Jan. 25th, 2020
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Discussing this is one of my favorite exchanges/threads I’ve had on this site for sure.
I mean, yes, it sure does seem reasonable that marriage would be forbidden for a Jedi who wants to keep being actively a Jedi (given that being MARRIED is a pretty substantial attachment, haha) but also the only people we see talking about it are Anakin and Padme (who presumably is getting most of her Jedi information from Anakin), so it’s funny as hell to think about the possibilities.
I just love the idea that literally no one ever said a Jedi couldn’t get married, Anakin misinterpreted something at some point because he’s an idiot, and now he’s living in what he assumes is some Very Top Secret Marriage That No One Can Ever Know About and is Deeply Tormented about it for what turns out to be no reason. Anyone with even the smallest amount of awareness and sense knows Anakin and Padme are together, and so now the whole Order is just like “…so, do they not want us to know they’re married??? Are they waiting to throw another reception with everyone there? I don’t get it; I thought Anakin liked us!” Obi-Wan tries to broach the subject and Anakin just snaps at him all NO OBI-WAN I DON’T EVEN KNOW WHAT YOU’RE TALKING ABOUT OF COURSE I’M NOT MARRIED, WHAT THE FUCK, GOD.
I also loved the idea that like, in this AU, Jedi don’t usually get married, so when one of them DOES it’s like, a gigantic party and they go all out and poor Yoda is SO HEARTBROKEN because he finally had a chance to give one of his grandkids away (and to that nice Amidala girl no less!) and host a beautiful ceremony in the Temple gardens, and yet HE WASN’T EVEN INVITED TO THE WEDDING.
Anakin just assumes Mace Windu keeps making a face at him because Mace hates him for no reason and is a jerk, but it’s really just the face of a man who is deeply offended that he, a senior Jedi Council member, never even got an ANNOUNCEMENT CARD IN THE DAMN MAIL. Anakin believes Obi-Wan is frustrated with him because of some BS Jedi training reasons, when in actuality Obi-Wan’s quietly and deeply hurt that Anakin got married and not only was he not asked to be the best man, he wasn’t even invited.
Discussing this is one of my favorite exchanges/threads I’ve had on this site for sure.
I mean, yes, it sure does seem reasonable that marriage would be forbidden for a Jedi who wants to keep being actively a Jedi (given that being MARRIED is a pretty substantial attachment, haha) but also the only people we see talking about it are Anakin and Padme (who presumably is getting most of her Jedi information from Anakin), so it’s funny as hell to think about the possibilities.
I just love the idea that literally no one ever said a Jedi couldn’t get married, Anakin misinterpreted something at some point because he’s an idiot, and now he’s living in what he assumes is some Very Top Secret Marriage That No One Can Ever Know About and is Deeply Tormented about it for what turns out to be no reason. Anyone with even the smallest amount of awareness and sense knows Anakin and Padme are together, and so now the whole Order is just like “…so, do they not want us to know they’re married??? Are they waiting to throw another reception with everyone there? I don’t get it; I thought Anakin liked us!” Obi-Wan tries to broach the subject and Anakin just snaps at him all NO OBI-WAN I DON’T EVEN KNOW WHAT YOU’RE TALKING ABOUT OF COURSE I’M NOT MARRIED, WHAT THE FUCK, GOD.
I also loved the idea that like, in this AU, Jedi don’t usually get married, so when one of them DOES it’s like, a gigantic party and they go all out and poor Yoda is SO HEARTBROKEN because he finally had a chance to give one of his grandkids away (and to that nice Amidala girl no less!) and host a beautiful ceremony in the Temple gardens, and yet HE WASN’T EVEN INVITED TO THE WEDDING.
Anakin just assumes Mace Windu keeps making a face at him because Mace hates him for no reason and is a jerk, but it’s really just the face of a man who is deeply offended that he, a senior Jedi Council member, never even got an ANNOUNCEMENT CARD IN THE DAMN MAIL. Anakin believes Obi-Wan is frustrated with him because of some BS Jedi training reasons, when in actuality Obi-Wan’s quietly and deeply hurt that Anakin got married and not only was he not asked to be the best man, he wasn’t even invited.
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Lily Elsie
Josephine Baker
Dorothy Arzner
Dorothy Mackaill
Daphne du Maurier
Frida Kahlo
Hannah Gluckstein, known as "Gluck"
Olive Thomas
Jessie Matthews
Katharine Hepburn
numinous-queer:
nightnightsweetprince:
Here are some cool gals looking mighty dapper! You can click on each photo for names and here’s some info on each fabulous woman:
Lily Elsie: English actress during Edwardian era, famous for being in many musicals and operettas
Josephine Baker: French bisexual actress, singer, and dancer who rose to prominence in the 1920s, refused to perform for segregated audiences, active with the French Resistance during WWII and the Civil Rights movement in the 50s
Dorothy Arzner: American lesbian film director who was the only female director in Hollywood during the 1930s, created the first boom mike for the Clara Bow film “The Wild Party” (1929)
Dorothy Mackaill: British-American actress who was involved in the Ziegfeld Follies, also notable for her silent-film roles
Daphne du Maurier: English bisexual author and playwright, famous for her works like Rebecca and “The Birds”
Frida Kahlo: Mexican bisexual painter, known for the feminist and nationalist themes in her paintings, created 55 self-portraits and once stated “I paint myself because I am so often alone and because I am the subject I know best.”
Hannah Gluckstein, known as “Gluck”: British lesbian artist known for her evocative Modernist paintings, adopted the name “Gluck” because she thought the sex of a painter is irrelevant
Olive Thomas: American silent-film actress, involved in the Ziegfeld Follies, possibly the first “Vargas Girl” after posing for pinup artist Alberto Vargas
Jessie Matthews: English actress, singer, and dancer who rose to prominence in the 1920s and 30s
Katharine Hepburn: American actress who helped to create the “modern woman” image in Classic Hollywood during the 1930s and 40s, wore trousers before it was fashionable for women to do so, won four Academy Awards for Best Actress
Here’s a few more!
Gladys Bentley: Blues singer in 1920s Harlem. She performed at the famous gay speakeasies the Clam House and the Ubangi Club, sometimes backed by a chorus line of drag queens. She was openly gay in her early career and married a woman in 1931 in Atlantic City.
Marion Barbara ‘Joe’ Carstairs: Eccentric heiress and accomplished speed boat racer known for her tattoos, her butch presentation and her affairs with women including Greta Garbo, Tallulah Bankead, Marlene Dietrich and Oliver Wilde’s niece, Dorothy Wilde. After working with the Red Cross as an ambulance driver in World War I, she founded the car-hire and chauffeuring service featuring a women-only staff of drives and mechanics.
Anna May Wong: Considered to be the first Chinese American Hollywood movie star. Tired of being both typecast and being passed over for lead Asian character roles in favor of non-Asian actresses, Wong left Hollywood in 1928 for Europe and became a sensation, eventually performing on the stage, TV, and films on both sides of the Atlantic.
Lily Elsie
Josephine Baker
Dorothy Arzner
Dorothy Mackaill
Daphne du Maurier
Frida Kahlo
Hannah Gluckstein, known as "Gluck"
Olive Thomas
Jessie Matthews
Katharine Hepburn
numinous-queer:
nightnightsweetprince:
Here are some cool gals looking mighty dapper! You can click on each photo for names and here’s some info on each fabulous woman:
Lily Elsie: English actress during Edwardian era, famous for being in many musicals and operettas
Josephine Baker: French bisexual actress, singer, and dancer who rose to prominence in the 1920s, refused to perform for segregated audiences, active with the French Resistance during WWII and the Civil Rights movement in the 50s
Dorothy Arzner: American lesbian film director who was the only female director in Hollywood during the 1930s, created the first boom mike for the Clara Bow film “The Wild Party” (1929)
Dorothy Mackaill: British-American actress who was involved in the Ziegfeld Follies, also notable for her silent-film roles
Daphne du Maurier: English bisexual author and playwright, famous for her works like Rebecca and “The Birds”
Frida Kahlo: Mexican bisexual painter, known for the feminist and nationalist themes in her paintings, created 55 self-portraits and once stated “I paint myself because I am so often alone and because I am the subject I know best.”
Hannah Gluckstein, known as “Gluck”: British lesbian artist known for her evocative Modernist paintings, adopted the name “Gluck” because she thought the sex of a painter is irrelevant
Olive Thomas: American silent-film actress, involved in the Ziegfeld Follies, possibly the first “Vargas Girl” after posing for pinup artist Alberto Vargas
Jessie Matthews: English actress, singer, and dancer who rose to prominence in the 1920s and 30s
Katharine Hepburn: American actress who helped to create the “modern woman” image in Classic Hollywood during the 1930s and 40s, wore trousers before it was fashionable for women to do so, won four Academy Awards for Best Actress
Here’s a few more!
Gladys Bentley: Blues singer in 1920s Harlem. She performed at the famous gay speakeasies the Clam House and the Ubangi Club, sometimes backed by a chorus line of drag queens. She was openly gay in her early career and married a woman in 1931 in Atlantic City.
Marion Barbara ‘Joe’ Carstairs: Eccentric heiress and accomplished speed boat racer known for her tattoos, her butch presentation and her affairs with women including Greta Garbo, Tallulah Bankead, Marlene Dietrich and Oliver Wilde’s niece, Dorothy Wilde. After working with the Red Cross as an ambulance driver in World War I, she founded the car-hire and chauffeuring service featuring a women-only staff of drives and mechanics.
Anna May Wong: Considered to be the first Chinese American Hollywood movie star. Tired of being both typecast and being passed over for lead Asian character roles in favor of non-Asian actresses, Wong left Hollywood in 1928 for Europe and became a sensation, eventually performing on the stage, TV, and films on both sides of the Atlantic.
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bundibird:
kaldicuct:
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ranty9000:
askshadetrixieandfamily:
real-life-pine-tree:
oddeyesarcpendulumdragon:
based on a true story
I don’t think Fortnite is to blame for kids nowadays not reading…
That’s the joke. It’s the authoritarian overbearing parent.
He was being sarcastic lol
Reminded me of these
That violin one hit close to home.
I remember doing homework once, asked my grandmother if she was proud of me. “Do some thing for me to be proud of.” That hurt.
That comic up there – I witnessed almost that exact scenario. Teacher wanted the kids to all pick books. One kid spots something on the shelf and gets visibly excited. Pulls it out and starts reading. Teacher sees it, snatches it off him and tells him that this is a book for 8 year olds (the kid was 15ish) and tells him to get a book more appropriate for his age. Kid slouches around the shelves for about 10 minutes, finally picks up a book at random and sits in his chair tucking the edges of each page into the binding to make that looped-page look. He didn’t read a word. He sat there and did this to his book for the remainder of the reading session:
He had been genuinely excited about the 8 year old book he’d picked up. It was a new one in a series he used to read as a younger kid. He’d been actively sitting and reading, and then he was embarrassed in front of his classmates, told off for reading a kids book, and voila. He lost all enthusiasm for reading anything else that day.
What’s worse? That kid had been hit by a car like a year and a half earlier. Severe brain trauma. Had to re-learn a lot of basic things, like how to speak and how to read.
An 8 year old book would have been perfect for him. Easy enough to read that it would have helped rebuild his confidence in his own reading ability. A book meant for 15/16 years olds? A lot harder to read than a book for 8 year olds. Especially if you’re recovering from a relatively recent brain injury.
And yeah, the teacher knew all about his brain injury, and the recovery. He just seemed go be of the opinion that the kid was 15, so he should be reading books for 15 year olds, irrespective of brain injury.
Reading this thread I’m reminded of Daniel Pennae’s The Rights of the Reader, which can be found in a lot of bookshops and school libraries:
The child speaking at the bottom in Quentin Blake’s distinctive spiky handwriting is saying ‘10 rights, 1 warning: Don’t make fun of people who don’t read - or they never will’
mighty-meerkat:
bundibird:
kaldicuct:
vaporwavevocap:
draconic-duelist:
ranty9000:
askshadetrixieandfamily:
real-life-pine-tree:
oddeyesarcpendulumdragon:
based on a true story
I don’t think Fortnite is to blame for kids nowadays not reading…
That’s the joke. It’s the authoritarian overbearing parent.
He was being sarcastic lol
Reminded me of these
That violin one hit close to home.
I remember doing homework once, asked my grandmother if she was proud of me. “Do some thing for me to be proud of.” That hurt.
That comic up there – I witnessed almost that exact scenario. Teacher wanted the kids to all pick books. One kid spots something on the shelf and gets visibly excited. Pulls it out and starts reading. Teacher sees it, snatches it off him and tells him that this is a book for 8 year olds (the kid was 15ish) and tells him to get a book more appropriate for his age. Kid slouches around the shelves for about 10 minutes, finally picks up a book at random and sits in his chair tucking the edges of each page into the binding to make that looped-page look. He didn’t read a word. He sat there and did this to his book for the remainder of the reading session:
He had been genuinely excited about the 8 year old book he’d picked up. It was a new one in a series he used to read as a younger kid. He’d been actively sitting and reading, and then he was embarrassed in front of his classmates, told off for reading a kids book, and voila. He lost all enthusiasm for reading anything else that day.
What’s worse? That kid had been hit by a car like a year and a half earlier. Severe brain trauma. Had to re-learn a lot of basic things, like how to speak and how to read.
An 8 year old book would have been perfect for him. Easy enough to read that it would have helped rebuild his confidence in his own reading ability. A book meant for 15/16 years olds? A lot harder to read than a book for 8 year olds. Especially if you’re recovering from a relatively recent brain injury.
And yeah, the teacher knew all about his brain injury, and the recovery. He just seemed go be of the opinion that the kid was 15, so he should be reading books for 15 year olds, irrespective of brain injury.
