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This is one of the 'go look at it' links. I have no idea what it is that I was planning on doing with this, but it looks to be a productivity site: miro.com. I'm setting up a 'just me' kind of something. Having told it I work in logistics and data science (because you have to say something to get through, and I was all 'yeah, whatever'; the second was because it 'tailors' the options to the job type)

observations

• the set up is slow.
• it gave me six options, which included brainstorming, meetings, ?development, and whatever the option I picked.
• the same list of 'use cases' turns up in a subsequent menu bar: meetings and workshops, brainstorming and ideation, agile workflows, mapping and diagramming, research and design, strategy and planning.

.. I'm not in the market for another electronic organisation tool. I have three that I use at varying levels (trello, habitica, Things) and I'm looking to drop that down to two, because one of them doesn't get used (or rather, two of them get used in ways that overlap to the point that I might as well phase one of them out).

clearing out my notes folder, then my open tabs later, not sure how many posts that will add up to today. Some of these have been in said notes folder for weeks months

These are some of the Black-led orgs leading our fight against racism in the food and agriculture system - list looks to be USA only.

Growing up With Percy Jackson (AM Gelberg) - quick look at some of the ways that the works of Rick Riordan investigate identity, and some variations on diversity.

We can all agree that scrabble is ... - I've left out part of the title, because I think it is an inappropriate use of language, but it is obvious in the link. Article is about the resistance of some scrabble players to removing words from their tournament acceptable dictionaries.

Why time feels so weird in 2020 - this one has some interesting interactive sections that rely on visual perception; I found that at least one of the interactive sections didn't work well with my lack of coordination, which I found frustrating. But in terms of the discussion of the perception of time, it was interesting. And I learned that I measure short periods of time in breathing and toe twiddles, because each time I was asked to observe the duration something happening, I centred myself on the speed at which I was doing those two things.

My Chemical Hormone Therapy Romance - bit of a rambling discussion of self and MCR.

Representation Without Transformation: Can Hollywood Stop Changing Cartoon Characters of Color?

Collections: How Your History Gets Made

Dozens of COVID-19 vaccines are in development. Here are the ones to follow.

peoriapeoria posted a number of meta articles at the AO3 for the March Meta Matters, which I've only just got around to catching up on - these are all quite short: Power Imbalance - writing Coulson/Barton in the MCU; Meta Reading of The Flash (1990); Slash:An Essay; Responsibility - ethics in Captain America: Civil War.

The Hugos and The Raven Tower - Ann Leckie on why they withdrew The Raven Tower from the Hugo shortlist.

Many of these have come from racism awareness posts, but are included here rather in the BLM post because they are predominantly about entrenched racism, rather than police brutality and the Black Lives Matters protests. I realised after I'd got quite a way through that I hadn't been noting authors or details, and I don't have the oomph to go back and add them. I've added a note to each about the where I got it from, which can be seen in the link details.

Transformative racism: The black body in fan works - OTW

We Need to Talk About Digital Blackface in Reaction GIFs - Teen Vogue

"Yes, the Evil Queen is Latina!": Racial dynamics of online femslash fandoms - OTW

Pattern recognition: A dialogue on racism in fan communities - OTW

Dog Whistles and Insults zvi - from 2007 (there were two follow ups, I didn't grab the links because the blog content was approximately repeating things, so I suspect the first got edited to include all that detail; I did read comments on the other two)

Downloaded, but not read (pdf) QUEER AND UNUSUAL SPACE: WHITE SUPREMACY IN SLASH FANFICTION - master's thesis.

And from this post, one of the many about Racefail: * "In a discussion of racial stereotypes, appropriation of the 'shiny bits' of other cultures without real respect or understanding of those cultures, the ongoing underrepresentation/misrepresentation of large portions of the population in fiction and other media, and the need to do better, privilege is when the most important piece of the conversation is your hurt feelings."*

How to Know You’re Not Insane (And how a Cards Against Humanity Staff Writer was fired.) - medium.

Changing the ABC's pronunciation guidance on Indigenous words - this is the most useful summary of Indigenous pronunciation that I've seen outside academic texts.

A Feud in Wolf-Kind Erotica Raises a Deep Legal Question - I'll take topics I didn't expect to see in the NY Times for $100, thanks. Yes, this is about Omegaverse kink, and people trying to claim fan tropes as intellectual property.

COPYRIGHT: THE ALPHA AND OMEGA(VERSE) - this is an older article about the previous topic, which goes into legal details from the previous proceedings.

What Heroes Do: Queer-Coding, Slut-Shaming, and Heroism on a Trash Planet (illwynd, thebookhunter) - meta about Thor Ragnarok. Contains many spoilers.

The Tiny “Spite Triangle” That Marks a Century-Old Grudge Against New York City

Seven of Diamonds - cute bit of Western Australian history I hadn't previously heard of.

