So, #FediAdmins, (especially those of #Friendica), what #blockLists do you use to block spammers and other evildoers? I have just recovered from hosting suspension ater someone attacked someone (#AppAttack) through us. Now, with regular nasty people I can deal manually (and it makes my day), but I need a good source of blocks for cyberscum.
To be slightly blunter than The Atlantic allowed me to be: the tiktok ban is a protectionist subsidy to Meta and Google worth hundreds of billions of dollars: theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…
🇩🇪German Foreign Minister Baerbock walked out of a government meeting, refusing to take a photo with Chancellor Scholz after his decision to block a new aid package for Ukraine — Bild
As a sighted person, a 23-character long all-lowercase hashtag made from several words is hard enough to parse. For a visually impaired person or a screen-reader, it's friggin impossible. Use CamelCaseInYourHashtags! for the cost of a few shift keys, you'll make it SO much easier for everyone.
The more you learn about history, and the more you study the period, the more any rational and decent person should ***loathe*** the Victorian era, anything from it, and anything that calls back to it.
Truly the nadir of human civilization.
They ruined historical artifacts of every possible variety, wiped out scores of civilizations, did monstrous things to their own fucking children--there is literally not a single thing from the Victorian era that is an unmitigated good.
No, not that thing.
Yes, including literature.
And before you ask:
Yes, I studied this dumpster fire of an era at the doctoral level. Specifically, my specialization in lit was the Enlightenment (which was also awful, but has A FEW decent things, such as the Irish independence movement), and the frickin MOMENT that The Castle of Otronto appears is the end of anything remotely redeemable about England especially and the entirety of Europe for the most part for a good century or so.
The volume of what was annihilated by the
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Saw a thing on TikTok and I have to agree:
The more you learn about history, and the more you study the period, the more any rational and decent person should ***loathe*** the Victorian era, anything from it, and anything that calls back to it.
Truly the nadir of human civilization.
They ruined historical artifacts of every possible variety, wiped out scores of civilizations, did monstrous things to their own fucking children--there is literally not a single thing from the Victorian era that is an unmitigated good.
No, not that thing.
Yes, including literature.
And before you ask:
Yes, I studied this dumpster fire of an era at the doctoral level. Specifically, my specialization in lit was the Enlightenment (which was also awful, but has A FEW decent things, such as the Irish independence movement), and the frickin MOMENT that The Castle of Otronto appears is the end of anything remotely redeemable about England especially and the entirety of Europe for the most part for a good century or so.
The volume of what was annihilated by the Victorians as immoral, and which are now lost forever, with only references in biography and journals and history, is truly beyond measuring.
So, like... Keep that in mind when you watch a costume drama next time, okay? Because all those pretty gowns and tasteful parties only existed because they gave little boys scrotal cancer at 7 from chimneysweeping so the houses wouldn't burn down and little girls dying from mercury poisoning for making the hats they wore.
And before someone calls toward the birth of modern feminist literature in the era:
Go read the Xtian Mystics. Seriously. Julian of Norwich, Hildegard of Bingen (who was sainted!), and dozens of others who came centuries earlier--that feminist lit only had to premiere because IT HAD BEEN WIPED OUT! BY THE VICTORIANS!!
Even the worst of the women Mystics were vastly more feminist than the costume fiction authors in the Victorian era, and they wrote CENTURIES before it.
@twipped yeah that movie read to me like a lot of white made movies about feel good Black stories. It was focused on “but look at the happiness!” And did nothing to even really acknowledge the systematic nature of the trauma, this losing all nuance in a sort of abject Disneyification of the setting.
my dad was raised in the British boarding school system from the age of nine, and modelled his entire philosophy of behaviour and child-raising technique on what he learnt therein.
Also, one of my bugbears is equating the 19th century with "Victorian". She was born in 1819 and came to the throne in 1837. Over a third of the way into the century.
So much bad stuff that happened in the early 19th century is routinely mislabelled as Victorian.
The Castle of Otranto was published in 1764. What the fuck does that have to do with Victoria?
Calling this shit Victorian is just blaming the woman. For stuff that happened before she was born.
