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Yes. That is ALL her natural hair! It’s not dreaded. She has type 4c hair, and her strands are very coarse and very thick. This is a braidout. (Her insta: @tkwonder)
Very thick, but not very coarse. This is extremely fine hair, like baby fine, that just happens to be extremely dense.
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Red Data Girl: My Longest Day of School (Week 29)
Red Data Girl: My Longest Day of School By Noriko Ogiwara A Translation
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I’m back from Japan! I had a great two weeks in the country, and I’m already making plans to go back next year. Maybe Hokkaido next time?
I, being the nerd that I am, found my way to three RDG related places on my trip. As I think I mentioned before, I went to Mt. Togakushi and Mt, Takao, but as a last minute addition to the trip, I also stopped by the Tokyo Metropolitan Government Building to see the view from its observation deck. All three places were great experiences. The two mountains were especially fun. I’d recommend them to anyone who even vaguely enjoys hiking. They weren’t difficult treks at all. (Mt. Takao has some more challenging trails available if you’re into that though.)
Along with talking about how my trip went, I also have some exciting RDG news. For the month of August, I’ll be moving back to a weekly posting schedule. That means I’ll be posting four weeks in a row starting on the 5th. As always, I’ll be posting the installations on Sunday evenings around 5:20 EST. I can also tell you that RDG 5 will come to an end in August, and we’ll be moving onto RDG 6. It’s going to be a busy month for RDG!
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Self-compassion
“The focus in these pop-psych stories tends to stay squarely on the first part of Neff’s 15-year-old definition:
‘experiencing feelings of caring and kindness toward oneself, taking an understanding, nonjudgmental attitude toward one’s inadequacies and failures’.
From reading many of these pieces, self-compassion seems like self-kindness, and nothing more.
But it’s the second part of that definition that has proven the most helpful for me: ‘recognising that one’s own experience is part of the common human experience’.
It’s the idea of taking a zoomed-out look at yourself, and realising that you are more similar to others than you are different, even (maybe especially) considering how ridiculous you often are.”
Self-indifference
“For me, the term ‘self-indifference’ communicates this part of Neff’s message better than her own term does:
when it comes to embarrassing moments, it means considering your own highlight reel of flaws, acknowledging that, yes, maybe the moment really was that bad – but then responding with a shrug.
It is, to come back to my earlier point, something you could call self-indifference, by which I mean the comfort of realising that you are not all that unique.
Really, though, self-indifference and self-compassion are just new-fangled terms for an ancient concept: humility.”
Humility
“Humble people don’t focus on their flaws – not exactly, anyway. It’s more that humble people don’t focus on themselves very much at all.
‘This is not to say that a humble person fails to care about her own welfare or pursue her own interests – it is simply that she sees these as being deeply intertwined with the welfare and interests of others,’ write the authors of a 2017 paper in The Journal of Positive Psychology.
You are important, and you are worthy of love, just like we millennials were taught in school – but that’s true only because everyone is important, and everyone is worthy of love. You matter because everyone else matters. (…)
Maybe the most compassionate attitude you can take toward yourself is to stop obsessing over yourself.”
Source: You’re simply not that big a deal: now isn’t that a relief? (Melissa Dahl, Aeon, Jun 08 2018)
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Defense attorney co sign.
You make your attorneys job harder when you speak to the cops.
So, credit where due, this is a screen grab from the Twitter account @BeattyLaw, an actual defense attorney, so it’s doubly attorney-endorsed.
(Link to the original tweet)
He also has a few more (I will not speak for @yourbigsisnissi and can’t say whether she also endorses these:
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I don’t know this guy, I just follow him on Twitter, but I’ll encourage you, if you’re on Twitter, maybe go and hit that retweet on these too - folks there need this advice as much as we do here.
KNOW YOUR RIGHTS!
please pray for syria
Again we will destroy another country and again we will refuse refugees.
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“I think there can be a demand for authors from marginalized backgrounds to write difficult, heartrending stories about the challenges of racism, xenophobia, homophobia, ableism, or other oppressions. To write books that “teach” the mainstream about our experience. And we can internalize that demand, as I did. While it’s really important to allow kids of all backgrounds to see their own community’s suffering and resilience reflected in books - it can’t be the only, or the predominant, type of narrative we see out there. I worry about the tendency to demand the performance of pain from marginalized communities for others’ voyeurism. People from marginalized backgrounds have all sorts of stories - and it’s important to make room for that variety. Who is allowed to be happy? Who is allowed to be magical? Who is allowed to be funny? These can be political questions. Joy can be a type of resistance.”
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Sayantani DasGupta, author of The Serpent’s Secret
So apparently last year the National Park Service in the US dropped an over 1200 page study of LGBTQ American History as part of their Who We Are program which includes studies on African-American history, Latino history, and Indigenous history.
Like. This is awesome. But also it feels very surreal that maybe one of the most comprehensive examinations of LGBTQ history in America (it covers sports! art! race! historical sites! health! cities!) was just casually done by the parks service.
