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the sheer energies present here..

for the uninformed i would like to point out the many layers of this tweet:

the op, whose name is currently “captain a.c.a.b.”, is jeffrey cranor, writer of popular podcast “welcome to night vale”

the quote retweet is cecil baldwin, voice of said podcast, “welcome to night vale”

the tweet is liked by noelle stevenson, showrunner/creator of popular netflix show “she ra and the princesses of power”

the joke itself is comparing the tulsa trump rally to tumblr dashcon, which is a circa-2014 tumblr joke

which implies that all three of these internet pseudo celebs found the dashcon joke funny enough to like/retweet/quote-retweet im reeling

WELCOME TO NIGHT VALE WAS SCHEDULED TO PERFORM AT DASHCON YALL THEY PULLED OUT BUT THEY WERE THERE

They weren’t just there, they are indirectly the reason “an extra hour in the ball pit” became a meme. 

See, there was supposed to be a WTNV live show at Dashcon, and admittance to it cost an additional $15 on top of the Dashcon ticket price. When the Night Vale crew got there, they were informed that the organizers did not have the money to pay them, so Cecil refused to perform. 

Naturally then, the people who had paid for the show started demanding refunds of their $15. But the organizers claimed they didn’t have the money to offer refunds either, and instead offered to let those ticket holders spend an extra hour in the ball pit as a form of reimbursement. There were several posts going around about this, and the famous photo above was taken to illustrate how pathetic of an offer this was. And that’s how the Dashcon ball pit went down in infamy. 

there’s another layer to this: noelle stevenson was an invited special guest at dashcon too. she had to moderate her own panel, and even worse - the con organizers didn’t pay for a hotel room for her, so she had to crash on the pull out couch in… the night vale team’s room.

so all of these people were in one room, at dashcon, getting screwed over by dashcon. this is a digital recreation of that hotel room 6 years later.

History.

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ty for stealing this one much appreciated

people in the notes suggesting it was “improper” for the juror to do this or that it “introduced bias” to the court proceeding 🙄 the ice agent in question accused a moc of assaulting him / resisting arrest. how is the agent being a white supremacist not relevant. what universe are you living in

Juror fined $11,227 after googling ICE officer's peculiar uniform patch | Boing Boing

A juror was held in criminal contempt and fined more than $11k for researching his case online. The man, named as Stephen Miele, told other

Boing Boing

As a member of the world’s SECOND oldest profession, I assure you this is just one of many ways the justice system is systematically fucked up.

For anyone who wants to know how to fact check something you are told while on jury duty without getting fined:

First, you need to understand that the rule that jurors can’t just google things is coming from a good place. Like imagine that you are on a jury that’s considering, say, a medical malpractice lawsuit and one of your fellow jurors comes into the jury room and says to you, “I think the victim’s expert was lying because WebMD totally contradicts everything they said.”

And you might be like, “But WebMD is notoriously unreliable website and the expert you’re talking about is a researcher from Mayo Clinic.” But this person cannot be swayed.

Like, we can all agree that would be bad.

So even though these rules can contribute to unjust outcomes as in the case above (and seriously, the fact that the defense attorney didn’t fact check that is probably grounds for legal malpractice), they also prevent jurors from just looking up bullshit online and taking it more seriously than the actual experts the court has put on. And I think in the era of anti-vaxxers/QAnon/COVID denial/etc., we can all understand why it’s a bad idea to trust that people can tell fact from bullshit online.

So in light of this, how do you as a juror fact check something?

The key here is that you have to ask the court for information. Jurors can ask questions of the court during deliberations, so if something you said sounds off to you, you can ask for more information.

The key term you want to use here is “credibility.”

The job of a jury is to decide what are called “questions of fact.” Long before the trial even starts, lawyers will have hashed out all the “questions of law” — like, what the statute of limitations is; what laws, exactly, were allegedly broken; whether the court you’re in even has jurisdiction; stuff like that. Jurors are responsible for deciding which side’s version of the facts has more credibility.

For instance, if the prosecution’s witness says X and the defense’s witness says Y, the jury is responsible for deciding which is true, X or Y. And you do this by weighing which one is more credible.

So in this case, if the juror had known to, he could have told the judge, “In order to properly assess the ICE agent’s credibility, I need more information about his tattoo. I have doubts about whether he was telling the truth about it, which would impact how credible I would find his testimony. Can the agent please provide evidence that it really is what he says it is?”

There are a lot of problems with our legal system, and I think one of the biggest is that jurors aren’t educated about what they can and can’t do. Juries have a lot of power, if (and only if) they know how to use it.

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https://nerdbot.com/2021/01/09/new-pill-bottles-for-shaky-hands-will-help-people-with-parkinsons/

This makes me cry, actually.

Just to add on. Libraries in many cities have 3d printers you can use that charge you only the price of materials. So if you can’t wait for the shipping from the engineers, try your local library.

Humanity at its best 🤗

bUt WhAt AbOuT tHe PrOfIt MoTiVe

bUt wE cAn’T MaKe ThInGs aCcesSible WitHoUt CeNtRaLiZiNg EvErYtHiNg

The guy who made these doesn’t have Parkinson’s, he isn’t a 3D modeler or printer, and he is making no money from this. In fact, he is likely spending money to hire a patent attorney. His only motive was to make the world a little better by helping fix a problem he saw online.

This is the what the world can be. Without profit and gain as motivators, we can do so much more.

LINK TO Thingverse blueprints for 3d printing a printable easy-to-use pill dispensing bottle for people with parkinson’s

please folks when celebrating accesibility porn can you make it accessible?

It took a lot of hunting for me to find that, since I don’t know the conventions of sites like Tiktok that are all visual and have little room for links or text, and the post above isn’t accessible for the vision-impaired, and I can’t click the link below it or even select it to try and copy and paste it into the browser, which…. WTF?

people with disabilities are often older and/or do not have the spoons to go on an internet scavenger hunt and teach themselves How To [Website]

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toomanyassassins:

some of my favorite pics of victorians:

like… idk i just like photos that remind me that people have continually been people. and that there is a shocking amount of portraits from that era that are incredibly well preserved, some of which look almost modern.

And if you think it’s hard to hold a smile now without looking like a serial killer, just think what it was like for these folks having to hold absolutely still for 2-3 seconds because film was slow in those days!

(I just looked up an article arguing it wasn’t so much the length of time the film took to develop as that many were hiding bad teeth, which may be just as much a myth, or it may be true for some.)

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jurassic park but it’s tiny elephants and nothing goes wrong 🥺

same score but played entirely on kazoos

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