#normality — Public Fediverse posts

Shifting Baselines

It’s nothing unique to Druids, of course, but there is a practice of ‘being present’ that uses close observation within the landscape, witnessing the ever changing world as the seasons rotate around us. It’s part of being wakeful to the living ‘verse, and open to all the conversations we might have with it.

For a time, I’ve recognised the world is less full of non-humans than it was when I was a child… perhaps in direct proportion to the increase in humans! After all, back when the CO₂ was at 317 ppm there were only about six billion people on the planet. Now, with CO₂ at around 430 ppm we have eight billion plus.

Perhaps, in a grisly memory, you might recall wiping the bugs off the windscreen and number plate of your parent’s car. I certainly remember the dawn choruses, and this was brought sharply into focus in a Guardian piece about the dramatic loss of birdsong over the past fifty years (effectively my post-childhood years). It’s deeply emotional to listen to the audio track they’ve published.

Thing is, without really noticing, we establish a new normal… a slightly less marvellous baseline from which to witness each day. We’re doing the same, currently, with the summer heatwaves… this is, perhaps, the new normal… day after day of mid-30ºC (95ºF) and nights where the temperature doesn’t drop below 20ºC.

I’ve done everything I can, bar installing air conditioning, to keep the house cool. The front of the house faces east, and in the early hours we pull down the blinds and open the west facing windows at the back.

As the Sun moves across the sky and around the house, the blinds come down – even, now, on the glazed front door and the arch window on the half-landing! Into the afternoon the back of the house is covered by blinds and awnings, while the now shaded front windows can sometimes be opened to release the heat – or not, when the external ambient temperature is higher than that within!

Because Janet’s condition and kidney transplant interferes with her body temperature regulation, I fear this autumn we will have to consider air-conditioning in at least one bedroom. I don’t like the idea… in other countries it is clear how easily the rich cool their houses and pour the extracted heat over the poor, who have no option but to sweat it out. The ethics are conflicting. Our solar roof will easily power an air-con unit, but that heat has to go somewhere.

Heatwaves are drying our rivers, to the point where the casual discard of waste, sewage and fertiliser run-off cannot easily be diluted and disguised. Our gardens are suffering… the creation of a flower garden with which to decorate our daughter’s wedding venue was a significant challenge and we did eventually (when the rainwater capture tank ran dry) water with a hose in the very early hours before the Sun’s strength had blossomed.

On a more positive note, that flower garden has created an environment where the insect population has boomed. Where there are insects, there are birds… and where the bird life thrives, so do the mammals… on and on to a better more biodiverse world – perhaps like the one I knew as a child!

Druidry is an observant practice. We seek as Druids to connect with and recognise the connections within our world. We notice the tiny, the transient… the glimpse and flashes within the woodland, in the clouds, in the ripples. We construct stories, mythologies, cultural lore that reflects the almost seen and the felt touches from other realms. We normalise the unusual. The unusual is becoming a regular occurrence now.

I go for ages without posting anything, so here’s a glimpse of where I’ve found wonder in my garden recently.

Shifting Baselines

It’s nothing unique to Druids, of course, but there is a practice of ‘being present’ that uses close observation within the landscape, witnessing the ever changing world as the seasons rotate around us. It’s part of being wakeful to the living ‘verse, and open to all the conversations we might have with it.

For a time, I’ve recognised the world is less full of non-humans than it was when I was a child… perhaps in direct proportion to the increase in humans! After all, back when the CO₂ was at 317 ppm there were only about six billion people on the planet. Now, with CO₂ at around 430 ppm we have eight billion plus.

Perhaps, in a grisly memory, you might recall wiping the bugs off the windscreen and number plate of your parent’s car. I certainly remember the dawn choruses, and this was brought sharply into focus in a Guardian piece about the dramatic loss of birdsong over the past fifty years (effectively my post-childhood years). It’s deeply emotional to listen to the audio track they’ve published.

Thing is, without really noticing, we establish a new normal… a slightly less marvellous baseline from which to witness each day. We’re doing the same, currently, with the summer heatwaves… this is, perhaps, the new normal… day after day of mid-30ºC (95ºF) and nights where the temperature doesn’t drop below 20ºC.

I’ve done everything I can, bar installing air conditioning, to keep the house cool. The front of the house faces east, and in the early hours we pull down the blinds and open the west facing windows at the back.

