It’s about the politic not the identity, eh!

Just remind me!

I had to google that name, because Immigrant.

The statsNZ staff are so bureaucratic about it too, like very matter of fact that things are different (worse) and it will be harder to collect data on X but what *can* be done? It feels borderline gaslight-y and I know it’s bc their jobs won’t allow them to say “yeah it’s fucked”

Researchers know, and the general population knows the govt is fucking shit up left and right, but I find communicating epidemiological rigour to non research audiences a very large conversation to have

I’ve got notes from at least three of their consultations, if you wanted to try parse them

One was in a hotel lobby in Australia because I wasn’t missing a chance to say “no, this is fucked up y’all” about rainbow data collection (lack thereof)

Yeah I don’t know how to start the conversation in sci com spaces about how badly this govt is fucking us over from a population data standpoint

We truely cannot afford to have people losing more faith in these institutions. Idk what happens next.

The way it’s gonna engage with Māori population data alone is some of the shittiest neo colonisation I’ve seen this year and it’s been A Year.

I honestly feel like I just go to these meetings and provide the feedback so I can sleep at night knowing I did all I could, and I went on record saying it was a Bad Idea.

Maybe someday someone will review some document and be like oh look there is justification to change this for the better. Idk

Welcome to the absolute hell that researchers who work with census data, especially for minoritised populations, have been grappling with for months. I have been to so many statsNZ meetings, provided so much feedback, all harm reduction I guess but fuck me man

I have to ask, how many languages do you speak? Do you write/publish in other languages?

lol the three cans of beer at the end cracked me up.

Also how fucking BUFF would these broth makers be!! Lifting small bathtubs of ingredients over your head all day would be some serious fitness

Ok what do I need to read to understand particularism in the context of conspiracy?? Is there a wiki or is this one of those “I need to read a whole body of literature” situation?

Is there a “does the dog die?” for books??

We see it with AI narratives also, where companies are brainwashing us to say they are already ubiquitous, nothing else can exist.

Yes that was one of my first “is this the answer??” in that climate fatalism breeds inaction! But is it different when the calls are coming from inside the house? Many advocates fucking their efforts over by (inadvertently??) implying our futures are set in stone.

I sent an ask, thanks so much!

Does anyone know of good writing/publications on the ways discussing depressing or unfortunate realities in our current media ecosystem means those unfortunate realities become the dominant discourse, which ends up being self perpetuating and limiting?

Actually reccs welcome I really do need to clean my shower

It’s a joke, you couldn’t pay me to use Alexa or Siri or whatever

Alexa, What’s the best music to angry-clean your bathroom to

Y’all I am so grumpy. I was so fatigued and then go go gadget angrywrath energy I guess

<insert a thousand gifs of the middle finger here>

And then I detransitioned, just to piss you off.

Because when I was 19 years old I wrote on my livejournal “where is my internship for the weekly morbidity and mortality report?”

A full decade before I got the opportunity to study public health.

Because I’ve read some of the protocols for data collection. Because I saw the writing on the wall. Because I haven’t been actively living in denial for the last 15 years.

“Cassie why do you actively discourage use of CDC data in health research??”

I was not “born this way” I chose it because fuck you.

Yeah that’s good to know that even tho they are all vague and stupid, that one is EXTRA vague and stupid, possibly to an illegal degree.