Let's start with Dragons! Really Lovely Dragons!
And then, human-sized wings.
This is interesting - conventions of comic book balloon and lettering, so that you can understand tone, vocal inflection, and whether or not the speaker is on the camera. Very neat.
Your public library is a space of potential, available to you without too many restrictions. That's what makes the library powerful. The resources are there to be a potential to more people and to help turn potential to action. Everyone uses the library the same way, everyone users the library in different ways.
(Maybe we should buy a toy that let's children attempt automobile engine repair and maintenance.)
Research and analysis done with computers has a reproducibility problem, but by shifting to publishing scripts and raw data along with papers, it becomes more possible to reproduce an experiment. Plus, how you count influences your data, which can mean entire swaths of relevant population are excluded if you choose your sample set unwisely.
Information and recipes regarding pies and their baking.
From there, a summary of the monster that was the Emotional Labor thread on Metafilter. It runs about 63 pages.
A listing of one person's personal saints, those people that helped her come to acceptance and that showed the way they wanted to take. For contrast, the idea that everyone might need an agent to deliver bad news and other hurtful things for them, so everyone can feel like they're good people.
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untonuggan is doing a great thing - putting together a blog / zine / other about being disabled with help from the community. Whatever you feel you can do, please do. There's a lot of contributing, editing, and other things that could use people.
jennett reviews a book purportedly about modern witchcraft practice, but that is much more about the author than the practice, which does the book exactly zero favors and makes it mostly unsuitable for anyone seriously seeking and not very helpful to even the passingly curious.
Since it assists to have taken a lot of my reading list (and the country) by storm, a Smithsonian profile of Hamilton and the creator of the musical of the same name and the experience of the phenomenon from the perspective of those who write and direct it, as well as an insightful remark about at being one of the best weapons available against -isms. If only we had a robust public domain and rules that didn't require a court case to find out whether or not the use of someone else's material to make your point was okay or not...
The TSA is not even particularly good at security, with up to 95% of weapons not being detected in tests.
Anonymous is releasing the names of members of the Ku Klux Klan and related organizations. Cue panic among avowed racists. Anonymous claimed the outing is revenge for comments made and actions taken during the Ferguson protest.
Coordinated terror attacks in Paris prompted more than a few responses. Clowns suggested the need for a registry of Muslims, which should ring alarm bells for yellow-starred reasons, as well as it being unsound tactics to do your opponent's work for them. Other clowns thought it appropriate to insist that no refugees be brought from places where terror training camps are, which should ring those same warning bells.
Effective strategy in dealing with such entities might be learning their ideology, then enacting a method by which it could be destroyed. Some of those solutions will cost lives. Understanding will be essential to effective solutions. Better that we could find ways of avoiding adding strength to radical groups, so that mothers do not have waking nightmares that they can only fight back against through activism. Or so that extremists, wherever they may be found, are given a very firm statement that their ideas are unwelcome.
livhas a link set of further perspectives.
Stories about being saved by religion promote exaggeration and lies, because the audience really wants to hear stories with steep drops and tall mountains to climb.
Living with your friends is a good thing - being in the company of people you like and that like you is a good.
The creator of software that helps build phylogenetic trees banned the use of his software in countries that accept refugees, forcing the retraction of papers that used the software. Which is another good reason to only use software and scripts that are open source and licensed for use by anyone in scientific research - just in case the proprietary software becomes unusable.
A protest in San Francisco attempted to accelerate the time scale of the city's adoption of a $15 per hour minimum wage, calling on businesses such as McDonald's to pay their workers more now. Wal-Mart could certainly do better - their low wages result in an additional 6.2 billion dollars spent on public assistance programs so that their workers can make it to a bare minimum of living.
A police shooting in Minneapolis has demonstrations and protests against city officials, as witnesses to the event claimed the person shot was in handcuffs and not resisting when attacked.
