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silveradeptCheers. Let's begin with melannen providing ways to make your Archive of Our Own searching more productive and less scrolling through terrible things.
Additionally, you can make visible how many comments any given post has through a quick trip to the modules section of your Dreamwidth theme settings. It's one tickybox getting un-tickied. Thankrunpunkrun for being able to see your comment counts displayed instead of as a hover. Plus, it gives you a direct link to the comments themselves.
Also, ways of getting useful data out of Goodreads, as well.
Suzuki Ichiro is retiring from baseballl, having left behind a legacy that introduced us to the idea that Nippon baseball is just as big and produces just as good of players as anywhere else. And who was, at least for me, a refreshing alternative to the game that seemed to be heading more and more in the direction of the big swing. We may not have anyone quite as good as Ichiro at proving that slap-hitters can find a place in the major leagues, but Ichiro's name will likely live on for quite a while as the record holder for most base hits in a single season. It's the sort of statistic that the Non-Statistical Division enjoys greatly, and we tip our caps to Ichiro and his dedication to the craft of small ball. We hope his example of how to play the game is inspiring to others in all leagues to do the same.
When men write fanfic, it's "unauthorized novels" and "pastiche", and a shame they can't get it published, so clearly copyright laws have gone too far. When others do it, it's that icky fanfic. So, rather than let them tell us all about how second-class we are, take part in a challenge to write yourself the artist profile you deserve as a great creator of transformative works.
And if you're looking for Narnia recs, have a Twitter thread with lots of good Narnia fic.
A goth-looking woman in China was told to remove her makeup if she wanted to board a subway because she might disturb the other passengers. Several other Goths and others worldwide started taking pictures of themselves in Goth makeup to send to the agency responsible. Supposedly, the person who offered the initial comment is being retrained so they won't do it again.
The byproduct of Generation X might be that it has a lot of women who were conditioned to do things against their interests, because of the social mores that said you were either a marriageable woman who went along with her men, or a frigid feminist harridan who would die alone and without friends. The fact that we got a retread of the Clarence Thomas hearings, complete with the same ending, should say something about what influenced and shaped Gen X. And why the Millenials are behaving like a generation without allies. (Because it seems to be the case, more and more, than they don't have them, even from people who should be strongly on their side, and not just in the States, either.)
Beefcake Swimwear, marketing one-piece swim suits for all gender identities and body types, in prety neat styles and colors.
An Australian casting placed a white woman as the lead in West Side Story, which is explicitly about not-white people, and many of the excuses will sound very familiar for anyone trying to push for more people of color in arts productions.
The UK's Department of Work and Pensions revised a form letter they send to doctors if their patients fail the initial assessment for disability benefits and removed any references to the need for those doctors to continue providing proof that someone is disabled so they can continue to get appropriate benefits while they appeal the decision. Tellingly, it urns out that most of the people who can appeal that decision end up winning their case, which makes it sound like how things hav e gone in the States with regard to certain benefits packages as well - the first letter, no matter how carefully crafed and supported, is always denied, and only after showing that you have the ability to fight them do they relent and make the decision they should have made in the first place.
Of course, because they have to be #1 at anything involving cruelty, the United States allows states to impose a requirement on people who receive Medicaid to have to work or volunteer for eighty hours every month to continue receiving Medicaid insurance. Because the assumption is that the poor are lazy and have to be prodded to work instead of sponging on benefits, rather than the much greater likelihood that people are on those services because they're disabled and unable to work. (People who manage to actually make it on to the rolls of disability insurance are exempted from the work requirement, but that takes years, and someone can be thrown off Medicaid in months if they don't prove to their state government they're a Deserving Poor.)
A civil suit filed in Toronto alleges two doctors changed a patient's do not resuscitate status without consulting either patient nor their designated decision-maker, leaving the decision-maker to flail about in anguish without the knowledge of what had been done or to make sure that the correct status was being applied. It sounds like advance directives had already been taken care of in this case and the doctors may have ignored them or substituted their judgment for the expresed wishes of the people involved. Not a good look.
Geneticist Muntaser Ibrahim is being detained in Sudan, in a place where his family does not know where he is, for peaceful protest against the current government.
TrowelBlazers, a site dedicated to raising the profile of all the women involved in paleontology and other digging disciplines. Because even now, prominent women in disciplines are often referred to as "unknown" or needing to be rediscovered every so often.
Archaeologists were able to get the Cadbury company to pull an advertisement that might have sent a lot of people to heritage or other sites looking for treasure, which could have been extremely destructive and costly for both the sites and in the fines that could have been accrued by those who didn't know the regulations well.