Reading this thread I’m reminded of Daniel Pennae’s The Rights of the Reader, which can be found in a lot of bookshops and school libraries:
The child speaking at the bottom in Quentin Blake’s distinctive spiky handwriting is saying ‘10 rights, 1 warning: Don’t make fun of people who don’t read - or they never will’
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berniesrevolution:
They’ve Always Been Watching Us: From COINTELPRO and Martin Luther King, Jr to the NSA’s surveillance program, the US Government has been keeping a close watch on the American Left for a long time.
by Andy Warner and Jess Parker
(Continue Reading)
berniesrevolution:
They’ve Always Been Watching Us: From COINTELPRO and Martin Luther King, Jr to the NSA’s surveillance program, the US Government has been keeping a close watch on the American Left for a long time.
by Andy Warner and Jess Parker
(Continue Reading)
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dinofloof:
linsaangs:
It’s a lovely morning in the late Cretaceous, and you are a horrible halszkaraptor.
GOOSE RAPTOR
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alarajrogers, for some unknown reason, this made me think of you…
theactualcluegirl:
dinofloof:
linsaangs:
It’s a lovely morning in the late Cretaceous, and you are a horrible halszkaraptor.
GOOSE RAPTOR
alarajrogers, for some unknown reason, this made me think of you…
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mumblingsage:
In Come As You Are, Emily Nagoski explains this is a way to complete the “fight or flight” response (specifically, the “flight” part), getting you out of the stress cycle.
starwarsgraphictee:
pollovy:
I don’t usually comment on posts like this but for over an entire year I suffered majorly from panic disorder experiencing DOZENS of panic attacks a day, to the point where it was a problem for me to leave the house or even my bed! Until one night i was freaking the Fuck Out, i was like! Screw it! I’ll make a run for it! I left the house at like 2am and just walked. Run a little occasionally and get REALLY angry while doing it and the panic would disappear! Instead of giving my head room to panic i’d give myself a goal: just walk around the block twice and THEN see how you feel. And reeaaally focus on that goal. Sometimes it’d take 3 hours to pass and sometimes only 10 minutes, but not once, to this day, has just getting out there and give into the fight or flight response not helped. By taking action you’re tricking your brain into regaining control when you feel out of control during panic/anxiety!
If u scared? Fuck it! Run!
connors-suggestions:
[Start I.D.: therapist Hack: anxiety is physical, so it needs a physical response, AKA fight or flight, take a walk for ten minutes it tricks your brain into thinking you’re running away, you will start to feel relieved. End I.D.]
brunhiddensmusings:
this is about half of why tai chi works
or if you dont know how to tai chi, ‘earthbender breaks’ work just as well
tiktoks-for-thiccthots:
mumblingsage:
In Come As You Are, Emily Nagoski explains this is a way to complete the “fight or flight” response (specifically, the “flight” part), getting you out of the stress cycle.
starwarsgraphictee:
pollovy:
I don’t usually comment on posts like this but for over an entire year I suffered majorly from panic disorder experiencing DOZENS of panic attacks a day, to the point where it was a problem for me to leave the house or even my bed! Until one night i was freaking the Fuck Out, i was like! Screw it! I’ll make a run for it! I left the house at like 2am and just walked. Run a little occasionally and get REALLY angry while doing it and the panic would disappear! Instead of giving my head room to panic i’d give myself a goal: just walk around the block twice and THEN see how you feel. And reeaaally focus on that goal. Sometimes it’d take 3 hours to pass and sometimes only 10 minutes, but not once, to this day, has just getting out there and give into the fight or flight response not helped. By taking action you’re tricking your brain into regaining control when you feel out of control during panic/anxiety!
If u scared? Fuck it! Run!
connors-suggestions:
[Start I.D.: therapist Hack: anxiety is physical, so it needs a physical response, AKA fight or flight, take a walk for ten minutes it tricks your brain into thinking you’re running away, you will start to feel relieved. End I.D.]
brunhiddensmusings:
this is about half of why tai chi works
or if you dont know how to tai chi, ‘earthbender breaks’ work just as well
tiktoks-for-thiccthots:
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nofreetrees:
moddeydhoo:
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siphersaysstuff:
ayellowbirds:
adeadfreelancer:
assassinregrets:
veronicasantangelo:
janemba:
eyan-j:
janemba:
I hope Wikipedia doesnt go bankrupt it will feel like the end times . I think I will literally panic
Encyclopedia Britannica is always there
there’s this place called a library. and they have these things called books. and then there’s this thing called Google Search. where you can find books in PDF form.
Wikipedia is user edited. you can literally put anything you want in an entry almost. I think you know where I’m about to go with this.
You’re condescending and annoying. I am attached to Wikipedia out of sentimentality it’s always been there for as long as I remember and reliable to me for some casual trivia. Wikipedia is iconic and I love her. go write a research paper or something
who let high school teachers find tumblr
me: hm i wonder how many countries drive on the same side as the UK
friend: let’s check wikipedia in 2 seconds on our phones
some asshole on tumblr: um excuse me why don’t you stop what you’re doing to go to the library and look it up in an outdated book that’s edited maybe twice a decade and that definitely doesn’t have a single page article called “list of countries with left-hand traffic”
also “user edited” really doesn’t mean as much as you think it does. there are millions of people displaying accurate information, for every one person displaying inaccurate information. and that inaccurate information is usually changed quickly, and the person who made it can get their ip blocked from wikipedia if it was bad enough. way more accurate than textbooks or a library.
Librarian here! I’ve worked at both academic (college/university) and public libraries, and let me tell you this: most print encyclopedias are useless garbage we can’t get rid of fast enough. With the exception of subject-specific sets which we need to buy again every few years because the information has become outdated, most of the information in any volume of an encyclopedia is far more accessible and far more in-depth on the internet.
Wikipedia as a reference resource is fantastic because, just like print encyclopedias, it serves as a jumping-off point for research… and so do librarians! A librarian isn’t going to just write your paper for you, we’re going to point you to the books, articles, and websites that contain the information. Wikipedia is great for that, too, because any article that gets more than a bit of traffic will wind up with sources and external links. But print encyclopedias don’t go that far in citing their sources, and because they’re static media, the references may not only be outdated, they might be entirely inaccessible due to age, obscurity, or cost of access.
And there’s an interesting thing about all those books we have on the shelves… anyone can write one, and usually they only have a handful of other people checking their work. Academic journals are somewhat notorious for the ease with which a completely falsified paper can see publication (especially in cases of electronic journals), but printed books can also be easily falsified, whether as a result of publishers with an agenda or just fact-checkers slacking off.
As has been pointed out above, wikipedia is really great at getting obscenely specific in terms of the topics of articles. It’s an amazing collection of data, and more importantly, it’s an amazing collection of sources of data.
The role of a reference librarian and a wikipedia editor are basically the same: show you a brief summary of the information you need, and point you to more in-depth, reliable sources.
I was helping a friend clear out their dad’s old stuff from their home recently and we came across encyclopedias from the 90s.
They all went to the dump. They were ASTOUNDINGLY outdated. Totally fucking useless.
High school English teacher here–I regularly get crap from some of my colleagues, but I am completely fine with students using Wikipedia for info. Wikipedia does an excellent job of flagging articles that have been recently edited until someone can verify the changes, so pages with inaccurate info often have giant warnings at the top saying “THIS PAGE MAY CONTAIN IANCCURATE INFO”. Won’t find that in an out-of-date print edition.
Not only that, but Wikipedia cites its sources. It tells you right at the bottom of the page where all its info came from, so if you want to use a fact from Wikipedia but don’t want a teacher annoyed with you, just cite the source in the footnote. Teachers and professors are (a) not likely to check up on this and (b) it’s a real source so even if they do it’s legit?
The biggest problem I have had with letting students use Wikipedia is actually that Wikipedia articles are often written in such academic language that students sometimes struggle to understand them. That part kids have to overcome on their own or with the help of their teacher. But there’s nothing wrong with Wikipedia as a source. Hatred for it is a remnant of academic elitism, thinking that “peer-reviewed” can only mean some handful of crusty white dudes instead of literally anyone with enough knowledge and motivation to review it.
Honestly. My dad is a college professor and he’s told me time and again to always start my research at Wikipedia. You have to go further, obviously, but its such a great jumping off point for information.
Plus, where else can I find an itemized and updated list of every Cryptid known to human kind?
For the impenetrable articles, here’s my tip.
The list of other languages in the sidebar? Look at it and check whether the article has a version in Simple English.
Simple English is a mode for non-native English speakers but is also great if your reading comprehension is not super good, you’re having a slow brain day for any mental health or developmental disorder reason, or the English version is just poorly written.
Librarian here, and this whole post gives me so much joy.
nofreetrees:
moddeydhoo:
gem-under-the-mountain:
bossandsquid:
siphersaysstuff:
ayellowbirds:
adeadfreelancer:
assassinregrets:
veronicasantangelo:
janemba:
eyan-j:
janemba:
I hope Wikipedia doesnt go bankrupt it will feel like the end times . I think I will literally panic
Encyclopedia Britannica is always there
there’s this place called a library. and they have these things called books. and then there’s this thing called Google Search. where you can find books in PDF form.
Wikipedia is user edited. you can literally put anything you want in an entry almost. I think you know where I’m about to go with this.
You’re condescending and annoying. I am attached to Wikipedia out of sentimentality it’s always been there for as long as I remember and reliable to me for some casual trivia. Wikipedia is iconic and I love her. go write a research paper or something
who let high school teachers find tumblr
me: hm i wonder how many countries drive on the same side as the UK
friend: let’s check wikipedia in 2 seconds on our phones
some asshole on tumblr: um excuse me why don’t you stop what you’re doing to go to the library and look it up in an outdated book that’s edited maybe twice a decade and that definitely doesn’t have a single page article called “list of countries with left-hand traffic”
also “user edited” really doesn’t mean as much as you think it does. there are millions of people displaying accurate information, for every one person displaying inaccurate information. and that inaccurate information is usually changed quickly, and the person who made it can get their ip blocked from wikipedia if it was bad enough. way more accurate than textbooks or a library.
Librarian here! I’ve worked at both academic (college/university) and public libraries, and let me tell you this: most print encyclopedias are useless garbage we can’t get rid of fast enough. With the exception of subject-specific sets which we need to buy again every few years because the information has become outdated, most of the information in any volume of an encyclopedia is far more accessible and far more in-depth on the internet.
Wikipedia as a reference resource is fantastic because, just like print encyclopedias, it serves as a jumping-off point for research… and so do librarians! A librarian isn’t going to just write your paper for you, we’re going to point you to the books, articles, and websites that contain the information. Wikipedia is great for that, too, because any article that gets more than a bit of traffic will wind up with sources and external links. But print encyclopedias don’t go that far in citing their sources, and because they’re static media, the references may not only be outdated, they might be entirely inaccessible due to age, obscurity, or cost of access.
And there’s an interesting thing about all those books we have on the shelves… anyone can write one, and usually they only have a handful of other people checking their work. Academic journals are somewhat notorious for the ease with which a completely falsified paper can see publication (especially in cases of electronic journals), but printed books can also be easily falsified, whether as a result of publishers with an agenda or just fact-checkers slacking off.
As has been pointed out above, wikipedia is really great at getting obscenely specific in terms of the topics of articles. It’s an amazing collection of data, and more importantly, it’s an amazing collection of sources of data.
The role of a reference librarian and a wikipedia editor are basically the same: show you a brief summary of the information you need, and point you to more in-depth, reliable sources.
I was helping a friend clear out their dad’s old stuff from their home recently and we came across encyclopedias from the 90s.
They all went to the dump. They were ASTOUNDINGLY outdated. Totally fucking useless.
High school English teacher here–I regularly get crap from some of my colleagues, but I am completely fine with students using Wikipedia for info. Wikipedia does an excellent job of flagging articles that have been recently edited until someone can verify the changes, so pages with inaccurate info often have giant warnings at the top saying “THIS PAGE MAY CONTAIN IANCCURATE INFO”. Won’t find that in an out-of-date print edition.
Not only that, but Wikipedia cites its sources. It tells you right at the bottom of the page where all its info came from, so if you want to use a fact from Wikipedia but don’t want a teacher annoyed with you, just cite the source in the footnote. Teachers and professors are (a) not likely to check up on this and (b) it’s a real source so even if they do it’s legit?
The biggest problem I have had with letting students use Wikipedia is actually that Wikipedia articles are often written in such academic language that students sometimes struggle to understand them. That part kids have to overcome on their own or with the help of their teacher. But there’s nothing wrong with Wikipedia as a source. Hatred for it is a remnant of academic elitism, thinking that “peer-reviewed” can only mean some handful of crusty white dudes instead of literally anyone with enough knowledge and motivation to review it.
Honestly. My dad is a college professor and he’s told me time and again to always start my research at Wikipedia. You have to go further, obviously, but its such a great jumping off point for information.
Plus, where else can I find an itemized and updated list of every Cryptid known to human kind?
For the impenetrable articles, here’s my tip.
The list of other languages in the sidebar? Look at it and check whether the article has a version in Simple English.
Simple English is a mode for non-native English speakers but is also great if your reading comprehension is not super good, you’re having a slow brain day for any mental health or developmental disorder reason, or the English version is just poorly written.
Librarian here, and this whole post gives me so much joy.
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visovari:
Welcome to the space age, ladies and gentlemen
This is really quite a big deal. A tremendous amount of modern research ends up being sold to journals which require unreasonable payments to access it and only pay the original authors a pittance. It’s nice to see an agency like NASA deliberately widebanding its findings.
