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And now, to spawn a garden of tabs in your browser - June-August 02018
Been a while since I've done one of these.
Good day to you. There are ways of delivering bad news that do not needlessly compound the suffering.
There are ways of engaging with the world that will hopefully help you avoid feeling helpless, burnt out, or gripped with panic.
What the librarians find returned in the books is not bookmarks. What people ask the librarians for is also not books. Also, if you have a hankering for marginalia, as many a person who buys used books finds out, do it to your own materials and not to the library's.
Tips from a columnist that compose the first day (maybe) of Reader's Advisory training for library staff. It's the basics - don't try to force choice, do read with your children (or alongside them), and the better you can match interests, the more likely someone is to read.
A coloring book for the current makeup of Congressional Districts, which is good until the next Census and the redrawing that happens with that.
Writing a book where children are the protagonists and the adults aren't around is writing a book about how society treats its children. Do we notice when the adventures are going strong?
Pictures of nonbinary folks, in case you (or someone you know) had some idea in your head as to what they're "supposed" to look like.
There's a documentary that brings together several of the original Muppet performers to talk about the show, their characters, Jim Henson, and more. It's available at Muppet Guys Talking fr about $10. (And it's not just only guys, there's at least one of the regular women performers in the conversation.)
The X-Men are returning from Fox to Marvel, which will make further parts of the MCU work together that much more easily, now that the X-Men can show up if they have a crucial role to play in the ongoing story.
A promise fulfilled - author Seanan McGuire got to tell the owner of her childhood comics shop that she was writing X-Men, in person, as a surprise. If X-Men isn't your issue, Seanan also gets to write Spider-Gwen as part of the crisis event for this year. And you can also quake in fear at the thought of Seanan as a siren, especially if you're a fan of mermaid literature, film, television, or the Mira Grant version of Seanan that's witten about predatory mermaids.
Reimagining the work of white men to include black women. What you can learn about nonfiction and not-men by interviewing not-men about their nonfiction writing.
Depending on which place you live in, there may be laws designed specifically to go into effect immediately should the Supreme Court reverse on Roe.
Suggestions on how your emergency contraceptive will work, and best bets for having a low chance of unintended pregnancies, Although for a nonzero part of the population, the IUD is not the best option, unlike what the article concludes. Consultation with a trained medical professional, if you can get access to one, is the best way of finding what works best. If you are thinking of stsockpiling in case of terrible things, a snapshot of pricing for Plan B and for AfterPill, both of which are potential options with reasonable shelf lives.
As public health clinics are being underfunded or closed, the number of STIs that were thought dead or controlled are coming back. That could be fought with comprehensive education, but comprehensive education is also being cut back and reworked to be less comprehensive. And into that void steps technology, promising exact science when no such thing is remotely possible. (And when the thing itself doesn't actually work...)
For people who don't follow the track of "traditional" adulthood, devoting time to activities that are explicitly queer provides an alternative of keeping track of progression. I like that idea, and how it gives an alternative to the idea that there's only one way of making it to being an adult. That one way rests pretty heavily in specific, very heteronormative and class-based ways that most people who aren't wealthy cis-het don't experience, either in order or at all.
An apology from the author of an article about Brandon Teena, a trans man killed for being a trans man, reflecting on how her own experiences influenced the story away from what it was.
Queer may not be a word that everyone qho qualifies wants to use for themselves, but it was not originally a pejorative.
The Freemasons in the United Kingdom have ruled that so long as a person joins them as a man, they do not lose their status should they choose to no longer be a man. This could be one of those things that a binarist might cite as how trans people are making everything far too complex, and can't there just be two genders, tied to biological sexes any more? (NO.)
There exists a summer camp experience strictly for trans men, so that they can bond and share and be men and not have to worry about whether their identtiy will be respected.
Persons who wish to be consecrated virgins in Catholicism do not necessarily need to have been physical virgins, says the Vatican.
Actions have consequences: a film with Kevin Spacey in it, filmed just before the allegations and substatiations of those allegations, took in just $126 USD on its opening night.
