FoxQuirk 🦊 @quirk@computerfairi.es

@stolas to put on my srs hat a bit more...

honestly i get this feeling a lot myself. it is a hard time to be disabled and unable to work.

but i also keep reminding myself that... "a human must be useful and productive in order to exist" is bullshit. it is the very bullshit that my allies and friends are fighting against. and it's not bullshit that is hard-coded into human nature. (see the anecdote of a noted anthropologist, margaret mead, being asked what the first sign of a civilization was - and her answering 'a healed femur'. https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/10204722-a-student-once-asked-anthropologist-margaret-mead-what-is-the there are also plenty of archaeological digs that are from burials of people - even neanderthals, and earlier - dying old, old enough to where they wouldn't have been able to work or hunt for themselves, and quite possibly hadn't been able to do that for years, and other cases where the person obviously had some sort of birth defect and yet was supported by the community also for years despite "uselessness". to be human is NOT to tell someone they must be working to be valuable. even the neanderthals knew this, and they took care of the sick and elderly, and buried them with love, with kindness, with offerings of flowers and beads.)

and honestly... existing can be "productive". just sticking around when there are lots of motherfuckers ready to try and make you not exist? that's a battle. that's a battle that takes effort, and that you should give yourself credit for fighting.

we want a compassionate future where everyone is included. not just the productive. not just the profitable. everyone. and that includes me, and it also includes you.

still being here when forces want you in the dirt is noble in and of itself.

ok i may have spent some time making this mspaint abomination for the furry defense hours on facebook

but this one gets its own post because i feel others will find it useful

thinking about..... IT

There are two kinds of gaming controversy post-gamergate: One where a dev does something fairly innocuous before getting stalked and harassed for the next 5 years, and one where a dev does something actually horrendous before getting a pat on the back and a kiss on the cheek. Meanwhile, somebody somewhere makes a very long post about "cancel culture"

Ladies and Gentlemen
We understand that you
Have come tonight
To witness the sound
Of drum
And
Bass

We regret to inform you that this is not the case
Instead we bring to you
The sonic recreation
Of updating Windows 10

[*Increasingly agonised screams of boredom*]

i'm not going to do this but i feel like a fucking power play would be

"mom, dad, i'm thinking of changing my name"
"?? to what"
"holly"
"that's a girl's name, buddy"
"well, here comes surprise number 2"

me, a young person in 1998, watching mulan, a film about a person coerced by social obligation to adopt an artificial and discomfiting gender role which she must maintain at all times or risk exile, and who will only be accepted in her true gender identity if she surpasses an unrealistically high level of personal achievement far in excess of her cisnormative peers: ... huh

i deep conditioned my hair and it is super soft

(ec)