Because it’s going around WitchTok as a herbal abortion option - figured it was worth posting a source everywhere that eating pennyroyal oil will kill you. The summary mentions “syncope, seizures, coma, cardiopulmonary collapse, acute liver injury, renal insufficiency and multiorgan failure”. Defend access to actual effective medicine and reject social media celebrities lying to people about drinking poison.
a lot of people forgetting the fact that people used to die in illegal abortions all the time which is one of the reasons it needs to stay legal
alright let’s talk about Apple and Tumblr’s current predicament.
If you don’t know already, I used to work at Tumblr as an iOS engineer. Though I keep in touch with current staff at Tumblr (what little that are left that I know) I do not have picture of what’s going on internally. The banned word list is absolutely perplexing and I can only theorize why tags like ‘long post’ are banned from appearing on iOS. What I can do is give you a peek into how the Apple App Store review process works, so you have an idea of the hell that Tumblr staff is dealing with right now.
A few months ago, as we were excitedly gearing up for our new exhibition, Suzanne Valadon: Model, Painter, Rebel, at the Barnes Foundation, our marketing team received an email from Facebook: The paintings we wanted to feature in a digital ad promoting the show were deemed inappropriate for the platform. One of the works in question, “Nude Sitting on a Sofa,” (1916), presents an unclothed model looking at the viewer, legs crossed, arms covering her breasts. Valadon created this work in Paris over 100 years ago, during a time when it was almost unheard of for women to pursue painting as a career, never mind take up a subject — the female nude — that for centuries had been the exclusive domain of male artists. Here was an artist that refused to play by society’s rules, who not only articulated her vision of the world but also muscled her way into exhibiting at the 1894 Salon of the Société Nationale des Beaux Arts. We were (and still are) proud to bring her long-neglected work into the spotlight.
We appealed Facebook’s decision. Surely this was some glitch, some overzealous bot programmed to catch any errant expanse of flesh. (This kind of thing had happened to us before, back in May, when a Renoir nude in the Barnes galleries erroneously triggered TikTok’s algorithm to cut off our livestream.) Surely the team at Facebook, once they brought the more nuanced human eye to their review, would agree that Valadon’s nudes are not only “tasteful” but historically important works of art, and that they needed to be seen.
Nope. Valadon’s paintings were simply a violation of Facebook’s policies, the company told us, and they directed us to a web page (Advertising Policies; Adult Content) where we could review these guidelines for ourselves.
“Indigenous Land relations, delicious as they may be for “thinking with” or “drawing upon,” are not for consumption or appropriation by settlers. In earlier drafts of this chapter, I had framed the discussion around the thesis that “Plastics Are Kin,” but I changed this after conversations with various Indigenous thinkers and Elders about complex issues of kinmaking with bad kin and the already rampant fetishization of nonhumans as kin by academics as acts of possession and redemption. I removed conversations that were not fit or ready for public consumption, changing the chapter to “Plastics Are Land.” But even that left a lot of room for creepiness, so I instead reframed the chapter around scale as relationships that matter, with only a small introduction to Land-plastic relations with an indigenous frame, here. When I say creepy, I’m not being glib. Creepiness is a relation directed by the intense desire of one party toward another, with that desire so obfuscated, unknowable, or such a bad fit that the originating desires do not quite make sense to the object of desire and can even constitute violation. The increasing popular academic conversations among and emanating from settlers about kin and Land are hella creepy. I can never tell what most people mean by kin or Land, especially because both are usually positioned as inherently good (which is weird if you have any experience with family members or weather, to name two obvious manifestations of kin and Land that can be monumentally shitty and even dangerous).”
Analogizing Trumpism to fascism abnormalizes Trump as an aberration in American history only if we understand “fascism” as a unique evil unrelated to other troubling pasts. With a clear grasp of fascism’s connection to empire, the comparison of Trumpism to fascism might inspire us to challenge the myths of liberal exceptionalism that blind so many to the realities of American and British imperialism.
The combined public and private sales of the paintings were expected to bring in $65 million to fund staff salaries, equity programs, and new acquisitions of underrepresented artists as part of the BMA’s new “Endowment for the Future” initiative.
In its statement, the museum affirmed its commitment to the plan.
