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#PPOD: Is it an insect? A strange fossil? An otherworldly eye, or even a walnut? No, it’s an intriguing kind of martian butterfly spotted by ESA’s Mars Express. Insects aren’t commonplace on Mars, so it’s no surprise that this is no butterfly as we know it. It’s actually a kind of crater, formed as a space rock hurtled towards the Red Planet and collided with its red-brown surface. Credit: ESA/DLR/FU Berlin

#space #science

#Science #space #PPOD

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Asteroid Bennu carries all the ingredients for life as we know it
We knew from prior analyses that a distant asteroid sampled in 2020 carried all but one of the molecules needed to kick-start life, and researchers have just found the missing ingredient: sugar

Asteroid Bennu carries all the ingredients for life as we know it

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📣🎬 Calling all filmmakers & artists! Celebrate Public Domain Day in January 2026 by making a 2–3 min short film using public domain works from 1930 & earlier.

📆 Deadline: January 7, 2026
💰 First prize: $1,500
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2026 Public Domain Film Remix Contest: The Internet Archive is Looking For Creative Short Films Made By You! | Internet Archive Blogs

Join author Samuel Moore in conversation with Heather Joseph as they reimagine open access through collective, scholar-led publishing. REGISTER NOW!\n
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KDE drops X11 too, New Office Suite, Arduino turns to crap - Linux Weekly News
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Uruguay leads Latin America in electric car sales

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Uruguay has cemented its position as the undisputed leader in Latin American electric vehicle (EV) adoption, achieving a remarkable market penetration of 27.97% in the third quarter of 2025, the Latin American Zero Emissions Observatory (ZEMO) reported.…

Uruguay leads Latin America in electric car sales

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Lawmakers Want To Ban VPNs—And They Have No Idea What They’re Doing

Lawmakers Want To Ban VPNs—And They Have No Idea What They’re Doing

Remember when you thought age verification laws couldn’t get any worse? Well, lawmakers in Wisconsin, Michigan, and beyond are about to blow you away. It’s unfo…
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TehPers

Wild assumption.

I don't worship. That's just plain stupid, at least in my opinion. Books can be read for the sake of reading them. Knowledge isn't some weird forbidden apple on a tree. It's something used to make informed decisions in the world.

Please seek therapy. The psychosis is strong with this. The "us vs them" mentality is nothing short of cultish brainwashing. Worship is fine, belief and faith are fine, community building is even cool, but turning it into a cult just justifies my decision to distance myself from religion more.

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Can't say I own a copy of Mein Kampf, though I've skimmed parts of it.

It's one of those books that I'll read if I feel like reading at some point, but I don't really want a copy because of how it looks to own one lol.

Satanic Bible's a lot better since I don't mind associating myself with Satanism somewhat despite not being religious at all.

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I was a tutor at the UW Math Study Center my first year of college. I'd gotten my hair bleached for the first time, and it turned out orange. So I shaved it off and started over.

We could bring a book to read between requests for help (this is, after all, 1997), and I'd just picked up Mein Kampf. As it happened, people seemed uninterested in asking a guy with a shaved head reading Hitler for help.

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I thought they were going to require age verification for VPNs but their demand is even more stupid. They want porn sites to recognise when someone is using a VPN and then block their access if they're in Wisconsin. I want this law to pass now so that they can look stupid in front of more people.
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Thousands protest in Philippines against flood control fraud

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Thousands marched in the Philippine capital on Sunday (Nov 30) demanding jail time for scores of officials, lawmakers and construction firm owners accused of pocketing billions of taxpayer dollars in a sweeping corruption scandal.


Thousands protest in Philippines against flood control fraud

MANILA: Thousands marched in the Philippine capital on Sunday (Nov 30) demanding jail time for scores of officials, lawmakers and construction firm owners accused of pocketing billions of taxp
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Unfortunate kids.

These kids these days... for some the advantage has increased, but for the opposite it is true and the disadvantaged have become even more so.

The rich get richer, and the poor get poorer. Its an ugly fact of capitalism, and obviously has an end point. That end point is revolution, probably violent, and not a desirable time.

