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Grizzly 399 is so cool! I went to her Wikipedia page intending to screenshot interesting facts about her, but I would really recommend you go check out the whole thing for yourself.

Grizzly 399 lives in close proximity to humans but has never caused problems or attacked a human - she has taught her many cubs important skills like looking both ways before crossing the road. She has had more triplets than is normal for grizzlies, and is far better at keeping triplets alive than less experienced mothers.

She had 22 progeny, (though not all survived) including Grizzly 610, who in 2011 adopted one of 399’s triplets along with her own two cubs. 399 previously went viral on social media for keeping her quadruplets alive through two seasons, despite bear cubs only having a 55% survival rate.

I love this bear with my entire being

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i hate summer so much. i’m never more aware of my body than in this sticky suffocating heat. disgusting inhumane etc

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princesssarisa:

In the past I’ve shared other people’s musings about the different interpretations of the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice. Namely, why Orpheus looks back at Eurydice, even though he knows it means he’ll lose her forever. So many people seem to think they’ve found the one true explanation of the myth. But to me, the beauty of myths is that they have many possible meanings.

So I thought I would share a list of every interpretation I know, from every serious adaptation of the story and every analysis I’ve ever heard or read, of why Orpheus looks back.

One interpretation – advocated by Monteverdi’s opera, for example – is that the backward glance represents excessive passion and a fatal lack of self-control. Orpheus loves Eurydice to such excess that he tries to defy the laws of nature by bringing her back from the dead, yet that very same passion dooms his quest fo fail, because he can’t resist the temptation to look back at her.

He can also be seen as succumbing to that classic “tragic flaw” of hubris, excessive pride. Because his music and his love conquer the Underworld, it might be that he makes the mistake of thinking he’s entirely above divine law, and fatally allows himself to break the one rule that Hades and Persephone set for him.

Then there are the versions where his flaw is his lack of faith, because he looks back out of doubt that Eurydice is really there. I think there are three possible interpretations of this scenario, which can each work alone or else co-exist with each other. From what I’ve read about Hadestown, it sounds as if it combines all three.

In one interpretation, he doubts Hades and Persephone’s promise. Will they really give Eurydice back to him, or is it all a cruel trick? In this case, the message seems to be a warning to trust in the gods; if you doubt their blessings, you might lose them.

Another perspective is that he doubts Eurydice. Does she love him enough to follow him? In this case, the warning is that romantic love can’t survive unless the lovers trust each other. I’m thinking of Moulin Rouge!, which is ostensibly based on the Orpheus myth, and which uses Christian’s jealousy as its equivalent of Orpheus’s fatal doubt and explicitly states “Where there is no trust, there is no love.”

The third variation is that he doubts himself. Could his music really have the power to sway the Underworld? The message in this version would be that self-doubt can sabotage all our best efforts.

But all of the above interpretations revolve around the concept that Orpheus looks back because of a tragic flaw, which wasn’t necessarily the view of Virgil, the earliest known recorder of the myth. Virgil wrote that Orpheus’s backward glance was “A pardonable offense, if the spirits knew how to pardon.”

In some versions, when the upper world comes into Orpheus’s view, he thinks his journey is over. In this moment, he’s so ecstatic and so eager to finally see Eurydice that he unthinkingly turns around an instant too soon, either just before he reaches the threshold or when he’s already crossed it but Eurydice is still a few steps behind him. In this scenario, it isn’t a personal flaw that makes him look back, but just a moment of passion-fueled carelessness, and the fact that it costs him Eurydice shows the pitilessness of the Underworld.

In other versions, concern for Eurydice makes him look back. Sometimes he looks back because the upward path is steep and rocky, and Eurydice is still limping from her snakebite, so he knows she must be struggling, in some versions he even hears her stumble, and he finally can’t resist turning around to help her. Or more cruelly, in other versions – for example, in Gluck’s opera – Eurydice doesn’t know that Orpheus is forbidden to look back at her, and Orpheus is also forbidden to tell her. So she’s distraught that her husband seems to be coldly ignoring her and begs him to look at her until he can’t bear her anguish anymore.

These versions highlight the harshness of the Underworld’s law, and Orpheus’s failure to comply with it seems natural and even inevitable. The message here seems to be that death is pitiless and irreversible: a demigod hero might come close to conquering it, but through little or no fault of his own, he’s bound to fail in the end.

Another interpretation I’ve read is that Orpheus’s backward glance represents the nature of grief. We can’t help but look back on our memories of our dead loved ones, even though it means feeling the pain of loss all over again.

