orthogonal to alive @avi@computerfairi.es

“Americanization Day, Loyalty Day, and Labor Day have one troubling fact in common: They are stark evidence that the U.S. government has long held a vested interest in quashing dissent and cracking down on radical political organizers; in this case, the anarchist, communist, socialist, and trade unionist workers who were behind some of the greatest working class struggles of the 19th and 20th centuries.”

https://www.teenvogue.com/story/history-labor-day-us-government/amp

believing that you're a purely free thinker is what's stopping you from ever being genuinely critical

@OCRbot

i saved this and this is the //only// good post ive ever seen @hyperlink post

specifically looking young so when you personally remember things from the distant past it confuses people

I'm so proud to announce my new book about the racial politics of bathroom design, The Unbearable Whiteness of Peeing

@roxxers @avi the climactic one liner is literally Neo rejecting the name he was given at birth and insisting on the one he chose himself, so like, yeah

git push is when you tie your commits to balloons and let them rise up into the cloud

i want to tell people to be safe, to protect themselves, to be critical and careful about who they work for. but that literally isnt the problem. the problem is that young people are not safe while they start their careers. its a fucked up system that puts the onus on you to protect yourself from people who would take advantage of you while you are young and naive and vulnerable.