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sorcyressSundries time!
*In my world, nothing excellent is going on and everything is frustration. Communication is frustrating, apartments are frustrating, and all I really want is to go find a park and fuck around with my hoop, except that it's stupid hot out.
*I like this article: "Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Names". It's especially poignant to me since I do make a special effort to refer to people as they wish to be referred. And because I have friends who meet these criteria --friends who have numbers in the correct spelling of their name (Dan4th, jere7my), or no capital letters (jere7my again, mek, draz), or have multiple correct names (Marc/Magus, me all over the place, Samantha/Herbert).
Names are damn fascinating, and I'm glad that there are some people out there trying to get the word out that limiting the "name" field on whatever program makes it harder for people with "strange" identities to feel as though they're actually legitimate people.
*A ten year old attempts to save the local library, through threatening postcards. V. funny!
*Despite moving in with Genni and Nurit come September, I still think of Ria as my sole roommate. It's some sort of complex bond formed around Berryline, stupid links, and yelling at the Hetalia fandom when it's being dumb (often). At any rate, the point I am trying to make is that my former-future roommate Ria draws awesome art! This is a short series on food-porn --pin-up girls with delectable delicious noms in the background-- and everyone should go ogle as appropriate.
*[Trigger warning - rape]:
If you ask men if they rape women, without using the word rape, something like six percent of the population says "yeah, totally". Mostly linked because I keep wanting to show this article to people and forgetting where it is.
(I really should be reading YesMeansYes regularly, it seems to be an excellent blog.)
[/Trigger warning - rape]
*On a more charming note, this is an excellent tale of a parent-child trip to the Hardware store. It's very sweet and warmfuzzy.
*Relevant to my interests, something I need to read later: What does it mean to be a woman hackerspace member?
(And if I lived in Atlanta, I'd probably be able to tell you better.)
*Why I will Never Pursue Cheating Again, which is a pretty good essay by a comp-sci professor that draws to a conclusion I will need to remember and save and use for all the rest of my life. Huzzah project-based learning!
*Some funny by the same author, Cease and Desist.
*[Trigger warning: Abuse]
Holly, at Pervocracy, who I love above many others, has written an amazing, striking, painful list of some reasons (NOT comprehensive) of "Why did they stay with their abuser".
Being abused is hard. Abusive relationships are often designed to make it impossible for the abused party to have a sense of what's actually going on, whether they're in the right, whether the abuse is real. They are a mess of insecurity and self-doubt, and it is never the abused party's fault.
Please go read the list. This is serious business in a big way.
[/Trigger warning - Abuse]
*And because I don't like to leave sundries on a sadnote, have the best protest photo I've seen in months
*Okay, and what may be my favourite picture from Pinewoods. That's j7y taking a photo of Mog and I, and it is ADORABLE!
~Sor
MOOP!
*In my world, nothing excellent is going on and everything is frustration. Communication is frustrating, apartments are frustrating, and all I really want is to go find a park and fuck around with my hoop, except that it's stupid hot out.
*I like this article: "Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Names". It's especially poignant to me since I do make a special effort to refer to people as they wish to be referred. And because I have friends who meet these criteria --friends who have numbers in the correct spelling of their name (Dan4th, jere7my), or no capital letters (jere7my again, mek, draz), or have multiple correct names (Marc/Magus, me all over the place, Samantha/Herbert).
Names are damn fascinating, and I'm glad that there are some people out there trying to get the word out that limiting the "name" field on whatever program makes it harder for people with "strange" identities to feel as though they're actually legitimate people.
*A ten year old attempts to save the local library, through threatening postcards. V. funny!
*Despite moving in with Genni and Nurit come September, I still think of Ria as my sole roommate. It's some sort of complex bond formed around Berryline, stupid links, and yelling at the Hetalia fandom when it's being dumb (often). At any rate, the point I am trying to make is that my former-future roommate Ria draws awesome art! This is a short series on food-porn --pin-up girls with delectable delicious noms in the background-- and everyone should go ogle as appropriate.
*[Trigger warning - rape]:
If you ask men if they rape women, without using the word rape, something like six percent of the population says "yeah, totally". Mostly linked because I keep wanting to show this article to people and forgetting where it is.
(I really should be reading YesMeansYes regularly, it seems to be an excellent blog.)
[/Trigger warning - rape]
*On a more charming note, this is an excellent tale of a parent-child trip to the Hardware store. It's very sweet and warmfuzzy.
*Relevant to my interests, something I need to read later: What does it mean to be a woman hackerspace member?
(And if I lived in Atlanta, I'd probably be able to tell you better.)
*Why I will Never Pursue Cheating Again, which is a pretty good essay by a comp-sci professor that draws to a conclusion I will need to remember and save and use for all the rest of my life. Huzzah project-based learning!
*Some funny by the same author, Cease and Desist.
*[Trigger warning: Abuse]
Holly, at Pervocracy, who I love above many others, has written an amazing, striking, painful list of some reasons (NOT comprehensive) of "Why did they stay with their abuser".
Being abused is hard. Abusive relationships are often designed to make it impossible for the abused party to have a sense of what's actually going on, whether they're in the right, whether the abuse is real. They are a mess of insecurity and self-doubt, and it is never the abused party's fault.
Please go read the list. This is serious business in a big way.
[/Trigger warning - Abuse]
*And because I don't like to leave sundries on a sadnote, have the best protest photo I've seen in months
*Okay, and what may be my favourite picture from Pinewoods. That's j7y taking a photo of Mog and I, and it is ADORABLE!
~Sor
MOOP!
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on 2011-07-19 06:34 pm (UTC)no subject
on 2011-07-19 05:44 pm (UTC)Re. "Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Names"
on 2011-07-19 05:54 pm (UTC)(Why do parents pull that crap?)
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on 2011-07-19 08:01 pm (UTC)While many of the links were good to have seen, that one made my day.
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on 2011-07-20 01:40 am (UTC)no subject
on 2011-07-19 08:41 pm (UTC)no subject
on 2011-07-20 03:17 am (UTC)I liked Ria's art too! I always get excited when I know or a friend knows someone that good at painting in real life, it's like suddenly WHOA AN ARTIST THAT EXISTS AND MY FRIEND KNOWS HER WHOAMG I FEEL LIKE I MIGHT BE GETTING ARTISTRY BY PERSON TO PERSON TRANSFERANCE?
Or something idk.
*drinks tea*
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on 2011-07-21 03:22 am (UTC)If you would like to schedule time to have some time in the apartment by yourself, that can happen. (I know it's not always easy to predict when you will have introvert-needs)
also, yeah, stupid-hot.
ideas for cooling off..
North Point Spray Deck, Across from the Museum of Science, Cambridge
Open May 28-September 5
Hours: 11am -7pm