Then there’s the interpretation that Orpheus chooses his memory of Eurydice, represented by the backward glance, rather than a future with a living Eurydice. “The poet’s choice,” as Portrait of a Lady on Fire puts it. In this reading, Orpheus looks back because he realizes he would rather preserve his memory of their youthful, blissful love, just as it was when she died, than face a future of growing older, the difficulties of married life, and the possibility that their love will fade. That’s the slightly more sympathetic version. In the version that makes Orpheus more egotistical, he prefers the idealized memory to the real woman because the memory is entirely his possession, in a way that a living wife with her own will could never be, and will never distract him from his music, but can only inspire it.

Then there are the modern feminist interpretations, also alluded to in Portrait of a Lady on Fire but seen in several female-authored adaptations of the myth too, where Eurydice provokes Orpheus into looking back because she wants to stay in the Underworld. The viewpoint kinder to Orpheus is that Eurydice also wants to preserve their love just as it was, youthful, passionate, and blissful, rather than subject it to the ravages of time and the hardships of life. The variation less sympathetic to Orpheus is that Euyridice was at peace in death, in some versions she drank from the river Lethe and doesn’t even remember Orpheus, his attempt to take her back is selfish, and she prefers to be her own free woman than be bound to him forever and literally only live for his sake.

With that interpretation in mind, I’m surprised I’ve never read yet another variation. I can imagine a version where, as Orpheus walks up the path toward the living world, he realizes he’s being selfish: Eurydice was happy and at peace in the Elysian Fields, she doesn’t even remember him because she drank from Lethe, and she’s only following him now because Hades and Persephone have forced her to do so. So he finally looks back out of selfless love, to let her go. Maybe I should write this retelling myself.

Are any of these interpretations – or any others – the “true” or “definitive” reason why Orpheus looks back? I don’t think so at all. The fact that they all exist and can all ring true says something valuable about the nature of mythology.

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At face value, this is a ridiculous headline. But the article then says his managers berated and insulted him for leaving the party after an anxiety attack, and the company then fired him for taking days off work for “unsafe work practices,” due to having anxiety?

Seems like pretty often headlines that paint a lawsuit as frivolous and ridiculous seem a little more rational after some digging

There’s so much more to it as well. He repeatedly asked the company not to throw a party for him due to his anxiety (apparently this is standard practise for their office and he knew it would be triggering for him) and they “forgot” about his request. On the day in question, he predictably had a panic attack and went to his car to do breathing exercises.

The next day he was called into a meeting where he was insulted and grilled about “ruining the party” and “stealing his co-workers’ joy”, which caused him to have another panic attack and start doing coping behaviours like hugging himself, at which point his employers decided he must be angry and was going to turn violent. They then suspended him for days and later told him he’d been fired.

So yeah, it’s not over an “unwanted birthday party”, it’s over employers repeatedly failing to accommodate someone’s disability, trying to frame them as the villain for having accessibility needs, and firing them for not conforming to some stupid office politics.

Source with the court documents

I am completely pro-lawsuit. Lawsuits are often the only tool that otherwise powerless individuals have to demand some accountability from large corporations and institutions, and historically lawsuits have been a very important tool for civil rights, women’s rights, LGBT+ rights, and disability rights. But this is exactly why the media is always depicting lawsuits as something frivolous and silly that only uptight spoiled crybabies who want easy money do, and people just eat up that propaganda without doing any research or critical thinking.

You know I’m just going to add that this is especially why I take HUGE issue with how much Europeans uncritically regurgitate this propaganda. Europeans, especially white Europeans, looove making “hee hee Americans SUE and PRESS LAWSUITS and this means Americans are DUMB LAZY BAD and us Europeans are so SUPERIOR because we don’t sue like the dumb lazy Americans do!!!” type of jokes/comments and they really never stop to think about how they’re just regurgitating propaganda especially when it’s likely that at least some if not many of the rights they have in their country were also earned through lawsuits.

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so many professors have thee worst fucking complex about their jobs bc they have fully bought into the fantasy of the university as some kind of noble enlightening force and this is often why they’re such cunts to undergrads lmao. condescending to students, refusing to take late work, acting like they’re teaching some grand life lesson by failing students who will now have to pay more tuition to make it up. and half the professors aren’t even good teachers because it’s not even what they wanted to be doing as a career; they’re just researchers with a nasty attitude. you can often see this outright glee pervading posts they make on social media for example, bemoaning, like, the fact that student no. 8474 didn’t care about the topic of today’s lecture and is only here to get a degree. and it’s like uh yeah, you work at the class barriers degree institution lmfao. like these people truly think they’re god’s gift to The Youth and that they’re performing some kind of essential social service by enforcing cultural hegemony and class division. and btw when grad TAs have this attitude all of the above applies and also they’re class traitors lmfao

this is why i don’t care if undergrads use chatgpt to write essays btw. you are a bootlicker for real if you see that behaviour as some kind of deviation from the noble social goals of the academe. and it’s sooo clear the actual reason many faculty care about this is because they perceive anything that makes a degree easier to get as a threat to their own professional prestige!

