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citrakayahBeen a while since I updated.
Seems that over the holidays, quite a few people from the Werelist that I haven’t seen in months have shown up again. Bit of a ‘howliday’, and it’s always nice to see old faces. Don’t know how long all of them will stick around, but still... nice.
Primal Productions appears to be continuing its efforts to sensationalize therians. Naturally, this is rather unacceptable, so I’m drafting a letter to Animal Planet’s ethics department, which is probably the most underfunded department after ‘scientific accuracy’. And it’s probably one dude in a cubicle who spends most of the day playing solitare.
Politics over here have been interesting. The Occupy movement continues. SOPA will probably pass and will probably not break the Internet. NDAA doesn’t get enough Internet attention and, even in the unlikely event that it is constitutional, is flat out wrong. I oppose it just as I do Gitmo, though I understand that as an attachment to a budget bill, it is difficult for politicians to fight.
The holidays are turning out fine. Got a few giftcards and am using them on books- one Clare Bell and two Andre Nortons. I would buy Tomorrow’s Sphinx, but the cheapest copy I could find is a bit less than sixty dollars. And it’s nice to spend more time with the cats and my family. Today we’re making these lovely jelly donuts, which aren’t as fatty as normal donuts.
The algae is hopefully doing well over winter break, and my other projects are in various states of being finished up. I’ll probably revise ‘Therianthropy as a Process’ (for those of you who don’t know, it makes the point that therianthropy doesn’t have to be from a single root cause), finally finish up ‘Voyage to the Deep’ for the Serpent’s Hand, finish uploading the bloody art (not actually bloody in the American sense of the term)... Haven’t been able to spend as much time on things like that recently; I was writing a paper on the link between the counterculture of the 60s and the modern environmental movement, and I do have to read On the Road, but I can always read On the Road on the road.
Seems that over the holidays, quite a few people from the Werelist that I haven’t seen in months have shown up again. Bit of a ‘howliday’, and it’s always nice to see old faces. Don’t know how long all of them will stick around, but still... nice.
Primal Productions appears to be continuing its efforts to sensationalize therians. Naturally, this is rather unacceptable, so I’m drafting a letter to Animal Planet’s ethics department, which is probably the most underfunded department after ‘scientific accuracy’. And it’s probably one dude in a cubicle who spends most of the day playing solitare.
Politics over here have been interesting. The Occupy movement continues. SOPA will probably pass and will probably not break the Internet. NDAA doesn’t get enough Internet attention and, even in the unlikely event that it is constitutional, is flat out wrong. I oppose it just as I do Gitmo, though I understand that as an attachment to a budget bill, it is difficult for politicians to fight.
The holidays are turning out fine. Got a few giftcards and am using them on books- one Clare Bell and two Andre Nortons. I would buy Tomorrow’s Sphinx, but the cheapest copy I could find is a bit less than sixty dollars. And it’s nice to spend more time with the cats and my family. Today we’re making these lovely jelly donuts, which aren’t as fatty as normal donuts.
The algae is hopefully doing well over winter break, and my other projects are in various states of being finished up. I’ll probably revise ‘Therianthropy as a Process’ (for those of you who don’t know, it makes the point that therianthropy doesn’t have to be from a single root cause), finally finish up ‘Voyage to the Deep’ for the Serpent’s Hand, finish uploading the bloody art (not actually bloody in the American sense of the term)... Haven’t been able to spend as much time on things like that recently; I was writing a paper on the link between the counterculture of the 60s and the modern environmental movement, and I do have to read On the Road, but I can always read On the Road on the road.
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Date: 2011-12-25 07:08 pm (UTC)I just worry that it has the potential to cause problems. And that, if it doesn't break the internet, it's oh so easy to tack on amendments, bring in similar and yet harsher laws. People don't pay any attention, and I don't want people do log on one day and realise their favourite website has been taken down and go "Hey, why did that happen?" and people like me have to go "Well duh."
Primal Productions appears to be continuing its efforts to sensationalize therians.
Sadly it gets done to every group that doesn't have enough of a support network to cry PC for them. And sometimes those groups too. I don't know how much traction you're going to get there.
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Date: 2011-12-25 09:18 pm (UTC)And SOPA's been what I've been hearing about over and over, even on UK forums, and when I asked for the sections of the bill that are being criticized, the other people didn't cite anything or give any evidence and we got sidetracked into an argument over the Constitution, which said people said was the best document ever and should be adhered to like the world will end if it isn't. And that nothing illogical or immoral was in there. So I suppose my feelings are interfering a bit with this one.
Probably not much. But I can try, and hope that they'll get slapped down.
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Date: 2011-12-25 09:34 pm (UTC)Because it's a US bill and I can do absolutely nothing, I haven't been particularly invested in looking into the details of it. I think I'd be more so if it was in the UK, as I've looked into things here in the past.
Bringing it all back to the Constitution is stupid. It's not about that. Free speech is a concept way beyond some American piece of paper, for example, but people forget that.
From what I can gather, the Constitution is also far from perfect. If it was perfect it wouldn't have been added to and changed. It's a WIP.
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Date: 2011-12-26 06:49 pm (UTC)Indeed. Some people can't conceptualize universalized ethics.
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Date: 2011-12-25 08:16 pm (UTC)This sounds like a really interesting essay... do you have the original?
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Date: 2011-12-25 09:06 pm (UTC)