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the-cybersmith · 1 year
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I ask genuinely from the bottom of my heart: do you ever regret the human pet post? It's the thing that solidified your image in the eyes of the internet. If you had a second chance would you do things differently?
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un---man · 1 year
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pumpacti0n · 9 months
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Hierarchy:
A system in which people, groups, or things are ranked one above another according to status or authority
if the hierarchy is a social system that ranks groups of people, the group at the apex maintains and enforces said hierarchy through economic or cultural coercion,
the coercion is justified through a paradox of self-justification
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Patriarchy is more than sexism.
Heteronormativity is more than homophobia
Cisnormativity is more than transphobia
White Supremacy is more than racism
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Patriarchy, heteronormativity, cisnormativity and white supremacy are the names used to describe these hierarchical systems
Sexism, homophobia, transphobia and racism are words used to describe components within these systems
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EGALITARIAN PERSPECTIVE ON PATRIARCHY:
A social system that enforces a hierarchy of genders is morally wrong, harmful to human beings, and must be opposed
If patriarchy is enforced, it can be dismantled and replaced
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HIERARCHICAL PERSPECTIVE ON PATRIARCHY:
The hierarchy of genders is morally good, and upsetting this hierarchy is harmful to society (e.g., traditionalist family unit)
Patriarchy is not enforced, and therefore doesn't exist.
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NATURAL HIERARCHY JUSTIFICATION:
Social hierarchies are natural outcomes and are devoid of malicious human manipulation
Ergo, social hierarchies are not immoral, and dismantling them is harmful and potentially immoral
(Both operate under some variant of the "just world fallacy")
[Source: Renegade Cut]
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lynxmuse · 1 year
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Mindfulness Moment
I heard this interview on NPR recently about a new book that compares Charles Dickens and Prince (the musician).  Which on its face does seem quite odd… but the main tie that the author makes in the interview is regarding their prodigious creative output, for both were art production powerhouses.  And they were able to be so because neither were perfectionists.  In that kind of “Don’t let perfect be the enemy of good” kind of way, they were so excited to explore and create more that they wanted to finish what they started and move on.
Which, interestingly, also turns out to be a brilliant way to get even better at creating.
Hank Green mentioned once his 80% Rule (which to be clear is very different from the usual and oft quoted 80/20 rule aka the Pareto Principle).  His idea was, when creating works, to pull hard on them until they reach about 80% of how good you think they can be.  Then declare them complete and move onto the next one.
The beauty of this lies within another oft quoted truism:  The first 90% of the work takes 90% of the time, and the last 10% of the work takes the other 90% of the time.  To which I bet many of us have experienced this firsthand… to get something “perfect” ends up taking a huge amount of time. We may well have produced two, three, or even four works within that same amount of time.  And the kicker is that our growth, our development in our self-expression as an artist, is more dependent on completed works and wrangling things to that 80% level than what we might learn in getting it “perfect.”
So, by being mindful of our perfectionist tendencies and instead aiming ourselves towards the 80% rule, we complete much more work that not only is amazing in its own right (able to touch, move, excite, and inspire others as well as be fulfilling and self-actualizing), but as we complete these works our skill grows and grows, such that soon our 80% is of higher quality than our “perfect” would be if we made each work “perfect.”  Which is pretty darn cool.
* I have also used this in my preparations for running RPG games, prepping things to 80% of the level of quality and intricacy that I think they could be and moving on, leaving me mentally fresher and more flexible when running the game, both of which tend to actually make for a better session than if I’d been “perfect!”
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leohtttbriar · 2 years
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The compostists did not attempt to introduce into Camille 1's already complicated symbiotic reformatting any of the genes and timing patterns that the butterflies use to utterly disassemble and recompose their entire being in the chrysalis before emerging as winged imagos. Nor did the parents attempt to alter Camille's visual capacities and neural arrangements to perceive physically in the butterfly color spectrum, or to see as if Camille had the compound eyes of an insect. Mimesis was not the point of the alterations, but fleshly suggestions braided through innovative pedagogical practices of naturalsocial becoming-with that could help the symbiosis thrive through five human generations committed to healing damaged human and non-human lives and places. In its most reductive expression, the point was to give the butterflies and their people--to give the Migrations--a chance to have a future in a time of mass extinctions.
Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene, Donna J. Haraway
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designingprogress · 1 year
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On theoretical anarchism.
How order sometimes keeps us from discoveries, while chaos can lead to groundbreaking ideas.
Paul Feyerabend, for example, described science as essentially anarchistic. Epistemological anarchism is an epistemological theory advocated by P.F. that states that there are no useful and exception-free methodological rules governing the progress of science or the growth of knowledge.
Edward Lorenz, the father of chaos theory, speaks of the two most important ingredients of a brilliant mistake:
1 — Something goes wrong that's far beyond what was previously expected. 2 — New insights arise whose benefits far exceed the costs of the mistake.
Our actions should aim to increase the likelihood of both occurring at the same time.