We are lucky to be on this side of history, quit bitching and enjoy how beautiful everything this is right now. If you cant stop being a miserable ass now, how do you think you'll fair in the probable dystopian future?

We have never been more free throw throw around our unfounded opinions. Modern society has never before been so accommodating to random, loud mouthed, opinionated charlatan's.

Parents Using ChatGPT to Rear Their Children

Busy parents are increasingly turning to OpenAI's ChatGPT for child rearing advice, medical information, and to entertain their kids.
Sharon Adarlo (Futurism)
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Typing on a keyboard is kind of like sign language

....when you think about it.

It's kind of like that when you don't think about it too.

But especially when you do.

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Especially trace typing.

Blows my mind that in 2025, people still look at me like a wizard when I do it. Like, "you know you don't have to press each button like a Neanderthal, you can just trace the word from letter to letter and it mostly works." And then the blue line or "tail" that follows your finger just mesmerises them. Like bro, I've been doing this since like 2010, were you whelped in a barn, my good sir?

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I'm a key press purist. I want physical buttons back on phones. Tactile feedback is a god damned thing. We should be using more of our senses to express our thoughts and intentions into machines, not less.

But, pray tell, how do you keep your finger on the screen at all times doing that while you're writing? How is it superior to "tap" style?

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You just tap the first letter, and then slide your finger over the other letters until you've finished the word. Then you lift your finger and do the next word. It's faster than tapping because you don't need to lift your finger off the screen nearly as much. Especially when you only have one hand.

That being said, I do really miss my old phone that you could turn on its side and slide out a physical keyboard.

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I find it gets it wrong way more often, it's just not only naturally faster to me, but also more precise. And I think that that's the reason it's not standard. It's like using a Dvorak keyboard, a different style that may be faster in theory if you're willing to learn it, but for the majority that's just not the case.

Also I feel uncomfortable smushing my finger tip around on the keyboard, it generates friction and introduces more screen smear, I just don't see how it's possibly faster than typing like you would on a keyboard, though I have forty years of practice so maybe it's a generational thing.

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Trans people deserve safety, dignity, and joy.

Today we remember those we’ve lost and recommit to fighting for those who are here. Stand up, speak out, and show your support.

Trans rights are human rights — say it, mean it, and back it with action.

#transgenderDayOfRemembrance #transRightsAreHumanRights

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Scientists Built a Particle Accelerator That’s Just One Molecule In Size

Scientists Built a Particle Accelerator That’s Just One Molecule In Size

The atypical structure of the radium monofluoride molecule allows physicists to search for answers to some of the universe’s biggest questions.
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Poland closes last Russian consulate after ‘act of state terrorism’ on railway

A buried point of clarification: This is the last consulate to close, but the Warsaw embassy remains open.

Poland’s foreign minister, Radosław Sikorski, has described last weekend’s sabotage attack on Poland’s rail system as “an act of state terrorism” ordered by Russia, as he announced that Poland was closing the last remaining Russian consulate in the country.

“The clear intention was to cause human casualties,” he said of the weekend bomb attack.

The Polish security services said they were in the process of arresting several people linked to the incident.

“They are on the trail of the principals; they are on the trail of the perpetrators … the first arrests are now taking place,” the spokesperson Jacek Dobrzyński said on Wednesday morning. He said later that four people had been arrested.

Poland closes last Russian consulate after ‘act of state terrorism’ on railway

Foreign minister orders closure of Gdańsk consulate and says four people now arrested after sabotage attack
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“Relations with Poland have completely deteriorated,” said the Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov. “This is probably a manifestation of this deterioration – the Polish authorities’ desire to reduce any possibility of consular or diplomatic relations to zero.”


Peskov trying to pull a DARVO here as usual. Get fucked. I'm not always pro Poland, but if you read the article, the case is as clear-cut as it gets with Russia.

