Fire Walk With Me
This page is a weird mix of rantings and ravings, Music, graffiti, punk,Doctor Who, postpunk, comics,art, general silliness and GPOB (gratuitous pictures of Bowie). Sometimes I post about the 2012 US elections
white radical nerd lady in my 30s
transplanted to the East Coast US
happily living in sin with my co-conspirator Mr. X
Why did I follow you??
my Dragon Age sideblog
Other tags of interest - Places I Wish I Was Right Now, GPOY, owls, you are cordially invited to my pants, this has been a post, OH MY GOD, Favorite of all the things, Maru is the best cat in the whole world
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Who caught who here? Via the Chive.
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i think i might need these to survive ?? !
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Zevran is more than a little attracted to female mages.
Zevran is more than a little attracted to pretty much...
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Fenris: You and I don’t always agree, but…
Hawke: But…?
The Downfall of Feminism: Disabled People
This one is going to get a lot of hate. I despise the Americans With disabilities Act (ADA) and not for usual reasons. In the US we have many historical buildings that are being forced to retrofit and honestly ruin their historic nature to install ramps, elevators, etc… Not okay with this. It…
FYI saying “Sorry if I offend” doesn’t make what you just said less disgustingly ableist.
I don’t have the energy to even begin to tell you everything wrong with what you just said and I’m really hoping someone else takes you up on it better than I can.I’m not really sorry for what I said…at all. I could give less than a shit abt. the newest fad -ism that you just mentioned. Destroying buildings to make a few people happy is stupid. Period. ADA supporters are no better than the Taliban destroying the Buddha statues in Afghanistan.
Ho boy. Okay. I said I didn’t have the energy for this but I also don’t want to let this go. Please bear with me here, I’m trying really hard to be reasonable but I’m asking you to also understand that I’m a little foggy today so I need some patience!
The first thing I want to address is that ableism isn’t “the new fad -ism.” A lot of people don’t realize this, but we actually have a really long history of systematic oppression - systematic institutionalization and forced sterilization was the norm for many, many years and while we’ve obviously come to a time where that’s not the case, we do still face a lot of discrimination in a lot of different venues. Things don’t have to be as extreme as murder, although it does happen (police mistaking a diabetic seizure or autistic meltdown for resistance have absolutely happened.) Today we face the issues of a society on the whole that doesn’t really “get it” on a daily basis - and inaccessibility is one of those things.
Here’s some handy links!
https://sites.google.com/site/lauraelkinspollack/about
http://www.sagepub.com/upm-data/9671_022850_Albrecht_EntriesBeginningWithA.pdf
http://soaw.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=607
Let me tell you a story about a friend of mine. A few weeks ago, she went out with her friends with the intent of going to a small art showing here in the heart of town. The building they were going to had three stairs. My friend uses a power chair due to a form of muscular dystrophy - and there were no ramps to allow her access to the building. Her friends had already committed to the show, and so my friend and one other sat outside, on the street, outside the building until it was over.
She didn’t want anything special. She didn’t want exclusive treatment, she didn’t want them to come out and carry her to the building on a throne. She simply wanted the same exact thing that every able-bodied person had - the ability to enjoy the art show.
I don’t think it makes her selfish to want the same thing that everyone else gets.
I live in a town surrounded by a couple of historic cities, and so I totally understand your desire to protect historic sites and buildings, but there IS a way to do that while also not excluding a massive subset of the population (just because you can’t see us doesn’t mean we’re not here - I’m a wheelchair user, but tons and tons of people with disabilities who need ramps and lifts aren’t immediately identifiable!) If you enjoy these sites enough to want to protect them, shouldn’t you want others to be able to enjoy their beauty and value, too?
There are better solutions to the problem of “destroying” historic sites in order to retrofit them to make them accessible to everybody, that aren’t “well, disabled people shouldn’t get to see these things.” It’s not about being selfish, it’s about equality. Part of the problem that so many retrofittings and remodelings of historic sites are done so poorly is because it’s really expensive and there’s no government assistance in order to make things accessible. When a business is faced with two options - either make the building accessible, or pay hefty fines - they inevitably go with the cheaper option, but that usually ends up in ugly, wooden ramps, poor design, the bare minimum. Bulky, out of place lifts, things that don’t match the feel or year of the place - perhaps if there were grants or assistance available to businesses in order to provide better solutions for accessibility, it would seem less like destroying the sites and more like enhancing them for everybody.This OP is actually saying that architecture is more important than human beings. I literally can not with this. Anyone few to do some collecting? I think I need to go be sick.unsurprisingly the OP is 404’d; but really? An Historic building’s integrity is not diminished by accessibility retrofits, if anything it allows the site to be appreciated by more people.
