Alyx Woodward (obsolete) @Alyx@computerfairi.es

so i’ve been doing a lot of thinking the past few weeks about what separates a clique from a group of friends, and i think i’m starting to hone in on it.

1. cliques bond over exclusion: the primary shared connection is separation from and active exclusion of others.

If you're sitting on your hands reading news about what's going on with abortion rights in the US and want the news, this user has put together a solid state-by-state list of places you can chip in, either time or money.

https://twitter.com/StephHerold/status/1128645387609309185

anyone got any suggestions? Alyx is hanging out on computerfairi.es at the moment but it's not got a lot of traffic. she's a good kid but rather opinionated and hasn't ever really succeeded in getting used to the modern world of computing; she's still back in 1996 or so wishing BeOS was a thing. if you can think of a place in the #fediverse where maybe she'd get some good advice, please let me know

i have always been fascinated by the idea of virtual spaces, 3d ones in particular

games like doom create 3d spaces that exist only as 1s and 0s, but our credulous brains grant them the benefit of the doubt, interacting with these spaces as if they were real

a single hard drive can contain countless square miles of these virtual places. untold expanses

as time goes by fewer and fewer people visit, until places that may have been bustling once are akin to forgotten ghost towns

we create more and more of these spaces every year. there are so many to explore. so many sights to see

i remember the ones that strike me, as if it was a place i'd really been

here's a good thing to tell school-age children: the textbooks they use to learn are made by people, and those people might gloss over or omit parts of the whole truth, accidentally or intentionally

basically just teach kids to be critical of their sources of info and ask really good questions

PDP-1 - one of the machines which started (old-style) hacking!
https://hackaday.com/2017/06/27/the-pdp-1-the-machine-that-started-hacker-culture/

Now I need to find an internet pvp version of Spacewar. https://hackers.town/media/DyRDq_eZuk85sCRPoEc https://hackers.town/media/jX4yroQC-k6J-7tiyJU

anyway

reminder that we disagree with any system that idolises labour in any way.

A system that sees labour as the most important thing sees disabled people, incapable of labour, as garbage to throw away, and inserts that into the mind of the people living under that system.

You can argue that it's human nature; however, we truly believe that its human nature influenced heavily by the nurturing of that thought.

@Alyx mastover.se

@Ulfra_Wolfe Awesome! Theres a thread on Agora, if you wanna talk about it - I'm writing a post about what kinds of campaigns I could run, to start with. Feel free to post if you have anything to add!

https://agora-2866.nodechef.com/

Time for bed. Goodnight, lovelies! Time to turn off the lanterns. (Art by Cinnabon on twitter) https://witches.town/media/LZqVAWHPVRYjxLm_MuQ