Greater harmony in sharing a bed may be achieved through having separate blankets to sleep under. Each person can regulate their temperature as they like, and nobody has to worry about a partner that steals blankets.
The answer to the question of "what can you do when you put a Japanese woman in hammer pants?" is "LOTS!" (over time, of course).
Ever wonder why fashion for men of color is way more colorful and stylish than the suits for white dudes? It's mostly "well, if you're going to stand out because you're not white, you may as well look good while you're at it." And also, the boring fashion colors and choices for men are mostly the fault of one dandy who was jealous that he couldn't be bright and colorful, and instead created an entire cult about not standing out. But you know what? Dude-form people can totally do color stuff and look good. (I kinda do that all the time, now that I realize it. I'm known as the person who wears bold color aloha shirts around the office.)
One of the trickier parts of being a competent being who can do support is to avoid becoming the person who does everyone's emotional support. Or, if you do end up being that person, whether for emotional support or actually doing work, here's a way of figuring out what you should be paid for the work you're doing.
Books should not be thought of as accessories for famous people - it might be that they actually enjoy reading them and have them with them. Shocker, we know.
A supervisory manual from the 1940s about those new-fangled women working has...reasonable advice bout how to treat employees that should be followd by bosses today. Because women were definitely doing those kinds of jobs at that point in time.
Miniature scenes and worlds that fit in pocketwatches, made by Gregory Grozos,
Giant sunfish washes ashore, which is probably less rare than we think it should be, because sunfish are a real head-scratcher, the ways in which chickpeas are catching up to the United States as a viable food, and not just in hummus, a river in Colombia that sprouts hues, thanks to the flora that lives in the river, a cat deciding to adopt a human that was napping outside without an owner, and the ways that you get cats comfortable with humans so both can act on camera.
In technology, the suggestion that pooling the data of women's bodies would be able to help medicine become much nore accurate about them.
This is a story about disability, the kind that eventually claims the life of the one who has it. This is also a story about friendship and finding community in the great networked community of World of Warcraft. And ultimately, a story about people who didn't understand what they were looking at until it was nearly too late to see. Stories like this one, with or without the disability, exist everywhere, and yet there's still a certain amount of insistence that friendships made in meatspace are superior and need to be cultivated more than those made in digital space. Finding your community is often the best thing for a person's health.
The Food and Drug Administration has approved a ketamine-based nasal spray as a possible avenue to treat major depression.
The idea of using the style of a conspiracy theorist to promote actual reality. It turns out well, and I hope they produce something countering that most dastardly of threats, dihydrogen monoxide.
Facebook deliberately did not notify or require re-confirmation, once a credit card was attached to a Facebook account, of someone using that card to purchase credits or powerups for Facebook games, a practice they called "friendly fraud". And then start referring to children playing those games (and unintentionally racking up big charges on a credit card) as "whales" and choosing not to make the process for refunds easy or available. They knew about the problem, but decided that since allowing for responsible usage and easy claims for returns would hurt their revenues, they weren't going to do it. In case you needed yet another reason to tell Facebook to get stuffed. You can also talk about how Facebook stored passwords in the clear for months and lots of people had access to them. And that app developers are siphoning data away from your phones and tablets and giving them to places like Facebook without explicitly acknowledging they're doing it.
Facial recognition software is being tested against several databases of images, mostly compiled without the consent or knowledge of the people in those databases, and one data set includes images of exploited children (which are not actually viewed in the testing). Because using our picture without our consent is definitely a thing that a government should be able to do without consequences, right? [/sarcasm]
When building a website, consider how it performs on devices that are not state-of-the-art, in places that are not state-of-the-art, and then perhaps redesign so that those devices and places are not left out completely from your website.
Remove.bg is a single-use tool - to take an image and remove everything that isn't the foregrounded person or item. Pretty cool for when you don't want to fiddle with Adobe's products.
The RokBlok, a vinyl record player that moves itself across the grooves and provides its own speaker output, such that so long as the record itself is on a flat surface, it can be audibly played anywhere. Although, if you are looking to source one, you may need to be careful. Production issues plagued some models such that they would destroy records as they played them , and if that turns out to be a thing inherent to the design, rather than the one-off the linked post suggests, it may not be worth getting one at all.
Last for tonight, SFF with trans and nonbinary representation recommendations and an adaptation of A Midsummer Night's Dream that makes it a coffee shop AU induced by a burrito haze.
The reasons why cover art doesn't necessarily match up with the story contained within (contains uncovered breasts, which is not a thing that happened all that often in the source story that it's supposed to be illustrating.)
