#milloy

[funstealer]

Tristan Webber ca. 1999 Exoskeleton back frame by Michael Milloy

[kritoo]

Wanted to imagine a manga style cover for lost causes lol

The japanese might be entirely off so i apologise in advance

[baddawg94]

1996 New England Patriots secondary

Ty Law (24) & Otis Smith (45) at CB

Lawyer Milloy (36) at Strong safety

Willie Clay (32) at Free Safety

[dynamofilms]

Infinity Chamber (2016)

3/10

[scottguy]

Go land on Venus Steve!

You'll be lucky if your ship lands without melting. You will die within seconds! Jesus.

EARTH will be FINE ... you moron. But LIFE, especially human life, will not.

Mercury is 800 ° on the surface and it's "still there" too... so what is your point?

Stupid people should not be allowed to comment on science.

Some folks on the right aren’t too bright . #ClimateEmergency #Science http://dlvr.it/T9FJPR

[biglisbonnews]

Oil and tobacco lobbyist blames Trans-Atlantic slave trade on wind Just a truly incredible galaxy brain: NYTimes airhead @ezraklein:"Clean, abundant energy is the foundation on which a more equal, just and humane world can be built."Two points:1. Wind power made the trans-Atlantic slave trade possible.2. Modern 'clean' energy has been a disaster. — Read the rest https://boingboing.net/2023/01/10/oil-and-tobacco-lobbyist-blames-trans-atlantic-slave-trade-on-wind.html

[seanyphm]

Shoes by Tristan Webber x Michael Milloy and photographed by Helmut Newton (1999)

[cosmicanger]

Head piece by Michael Milloy for Tristan Webber A/W 1998. Photography by Gavin Fernandez

[rgr-pop]

i really want to buy myself a copy of jeremy milloy’s blood sweat and fear at long last. i wanted to listen to it after bring the war home but it’s not on audiobook. PAIR THESE TWO BOOKS!

i want to look closely at more labor histories that look at a lot of grievances. reading about robert miles yesterday has me puzzling over pontiac motors. (recap) miles was one of the pillars of the white power movement, more well known in his development of a militia-adjacent christian identity compound in michigan as part of the white power unification of the 1980s—as outlined in bring the war home. miles is the primary reason why howell has a reputation for being a klan hub, a history that is different from, but overlaps, the longer history of rural right wing populism in michigan—he was not from michigan, he bought land here in the sixties with the intention of developing a white power organizing base, and as early as the sixties he was organizing within the klan and with wallacecels (and others, but these stand out) toward this end. he was grand dragon of michigan when, if you look at the history, that sort of didn’t mean anything. (you do not want to know how much klan parliamentary procedure i have read this summer…)

where i’m from miles is more well known for that event not a lot of people remember but which looms huge for me: the klan’s 1971 bombing of 10 empty school buses in pontiac, where my mom was probably in fourth grade. miles would spend a few years in prison over this in the 70s (and it’s worth noting that one of his most important contributions to the white power movement was in developing prisoner organizing and outreach), along with I think five other klan-affiliated men. because miles would get out and sort of disaffiliate with the klan, their role in the bombing is i think retroactively underrated—but, ultimately, what it meant to be klan in industrial michigan 1967-1974 is another more complicated thing.

unsurprisingly, miles’s co-conspirators—the boys he had living on his farm, training up—were mostly 20 years younger than him, entering white power from a different historical juncture, which miles understood well. my interest in almost all of this klan stuff from this era revolves around getting a sense of the class nature of this moment. and in the other “pontiac six” there are echoes of the black legion in detroit and highland park a generation earlier, a surprising amount of shop floor conflict. can go into this more later!

one of those men was wallace fruit, in his 20s, who was watched pretty heavily during the useless fed infiltration era of the early 70s, he shows up all over. some local news coverage of fruit reported on a series of grievances he filed with GM over his discipline for (what i saw) klan organizing at work, and targeted racist behavior. he won these grievances. from what i can tell, he was organizing in the local, and i want to see more of that. there is an obvious story of right wing agitation on the shop floor, but i want to say that i think some of this is misrepresented in posterity, and tells us more about the tactics of the right than the uaw per se. but it’s particularly interesting to see this as a piece in this really pivotal moment for uaw shop floor organizing. ultimately, what we see by the mid seventies, is a retreat from industrial labor by these guys—probably obviously—with i think a kind of underrated alignment with farmers during the farm crisis. i mean the farm crisis is wildly underrated in the stories we tell about this stuff compared to the focus on industrial workers, which tbh i find a little chauvinist. (and the collision is exactly the story of timothy mcveigh!)

there are some collections holding grievances from this local in the 60s at the reuther, and boy do i want to look. but first i must establish what i’d do with them!

