jk I'm all about that bread @danishcookies@computerfairi.es

Syndicalist types who are serious about implementing workplace democracy need to get over their aversion to finance and engage seriously with it as a practical discipline, not just as a rhetorical tackling dummy. Capital appropriates the whole product legally because it assumes the liabilities of production, and if workers want to appropriate the whole product we have to know how to assume those liabilities intelligently and have some notion of how to bend finance to a moral end.

@dankwraith In addition, Free Software is (and always will be) a necessary requirement for a Free digitally connected society. It's not the only requirement, but its a fundamental requirement.

@dankwraith The Open Source movement's goal was to make "Free Software", with a specific political goal, palatable for business. In doing so they sold the idea that people would spend their free time developing other people's commercial products.

Free Software has never claimed this. We fight for Freedom on the grounds of freedom.

tactics must shift with the times. "free software" was a valuable resistance against the commercialization of software as it existed at the time and produced many useful and valuable projects, but now it is simply used as a method of wage evasion for some of the most profitable entities that have ever existed in human history

Sun Tzu's "The Art of War" contains much that should be considered also outside war, even in such distant situations as debates.

Here's an anecdote and one of my conclusions from it, to accompany the quote-picture I just made:

Sun Tzu faced a much superior army, so made sure to place own army so the troops could only die in defeat or win, while the opponents could flee,
which made those troops fight not just because ordered, but for their lives and thus defeated the superior army.
That is Sun Tzu's "on death ground".

This can and should of course also be understood in reverse:
Always make sure your opponent has an obvious and attractive way out of the conflict,
preferably in the direction YOU want it to go.
If they see no way out, you have placed THEM "on death ground", giving them strength.

Ignore the title, it's a Trans Women examining a TERF Google Doc claiming Trans People are Lesbophobic.

https://medium.com/@notCursedE/the-lesbophobia-of-transacativism-8af7948df165

Moments after this was taken, Evelyn fell off the chair

https://twitter.com/sangoroid/status/1103265606864797697

sometimes the missus tells me she looks at masto on my phone and just puts it away, confused, saying we have our own dialect she doesn't understand. Then, other times she says things like, "Ah, yes, the mouth.... the vagina of the face."

Good morning! There's a cat curled up beside my thigh, and in a little bit I'm gonna get up and make hmm pamcakes.

Basically I hope your day is going as good as mine is so far, and I hope all our days stay good!!

Labour MP Siobhain Mcdonagh: “to be anti-capitalism is to be anti-semitic”

https://nyebevannews.co.uk/labour-mp-siobhain-mcdonagh-to-be-anti-capitalism-is-to-be-anti-semitic/

Yes, obviously, because according to her the jews control the... hang on a sec, who was antisemitic again?

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@lunaterra I started with 1am posting and then slowly became an anarchist

1am real anarchist posting hours

you good?

The other night I was saying there needs to be protective swimwear at a range of prices? I found a cute enough rash guard for $29 at Superstore! (Still on the lookout for a long sleeved one, too.)