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Jasper cameo of Christ with gold setting decorated with emeralds, agate, and glass gems. Byzantine, cameo dates to 11-12th century, setting dates to 12th-13th century
from The Kremlin Museum
Source: collectiononline.kreml.ru
Reblogged hildegards-abbey
Knightposting this princessposting that WHO IS TILLING THE FIELDS
You don't hear from the field workers because they aren't "posting"
They're serfing the internet
there are no serfposts because they were almost exclusively illiterate
that doesn’t stop most tumblr users
how dare you say we surf on the poor
Reblogged locust-valley
Christians love doing stuff like this and making such a person the face of their religion then turn around and get mad when they're (correctly) seen as insufferable.
Some of the same people upset a Muslim man is poised to be the mayor of New York. But sure, they give AF about supposed "religious discrimination".
Let my Black behind have thrown a fit like this and I'm sure the same crowd supporting this girl would be telling me to sit my DEI ass down.
hey so i read part of the student's essay and i want to add a few things:
- it was a 0 out of 25 points. that's not even a huge deal.
- she only wrote 650 words.
- the girl didn't do the actual assignment; she just wrote what she felt like and submitted it.
- the class was a PSYCHOLOGY course yet her essay was about her religious beliefs and provided no citations or psychological basis. she simply insisted her argument was true because the bible supposedly says so.
- her entire essay is a mindless rant about how strict gender roles must be upheld and trans people are "demonic"
- her writing—and i cannot stress this enough—is on par with that of a child who doesn't want to do an assignment. it's so bad i genuinely thought i was reading a satire article.
- the student is a fucking college JUNIOR writing like a 10-year-old. she is also a psychology MAJOR who thinks everything in the bible is literal and that her religion is the only source anyone needs. this is someone who intends to go into mental health care. she is dangerously bigoted and ignorant, and her professor saw this and was punished for grading accordingly.
here's a line from her essay:
"Women naturally want to do womanly things because God created us with those womanly desires in our hearts. The same goes for men. God created men in the image of His courage and strength, and He created women in the image of His beauty."
here's her teacher's reasoning for the grade:
“[I am] not deducting points because you have certain beliefs" but rather because the paper "does not answer the questions for this assignment, contradicts itself, heavily uses personal ideology over empirical evidence in a scientific class and is at times offensive."
the girl is a hate-filled bigot. she is a white christian girl who is now being championed by fox news and turning point usa while her professor sits on fucking forced leave. this is disgusting.
important edit: i have just learned the professor is trans. this hateful brat is actively trying to destroy a trans person's life.
Reading the feedback of the teacher as well as the co-teacher, they calmly explained their reasoning for the 0 grade in a way that repeatedly said this girl was allowed to think what she believed, but that this paper simply could not be considered a completion of the assignment.
The fact that this teacher was put on suspension for failing a student who did not even meet the assignment and went out of her way to say the girl was allowed to believe what she believed is absolutely galling. This is an educational institution, and the fact that they are even considering disciplinary action against this teacher for attempting to teach?? Appalling. Absolutely beyond parody that this is where we are in this country.
I feel the need to point out the following:
1. The teacher who has been suspended is transgender.
2. Multiple teachers in the faculty room marked the paper. Only the transgender teacher has been suspended.
3. The student in question broke this story through the incredibly transphobic organisation Turning Point USA.
4. The student's mother has been posting hideously transphobic things on right-wing social media.
This isn't just conservative anti-intellectualism. This is weaponised, targeted transphobia.
Reblogged forgwater
Embossed braille should be standard on computer keyboards.
It would raise braille literacy more than anything else I could imagine - among both the blind and the sighted. Currently braille is actually vanishing due to an increasing reliance on audiobooks and screen readers.
I think that braille has a lot of potential use among non-blind groups. As an alternative to traditional writing for dyslexics. As a way to help photosensitive people type with their eyes closed. Or simply as a means to help sighted people find things without needing the lights on all the time!
Accessibility note: It’s important that braille doesn’t vanish because it’s one of the only written language that works for blind and sight-impaired people. It is necessary for them to interact with the real world where screen readers and audio devices are not available to them, such as elevators, most major metro systems, stairwells, doorways, the bumps in the sidewalk at corners are actually developed in conjunction with audio signals so blind people don’t step off the curb into traffic before the correct time.
Digital technology has made accessibility so much easier for all of us disabled people, but we still *need* the real-world accommodations that we fought and died for
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calendar pages for december (with people slaughtering a pig and singeing off its bristles)
from a richly illuminated book of hours, flanders, late 15th c.
source: Munich, BSB, Clm 28345, fol. 12v and 13r
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This codex features the genealogy of Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, tracing his descent from the earls of Leicester and Chester, beginning with individuals of the 11th and 12th centuries, and providing the heraldic devices of the principal members of these families. Although the genealogy may have been compiled in association with Robert Dudley’s appointment as lieutenant of the Order of the Garter in 1572 or the birth of his illegitimate son in 1574, Robert Dudley is mentioned in the introduction and is represented by the final coat of arms, although the lack of his name among those of his siblings is noted in a late 16th- or early 17th-century hand. It is written in a hybrid secretary script, probably in the hand of Robert Cooke, Clarenceux King of Arms. Notice the illuminated border that goes throughout the manuscript and is formed by the family tree that passes through the heraldic shields and roundels with the names of principal family members, painted in a naturalistic style with leaves resembling elm and oak foliage. (UPenn Ms. Codex 1070)
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Reblogged thegothicera
From Book of Hours, c.1420-30 by Master of the Duke of Bedford