An appreciation of Laura Shapiro, a historian who found her place in the kitchen

This one might be a duplicate -- I've had several goes at reading it. I've put it in this post, not the virus post, because I think it is more generally applicable, and it is has passing references to the current situation Pandemic! Productivity! Life! Hacks! (from a deeply unproductive & freaked out person)

Retro Maps - Perth, WA, survey maps from the early 1900s overlaid on the current city. The actual map is here and gives a fascinating sense of the way that the city has changed from being long and narrow along the Swan/Avon to being much more up and down the coast. However, it isn't comprehensive, given that the area I grew up, the townsite in was established in 1901, and there are no overlays for that area.

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I've been putting these aside for a while, to try and have a single post of covid related links. So, how 'up to date' these are will differ. ( linky linky )

I've been reading about human created land issues - in particular about sections of the USA that are heading underwater, for one reason and another.

Isle de Jean Charles

• from 2019: On a sinking Louisiana island, many aren’t ready to leave
• from 2016: Resettling the First American 'Climate Refugees - paywalled (NY Times)
• The story of Isle de Jean Charles - the site about the resettlement project; has more details, this is just the history of the area.

Elsewhere

• from 2019: America's great climate exodus is starting in the Florida Keys
• from 2018: Florida estuaries-fragile buffers against a rising ocean
• from 2016 Perils of Climate Change Could Swamp Coastal Real Estate - paywalled (NY Times)

And a couple of lighter links

• from 2013: The Crazy, Ingenious Plan to Bring Hippopotamus Ranching to America - this has a link to what I suspect is the full article; this is an interview with the author of that article.
• This map shows where you would end up if you dug a hole to the other side of the world - specifically, this is about the Antipodes map - bit slow to load, but fun. Putting in Perth, Australia, gets a result that looks like Bermuda, until one zooms in, at which point it is ocean to the south-east of Bermuda.

For Meadows reviews: Tom Hooper’s Cats: A Study In Vogon Poetry - long, but well worth it. Does contain spoilers if you don't want to know how the movie differs from the stage performances.

at The NewYorker: A suspense novelist's trail of deceptions - about Dan Mallory, of whom I knew nothing. The story is very creepy. Long, and lots of fake cancer, which got to the point that I was skipping those sections.

And a palate cleanser: Amy discovers Jo's A)3 handle and drags her in the March family groupchat - what it says on the tin.

content note: the second section relates entirely to the current Australian bushfire season. I've put it below a line, and behind a cut, for those who are avoiding the topic. There are no images and any article with potentially disturbing images will be warned for.

Start of 2020 Ushers Thousands of Once-Copyrighted Works Into the Public Domain - copyright works from 1924 are now public domain. There are a number of works listed in the article, but no link to any kind of comprehensive list.

Consent in Gaming - link is to the MonteCook Games site, for 'purchase' of the pdf, which they are providing for free. Comes with a one page checklist for GMs to provide their players. I've looked at the checklist, but I've actually put the document aside to read later.

Fiction: A Square of Flesh, A Cube of Steel by Phoebe Barton. Highly recommended - going in my 'I could nominate this for a Hugo' list.

Music theory: Perfect, Imperfect, Plagal, Deceptive and Half Cadences - I encountered the phrase 'plagal cadence' today, and realised that this no longer meant anything, so I went and looked it up. I feel like I 'should' spend more time on this site, relearning things I've forgotten, but I'm doing the 'I have enough on' and closed the site...

Coptic Orthodox church in Taree is thriving and drawing Christians to the area

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Assorted reading

• via ariaflame a survivor’s guide to anhedonia+anxiety and getting anything done, ever. I followed the link right at the beginning and read the twitter thread up until I got to the suggestions.
• Paper That You Bake - a sort-of history of parchment paper. Which explains to me why Aussie quilters import North American freezer paper, because it is different!
• The Disappearance of John M. Ford (note for Perth peeps: Dragon Waiting, which is mentioned repeatedly, is in my collection, and I am willing to loan it out. I have not read it, despite having added it to my catalogue a decade and change ago)
• Welcome to the epic quest to swim 1000 metres in 1000 pools - in theory I want to come back to this one, and track the fella's journey; in practice I won't. I did however spend some time meandering around various links and looking a pretty pics.

and a video I've no more F***s to Give which has some fabulous lines in. There is also a Good Omens fanvid to this tune, but I like this one just as much. The two audience members in shot are great to watch. As to language - other than the obvious, there is also one use of ableist language I spotted. (aside: and it looks like he is playing a banjo-lele!)

Oh! and a place: Darrington's, in Vic Park - any of my local gf peeps tried them? I'm looking at doing an order there next week, and would love to know what is good. Otherwise I'm doing a 'whatever looks tasty'.