@regordane Otronto, and the birth of the neo-Gothic art movement, represented the foundations upon which much of the horrors of the era rested and relied upon. The focus on wealth and power and status, the acknowledging and simply accepting the realities of daily monstrousness, while protesting purity and claiming them as essential. Otronto, and the neo-Gothic perspective it gave birth to, normalized it all by claiming the weight of history and the distortions of power itself were an equal, if not greater, burden. Otronto was not the beginning of the Victorian era--it was the overture, in the way that the 80s culture of greed celebration ushered in our modern day of oligarchy (as the Victorian era truly began with the voices of Keats and Tennyson and Shelley).
And yes, Victoria came to the throne later, but the era as a whole bears her name because she was emblematic of its values and perspectives, not because she caused this-or-that. Victoria herself frankly did relatively
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@regordane Otronto, and the birth of the neo-Gothic art movement, represented the foundations upon which much of the horrors of the era rested and relied upon. The focus on wealth and power and status, the acknowledging and simply accepting the realities of daily monstrousness, while protesting purity and claiming them as essential. Otronto, and the neo-Gothic perspective it gave birth to, normalized it all by claiming the weight of history and the distortions of power itself were an equal, if not greater, burden. Otronto was not the beginning of the Victorian era--it was the overture, in the way that the 80s culture of greed celebration ushered in our modern day of oligarchy (as the Victorian era truly began with the voices of Keats and Tennyson and Shelley).
And yes, Victoria came to the throne later, but the era as a whole bears her name because she was emblematic of its values and perspectives, not because she caused this-or-that. Victoria herself frankly did relatively little of note differently from her predecessor or successor; but she did these things loudly, forcefully, and in a way absolutely unapologetically typical of the era.
I'm very interested to read Julian of Norwich now, do you recommend reading her in Middle English or a particular modern translation? This line on wikipedia made me lean towards original, but Grace Warrick's translation seems respected too.
Julian says that sin is behovely, which is often translated as "necessary", "appropriate", or "fitting".
@smitten If you're comfortable--and I do mean comfortable--with Middle English, absolutely read it in the original. If not, Warrick is a very good modernization.
During a power outage a few years back a trial reading of the first chapter of a set of William M. Reynolds 'Mysteries of the Courts of London' cliff hangered me for five action packed but gimicky volumes. The novels are enlivened by impassioned critiques of British hypocrisies social, moral, and political. Prince George IV is the main bad guy. Today Reynolds is dismissed as a Dickens infringer, but I suspect it's because his values are not as conservative.
sorry, I'd hoped my reply came across as light-hearted, but obviously it didn't. To rephrase in a more serious way - "I completely agree with all of your points about Victorian society, even more so those on boarding school.
However, I unironically enjoy several great artists from that period. Perhaps unsurprisingly, society tried to crush their spirits in every way and failed. But I like them".
Does that make sense? I'm not good at twitter style discourse.
Let me me also bring up "Stalky & Co." (Kipling) that is quite a graphic picture of the main goal of boarding school process: formation of the Imperial Men, forging their bonds and making them an efficient whip in the hands of the rulers. As @@stevewfolds wrote, the main cruelty - the driving force of the whole process - came from other victims, set to perpetuate whatever was done to them. The officials were there to curb (steer) the violence, solve minor glitches, and - theoretically - to remove those permanently unfit (this way or another). Today we call it socialisation and peer pressure. We see it daily, performed under watchful eye of professionals - directly and indirectly.
I read it in high school and paid more attention to protagonists camaraderie, their antics and transgressions. Now, I see that it is probably the most frank analysis of the process, perhaps because Kipling (almost unfit himself) internalised it in full and did not try to hide anything.
I would very much if given the choice rather live in the Middle Ages then Victorian era. Hellscape of rights, hellscape cities belching with industry and smoke, just the worst.
Neoliberalny rząd jest jeszcze głupszy niż by się można spodziewać.
Do koryta doszli dzięki ogromnemu poparciu ludzi, którzy chcą u nas wartości europejskich, godnego życia, szacunku do pracownika i prywatnych decyzji każdego człowieka.
A zamiast tego dostaliśmy neoliberalne pierdolenie, które za nic ma zwykłego człowieka, nie ważne czy to kobieta czy pracownik.
