Unsurprisingly, the Hobby Lobby decision is already being used well past what the Court claimed was its narrow ruling.
The group They Might Be Giants, who I was first exposed to on Tiny Toon Adventures, are offering live performances of the first album they released for free. "Minimum Wage" is still enough of an audio cue to remind me of certain high school tests...
Passing through a space delineator, like a doorway, may caush the flushing of certain memories, making it easier to forget why you changed from one room to another.
Let's do some art. Because the creation of art has benefits, including building resilience and stress relief. When it's something like embroidered panels of Calvin and Hobbes cartoons, there's happiness all around.
The world of mythological creatures is more expansive than our literature would normally suggest.
xkcd suggests that when we find other people lacking, it is our own perception and expectations that are being disappointed, not that other people are particularly lacking. So we're quite happy to read about the people who do Cards Against Humanity apologizing for a transphobic card in earlier printings, and revealing that they change out cards when they realize cards are punching down instead of punching up, and gamer editors understanding the depth of casual sexism present in the community, and that they are contributing to it, which means they do better than many of the standard responses to discovering prejudice, discrimination, and -isms in your backyard. Have we mentioned yet that television and movies are clearly documenting that shows about strong women will succeed, even though this documentation isn't moving the needle a single iota on the conventional wisdom that women will never sell? Or pointed out how facile an argument it is for conservatives to hate footie and call it not a real sport, and, by extension, the cosmpolitan attitudes of the younger generation? (Blame Canada! Blame Canada!)
Need a break. Enjoy some eye candy while reading satire about how male sexual clothing causes marital issues.
And we're back, with an understanding that what constitutes beauty changes from one country to another, using the body as canvas to create art that glows in black light, although I note all the featured pictures are women's bodies, and vintage photographs of gay and lesbian relationships.
Facebook conducted research by altering News Feeds to see if, by changing the posts others see, they could affect the moods of users. And published the results - it appears you can influence emotion in such a way. This particular study has a lot of people very upset that Facebook claimed it could do this to its users without informing them of the plan and collecting their explicit consent. Researcher danah boyd considers the outrage to be public outcry about corporate ethics, which deserves a serious conversation, instead of one-stop shopping at things like an IRB for corporate research.
Several Massachusetts Special Weapons And Tactics teams claim they are private corporations and immune to public record requests...while also collecting taxpayer money, exercising law authority, and functioning as a government entity.
Regrettably, even after the Supreme Court said phones are protected under the Fourth Amendment, the government can still easily spy on your communications in secret. Likely because The Supreme Court requires large amounts of technology instruction, as well as needing to let go of analogies to predigital technologies.
Herd immunity is a thing, and when you have a population with low vaccination rates, outbreaks can happen from even one unvaccinated child.
Applications that auction vacant parking spaces in the city of San Francisco are receiving cease-and-desist notices from the city attorney for engaging in illegal activities. The creators and defenders of such applications claim they are only selling information about a soon-to-be-open space, or that private parties are conducting a transaction regarding efficiency.
The CEO of American Apparel was dismissed from his position for causes involving improper behavior, misuse of corporate funds, and attempting to keep all of it quiet with payments and hush money. The CEO was costing the company too much money and notoriety, so he had to go.
Collective action is the tide that lifts all boats, regardless of what revisionists of history wasn't us to believe. So tell us what would a feminist-oriented crowdfunding site look like?
There now exists a device to assist women in performing pelvic floor exercises that measures the effectiveness of the exercise and communicates that data back to a smartphone application. Feedback from the device intends to improve the technique of the exercise.
One does not alleviate a gender gap in professions line technology by imbuing the tech with coded-female colors in an attempt to get more women. One alleviates the gender gap by making the environment welcoming, the pay equal, and by stomping hard on mindsets that suggest women are lesser and must work twice as hard to be seen as equal. Or by treating female fans exactly as you would male fans, including all the drills and all the coach encouragement and everything else.
Disabled students are not finishing college, often due to buildings that are inaccessible and faculty that do not accommodate, even when they are required to, as well as the prevailing narrative that insists disability is an individual problem, and something to be overcome.
This piece is a stellar example of Othering and exoticizing an asexual, making them into something weird and deviant and somehow wrong. Instead, realize that ace people exist, can form healthy relationships with allosexuals, and are not immune from assault, either. They are, just as you are.
Blaming the presence of complaints about triggering content everywhere on oversensitive youngsters does not make for good arguments, especially not when trying to make an economic theory fit a social issue. Especially when even a cursory step outside a privilege bubble reveals that most people experience plenty of harm, danger, and trauma in relation to their identities, with the attendant issues that accompany being triggered by content.
