FruityPotato🍐 @ze4os@computerfairi.es

"Why, here in America, the seeds of racism are so deeply rooted in white people collectively, their belief that they are `superior` in some way is so deeply rooted, that these things are in the national white subconscious. Many whites are even actually unaware of their own racism, until they face some test, and then their racism emerges in one form or another." - Malcolm X

Still. Fuckin. True.

I can’t wait until January 2nd, when I gorge myself on half-price goose and discount champagne

At least the rich are predictable

here, look at these lambs,

this bird said gay rights

going through my shitpost folder and there's so much gems

Hi! I’m a trans NB artist messing around with different mediums, fleshing out the things me and my partner find in our world-building sandbox. I use original fiction to process the queer+autistic experience, and dream up post-capitalist anti-patriarchal communities and lifestyles.

I.e. here be drawings of WLW and femme enbies, occasional musical attempts and nods to anarchism. Also random creatures and satanic undertones.

#introduction #introductions #MastoArt #queer #ActuallyAutistic #oc

here are some cute pictures

a lot of us could do with some right now

Queer update: Inventively queer today.

I have found out about hoochie Amethyst. Nice.

@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