The campus of the University of Missouri has had an active fall, with threats, concerns, and changes at the top of the university's power structures, based mostly in those same structures not listening to student concerns about health and safety.
Queer witches are rather scary to the current society, because they aren't just subversive, they posit the existence of a world without even the need for men. Considering that some television can't stand the thought of a masculinity that plays with women and dresses in faerie costumes, the idea of no men at all would be terrifying. As is the idea that women should be compensated for everything they do, including the things that have no job description. The creators of #giveyourmoneytowomen expand on this idea of compensating women for every interaction and how capital is set up to put women in a position of depending on men, rather than demanding from men. It can be difficult to grapple with the idea, because the brain can construct any number of plausible scenarios where applying this idea would result in significant changes to social interactions, but figuring out whether that's just the privilege or whether it would be truly harmful is a tricky untangling, because a lot of those things that would become explicit transactions are things that favor the privileged right now. If being femme is an act of defiance against society, then clearly things need to change. If women aren't being allowed to express anger at being kept in the dark, then things need to change. If a woman's age determines how other people view her competence, then this still need changing.
If children's book authors and illustrators can change to meet current reality, and comic creators can make worlds where women are the primary superheroes, then it shouldn't be too difficult for everyone else to do the same, right? Except that writing things that become commercially successful is almost always an exercise in pandering to an audience of white men, even though there are clearly other audiences out there that deserve both writers and stories aimed at them. Should you be part of those audiences, though, expect nothing but scorn and disdain for your reading choices from critics.
Sir Ian McKellen talks about coming out again and again and again. And for him, it's a relatively safe thing to do - he's a famous actor and a gay man. For others, it's not that easy - Jack Monroe detailed their coming out process, with all the agonizing, support, and deadnaming involved. And then there's the part where all feminism is intersectional, and therefore needs to be inclusive as much as it can.
Book suggests many educated women aren't finding dates because there aren't enough educated men to meet their preferences. Also, educated women who do get husbands are expected to shelve their own career ambitions in favor of their husband's, and of course, they'll also be expected to do childcare. So on the one hand, single women will be unhappy because they're too picky, but if they get someone, they'll be unhappy as well, as they don't get the egalitarian marriage they were hoping for. Sounds like a really good case to just date and have casual sex until the career is established well enough to go after any men, if men are wanted.
The pressures of money and events like the Olympic Games are driving out small shop owners, bar proprietors, and the residents and houses that make some of Tokyo's oldest districts unique in character.
The translation of Ancillary Justice into other languages required some careful thought and consideration to convey the idea behind the choice of gendered pronouns for the grand majority of conversations.
The proposed Trans Pacific Partnership treaty would impose the basics of United States copyright law on other countries as a contingency of joining the treaty.
What constitutes heroism is culturally informed, and a large amount of that assumes ability is a necessary requirement. Which I will put next to a review of Jessica Jones and its secret superhero characters for no obvious reason. (And then add in links to guides for skipping triggering parts of Jessica Jones and interviews with Melissa Rosenberg and Krysten Ritter.)
Your worth is not measured in the amount of time you spend working. Your intelligence may manifest in some of your lack of tidiness. And Crayola is making coloring books for adults.
If you haven't been watching Elementary, this episode review has a few good reasons why it might be with picking it up from the start, because the show doesn't take lightly a lot of things that other procedurals wouldn't actually get near. Supergirl is also doing quite well, providing lots of actually strong female characters for the audience. And if they can just get back on the air long enough, Person of Interest will have a great couple in Root and Shaw for Season 5. (Also, spoilers for the Season 4 finale.)
Neurotic Neurons, an explanation of how anxiety can reinforce itself. That said, since Cognitive Behavioral Therapy is great for those who want to hack their own brains, it is possible to use it as a method for breaking the anxious loop. A study suggests your ideal therapist has lots of self-compassion, but also has doubts about whether they are being effective, which is rare enough in people as it is.
A model of various forms of wellness, according to the University of Pittsburgh.
