[wizardnaturalist]

a book should be $5 a little drink should be $2 and museum access should be free and all hours

[oceanmonsters]

Why the Internet Hates Amber Heard

Notes on the paranoid style in online fandom

Good article about the case and the level of vitriol it’s inspired towards AH

[pyaasa]

“One could blame “the Deppford Wives” for all these online smears, but that’s not exactly right. Some of the most active commenters aren’t so much determined fans of Johnny Depp as anti-fans of Amber Heard. […] “Anti-fans know as much about their object of anti-fandom as fans do about their object of fandom,” Van den Bulck said. Their relationship with the celebrity they despise is “often very deep, very emotional.”

“In 2020, I reported on fandom communities that were fixated on theories that the male objects of their fandom were being manipulated and tortured by less-famous, female romantic partners. […] These fans, who are also anti-fans, subject the women they hate to body-shaming and wild criminal accusations, and skewer them using sexist tropes. The targets of their anti-fandom are manipulative and ambitious, as a rule, but also stupid. They are glamorous and seductive, but also secretly disgusting. When I interviewed a Cumberbatch fan who was a firm believer in the conspiracy theories about his wife, she identified herself as a feminist. It was Hunter, she said, who was “setting women’s rights back [and] making everybody look bad.” Many Depp supporters now make the same argument. They insist that they are not a reactionary movement trying to undo the work of the #MeToo movement, and that questioning Heard’s claims does not make them misogynistic. If anything, she is the one who is making a joke out of #MeToo, and making things harder for “real” victims of abuse.”

“These are usually complicated theories, all the better to be discussed for months or years on end, but they’re tied together by something simple: anger at a woman in the public eye. Rebecca told me that the Depp fans had seemed to lose interest, at a certain point, in defending Johnny Depp. They were “just using him as a platform,” she said. Now they’ve become obsessed with someone else, and they’re not about to let her go.”

[sioltach]

How Trapped Palestinians Fell in Love With Bird-Watching

[anthropoetics]

readings: essays & articles

reassuring ghosts and haunted houses

fish recorded singing dawn chorus on reefs just like birds

what people around the world dream about

poet and philosopher david whyte on anger, forgiveness, and what maturity really means

oranges are orange, salmon are salmon

how memories persist where bodies and even brains do not

the avant-garde musical legacy of the moomins

the weight of our living: on hope, fire escapes, and visible desperation

disturbed minds and disruptive bodies

what is better ー a happy life or a meaningful one?

after my dad died, i started sending him emails. months later, someone wrote me back

on the igbo art of storytelling

what the caves are trying to tell us

promethean beasts — how animal uses of fire help illuminate human pyrocognition

the art of loving and losing female friends

on memorizing poetry

the ecological imagination of hayao miyazaki

reading in the age of constant distraction

holly warburton illustrates tender moments of love and light

romancing the fig: what one fruit can tell us about love, life and human civilization

mystery and birds: 5 ways to practice poetry

can a plant remember? this one seems to — here's the evidence

why female cannibals frighten and fascinate

when you give a tree an email adress

fear not — horror movies build community and emotional resilience

[weltenwellen]

Joy Sullivan, from “Culpable”, Instructions for Traveling West

[fullyarmoredbattlesturgeon]

[xxspronkus420xx]

I need this study

[unrequirede]

It looks like it's Anarchist Direct Actions: A Challenge for Law Enforcement. It was published in 2004

[writefinch]

It's worth pointing out that cops in the US adapted to these problems through using grand juries to cast wide nets and do punitive fishing expeditions in the wake of any serious suspected left-wing actions.

Here's how it works:

Someone starts a fire at an army draft office.

The cops look through their files for anyone who might be in the political orbit of someone who'd want to do that. People picked up at protests, for drug charges, vandalism, anyone who is already on their radar. They look into their known associates, anyone they live with, anyone they drink with.

Then they start subpoenaing these people for a grand jury summons. They give you immunity (but only for the matter of the grand jury!) so that you can't exercise the fifth amendment against self incrimination. If you say nothing, they can imprison you almost indefinitely for contempt of court. If they catch you in a lie, that's criminal perjury.

They'll ask you for information on everyone you know. Obviously they'll ask about their involvement in any crimes, but they're casting a wide net. Who knows who, where do they hang out, who talked to who about what and when. They'll ask you to spill interpersonal stuff, whether anyone is cheating on someone, whether people have substance abuse problems or embarrassing personal issues, if anyone is closeted, anything they consider dirt. Anyone you name is gonna get subpoenaed and they'll be asked for all this information on everyone they know, including you, and although you have immunity from your own testimony, you don't get immunity from each others.

