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

I get it, the Nazi bar analogy for Twitter so incredibly appealing, for white people, and I personally left Twitter over a year ago. However if you use it to kick down? You're part of the fucking problem with this place.

If you can't recognize that the ability to leave Twitter is a Privilege? You're not really doing the work you need to do to understand structures of power and privilege, and how important community is for marginalized groups. And marginalized groups always build these community under fascism and oppression. It's not their fault if you haven't realized the problem until now.

Instead of punishing people who are still requiring to be present on Twitter to pay the bills, help them once they show up here.
Support their calls for help, commission art, etc etc etc.

Help facilitate the move, use your privilege to help people instead of just kicking down.

I just wish people would think more critically when it came to the Voice stuff, instead of pushing points without thinking.

Like, people keep saying that the Voice is an important step in the way to Treaty.. I'd invite you to think about it a little more and consider we have a good reason not to believe that (235 good reasons, tbh..).

Does the Australian government want Treaty?

-- if yes, why aren't they asking a referendum about it?

-- if yes, why aren't they clearly stating that they want Treaty?

-- if no, do you believe that they would institute a Voice as a step towards something they don't want?

-- if no, doesn't it make sense that the Voice is a set up so we stop pushing for Treaty?

It all comes back to what Audre Lorde warned - "the master's tools will never dismantle the master's house"

#VoiceToParliament #AusPol #Aboriginal #Indigenous #Decolonise #SovereigntyNeverCeded #Treaty #TreatyBeforeVoice

[If you're a settler, please don't comment. Just shush and have a think about it instead of taking space]

A follow-up call to action: protect and guide the young people in your workplace. Point out the importance of rest, of not being a hero to cover for systemic failures beyond your pay grade, of getting paid for your time, of the cost of disability.

You may be the first person to let them know it's ok to ease off, or to have boundaries with work.

If not you, who?

I don't say this with any particular bitterness, more that this seems to be generally how it is, and you should know that your loyalty to your team and the people that employ you is just not worth the damage that you are doing to yourself, because that loyalty will not be there for you at the end of the process, and healing takes a surprising amount of time.

To put it in ecological terms, your health needs to be a sustainable resource for you. There is no safety net.

PSA: until you've experienced burnout, you are likely to underestimate how long it takes to recover. It's not a couple of months, it's 6-18 months for partial recovery, and maybe 3 years for full recovery (all depending on how bad it gets). The company burning you out will almost never support your recovery, mostly they'll drop you when you stop being productive.

Nobody in business cares about your health but you, so be your own advocate, or suffer the consequences.

A lot of “thinking” about AI is based on AI’s marketing, rather than what AI does.

theres only two genders. Santa claus and the easter bunny are real. These are facts i was taught since childhood therefore are true

Da unser Fahrgastinformationssystem per Lautsprecher (seit Wochen) kaputt ist, haben wir zur Sicherheit die Verfügbarkeit von Informationen auf dem System, das noch funktioniert, massiv reduziert. Der gelbe Hinweis ist da permanent eingeblendet.

When your dog thinks he's in the Matrix

@CaribenxMarciaX as usual i think it's a case of white people waking up to the fascism that's been there all along, and instructing others who've been dealing with it already for years how they should deal with it... i'm reminded of folks coming here for the first time in november last year and then writing articles about how to behave on mastodon; same fervent + misguided + patronizing energy of the privileged new convert

starfield, the sequel to garfield,

People who keep shouting it's unethical to be on Twitter now I have some fucking questions. You still buying at fast fashion outlets? Driving cars? Flying in airplanes? You eating Tyson Chicken? Do you try to keep slave labor out of your coffee? Or do you just not like evil when it feels a little too in your face?