Not sure if people fully realize just how big of a deal this is. THIS is how science is advanced. Not through biased corporate research, business secrets, marketing, paywalls and patent wars. But through open, uncensored and unrestricted public access to knowledge.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/?term=%22nasa+funded%22[Filter]
^ There’s the direct link to all the studies.
NASA IS GOOD, NASA IS GREAT
osunism
NASA is the hero we don’t deserve.
This deserves every reblog.
geh_is_okeh
In the face of institutions being silenced, this is doubly huge.
I love seeing that, for once, there are more reblogs than likes
Keep passing on this info, guys. Good job
kingscrown666:
crewdlydrawn:
slow-magic:
nightpiercer:
osunism:
aripuppy:
supaslim:
question-the-status-quo:
vabla:
shunkawarakin:
visovari:
Welcome to the space age, ladies and gentlemen
This is really quite a big deal. A tremendous amount of modern research ends up being sold to journals which require unreasonable payments to access it and only pay the original authors a pittance. It’s nice to see an agency like NASA deliberately widebanding its findings.
Not sure if people fully realize just how big of a deal this is. THIS is how science is advanced. Not through biased corporate research, business secrets, marketing, paywalls and patent wars. But through open, uncensored and unrestricted public access to knowledge.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/?term=%22nasa+funded%22[Filter]
^ There’s the direct link to all the studies.
NASA IS GOOD, NASA IS GREAT
osunismNASA is the hero we don’t deserve.
This deserves every reblog.
geh_is_okehIn the face of institutions being silenced, this is doubly huge.
I love seeing that, for once, there are more reblogs than likes
Keep passing on this info, guys. Good job
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tackedtothewall:
[Image description: a tweet from The Hungover Pundit:
“A friend once shared what she called the Parable of the Choir: A choir can sing a beautiful note impossibly long because singers can individually drop out to breathe as necessary and the note goes on.
“Social justice activism should be like that, she said.
“That’s stuck with me.”
Timestamp 9:12 pm, Jan 14, 2020. /ID]
tackedtothewall:
[Image description: a tweet from The Hungover Pundit:
“A friend once shared what she called the Parable of the Choir: A choir can sing a beautiful note impossibly long because singers can individually drop out to breathe as necessary and the note goes on.
“Social justice activism should be like that, she said.
“That’s stuck with me.”
Timestamp 9:12 pm, Jan 14, 2020. /ID]
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bluebabycal:
stallingdemons:
I knew I loved Tom Hardy for a reason
Tom hardy is a fucking mood
bluebabycal:
stallingdemons:
I knew I loved Tom Hardy for a reason
Tom hardy is a fucking mood
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meteorash:
goulashnikov-concern:
I raise you
i’ve never seen a ww2 meme that mentioned what happened to Singapore.
meteorash:
goulashnikov-concern:
I raise you
i’ve never seen a ww2 meme that mentioned what happened to Singapore.
Self-Discipline Isn’t Always the Answer
Jan. 25th, 2020 01:54 pmvia https://ift.tt/38Dx9Jt
ceebycee:
So I wasn’t really taught to brush my teeth every day as a kid. So I didn’t. I got to be an adult and realized “hmm teeth are expensive I need to start brushing them” and brushing my teeth twice a day has been on my actual to do list every single day of my college career. It’s a habit I needed to build.
Have I successfully done it? Absolutely not. I’m pretty good about doing it at least once a day, but some days it just doesn’t happen. It’s not that I forget usually, I just had some aversion I couldn’t figure out, until last week.
I’m at the grocery store, in the toothpaste aisle with my roommate, and I complain about how much I hate mint. I FUCKING HATE THE TASTE OF MINT. The taste and the smell, any kind of minty thing in any form, I HATE IT. But literally every “adult” toothpaste in the aisle was some type of minty disgusting nonsense. And my roommate was like “you know you could like get kids’ toothpaste? You like bubblegum right?”
And y’all, it was like the clouds parted. I got some strawberry bubblegum kids’ toothpaste. I brushed my teeth with it and it was a whole new experience. I have successfully brushed twice a day every day since, because the mental block I had towards it is gone!
I thought my lack of brushing was just a moral failing on my part; I was too lazy, too undisciplined, to build a good habit. But really? I just hate the taste of mint so much I didn’t want to brush my teeth.
This made me realize that when presented with a change you want to make, a habit you want to build, if you’re encountering resistance in yourself, you should lean into that resistance and really investigate what’s causing it, then work on accommodating that.
Say you hate washing dishes so they pile up and then you’re overwhelmed by how many you have to do. Why do you hate it? Deep down, what about it do you dislike? Is touching wet food super gross for you? Try thick rubber gloves while you’re washing. Does the sound of dishing clanking together grate your nerves? Do them with headphones in and turned up loud. Do you hate the smell? Light some candles, spray some air freshener.
Do these things instead of gritting your teeth and forcing yourself, then ultimately failing and getting discouraged by your “lack of self-discipline”
TL;DR: When a task is consistently hard for you, relying on self-discipline, forcing yourself, and gritting through doesn’t always work. Lean in and listen to your discomfort, and find what makes the task hard, then try to accommodate that. Also, mint toothpaste is gross.
ceebycee:
So I wasn’t really taught to brush my teeth every day as a kid. So I didn’t. I got to be an adult and realized “hmm teeth are expensive I need to start brushing them” and brushing my teeth twice a day has been on my actual to do list every single day of my college career. It’s a habit I needed to build.
Have I successfully done it? Absolutely not. I’m pretty good about doing it at least once a day, but some days it just doesn’t happen. It’s not that I forget usually, I just had some aversion I couldn’t figure out, until last week.
I’m at the grocery store, in the toothpaste aisle with my roommate, and I complain about how much I hate mint. I FUCKING HATE THE TASTE OF MINT. The taste and the smell, any kind of minty thing in any form, I HATE IT. But literally every “adult” toothpaste in the aisle was some type of minty disgusting nonsense. And my roommate was like “you know you could like get kids’ toothpaste? You like bubblegum right?”
And y’all, it was like the clouds parted. I got some strawberry bubblegum kids’ toothpaste. I brushed my teeth with it and it was a whole new experience. I have successfully brushed twice a day every day since, because the mental block I had towards it is gone!
I thought my lack of brushing was just a moral failing on my part; I was too lazy, too undisciplined, to build a good habit. But really? I just hate the taste of mint so much I didn’t want to brush my teeth.
This made me realize that when presented with a change you want to make, a habit you want to build, if you’re encountering resistance in yourself, you should lean into that resistance and really investigate what’s causing it, then work on accommodating that.
Say you hate washing dishes so they pile up and then you’re overwhelmed by how many you have to do. Why do you hate it? Deep down, what about it do you dislike? Is touching wet food super gross for you? Try thick rubber gloves while you’re washing. Does the sound of dishing clanking together grate your nerves? Do them with headphones in and turned up loud. Do you hate the smell? Light some candles, spray some air freshener.
Do these things instead of gritting your teeth and forcing yourself, then ultimately failing and getting discouraged by your “lack of self-discipline”
TL;DR: When a task is consistently hard for you, relying on self-discipline, forcing yourself, and gritting through doesn’t always work. Lean in and listen to your discomfort, and find what makes the task hard, then try to accommodate that. Also, mint toothpaste is gross.
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stealthboy:
boykeats:
Photos of gay trans male activist Lou Sullivan throughout his life, as presented in Lou Sullivan: Daring to be a Man Among Men by Brice D. Smith
I never see historic trans male posts and I’m crying thank you
stealthboy:
boykeats:
Photos of gay trans male activist Lou Sullivan throughout his life, as presented in Lou Sullivan: Daring to be a Man Among Men by Brice D. Smith
I never see historic trans male posts and I’m crying thank you
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ancestorswatching:
It’s 2020, which means that the Harlem Renaissance, at the time known as the New Negro Movement, started approximately one hundred years ago. This is one of my favorite historical periods.
In the decades after slavery ended, life in the southern USA continued to be difficult for African Americans. Many chose to leave the sharecropping jobs in which white landowners were still exploiting their labor, and began to migrate north on huge numbers.
Literature, music, fashion, and art exploded in African American culture as a result of this move out of the stagnant South. Black owned businesses and publications as Black people used art to advocate for equality and show White Americans that they were human too- capable of producing beautiful novels, paintings, and music just as White people did.
Some famous authors who were active during this period include my favorite poet, Langston Hughes, as well as Zora Neale Huston and Claude McKay. Marcus Garvey was leading the Back to Africa movement and W.E.B. Du Bois worked to highlight the African Americans who had obtained college degrees and owned property. Josephine Baker and Bill ‘Bojangles’ Robinson were two of the most prominent entertainers of the day. Louis Armstrong, Gladys Bentley, Cab Calloway, Billie Holliday, Lena Horne, and Dorothy Dandridge were just a few notable musicians. Romare Bearden, Sargent Johnson, and Lois Mailou Jones were visual artists who became well-known.
ancestorswatching:
It’s 2020, which means that the Harlem Renaissance, at the time known as the New Negro Movement, started approximately one hundred years ago. This is one of my favorite historical periods.
In the decades after slavery ended, life in the southern USA continued to be difficult for African Americans. Many chose to leave the sharecropping jobs in which white landowners were still exploiting their labor, and began to migrate north on huge numbers.
Literature, music, fashion, and art exploded in African American culture as a result of this move out of the stagnant South. Black owned businesses and publications as Black people used art to advocate for equality and show White Americans that they were human too- capable of producing beautiful novels, paintings, and music just as White people did.
Some famous authors who were active during this period include my favorite poet, Langston Hughes, as well as Zora Neale Huston and Claude McKay. Marcus Garvey was leading the Back to Africa movement and W.E.B. Du Bois worked to highlight the African Americans who had obtained college degrees and owned property. Josephine Baker and Bill ‘Bojangles’ Robinson were two of the most prominent entertainers of the day. Louis Armstrong, Gladys Bentley, Cab Calloway, Billie Holliday, Lena Horne, and Dorothy Dandridge were just a few notable musicians. Romare Bearden, Sargent Johnson, and Lois Mailou Jones were visual artists who became well-known.
theartofanimation: MORNCOLOUR -...
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theartofanimation:
MORNCOLOUR - https://morncolour.zcool.com.cn - https://ift.tt/2qLSX5o - https://www.instagram.com/morncolor - https://www.gracg.com/user/p339859823308267
theartofanimation:
MORNCOLOUR - https://morncolour.zcool.com.cn - https://ift.tt/2qLSX5o - https://www.instagram.com/morncolor - https://www.gracg.com/user/p339859823308267
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53rdcenturyhero:
#NeverAgainIsNow
anotherbondiblonde:
On July 1942, 2, most of the children of Lidice, a small village in what was then Czechoslovakia, were handed over to the gestapo office of the gestapo.
These 82 children were then transported to the of extermination camp 70 kilometers away. Once they arrived, they were gassed to death. This remarkable sculpture by Marie Uchytilová commemorates this massacre.
A group of Bronze Sculptures, paying tribute to the children who died. Its construction was decided in 1969 by the woman sculptor, Marie Uchytilova. As a symbol of an imaginary tomb of the 13 million most innocent victims of the war - children, she chose as model, 82 children of lidice asphyxiated in the gas rooms of chelmno.
She took 20 years to make this beautiful sculpture because she used the vintage documents to reproduce the faces of the missing children and to represent them according to their exact size.
53rdcenturyhero:
#NeverAgainIsNow
anotherbondiblonde:
On July 1942, 2, most of the children of Lidice, a small village in what was then Czechoslovakia, were handed over to the gestapo office of the gestapo.
These 82 children were then transported to the of extermination camp 70 kilometers away. Once they arrived, they were gassed to death. This remarkable sculpture by Marie Uchytilová commemorates this massacre.
A group of Bronze Sculptures, paying tribute to the children who died. Its construction was decided in 1969 by the woman sculptor, Marie Uchytilova. As a symbol of an imaginary tomb of the 13 million most innocent victims of the war - children, she chose as model, 82 children of lidice asphyxiated in the gas rooms of chelmno.
She took 20 years to make this beautiful sculpture because she used the vintage documents to reproduce the faces of the missing children and to represent them according to their exact size.
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ruffboijuliaburnsides:
prismatic-bell:
ruffboijuliaburnsides:
prismatic-bell:
setteidreams:
This finally popped up in the mail today: Sailor Moon Materials Collection. I never thought I’d own this book, but I finally found a copy I could afford. It lacks the cover/back jacket and is kind of worn, but the inside pages are still fine.
Which of course means I am going to scan it. This book has been scanned before, but in rather low-resolution.
For now, enjoy this page of Usagi and Mamoru. You can download the high-res version over here.
May I request, FINALLY, a good scan of the Shitennou pages?
listen. Listen. I love that this shit was official art. Look at this girl. She has definitely Done The Sex with her beloved boyfriend and she is smug and pleased as PUNCH.
And this is a sweet romantic thing. I just. I love seeing the idea of Usagi having sex and she’s not married and she’s this being of purity and goodness and she is still NAKED IN BED with the guy she TOTALLY DEFINITELY FUCKED.
Proof that purity is not measured by sexual activity or lack thereof in the sailor moon universe. BALLER.
She’s actually pregnant when she gets married! So like.
Also, she doesn’t stop being Sailor Moon after she has sex, which in theory could be as early as the second arc (the “kitchen floor scene”) but definitely happens before manga’s end. She stops being Sailor Moon only when it is safe for her to assume the mantle of queen, and stop fighting.
… . incidentally, the third movie (and thus one of the manga side-stories, since the movies are based on them) also tells us that Haruka and Michiru have sex. Michiru says Haruka is getting heavy and Haruka’s reply is “I only listen to that kind of talk in bed.” (Along with a less-notorious but no less startling “remain children? How foolish. There are so many more fun things to do as an adult” out of Michiru.)
