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

there is not a wall more impenetrable than the one separating people's minds from realizing that the world doesn't have to be full of torment to be full of meaning

Whaaa I got stuck in a scanner!

It'd be okay if people let us actually live, or even SHARE how FUCKING SCARED this bullshit makes us feel.

But no. Whenever we do go "oh, hey folks, this is kinda scary" we're told to shut up or to stop being political.

I'm not going to lie. I'm not okay.
#LGBTQ

They want us dead. They want us dead and everyone who says "Oh, it's not so bad," or “you're just overreacting" is aiding this kind of abhorrent infringement on the rights of #LGBTQ people to exist.

I... am not sure what my future looks like. I cna't return to the UK. I can just hope that Oregon doesn't throw people like me under the bus.

🥗 TIPS TO "NOT GET SICK" AT CONS 🩺
*because ANE is during a heavy respiratory illness season

1️⃣ Wash hands/use hand sanitizer frequently
2️⃣ Eat! 🍣 🍕
3️⃣ Sleep 💤
4️⃣ Mask up in public spaces (inside and outside the con space)
5️⃣ Listen to your body - if you feel sick, take proper precautions

It's incredible how much space is given to a few people in motor vehicles vs so many more people on foot or wheels. It's a vast inequity.

Nowhere is this more stark than #ShibuyaCrossing; the world's busiest pedestrian crossing with as many as 3,000 people crossing at a time. Compared to around 12 cars fromone direction of the junction in one sequence. #Urbanism #CitiesForPeople

this is tomorrow!!!!! a furry rave at freeway park

#seattle

One thing I love so much about Mastodon is that you can just right click to copy any link and it just works as god intended. Almost all other social media sites hijack links with their trackers or make copying a pain in other ways

Rarely do you get to see the roots of post boxes like these ones waiting to be re-potted.

Industry also tried to argue that some people are just "accident prone".

Psychologists, usually on the corporate payroll, conducted studies attempting to prove that people who got into accidents had something wrong with them: they lacked strong religious values, had trouble with authority, were divorcees or gamblers or had "a psychosexual need to court danger."

Of course this was all bunk, and yet another example of scientists cynically serving those in power. (See https://www.merchantsofdoubt.org/)

One particularly obnoxious manifestation of industry's focus on individual responsibility is Otto Nobetter.

Otto Nobetter was an education campaign designed by the industry group the National Council for Industrial Safety. It was formed largely because states started passing worker's compensation laws, so businesses suddenly had an incentive to protect their workers from injury and death.

(BTW, one of the things this book has really affirmed for me is the extent to which blaming individuals for problems is not just ineffective at solving the larger problem, it *actively works against *system change. It is a tool wielded by those in power.)

Then the automobile industry began the process of normalizing traffic fatalities.

Core to their approach was an emphasis on human error. Accidents weren't due to systemic decisions (or corporate greed). It was all "human error". Pedestrians who didn't yield to cars were "jaywalkers" causing accidents.

The industry lobbied against restrictions like "speed governors" that would keep cars from going too fast and funded education campaigns to teach a new generation that roads were for cars.

Some accidents we try very hard to avoid. Others we accept as simply inevitable. Which kinds of accidents are which is not a matter of chance, it is driven by underlying power structures.

Back in the 1920s, when a person was killed by a car, people *rioted*.