As the Sun moves across the sky and around the house, the blinds come down – even, now, on the glazed front door and the arch window on the half-landing! Into the afternoon the back of the house is covered by blinds and awnings, while the now shaded front windows can sometimes be opened to release the heat – or not, when the external ambient temperature is higher than that within!

Because Janet’s condition and kidney transplant interferes with her body temperature regulation, I fear this autumn we will have to consider air-conditioning in at least one bedroom. I don’t like the idea… in other countries it is clear how easily the rich cool their houses and pour the extracted heat over the poor, who have no option but to sweat it out. The ethics are conflicting. Our solar roof will easily power an air-con unit, but that heat has to go somewhere.

Heatwaves are drying our rivers, to the point where the casual discard of waste, sewage and fertiliser run-off cannot easily be diluted and disguised. Our gardens are suffering… the creation of a flower garden with which to decorate our daughter’s wedding venue was a significant challenge and we did eventually (when the rainwater capture tank ran dry) water with a hose in the very early hours before the Sun’s strength had blossomed.

On a more positive note, that flower garden has created an environment where the insect population has boomed. Where there are insects, there are birds… and where the bird life thrives, so do the mammals… on and on to a better more biodiverse world – perhaps like the one I knew as a child!

Druidry is an observant practice. We seek as Druids to connect with and recognise the connections within our world. We notice the tiny, the transient… the glimpse and flashes within the woodland, in the clouds, in the ripples. We construct stories, mythologies, cultural lore that reflects the almost seen and the felt touches from other realms. We normalise the unusual. The unusual is becoming a regular occurrence now.

I go for ages without posting anything, so here’s a glimpse of where I’ve found wonder in my garden recently.

Un des premiers films de Peter Hedges - pieces of april (2003). Un film indé étasunien comme on les aime, où la narration n'est pas portée par les flingues et les élus sauveurs du monde. Sur la famille dysfonctionnelle, questionnant la normalité et la différence aux USA. Si vous aimez l'humour de Hal Hartley, vous serez servi.es.
https://archive.org/details/pieces.-of.-april.-2003.1080p.-webrip.x-264-yts.-lt

#piecesofapril #peterhedges #normality #freaks #famille

Houston, we have a problem. When there is only one asshole for a thousand people, this problem is not visible. But now the problem is exposed and thanks to the updated ratio of irresponsible selfish assholes, this problem ceases to be a problem and becomes the new norm.🤦🏻‍♂️
Welcome to the Brave New World.
#normality #aislop #shitware #slop

Houston, we have a problem. When there is only one asshole for a thousand people, this problem is not visible. But now the problem is exposed and thanks to the updated ratio of irresponsible selfish assholes, this problem ceases to be a problem and becomes the new norm.🤦🏻‍♂️
Welcome to the Brave New World.
#normality #aislop #shitware #slop

This account, this corner of the fediverse, has become one of the places I let those questions be noisy in public. What does healing mean when the conditions that harmed you are not gone, only rearranged into more respectable shapes? What actually happens inside a counselling relationship when disability or neurodivergence is present but unnamed, or misnamed, or politely ignored? How do we begin to notice the ways power and unspoken norms travel through even the most well-intentioned helping professions? How do we hold culture as something we are constantly creating and being created by, something we may need to grieve and interrogate and occasionally celebrate, often all at once, sometimes in the space of a single conversation?

I keep circling back to the interior labour of this work. The slow, repetitive practice of building emotional regulation when your nervous system's default setting is red alert. The awkwardness of learning self-compassion when sharp self-criticism has been your most reliable survival tool. The moments that feel like failure because you find yourself reacting in an old way, when in reality this is precisely how recovery moves, looping back on itself, revisiting old ground with slightly different eyes. The way trauma and joy can sit shoulder to shoulder in the same hour, the same therapy session, the same breath, and how unnerving and holy that can feel.

Rauch and Ansari suggest that silence can be deliberate and strategic, a form of self-regulation rather than withdrawal, a boundary rather than an absence. I think about this in relation to the freeze response, to the moments in my own history when going quiet was not giving up but holding on. The body stills because there are no safe words yet. Sometimes the silence is the story. And learning to hear it as such, to receive it without rushing to fill or fix it, is one of the things I am still practising, in music and in therapy and in the ordinary, unglamorous dailiness of trying to stay present in a life that sometimes arrives all at once.

I am not arriving anywhere with a finished theory of how any of this is supposed to work. I am coming, again and again, with fragments and questions and a stubborn intention to tell the truth as I understand it in the moment I am writing. That truth is often partial, often shifting. My understanding of myself, of trauma, of disability, of care, keeps moving, and I want it to. I would rather be inconsistent and alive to new information than seamless and rigidly wrong.