All mistakes are not created equal. Some have a high cost and offer little learning value, while others cost little and yield deep, valuable insights.
Paul Karl Feyerabend was an Austrian-born philosopher of science best known for his work as a professor of philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley, where he worked for three decades (1958–1989). His major works include Against Method (1975), Science in a Free Society (1978) and Farewell to Reason (1987). Feyerabend became famous for his purportedly anarchistic view of science and his rejection of the existence of universal methodological rules. He was an influential figure in the sociology of scientific knowledge. Asteroid (22356) Feyerabend is named in his honour.
Edward Norton Lorenz was an American mathematician and meteorologist who established the theoretical basis of weather and climate predictability, as well as the basis for computer-aided atmospheric physics and meteorology. His discovery of deterministic chaos "profoundly influenced a wide range of basic sciences and brought about one of the most dramatic changes in mankind's view of nature since Sir Isaac Newton," according to the committee that awarded him the 1991 Kyoto Prize for basic sciences in the field of earth and planetary sciences.
[Images: excerpts from old notebooks from 5-6 years ago].
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havawater · 2 years
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alwaysanovice · 11 months
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Maggie: You know, whenever I start to hate somebody, I picture them brushing their teeth. When I see them doing something so human and normal, it makes me see them as just another person. I can't hate anybody that I can picture brushing their teeth.
Harry:
Harry, tearing up: How are you my daughter?
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nomilkinmyteaplease · 2 years
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Japanese concepts reflected in The Terror
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uburdn · 9 days
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why do people keep fucking saying "the little things" "the small things in life" "the simple t" when they're talking about the most exhilarating excruciating exhausting exhonorating moment to moment atom to atom details that work ceaselessly to make existence function
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the-cybersmith · 1 year
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Translating that post:
There is such a thing as objective beauty in the world, and it is real world women who are objectively beautiful while real world men are not. Erotic attraction is attraction to objective beauty, and Dysphoria is disgust at one’s own lack of objective beauty. This is why trans women aspire to being or imitating actual real world women (who are beautiful), while trans men aspire to being or imitating yaoi boys (who are not real) instead of real world men (who are not objectively beautiful). It also explains why being attracted to men can result from mental illness
In the future, the “beard brigade” may therefore try to socialise their children into being attracted to men as well as women, so as to prevent the obvious consequence of the above: a matriarchal, beauty-worshiping world in which everyone either becomes or worships women since they are the only real people who are objectively beautiful
Equally deranged, but far more coherent and understandable.
Thank you, anonymous person.
[Edit: this is the post being referenced]
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corspewiggler · 5 months
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Naga x Rader Fluff
Gender neutral reader
Synopsis: Meeting at a library
Word count: 452 words
Warnings: Sorry it's probably bad cause I didn't know what to write and I didn't proofread over it <33
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To satiate your boredom you had decided you walk to a library and maybe pick out a book that would cure you of this insufferable boredom that had overtaken you for a couple of days. Picking an outfit for your choosing, you were finally ready to go to the library.
When you arrived at the place you noticed that it was barren, most of the time that you went to a library it was filled with people making noise in a place that was meant to be quiet so that high school students and college students could study for exams and tests. Entering the building, your eyes lay upon a boy of similar age wearing a simple olive green sweater with an accompanying messenger bag. You looked him up and down to see that he had the lower half of a snake which made him a naga; his lower half was coloured in dark oak and curlicued with beige. Thank god that he was facing the other direction and inspecting a book because if he saw you staring at him as if he were your dream outfit you would've died on the spot. The embarrassment would have sent you into the afterlife and his image would be there to haunt you.
You decided to walk up to the same books aisle that he was at and smoothly inspect the books that were there while hoping that he would strike up a conversation. For some miraculous, divine intervention he actually asked you what you thought of the book that he was holding.
"Hey, sorry to bother you but do you think this book is actually good?'
Without having any expectations of an actual conversation happening you were left flustered.
"Ummm..I'm more of a fantasy gal than a philosohpy person but I mean I wanna get into it if you could help me"
The naga looked surprised but was ecstatic as he found an opportunity that someone was interested in him and his interests. So he agreed to help get her into philosophy.
"Yes totally, do you maybe want to go sit over there and talk?"
Without a moment's hesitation, you agreed to what he said and followed him to the seating area. The seats that he chose were pretty quiet compared to the rest of the library where the children were most active.
"My name's Atlin, uh, what's yours?" the naga asked.
"My name's y/n" you responded in return.
Whatever deity was looking out for you, did a solid as Atlin had asked for your number so that the both of you could meet up for a little coffee date. Finally, you caught a break as a cute guy had asked you out.
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pumpacti0n · 7 months
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lynxmuse · 2 years
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Mindfulness Moment
There’s a big… not exactly sure what to call it, perhaps movement, perhaps idea, perhaps something else, but a big whatever over the past decade about “embracing failure.”  That is, being willing to fail and fail and even fail again to get somewhere and to create something awesome.  It’s not new, of course – IDEO (the famous industrial design company) had their own version of it several decades ago that went: “Fail often to succeed early.”
