We will be counting down to when the protest starts! When the counter hits zero, log out of all tumblr accounts and don’t go on for 24 hours. During the stream, I will occasionally chime in answering various questions people have.
Here are the timezones for the stream if anyone is confused:
Make sure to come to ensure you log off at the right time! Make sure to not come back on Tumblr for 24 HOURS! Log Off Completely!
Also if you might forget, either follow the twitch account, follow the account on Twitter or turn on post notifications! Can’t wait to see ya’ll. We’ll listen to some Holiday music or Lo-Fi hip hop. :)
logging off to join the protest
a number of my friends are sex workers, a number of my friends are homosexual, a number of my friends are trans or queer, i dont know what the hell i am if anything at all but i never liked gender stereotypes and prefer to think of myself as gender neutral being though i acknowledge my body is of the male sex, and i work at a yearly festival run by sex workers for the kink community. the NSFW ban will harm all of us though so i’ll be logging off at least until after the 18th to join the protest. i don’t know if or when i might be logging back in,
The Silver Spring Monkeys were a set of macaque monkeys who became some of the most famous laboratory animals in history. The reason for their fame was a result of an undercover PETA investigation into the testing involving the monkeys, which resulted in the first ever police raid against a US animal researcher. The monkeys were confiscated and the researcher was charged with 17 counts of animal cruelty.
The nature of the experiment involving the monkeys was, in itself, cruel. It involved the severing of the afferent nerves that controlled one of the monkeys arms. The researcher was behavioural neuroscientist Edward Taub, who was looking into the concept of neuroplasticity - the ability of the brain to reorganise itself. The monkeys functioning arm was restrained, leaving them forced to attempt to use the damaged arm. Taub was convicted on six of the seventeen counts of cruelty, however these convictions would be ultimately overturned and the monkeys were returned to the research facility.
What cannot be understated when looking at the significance of this case is the massive development it made to clinical neuroscience and the treatment of strokes. When the monkeys were returned, killed and dissected there was significant remapping evident in their cortex. This experiment resulted in the development of constraint-induced movement therapy, which has been modified for outpatient treatment for strokes and can be extremely successful in improving mobility in upper limbs. It also helped establish the concept of neuroplasticity, providing hope and treatment for those who have acquired brain injury such as strokes.
