Mira Bellwether, Author Of Fucking Trans Women, Died Today. The World Is Poorer For Her Absence.

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The ??? Ordeal of being seen to steal from surfaces

Spent the past week making 🐡

If you’re worried you won’t get an ambulance during the strike, let me reassure you that you wouldn’t have got one before the strike either, and that’s why they’re on strike.

Post-jubilee

“Why should a French or a German citizen be born with access to world-class services and well-protected rights (actual implementation on the basis of minority status may differ), while a Somalian citizen is not only denied those things, but also faces huge obstacles in becoming a citizen (or even a resident) of anywhere else? If you are born a citizen of Japan, there are 190 countries you can travel to freely without a visa; if you are a citizen of Afghanistan, there are only 25. If you are born a U.K. citizen, and feel like a change of scene, you can pay $7 for permission to go to Canada, hop on a flight, and stay for up to six months without anyone bothering you. If you are born in a refugee camp, it can take years before you even get a chance to live in a place like Canada. So how can we possibly consider ourselves to be people who care about freedom and autonomy, when thanks to borders our destinies are practically assigned to us at birth? Is it absurd to form your own state? Or is it more absurd to have states in the first place?”

— Aisling McCrea, No Man Is An Island?

Hey Abi, I’ve just read about the supreme court ruling and it’s all getting pretty scary and frustrating and angering and honestly just plain depressing. This kind of thing used to make me feel angry and motivate me to speak out, but it’s starting to just make me feel helpless and tired and sad. Do you have anything that you do in times like these to stay positive, or at the very least keep the anger going rather than giving in to exhaustion?

genuinely, going to a protest is a good way to get some energy and it can also just be nice to see other people from the community, even if they're strangers, even if they're strangers wearing puppy ears and unironed trans flags as capes because is that really any sillier than a judge's wig and robes? No, in fact it's better. So I'll be at Parliament Square at 1300 on Saturday, cause it'll be good for my mental health!

Karen Barad’s agential realism?

the primary ontological units are not "things" but phenomena - dynamic topological reconfigurings/entanglements/relationalities/(re)ar­ticulations of the world. And the primary semantic units are not "words" but material-discursive practices through which (ontic and semantic) boundaries are constituted. This dynamism is agency. Agency is not an attribute but the ongoing reconfigurings ofthe world. The universe is agential intra-activity in its becoming. - Meeting the Universe Halfway

I’m struggling with it! The parts I’m familiar with (undergrad physics, contemporary scientific funding) are deployed… unartfully? But to ends (agental realism , and a theory of scientific ethics that’s very freeing) that I find comforting, so

Exceptional quotes throughout as well; this experimental apparatus familiar to anyone with ug physics has been modified with the critical element - a sulphurous cheap cigar that “developed” the silver ions like a photo, by accident! THe results relevance to understanding of physics is acausal; we have a understanding now where that this is the discovery of electron spin, but this is the result of many iterations of the measurement and reaction and discursive practice loop

Also, brain is computer is silly. Are there any ways they could be substituted for each other? As that’s the only definition given to X is Y in CS; given a apparatus is it possible to distinguish a X or Y; if no, same thing relative to the apparatus (+discursive practice in which apparatus is embedded)

"the brain is a computer that receives, interprets, and predicts "sense data" (whatever that is) and then calculates appropriate thoughts, actions, and responses" 🙄🙄🙄

yeah and a river is a computer that receives and interprets "indirect upstream data", manipulates that data using whorls and eddies, and then calculates the appropriate outgoing flow pattern.

your nutsack and cock are a cOmPuTeR that receive and interpret what i like to call "indirect mastubation data", and manipulates that data to calculate and return the appropriate "cum response".

the brain is only a computer in so far as any physical system is a computer. and it's a fucking stupid compsci major ass way of looking at the world that makes very little sense