Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town

> Nice people made the best Nazis. Or so I've been told. My mother was born in Munich in 1934, and spent her childhood in Nazi Germany surrounded by nice people who refused to make waves. When things got ugly, the people my mother lived alongside chose not to focus on "politics", instead busying themselves with happier things. They were lovely, kind people who turned their heads as their neighbours were dragged away... You know who weren't nice people? Resisters.

(Naomi Shulman, 2016 https://www.wbur.org/cognoscenti/2016/11/17/the-post-election-case-for-speaking-out-naomi-shulman )

People complain about 'leftist infighting' and how that supposedly means leftists can't get anything done but like, have you ever really looked at what the social dynamics within actual operating governments are like?

Because every time some story about it comes out, it sure sounds awfully similar.

I've said this over & over here and before that on Twitter:

Do not fucking use ableist slurs to describe willful fascists!

Fascists exterminate disabled people, including people who are actually insane instead of rhetorically "insane".

You cannot fight eugenicists with eugenicist rhetoric, even in "humor". It actually strengthens eugenics and ableism.

This goes double for any scientists perpetuating this claptrap. Think about the words you use, FFS! #Ableism #Fascism #Eugenics

can just one of the foss-oriented instances please Be Normal?

@joepie91 a lot of software meta feels extremely clinical for a lack of better wording.

Lots of focus on every step of the process except what it would work like outside a petri dish

Erm. Has anyone else had an email from Seamless.AI to an email they used to sign up to BrowserStack, "to inform you of the collection, processing, and sharing of your personal data."

There's an opt-out link but I don't trust it one bit.

Hi.

If you reply with this to someone on your Github issues tracker, after directing folks there:

Fuck you.

Seriously fuck you.

A license to drive a car should have requirements about as high as to operate an airplane, a train, a tram, a bus full of people

In either case it's taking a responsibility for your own safety but also the safety, life and health of everyone around you

In many places, especially those heavily car-dependent, it's stupidly easy to get a drivers license

It's a broken system

So let's switch to what I actually do believe: that the current therapy system is doing harm by usurping the support functions that we could be providing to each other. "Go to therapy" slips too easily off the tongue and offers too little.

At the same time, when you're in the throes of mental illness, your job isn't to fix the system singlehandedly, your job is to do what works best for you; which means going to therapy if it'll make you better and you can access it, or not going to therapy if it won't help you or you can't access it. Ability to make choices is one of the best things we can offer to struggling people, because they are dealing with a landscape of problems we cannot properly comprehend.

After doing some political and philosophical exploration I've come to see myself as anti-psychiatry, but I'm also disappointed with the way I've seen antipsych playing out on the social media platforms, specifically the people whose major idea for how you can practice anti-psychiatry in your daily life is "don't go to therapy, turn to your friends instead". I call this plastic straw anti-psychiatry.

There's a special kind of cruelty in the way they did it too, forcing people to triage their own stuff on an emergency timetable. Like they say 2 months, but what they don't say anywhere is you're frozen out of cutting new VODs immediately, with no consideration to your Past Broadcast expiration schedule for it.

So some people may have a couple days, or a day, or something to get under the limit or they lose something to expiration.

In that case you can download the recording at least. If you have the bandwidth and storage.