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There is only a couple more days till tos, ent, and voy leave netflix!!!!
However, I may know a place where you can still find them (*wink wink nudge nudge)….
Everyone say thank you to @messier82 for putting this google drive together and sharing it with us!!!
With the news of Queen Elizabeth’s hospitalisation, it’s now a distinct reality that we could be looking at a change in monarch. And while everyone loves being performative and wants to look cool and join in on the ‘fun’ of celebrating her death, maybe instead you should be looking at doing something that might actually make a difference.
Queen Elizabeth II was an incredibly popular monarch. She was clever and cunning and played her apolitical political role well, taking care to remain in the good graces of the public. It is NOT a coincidence that while monarchies all around Europe toppled, Britain never once seriously looked at getting rid of their Queen.
This is not true of Charles. He is not as well liked. He does not have the benefit of longevity - most people alive have known the Queen as their monarch their whole lives, and have never seen the monarch change. Kicking a little old lady off the throne after what many people have seen as years of service to her country was a relatively unpopular proposition, but the same is not true of of a man who people aren’t all that fond of, and who doesn’t hold the position.
If you’re on tumblr you’re probably very aware of the questionable past and present of the British throne - and if you’re British or a member of a commonwealth state, now is the time to start talking about it. The monarchy is never going to be overthrown while Queen Elizabeth is still alive, but on her death… well, it’s pretty much fair game.
So instead of just celebrating on your blog, go out and talk about the monarchy. Sow seeds of revolution. Talk about the racism of the royal family. Talk about the racism inherent in the system, and the very personal racism that Megan Markle exposed. Talk about how it isn’t fair that in a unilateral society based on principles of equality, we have not just a monarch but an entire class of people who are born into titles. Talk about how the royal family hoard wealth, how their modern wealth has come from their past subjects, as well as the burden on tax payers. Talk about how unfit they each are for their positions. How you don’t like Charles, or don’t want him as king. Talk about how outsiders are treated - Megan, Diana.
Talk about all the downsides of the monarchy, and do it loudly and publicly, especially with people who are on the fence or who don’t think they care. We will only step away from the monarchy when the general public demand it, and for that to happens, people need to be informed. People need to consider what things would be like without the institution they’ve lived with all their lives- and if the figurehead of that institution is changing, now is the perfect time.
Reminder to those with a netflix account that tomorrow, October 20th, is the employee walkout in protest against the company’s consistent defense of transphobia and horrible treatment of trans employees who voiced objections.
The employee who originally organized the walkout has been fired. As part of the rally tomorrow morning at 10:30am, organizers will present a list of firm asks to co-CEO/Chief Content Officer Ted Sarandos, who you might also know as the guy who sent multiple internal memos arguing that media has no impact at all on how human beings see each other and ourselves. (Arguing that you think media as a whole is fundamentally pointless is a really good argument for him not having this job anymore, I guess.)
Please support the trans employees and their allies by not using your netflix account tomorrow, Wednesday October 20th, 2021.
Thanks.
For anyone who was earnestly unsure if they would be doing the right thing in not watching netflix today: the organizer of the walkout, Mx. B. Pagels-Minor, has spent the day so far retweeting encouragement to not watch netflix today in solidarity.
You can follow their updates here. This is the employee who organized the walkout as part of the Trans Employee Resource Group.
A corresponding rally in support has been organized by Ashlee Marie Preston, and will be gathering in LA today. You can follow her updates here.
But now that it’s even more explicit: do not use your netflix account today.
hi! so im not able to access your star trek repository, i was just wondering if you took it down or made it private?
hi! no i haven't - i'm working on figuring out what happened and how to fix it right now. worst case scenario, i reupload all the files, as i still have them on external drives, but that would take me a few days. sorry for the inconvenience, all!
“An “angel” is anything that carries out a mission for God. This includes forces of nature. […] Photosynthesis? That’s an angel. Gravity? An angel. Magnetism? Angel. The Midrash in Bereishis Rabbah (chapter 1) says than an angel only performs one job. That job doesn’t have to be destroying Sodom; it could be peristalsis, centripetal force or condensation.”
