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What is 'a lot of work?'" (cw: late state capitalism) [1/4] 

A burned out friend of mine said, after listing a huge list of accomplishments, "I have no concept of what is 'a lot of work'" - so I thought I'd help explain. :blobowo:

"a lot of work" is what happens when you stop and think about the past 3 years of your life and you realize a lot of them are a blur because you spent so much of them furiously working the problems of multiple conflicting deadlines that a lot of it looks the same.

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Bumper sticker: "If it ain't a cat, it's a dog."

Well, bumper stickers don't lie. Guess I'm a dog now. So are many (though definitely not all) of you!

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Nonbinary people EXSIST and are RAD as FUCK

Meds 

On the bright side, 30 150's are about $12, compared to 60 75's (an equivalent amount) at about $26. Plus, it's only one large pill instead of two kinda big pills. So, net positive?

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Meds 

So, when I started Effexor (XR), I was on a 37.5 mg ramp-up dose. I'm now on 150 mg. Let me show you the size of these pills. To the left, you can see Effexor, 37.5, 75, and 150 respectively. To the right, an Exedrin Migraine, a 325 mg round of paracetamol, and a Benadryl. Note how large the Effexor 150 is in comparison to everything else. These are fucking *huge*.

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What happens when a person of color talking about racism says, "Don't tell me to CW this," and a white person does, in fact, tell them to CW it? Well, there's the obvious: A white person is disrespecting a person of color's boundaries in order to talk down to them.

But let's go subtler. What's happening in the mind of the white person who feels themself to be well-intentioned?

A collision of community norms. Many — not all!— people of color online feel that there is a tradeoff to be made between the urgency of a message and its potential triggers. When they and other people operating under those conventions interact, passing along information they may find upsetting because they judge it urgent, the system works as intended.

When someone whose etiquette system is CW-if-in-doubt sees this, it looks different. Perhaps like a violation! There's a clash of norms between different informal communities of use. For a really basic analogy, this is like seeing a photograph of a British car,

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Re: Re: subtoot, but kinda silly and good (it's actually not so silly and good) 

Some context on the "crisis actor" thing. That was in the account name that I blocked out. But, the account's been banned now, so, if it was a real person, the risk of exposing anything about them is now zero. So, yeah. Some bot named Crisis Actors.

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Re: subtoot, but kinda silly and good (it's actually not so silly and good) (actually, it is quite silly) 

Wait, *all events*?! *All* important people?! Actually, this one is quite very silly. Maybe it's not *that* bad

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Re: subtoot, but kinda silly and good (it's actually not so silly and good) 

I just realized that this one isn't quite as amusing as I thought. The "crisis actor" concept is actually kinda sorta very bad and dangerous. I'd like to think most of us here aren't ignorant, ill-informed, and/or gullible enough to fall for this, but it's still not as amusing because of that thing.

(The tie-in to the Illuminati is an interesting twist, though.)

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Subtoot, but kinda silly and good 

I love bots (or perhaps real people just mass copy-pasting) randomly replying to my toots with just the most random stuff. Whether it be no wife guy from around Christmas or this weird Illuminati actors account, it's rather amusing

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DLNA was the future
instead we got Chromecast

Re: last boost 

If you still support contrapoints, never speak to or interact with me again. If, by now, she hasn't given you ample proof that she deserves no support, then, quite frankly, you're the kind of bastard I'd rather never have to deal with again.

Re: Subtoot, subtoot meta with respect to myself (not really aimed at others) 

In case you think I'm calling you out, I'm not. This is a callout of myself and myself alone.

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Subtoot, subtoot meta with respect to myself (not really aimed at others) 

I hate that my first thought upon muting someone is "I should also subtoot them." No, me. You should not. Remove them from your timeline and move on with your life. There is no need to do something so toxic.

(This, ofc, isn't to say all subtoots are toxic. But sometimes, it's just uncalled for. Sometimes, it's okay to just mute and move on. You don't have to call out every little thing.)

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Tired: a straw has 2 holes
Wired: a straw has 1 hole
Hired: a straw has 0 holes because it's made of a rolled piece of plastic which at no point has a hole punched in it

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Contrapoints drama, more breadtubers going mask-off 

Oh GOD so this was what he had been up to lately? (He deleted this tweet)

Seriously, fuck hbomberguy. He's dead to me.

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Si eres nuevo en Fediverse y buscas difundir tu opresión hacia las personas trans y odias bajo una máscara de feminismo falso y trolling de preocupaciones, te puedo asegurar que rechazaremos en cada oportunidad. No hay un cuarto aquí para ese tipo de comportamiento y usted no es bienvenido.
Este es un espacio de inclusión, pero eso no significa que toleraremos su intolerancia.

Piérdete y no vuelvas.

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trebuchet terfs into the sun

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I say Trans Rights! :ms_black_heart::ms_purple_heart::ms_empty_heart::ms_yellow_heart::ms_transgender_flag:

Also, I don't need your permission to exist!

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