Craig in Cville @nangar@octodon.social
My username is Sumerian for "carpenter". It's usually transcribed naĝar. I was a carpenter for a good chunk of my life. I live in Charlottesville, VA.
1st black woman elected mayor of Charlotte 1st trans state legislator elected in VA 2nd black Lt Gov elected in VA since Reconstruction Lawyer for Black Lives Matter becomes Philly DA This is proof the vote has power https://twitter.com/AriBerman/status/928096442882850816
cool: "The night of magic continues. Ravi Bhalla - a brilliant and progressive candidate - just became the first Sikh to be elected mayor of a major US city. Congratulations, @RaviBhalla!!! "https://twitter.com/SikhFeminist/status/928098716980039686
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#uspol #uspolitics #cville #virginia victory! Show more
@polyplacophora So far, it seems to be going really well.
@polyplacophora Yeah, I feel lucky living in VA. We get to vote tomorrow.There are hints of higher Democrat turn-out than usual, and I'm feeling excited and optimistic.
@SuzanEraslan Welcome, Suzan Eraslan!
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'La mer est plus puissante que le pilote, et elle est loin d'être parfaitement prévisible. Aristote est dans un monde pour ainsi dire marin, où la nature nous fait assez sentir combien nous ne sommes d'elle ni maîtres ni possesseurs. Loin de tout fatalisme, cela ne fait pourtant que valoriser le rôle du pilote. Ce n'est pas la mer ou le monde qui est rationnel, c'est lui.'
Les règles de l'#art selon la métaphysique d'#Aristote
Je me demande à quel point ça aurait du sens que pour répondre/soutenir les #MeToo les hommes fassent un hashtag style #JeFaisPartieDuProbleme ou #JeSuisCoupable ou #Pardon ou un truc comme ça et raconteraient avec plus ou moins de détails selon le contexte des moments ou ils ont laissé faire, ou été l'acteur de harcèlement sexuelle à l'encontre d'une femme.
A thing that I said twice today: "the worst outcome here is not that you don't get into med school. It's that you go to med school and wake up one day when you're 35 with hundreds of thousands of dollars of debt and a job you hate but can't quit. Let's stop talking about whether you can get into med school and start talking about how you can figure out whether you want to be a doctor." Not sure that they wanted to hear that.
@tom the wizard regrets to inform you that some spells failed and your data is now a lizard.
@miriam I went to see Arrival last year. It has a female lead. There's nothing sexualized or stereotypical about the way she's portrayed at all. She's an academic linguist for most movie is doing linguistics stuff that's important to the plot, and there's a back story about her relationship with her daughter.
Interestingly, the director of that movie is same guy who did Blade Runner 2049.
”Mom!!! Help! I walked into an Escher world and I can’t get out!”
In practice her legs got tangled when she tried to back out again.
@Jadyjah The hashtag #BalanceTonPorc is funnier than the English translation suggests. The plain reading of the phrase is "throw out your ham", like if you have some old sausage in the back of your fridge that's getting moldy and turning green and you need to pitch it. Given the slang meanings of the words though, it can also mean "denounce your jackass" or, as Vox translated it, "expose your pig".
Time clean the fridge.
France's "Me too" campaign may come with legislation
French Twitter is awash with #BalanceTonPorc — “expose your pig” — stories of sexual harassment and assault. Meanwhile, the gender minister is proposing fines for street harassment. https://www.vox.com/world/2017/10/18/16490818/france-me-too-weinstein-sexual-harassment
@tindall I had no idea I'd go on for so long. The site *isn't* perfect, but I like it better than any other site I've been on.
If you decide to join, MeMail me (that's MeFi's internal messenging thingy) or toot at me here. My username is also nangar on MetaFilter.
If you have more questions about the place, I'll try to answer.
@joshmillard owns the site and is the lead moderator.