I guess putting lights and electricity into historical buildings is ruining them too. Visitors should use gas lamps and candles!
I mean, that’s if the goal is to be historically accurate, rather than not giving a shit about access for disabled people.
Yeah, I got to the end.
And of course my renegade shephard had to pick the “these choices suck” dialogue option and it went straight to GAME OVER and I nearly threw my controller across the room.
Then I fumed my way through the last 20 minutes of the game again to pick a proper ending, which I might have enjoyed a little bit more if it hadn’t done that to me. As it was, I picked Destroy, got an okay ending with meh flashcards and it looks like my Shepard survived.
I was planning all along to play through a second time with my Paragon Shepard but I can’t quite get up the willpower to do it right now. :/ maybe I’ll do ME2 again instead.
A message to Sansa haters from Sophie Turner
Sansa 4 lyfee
ok now that I’ve seen the whole thing can someone explain me this? what the hell did sansa ever do to make everyone hate her? …sew? like I don’t understand at all, she seems pretty clearly not-evil and pretty obviously constantly victimized
can someone help me here
because duh, women are always supposed to put other ppls happiness before their own, even if they are in danger
(aka, once again i suck at titles)
Okay, I get it, Assassin’s Creed fandom. You’re very attached to Ezio.
You played through a trio of games with him, watched him grow and fight and die, and became extremely fond of him. And why wouldn’t you? He’s a charming character with great wit, a sense of style, and some wonderful development. His games spanned a lot of drama and detail in the series’ universe, and his role in the story was very important.
But can we stop hating Connor for daring to be something other than an Ezio 2.0? For having his own personality and defining characteristics that are unique to him?
“I just can’t identify with him,” My co-worker said today. “His story wasn’t interesting. He wasn’t funny. I miss Ezio.” At my lunch break, I was very tempted to go home, pick up my Connor statuette, and beat him with it repeatedly until unconsciousness. Because this is not a unique sentiment – it has been parroted by so many AC fans that it seems to be the norm within the larger community.
This idea is built upon very wrong, very flawed principals; not only is it bigoted, it’s just plain not right.
Be a fan of Ezio. That’s fine. Even prefer him if you want. But let’s talk about some very important pieces of contextual information about Connor’s character before you go deciding anything.
THIS
First day of the new job tomorrow.
Mostly orientation and computer training and stuff, and lunch with my supervisor. Most nervous about lunch with the supervisor. One-on-one with a stranger is not too fun for me.
Don’t know what kind of desk space I have, what I’ll be doing or who I’ll be working with. Basically I have very little idea of what I’m getting into here. :/
I am only now realizing how much stuff I have managed to accumulate in this office. How I am going to get it all home on the bus is somewhat of a mystery.
Between this office and my previous office at a different medical institute next door, I have worked on this block for over ten years now. Using this bus stop, shopping at this grocery store, picking up takeout at this indian place. They’re gonna wonder where I went off to. Next week I’ll be commuting across town to an area I’m not familiar with. I don’t even know what restaurants are there. This is gonna be so weird.
I don’t know if I will have my own office there or not. Maybe I’ll be back to sharing a room with four other people. Maybe I’ll be back to not looking out the window the whole day because nobody has one. They definitely don’t have a cafeteria or anything. I presume they at least have coffee? What kind of terrible freakshow place wouldn’t have coffee?
Ugh. I am so nervous about this.
I should not have listened to this Slate podcast to begin with
but I am desperate for listening material while working on this incredibly annoying project, and this guy is talking about that Macklemore rapper (the one with the novelty song about the Thrift Shop) in the most annoying terms possible, like “oh! this is something totally new! a white guy rapper who opposes the materialism of hip hop! wow no one has ever done this. are audiences ready for this?”
The one guy on this podcast who’s actually familiar with hip-hop music is rolling his eyes so hard right now. I didn’t know it was possible to actually hear someone rolling their eyes, but there it is. He tries briefly to point out that plenty of artists have addressed that in various ways, but they don’t really let him get into it.
But then even that guy goes on to say that there’s no white privilege in the “slumming at the thrift shop” theme and that anybody can rap even Justin Bieber can rap now and it’s no problem and then I closed the podcast because life is too fucking short
The Payroll tax cut, even in the current Senate compromise bill, is not being extended for 2013.
Congress was able to pass legislation to keep broader middle class income taxes from rising. But workers will still have to pay at least 2% more in payroll taxes.
That’s because the government had temporarily lowered the payroll tax rate in 2011 to 4.2% from 6.2%, in an effort to keep more cash in the pockets of Americans and provide a boost to the economy. The tax cut, which applies on the first $113,700 in annual earnings, expired on Monday.
