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In 1914 suffragettes learned to fight back. It’s Edwardian Era Glasgow, circa 1914, and the stress mounting in St. Andrews’s Hall is unbearable. Flocks of Suffragettes and policemen are waiting for the woman of the hour, Emmeline Pankhurst, to magically surface and fight against her own arrest — the tension is so palpable, you could cut it with a knife. Or karate-chop it, which is exactly what “the Bodyguard”, a top-secret secret society of feminists, decided to do. They were corseted, they were clever, and they could flip a man over like a pancake. [more inside]
posted by MovableBookLady at 8:30 PM PST - 15 comments

Take on me (take on me) / Take me on (take on me) / I'll be gone / In a day or two
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2018's IFComp has seventy-seven entries, which is actually less than 2017's seventy-nine entries - a long way from 1995's twelve. This year shows a continued trend of browser-based online games, although ADRIFT and Z-code based games still make a showing. This year's organizer is Jacq, who previously organized IntroComp, which helps IF writers consider try new things out and gauge reactions before finishing the whole game. [more inside]
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Space Opera Cover Maker (via ansible)
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Volta Jazz :
Wêrê Wêrê Magne,
Mama Soukous,
Djougou Malola
When Burkina Faso Vibrated with a New Culture [more inside]
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When my wife had been in labor for 16 hours, I played her John Prine’s “Everything Is Cool.” She’d begun gasping instead of breathing, climbing into the tub to gather herself. As Prine’s fingerpicking rang out from a tiny speaker, she closed her eyes and smiled. […] When my daughter died two years later, the song rang out again into the stricken silence at her service. This time, it felt like a hymn.

Pitchfork's Jayson Greene talks to John Prine about his latest album, The Tree Of Forgiveness, and discusses how he came to Prine's music.

Also, the heartbreaking official video for "Summer's End" dropped last week. [more inside]
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Your daughters told me about their assaults. This is why they never told you. [WaPo]
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From Ed Yong: "TFW your genitals are full of sexually transmitted worms, and that's great news for your kids" (and you're a dung beetle). [more inside]
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And who robbed the miner?/Cry the grim bells of Blaina. A little-known poem discovered by Pete Seeger became a popular folk standard and subsequently recorded hundreds of times by various artists. Besides the original, most folksy version by Pete Seeger (1964 live performance linked, but originally recorded live for the 1958 album, "Pete Seeger and Sonny Terry"), the most famous version is probably by The Byrds and was released on their debut album, "Mr Tambourine Man" (1965). A poppy version that borrows heavily from The Byrds was recorded by Robyn Hitchcock and The Egyptians (1984); and Cher tried her hand in 1965, with good results. [more inside]
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With the sovereignty question largely off the table in this election, the Quebec Liberal Party was ousted as the ruling party in Quebec, with historically low numbers, while the Coalition Avenir Québec formed their first government, a majority. Along the way, Québec Solidaire gained 7 more seats, bringing them to the cusp of official party status (10 seats and 12 are required) while the Parti Québécois dropped from 28 seats to 9, losing official party status and their leader, Jean-François Lisée, lost his seat and resigned from his leadership position. [more inside]
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What up, haints, it’s October times. Let’s get Halloweird with it. Here are some movies of the horror and horror-adjacent genres that you might watch by yourself or with a party of friends or with a 20 foot tall whistling ghost who grinds the bones of womanizers into dust inside his sack. - Yes, it's The Haunting of Netflix House VI: Netflix Lives, the annual roundup of the spookiest streaming spookmares for the spookiest month. This post is of course a sequel to previous archival spookings.
posted by Artw at 8:51 AM PST - 41 comments

The Birth of Hawai‘i’s Native-Language Newspaper Archive [more inside]
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"Since the chimera of sustainable development is an alibi for permanent growth, degrowth is meant to grab hold of the dominant discourse of growth, envelop it and its apologists, and in fact take on fundamentalism where one must: at the roots. The idea of degrowth, this book included, is meant as invitation to debate. Degrowth is not meant to replace communism, anarchism, or democratic socialism as horizons for human hope, and it is certainly not a recipe for disregarding class struggle." Degrowth Considered "Clearly then, even under a degrowth scenario, the overwhelming factor pushing emissions down will not be a contraction of overall gdp but massive growth in energy efficiency and clean renewable-energy investments—which, for accounting purposes, will contribute towards increasing gdp—along with similarly dramatic cuts in fossil-fuel production and consumption, which will register as reducing gdp. Moreover, the immediate effect of any global gdp contraction would be huge job losses and declining living standards for working people and the poor." Degrowth Vs. A New Green Deal - All Of A Sudden Putting 'Green" Next To a Policy Idea Makes it More Popular - The New Green Deal Report
posted by The Whelk at 7:56 AM PST - 11 comments

Nicola Griffith points out in a helpful post (with downloadable guide!) why making bookstores and book events accessible to disabled readers both online and in RL makes profitable sense. She also updates her Fries Test (named after activist Kenny Fries) count. Given that 1 in 4 people already in the US have some kind of disability, there should be roughly 1.25 million books out there on the Fries Test list yet so far only 55 have made it past the extremely low requirements -- which do not include the disabled character even having a name. Me Before You by JoJo Moyes sadly did not make the cut.
posted by dorothyisunderwood at 7:33 AM PST - 16 comments

Inside Tokyo's audiophile venues. Small bars, good sound systems. (Not really audiophile as that term is normally used.)
posted by OmieWise at 6:39 AM PST - 20 comments

Taria Camerino writes about finding her way back to working with chocolate after her breast cancer diagnosis.
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A lot of people I’ve run across shouldn’t be exposed to public comment. Some of them want exposure anyway, and the exposure will make them worse. Some want exposure but aren’t ready for the criticism it will bring. Some don’t realize they’re exposed. Issendai (previously re: sick systems and estranged parents) is a blogger who often writes about abusive relationships and disordered personalities. Recently, she's been watching "CPS took my children" videos and wondering: When it comes to analyzing YouTube videos, where’s the line?
posted by sciatrix at 6:34 AM PST - 36 comments