“Yes, the rich will be with us always. But New York should be a city
of workers and eccentrics as well as visionaries and billionaires; a
place of schoolteachers and garbagemen and janitors, or people who wear
buttons reading is it fascism yet?—as one woman in my neighborhood has
for decades, even as she grows steadily grayer and more stooped. A city
of people who sell books on the street—and in their own shops. A city of
street photographers, and immigrant vendors, and bus drivers with
attitudes, and even driven businessmen and hedge fund operators. All
helped to get along a little better, out of gratitude for all that they
do to keep everything running, and to keep New York remarkable.
“Instead, our leaders seem hopelessly invested in importing a race of
supermen for the supercity, living high above the clouds. Jetting about
the world so swiftly and silently, they are barely visible. A city of
glass houses where no one’s ever home. A city of tourists. An empty
city.”
This is the greatest map I have ever seen. I want an interactive version where you can click on any city in the world and get a pop-up list of all the climate-equivalent cities.
so it turns out this exists and it makes a fine rabbit hole for passing the time during a conference call
The world is a difficult place and life will throw pain and misery at people without any help – we don’t need to be the ones creating more hardship, let’s just be kind to each-other.
Step one: let him hide or shy away from you if he wants to. He wouldn’t let me touch him for a couple days after we got back from the shelter. His comfort was more important than me getting to touch him.
Step two: make yourself nonthreatening. In my case this meant being very quiet, bringing food and lying down on the ground within his eyesight as an invitation to investigate.
Step three: watch his body language and don’t do things that make him uncomfortable. Turns out my cat often bit when he was overstimulated so I made sure not to overwhelm him.
Step four: draw lines, but not with brute force. Even though his biting wasn’t meant to hurt, I wanted to make sure he wouldn’t injure anyone in the future. So I decided when he bit me, I’d yelp “ow!” And then withdraw all physical contact for a few minutes, sometimes leaving the room. Now he never bites, but sometimes he puts his teeth on my hand and then thinks better of it.
Step five: provide a good outlet for destructive behaviors. Aka PLAY WITH HIM, SEVERAL TIMES A DAY.
Step six: be patient.
Step seven: get lucky and somehow pick up the best cat in the entire shelter. I don’t know how it happened but he’s a godsend. He’s literally cuddled me out of a panic attack. We both really needed each other.
Native to Asia, lanternflies first
appeared in Pennsylvania in 2014. Despite a quarantine effort, they have
also been discovered in small numbers in New York, Delaware and
Virginia.
On phone right now so not gonna get into this but I recommend reading a variety of radical feminist literature (many don’t define it as being the same as female). I also recommend reading papers on the metaphysics of gender (philosophy). Some notable authors being Haslanger, Witt, Sveinsdottir, and Warnke. You’ll find multiple definitions of gender that aren’t circular or depend on the simplistic dictionary definition (dictionaries often don’t include all definitions btw which is one of the reasons why appealing to them is a logical fallacy, which I’m sure you care about considering you dislike circular reasoning).
Getting really tired of seeing these posts.
I’m not here for philosophy. I’m here to talk about the material reality that is women. We aren’t concepts, let’s knock that off.
“What does ‘woman’ mean?” Is a philosophical question. You can’t ask a philosophical question and then not expect people to give philosphical answers.
nope, it’s asking the definition of the noun. not everything is deep hon.
“Person”, “Truth” and “Good” are all nouns and the definition of what they are have been super deep questions. Not everything is deep but this is a deep.
woman: people who categorise themselves as members of the group “women” and/or are categorised by others as members of the group “women”.
you realise you used a circular definition right?
“woman” defined in terms of the abstract concept “women”, which is defined socially atop the usual phenotypical distinctions based largely on whether you are testosterone dominant or estrogen dominant, or however you like to categorise the biology of it.
lexical definition please, not bs theory.
lexical definition? Google suggests “plural of woman, adult human female”
my dictionary also defines masturbation as “self-abuse”, which confused me mightily as a child I have to say, but it’s from 1913 so I guess it can be forgiven.
*Puts down a Wartenberg wheel and a burning candle*
You mean that masturbation doesn’t mean “self-abuse”, and I was doing it wrong? Eh, whatever, I already like it this way.
Something I find incredibly cool is that they’ve found neandertal bone tools made from polished rib bones, and they couldn’t figure out what they were for for the life of them.
“Wait you’re still using the exact same fucking thing 50,000 years later???”
“Well, yeah. We’ve tried other things. Metal scratches up and damages the hide. Wood splinters and wears out. Bone lasts forever and gives the best polish. There are new, cheaper plastic ones, but they crack and break after a couple years. A bone polisher is nearly indestructible, and only gets better with age. The more you use a bone polisher the better it works.”
It’s just.
50,000 years. 50,000. And over that huge arc of time, we’ve been quietly using the exact same thing, unchanged, because we simply haven’t found anything better to do the job.
i also like that this is a “ask craftspeople” thing, it reminds me of when art historians were all “the fuck” about someone’s ear “deformity” in a portrait and couldn’t work out what the symbolism was until someone who’d also worked as a piercer was like “uhm, he’s fucked up a piercing there”. interdisciplinary shit also needs to include non-academic approaches because crafts & trades people know shit ok
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