homebrew, jailbroken gender, and having services to facilitate whatever the hell kinda body can make your life worthwhile? good, love that. top-down gender impositions, and being turned away from the aforementioned services for doing gender wrong? bad. sexual and reproductive violence, and perpetually-precarious nuclear families that hide the crimes of child abusers from the intervention of other adults? bad.

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**orthogonal to alive** · Dec 05, 2019, 22:11

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**Mads "Out of Service" Viande** @byttyrs@radical.town · Dec 05, 2019, 22:11

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Mads "Out of Service" Viande @byttyrs@radical.town

asking a cat if she's read anything François Guidoffe wrote on the subject

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**orthogonal to alive** · Dec 05, 2019, 19:43

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**9th level spell slut** @hierarchon@inherently.digital · Dec 05, 2019, 19:43

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9th level spell slut @hierarchon@inherently.digital

@eightbitsamurai

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**orthogonal to alive** · Dec 05, 2019, 21:19

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**Mads "Out of Service" Viande** @byttyrs@radical.town · Dec 05, 2019, 21:19

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Mads "Out of Service" Viande @byttyrs@radical.town

I am willing to make any move and any lifestyle change that will make nobody ever talk to me about Marvel fillums or Game of Thrones or future media in the same niche

**orthogonal to alive** · Dec 05, 2019, 18:19

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**Dongle Goblin ** @baronvonjace@elekk.xyz · Dec 05, 2019, 18:19

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Dongle Goblin  @baronvonjace@elekk.xyz

Linux Mint’s default desktop environment is Cinnamon. Shouldn’t that be renamed to Cinnamint?

**orthogonal to alive** · Dec 04, 2019, 23:20

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**frongus by scrongus** @seafrog@glitterkitten.co.uk · Dec 04, 2019, 23:20

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frongus by scrongus @seafrog@glitterkitten.co.uk

i did not make this but i love it and im spreading its message

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**orthogonal to alive** · Dec 05, 2019, 16:44

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**Leelums 🇭🇹** @Leelums@mastodon.art · Dec 05, 2019, 16:44

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Leelums 🇭🇹 @Leelums@mastodon.art

Navigating leftist spaces devoid of brown & black people is so tiring

White leftists be like: "just forget about race bruh it only exists to divide the working class. black empowerment is exactly the same as white power brosef stop caring so much about race. so divisive, we only have ONE enemy *expresses very surface level analysis of the shortcomings of modern identity politics that only serves to absolve themselves of white guilt and nothing else*"

**orthogonal to alive** · Dec 05, 2019, 12:00

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**Angela Glansbury 🚽** @floppyplopper@todon.nl · Dec 05, 2019, 12:00

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Angela Glansbury 🚽 @floppyplopper@todon.nl

@intherain @Galdrakinn
When voter turnout was on the decline in the UK (until very recently, well within the living memory of anyone entitled to vote) this was also interpreted as satisfaction with the status quo.

Anyone who imagines that not voting is an effective way of flipping-off capitalism is living in a fantasy world.

**orthogonal to alive** · Dec 05, 2019, 11:46

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**Holly 🇳🇱🌹🇪🇺** @intherain@mastodon.social · Dec 05, 2019, 11:46

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Holly 🇳🇱🌹🇪🇺 @intherain@mastodon.social

@floppyplopper @Galdrakinn In The Great Hack they discussed exactly this technique -- Russian bots in 2016 posing as black activists telling blacks not to vote because it meant participating in a corrupt system, and the same thing happened in Trinidad and Tobago in 2013 with the Do So! movement. An easy (and apparently effective) way to silence people you don't like is to convince them to just not vote.

Voting is your most powerful leverage against a corrupt system.