No fucking way, Morbz is a legend, this esby character isn't fit to tie his shoelaces.
― Future England Captain (Tom D.), Tuesday, 30 June 2020 01:33 (three years ago) link
Forming opinions about the relative worth of ilxors is unavoidable. Rating ilxors on ilx is not a good habit. I don't encourage it.
― the unappreciated charisma of cows (Aimless), Tuesday, 30 June 2020 01:45 (three years ago) link
Somee of those are funny and ILE could use a ribbing at times imo. There's been a lot worse on the noise board.
I like esby's contributions to IMM and the ILM comp.
― Feel a million filaments (Sund4r), Tuesday, 30 June 2020 01:52 (three years ago) link
None of it was funny except for the 'dusty farmer's almanac' jibe - Aimless obv. brings out the best in satirists.
― Future England Captain (Tom D.), Tuesday, 30 June 2020 01:56 (three years ago) link
I live to serve.
― the unappreciated charisma of cows (Aimless), Tuesday, 30 June 2020 01:59 (three years ago) link
Did esby's username change? I was here for like five years (06-11), then back on and off with some notable longer absences. I don't remember esby at all.
― blue light or electric light (the table is the table), Tuesday, 30 June 2020 02:15 (three years ago) link
sleepingbag iirc?
― trapped out the barndo (crüt), Tuesday, 30 June 2020 02:17 (three years ago) link
oh, beloved user sleepingbag
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Tuesday, 30 June 2020 02:19 (three years ago) link
Also burt stanton, Spectrum, and larry appleton, no?
― Notes on Scampo (tokyo rosemary), Tuesday, 30 June 2020 03:42 (three years ago) link
nah the latter two were likely the same, burt's a lawyer who doesn't wipe his ass and GRIM REAPAH
― I hear that sometimes Satan wants to defund police (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 30 June 2020 03:43 (three years ago) link
less esby, more gilmore
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2CS627aKrJI&t=24s
― methinks dababy doth bop shit too much (m bison), Tuesday, 30 June 2020 04:01 (three years ago) link
aw boo try this
― methinks dababy doth bop shit too much (m bison), Tuesday, 30 June 2020 04:12 (three years ago) link
Why are you guys doing this on this thread
― shout-out to his family (DJP), Tuesday, 30 June 2020 13:14 (three years ago) link
Gilmore is amazing, teaching her work is always an incredible experience.
― blue light or electric light (the table is the table), Tuesday, 30 June 2020 13:40 (three years ago) link
xpost good point, this was not the thread to be heading up this diversion on, so I apologize
― I hear that sometimes Satan wants to defund police (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 30 June 2020 13:46 (three years ago) link
Straw/camel's back.
― Future England Captain (Tom D.), Tuesday, 30 June 2020 13:51 (three years ago) link
I'm bookmarking that video for later
― shout-out to his family (DJP), Tuesday, 30 June 2020 13:53 (three years ago) link
many of you need to spend less time on the internet or at least ILX
― k*r*n koltrane (Simon H.), Tuesday, 30 June 2020 14:00 (three years ago) link
Will happily send PDF of Gilmore's work if you message me
― blue light or electric light (the table is the table), Tuesday, 30 June 2020 14:03 (three years ago) link
I’d love a pdf, table. Email in profile works.
― rb (soda), Tuesday, 30 June 2020 14:13 (three years ago) link
Yeah, that Gilmore video is great and an excellent primer
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Tuesday, 30 June 2020 15:16 (three years ago) link
https://www.laopera.org/discover/laoathome/lift-every-voice/https://www.instagram.com/operaisracist/
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Tuesday, 30 June 2020 16:13 (three years ago) link
appreciate this convo. I've been personally internally chewing on the utility or inutility of "BIPOC" from a few directions--its political utility, descriptive utility (neither of which i'm convinced of at the moment) as well as who seems to be using it.https://t.co/M2J4BvnVoE— wikipedia brown is behind the fireworks. surprise (@eveewing) June 30, 2020
― j., Tuesday, 30 June 2020 16:22 (three years ago) link
i can understand the frustration with BIPOC in its flattening use as "not white."
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Tuesday, 30 June 2020 16:27 (three years ago) link
But over time, miles-hercules says, the term “people of color” lost its political force. “It then became a way to just kind of group all nonwhite people together in ways that weren’t necessarily productive,” they say. “In my own work as a linguist, and from my own perspective as a linguist, I see this as an erasure, which I consider a linguistic violence.”
putting aside my own kneejerk revulsion to claims of things like "linguistic violence" i think miles-hercules just expects too much that all uses of language be productive in every instantiation. the process by which radical political language gets smoothed out is inevitable and ultimately ppl need words that are merely descriptive/pragmatic. if you tell them that X is the right term and not Y they'll gravitate towards X but you'll inevitably lose the radical component. i don't see a way out of this - you can't create language that is radical enough for its imparted politics survive its own mainstreaming and you can't [reasonably] demand that ppl bring political consciousness to every conversation much of which is be purely functional or mundane. if you ever wondered why the terms keep getting updated possibly it's out of a misguided attempt to outrun this process?
― Mordy, Tuesday, 30 June 2020 16:37 (three years ago) link
Soda, will send later this afternoon. Away from the laptop atm
― blue light or electric light (the table is the table), Tuesday, 30 June 2020 18:02 (three years ago) link
Apologies if this is the wrong thread, but is there a good article or link that puts more context to the march in front of the crazy armed lawyers' house in STL? I'm seeing a barrage of people defending the couple because "the protesters tore down the fence" (not that even that would have excused two clearly untrained idiots to wave guns around with fingers on triggers and safeties off), but I haven't seen one single angle or video that shows anything of the sort.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 30 June 2020 19:00 (three years ago) link
ex-St. Louisan here.
