Author Topic: 2020 Miscellaneous Links: Untitled Moose Game (Read 145439 times)

NotMiki · « **Reply #1375 on:** August 18, 2016, 10:56:20 PM »

"NYC Parks stands firmly against any unpermitted erection in city parks, no matter how small,"

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Cmdr_King · « **Reply #1376 on:** August 18, 2016, 10:58:58 PM »

I still love that the piece is called "The Emperor Has No Balls".

dunie · « **Reply #1377 on:** August 21, 2016, 10:22:02 AM »

I dunno how I really feel about, it is super simple and easy to get but have read too many remarks that are fatshaming and transphobic. I think I like the statue but not the commentary.

NotMiki · « **Reply #1378 on:** August 23, 2016, 10:43:20 PM »

https://www.humblebundle.com/capcom-playstation-bundle?partner=gawker

PSA for a playstation bundle, mostly PS3 stuff, with some seriously good games: Mega Man 9/10, Okami HD, DMC collection.

dunie · « **Reply #1379 on:** August 25, 2016, 12:06:49 PM »

https://timeline.com/preshistoric-polyamory-56fc454f43bd#.8gwnwqaeh
"Blame Agriculture for Your Basic Sex Life"

.... very "inventive" bullshit. Monogamous sex is p. cool, so is polygamy, you know, whatever works for folk. Also, not sure when undermining anyone's sex life was the progressive thing to do.

Anyway, I could never do polygamy anyway because it takes an immense amount of psychic energy to even give myself to one person.

NotMiki · « **Reply #1380 on:** August 29, 2016, 09:04:23 PM »

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/gene-wilder-dead

goddammit 2016

The Duck · « **Reply #1381 on:** August 30, 2016, 12:51:43 AM »

this has been a real garbage year

Captain K · « **Reply #1382 on:** September 02, 2016, 12:28:52 AM »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cx8sl2uC46A

This is 100% true.

Lady Door · « **Reply #1383 on:** September 08, 2016, 04:28:35 PM »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jf-6D9bkYKw

Never change, Japan.

dunie · « **Reply #1384 on:** September 08, 2016, 05:31:23 PM »

http://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/no-one-wants-your-old-clothes/ar-AAim8tF?li=BBnb7Kz
Good article on recycling & secondhand clothing. I made sure to donate my clothes to secondhand retailers, but was never aware of its afterlife.

"The EPA estimates that diverting all of those often-toxic trashed textiles into a recycling program would be the environmental equivalent of taking 7.3 million cars and their carbon dioxide emissions off the road."

Yikes.

Grefter · « **Reply #1385 on:** September 09, 2016, 05:36:26 AM »

https://www.facebook.com/humansofnewyork/photos/a.102107073196735.4429.102099916530784/1362236273850469/?type=3&theater

kkkkkkkkkk facebook link. kkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk its pure campaign bait.

Regardless.

Straight in the feels.

Lady Door · « **Reply #1386 on:** September 09, 2016, 06:33:03 AM »

Quote from: Grefter on September 09, 2016, 05:36:26 AM

https://www.facebook.com/humansofnewyork/photos/a.102107073196735.4429.102099916530784/1362236273850469/?type=3&theater

kkkkkkkkkk facebook link. kkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk its pure campaign bait.

Regardless.

Straight in the feels.

Speaking as someone who absolutely shuts down emotionally when shit gets real in order to focus on solutions, and has actually been called a cold emotionless bitch for not reacting to something the way someone expected me to, yeah, I totally get it.

dunie · « **Reply #1387 on:** September 09, 2016, 03:58:58 PM »

http://www.maskmagazine.com/the-control-issue/struggle/interview-silvia-federici

Plopping down for a good profile article on Silvia Frederici *edit & 2nd w feminism; good commentary, save for the quick and incorrect statements about black women, labor and the home. Domestic work as productive and potential labor is not only activated in homes personally-owned or lived in, so I'm wondering if that's a weird distorted message from interview notes/recordings.

Fenrir · « **Reply #1388 on:** September 11, 2016, 01:28:21 PM »

https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/first-vaginal-beer-bottled-instinct-brewery#/

Just heard about this failed indiegogo campaign. Jesus

Hunter Sopko · « **Reply #1389 on:** September 11, 2016, 01:33:08 PM »

While my first instinct is to throw that into IotD for several reasons, least being because there are already beer types intended to be wine-ish and champagne-ish.

