@josephcox This also affects science - when you visit the website of the journal "Nature", sources like Bidswitch and Pubmatic are installed. So researchers are in the view of this shady company and its customers.
"I guess everybody felt like if they did the work and enough people did the work for personal development that somehow that would create a massive shift and everybody all at once would experience collective leap in consciousness. This lie, this neoliberal lie of moving towards collectivism through startling individualism and navel gazing has just blown me away. And I feel like that took over the entire decolonial movement. I feel like it's in every every activist movement." Tyson Yunkaporta
Theres an LaTimes think piece about how bosses are unhappy that the people they forced back into offices no longer have the office etiquette that they had pre-covid and are forcing employees to take “charm school” classes.
Cry harder, you fucking babies. You asked for this. Fuck your conversion therapy.
@TiciaVerveer This is a fascinating paper, thanks for posting!
"dolia were no ordinary class of pottery, but highly specialised vessels whose size, shape, materiality & buried setting all contributed decisively to the nature and quality of ancient wines" #Roman#winemaking#ceramics@histodons
I also have arthritis learned recently that pain tolerance can lower while in burnout. Doesn’t that make arthritis a cycle of burnout? Or I mean cyclical.
And, as an aside, we could really use histories of First Nations and taxation in Canada. I'd rather not have to write one myself but would be more than happy to share the thing or two I know on the subject. @histodons
Looking back on his early life in Aberdeen, Byron declared that he was ‘half a Scot by birth, & bred/A whole one’. To what extent should we privilege such a claim? In what ways did Byron engage with a Scottish poetic heritage, if at all?
—Dr Daniel Cook, “Byron’s Scottish Poetry”, The Byron Journal 50/1, 2022 (subscription/institutional access required)
2/3
@carljshirley@allstartrek LOL Yeah I bet he kinda did look like Vader a bit. I've never seen a comparison of Nazi and #StarWars imperial helmets, but I can imagine they're not dissimilar.
AARP has an action item. If you don't like or trust these forms, you can simply use the language they provide to email or call your Congressperson and Senators.
For anyone interested, the kindle editions of The Obelisk Gate by N. K. Jemisin and Ann Leckie’s Ancillary Sword are on sale for $4.99 and $3.99, respectively.
Both books are the second in each series but just the kick in the pants I needed to check out The Broken Earth trilogy.
It's been ages since I've visited the hairy elephant! Just ducking in to share this charismatic little toothed mushroom, common name #earpickfungus! Notice how the stem is attached to the edge of the cap instead of the centre! Also this little mushroom is grown out of a Douglas Fir cone. What's not to love? They're so tiny they're easy to overlook. But if you slow down to start taking in the world of the small the world expands.... #mycology#mushroom#mushrooms#funghi#pilze#きのこ#wander