Assuming you didn't personally do anything they can prosecute you for in the matter of the grand jury, they'll go after you based on what they know. The cops will arrest you on any little thing they have suspicion of, even if they know they can't prosecute you, just so that they can keep you in jail for a few days while you miss two shifts at work and your friends have to scramble to raise bail. They'll leak any embarrassing info that comes out, to your boss or your family or even the local press. Whatever they can do to make your life a little harder.

They will lean fucking hard on anyone who is involved in the scene but had second thoughts or felt like they were dragged into something they never wanted to do in the first place by their friends. The cops will say 'do you want to get your life ruined by people who did something stupid over something you barely even believe in' and sometimes that's a very compelling argument! If people have dependents or kids who they think won't be looked after if they go to prison, there's a lot of pressure to cooperate.

It's important to note two things:

1) Based on the ratio of actual prison sentences to maximum possible sentences for the charges, it's better for people not to cooperate with the jury both individually and as a group. People who talk still get sentenced, with the information they helped provide.

2) These aren't surgical strikes, they're an artillery barrage designed to destroy infrastructure and send people running for cover. Cops don't want you to have friends, they don't want you to hang out and have fun, they don't want you getting or providing food or shelter through anything you can't get fired from. They don't want committed direct-action people swimming freely through a sea of friendly people. They're not scared of the flower, they're scared of the soil that grows it.

[noneedtofearorhope]

Surviving a Grand Jury

Narratives from three people who successfully stood up to grand jury indictments: one who served jail time for resisting, one who went on th

[diaryofaphilosopher]

"The shift from the Afro-Caribbean zombie to the U.S. zombie is clear: in Caribbean folklore, people are scared of becoming zombies, whereas in U.S. narratives people are scared of zombies. This shift is significant because it maps the movement from the zombie as victim (Caribbean) to the zombie as an aggressive and terrifying monster who consumes human flesh (U.S.). In Haitian folklore, for instance, zombies do not physically threaten people; rather, the threat comes from the voduon practice whereby the sorcerer (master) subjugates the individual by robbing the victim of free will, language and cognition. The zombie is enslaved."

— Justin D. Edwards, "Mapping Tropical Gothic in the Americas" in Tropical Gothic in Literature and Culture.

Follow Diary of a Philosopher for more quotes!

[demonprincex]

The ultimate horror of the zombie, originally, was that an enslaved person could not escape bondage even in death.

[antigonick]

Extremely niche but I want to look a little into colour theory or colour as a literary motif or really accessible colour science. Anyone’s read something good about this? (except for Goethe’s Theory of Colours which I have and is a blast and a little dizzying—Goethe you did it again you beautiful weirdo.)

[antigonick]

Thank you so much for all your help, you’ve given me a ton to think about!

If anyone else wants to disappear into the rabbit hole, here are a few of the recommended texts available online:

Merleau Ponty’s Phenomenology of Perception (also in French here)

Josef Albers’ Interaction of Color

Orhan Pamuk’s My Name is Red 

James Clerk Maxwell’s Scientific Papers, vol. II (a few of them on colour)

Derek Jarman’s Chroma: A Book of Color

Rudolf Arnheim’s Art and Visual Perception: A Psychology of The Creative Eye 

Patti Bellantoni’s If It’s Purple, Someone’s Gonna Die: The Power of Color in Visual Storytelling

And my own only amount to— J. W. Goethe’s Theory of Colours and Rebecca Lindenberg’s Love, a Footnote.

[dame-de-pique]

John Harmer - Moonlit Sea. Wick, Near Arundel, 1860

[samirasystole]

Growing up in India, I never questioned my gender. When I moved to the U.S. at 18, I began to feel disconnected from my body.

A piece by Supriya Ganesh on being Indian in the entertainment industry, how that affects their gender identity, sexuality, and femininity.

These are just outtakes of a very important piece. I urge you to read the whole thing.

Here is the link for the original, here is a non paywalled version

[cycad42]

Dappled sun (Thylacinus cynocephalus)

[lamignonette]

[the-squeaky-junk-drawer]

#GPOY (It's my birthday today!)

[11990904]

Visit Original Link

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[handweavers]

some more photos of ireland my grandfather took in 2004. feels like a memory of his home that he left for me - how the isle looked to him, how it felt to be there in that time and place

[niddy-writes-randomly]

June 14, wednesday : we ache in secret.

[2022dirt]

The morning frost created a unique pattern on the wood.

[the-first-man-is-a-cat]

Vietnam, 1915-1916