And, for certain, developing an empowering context around failure, being resilient, and adopting a growth mindset are all very powerful things.  Highly encouraged!
But there’s another side to this, especially in the context this new-found expression of Failure Embracement™ that is espoused within the business or start-up or millionaire or celebrity circles.  Where their success, sold as being born of perseverance in the face of failure, is not so much celebrated as it is held aloft as a measure of superiority and lorded over those who “played it safe.” (And, therefore, deserve to be poor/under duress/a loser/etc.)
And that side is this:  Failure embracement mostly works only when and/or if you can safely fail.
In many areas of life, it can be much easier to fail (nor will it necessarily even feel like a failure) when you have a safety net or support system to fall back on if the risky moves don’t pan out, whether that be financially, emotionally, physically, or what have you.   Building that company in your garage only works a) if you have access to a garage b) have the means to support yourself during that time and c) the means to recover and change course before things become dire.
To ignore otherwise can lead one to dismiss the role fortune has in all of our lives. And to use it in a haughty way to tout yourself and/or to use it as a cudgel against others is definitively leading away from humility.
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read-and-write- · 2 months
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Get to know me, double edition
Two tag games running around at the same time so I'm copying some people and doing both at the same time, and for the people who tagged me in one, this is your tag for the other.
Thanks to @myheartalivewrites @happiness-of-the-pursuit @littlemisskittentoes @heybuddy-drabbles @suseagull04 @14carrotghoul for tagging me in this! I finally did it!
There's two versions of this so this is a double tag game, reduce, reuse, recycle and all that, answers under the cut
First Set
Last song: María La Curandera - Natalia Lafourcade
Last film: I can't remember which basically tells you everything you need to know about how many movies I actually watch
Currently reading: Gideon the Ninth bt Tamsyn Muir, and I'm rereading Loveless by Alice Oseman because I want to anotate the physical book that i got half a year ago
Currently watching: Interview with the Vampire, I'm in episode 6 and seriously considering just putting all my tbr aside to read the novel
Currently consuming: Chocolate Ice Cream and a cheese sandwich (✨girl dinner✨)
Currently craving: This specific fries with pulled pork and cream cheese and BBQ sauce from this specific place that are bomb every single time.
Next Set
1. Were you named after anyone?
My great-grandfather, Manuel
2. When was the last time you cried?
On friday my cat needed to get surgery done, needless to say I cried more than once during that day.
3. Do you have kids?
i am just a baby (no)
4. What sports do you play/have you played?
I did Artistic Roller Skating for a long time, branched out to Figure Skating for like two months but tropical country couldn't keep up and went back to my roots until around two years ago when I started having Adult Schedules for Work. I have also done Gymnastics.
5. Do you use sarcasm?
Yes, and also suffer the "everything I say sounds serious" sindrome
6. What’s the first thing you notice about people?
Hair generally, if we are speaking in Spanish, accent.
7. What’s your eye color?
Brown that leans to black.
8. Scary movies or happy endings?
Happy endings, I am a coward and proud.
9. Any talents?
I am very good at knowing things, I am a fun fact girlie, if you have a random question ask me because 8 times out of 10 I have the answer, if I don't just give me 2 minutes and I'll have it.
And I also sing.
10. Where were you born?
Medellín ✨en la playa con la oriental✨ if this means something to you seamos amiguitos
11. What are your hobbies?
Writing, reading, singing, spending my money in silly little gadgets, walking around a mall just looking (o lolear, my mom would call it)
12. Do you have any pets?
My soulmate, best friend and child, a cat named Iglesia.
13. How tall are you?
1,56m or for my american friends 5'1
14. Favorite subject in school?
English, Spanish, Art and Philosohpy, long ago the four nations lived together in harmony-
I was indeed a humanities nerd.
15. Dream job?
Right now? mantenida, now if I had to chose and ignore if it's possible or not I'd love to work in the production crew of Doctor Who or any other big fiction TV Show, turning your hyperfixations into profit and all that.
OKAY now tagging some people, no pressure y'all, if you have already done it I apologize @raysletters @ssmtskw @rmd-writes @gayrootvegetable @gay-flyboys @firenati0n @anincompletelist
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designingprogress · 2 years
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Essay by Vilém Flusser. Astute. Pertinent. Insightful.
"We are becoming ever more conscious of the fact that culture is a design against our natural condition, that each and every artifact is intended to cheat nature around us and within us, and that the term “design” means the very essence of culture (...)" // Vilém Flusser (May 12, 1920 – November 27, 1991) was a Brazilian Czech-born philosopher, writer and journalist. He lived for a long period in São Paulo (where he became a Brazilian citizen) and later in France, and his works are written in many different languages. Flusser's essays are short, provocative and lucid, with a resemblance to the style of journalistic articles. Critics have noted he is less a 'systematic' thinker than a 'dialogic' one, purposefully eclectic and provocative (Cubitt 2004). Read more:
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