"Ableism is more than just bias: it's the entire idea that anything can or should be perfect in this universe of entropy and chaos, applied at the level of human bodies and ways of being." - Ashley Shew, Against Technoableism: Rethinking who needs Improvement. #Bookstodon#bookstadon#Reading#Disability#Accessibility#DisabilityStudies
@jillrhudy ooh, I agree, I really like her writing. Lucky you 😊 you got to listen to her. Also, if you wouldn’t mind, could you direct me to some nice book-y places on mastadon? I’m kinda new here.
Hey @neilhimself any advice for an aspiring comic book writer who has familial tremors so he can't draw worth a damn and has entire worlds he could partner with some artists on? I can't afford to commission entire comics with my current job, and I've been searching for an artist or artists to partner with for years. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Loved the second season of good omens btw! Can't wait for season 3!
@neilhimself I just moved out here to Austin, I'm not sure how prevalent the art department is at UT. I have yet to avail myself of the local library, been meaning to do that. Those are some good options, thank you good sir for your Sage advice. :)
Any ideas? I’m looking for articles, maybe even research, on the impact on grief when family members or friends die overseas & you can’t really help from Australia (or wherever you live). For instance, war zones, natural disasters, human-made disasters & the like. I can’t find anything. 🤞#grief#bereavement#mourning
"A renowned grief expert and neuroscientist shares groundbreaking discoveries about what happens in our brain when we grieve, providing a new paradigm for understanding love, loss, and learning."
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I can give input. I will try to be civil but bear in mind I have the same strong emotions you expressed on the podcast, & feel Gaslit Nation, President Biden, and most Democrats - (yeah I'm not even considering Republicans, they'll have a terrible take) are gaslighting Palestinians. #FreePalestine#podcast
US Rep Rashida Tlaib is about the only one who made a decent statement in the US.
She even uses "cycle of violence" and STILL doesn't f*ck it up like everyone else.
Grieving lives lost. Necessary. Emphasizing shared humanity. Check. Occupation and apartheid are to blame. Facts. And it offers hope or gives actions to take to fix it - 1. End US aid for apartheid government (i would argue defund the Pentagon and US war machine too...) 2. End the occupation and dismantle apartheid system.
There's also a Palestinian contemporary art group on Facebook - look for the Palestinian artists, writers, intellectuals. Find out what's going on before going on and on about support for an occupier.
The book is a nonfiction work that addresses the dysfunction of the student lending system. It draws on the author's personal experience and work as a blogger and uses a range of online articles as source material to support its arguments. The book is grounded in reality but is also polemical in nature, advocating for the restoration of student bankruptcy rights. Overall, this book sheds light on an important issue and offers a compelling case for change.
Weird personal request: if there is anyone out there who studied history at University of Bristol, could you please drop me a line? pls boost for reach
The book provides a historical perspective of the 1.2 million African American service members' experiences on the unit and personal level serving in a segregated U.S. military and for an American society that denied them equal opportunity and basic civil rights. African Americans served in every military branch (Army, Army Air Corps, Navy, and Marine Corps). Besides serving in segregated units, they were assigned menial tasks, provided inferior training and resources, denied opportunities to serve in combat units, and faced racism despite fighting for liberty, justice, and freedom abroad while being denied those platitudes at home. Basically, they battled for liberty and freedom on two fronts. home and abroad.
I wanted to tell a story of service and experience that has not been ignored by American history books, news media, and the entertainment industry. I wanted to tell the story of African Americans fighting on the beaches of Normandy on D-Day, on the islands of the Pacific against imperial Japan, and during the desperate days of the Battle of the Bulge. And, how they also had to face and battle the hypocrisy, racist beliefs, and attitudes of a military that operated segregated combat and support forces to deliver on FDR's four freedoms.
When we hear about the rise of neurodivergent people, children, teens and young adults, we should realize that from the 1940-1990’s we saw an uptake in the use of pesticides, insecticides, tetra ethyl lead in gasoline, tobacco use, and questionable medications that we didn’t fully understand.
Sometimes effects to human health take decades and generations before they fully manifest.
@HopelessDemigod Lead in gasoline started in the 1920s and was phased out in the 1970s. If you are concerned with how different social factors may be affecting @actuallyautistic and other neurodivergent people you need to actually listen to them when they tell you what's happening to them.
Baldur's Gate 3 IS a unicorn. No other studio could make it.
Anyone asking why other studios doesn't make games like this misses THE key point: Larian is privately owned. They don't have a publisher like say EA that deliberately sabotage the development process for profit.
@WhyNotZoidberg What really grinds me is, that all this corporate meddling doesn't even guarantee that a game will be profitable at all. It's all glorified guessing, done by people who don't actually care about the medium they are making decisions about.
And every time one of their soulless amalgamations of mindless trend chasing fails gloriously, they fail to learn any lesson from it, it's frustrating.
Looking for someone to read you (part) of a story? Multiple someones?
Tonight (October 12)! Join me for the OUTspoken Reading Series via The Publishing Triangle and Bureau of General Services-Queer Division, where I’ll be reading from my Hi-Lo YA, “Stuck With You” from Lorimer Children & Teens, alongside an amazing list of awesome queer authors!
The awkward teenager dilemma starts at 7:00p EDT, here: https://www.youtube.com/@bgsqd #QueerBooks#QueerAuthors#lgbtqia
Via @NathanBurgoine:
"Looking for someone to read you (part) of a story? Multiple someones?
Tonight (October 12)! Join me for the OUTspoken Reading Series via The Publishing Triangle and Bureau of General Services-Queer Division, where I’ll be reading from my Hi-Lo YA, “Stuck With You” from Lorimer Children & Teens, alongside an amazing list of awesome queer authors!"
Ich finde es toll, wie viele Literaturmenschen im #Fediverse unterwegs sind. #neuhier ist zum Beispiel die Philologin @AndreaStrobl. Vielleicht wollt ihr ihr folgen?
@Sascha_Raubal Super. Danke für diese Liste, die weiterhelfen dürfte. Habe sie zur eigenen Verwendung in Friendica in meinem info-Ordner gespeichert. Noch den Verweis auf literatur.social dazu, dann müsste man sich ja eigentlich finden können …
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