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micky:

you'll have to kill me before i'll pay goddamn child support. i'm monkeeing away!!

mike:

peter:

im killing myself goodbye sorrybwomen

davy:

Or, “How to fuck up your racist sentiment when trying to translate it into Irish.”

Remember when I said I wasn’t going to make a comic about food?

How accurate is this?

It looks very promising but the article does overstate a little. The blood test is merely a potential tool to weed out people who won’t respond to ‘weaker’ antidepressants from the start, allowing them to skip part of the trial and error phase of finding the right medication.

The study is also not without it’s flaws (there are some issues with n for certain control groups, imo) but overall it looks like an interesting lead, especially in the way they use absolute gene expression, making results more repeatable

(which leads to another problem: practical usage. The method they use to determine the cutoff is relatively novel yet and not widely available in many places) 

1) reaffirming the white supremacist idea that the locus of race is the body of the racialised subject, i.e. race = a physical trait or collection of physical traits that someone has rather than a category that is projected onto people from the outside

and 2) ignoring the ways in which racism categorises every aspect of the body (and the mind for that matter), not just skin colour–think of how scientific racism went on and on about how different races had different physical builds and skeletal structures and skull shapes and facial features and proclivities and personalities and mental strengths and weaknesses etc. etc. etc.

right so this goes back to what I said about “the white supremacist idea that the locus of race is the body of the racialised subject, i.e. race = a physical trait or collection of physical traits that someone has rather than a category that is projected onto people from the outside.” there is not collection of traits, physical or otherwise, that make people into targets for racism, and to suggest that there are is to be in accordance with white supremacist ideas that race is an innate category. you can’t get out of this by adding more qualifiers to designate who “qualifies” for racialisation because this always and inevitably leads to the idea that racialisation can occur without the mediation of racism as a historically and materially bound concept, i.e. that people are just kind of naturally one race or another. the entire assumption and approach is wrong.

bro the most complicated word I used was “projected,” please pick up a dictionary and stop acting like a buffoon.

the reason that you think this inaccessible is because I’m talking about race and racism in a way that isn’t liberalism 101, not because my language isn’t incredibly measured and well-broken-down, because it is.

Tough vocabulary is not what I’m talking about.

I meant sentences like this;

“you can’t get out of this by adding more qualifiers to designate who “qualifies” for racialisation because this always and inevitably leads to the idea that racialisation can occur without the mediation of racism as a historically and materially bound concept, i.e. that people are just kind of naturally one race or another.”

This sentence is almost impossible for me to read. To read it as a developmentally disabled person, I had to separate it like this -

“You can’t get out of this by adding more qualifiers (to designate who “qualifies” for racialisation).

This inevitably leads to the idea that racialisation can occur without racism as a historically and materially bound concept.

This refers to the idea that people are just kind of naturally one race or another.”

In general, most of the sentences are very long. By the time I finish a sentence, I’ve forgotten the start of it. That was the problem that was frustrating me.

and that not everyone is capable of writing in ways that you personally (or people with your specific ways of reading & ways of how ADHD, brainfog, dyslexia etc) find the most accessible to you. 

Or even if they are capable, they have their own reasons for not writing in very short sentences, separated by small line breaks. 

I can’t write that way naturally myself–I had to modify this response after I wrote it. 

and I find it much more difficult to understand than gothhabiba’s writing, which to me is much better at getting across her complex & nuanced ideas and statements. 

Like I get the frustration of wanting/trying to read things that are impossible for you to understand without you having to modify them yourself

but sometimes that’s just what you have to do. 

Unfortunately, not everyone’s writing & reading needs are compatible. 

And there absolutely is a very real & racist pattern where white people specifically demand that bloggers like gothhabiba and other poc writing about racism constantly modify their writing in specific and often conflicting ways

which she & other poc among others has talked about and are talking about above.

Like the fact is that racism is a thing that white people claim consistently that they can’t understand, need broken down more and more, need always the most dumbed-down explanations/analyses of.

Regardless of whether or not they have disabilities

Or whether or not other disabled people (with the same disabilities often, and really really often poc themselves) find the writings accessible. 

Like gothhabiba has talked about this a LOT before but white people’s demands to break down all analyses of racism to small clipped soundbites is racist

And a denial of the complex nature of racism & its manifestations. It is just another way for white people to demand that poc do labor, unappreciated, unpaid, and often difficult and nebulous for them.

I empathize with your frustration and annoyance. I also really hate the more general atmosphere of many spaces, on tumblr and off, that encourage people to write in ways deeply inaccessible to me.

I really do. I’m disabled. There is a lot I can’t understand either. I have reblogged & written critiques of these social norms before. 