If you are still reading, you are already participating in something I care about. A space that treats complexity as ordinary rather than excessive. Where being too much is not an accusation but raw material. Where intense feeling and rigorous thought are both welcome at the same table. Where healing is not a linear journey toward a fixed destination but something more like learning to live inside unresolved chords without pretending they have resolved. Where music is both metaphor and method, both a way of speaking about change and a way of practising it in the body.

True silence does not exist. What we call silence is simply what we have not yet learned to hear. The fullness of life in quieter tones. The heartbeat of thought. The whispered rhythm of resilience. The steady murmur of healing is underway. And when we learn to tune into the music between the notes and into the truth held in breath, we do more than survive. We begin to sing again. This time, in a voice that is entirely our own.

I am not here to introduce myself so much as to keep turning up alongside you. To keep writing from the middle of things, not only from the rare polished moments that look good in hindsight. To keep noticing the small, ordinary, unglamorous ways humans find their way back to themselves, even inside systems that were never set up with them in mind. If any of these threads brush against something in your own story, then you are part of the imagined audience I write towards. And maybe, in a slow, imperfect, occasionally dissonant way, part of the choir that is still learning how to hear itself.

#AuDHD #Neurodivergent #Blind #Deafblind #Disabled #DisabilityJustice #MadStudies #Psychology #Counselling #Therapy #Trauma #TraumaRecovery #Neurodiversity #MentalHealth #ChronicStress #Healing #WindowOfTolerance #LivedExperience #CareWork #Culture #Power #Normality #Access #Inclusion #Ableism #Music #ClassicalMusic #ChoralMusic #Choir #Singing #Writing #PersonalEssay #Silence #LongPost #Fediversea (2/2)

This account, this corner of the fediverse, has become one of the places I let those questions be noisy in public. What does healing mean when the conditions that harmed you are not gone, only rearranged into more respectable shapes? What actually happens inside a counselling relationship when disability or neurodivergence is present but unnamed, or misnamed, or politely ignored? How do we begin to notice the ways power and unspoken norms travel through even the most well-intentioned helping professions? How do we hold culture as something we are constantly creating and being created by, something we may need to grieve and interrogate and occasionally celebrate, often all at once, sometimes in the space of a single conversation?

I keep circling back to the interior labour of this work. The slow, repetitive practice of building emotional regulation when your nervous system's default setting is red alert. The awkwardness of learning self-compassion when sharp self-criticism has been your most reliable survival tool. The moments that feel like failure because you find yourself reacting in an old way, when in reality this is precisely how recovery moves, looping back on itself, revisiting old ground with slightly different eyes. The way trauma and joy can sit shoulder to shoulder in the same hour, the same therapy session, the same breath, and how unnerving and holy that can feel.

Rauch and Ansari suggest that silence can be deliberate and strategic, a form of self-regulation rather than withdrawal, a boundary rather than an absence. I think about this in relation to the freeze response, to the moments in my own history when going quiet was not giving up but holding on. The body stills because there are no safe words yet. Sometimes the silence is the story. And learning to hear it as such, to receive it without rushing to fill or fix it, is one of the things I am still practising, in music and in therapy and in the ordinary, unglamorous dailiness of trying to stay present in a life that sometimes arrives all at once.

I am not arriving anywhere with a finished theory of how any of this is supposed to work. I am coming, again and again, with fragments and questions and a stubborn intention to tell the truth as I understand it in the moment I am writing. That truth is often partial, often shifting. My understanding of myself, of trauma, of disability, of care, keeps moving, and I want it to. I would rather be inconsistent and alive to new information than seamless and rigidly wrong.

If you are still reading, you are already participating in something I care about. A space that treats complexity as ordinary rather than excessive. Where being too much is not an accusation but raw material. Where intense feeling and rigorous thought are both welcome at the same table. Where healing is not a linear journey toward a fixed destination but something more like learning to live inside unresolved chords without pretending they have resolved. Where music is both metaphor and method, both a way of speaking about change and a way of practising it in the body.

True silence does not exist. What we call silence is simply what we have not yet learned to hear. The fullness of life in quieter tones. The heartbeat of thought. The whispered rhythm of resilience. The steady murmur of healing is underway. And when we learn to tune into the music between the notes and into the truth held in breath, we do more than survive. We begin to sing again. This time, in a voice that is entirely our own.

