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Your morning reads
In lieu of providing actual content (outrage burnout continues at pace), here's what I'm reading this morning.
I won't link anything about Syria, Egypt, or the two Canadians under arrest in Cairo, because those sorts of horrors are above my level of cope right now and there's plenty of more intelligent discussion about it elsewhere.
Rage-inducing:
• Jezebel has a good post on how not to react to Chelsea Manning's announcement that she's Chelsea Manning. I'm lucky enough to be shielded, by virtue of currently being within my little progressive bubble and having a strict policy of not reading the comments since Manning's outrageous sentencing a few days ago, but I'm aware that there's some serious stupid out there. The discrepancy between her treatment and that of rapists, murderers, and war criminals is so infuriating that I can't even begin to put it in words—add transphobia and misogyny into the mix and you have a perfect storm of asshattery.
• On a related note, here's a long read about Manning, American institutions, and the internet. (Written before her sentencing and the official announcement of her gender identity, so the article uses male pronouns.)
• Locally, some more on the shooting of 18-year-old Sammy Yatim, murdered by pigs on a Toronto streetcar. One pig (not the one who tased the dying kid after he'd been shot eight times) has been charged, but make no mistake—a pig will not actually be convicted for gunning down a likely-mentally-ill person of colour. This is a concession to the massive outcry following Yatim's murder and is intended, ultimately, to absolve all of the pigs of guilt by finding this pig not guilty.
Tell me I'm wrong, people.
• Quebec's proposed religious symbols ban, WTF? Though maybe the Jewish and Muslim communities there, not exactly accustomed to holding hands and singing Kumbaya, will find some common ground in opposing this bullshit. Proof that New Atheism is a continuation of White Man's Burden imperialism by other means.
Amusing:
• I'm getting some lulz out of the food poisoning at the CNE. I mean, isn't the point of eating these things to get food poisoning? The receptionist at my physio place, who is approximately my height and much thinner, apparently eats this kind of shit and announced her intention to try the Cronut despite everyone getting sick from it, and despite a job where she works with health professionals.
Happy-making:
• What, you mean that community-building is actually more effective at stopping crime than putting cops and surveillance cameras everywhere? You don't say! Will you just check out this lady making community housing better for everyone:
• Someone wrote a book just for me, apparently. Industrial music, Marx, and the Situationists. I of course immediately placed a hold on it.
• Baby Nautilus!
Useful:
• The title of this article, Anti-Fascist Fitness, made me hope that there was a training regimen to get in shape in order to beat up neo-Nazis, but it's actually not so much about that as about the politics of the fitness industry and the OMGBEESITY panic.
• This article, on how to be an ally to people with illness, chronic pain, and invisible disabilities, is quite a good read. I don't like the random capitalization or Tumblr SJW-style language, but the advice itself is useful and certainly would have been worth distributing to certain people *cough*co-workers*cough*. Especially the bits on being "the doctor," "the parent," and "the worshipper," all of which I've had to deal with in abundance.
Read, discuss if you find 'em interesting.
I won't link anything about Syria, Egypt, or the two Canadians under arrest in Cairo, because those sorts of horrors are above my level of cope right now and there's plenty of more intelligent discussion about it elsewhere.
Rage-inducing:
• Jezebel has a good post on how not to react to Chelsea Manning's announcement that she's Chelsea Manning. I'm lucky enough to be shielded, by virtue of currently being within my little progressive bubble and having a strict policy of not reading the comments since Manning's outrageous sentencing a few days ago, but I'm aware that there's some serious stupid out there. The discrepancy between her treatment and that of rapists, murderers, and war criminals is so infuriating that I can't even begin to put it in words—add transphobia and misogyny into the mix and you have a perfect storm of asshattery.
• On a related note, here's a long read about Manning, American institutions, and the internet. (Written before her sentencing and the official announcement of her gender identity, so the article uses male pronouns.)
“Why wasn’t I consulted?” is the fundamental question of post-network democracy, and the fundamental question of the Internet, to which the state mechanisms have so far replied: “Who the hell do you think you are?”
• Locally, some more on the shooting of 18-year-old Sammy Yatim, murdered by pigs on a Toronto streetcar. One pig (not the one who tased the dying kid after he'd been shot eight times) has been charged, but make no mistake—a pig will not actually be convicted for gunning down a likely-mentally-ill person of colour. This is a concession to the massive outcry following Yatim's murder and is intended, ultimately, to absolve all of the pigs of guilt by finding this pig not guilty.
Tell me I'm wrong, people.
• Quebec's proposed religious symbols ban, WTF? Though maybe the Jewish and Muslim communities there, not exactly accustomed to holding hands and singing Kumbaya, will find some common ground in opposing this bullshit. Proof that New Atheism is a continuation of White Man's Burden imperialism by other means.
Amusing:
• I'm getting some lulz out of the food poisoning at the CNE. I mean, isn't the point of eating these things to get food poisoning? The receptionist at my physio place, who is approximately my height and much thinner, apparently eats this kind of shit and announced her intention to try the Cronut despite everyone getting sick from it, and despite a job where she works with health professionals.
Happy-making:
• What, you mean that community-building is actually more effective at stopping crime than putting cops and surveillance cameras everywhere? You don't say! Will you just check out this lady making community housing better for everyone:
“We go up to the crack dealers, face-to-face, and we say, ‘Hello, how are you?’ says the 56-year-old woman, who uses a wheelchair. “‘It’s a beautiful night out. I love your coat. May we sit with you?’”
• Someone wrote a book just for me, apparently. Industrial music, Marx, and the Situationists. I of course immediately placed a hold on it.
• Baby Nautilus!
