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Discussion / Re: Politics 2020- Politics as Fandom
« on: November 09, 2020, 05:21:10 PM »
here to say, somehow i'm getting free things and it's likely because I am a black woman while everyone's whetting their egos for thanking black women voters

and what i really really want for 2021 and beyond is for folk to not lodge us into myths of superwomen or to discuss us in terms of angels or magic because we are very real people with very real concerns as is everyone else

and maybe 2021 and beyond will push that because we have a black (*and south asian) vp though bets are off because she's establishment too

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Discussion / Re: Alternatives to Amazon: a resource topic
« on: June 22, 2020, 01:05:57 AM »
I haven't shopped with Amazon since 2017, when I closed my account in Germany. I've reopened it (apparently they never delete) so I could access library books on my Kindle. Haven't learned a way around it just yet.

BUT holy crap, thanks! I mostly get everything locally, because I can, but this expands options.

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Discussion / Re: Politics 2020- Politics as Fandom
« on: May 11, 2020, 04:01:26 PM »
following

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General Chat / Re: 2020 Miscellaneous Links: Untitled Moose Game
« on: April 29, 2020, 10:17:26 PM »
The New Yorker's got some footage of Atlanta:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jPM1WfYMNSg&feature=youtu.be

re: Kemp cutting shelter-in-place short.

I WILL say, though, that it seems more people are out and going places than the video shows since I don't see most of my neighbors at home these days

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General Chat / Re: Music, Listening, 2020, Etc.
« on: April 20, 2020, 03:18:27 PM »
Fiona Apple. Fetch the Bolt Cutters.

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Discussion / Re: Politics 2020- Politics as Fandom
« on: April 10, 2020, 07:36:16 PM »
I suppose this all depends on how one defines the look of activism. LGBTQ in general have a different relationship to the rules of social space and local community than cishet folk, and I'd even gently argue back that the local is not negligible for a host of reasons. It can be both, has been both, but the internet is a different field of opportunities that's brilliant too. I'll be interested to see how your ideas continue to evolve were you somewhere else geographically.

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Discussion / Re: Politics 2020- Politics as Fandom
« on: April 09, 2020, 02:37:56 PM »
I'm thinking from a... how to phrase it.
So in activism I think before you get into organizations at any level you actually start with community, right?  But the world isn't really the same as once it was, so it's possible and increasingly common to have non-localized communities.  For trans people this is just a material necessity: having the Gender does have a minor hereditary component but it's still something that happens somewhat randomly across all other populations, so you can't really have a concentration of trans people in one area to really form the nucleus of a local political organization. But all sorts of other demographics have this sort of splintering, relocating, itinerant lifestyle now too, but people maintain their old social networks to a degree it stays as a community.  So I think there's a visible chunk of voters whose community can only exist at the federal level because it's dispersed all across the country. 

This seems to argue that trans people do not need localized communities, and also that a concentrated, localized trans community is impossible. But trying to think through this thought you expand it generally to human migration and technological advancements that are also prone to/supportive of fragmentation, and chances are greater for backgrounds that are higher in number? Is this correct?

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But granted I'm also salty here.  There's a strong streak of dismissing online community building entirely and seeing it as something to be broken up in some spaces, despite local organizations typically reveling in their local bigotries.  Which coming back to selfishness, is marked by transphobia in 99.99% of the country.  Bleh, rambly.

Pretending I understand the same lay of the land as you would be totally offensive. I, for one, keep online activism at a distance because I cannot interface with accountability the same way. And I recognize that I live in a space where multiple communities overlap or bark at each other and that the only community I see missing much support for is the disabled. Those are privileges to an extent, but this ain't New York City, you know? I think about historic examples of activism that were always both local and remote (mail campaigns, remote donations, etc.), and this problem of enclosure is a long one in that regard. It's also a privilege that I could just easily shed lots of my internet and social media presence for some psychosocial peace, because the internet just moves way too fast for me. You have me wanting to look into greater detail about what actually exists beyond GA and TX.


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Discussion / Re: Politics 2020- Politics as Fandom
« on: April 08, 2020, 02:17:52 PM »
We'd agree that those disqualifying online activism would not be your allies, right? Must online activism only seek the national? Both in-person and online activism should strive to balance both. When it doesn't, we have all those atrocious examples a la Shaun King that bankrupts the currency of a movement that attempted such. But I suspect you're responding to comments outside of my post, even though these points are quite useful.

I'd like to respond to the rest of your post, but it's a bit unclear to me. Will need more time.

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Discussion / Re: Politics 2020- Politics as Fandom
« on: April 07, 2020, 06:13:31 PM »
Perhaps.  But... I'm biased here.  It's flatly not possible for people like me to form local coalition or advocate in 99% of the country, and there's several other groups for whom that's also true.

