Lenalia! @Lenalia@computerfairi.es

Sara Ahmed in 2015:
“Whenever people keep being given a platform to say they have no platform, or whenever people speak endlessly about being silenced, you not only have a performative contradiction; you are witnessing a mechanism of power. I often describe diversity work as mechanical work. We know a lot about the mechanisms of power when we try to transform the norms embedded in a situation. The power of some to determine the discourse is often upheld by being concealed or denied. We need as feminists to offer some counter explanations of what is going on than the explanations offered by this letter. The narrative of “being silenced” has become a mechanism for enabling and distributing some forms of expression. Indeed I would even argue that the narrative of being silenced from speaking has become an incitement to speak: it incites the very thing it claims is being stopped.”
https://feministkilljoys.com/2015/02/15/you-are-oppressing-us/

I audibly gasped when I saw this and my partner correctly deduced that they should take a photo immediately

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cetaceans are u fuckimg kidding me wikipedia

#NowWithCaptions

the mastodon admin interface lets you approve or reject hashtags before they appear on your instance, but it doesn't give you that level of control for whether to federate with other instances despite the extremely well known presence of many nazi/terf/hate instances and the continual emergence of new ones

just because we live in an unjust society where there is no ethical consumption or production does not mean you no longer have a duty to minimize the harm you cause and put into the world

get a real degree in something like queer studies or critical race theory or some shit, not stem, not if you're gonna use it to build weapons

Gamers do it 🎵
Leftists do it 🎵
Even health professionals do it 🎵
Let's do it, let's... Portray whoever you're opposing as fat, because that's free game and might as well, right? Obviously it makes you more right if you point at your enemies and say "Haha, you're fat".

someone on twitter said "want shorter games with worse graphics made by people who are paid more to work less and i'm not kidding" and man do i agree.