Useful:
• The title of this article, Anti-Fascist Fitness, made me hope that there was a training regimen to get in shape in order to beat up neo-Nazis, but it's actually not so much about that as about the politics of the fitness industry and the OMGBEESITY panic.
• This article, on how to be an ally to people with illness, chronic pain, and invisible disabilities, is quite a good read. I don't like the random capitalization or Tumblr SJW-style language, but the advice itself is useful and certainly would have been worth distributing to certain people *cough*co-workers*cough*. Especially the bits on being "the doctor," "the parent," and "the worshipper," all of which I've had to deal with in abundance.
Read, discuss if you find 'em interesting.
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But what actually cheered me about it was the response they reported by the military spokesman, who first of all had immediately switched to using feminine pronouns to refer to Chelsea, with no fuss at all, and who said that although he was not sure they would be able to accommodate a request for reassignment surgery simply because it was something they'd never done before and they weren't sure, that he wanted to say before anybody suggested it that the military did not view this as any kind of trick to get softer treatment in a women's prison - that the prison to which Manning is being sent is co-ed and that the military strives to treat men and women there equally, such that there should be no difference at all, and to suggest otherwise is an insult to the military - and furthermore, lest anyone forget, Manning is still in the military and will continue to be until she is dishonorably discharged after her sentence ends, so talking bad about Manning is disrespecting a soldier.
It was a weird and unexpected show of solidarity, very much along the lines of "this is a person, not a freak or a symbol, and we won't tolerate any crap about it."
Don't get me wrong - I don't expect miracles here. But it was kindness and awareness in a place I didn't expect.
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I'm still horribly worried about what's going to happen to her in prison, and the part of me that permanently lives in a blockbuster action movie wants to bust her out ASAP.
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The Daily Mail reported the story properly.
The Daily Fuck-Off-Never-Read-This-Paper Mail did a better job than pretty much every every US newspaper (I can't be arsed to link to more, but it's pretty consistent).
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(I totally read the Daily Fail all the time. Because apparently I'm a masochist, and the SUN isn't always enough.)
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(The people who can't be around other people are apparently either kept in a separate, more tightly controlled ward, or heavily medicated, depending on individual cases.)
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Chumbazumba!
I think we could go at this for a while. :)
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(P.S. check your tags in the Happy-Making bullet?)
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Thanks, gonna fix now.
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Where's the fucking Like button on LJ? Get with the fucking program, LJ.
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She's from New York. She thought this was hilarious.
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Great excerpt though!
Now, when you posted "Baby Nautilus", the first thing I thought of was that they were now selling a very expensive scaled-down exercise machine for affluent toddlers....
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Now, when you posted "Baby Nautilus", the first thing I thought of was that they were now selling a very expensive scaled-down exercise machine for affluent toddlers....
I'm pretty sure they'll have that soon enough. Did you see the scare article about overweight babies? OMG BABIES ARE TOO FAT.
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Ad·ver·sary - We Demand Better from Ad·ver·sary on Vimeo.
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Cronut - I think the point is to have a heart attack not to get food poisoning. That shit is supposed to be fried until all the nutrition have been destroyed, so it should get bacteria &c. as well.
Assimilate - This is relevant to my interests too.
Anti-Fascist Fitness - a training regimen to get in shape in order to beat up neo-Nazis. This should be a thing. Maybe we need to make a video.
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It's a necessary distraction. The alternative is riots.
That shit is supposed to be fried until all the nutrition have been destroyed, so it should get bacteria &c. as well.
One would hope. I mean, there's no actual food in it. The thought of an undercooked Cronut is terrifying.
Maybe we need to make a video.
I'm just insane enough to do this, and I know people who'd contribute.
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I wish I could like Industrial music. Maybe what I've heard is just bad. Do you have any good recs, please?
The stuff about the case of the boy who got shot is really sad but not suprising, unfortunately.
I read the title/your description of Anti-Fascist fitness and I thought that a training regimen based on getting in shape to fight fascism was a thing, and then I was disappointed.
I don't know what a cronut is.
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I wish I could like Industrial music. Maybe what I've heard is just bad. Do you have any good recs, please?
Probably what you've heard is bad. So much is bad. The bands mentioned in that excerpt, by and large, are all quite awesome. Are you looking for stuff that you can dance to or the smashity-smash variety? (I like both, but I tend to respect the latter as better music, whereas the former fills me with the warm glow of my misspent youth.)
a training regimen based on getting in shape to fight fascism was a thing, and then I was disappointed.
It actually almost was a thing during my ARA days. That's how I ended up trying to get into kickboxing and such.
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I'm going to check out those bands, then, thank you. :) If you say they're awesome, I believe you. I don't know enough about Industrial to know what Industrial you can dance to actually is, so either is fine!
That's really awesome. I feel like most sports could be improved with a "this skill will be useful when fighting fascists" theme, I know I'd be so much more athletic. Kickboxing sounds interesting, I've thought about joining but over here at least it looks like aerobics with kicks. Did you like it? When you get a sword-cane, you should get it engraved with "this blade kills fascists" and learn how to fence. That would be really badass.
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But I'd love to have a sword-cane engraved with "this blade kills fascists" and to know how to use it. Alas, the gap between how badass I want to be and secretly think I am (see also secret plan for storming a military prison in another country and rescuing Chelsea Manning, possibly involving dangling from a helicopter dressed like Parker from Leverage) and the fact that I'm basically a flabby couch potato who only gets exercise when there's a demo to walk around at is a very big gap indeed.
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Individuals can get gentle correction, I suppose, depending on whether they're trying or just being dicks.
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it's so canadian i think i'm going to cry
XD
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ilu
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I hope she isn't in there long, or that a decent future President or future non-crapbag-activist-conservative Supreme Court overturns the crap verdict.
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