Serial Box will deliver you installations of various serials, for a monthly fee. One if the standout pieces for this right now is Bookburners, a piece about the organizations that spring up to handle otherworldly threats...and then become concerned with their own continued existence.
Speaking of serial storytelling, all hail the blanket that summarizes the epic that was Alternity.
Also, one method by which one might build a novel or other story, writer's block is sometimes full-on depression, and suggestions that story twists be geared toward messing around with characters rather than the audience.
and Julie Czerneda on the process by which neologisms and names enter fiction.
Time interviews Randall Munroe, creator of xkcd and What If?, who provides his responses in the form of comics. Which I put next to the history of how successfully people have put human beings through the post mostly because it's the same level of weird.
Jokes only feminists will understand? Only if everyone else is woefully ignorant of humor. It's like believing a tattooed woman pastor is somehow a sort of unique thing. A closer set of jokes might be skewering comic book heroine costumes for the impractical outfits they are.
Situations outside normal social rules can generate anxiety, because the lack of convention can make any move seem magnificently wrong. which is how one can end up a wallflower at an event. (If you're an event organizer, this story is why you should have ambassadors whose job it is to look for people who may be wallflowers or shy about participation and explicitly invite them to participate. It gives those who are hesitant an opportunity to get in, and those who are staying out for reasons an opportunity to know where your quiet room is.)
Improbable coincidences help us find meaning in the sea of randomness, but also remind us that we can't actually control everything. They can also help us realize what the cores of our beliefs are, and how a surprising number of them involve the importance of people. To the point where sometimes heroism comes from telling a person that things are going to be okay, even when everything is falling down around them. And remember again that happiness declines until middle age and then rises again as we finally shed our unreasonable expectations.
To posit the universality of your own beliefs and commodities is only half of understanding. The other half is in positing the universality of someone else's beliefs and commodities. Because the latter provides necessary perspective. Technology facilitates social interactions with people we want to hang out with, instead of confining us to our geography, even though it will be decried as contributing to a lack of real communication. And it also means burgers have Tinder profiles.
Being king sometimes happens in addition to your work as an automobile mechanic...in another country.
Indianapolis put the profit of selling its public utilities into making the city more walkable and bike friendly. At least, specific parts of it in the urban concentration, anyway. This is good, though - less car pollution in dense areas is happy-making.
If you want to know who will be the eventual nominees for the two major political parties in the United States, you...have to wait, as early polling cannot predict a thing.
it is now possible to obtain a kotatsu that seats just one, instead of a standard size intended for four.
Halcyon Maps, purveyors of fine infographics at large sizes. Additionally, great fairy and mythology art, a spot-on parody of advertisements meant to make women feel empowered about themselves and thus, buy products, a woman taking pictures of how a woman feels after a double mastectomy, color photographs of 1928 England, a tumblr mashup combining Peanuts characters with lyrics to songs by The Smiths, now with one! One spurious takedown notice, ah-ah-ah, cultures that use language to describe smell without source objects, the special situations of Celt history that produce the structural oddity that is the English language, emoji that convey very different meaning depending on the phone receiving them, beginning terminology for fans of manga, Studio Ghibli products for your Miyazaki fan, and the falling leaves of an ancient ginkgo tree.
Pictures of wolves, Lovecraftian typewriters, reintroduction efforts for the last properly wild horse, a guinea pig rental service so that the social animals stay with companionship, an octopus drawn only with discarded ballpoint pens, recreating childhood drawings, cats that have no respect at all for personal space, adorable white liger cubs, the perfect kingfisher picture, the ways that nature is curious about nature photographers, and the stress-relief properties of boxes on cats.
Last for tonight, costumes involving babies that are incredibly cute, 100 years of the King Features Syndicate and their comics, CANADA!, another instance of the Scunthorpe Problem - Phuc Dat Bich, and Carrie Fisher may have had a hand in making some of the memorable movies of your life better by doctoring up their scripts.
