didn’t permit me to. It’s hard for I to hear you say goodbye but your hellos feels my heart with happiness. I’ve to speak to you like this because I know our time together would be brief. Right now I’d like to have you all to myself.

 I don’t know who is making you happy whenever you’re gone. If I were to be jealous I’d say; who always had you. Without my knowledge I might not know what I’m about or whom do I think I’m to say loneliness is going to destroy me and leave me with scars.  All I know is; it has to be said so that your reaction to it that might heal me.

 I love you. If what I’ve just said doesn’t fill your heart with joy, nothing ever will. Right now I’d like us to go back to our neighbourhood, to go show doubters you and I are one like I told them before. But before we go tell them, I’ve been hiding something from you for years, a wedding ring which I wouldn’t have bought had you not been loyal to me. It would be up to you to accept it, to want to make me a happiest man ever alive. The ball’s in your court.

#IRKED #CONVINVING #PLAUSIBLE #CAPABLE #CONSEQUENCES #ETERNAL GOOSEBUMPS #MOMENT #LONELINESS #PURE BLISS

[serious-goose]

"ofmd s2 sucks because it's fan service" reviewer do you also go to mcdonalds and complain when they serve you a big mac? its a silly queer pirate show. it does what it says on the tin

#“oh noo this romantic comedy has romantic comedy elements what a disappointment” #that one indiewire review irks me so much lol #ofmd #our flag means death

[why-animals-do-the-thing]

Over the last few years, I’ve begun to heavily encourage people to think of a zoo or aquarium or sanctuary being accredited as conveying important information about their ethos / operations / politics - but not as an inherent indicator of quality. Why? Because accrediting groups can be and are fallible. There are issues with all of the accrediting groups and programs, to varying degrees, and so they’re just a piece of information for a discerning zoo-goer to incorporate into their overall opinion. I just saw a news article go by with some data that proves my point.

First off, good for Houston, no commentary that follows is directed that them.

This isn’t the first time I’ve seen a headline like this - there was one a couple years ago, about Cheyenne Mountain Zoo in Colorado also getting a perfect inspection. But here’s what bugs me about it.

If you see/hear the phrase “Facility X has been accredited by Y organization, which holds the highest standards in the world for this type of facility”, it kind of implies that facility X meets all of those standards, doesn’t it? Not most of them, not the majority. When you hear that a zoological facility has gone through a rigorous process to earn an accreditation branded (by the accrediting org) as “the gold standard” in the industry… the general public is going to interpret that as saying these facilities are in compliance with every single rule or standard. And what these headlines tell us, alongside the commentary from AZA in the articles, is that it’s not only not true - it never has been true. Most AZA accredited facilities apparently don’t meet all the AZA standards when they’re inspected, and that’s both okay with them and normal enough to talk about without worrying about the optics.

Let’s start with the basic information in the Houston Chronicle article, which will have been provided to them by the zoo and the AZA.

“Since it's inception in 1974, the AZA has conducted more than 2,700 inspections and awarded only eight perfect evaluations throughout the process's 50-year history. Houston Zoo's final report is 26 pages long — and filled with A's and A-pluses."

Okay, so… doing that math, less than one percent of AZA accreditation inspections don’t meet all the standards at the time of inspection. But, wait, that’s not just what that says. That bit of information isn’t talk about AZA accredited facilities vs the ones that got denied accreditation: this is telling us that of facilities that earned AZA accreditation, basically none of them meet all the standards at the time. This isn’t talking about tabled accreditations or provisional ones where they come back and check that something improved. Given that math from earlier, this information means that most - if not all - AZA accredited facilities have repeatedly failed to meet all of the standards at one point in time … and have still been accredited anyway.

That tracks with what was said about Cheyenne Mountain Zoo, back in 2021 when they got their perfect accreditation.

“Cheyenne Mountain Zoo has earned an incredibly rare clean report of inspection and its seventh consecutive five-year accreditation from the Association of Zoos and Aquariums (AZA). In nearly 50 years of accreditations, CMZoo is only the fourth organization to earn a ‘clean’ report, which means there wasn’t a single major or minor concern reported”

Seven consecutive accreditation processes - and only one of them where they actually met all the standard at the time.