A request for more complexity in books about women who bucked their social trends and made a name for themselves, rather than presenting a rah-rah for women always and everywhere. I'm not sure I agree with the assertion that men can be complex historical figures, but women can only be heroes and inspirations, as it seems the general consensus on that matter is the other way around - men are the ones who don't get complexity (and sorely need it), being easily sorted into heroes and villains, while women seem to have a "well, actually" hot on their heels after someone mentions them as a potentially good figure for emulation or inspiration. It seems like it would be better in all ways to improve the gender disparity in a book about heroes in general, including women in perceived-masculine roles alonside men in perceived-feminine roles, and a more than healthy helping of queer, people of color, and other marginalized and under-represented ideas, but that's not a conversation that I'm seeing being taken seriously in publishing or in libraries. There is, however, the Black Spec Fic report for 2017, published by Fireside, which suggests that there's no reason to belive you can't have a successful magazine and publish a lot of writing by people of color, and the Presence of Blackness scorecard, produced by Fiyah, speaking to how Black-friendly a given publication is, based on several metrics meant to give an idea of how well-represented Black people are at a particullar market.
<N.K. Jemisin had only a few words to say, but they were choice at the Hugos accepting another Best Novel award.
Rocket Fuel, a free ebook collection of some of the nonfiction of Tor.com. Including a Seanan essay that's worth reading, even if you don't read anything else.
If you're looking for a comic where the onset of puberty transforms young girls into large cats, Man-Eaters may be your darkly femininst jam.
We've had studies pointing out a gap in hiring and pay based on gender. It's possible that discipinary actions and their severity also have a gender gap, with women being punished more severely than men, even if the men make more and bigger mistakes. This is one sector studied from public data, but it might be a signifier of what happens everywhere.
The modern obsession with finding television and cinema from all times and all places runs into difficulty when you realize that some shows are deliberately not available or only part of certain archives.
Plot arcs for the second season of Star Trek: Discovery, including quite a few familiar characters and actors. If you already knew that or are okay with the spoilers, then this list of recommended backstory might turn out to be invaluable in preparing you for it.
The search for a clean copy of an attempt to make Sailor Moon into a live-action / animation hybrid to cash in on the Power Rangers idea...one that ultimately resulted in another company getting the license to the animation and producing a much-sanitized version of same.
A recommendation for Anthony Bourdain visiting Narnia, from the New Yorker, which leads into what the synoptic gospels of the Christian Foundational Writings have in common with fanfiction and what it can be like to have a work in progress that's not going to update, even with the encouraging comments. And what it can be like to have lived through the beginnings and the improvements to the art and distribution of fanfiction.
The virtues of writing in the details of your world, even if some of them turn out to be nothing more than flavor text. Reading horror stories sometimes helps us come to terms with the horrors of our lives.
A post on the exra operators that you can use to search in AO3 to sort and fine-tune your preferences.
Designs that were not thought through enough before being implemented.
If you declare only your axes are important to whether something is noteworthy, you help other people interested in suppressing any other possibility, and you miss out on a lot of good stuff. Simple suggestions on reducing the amount of fatphobia in your and others' lives.
Chase Johnsey wants ballet to be more open to people of all gender identities playing whichever role they want to play. After early work with an all-men troups that played up teh maleness of their work, Chase Johnsey found other work in a new company and is adjusting and learning about dancing women's roles. He was part of Sleeping Beauty, and we hope for many more good things to come.
Photographic volcanoes in the midst of their eruptions, including the lightning storms that often accompany, Moon mist ice cream, and a companion, tiger tail ice cream, the idea that tattoos are a way of marking the body as yours, much like how one might paint the walls or hang artwork, examining the prevalence of visible penises in the Bayeux Tapestry, and the campaigns underway to bring back much of the art taken away from China, some of which are buying, some of which are stealing from the museums that consider them part of their own collections.
Happy cat pictures!. Mlem, blep, boop, with animated examples. Stories of pets using their intelligence to most interesting conclusions, most of which involve catching things, eating things, or figuring out how to get out of (or in to) things. Small goats meeting an aardvark. A squirrel with a very popular Instagram. Because squirrels used to be very popular pets. Very realistic cat portraits constructed from wool, how orange started as a fruit and ended as both fruit and color, bats that create igloos to hibernate in, a guide to various yellow striped insects, and a guide to the different types of bao you might come across.
The costs associated with bringing dogs from places where there is active hostility to spay and neuter to places that want dogs and have those laws. It would be much better, of course, if all the pets, except those specifically licensed for breeding, had to spay and neuter, but until then, this is what we have.
