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Still seeing people constantly lamenting that "people are so inconsiderate, not masking up, this is evidence that nobody cares about the well-being of others", and like

Am I the only one who observed many people initially taking precautions and then stopping to do so precisely when the government convinced them that it was not necessary?

I feel like nobody ever talks about the role of authority figures in this whole disaster, and everybody *insists* on individualizing this problem

If you:

A) live in the US
B) don't have health insurance,
C) make less than 5x the Federal Poverty Limit ($63k for a household of 1, $108k for a household of 3),

you can get PrEP and the medication will be at no cost to you through this program:

readysetprep.hiv.gov/

ETA: This post about PrEP has gone far. If anyone has updates or information please go ahead and add them to this post. The more we know, and all that.

A thing I have noticed as a non-anarchist:

Anarchists are still your friends, even if you're not an anarchist.

If you care about your civil liberties, they want that. If you want marginalized people to get the vote, they want that. If you want to unionize your workplace, they want that.

Some of them suck, and some of them are just cops wearing a V mask.

But most of the things anarchists want are things you also want!

fediverse pro tip! 

people actually open content warnings (you just did, yourself) and it's actually a form of interaction that increases the connection with other people! like stop being scared of content warnings and realize that they are a too-specifically-named labeled envelope for your posts, that your followers and mutuals will love to open and enjoy. they can be an important safety tool and a fun stim toy for people at the same time and they don't have to be only a serious thing! embrace the cw!

thanks for opening my little envelope 😊

#FediTips

It‘s december and you know what that means!

(Quelle unbekannt)

"Geert Wilders wordt gesponsord (en geeft dat niet op aan de Tweede Kamer).

De rijke extreemrechtse Amerikaan Robert J. Shillman trekt graag zijn chequeboek om democratieën te ondermijnen. Zo steunt Shillman ook de extreemrechtse terreurorganisatie Proud Boys. #PVV 🧵/1"

(Marc Speelman @marcspeelman )

I wonder how many people would be trans if there wasn't any stigma attached to it and you could get hrt otc

It’s not really useful to talk about #skynet and robot overlords when discussing the dangers of #artificialintelligence because that’s not what we have to worry about, at least not for a while yet.

It is much more useful to talk about the concept of #policymurder which is when systems codified by law and regulation squeeze people into destitution and death. See also “social murder.”

Cc: @carnage4life

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Misschien is het beter om geen protest te organiseren dan het halfslachtig te doen? Nu kan het op velen overkomen alsof slechts een handjevol mensen zich echt zorgen maakt. Dus misschien valt het toch wel mee met die Wilders? En de mensen die zich (terecht) belaagd voelen door het oprukkende fascisme zullen denken: moeten we het hiervan hebben? Zijn dit de mensen die ons steunen?

doorbraak.eu/sterke-speeches-b

Was handling disposal of a spicy pillow today, and it felt a bit like a slapstick movie - first I ran into an unexpected ice sheet (battery was in water overnight for discharge, and it had frozen over), then I got it out from under the ice, dropped it into a ziploc bag, and it fell straight *through* the bag

This is the first time ever that one of those bags has broken on me, what the hell

After typing out the same caption for the same image for like the fourth time...

Do... Do we have an image file format with alt text baked in??? Is that a thing? If it isn't, how??? And if it is, why aren't we using it?

re: subtoot, angry 

"But I don't have the energy to constantly be outraged about everything all of the time!"

Well maybe you should do some work on dealing with your own emotions around that then, and learn to deal with the reality of not being able to affect everything, instead of offloading that work onto others by arguing that their concerns are not real or trying to trivialize them.

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subtoot, angry 

And don't come at me with fucking rationalizations about how "it's your choice to come" or "some people just want to continue living" or whatever the hell else.

If you believe that it is a worthwhile or acceptable tradeoff to exclude vulnerable folks in exchange for "not being inconvenienced yourself", then actually stand behind that view and call it what it is - don't try to hide it behind euphemisms and justifications just to make your own emotional discomfort go away.

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Since it's that time of year where people everywhere start asking me whether I'm coming to , here's my answer:

No, it is not possible for me to come, because the orga has chosen not to implement any COVID safety precautions, forcing me to choose between "keeping my kidneys working" and "attending a hacker event".

i am infinitely grateful that fedi does not have "kink discourse" every other fucking week

When we found out that deodorants were destroying the ozone layer, did we stay telling people to use less toilet spray and buy less Axe? No, we legislated big corps and the problem was completely solved after a few years. What's with the cult of personal responsibility, why are we still here telling people that if they don't take the plane and use paper straws maybe grandma won't lose her house to the rising tides before she dies in an 'unprecedented' heatwave?

Content Creation 

I'm very happy for Abigail P. Tube for becoming successful with Nebula, and over the past few months I have in fact learned that Nebula is, basically as worker-owned as an organisation its size can be, which is stellar

but I also am increasingly more and more aware of just how much privilege is required to make it well on YouTube, which is still a prerequisite to getting on a platform like Nebula. you have to abandon your life and focus on being a dirt-poor creator before you can join the luxury cooperative and I still hate that

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