Now most of the country’s 160 million workers will see smaller paychecks. No one is expecting the payroll tax cut to be extended.
Monthly paychecks will have $50 less for those earning $30,000 annually, and will shave off $189.50 for those with incomes totaling $113,700.
well, fuck.
I’m reading up on the Memoirs of a Geisha controversy, since I’d neither seen the movie nor read the book, and the more I read about it, the more pissed off I get. Basically it went down like this:
Japanese woman tells white American man about her past life as a geisha. White American man then writes a novel that sells itself as an accurate memoir of Japanese woman’s life, but instead falsifies a number of her life events, misrepresents her trade, and exoticises her culture. He also names her as a source even though she specifically asked him to keep her anonymous. Japanese woman gets death threats. White American man becomes bestselling author.
Then Japanese woman gets fed up and writes her own memoir to set the record straight. Meanwhile, white American man’s book gets adapted into a film that grosses $162 million and wins three Oscars.
This is why I can’t stand Memoirs of a Geisha and will side-eye anyone who claims that book as a favourite.
never read the book watched the movie wasn’t anything special the actors were nice to look at
And didn’t the movie version cast a bunch of Chinese actresses to play Japanese characters? Which ends up being icky in a whole lot of ways?
what the hell is this ugly tumblr update
LIKE GTFO
WHERE IS MISSING E?
MISSING E? FIX THIS
I want to reply to my replies dammit. Paging Missing E!
so this is caroline wozniacki mocking/making fun of/imitating serena williams in a recent exhibition match in sao paulo, brazil.
fuck her.
fuck her life.
fuck her career.
fuck the horse she rode in on.
this isn’t “harmless fun” as one article described it. its racist. out and outright racism. mocking and making fun of the bodies of black women for a laugh? real funny, stupid white girl. real real funny.
this is why no one likes you white girls
she can go get hit by a greyhound bus, tbh
That’s why Serena destroyed your ass and you mad.
Stay pressed, pink-faced piglet.
Jesus what the hell. What the holy hell.
she wishes she were half as good as serena (and looked even a quarter as amazing, this beige cookie-cutter shitstain)
I had a vague recollection of her pulling this shit a while ago, and sure enough, she did the same exact thing last year. Clearly, the backlash was not enough to discourage her from repeating it. :/
Female privilege is getting to claim a headache to avoid sex.
Female oppression is having to claim physical illness to avoid sex because men won’t take a simple fucking “no” for an answer.
Female oppression is men being so entitled that they think being denied sex is oppressive.
(via bioticbootyshaker)
After a couple years of various Senators blocking the bill, it finally was approved and signed into law by Obama on Tuesday. Of course, it seems like there’s a fair bit of irony that, as Obama signed the bill into law, one of the most famous whistleblowers out there, Bradley Manning, was in court to deal with the latest hearings for his actions. And, yes, I know that Manning’s critics insist that he was no whistleblower, but it seems that the line here is very fine indeed. From Manning’s statements, he clearly believed he was blowing the whistle on illegal activities by the US government. But he gets no protections at all. Instead, there’s a decent chance he’ll spend his life in jail.
well, obama ALSO signed into law a bill that makes it harder/more punishable to do what manning did—they’ve named what manning did the “insider threat”.
This Presidential Memorandum transmits the National Insider Threat Policy and Minimum Standards for Executive Branch Insider Threat Programs (Minimum Standards) to provide direction and guidance to promote the development of effective insider threat programs within departments and agencies to deter, detect, and mitigate actions by employees who may represent a threat to national security. These threats encompass potential espionage, violent acts against the Government or the Nation, and unauthorized disclosure of classified information, including the vast amounts of classified data available on interconnected United States Government computer networks and systems.
The Minimum Standards provide departments and agencies with the minimum elements necessary to establish effective insider threat programs. These elements include the capability to gather, integrate, and centrally analyze and respond to key threat-related information; monitor employee use of classified networks; provide the workforce with insider threat awareness training; and protect the civil liberties and privacy of all personnel.
The resulting insider threat capabilities will strengthen the protection of classified information across the executive branch and reinforce our defenses against both adversaries and insiders who misuse their access and endanger our national security.
(via iinventedeverything)
brbfade replied to your post: what I need is an alarm clock that will scare the…
I used to set my alarm clock far enough that I had to literally get out of bed to shut it off. But it’s awful, I tell you. I hate alarm clocks.
I’ve tried it, and it didn’t work! because I would carry the alarm clock back to bed with me and continue hitting snooze.
I get into this weirdly stubborn zombie mode in the mornings. It’s kind of ridiculous.
katherinestasaph replied to your post: what I need is an alarm clock that will scare the…
I used to need one of the old-timey alarm clocks with the bells and hammer on them.
