Interesting Links

[Varahi Lusch]

Found an interesting website concerning Companion style topics? Meditation, virtual world dynamics, Firefly websites, art of love? Lets share them here :)

[Varahi Lusch]

Thanks for sharing kerm. It's an interesting illustration also of how women can often be part of the problem in reinforcing male on female violence by justifying it in 'light ways'

Kermudgeon Baar said:

Cute one on Consent

[Varahi Lusch]

http://howtoallow.net/whats-important-feeling-good-trick-question/

[Beeflin Grut]

Maggie McNeill speaks out about the unwisdom of shutting down The Review Board, a Seattle sex workers' "safety net" website. It immediately reminded me of the fact that we have a tightly protective system in our Guild. https://maggiemcneill.wordpress.com/2016/01/08/too-close-to-home/

[Varahi Lusch]

Oooh thank you so much.. this will be an interesting read - just to see the human mind opening up to the fact things are really happening in virtual worlds is inspiring. 

Flynt Firebrand said:

Interesting article on the use of aesthetic elements to present Buddhism in Second Life, with a brief section on tea houses /tea ceremony. It's a bit dry and scholarly, but worth a skim:http://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/volltextserver/11295/1/02.pdf

[Beeflin Grut]

Wow, those first two lines are hugely helpful - (1) Know you're under attack, and (2) Know what kind of attack you're facing. They ensure that our analytical mind keeps operating long enough to devise a strategy rather than giving in to panic.

[Beeflin Grut]

Sounds like a good idea!

[Lysana McMillan]

That would be wonderful. I'm already fascinated, both by what I recognize and what I don't.

Flynt Firebrand said:

Once I'm advanced enough in the Guild to teach, I could teach this stuff, if folks think it would be useful.

[Joseph Max Firecaster]

Very informative, and shows that our Guild is very in keeping with "canonical" tradition.

http://firefly.wikia.com/wiki/Companion's_Guild

[19g3xc9ffjalf]

An interesting comic about the life-span of twitter can be a model for any virtual social environment.

take a look at the Comic

[Lysana McMillan]

Ouch. I rode the Twitter wave and had an awesome time, but when I go back now, it's a shadow of itself. Like LiveJournal.

And yes, without care and attention to things like shared culture and thoughtfulness, the bullies really can wreck a place.

Kermudgeon Baar said:

An interesting comic about the life-span of twitter can be a model for any virtual social environment.

take a look at the Comic

[Beeflin Grut]

I don't get what you mean. Surely Twitter is just who you follow? Why read anyone else? There isn't time. My main Twitter account @totnesmachelp is a stream of geeks and musicians (including most of Yes' many keyboard players and all my friends) and if anyone gets nasty I block 'em. Where is this Twitter the comic strip is bemoaning, where you're forced to read the trendy stuff? I don't recognise it.

[Lysana McMillan]

I think the trendy stuff they mean at least in part are the ads, which can be partially avoided but not completely. And if you're a woman or person of color on Twitter, you run the risk of being bombed by dozens of strangers in your mentions column if you get noticed by the wrong one. Sure, you can lock your account to just the people you choose to see it, but that's not going to contribute much to free discourse.