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Lumpentheorist; abolitionist; critic of whiteness, workerist cosmogony, and the ableism of the Left.

Masks are empathy fashion.
Own it—make it yours.

Intricate words fulfill me:
Anticipate jargon here.

Semantic critique ain't your jam?
Don't whinge—just go away.

Ace enby aphant WP in #NYC.

they/them/gonzo/whatever

If you would throw me and mine to the wolves so to claim victory over those wolves, you can take your Democratic National Chamberlain 🤡ass to someone else's mentions.

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Anti. 🐘 · 1w
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Robert Kingett · 9w
Had someone beg me to come back to a disability place I was an intern at years ago just out of college. They offered me a full time communications and media manager position. I ended my internship wel...
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Did the possibility of exploring just why you, of all people, would so desperately be wanted back, even occur to them?

Which is to say, what do you uniquely offer? Anyone can wake up and go into an office. They want you. What can you do that random office worker cannot, and how is what you have to offer in any way contingent on waking up and going into an office?

You're a writer. Press releases. Media communication. How could that not be done, even to a limited degree, which is more than they get from you now, without requiring that you resume life as an office worker?
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Robert Kingett · 9w
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Anti. 🐘 · 14w
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Anti. 🐘 · 14w
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Why do you understand, as ingratiating or pandering, behavior that could be accounted for by some other explanation?

Where does your ascription of motive, which is unobservable, to observed behavior, come from?
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Anti. 🐘 · 14w
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Anti. 🐘 · 14w
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Every phone made for those with hearing loss seeks to address the problem by amplifying the volume of the phone.

It's not necessarily effective (as the problem of hearing loss is typically reduction in receptive frequency range, starting with higher frequencies, an issue which higher amplitude does nothing to address) but there's a widely accepted cultural placebo commitment to the idea that cranking up the volume must make hearing easier.

This akin to folk responding to someone who does not speak one's language by raising their voice and repeating the language that the person doesn't understand, as if cranking the volume will grant one's listener fluency.
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Anti. 🐘 · 14w
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Anti. 🐘 · 14w
Why are so many boomers using their phone on speaker in public spaces? In more general terms, why do boomers imitate the most annoying habits of younger generations? I think it's because boomers are ...
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Limited access to hearing aids may play some small part in this, such that an amplified speaker is an accommodation.

Now, add to this the potential that those most with unmet needs of hearing aids may also lack the technical savvy to turn off speaker mode setting activated in a non-public setting, such that it remains active in public settings.

Developing this point, if you see someone holding their phone to their ear despite same phone being on speaker mode, it is possible that they lack sufficient hearing discrimination to even tell the difference between speaker mode and non-speaker mode.

This something myself can testify to as someone who lives with an elder who has hearing loss. Though privileged enough to have hearing aids, even those advanced enough to have bluetooth, when the bluetooth connection fails they are oblivious to that fact, continuing to use their phone as if they are the only person who can hear it.
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Anti. 🐘 · 14w
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Am aware of pan and scan (cropping, selectively) and letterboxing. Both of which are addressed in OP.

Pan and scan requires someone make editorial decisions about what is seen through the window and what is cropped out. Letterboxing was often not acceptable to audiences, as you note.

For Saturday afternoon movies, especially on UHF channels, horizontal compression was a way to avoid sacrificing screen real estate without actually doing any editorial work. Another reply to this thread provides the term "anamorphic widescreen".

The question went to the impact, on later art, of folk growing up with such squashing of film for broadcast. Not to alternatives to such squashing, as if the lived experience of seeing such squashed films on television never happened. A non-responsive answer is non-responsive.
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Huh.

A #MediaHistory question.

Trying to find scholarship discussing the practice of 1970s television broadcasters compressing film on the horizontal (for instance, kung-fu genre movies) rather than cropping or letterboxing.

Grew up watching impossibly lanky live-action martial artists on screen, and have a sense that this has impacted the aesthetics of media inheriting from that experience of the genre in latter decades.

Yet am only turning up discussions of the much later transition of television production to widescreen formats. My interest is in how those who grew up with already wide-screen film being squeezed to fit then contemporary television screens... have perhaps reflected that technologically-mediated way of seeing in art thereafter.

Boosts appreciated.
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December: Ordered a nut milk maker.

January: Ordered glass bottles to put the resulting nut milk in, about a month afterward.

February: Finally picked up the glass bottles a month later.

March: Finally making first batch of soy milk a month after that.

(This after finally making our first batch of homemade peanut butter ordered shortly before the nut milk maker.)
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👩‍🦯The Blind Fraggle · 18w
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Anti. 🐘 · 21w
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Someone on the TL today claiming, in so many words, that those of us putting current events in historical perspective are doing the Gallic shrug.

The post asks us to unpack what we're doing.

So, yes, let's unpack.

Our critique is not of anyone being shocked. Our critique is of those trying to make it out that more of the shockingly same is exceptional.

Our critique is of those who are most definitely not shocked, who quite pointedly refuse to be shocked, when the very same sorts of things happen under regimes they identify with.

The post in question quotes Toni Morrison:

“I insist on being shocked. I am never going to become immune. I think that’s a kind of failure to see so much of it that you die inside. I want to be surprised and shocked every time.”

Our critique is of those who are selectively immune. Of the failure of seeing so much of it yet only living when it suits. Of not being surprised and shocked every fucking time.

Appeasement is only being shocked when convenient.

#lumpentheory