Chess Grandmaster Anna Muzychuk refuses to play in Saudi Arabia and says: "In a few days, I will lose two world titles, back to back." Because I decided not to go to Saudi Arabia. I refuse to play by special rules, to wear abaya, to be accompanied by a man so I can leave the hotel, so I don't feel like a second class person. #saudiarabia#equalrights
In Wroclaw, Poland each cathedral and even the rivers have a tactile model nearby for blind people to see them too. See more: http://themindcircle.com/mini-sculptures/
@jeffowski Great! Reminds me of the short story "Cathedral" by Raymond Carver, when a guy is trying to give a blind man a feel for a cathedral - just through words though, as far as I can remember.
@jeffowski And if 10+ women come out with serious legal allegations against you, then the Republican Party calls you up and asks if you want to run for Congress.
@jeffowski i remember in the final days living with my abusive father it was just a lot of this i stayed in my room because the internet was my only access to anything that let me escape the real world for a bit but when i did come out of my room i got the snarky bullshit and yeah it just drove me further back in
@jeffowski money is a human construct based on what the general order agrees upon why not make their money worthless to the rest of us, and create our own economic spine?
This 1961 photo is called “The Mob”, and was shot by professional cat photographer Walter Chandoha. Originally a WW II combat photographer, his signature style was filming cats at their eye level. He collected nearly 100,000 cat photographs and it’s pretty cool that someone made a career out of this. #catsofmastodon
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@jeffowski Sensible person, not going to such an dark and brutal, authoritarian state.
@jeffowski Good for her!
Why would she refuse to visit the most totalitarian regime in the world treating women as accessory and property of men?
What kind of women in the world #chess
federation would decide to sanction a tournament in such a rogue state?
#saudiarabia makes #Iran look like San Francisco
...ohhh you mean it was ALL MEN that decided all this ... but she is in focus ... for depriving men of their titles?
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