You're not the moneyed contingent I'm referencing nor is it sensible or ethical to presume the burden is on those disenfranchised. Obviously each state has its own variables–if a state has zero relationship from even a small or large progressive group with something like the Congressional Progressive Caucus, that's their problem to solve and co-devise with others. Judging people who truly cannot do such mistakes empowered local and state stakeholders whose task it is to extend one's ability to participate.

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Definitely getting into Animal Crossing New Leaf; and while sheltering-in-place, I find myself hopping onto FF15 to complete missions and missions only. Good and quick payout.

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Discussion / Re: Politics 2020- Politics as Fandom
« on: April 07, 2020, 04:10:16 PM »
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“With Bernie Sanders losing,” NoiseCat said, “the silver lining is we get to define a progressive movement post-Bernie that is not attached to him.”

Which must deal with local and state politics as boldly and energetically (and even more) as they do at the federal level and in states that ruin their chances. What thriving social movement against establishments in the US ever survived a top-down approach? There are many "progressive movements" before and after someone like Sanders, that're severed in viability because of constituents and systemic suppression. Bandaid project or internal medicine?

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Just started up Animal Crossing on the Switch. Brand new villager. Peaches. Green airport. Called Westside. On Day 2. If you want to join, my Switch is: 1798-2060-2520 OR my Dodo right now is: 3XSD2

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General Chat / Re: Music, Listening, 2020, Etc.
« on: February 28, 2020, 08:29:32 PM »
500th post! huzzah.

Earthgang - Fields :]

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General Chat / Re: Music, Listening, 2020, Etc.
« on: February 06, 2020, 10:09:30 PM »
Finally listened to Julius Eastman's Femenine, performed by SEM Ensemble.

He's a figure of major historical interest for revisionist historians. Gay. Black. Impoverished. Poor. Genius. His contributions are being hailed at the same time experimental music histories are ridiculed for their over-representation of white musicians in every category pursued since the 1940s.

The historian in me loves it for my own argumentative purposes.

I have a different mixture of feelings listening to it in general, since minimalist music can feel quite dated unless toned properly for a targeted medium. In this case, listening to it through speakers is quite weird and I wish I was there.

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General Chat / Re: j's Art of 2020
« on: January 11, 2020, 03:29:18 PM »
I heard about Mosse's photography during a podcast, and to catch up, this Wired article is a generally good summation:

https://www.wired.com/2017/03/richard-mosse-heat-maps/

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Mosse uses a military thermal radiation camera to create remarkably detailed panoramas of refugee camps in his ongoing series Heat Maps. By employing technology more typically used in surveillance and warfare, Mosse offers a critique of how refugees are too often treated—as a threat to be mitigated or a logistical problem to be solved. “It’s my attempt to use that technology against itself, to create an abiding image of very provisional, temporary spaces that we’d rather overlook in our society,” says Mosse.

The Irish photographer has worked with infrared before, shooting with Kodak Aerochrome, a Cold War-era infrared satellite film, to document the war in Congo. He found the inspiration for Heat Maps in 2014 when wildlife cinematographer Sophie Darlington told of him about a military camera, designed to identify and track insurgents, capable of detecting bodies up to 18 miles away. Mosse placed an order for one, and received it nine months later. He won’t say much about it, but the 50-pound rig requires two computers and a 110-pound automated tripod to operate. “There’s a lot of moving parts to the system, which means a lot more can go wrong,” says Mosse. “It’s been a bit of a nightmare.”


Idomeni Camp, Greece, 2016 RICHARD MOSSE
Mosse says the camera is classified as a weapon under the International Traffic in Arms Regulations. Before traveling beyond the European Union with it, he often works with a lawyer to obtain an export license from Ireland's Department of Foreign Affairs. He's visited some 50 refugee camps in Europe, North Africa, and the Middle East. Upon arrival, he spends a few days scouting locations a mile or two away from the camp before setting everything up.

Although the final image is a still photograph, Mosse is using a video camera to make it. The camera pans slowly across the scene for as long as 80 minutes, pausing at two-second intervals to create a series of smaller images. As many as 900 of those photos are compiled into a final image using Photoshop, a process that can take more than 100 hours.

The final photo feels a bit like you're looking through night vision goggles or the scope of a rifle. Unsettled confusion gives way to recognition as you begin discerning small details—people sitting on the grass, sleeping in tents, chatting with neighbors. Then you realize the image teems with life. "That feeling of the unethical, this invasiveness and anonymizing, stripping of the individual—that’s what the camera was designed to do," Mosse says. "But there’s also a re-humanization of people, as the camera reveals them as fellow humans."

