And yet, there's more - June 02016
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silveradeptLet's begin with random data.
After that, large blocks of unstructured time are essential for children to explore their interests.
Beyond that, a story of the past where a woman kept her lover, by mutual consent, in the attic.
An LGBT nightclub in Florida was the site of a mass shooting. It appears to have been specifically targeted for being an LGBT club by someone who adheres to a religion that forbids people from being LGBT and that may have been gay themselves. Which could point out one of the big problems with having a community that actively harms people based on their identity, no matter what they profess. Here are some things you can do to support your communities.
These are the names and the faces of the dead, who join an ever-growing list of those whose lives are shortened by violence and prejudice. They appear when awards are given, In discussions about his to prevent guns from being used as weapons of terror,
Being bi means getting misrepresented by someone who thinks a small sample size means speaking with authority for everyone.
Ways of fighting bias against you at your workplace. Written for trans* people, applicable to many more.
In the name of something that would never get near passing an institutional review, more than 70,000 OKCupid profiles were dumped, deanonymized, to the Internet at large. Congrats, someone self-publishing just doxxed a large group of potentially vulnerable people.
A Member of Parliament of the United Kingdom was stabbed and shot to death by a fanatic cloaking himself in the guise of patriotism.
The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals says states are fully within their rights to outlaw the concealed carry of firearms or to require very specific reasons to allow them.
The case of a rapist receiving far too little a sentence and far too much good press is a 101-level course in how privilege influences the world. For another, a short poem explaining why feminism should be intersectional. If it isn't, feminism risks alienating allies it didn't know if had. including the ones that reach lots of young women and men. If that doesn't happen, it's possible that feminism will end up committing the fouls it's supposed to avoid, whether outside of media or as a throughline for an entire season of a show.
A leftist political party in Spain printed their political platform in the same style as a furniture store sales guide. Readership has increased significantly, according to them.
MSF has decided to stop accepting donations from European Union governments based on those same governments treating refugees from Africa as a liability to be sent away rather than as displaced persons who need a home.
Now that the candidates for the United States Presidential election are all but determined, hackers affiliated with Russia appear to have stolen and released the Democratic National Committee's opposition research on the Republican candidate, a candidate that is both litigious and defending himself against litigation, many involving proper payment for work done
He also believes previous indiscretions are okay political fodder, including a rape accusation defended with the incorrect statement that martial rape is not possible. The candidate has succeeded at paying off investigators. And has also been unable to dissuade all the investigators.
The candidate enjoys sizable support from the class created to be as poor as slaves but given enough social privilege to believe they are better, a population rendered increasingly unable to live as their jobs are automated, their wealth is stolen, and their places are systematically destroyed and then rebuilt for wealthy people to use as a vacation destination. He is the distilled essence of off-color jokes and things let slide by people with the privilege to be able to ignore others' plight.
Actually, so does his opponent, really - they both support a system that will continue to make the poor obsolete and the rest of us poor.
We have to be able to hold contradictory truths in our minds instead of succumbing to the pull of everything having to BE MAXIMAL. For some people, that manifests as voting for the candidate they have an objection to to avoid having the candidate they detest elected.
On singing as a group, oral transmission, and keeping alive the songs and their reasons for singing.
Rather than celebrating gendered parent holidays, why not go straight for Parents Day, so that you can honor those who are your parents, even if they aren't biologically mother or father?
The reasons why readers put down books.
William Shakespeare as a patron of crossovers, alternate universes, and the intrusion of the fantastic in places it was not expected.
SpongeBob, the musical, complete with the a black woman cast as the squirrel. Which is pretty neat.
A fangirl coloring book.
Animals and children are reportedly the most difficult things to work with, so it should be no surprise the live show of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child chose not to keep using a live owl for performances - the owl did not return on cue.
Worries that gynoids might prevent menfolk from ever treating women as humans. I note the fault would not be in the development of the droids, but in the mentality societally inculcated into men that women are supposed to be like gynoids.
Carrie Fisher has an advice column, and would like younger people to write in.
The Artist once required a black woman to interview him, forcing a magazine conglomerate to put a relative newbie in front of him, because that's what they had.
The Canadian Mint has an entire series of Star Trek themed coins.
Consciousness may have evolved out of the need to selectively pay attention to certain signals over others, even when those signals aren't demanding overt attention.