Ale nie ma tego złego, bo nie dość że już za pisu ogromna część mediów skręciła w prawo, tak dziś mam wrażenie że może i te media dalej po cichu puszczają oczko do prawaków, to inne liberalne media dziś jeszcze mocniej promują skrajną prawicę bo "liberalna gospodarczo" nie zwracając uwagę na ich zamordystyczne i prorosyjskie zapędy.
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Neoliberalny rząd jest jeszcze głupszy niż by się można spodziewać.
Do koryta doszli dzięki ogromnemu poparciu ludzi, którzy chcą u nas wartości europejskich, godnego życia, szacunku do pracownika i prywatnych decyzji każdego człowieka.
A zamiast tego dostaliśmy neoliberalne pierdolenie, które za nic ma zwykłego człowieka, nie ważne czy to kobieta czy pracownik.
Ale nie ma tego złego, bo nie dość że już za pisu ogromna część mediów skręciła w prawo, tak dziś mam wrażenie że może i te media dalej po cichu puszczają oczko do prawaków, to inne liberalne media dziś jeszcze mocniej promują skrajną prawicę bo "liberalna gospodarczo" nie zwracając uwagę na ich zamordystyczne i prorosyjskie zapędy.
Gdyby Barbara Nowacka i jej otoczenie faktycznie chcieli wprowadzić do szkół edukację zdrowotną, to po takich zachowaniach podałaby się do dymisji i żądała ustąpienia rządu.
To po prostu show, na które od lat skutecznie nabierają się miliony osób: głosujący i wierzący w te show. To mniej więcej coś, jak wiara w to, że wrestling to prawdziwa bijatyka.
Jeśli chodzi o inne lewicowe kobiety w rządzie: rząd szykuje skrócenie o 6 miesięcy (czyli o połowę) czas pobierania zasiłku dla bezrobotnych przez mieszkańców powiatów, gdzie bezrobocie jest najwyższe (150 powiatów w Polsce).
Wygląda na to, że to jest właśnie lewica i dalsze zakłamywanie faktów nie ma sensu.
Dobry artykuł! Pozdrawiam.
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Gdyby Barbara Nowacka i jej otoczenie faktycznie chcieli wprowadzić do szkół edukację zdrowotną, to po takich zachowaniach podałaby się do dymisji i żądała ustąpienia rządu.
To po prostu show, na które od lat skutecznie nabierają się miliony osób: głosujący i wierzący w te show. To mniej więcej coś, jak wiara w to, że wrestling to prawdziwa bijatyka.
Jeśli chodzi o inne lewicowe kobiety w rządzie: rząd szykuje skrócenie o 6 miesięcy (czyli o połowę) czas pobierania zasiłku dla bezrobotnych przez mieszkańców powiatów, gdzie bezrobocie jest najwyższe (150 powiatów w Polsce).
Wygląda na to, że to jest właśnie lewica i dalsze zakłamywanie faktów nie ma sensu.
Bekijk je favoriete video's, luister naar de muziek die je leuk vindt, upload originele content en deel alles met vrienden, familie en anderen op YouTube.
Doc Impossible
Unknown parent • • •Jocelynephiliac
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Unknown parent • • •my dad was raised in the British boarding school system from the age of nine, and modelled his entire philosophy of behaviour and child-raising technique on what he learnt therein.
...
Mm-hmm.
Yeah.
Doc Impossible
Unknown parent • • •@BoysenberryCider The execution-by-prison of Wilde for being gay is what you're hanging your hat on?
Cuz like... No. I really don't have to give them credit, especially not in the face of that shit.
Dan Neuman
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in reply to Doc Impossible • • •All largely true.
Also, one of my bugbears is equating the 19th century with "Victorian". She was born in 1819 and came to the throne in 1837. Over a third of the way into the century.
So much bad stuff that happened in the early 19th century is routinely mislabelled as Victorian.
The Castle of Otranto was published in 1764. What the fuck does that have to do with Victoria?
Calling this shit Victorian is just blaming the woman. For stuff that happened before she was born.
Doc Impossible
in reply to Hilary • • •@regordane Otronto, and the birth of the neo-Gothic art movement, represented the foundations upon which much of the horrors of the era rested and relied upon. The focus on wealth and power and status, the acknowledging and simply accepting the realities of daily monstrousness, while protesting purity and claiming them as essential. Otronto, and the neo-Gothic perspective it gave birth to, normalized it all by claiming the weight of history and the distortions of power itself were an equal, if not greater, burden. Otronto was not the beginning of the Victorian era--it was the overture, in the way that the 80s culture of greed celebration ushered in our modern day of oligarchy (as the Victorian era truly began with the voices of Keats and Tennyson and Shelley).