And then, human-sized wings.
This is interesting - conventions of comic book balloon and lettering, so that you can understand tone, vocal inflection, and whether or not the speaker is on the camera. Very neat.
Your public library is a space of potential, available to you without too many restrictions. That's what makes the library powerful. The resources are there to be a potential to more people and to help turn potential to action. Everyone uses the library the same way, everyone users the library in different ways.
(Maybe we should buy a toy that let's children attempt automobile engine repair and maintenance.)
Research and analysis done with computers has a reproducibility problem, but by shifting to publishing scripts and raw data along with papers, it becomes more possible to reproduce an experiment. Plus, how you count influences your data, which can mean entire swaths of relevant population are excluded if you choose your sample set unwisely.
Information and recipes regarding pies and their baking.
From there, a summary of the monster that was the Emotional Labor thread on Metafilter. It runs about 63 pages.
A listing of one person's personal saints, those people that helped her come to acceptance and that showed the way they wanted to take. For contrast, the idea that everyone might need an agent to deliver bad news and other hurtful things for them, so everyone can feel like they're good people.
untonuggan is doing a great thing - putting together a blog / zine / other about being disabled with help from the community. Whatever you feel you can do, please do. There's a lot of contributing, editing, and other things that could use people.jennett reviews a book purportedly about modern witchcraft practice, but that is much more about the author than the practice, which does the book exactly zero favors and makes it mostly unsuitable for anyone seriously seeking and not very helpful to even the passingly curious.Since it assists to have taken a lot of my reading list (and the country) by storm, a Smithsonian profile of Hamilton and the creator of the musical of the same name and the experience of the phenomenon from the perspective of those who write and direct it, as well as an insightful remark about at being one of the best weapons available against -isms. If only we had a robust public domain and rules that didn't require a court case to find out whether or not the use of someone else's material to make your point was okay or not...
The TSA is not even particularly good at security, with up to 95% of weapons not being detected in tests.
Anonymous is releasing the names of members of the Ku Klux Klan and related organizations. Cue panic among avowed racists. Anonymous claimed the outing is revenge for comments made and actions taken during the Ferguson protest.
Coordinated terror attacks in Paris prompted more than a few responses. Clowns suggested the need for a registry of Muslims, which should ring alarm bells for yellow-starred reasons, as well as it being unsound tactics to do your opponent's work for them. Other clowns thought it appropriate to insist that no refugees be brought from places where terror training camps are, which should ring those same warning bells.
Effective strategy in dealing with such entities might be learning their ideology, then enacting a method by which it could be destroyed. Some of those solutions will cost lives. Understanding will be essential to effective solutions. Better that we could find ways of avoiding adding strength to radical groups, so that mothers do not have waking nightmares that they can only fight back against through activism. Or so that extremists, wherever they may be found, are given a very firm statement that their ideas are unwelcome.
livhas a link set of further perspectives.Stories about being saved by religion promote exaggeration and lies, because the audience really wants to hear stories with steep drops and tall mountains to climb.
Living with your friends is a good thing - being in the company of people you like and that like you is a good.
The creator of software that helps build phylogenetic trees banned the use of his software in countries that accept refugees, forcing the retraction of papers that used the software. Which is another good reason to only use software and scripts that are open source and licensed for use by anyone in scientific research - just in case the proprietary software becomes unusable.
A protest in San Francisco attempted to accelerate the time scale of the city's adoption of a $15 per hour minimum wage, calling on businesses such as McDonald's to pay their workers more now. Wal-Mart could certainly do better - their low wages result in an additional 6.2 billion dollars spent on public assistance programs so that their workers can make it to a bare minimum of living.
A police shooting in Minneapolis has demonstrations and protests against city officials, as witnesses to the event claimed the person shot was in handcuffs and not resisting when attacked.
The campus of the University of Missouri has had an active fall, with threats, concerns, and changes at the top of the university's power structures, based mostly in those same structures not listening to student concerns about health and safety.
