lirazel
@notablespinster.bsky.social
Scribbling woman, bluestocking, notable spinster. Rootless cosmopolitan. Archivist. 🍞🌹
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Please PLEASE go comment in favor of this rule. The subminimum wage for disabled folks is vile and evil and *must* be eliminated.
The poverty rate of disabled folks is astronomical compared to abled folks. There is no doubt this disgusting discriminatory policy is part of the reason why.
The poverty rate of disabled folks is astronomical compared to abled folks. There is no doubt this disgusting discriminatory policy is part of the reason why.
ALERT: The Department of Labor is seeking public comment on a rule that would ELIMINATE the subminimum wage for disabled people in the US: www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...
Employment of Workers With Disabilities Under Section 14(c) of the Fair Labor Standards Act
The Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA or Act) authorizes the Secretary of Labor to issue certificates allowing employers to pay productivity-based subminimum wages to workers with disabilities, but only ...
www.federalregister.gov
January 8, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Please PLEASE go comment in favor of this rule. The subminimum wage for disabled folks is vile and evil and *must* be eliminated.
The poverty rate of disabled folks is astronomical compared to abled folks. There is no doubt this disgusting discriminatory policy is part of the reason why.
The poverty rate of disabled folks is astronomical compared to abled folks. There is no doubt this disgusting discriminatory policy is part of the reason why.
I'm going to get new glasses in a few weeks. Anybody have any thoughts on current trends in eyewear? I literally don't pay attention to anyone else's glasses, but I'd like to look reasonably on-trend.
January 10, 2025 at 4:16 PM
I'm going to get new glasses in a few weeks. Anybody have any thoughts on current trends in eyewear? I literally don't pay attention to anyone else's glasses, but I'd like to look reasonably on-trend.
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Word of the Day is ‘uhtcearu’ [ucht-kay-aru, with the 'ch' as in the Scottish ‘loch']:
Old English for ‘the sorrow before dawn', when you lie awake in the darkness and worries crowd your mind.
Old English for ‘the sorrow before dawn', when you lie awake in the darkness and worries crowd your mind.
January 10, 2025 at 7:56 AM
Word of the Day is ‘uhtcearu’ [ucht-kay-aru, with the 'ch' as in the Scottish ‘loch']:
Old English for ‘the sorrow before dawn', when you lie awake in the darkness and worries crowd your mind.
Old English for ‘the sorrow before dawn', when you lie awake in the darkness and worries crowd your mind.
This is exciting! I read and enjoyed the Gardener's Hand trilogy this past year but hadn't been able to access the others.
just wanted to mention that most of my books are available at Queer Liberation Library @queerliblib.bsky.social and they give library cards to anybody with a US address!
Here's an updated guide to my books, including the one that comes out in November 2024. Fantasy and sci-fi romance with bisexual main characters 💖 www.feliciadavin.com/ for more info
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January 10, 2025 at 3:59 PM
This is exciting! I read and enjoyed the Gardener's Hand trilogy this past year but hadn't been able to access the others.
I will never understand why editors of essay collections don’t put the year each essay was written at the beginning of each essay. That is important contextual information I need at the beginning, not the end!
January 10, 2025 at 1:45 AM
I will never understand why editors of essay collections don’t put the year each essay was written at the beginning of each essay. That is important contextual information I need at the beginning, not the end!
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On this day 12 years ago, @kcg.bsky.social posted the “This is Fine” comic.
January 9, 2025 at 4:32 PM
On this day 12 years ago, @kcg.bsky.social posted the “This is Fine” comic.
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Limp is Beautiful 📖
Our Head of Conservation reveals his fascination with limp covers
He observes some exciting examples from our early print collection AND shows how he created one by himself!
Take the journey with him in the three-part series:
www.corpus.cam.ac.uk/articles/lim...
Our Head of Conservation reveals his fascination with limp covers
He observes some exciting examples from our early print collection AND shows how he created one by himself!
Take the journey with him in the three-part series:
www.corpus.cam.ac.uk/articles/lim...
Limp is Beautiful: Crafting a Bookbinding Model of a 16th-century Limp Binding (Part 1)
By Flavio Marzo, Head of Conservation at the Cambridge Colleges' Conservation Consortium Part 1 I have been restoring and conserving books since I was very young. Today I am the manager of the Cambri...
www.corpus.cam.ac.uk
January 9, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Limp is Beautiful 📖
Our Head of Conservation reveals his fascination with limp covers
He observes some exciting examples from our early print collection AND shows how he created one by himself!
Take the journey with him in the three-part series:
www.corpus.cam.ac.uk/articles/lim...
Our Head of Conservation reveals his fascination with limp covers
He observes some exciting examples from our early print collection AND shows how he created one by himself!
Take the journey with him in the three-part series:
www.corpus.cam.ac.uk/articles/lim...
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people say “you need to start living in the real world” but they forget that the real world includes lupines and lightning bugs and ginger beer and starlight and sea coasts and Renoir paintings and Rachmaninoff’s piano concertos and fog banks and foxes playing in snow.
December 5, 2024 at 3:45 PM
people say “you need to start living in the real world” but they forget that the real world includes lupines and lightning bugs and ginger beer and starlight and sea coasts and Renoir paintings and Rachmaninoff’s piano concertos and fog banks and foxes playing in snow.
Sucks that I have to keep unfollowing all these cool and interesting people I like because all they post is about how horrible the world is right now. I get it! I do! But I personally do not need any reminders about how horrible the world is right now. I am more than aware!