And Haruka is nonbinary in the manga. Naoko Takeuchi has confirmed her original intent with the “Haruka has the strengths of both genders” line was to say Haruka was butch, because she didn’t really “get” queer people at the time, but when she had the chance to change it in Crystal and the manga’s definitive edition, she didn’t, because it meant something to people.
And, there’s a decent amount of evidence that Rei is some squishy combination of aromantic and lesbian. (It sort of depends on how much supplementary material you take as canon/WOG and how much you think is Naoko just enjoying drawing her characters.)
And, Usagi is canonically bisexual.
And, the first movie (and thus one of the manga side stories) provides us with the possibility of Mamoru being bisexual … and Usagi being upset not because he might be bi, but because it certainly seems like he is and he never bothered to tell her. She’s more upset that he didn’t feel secure enough with her to tell her than she is that he currently appears to have once had a boyfriend.
Proof that purity is not measured by sexual activity or sexual orientation in the Sailor Moon universe.
and considering both the manga and the original anime were from the 90s??? I fucking love sailor moon.
ruffboijuliaburnsides:
prismatic-bell:
ruffboijuliaburnsides:
prismatic-bell:
setteidreams:
This finally popped up in the mail today: Sailor Moon Materials Collection. I never thought I’d own this book, but I finally found a copy I could afford. It lacks the cover/back jacket and is kind of worn, but the inside pages are still fine.
Which of course means I am going to scan it. This book has been scanned before, but in rather low-resolution.
For now, enjoy this page of Usagi and Mamoru. You can download the high-res version over here.
May I request, FINALLY, a good scan of the Shitennou pages?
listen. Listen. I love that this shit was official art. Look at this girl. She has definitely Done The Sex with her beloved boyfriend and she is smug and pleased as PUNCH.
And this is a sweet romantic thing. I just. I love seeing the idea of Usagi having sex and she’s not married and she’s this being of purity and goodness and she is still NAKED IN BED with the guy she TOTALLY DEFINITELY FUCKED.
Proof that purity is not measured by sexual activity or lack thereof in the sailor moon universe. BALLER.
She’s actually pregnant when she gets married! So like.
Also, she doesn’t stop being Sailor Moon after she has sex, which in theory could be as early as the second arc (the “kitchen floor scene”) but definitely happens before manga’s end. She stops being Sailor Moon only when it is safe for her to assume the mantle of queen, and stop fighting.
… . incidentally, the third movie (and thus one of the manga side-stories, since the movies are based on them) also tells us that Haruka and Michiru have sex. Michiru says Haruka is getting heavy and Haruka’s reply is “I only listen to that kind of talk in bed.” (Along with a less-notorious but no less startling “remain children? How foolish. There are so many more fun things to do as an adult” out of Michiru.)
And Haruka is nonbinary in the manga. Naoko Takeuchi has confirmed her original intent with the “Haruka has the strengths of both genders” line was to say Haruka was butch, because she didn’t really “get” queer people at the time, but when she had the chance to change it in Crystal and the manga’s definitive edition, she didn’t, because it meant something to people.
And, there’s a decent amount of evidence that Rei is some squishy combination of aromantic and lesbian. (It sort of depends on how much supplementary material you take as canon/WOG and how much you think is Naoko just enjoying drawing her characters.)
And, Usagi is canonically bisexual.
And, the first movie (and thus one of the manga side stories) provides us with the possibility of Mamoru being bisexual … and Usagi being upset not because he might be bi, but because it certainly seems like he is and he never bothered to tell her. She’s more upset that he didn’t feel secure enough with her to tell her than she is that he currently appears to have once had a boyfriend.
Proof that purity is not measured by sexual activity or sexual orientation in the Sailor Moon universe.
and considering both the manga and the original anime were from the 90s??? I fucking love sailor moon.
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yashas-strong-arms:
it’s so stupid, adhd is a dozen vaguely related neuroses in a trench coat, including such popular hits as
Can’t Fucking Sleep Disorder
Can’t Fucking Wake Up Disorder
What Is A Focus
Oops I Did It* Again (*Spent Thirteen Hours On Youtube And Forgot To Eat Or Drink)
The World Is Too Noise Today
All My Friends Hate Me (I Deduced This From A Three Word Text)
I Forgot About [thing] Literally As Soon As I Turned Around
…and they decided to call it Trouble Sitting Still Disorder?????
yashas-strong-arms:
it’s so stupid, adhd is a dozen vaguely related neuroses in a trench coat, including such popular hits as
Can’t Fucking Sleep Disorder
Can’t Fucking Wake Up Disorder
What Is A Focus
Oops I Did It* Again (*Spent Thirteen Hours On Youtube And Forgot To Eat Or Drink)
The World Is Too Noise Today
All My Friends Hate Me (I Deduced This From A Three Word Text)
I Forgot About [thing] Literally As Soon As I Turned Around
…and they decided to call it Trouble Sitting Still Disorder?????
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vaspider:
ladyshinga:
pathlesspagan:
dollsahoy:
queeranarchism:
itsfridaybutimstillaro:
tracyalexander:
asciiheart:
amal-wa-ahlam:
yourownpetard:
proudblackconservative:
asciiheart:
The nuclear family is probably the greatest enabler of child abuse, ever.
Putting two people in complete control of another person (who is particularly vulnerable and has few legal rights) and then having no oversight for the whole arrangement is the absolute worst idea.
Families are garbage.
Hahaha wtf
I wouldn’t even know where to start with this. omg.
OP, what would you propose as an alternative to families?
communal child raising
less isolated familial structures in general
children being made aware of how they should and shouldn’t be treated
Some form of child protection services that don’t just believe the parents and assume a child is lying when they report abuse
more legal and counselling services made available to children
I don’t get people that are like “lol, what? that’s so weird, lets laugh at the very notion that traditional families are abusive”.
communal child raising is the traditional family. 70-100 years ago 4 generations lived together in the same house, having 4 grandparents, 6 aunts and 15 cousins around every day was normal.
Things that should be mentioned:
- These communities are not necessarily connected by an biological ties. In a lot of these multigenerational ‘families’, including people in the family who are not relatives or married into the family is totally normal. This has always created a lot more space to support people without families, support people who do now want to partner up and to create communities in which couples who can not have children (like some queer couples but not all & other couples too) can be a part of child raising.
- Having a lot more young people around often means young people learn from each other. In many cultures young people form a non-hierarchial group that learns together and can do a great deal without adult supervision.
The nuclear family doesn’t just facilitate abuse, it facilitates hierarchy. It’s a training school for obedience to authority.
Now, which system would push such a training school strongly so it could get docile obedient citizens? Which system whould push the nuclear family.
I’m not saying it’s capitalism but it’s capitalism.
And then there’s the fact that the 2 parent, nuclear family can be most easily pushed into the pattern where one adult works an extremely exhausting job many hours a day that leaves that adult hardly capable of doing anything else, while the other adult takes on all the other things that adult would otherwise have done: care for children, clean the living space, prepare food, prepare clean clothing, etc. for free. What we know as traditional gender roles.
This way capitalism gets one intensely loyal worker who feels ‘responsible’ for ‘supporting a family’ while all the work to keep that worker going is done for free by an unpaid worker in the home.
And, you know, communities need a lot less stuff. A community of 50 can do just fine with one or two hammers. 25 nuclear families need 25 hammers. The nuclear family demands a huge amount of commodity purchasing.
(hooboy that last point)
Damn. What a breakdown…
Communal living is fantastic for the disabled and elderly folks, as well.
dadhoc
vaspider:
ladyshinga:
pathlesspagan:
dollsahoy:
queeranarchism:
itsfridaybutimstillaro:
tracyalexander:
asciiheart:
amal-wa-ahlam:
yourownpetard:
proudblackconservative:
asciiheart:
The nuclear family is probably the greatest enabler of child abuse, ever.
Putting two people in complete control of another person (who is particularly vulnerable and has few legal rights) and then having no oversight for the whole arrangement is the absolute worst idea.
Families are garbage.
Hahaha wtf
I wouldn’t even know where to start with this. omg.
OP, what would you propose as an alternative to families?
communal child raising
less isolated familial structures in general
children being made aware of how they should and shouldn’t be treated
Some form of child protection services that don’t just believe the parents and assume a child is lying when they report abuse
more legal and counselling services made available to children
I don’t get people that are like “lol, what? that’s so weird, lets laugh at the very notion that traditional families are abusive”.
communal child raising is the traditional family. 70-100 years ago 4 generations lived together in the same house, having 4 grandparents, 6 aunts and 15 cousins around every day was normal.
Things that should be mentioned:
- These communities are not necessarily connected by an biological ties. In a lot of these multigenerational ‘families’, including people in the family who are not relatives or married into the family is totally normal. This has always created a lot more space to support people without families, support people who do now want to partner up and to create communities in which couples who can not have children (like some queer couples but not all & other couples too) can be a part of child raising.
- Having a lot more young people around often means young people learn from each other. In many cultures young people form a non-hierarchial group that learns together and can do a great deal without adult supervision.
The nuclear family doesn’t just facilitate abuse, it facilitates hierarchy. It’s a training school for obedience to authority.
Now, which system would push such a training school strongly so it could get docile obedient citizens? Which system whould push the nuclear family.
I’m not saying it’s capitalism but it’s capitalism.
And then there’s the fact that the 2 parent, nuclear family can be most easily pushed into the pattern where one adult works an extremely exhausting job many hours a day that leaves that adult hardly capable of doing anything else, while the other adult takes on all the other things that adult would otherwise have done: care for children, clean the living space, prepare food, prepare clean clothing, etc. for free. What we know as traditional gender roles.
This way capitalism gets one intensely loyal worker who feels ‘responsible’ for ‘supporting a family’ while all the work to keep that worker going is done for free by an unpaid worker in the home.
And, you know, communities need a lot less stuff. A community of 50 can do just fine with one or two hammers. 25 nuclear families need 25 hammers. The nuclear family demands a huge amount of commodity purchasing.
(hooboy that last point)
Damn. What a breakdown…
Communal living is fantastic for the disabled and elderly folks, as well.
dadhocamfenster: Not ‘sexy’ enough for TV
Jan. 25th, 2020 02:24 pmvia https://ift.tt/2sSL5jA
amfenster:
Not ‘sexy’ enough for TV
“most importantly of all, I wanted to throw a spotlight on the generations, the millions and millions, for whom ‘success’, defined as anything other than the basic survival of themselves and their family, was a concept of which they were denied to the extent that they were chained, leg, wrist and neck, to an institutionally blessed mindset of zero expectation. To those in charge of those institutions, the working class is as it describes. A production line of workers, nothing more, nothing less. People? With character, hope, intelligence, ambition? Forget it. Get back in your box and shut up. I was asked a few years ago to go on the BBC genealogy show Who Do You Think You Are? I agreed and they started looking into my family tree. It says everything that the project went nowhere. They tugged aside the leaves on those branches and concluded, ‘Nothing to see here.’ Generations of working-class people dismissed. Individuals with their own hopes, dreams and stories. Not army generals, industrialists, vaudeville singers, but factory workers, farm labourers, cleaners, nothing in any way ‘sexy’ enough for TV.”
amfenster:
Not ‘sexy’ enough for TV
“most importantly of all, I wanted to throw a spotlight on the generations, the millions and millions, for whom ‘success’, defined as anything other than the basic survival of themselves and their family, was a concept of which they were denied to the extent that they were chained, leg, wrist and neck, to an institutionally blessed mindset of zero expectation. To those in charge of those institutions, the working class is as it describes. A production line of workers, nothing more, nothing less. People? With character, hope, intelligence, ambition? Forget it. Get back in your box and shut up. I was asked a few years ago to go on the BBC genealogy show Who Do You Think You Are? I agreed and they started looking into my family tree. It says everything that the project went nowhere. They tugged aside the leaves on those branches and concluded, ‘Nothing to see here.’ Generations of working-class people dismissed. Individuals with their own hopes, dreams and stories. Not army generals, industrialists, vaudeville singers, but factory workers, farm labourers, cleaners, nothing in any way ‘sexy’ enough for TV.”
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insomniac-arrest:
people talk all the time about “primal instincts” and it’s usually about violence or sexual temptations or something, but your humanity comes with a lot of different stuff that we do without really thinking about, that we do without being told to or prompted to
your average human comes pre-installed with instincts to:
Befriend
Tell story
Make Thing
Investigate
Share knowledge
Laugh
Sing
Dance
Empathize with
Create
we are chalk full of survival instincts that revolve around connecting to others (dog-shaped others, robot-shaped, sometimes even plant-shaped) and making things with our hands
your primal instincts are not bathed in blood- they are layered in people telling stories to each other around a fire over and over and putting devices together through trial and error over and over and reaching for someone and something every moment of the way
insomniac-arrest:
people talk all the time about “primal instincts” and it’s usually about violence or sexual temptations or something, but your humanity comes with a lot of different stuff that we do without really thinking about, that we do without being told to or prompted to
your average human comes pre-installed with instincts to:
Befriend
Tell story
Make Thing
Investigate
Share knowledge
Laugh
Sing
Dance
Empathize with
Create
we are chalk full of survival instincts that revolve around connecting to others (dog-shaped others, robot-shaped, sometimes even plant-shaped) and making things with our hands
your primal instincts are not bathed in blood- they are layered in people telling stories to each other around a fire over and over and putting devices together through trial and error over and over and reaching for someone and something every moment of the way
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Oh boy. Okay, I’ll do my best here. Note that a) this will get long, and b) I’m old, Tired, and I‘m pretty sure my brain tried to kill me last night. Since by nature I am sure I will say something Controversial ™, if anyone reads this and feels a deep urge to inform me that I am Wrong, just… mark it down as me being Wrong and move on with your life. But also, really, you should read this and hopefully think about it. Because while I’m glad you asked this question, it feels like there’s a lot in your cohort who won’t, and that worries me. A lot.