“We believe unequivocally that museums exist to serve their communities through experiences with art and artists. We firmly believe that museums and their collections have been built on structures that we must work, through bold and tangible action, to reckon with, modify, and reimagine as structures that will meet the demands of the future,” the statement reads. “We do not abide by notions that museums exist to serve objects; we believe the objects in our collection must reflect, engage, and inspire the many different individuals that we serve.”
Well, first of all, when we ask ‘who has proved more effective in dealing with the pandemic,’ I think we should be very careful not to fall into false dichotomies: authoritarian versus democratic, socialist versus capitalist and so on.
There’s no evidence authoritarian states did better. Obviously China is pushing that line, and it resonates with a certain perception, especially common in the global south in recent decades, that China represents the only viable alternative to the kind of neoliberal model being pushed by institutions like the IMF and World Bank. It’s true of course that China didn’t follow the neoliberal prescription, they refused to liberalize finance, for example, and that combination of ‘corrupt’ easy credit to the construction industry and so forth was picked up in India, Turkey, many parts of Latin America, as the only proven way to turn a poor country into a relatively rich one.
But the idea that this was only possible because the Chinese government forced people to sacrifice social and political freedoms is completely gratuitous – there’s simply no reason to believe one somehow necessarily follows from the other.
Sorta/mostly. The gallery is closed but we’re installing shows there—the last two weeks I’ve been home, but before that I was spending some time in there. As long as it’s considered OK for me to be out on my bicycle etc. its kind of nice to go and paint walls and pack/unpack artworks for a few hours alone?
It’s pretty interesting to think about how to alternately produce exhibitions with the different ways that ppl can experience things right now, the show up now is more or less straightforwardly documented, but we’re talking about some playful experiments for the next one in terms of online experiences.
IF YOU’RE STAYING HOME, WHO IS THERE WITH YOU?
My partner Michelle & our cat Eli.
ARE YOU A HOMEBODY?
Mostly. Except for a few things—I’m classically bad at keeping a neat workspace which is really something for me now that I’m also occasionally hosting online events etc. Might need to buy a new horizontal file setup of some kind for under my desk. But: I love cooking and making cocktails and barbecue and hanging out on the deck with the cat and sleeping in and taking video game breaks and working on a megadungeon.
But the thing I also like about being home is sharing my space with friends and family, I would very much like to cook for more ppl right now than I can.
AN EVENT THAT YOU WERE LOOKING FORWARD TO THAT GOT CANCELLED
This week I’ve been following some of the online events from common field, but I slept on the signups for the best sessions so it’s been a bit disappointing. And my boss and I were planning to go to the real event in Houston when that was still going to happen. There’s a role-playing event, IntrigueCon spring mini-con, in a week ish that’s moved online too.
WHAT MOVIES HAVE YOU WATCHED RECENTLY?
Clue (enjoyed), Isle of Dogs (didn’t love), His Girl Friday (appreciated watching this a lot should i get really into old movies now?)
WHAT SHOWS ARE YOU WATCHING?
Star Trek Voyager is very comforting but also makes me annoyed. I liked picard a lot, don’t let ppl tell you its bad they’re wrong.
WHAT MUSIC ARE YOU LISTENING TO?
SAWAYAMA, Frankie Goes to Hollywood, Purcell’s The Fairy Queen, Caroline Polachek, Grace Lightman. I miss karaoke.
WHAT ARE YOU READING?
Finally returned to Debt: the first 5000 years, corey robin’s the reactionary mind. Not sure what’s next. For work: Anne Boyer’s Garments Against Women.
WHAT ARE YOU DOING FOR SELF CARE?
I’m playing a lot of dungeons and dragons, two regular games a week plus occasionally other scheduled ones whenever ppl get a group together to explore something in-game, “west marches” style, on discord. A little bit of Magic the Gathering Arena too. Taking walks to catch pokemon with my girlfriend.
Right now I’m waiting for a big grocery order so I can do some good bbq this week: grilled mackerel I hope tomorrow (the order is delayed), some ribs and a chicken and pork tenderloin for later. My pasta machine broke, but I’m gonna make some with a rolling pin tonight. I’ve had a sore throat this week but it’s almost cleared up and I am ready to make a $200 liquor order for some proper spring cocktails. Michelle just bought some fatboy bean-bags for the front deck and we are gonna be out there with some negronis sbagliatto before you know it.
We’re playing over discord due to…present conditions. But that means we can play full West-Marches style. Get your friends together and schedule a level one adventure!