My second instinct is to quote The Big Lebowski with Maude's introduction. "Does that word make you uncomfortable, Mr. Lebowski? Vagina."

Fenrir · « **Reply #1390 on:** September 13, 2016, 12:49:41 PM »

https://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&v=sOzM4ClFG1o

Entire FFX soundtrack remastered

Shale · « **Reply #1391 on:** September 13, 2016, 12:54:39 PM »

I no longer fear death.

dunie · « **Reply #1392 on:** September 16, 2016, 10:17:20 PM »

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/18/fashion/marc-jacobs-models-dreadlocks-social-media-response-new-york-fashion-week.html

Give me a fucking break, straightening hair was as act of forced discipline for POCs to even enter the workforce; I don't agree with any of his response and have stronger feelings at different points.

NotMiki · « **Reply #1393 on:** September 16, 2016, 11:22:51 PM »

Is...is Marc Jacobs trolling? That's...I don't know if you could come up with a more wrong answer. I say this as someone who i skeptical of the supposed evil of cultural appropriation - it has the condescending whiff of liberals in the academy treating minorities like endangered species - but wow.

dunie · « **Reply #1394 on:** September 17, 2016, 12:11:02 AM »

It does have that whiff, yeah. But I wouldn't make any argument about white folk appropriating x, y, z. The obverse to academic snobbery, however, is that bodies with those daily lived experiences are disciplined differently without fashion being a GOJF card. I'm more interested in how that convo plays out.

But, until:
folk don't need to cut their locs to get jobs
get profiled/arrested because of criminality stereotypes

I can't cheer behind seeing it on the runway and in the context of high culture. I thought people had PR managers these days!

Cmdr_King · « **Reply #1395 on:** September 17, 2016, 01:23:27 AM »

A lot of the problem in liberal circles I find is that academic language got out into the wild, and into the hands of people that don't fully grok how or when to use it. Especially when it comes to racism since the academic definitions of that come across as complete gibberish if you're not familiar with the relevant definitions.

Admittedly I've always found cultural appropriation the hardest one to grapple with. In part this is just professional bias; like, what? It's not okay to use recipes and techniques and foods from other cultures and blend them together? That seems antithetical to the entire notion of cooking to me. Although I've also read people have issue more specifically with places selling themselves as "authentic" and driving actual minority-owned businesses away, or rapidly popularizing an 'ethnic' foodstuff such that it becomes unaffordable for the folks that depend on it.

NotMiki · « **Reply #1396 on:** September 17, 2016, 04:02:47 AM »

Quote from: dunie on September 17, 2016, 12:11:02 AM

until:
folk don't need to cut their locs to get jobs
get profiled/arrested because of criminality stereotypes

I can't cheer behind seeing it on the runway and in the context of high culture. I thought people had PR managers these days!

Yeah, I hear that. Is the goal for black hair to become acceptable in mainstream US culture, or is it for black hair to become acceptable in mainstream culture for non-shitty reasons? I'm thinking about Ellen and Queer Eye and the like, and wondering if that kind of product being out there didn't do a lot to usher in an age of gay tolerance. You want black hair to be normal, is there a quicker path than to put it on white people?

dunie · « **Reply #1397 on:** September 19, 2016, 06:49:20 PM »

or bob marley drinks

http://site.people.com/style/marc-jacob-apologizes-for-dreadlocks-in-fashion-show/

Follow-up! tl;dr: he apologized.

I'm now wondering if there are more productive examples, in the world of derp, of people doing something other than apologizing. At least in the US I feel like we're at a moment where apologies pretty much have no value.

Sierra · « **Reply #1398 on:** September 19, 2016, 10:09:53 PM »

I don't think they've had any for a while. The spectacle of the public apology became too obligatory for the gesture to continue having obvious resonance. Even when it probably should.

NotMiki · « **Reply #1399 on:** September 19, 2016, 10:23:15 PM »

I disagree. Sure if you look at the party that is apologizing, and whether they are going to change their ways, or whether their apology in and of itself will resonate, the answer 9 times out of 10 - at least - is no. So if you're focused on that, they're worthless. But apologies have great value in measuring peoples' perceptions of the sentiment of society. 10 years ago, could a charge of cultural appropriation have forced a response of any kind whatsoever, much less an apology? I don't think it would have. Marc Jacobs thinks he has to do damage control, that's what it means. Baby steps!

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