Technology starts with the way that Nike created a self-lacing shoe, because science fiction movies often serve as inspiration for all sorts of technologies. (And hey, the Cubs won a World Series.) The sort of thing that might lead to, oh, humans being space orcs in the context of the Star Trek universe.
A patent on methods to control sexual aids remotely has expired, which opens the door for others to potentially legally sell, market, or distribute their own methods to achieve teledildonics. An example that basically counts as a framework that needs much, much more to be a proper item appears not too soon after that, mostly as a reference.
A person convinced of the flatness of the Earth launched themselves using a steam-powered rocket, although they did not achieve sufficient height to take the photographic proof hey belive is available. There's a certain amount of commendable DIY spirit in building and launching your own vehicle. That it's in the service of trying to prove flat-earthness makes it far less commendable.
Google has rolled out a feature for expiring emails, that can require one-time code to activate, and that aren't permitted to be forwarded on and so forth. Except the sender still has a copy, and it's not end-to-end encrypted, and there's nothing stopping someone from making a more permanent copy by some other means. So it's not "confidential," just expiring.
Examining what kind of pump your fuel station is using can help determine whether it's likely to be attacked by fraudsters.
Also, Even if you never intend to use them, setting up accounts for yourself online can prevent fraudsters from doing it for you and then siphoning away your money. Because there's enough information about us online to pass most of the standard questions people ask when setting up accounts or otherwise estalishing themselves. If your institution has a security breach, expect them to blame someone else for the problem. And even if your financial institution claims to have protection and insurance against cybercrime, their insurers, being insurance companies, will do their damndest to weasel out of paying up.
Facebook is interested in getting information from various financial institutions. Given how well they've been about protecting data, this made a lot of people quite upset. Facebook denies that they're interested in transaction data, and instead were asking about better Messenger integration with bank chatbots. There are a lot of places and people that really shouldn't have transaction data, or really any other financial data at all, and I'm not particularly interested in tight integration of my financial data with anything other than my financial institution and the things I choose to share that data with.
jadelennox has suggestions on things you can use to customize your experiences and remove ads, especially the ones that really just want to suck up your data without your consent and send it back to a mothership.
Water in clear plastic bottles left in hot cars can concentrate well enough to set other parts of the car on fire. There's your scary thought for how energy transferrence and light focusing works.
A properly tuned musical instrument can substitute for a singer in Rock Band or Karaoke Hero -style games, where the point is matching pitch rather than replicating the song exactly.
A useful visualization of how the land of the United States is used, with the various categories explained and alloted in ways that make them bigger blocks, even though the actuality is much more spread out.
The prescriptivist dictionary may be resurging, as more people find the ways in which people use language to be too much and want some standard authority to tell us when someone else is doin' it 'rong.
The end of the tech for today is a reminder to please use alt-text in your images, so that entities who do not have a lot of sight (or no sight at all) can still navigate (and index) your pages.
Last for tonight, a story of terrible politics, algorithms doing what they do best, and one last, desperate, spark of human ingenuity that might save them all.
A story of three raptor sisters and a prince made of meat and a princess who helps the former and not the latter.
And the time when someone became a proud outlier for an experiment intendeed to see if fat-shaming people made them eat less cookies.
Not feeding the trolls allows them to continue and flourish, and three other truths that must be acknowleged if we want to make our spaces less full of them.
But most importantly, meeting your idols sometimes turns out well. Sometimes they turn out fabulously. And sometimes you don't even know it's going to happen. Sometimes it's a surprise. Because sometimes it's you they want to meet.
Good day to you. There are ways of delivering bad news that do not needlessly compound the suffering.
There are ways of engaging with the world that will hopefully help you avoid feeling helpless, burnt out, or gripped with panic.
What the librarians find returned in the books is not bookmarks. What people ask the librarians for is also not books. Also, if you have a hankering for marginalia, as many a person who buys used books finds out, do it to your own materials and not to the library's.
Tips from a columnist that compose the first day (maybe) of Reader's Advisory training for library staff. It's the basics - don't try to force choice, do read with your children (or alongside them), and the better you can match interests, the more likely someone is to read.
A coloring book for the current makeup of Congressional Districts, which is good until the next Census and the redrawing that happens with that.
Writing a book where children are the protagonists and the adults aren't around is writing a book about how society treats its children. Do we notice when the adventures are going strong?