I am not here to introduce myself so much as to keep turning up alongside you. To keep writing from the middle of things, not only from the rare polished moments that look good in hindsight. To keep noticing the small, ordinary, unglamorous ways humans find their way back to themselves, even inside systems that were never set up with them in mind. If any of these threads brush against something in your own story, then you are part of the imagined audience I write towards. And maybe, in a slow, imperfect, occasionally dissonant way, part of the choir that is still learning how to hear itself.

#AuDHD #Neurodivergent #Blind #Deafblind #Disabled #DisabilityJustice #MadStudies #Psychology #Counselling #Therapy #Trauma #TraumaRecovery #Neurodiversity #MentalHealth #ChronicStress #Healing #WindowOfTolerance #LivedExperience #CareWork #Culture #Power #Normality #Access #Inclusion #Ableism #Music #ClassicalMusic #ChoralMusic #Choir #Singing #Writing #PersonalEssay #Silence #LongPost #Fediversea (2/2)

A quotation from Hannah Arendt

The trouble with Eichmann was precisely that so many were like him, and that the many were neither perverted nor sadistic, that they were, and still are, terribly and terrifyingly normal. From the viewpoint of our legal institutions and of our moral standards of judgment, this normality was much more terrifying than all the atrocities put together, for it implied — as had been said at Nuremberg over and over again by the defendants and their counsels — that this new type of criminal, who is in actual fact hostis generis humani [enemy of humanity], commits his crimes under circumstances that make it well-nigh impossible for him to know or to feel that he is doing wrong.

Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) German-American philosopher, political theorist
Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil, Epilogue (1963)

More about this quote: wist.info/arendt-hannah/42625/

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #hannaharendt #arendt #clearconscience #commonman #crimesagainsthumanity #criminal #enemy #evil #Holocaust #ignorance #immorality #naivete #normalcy #normality #responsibility #warcrime #wrongdoing

New on Philosophics: The Film or the Strip — Freud knew the 'normal ego' was a fiction; Strawson simply refused to pretend otherwise. Some live the film, others the strip. The projector hums either way.

👉 https://philosophics.blog/2025/10/26/the-film-or-the-strip-on-freud-strawson-and-the-fiction-of-normal-selves/

#Philosophy #Freud #Identity #Foucault #Self #Normality #DisIntegrationism #Philosophics #blog #psychology #power #control #fiction

New on Philosophics: The Film or the Strip — Freud knew the 'normal ego' was a fiction; Strawson simply refused to pretend otherwise. Some live the film, others the strip. The projector hums either way.

👉 https://philosophics.blog/2025/10/26/the-film-or-the-strip-on-freud-strawson-and-the-fiction-of-normal-selves/

#Philosophy #Freud #Identity #Foucault #Self #Normality #DisIntegrationism #Philosophics #blog #psychology #power #control #fiction

Havna på IKEA. 😵‍💫 Kikker ut. Får med eit kjensla av å vera del av #Normality... https://youtu.be/IKk3t9VKXrg?si=3q1QKyp0aB_Vu-3N

Heroin Addicts Often Seem Normal

https://justismills.substack.com/p/heroin-addicts-often-seem-normal

#HackerNews #HeroinAddiction #Normality #SubstanceAbuse #MentalHealth #Awareness #CommunitySupport

Heroin Addicts Often Seem Normal

https://justismills.substack.com/p/heroin-addicts-often-seem-normal

#HackerNews #HeroinAddiction #Normality #SubstanceAbuse #MentalHealth #Awareness #CommunitySupport

"A generalized linear model or #GLM consists of three components:
1. A random component, specifying the conditional distribution of the response variable, Yᵢ (for the ith of n independently sampled observations). […]
2. A linear predictor—that is a linear function of regressors,
ηᵢ = α + Σⱼ Xᵢⱼ*βⱼ
3. A smooth and invertible link function g(·), which transforms the expectation of the response variable, μᵢ ≡ E(Yᵢ), to the linear predictor:
g(μᵢ) = ηᵢ"

https://www.sagepub.com/sites/default/files/upm-binaries/21121_Chapter_15.pdf

#models #dataDev #logNormal #regression #normality #normalDistribution #gamma #Γ #modelling #modeling #AIDev #ML #evaluation