[reading-writing-revolution]

Trump’s campaign utterances, and the policy proposals being drafted by hundreds of his supporters, point to the likelihood that his return to the White House would bring an all-out war on climate science and policies — eclipsing even his first-term efforts that brought U.S. climate action to a virtual standstill. Those could include steps that aides shrank back from taking last time, such as meddling in the findings of federal climate reports. “The approach is to go back to all-out fossil fuel production and sit on the EPA,” said Steve Milloy, a former Trump transition team adviser who is well known for his industry-backed attacks on climate science.

Trump supporters expect a ‘battle’ against climate science in 2nd term - POLITICO

[funstealer]

Tristan Webber A/W 2000

[cetaitlaverite]

OHHHHHHH I LOVE THE MILLOIE & BRADY CUT!!!!!!!!! the tension the arguing i just love it all!!!! i feel like this was a different interpretation of brady than what people normally write and I LOVED IT!!!

ahhh thank you so much!!! i’m so glad you liked it!!! ❤️❤️❤️ it’s definitely a different interpretation of brady than the standard but only because millie really rubs him the wrong way (at first)!! i do agree with the general consensus that he’s a level-headed, mild-mannered, respectful guy. but from his perspective, he arrives at thorpe abbotts and there’s this girl who’s, like, beautiful, and when he’s going over to introduce himself he overhears her joking about his traumatic crash landing. mils did not help her case by setting them off on the wrong foot like that!!! but once they’re past the enemies stage of their enemies to lovers arc brady is much more in line with the general fandom perception of him!!! the enemies stage is just so much fun though. they’re obsessed with each other and they hate it

[kritoo]

Assets for an rpg maker project about Milloi and Oswind, and a sketch of my inkling

[female-malice]

Like a lot of people in the climate space, my mind has been spinning this week as I've watched images of the entire world reeling from intense heat, flash floods, wildfires and other climate-change-intensified extreme weather events, interspersed with a sudden deluge of denialism, new and old. At the same time, I happen to be researching both the fossil fuel industry's role in expanding legal protections for "corporate free speech," which it's now trying to extend to fraud, and its role in criminalizing and otherwise suppressing actual free speech around the world. It has me thinking about something I've been on my damn soapbox about for years: accountability isn't just "a" climate solution, it actually has to be the first one. How in the world do people expect any of the other solutions to work without that one coming first?

If fossil fuel companies and other polluting industries are allowed to continue to mislead the public, extract from the public, and impose their costs on the public, how will any proposed solution actually manage to solve anything? What's happening with the IRA is a really good example. It's moving the needle in a big way on the electrification of transportation and the shift toward renewable energy. But it's also sparked an absolutely enormous wave of disinformation and obstructionism, from fake activist groups battling wind farms (supposedly on behalf of whales but actually on behalf of fossil fuel companies) to old-guard climate denialists like Steve Milloy making the rounds on all the conservative talk shows to tell people that everything from wildfire smoke to extreme heat is perfectly normal...healthy even! Their efforts include a very effective re-labeling of gas as "clean energy" and the positioning of various fossil-fuel-friendly non-solutions, from waste incineration to bogus carbon capture tech as part of the transition. They seem to be pushing for a future in which for every dollar that actually moves us away from fossil fuel dependence there's one (or more!) that keeps us from moving on at all.

Electrification is another good example. Many in the climate space are so terrified of disinformation taking hold that they are unwilling to even entertain a conversation about how we might approach lithium mining more equitably than we have oil drilling, never mind how we might reduce car dependency across the board. With zero accountability for either the automotive or the fossil fuel industy, they're left to do what they've alway done: prioritize profits over public health, environmental sustainability, or the equitable treatment of workers. Rather than re-train auto workers to participate in the new EV economy, automakers are hiring new people they can pay less and looking to move to right-to-work states where they won't have to deal with unions. A move that will no doubt be vaguely blamed on "climate activists" or "climate policy" because we still haven't held the people actually to blame—extractive industries and the executives directing them—responsible in any way.

Hundreds of climate cases are currently trying to do exactly that. To combat them, industry is pulling out all the stops: painting the litigation as being driven by money-grubbing lawyers, arguing that evidence-based accusations of fraud are actually attempts to censor companies, cranking up the propaganda machine, and doing everything they can to lock in as much fossil fuel use as possible for the next few decades. All while looking for every possible way to discredit and suppress climate activists.

Oil companies' arguments in court today hinge entirely on the work they've done to help create the concept and legal protection for corporate personhood. They are counting on the rights of personhood to deliver them from tens of millions of dollars in damages. But if they want the rights of personhood, they must also accept the responsibilities: consequences for bad behavior, requirements to change that behavior, and an obligation to consider the common good.

Those of us who see accountability as a critical climate solution are often accused of being a hammer that sees all oil companies as nails, righteous zealots seeking only to blame and punish. That's not it at all. We are, above all, pragmatists who know that bad behavior, especially if it's profitable, never changes absent consequences. Any parent could tell you that, and frankly so could any human. When have you ever seen someone who consistently benefits from and gets away with treating others poorly have a sudden, voluntary change of heart and course correct? That goes double for companies, which are not, despite their loud protest to the contrary, people.