First, not to sound utterly old-woman-in-a-rocking-chair ancient, people who came of age/are only old enough to have Obama be the first president that they really remember have no idea how good they had it. The world was falling the fuck apart in 2008 (not coincidentally, after 8 years of Bush). We came within a flicker of the permanent collapse of the global economy. The War on Terror was in full roar, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan were at their height, we had Dick Cheney as the cartoon supervillain before we had any of Trump’s cohort, and this was before Chelsea Manning or Edward Snowden had exposed the extent of NSA/CIA intelligence-gathering/American excesses or there was any kind of public debate around the fact that we were all surveilled all the time. And the fact that a brown guy named Barack Hussein Obama was elected in this climate seems, and still seems tbh, kind of amazing. And Obama was certainly not a Perfect President ™. He had to scale back a lot of planned initiatives, he is notorious for expanding the drone strike/extrajudicial assassination program, he still subscribed to the overall principles of neoliberalism and American exceptionalism, etc etc. There is valid criticism to be made as to how the hopey-changey optimistic rhetoric stacked up against the hard realities of political office. And yet…. at this point, given what we’re seeing from the White House on a daily basis, the depth of the parallel universe/double standards is absurd.
Because here’s the thing. Obama, his entire family, and his entire administration had to be personally/ethically flawless the whole time (and they managed that – not one scandal or arrest in eight years, against the legions of Trumpistas now being convicted) because of the absolute frothing depths of Republican hatred, racial conspiracy theories, and obstruction against him. (Remember Merrick Garland and how Mitch McConnell got away with that, and now we have Gorsuch and Kavanaugh on the Supreme Court? Because I remember that). If Obama had pulled one-tenth of the shit, one-twentieth of the shit that the Trump administration does every day, he would be gone. It also meant that people who only remember Obama think he was typical for an American president, and he wasn’t. Since about… Jimmy Carter, and definitely since Ronald Reagan, the American people have gone for the Trump model a lot more than the Obama model. Whatever your opinion on his politics or character, Obama was a constitutional law professor, a community activist, a neighborhood organizer and brilliant Ivy League intellectual who used to randomly lie awake at night thinking about income inequality. Americans don’t value intellectualism in their politicians; they just don’t. They don’t like thinking that “the elites” are smarter than them. They like the folksy populist who seems fun to have a beer with, and Reagan/Bush Senior/Clinton/Bush Junior sold this persona as hard as they possibly could. As noted in said post, Bush Junior (or Shrub as the late, great Molly Ivins memorably dubbed him) was Trump Lite but from a long-established political family who could operate like an outwardly civilized human.
The point is: when you think Obama was relatively normal (which, again, he wasn’t, for any number of reasons) and not the outlier in a much larger pattern of catastrophic damage that has been accelerated since, again, the 1980s (oh Ronnie Raygun, how you lastingly fucked us!), you miss the overall context in which this, and which Trump, happened. Like most left-wingers, I don’t agree with Obama’s recent and baffling decision to insert himself into the 2020 race and warn the Democratic candidates against being too progressive or whatever he was on about. I think he was giving into the same fear that appears to be motivating the remaining chunk of Joe Biden’s support: that middle/working-class white America won’t go for anything too wild or that might sniff of Socialism, and that Uncle Joe, recalled fondly as said folksy populist and the internet’s favorite meme grandfather from his time as VP, could pick up the votes that went to Trump last time. And that by nature, no one else can.
The underlying belief is that these white voters just can’t support anything too “un-American,” and that by pushing too hard left, Democratic candidates risk handing Trump a second term. Again: I don’t agree and I think he was mistaken in saying it. But I also can’t say that Obama of all people doesn’t know exactly the strength of the political machine operating against the Democratic Party and the progressive agenda as a whole, because he ran headfirst into it for eight years. The fact that he managed to pass any of his legislative agenda, usually before the Tea Party became a thing in 2010, is because Democrats controlled the House and Senate for the first two years of his first term. He was not perfect, but it was clear that he really did care (just look up the pictures of him with kids). He installed smart, efficient, and scandal-free people to do jobs they were qualified for. He gave us Elena Kagan and Sonia Sotomayor to join RBG on the Supreme Court. All of this seems… like a dream.
That said: here we are in a place where Biden, Bernie Sanders, and Elizabeth Warren are the front-runners for the Democratic nomination (and apparently Pete Buttigieg is getting some airplay as a dark horse candidate, which… whatever). The appeal of Biden is discussed above, and he sure as hell is not my favored candidate (frankly, I wish he’d just quit). But Sanders and Warren are 85% - 95% similar in their policy platforms. The fact that Michael “50 Billion Dollar Fortune” Bloomberg started rattling his chains about running for president is because either a Sanders or Warren presidency terrifies the outrageously exploitative billionaire capitalist oligarchy that runs this country and has been allowed to proceed essentially however the fuck they like since… you guessed it, the 1980s, the era of voodoo economics, deregulation, and the free market above all. Warren just happens to be ten years younger than Sanders and female, and Sanders’ age is not insignificant. He’s 80 years old and just had a heart attack, and there’s still a year to go to the election. It’s also more than a little eye-rolling to describe him as the only progressive candidate in the race, when he’s an old white man (however much we like and approve of his policy positions). And here’s the thing, which I think is a big part of the reason why this polarized ideological purity internet leftist culture mistrusts Warren:
She may have changed her mind on things in the past.
Scary, right? I sound like I’m being facetious, but I’m not. An argument I had to read with my own two eyes on this godforsaken hellsite was that since Warren became a Democrat around the time Clinton signed Don’t Ask Don’t Tell, she sekritly hated gay people and might still be a corporate sellout, so on and etcetera. (And don’t even get me STARTED on the fact that DADT, coming a few years after the height of the AIDS crisis where it was considered God’s Judgment of the Icky Gays, was the best Clinton could realistically hope to achieve, but this smacks of White Gay Syndrome anyway and that is a whole other kettle of fish.) Bernie has always demonstrably been a democratic socialist, and: good for him. I’m serious. But because there’s the chance that Warren might not have thought exactly as she does now at any point in her life, the hysterical and paranoid left-wing elements don’t trust that she might not still secretly do so. (Zomgz!) It’s the same element that’s feeding cancel culture and “wokeness.” Nobody can be allowed to have shifted or grown in their opinions or, like a functional, thoughtful, non-insane adult, changed their beliefs when presented with compelling evidence to the contrary. To the ideological hordes, any hint of uncertainty or past failure to completely toe the line is tantamount to heresy. Any evidence of any other belief except The Correct One means that this person is functionally as bad as Trump. And frankly, it’s only the Sanders supporters who, just as in 2016, are threatening to withhold their vote in the general election if their preferred candidate doesn’t win the primary, and indeed seem weirdly proud about it.
OK, boomer Bernie or Buster.
Here’s the thing, the thing, the thing: there is never going to be an American president free of the deeply toxic elements of American ideology. There just won’t be. This country has been built how it has for 250 years, and it’s not gonna change. You are never going to have, at least not in the current system, some dream candidate who gets up there and parrots the left-wing talking points and attacks American imperialism, exceptionalism, ravaging global capitalism, military and oil addiction, etc. They want to be elected as leader of a country that has deeply internalized and taken these things to heart for its entire existence, and most of them believe it to some degree themselves. So this groupthink white liberal mentality where the only acceptable candidate is this Perfect Non-Problematic robot who has only ever had one belief their entire lives and has never ever wavered in their devotion to doctrine has really gotten bad. The Democratic Party would be considered… maybe center/mild left in most other developed countries. It’s not even really left-wing by general standards, and Sanders and Warren are the only two candidates for the nomination who are even willing to go there and explicitly put out policy proposals that challenge the systematic structure of power, oppression, and exploitation of the late-stage capitalist 21st century. Warren has the billionaires fussed, and instead of backing down, she’s doubling down. That’s part of why they’re so scared of her. (And also misogyny, because the world is depressing like that.) She is going head-on after picking a fight with some of the worst people on the planet, who are actively killing the rest of us, and I don’t know about you, but I like that.
Of course: none of this will mean squat if she (or the eventual Democratic winner, who I will vote for regardless of who it is, but as you can probably tell, she’s my ride or die) don’t a) win the White House and then do as they promised on the campaign trail, and b) don’t have a Democratic House and Senate willing to have a backbone and pass the laws. Even Nancy Pelosi, much as she’s otherwise a badass, held off on opening a formal impeachment inquiry into Trump for months out of fear it would benefit him, until the Ukraine thing fell into everyone’s laps. The Democrats are really horrible at sticking together and voting the party line the way Republicans do consistently, because Democrats are big-tent people who like to think of themselves as accepting and tolerant of other views and unwilling to force their members’ hands. The Republicans have no such qualms (and indeed, judging by their enabling of Trump, have no qualms at all).
The modern American Republican party has become a vehicle for no-holds-barred power for rich white men at the expense of absolutely everything and everyone else, and if your rationale is that you can’t vote for the person opposing Donald Goddamn Trump is that you’re just not vibing with them on the language of that one policy proposal… well, I’m glad that you, White Middle Class Liberal, feel relatively safe that the consequences of that decision won’t affect you personally. Even if we’re due to be out of the Paris Climate Accords one day after the 2020 election, and the issue of climate change now has the most visibility it’s ever had after years of big-business, Republican-led efforts to deny and discredit the science, hey, Secret Corporate Shill, am I right? Can’t trust ‘er. Let’s go have a craft beer.
As has been said before: vote as far left as you want in the primary. Vote your ideology, vote whatever candidate you want, because the only way to make actual, real-world change is to do that. The huge, embedded, all-consuming and horrible system in which we operate is not just going to suddenly be run by fairy dust and happy thoughts overnight. Select candidates that reflect your values exactly, be as picky and ideologically militant as you want. That’s the time to do that! Then when it comes to the general election:
America is a two-party system. It sucks, but that’s the case. Third-party votes, or refraining from voting because “it doesn’t matter” are functionally useless at best and actively harmful at worst.
Either the Democratic candidate or Donald Trump will win the 2020 election.
There is absolutely no length that the Republican/GOP machine, and its malevolent allies elsewhere, will not go to in order to secure a Trump victory. None.
Any talk whatsoever about “progressive values” or any kind of liberal activism, coupled with a course of action that increases the possibility of a Trump victory, is hypocritical at best and actively malicious at worst.
This is why I found the Democratic response to Obama’s “don’t go too wild” comments interesting. Bernie doubled down on the fact that his plans have widespread public support, and he’s right. (Frankly, the fact that Sanders and Warren are polling at the top, and the fact that they’re politicians and would not be crafting these campaign messages if they didn’t know that they were being positively received, says plenty on its own). Warren cleverly highlighted and praised Obama’s accomplishments in office (i.e. the Affordable Care Act) and didn’t say squat about whether she agreed or disagreed with him, then went right back to campaigning about why billionaires suck. And some guy named Julian Castro basically blew Obama off and claimed that “any Democrat” could beat Trump in 2020, just by nature of existing and being non-insane.
This is very dangerous! Do not be Julian Castro!
As I said in my tags on the Bush post: everyone assumed that sensible people would vote for Kerry in 2004. Guess what happened? Yeah, he got Swift Boated. The race between Obama and McCain in 2008, even after those said nightmare years of Bush, was very close until the global crash broke it open in Obama’s favor, and Sarah Palin was an actual disqualifier for a politician being brazenly incompetent and unprepared. (Then again, she was a woman from a remote backwater state, not a billionaire businessman.) In 2012, we thought Corporate MormonBot Mitt Fuggin’ Romney was somehow the worst and most dangerous candidate the Republicans could offer. In 2016, up until Election Day itself, everyone assumed that HRC was a badly flawed candidate but would win anyway. And… we saw how that worked out. Complacency is literally deadly.
I was born when Reagan was still president. I’m just old enough to remember the efforts to impeach Clinton over forcing an intern to give him a BJ in the Oval Office (This led by the same Republicans making Donald Trump into a darling of the evangelical Christian right wing.) I’m definitely old enough to remember 9/11 and how America lost its mind after that, and I remember the Bush years. And, obviously, the contrast with Obama, the swing back toward Trump, and everything that has happened since. We can’t afford to do this again. We’re hanging by a thread as it is, and not just America, but the entire planet.
So yes. By all means, vote for Sanders in the primary. Then when November 3, 2020 rolls around, if you care about literally any of this at all, hold your nose if necessary and vote straight-ticket Democrat, from the president, to the House and Senate, to the state and local offices. I cannot put it more strongly than that.
Oh boy. Okay, I’ll do my best here. Note that a) this will get long, and b) I’m old, Tired, and I‘m pretty sure my brain tried to kill me last night. Since by nature I am sure I will say something Controversial ™, if anyone reads this and feels a deep urge to inform me that I am Wrong, just… mark it down as me being Wrong and move on with your life. But also, really, you should read this and hopefully think about it. Because while I’m glad you asked this question, it feels like there’s a lot in your cohort who won’t, and that worries me. A lot.
First, not to sound utterly old-woman-in-a-rocking-chair ancient, people who came of age/are only old enough to have Obama be the first president that they really remember have no idea how good they had it. The world was falling the fuck apart in 2008 (not coincidentally, after 8 years of Bush). We came within a flicker of the permanent collapse of the global economy. The War on Terror was in full roar, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan were at their height, we had Dick Cheney as the cartoon supervillain before we had any of Trump’s cohort, and this was before Chelsea Manning or Edward Snowden had exposed the extent of NSA/CIA intelligence-gathering/American excesses or there was any kind of public debate around the fact that we were all surveilled all the time. And the fact that a brown guy named Barack Hussein Obama was elected in this climate seems, and still seems tbh, kind of amazing. And Obama was certainly not a Perfect President ™. He had to scale back a lot of planned initiatives, he is notorious for expanding the drone strike/extrajudicial assassination program, he still subscribed to the overall principles of neoliberalism and American exceptionalism, etc etc. There is valid criticism to be made as to how the hopey-changey optimistic rhetoric stacked up against the hard realities of political office. And yet…. at this point, given what we’re seeing from the White House on a daily basis, the depth of the parallel universe/double standards is absurd.
