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Feb. 8th, 2019 09:29 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
silversandbeaContent Warning: Bleeding. Not menstrual bleeding, but still blood on the outside of my body rather than the inside. Also, the last link is about police brutality.
I managed to fall again on Tuesday on the way to the bus stop, while there was still a thick, even layer of ice over everything (or at least over the sidewalks that nobody had bothered to salt). Right in front of the house next door, too, so a loud SHIIIIIITT did ring out at approximate 7:05 am for all of the neighbors to hear. Minimal bruising, but I managed to scrape up my palms badly from the impact. The worst part was that this was the start of my trip, and didn't have access to a sink for another hour, and nobody at the bus stop had a wet wipe - meaning I had to deal with bleeding palms on public transit while also trying to be a normal non-alarming human. How do you do my fellow travelers I thought, while dabbing my palms with tissues so I didn't bleed on my book There is certainly nothing unusual going on here. No chances of stigmata at all!
Eventually there was running water, everything's healing well, though I haven't been able to knit or spin for the week. This is also why, after ten years in Minnesota, I am beginning to consider actually getting Yaktraks.
Anyway, I'm glad this week is done, if only because of how horrible it has been for transit. My main hope for next weeks is that everything will be warm and clear enough that I can walk more than a block without it feeling like an ordeal or needing special equipment.
Links to interesting things around the internet:
They made a time-appropriate Captain Marvel Website. There isn't any midi music playing in the background, but there is a guestbook!
Related: What it feels like for a fangirl in the age of late capitalism. Which, I think, explains a lot of my ambivalence with movie/television fandom these days. The most I tend to be able to get is this is a shameless grab for my attention and money, but goddamn if it isn't working. Maybe I'm just not used to being considered a worthwhile target audience for something. It certainly wasn't better before - when it was still a money grab, but the interests of a young fannish queer woman weren't even worth joking about, so it just felt like my money wasn't a concern.
I forgot where I got this NPC Generator from, but it has a lot of depth to it.
Via Metafilter, and a lot more serious than the other links: The Battle over Teaching Chicago's Schools About Police Torture and Reparations. Between 1972 and 1991, Jon Burge was a Police area commander who oversaw the torture of at least 118 black men (it was almost certainly more). Chicago activists managed to get a law passed in 2015 that required all 8th and 10th grade students to learn about Jon Burge. This is how it all turns out.
I managed to fall again on Tuesday on the way to the bus stop, while there was still a thick, even layer of ice over everything (or at least over the sidewalks that nobody had bothered to salt). Right in front of the house next door, too, so a loud SHIIIIIITT did ring out at approximate 7:05 am for all of the neighbors to hear. Minimal bruising, but I managed to scrape up my palms badly from the impact. The worst part was that this was the start of my trip, and didn't have access to a sink for another hour, and nobody at the bus stop had a wet wipe - meaning I had to deal with bleeding palms on public transit while also trying to be a normal non-alarming human. How do you do my fellow travelers I thought, while dabbing my palms with tissues so I didn't bleed on my book There is certainly nothing unusual going on here. No chances of stigmata at all!
Eventually there was running water, everything's healing well, though I haven't been able to knit or spin for the week. This is also why, after ten years in Minnesota, I am beginning to consider actually getting Yaktraks.
Anyway, I'm glad this week is done, if only because of how horrible it has been for transit. My main hope for next weeks is that everything will be warm and clear enough that I can walk more than a block without it feeling like an ordeal or needing special equipment.
Links to interesting things around the internet:
They made a time-appropriate Captain Marvel Website. There isn't any midi music playing in the background, but there is a guestbook!
Related: What it feels like for a fangirl in the age of late capitalism. Which, I think, explains a lot of my ambivalence with movie/television fandom these days. The most I tend to be able to get is this is a shameless grab for my attention and money, but goddamn if it isn't working. Maybe I'm just not used to being considered a worthwhile target audience for something. It certainly wasn't better before - when it was still a money grab, but the interests of a young fannish queer woman weren't even worth joking about, so it just felt like my money wasn't a concern.
I forgot where I got this NPC Generator from, but it has a lot of depth to it.
Via Metafilter, and a lot more serious than the other links: The Battle over Teaching Chicago's Schools About Police Torture and Reparations. Between 1972 and 1991, Jon Burge was a Police area commander who oversaw the torture of at least 118 black men (it was almost certainly more). Chicago activists managed to get a law passed in 2015 that required all 8th and 10th grade students to learn about Jon Burge. This is how it all turns out.
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Date: 2019-02-09 10:51 am (UTC)Also, hope you're feeling better!
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Date: 2019-02-09 05:14 pm (UTC)I might actually be able to get back to something today, so here's hoping.