"A generalized linear model or #GLM consists of three components:
1. A random component, specifying the conditional distribution of the response variable, Yᵢ (for the ith of n independently sampled observations). […]
2. A linear predictor—that is a linear function of regressors,
ηᵢ = α + Σⱼ Xᵢⱼ*βⱼ
3. A smooth and invertible link function g(·), which transforms the expectation of the response variable, μᵢ ≡ E(Yᵢ), to the linear predictor:
g(μᵢ) = ηᵢ"

https://www.sagepub.com/sites/default/files/upm-binaries/21121_Chapter_15.pdf

#models #dataDev #logNormal #regression #normality #normalDistribution #gamma #Γ #modelling #modeling #AIDev #ML #evaluation

'Europe’s narrative is constructed on the exclusion of colonialism from its history, allowing the ideology of Europe’s racelessness. […] The disremembering of the colonial past shapes the contemporary perception of Europe as a progressive well-intentioned neutral mediator. Moreover, this colonial amnesia produces Europeans of color as outsiders and “aliens” threatening to the liberal continent’s identity.'

'Thus, racialized Europeans are forever “just arriving” and forgotten in the construction of a contemporary European identity. The book gives examples of continent’s Roma and Sinti populations who have resided in Europe for half a millennium and are constantly marginalized as foreigners.'

(1/2)

#activism #culture #identity #norms #normality #Europeanness #whiteness #raceMaking #racialization #ElTayeb #Europe #postColonialism #racelessness #colorblind #raceMaking #colourblind #racism #diaspora #Belgium #France #Netherlands #NL #Germany #Austria #Italy #Spain #Portugal #Hungary #postNational

'Europe’s narrative is constructed on the exclusion of colonialism from its history, allowing the ideology of Europe’s racelessness. […] The disremembering of the colonial past shapes the contemporary perception of Europe as a progressive well-intentioned neutral mediator. Moreover, this colonial amnesia produces Europeans of color as outsiders and “aliens” threatening to the liberal continent’s identity.'

'Thus, racialized Europeans are forever “just arriving” and forgotten in the construction of a contemporary European identity. The book gives examples of continent’s Roma and Sinti populations who have resided in Europe for half a millennium and are constantly marginalized as foreigners.'

(1/2)

#activism #culture #identity #norms #normality #Europeanness #whiteness #raceMaking #racialization #ElTayeb #Europe #postColonialism #racelessness #colorblind #raceMaking #colourblind #racism #diaspora #Belgium #France #Netherlands #NL #Germany #Austria #Italy #Spain #Portugal #Hungary #postNational

Normality is a social construct that changes over time. It's sad how so many people think the parameters for existence are so limited and, quite frankly, deranged!

#poetry #poetrycommunity #normality #socialconstructs #poem #singersongwriter #poison

The monotheistic religions made it normal to squash people: "I think there is something really special about the Bible [...] which is precisely this idea that the revelation of truth comes through the suffering of the weak." (Matthieu Poupart)

Then the Renaissance made it easier to blame the victim: With modernity, "it is the person who takes no initiative who is seen as responsible for the emergence of sexual promiscuity." (Matthieu Poupart)

#EstelleSays #longThread 🧶

#truth #revelation #believe #beliefs #empathy #feminism #quotes #blameTheVictim #maleSupremacy #manliness #patriarchy #misogyny #relationships #sociology #religion #catholic #christianity #jewishness #jewish #squash #flatten #crush #agressions #agressive #agressivity #supremacy #rapeCulture #brutalization #modernity #Renaissance #history #intellectualHistory #historyOfHumanThought #historyOfPhilosophy #normal #normality #heteronormativity #weak #weakness #incest #incestCulture

The monotheistic religions made it normal to squash people: "I think there is something really special about the Bible [...] which is precisely this idea that the revelation of truth comes through the suffering of the weak." (Matthieu Poupart)

Then the Renaissance made it easier to blame the victim: With modernity, "it is the person who takes no initiative who is seen as responsible for the emergence of sexual promiscuity." (Matthieu Poupart)

#EstelleSays #longThread 🧶

#truth #revelation #believe #beliefs #empathy #feminism #quotes #blameTheVictim #maleSupremacy #manliness #patriarchy #misogyny #relationships #sociology #religion #catholic #christianity #jewishness #jewish #squash #flatten #crush #agressions #agressive #agressivity #supremacy #rapeCulture #brutalization #modernity #Renaissance #history #intellectualHistory #historyOfHumanThought #historyOfPhilosophy #normal #normality #heteronormativity #weak #weakness #incest #incestCulture