Smartphones are doing for art what the printing press did–a larger scale democratization of one's belief to be a participant in aesthetic enterprises. This is cool, though what's often disregarded in conversations about contemporary western practices (enacting agency, photographing different narratives, etc.) is just how tied our devices are to imperialistic warfare and genocidal exploitation. At some point, I wonder when or if the "ally" Mosse will extend his unusual privileges of ownership to his subjects.

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Discussion / Re: 2019 games in review
« on: December 31, 2019, 12:36:50 PM »
Kingdom Hearts 3:
Greatly disappointed by this game. I've been moving very slowly through it. It's still unfinished. I'm completing the Pirates stage at this point, but there is a level of overly saccharine dialogue and idiocy that offends me more. The writing is just bullshit and the stages are poorly designed with too few save points. On the other hand, the Gummi ship game that I quickly and savagely abhorred is now the game's highlight for me? I actually hate this game.

Nier Automata:
Thanks for putting me on this, Ran. Chat's witnessed my Nier rants. I love this game beyond words. I'll write more at another time. It's definitely in my top five, unseating something like Xenoblade.

Hollow Knight:
This is a great platformer! I have some issues that might be addressed in the second installment. More on a couple stages later.

Shadow of the Colossus:
For PS4. I'm sorry, I have not played such a boring game since Dragon Quest although I know they're incomparable. At some point in my adult life where I don't feel guilty for wandering unrewarded for hours, I'll pick this back up and give it another try.

Neo Cab:
I just picked this game up a week ago, and it feels like it was made explicitly for liberal feminist anticapitalist older millenials whose stock in technological developments has a much healthier dose of skepticism and fear than younger people. I'm currently at a point where someone important reappears; and I think it's becoming easier to follow the path of the annoyed female driver that I am trying always to embody. No fear of the Feel Grid!

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General Chat / Re: What's for dinner, DL?
« on: December 16, 2019, 08:50:14 PM »
What are people doing for Christmas? I'm always unduly concerned about duplicating Thanksgiving food and bridging enough healthy options between the holidays to maintain my weight. Thus far I'm aiming for something colorful: garlicky roasted veggies (like carrots, brussels, the likes...), a meat roast with cranberries, a vegan "roast" with cranberries, chivey scalloped potatoes, and either a snickerdoodle pie or a lemon and raspberry cake. Trying to only make enough for two nights of leftovers. . . .




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General Chat / Re: What's for dinner, DL?
« on: November 16, 2019, 01:36:36 PM »
I'm two weeks in to cooking excessive amounts of soup for dinner. Perfect for cold weather and cheaper heating bills~ The first was the ever-simple apple butternut squash soup, and today's the last day for my vegan tuscan soup (that I also added Italian tofurky slices to, because, why not make it a confused wedding soup?). Sunday night, I'm making:

Hominy and Spinach in Tomato-Garlic Broth (*vegan)
1 cup dried hominy
2 tbs olive oil
1/2 cup diced carrot
1/2 cup diced red onion
7 cloves garlic minced
1 can plum tomatoes
5 cups veggie stock
sunflower oil (to fry the veggies, hard things but not the hominy)
1 cup spinach (which I strongly suggest changing to 2 cups, because, spinach's notorious shrink)
ground white pepper and salt to taste
2 tbs minced parsley garnish

You can also garnish this "soup" with extra hominy

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General Chat / Re: Good Morning 2019- Glow Up Edition
« on: November 13, 2019, 09:06:55 PM »
2019 is nearly over.

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General Chat / Re: What games are you playing 2019?
« on: October 26, 2019, 01:51:08 PM »
Hollow Knight anyone?

A young gamer seems mortified that I've mostly played it without Cornifer's maps. I'm assuming this means I'm playing most of the stages out of order, because I only see his mask most times. I GUESS that's what happens when you waist 100+ hrs per expansive RPG. The payoff for developing intuition should feel better than it really is.

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General Chat / Re: Movies
« on: July 11, 2019, 12:08:32 PM »
I deep-dived into my "Watch Lists" and finally got to "I, Tonya." It's a pity it took me so long– its overhaul of the mockumentary premise for a drama did not lose any steam throughout the entire film. As well, having a woman redneck lead a film about rednecks's othering by upper-class white folk was quite an interesting lens that would've lost something had it otherwise rehashed redneck othering through the tragic white male figure. It's a good film!

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General Chat / Re: Books
« on: July 09, 2019, 04:40:49 PM »
Paulo Freire - Pedagogy of the Oppressed

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General Chat / Re: Music, Listening, 2019, Etc.
« on: June 29, 2019, 09:28:56 PM »
Little Simz - Venom

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