Friday Ephemera (746)

Meet Sissy the minx.

He’s going to need good lighting.

Are your contemplations situated?

Well.

As I was sitting here enjoying a heaping helping of Testicules de dinde frits sur le pain grillé avec haricots a la Thompson™ I looked up the paper referenced in the link and I have to say, of all the academic arglebargle to which David has pointed us over the years this has to be near the, if not the actual, acme in both the literal and Warner Brothers sense.

Bear with me, I can be concise, “academics”, perhaps they are paid by the word, not so much…

It is undoubtedly still anthropocentric in the sense that it has human as one of its denominators, but by the idea of more than, I not only wish to imply moral significance in the ecocentric and biocentric sense but also to include, in a network theory rather than confessional understanding, spectral realms such as ancestors, spirits, ghosts and deities that are crucial actors in several global sense-making systems (de la Cadena 2010). 

No, seriously, I didn’t make that up. Ghosts. In “sense making systems” whatever they are but appear to be absent.

On a moral theoretical level, one of the unique contributions of feminism has been to find gender bias in the preoccupations, assumptions, and perspectives of the dominant theories in Anglo-American ethics (Lindemann 2007,117). 

Like racism, it will be found regardless of whether it is actually there.

In such structures, reproduced through social practice, those already marginalized are at higher risk to become vulnerableized (cf. Tremain 2021), such as sex workers. For example, Salome Manuya and colleagues (2022) have shown how with the threat of AMR and entrenched gender disparities, sex workers are vulnerable to greater surveillance, stigmatization, and criminalization “to control both infections and women”. 

Vulnerableized. Right. That aside, I am having a bit of trouble seeing as how increased surveillance among hookers sex workers for antimicrobial resistant STDs is a bad thing, or the simple fact that there are more female than male “sex workers” is an “entrenched gender disparity”.

I could go on forever, the whole thing is nothing but words, not a single real scientific concept, idea, proposal, or fact relating to antimicrobial resistance. Of course I am not a sociologist, so how would I know that “…the goal of improved health “for all”. In a queer feminist posthuman framework, “all” should include more-than-human stakeholders…” I guess that is the ghosts again. 

RTWT at your own risk.

I don’t understand that – don’t men have greater upper body strength?

There’s also the chair challenge.

I have been reading to my grandkids. There are lots of books for bedtime featuring a mom or dad (human, bear, rabbit, cartoon) trying to get the small child sleepy. Ok. But there are some where the adult, who is saying how much he (always he) loves the little one, is clearly not related. Not a dad or brother or uncle. Just an adult. Creepy. Grooming.

Already have a headache just from the snippets.

You have a headache?

After wading through that I am seriously considering getting into David’s Special Radiator Distilled No.12 Pruno Blend™, artisinally crafted with the finest alcohol derived from liquid shoe polish strained through a loaf of three day old bread.

[ From kitchen, singing, smell of testicles. ]

I have questions.

I have a question about the turkey testicles – are they cheap? My dog enjoys a raw treat now and then. I already know he likes to tuck in to a turkey neck or chicken leg.