Budsofstone @budsofstone@computerfairi.es

It's time for that new tradition where everyone waves a COVID test swab a foot in front of their face so they can tell everyone that it must be allergies because they took a test and "it's not COVID."

How do abolitionists treat wealthy or well-connected people "escaping justice"? Are we supposed to say "We don't think anyone should be in prison, so it's good that [Hunter Biden] Isn't going to prison"?

Not really. A presumption of immunity for powerful or wealthy people is what lets the prison system exist. If they thought that they'd have to deal with it like anyone else, they'd change it. Immunity for elites or their relatives does not lead to abolition.

As a disabled web accessibility practitioner. This pisses me off. Extremely.

GENERATIVE AI DOES NOT AND CANNOT EVER REPRESENT DISABLED PEOPLE.

Just fucking hire disabled people like me who know what they're doing.

Believing AI over disabled people is ABLEISM and DEHUMANIZING. For fucks sake.

Your annual reminder...

Biden ignoring the normal federal pardon process for Hunter contrasts with his we-must-respect-the-process posture when it came to abiding by a parliamentarian’s advisory ruling that blocked a minimum wage increase for millions of workers.

It’s almost as if the process is only selectively honored.

@aral when you find yourself writing "legally killed children" is when you need to stop and check yourself and wtf you are doing

dear gay conservatives: fuck you, you traitors

The very normal urge to want to be trained like a dog

Biden is the fucking worst. own that and learn from it. it's the only way to understand how, when your political opponent is a fascist, YOU CANNOT BE A CENTRIST.

Biden's fascism-lite is still fascism. when your opponent is a fascist, you cannot be anything but antifascist. everything else would just be a replay of their treachery and corruption.

https://apnews.com/article/biden-son-hunter-charges-pardon-pledge-24f3007c2d2f467fa48e21bbc7262525?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

The right pushed "antisemitism" accusations against Jewish college students protesting a genocide in order to render such accusations meaningless and absurd in general. They watered down the concept so they could get away with it easier themselves.

And Democrats helped them.

when you dared to suggest anything remotely "fun" or "quality-of-life improving" on the mastodon github

wow, it was 5 years ago today that the first person in Wuhan, China got sick with what we now know as covid-19, triggering catastrophic loss of life as well as what must be the largest and most ridiculous anti-science campaigns in human history.

state socialists: but what if we wield state power? we won't get corrupted because we have good intentions! prommy! it's not like centralizing power creates a single source of failure for corruption and misanthropy to take hold or anything!