— Rabbi Jack Abramowitz, Angels (via he-harim)
Im obsessed with this idea and I will not be able to stop thinking about the angel that caramelizes onions
I am also obsessed but I’m considering the idea that caramelizing onions is really just an example of the Maillard reaction, which is also what causes bread to toast, chicken skin to crisp up when you roast a chicken, cheese to brown on pizza, and milk to become caramel.
Basically I’m saying that there could be an angel of the Maillard reaction and they really won the angel mission jackpot.
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Caption: [So, you're nonbinary. You've got your nouns figured out, you got your pronouns figured out. What could possibly go wrong? Until, there's a formal setting. You have to use a title. You don't have a doctorate! So you go online, you look "what are gender neutral titles", "nonbinary titles" and everything everywhere says "mx". It's fine. You just don't feel like its right for you. So what do you do?
Hi I'm Tuse, I'm nonbinary and I'm a huge linguistics and history nerd. And I want to share some alternate options for nonbinary titles. Let's start with what we already know. Mister and Missus. Those are the base gendered titles in English. Mrs. comes from Mistress. So, mister and mistress. The ending of those "-ter" and "-tress", those are the modern English forms of the Latin tor and trix.
So one great option is just removing the gendered ending. So just "Mist". I really like this because its simply, to the point. I like to shorten it with "M". But my favorite option is- Latin didn't have two grammatical genders. Latin had a neuter gender. And so, the neuter equivalent of "tor" and "trix", is "trum". So "Mistrum".
I really like this, I use it for myself. I like to shorten it as "Mm". And I really like it because it is unambiguous. It is very clearly not mister, not mistress, not missus, and not miss. That's what I like to use for myself. I love exploring other options for nongendered titles and nongendered language in general.
We have a tendency to come up with one option and then expect everyone who doesn't fit into the two binary options to use that third option. And we don't have to do that. If you have other options for what you like to use as your title as a nonbinary person, I would love to hear it. Please share!]
Note: Because this was being commented a lot on the original video, of course these work in English and not necessarily other languages. That doesn't mean that they can't be helpful, just that they might only be helpful in English.
[Image ID: An Ouroboros eating its own tail, with the words inside: “Ouroboros can have a little Ouroboros as a treat.]
The chronicle of the monk Herbert of Reichenau for the year 1021 ends “My brother Werner was born on November 1.“
1021 was not an uneventful year. The emperor began a campaign into Italy. Illustrious abbots died. There was an earthquake. But Herbert took the time to note, at the end of the year, that his brother was born.
Of such acts of tenderness is history made.
This post broke through the shell of crustiness on my medievalist heart and made me go ‘aww’.
There was a medieval parenting manual that recommended parents smack pieces of furniture their toddlers bumped into and scold the furniture for being so naughty as to get in the way, so that the kids would laugh and forget about their bumps and bruises
I read that and my heart melted
(source: Medieval Women by Deirdre Jackson. She cited the primary source but I cannot for the life of me find the book to check what it was called)
We should hold a thousandth birthday party for Werner in a couple of years.
In 11th century Constantinople, the historian, philosopher, monk, and general insufferable know-it-all Michael Psellos once wrote a letter to his infant grandson. He begins like this:
“Perhaps I will not live to see you, dearest newborn and offspring of my soul, when you reach adolescence, if God so wishes it, or when you mature; for the days of my life are failing and the time approaches when its thread will be cut short. I have therefore decided to address this speech to you in advance of that day and reciprocate your innate charm with the graces of speech. I should be ungrateful and entirely thoughtless if at a time when your perceptions and thoughts are undeveloped (though as far as I alone am concerned you are perfect in these respects, insofar as you hear my voice and feel my affection, cling to my neck, slip into my embrace, and put up with my annoying kisses), I should be ungrateful, I say, if I myself failed to render to you a fitting return.”
He then goes on to praise his grandson, who is the most HANDSOME and INTELLIGENT and RATIONAL child ever born. (No seriously, he calls a four-month-old baby “rational” – rationality and moderation were considered important virtues so OBVIOUSLY his grandson was full of them.)
He observes every little thing the baby does – breastfeeding, taking baths, fussing, babytalking – with unrestrained marvel and delight, complete with flowery descriptions:
“[Your eyes] moved cheerfully, whenever a smile was about to come upon you. It sufficed for me to take note of this only once—I needed no Delphic tripod or bacchic ecstasy—to prophesy without hesitation from the kindly look in your eyes that you were about to laugh. And, true enough, you moved your lip slightly, blushed, and, behold! you laughed.”