-Amy Westervelt

[hussyknee]

Also added to the drive— more books on the Indigenous Genocide of North America:

David E. Stannard (1992) American Holocaust: The Conquest of the New World, Oxford University Press

Michael John Witgen (2021) Seeing Red: Indigenous Land, American Expansion, and the Political Economy of Plunder in North America, Omohundro Ins

Books about Canada's First Nations People:

N. Scott Momaday (1968) House Made of Dawn, Harper & Row

Maria Campbell (1973) Half-Breed: A Memoir, McClelland and Stewart

Howard Adams (1989) Prison of Grass: Canada from a Native Point of View, Fifth House

John S. Milloy (1999) A National Crime: The Canadian Government and the Residential School System, 1879 to 1986, University of Manitoba Press

James Daschuk (2015) Clearing the Plains: Disease, Politics of Starvation, and the Loss of Indigenous Life, University of Regina Press

Kiera L. Ladner, Myra J. Tait (eds) (2017) Surviving Canada: Indigenous Peoples Celebrate 150 Years of Betrayal, ARP Books

Jean Teillet (2019) The North-West is Our Mother: The Story of Louis Riel's People, the Métis Nation, HarperCollins Canada

Allyson Stevenson (2020) Intimate Integration: A History of the Sixties Scoop and the Colonization of Indigenous Kinship, University of Toronto Press

Books on other Indigenous Peoples:

René Harder Horst (2020) A History of Indigenous Latin America: Aymara to Zapatistas, Taylor & Francis

Hansda Sowvendra Shekhar (2015) The Adivasi Will Not Dance, Speaking Tiger Books

NATIVES READ TOO

NATIVES READ TOO

Browsing the internet, found some free PDFs to read:

Not an Indian Tradition: The Sexual Colonization of Native Peoples by Andrea Smith (article)«li

All Our Relations Native Struggles: Land and Life by Winona LaDuke

Lakote Woman by Mary Crow Dog

Lovely Hula Hands by Haunani Kay-Trask

Custer Died for Your Sins- An Indian Manifesto by Vine Deloria, Jr.

God Is Red: A Native View of Religion by Vine Deloria, Jr.

The Case of Leonard Peltier by Arthur J. Miller and Pio Celestino (zine)

Cultural Appropriation or Cultural Appreciation? (zine) 

Headdress (a small zine on native appropriation)

Colonization and Decolonization: A Manual for Indigenous Liberation in the 21st Century (zine)

Indian Education by Sherman Alexie

You have here, writings that detail Indigenous topics covering or in the style of: manifestos, creative writings, political, cultural, “feminist”, environment/ecosystems, and Natural Law. 

Enjoy the readings!

[tomatisaustralia]

Insights on Dyspraxia

According to Chu S and Milloy NR (cited in Bowens and Smith), dyspraxia is defined as "a breakdown of praxis [action]" and "the inability to use voluntary motor abilities effectively in all aspects of life, from play to structured skilled tasks." "Motor difficulties caused by perceptual problems, especially visual-motor and kinaesthetic motor difficulties" is an alternative definition based on psychology.

Dyspraxia treatment is typically accepted in the medical and scientific spheres to refer to a handicap or issues with motor movement coordination, planning, and performance that are developmental rather than acquired. Ideational, or planning dyspraxia, hinders planning and coordination, whereas ideomotor, or executive dyspraxia, affects motor fluency and speed. The majority of dyspraxics have a mix of these two dyspraxias.

There will be a range of "normality" in daily physical activities, and some children with dyspraxia may be on one end of the typical spectrum. Determining what is "normal" can be difficult. One criterion for determining if a child's motor abilities are outside the normal range or spectrum is whether the obstacles are functional and interfere with the child's ability to participate in recreational and educational activities.

This could be not easy, however, because a child's functional skills can be perceived differently depending on their family history, culture, expectations, and those of their school and peer group. As a result, two children with the same motor difficulty profile may obtain different labels. This social perception can significantly impact a child's self-esteem and social interactions, highlighting the need for a more empathetic and understanding approach.

It has been proposed that dyspraxia be regarded as a social disorder rather than a medical disease, which raises the question of whether a child who is only at one end of the normal distribution was inappropriately medicalised.

The word dyspraxia is increasingly used by health and educational specialists to characterise a child's awkwardness or clumsiness, partly due to media coverage. However, this has led to a misinterpretation of dyspraxia as a medical disease, when in fact, it should be understood as a phrase that expresses a syndrome rather than a specific medical diagnosis—similar to the term "cerebral palsy."

It is frequently used as a blanket word to describe signs of clumsiness, awkwardness, or poor coordination. This misinterpretation can lead to a failure to consider the possibility that the child's difficulty planning and carrying out physical movements is caused by a specific neurological (or other physical) issue. It's crucial to accurately understand dyspraxia to ensure appropriate diagnosis and treatment.