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advocacy lacunae-minks

What it is like to be excluded from your own social movement, in ten mink.

This mink thought it might be nice to see what people who share its key demographic characteristics have to say about it. It is surprised by the high levels of lateral aggression.

This mink encountered another piece of pop journalism/commentary that was meant to be helpful, but which didn’t mention it at all--except for one throwaway line minimizing the importance of its identified sub-group.

This mink went in search of the source data that is used to support arguments that delegitimize its viability as a locus of advocacy, but which has never been subjected to proper statistical analysis regarding this issue.

This mink wonders how much issues of measurement, concept-specification, and sampling have under-reported its issues and risk-level in such large-N data as exists about its community. 

This mink found a study which addressed the above issues, and came to different conclusions than the prevailing wisdom. 

This mink knows too much about social movement dynamics to take the notion that its issues are minimal at face value, despite the momentum of this perception.

This mink found an online space where people were friendlier, and it could discuss matters in a less over-heated manner.

This mink just heard a celebrity figurehead that justify the lack of emphasis on its issues, based on their own anecdotal experience, and a smattering of de-contextualized statistics. It wonders why they didn’t do more research.

This mink understands, intellectually, that people like it are the casualties of an effort to shut down troubling theoretical arguments from people outside the broader community. But it believes that such theory as is applied to the larger group that it is a part of must eventually make room for all sub-groups, even if that is hard. 

This mink has decided this problem is a temporary issue, but wishes it was easier to access and construct good critique, without activating the fervid blame and shame mechanisms that are often associated with the practice of advocacy in this area.

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I do not love all of this, because I do not think this author goes far enough to depersonalize the system--still not enough room for agency, still too much push to make the system inhere in the individual. However, this is a little shaft of light, and I agree with it more than I disagree.

http://www.orchestratedpulse.com/2013/10/tim-wise-failure-privilege-discourse/

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back east then, and then I will find what I want to do. but for now: this.

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leaving project team, and reviewing old work. I did some good work for them. I am incredibly sad.

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have no fruits, but want fruits.

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Sedum ‘Alice Evans’

凍った感じ、、、。

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The spectre of “glitter waste” puts me in an odd position vis a vis queer politics and environmental policy.

Science is here to assist, apparently, with biodegradable glitter.

https://bioglitz.myshopify.com/ Photo source: Pintrest, https://www.pinterest.com/pin/66428163233059612/

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It is really hard to avoid the feeling of unreality with the CGI generated stuff, if there is too much of it. See: for example, the Phantom Menace and, in some ways, the Fifth Element. Even now, as the technology has improved, there is something that is a little too slick about all that. I do actually like the broad use of type of effect in LotR and the Hobbit, but that is because of the nature of the world they take place in, and because those stories already have this sort of mystical overlay. Most of the time, I would rather the balance be in favor of practical effects. Also: I think “raptor” is the best part you could possibly get in Jurassic Park.

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Nightrunner series; Alec ; 170412 More Alec. This was my second attempt and it feels… better? The left one is kinda embarassing ahahah~ *ducks* — Other art from this series: Alec & Seregil | Seregil

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I love this one. Even the blue wall is a perfect match. Congrats Wlfrid, and naturedesign.fr

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due to unusual timing, and some happenstance, this video has actually attained serious emotional significance for me: both personally and professionally.

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A badass blind monk and a awesome series! Illustration by Leblu www.leblu.com.br

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corvid-interactions on curation

figuring out how one feels about the concept and practice of curation, in 8 animals dealing with corvids.

this falcon first heard about curation, as a concept, from the library science majors in its undergrad.

this eagle wonders if curation of information and experiences, when exposed to human eccentricity, is a form of pastiche, rather than collage.

this eagle has been thinking about whether its ability to aggregate and contextualize information is really better than Google’s.

this fox considers Foucault’s discussion of juxtaposition and reasoning by association as depicted in “The Order of Things”.

this owl is considering a guided narration of its favorite route through the city; it wonders how much of its perspective has been influenced by playlist 000.A.

this cat thinks that there may be an underlying, though unknowable, truth to the nature of things, and wonders where the balance between personal experience and deeper insight lies.

this heron weaponized discourse analysis to sunder linkages between aggregations of stimuli meant to contextualize experience in a narrative way, and found that it only produced further layers of meaning.

this fox decided, following Nietzsche, that it should not fear artifice--but pursue the act of creation. it thinks there might be beauty and a kind of truth in the factorization and fractalization of perspective, despite (or because of) the limitations of this instrument.

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Charlie is very into grapes. He and his friends are also a threatened species.

If you would like to assist them, here are some places to donate.

Tolga Bat Hospital (Australia)

Flying Fox Rescue (Australia)

Bat Conservation and Rescue Fund (Australia)

Flying Fox Conservation Fund (Indonesia)

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due diligence to the break-up sad.

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break up ambivalence foxes

feeling ambivalent about choosing to break-up, in 14 foxes:

this fox drank an entire bottle of wine, curled up on the floor, and sobbed for several hours last night. it still doesn’t know why.

this fox dreads losing it’s sense of self after the abrupt withdrawal of its ability to harmonize with another self.

this fox watches the hours pass in a haze of boredom and meaninglessness.

this fox wonders how many of its personal boundaries it would need to violate, in order to achieve sufficiently high levels of communication.

this fox allocated itself precisely three self-pitying pieces of Facebook commentary.

this fox would just like to pretend this never happened, and go on a date with its ex. or maybe have a hug.

this fox is trying to fill its free time with hobbies. it regrets it has no one to share the results with.

this fox feels both fear and a strange sense of liberation.

this fox meditates about what went wrong in order to justify its decision.

this fox may have begun to sniffle when holding a stuffed animal it was given by its ex, but won’t admit it.

this fox wonders why all of the emotions are happening now, for fuck’s sake.

this fox wonders if it would be fair or wise to ask to get back together.

this fox engaged in several small acts of kindness yesterday, in a mood of surreal sentimentality.

this fox is going to hide from others until its head is clear.

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grim social science, dark-side demography, and very decent world-building collide. for me: this is now one head-canon.