(And I hold the very firm opinion that nobody needs specific academic or otherwise complex language–or really language at all–to understand and have good politics. Like an approach to life that’s about compassion and nuance, understanding reality, and helping to fix social ills.)

Some people’s writings are just fucking incomprehensible to me. They’re inaccessible in ways that I find incredibly difficult to articulate.

But this is a blogger who writes for free, on her own time, in her own style, in accordance with her own desires & choices. 

Coming at her in a really demanding way is not actually acceptable or value-neutral

and neither is assuming that all dd/adhd/brainfog/dyslexic people are like you and need the same things as you.

Multiple people in this conversation, including gothhabiba herself, have disabilities. 

Not just you.

And your assumption that the people disagreeing with you & reacting to you (who are unless I’m mistaken all poc, including me) are not disabled is inherently ableist and racist.

And it’s part of a wider pattern of a specific racist manifestation of ableism. 

It’s a way that white people get to yet again position themselves as the smug authority on a topic and poc as the unenlightened pedants who could not possibly already know these things. 

It is a way to not meet poc as equals.

The white paper has the real details: https://s3.amazonaws.com/kudos-whitepapers/kudos_whitepaper_7.pdf

Also the great thing about crypto is that it is community driven.

Instead of DDOSing the company, talk to the people involved. Explain your concerns from your viewpoint. Share your ideas on how to fix any issues.

They want to make something good, something useful, that people like and appreciate and more importantly USE.

http://www.businessinsider.com/uber-for-busses-startup-launches-ico-to-end-tipping-altogether-2017-11

This is a SIDE PROJECT by Skedaddle, who do the uber for buses thing.

It states in the article that the rating will only follow workers if they allow it. So no, mistakes will not follow workers around for the rest of their lives as you said.

Its a database that will use cryptocurrency - i dont know shit about that but other people have said it decentralises power and is a good thing for working class people??? Dont know if thats true though no source

It then has this note at the bottom -

"Note: This story has been updated to reflect Skedaddle's average monthly ridership of 50,000 passengers as well as calrify the Kudos "reward" is on top of a living wage and any perofrmance-based tip a customer might normally give."

Well, despite the ominous and slightly post-structuralist title this artblr advice post won’t be big news in the studyblr community.  But it can be a big news to art students and artists in general.

There’s this weird idea that artists are supposed to behave in some sort of chaotic way, only working when inspired at inane hours and spending the rest of the time doing drugs and alcohol and behaving like a bohemian artist.

Ok beside the fact that bohemian artists died mostly young, ill and poor only a really small percentage of them actually accomplished something significant art-wise.

The point is simple: if you spend your energy trying to live fast and furious there will be no energy left for your art (or writing, or whatever).

One of my favorite quotes by Flaubert is: “Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.”

To be truthful I don’t even know myself that many artists that live their lives the way the public at large imagine it to be… At least not artists who are out of artschool and do art professionally for a living. At most those that are disorganized messes spend their time at the drawing table in pajamas with a herb tea and their cat to keep them company. It’s unbeliavable how many illustrators I know that live the life I just depicted.

I’ve never known anyone who actually get up at every hour of the night because they had sudden inspiration and they had to act on it…? That sounds really weird, I only know messy artists who at most pull off an all-nighter with their bodies full of caffeine because they have to finish the last 6 pages by tomorrow or they won’t meet the editor’s deadline. Or nocturnal people who consistently wake up late and go to bed late because they are more productive at night. They still need to meet deadlines and live their own life organized. Those who don’t manage that either learn or don’t last on the job. And I’m not talking about only commercial artists such as designers and illustrators, a painter who can’t get its paintings finished before the exhibition is a painter that galleries probably won’t call again.

The artist who spend their life driven by divine inspiration in a total chaos is a myth. And when it’s not a myth it’s rare that they manage to accomplish anything. If you go and skim the blog Daily Routines (that later became a book Daily Rituals: How artists work) you’ll notice how most of famous artists actually have a really rigid routine to get their work done.

Creating is exhausting stuff. If you’re already exhausted by how you live your life it will be 10 times much harder to create.

I know a few people who keep rigid office hours. They set in front of the table drawing at a set time and they stop at a set time. That’s not for everyone of course but a few months of such an experiment is worth a try because it’s something that can teach you a lot of things about yourself and your workflow even if you don’t stick to it.

Resources:

Steal like an artist by Austen Kleon

Making ideas happen by Scott Belsky

名所江戸百景 浅草田圃酉の町詣|Revelers Returned from the Tori no Machi Festival at Asakusa, from the series One Hundred Famous Views of Edo by Utagawa Hiroshige, Asian Art

Medium: Polychrome woodblock print; ink and color on paper

Rogers Fund, 1914 Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY