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You know, there's this cliché that teenage boys always eat massive amounts, but teenage girls really aren't that different if they're not suppressed by diet culture and body shaming. Like, I was a teenage girl who frankly just stopped bothering to fit into mainstream beauty ideals at some point, and I would regularly make myself just one big massive pot of pasta and devour it completely. This wasn't even stress eating or anything, I just genuinely needed the energy because you know, I was a teenager and my body was developing. I feel like so many teenage girls think they need to eat as little as possible to be petite and pretty, but the truth is that your body is developing just as intensely as teenage boys' bodies. Eat more, please, your body needs it.
i'm genuinely at a loss for words as to what to say. we are on the second to last day of raising money for ammar's injection for the upcoming week, and we didn't even raise enough for the immune globulin injection last week, let alone anything else
the only reason ammar is still alive right now is because a doctor took pity on him and bought him the injection before we raised enough money. the extended delays made ammar have his first seizure.
israel has also been bombing the hospital again, photos on this post - and their planes + drones are still circling the hospital now, threatening to shoot people. ammar, samah, and mahmoud are all outside in the courtyard and will be immediately wounded if they do so
we need to raise $1471 by tuesday 4 pm at gazan time, which is roughly about 50 hours from now. this is for his food, as well as his injection, and the iv fluids. this is now the bare minimum required to be urgently raised
if he doesn't get this by tuesday, he would need an intensive injection that costs $6k+ total alongside the fact he would need extra medicine and this original injection too
i have nothing else to say. donate as little as $3 or $5 for him, or you'll be letting him die. this is extremely time sensitive.
I just saw a video title on YouTube that said something like “Why is glass transparent?” And that’s an interesting question and I’m sure it’s great that the video exists but my first thought was like “Because glass is terrible, obviously.” Because it’s unwieldy and let’s out warmth and needs to be heated to hundreds of degrees to be shaped and turns into hundreds of tiny daggers if you drop it. Why the hell would we bother with that if it didn’t have some magical quality like being totally transparent despite being solid? Glass is transparent because if it weren’t, we’d use something else.
If you’re still curious we did not start working glass for its transparency. It was most likely started as a sanitary concern. Glass is easy to clean with soap and water, once it’s cleaned out you can use it again for anything and no germs or flavor from the previous meal or drink will remain.
Other materials at the time, namely clay, would absorb flavors and germs meaning that if you ate beef off a clay plate your next meal with that plate could have beef flavor and microbes common on cow meat on it. That would leak out seemingly at random no less. Heck imagine a sick person coughing into their soup bowl and then months later their germs hiding in the clay would pop out to infect whole new people.
Also the earliest human use of glass we know of is for its sharpness. Pre-historic people would use volcanic glass as sharp knives for food preparation. Also beads. Pretty much any new substance humans get their hands on for most of our history we immediately try to make into beads.
The fact that it could become see through was a side benefit.
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the persecution of lefthandedness is insane to think about because it was so intense for so long, in some places still is, without any clear profit motivation. sheer love of the game. as late as the 70s at least they were smacking my stepdad's hands for it with a wooden ruler at school, to this day he's in weird ambidexterity situation where he's not great with either side and notably clumsy due to poor hand-eye coordination. just wtf
It is fascinating to me that people also think of handedness as an example of bigotry that just...went away. As you note, it...hasn't in some places. I know people who grew up in the mid-late 90s who still had this problem.
But also, and this is really important to keep in mind regarding bigotry that still causes in many ways larger problems, that the structural problems are not actually fixed.
If you go to any computer lab or public library, the mice will be on the right side of the computer. Sometimes they can be moved. Sometimes they can't. Many computer mice are curved to only fit in right hands.
It is impossible to find lefthanded scissors without going to a specialty store, because most scissor makers don't even make them. And it's not just a matter of grip; the slicing side of the blades is obscured if you use righty scissors in your left hand, so your cut is off.
All those signing pads with the little chained styluses? Almost always on the right side, often not even long enough to stretch to the left. Makes signing for lefties extremely difficult.
I caused actual muscular problems in college having to twist around in order to write at right-handed desks in college when there weren't enough lefty desks--and there never were. Some classrooms didn't even have a single one.
I could go on.
But the point is, bigotry isn't just a mindset shift. People can't just decide they're not bothered by that particular difference anymore and everything's fine, because society is still structured and designed to cause problems for marginalized people. And they're never even going to notice all the little ways their life is bent to convenience them that inconveniences others.
When kiddo was learning to write, their teacher—who was a beautifully kind, caring, compassionate person who even thanked me for making them aware of certain kinds of left/handed supplies, because their new toddler was a lefty and they’d never even thought about it—was teaching the kids a method for word spacing that involved placing their free index finger down at the end of each word and then writing the next one.
Pause for a moment, especially if you’re right-handed—and I’m being serious here, physically do this if you have two functioning arms and hands—and grab a writing tool in your left hand. Now place your right index finger down and try to start writing a word next to it.
Yeah. Great technique, huh? Really convenient and comfortable and easy. 🙃
I sent in a small baggie of small popsicle sticks I’d custom painted for them and labeled with their name for kiddo to use instead, but ultimately they stopped because it wasn’t as convenient when nobody else had to get something out.
Writing in English is difficult enough when you’re left-handed (most of our letters are designed with pull motions, but lefties must push), but even other foundational basics are made more difficult than they have to be, because their needs aren’t considered, even in situations where overt hostility isn’t intended.
Even now, in an older grade, they’re now all sharing a lot of the supplies, but my kiddo has their own pair of labeled lefty scissors they keep in their personal cubby. Teacher was 100% chill with me sending them in, but didn’t even consider to take the step further when I’d asked about whether or not they had them to just… get some for all the lefties. I know there are other kids, know some of them personally. (I made a set of writing spacing sticks for the single one that I knew of back in 1st grade.)
Regarding computer mice? Kiddo had standardized testing last year. They do it on chromebooks now at their school. They did their entire first day with the track pad instead of the mouse, because none of the teachers proctoring or assisting even knew you COULD switch the sides/toggle a setting to switch which button was the dominant select. We happened to have one at home thanks to remote learning during Covid’s early days, so that night we sat down together and found the setting ourselves so they could fix it the following day. But on a student account at school, they couldn’t change that setting. And? None of those teachers knew enough about technology to be able to override it. So even when I went above and beyond and personally sought out the skills and tools to help my child level the playing field on their own, the teaching staff was so unaccustomed to even considering this as a need or problem, that they weren’t able to remove the incredibly basic barriers to a fair schooling experience.
And this is honestly a good school, with staff that care and work hard and take 99% of bigotry concepts very seriously, teach about truth and compassion and how to recognize at this kid level a lot of the basic seeds that can grow into hate and hurt and also healing and helping. But the fact that left-handed needs are different? It is so ingrained to default to right-handed layouts that even left-handed staff don’t conceptualize these problems, because they were taught the exact same way.
The other week, The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald published a story uncovering plans for a mega data centre just outside of Melbourne, in the little-known locality of Plumpton.
The 350-hectare hub – the biggest ever publicly proposed in Australia – would need more power than the total output of Victoria’s largest co
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The data centre is one of many being built in Australia over the coming years, including a fast-tracked centre in the Melbourne suburb of West-Footscray (you may know the area from the warehouse fire in 2018) and another in South Australia being backed by the SA government.
These data centres are privately owned and operated - despite support from state governments. This support has been justified by claims that these data centres will create new local jobs. The Plumpton developers claim that their mega-centre will create 12,000 jobs. In reality, most of the jobs created by data centres come from the construction of them - as many jobs could be created by any large infrastructure project. There are few long-term prospects of employment generated by data centres, as most run with only a small fleet of technicians, especially in relation to the costs of construction and size of the facility.
The other argument being peddled for these data centres is that they will put Victoria (and Australia) in a position to capitalise on the "AI boom". Unfortunately for the 'boomers' out there, it really looks like we're actually in an AI bubble. Basically, the current trend in AI is almost entirely propped up by circular investments and overvaluation of stocks. In other words, it's a tech company circle jerk. Last year, the Australian Financial Review said it was "close to a full Ponzi". As of yet, AI hasn't proved profitable to any of its major investors and developers, excepting Nvidia, who has raked in over $250 billion - and I don't see any state governments pushing for local chip manufacturing. In effect, AI isn't a stable investment for the nation's future.
While there are other major drivers of the demand for more data centres, including increased use of cloud computing, and increasing ordinary daily traffic (everything from posting on Tumblr to e-mailing your union delegate and beyond), AI takes up a significant portion of the capacity. With low estimates suggesting AI currently comprises 20% of data centre usage - jumping up to 40% by 2030, to middling estimates of 40% current usage (USA) going up to 54% by 2030, and high end estimates placing current usage at 50% and climbing to as much as 70% by 2030. All that to say, some growth in number of data centres is to be expected, but really the scale that we're seeing as of late has been down to AI.
The Plumpton data centre has been titled the "Victorian AI hub", entirely dedicated to AI. It is the largest data centre ever proposed in Australia at a maximum demand capacity of 2.4 gigawatts. This exceeds the maximum output capacity of Victoria's largest still-operating coal powerplant, Loy Yang A, at 2.21 gigawatts. Loy Yang A currently produces approximately 30% of the state's energy requirements each year and is the largest single power station in Victoria by output. To look at this in another way, the highest ever recorded demand for electricity in Victoria was 10.57 gigawatts, recorded on the 27th of January, 2026. The data centre alone would use 23% of that, operating at maximum capacity - unlike regular usage data centres, AI data centres regularly operate at or close to maximum capacity.
Flags have already been raised in regards to the impact of data centres on Australia's energy usage. The federal government is aiming for net zero emission by 2050 and 82% renewable energy in grids by 2030. The Victorian state government plans to have a 65% renewable grid by 2030 and 95% renewable by 2035, with the closure of the Loy Yang A coal plant scheduled for that year. The developer of the Plumpton data centre, Syncline Energy, has stated that the energy requirements of the data centre will be supported by gas turbines during peak periods.
The rest of the energy demands, Syncline says, will come from renewables. The location in Plumpton would support this, as just last year, the Melbourne Renewable Energy Hub, started operation on the site next door to the proposed data centre. The MREH is joint operated by the newly reinstated State Electricity Commission and Equis/GreenPoint, a private renewable developer, who bought the project off the original proposer, Syncline Energy, in 2022.
Local impacts:
The MREH, and neighbouring proposed data centre, lies about 2-3km from the Organ Pipes National Park. The Organ Pipes NP is one of the few National Parks that lie close to the Melbourne urban area. Filled with local wildlife - such as kangaroos, wallabies, echidnas, and platypus - and native plants - including 20 rare, threatened, or significant species - it provides an important habitat and sanctuary for native animals. Surveys included in the Victorian Biodiversity Atlas, have shown that the area of the proposed data centre is home to a number of threatened and vulnerable species, including the Tussock Skink, the Striped Legless Lizard, and the Growling Grass Frog. It has been reported that data centres produce a significant amount of noise, with some anecdotal sources suggesting that the hum can be heard from up to 4km from its source. Noise has a significant impact on wildlife, affecting behaviour, reproduction, and species distribution. As much as 55 db during a 24h period can be detrimental to wildlife, but at data centres, which run 24/7, decibels can regularly exceed that, with noise reaching 96 db inside data centres. As most data centres have been constructed near urban areas, more data has been collected on the impacts to human health than on wildlife, and we do not fully know the extent of how the noise, light, and heat produced by a data centre can impact local biodiversity.
The Organ Pipes NP, along with the proposed Plumpton data centre, lies within one of Melbourne's green wedges. These green wedges are specifically designated for agriculture, low impact infrastructure, biodiversity areas, and cultural heritage sites.
That last one is particularly important for the area we're looking at. The Organ Pipes NP is situated alongside the Jacksons Creek/biik wurdha, one of the major tributaries of the Maribyrnong River. From a location on the Maribyrnong now known as Solomon's Ford, in Avondale Heights, up through Brimbank Park, back through the Organ Pipes, and up into Sunbury, is a cultural heritage landscape. This area, sometimes known as the Keilor Plain, was formed by a lava flow millions of years ago. Erosion of these lava flows form "stony rises" - which are important places for the Wurundjeri, and were sites for education and manufacture.
To place this area in it's archaeological context - Sunbury is home to the Sunbury Rings, a Wurundjeri ceremonial site, that has connections to the nearby Jacksons Creek/biik wurdha and to Songlines (spiritual/historical pathways that are both oral traditions and physically embodied in the landscape). All waterways have cultural and spiritual significance to Aboriginal Peoples across Victoria, so the proximity of the rings to the creek is significant, especially as this water system connects multiple cultural places. Also along Jacksons Creek/biik wurdha, the Organ Pipes NP is recognised as a key feature of a cultural landscape, with many cultural deposits noted within the park. At the confluence of the Maribyrnong and Arundel Creek, is a site called Murrup Tamboore, which is a burial place for Ancestral Remains and has a history of occupation dating to at least 30,000 years ago. Just south of Marrup Tamboore are a series of river terraces near Brimbank park where there are numerous occupation and quarry sites, including another known burial site. For the paleontologists, there are also Pleistocene megafauna remains in this area.
Closer to the proposed data centre site, the area directly south of the proposed site, on the other side of the Melton Highway, was surveyed as part of a housing development planning scheme back in 2013/2014. This survey found low density artefact scatters, particularly in low-lying drainage areas. The proposed area for the data centre has a number of drainage channels, which are the headwaters for the Taylors Creek. It should be noted, that while all named waterways have default heritage zoning, unnamed waterways, such as these drainage channels, have no such automatic zoning.
Based on recent VicPlan data, it also looks like there was a CHMP (cultural heritage management plan) undertaken for the MREH. While it will take awhile for these surveys to become public, the VicData map [below] clearly shows a large area that has been registered as one or more Aboriginal Cultural Heritage sites. [Registered Aboriginal Places are marked in dark green]
Now could Syncline Energy pull a Juukan Gorge? No. Victoria has much better heritage protections than WA, all Aboriginal Cultural Heritage is protected, regardless of whether it is registered. However, despite these protections, the way cultural heritage in Victoria is usually protected is site based - not landscape based. This region, currently protected by the green wedge zoning, represents an interconnected heritage landscape. The archaeological, cultural, ecological, and spiritual values of this landscape would likely be disrupted by the construction of a "mega" data centre. Likewise, the values protected by the designation of the Organ Pipes as a National Park would be harmed by a data centre in the area. With impacts to both the wildlife and visitor enjoyment of the space.
So far, I haven't even touched on the topic of water consumption. While there is movement towards the idea of more efficient use of water in data centres, whether the incentive is there for companies, is in question - by far it is both easier and cheaper to not innovate for less water consumption. And, of course, AI data centres consume more water than ordinary data centres. In Australia, and Victoria particularly, we are prone to extended droughts. The last major drought, the millennium drought, lasted from 1996 to 2010, 100 years earlier, the Federation drought lasted from 1895 to 1902.
We are living in a time of climate uncertainty. Where water may become scarce, where severe climate change becomes irreversible if we don't switch to renewables now. AI data centres threaten that with their demand for water and electricity.
Ordinary data centres may be necessary in our current world, but AI isn't. The big AI companies have sunk their investments into this new technology, with no profit outcome on the horizon. In a sunk-cost-fallacy death spiral, these companies are now trying to sell YOU on AI. They want it to become the norm. Part of everyday life. Inescapable. All this so they profit. And with no care for you, the environment, or anything else they destroy along the way.
If I have to end on a call to action, let it be this: stop using AI. Tell your local pollies to stand against AI and AI data centres too. If you want to do more, Algorithm Watch has some tips on resisting data centres on their website.
wait I have one more story. there's a group of anti-abortion protesters who often set up by the Ethiopian cafe I hang out in, and when I was waiting to cross one of them held up an aborted fetus sign and said "how does this make you feel?" and I said "hungry", and then I was so satisfied by my own cleverness that I missed the lights and stepped off the sidewalk into oncoming traffic
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imo the way you feel about groups it's fully socially acceptable to hate (like children or polyamorous people, among others) is the canary in the coal mine for underlying bigoted beliefs. if you're only supportive of marginalized groups when it's cool to do so, probably you don't actually care about marginalized groups, you care about other people thinking you care
there are 1 trillion people in the notes of this post saying "yeah! i mean i hate kids but they should have rights!" you hate kids? you mean you hate all members of an oppressed group solely for their membership in this group? right. why do you hate them? because they can't take care of themselves and need help? because they don't understand social norms and can be "annoying" and disrespect boundaries as a result? because they can be messy? because they don't understand things in the same way as you do? that's awesome. how do you feel about disabled people btw
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All the steps of learning a language are easy but the problem is you have to do it over and over and over again and over again and over again and your brain needs time to process and you never quite stop feeling like you’re a bit stupid and you can do it you know you can because everyone can do it eventually but merciful god above, does it take a long time and there’s no true endpoint really because the kicker is that you’re never done learning your native language either so there’s no end point there’s just living until you die.
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