Famous women on not having children of their own.
A lot of what we are told about how health works...is definitely not how health works.
Examining the fashion and makeup trends of ganguro and related looks.
A pamphlet of illustrations of the songs of Hamilton, created by a collaboration of artists, with the illustrations free for you to see.
The Tony Awards just gave all their major performance awards to people of color. That hasn't happened before. Hamilton and its cast took 11 Tonys all by themselves.
The idea that some people might not be strongly introverted or extroverted.
A tin tea canister, passed down through a family that held on to it through flight from Nazis, turned out to have gold inside it, confirming a story told of the can in the family as true.
Having seen the homelessness common in Los Angeles, a nine year-old girl [orig. woman - see why it changed in the comments] started making and distributing cloth bags full of feminine products for the homeless women. And has bigger plans than that. The future is awesome.
Photographs of parts of Iceland that have been abandoned, a mural that relies on the nearby lake to be understood, creating a bouquet of cupcakes, Rapunzel cosplay, princesses of art, the universe in a single head of hair, the use of vegetables as musical instruments,
Beyonce wins fashion awards, which should be no surprise to anyone that's seen her recently, although it wasn't nearly as easy to get fancy dress when she started in music. Beyonce also kills it completely in the music department as well, which is also no surprise to anyone that has heard her lately. Her Lemonade stand is doing quite well. And now, she's starting to use her power to help the next generation of musicians get into the business.
In technology, creating food-looking things with LEGO bricks, making hand puppets that have the articulation powers of marionettes, women who made Gibson guitars, creating labyrinths out of salt, the style books changing Internet to internet, indicating the generic nature of networks, tea joining beer as an artisan, crafted project, trying to use data to determine authoritarianism in the population, asking the government not to prevent things grown without soil from being called organic, the work involved in the construction of Paris's subway system, medical innovations of the Civil War, a map of where one can and cannot see the night sky in its full glory, a program that reproduces a source art style onto a destination image, such that one can Starry Night anything at all, for example,
Cats in art, a gender-transitioning tree, using cats to recreate art, portraits of swimming fish, the nature of the wasabi plant, zebra facts, the movement of dolphins to a bigger sanctuary, badgers with interesting tastes, the history of hedgehogs, wombat cuddling, and cute sloths.
Last for tonight, an interactive collection of the complete works of Jane Austen.
And steps that change view in moonlight and at sunrise and sunset. Which I think might be more immediately happy-making than these prescriptions for happiness.
After that, large blocks of unstructured time are essential for children to explore their interests.
Beyond that, a story of the past where a woman kept her lover, by mutual consent, in the attic.
An LGBT nightclub in Florida was the site of a mass shooting. It appears to have been specifically targeted for being an LGBT club by someone who adheres to a religion that forbids people from being LGBT and that may have been gay themselves. Which could point out one of the big problems with having a community that actively harms people based on their identity, no matter what they profess. Here are some things you can do to support your communities.
These are the names and the faces of the dead, who join an ever-growing list of those whose lives are shortened by violence and prejudice. They appear when awards are given, In discussions about his to prevent guns from being used as weapons of terror,
Being bi means getting misrepresented by someone who thinks a small sample size means speaking with authority for everyone.
Ways of fighting bias against you at your workplace. Written for trans* people, applicable to many more.
In the name of something that would never get near passing an institutional review, more than 70,000 OKCupid profiles were dumped, deanonymized, to the Internet at large. Congrats, someone self-publishing just doxxed a large group of potentially vulnerable people.
A Member of Parliament of the United Kingdom was stabbed and shot to death by a fanatic cloaking himself in the guise of patriotism.
The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals says states are fully within their rights to outlaw the concealed carry of firearms or to require very specific reasons to allow them.
The case of a rapist receiving far too little a sentence and far too much good press is a 101-level course in how privilege influences the world. For another, a short poem explaining why feminism should be intersectional. If it isn't, feminism risks alienating allies it didn't know if had. including the ones that reach lots of young women and men. If that doesn't happen, it's possible that feminism will end up committing the fouls it's supposed to avoid, whether outside of media or as a throughline for an entire season of a show.
A leftist political party in Spain printed their political platform in the same style as a furniture store sales guide. Readership has increased significantly, according to them.
MSF has decided to stop accepting donations from European Union governments based on those same governments treating refugees from Africa as a liability to be sent away rather than as displaced persons who need a home.
Now that the candidates for the United States Presidential election are all but determined, hackers affiliated with Russia appear to have stolen and released the Democratic National Committee's opposition research on the Republican candidate, a candidate that is both litigious and defending himself against litigation, many involving proper payment for work done
He also believes previous indiscretions are okay political fodder, including a rape accusation defended with the incorrect statement that martial rape is not possible. The candidate has succeeded at paying off investigators. And has also been unable to dissuade all the investigators.
The candidate enjoys sizable support from the class created to be as poor as slaves but given enough social privilege to believe they are better, a population rendered increasingly unable to live as their jobs are automated, their wealth is stolen, and their places are systematically destroyed and then rebuilt for wealthy people to use as a vacation destination. He is the distilled essence of off-color jokes and things let slide by people with the privilege to be able to ignore others' plight.
Actually, so does his opponent, really - they both support a system that will continue to make the poor obsolete and the rest of us poor.
We have to be able to hold contradictory truths in our minds instead of succumbing to the pull of everything having to BE MAXIMAL. For some people, that manifests as voting for the candidate they have an objection to to avoid having the candidate they detest elected.
On singing as a group, oral transmission, and keeping alive the songs and their reasons for singing.
Rather than celebrating gendered parent holidays, why not go straight for Parents Day, so that you can honor those who are your parents, even if they aren't biologically mother or father?
The reasons why readers put down books.
William Shakespeare as a patron of crossovers, alternate universes, and the intrusion of the fantastic in places it was not expected.
SpongeBob, the musical, complete with the a black woman cast as the squirrel. Which is pretty neat.
A fangirl coloring book.
Animals and children are reportedly the most difficult things to work with, so it should be no surprise the live show of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child chose not to keep using a live owl for performances - the owl did not return on cue.
Worries that gynoids might prevent menfolk from ever treating women as humans. I note the fault would not be in the development of the droids, but in the mentality societally inculcated into men that women are supposed to be like gynoids.
Carrie Fisher has an advice column, and would like younger people to write in.
The Artist once required a black woman to interview him, forcing a magazine conglomerate to put a relative newbie in front of him, because that's what they had.
The Canadian Mint has an entire series of Star Trek themed coins.
Consciousness may have evolved out of the need to selectively pay attention to certain signals over others, even when those signals aren't demanding overt attention.
Famous women on not having children of their own.
A lot of what we are told about how health works...is definitely not how health works.
Examining the fashion and makeup trends of ganguro and related looks.
A pamphlet of illustrations of the songs of Hamilton, created by a collaboration of artists, with the illustrations free for you to see.
The Tony Awards just gave all their major performance awards to people of color. That hasn't happened before. Hamilton and its cast took 11 Tonys all by themselves.
The idea that some people might not be strongly introverted or extroverted.
A tin tea canister, passed down through a family that held on to it through flight from Nazis, turned out to have gold inside it, confirming a story told of the can in the family as true.
Having seen the homelessness common in Los Angeles, a nine year-old girl [orig. woman - see why it changed in the comments] started making and distributing cloth bags full of feminine products for the homeless women. And has bigger plans than that. The future is awesome.
Photographs of parts of Iceland that have been abandoned, a mural that relies on the nearby lake to be understood, creating a bouquet of cupcakes, Rapunzel cosplay, princesses of art, the universe in a single head of hair, the use of vegetables as musical instruments,
Beyonce wins fashion awards, which should be no surprise to anyone that's seen her recently, although it wasn't nearly as easy to get fancy dress when she started in music. Beyonce also kills it completely in the music department as well, which is also no surprise to anyone that has heard her lately. Her Lemonade stand is doing quite well. And now, she's starting to use her power to help the next generation of musicians get into the business.
In technology, creating food-looking things with LEGO bricks, making hand puppets that have the articulation powers of marionettes, women who made Gibson guitars, creating labyrinths out of salt, the style books changing Internet to internet, indicating the generic nature of networks, tea joining beer as an artisan, crafted project, trying to use data to determine authoritarianism in the population, asking the government not to prevent things grown without soil from being called organic, the work involved in the construction of Paris's subway system, medical innovations of the Civil War, a map of where one can and cannot see the night sky in its full glory, a program that reproduces a source art style onto a destination image, such that one can Starry Night anything at all, for example,
Cats in art, a gender-transitioning tree, using cats to recreate art, portraits of swimming fish, the nature of the wasabi plant, zebra facts, the movement of dolphins to a bigger sanctuary, badgers with interesting tastes, the history of hedgehogs, wombat cuddling, and cute sloths.