Because here’s the thing. Obama, his entire family, and his entire administration had to be personally/ethically flawless the whole time (and they managed that – not one scandal or arrest in eight years, against the legions of Trumpistas now being convicted) because of the absolute frothing depths of Republican hatred, racial conspiracy theories, and obstruction against him. (Remember Merrick Garland and how Mitch McConnell got away with that, and now we have Gorsuch and Kavanaugh on the Supreme Court? Because I remember that). If Obama had pulled one-tenth of the shit, one-twentieth of the shit that the Trump administration does every day, he would be gone. It also meant that people who only remember Obama think he was typical for an American president, and he wasn’t. Since about… Jimmy Carter, and definitely since Ronald Reagan, the American people have gone for the Trump model a lot more than the Obama model. Whatever your opinion on his politics or character, Obama was a constitutional law professor, a community activist, a neighborhood organizer and brilliant Ivy League intellectual who used to randomly lie awake at night thinking about income inequality. Americans don’t value intellectualism in their politicians; they just don’t. They don’t like thinking that “the elites” are smarter than them. They like the folksy populist who seems fun to have a beer with, and Reagan/Bush Senior/Clinton/Bush Junior sold this persona as hard as they possibly could. As noted in said post, Bush Junior (or Shrub as the late, great Molly Ivins memorably dubbed him) was Trump Lite but from a long-established political family who could operate like an outwardly civilized human.
The point is: when you think Obama was relatively normal (which, again, he wasn’t, for any number of reasons) and not the outlier in a much larger pattern of catastrophic damage that has been accelerated since, again, the 1980s (oh Ronnie Raygun, how you lastingly fucked us!), you miss the overall context in which this, and which Trump, happened. Like most left-wingers, I don’t agree with Obama’s recent and baffling decision to insert himself into the 2020 race and warn the Democratic candidates against being too progressive or whatever he was on about. I think he was giving into the same fear that appears to be motivating the remaining chunk of Joe Biden’s support: that middle/working-class white America won’t go for anything too wild or that might sniff of Socialism, and that Uncle Joe, recalled fondly as said folksy populist and the internet’s favorite meme grandfather from his time as VP, could pick up the votes that went to Trump last time. And that by nature, no one else can.
The underlying belief is that these white voters just can’t support anything too “un-American,” and that by pushing too hard left, Democratic candidates risk handing Trump a second term. Again: I don’t agree and I think he was mistaken in saying it. But I also can’t say that Obama of all people doesn’t know exactly the strength of the political machine operating against the Democratic Party and the progressive agenda as a whole, because he ran headfirst into it for eight years. The fact that he managed to pass any of his legislative agenda, usually before the Tea Party became a thing in 2010, is because Democrats controlled the House and Senate for the first two years of his first term. He was not perfect, but it was clear that he really did care (just look up the pictures of him with kids). He installed smart, efficient, and scandal-free people to do jobs they were qualified for. He gave us Elena Kagan and Sonia Sotomayor to join RBG on the Supreme Court. All of this seems… like a dream.
That said: here we are in a place where Biden, Bernie Sanders, and Elizabeth Warren are the front-runners for the Democratic nomination (and apparently Pete Buttigieg is getting some airplay as a dark horse candidate, which… whatever). The appeal of Biden is discussed above, and he sure as hell is not my favored candidate (frankly, I wish he’d just quit). But Sanders and Warren are 85% - 95% similar in their policy platforms. The fact that Michael “50 Billion Dollar Fortune” Bloomberg started rattling his chains about running for president is because either a Sanders or Warren presidency terrifies the outrageously exploitative billionaire capitalist oligarchy that runs this country and has been allowed to proceed essentially however the fuck they like since… you guessed it, the 1980s, the era of voodoo economics, deregulation, and the free market above all. Warren just happens to be ten years younger than Sanders and female, and Sanders’ age is not insignificant. He’s 80 years old and just had a heart attack, and there’s still a year to go to the election. It’s also more than a little eye-rolling to describe him as the only progressive candidate in the race, when he’s an old white man (however much we like and approve of his policy positions). And here’s the thing, which I think is a big part of the reason why this polarized ideological purity internet leftist culture mistrusts Warren:
She may have changed her mind on things in the past.
Scary, right? I sound like I’m being facetious, but I’m not. An argument I had to read with my own two eyes on this godforsaken hellsite was that since Warren became a Democrat around the time Clinton signed Don’t Ask Don’t Tell, she sekritly hated gay people and might still be a corporate sellout, so on and etcetera. (And don’t even get me STARTED on the fact that DADT, coming a few years after the height of the AIDS crisis where it was considered God’s Judgment of the Icky Gays, was the best Clinton could realistically hope to achieve, but this smacks of White Gay Syndrome anyway and that is a whole other kettle of fish.) Bernie has always demonstrably been a democratic socialist, and: good for him. I’m serious. But because there’s the chance that Warren might not have thought exactly as she does now at any point in her life, the hysterical and paranoid left-wing elements don’t trust that she might not still secretly do so. (Zomgz!) It’s the same element that’s feeding cancel culture and “wokeness.” Nobody can be allowed to have shifted or grown in their opinions or, like a functional, thoughtful, non-insane adult, changed their beliefs when presented with compelling evidence to the contrary. To the ideological hordes, any hint of uncertainty or past failure to completely toe the line is tantamount to heresy. Any evidence of any other belief except The Correct One means that this person is functionally as bad as Trump. And frankly, it’s only the Sanders supporters who, just as in 2016, are threatening to withhold their vote in the general election if their preferred candidate doesn’t win the primary, and indeed seem weirdly proud about it.
OK, boomer Bernie or Buster.
Here’s the thing, the thing, the thing: there is never going to be an American president free of the deeply toxic elements of American ideology. There just won’t be. This country has been built how it has for 250 years, and it’s not gonna change. You are never going to have, at least not in the current system, some dream candidate who gets up there and parrots the left-wing talking points and attacks American imperialism, exceptionalism, ravaging global capitalism, military and oil addiction, etc. They want to be elected as leader of a country that has deeply internalized and taken these things to heart for its entire existence, and most of them believe it to some degree themselves. So this groupthink white liberal mentality where the only acceptable candidate is this Perfect Non-Problematic robot who has only ever had one belief their entire lives and has never ever wavered in their devotion to doctrine has really gotten bad. The Democratic Party would be considered… maybe center/mild left in most other developed countries. It’s not even really left-wing by general standards, and Sanders and Warren are the only two candidates for the nomination who are even willing to go there and explicitly put out policy proposals that challenge the systematic structure of power, oppression, and exploitation of the late-stage capitalist 21st century. Warren has the billionaires fussed, and instead of backing down, she’s doubling down. That’s part of why they’re so scared of her. (And also misogyny, because the world is depressing like that.) She is going head-on after picking a fight with some of the worst people on the planet, who are actively killing the rest of us, and I don’t know about you, but I like that.
Of course: none of this will mean squat if she (or the eventual Democratic winner, who I will vote for regardless of who it is, but as you can probably tell, she’s my ride or die) don’t a) win the White House and then do as they promised on the campaign trail, and b) don’t have a Democratic House and Senate willing to have a backbone and pass the laws. Even Nancy Pelosi, much as she’s otherwise a badass, held off on opening a formal impeachment inquiry into Trump for months out of fear it would benefit him, until the Ukraine thing fell into everyone’s laps. The Democrats are really horrible at sticking together and voting the party line the way Republicans do consistently, because Democrats are big-tent people who like to think of themselves as accepting and tolerant of other views and unwilling to force their members’ hands. The Republicans have no such qualms (and indeed, judging by their enabling of Trump, have no qualms at all).
The modern American Republican party has become a vehicle for no-holds-barred power for rich white men at the expense of absolutely everything and everyone else, and if your rationale is that you can’t vote for the person opposing Donald Goddamn Trump is that you’re just not vibing with them on the language of that one policy proposal… well, I’m glad that you, White Middle Class Liberal, feel relatively safe that the consequences of that decision won’t affect you personally. Even if we’re due to be out of the Paris Climate Accords one day after the 2020 election, and the issue of climate change now has the most visibility it’s ever had after years of big-business, Republican-led efforts to deny and discredit the science, hey, Secret Corporate Shill, am I right? Can’t trust ‘er. Let’s go have a craft beer.
As has been said before: vote as far left as you want in the primary. Vote your ideology, vote whatever candidate you want, because the only way to make actual, real-world change is to do that. The huge, embedded, all-consuming and horrible system in which we operate is not just going to suddenly be run by fairy dust and happy thoughts overnight. Select candidates that reflect your values exactly, be as picky and ideologically militant as you want. That’s the time to do that! Then when it comes to the general election:
America is a two-party system. It sucks, but that’s the case. Third-party votes, or refraining from voting because “it doesn’t matter” are functionally useless at best and actively harmful at worst.
Either the Democratic candidate or Donald Trump will win the 2020 election.
There is absolutely no length that the Republican/GOP machine, and its malevolent allies elsewhere, will not go to in order to secure a Trump victory. None.
Any talk whatsoever about “progressive values” or any kind of liberal activism, coupled with a course of action that increases the possibility of a Trump victory, is hypocritical at best and actively malicious at worst.
This is why I found the Democratic response to Obama’s “don’t go too wild” comments interesting. Bernie doubled down on the fact that his plans have widespread public support, and he’s right. (Frankly, the fact that Sanders and Warren are polling at the top, and the fact that they’re politicians and would not be crafting these campaign messages if they didn’t know that they were being positively received, says plenty on its own). Warren cleverly highlighted and praised Obama’s accomplishments in office (i.e. the Affordable Care Act) and didn’t say squat about whether she agreed or disagreed with him, then went right back to campaigning about why billionaires suck. And some guy named Julian Castro basically blew Obama off and claimed that “any Democrat” could beat Trump in 2020, just by nature of existing and being non-insane.
This is very dangerous! Do not be Julian Castro!
As I said in my tags on the Bush post: everyone assumed that sensible people would vote for Kerry in 2004. Guess what happened? Yeah, he got Swift Boated. The race between Obama and McCain in 2008, even after those said nightmare years of Bush, was very close until the global crash broke it open in Obama’s favor, and Sarah Palin was an actual disqualifier for a politician being brazenly incompetent and unprepared. (Then again, she was a woman from a remote backwater state, not a billionaire businessman.) In 2012, we thought Corporate MormonBot Mitt Fuggin’ Romney was somehow the worst and most dangerous candidate the Republicans could offer. In 2016, up until Election Day itself, everyone assumed that HRC was a badly flawed candidate but would win anyway. And… we saw how that worked out. Complacency is literally deadly.
I was born when Reagan was still president. I’m just old enough to remember the efforts to impeach Clinton over forcing an intern to give him a BJ in the Oval Office (This led by the same Republicans making Donald Trump into a darling of the evangelical Christian right wing.) I’m definitely old enough to remember 9/11 and how America lost its mind after that, and I remember the Bush years. And, obviously, the contrast with Obama, the swing back toward Trump, and everything that has happened since. We can’t afford to do this again. We’re hanging by a thread as it is, and not just America, but the entire planet.
So yes. By all means, vote for Sanders in the primary. Then when November 3, 2020 rolls around, if you care about literally any of this at all, hold your nose if necessary and vote straight-ticket Democrat, from the president, to the House and Senate, to the state and local offices. I cannot put it more strongly than that.
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spiderine:
copperbadge This is relevant to your interests!
zanmor:
gotta carry this to the end result of the heist
just gonna fence it for cash? boo
how about repatriation of stolen cultural relics? Hope Diamond vanishes one day and shows up a few months later at the National Museum in New Delhi?
super cool, super sexy
charlemane:
counterpoint: there are hyper-rich people with privately owned art
art heists from “““private collections””” are, in fact, the sexiest thing of all
marzipanandminutiae:
Nah dude
JEWEL heists
Like from private Swiss bank vaults
You have to steal something that was already only for hyper-rich people, not something that was on display for the public to enjoy and learn from and be inspired by
Art heists are just depressing
Jewel heists are sexy as fuck
goldfinchpdf:
when are we as a society going to stop romanticizing serial killers and start romanticizing art heists? there is no crime sexier than an art crime try to convince me otherwise. you won’t.
I love a good art heist story, but most real life art theft begins in a museum and ends in the art being used as collateral in drug deals, which is no bueno!
While repatriation is the dream, stealing in order to repatraiate a) breaks provenance, meaning there’s a gap in the line of ownership that can cause problems with authenticating the object, and b) can result in either a return of the object to the place it was stolen from or an international incident of some kind.
I gotta say, art heists for fictional drama, jewel heists and cash swindles of the ultra-wealthy for real life. Con yourself a billionaire!
copperbadge:
spiderine:
copperbadge This is relevant to your interests!zanmor:
gotta carry this to the end result of the heist
just gonna fence it for cash? boo
how about repatriation of stolen cultural relics? Hope Diamond vanishes one day and shows up a few months later at the National Museum in New Delhi?
super cool, super sexy
charlemane:
counterpoint: there are hyper-rich people with privately owned art
art heists from “““private collections””” are, in fact, the sexiest thing of all
marzipanandminutiae:
Nah dude
JEWEL heists
Like from private Swiss bank vaults
You have to steal something that was already only for hyper-rich people, not something that was on display for the public to enjoy and learn from and be inspired by
Art heists are just depressing
Jewel heists are sexy as fuck
goldfinchpdf:
when are we as a society going to stop romanticizing serial killers and start romanticizing art heists? there is no crime sexier than an art crime try to convince me otherwise. you won’t.
