Month: September 2017

makingqueerhistory:

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Will Bradshaw

Will Bradshaw is a writer and English language teacher living in the North of England. He regularly writes on political matters and will begin a Philosophy MA this autumn. You can follow him on Twitter at @_WBradshaw, and see his personal work at Angry Meditations on WordPress.

There are a myriad of accounts about Alan Turing’s life. You can read biographies, watch films, and browse entire websites dedicated to the man dubbed ‘the father of artificial intelligence’. But many of these accounts fail on a number of fronts. Some downplay his sexuality, others ignore it outright, and only a handful recognize that Alan Turing’s achievements are as much down to his early romantic experiences as they are to his intellectual prowess. (Read Full Article Here)

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Yay, properly seasoned cast iron.

The plan this evening: turn out some beef stew for tomorrow, since I just about have the spoons available. (And probably eat a little of it when it’s done.) Less stress later with it taking forever to cook and my terrible sense of time, plus that should actually be improved by sitting in the fridge.

Anyway, I was just browning the floured meat to go in the pot, and it did leave some bits looking thoroughly stuck on the skillet. Automatically dreading trying to clean that up without messing up the surface and maybe having to reseason the pan. But, a little simmering with water to put in the pot too, and it totally came loose.

I went without having any cast iron here for long enough that I keep getting surprised sometimes by how much better it is to work with for a lot of jobs.

Is it an adhd thing to know I need to get up to do something but I. Just. Can’t. Seem. To do it. I can’t stop scrolling on tumblr or reading a book or even doing homework. I just can’t seem to get up. Even when i know I need to. Even when I’ve stopped to do it. When I’m not completely distracted. I can’t. I just can’t. Is this adhd or am I just a lazy bum?

actuallyadhd:

This is executive dysfunction. It seems like either initiation or inertia, or both. I struggle with this as well. It’s just really hard to get started on something, and really hard to change activities once I do get started!

It’s SO hard, because it definitely looks to other people like we’re just being lazy or unmotivated, when we really aren’t. And OMG I would expect “experts” to understand this aspect of ADHD and executive dysfunction, but I have been told that it’s a fear of failure and stuff like that by people who should know better!

Sometimes I can trigger myself to get started by getting up to get some water or go to the bathroom. Then when I come back I can sometimes (not always) start on the new thing.

-J

Christians who celebrate Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur a growing trend

thebibliosphere:

animatedamerican:

imstronglikeanamazon:

jewish-mccoy:

littlegoythings:

I am SO SICK  of this appropriative crap. If you want to be Jewish – convert. But as a gentile, you are NOT entitled to our cultural practices, much less to distort them.

this is disgusting 

this is like if we took your most important holidays out of context and celebrated them with no idea of what they meant

get fucked if you do this

This may be one of the most offensive disgusting things I’ve read that wasn’t about literal Nazism.

They are taking our most holy most sanctified days and appropriating, bastardizing, and corrupting them.

Reading this article made me feel physically ill.

If you want to practice holidays the way Jesus did, then you’d have to be Jewish (in which case you shouldn’t really care how Jesus celebrated). But don’t fool yourself into thinking that you can fulfill the commandments as they’re written in the Torah because you literally can’t.

If you are not Jewish you are not obligated, nor allowed, to fulfill mitzvot because you have already broken the covenant.

But honestly? Thats besides the point. This horrific display of appropriation goes too far. They said in this article that, and I’m paraphrasing, ‘sometimes, someone will bring a shofar for fun’. The shofar is a sanctified instrument blown for very specific reasons in very specific ways at very specific times. Just doing it because you can is inappropriate.

They pick and choose which parts of the holidays they want to practice. They want to practice like Jesus, but their sukkot are actual buildings, resorts or hotels, ignoring the important party which is to be put woth nature. They say they want to fulfill the commandments as they are written, but not really.

They think thay they can get away with stealing our culture and our religion. Well they can’t.

TL;DR:
if you’re not Jewish you are always more than welcome to come and respectfully observe our practices, but you don’t get to choose a handful and say that they’re yours now.

@imstronglikeanamazon wrote: “If you are not Jewish you are not obligated, nor allowed, to fulfill mitzvot because you have already broken the covenant.”

THIS IS FALSE.  If you are not Jewish, you are not obligated (nor allowed in most cases) to fulfill most mitzvot because the covenant never applied to you to begin with.  Non-Jews are not considered to have broken any covenant by default, and it is tremendously unjust to say so.

That said: it should go without saying that it is also tremendously inappropriate for Christians to celebrate Jewish holidays, and it would be inappropriate even without the long history of Christian persecution of Jews for celebrating these selfsame holidays.

They want to practice like Jesus

Here’s like, a wild and radical thought for them then, maybe, like idk, feed the poor, care for the homeless, protest injustice and stand with the oppressed, love thy neighbor and stop being such a fucking shitheel blights upon humanity and actually practice what Jesus was supposed to have said and done instead of whatever the fuck else they are doing, cause it sure as shit ain’t the teachings of Christ.

Christians who celebrate Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur a growing trend

chavisory:

fierceawakening:

dancingspirals:

attackofthekillershwees:

assignedtwinkatbirth:

Tbh I never read Gifted Kid™ Angst as “I’m no longer special” but more like “I had unrealistically high academic expectations put upon me at a very young age and learned to measure my worth by academic success and as a consequence constantly feel as if I’m not good enough”

Also we never had to study or try very hard in earlier grades, so by the time we get to high school or college, our skills have plateaued and we have no study skills to fall back on whatsoever. We go from excelling with no effort to failing and having no idea how to catch up.

Also, once you are out of school, there are no more academic tests with which to prove your own worth to yourself. This only heightens the sinking sensation of ‘I am not good enough.’

“We go from excelling with no effort to failing and having no idea how to catch up.”

That.

And like especially when you’re a disabled/autistic gifted kid… it can look a whole lot like the things that other people are good at (but you’re not) are just easy for them.  And the things that you’re good at (but they’re not) are just easy for you.  So it seems a whole lot like, whatever someone is good at, it’s always just easy.

It’s easy to miss, until a whole lot later, if you’re lucky enough to get to know people who are truly masters of their craft, that to be really, deeply good at something in a lasting way, is a shit load of repetitive, tedious work almost no matter who you are.

Then also there are doorknobs like Adam Grant who hold gifted children individually responsible for not fixing everything that’s wrong with the world all alone.  When in reality, no one can do that, but that gets put on gifted kids, that we’re supposed to grow up to change the world single-handedly.