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Larry Summers resigns from OpenAI board following release of Jeffrey Epstein emails

Larry Summers resigns from OpenAI board following release of Jeffrey Epstein emails

OpenAI's board of directors said it respects Summers' decision to resign.
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SpaceX's Starlink V2-mini satellites emit 32 times more interference and threaten global radio astronomy

It's official—SpaceX's Starlink V2-mini satellites emit 32 times more interference and threaten global radio astronomy

Starlink has become a very popular name thanks to its satellites that promise faster internet connection in the entire world. However, now, scientists from
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I found the paper from August 2024 because this article didn't seem to link any sources

aanda.org/articles/aa/full_htm…

It mentions that SpaceX is trying to mitigate the noise. I wonder if anything has changed in the year+ since then.

Bright unintended electromagnetic radiation from second-generation Starlink satellites | Astronomy & Astrophysics (A&A)

Astronomy & Astrophysics (A&A) is an international journal which publishes papers on all aspects of astronomy and astrophysics
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Trump would back Russia sanctions Bill if he retains final authority, White House official says

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Mr Trump said lawmakers may take his suggestion to add Iran to the sanctions measure.

Trump would back Russia sanctions Bill if he retains final authority, White House official says

Mr Trump said lawmakers may take his suggestion to add Iran to the sanctions measure. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.
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Calls for answers grow over Canada’s interrogation of Israel critic

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Ministry of public safety says it is seeking more details about questioning of scholar Richard Falk at Toronto airport.

Calls for answers grow over Canada’s interrogation of Israel critic

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Nestlé accused of ’risking health of babies for profit’ over added sugar in cereals sold in African countries

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Nestlé accused of ’risking health of babies for profit’ over added sugar in cereals sold in African countries

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N. Korea slams S. Korea-US fact sheet as formalizing confrontational stance against Pyongyang

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North Korea on Tuesday denounced the release of a joint fact sheet between South Korea and the United States on their trade and security agreements as "formulating" as policy their confrontational stance against Pyongyang, warning that the North will take…

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North Korea on Tuesday denounced the release of a joint fact sheet between South Korea and the United States on their trade and security agreements...
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Two long-lost organ pieces by JS Bach performed for first time in 300 years

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Archive director in Germany says ‘missing piece of puzzle’ now in place to verify authorship after decades of researchTwo long-lost organ pieces by Johann Sebastian Bach have been performed in Germany, roughly 320 years after the composer wrote them as a…

Two long-lost organ pieces by JS Bach performed for first time in 300 years

Philip Oltermann (the Guardian)

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Is the Saudi wealth fund preparing to bid for Warner Bros?

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Rumours in US media suggest the Sauid Public Investment Fund is considering mounting a surprise bid for the $57 billion US media giant Warner Bros

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Tamil Nadu archaeologists join excavations at Berenike in Egypt to trace ancient Mediterranean trade links

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In 1995, archaeologists unearthed a potsherd at Berenike bearing the Tamil-Brahmi text korrapuman. The TNSDA has joined the current season of excavations at the ancient port city on the Red Sea coast to identify more evidence of ancient trade links between…

Tamil Nadu archaeologists join excavations at Berenike in Egypt to trace ancient Mediterranean trade links

Tamil Nadu archaeologists collaborate in Berenike, Egypt, to uncover ancient trade links between Tamils and Romans.
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Germany moves to resume sales of weapons to Israel

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Berlin says decision is subject to ceasefire holding

Germany moves to resume sales of weapons to Israel

Berlin says it will return to ‘case-by-case review’ for arms exports to Israel
Laura Pitel in Berlin and Mehul Srivastava in London (The Irish Times)

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If AI was all it was cracked up to be, it wouldn't be shoved in your face 24/7

[I literally had this thought in the shower this morning so please don't gatekeep me lol.]

If AI was something everyone wanted or needed, it wouldn't be constantly shoved your face by every product. People would just use it.

Imagine if printers were new and every piece of software was like "Hey, I can put this on paper for you" every time you typed a word. That would be insane. Printing is a need, and when you need to print, you just print.

