releasing one of those "there's hair down there??" explaining/demystifying puberty for kids books but there's an entire section on what you can do if the puberty you're getting isnt the one you want
it's entirely unobtrusive from the outside, though, so you can sneak it past parents (or they might accidentally give it to their kids anyway)
this is the perfect place and time for my specific combination of degrees. by the power of cognitive science and queer studies i will make all the robots gay
Organised religion has corrupted one of the purest, most powerful and sustaining things in the human condition. It has imposed a middle management, not only in our politics and in our finances, but in our spirituality as well.
-- Alan Moore
@alyaza
one thing i saw recently was "when you vote, you're not picking your character, you're picking your opponent"
i really don't like biden, etc, but as a white socialist, i will vote for him over trump if need be, and i will vote for president no matter what. whoever the dem party fields will not kill as many people as trump will, and that's worth voting for, even if i have to resort to lesser of two evils voting
Its wild that tech is such a dominate industry in the US when it is so extremely vulnerable to worker stoppage and sabotage.
What are the means of production here? codebases, servers, and computers to create code on? 2 of those 3 can be distributed almost instantly. Only the demand for constant uptime prevents the 3rd from being handled in a decentralized kind of way...
Why is tech an industry at all? Why does lyft exist when we could make an open one? why does facebool? twitter?
antifascism
I find it interesting (or maybe concerning) that Rogue One was the least popular new Star Wars film and seems to me like the most realistically grim portrayal of revolution and fascists who believe in the propaganda, rather than just being “oh I’m evil”. And depicting the difficulty of unity in such revolutionary groups due to disagreement about what kinds of violence are excused in the name of the fight (something that every antifascist revolutionary group in history has dealt with).
state violence re: ableism and minimum wage
@gendertreyf @Fidgetcetera @interneteh i would be remiss not to note that the state also has a role in *creating* (through trauma, especially childhood trauma, poor living conditions, and violent policing) a not-insignificant portion of the disabled population which corporations are then exploiting
injuring people (and entire populations) so that you can then pay them less is part of how American capitalism functions
a bug, not a feature.
Genderless* cyberfae & co. at your service
assigned adult by the inexorable passage of time
don't use he/him or she/her pronouns for any of us without express permission
note that if we ever make you uncomfortable in any way please tell us so we know to stop. we're not always good at figuring these things out on our own