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Coach Pāṇini ®<p>The wound, <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/fear" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>fear</span></a>, flaw, and <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/desire" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>desire</span></a> are basic elements of <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/narrative" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>narrative</span></a> structure for both meatspace and game design. This is how <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/communities" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>communities</span></a> and <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/ecosystems" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ecosystems</span></a> are formed.</p>
נאריש זשלאָב מענטש<p>"From the first page of House of Hope, I was captivated. This compelling <a href="https://babka.social/tags/novel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>novel</span></a> offers a deeply personal, first-person <a href="https://babka.social/tags/narrative" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>narrative</span></a> through the voice of Adina, a young <a href="https://babka.social/tags/Orthodox" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Orthodox</span></a> woman navigating the emotional and spiritual complexities of <a href="https://babka.social/tags/infertility" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>infertility</span></a>. After years of marriage and numerous failed medical attempts to conceive, Adina and her husband David embark on a journey that is both geographic and soul-deep – traveling from <a href="https://babka.social/tags/FarRockaway" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FarRockaway</span></a>, <a href="https://babka.social/tags/NewYork" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NewYork</span></a>, to <a href="https://babka.social/tags/EretzYisrael" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EretzYisrael</span></a> in search of healing, meaning, and hope.</p><p>What begins as a disheartening struggle through <a href="https://babka.social/tags/fertility" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>fertility</span></a> treatments gradually evolves into something far more transformative. With grace and authenticity,&nbsp;House of Hope&nbsp;explores the couple’s shift from investing their faith in conventional medical protocols to deeper emotional exploration, spiritual growth, and eventually, mystical inquiry."</p><p><a href="https://www.jewishpress.com/sections/books/book-reviews/when-science-isnt-enough-a-journey-of-faith-love-and-longing/2025/09/18/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">jewishpress.com/sections/books</span><span class="invisible">/book-reviews/when-science-isnt-enough-a-journey-of-faith-love-and-longing/2025/09/18/</span></a></p>
BellingenNSW<p>The value of envisioning the worst-case of climate disruption</p><p>"The fact that there's a small number of companies that make an enormous amount of profit off endangering us and our future, and that actively, historically covered up that information, that should have a lot of people very pissed off." &gt;&gt;<br><a href="https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09-20/climate-fatalism-in-wake-of-climate-risk-report/105780598" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">abc.net.au/news/2025-09-20/cli</span><span class="invisible">mate-fatalism-in-wake-of-climate-risk-report/105780598</span></a></p><p>Davidson, J. P. L., &amp; Kemp, L. (2024). Climate catastrophe: The value of envisioning the worst-case scenarios of climate change. WIREs Climate Change, 15(2), e871. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1002/wcc.871" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">doi.org/10.1002/wcc.871</span><span class="invisible"></span></a><br><a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/FossilFuels" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FossilFuels</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/climate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>climate</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/ClimateDisruption" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ClimateDisruption</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/FossilFuelIndustry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FossilFuelIndustry</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/collapse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>collapse</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/narrative" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>narrative</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/inequality" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>inequality</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/hierarchy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>hierarchy</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/empires" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>empires</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/growth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>growth</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/SocietalCollapses" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SocietalCollapses</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/MilitaryIndustrialComplexes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MilitaryIndustrialComplexes</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/governance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>governance</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/StateOfEmergency" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>StateOfEmergency</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/StompReflex" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>StompReflex</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/extinction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>extinction</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/ClimateAction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ClimateAction</span></a></p>
LilMikeSF<p>There is wal to wall coverage on <a href="https://c.im/tags/NBC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NBC</span></a> of <a href="https://c.im/tags/CharlieKirk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CharlieKirk</span></a>'s corpse travelling on highways, as off screen media <a href="https://c.im/tags/narrative" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>narrative</span></a> voices tell us he was a "pivotal figure" whom people "watched religiously" as an "icon" "returning America to God" and an advocate for "making America better". Then NBC's host tells the Kirk fanboy "our prayers go out to you" just before an ad for <a href="https://c.im/tags/Carvana" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Carvana</span></a>. <a href="https://c.im/tags/Barf" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Barf</span></a></p>
Geriatric Gardener<p>“WAEL AL-DAHDOUH: ‘THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA FAILED GAZA’”</p><p>by Hamza Yusuf in Declassified UK <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/@Declassified_UK" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>Declassified_UK</span></a></span> </p><p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/palestine" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>palestine</span></a></span><br><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/israel" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>israel</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/yemen" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>yemen</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/lebanon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>lebanon</span></a></span><br><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.cloud/@UKLabour" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>UKLabour</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://social.bbc/@BBC5Live" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>BBC5Live</span></a></span><br><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://social.bbc/@BBCRadio4" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>BBCRadio4</span></a></span><br><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://flipboard.com/@BBCNews" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>BBCNews</span></a></span><br><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://press.coop/@guardian" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>guardian</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://flipboard.com/@Independent" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>Independent</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://press.coop/@thetimes" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>thetimes</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://flipboard.com/@newyorktimes" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>newyorktimes</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@miamiherald" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>miamiherald</span></a></span> </p><p>“Al Jazeera’s Gaza bureau chief accuses <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Western" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Western</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/journalists" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>journalists</span></a> of ‘capitulating to the <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Israeli" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Israeli</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/narrative" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>narrative</span></a>’”</p><p><a href="https://www.declassifieduk.org/wael-al-dahdouh-the-mainstream-media-failed-gaza/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">declassifieduk.org/wael-al-dah</span><span class="invisible">douh-the-mainstream-media-failed-gaza/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Press" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Press</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/MSM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MSM</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Israel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Israel</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Genocide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Genocide</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Famine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Famine</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/WarCrimes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WarCrimes</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Capitulation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Capitulation</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Zionism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Zionism</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Barbarity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Barbarity</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Palestine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Palestine</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/FreePalestine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FreePalestine</span></a></p>
Ridley Park<p>Kafka gave us Gregor Samsa: turned into vermin, stripped of usefulness, left to rot in silence. Irvine Welsh answered with Boab Coyle in The Granton Star Cause: cast off by mates, family, girlfriend, and boss before meeting a "god" who looks and sounds just like him.</p><p><a href="https://philosophics.blog/2025/08/29/boabs-god-latent-agency-in-welshs-kafkaesque-metamorphosis/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">philosophics.blog/2025/08/29/b</span><span class="invisible">oabs-god-latent-agency-in-welshs-kafkaesque-metamorphosis/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Books</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/BookLovers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BookLovers</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Cinema" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Cinema</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Book" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Book</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Storytelling" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Storytelling</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/BookCommunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BookCommunity</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Movie" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Movie</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Literature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Literature</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Narrative" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Narrative</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AmReading" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AmReading</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AmWatching" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AmWatching</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AuthorLife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AuthorLife</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Decisions" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Decisions</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AmWriting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AmWriting</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Kafka" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Kafka</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/CriticalTheory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CriticalTheory</span></a></p>
