dr.joan

I talked about it when it was first announced and now it's here!

1439 games for a $10 minimum? Proceeds going to help victims of ICE in Minnesota? How could you not, babies?

I'm looking forward to digging into this over the course of the week.

Minneapolis City Council passes eviction notice extension from 30 days to 60. Same margin as in committee 7-5-1. Mayoral veto surely coming, and the votes aren't there to override it.

Voting no: Rainville, Vetaw, Warren, Shaffer, Palmisano

Abstention: Whiting

If you liked and/or reposted this please make sure you are following. I’m working up to a relaunch of my Patreon (which will include a free tier) and trying to get that dissertation published

Imagine if instead of competitions we held collaborations

I think Ben is a little younger but this makes me crave an international play date

I would not have guessed dice towers were this old

Super smart bro has never heard of audiobooks. Smdh

The conclusion of my dissertation suggests a HEART based educational paradigm to combat the problems caused by by overemphasis on STEM. The R in HEART is for Rhetoric.

Humanities Education Art/History Rhetoric Technoculture

If you’re using finch lets be friends! H9HB41YDW7

I have zero motivation today.

I’m not sure my meds are working for me as well as they did before the insurance switch.

Personally, I think this leads to people in the 2-3 lowest economic castes being more manipulable and easier to control.

These kids are forced to rely on the same machine that will keep them out of the job market — starter jobs are disappearing

Bluey themed window art & sun catcher kit including Bandit, Chili, Lucky, Rusty, Indie, Bingo, and Bluey. Additionally there is a hand painted window cling reading “Benny ❤️ Bluey”

So the combo of BAFTAs and Newsom last week was too much for me so I had to take a break.

Anyway. My son got this kit for Christmas but he’s a little too little so I did the hard part for him:

And there’s more to it. Layers and layers of rhetorical bullshit but again this is an adhd RSD fucking nightmare trap for me so I’m done.

Especially because I’m not sure what you think has been “disproven” because my original argument was “this is a stupid fucking thing to say to a black person (with or without dyslexia) in front of cameras and an audience” even it is sandwiched in a story about his mom hiding his dx

That’s not what I’m arguing at all so don’t think it’s gonna help.

If this is the thing I said that you have a problem with, your arguments about context and “oh he’s talking about his own dyslexia” do not make the argument you think it does.

“If I can, you can” narratives are also damaging even when you don’t bring up SAT scores.

Being a white person with a disability does not justify your racism even if you are using your disability to try and obfuscate the difference in your level of privilege.

There is intersectional harm visited upon black disabled ppl that we are expected to ignore for white disabled ppl.

And that the way empathy functions in this discourse is a lot more complicated than you just suggested and then you’ll come up with some reason to dismiss me and my expertise or argue that this is deflection or whatever and I’m fucking tired.

I read the rest of the question and answer.

Here’s why I was resistant to do that in the first place — I don’t have the spoons to write a whole ass rhetorical thesis about why this is still problematic even with the surrounding niceties.

I’m gonna say that actually I’m an empathy scholar…

And how exactly do you expect someone to respond to this? Do you expect me to have the emotional flexibility to be repeatedly insulted by you AND to take your argument in good faith? Would you? If I spoke down to you like that? Are you trying to persuade me or hurt me?

“John, the old conferences did not care about diversity. I suggest you not either,” Jeffrey Epstein wrote in response to an email about the programming. “The women are all weak, and a distraction sorry.”

And that’s for ( presumably) white women with degrees

I think it’s important to speak and I think bsky is one of the few places I can do that.

I think rage and antagonism are the primary affects of social media but the other affects can be there if you look

But having RSD makes this so hard.

B/w BAFTA & Newsom I feel battered today.

Here’s my reading of your tweet since now you’re actually saying my comprehension sucks:

1. Asking that question presumes that you’re about to say something that you consider stupid
2. Saying it to me in a reply suggests that you believe I’m doing that thing
3. Hence, you implying stupidity.

I listened to what he said. But thanks for calling me stupid.

Oh fuck off.

He said it to a black person who is literally sitting right there standing in for his own demographic. How difficult is that to understand?

lol. No. Nope. That’s not starting a dialogue and that’s not a rhetorical move imma let you make here. This did not endear you to me or make me think of you as someone who acts in good faith or is worth conversing with.

Okay well thanks for your absurdly specific critiquing of my voice that I didn’t ask for and don’t want. We’re not the same person and I said what I said.

So to circle back round to the top feel free to select from below

1. Block
2. Mute
3. Go away

I wish that was a more prevalent norm.

Nope, just lost track of which of the dog piles this series of replies belonged to: