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marnanightingale) wrote2007-09-02 01:44 pm
marnanightingale) wrote2007-09-02 01:44 pm
A compendium of things I have been meaning to link...
I love lawyers. Go, ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
mycrazyhair!
A year ago, I started negotiating a special agreement about employee
benefits between the company I work for and the company that owns it.
Today, I finally received the final signed copy of the contract.
And there is it, in black and white, that one little word that I made sure
we changed. Not "either". "Any".
That's CONSTABLE Outside Agitator to you...
Within activist circles, people have been pretty much certain since Quebec City at least that at least a substantial number of the truly violent protesters who "mar" demonstrations are in fact undercover police provocateurs, based on a number of factors -- the fact that nobody ever knows who they are, that often people who have been seen instigating violent acts never have charges pressed against them, and that nebulous feel that can never quite be substantiated.
But at Montebello, they screwed up.
BATS!
For those (many) people who asked me how one counts bats, the Guardian has a feature on bat conservation efforts, including this video of bat counting at dusk.
ETA: I forgot thaticlysdale had posted that locked. Link now goes to Guardian article.
C'mon, people now, smile on your sister...
I suspect that there is an element in the LJ feminist discourse where we sit around doing the Man Comes Around thing: we take names, decide who to free and who to blame, etc., and everybody won't be treated all the same. I think a chunk of the discussion around making SFF a more egalitarian place on grounds of gender has taken a turn into labelling people as sexist or not-sexist: on our team or the other team, and then it stops there.
Where do I derive this? My copious internal struggle in this case -- dealing with people I know -- versus my lack of said struggle in the case of the F&SF and sexism discussion -- dealing with people I know less well or don't know. I had people in the Good! box and am asked to move them to the Bad! box, which is harder than moving people from the Neutral! box into Good! or Bad! boxes. I think that's what we do. Move people into and out of boxes.
This is a bad thing.
mycrazyhair!A year ago, I started negotiating a special agreement about employee
benefits between the company I work for and the company that owns it.
Today, I finally received the final signed copy of the contract.
And there is it, in black and white, that one little word that I made sure
we changed. Not "either". "Any".
That's CONSTABLE Outside Agitator to you...
Within activist circles, people have been pretty much certain since Quebec City at least that at least a substantial number of the truly violent protesters who "mar" demonstrations are in fact undercover police provocateurs, based on a number of factors -- the fact that nobody ever knows who they are, that often people who have been seen instigating violent acts never have charges pressed against them, and that nebulous feel that can never quite be substantiated.
But at Montebello, they screwed up.
BATS!
For those (many) people who asked me how one counts bats, the Guardian has a feature on bat conservation efforts, including this video of bat counting at dusk.
ETA: I forgot that
iclysdale had posted that locked. Link now goes to Guardian article.C'mon, people now, smile on your sister...
I suspect that there is an element in the LJ feminist discourse where we sit around doing the Man Comes Around thing: we take names, decide who to free and who to blame, etc., and everybody won't be treated all the same. I think a chunk of the discussion around making SFF a more egalitarian place on grounds of gender has taken a turn into labelling people as sexist or not-sexist: on our team or the other team, and then it stops there.
Where do I derive this? My copious internal struggle in this case -- dealing with people I know -- versus my lack of said struggle in the case of the F&SF and sexism discussion -- dealing with people I know less well or don't know. I had people in the Good! box and am asked to move them to the Bad! box, which is harder than moving people from the Neutral! box into Good! or Bad! boxes. I think that's what we do. Move people into and out of boxes.
This is a bad thing.
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