Pictures of nonbinary folks, in case you (or someone you know) had some idea in your head as to what they're "supposed" to look like.
There's a documentary that brings together several of the original Muppet performers to talk about the show, their characters, Jim Henson, and more. It's available at Muppet Guys Talking fr about $10. (And it's not just only guys, there's at least one of the regular women performers in the conversation.)
The X-Men are returning from Fox to Marvel, which will make further parts of the MCU work together that much more easily, now that the X-Men can show up if they have a crucial role to play in the ongoing story.
A promise fulfilled - author Seanan McGuire got to tell the owner of her childhood comics shop that she was writing X-Men, in person, as a surprise. If X-Men isn't your issue, Seanan also gets to write Spider-Gwen as part of the crisis event for this year. And you can also quake in fear at the thought of Seanan as a siren, especially if you're a fan of mermaid literature, film, television, or the Mira Grant version of Seanan that's witten about predatory mermaids.
Reimagining the work of white men to include black women. What you can learn about nonfiction and not-men by interviewing not-men about their nonfiction writing.
Depending on which place you live in, there may be laws designed specifically to go into effect immediately should the Supreme Court reverse on Roe.
Suggestions on how your emergency contraceptive will work, and best bets for having a low chance of unintended pregnancies, Although for a nonzero part of the population, the IUD is not the best option, unlike what the article concludes. Consultation with a trained medical professional, if you can get access to one, is the best way of finding what works best. If you are thinking of stsockpiling in case of terrible things, a snapshot of pricing for Plan B and for AfterPill, both of which are potential options with reasonable shelf lives.
As public health clinics are being underfunded or closed, the number of STIs that were thought dead or controlled are coming back. That could be fought with comprehensive education, but comprehensive education is also being cut back and reworked to be less comprehensive. And into that void steps technology, promising exact science when no such thing is remotely possible. (And when the thing itself doesn't actually work...)
For people who don't follow the track of "traditional" adulthood, devoting time to activities that are explicitly queer provides an alternative of keeping track of progression. I like that idea, and how it gives an alternative to the idea that there's only one way of making it to being an adult. That one way rests pretty heavily in specific, very heteronormative and class-based ways that most people who aren't wealthy cis-het don't experience, either in order or at all.
An apology from the author of an article about Brandon Teena, a trans man killed for being a trans man, reflecting on how her own experiences influenced the story away from what it was.
Queer may not be a word that everyone qho qualifies wants to use for themselves, but it was not originally a pejorative.
The Freemasons in the United Kingdom have ruled that so long as a person joins them as a man, they do not lose their status should they choose to no longer be a man. This could be one of those things that a binarist might cite as how trans people are making everything far too complex, and can't there just be two genders, tied to biological sexes any more? (NO.)
There exists a summer camp experience strictly for trans men, so that they can bond and share and be men and not have to worry about whether their identtiy will be respected.
Persons who wish to be consecrated virgins in Catholicism do not necessarily need to have been physical virgins, says the Vatican.
Actions have consequences: a film with Kevin Spacey in it, filmed just before the allegations and substatiations of those allegations, took in just $126 USD on its opening night.
A request for more complexity in books about women who bucked their social trends and made a name for themselves, rather than presenting a rah-rah for women always and everywhere. I'm not sure I agree with the assertion that men can be complex historical figures, but women can only be heroes and inspirations, as it seems the general consensus on that matter is the other way around - men are the ones who don't get complexity (and sorely need it), being easily sorted into heroes and villains, while women seem to have a "well, actually" hot on their heels after someone mentions them as a potentially good figure for emulation or inspiration. It seems like it would be better in all ways to improve the gender disparity in a book about heroes in general, including women in perceived-masculine roles alonside men in perceived-feminine roles, and a more than healthy helping of queer, people of color, and other marginalized and under-represented ideas, but that's not a conversation that I'm seeing being taken seriously in publishing or in libraries. There is, however, the Black Spec Fic report for 2017, published by Fireside, which suggests that there's no reason to belive you can't have a successful magazine and publish a lot of writing by people of color, and the Presence of Blackness scorecard, produced by Fiyah, speaking to how Black-friendly a given publication is, based on several metrics meant to give an idea of how well-represented Black people are at a particullar market.
<N.K. Jemisin had only a few words to say, but they were choice at the Hugos accepting another Best Novel award.
