Morning, everyone!
Remember that it's irresponsible and facile to conflate violence as a tool of oppression and violence as a tool of liberation!
“It requires caution to train a cormorant, because the bird has a habit, when angry, of striking with its beak at its instructor's eye with an exceedingly rapid and sure stroke.”
“Hawking is a disappointing pursuit, owing to the frequent loss of hawks... There are some amateurs who will not hear a word of disparagement about their hawks, but the decided impression that I bear away with me from all I have learnt, is, that the birds are rarely affectionate or intelligent.”
- Francis Galton, “The Art of Travel” (1872)
No one gets to determine your value. Not fitting some assumed role or stereotype has no bearing on your value. Not "fitting in" doesn't affect your value. You are not more valuable if you're clean, crisp and freshly pressed. You are not less valuable if you're dirty, crumpled and tattered. Your value is intrinsic - you are valuable because you are the only you that ever was or will be. People may claim to take away or grant value, but that's just not possible.
You are valued and loved. ♥️
Finally got my copy of Becoming Dangerous. It came with a bookplate, which I’ve filled in with my new chosen names. A small ritual, but significant.
“Tent Pegs should be of galvanized iron; they are well worth the weight of carriage, for not only do wooden ones often fail on an emergency, but cooks habitually purloin them when firewood is scarce.”
- Francis Galton, “The Art of Travel” (1872)
flannel, death, Victorian explorers Show more
pol, occupy ice pdx Show more
Proposal: replace all uses of "hard" as applied to video games with "boring".
"As a queer femme woman of color working in makeup, I have had to navigate a tenuous, difficult relationship between the ways I perceive myself and the ways I am read.... Although wearing makeup is a sign of expertise, its visual cues often misfire around me, and I am increasingly preoccupied by what it means when I do or do not pass as a woman."
https://slate.com/human-interest/2018/06/makeup-for-queer-people-facilitates-gender-presentation-but-also-draws-attention.html
Software only becomes 'enterprise grade' if, when its behavior is described to an outsider flatly and precisely, the outsider assumes the description is some kind of elaborate joke.
Journalism, feelings, Capital Gazette, transphobia Show more
Thought I should share this. [CW: Food]
childish sniggering, mild NSFW Show more
uspol, occupy ice pdx // feds moving in Show more
Moderate your online spaces, folks.
"That Christmas, we spawned Santa Clauses in every town, and put a gift in every player’s backpack. Players stole the clothes off of Santa, leaving naked men chanting “Ho ho ho!” right where new players logged in. Then they formed roving bands of Santa Clauses and roamed around slaughtering everyone with chilling war cries wishing people Happy Holidays." - Ralph Kosta: "A Brief History of Murder in Ultima Online"
https://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/RaphKoster/20180627/320893/A_brief_history_of_murder_in_Ultima_Online.php
Our HR Director is apparently leaving to take up "a senior industrial relations role" with the Metropolitan Police. In case you were wondering whose side HR are on.
all the links to the papers from the "Radical Open Access II - The Ethics of Care" conference Show more
(Actually, let me qualify that - I assume everybody in Ireland knows about Pangur Bán.)