And also, a very long Twitter thread about the secrets of various industries and professions that are normal to those inside and potentially horrifying to those outside.
melannen providing ways to make your Archive of Our Own searching more productive and less scrolling through terrible things.Additionally, you can make visible how many comments any given post has through a quick trip to the modules section of your Dreamwidth theme settings. It's one tickybox getting un-tickied. Thank
runpunkrun for being able to see your comment counts displayed instead of as a hover. Plus, it gives you a direct link to the comments themselves.Also, ways of getting useful data out of Goodreads, as well.
Suzuki Ichiro is retiring from baseballl, having left behind a legacy that introduced us to the idea that Nippon baseball is just as big and produces just as good of players as anywhere else. And who was, at least for me, a refreshing alternative to the game that seemed to be heading more and more in the direction of the big swing. We may not have anyone quite as good as Ichiro at proving that slap-hitters can find a place in the major leagues, but Ichiro's name will likely live on for quite a while as the record holder for most base hits in a single season. It's the sort of statistic that the Non-Statistical Division enjoys greatly, and we tip our caps to Ichiro and his dedication to the craft of small ball. We hope his example of how to play the game is inspiring to others in all leagues to do the same.
When men write fanfic, it's "unauthorized novels" and "pastiche", and a shame they can't get it published, so clearly copyright laws have gone too far. When others do it, it's that icky fanfic. So, rather than let them tell us all about how second-class we are, take part in a challenge to write yourself the artist profile you deserve as a great creator of transformative works.
And if you're looking for Narnia recs, have a Twitter thread with lots of good Narnia fic.
A goth-looking woman in China was told to remove her makeup if she wanted to board a subway because she might disturb the other passengers. Several other Goths and others worldwide started taking pictures of themselves in Goth makeup to send to the agency responsible. Supposedly, the person who offered the initial comment is being retrained so they won't do it again.
The byproduct of Generation X might be that it has a lot of women who were conditioned to do things against their interests, because of the social mores that said you were either a marriageable woman who went along with her men, or a frigid feminist harridan who would die alone and without friends. The fact that we got a retread of the Clarence Thomas hearings, complete with the same ending, should say something about what influenced and shaped Gen X. And why the Millenials are behaving like a generation without allies. (Because it seems to be the case, more and more, than they don't have them, even from people who should be strongly on their side, and not just in the States, either.)
Beefcake Swimwear, marketing one-piece swim suits for all gender identities and body types, in prety neat styles and colors.
An Australian casting placed a white woman as the lead in West Side Story, which is explicitly about not-white people, and many of the excuses will sound very familiar for anyone trying to push for more people of color in arts productions.
The UK's Department of Work and Pensions revised a form letter they send to doctors if their patients fail the initial assessment for disability benefits and removed any references to the need for those doctors to continue providing proof that someone is disabled so they can continue to get appropriate benefits while they appeal the decision. Tellingly, it urns out that most of the people who can appeal that decision end up winning their case, which makes it sound like how things hav e gone in the States with regard to certain benefits packages as well - the first letter, no matter how carefully crafed and supported, is always denied, and only after showing that you have the ability to fight them do they relent and make the decision they should have made in the first place.
Of course, because they have to be #1 at anything involving cruelty, the United States allows states to impose a requirement on people who receive Medicaid to have to work or volunteer for eighty hours every month to continue receiving Medicaid insurance. Because the assumption is that the poor are lazy and have to be prodded to work instead of sponging on benefits, rather than the much greater likelihood that people are on those services because they're disabled and unable to work. (People who manage to actually make it on to the rolls of disability insurance are exempted from the work requirement, but that takes years, and someone can be thrown off Medicaid in months if they don't prove to their state government they're a Deserving Poor.)
A civil suit filed in Toronto alleges two doctors changed a patient's do not resuscitate status without consulting either patient nor their designated decision-maker, leaving the decision-maker to flail about in anguish without the knowledge of what had been done or to make sure that the correct status was being applied. It sounds like advance directives had already been taken care of in this case and the doctors may have ignored them or substituted their judgment for the expresed wishes of the people involved. Not a good look.
Geneticist Muntaser Ibrahim is being detained in Sudan, in a place where his family does not know where he is, for peaceful protest against the current government.
TrowelBlazers, a site dedicated to raising the profile of all the women involved in paleontology and other digging disciplines. Because even now, prominent women in disciplines are often referred to as "unknown" or needing to be rediscovered every so often.
Archaeologists were able to get the Cadbury company to pull an advertisement that might have sent a lot of people to heritage or other sites looking for treasure, which could have been extremely destructive and costly for both the sites and in the fines that could have been accrued by those who didn't know the regulations well.