1. There is a gate blocking vehicles. Not pedestrians. Pretty sure there is an open entrance for pedestrians and sidewalk is still public. Lots of streets in that neighborhood are that way. You can walk through - and sometimes people do, just to get to another street, but not drive through.
2. I have seen photos of *a* gate bent downwards and partly torn away, but I can't confirm which street gate that is, or when it was bent, etc. It's irrelevant to the pedestrian situation.
3. As you note, Jesus fucking Christ if anyone is more concerned about the gate than the injustice being protested, or more than the sheer fuckedupedness of posing like Rambo in a pink polo shirt.... gah
― zombeekeeper (Ye Mad Puffin), Tuesday, 30 June 2020 19:08 (three years ago) link
Thanks, just trying to understand more and sort through the disinformation. There's a lot of morons defending these two, some I'm unfortunately related to, on a lot of grounds and I want to be able to more confidently discredit some of the more obvious bullshit.
Sounds pretty similar to some streets I've seen in north shore suburbs - closed to vehicular traffic, but openings on the sidewalks to allow pedestrians to pass through easily.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 30 June 2020 19:13 (three years ago) link
https://www.curbed.com/2020/6/29/21306868/st-louis-gun-couple-protest-street
― There's more Italy than necessary. (in orbit), Tuesday, 30 June 2020 19:32 (three years ago) link
Thanks for that link, in orbit.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 30 June 2020 19:34 (three years ago) link
This video is instructive
In this video you can see protestors walk right through the gate. It’s not destroyed when they walk onto the street. You can hear McCloskey, “get the hell out of my neighborhood.” pic.twitter.com/ZbBNP2Xc4v— Alexis Zotos (@alexiszotos) June 29, 2020
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Tuesday, 30 June 2020 19:55 (three years ago) link
Thanks, hadn't seen that one.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 30 June 2020 19:57 (three years ago) link
This property is BOTH public and private. The residences are private. (Homes tend to be that way.) The roads and sidewalks are maintained by the city, and therefore... *drumroll*... PUBLIC.I know this, because zoning is public record. There are like, maps and shit. pic.twitter.com/k7mGmhMS6m— Shane Morris (@IamShaneMorris) June 29, 2020
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Tuesday, 30 June 2020 19:57 (three years ago) link
Different topic: I thought this was very goodhttps://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/the-messy-politics-of-black-voices-and-black-voice-in-american-animation
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Tuesday, 30 June 2020 20:03 (three years ago) link
(I was reminded how shallow the pool of human black characters is, recently, when I attempted to find my cartoon doppelgänger to participate in the “cartoon me” meme circulating on Twitter.)
man, it's this shit. over and over.
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 30 June 2020 20:22 (three years ago) link
i'm old enough to remember sucking on an otter pop and watching Channel 17 reruns of amos and andy on a black-and-white television with a wire hanger antenna
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Tuesday, 30 June 2020 20:26 (three years ago) link
(which is to say, as if it were necessary, this shit is not ancient; it's recent)
This is pretty satisfying to see (long overdue, but still).
https://www.newsleader.com/story/news/2020/07/01/stonewall-jackson-richmond-va-confederate-statues-civil-war-general-us-history/5358621002/
― zombeekeeper (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 1 July 2020 20:26 (three years ago) link
https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/02/us/banking-while-black-racism-trnd/index.html
Benndrick Watson's story is insane
― shout-out to his family (DJP), Thursday, 2 July 2020 19:57 (three years ago) link
That Sauntore Thomas one I remember as being particularly fucked up. Guy was cashing a settlement check from an anti-discrimination suit, right? And then he had the cops called on him for trying to cash the settlement check. Absurdly racist.
― blue light or electric light (the table is the table), Thursday, 2 July 2020 20:38 (three years ago) link
reminds me of this case that happened here in Vancouver late last year https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/indigenous-girl-grandfather-handcuffed-bank-1.5419519
― Rik Waller-Bridge (jim in vancouver), Thursday, 2 July 2020 20:44 (three years ago) link
Fucking shameful. Did BMO end up taking action beyond issuing a lame semi-apology?
― pomenitul, Thursday, 2 July 2020 20:47 (three years ago) link
I don't believe so
― Rik Waller-Bridge (jim in vancouver), Thursday, 2 July 2020 20:49 (three years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/H6FMe1S.gif
― Nhex, Thursday, 2 July 2020 20:58 (three years ago) link
― shout-out to his family (DJP), Thursday, July 2, 2020 3:57 PM bookmarkflaglink
how does one just "accidentally" say a racial slur in the midst of doing a transaction, and try to play it off like anybody coulda made that "mistake".....
― I hear that sometimes Satan wants to defund police (Neanderthal), Friday, 3 July 2020 02:36 (three years ago) link
perhaps he was casually quoting The Coup
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Friday, 3 July 2020 03:19 (three years ago) link
I think he was nervously looking for a chance to bring out his mixtape and overstepped
― shout-out to his family (DJP), Friday, 3 July 2020 10:49 (three years ago) link
Thomas Jefferson Portrait Recreated By His Sixth Great-Grandson
It's fascinating because the chin is there, the cheekbones are there...the second you look at it, you think, "Yep, those two are related."
https://petapixel.com/assets/uploads/2020/07/thomasjefferson_shannonlanier.jpg
― but also fuck you (unperson), Friday, 3 July 2020 17:00 (three years ago) link
https://bloomingtonian.com/2020/07/05/bloomington-man-threatened-with-noose-during-assault-at-lake-monroe/
Terrifying.
― peace, man, Monday, 6 July 2020 11:55 (three years ago) link