Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town

I needed to read this today. My New Years revolution is to live life vibrantly, like a benevolent alien.

I think it might help. 🧡

“Nice is not the same as kind.
Nice is not the same as ethical.
Nice is not the same as moral.

The older I get, the less interested I am in “nice.”

Nice is the gift wrap; it says nothing about what’s inside.”

-- @lingerie_addict@twitter.com

https://twitter.com/lingerie_addict/status/991532263266496512

kids' t-shirts are so weird. girls t shirts be like "🦋✨gorgeous✨🦋 rainbows 💖💫💃🌈pretty💅💛" and the boys t shirts be like "KILL YOUR SISTER💀🔫👿 SHIT YOUR PANTS 💥🔪👊CARS 🚘🚔"

This is also related to the myth that "racism will die out" or "homophobia will die out" as older people die.

No, bigotry and fascistic attitudes *don't* just die out, they must be actively fought and defeated on an ongoing basis.

Because sometimes we make the mistake of thinking "Oh, the youth must not be bigoted like their forebears" but guess what.

If that were true we wouldn't have had the tiki torches or the terf explosion.

Allies and enemies in every generation.

(4/5)

love going back to do a task i can't remember why i stopped doing and being reminded "oh yeah i went over to do this other thing" and repeating this loop twenty-six times before finally coming back to the original task

Sick of people calling everything in crypto a Ponzi scheme. Some crypto projects are Pump-and-Dump schemes, while others are Pyramid schemes. Others are just middlemen skimming off the top. Others are just standard-issue fraud.

Stop glossing over the diversity in the industry.

De glijdende schaal van de afgelopen 20 jr van racisme verkopen als “zaken benoemen” en “politieke correctheid afschaffen” heeft ertoe geleid dat regelrechte nazi-retoriek nu niet meer herkend wordt en mensen zich oprecht afvragen wat er racistisch is aan nazi-leuzen.

fuck up Nazis, yes. make their bullshit unacceptable. make them afraid to show their damn faces or speak their hate.

BUT THIS MUST BE PAIRED WITH

positive action toward the oppressed groups Nazis target. they MUST be supported, protected, welcomed

be suspicious as fuck of anyone who is super excited about punching Nazis but "meh" on actually helping the people Nazis target

cos those folx aren't rejecting the marginalization, just the crass approach to it

Useful term I discovered this week: “toxic mimicry”. It’s the pattern of substituting systems/organisations/services that look superficially like they fill a core societal need but in fact act to take up the space that a genuine system would fill, and only provide virtual nutrition.

Examples:
- 6pm TV news mimics public discourse
- Malls mimic public spaces
- Daycare mimics collective child rearing

I like the term as it suggests something predatory and insidious.

https://blog.mastodon.se/inl%C3%A4gg/%C3%A5siktspolis/

#Fediblock mastodon.se - this is a post from the admin speaking about allowing anti-abortionists, anti-political correctness, people who have been harassing other users, etc., because the admin doesn't want to be the 'thought police'.

oh no this version of the Hannah Hillam Are you going to sleep? meme is… just, oh no

4 days ago, a Las Vegas pastor was arrested for molesting a child.

5 days ago, a Connecticut pastor threatened to kill a boy he abused.

6 days ago, a Delaware pastor was arrested for paying a runaway child for nude photos.

7 days ago, a Montana pastor was arraigned for sexually assaulting 4 girls.

8 days ago, a Maryland pastor was caught with child porn.

15 days ago, a Kansas pastor was arrested for sexual assault of a child.

IT'S NOT DRAG QUEENS.
IT'S NOT TRANS PEOPLE.