Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town

I don't have anyone in particular in mind here, but there is definitely a pattern I've observed that seems worth calling some attention to.

Entrenched, systemic oppression relies very heavily on making it difficult to change - that's the nature of power inequality: those impacted have less capability to affect things.

But *everyone*, regardless of level of privilege, is subjected to a kind of systemic exhaustion. "Change is too hard and too slow" is the bottom line, but the idea is rarely expressed so plainly. It's often felt, but rarely put into such blunt words.

So let's talk about spoonies for a second. I'm referring to those of us who have to be extremely careful about where we place our energy every single day, because we just don't have that much capacity to do *anything*, let alone all the things daily life demands of us, plus take on changing the world.

Oppression is designed so that the path of least resistance always serves to reinforce that same oppression.

This means that liberation is always going to be a huge amount of work. In fact, it is - by design - more work than we can actually take on directly, in a limited amount of time. This is *why* oppression has never gone away: it is literally designed to be immune to erosion.

But as anyone who is disabled or lives with chronic pain or illness can testify, just because it's too big to do all at once, doesn't mean we can't handle it at all.

We just have to be very, very wise about how we allocate our energy.

And anyone who wants liberation is going to have to learn those skills. Otherwise the system will continue to chew y'all up, spit you out, and eliminate yet another group of people who *might have* made a much bigger difference if you'd been able to avoid burning out.

So what better way than to learn from those of us whose literal daily survival depends on us being very good at that exact skill set?

#Disability #DisabilityJustice #Spoonies

OK, since people don’t seem to have learned their lesson about thread unrolling bots and services, here’s a short summary of why they are bad;

a) Non-consensual, b) removes content from the context in which is was published, which often means that c) it starts competing with the original, outside of control of the author, and then d) gets monetised when the service becomes popular, because cost, and opportunity.

If you want the feature, do the work of integrating it into the client.

Books You Should Read Instead of Harassing Black People 10/28

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we are a strictly antifascist organization. we have zero tolerance for fascism or anything that enables or allows it. (yes that includes capitalism)

We do not work with transphobes/fascists/racists. If you open an issue or PR on our git repo and we see you are one of those things, or hang out with people like that, we will kick you out of our space. We have no patience for bigotry, and we see no reason whatsoever to tolerate having it anywhere near us. Fuck terfs and fuck nazis.

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Sat Feb 11 08:31:33 PM UTC 2023

#fediblock

It was nice to discover/realise that I can be very much "let's end advertising as a business model"

and ALSO be like "it is not my problem that you have to find a new business model"

@joepie91 I have been trying to remind myself of how there are no utopias. When you migrate, you are not moving to paradise. You are just hopefully going somewhere better.

And once there, you are part of it. Which implies a responsibility to you, and you to it. Responsibilites like trying to make the place better for each other. No place is going to be perfect. But we as a community can make it better and better, until it's the best we can get it.

"A handful of companies own the #patents on virtually every #seed planted in the US. Now, a new crop of unowned seeds is bringing #biodiversity back to #farming."
https://worldsensorium.com/open-source-seeds-loosen-big-ags-grip-on-farmers/

#agriculture #food #monopoly #ossi (Open Source Seed Initiative)

FYI, I link to two earlier reports on this problem (2017 and 2019) in a tweet from 2020.
https://twitter.com/petersuber/status/1317831041055399936

Eventually people are going to need to admit that the internet is very much so a real and impactful part of our lives.

iiiiiiiii need some advice from other amateur porn people who have shot with partners. i want to shoot porn with someone. obviously there are collabs if i find someone else interested and then we find a way to share.

but i don't live near many porn people

can i just bring in a grindr dude who offers to "film together" and keep all the footage to myself as long as i cut identifying features out of it?

should i be paying them? if so how much?