#showerthoughts
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Those trying to sell it are trying to figure out where it's most useful. In one way, I think it's an amazing technology, and I also wonder how it can be best used. However, I can't stand it being pushed on me, and I wish I could easily say no. Acrobat Reader is particularly unbearable with it. Trying to describe a drawing?? Ughhh. Waste of space and energy like nothing else.
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This was exactly my thought when MS finally decided to force Copilot to be licensed. They have literally inserted it into every nook and cranny they can so far and the only conclusion I can come to is that they royally f'ed up. Like they invested so much in it and likely aren't seeing anything profitable. In a way, it satisfies me to see them act so desperate for something so futile but I don't want it to continue. It's clear what damages they have caused and it's not worth it.
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Tanzania rights group condemns 'reprisal killings' of civilians

Tanzania rights group condemns 'reprisal killings' of civilians

RFI
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As Bill Gates recently acknowledged, the world’s “biggest problems are poverty and disease, just as they always have been.” japantimes.co.jp/commentary/20… #commentary #worldnews #cop30 #billgates #brazil #climatechange #globalwarming #belem #poverty

Make COP30 about human welfare

In poor countries, parents are not kept awake by concern about achieving a 0.1 degrees Celsius temperature reduction in a century.
Bjorn Lomborg (The Japan Times)
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Nancy Pelosi, a towering figure in U.S. politics, a leading Trump foe and the first woman to serve as House speaker, announced Thursday that she would step down after the next election. japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/11/… #worldnews #politics #nancypelosi #democrats #us

Democratic giant, trailblazer and Trump foe Nancy Pelosi to retire

Nancy Pelosi, a towering figure in U.S. politics and the first woman to serve as House speaker, announced Thursday that she would step down after the next election.
Frankie Taggart (The Japan Times)
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Fairphone has entered the US

This refreshingly innovative smartphone brand has entered the US

The US isn't the most competitive smartphone market, but that hasn't stopped a notable mobile manufacturer from entering the country.
Hadlee Simons (Android Authority)

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Folks who are also on historians.social on Mastodon - the instance is shutting down at the end of October, so you'll want to migrate or whatever the appropriate verb is. 💙📚 🗃 #earlymodern
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Mastodon

Historians.social is open to all who are interested in history.
Mastodon hosted on historians.social
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Scientists find Jupiter-sized planet around Alpha Centauri A, just like in the Avatar movies
Now we just need to find plausible evidence that there might be important natural resources so we can gear up a squad of space miners/marines.

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Read my latest, “Cthulhu Is My Alma Mater,“ on Medium. #BrownUniversity #Lovecraft

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UN chief António Guterres says the world is on the brink of climate breakthrough. More than nine in 10 renewable power projects commissioned in 2024 were less expensive than their fossil fuel equivalent. Solar was 41% cheaper on average and land wind 53% cheaper. Guardian theguardian.com/environment/20…
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World on brink of climate breakthrough as fossil fuels ‘run out of road’, UN chief says

António Guterres says ‘sun is rising on a clean energy age’ as 90% of renewable power projects cheaper than fossil fuels
Fiona Harvey (The Guardian)
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Here's an @AtlasObscura article for if you have fond memories of the "Choose Your Own Adventure" series (The one where you were at summer camp and then suddenly, in a Robin Hood story! Holding your finger in a page where you'd made a choice in case your adventure ended and you needed to go back to that crucial point!) Back in 2017, Sarah Laskow wrote about projects to map the forking structure of the stories, in doing so, revealing how the series evolved, its connection to modern interactive fiction, and the most complex, straightforward, and frustrating books.

flip.it/WP6e3c

#Books #Bookstodon @bookstodon #ChildrensBooks #ChooseYourOwnAdventure #InteractiveFiction

These Maps Reveal the Hidden Structures of 'Choose Your Own Adventure' Books

If you decide to see more, click on this story.
Sarah Laskow (Atlas Obscura)
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There's a format that's especially well-suited to ebooks.