I love a good art heist story, but most real life art theft begins in a museum and ends in the art being used as collateral in drug deals, which is no bueno!
While repatriation is the dream, stealing in order to repatraiate a) breaks provenance, meaning there’s a gap in the line of ownership that can cause problems with authenticating the object, and b) can result in either a return of the object to the place it was stolen from or an international incident of some kind.
I gotta say, art heists for fictional drama, jewel heists and cash swindles of the ultra-wealthy for real life. Con yourself a billionaire!
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copperbadge:
spiderine:
becausegoodheroesdeservekidneys:
becausegoodheroesdeservekidneys:
I missed the Mari Lwyd this year because I did New Year in Glasgow, which for some unknown reason does not have a tradition of wishing Christmas tidings with an insolent horse-skulled nightmare beast. Which I don’t unduly regret - I got to play D&D for the first time, and thus discovered that (A) my friend Luke is an excellent DM who is supremely tolerant of my insistence on summoning four giant badgers called Thrasher, Bloodbath, Killotine and Sharon (all female) to save the day, and (B) my alignment is well and truly Chaotic Neutral. But, you know, it is a shame to miss out on being insulted in a hauntingly sung rap battle by the bestial spectre of Religions Past wanting to half-inch the vodka.
BUT, Chepstow is on the border, and so they celebrate their Mari later - around mid-January. So I’m off to Chepstow tomorrow! So excited. I might spend this evening practising how to sing “Your mane has fallen out and you look like an idiot” at a seven-foot tall equine demon of mid-winter.
OH MY GOD THEY INVITED EVERY GODDAMN MARI LWYD THERE IS, TUMBLRS
THERE WERE 24 OF THE FUCKERS
I WAS SURROUNDED
Okay okay pictures
So these two had a fight. This is actually a very traditional part of Mari Lwyd culture, though they managed it without too much mead or cider drenching everyone.
THE VICTOR
I had a photo with her.
She scream.
At one point, we were surrounded by seven or eight different ones.
That was fun. Then I started photographing the Swirly Mari.
But she noticed.
Not to worry! I sang at her and now she is my new best friend. Or maybe she’s trying to eat me. I dunno. This is 100% my new FB profile pic, though, obvs.
Then she stood up to her full height, and that’s when you remember how tall seven feet actually is.
Another Mari saw a baby in a pram and tried to eat it. I’m not being facetious, either. I didn’t get a photo of the exact moment she stuck her nose in the pram and snapped, but the baby promptly screamed (understandably) and the mother ran away.
Steff had a go at being a Mari at one point. They are EXTRAORDINARILY hEAVY.
Later in the day I went into a pub and there were more in there, just moving around. Easy to spot, like.
They had to duck. Then there was a big show down on the bridge between Maris and morris dancers, and then the Maris all - all TWENTY FOUR OF THEM - tried to heckle their way into the museum. It was epic.
Here’s a clip of them all moving off the bridge. Pls ignore my weird voice.
Anyway, this was a delightful day and my friends and I have decided that we’re going to make our own Mari and see if we can go as performers next year. She will be environmentally themed.
Blwyddyn newydd dda, bawb.
copperbadge
This is the true Dark Of Winter Holiday Content I desire. If I’d known about the Mari when I was writing Nameless it might’ve been a horse skull instead of the Straw Bear :D
copperbadge:
spiderine:
becausegoodheroesdeservekidneys:
becausegoodheroesdeservekidneys:
I missed the Mari Lwyd this year because I did New Year in Glasgow, which for some unknown reason does not have a tradition of wishing Christmas tidings with an insolent horse-skulled nightmare beast. Which I don’t unduly regret - I got to play D&D for the first time, and thus discovered that (A) my friend Luke is an excellent DM who is supremely tolerant of my insistence on summoning four giant badgers called Thrasher, Bloodbath, Killotine and Sharon (all female) to save the day, and (B) my alignment is well and truly Chaotic Neutral. But, you know, it is a shame to miss out on being insulted in a hauntingly sung rap battle by the bestial spectre of Religions Past wanting to half-inch the vodka.
BUT, Chepstow is on the border, and so they celebrate their Mari later - around mid-January. So I’m off to Chepstow tomorrow! So excited. I might spend this evening practising how to sing “Your mane has fallen out and you look like an idiot” at a seven-foot tall equine demon of mid-winter.
OH MY GOD THEY INVITED EVERY GODDAMN MARI LWYD THERE IS, TUMBLRS
THERE WERE 24 OF THE FUCKERS
I WAS SURROUNDED
Okay okay pictures
So these two had a fight. This is actually a very traditional part of Mari Lwyd culture, though they managed it without too much mead or cider drenching everyone.
THE VICTOR
I had a photo with her.
She scream.
At one point, we were surrounded by seven or eight different ones.
That was fun. Then I started photographing the Swirly Mari.
But she noticed.
Not to worry! I sang at her and now she is my new best friend. Or maybe she’s trying to eat me. I dunno. This is 100% my new FB profile pic, though, obvs.
Then she stood up to her full height, and that’s when you remember how tall seven feet actually is.
Another Mari saw a baby in a pram and tried to eat it. I’m not being facetious, either. I didn’t get a photo of the exact moment she stuck her nose in the pram and snapped, but the baby promptly screamed (understandably) and the mother ran away.
Steff had a go at being a Mari at one point. They are EXTRAORDINARILY hEAVY.
Later in the day I went into a pub and there were more in there, just moving around. Easy to spot, like.
They had to duck. Then there was a big show down on the bridge between Maris and morris dancers, and then the Maris all - all TWENTY FOUR OF THEM - tried to heckle their way into the museum. It was epic.
Here’s a clip of them all moving off the bridge. Pls ignore my weird voice.
Anyway, this was a delightful day and my friends and I have decided that we’re going to make our own Mari and see if we can go as performers next year. She will be environmentally themed.
Blwyddyn newydd dda, bawb.
copperbadgeThis is the true Dark Of Winter Holiday Content I desire. If I’d known about the Mari when I was writing Nameless it might’ve been a horse skull instead of the Straw Bear :D
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zigster-ao3:
damianimated:
#SupportTransKids
This is such a powerful image. Support those who strive to find their true selves.
zigster-ao3:
damianimated:
#SupportTransKids
This is such a powerful image. Support those who strive to find their true selves.
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copperbadge:
rsfcommonplace:
prince-atom:
swimmer963:
bibliolithid:
Last one is 200%argumate
This is so my aesthetic.
“You said it was an owlbear!”
“It’s a koala bear! That counts!”
“No it doesn’t.”
It’s a ko-owl-a-bear.
copperbadge
Also two tigowls!
But my favorite will forever be Seahorsaurus Rex.
copperbadge:
rsfcommonplace:
prince-atom:
swimmer963:
bibliolithid:
Last one is 200%
argumateThis is so my aesthetic.
“You said it was an owlbear!”
“It’s a koala bear! That counts!”
“No it doesn’t.”
It’s a ko-owl-a-bear.
copperbadgeAlso two tigowls!
But my favorite will forever be Seahorsaurus Rex.
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theactualcluegirl:
alarajrogers:
wilwheaton:
yeahiwasintheshit:
fuckyeahtx:
rowantheexplorer:
symphonyofmars:
mistressvioleta:
elyseeeeew:
otahkoapisiakii:
!!!IMPORTANT FOR BLACK US VOTERS!!!
I saw this on Facebook and went to check my registration status, sure it was fine because I voted recently, but I put in the info and it said I’m not registered
PLEASE, especially if you’re a Black voter, check your registration status at vote.org
Know your status
Does your last name sound anything like Lopez, Martinez, or Rodriguez? Mine does. When I saw this post I checked my voter registration status online with my state. Despite registering just three months ago, I was no longer registered to vote, and I did not receive my ballot. If you live in a mail-in voting state and you didn’t get your ballot, contact your county election official/county clerk for a replacement.
Make sure you check with your state’s voting site as well. I just had the shit scared out of me because that website said I was registered, but when I checked my state’s site (and made sure I had the right county selected) it said I was registered.
It’s worth checking your state’s site every few months anyway (especially when any election is coming up).
Texas is definitely purging voters. They’re also making it harder to re-register if they purged you. I hate that this is true, but POC will need to check and check frequently to stay registered in Texas.
College students, too. In the 2014 election, I had to vote in San Marcos, and I can’t tell you how many Texas State students were turned away because they didn’t cross all the t’s and dot all the i’s on getting their registration transferred and current.
IMPORTANT Y’ALL.
Republicans are openly saying they are trying to restrict voting, and you can be damn sure the people they want to suppress are poc. So make sure you and you’re family are registered, esp if you live in a red state with republican controlled state houses.
Reblog this over and over again, until everyone who has been suppressed by the GOP sees it.
Just remember: if they’re fighting so very hard to make sure you can’t vote, it means they know that if you could, they would never win again. We need to take back as many states as possible and all branches of federal government so we can put safeguards into place to keep them from doing this shit.
Put it in your goddamned calendar every quarter until election day: CHECK YOUR VOTER REGISTRATION!
Just because they haven’t purged you yet, don’t assume they won’t. They just might not have got around to yours yet. So check up on it. Every Damned Month. Seruously.
theactualcluegirl:
alarajrogers:
wilwheaton:
yeahiwasintheshit:
fuckyeahtx:
rowantheexplorer:
symphonyofmars:
mistressvioleta:
elyseeeeew:
otahkoapisiakii:
!!!IMPORTANT FOR BLACK US VOTERS!!!
I saw this on Facebook and went to check my registration status, sure it was fine because I voted recently, but I put in the info and it said I’m not registered
PLEASE, especially if you’re a Black voter, check your registration status at vote.org
Know your status
Does your last name sound anything like Lopez, Martinez, or Rodriguez? Mine does. When I saw this post I checked my voter registration status online with my state. Despite registering just three months ago, I was no longer registered to vote, and I did not receive my ballot. If you live in a mail-in voting state and you didn’t get your ballot, contact your county election official/county clerk for a replacement.
Make sure you check with your state’s voting site as well. I just had the shit scared out of me because that website said I was registered, but when I checked my state’s site (and made sure I had the right county selected) it said I was registered.
It’s worth checking your state’s site every few months anyway (especially when any election is coming up).
Texas is definitely purging voters. They’re also making it harder to re-register if they purged you. I hate that this is true, but POC will need to check and check frequently to stay registered in Texas.
College students, too. In the 2014 election, I had to vote in San Marcos, and I can’t tell you how many Texas State students were turned away because they didn’t cross all the t’s and dot all the i’s on getting their registration transferred and current.
IMPORTANT Y’ALL.
Republicans are openly saying they are trying to restrict voting, and you can be damn sure the people they want to suppress are poc. So make sure you and you’re family are registered, esp if you live in a red state with republican controlled state houses.
Reblog this over and over again, until everyone who has been suppressed by the GOP sees it.
Just remember: if they’re fighting so very hard to make sure you can’t vote, it means they know that if you could, they would never win again. We need to take back as many states as possible and all branches of federal government so we can put safeguards into place to keep them from doing this shit.
Put it in your goddamned calendar every quarter until election day: CHECK YOUR VOTER REGISTRATION!
Just because they haven’t purged you yet, don’t assume they won’t. They just might not have got around to yours yet. So check up on it. Every Damned Month. Seruously.
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stardust-rain:
vrabia:
midnightmacaroni:
theprincerubert:
typicalacademic:
in this house we believe:
this place is not a place of honor
no highly esteemed deed is commemorated here
nothing valued is here
what is here is dangerous and repulsive to us
the danger is in a particular location
the danger is still present in your time as it was in ours
This is a Nuclear Waste Warning Message.
Y’all that link is an incredibly interesting read
oh, i’m in love with this! the story behind this message is that we’re storing a lot of radioactive waste in an isolation plant in new mexico and we need to tell future humans: ‘we buried something dangerous here, don’t disturb it or you’ll die. this place should be left alone for 10,000 years. tell future generations as well.’ and this raises several problems: how do you explain contemporary time conventions to future humans so they understand what ‘10,000 years’ means, and starting from when? how do you account for the fact that we have no idea what level of technological development future humans will have? will they still understand any of the languages we speak today? and my absolute favorite: how do you combat humans’ natural tendency to immediately go do the thing they were just told not to do?
so in 1993 a report was developed by two panels of materials science experts, linguists, anthropologists, architects, geologists and astronomers to create a marking system for the site. they proposed different levels of messages to be placed in the area. and the language part of the report is amazing because they’re really trying to cover everything. my favorite parts:
should we just design the whole structure to look ominous and scary and not put any messages on it? no, because when has that ever stopped humans from doing anything.
but also some facial expressions are universal and have been basically since we’ve been around, so there should be pictographs of faces conveying horror and sickness, as well as ‘what is here is dangerous and repulsive to us.’
we have to explain what we buried here and what would happen if they went looking, because if we don’t they’ll absolutely go looking. so the expert panel suggested including both a detailed message where we explain in scientific terms what radioactivity is, and one that says: ‘the danger is to the body, and it can kill. the form of the danger is an emanation of energy.’
star maps will be used to convey the passage of time, and we’re including instructions on what they mean and how to use them.
we have to explain that this fancy structure isn’t actually hiding anything interesting. i.e. the tomb of some great leader that’s filled with treasure. hence the part of the message that says: 'this place is not a place of honor. no highly esteemed deed is commemorated here. nothing valued is here.‘
but also we shouldn’t make it not interesting because there’s a lot of potential in designing the site so it develops deep cultural significance for future humans:
‘a monumental, intellectually stimulating system would enhance performance with higher probability than would a less energetic design based on minimal investment, thought at creativity. an oral tradition tethered to the marker system would emphasize (1) that it was designed to be the world’s longest lasting human artifact, (2) that it was intended as a gift to guard the health of future generations, and (3) that it is the world’s largest celestial ‘clock’ marking the millennia. hyperbole and altruism are strong themes in the world’s folk tales, songs and myths.’
and finally, part of the message: 'we have found it extremely difficult to imagine all the forms of human society and available technology that over the next 10,000 years might give people the desire and ability to intrude into the repository level and thus potentially bring great harm to themselves. nevertheless, we have done the best we can in the design of a marker system that will survive over this period, that will be understood by those who encounter it, and that will be effective in countering their natural curiosity to dig at such a uniquely marked and fascinating place.’
