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

If your answer is "I don't know": you should have a look at your finances to figure out the answer.

If the answer is "0%": well, you have some work to do then. The #mutualaid tag is a good place to start.

If you have a job that pays well enough that you can afford to buy neat tech stuff to play with...

What percentage of your income are you setting aside, to support the needs of other people through things like mutual aid requests and grassroots food distribution groups?

(Replying not necessary; the point is to try and answer it for yourself.)

I wonder how much of the vitriol and arguing (that eventually just boils down to personal preference) about what tech is "best" originates from people feeling a complete lack of agency around the tech they need to use on a daily basis, and trying to assert that agency towards the nearest people involved in the conversation, as a form of lateral violence

Interesting search engines I ran across today:

https://stract.com/ - independent index/crawler and search engine.

https://hearch.co/ - metasearch that uses results from multiple different sources.

Most importantly, aside from both promising not to retain user data (which always involves trust), they are *also* both open-source :)

I feel like (2D) printers would be considered amazing technology if it weren't for capitalist incentives completely ruining their day-to-day operation

A helpful pointer: when someone accuses you of being transphobic, they are not claiming you are doing so *intentionally*, they are telling you that your behaviours are transphobic and have the effects of transphobia.

Likewise, when someone accuses you of being racist, they probably mean you are *being racist*, not that you are literally wearing a KKK hat.

And so on, and so forth. These criticisms are about behaviour and the harms that that behaviour perpetuates, *whether or not* the behaviour was intentional. And you need to acknowledge and work on that issue, *whether or not* it was intentional.

Whether it was intentional makes no material difference to the person on the receiving end, and you should not expect them to make that distinction. If you do not want to be called a bigot of some sort, then take care not to practice bigoted behaviour.

You should *not* respond to it by trying to defend yourself from the accusation, and trying to paint the accuser as the aggressor. Instead, take it to heart and learn from it. *That* is how you show that you're not what you're accused of.