This is the fourth or fifth anon I've gotten in the last few weeks accusing various people of things, so be aware:
- If you're accusing people of shit while in greyface, I'm not interested.*
- If you're accusing people without extremely clear evidence, I'm not interested.**
- If neither of us follow the other, I'm not interested.***
Come off anon and lay a solid fucking case or fuck off; I have better things to do than engage with whisper campaigns and witch hunts. And while you're at it, consider whether you actually know the definitions/history of the words you're slinging. Or whether your target has actually done anything worthy of social ostracization.
I don't mind anons or messages in general, but gods damn I have exactly no interest in the culture of smear campaigns rampant on this site.
*If you're accusing someone of something and I don't know who you are, my very first assumption is that YOU are the asshole in this scenario. What are you hiding behind that mask?
**My standards for clear evidence are extremely high. Other users' theorizing is not good enough. Show me the clear cut originals in the original context or don't even start.
***I have limited spoons. I see exactly no reason to spend them on a rumor mill instigated by someone I don't even interact with.
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Sometimes, in their obsession with monsters, humans end up finding other humans. In 2019, Cachét developed a crush on Salad Fingers, the main character in a British cult web cartoon. She drew porn of Salad Fingers and sent it to David Firth, the show’s creator. Firth loved it and followed her back. “He thought I was a guy because no girl would draw porn of Salad Fingers,” Cachét says.
They started messaging. Cachét complimented his drawing of a human-bug threesome and asked for a print. Three years later, Cachét and David got married. The human-bug threesome drawing hangs on the wall of their home.
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Probably the most interesting thing about the parallels between Wake and John is the fact that it's John who's uncomfortable acknowledging them. He wants to pretend so so bad that he's not someone else's trillionaires. That Wake is just a hater and a nuisance and not someone trying to commit exactly the same genocide he did just to make sure he dies.
But Wake? She knows. Not only does she know, she drew the parallel herself to get under John's skin. She named her weapon after the one he used, and she made sure he knew it. When he tried to talk down to her over her genocidal aspiration, she countered not with any argument for her own rightousness, but with a reminder that he of all people has no right to judge her.
John wants so fucking badly to think of himself as a hero, and Wake....
like there are absolutely things to criticize about kennel clubs and showing. god knows I've talked about it. but i feel like most of the people who are loudest about it don't actually go after the things worth criticizing, yk?
we could be talking about how there are multiple dog breeds whose recognized names have racial slurs in them but instead you want to focus on bull terriers having weird heads
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I've always thought that "the baron is taking over" thing was... not actually real. You can't really square it away with the way she is depicted in the first two novels, and also (more importantly) the baron's memories are not actually the baron's memories, they are Alia's memories. There is no possession. That is, within universe, an unfounded superstition. This is all happening purely in Alia's head.
So I've had the view that it's all her own stress/anxiety getting the best of her, the uniquely hateful bene gesserit ideology telling her that she's doomed since before she was even born, her isolation, and her resentment over being left to hold everything together for the family that abandoned her. "The Baron" is ultimately just Alia's internal argument with herself. All of that in a book that was very of it's time, that despite sympathizing with her position, cannot fathom any ending beyond "sad girl too far gone kill her for her own good."
I mean I think the concept of genetic memories within Dune are pretty firmly established as “real”, it’s one of the things the text tries to pretend is ambiguous but it’s simply not IMHO. Like, the gholas that are created from a few cells extracted from under someone’s fingernails after scratching them are able to be “awakened” and regain all the memories of their past lives, even as children. I don’t think that can be written off as a stress-delusion. Alia isn’t the only abomination, after all—Leto and Ghanima are also almost possessed (I guess Leto is sort of omni-possessed…), and are only able to resist it because they have Paul in their ancestry to stand guard. Plus there’s the Reverend Mothers ritually sharing memories with their successors, which is the only thing that made Alia preborn in the first place.
I do think there’s an argument for the inaccuracy of Other Memory personas and I think the fact that Alia succumbed specifically to the Baron is more about her psychological state and anxieties than like, the psychic superiority of his force ghost over fucking Agamemnon* lol.
To clarify I don't meant to suggest that Alia's preborn memories are a delusion or a fabrication, rather that they are an intrinsic part of Alia's own consciousness, not a collection of external actors at constant war with her.