Last for tonight, an interactive collection of the complete works of Jane Austen.
And steps that change view in moonlight and at sunrise and sunset. Which I think might be more immediately happy-making than these prescriptions for happiness.
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Date: 2016-07-31 12:16 am (UTC)"Having seen the homelessness common in Los Angeles, a nine year-old woman started making and distributing cloth bags full of feminine products for the homeless women." Nine year-old *girl*, right?
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Date: 2016-07-31 01:35 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2016-07-31 04:18 pm (UTC)The subtext I hear is, "Girls can't be awesome, knowledgeable, aware. This female 9 year old did something awesome, so we have to call her a woman."
Also, women are adults. I hear, "This awesome, knowledgeable, aware 9 year old no longer deserves the protection of laws against (for example) child labor, child marriage, and sexual contact with children."
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Date: 2016-07-31 05:44 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2016-07-31 06:06 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2016-07-31 12:31 am (UTC)What was your thought process there, do you recall? (I have some intersectional thoughts, but I'm curious about yours.)
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Date: 2016-07-31 01:41 pm (UTC)Also because I know that some nine year-olds are already in puberty. And because "girl" is a diminutive, and the work that she is doing doesn't deserve the idea of "aww, how cute of her to do this thing she doesn't understand" but the full respect given to a woman fighting the institutions of oppression and directing her resources to the assistance of other women.
So it's definitely the right word choice for me.
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Date: 2016-07-31 05:25 pm (UTC)So the intersectional thoughts, which I have picked up from listening to various friends speaking up, are:
Puberty is shifting younger and younger, and girls who are not mentally or emotionally ready for sexual intimacy with anyone, not even kids their own age, are starting to menstruate.
In the US, the age of legal majority is 18, and teenagers who would have been treated as adults with adult responsibilities in other cultures are legally treated as children up until the magic age line. (Which in some cases makes no god damned sense, but.)
Except there is a problem where Black youths (girls and boys) are pushed into adult roles earlier than white peers, especially when interacting with the legal system. Adults who should have known better who abuse girls can get lighter sentencing if they claim that she "seemed older". Boys in trouble with the law get tried as adults, and aren't offered the same protections as other youths.
Under 13-ish, I go with "girl" for these reasons. Because even when a child is aware of what the menstrual cycle is, that does not make them an actual adult. Even when a child is menstruating, that does not make them an adult. Over 13-ish, I would check the actual person's preferences. Some teenagers would prefer to be women. Some prefer to be girls. And 18 and over, she's a woman.
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Date: 2016-07-31 05:43 pm (UTC)The problem is that the appropriate level for all of these things tends to shift around based on context. Kids who are getting another sibling via body-birth at any age are going to need to know more about the nitty-gritty of how that baby got in there, anyway, than their peers necessarily will. Kids who are getting the physical changes of puberty are going to need to know about that when or before it happens. They're going to need to know that genital contact can result in pregnancy and they really need to take precautions if they're going to do that, even though they're likely not ready for it, because a) what if they try it anyway, and b) what if someone does that to them without their consent, they should know particularly to tell someone trustworthy soon.
But that still doesn't make them adults in all other respects.
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Date: 2016-07-31 05:46 pm (UTC)Re: (some gnarly stuff here)
Date: 2016-07-31 05:48 pm (UTC)All this is hella complex.
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Date: 2016-07-31 06:11 pm (UTC)Re: (some gnarly stuff here)
Date: 2016-07-31 06:41 pm (UTC)(And
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Date: 2016-07-31 11:46 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2016-08-03 05:38 pm (UTC)Also! Silver, the link to "A lot of the stuff we are told about how health works..." is broken because that blogger, a good friend of mine, recently changed their username! So here's the fixed link for ya: http://hobbitsaarebas.tumblr.com/post/143777559883/the-exercist-spot-reduction-is-a-myth
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Date: 2016-08-03 05:56 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2016-08-03 06:18 pm (UTC)