A quotation from Nassim Nicholas Taleb

I don’t particularly care about the usual. If you want to get an idea of a friend’s temperament, ethics, and personal elegance, you need to look at him under the tests of severe circumstances, not under the regular rosy glow of daily life. Can you assess the danger a criminal poses by examining only what he does on an ordinary day? Can we understand health without considering wild diseases and epidemics? Indeed the normal is often irrelevant.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb (b. 1960) Lebanese-American essayist, statistician, risk analyst, aphorist
The Black Swan, Introduction (2007)

Sourcing, notes: wist.info/taleb-nassim-nichola…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #exceptions #extraordinary #normalcy #normality #understanding #unusual #usual #blackswan

@ewen Is that even possible? #normality

@ewen Is that even possible? #normality

About to Go Home

It is silly. I love to travel. I enjoy staying in hotels. I love the city of Boston. Why then did spending three nights in a hotel in Boston start to bum me out? It was nice. It was fun. It was a goofy little excursion away from the norm.

Why then, with all the things that I enjoyed about the entire situation, does the idea of being able to go home after work tonight fill me up with happiness? My wife and I will be home together. We’ll eat dinner together at home. We’ll sack out on the couch after dinner and watch TV in our living room at home. We’ll sleep in our own bed tonight. We’ll wake up at home tomorrow and be back on our regular, normal daily routine.

I love to travel. I love staying in hotels. I love being in the city of Boston. I guess I just love being at home with Jen more. When you look at it that way, it’s not even a little bit surprising.

Also, there are cats at home when there were no cats in the hotel. That’s gotta count for something too, right?

#backHome #Boston #bostonMassachusetts #Cats #Family #home #hotel #Jen #normalBehavior #normalRoutine #normality #ourHome #ourHouse #routine #spouse #Travel #wife

About to Go Home

It is silly. I love to travel. I enjoy staying in hotels. I love the city of Boston. Why then did spending three nights in a hotel in Boston start to bum me out? It was nice. It was fun. It was a goofy little excursion away from the norm.

Why then, with all the things that I enjoyed about the entire situation, does the idea of being able to go home after work tonight fill me up with happiness? My wife and I will be home together. We’ll eat dinner together at home. We’ll sack out on the couch after dinner and watch TV in our living room at home. We’ll sleep in our own bed tonight. We’ll wake up at home tomorrow and be back on our regular, normal daily routine.

I love to travel. I love staying in hotels. I love being in the city of Boston. I guess I just love being at home with Jen more. When you look at it that way, it’s not even a little bit surprising.

Also, there are cats at home when there were no cats in the hotel. That’s gotta count for something too, right?

#backHome #Boston #bostonMassachusetts #Cats #Family #home #hotel #Jen #normalBehavior #normalRoutine #normality #ourHome #ourHouse #routine #spouse #Travel #wife

'I don’t think an opinion adhering to institutional conventions can be considered an “unpopular take.” Positioning it as unpopular masks a common opinion as marginalised. This type of perception skewing is reminiscent of Christian conservatives claiming God-fearing values are under attack despite Christianity dominating every echelon of American society.'

Inigo Laguda on language and grammar: https://www.yoursinigo.com/p/better-than-you-know-yourselves?open=false#%C2%A7grammar-the-conservative-undercurrent

@writing @sociology

#language #writing #normality #patriarchy #woke #antiWoke #feminism #values #commOdon #lowercase #institutional #capitalLetters #camelCase #supremacy #domination #MAGA #culturalDiversity #boomers

'I don’t think an opinion adhering to institutional conventions can be considered an “unpopular take.” Positioning it as unpopular masks a common opinion as marginalised. This type of perception skewing is reminiscent of Christian conservatives claiming God-fearing values are under attack despite Christianity dominating every echelon of American society.'

Inigo Laguda on language and grammar: https://www.yoursinigo.com/p/better-than-you-know-yourselves?open=false#%C2%A7grammar-the-conservative-undercurrent

@writing @sociology

#language #writing #normality #patriarchy #woke #antiWoke #feminism #values #commOdon #lowercase #institutional #capitalLetters #camelCase #supremacy #domination #MAGA #culturalDiversity #boomers

@data @datadon 🧵

How to assess a statistical model?
How to choose between variables?

Pearson's #correlation is irrelevant if you suspect that the relationship is not a straight line.