Greater harmony in sharing a bed may be achieved through having separate blankets to sleep under. Each person can regulate their temperature as they like, and nobody has to worry about a partner that steals blankets.
The answer to the question of "what can you do when you put a Japanese woman in hammer pants?" is "LOTS!" (over time, of course).
Ever wonder why fashion for men of color is way more colorful and stylish than the suits for white dudes? It's mostly "well, if you're going to stand out because you're not white, you may as well look good while you're at it." And also, the boring fashion colors and choices for men are mostly the fault of one dandy who was jealous that he couldn't be bright and colorful, and instead created an entire cult about not standing out. But you know what? Dude-form people can totally do color stuff and look good. (I kinda do that all the time, now that I realize it. I'm known as the person who wears bold color aloha shirts around the office.)
One of the trickier parts of being a competent being who can do support is to avoid becoming the person who does everyone's emotional support. Or, if you do end up being that person, whether for emotional support or actually doing work, here's a way of figuring out what you should be paid for the work you're doing.
Books should not be thought of as accessories for famous people - it might be that they actually enjoy reading them and have them with them. Shocker, we know.
A supervisory manual from the 1940s about those new-fangled women working has...reasonable advice bout how to treat employees that should be followd by bosses today. Because women were definitely doing those kinds of jobs at that point in time.
Miniature scenes and worlds that fit in pocketwatches, made by Gregory Grozos,
Giant sunfish washes ashore, which is probably less rare than we think it should be, because sunfish are a real head-scratcher, the ways in which chickpeas are catching up to the United States as a viable food, and not just in hummus, a river in Colombia that sprouts hues, thanks to the flora that lives in the river, a cat deciding to adopt a human that was napping outside without an owner, and the ways that you get cats comfortable with humans so both can act on camera.
In technology, the suggestion that pooling the data of women's bodies would be able to help medicine become much nore accurate about them.
This is a story about disability, the kind that eventually claims the life of the one who has it. This is also a story about friendship and finding community in the great networked community of World of Warcraft. And ultimately, a story about people who didn't understand what they were looking at until it was nearly too late to see. Stories like this one, with or without the disability, exist everywhere, and yet there's still a certain amount of insistence that friendships made in meatspace are superior and need to be cultivated more than those made in digital space. Finding your community is often the best thing for a person's health.
The Food and Drug Administration has approved a ketamine-based nasal spray as a possible avenue to treat major depression.
The idea of using the style of a conspiracy theorist to promote actual reality. It turns out well, and I hope they produce something countering that most dastardly of threats, dihydrogen monoxide.
Facebook deliberately did not notify or require re-confirmation, once a credit card was attached to a Facebook account, of someone using that card to purchase credits or powerups for Facebook games, a practice they called "friendly fraud". And then start referring to children playing those games (and unintentionally racking up big charges on a credit card) as "whales" and choosing not to make the process for refunds easy or available. They knew about the problem, but decided that since allowing for responsible usage and easy claims for returns would hurt their revenues, they weren't going to do it. In case you needed yet another reason to tell Facebook to get stuffed. You can also talk about how Facebook stored passwords in the clear for months and lots of people had access to them. And that app developers are siphoning data away from your phones and tablets and giving them to places like Facebook without explicitly acknowledging they're doing it.
Facial recognition software is being tested against several databases of images, mostly compiled without the consent or knowledge of the people in those databases, and one data set includes images of exploited children (which are not actually viewed in the testing). Because using our picture without our consent is definitely a thing that a government should be able to do without consequences, right? [/sarcasm]
When building a website, consider how it performs on devices that are not state-of-the-art, in places that are not state-of-the-art, and then perhaps redesign so that those devices and places are not left out completely from your website.
Remove.bg is a single-use tool - to take an image and remove everything that isn't the foregrounded person or item. Pretty cool for when you don't want to fiddle with Adobe's products.
The RokBlok, a vinyl record player that moves itself across the grooves and provides its own speaker output, such that so long as the record itself is on a flat surface, it can be audibly played anywhere. Although, if you are looking to source one, you may need to be careful. Production issues plagued some models such that they would destroy records as they played them , and if that turns out to be a thing inherent to the design, rather than the one-off the linked post suggests, it may not be worth getting one at all.
Last for tonight, SFF with trans and nonbinary representation recommendations and an adaptation of A Midsummer Night's Dream that makes it a coffee shop AU induced by a burrito haze.
The reasons why cover art doesn't necessarily match up with the story contained within (contains uncovered breasts, which is not a thing that happened all that often in the source story that it's supposed to be illustrating.)
And also, a very long Twitter thread about the secrets of various industries and professions that are normal to those inside and potentially horrifying to those outside.
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