This is really great??
Chapter 1: Prologue: Why LGBTQ Historic Sites Matter by Mark Meinke
Chapter 2: Introduction to the LGBTQ Heritage Initiative Theme Study by Megan E. Springate
Chapter 3: Introduction to Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer (LGBTQ) History in the United States by Leisa Meyer and Helis Sikk
Chapter 4: The History of Queer History: One Hundred Years of the Search for Shared Heritage by Gerard Koskovich
Chapter 5: The Preservation of LGBTQ Heritage by Gail Dubrow
Chapter 6: LGBTQ Archeological Context by Megan E. Springate
Chapter 7: A Note about Intersectionality by Megan E. Springate
Chapter 8: Making Bisexuals Visible by Loraine Hutchins
Chapter 9: Sexual and Gender Diversity in Native America and the Pacific Islands by Will Roscoe
Chapter 10: Transgender History in the US and the Places that Matter by Susan Stryker
Chapter 11: Breathing Fire: Remembering Asian Pacific American Activism in Queer History by Amy Sueyoshi
Chapter 12: Latina/o Gender and Sexuality by Deena J. González and Ellie D. Hernandez
Chapter 13: “Where We Could Be Ourselves”: African American LGBTQ Historic Places and Why They Matter by Jeffrey A. Harris
Chapter 14: LGBTQ Spaces and Places by Jen Jack Gieseking
Chapter 15: Making Community: The Places and Spaces of LGBTQ Collective Identity Formation by Christina B. Hanhardt
Chapter 16: LGBTQ Business and Commerce by David K. Johnson
Chapter 17: Sex, Love, and Relationships by Tracy Baim
Chapter 18: LGBTQ Civil Rights in America by Megan E. Springate
Chapter 19: Historical Landmarks and Landscapes of LGBTQ Law by Marc Stein
Chapter 20: LGBTQ Military Service by Steve Estes
Chapter 21: Struggles in Body and Spirit: Religion and LGBTQ People in US History by Drew Bourn
Chapter 22: LGBTQ and Health by Katie Batza
Chapter 23: LGBTQ Art and Artists by Tara Burk
Chapter 24: LGBTQ Sport and Leisure by Katherine Schweighofer
Chapter 25: San Francisco: Placing LGBTQ Histories in the City by the Bay by Donna J. Graves and Shayne E. Watson
Chapter 26: Preservation of LGBTQ Historic & Cultural Sites – A New York City Perspective by Jay Shockley
Chapter 27: Locating Miami’s Queer History by Julio Capó, Jr.
Chapter 28: Queerest Little City in the World: LGBTQ Reno by John Jeffrey Auer IV
Chapter 29: Chicago: Queer Histories at the Crossroads of America by Jessica Herczeg-Konecny
Chapter 30: Nominating LGBTQ Places to the National Register of Historic Places and as National Historic Landmarks: An Introduction by Megan E. Springate and Caridad de la Vega
Chapter 31: Interpreting LGBTQ Historic Sites by Susan Ferentinos
Chapter 32: Teaching LGBTQ History and Heritage by Leila J. Rupp
Casualty 1906 (TV 2006)
Known as London Hospital in the US, and available on Amazon Prime. I never heard anything about it, but the characters are so well drawn. It ends abruptly, but it's very good otherwise. Sort of like ER but set in the early 20th century 1900-1910 (roughly, from what I can tell)
Ember in the Ashes MBTI
Because I just can't help myself. And maybe some self-hate too.
Laia: ISTJ Elias: ENFJ Keenan: ISTJ Helene: ISTP Izzi: ISFP Afya: ENTJ
Suspect the Commandant is an ISTP as well. I want to type Avitas and Cook as well, but the tense and perspective of the books makes it difficult.
An Ember in the Ashes/a Torch in the Night thoughts pt. 1
Okay, I will talk like a normal person about Sabaa Tahrir's An Ember in the Ashes/a Torch in the Night.
I typically don't mind romance in a book as long as it's done well and the characters fleshed out. But after the end of the second book I am still trying to figure out why Elias likes Laia.
He doesn't actually seem to see her (well, he sees her body.) He sort of idealizes her. To some extent he idealizes people in general. He does it with Helene, for instance, striving to rationalize away his feelings for her while unaware that Helene's affiliation with the the Empire is the real stickler. He associates Helene with the Empire in the same way he associates Laia with freedom, both hers and his own.
When he sees Laia, he sees the freedom, self-determination and desire to help others that he wants for his own life. Laia's also an antidote to the self-loathing he feels about his own affiliation with the Empire.
His paean to her where he goes on about how she's his temple and priest, etc has nothing to do with who Laia is as a person. It's a statement of his own feelings, but not towards her.
He embarrasses me because he reminds me of myself.
I don't dislike him, but stuff like this is why I feel so cold to them as a couple. It could easily be fixed and developed so I withhold final judgement.
I just hope they have a conversation somewhere in the next book. Cause I can understand exactly what Laia likes about Keenan and exactly what she dislikes about him, but I can't understand this for Elias' case.