Transracial adoptions of kids of color by white families produce significant issues, because kids out of the culture their skin color suggests can't always get back in because of mistrust of their white parents. Which leaves the kids getting the culure of their parents and not the one people assume they have or need because of their skin color.
A new study suggests the annual gynecological pelvic examination for women may not have any actual medical benefit or basis. Although, it may be a useful vehicle for conversation about other health issues, but it also runs the risk of being triggering or problematic for abuse or adult victims.
Some things on our need to keep our mental state healthy -![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
kaberett leads with the trick of not making the problem bigger when it appears, which is really quite difficult to do when in the middle of the problem. umadoshi linked to The Book of Jubilation, which chronicles many things related to therapy and being a therapist. Starting with a point regarding the absolute variability of normal, going through how everyone, including therapists, should get therapy if they need it, (even if there's a very real possibility that admitting you got help will make people uncomfortable around you)and then landing at how stoicism in families is not good for fostering support in families, and, for that matter, neither is telling those stories from childhood that are funny only because they rely on the victim being too dumb to realize it. Which gives some insight into why I don't like certain stories to be told.
What I found best, though, is the understanding that praise may be the last thing that a person needs, after validation and encouragement, to have a positive self-image.
Neil deGrasse Tyson, most recently of Cosmos fame, had a strongly athletic background, including the creation of a wrestling move based on physics, the Double Tidal Lock.
Tips for improving the quantity of kudos and comments on your fanfiction endeavors. If you're a person who enjoys fandom, published authors think fandom is great, even if they aren't able to read your work until they aren't writing in that universe anymore. If you're struggling, understand how others are, too, even the highly successful ones, and build a community that boosts each other while trying not to get bored down in jealousy.
Last for tonight, passion is important, but if passion consumes your life, it is important to step back. And possibly do things to help you maintain your happy, productive life, instead of driving yourself into the ground trying to be all writer, all the time.
Monster cookies.
Oh, and sometimes, the easiest way to get out of a low mood is to do a thing that is doable, so, congratulations, you've read the whole post. That makes you awesome all by itself. Have a poem, that's really more of an affirmation or an oath, and one that I strive toward all the days of my life. It's byjjhunter.
The group They Might Be Giants, who I was first exposed to on Tiny Toon Adventures, are offering live performances of the first album they released for free. "Minimum Wage" is still enough of an audio cue to remind me of certain high school tests...
Passing through a space delineator, like a doorway, may caush the flushing of certain memories, making it easier to forget why you changed from one room to another.
Let's do some art. Because the creation of art has benefits, including building resilience and stress relief. When it's something like embroidered panels of Calvin and Hobbes cartoons, there's happiness all around.
The world of mythological creatures is more expansive than our literature would normally suggest.
xkcd suggests that when we find other people lacking, it is our own perception and expectations that are being disappointed, not that other people are particularly lacking. So we're quite happy to read about the people who do Cards Against Humanity apologizing for a transphobic card in earlier printings, and revealing that they change out cards when they realize cards are punching down instead of punching up, and gamer editors understanding the depth of casual sexism present in the community, and that they are contributing to it, which means they do better than many of the standard responses to discovering prejudice, discrimination, and -isms in your backyard. Have we mentioned yet that television and movies are clearly documenting that shows about strong women will succeed, even though this documentation isn't moving the needle a single iota on the conventional wisdom that women will never sell? Or pointed out how facile an argument it is for conservatives to hate footie and call it not a real sport, and, by extension, the cosmpolitan attitudes of the younger generation? (Blame Canada! Blame Canada!)
Need a break. Enjoy some eye candy while reading satire about how male sexual clothing causes marital issues.
And we're back, with an understanding that what constitutes beauty changes from one country to another, using the body as canvas to create art that glows in black light, although I note all the featured pictures are women's bodies, and vintage photographs of gay and lesbian relationships.
Facebook conducted research by altering News Feeds to see if, by changing the posts others see, they could affect the moods of users. And published the results - it appears you can influence emotion in such a way. This particular study has a lot of people very upset that Facebook claimed it could do this to its users without informing them of the plan and collecting their explicit consent. Researcher danah boyd considers the outrage to be public outcry about corporate ethics, which deserves a serious conversation, instead of one-stop shopping at things like an IRB for corporate research.
Several Massachusetts Special Weapons And Tactics teams claim they are private corporations and immune to public record requests...while also collecting taxpayer money, exercising law authority, and functioning as a government entity.
