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

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*.

The US is a uniquely dangerous place to live, among wealthy nations. One in 24 Americans will die by accident - a 40% higher rate than Norway, the next most dangerous.

It's especially dangerous if you're already marginalized. As Singer writes, "whether or not you die by accident is just a measure of your power, or lack of it"

Going through my notes on There Are No Accidents by Jessie Singer (@JessieSinger), and I figured I'd share them here as I process them.

This is a book about how our systemic decisions make America a dangerous place to live. It really made clear to me that Covid is nothing new. We've always been needlessly cavalier with each other's lives - especially the lives of the poorest and most marginalized among us.

You can get the book here: https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/There-Are-No-Accidents/Jessie-Singer/9781982129682

@bookstodon #bookstodon non-fiction

Cold weather warnings in the UK for this next week and it just makes me so angry, as I think about how so many of us can't afford to put the heating on very much, or at all. I think about people that are roofless. I then think about energy companies making record profits and the late stage capitalism status quo hegemonic rubbish narratives that this is somehow unavoidable, inevitable and not the system working exactly as intended. So many people and the planet suffer because of power, capital, profit and related divide and rule when we could have everything for everyone.

#AntiCapitalism #AbolishMoney #Anarchism

If you lump enbies in with women on women's occasions, you sure as heck better lump us in with men on men's occasions, or ask yourself why not.

We are not a type of woman, we are not women-lite. Lots of us pass as men and fill male social roles every day and do not fit or do not want to fit in women's spaces.

#foxesInLove #comic

Source: https://foxes-in-love.tumblr.com/post/738765425054302208
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Nieuw op Egel:

Als het maar niet over Gaza gaat, nietwaar?

"Aandacht afleiden, het onderwerp veranderen: het is een trucje dat pro-Israëlische genocide-supporters graag toepassen. Het gaat als volgt. Terwijl wij met solidariteitsacties aandacht vragen voor de genocide in Gaza, oproepen delen voor sit-ins voor Ceasefire Now en Free Palestine en dergelijke, komen Israël-fans aanzetten met berichten over wandaden en bloedbaden elders, met een uitdagend zinnetje erbij in de sfeer van ‘Wanneer worden hier nu eens sit-ins voor georganiseerd’? Ach ja. Als het maar niet over Gaza gaat, nietwaar?

De sneer is duidelijk. Wel sit-ins voor Gaza. Niet voor de Oeigoeren, de Rohinya’s, vervolgde christenen in Nigeria of wie dan ook. De mensen van de Palestina-sit-ins zijn duidelijk inconsequent en hypocriet, anders zouden ze toch voor die andere slachtoffers ook wel actie voeren? Het is een verdachtmaking, een indirecte, nogal achterbakse poging om activisten tegen Israëlische genocide en voor een vrij Palestina verdacht te maken.

De poging is nogal doorzichtig, hoongelach is een goede reactie, volledig negeren ook wel. Maar omdat het mensen toch op het verkeerde been kan zetten, (...), kan het wellicht geen kwaad om de truc wat verder te ontrafelen."

Lees het helemaal via

https://peterstormt.nl/2024/01/05/als-het-maar-niet-over-gaza-gaat-nietwaar/

When my eldest was in kindergarten, they came home one day with an assignment to count something in their house.

We got a note from the teacher the next day, which I will paraphrase (because it's been 12 years): "Your child is very bright and clearly knows how to count, but you should probably explain that you don't actually have 15 computers in your house."

Our response: "Oh, you're right, Z missed a few in the basement server rack, it's actually closer to 25."

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