The breastfeeding thing.

I'm enough of a sufficiently unmotivated lazy git that I'm not going to risk suspension over this or move elsewhere or anything along those lines, but I am going to do that one day strike thing on June 6th (6th?), which is Tuesday, which means my journal will go all deleted for 24 hours. It's to protest LJ's decision that default icons of breastfeeding are indecent while male nipples are fine and dandy (and people's journals are set to be deleted soon because they've exposed people to the apparently unduly noxious and entirely legal sight of babies being breastfed). This is not a good decision for women's rights to a) breastfeed and b) to have women's nipples. I know some people are saying this is a very small thing to get het up about considering other protest-worthy things that are going on and that these sorts of temporary boycotts are pretty ineffective anyway. My answer is that clicking the delete and undelete buttons is going to use up precisely five seconds of my time that I could've spent on causes further up the hierarchy, and that in truth I probably would've spent unpeeling the first part of a banana. Plus I won't be posting or commenting that day, so that puts me several hours up on the deal. Basically, doing this doesn't automatically mean I or anyone else will be putting all other concerns on hold. And it don't hurt anybody.

I'll come back and add the links in a bit, but a good place to find stuff out and to see a braver protest in progress is yonmei's journal. It's a good place to go anyway.

The breastfeeding thing.

I'm enough of a sufficiently unmotivated lazy git that I'm not going to risk suspension over this or move elsewhere or anything along those lines, but I am going to do that one day strike thing on June 6th (6th?), which is Tuesday, which means my journal will go all deleted for 24 hours. It's to protest LJ's decision that default icons of breastfeeding are indecent while male nipples are fine and dandy (and people's journals are set to be deleted soon because they've exposed people to the apparently unduly noxious and entirely legal sight of babies being breastfed). This is not a good decision for women's rights to a) breastfeed and b) to have women's nipples. I know some people are saying this is a very small thing to get het up about considering other protest-worthy things that are going on and that these sorts of temporary boycotts are pretty ineffective anyway. My answer is that clicking the delete and undelete buttons is going to use up precisely five seconds of my time that I could've spent on causes further up the hierarchy, and that in truth I probably would've spent unpeeling the first part of a banana. Plus I won't be posting or commenting that day, so that puts me several hours up on the deal. Basically, doing this doesn't automatically mean I or anyone else will be putting all other concerns on hold. And it don't hurt anybody.

I'll come back and add the links in a bit, but a good place to find stuff out and to see a braver protest in progress is yonmei's journal. It's a good place to go anyway.

Update de la sunflowers.

I've been frantically busy (for me) but I do intend to do a proper sunflower update with photos soon, possibly on Sunday. Just a quick thingummy for now: most of the sunflowers are thriving. Number 2, in spite if its unfortunate injury, is actually the tallest at present, closely followed by number 1, then 8, 4, 3 (who's looking a little peaky but is in no immediate danger), 7 and 9.

Runtface went outside two days ago. He's doing extraordinarily well. He's onto his third set of leaves, is as stout and hearty a little sunflower as you're ever likely to meet and has overtaken 5 and 6.

5 is quite the freak, Alice. 5's two primary leaves fused to form one massive leaf. It then produced a single enormous second leaf on a little branch it developed specially for the purpose, and is now working on two others of varying sizes. It seems happy enough doing its own thing.

6 doesn't look entirely healthy - a bit wan and now the smallest of the bunch. But the plan is to move both 5 and 6 outside soon. I'm sure both shall benefit from a spot more sunshine. Just need to make a couple more slug collars.

And that was the sunflowers at 23.43.

Update de la sunflowers.

I've been frantically busy (for me) but I do intend to do a proper sunflower update with photos soon, possibly on Sunday. Just a quick thingummy for now: most of the sunflowers are thriving. Number 2, in spite if its unfortunate injury, is actually the tallest at present, closely followed by number 1, then 8, 4, 3 (who's looking a little peaky but is in no immediate danger), 7 and 9.

Runtface went outside two days ago. He's doing extraordinarily well. He's onto his third set of leaves, is as stout and hearty a little sunflower as you're ever likely to meet and has overtaken 5 and 6.

5 is quite the freak, Alice. 5's two primary leaves fused to form one massive leaf. It then produced a single enormous second leaf on a little branch it developed specially for the purpose, and is now working on two others of varying sizes. It seems happy enough doing its own thing.

6 doesn't look entirely healthy - a bit wan and now the smallest of the bunch. But the plan is to move both 5 and 6 outside soon. I'm sure both shall benefit from a spot more sunshine. Just need to make a couple more slug collars.

And that was the sunflowers at 23.43.