Regrettably, even after the Supreme Court said phones are protected under the Fourth Amendment, the government can still easily spy on your communications in secret. Likely because The Supreme Court requires large amounts of technology instruction, as well as needing to let go of analogies to predigital technologies.
Herd immunity is a thing, and when you have a population with low vaccination rates, outbreaks can happen from even one unvaccinated child.
Applications that auction vacant parking spaces in the city of San Francisco are receiving cease-and-desist notices from the city attorney for engaging in illegal activities. The creators and defenders of such applications claim they are only selling information about a soon-to-be-open space, or that private parties are conducting a transaction regarding efficiency.
The CEO of American Apparel was dismissed from his position for causes involving improper behavior, misuse of corporate funds, and attempting to keep all of it quiet with payments and hush money. The CEO was costing the company too much money and notoriety, so he had to go.
Collective action is the tide that lifts all boats, regardless of what revisionists of history wasn't us to believe. So tell us what would a feminist-oriented crowdfunding site look like?
There now exists a device to assist women in performing pelvic floor exercises that measures the effectiveness of the exercise and communicates that data back to a smartphone application. Feedback from the device intends to improve the technique of the exercise.
One does not alleviate a gender gap in professions line technology by imbuing the tech with coded-female colors in an attempt to get more women. One alleviates the gender gap by making the environment welcoming, the pay equal, and by stomping hard on mindsets that suggest women are lesser and must work twice as hard to be seen as equal. Or by treating female fans exactly as you would male fans, including all the drills and all the coach encouragement and everything else.
Disabled students are not finishing college, often due to buildings that are inaccessible and faculty that do not accommodate, even when they are required to, as well as the prevailing narrative that insists disability is an individual problem, and something to be overcome.
This piece is a stellar example of Othering and exoticizing an asexual, making them into something weird and deviant and somehow wrong. Instead, realize that ace people exist, can form healthy relationships with allosexuals, and are not immune from assault, either. They are, just as you are.
Blaming the presence of complaints about triggering content everywhere on oversensitive youngsters does not make for good arguments, especially not when trying to make an economic theory fit a social issue. Especially when even a cursory step outside a privilege bubble reveals that most people experience plenty of harm, danger, and trauma in relation to their identities, with the attendant issues that accompany being triggered by content.
Transracial adoptions of kids of color by white families produce significant issues, because kids out of the culture their skin color suggests can't always get back in because of mistrust of their white parents. Which leaves the kids getting the culure of their parents and not the one people assume they have or need because of their skin color.
A new study suggests the annual gynecological pelvic examination for women may not have any actual medical benefit or basis. Although, it may be a useful vehicle for conversation about other health issues, but it also runs the risk of being triggering or problematic for abuse or adult victims.
Some things on our need to keep our mental state healthy -
kaberett leads with the trick of not making the problem bigger when it appears, which is really quite difficult to do when in the middle of the problem. umadoshi linked to The Book of Jubilation, which chronicles many things related to therapy and being a therapist. Starting with a point regarding the absolute variability of normal, going through how everyone, including therapists, should get therapy if they need it, (even if there's a very real possibility that admitting you got help will make people uncomfortable around you)and then landing at how stoicism in families is not good for fostering support in families, and, for that matter, neither is telling those stories from childhood that are funny only because they rely on the victim being too dumb to realize it. Which gives some insight into why I don't like certain stories to be told.What I found best, though, is the understanding that praise may be the last thing that a person needs, after validation and encouragement, to have a positive self-image.
Neil deGrasse Tyson, most recently of Cosmos fame, had a strongly athletic background, including the creation of a wrestling move based on physics, the Double Tidal Lock.
Tips for improving the quantity of kudos and comments on your fanfiction endeavors. If you're a person who enjoys fandom, published authors think fandom is great, even if they aren't able to read your work until they aren't writing in that universe anymore. If you're struggling, understand how others are, too, even the highly successful ones, and build a community that boosts each other while trying not to get bored down in jealousy.
Last for tonight, passion is important, but if passion consumes your life, it is important to step back. And possibly do things to help you maintain your happy, productive life, instead of driving yourself into the ground trying to be all writer, all the time.
Monster cookies.
Oh, and sometimes, the easiest way to get out of a low mood is to do a thing that is doable, so, congratulations, you've read the whole post. That makes you awesome all by itself. Have a poem, that's really more of an affirmation or an oath, and one that I strive toward all the days of my life. It's by
jjhunter.