Queer witches are rather scary to the current society, because they aren't just subversive, they posit the existence of a world without even the need for men. Considering that some television can't stand the thought of a masculinity that plays with women and dresses in faerie costumes, the idea of no men at all would be terrifying. As is the idea that women should be compensated for everything they do, including the things that have no job description. The creators of #giveyourmoneytowomen expand on this idea of compensating women for every interaction and how capital is set up to put women in a position of depending on men, rather than demanding from men. It can be difficult to grapple with the idea, because the brain can construct any number of plausible scenarios where applying this idea would result in significant changes to social interactions, but figuring out whether that's just the privilege or whether it would be truly harmful is a tricky untangling, because a lot of those things that would become explicit transactions are things that favor the privileged right now. If being femme is an act of defiance against society, then clearly things need to change. If women aren't being allowed to express anger at being kept in the dark, then things need to change. If a woman's age determines how other people view her competence, then this still need changing.
If children's book authors and illustrators can change to meet current reality, and comic creators can make worlds where women are the primary superheroes, then it shouldn't be too difficult for everyone else to do the same, right? Except that writing things that become commercially successful is almost always an exercise in pandering to an audience of white men, even though there are clearly other audiences out there that deserve both writers and stories aimed at them. Should you be part of those audiences, though, expect nothing but scorn and disdain for your reading choices from critics.
Sir Ian McKellen talks about coming out again and again and again. And for him, it's a relatively safe thing to do - he's a famous actor and a gay man. For others, it's not that easy - Jack Monroe detailed their coming out process, with all the agonizing, support, and deadnaming involved. And then there's the part where all feminism is intersectional, and therefore needs to be inclusive as much as it can.
Book suggests many educated women aren't finding dates because there aren't enough educated men to meet their preferences. Also, educated women who do get husbands are expected to shelve their own career ambitions in favor of their husband's, and of course, they'll also be expected to do childcare. So on the one hand, single women will be unhappy because they're too picky, but if they get someone, they'll be unhappy as well, as they don't get the egalitarian marriage they were hoping for. Sounds like a really good case to just date and have casual sex until the career is established well enough to go after any men, if men are wanted.
The pressures of money and events like the Olympic Games are driving out small shop owners, bar proprietors, and the residents and houses that make some of Tokyo's oldest districts unique in character.
The translation of Ancillary Justice into other languages required some careful thought and consideration to convey the idea behind the choice of gendered pronouns for the grand majority of conversations.
The proposed Trans Pacific Partnership treaty would impose the basics of United States copyright law on other countries as a contingency of joining the treaty.
What constitutes heroism is culturally informed, and a large amount of that assumes ability is a necessary requirement. Which I will put next to a review of Jessica Jones and its secret superhero characters for no obvious reason. (And then add in links to guides for skipping triggering parts of Jessica Jones and interviews with Melissa Rosenberg and Krysten Ritter.)
Your worth is not measured in the amount of time you spend working. Your intelligence may manifest in some of your lack of tidiness. And Crayola is making coloring books for adults.
If you haven't been watching Elementary, this episode review has a few good reasons why it might be with picking it up from the start, because the show doesn't take lightly a lot of things that other procedurals wouldn't actually get near. Supergirl is also doing quite well, providing lots of actually strong female characters for the audience. And if they can just get back on the air long enough, Person of Interest will have a great couple in Root and Shaw for Season 5. (Also, spoilers for the Season 4 finale.)
Neurotic Neurons, an explanation of how anxiety can reinforce itself. That said, since Cognitive Behavioral Therapy is great for those who want to hack their own brains, it is possible to use it as a method for breaking the anxious loop. A study suggests your ideal therapist has lots of self-compassion, but also has doubts about whether they are being effective, which is rare enough in people as it is.
A model of various forms of wellness, according to the University of Pittsburgh.
