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RT @aquinton@twitter.com

This sentence from @stout_scout@twitter.com's excellent piece on being queer in outdoor spaces captures the main quality that I value in any community or place I include in my life. May every queer person experience this, and may we build a world where it's the default and not the exception. twitter.com/stout_scout/status

🐦🔗: twitter.com/aquinton/status/15

(and also arguably the whole cultural deal with Chinese labor being "cheap" has more to do with USA and other nations exploiting them than with China itself, thanks to how capitalism works)

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and this take is absolutely correct. the fault of a low-quality (even if potentially life-threatening) product doesn't lie within an entire nation. like the USA never built something that failed in a fatal manner before either twitter.com/Coatduck/status/15

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Amazon did not cut corners on their multimeter, Amazon never made a multimeter. all their Amazon basics stuff is dropshipped from the lowest bidder manufacturer. you can get higher quality things for cheaper on AliExpress guaranteed. please stop buying from Amazon

RT @Coatduck@twitter.com

I almost died today because amazon cut corners on safety features on their knockoff of a multimeter

🐦🔗: twitter.com/Coatduck/status/15

RT @alex_navarro@twitter.com

I always admired this kind of marketing. Here are some last names you know. We do not expect you to squint at this poster for the two additional seconds it would require to suss out what we're actually doing here. Enjoy the movie, early '90s dad.

🐦🔗: twitter.com/alex_navarro/statu

RT @maplesbian@twitter.com

"i don't think a software being called THE GIMP is hurting disabled people though"

i'm going to make a Free Animated Graphics Generation and Output Transport protocol, or as i like to call it, FAGGOT

i'm sure i'm not hurting any gays

🐦🔗: twitter.com/maplesbian/status/

it's funny how the people who say i'm bothered got bothered when i block them

gnu imp won't be a serious contender for anything until they change their name derived from a 1994 Quentin Tarantino movie derived from an ableist slur turned sex kink term but FOSS bois love their edgy joeks to own the libs, in the interim i'm happy to just pirate ps instead

RT @GabrielleBates@twitter.com

How to bear witness to someone’s excruciating pain, which you cannot fix, and love them well, knowing this dying journey is their own, and yet also entangled with yours, how to love—actively—& support in such a time, while there is time, this is a/the question

🐦🔗: twitter.com/GabrielleBates/sta

i'm sick and tired of it being a trans person reporting on the trans genocide we face every single fucking day. when is a cis ally going to show up for us?

RT @maplesbian@twitter.com

trans day of fight for us for once so we can rest today from fighting every other single day

🐦🔗: twitter.com/maplesbian/status/

RT @Atatra_Millie@twitter.com

hey, does anyone have experience going through the UK's legal system for changing gender on documents, etc, i've been reading the guidelines on the government site and it's all a headache and seems to contradict itself

🐦🔗: twitter.com/Atatra_Millie/stat

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