February 2012
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Argh, I’m normally quite good at pressing ‘answer privately’ or ‘publish’ accurately but this phone-based tumblin is all different. Sorry for the confusion, folks.
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A health update. I’m still in hospital, some prospect of getting out tomorrow. Much hinges, it seems, on whether I shall ever exceed a score of three hundred in the blowing-into-a-tube game.
When I woke up coughing last night I found myself becoming bizarrely interested in the civic status of members of the British (and other places’) royal family. Does the Prince of Wales need a...
nuditea:
sententiola replied to your post: this is going to sound like a somewhat odd or…
There are so many, if only I had my computer with me to scroll through! Is there a deadline?
nope! i’m collecting for a project a friend and i are workin’ on. we’re notoriously procrastinatey, so there’s probably like infinite time
In that case, since I’m apparently doing the ‘reblogging to...
What is cultural appropriation « The Long Way Home →
ardhra:
O hai! I finally finished writing this! After starting it more than two years ago {facepalm}. There is more to come that I’ve worked on & researched. Hopefully responses to this won’t be so faily that I’m unmotivated to finish the rest.
Excerpt:
There are a number of issues around cultural appropriation which I see continuously bog down discussion. I think they revolve around...
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Hi Tumblr! So I’m in hospital at the moment. (Did you know you can tumbl in hospital? Now you do!). I’ve basically been having trouble breathing all weekend and I finally called NHS Direct (which is the UK twenty-four hour medical advice line) and they said ‘Yeah we’re gonna send an ambulance ‘cause this sounds a bit iffy’. And now here I am! I’m...
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Alright, let's do this.
kiriamaya:
My living expenses are taken care of for a good while — which means it’s time for me to refocus on saving up for surgery. My RLT will be complete in August, and the sooner I can get surgery after that, the better.
To that end, I would like to kick off a Help-Kiri-Get-Surgery fundraising drive!
My goal is to raise $15,000 — enough to cover surgery fees, travel expenses to Thailand,...
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So last night I went to a little Half-Price Chocolate Day (15 February) party hosted by a very nice friend of mine who has very nice friends. There was chocolate (although it’s bizarre how hard it was to actually find discounted Valentine’s chocolate — it had just all vanished, and meanwhile there was a baffling quantity of half-price *Easter* chocolate, which does not compute at all)...
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tbh all this has accomplished is making me think of internet asexuals/otherkin sitting in a closet chanting “I’m a taco I’m the best taco” while tears run down their face
… and the idea of people weeping in closets amuses you, does it?
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Using only song names from one artist, cleverly...
(Meme from Tchy.)
Pick your artist: The Beatles
Are you male or female? Your mother should know Describe yourself: You know my name (look up the number) How do you feel? I feel fine Describe where you currently live: There’s a place If you could go anywhere, where would you go? Across the universe Your favourite form of transportation? The long and winding road Your best friends?...
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Oops.
As bits of publicity material / leaks about series four of Being human have been becoming more frequent over the last few months, I’ve developed the habit of just scrolling away / turning off the sound on the TV / running away with my hands over my ears every time I’ve seen anything that might possible contain spoilers.
As a result I have singularly failed to notice that the...
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Summary: Neil Gaiman says positive things about ‘piracy’ of books and I have some reservations. Longness warning: pretty long.
triangularisthepie:
“When the web started, I used to get really grumpy with people because they put my poems up. They put my stories up. They put my stuff up on the web. I had this belief, which was completely erroneous, that if people put your stuff up on...
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Another irrelevant thought I had today: if you ever wanted to stop people buying a certain brand of sandwiches (or other packaged food products, but I think sandwiches would be especially suitable), I reckon a pretty effective way to do it would be to go into the shop and sneakily adorn each package with a colourful, friendly-looking printed label saying ‘GUARANTEED 100% SAFE TO EAT!’
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Tweeted a flippant criticism of Fathers 4 Justice this morning. They just retweeted it without comment. And I must say, it left me completely stumped and a little off-balance.
I mean, looking at their Twitter, I suspect they may just have some kind of gizmo that automatically retweets any tweet that mentions them. So I’m not going to say ‘Well played, Fathers 4 Justice’.
But...
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This morning on BBC radio’s flagship news programme an eminent journalist defined ‘transphobia’ as ‘irrational fear of people who change sex’.
(The LGBT activist he was interviewing didn’t disagree.)
I post this because I’m aware that as part of the discussion about whether words like ‘homophobia’ and ‘transphobia’ should be...