Rocket Fuel, a free ebook collection of some of the nonfiction of Tor.com. Including a Seanan essay that's worth reading, even if you don't read anything else.
If you're looking for a comic where the onset of puberty transforms young girls into large cats, Man-Eaters may be your darkly femininst jam.
We've had studies pointing out a gap in hiring and pay based on gender. It's possible that discipinary actions and their severity also have a gender gap, with women being punished more severely than men, even if the men make more and bigger mistakes. This is one sector studied from public data, but it might be a signifier of what happens everywhere.
The modern obsession with finding television and cinema from all times and all places runs into difficulty when you realize that some shows are deliberately not available or only part of certain archives.
Plot arcs for the second season of Star Trek: Discovery, including quite a few familiar characters and actors. If you already knew that or are okay with the spoilers, then this list of recommended backstory might turn out to be invaluable in preparing you for it.
The search for a clean copy of an attempt to make Sailor Moon into a live-action / animation hybrid to cash in on the Power Rangers idea...one that ultimately resulted in another company getting the license to the animation and producing a much-sanitized version of same.
A recommendation for Anthony Bourdain visiting Narnia, from the New Yorker, which leads into what the synoptic gospels of the Christian Foundational Writings have in common with fanfiction and what it can be like to have a work in progress that's not going to update, even with the encouraging comments. And what it can be like to have lived through the beginnings and the improvements to the art and distribution of fanfiction.
The virtues of writing in the details of your world, even if some of them turn out to be nothing more than flavor text. Reading horror stories sometimes helps us come to terms with the horrors of our lives.
A post on the exra operators that you can use to search in AO3 to sort and fine-tune your preferences.
Designs that were not thought through enough before being implemented.
If you declare only your axes are important to whether something is noteworthy, you help other people interested in suppressing any other possibility, and you miss out on a lot of good stuff. Simple suggestions on reducing the amount of fatphobia in your and others' lives.
Chase Johnsey wants ballet to be more open to people of all gender identities playing whichever role they want to play. After early work with an all-men troups that played up teh maleness of their work, Chase Johnsey found other work in a new company and is adjusting and learning about dancing women's roles. He was part of Sleeping Beauty, and we hope for many more good things to come.
Photographic volcanoes in the midst of their eruptions, including the lightning storms that often accompany, Moon mist ice cream, and a companion, tiger tail ice cream, the idea that tattoos are a way of marking the body as yours, much like how one might paint the walls or hang artwork, examining the prevalence of visible penises in the Bayeux Tapestry, and the campaigns underway to bring back much of the art taken away from China, some of which are buying, some of which are stealing from the museums that consider them part of their own collections.
Happy cat pictures!. Mlem, blep, boop, with animated examples. Stories of pets using their intelligence to most interesting conclusions, most of which involve catching things, eating things, or figuring out how to get out of (or in to) things. Small goats meeting an aardvark. A squirrel with a very popular Instagram. Because squirrels used to be very popular pets. Very realistic cat portraits constructed from wool, how orange started as a fruit and ended as both fruit and color, bats that create igloos to hibernate in, a guide to various yellow striped insects, and a guide to the different types of bao you might come across.
The costs associated with bringing dogs from places where there is active hostility to spay and neuter to places that want dogs and have those laws. It would be much better, of course, if all the pets, except those specifically licensed for breeding, had to spay and neuter, but until then, this is what we have.
Technology starts with the way that Nike created a self-lacing shoe, because science fiction movies often serve as inspiration for all sorts of technologies. (And hey, the Cubs won a World Series.) The sort of thing that might lead to, oh, humans being space orcs in the context of the Star Trek universe.
A patent on methods to control sexual aids remotely has expired, which opens the door for others to potentially legally sell, market, or distribute their own methods to achieve teledildonics. An example that basically counts as a framework that needs much, much more to be a proper item appears not too soon after that, mostly as a reference.
A person convinced of the flatness of the Earth launched themselves using a steam-powered rocket, although they did not achieve sufficient height to take the photographic proof hey belive is available. There's a certain amount of commendable DIY spirit in building and launching your own vehicle. That it's in the service of trying to prove flat-earthness makes it far less commendable.
Google has rolled out a feature for expiring emails, that can require one-time code to activate, and that aren't permitted to be forwarded on and so forth. Except the sender still has a copy, and it's not end-to-end encrypted, and there's nothing stopping someone from making a more permanent copy by some other means. So it's not "confidential," just expiring.