If monotonic relationship:
"#Spearman’s rho is particularly useful for small samples where weak correlations are expected, as it can detect subtle monotonic trends." It is "widespread across disciplines where the measurement precision is not guaranteed".
"#Kendall’s Tau-b is less affected [than Spearman’s rho] by outliers in the data, making it a robust option for datasets with extreme values."
Ref: https://statisticseasily.com/kendall-tau-b-vs-spearman/

#normality #normalDistribution #modeling #dataDev #AIDev #ML #modelEvaluation #regression #modelling #dataLearning #featureEngineering #linearRegression #modeling #probability #probabilities #statistics #stats #correctionRatio #ML #Pearson #bias #regressionRedress #distributions

@data @datadon 🧵

How to assess a statistical model?
How to choose between variables?

Pearson's #correlation is irrelevant if you suspect that the relationship is not a straight line.

If monotonic relationship:
"#Spearman’s rho is particularly useful for small samples where weak correlations are expected, as it can detect subtle monotonic trends." It is "widespread across disciplines where the measurement precision is not guaranteed".
"#Kendall’s Tau-b is less affected [than Spearman’s rho] by outliers in the data, making it a robust option for datasets with extreme values."
Ref: https://statisticseasily.com/kendall-tau-b-vs-spearman/

#normality #normalDistribution #modeling #dataDev #AIDev #ML #modelEvaluation #regression #modelling #dataLearning #featureEngineering #linearRegression #modeling #probability #probabilities #statistics #stats #correctionRatio #ML #Pearson #bias #regressionRedress #distributions

ON "#normality" NOW

BE AND BEHAVE LIKE THE WOMAN YOU WANT TO SEE IN THE WORLD

"The #gamma GLM is a relatively assumption-light means of #modeling non-negative data, given gamma's flexibility.
[…]
"Explaining what is used and what is not used, despite merits and demerits […]: Loosely, the larger the internal literature in any field on modelling techniques, the less inclined people in that field seem to be to try something different."

Nick Cox, 2013: https://stats.stackexchange.com/questions/67547/when-to-use-gamma-glms

#normality #normalDistribution #Γ #modelling #dataDev #AIDev #ML #AIEvaluation #logNormal

"The #gamma GLM is a relatively assumption-light means of #modeling non-negative data, given gamma's flexibility.
[…]
"Explaining what is used and what is not used, despite merits and demerits […]: Loosely, the larger the internal literature in any field on modelling techniques, the less inclined people in that field seem to be to try something different."

Nick Cox, 2013: https://stats.stackexchange.com/questions/67547/when-to-use-gamma-glms

#normality #normalDistribution #Γ #modelling #dataDev #AIDev #ML #AIEvaluation #logNormal

I was up at Woodies Coolock/ Malahide Road and they told everyone they were shutting early at 4pm. Helicopter buzzing around this evening again at 6pm. #EverythingFine #Normality

I was up at Woodies Coolock/ Malahide Road and they told everyone they were shutting early at 4pm. Helicopter buzzing around this evening again at 6pm. #EverythingFine #Normality

Looking for a cure?

#LizCarr has stepped away from acting to advocate against the legalization of assisted suicide. Her latest #documentary, "Better Off Dead?", explores the implications of such laws, focusing on how they endanger disabled individuals.

Travelling to Canada, Carr investigates the effects of permissive assisted suicide laws. There not only the terminally ill can opt for a medically assisted death. This practice is even extended to those facing social deprivation, presenting a grave ethical dilemma.

In Britain, Carr meets with staunch opponents, including Baroness Jane Campbell, who shares a personal story of having a ‘Do Not Resuscitate’ order placed on her without consent.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-G_xF4dvS-U
https://piped.kavin.rocks/watch?v=-G_xF4dvS-U

#disability #eugenism #assistedDeath #assistedSuicide #suicide #Canada #normal #normality #conformance #conformation #ethics #sociology #queer #medecine #activism #militants #choice #euthanasia #depression #mentalHealth #disabilityRights #handicap

Looking for a cure?

#LizCarr has stepped away from acting to advocate against the legalization of assisted suicide. Her latest #documentary, "Better Off Dead?", explores the implications of such laws, focusing on how they endanger disabled individuals.

Travelling to Canada, Carr investigates the effects of permissive assisted suicide laws. There not only the terminally ill can opt for a medically assisted death. This practice is even extended to those facing social deprivation, presenting a grave ethical dilemma.