He takes special pride that the baby likes him, and puts himself in the picture too:
“And when I would see you becoming perplexed, I immediately snatched you away from your toys, took you up in my hands, and lifted you up in the air until you were full of joy.”
He wishes him to lead a happy life. He calls him “my living pearl, the ornament of my soul”. And he ends the letter like this:
“May you obtain all that you love, but especially education and good sense, which alone can elevate the soul to its proper beauty and which constitute understanding of the more profound things. I wrote all this for you while holding you in my arms and kissing you insatiably.”
Isn’t it incredible? Translation by Anthony Kaldellis, from Mothers and Sons, Fathers and Daughters: The Byzantine Family of Michael Psellos (University of Notre Dame Press, 2006).
I love the fact that “anyway, BABY” especially, “BABY RELATED TO ME!” appears to be a fairly universal emotion.
“I know [the world] is full of evils, full of human injustice, greed, folly, waste. But it is also full of good, of beauty, vitality, achievement. It is what a world should be! It is alive, tremendously alive—alive, despite all its evils, with hope.”
— Ursula K. Le Guin, from The Dispossessed
Back to work
There’s been another murder on academic Twitter.
PSA: Bioarchaeologists hate this woman and her book too.
Any bioarch/osteology program worth its salt has lengthy discussions of ethics early on and plenty of discussion of the importance of NAGPRA and the various equivalents around the world (it’s kind of different in Europe because they’re our dead and land for reburial is expensive and very limited and the relevant laws here reflect that difference).
When Repatriation and Erasing the Past came out the main bioarchaeology association in the UK wrote a letter to the publisher soundly condemning the book and stating that the entire british field was appalled such an abhorrent book full of ‘out-dated colonial perspectives’ had been published. The publisher did apologise and take various actions, including a donation to the Association on American Indian Affairs, but unfortunately didn’t remove the book from publication.
Weiss has stuck to her guns consistently and been shouted down/caused fury at conferences, including one of the main anthopology conferences in the US, because of it.
As a side note, posting remains on social media is also generally considered a Bad Idea/ethically dubious and her twitter is full of that, not just her icon. If she was a student at my department and posted those pictures the lecturers would rip her a new one.
TLDR: almost all anthropologists/bioarchaeologists are just as horrified by this woman as everyone else.
Edit: Just went to see how bad her blog was and she keeps getting worse. According to her the fact that there’s evidence of pre-contact slavery and mistreatment of captives in the Americas is something we need to talk about more because that somehow justifies her being racist? jfc
She also claims that medieval Londoners were just as exploited and marginalised as Native Americans, which is wrong and ridiculous on so many levels that I don’t even know where to begin.
Pretty sure she’s published at least one paper with her ex-husband that’s basically phrenology. (Phrenology, for those who don’t know, is looking at the shape of the skull and using that to make claims about people’s intelligence, personality, etc. It’s pseudo-scientific nonsense, obviously. When it was first invented people were interested in using it to figure out if someone was likely to be a murderer. To the surprise of literally no one ever, once it hit America it became all about being profoundly racist instead). Their paper was ‘remember that bullshit about intrinsic racial IQ differences? Well we measured some skulls (and some kneecaps. I shit you not.) and we’re pretty sure the bullshit racist idea is right!
There are some incredibly shitty people in academia - it’s not the liberal haven some like to make it out to be - but every now and then there’s still someone that makes me go ‘okay but HOW do they still have a job??’
Yep, this woman has been soundly condemned by basically every peer she has. Including the leadership of all major anthropological organizations. What she proposes is both morally bankrupt and, in some respects, completely illegal under NAGPRA. The vast majority of anthros support repatriation.
It’s funny how whenever a major media site publishes a bloviating thinkpiece about The Rise and Fall of Tumblr, their elaborately justified list of things about Tumblr that modern social media users hate just happens to be perfectly, one-to-one identical with a list of things about Tumblr that make it difficult for advertisers to harvest personally identifying information about individual users. Like, exactly who do y’all think you’re fooling, buddy?
sexual thrill at the mere prospect of cataloging things in a database
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