Ridley Park<p>Irvine Welsh’s Trainspotting isn’t only about needles. It’s about stripping illusions.</p><p>It’s subversive, unsentimental, and it refuses to dress up death in borrowed dignity. That’s why Welsh still matters.</p><p>Blog: <a href="https://philosophics.blog/2025/08/28/trainspotting/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">philosophics.blog/2025/08/28/t</span><span class="invisible">rainspotting/</span></a><br>Podcast: <a href="https://open.spotify.com/episode/45ILmJRyKXIfFoTH71JDvj?si=73WVlRJSQDKFwgkNHbweVg" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">open.spotify.com/episode/45ILm</span><span class="invisible">JRyKXIfFoTH71JDvj?si=73WVlRJSQDKFwgkNHbweVg</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/BookVsMovie" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BookVsMovie</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/FilmAdaptation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FilmAdaptation</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/BookLovers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BookLovers</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Film" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Film</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Cinema" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Cinema</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Storytelling" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Storytelling</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/BookCommunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BookCommunity</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Movie" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Movie</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Movies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Movies</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Literature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Literature</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Narrative" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Narrative</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AmReading" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AmReading</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AmWatching" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AmWatching</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Trainspotting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trainspotting</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Class" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Class</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Imperialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Imperialism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/LiteraryAnalysis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LiteraryAnalysis</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Books</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Philosophy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Philosophy</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Politics</span></a></p>
alxd of the Story Seed Library<p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/film/2025/aug/08/adam-curtis-ari-aster-eddington-interview-covid-politics" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theguardian.com/film/2025/aug/</span><span class="invisible">08/adam-curtis-ari-aster-eddington-interview-covid-politics</span></a></p><p>&gt; People only search for conspiracy theories these days because no one else is giving them any stories. You know: those in power just want to manage you. And, quite frankly, managers never tell stories. They keep you there by repeating and repeating. So that’s why people don’t trust them and the most important thing to do is to acknowledge that.</p><p><a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>politics</span></a> <a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/narrative" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>narrative</span></a> <a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/narratives" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>narratives</span></a> <a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/futurism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>futurism</span></a> <a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/conspiracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>conspiracy</span></a></p>
Henrik<p>Historian DESTROYS NATO War Lies About Yugoslavia: It Was Planned | Professional David Gibbs</p><p><a href="https://youtube.com/watch?v=_uCXjrTZd2Y" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">youtube.com/watch?v=_uCXjrTZd2Y</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/history" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>history</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/yugoslavia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>yugoslavia</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/kosovo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>kosovo</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/nato" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>nato</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/usa" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>usa</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/eu" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>eu</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/milosevic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>milosevic</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/putin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>putin</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DavidGibbs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DavidGibbs</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/pascallottaz" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>pascallottaz</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/narrative" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>narrative</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/objectivity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>objectivity</span></a></p>
Merja Polvinen<p>Am happy to toot about a new collection of articles on <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/feminist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>feminist</span></a>, <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/queer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>queer</span></a>, and <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/trans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>trans</span></a>* <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/narrative" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>narrative</span></a> studies, just out in the Palgrave Handbooks series!</p><p>My own piece meshes <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/EnactiveCognition" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EnactiveCognition</span></a> with queer theory, and it brings theory to practice in an enactive reading of Palimpsest by <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://wandering.shop/@Catvalente" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>Catvalente</span></a></span>. I look at the way Valente’s novel offers its readers an experience of gender fluidity in both thematic and formal terms: firstly, by queering the sexual relations depicted in the narrative, and secondly, by turning the affordances of sexual desire into environmental <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/affordances" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>affordances</span></a>—that is, by suggesting that our cognitive entanglement with narrative environments can itself be seen in erotic terms.</p><p>(The price of the book is shameful, though... 🫣😨😤)</p><p><a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/AcademicChatter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AcademicChatter</span></a></p><p><a href="https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-75864-5" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">link.springer.com/book/10.1007</span><span class="invisible">/978-3-031-75864-5</span></a></p>
CordeliaAppleb1<p><a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/watercolor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>watercolor</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/watercolours" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>watercolours</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/watercolor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>watercolor</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/arr" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>arr</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/painting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>painting</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/nature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>nature</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/hell" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>hell</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/pomegranates" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>pomegranates</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/fruit" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>fruit</span></a>#story <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/narrative" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>narrative</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/fiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>fiction</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/illustration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>illustration</span></a><br><a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/landscape" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>landscape</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/landscapes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>landscapes</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/inkyparkers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>inkyparkers</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/CreativeToots" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CreativeToots</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/aquarelle" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>aquarelle</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/aquarell" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>aquarell</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/aquarel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>aquarel</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/mastoart" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>mastoart</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/mastoartist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>mastoartist</span></a></p>
Johnny Than<p>Leute, die schreiben, dass die Petitionen nichts bringen, die Demos nichts bringen und sowieso alles verloren ist, sind für mich Teil des Problems und haben eine Sache nicht verstanden:</p><p>Es braucht für die große Masse das Narrativ der Eskalationsstufen. Ohne die Demo würden die gleichen Menschen sagen: Macht doch erstmal eine Demo. Macht doch erstmal eine Petition. Probiert doch erstmal das.</p><p>1/x</p><p><a href="https://tuebingen.network/tags/taxTheRich" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>taxTheRich</span></a> <a href="https://tuebingen.network/tags/Petition" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Petition</span></a> <a href="https://tuebingen.network/tags/narrative" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>narrative</span></a> <a href="https://tuebingen.network/tags/eskalation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>eskalation</span></a></p>
skua<p>Having watched a few <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/TableTopShakespeare" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TableTopShakespeare</span></a> we tried diy freestyle <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/TableTopStories" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TableTopStories</span></a>.</p><p>Third performance of the night had a mid 1950s date night with a young woman going with her date from one dance, in his car, to another dance distant from home, and her struggle to get home after losing confidence in her date.</p><p>Chatted after, music was listened to.<br>And then <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/TheSaints" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TheSaints</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Stranded" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Stranded</span></a> played. <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Narrative" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Narrative</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Synchronicity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Synchronicity</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AusMusic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AusMusic</span></a><br>20 years from the mid-1950s.<br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MpMwMDqOprc" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">youtube.com/watch?v=MpMwMDqOprc</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>