I snagged Star Trek Lower Decks: Warp Your Own Way in a Humble Bundle recently and was happy to see that all the "turn to page N" prompts were links to the appropriate page. @AtlasObscura @bookstodon

@bookstodon group @Atlas Obscura

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Coherent spectroscopy with a single antiproton spin

Scientists just made the 1st antimatter 'qubit.' Here's why it could be a big deal

Although the antimatter qubit won't find use in quantum computing, it will be used to test the differences between matter and antimatter.
Keith Cooper (Space)
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Japan has more than doubled its foreign aid budget, putting the country among the world’s top donors. In 2023, Japan gave $19.3 billion in foreign aid, more than double its budget in 2018. Japan’s aid budget is now 0.44% of its gross national income, nearly twice the U.S. share. Our World In Data ourworldindata.org/data-insigh…
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Japan has more than doubled its foreign aid budget in just five years

Foreign aid has saved and improved millions of lives through health programs, food aid, and humanitarian assistance.
Our World in Data
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The UK Environment Agency has some tips for the public to help conserve water, including

> Deleting old emails to reduce pressure on data centre servers

I kid you not.

gov.uk/government/news/england…

England faces 5 billion litre public water shortage by 2055 without urgent action

England faces 5 billion litre a day shortfall for public water supplies by 2055 – and a further 1 billion litre a day deficit for wider economy.
Environment Agency (GOV.UK)
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Disabled medieval knights were a known thing (understandably), and they made use of all kinds of gnarly assistive devices and contraptions.

This guy Götz is one of the most famous and well-documented examples (right on the late medieval/early modern cusp). He got his arm shot off by a cannonball, fell into a deep depression about it, and recovered once he saw another knight using a prosthesis.

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Götz owned several prosthetics, some functional and others more decorative.

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Another famous disabled knight is King Baldwin IV of Jerusalem, whose portrayal in "Kingdom of Heaven" is one of the highlights of an otherwise terrible movie. He was afflicted with leprosy from childhood and died at about 24 years old.

Leprosy was highly stigmatized, spiritualized, and mythologized in the Middle Ages. People with leprosy were segregated, and there were various moral stereotypes assigned to them. Baldwin, however, was an active leader and personally commanded troops in battle.

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Contemporary chroniclers praised Baldwin for defying the stereotypes assigned to people with leprosy: he was valiant, honorable, and chaste (people with leprosy were thought to be hypersexual).

Some religious chroniclers, however, assumed that Baldwin's leprosy was a sign of some secret sin, and that he must have been cursed by God.

Baldwin's inability to feel pain in most of his body probably contributed to the mythology of him as a "Leper King" with supernatural prowess in battle.

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Another famous disabled knight was Jan Žižka, who lost one eye early in his career and the other eye during the Hussite Wars. He achieved some of his greatest victories (outnumbered and outgunned by Catholic crusaders) as a general and commander while fully blind.

ancient-origins.net/history-fa…

Blindness, like leprosy, was highly spiritualized in the Middle Ages. Most late medieval Catholics did not regularly consume the consecrated bread, but drew spiritual meaning from seeing the elevated host.

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Blind people were therefore excluded from the spiritual experience of seeing the consecrated host, making blindness a spiritual disability as well as a physical one.

At this time, lay Catholics were also totally excluded from receiving the consecrated wine. Žižka's Hussite faction was considered "radical" for its insistence that laypeople should be able to access both the bread and the wine. Hussites were called "chalice people," and one of Žižka's epithets was "Jan of the Chalice."

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This thread is about famous warriors, because that's my current research focus, but it's always worth mentioning that most people in the Middle Ages were not warriors, and most disabled people lived peaceful, non-exceptional lives in supportive communities.

An exceptional medieval non-warrior, who was also disabled, is my bestie St. Aelred of Rievaulx, who is most famous for being In Love With Men and writing a treatise on Being In Love With Men In A God-Honoring Way.

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aelred…

English saint (1110–1167)

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[ India’s rich cultural heritage sees disability as a warrior queen and a revered sage. In the Rigveda, an Indian collection of hymns and poems written 3500BC-1800BC, Queen Vishpala loses her leg in battle and fights on with a prosthetic limb.

Ashtavakra, a Vedic sage, is said to have authored a central Hindu religious text the Ashtavakra Gita, triumphing over scholars in King Janaka’s court, who mocked his disabilities. ]

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Disabled Sages and Warrior Queens: India’s Disability Dignity

India’s rich cultural heritage sees disability as a warrior queen and a revered sage - but how does this translate to modern society?
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