Here’s what the AZA CEO had to say about Houston’s accreditation achievement in that article, which reinforces my conclusion here:

"AZA president and CEO Dan Ashe says the multi-day inspection process, which occurs every five years, has been described as "comprehensive, exhausting and intimidating."

"We send a team of experts in who spend several days talking to employees, guests and the governing board. They look at animal care and husbandry. They look at the governance structure and finances. They look comprehensively at the organization," Ashe explains. "For a facility like Houston Zoo to have a completely clean accreditation and inspection is extremely rare. These inspectors are experts, it's hard to get to the point where they can't find something.""

Now, here’s the rub. We, as members of the public, will never have any idea which standards it is deemed okay for a given AZA facility to not meet. All of the zoological accrediting groups consider accreditation information proprietary - the only way we find out information about how a facility does during accreditation is if they choose to share it themselves.

On top of that, it’s complicated by the fact that last time I read them AZA had over 212 pages of accreditation standards and related guidance that facilities had to comply with. Now, AZA doesn’t accredit facilities if there are major deviations from their standards, or if there’s an issue on something important or highly contentious. So - based on my completely outsider but heavily researched perspective - this probably means that most zoos are in non-compliance with a couple of standards, but not more than a handful.

To make trying to figure this out even more fun, it is also important to know that AZA’s standards are performance standards: whether or not they’re “met” is based on a subjective assessment performed by the accreditation inspectors and the accreditation committee. This means that what qualifies as fulfilling the standards can and does vary between facilities, depending on who inspected them and the composition of the committee at the time.

So why do I care so much? Because when it comes to public trust, branding matters. AZA has gained a reputation as the most stringent accrediting group in the country - to the point that it can lobby legislators to write exceptions into state and federal laws just for its members - based on how they message about their accreditation program. How intensive it is, how much oversight it provides, what a high level of rigor the facilities are held to. That… doesn’t track with “well, actually, the vast majority of the zoos meet most of the standards most of the time.” People who support AZA - people who visit AZA accredited zoos specifically because of what it means about the quality of the facility - believe that accreditation means all the standards are being met!

To be clear: most AZA zoos do meet some pretty high standards. It’s likely that what are being let slide are pretty minor things. I expect it’s on stuff the facility can improve without too much hassle, and it might be that doing so is probably part of what’s required. There’s not enough information available to people outside the fold. But I will say, I don’t think any zoo is getting accredited despite AZA having knowledge of a serious problem.

Where I take issue with this whole situations is the ethics of the marketing and branding. AZA frames themselves as being the best-of-the-best, the gold standard, when it turns out that most of their accredited zoos aren’t totally in compliance, and they know and it’s fine. They seem to be approaching accreditation like a grade, where anything over a certain amount of compliance is acceptable. The public, though, is being fed a narrative that implies it’s a 99/100 pass/fail type of situation. That’s not super honest, imho, which shows up in how there’s zero transparency with the public about it - it goes unspoken and unacknowledged, except when it’s used for promotional gain.

And then, like, on top of the honesty in marketing part, it’s just… something that gets joked about, which really rubs me the wrong way. Like this statement from the media releases for the Cheyenne Mountain accreditation:

“Another of our ‘We Believe’ statements is, ‘We value laughter as good medicine,’” said Chastain. “To put this clean accreditation into perspective, when I asked Dan Ashe, AZA president and CEO, for his comments about how rare this is, he joked, ‘A completely clean inspection report is so unusual, and so unlikely, it brings one word to mind — bribery!’“

So, TL;DR, even AZA accreditation is designed so that their accredited zoos don’t have to - and mostly don’t - actually fully meet all the standards. I’d love to know more about what types of standards AZA is willing to let slide when they accredit a facility, but given the proprietary nature of that information, it’s pretty unlikely there will ever be more information available. AZA accreditation tells you what standards a zoo aspires to meet, what their approximate ethics are, and what political pool they play in. When it comes to the quality of a facility and their animal care, though, sporting an accreditation acronym is just a piece of the larger puzzle.

#AZA accreditation #zoo accreditation #zoo politics #my research #There’s a lot more nuance to how accreditation inspections work and how facilities with bigger issues are given changes to correct them #but that’s for another post #right now I’m just irked that it is so normative for AZA facilities to get accredited without clean inspections