Serial Box will deliver you installations of various serials, for a monthly fee. One if the standout pieces for this right now is Bookburners, a piece about the organizations that spring up to handle otherworldly threats...and then become concerned with their own continued existence.
Speaking of serial storytelling, all hail the blanket that summarizes the epic that was Alternity.
Also, one method by which one might build a novel or other story, writer's block is sometimes full-on depression, and suggestions that story twists be geared toward messing around with characters rather than the audience.
and Julie Czerneda on the process by which neologisms and names enter fiction.
Time interviews Randall Munroe, creator of xkcd and What If?, who provides his responses in the form of comics. Which I put next to the history of how successfully people have put human beings through the post mostly because it's the same level of weird.
Jokes only feminists will understand? Only if everyone else is woefully ignorant of humor. It's like believing a tattooed woman pastor is somehow a sort of unique thing. A closer set of jokes might be skewering comic book heroine costumes for the impractical outfits they are.
Situations outside normal social rules can generate anxiety, because the lack of convention can make any move seem magnificently wrong. which is how one can end up a wallflower at an event. (If you're an event organizer, this story is why you should have ambassadors whose job it is to look for people who may be wallflowers or shy about participation and explicitly invite them to participate. It gives those who are hesitant an opportunity to get in, and those who are staying out for reasons an opportunity to know where your quiet room is.)
Improbable coincidences help us find meaning in the sea of randomness, but also remind us that we can't actually control everything. They can also help us realize what the cores of our beliefs are, and how a surprising number of them involve the importance of people. To the point where sometimes heroism comes from telling a person that things are going to be okay, even when everything is falling down around them. And remember again that happiness declines until middle age and then rises again as we finally shed our unreasonable expectations.
To posit the universality of your own beliefs and commodities is only half of understanding. The other half is in positing the universality of someone else's beliefs and commodities. Because the latter provides necessary perspective. Technology facilitates social interactions with people we want to hang out with, instead of confining us to our geography, even though it will be decried as contributing to a lack of real communication. And it also means burgers have Tinder profiles.
Being king sometimes happens in addition to your work as an automobile mechanic...in another country.
Indianapolis put the profit of selling its public utilities into making the city more walkable and bike friendly. At least, specific parts of it in the urban concentration, anyway. This is good, though - less car pollution in dense areas is happy-making.
If you want to know who will be the eventual nominees for the two major political parties in the United States, you...have to wait, as early polling cannot predict a thing.
it is now possible to obtain a kotatsu that seats just one, instead of a standard size intended for four.
Halcyon Maps, purveyors of fine infographics at large sizes. Additionally, great fairy and mythology art, a spot-on parody of advertisements meant to make women feel empowered about themselves and thus, buy products, a woman taking pictures of how a woman feels after a double mastectomy, color photographs of 1928 England, a tumblr mashup combining Peanuts characters with lyrics to songs by The Smiths, now with one! One spurious takedown notice, ah-ah-ah, cultures that use language to describe smell without source objects, the special situations of Celt history that produce the structural oddity that is the English language, emoji that convey very different meaning depending on the phone receiving them, beginning terminology for fans of manga, Studio Ghibli products for your Miyazaki fan, and the falling leaves of an ancient ginkgo tree.
Pictures of wolves, Lovecraftian typewriters, reintroduction efforts for the last properly wild horse, a guinea pig rental service so that the social animals stay with companionship, an octopus drawn only with discarded ballpoint pens, recreating childhood drawings, cats that have no respect at all for personal space, adorable white liger cubs, the perfect kingfisher picture, the ways that nature is curious about nature photographers, and the stress-relief properties of boxes on cats.
Last for tonight, costumes involving babies that are incredibly cute, 100 years of the King Features Syndicate and their comics, CANADA!, another instance of the Scunthorpe Problem - Phuc Dat Bich, and Carrie Fisher may have had a hand in making some of the memorable movies of your life better by doctoring up their scripts.