January 8, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Sucks that I have to keep unfollowing all these cool and interesting people I like because all they post is about how horrible the world is right now. I get it! I do! But I personally do not need any reminders about how horrible the world is right now. I am more than aware!
"Majority democracy, we might saycan emerge only when two factors coincide: 1. a feeling that people should have equal say in making group decisions, & 2. a coercive apparatus capable of enforcing those decisions." 1
January 7, 2025 at 5:50 PM
"Majority democracy, we might saycan emerge only when two factors coincide: 1. a feeling that people should have equal say in making group decisions, & 2. a coercive apparatus capable of enforcing those decisions." 1
"What we are experiencing today is not a crisis of democracy but rather a crisis of the state. In recent years, there has been a massive revival of interest in democratic practices & procedures within global social movements, but this has proceeded almost entirely outside of statist frameworks." 1/
January 7, 2025 at 5:48 PM
"What we are experiencing today is not a crisis of democracy but rather a crisis of the state. In recent years, there has been a massive revival of interest in democratic practices & procedures within global social movements, but this has proceeded almost entirely outside of statist frameworks." 1/
Finally reading my man David Graeber's posthumous The Ultimate Hidden Truth of the World and being bowled over by the tragedy of how young we lost him. His mind and his writing skills and his heart were all such gifts.
January 7, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Finally reading my man David Graeber's posthumous The Ultimate Hidden Truth of the World and being bowled over by the tragedy of how young we lost him. His mind and his writing skills and his heart were all such gifts.
I feel like in general I'm pretty good at not yelling at kids to get off my lawn and rolling with changes...except when it comes to fandom. There have been a few absolutely necessary changes in fandom over the twenty years, mostly to do with greater diversity. 1/
January 7, 2025 at 5:27 PM
I feel like in general I'm pretty good at not yelling at kids to get off my lawn and rolling with changes...except when it comes to fandom. There have been a few absolutely necessary changes in fandom over the twenty years, mostly to do with greater diversity. 1/
I truly fear that the language of vidding will be lost to the language of editing. I so rarely see the word "vid" these days outside of, like, Vidcon-related things. I know language changes, but I am an old lady who loves the old vocabulary.
They are only AMVs if they are from the anime region of fandom. Everything else is sparkling vids.
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January 7, 2025 at 5:22 PM
I truly fear that the language of vidding will be lost to the language of editing. I so rarely see the word "vid" these days outside of, like, Vidcon-related things. I know language changes, but I am an old lady who loves the old vocabulary.
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y’all remember when adorno said that intolerance of ambiguity is indicative of an authoritarian mindset?
i think about that a *lot.*
i think about that a *lot.*
January 5, 2025 at 2:18 PM
y’all remember when adorno said that intolerance of ambiguity is indicative of an authoritarian mindset?
i think about that a *lot.*
i think about that a *lot.*
I wrote about my jury duty experience here: lirazel.dreamwidth.org/1156793.html
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January 6, 2025 at 7:24 PM
I wrote about my jury duty experience here: lirazel.dreamwidth.org/1156793.html
I did not get chosen to fulfill my civic duty today. I really do hope they choose me another day this week.
January 6, 2025 at 4:54 PM
I did not get chosen to fulfill my civic duty today. I really do hope they choose me another day this week.
Jury duty is quite interesting so far even though we’ve just done the preliminaries. I’ll have to write up a Dreamwidth post about it after.
January 6, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Jury duty is quite interesting so far even though we’ve just done the preliminaries. I’ll have to write up a Dreamwidth post about it after.
Imo, if our state government thinks it’s totally great and safe for people to walk around with guns, they should have to allow them in government buildings as well. The fact that they don’t shows what hypocrites they are.
January 6, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Imo, if our state government thinks it’s totally great and safe for people to walk around with guns, they should have to allow them in government buildings as well. The fact that they don’t shows what hypocrites they are.
Today is my first experience with jury duty and honestly I’m pretty excited about civic participation. And also getting to read while I wait.
January 6, 2025 at 12:57 PM
Today is my first experience with jury duty and honestly I’m pretty excited about civic participation. And also getting to read while I wait.
An Abraham Lincoln bot just followed me and I have to assume it's because the metadata on that YouTube video I posted contained mention of Lincoln (since building animatronic Lincoln is a huge part of the video).
I regret to inform the bot that I will not often post about Abraham Lincoln.
I regret to inform the bot that I will not often post about Abraham Lincoln.
January 6, 2025 at 12:20 AM
An Abraham Lincoln bot just followed me and I have to assume it's because the metadata on that YouTube video I posted contained mention of Lincoln (since building animatronic Lincoln is a huge part of the video).
I regret to inform the bot that I will not often post about Abraham Lincoln.
I regret to inform the bot that I will not often post about Abraham Lincoln.
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Thanks to Defunctland for making me realize that even if you don't care about the Disney mystique or most of its content, the behind-the-scenes stuff is FASCINATING.
January 6, 2025 at 12:15 AM
Thanks to Defunctland for making me realize that even if you don't care about the Disney mystique or most of its content, the behind-the-scenes stuff is FASCINATING.
There would need to be a sequel series about the Eisner years, though. I'm thinking a whole episode about his American Propaganda park that he planned that almost got built.
January 6, 2025 at 12:14 AM
There would need to be a sequel series about the Eisner years, though. I'm thinking a whole episode about his American Propaganda park that he planned that almost got built.