Always in my feelings when it comes to borders. Americans do not understand how violent they are and to speak of just "fleeing" reminds me of that every single time.
there is absolutely room to criticize terminally online folks who argue posting is praxis. however, twitter taught me what i need to know to escape a cult and access HRT. reddit cracked my egg. twitter and bluesky helped me reconnect with my jewish heritage. it’s a mistake to write it all off.
One day after AI is abandoned they’re absolutely going to tout cutting their emissions by half/a third without acknowledging they were pumping out more than ever chasing a pump and dump plagiarism scheme
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Just fwiw, the DC Statehood and Puerto Rico statehood movements are quite a bit different. There are a lot of people in Puerto Rico and in the diaspora who want Puerto Rican independence, not statehood.
@vancouverma.bsky.social is out here doing the work. We want to thank the community for showing up & helping us get supplies needed to keep our community safe during thisheatwave. many of us are dedicating our time to do the thing & are grateful for ur support. but we still need help!
But I can’t say that I’ve specifically seen “abolitionism” as a term often enough to have an opinion or to know the full context in which it is being used.
I could possibly see that, and some people who talk about prison abolition specifically do not broaden it out sufficiently IMO.
I have “abolitionist” in my bio, and what I mean is abolition of all systems of hierarchy, exploitation, and domination, not just prisons.
Many people, often cis men, often including myself (not cis but not the point), need to learn that not posting about it is an option. It's pretty often the preferred option.
My personal feeling is that in cases of sexual assault "I'm going to wait to see what else develops" is a fine, but if you loudly announce that what you're seeing is inadequate and not enough and should not be believed by anyone, that's not waiting to see what else develops.
It used to be that replies to a thread would not pop back up onto your followers' feeds if they were made later. so the twitter expectation of "this new reply will pop back up in my followers' feeds" didn't hold. So a habit developed of quoting your own posts to add new info
When we started dating, my wife was a huge Hanson fan (like concerts every year).
This led to us going on a trip to NYC together to see Hanson
Naturally had to get a picture
the thing about blind hero worship as an attachment to your favorite thing is that is pulls out of people, time and time again, their need to "rationalize" away empathy for the victims to make the thing their fav did okay or non-existent.
kill your fucking darlings.
A few people asked for some extra time on the weekend so I’m extending the dealing until Sunday so you can work on your art over the weekend! The situation in Gaza is really chaotic right now and anything you can do to help @jamalzuhir.bsky.social’s family is deeply needed ❤️❤️❤️
“It is not only racism but compliance with the enemy to stand outside of the social arena and permit America to continue to practice genocide against the Third World captive colonies because, although they resist, they don’t agree with us.”
“The possibility must be prevented of any individual or group of individuals being able to enforce their will over any other individual’s private life or to extract social consequences for behavior preferences or ideas.”
Kuwasi Balagoon
I have two different air quality monitors now (QingPing for home, Aranet for the road) and the CO2 readings tend to diverge, sometimes a lot. Why… is this, as in technical details?
The new COVID variant seems to be evading immunity from vaccines and past infections. COVID cases are up 250% in NYC. Remember the more you get covid your risk for long covid increases significantly.
Gaëtan's submission of his address book of sex partners pretty much sealed the deal on HIV being sexually transmitted. And because he submitted a record that extensive, he was at the center of a lot of the contact tracing.
On charts, Gaëtan was marked "O." Not 0, O. For "Out of California."
So hey, here's a thing I don't think a lot of folks know: That whole "Patient Zero" thing? The French-Canadian airhost who supposedly spread HIV all over America?
That's not real. That's not what happened or how it happened.