Links: Plants, games, narcissists
Oct. 31st, 2021 08:33 pmThe Resurgence of Waffle Gardens Is Helping Indigenous Farmers Grow Food with Less Water by Greta Moran. "In the face of climate change and persistent droughts, a growing number of people from Zuni Pueblo in New Mexico and elsewhere are adopting the traditional farming practice." Little walls hold the water around each plant, cool!
Plant awareness disparity: A case for renaming plant blindness by Kathryn M. Parsley, via![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
cosmolinguist. "Some examples of it include prejudice against plants and teaching botany among biology teachers lack of representation of plants in the media, and even neglecting plant content in biology textbooks." Nuanced discussion of ableist issues with the old term, and the appropriateness of the new one.
Did you get the itch.io racial justice bundle? Did you try a few games but get completely overwhelmed by the sheer number of them?melannen posted a list of the ones nominated for Yuletide and people have added info in comments. I played A Normal Lost Phone from the list, and really liked it.
5 Things You Got Wrong About Narcissistic Personality Disorder by Christine Deneweth. This comic helped spark my article this month, but I didn't link to it there because it's... written by a narcissist, and thus pisses me off by ignoring everyone else's viewpoint. I was nodding along until I got to, "[Some people with NPD] are just selective with who they share their empathy with." Empathy is only for people who "deserve" it, oookay. Linking here in case I want to find it again.
Plant awareness disparity: A case for renaming plant blindness by Kathryn M. Parsley, via
cosmolinguist. "Some examples of it include prejudice against plants and teaching botany among biology teachers lack of representation of plants in the media, and even neglecting plant content in biology textbooks." Nuanced discussion of ableist issues with the old term, and the appropriateness of the new one. Did you get the itch.io racial justice bundle? Did you try a few games but get completely overwhelmed by the sheer number of them?
melannen posted a list of the ones nominated for Yuletide and people have added info in comments. I played A Normal Lost Phone from the list, and really liked it.5 Things You Got Wrong About Narcissistic Personality Disorder by Christine Deneweth. This comic helped spark my article this month, but I didn't link to it there because it's... written by a narcissist, and thus pisses me off by ignoring everyone else's viewpoint. I was nodding along until I got to, "[Some people with NPD] are just selective with who they share their empathy with." Empathy is only for people who "deserve" it, oookay. Linking here in case I want to find it again.
