Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated) @joepie91@pixie.town

The US is a uniquely dangerous place to live, among wealthy nations. One in 24 Americans will die by accident - a 40% higher rate than Norway, the next most dangerous.

It's especially dangerous if you're already marginalized. As Singer writes, "whether or not you die by accident is just a measure of your power, or lack of it"

Going through my notes on There Are No Accidents by Jessie Singer (@JessieSinger), and I figured I'd share them here as I process them.

This is a book about how our systemic decisions make America a dangerous place to live. It really made clear to me that Covid is nothing new. We've always been needlessly cavalier with each other's lives - especially the lives of the poorest and most marginalized among us.

You can get the book here: https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/There-Are-No-Accidents/Jessie-Singer/9781982129682

@bookstodon #bookstodon non-fiction

Cold weather warnings in the UK for this next week and it just makes me so angry, as I think about how so many of us can't afford to put the heating on very much, or at all. I think about people that are roofless. I then think about energy companies making record profits and the late stage capitalism status quo hegemonic rubbish narratives that this is somehow unavoidable, inevitable and not the system working exactly as intended. So many people and the planet suffer because of power, capital, profit and related divide and rule when we could have everything for everyone.

#AntiCapitalism #AbolishMoney #Anarchism

If you lump enbies in with women on women's occasions, you sure as heck better lump us in with men on men's occasions, or ask yourself why not.

We are not a type of woman, we are not women-lite. Lots of us pass as men and fill male social roles every day and do not fit or do not want to fit in women's spaces.

#foxesInLove #comic

Source: https://foxes-in-love.tumblr.com/post/738765425054302208
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Nieuw op Egel:

Als het maar niet over Gaza gaat, nietwaar?

"Aandacht afleiden, het onderwerp veranderen: het is een trucje dat pro-Israëlische genocide-supporters graag toepassen. Het gaat als volgt. Terwijl wij met solidariteitsacties aandacht vragen voor de genocide in Gaza, oproepen delen voor sit-ins voor Ceasefire Now en Free Palestine en dergelijke, komen Israël-fans aanzetten met berichten over wandaden en bloedbaden elders, met een uitdagend zinnetje erbij in de sfeer van ‘Wanneer worden hier nu eens sit-ins voor georganiseerd’? Ach ja. Als het maar niet over Gaza gaat, nietwaar?

De sneer is duidelijk. Wel sit-ins voor Gaza. Niet voor de Oeigoeren, de Rohinya’s, vervolgde christenen in Nigeria of wie dan ook. De mensen van de Palestina-sit-ins zijn duidelijk inconsequent en hypocriet, anders zouden ze toch voor die andere slachtoffers ook wel actie voeren? Het is een verdachtmaking, een indirecte, nogal achterbakse poging om activisten tegen Israëlische genocide en voor een vrij Palestina verdacht te maken.

De poging is nogal doorzichtig, hoongelach is een goede reactie, volledig negeren ook wel. Maar omdat het mensen toch op het verkeerde been kan zetten, (...), kan het wellicht geen kwaad om de truc wat verder te ontrafelen."

Lees het helemaal via

https://peterstormt.nl/2024/01/05/als-het-maar-niet-over-gaza-gaat-nietwaar/

When my eldest was in kindergarten, they came home one day with an assignment to count something in their house.

We got a note from the teacher the next day, which I will paraphrase (because it's been 12 years): "Your child is very bright and clearly knows how to count, but you should probably explain that you don't actually have 15 computers in your house."

Our response: "Oh, you're right, Z missed a few in the basement server rack, it's actually closer to 25."

https://todon.nl/@schratze/111692939659656421

a thing I wish someone had told me when I was younger is that if you feel like you don’t really have emotions, or like your emotions are extremely muted or understated, or like you don’t understand what emotions are supposed to be, you are exhibiting a symptom of cptsd or chronic depression (possibly motivated by untenable material conditions) and you should look for help with that. that goes for men just as much as anyone. if this started around puberty you might also have gender dysphoria.

@wmd
Maybe not exactly the same. But we are organising a big community event with several hundred people for the fourth year in a row now, which means hundreds of hours of unpaid, often dull work.
A really good "trick" is to induce something new and fascinating from time to time. Something that you really want, a cool new feature, or implement an idea that big parts of the community wish for, so you get good feedback. Getting nice feelings from your work is most of the magic.

The season of me being annoyed by my fairy lights taking 3 AA’s and my battery charger only being able to charge either 2 or 4 batteries at a time but not 3 or 6 is almost over

For your own mental health, if an app has a "streak", you should break it at least once a week as a habit.

The longer they get the more unnecessary stress it'll give you.

They use it to drive numbers and cash flow, it's absolutely not a good thing and doesn't benefit you at all.

#PSA

Drugs prescribed for ADHD, high blood pressure & underactive thyroid all impair our ability to regulate body temperature & cope with heat. Others (including St John’s Wort, not mentioned here) make us more sensitive to sun.

Keep cool & cover up, friends. @actuallyadhd @actuallyautistic

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-01-06/how-medication-impacts-heat-and-sun-sensitivity/103216122?utm_source=abc_news_app&utm_medium=content_shared&utm_campaign=abc_news_app&utm_content=other

antisemitism on fedi is endlessly frustrating for me as a Jewish fedi admin but it is extremely hard for me to find even a sliver of care for white passing, cis Jews who turn around and are transmisic, misogynistic, and racist when they (validly!) complain about antisemitism on here.

honey, I feel as unwelcome with you as I do with them.

this is why I detest the whole “tribe” thing sometimes. idk.

it’s so condescending to me when I’m having a conflict with a cis Jew over something like transmisia or misogyny and they see it as a “it’s just a fight within the tribe/family” type thing.

To cis Jews: goyische trans people are as much my “family” as you.

It’s complicated and nuanced, but I just get so angry seeing people who I can actually fully understand what they’re going thru re: antisemitism on fedi but then they are like completely trash when it comes to treating women, fems, and/or trans people with respect. It makes me just not even care what they’re going through, to a fault tbh.

#cyberpunk