Budsofstone @budsofstone@computerfairi.es

anyway you perverts probably want to see inside of my terminal so... here you go.

i think you could solve a lot of the vaping/smoking problem and a lot of the meth problem by fixing adhd treatment but no one wants to consider that people might use stimulants for actual reasons

@GossiTheDog @zuck

No he did not. He was doing what he's doing now, playing to the incoming administration.

He doesn't get credit for doing the right thing then because his intentions had nothing to do with right and wrong.

The USA has released eleven more prisoners from Guantánamo. They had been held in the camp in Cuba for more than two decades on suspicion of involvement in the terrorist attacks of 11 September 2001. They were never charged.

Suzanne Lambin (1902-2008) was a pharmacist and microbiologist. A pioneer in biomedicine and biomathematics, she became the first woman to hold a chair at the Faculty of Pharmacy of the University of Paris in 1951. To honour her great work on the evolution of bacterial cultures, DSMZ researchers named the strain Nocardiopsis lambiniae (DSM 44743) after her.

Unfortunately, it was impossible to find a picture of her... 🙁

#herstory #HonoringWomenInSTEM #WomenInScience #microbiology

#OnThisDay, 21 Dec 1919, Emma Goldman - and 248 other radical 'aliens' – is deported from the US to the USSR.

Goldman was an anarchist campaigner for free speech, birth control and workers' rights.

She had been born in the Russian Empire in 1869, and emigrated to the US as a teenager in 1885. After her expulsion she lived in the USSR, England, Canada and France. She also went to Spain during the Civil War in the 1930s.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #AmericanHistory #Histodons

#OnThisDay, 7 Jan 1939, French physicist Marguerite Perey discovers element 87, which she later names francium. It was the last element to be discovered naturally.

Perey was a student of Maria Skłodowska-Curie. She was nominated five times for the Nobel Prize but never received it.

#WomenInSTEM #ScienceHistory #WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #Histodons

I will never understand why more people aren’t angry and radicalized by the events of the last five years.

The anti mask, anti-vaxx crowd are angry… but they’re also terribly misinformed and on the wrong side of history.

Those of us with disabilities are livid … but we aren’t heard. We’re treated as even more invisible now than we were five years ago. An unwelcome reminder of Covid and the frail nature of the human condition.

But what about everyone else? The anti mask crowd may be the loudest, but they’re far from the majority.

Why aren’t the rest of you angry? Why are so many people content to accept and normalize mass death and disability?

An article came out in PBS today that puts the total COVID deaths at over 20 million.

20 million people. Those are fathers, mothers, spouses, grandparents, siblings and children. Each number represents a loved one to someone else.

Where’s the outcry?

400 million are dealing with Long Covid. That’s an obscene amount of people whose lives are forever changed. Who may never again know what it’s like to be healthy or exist in a body that isn’t rife with suffering.

Where’s the rage?

We know how to prevent covid. We’ve known for years. Yet rather than adapting our lifestyle and being humble in the face of a novel virus - we’ve given it the reins.

We’ve conceded defeat before we even put up a fight. Accepted repeat infections as inevitable. Shrugged our shoulders as we report more and more deaths. Aggressively minimized and disappeared those with Long Covid.

This should make you angry. It doesn’t need to be this way.

What would success look like? What would fighting back entail?

🫶Mandatory masking in all healthcare facilities (with respirators)

🫶Free tests and vaccines for everyone

🫶Better funding of anti virals and other treatments

🫶Clean air in all public spaces with transparent data visible to the public

🫶Clean air on school busses and anywhere that children congregate

🫶Paid time off for everyone who’s sick

🫶Free respirators in public places AND freely available to anyone who can’t afford precautions

🫶A robust public health campaign about how to properly wear a respirator

🫶A brutally honest public health campaign about the dangers of COVID. We have to stop treating it like a respiratory virus and make the public aware that it’s a multi system vascular virus with immune damaging capabilities

Doing even a few of those things would make a huge difference. Doing all of them would end the pandemic.

Get angry. Get loud. Demand better. Demand transparency.

Say that 20 million dead is not “mild”. That 900 dying every week in the U.S. is not “over”. That 400 million disabled will NOT be ignored.

#covidisairborne #covidisnotover #sarscov2 #longcovid #pandemic #cleanair #wearamask #disability #ableism #eugenics

the visor of this one has been restored. please enjoy the boot animation and the Big Hat.

“Apple auto-opts everyone into having their photos analyzed by AI for landmarks”

All the companies really work hard on making sure I don’t trust them.

https://www.theregister.com/2025/01/03/apple_enhanced_visual_search/

"you should have stopped caring about Gaza and trans people" does not sound as cool as some people might think

In this time of Late Capitalism, I really think it's important that we put our efforts into breaking this repetitive (and predictable) cycle of "lesser evil" political parties failing to offer answers while holding the door shut on "leftists" and allowing fascists into power, over and over. We need to de-legitimise and actively undermine that system, through our own interconnected media, workplace organising, renters unions, mask blocs, and mutual aid groups everywhere. Time is running out.

