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Rafe Meager (they/them) @economeager.bsky.social · 3h

i think a good comparison point is gaga. while gaga the person is also thin, cis and white (though not hetero), her music often works hard to destabilize safe ideas of desirability, womanhood and beauty as a concept (and this would make the music queer even if she was hetero)

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Rafe Meager (they/them) @economeager.bsky.social · 3h

true dat

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Rafe Meager (they/them) @economeager.bsky.social · 3h

(and whiteness, thinness, trad narratives etc)

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Rafe Meager (they/them) @economeager.bsky.social · 3h

ah, so, i think the author's understandable euphoria is getting in the way of her analysing what's going on more deeply (as she basically admits at certain points). swift's oeuvre is not happy, but it is always a triumphant womanhood by the very fact of its being safely ensconced in heteropatriarchy

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Rafe Meager (they/them) @economeager.bsky.social · 4h

oh my god the energy coming off this ...... i approach with caution

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Rafe Meager (they/them) @economeager.bsky.social · 4h

admittedly, my taylor swift discourse dunks are getting a little esoteric

Rafe Meager (they/them) @economeager.bsky.social · 4h

me next time there's a metrics symposium: "Newey-West 1986 has 26,000 cites, it should not be "discussed" by other econometricians as if it is a regular econometrics paper but rather the love of the people for HAC SEs must be respected"

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Rafe Meager (they/them) @economeager.bsky.social · 4h

me next time there's a metrics symposium: "Newey-West 1986 has 26,000 cites, it should not be "discussed" by other econometricians as if it is a regular econometrics paper but rather the love of the people for HAC SEs must be respected"

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Rafe Meager (they/them) @economeager.bsky.social · 5h

you do see some of that rhetoric knocking around, i remember a remarkably dumb piece saying that she shouldnt be "subjected to" normal music criticism because she's such a beloved, successful icon.... truly some stan brainworms at work

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Lionel Page @lionelpage.bsky.social · 5h

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Seema Jayachandran @seema.bsky.social · 5h

Congratulations, you're department chair.

Marjorie James Keenan @unenthusiast.com · 11h

In honour of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.

rm -rf ~/

hammancheez @hammancheez.bsky.social · 11h

"The chancellor approved it"

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Rafe Meager (they/them) @economeager.bsky.social · 5h

😱

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Rafe Meager (they/them) @economeager.bsky.social · 6h

indeed. and this somehow persists even though she is a billionaire who flies around in a private jet and is engaged to a famous professional athlete!

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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 9h

This is an exact encapsulation of why I moved to Bluesky.

No amount of handwringing in the Atlantic about how I owe some eternal Promethean suffering to the discourse is going to make me stay on a site I hate, that stopped doing anything for me professionally years ago.

Well – no. Bluesky may or may not be, as one centre-right friend who felt unwelcome put it, “self-righteous island”. But the idea that’s why we went is nonsense. That I’ve largely stopped posting on a site that’s done more to shape my career and social circle than the rest of the internet combined is less about avoiding rival opinions (I love arguing with people who are wrong!) than with the fact the site simply became unusable. It stopped generating the things (good jokes, interesting debate, clicks) I wanted; it became extremely good at generating the things (racists, pornbots, racist pornbots) I did not.

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Dariia Mykhailyshyna @dariia.bsky.social · 2d

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Dariia Mykhailyshyna @dariia.bsky.social · 9h

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Dariia Mykhailyshyna @dariia.bsky.social · 2d

❗️Our next workshop will be on Oct 16th, 6 pm CEST titled Structural Bayesian Techniques for Experimental and Behavioral Economics in R& Stan by @jamesbland.bsky.social
Register or sponsor a student by donating to support Ukraine!
Details: bit.ly/3wBeY4S
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Rafe Meager (they/them) @economeager.bsky.social · 9h

and it's also load-bearing for her fandom, who interpret any criticism of the art as criticism of her as person

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Rafe Meager (they/them) @economeager.bsky.social · 9h

yeah, did not intend to imply deception (if TS's desire to relate personally to her audience is deceptive i would guess she first deceives herself) -- it's a shtick because of how heavily or how centrally she relies on it artistically

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Rafe Meager (they/them) @economeager.bsky.social · 10h

hmmm my experience in roman catholicism was excessive emphasis on "turn the other cheek" idiot compassion type responses . though i agree scripturally there is support for other reactions (but the same is true in buddhism!)

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Rafe Meager (they/them) @economeager.bsky.social · 10h

LMAO

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Rafe Meager (they/them) @economeager.bsky.social · 10h

this convo is making me realise how little we meditate (both in zen and in the broader culture) on the experience of being victimised. common to meditate on conflict, and on doing harm, but not on the experience of truly being the victim of another person (even just in one specific instance)

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Rafe Meager (they/them) @economeager.bsky.social · 10h

(I dont 100% know what i mean by this metaphor but tbh that's one of my favourite thigns about metaphors)

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Rafe Meager (they/them) @economeager.bsky.social · 10h

i think that is right. at a certain point the karmic thermostat has set.

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Rafe Meager (they/them) @economeager.bsky.social · 10h

the wildlifes here are friendly! the politicians however :(

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Rafe Meager (they/them) @economeager.bsky.social · 11h

basically suppose that you tell me "i am on my way to the nuclear plant to blow it up with myself inside!" the compassionate action would be for me to incapacitate you to prevent this massive harm from occuring. this is why we must punch nazis.

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Rafe Meager (they/them) @economeager.bsky.social · 11h

complete misunderstanding of right action / true compassion which would be preventing them from doing harm, since harm incurs massive negative karma. plus a garbage failure to have compassion for their victims (which may include ourselves)

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