There's not a tiny Jessica living inside of Alia, for example, driving her around. Jessica's experiences and memories to the point she took the water of life are held by two different people, and then diverge as Alia and Jessica experience new things. The Baron's memories as they exist in Alia exist colored by everything else that is also in there. If you take the Baron from book one, and put him over Alia's shoulder I book 3, he's not going to be saying the same things as what Alia is telling herself in his voice. Even if we take as true that there is no core set of memories unique only to Alia herself, the mass of everything put together still makes an individual. She's in the books. We hear her internal monolog
My impression is that the ancestral memories are initially cellular imprints of the consciousnesses of the original people at the moment they conceived their descendant. Like, Leto and Ghanima’s “internal Pauls” aren’t the preacher, they’re a copies of Paul the day he impregnated Chani. Alia’s internal Baron doesn’t resemble the Baron from Book 1 because it’s an imprint of him from like 40 years before—and then, yes, filtered through ~20 years of existing within the consciousness of the girl who murdered him.
I guess where we’re disagreeing is whether or not those other memory personas have individual agendas or like, distinct internal identities? I think they do simply because Leto and Ghanima used to play that possession game by letting their internal Pauls and Chanis go on dates together, and because Duncan exists as an identifiable but suppressed consciousness within Hayt. IIRC it’s suggested that this is less dangerous when they are young and the risk of full possession gets higher as they age, which is why Alia of book 1 and 2 seems basically okay until she loses her emotional support brother.
[getting off topic] I do think the disability metaphor is interesting with Abominations because it really does seem like having an understanding and sympathetic external social support network is main deciding factor in whether preborn children succumb to possession or not. Alia had Paul and Jessica until she did not and had to turn to an internal support network. Ghanima had Leto, and Leto… I guess he invented Possession: The Sequel, Or: How I Learned To Stop Worrying and Love Being 1,000,000 Grandparents.
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"Boy dogs are more affectionate than girl dogs-" "girl dogs love you, boy dogs are IN love with you-" Wrong. The only thing my boy dog does better than a girl dog is piss on himself
I don't have time for TdF this year (78hrs of placement to get in two weeks, let's go 🫠). I'm watching along everyone's journeys, so many wonderful and exciting projects and plans!
I can manage only tiny bites of prep for these superfine merino locks I've been holding onto, for joy and self care. Hopefully next year I'll be in part of the tour proper 🤞
doing all the post COVID exposure stuff (saline sinus rinse, azelastine nasal spray) just to be careful bc we didn't mask today, and wondering why it's so seldom talked about to people who won't mask for whatever silly reason like "I don't like them on my face" or "they make me claustrophobic" or "no one can hear me talk" or whatever like... I've never heard anyone who refuses to mask say "and because I don't do that, I do all this other stuff to ensure I am lowering my chances of spreading respiratory disease." its always "I can't mask and I don't do anything else either" and no one ever goes "well, have you considered all of these other things you can do post exposure?" because those things aren't as effective as masks, I guess, but THEYRE WAY WAY BETTER THAN NOTHING if you do then right after you go somewhere unmasked (you can do the spray before, too, and it will help even more. even if you contract COVID the spray reduces viral load and symptoms.) it's weirdly absent from discussion of this kind of thing
I genuinely didn't know there was anything other than masks and vaccinations to help prevent covid transmission. OP says in the replies that its too exhausted tonight to get into it so I started looking on my own and the top ten results are all Isolate, mask, get tested, vaccinate.
Searching for "azelastine nasal spray covid" did get me this study though. I wonder if my pcp would prescribe me some for after I spend time around people unmasked, since I've got long covid already.
smarter people have said it better than i can, but there is no strong evidence that nasal sprays can prevent covid infection. once you're infected and its in your nose, it may reduce the viral load, but spraying your nose and thinking it will reduce your chances of becoming infected in the first place is negligible. i am saying this as a 6+ year covid conscious person.
i used to use betadine (iota carrageenan) nasal spray, and while some kind of nasal flush is better than nothing, a neti pot rinse or regular saline spray might be about as effective. i also tried covixyl and xclear (both xylitol sprays iirc), which really irritated my nasal passages with daily use. zinc sprays also have a chance of permanent loss of smell.
considering you can contract airborne covid through the mouth and even the mucus membranes of the eyes (hence many very-at-risk types opting for the physical barriers of stoggles, or using [unsubstantiated] eye drops like lumify), this only "treats" one vector of infection. again—better than nothing, and can't necessarily hurt so long as it's being used as directed—but not a sufficient measure to take in lieu of masking or other "swiss cheese" methods (ventilation, filtration, vaccination, etc.).
azelastine spray referenced above is not the same otc as it is with prescription, and the study cites using it 5 times a day for 3 days if showing symptoms/having a close encounter, and otherwise 3 times a day for 56 days. therefore, using the spray once after you come home from a risky event, again, can't hurt, but will not produce the efficacy purported in the study.
another touted prophylactic has been CPC mouthwash. luckily this is a common ingredient in many mouthwash already so it's easy to find. while also not preventative, it does reduce viral load in the mouth as well, so good to use in tandem with a nasal rinse or spray if infected. it can't hurt to use before and after outings (though some report brown teeth staining from daily use of cpc mouthwash), but again it is not a sufficient replacement for a mask.