FASCISM AS A SERVICE!

THAT'S WHAT THESE TECH OLIGARCH PARASITES ARE BUILDING!

Too many people take away the wrong message about social ostracization, & by "too many people" I mean white queers of course I mean white queers.

You do not fix a system that forces exclusion by making your own little specific clubs that you bar people from based on "vibes" or assumptions you made about them. Especially not when those said "bad vibes" are just someone standing up for themself, or not appealing to politeness, or being Black.

Just because you hold marginality in one way does not mean you are forever exempt from being capable of perpetuating the marginalization of another person.

Talking over people & denying their lived experiences so you can keep your "I'm a good person & not complicit in violence" mindset is not leftist. Is not progressive. Is not the path to freedom.

While I was sitting in a coffee shop on New Year’s Day, the man next to me asked me what I was reading.

It was "An American Sickness: How Healthcare Became Big Business and How You Can Take It Back"
by Elisabeth Rosenthal,
which I had been looking at because it is highly relevant to the conversation about American healthcare
sparked by the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson.

In fact, the book was directly referenced in the accused shooter Luigi Mangione’s manifesto. 

Coincidentally, I had just read Rosenthal’s discussion of why ambulances are so expensive,
and the man next to me turned out to be an Emergency Medical Technician (EMT).

So we quickly got into a fascinating—and disturbing—conversation about his life and work,
one that I think illuminates a lot about the problems with not only American healthcare but also with our economic system more broadly.

At first, the man, whom I’ll call D, told me some basic facts about his work that didn’t seem to have political implications.

He was from New Orleans but had been working lately on a contract basis for a company out in Texas.

He was back in town for the New Year but heading back west soon. The work in Texas paid better, he said.
Then, as he progressively revealed more facts about his work to me, it became clear that his life demonstrated the fundamental brokenness of our system. 

D casually mentioned that when he had worked as an EMT here in New Orleans, he had been homeless for months on end.

I was shocked. How?
Well, first, even though ambulances are incredibly expensive for patients,
EMTs are not actually paid very much.

The average hourly pay in the area is under $14, even though EMTs do crucial work saving lives
and have to do a lot of what doctors and nurses do with far fewer resources and in incredibly stressful and time-sensitive conditions.

D was not only being paid little, but even though he was working 7 days a week, 12 hour shifts, he was only getting paid for 3 of those nights.

How could that be?

Here was what had happened: D had worked for a private ambulance company.

They had made him what sounded like a good offer:
they would pay to train him as a paramedic (a higher level than a basic EMT)
if he committed to working for them for three years afterward.

Paramedic training requires both coursework and up to 1,200 clinical hours working at a hospital.

The company sent him to a community college in a different city for four months to do his coursework,
then when he came back to town he needed to do his clinical hours.

The clinical hours, which he did 4 nights a week, were unpaid,
because they were considered part of his education.

But the low salary meant he couldn’t afford rent, and he ended up living out of his car. 

Now, the work of an EMT is incredibly difficult, especially in a city with a lot of violence like New Orleans.

D was working long shifts, 7 days a week, seeing incredibly distressing and traumatic things.
(He said seeing violence against children was the most difficult to deal with.)

Eventually he burned out, and needed time off. But, he says, when he came back he was told that he needed to have his clinical hours completed by a certain date,
or else none of what he had done already would count.

The completion date was not possible to meet, since by the time the company had processed his paperwork the deadline had passed.

As a result, D not only lost credit for all the unpaid hours he had done already,
but he was told he would have to repeat the four months of coursework if he wanted to get his paramedic certification
—and this time the company would not pay his tuition, so he would have to take on debt.

Worst of all, the company said that because he did not complete the program, he was on the hook for the tuition and board,
and had accrued a debt of $14,000.

This meant that despite doing hundreds of hours of unpaid work, working seven nights a week,
he actually ended up being pursued by a debt collector, and didn’t even receive his paramedic certification! 

At that point, D quit to go and work in restaurants, which was better-paid work.

But he missed the satisfaction of helping save people’s lives, and so he returned to being an EMT.

He told me he was happy with his current life situation, saying he’d actually been very fortunate and has no complaints.

But when I inquired about what was better, he said that his new job in Texas paid less by the hour than he had been earning in New Orleans,
but he was able to stay in a house out there that his mother owned in exchange for helping to renovate it.

In other words, he hadn’t found a job that actually paid EMTs a living wage, but he’d been able to depend on family resources to make up for what his employer wouldn’t provide

https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/dont-tell-me-this-is-a-functional-country

Please boost as a reminder to the many, many creators who design pins and flags for literally every other identity, for people who forget or don't know that we are failed by the medical system the instant we're born, and for the rest of our lives, again and again.
We go into the hospital and say we're cis or trans, because otherwise we WILL be refused treatment out of hand.
Intersex People Exist, and we have a place in pride.

Work will not solve poverty, we already produce more food and housing than we could possibly consume. 

Survival only comes from organizations within our communities where we can do labor that solves problems, instead of labor that's thrown away