Budsofstone @budsofstone@computerfairi.es

... and will later end up on #Mastodon talking with other #autistic people who *are* interested... 🥰

Credit to Plantsages on FB

We're going to be constantly scolded that Biden was the "best" and "farthest left" president in decades who "helped workers" and "did everything the left asked for," but the left "refused to give him any credit" and he and Democrats still lost to Trump, forcing them to "move back to the middle." In reality, Biden did very little, especially for poor, working, and marginalized people, and the party was already realigning itself with Republicans before the election on, e.g., immigration.

See also: the time cops in Buffalo, New York casually smashed an old white guy’s head into the pavement in 2020 because he was in the vicinity of a protest critical of police violence.

I realize that “mask off” gets bandied about a lot but there’s always a substantive and observable shift in the way the state responds to critics of the status quo when elites feel genuinely threatened.

stop trying to categorize enbys as amab or afab.
that is just gender binary with extra steps.

Welp, Biden said nothing would fundamentally change, and it didn’t. I would say he was a disappointment but this was pretty much exactly what I expected to happen.

Elvis sent us this video from the grapes in Kern County. Workers share: This is the grapes that we are picking right now. The box has to weigh 21 & 1/2 lbs. This box has 8 bags in it. Look at the nice packaging my coworker did. #WeFeedYou

11 yrs ago I found this funny: 'How many Microsoft designers does it take to change a lightbulb? None. They just define darkness as “industry standard”

But now I can't unsee this:
'How many huge companies does it take to fix the climate? None. They just define global warming as “industry standard”

#repression #acab #racisme

Microsoft has used various tactics to delay Linux and even try to destroy it. While it may have supported SCO's lawsuits via proxy method, its current strategy involves buying influence within the Linux Foundation. This demos how corporations like Microsoft, SCO, IBM, and others, driven by greed and control freak natures, have attempted to control Linux. However, the GPL 2.x licenses protecting the Linux kernel have blocked these efforts so far ;)

I've noticed that this kinda trend when I post about my experiences with racism there's like a marked decrease in interactions in comparison to like other kinds of discrimination, and I don't fully understand like why?

Like I post about getting misgendered and I'll get a few hug reactions, but like about racism then crickets?

Like do people see angry brown woman hysterical at something that doesn't affect them and ignore? Or are like my posts too flame baitey and ppl don't want to engage?

It's not like I want to present myself like that, yknow. I'd love to be all uwu cutesy all the time but it's kinda hard to do when you're barely surviving under the boot of a racial hierarchy

Or is it like ppl don't know how to respond/don't want to "make things worse"? Idk if it's a euphemism for like telling me to fuck off or something but I've on multiple occasions been told by white people that they didn't interact with me because they didn't want "to make things worse"? Like idk racism isn't some magic extra category of discrimination that isn't comparable to anything else no? I mean in the sense like you can still use empathy to work out what is and isn't a helpful response to someone facing racism right? Like it's the same as any other kinda discrimination?

Or is it just like that the audience that I cultivate here is too white and like my posts just don't resonnate enough to be worthy of a response?

Genuine question I guess, like from my perspective I really can't understand why you wouldn't extend like solidarity to someone experiencing like discrimination just because it's not like the exact kind of discrimination you can relate to?