Let's start this post with twelve things you can do instead of involving the police. Most of which are things that work on the principle that things that don't have direct victims don't need cops. The others tend to be "cops are terrible at crisis resolution, whether medical, mental, or vehicular," and "most problems can be resolved by knowing your neighbors and asking them to do or not do things." The police are the violence arm of the State and almost always of white supremacy, and should only be invoked as such.
Attempting to frame religion as separated from culture, as most Christians (and culturally Christian atheists) do, is a framing that tries to invisibilize Christian culture. Because culture is not modular, as the post title points out, and beliefs and practices about the world and our place in it cannot be easily separated out into things that involve solely the divine, the numinous, and the liminal and things that solely involve humans, other beings, and the material.
Please continue to treat any password you used with LiveJournal as irrevocably compromised, even if LiveJournal refuses to admit any security breaches, and change it on any site where you are still using a password that has been used on LiveJournal.
( And an entire large lot of more, inside. )
Last out, reasons why archive digitize materials, and what is most likely to be digitized, and how what's digitized always is and is almost always likely to be a tiny fraction of the available material.
It's the tenth anniversary of the Finkbeiner Test, where a work passes if they can write about a woman prominent in her field without making it seem like she's a woman first and prominent in her field second.
And a tour of place names that have evolved from their original selves into filthy-sounding places. Includes vandals (obviously), memento-seekers (ditto), and the people who are trying to make sure those place names stay exactly as they are, despite all the nonsense.
Truly finally, The Sad Bastard Cookbook, once again, as a reminder that there exist materials specifically for people who have low spoons, no spoons, or who would like to do anything other than put food in their facehole and realize that they still need to do it anyway.
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meta_warehouse community, and anyone else that's I've neglected to mention or who I suspect would rather not be on the list. If you want to know where I get the neat stuff, my reading list has most of it.)
Attempting to frame religion as separated from culture, as most Christians (and culturally Christian atheists) do, is a framing that tries to invisibilize Christian culture. Because culture is not modular, as the post title points out, and beliefs and practices about the world and our place in it cannot be easily separated out into things that involve solely the divine, the numinous, and the liminal and things that solely involve humans, other beings, and the material.
Please continue to treat any password you used with LiveJournal as irrevocably compromised, even if LiveJournal refuses to admit any security breaches, and change it on any site where you are still using a password that has been used on LiveJournal.
( And an entire large lot of more, inside. )
Last out, reasons why archive digitize materials, and what is most likely to be digitized, and how what's digitized always is and is almost always likely to be a tiny fraction of the available material.
It's the tenth anniversary of the Finkbeiner Test, where a work passes if they can write about a woman prominent in her field without making it seem like she's a woman first and prominent in her field second.
And a tour of place names that have evolved from their original selves into filthy-sounding places. Includes vandals (obviously), memento-seekers (ditto), and the people who are trying to make sure those place names stay exactly as they are, despite all the nonsense.
Truly finally, The Sad Bastard Cookbook, once again, as a reminder that there exist materials specifically for people who have low spoons, no spoons, or who would like to do anything other than put food in their facehole and realize that they still need to do it anyway.
(Materials via
adrian_turtle, azurelunatic, boxofdelights, cmcmck, conuly, cosmolinguist, elf, finch, firecat, jadelennox, jenett, jjhunter, kaberett, lilysea, oursin, rydra_wong, snowynight, sonia, the_future_modernes, thewayne, umadoshi, vass, the meta_warehouse community, and anyone else that's I've neglected to mention or who I suspect would rather not be on the list. If you want to know where I get the neat stuff, my reading list has most of it.)