In Britain, Carr meets with staunch opponents, including Baroness Jane Campbell, who shares a personal story of having a ‘Do Not Resuscitate’ order placed on her without consent.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-G_xF4dvS-U
https://piped.kavin.rocks/watch?v=-G_xF4dvS-U

#disability #eugenism #assistedDeath #assistedSuicide #suicide #Canada #normal #normality #conformance #conformation #ethics #sociology #queer #medecine #activism #militants #choice #euthanasia #depression #mentalHealth #disabilityRights #handicap

What — me worry? 🤷🏽‍♂️

🇳🇫 #TAIWAN (#台灣): ❝#Normality continues amid #China 🇨🇳 [#military_drills]❞
https://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2024/05/25/2003818376
#正常的樣子
#Same_shit_different_day
#同樣的事情_不同的一天
#中國
#軍事演習

In #astrology news:
Today's solar eclipse will have no effect upon either you or world affairs in general.
Everything will remain totally fucked.
#normality #eclipse #information

#Normality #absurdity #creativity #philosophy #vincentvangogh

#Normality #absurdity #creativity #philosophy #vincentvangogh

Lost in the #malignant #normality of the #Trumpocene

How #Normalizing #MAGA #abuse could #backfire on #DonaldTrump.

#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Conservatives #Extremism #Fascism #Religion #RepublicanParty #Hate #Bigotry #Violence #Genocide #Discrimination #AntiSemitism #Homophobia #Misogyny #Racism #Transphobia #Xenophobia #ThePartyOfHate

https://www.salon.com/2024/03/21/normalizing-maga-abuse-could-backfire-on/

Lost in the #malignant #normality of the #Trumpocene

How #Normalizing #MAGA #abuse could #backfire on #DonaldTrump.

#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Conservatives #Extremism #Fascism #Religion #RepublicanParty #Hate #Bigotry #Violence #Genocide #Discrimination #AntiSemitism #Homophobia #Misogyny #Racism #Transphobia #Xenophobia #ThePartyOfHate

https://www.salon.com/2024/03/21/normalizing-maga-abuse-could-backfire-on/

Dear deprived friends,

RU #deprived of:

• #luck #minded people?
• pets?
• filthy #lucre?
• #familiar #family?
• #normality?

What are your solutions?
Mine are:

• to have a #hearty #Sunday #breakfast (no #kittens on menu)
• to rant against AI, horses that can’t fly and The Pop(e) …

Before I go for munchies a quick Blessing:

May your Lack change to Luck. You hardships be eased and your #whole #Being find #Peace and #Joy.

Yep that is my good deed for the the day. Now maybe I will go to Church and drink blood :byebrows: 🤣

Peace
Yearning, longing
Normality in sight
Hope, aspirations
2024

#gazans #peace #2024 #hope #normality #cinquain #poetry

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-67854246

Peace
Yearning, longing
Normality in sight
Hope, aspirations
2024

#gazans #peace #2024 #hope #normality #cinquain #poetry

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-67854246

"I’ve had a wonderful life. I have a loving family. I’ve had good friends, work that I consider satisfying and important, reasonably good health except for the above-mentioned problems. So what if I’m very short?"

I've known from reading Reich over the years and seeing him on videos that he has this condition. But it never occurs to me, as I read him, to think, "Oh, he's that short man writing this."

#norms #normality
/2

Robert Reich discusses how Fairbanks disease, which affects bone growth and has caused him to be very short, has affected his life. The genetic odds of passing on the condition to children are slim, so he married and has had sons who turned out normal.

Then he writes,

"But what’s 'normal' anyway? And why is normal so important?"

#norms #normality
/1

https://robertreich.substack.com/p/why-im-so-short-140

I long to destroy self-checkout machines – and at last, there’s a glimmer of hope
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/nov/14/destroy-self-checkout-machines-supermarket-boycott
#shopping #normality #shops

The false God of Normality would like to grant you:

> 1. A relatively happy childhood that you possibly look back to with fond memories
> 2. The ability to easily make friends within the culture you grew up in
> 3. Relationships that conform to the powered-up social templates prescribed by the God of Normality
> 4. The desire to seek, and the ability to find and maintain employment in a system that worships the religion of the bell curve
> 5. The desire to be managed by a good “leader”
> 6. The latent capacity to become addicted to the experience of wielding social power over others

Kill the illusion of Normality

https://neuroclastic.com/life-without-the-false-god-of-normality/

#actuallyAutistic #normality

Jacqueline Rose and Sam Frears have written a beautiful essay on #EastEnders as a very popular site for questioning the concept and the ideology of #beingnormal / of #normality .
You haven’t got your sister pregnant, have you? No Secrets in Albert Square · LRB 23 June 2022 https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v44/n12/jacqueline-rose-and-sam-frears/you-haven-t-got-your-sister-pregnant-have-you

I miss people agonizing over whether #normality or #normalcy is the correct term.