parallelarts

Synthesizing ideas & periodically producing evidentiary objects and/or texts. #theory #criticism #artwriting #art #contemporaryart #philosophy #physics #geology #earth #crystals #rocks #minerals #clay #ceramics #archeology #wildtheory #language #OriginsOfLife

I come to social media to engage with other artists and writers - and to further democracy, environmental and social justice, kindness and empathy.

Parallel account @zirk.us: @parallelarts

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2023-02-23

Ok, so there is much discussion about the alt text on pictures. My mom is legally blind. As she has gotten older her sight is almost gone. She LIVES on the computer and to say she gets excited when special attention is paid for the blind is a great understatement. Please use alt text and describe the pictures you post. Describe it as if you had your eyes closed and the only link to the outside world is what a kind soul took an extra 5 minutes to type. Come on, do it, make someone’s day.#AltText

2023-01-22

@hauntedhideaway chilling set of questions about legislation designed to chill free speech #authoritarianism #FreeSpeech #books #libraries

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2023-01-22

You may have heard that Google laid off 12000 employees yesterday. I have created a Google Doc to crowdsource job openings and useful contacts for those 12000 employees. Please add anything you know of: docs.google.com/document/d/1g5

2023-01-07

The ABCs of Democracy (courtesy of Chester County Moving Forward) from Representative Hakeem Jeffries' speech on the House floor in the early hours of January 7, 2023. #democracy #HakeemJeffries #inspiration #vision

Multicolored hand-drawn list titled "The ABC's of Democracy." From top to bottom, each letter enumerates another line of text describing a value of democracy. The list begins with "American values over autocracy" and ends with "Zealous representation over zero-sum confrontation." The full body of the list is from Representative Hakeem Jeffries' speech on the House floor in the earliest hours, January 7, 2023.
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2023-01-07

When you think about it, the fact “the Speaker” has no power should actually scare you. My point is, the *institution* of Speaker (regardless of party or person) is dramatically weakened now.

My point is, this is far bigger than Kevin McCarthy himself. This is about structure. This is about Steve Bannon’s publicly stated goal to destroy the administrative state in the US.

#BlackMastodon #Mastodon #politics #SpeakerVote #speakerofthehouse #housespeaker

2023-01-06

I just called every rep on this list. Please consider doing the same. Tell Biden-district Republicans to vote for Hakeem Jeffries. There are 18 Republicans elected in Biden-majority districts. Voters should start calling and demanding that these swing district Republicans vote for Jeffries for Speaker so that the House gets to work. #USpol #politics #activism

Spreadsheet - list of representatives with related information (district, location).
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Dr. Elizabeth Sawin✨bethsawin@spore.social
2023-01-05

It's almost like a society where the most powerful don't listen to women and don't listen to the Earth and don't listen to Indigenous people and don't listen to workers and don't listen to Black people, and don't listen to immigrants, and don't listen to poor people, and don't listen to trans people and don't listen to disabled people is a system without balancing feedback loops doing what systems without balancing feedback loops do which is spin out of control.

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Dr. Elizabeth Sawin✨bethsawin@spore.social
2023-01-05

You can insist that complex interdependent systems are simple and independent. Heck you can create whole religions, political parties, and empires based on that idea. What you can't do is create health or wellbeing or ongoingness that way.

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I'm more or less part of the fediverse since 2017, but I still can't get over the fact that you people are describing images, very often making me almost content with not being able to see them at all. I've never seen so many people taking time to write meaningful descriptions on this level anywhere else.

It really, really means a lot! Thank you for making it awesome for everyone! Keep 'em coming! ☺️
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2023-01-03

The extreme weather last year accounted for migration, famine, disease, death and massive loss of biodiversity. Multilateral organisations like the UN and others need drastic and long overdue reform to engage with the crisis we face in the 21st Century. Until that happens the world will always be on the back foot and the poorest and most vulnerable will suffer even more. We all need to be politically active. Let #Mastodon be the way for us to support and inform each other.

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Robert Reichrbreich@masto.ai
2022-12-29

There were over a thousand major corporate mergers or acquisitions last year.

Each had a merger value of $100 million+.

The total transaction value was $1.4 trillion.

Corporate concentration is reaching incredibly dangerous heights.

It’s not being talked about nearly enough.

2022-12-26

@AeroDerHasen Thanks for these search terms! Very best wishes ✨️

2022-12-26

@AeroDerHasen Thanks very much for this feedback! I have a great interest in writing #AltText - it integrates quite a few elements from my skill-set - to the extent that I have begun to wonder if there might be job opportunities for me to engage in visual writing! Anyone with thoughts on this, please contact me! #visualwriting #writing

2022-12-26

Henry is appreciating the December sunlight streaming in. #CatsOfMastodon #Cats #Home #Light #Warmth #Domestic

An orange cat looks through the pane of a sliding glass door. He is framed from behind, and the sun highlights his fur - especially around his ears and along his back haunch. The cat is perched on a large roll of thick purple cotton, which nicely contrasts against his dark ginger fur and imbues him a bit of a royal quality. His tail, which is ringed in white and pumpkin-orange, curls down around his padded perch. He looks out on a sun-drenched back deck with some black wire chairs.
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2022-12-23

Realized I didn't do a formal introduction here. I just slipped on in with one of the bird site migrations and jumped onto the #BelieveInFilm thread here.

So here's a formal introduction; I am Jeremy the bear human hybrid from the snowy realm known as Calgary. I'm a landscape photographer who is typically found thumping around the mountains with my 4x5 secured on my back, as one does. I trust in box cameras as well, in case you were worried!

Alpine lake flanked with shadow filled wall of nearb Mount Bryant. One spot light from the sun breaking through storm clouds.Early spring conditions at Wall Lake, sun setting through spring storm clouds while the snow continues to melt.A wall of black limestone rises above a stream from glacier runoff from nearby Stanley Glacier in British ColumbiaLooking away from a small tarn in an alpine pass towards Noseeum peak and Dolomite peak in Banff National Park
2022-12-22

Happy #Solstice

Vintage illustration of the sun with a calm human face and broad wavy triangular rays - in a warm buttercup yellow.
2022-12-21

@lrhodes that sounds about right - how can that even be combatted? Sounds virtually inevitable.

2022-12-21

Doubling down on mineral implications

#Costanza #mineral

Cellphone shot of TV screen. From Seinfeld - George Costanza in coffee shop with subtitles that read "...you can't tell the difference between me and a rock!" [He's trying to convince Susan he's stable - has removed his glasses to demonstrate how indistinguishable he is from a rock.]
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2022-12-20

Greetings fellow, Masties? Mastdoers? Mastadonians?

Hi! We're here -- and ready to chat, share and learn!

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