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Startling Lady of Gore

@postnatodepression.bsky.social

She/her. Lesbian. I post New Zealand ephemera and cool things I find on the Internet Archive. Not affiliated with Archives New Zealand or the National Library. Gam zu l'tova.

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Catherina Gioino@catgioino.bsky.social · last wk.

I wrote about how much Americans wagered on sports betting in 2025 and how it’s more than they spent on movies, art, museums and music combined. Read my article @fortunemagazine.bsky.social fortune.com/2026/07/26/g...

Gambling becomes America's favorite pastime as Americans spend more on sports bets than movies, arts, museums, and music combined | Fortune

Americans wagered $166 billion on sports last year, more than Hollywood, the music industry, books, and museums combined.

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Defector@defector.com · 17h ago

If your winning issue is trans women in sports, and you're struggling to uncover trans women in any league that anybody has ever heard of, then how do you keep trans athletes at the top of people's minds? Answer: You invent them. defector.com/the-right-ha...

The Right Has Created Their Perfect Trans Athlete | Defector

A lot of people in and around the WNBA are talking about trans women. In the aftermath of Indiana Fever role player Sophie Cunningham’s negative comments about trans people playing sports in an ESPN…

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Startling Lady of Gore@postnatodepression.bsky.social · last wk.

“Alarm One, for example, a California-based home-security company, was sued in 2006 by a saleswoman for subjecting her to […] motivational spankings. In Provo, Utah, a supervisor subjected an employee to waterboarding as part of a "motivational exercise." From Barbara Ehrenreich’s ‘Smile or Die.’

Not all the motivational methods applied to salespeople feature rewards and incentives. In a workplace environment where employees have few if any rights, some companies resort to motivating their salespeople in ways that are cruel or even kinky. Alarm One, for example, a California-based home-security company, was sued in 2006 by a saleswoman for subjecting her to what could be called motivational spankings. The spankings, usually administered with the metal yard signs of competing companies, were meant to spur competition between teams of salespersons. As one salesman testified, "Basically, you'd get up in front of the room, put your hands on the wall, bend over, and get hit with the sign." Other punishments for underperforming salespersons included having eggs broken on their heads or whipped cream sprayed on their faces and being forced to wear diapers. (Since both men and women were subjected to them, the spankings did not qualify as sexual harassment, and the woman lost her suit.) An even more disturbing case comes from Prosper Inc. in Provo, Utah, where in May 2007supervisor subjected an employee to waterboarding as part of a "motivational exercise." The employee, who had volunteered for the experience without knowing what was involved, was taken outside, told to lie down with his head pointed downhill, and held in place by fellow employees while the supervisor poured water into his nose and mouth. "You saw how hard Chad fought for air right there," the supervisor reportedly told the sales team. "I want you to go back inside and fight that hard to make sales."l While insisting that the company does not condone torture, Prosper management has had nothing to say about this supervisor's more routine motivational practices, like drawing mustaches on employees' faces and making them work standing up all day. Oddly enough, Prosper is itself in the business of selling "motivation" to other companies.
Startling Lady of Gore@postnatodepression.bsky.social · last wk.

Boy's skeleton suit, England, ca. 1805. The skeleton suit was fashionable from the 1780s onwards. At the time, it was considered boys’ clothing, as trousers were associated with the military. All-in-one outfits were designed for all children to wear from ~1900. Ref T.165&A-1915, V & A Museum.

Boy's skeleton suit of a pale yellowish cloth known as nankeen, consisting of a jacket and trousers. The jacket is cut high at the neck with small lapels and straight at the waist. There are elbow length sleeves and a button through front. The trousers are cut tight at the waist with ankle length legs and a button through small fall front.