#what really gets me#what really really gets me about the proposed message#is ‘this is not a place of honor’#because it’s meant to be very practical i.e. you won’t find any treasure here so don’t dig it up#but to me it really reads like ‘this terrible thing is our fault and we’re sorry’ (viavrabia)
stardust-rain:
vrabia:
midnightmacaroni:
theprincerubert:
typicalacademic:
in this house we believe:
this place is not a place of honor
no highly esteemed deed is commemorated here
nothing valued is here
what is here is dangerous and repulsive to us
the danger is in a particular location
the danger is still present in your time as it was in ours
This is a Nuclear Waste Warning Message.
Y’all that link is an incredibly interesting read
oh, i’m in love with this! the story behind this message is that we’re storing a lot of radioactive waste in an isolation plant in new mexico and we need to tell future humans: ‘we buried something dangerous here, don’t disturb it or you’ll die. this place should be left alone for 10,000 years. tell future generations as well.’ and this raises several problems: how do you explain contemporary time conventions to future humans so they understand what ‘10,000 years’ means, and starting from when? how do you account for the fact that we have no idea what level of technological development future humans will have? will they still understand any of the languages we speak today? and my absolute favorite: how do you combat humans’ natural tendency to immediately go do the thing they were just told not to do?
so in 1993 a report was developed by two panels of materials science experts, linguists, anthropologists, architects, geologists and astronomers to create a marking system for the site. they proposed different levels of messages to be placed in the area. and the language part of the report is amazing because they’re really trying to cover everything. my favorite parts:
should we just design the whole structure to look ominous and scary and not put any messages on it? no, because when has that ever stopped humans from doing anything.
but also some facial expressions are universal and have been basically since we’ve been around, so there should be pictographs of faces conveying horror and sickness, as well as ‘what is here is dangerous and repulsive to us.’
we have to explain what we buried here and what would happen if they went looking, because if we don’t they’ll absolutely go looking. so the expert panel suggested including both a detailed message where we explain in scientific terms what radioactivity is, and one that says: ‘the danger is to the body, and it can kill. the form of the danger is an emanation of energy.’
star maps will be used to convey the passage of time, and we’re including instructions on what they mean and how to use them.
we have to explain that this fancy structure isn’t actually hiding anything interesting. i.e. the tomb of some great leader that’s filled with treasure. hence the part of the message that says: 'this place is not a place of honor. no highly esteemed deed is commemorated here. nothing valued is here.‘
but also we shouldn’t make it not interesting because there’s a lot of potential in designing the site so it develops deep cultural significance for future humans:
‘a monumental, intellectually stimulating system would enhance performance with higher probability than would a less energetic design based on minimal investment, thought at creativity. an oral tradition tethered to the marker system would emphasize (1) that it was designed to be the world’s longest lasting human artifact, (2) that it was intended as a gift to guard the health of future generations, and (3) that it is the world’s largest celestial ‘clock’ marking the millennia. hyperbole and altruism are strong themes in the world’s folk tales, songs and myths.’
and finally, part of the message: 'we have found it extremely difficult to imagine all the forms of human society and available technology that over the next 10,000 years might give people the desire and ability to intrude into the repository level and thus potentially bring great harm to themselves. nevertheless, we have done the best we can in the design of a marker system that will survive over this period, that will be understood by those who encounter it, and that will be effective in countering their natural curiosity to dig at such a uniquely marked and fascinating place.’
#what really gets me#what really really gets me about the proposed message#is ‘this is not a place of honor’#because it’s meant to be very practical i.e. you won’t find any treasure here so don’t dig it up#but to me it really reads like ‘this terrible thing is our fault and we’re sorry’ (via
vrabia)
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findingfeather:
shittydinosaurdrawings:
actualy that sleep dinosaur I posted earlier was a lie, a foul lie, i am sorry. here is an actual true dinosaur of me. i am foolish.
(click this link if you want to see the thing I’m working on)
i have had this feeling often with writing this week.
findingfeather:
shittydinosaurdrawings:
actualy that sleep dinosaur I posted earlier was a lie, a foul lie, i am sorry. here is an actual true dinosaur of me. i am foolish.
(click this link if you want to see the thing I’m working on)
i have had this feeling often with writing this week.
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bogleech:
bogleech:
bogleech:
Maybe this has been said a lot already but neither republicans nor democrats have done much of anything for most of my entire lifetime to help the poverty, decaying infrastructure, meager health care and failing education in southern and midwestern states but between the two of them the republicans keep securing votes from those areas by catering their flippant lies and false promises directly to those demographics. Nobody is going to defeat the right wing without beating them at that game and to beat them at that game they also have to actually make good on those promises and actually help the people whose living situations look like this:
Courage the Cowardly Dog didn’t make this shit up, WE used to live in what was practically this picture. The only civilization for an hour in any direction had mcdonalds, gas stations, dollar general and an extremely small, extremely pricey grocery store and those were your food choices unless you had a reliable car. Big corporations owned the miles and miles of farmland in all directions, dousing them with pesticides the entire town could smell all day. Inches of dust would cake to everything. Nobody had jobs unless they could afford the hour commute and even then what qualified as “the city” was more like a city’s walking corpse, businesses boarding up and fleeing to the coasts if their land wasn’t just bought up and leveled for more corn production.
There are millions of people stuck living this way and nobody is fucking doing anything about it.
Even on this website I see people just laugh about it and dismiss everyone out there as a bunch of white racists, as if their living conditions probably aren’t part of why some of them are so angry and ignorant and willing to vote a complete monster into the white house if he feeds them enough bullshit, as if there aren’t also lots of sweet and well meaning people stuck out there starving, as if there aren’t lots of marginalized people out there who have no support network or transportation or escape route, as if even the racists don’t have little innocent children who don’t know better and need a fucking chance to go to school and eat something other than pepsi and hot dogs if they’re ever going to break the cycle of hate they didn’t ask to be born into.
Hey congrats to those who looked at this and posted literally the exact same black-hearted classism it was decrying and which is fundamentally identical to how Trumpers themselves react to homeless people. Your confidence in your wretchedness is at least technically impressive.
I made a decision to not reblog anybody else in the notes, whichever side they’re on, but multiple people still responded to all this with “why don’t you just move!?!” and when called on it dug their heels in to keep sticking by that suggestion. I’ve deleted almost all of that so I don’t have to look at it anymore, but don’t worry, I literally went into every single one of their DM’s and bitched at them for it so none of y’all have to.
Let’s go over what “just moving away” entails:
Finding a new home for rent in your desired location and sending in an application, which itself often costs $50.
Having a positive credit score or hoping they’re just kind enough to not care about that.
Hoping they don’t choose someone else over you and just keep your $50, which is a high possibility because almost every livable home in a coastal city gets multiple applicants the entire time it’s on the market.
Proving you have and sometimes proving you WILL CONTINUE TO HAVE an income of more than the rent amount. In my area they demand two to three times the total rent amount.
Having half to all of the first month’s rent and a security deposit to offer up front, which if you’re lucky to find a decomposing slum might cost a bare minimum of $300 in total but is vastly more likely to cost $900 or more.
Having money to set up the water, electricity and other utilities for that first month if they aren’t included in the rental price.
Having the money to transport at least yourself. Even if we’re talking just one person with a few belongings by car or by plane that’s also going to be hundreds of dollars.
Hoping you can somehow secure a job long distance, secure one the very moment you get there, or be allowed to rent that apartment on the *promise* that you’ll find one in time to pay another month’s rent.
Hoping that the job even pays enough to do that at all.
Of course just to get the fucking job is a competition with potentially dozens of people and its own lengthy process. If you don’t find that miracle home that lets you rent a place jobless, you’re looking at spending more money you don’t have on hotels or living homeless for a while, growing dirtier and sicker and hungrier every day which all makes you look “undesirable” to employers.
So when you say “just move,” you’re telling people who live paycheck-to-paycheck, with maybe $50 “life savings,” to pull more money out of their ass than their entire family has possibly ever seen in one place and gamble it all on the slim hope that every step of this process will succeed without a single unexpected complication because if ANY part of it does, and it is almost certainly going to, then you might just lose even the option to crawl back to the rotten. leaking farmhouse you at least knew was safer than sleeping under a bridge.
I live on the edges of one of those coastal, hip liberal cities everybody flees to. We have an overwhelming homeless population. Someone is begging for money at almost every single intersection and parking lot. People sleep in tents in the woods until they give up and die. Thousands of them are people who became desperate enough one day to roll the dice and “jUsT mOvE”
bogleech:
bogleech:
bogleech:
Maybe this has been said a lot already but neither republicans nor democrats have done much of anything for most of my entire lifetime to help the poverty, decaying infrastructure, meager health care and failing education in southern and midwestern states but between the two of them the republicans keep securing votes from those areas by catering their flippant lies and false promises directly to those demographics. Nobody is going to defeat the right wing without beating them at that game and to beat them at that game they also have to actually make good on those promises and actually help the people whose living situations look like this:
Courage the Cowardly Dog didn’t make this shit up, WE used to live in what was practically this picture. The only civilization for an hour in any direction had mcdonalds, gas stations, dollar general and an extremely small, extremely pricey grocery store and those were your food choices unless you had a reliable car. Big corporations owned the miles and miles of farmland in all directions, dousing them with pesticides the entire town could smell all day. Inches of dust would cake to everything. Nobody had jobs unless they could afford the hour commute and even then what qualified as “the city” was more like a city’s walking corpse, businesses boarding up and fleeing to the coasts if their land wasn’t just bought up and leveled for more corn production.
There are millions of people stuck living this way and nobody is fucking doing anything about it.
Even on this website I see people just laugh about it and dismiss everyone out there as a bunch of white racists, as if their living conditions probably aren’t part of why some of them are so angry and ignorant and willing to vote a complete monster into the white house if he feeds them enough bullshit, as if there aren’t also lots of sweet and well meaning people stuck out there starving, as if there aren’t lots of marginalized people out there who have no support network or transportation or escape route, as if even the racists don’t have little innocent children who don’t know better and need a fucking chance to go to school and eat something other than pepsi and hot dogs if they’re ever going to break the cycle of hate they didn’t ask to be born into.
Hey congrats to those who looked at this and posted literally the exact same black-hearted classism it was decrying and which is fundamentally identical to how Trumpers themselves react to homeless people. Your confidence in your wretchedness is at least technically impressive.
I made a decision to not reblog anybody else in the notes, whichever side they’re on, but multiple people still responded to all this with “why don’t you just move!?!” and when called on it dug their heels in to keep sticking by that suggestion. I’ve deleted almost all of that so I don’t have to look at it anymore, but don’t worry, I literally went into every single one of their DM’s and bitched at them for it so none of y’all have to.
Let’s go over what “just moving away” entails:
Finding a new home for rent in your desired location and sending in an application, which itself often costs $50.
Having a positive credit score or hoping they’re just kind enough to not care about that.
Hoping they don’t choose someone else over you and just keep your $50, which is a high possibility because almost every livable home in a coastal city gets multiple applicants the entire time it’s on the market.
Proving you have and sometimes proving you WILL CONTINUE TO HAVE an income of more than the rent amount. In my area they demand two to three times the total rent amount.
Having half to all of the first month’s rent and a security deposit to offer up front, which if you’re lucky to find a decomposing slum might cost a bare minimum of $300 in total but is vastly more likely to cost $900 or more.
Having money to set up the water, electricity and other utilities for that first month if they aren’t included in the rental price.
Having the money to transport at least yourself. Even if we’re talking just one person with a few belongings by car or by plane that’s also going to be hundreds of dollars.
Hoping you can somehow secure a job long distance, secure one the very moment you get there, or be allowed to rent that apartment on the *promise* that you’ll find one in time to pay another month’s rent.
Hoping that the job even pays enough to do that at all.
Of course just to get the fucking job is a competition with potentially dozens of people and its own lengthy process. If you don’t find that miracle home that lets you rent a place jobless, you’re looking at spending more money you don’t have on hotels or living homeless for a while, growing dirtier and sicker and hungrier every day which all makes you look “undesirable” to employers.
So when you say “just move,” you’re telling people who live paycheck-to-paycheck, with maybe $50 “life savings,” to pull more money out of their ass than their entire family has possibly ever seen in one place and gamble it all on the slim hope that every step of this process will succeed without a single unexpected complication because if ANY part of it does, and it is almost certainly going to, then you might just lose even the option to crawl back to the rotten. leaking farmhouse you at least knew was safer than sleeping under a bridge.
I live on the edges of one of those coastal, hip liberal cities everybody flees to. We have an overwhelming homeless population. Someone is begging for money at almost every single intersection and parking lot. People sleep in tents in the woods until they give up and die. Thousands of them are people who became desperate enough one day to roll the dice and “jUsT mOvE”