metformin DOES have more substantial evidence for its use in preventing covid and treating long covid. pemgarda monoclonal antibody infusions are also being used as a preventative measure—purportedly even more effective than the mrna vaccine, which is great news for immunocompromised individuals for whom the vaccine is not an option— and as a long covid treatment with some success. also, very recently a japanese company developed Xocova, a PEP-like treatment for covid, but it remains to be seen whether or not it is accessible to the layperson (as was the issue with Paxlovid).
unfortunately at this time prevention is the most effective method of mitigation, and treatment or PEP for covid and long covid is woefully lacking. wear a well fitting respirator mask (kn95 or better), get vaccinated (twice a year if you are able; mrna efficacy is only 4-6 months, protein based like nee novavax is roughly 6-8 months, if you can try to alternate between them for better immunity), and use ventilation and air purifiers and filters to cycle clean air through an indoor area.
the sick times, the people's cdc, and the pandemic mitigation collective are the resources ive been relying on for many years. if you're on instagram michael_hoerger (medical researcher) of the pmc and jaydocovid (activist) are also good sources of info. the open medicine foundation also researches treatment for me/cfs and long covid.
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Reminder as we go into the midterm elections that tumblr has had a major, documented, and verified problem with Russian bots and propaganda bots during major US elections since 2016:
Russia 'meddled in all big social media' around US election
-via BBC News, link and more details below. December 17, 2018.
YouTube, Tumblr, Instagram, Facebook and Twitter were targeted in the 2016 US election, a report says.
"Russia used every major social media platform to try to influence the 2016 US election...
New research says YouTube, Tumblr, Instagram and PayPal - as well as Facebook and Twitter - were leveraged to spread propaganda.
The report, released today by the US Senate, exposes the scale of Russian disinformation efforts.
Its authors criticise the "belated and unco-ordinated response" by tech firms.
The report was put together by University of Oxford's Computational Propaganda Project and the social network analysis firm Graphika.
It is the first analysis of millions of social media posts provided by Twitter, Google and Facebook to the Senate Intelligence Committee.
While Facebook and Twitter have previously disclosed Russian interference, little has been known about the use of other platforms.
The report suggests YouTube, Tumblr, PayPal and Google+ were all affected, with Russia adapting techniques from digital marketing to target audiences across multiple channels.
"It's a whole family of social media sites," says Philip N Howard, director of the Oxford Internet Institute. "We think the goal was to make the campaigns seem more legitimate."
The report says Russia had a particular focus on targeting conservatives with posts on immigration, race and gun rights.
There were also efforts to undermine the voting power of left-leaning African-American citizens, by spreading misinformation about the electoral process.
Another report, also released today [2018] by the Senate, by the research firm New Knowledge, similarly highlights Russia's efforts to target African-Americans...
One IRA campaign highlighted in the Oxford and Graphika paper, Black Matters US, existed across Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, Google+, Tumblr and PayPal. These various accounts would promote each other's posts and events.
When Facebook suspended the group on its platform, the group's Twitter account complained about the move and accused the social network of "supporting white supremacy".
"What is clear is that all of the messaging clearly sought to benefit the Republican Party - and specifically Donald Trump," the report says.
"Trump is mentioned most in campaigns targeting conservatives and right-wing voters, where the messaging encouraged these groups to support his campaign. The main groups that could challenge Trump were then provided messaging that sought to confuse, distract and ultimately discourage members from voting."
-via BBC News, December 17, 2018. Emphasis mine.
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.......hey have we considered that half the reason that tumblr is constantly banning trans women is that someone (Russian or 4chan or rad/fem or whoever) made bots to just mass report posts that mention trans people or trans women specifically?
To be clear, this is in no fucking way an attempt to give Tumblr any credit. Tumblr's policies, enforcement, and CEO are absolutely, verifiably transphobic, transmisogynistic, and racist.
But @reasonsforhope is actually afaik still shadowbanned because I made a cutting joke about transphobes on @directactionforhope (a different blog!) over a year ago (disclaimer: I haven't actually had the time or spoons to try to fix that, due to my ongoing health issues. it's on the long, long to do list) and got mass reported. So like. Food for thought, perhaps. Certainly it has been food for thought for me
not to be a pedantic hater but i wish tumblr accent wasn't the commonly used term to describe tumblrina typing quirks and phrases bc that is Not an accent it's a dialect!!
dialects also include grammar (like tumblr users' tendency to not captialize except for Emphasis or ending sentences with commas like this,,,,,) and vocabulary (blorbo, devil's sacrament, #mythis, etc)
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