“Under the shelter of each other, we survive.” -Mike Davis, RIP
Human, curious; designer, usability advocate, oss fangirl; snowboarder, Michigan kid, Motörhead fan. Former Model UN dork. Still a general dork. #nobot#noindex
“Volkswagen workers in Chattanooga, Tenn., passed a historic vote to join the United Auto Workers on Friday, becoming the first Southern auto factory to approve a union with an election since the 1940s.”
@beep YES!!! I just screamed out loud. Growing-up in the center of everything UAW in their heyday, in the 1980s nobody would have believed this finally happened.
Cis women in menopause, and our trans sisters and brothers, can all make each other stronger, the more we lift each other's needs as worthy of attention by the medical community. Allyship, FTW!!
@lizzard I love this article so, so much—and feel so incredibly seen, by it. TY for sharing. I just may now muster the courage to ask my doctor to reconsider rejecting my HRT request. Allyship, FTW!!
@lizzard For all the reasons the article speaks to—a history of patriarchal influences guiding AMA/FDA guidelines. Estrogen was egregiously over-recommended to keep women pretty and agreeable; but then that shitty practice was pulled-back when it revealed it was giving everyone cancer. My doctor is lovely, but not terribly learned on social history's impact on medicine.
The TL;DR to me of the article, was that medicine hasn't focused on women's needs, but rather society's sexist interests.
@lizzard A much worse example, is a friend who's had ovarian cysts her whole life, now wants a hysterectomy. At 34. And, she's being told by now TEN physicians, that doing so would be too "risky" because it'd put her into early Menopause and render her barren. Both, social-virtue-only concepts of "this is a problem," and not actual problems. Yet all her well-intentioned doctors are just following what they've been told & not thinking about it. Forcing her to live with a painful condition.
We should not settle for the means justify the ends type of explanation when we ask why alternatives supposed to save us from BigTech, profit or nonprofit, are almost exclusively filled with white execs & give generational wealth to ~exclusively white ppl. The means DON’T justify the ends.
I’ve been thinking about the extent to which this happens when a friend brought this up & pointed to some things I didn’t know.
"The idea that the First Amendment recedes the moment a mass protest violates a traffic law is quite novel. And it is impossible to reconcile with pretty much the entire history of mass civil rights protests in the United States."
TIL: "Noise-free packing tape" is a thing, and omg our cats are SO relieved! Then my partner breaks a move with the old stuff, un-convinced, and both run off to hide under the porch. 🙃
I've packed 2 closets and 23 boxes of books, moved them all into the pod, and tomorrow is the remaining books, pantry and office stuff in large and medium sized boxes. Yes, I am adulting the sh*t out of our temporary move-out, but, man; it is ex-hausting.We're both trying to make the most of it by at least committing to set some things up a little differently when we move back in. And, I am at least being cooked for with my laundry being washed and folded for me. 😜
This story was painful to read. The worst part about what is happening abroad, as someone who's been following the conflict for decades, is that there is so much pain. On both sides.The most remarkable act of both solidarity or protest we can offer each other, is simply listening.
The Berkeley dean and professor are only reinforcing the image that Jewish pain is somehow more significant than Palestinian pain. Which I see so many doing, and it just sucks.
We can pick sides, or we can support each other. Why the latter has become so anathema, I wish all of us would question, more.
The whole check-mark thing, that people have, then get rid of, then are given back again despite not wanting them, and then opting out of them again and then being forced to keep them despite everything has serious star-bellied sneeches vibes to it.
@Gargron Have you tried optical printing and then scanning from that? No idea what film scanning tech is like, nowadaze... but 30yrs ago scanning from a color negative was just not possible w/o distorting the intent of the light exposure of the film. That said, the color and tones looks lovely on my dinky phone screen.
A science fiction obsession led me to psychological war. I spent the past three years researching and writing a book about the history of psychological warfare in the United States, and it's coming out in early June. Not all the gems I discovered could be crammed into the final manuscript, and I've been dying to share what I found in the archives ... check out my latest newsletter to see some amazing treasures from a history that's rarely told. https://buttondown.email/thehypothesis/archive/how-a-science-fiction-obsession-led-me-to/
@kellan@lzg Mine, too! Pants are just too often stiff and chaffy and scratchy. Maybe if bellbottoms hadn't been the only available choice I had in pants until the 2nd or 3rd grade, I'd have adapted better... so maybe I do owe a debt to the ubiquity of polyester bellbottoms in my childhood?
Privacy theater is when we use privacy practices to demonstrate intention, even if it doesn't mitigate risk in the wild. For example, why do the Ninja Turtles wear masks? Are there other squads of anthropomorphic turtles with weapons in these streets? What's the point of this? This is keeping me up at night, make it stop
@mshelton@joncamfield@tlariv@jalcine These toots make me so happy to see before bed! Off to meditate with animated ninja turtles dancing around my brain between mantras!