Examining what kind of pump your fuel station is using can help determine whether it's likely to be attacked by fraudsters.
Also, Even if you never intend to use them, setting up accounts for yourself online can prevent fraudsters from doing it for you and then siphoning away your money. Because there's enough information about us online to pass most of the standard questions people ask when setting up accounts or otherwise estalishing themselves. If your institution has a security breach, expect them to blame someone else for the problem. And even if your financial institution claims to have protection and insurance against cybercrime, their insurers, being insurance companies, will do their damndest to weasel out of paying up.
Facebook is interested in getting information from various financial institutions. Given how well they've been about protecting data, this made a lot of people quite upset. Facebook denies that they're interested in transaction data, and instead were asking about better Messenger integration with bank chatbots. There are a lot of places and people that really shouldn't have transaction data, or really any other financial data at all, and I'm not particularly interested in tight integration of my financial data with anything other than my financial institution and the things I choose to share that data with.
jadelennox has suggestions on things you can use to customize your experiences and remove ads, especially the ones that really just want to suck up your data without your consent and send it back to a mothership. Water in clear plastic bottles left in hot cars can concentrate well enough to set other parts of the car on fire. There's your scary thought for how energy transferrence and light focusing works.
A properly tuned musical instrument can substitute for a singer in Rock Band or Karaoke Hero -style games, where the point is matching pitch rather than replicating the song exactly.
A useful visualization of how the land of the United States is used, with the various categories explained and alloted in ways that make them bigger blocks, even though the actuality is much more spread out.
The prescriptivist dictionary may be resurging, as more people find the ways in which people use language to be too much and want some standard authority to tell us when someone else is doin' it 'rong.
The end of the tech for today is a reminder to please use alt-text in your images, so that entities who do not have a lot of sight (or no sight at all) can still navigate (and index) your pages.
Last for tonight, a story of terrible politics, algorithms doing what they do best, and one last, desperate, spark of human ingenuity that might save them all.
A story of three raptor sisters and a prince made of meat and a princess who helps the former and not the latter.
And the time when someone became a proud outlier for an experiment intendeed to see if fat-shaming people made them eat less cookies.
Not feeding the trolls allows them to continue and flourish, and three other truths that must be acknowleged if we want to make our spaces less full of them.
But most importantly, meeting your idols sometimes turns out well. Sometimes they turn out fabulously. And sometimes you don't even know it's going to happen. Sometimes it's a surprise. Because sometimes it's you they want to meet.
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Those ice cream flavors are interesting, but I think I'd avoid either one.
The article about trolling is interesting, too - as a kid who found the internet right about the time described, my baseline assumption was that /everyone just was that mean./ Learning otherwise has been the task of about twenty years, and still I find myself assuming that ... well, people are just mean. As a default and a known state.
There's been a little bit of writing about the difficulty of avoiding the missing stair when circumstances align such that you have to be a freakin' parkour expert to get anywhere at all, and unfortunately some of it has been perverted into "it's hard to listen to my loved ones, why do they make me do this emotional labor" which... makes me grind my teeth. There is a valid concept buried under the selfish wankery, and I'd quite like to see it made distinct from the people who don't know how to have a relationship that isn't all about them.
I dare to hold out hope that even though it's /not/ simple, we can step toward a future where hurting people out of callous glee isn't considered an unavoidable part of being in ...really, name a community and they're there?
That sentence was sort of incoherent, but I'm going to leave it there, because it would be nice to think that a world is possible where the baseline expectation of other people's meanness is at least 90% wrong.
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The photos of NB folks are gorgeous and I'm so, so glad I clicked through that. Thank you.
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I might try each of those flavors once, but I'm not sure I'd try them more than once.
On trolling, it seems like the safest assumption is that everyone is terrible and mean and it takes a certain amount of public demonstrated not-terrible before the needle gets moved. It's basically the opposite of what we want, but we haven't yet mastered the trick of swift and sufficient social sanction to people who get on the troll train in our meat lives to be able to figure out how it applies to the digital ones.
I hope that we can move forward to that future as well, to have communities where gleefully and callously hurting people is not expected or tolerated anywhere.
The NB pictures are great. I'm sure some of it is the usual things that photographers do to make us all look better, but still.
Thank you!
Re: Thank you!