Wir Menschen sind Säugetiere mit einem recht kleinen #Mesokosmos. Sowohl den #Mikrokosmos wie auch #Makrokosmos erschließen wir uns durch #Medien wie #Narrative & #Symbole.

Noch jede #Medienrevolution verstärkte diesen Trend. Dieser lustig gemeinte Clip der #DailyShow zeigt, dass wir inzwischen im gleichen Haus wohnen können & doch nicht mehr in der gleichen #Lebenswelt. Wir bilden soziale #Blasen & zunehmend individuelle #Kokons. Auch im #Fediversum. (1/2) youtube.com/shorts/wvuh0867aOQ

OK, big thread time. It will seem a little bit meandery, but I promise it all comes together in the end.

The topic is, as is increasingly usual for my rants, the #disingenuous #western #press and its service of #narrative over information. The seeds of this rant were planted when @architecture posted a link to this story:

domusweb.it/en/news/2025/07/07

I urge you to read both the headline and the article before continuing. But I'll be starting with the headline.

Obliquely.

🧵 ▶️

Domusweb · Why China built a 50-million-dollar inflatable dome over a construction siteBy Ilaria Bonvicini

Yay, out now: "AI #Narrative Breakdown. A Critical Assessment of #Power and #Promise", doi.org/10.1145/3715275.373208

"This article scrutinizes the pervasive narratives that are shaping the societal engagement with #artificial #intelligence (AI) such as agency & decision-making, autonomy, truthfulness, knowledge processing, prediction, general purpose, neutrality & objectivity, apolitical optimization, sustainability game-changer, democratization, mass unemployment, & the dualistic portrayal of AI as either a harbinger of societal utopia or dystopia. The article introduces the notion of "#Zeitgeist AI" to critique the misleading application of the term "AI" across various societal sectors. Then, by discussing the narratives with nuance, the article contextualises & deconstructs often assumed socio-political implications of AI, uncovering in detail and with examples the inherent political, #power infused & value-laden decisions within all AI applications."

#ChatGPT #FAccT2025 #ACM @FAccT