And yes, Victoria came to the throne later, but the era as a whole bears her name because she was emblematic of its values and perspectives, not because she caused this-or-that. Victoria herself frankly did relatively
... pokaż więcej@regordane Otronto, and the birth of the neo-Gothic art movement, represented the foundations upon which much of the horrors of the era rested and relied upon. The focus on wealth and power and status, the acknowledging and simply accepting the realities of daily monstrousness, while protesting purity and claiming them as essential. Otronto, and the neo-Gothic perspective it gave birth to, normalized it all by claiming the weight of history and the distortions of power itself were an equal, if not greater, burden. Otronto was not the beginning of the Victorian era--it was the overture, in the way that the 80s culture of greed celebration ushered in our modern day of oligarchy (as the Victorian era truly began with the voices of Keats and Tennyson and Shelley).
And yes, Victoria came to the throne later, but the era as a whole bears her name because she was emblematic of its values and perspectives, not because she caused this-or-that. Victoria herself frankly did relatively little of note differently from her predecessor or successor; but she did these things loudly, forcefully, and in a way absolutely unapologetically typical of the era.
Hilary
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in reply to Doc Impossible • • •I would love to read a book or anthology of chapters exploring this topic. There is an incredible book proposal in this post
(I’ve ordered Caliban and the witch as recommended in one of the comments)
SewBlue
Unknown parent • • •@Lyle they only built the sewers because the entire city of London stank one summer.
Not because hygiene, or because Dr Snow's research into typhoid and water.
Because they still believed that smells carried disease and if the entire city stank, even the rich would get sick.
They did not spend that kind of money out of charity, trust in science, or clean water, but because most people still believed in miasma.
The rich were tired of the city stinking. So they paid to fix it.
smitten
in reply to Doc Impossible • • •I'm very interested to read Julian of Norwich now, do you recommend reading her in Middle English or a particular modern translation? This line on wikipedia made me lean towards original, but Grace Warrick's translation seems respected too.
Doc Impossible
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During a power outage a few years back a trial reading of the first chapter of a set of William M. Reynolds 'Mysteries of the Courts of London' cliff hangered me for five action packed but gimicky volumes. The novels are enlivened by impassioned critiques of British hypocrisies social, moral, and political. Prince George IV is the main bad guy. Today Reynolds is dismissed as a Dickens infringer, but I suspect it's because his values are not as conservative.
Sharp Leaves
in reply to Doc Impossible • • •sorry, I'd hoped my reply came across as light-hearted, but obviously it didn't. To rephrase in a more serious way - "I completely agree with all of your points about Victorian society, even more so those on boarding school.
However, I unironically enjoy several great artists from that period. Perhaps unsurprisingly, society tried to crush their spirits in every way and failed. But I like them".
Does that make sense? I'm not good at twitter style discourse.
8Petros [$ rm -rv /capitalism/*]
Unknown parent • — (Internet) •Let me me also bring up "Stalky & Co." (Kipling) that is quite a graphic picture of the main goal of boarding school process: formation of the Imperial Men, forging their bonds and making them an efficient whip in the hands of the rulers.
As @@stevewfolds wrote, the main cruelty - the driving force of the whole process - came from other victims, set to perpetuate whatever was done to them.
The officials were there to curb (steer) the violence, solve minor glitches, and - theoretically - to remove those permanently unfit (this way or another).
Today we call it socialisation and peer pressure. We see it daily, performed under watchful eye of professionals - directly and indirectly.
I read it in high school and paid more attention to protagonists camaraderie, their antics and transgressions. Now, I see that it is probably the most frank analysis of the process, perhaps because Kipling (almost unfit himself) internalised it in full and did not try to hide anything.
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in reply to 8Petros [$ rm -rv /capitalism/*] • • •@8petros Kipling has a Vermont hook. I was read Kipling’s “Just So Stories” in dramatic voicing at bedtime as a child.
vtdigger.org/2017/12/31/kiplin…
Then Again: Kipling’s brief and stormy stay in Vermont
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