#demarcation

[prokopetz]

Demarcation problem #137: if you’re sitting around a table playing a face-to-face RPG whose premise involves your characters themselves sitting around a table, are you playing a tabletop RPG, or are you LARPing?

[dahliawitchy]

Mark me and know that I'm yours

[oh-dear-so-queer]

One particularly remarkable type of mosaic is called a gynandromorph: an animal that appears to be literally divided in half, one side (usually the right) male in appearance, the other side female, often with a sharp line of demarcation between them.

"Biological Exuberance: Animal Homosexuality and Natural Diversity" - Bruce Bagemihl

[paul-zoller]

Apart | love, double and division

[renee-writer]

This Far No Further

You

Yes you

Have a right

To draw a line

To say

In words and actions

This far

No farther

This is the

Demarcation lie

This is exactly how far

I will let you go

Before I say no

No!

You cannot treat me this way.

No!

You will not be allowed to talk to me like that!

Just no!

Not any more.

You have a right

No

A responsibility

To stand up for yourself

You are worth respect.

[fashionfotorecccluse]

Do not cross!

[autotunedagonalbreathing]

Imagine not knowing about anomalous self demarcation... What a loser you'd be

[tenth-sentence]

There was no discernible point of demarcation, but it was not long at all before Norton knew he was thoroughly in love.

"Incarnations of Immortality: Bearing an Hourglass" - Piers Anthony

[wally-b-feed]

Anthony Fineran (B 1981), Olivo Demarcation Skirt, 2023

[hydnews24]

ایس اے کالونی اراضی کی حد بندی: سرمایہ کاروں اور ہیرا گروپ پر اس کا اثر https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4uwX6QeJrEY

[thenewsinfo]

Elementary school rows back after outrage against minority club

A Washington elementary school had planned to ban white students from a new “Safe Space” club, until a backlash forced it to reconsider separating its fifth-graders. Centennial Elementary at Olympia had started the calendar year with a new “Black, Indigenous, Colored” student group for fifth graders that accepted only minority students, according to an email from Rep. Jim Walsh (R-Washington).…

[mater-earth]

New mapping app to support Indigenous peoples and local communities to showcase their conservation efforts

Mapeo for #ICCAs is a new mapping app co-developed by Digital Democracy, UNEP-WCMC, and Forest Peoples Programme to help indigenous peoples and local communities map the territories and areas they are conserving.

The app provides ICCA custodians with the means to digitally map the boundaries of their ICCAs, improving the quality and accuracy of the information collected.

Read more https://www.unep-wcmc.org/en/news/new-mapping-app-to-support-indigenous-peoples-and-local-communities-to-showcase-their-conservation-efforts

[terresdebrume]

Going off that one poll, I'd like to test a theory.

More reblogs = bigger sample size.

Also, I think follow up polls would be a good idea but tbh i might need input from actual disabled people for those ^^"

[prokopetz]

The reason nobody can agree where the boundary between "visual novel" and "adventure game" lies is because the term "adventure game" originated in the American gaming industry and was later loaned into Japanese, while the term "visual novel" originated in the Japanese gaming industry and was later loaned into English, but the meanings shifted in both cases, so the American gaming industry uses "visual novel" to mean something different from what it means in Japan and the Japanese gaming industry uses "adventure game" to mean something different from what it means in America, and now we've got two terms with (at least) four separate definitions between them, but nerds on the Internet who don't understand how loan-words work keep trying to directly compare them without taking into account that there are multiple only partially compatible cultural idioms in play.

[paul-zoller]

Apart | love, double and division

[reasonsforhope]

“Effective Jan. 2, Brazil’s President Lula issued six decrees revoking or altering anti-environment-and-Indigenous measures from his predecessor Jair Bolsonaro, acts highly celebrated by environmentalists and activists.

One of the decrees annuls mining in Indigenous lands and protected areas, another resumes plans to combat deforestation in the Amazon and Cerrado biomes, and a third reinstates the Amazon Fund, a pool of funding provided to Brazil by developed nations to finance a variety of programs aimed at halting deforestation. [The fund] was stalled under Bolsonaro.

Right afterward, Norway announced the immediate release of already available funding for new projects as “President Lula confirmed his ambitions to reduce deforestation and reinstated the governance structure of the Amazon Fund.”

In an unprecedented act in Brazil’s history, Lula also created the Ministry of Indigenous Peoples, complying with his promise to native people who supported his candidacy “to combat 500 years of inequality.”’

[Legal advisor Mauricio] Guetta noted that the newly resumed plans to fight deforestation will revive efforts that slashed deforestation rates by 83% between 2004 and 2012 and “social participation will again serve as a guide for the application of public policies.” According to him, changes during Bolsonaro’s administration regarding environmental sanctioning led the number of trials in the environmental agency to drop from an average of 5,300 per year between 2014 and 2018 to only 113 in 2019 and a mere 17 in 2020. “With the improvements made by the new rules of the current administration, these threats have been solved and the regular processing of proceedings on notices of infraction, an important mechanism to discourage the undertaking of environmental crimes, has been reestablished.”

He said he expected new “revocations” and normative revisions to occur in the coming days “considering the depth of abyss” of the last four years under Bolsonaro...

Unprecedented Ministry of Indigenous Peoples

In an unprecedented act in Brazil’s history, Lula also created the Ministry of Indigenous Peoples, complying with his promise to Native people who supported his candidacy.

“No one knows our forests better or is better able to defend them than those who have been here since immemorial time. Each demarcated land is a new area of environmental protection,” Lula said in the National Congress. “We will repeal all injustices committed against the Indigenous peoples.”” -via Mongabay, 1/4/23