LB: A good article meditating on this explicitly is Quinn Norton's The Hypocrisy of the Internet Journalist (2015)
https://medium.com/message/the-hypocrisy-of-the-internet-journalist-587d33f6279e
"I’m selling you out as hard as I can,
and I’m sorry."
uspol, orientalism, birdsite link
@NightRose @kittybecca @violet yet : https://twitter.com/karen_ec_levy/status/1091161689335218177
(article behind paywall, sorry)
I fear social media spying for "health checking" is a start or a blanket excuse.
Israel. Pol. Antisemitism.
Not Antisemitic: calling Bibi Netanyahu racist, far right, evil stinking pile of garbage.
Antisemitic: suggesting that all Jewish politicians/all politicians in general are beholden to the Israeli government
Israel. Pol. Antisemitism.
Not Antisemitic: critiquing counties for the way they interact with Israel.
Antisemitic: Saying your biggest problem with China is their relationship with Israel without acknowledging the fact that they are LITERALLY COMMITTING GENOCIDE AGAINST THEIR OWN MUSLIM ETHNIC MINORITY POPULATION WTF YOU MAOIST TANKIE FUSKGHDFH.
pet health (- but then +++)
my sister's dog's most recent surgery was successful!!
he had swallowed a corn cob whole. he's had surgeries over the past two years to repair internal injuries from having swallowed other inappropriate things, and to repair intestinal scar tissue that had formed after multiple surgeries.
it's a literal actual miracle this dog is alive. ❤️❤️❤️
You know, as long as you get the initial "Hey, can I sit down here with you" bit to work well enough,
you can get into any conversation with any person after that.
As a consultant at the multi-national corporate diner with a table of subsidiary CEOs talking about anarchism,
in the mess-hall talking to a brigadier general about strategy philosophies from high-school or sitting down with bums to talk about the hard knocks of life.
If you go by "social norms", none of that really is OK, but from my experience they worked out well anyway,
because the general gave later praise to the colonel, the bums and I shared our deepest life-stories and the CEOs came to sit at my table later.
I liked sharing my life with those bums the most. We cried and laughed for so long.
I believe it's mostly about pretending as if the stupid social norms don't exist and it's all just normal.
queer/geek/artist/entomologist/professional regiphagist
transphobes/aphobes/biphobes/panphobes and pedos please kindly fuck off