This 14th century door at Exeter Cathedral, UK, is thought to be the oldest existing cat flap.
A cat was paid a penny each week, to keep down the rats and mice in the north tower, and a cat flap was cut into the door below the astronomical clock to allow the cat to carry out its duties.
Records of payments were entered in the Cathedral archives from 1305 to 1467, the penny a week being enough to buy food to supplement a heavy diet of rodents.
Unfriendly reminder that all you idiots being like “yeah just pirate media now, fuck corporations!” posting links and just openly telling people where to download pirated media are why it’s so hard to find safe, working sites for it anymore.
I’ve been doing this shit for over 20 years and the availability has gone down as it’s become more mainstream. The more you publicly talk about all these sites the less there are. Shut up. Tell people in private or don’t tell them at all.
With love and patience, I need folks to please set aside some time to get better at recognizing antisemitic dogwhistles.
I’m using the following as an example, but intentionally not singling out the person who put this on my dash, cause I’m talking about a broader issue, and I want everybody to self examine.
Okay. this ended up on my dash, a comment in a thread.
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“noticing” is a dogwhistle for an antisemitic conspiracy theory.
let’s look at the profile:
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^ “queen of white.” gonna say that’s a pretty big red flag for white supremacy.
we haven’t even started looking through the blog yet, this is just the post & blog title.
if you go looking on the blog, pretty quickly you find this user is also reblogging from other white supremacists
if you scroll for about ~2 minutes you start seeing her use extremely loaded incendiary and derogatory language about trans women
finally, if you search “white” you see blatant nazi posting.
if you spend a little time familiarizing yourself with antisemitic dogwhistles, you will save time because you won’t need to look through blogs to check, you will see “noticing” in that context and you will already know this is a nazi.
antisemitism is often one of the easiest ways for fascists to get their messaging to spread widely because very few people take the time to learn these dogwhistles, and a lot of people respond to Jewish people patiently pointing them out over and over again with some level of disbelief/resentment/hostility.
it is to everyone’s benefit, for everyone’s collective safety, for you to familiarize yourself with antisemitic dogwhistles.
I am once again recommending the alt right glossary on rationalwiki. It doesn’t cover everything, but it’s a good place to start when it comes to familiarising yourself with dogwhistles like this.
Fair warning though, they show examples of incredibly bigoted language, memes, and caricatures, so if that’s something that might negatively affect you, tread carefully.
there are very few ancient artifacts that make me more emotional than roman tombstones that thank the reader for stopping by and wish them well. there’s simply something so sweet and gentle to me about imagining a traveler stopping along the road to read someone’s final dedication and being sent away with the blessings of a thankful ghost
marcus caecilius: good luck and good health to you. sleep without a care.
The state had to prove to a jury that feeding the homeless is a criminal act and in doing so, probably convinced a few members of the jury to sign up for food not bombs lol.
This is a great time to remind everyone on here about Jury Nullification
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