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@ifixcoinops bee butts i saved off here a couple months ago for emergencies like this

How to write a trans- and nonbinary-inclusive gender demographic question on a survey in one picture (taken from a dissertation by M.L. Haupert, see following):

Part of why we say "solidarity not charity" is because the way charity is typically presented gives moral superiority to the givers - and often, moral inferiority to the receivers (or sometimes "takers," if they decide to be particularly transparent about it)

Truisms like "it is better to give than to receive" implicitly contain "it is wrong to receive help." It's wrong to ask for the support you need, to want it, even to accept it when offered. Panhandling, for instance, is often portrayed not just as shameful, but immoral - even greedy

Solidarity, and especially mutual aid, are meant to reject that dichotomy. Everyone at Food Not Bombs eats together, volunteers and otherwise, and talks to each other. Our Free Store puts "it's free because it's yours" all over its reading material - it's not a gift, not a blessing, not charity. And that makes *such* a big difference

This mirrors the psychology of how I got sucked into the alt-right pipeline years ago. My general frustration with society was exploited to gaslight me, and those fascist scum are targeting teens, and people with autism for recruitment : https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/12/opinion/sunday/white-supremacist-recruitment.html

the thing I have said to argumentative reply guys that shuts them up fastest is "I don't believe that you believe that."

if they're particularly stubborn, you can bring out the big guns, "I'm not naive enough to believe that you're naive enough to believe that."

Reminder that if you think technology is just bad in itself and just doing without it is edgy or punk or whatever, you're probably being ableist.

I wear spectacles for my eyesight, and an exoskeleton on some joints, and have been pretty dependent on a bicycle as a mobility aid at various points in my life (and expect to be again). When I get to the point where leaving the house means using a powerchair, then I'll do that too.

Things like Alexa or whatever aren't terrible simply because they are convenient, it isn't immoral to find that some services make life easier. What is immoral is organising our society in such a way that the easiest and most accessible way for many people, especially oppressed people, to get things they need is to use corporations that treat people so badly.

And yes, boycotts can be part of reorganising things, but I'm still not going to ask e.g. my blind friend to stop using Amazon.

player 1: [rolls a 10 on deception] you could refer to me as human

player 2: [rolls an 8 on insight] what a fun way to say a perfectly normal thing

Oh while I'm on the topic of #literature #recommendation:

If you like intelligent #scifi #read (or #listen to) everything by Vandana Singh you can get your hands on.

She. Is. Amazing.

I don't know many authors that blow my mind on a regular basis but she certainly is one (and N. K. Jemisin another ^__^).

I think you can still buy her newest #shortstory collection but she also has a few stories online from Lightspeed etc:

http://vandana-writes.com/short-stories/

#amreading

'you' actually *became* a singular pronoun at a particular point in the history of English. this is not clearly true about 'they', which seems to have been the unmarked, ungendered singular pronoun for as long as the recognizable personal pronoun system has been in place

there was, however, a historical moment when a bunch of 'grammarians' (again: made-up job!) with a boner for Romance languages began to insist that 'he' was a gender-neutral pronoun. this seems to have never taken root in the spoken vernacular, ever

Oldie but goodie

cishet guys be like "did u just assume my gender" bc u referred to them as men instead of toddlers

the Earth's rotation is slowing down and eventually we'll have to add leap seconds onto every day.

the solution of course, is to increase the rotational speed of the Earth.

We can do this one of 2 ways. We could use spaceguns to fire off mass into the sun in a westerly direction along the equator for a long time. The other thing we could do is drag the mountains to the seafloor, and due to conservation of angular momentum it will increase our rotation speed.

Or we could just add leap seconds.

Amazon announces "Cyberpunk dystopian mass-suveillance as a service".

Republished from: https://twitter.com/hourlyFox/status/1146663692630659072

Today's gender is a small screaming red panda.

Look at my nb wife's tiny aesthetic kitty and boost her.