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Girl help I can’t stop buying little treats that amount to a great expense in the long run

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PSA for modded Minecraft players!!!!!!!!!

this is especially important since minecraft 1.20 just came out and many people are going to be downloading new mods.

if you play modded java minecraft on either windows or linux your computer may have a virus.

if you play on bedrock, only play vanilla minecraft or use the macOS operating system then you are safe. tho i would still request you reblog this (or any other post about the fractureiser malware) to spread the word.

as early as april. many minecraft mods and plugins have been infected with malware known as “fractureiser”. however it has only become common knowledge around a day ago.

we still don’t know the full capability of the virus but there is evidence that this virus has the ability to:

1. steal microsoft and minecraft account login information.
2. steal login information and cookies from your web browser.
3. steal discord login information.
4. steal crypto wallets.
5. read and change clipboard contents.
6. infect all other .jar files on a computer with stage 0 of the virus.

according to modrinth they have checked all of their mods that were updated in the last 10 months and none of them had the virus. so it seems the virus has mainly infected curseforge and devbukkit.

some popular mods that have been infected are: Better MC, When Dungeons Arise, Medieval MC, Simply Houses, Sky Villages, Skyblock Core, Prominence, Buried Barrels and Dungeonx (NOT Dungeonz. I made a mistake. this mistake has been fixed on the fractureiser github but has not been fixed by the youtube video in the sources.)

this is not a full list. see curseforges list of all known infected projects here.

these are non-exhaustive lists. just because you have not downloaded any mods from these lists does not mean your computer does not have the fractureiser virus. if you play modded minecraft on windows/linux at all you should check your pc.

HOW TO CHECK FOR LEVEL 0 MALWARE

you can check your files for “level 0” infection by running curseforge jar infection scanner on your minecraft mods folder.

HOW TO CHECK FOR LEVEL 2/3 MALWARE

to check for stage 2/3 detection you can download the curseforge infected mod detection tool from here. it will detect whether you have the the malware folder/files on your computer.

you can use an antivirus but its very possible you will get a false negative.

alternatively, you can manually check using the below method (recommended).

for windows:

1. type %localappdata% into your start menu/search bar to access APP DATA > LOCAL.
2. turn on “show hidden files” and “show protected operating system files”
3. look for a folder labeled Microsoft Edge WITH A SPACE. if you just have a folder labeled Microsoft or MicrosoftEdge (no spaces) you are fine. those are the real microsoft edge folders. Microsoft Edge is a disguised folder created by the virus.

for linux:

ensure whichever method you are using to list files has the ability to view hidden files. Most GUI file managers have the shortcut Ctrl+H to toggle hidden files. If doing this on a terminal, use ls -A in the respective directories, or ls -lha for a more detailed listing.

If any of the following files exist, you were infected. If this is the case, delete all of them:

• ~/.config/systemd/user/systemd-utility.service
• /etc/systemd/system/systemd-utility.service
• ~/.config/.data/lib.jar

check your journalctl for any changes you may not recognize. You can do this with the commands journalctl -exb (for system logs) and journalctl -exb –user (for user logs).

run the following commands to refresh your systemd services:

sudo systemctl daemon-reload # Enter your user password systemctl –user daemon-reload

(i just copied this since i’m not a linux user sorry).

WHAT TO DO IF INFECTED

if you only have stage 0 infection (positive result from jar infection scanner but negative result from detection scanner and antivirus. with no Microsoft Edge folder or lib/systemd-utility files) then you can simply delete the infected mods.

if you have stage 2 or 3 infection (presence of Microsoft Edge folder/lib/systemd-utility files) then you will need to

1. delete the original virus folder/files.
2. use another, non-infected device to change any passwords saved on your browser. enable two factor authentication for any websites you can.
3. save any (non .jar) files you wish to keep on a USB or another device.
4. if possible take your computer to a professional repair service for them to run a diagnostic of it. if not, wipe and reinstall the entire system.

this may sound very drastic but at stage 3 the virus starts infecting all other .jar files with stage 0 malware. including vanilla minecraft files and any other java programs on your computer. if you’re just finding stage 2 files now its highly likely your computer has already been infected by stage 3.

IF YOUR COMPUTER IS VIRUS-FREE

the safest thing you can do is not download or install new mods from any website. at all. we still don’t have a full list of all mods affected and new affected mods are probably still being uploaded.

after running minecraft you should keep checking for stage 2 infection files. since you want to catch them immediately.

UPDATE: as of june 8th curseforge has cleaned all infected files from their platform. see here

have fun and stay safe ❤️💛💙

sources:

investigation on fractureiser (updates on the situation, including when fractureiser c&c servers are currently up/down)

youtube video explaining the situation

curseforge support

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Kamisuki (Combing Her Hair), Torii Kotondo, 1929