Somewhere in here there's an underlying theme about using love as an escape, as a salve. Rilke talks about people putting others on the 'hurt places of their lives.' In an environment like this, it's natural (though I don't necessarily agree.) It's clear that both Laia and Elias are to some extent, 'running away.' As a consequence of their flight, they have trouble really seeing each other. Laia likes to be liked and she likes to have comfort and more essentially distraction from the horrors of her environment. Which is why she pinballs from one to the other. <
A Ember in the Ashes/A Torch in the Night
I have many more thoughts, but my first is:
STOP WRITING IN THE PRESENT TENSE. ESPECIALLY FIRST PERSON. PLEASE, UNLESS YOU ARE LITERALLY MARGARET ATWOOD.
Present tense is a drag from the very first few sentences. I can stomach it if it's a short story, or if it's crime or noir or a very action based book. And then it's present tense first person.
There is no point of view with less freedom or flexibility. Why use it? I mean, it's popular. But why use it? Not only does it add nothing, but it detracts from the story at every opportunity.
It is not in line with her strengths as a writer or the story she would like to tell, I think. The story bucks the from from start to finish.
I feel that the author has really excellent instincts, but seems strangely determined to fit her story into a preconcieved YA form, that includes present tense/first person, love triangles, dystopia, evil overlords and the Chosen Ones who fight them.
But it's it a better story than that.
everyone always talks about how great zuko’s redemption arc was in atla but tbh i’m really disappointed that no one ever mentions how azula had without a doubt the most epic and realistic downfall of any antagonist in any fictional work i’ve ever seen. like years later i am still completely shook
Yes, speaking of realistic and well-developed antagonists.
Dazed and confused
There seems to be much confusion online with respect to INFJs. I like to think of the category more in terms of a person’s dominant brain activity as measured across a variety of scenarios, with everyone on a spectrum and variation even within this artificial category. The MBTI online tests often seem inadequate for many people in teasing out their dominant thought patterns. The descriptions of type are generic enough that people within the spectrum of INFJ and without could say “this applies to me” or “this does not apply to me” rather easily. It is like a good fortune cookie.
Some things I have noticed in trying to identify well-known INFJs in various spheres are sort of interesting.
1. There are not very many INFJs.
2. Percentage wise, there may be even less famous or well known INFJs.
3. Most of the famous INFJ examples on the Internet are wrong. This probably leads to a lot of confusion for people trying to figure out how their mind works by identifying with celebrities.
4. INFJs more or less don’t act, don’t sing, and don’t dance. At least not well enough to become famous. (Note: yes, INFJs do these activities; only a few rare birds seem to be well known for them.)
5. INFJs do however become cartoonists and writers, especially non-fiction writers.
6. INFJs are often found in academia, especially in subjects such as chemistry, English, history, political science. Anything involving theoretical systems and following procedure. They seem to be found less often in positions of prominence in relation to subjects like math and physics (which are often dominated by INFP, ENFP, INTP, ENTP, INTJ, and ENTJ types).
7. Their presentation and demeanor often comes across very similar to that of an INTJ. They may be very in their head, analytical, conceptual, hesitant in speech, and rather awkward.
8. The type descriptions often suggest INFJs are rather bubbly and openly emotional, doers and performers, which is usually not so much the case. This leads to a lot of ENFPs, ESFPs, ISFPs, ISFJs, and more identifying with the description. However, the description does not exactly describe the INFJ way of being as they appear to the world. INFJs spend massive amounts of time in their heads thinking, planning, and systematizing. On the outside, it really does not appear that much is going on and INFJs may even be regarded as outwardly boring.
9. It is a huge challenge to get out of their heads and actually, physically do things. This would entail expending a lot of energy and INFJs are generally not high on dopamine (which is associated with extroversion) or kinesthetic intelligence (unless they have really worked on this area of development). INFJs do not seem to be very prominent in sports, as top-level athletes either.
This needed to be said.
I’m just super fucking bitter that once the flint water crisis got it’s 15 minutes of fame people stopped giving a shit. The water is still poisoned, people! Donations have plummeted and people have been forced back into drinking and bathing with the water! The medical effects of this are astounding, cases of legionnaires disease have skyrocketed, people are having seizures, people are having weird rashes break out over their body, people (including me!) are having their blood poisoned, and it’s not just lead! it’s coliform bacteria! it’s THMs! it’s all in the water and it gets into the bloodstream and breaks down blood vessels, causing bruising and petechiae and internal bleeding and no one gives a shit anymore and it’s only gotten worse like how many people are going to have to die until people realize this is still a problem
I would like to add that the people of Flint cannot sell their houses, because selling a house with leaded water is illegal. Additionally, households with children can’t stop paying for the water because living in a house without running water is cause for CPS to take their kids. Flint has been living this way for over two years.
The people of Flint are trapped by the legal system. And it is only the most high profile case out many cities with a similar problem.
Because the government has abandoned them, they are dependant on help from the outside. Donate here
