so 65% of about 250 said they don't care about exclusive perks when they are a subscriber or patron to an artist or project. many comments highlighted the desire to 'just support', help artist do their thing. some are even actively looking for ways to not receive extra exclusives in order to not make artist work more just for that.
i think that's quite interesting.
#Recycling was a scam to sell more #plastics. This has been a bit of an open secret. "Analysts now expect #plastic production to triple by 2050."
https://www.npr.org/2020/09/11/897692090/how-big-oil-misled-the-public-into-believing-plastic-would-be-recycled?t=1654049196078
Charlie Brown: But with all this commercialism and decoration and money, can someone just tell me what Pride is really about?
Linus: *Hands Charlie Brown a brick, gestures at a cop*
*Jazzy piano music plays*
Fucking AI generated stuff without cw, hoping to explain it so you understand what the problem is
I can't talk directly with the people I follow who boost it into my timeline, because by the time I realize it's happened, if I'm trying to block where it came from, while I'm getting hit with severe nausea, hoping I don't have to see it again, then I realize blocking first means I can't message someone I follow who boosted it into my timeline in the first place because the message is gone.
This is why I made those public calls in the past few days. It's not just about making me feel a little bit uncomfortable, it comes over me as a wave and if anything else is slightly out of sync with me, which it always is because I'm already disabled by so many other things, I'll get so fucking sick in seconds before I realize why. I couldn't not see it, because no one gave me the option.
This is making this place unsafe for me. I don't want to have to fight this every day until I figure out all the accounts to block, when everyone is sharing un-CWd ai generated images.
The images are instant I don't even have to try to understand them before I'm sick and then I realize why I'm not understanding them. I'm just left feeling sick.
Please, please let me feel safe on here again.
NixOS 22.05 has been released! 🎉
https://nixos.org/blog/announcements.html#nixos-22.05
It now has a long requested graphical installer!
@alex I think removing the "inheritance" mechanic and resetting the internal game economy would go a long way
child abuse, hate towards sámi, swedish colonialism, banned languages
When I was a kid, my best friend changed his last name. His dad had earlier changed his first name.
The dad was part of a minority in the north of sweden speaking Meänkieli. When the dad went to school, he was abused by his teachers for speaking his language.
The shame took such deep roots that he changed his names, because they sounded too much like of the Torne valley, the area he was born in.
It's extremely common in Sweden to be "in support" of american natives. It is very uncommon to speak of our oppression of the Sámi, and other groups. The Sámi lands, Sápmi, cover the north of Sweden, Norway, Finland and part of Russia. Their language and culture has been treated very much the same as Torne and Meänkieli, and still face a lot of oppression.
swedish people will call themselves anti-racist and point fingers abroad. We do not speak of what's happening inside our own borders.
#accessibility post i found on tumblr:
some of you may've heard about that fancy "bionic reading" typefont thats supposed to be easier for #neurodivergent people to read (if you're unfamiliar, it bolds the first few letters of each word to make it easier to follow)
well guess what, its locked behind a $500 a month API to write in because fuck you!
introducing, Not Bionic Reading! it is literally just the bionic reading typefont but for free. god bless neocities
Technical debt collector and general hype-hater. Early 30s, non-binary, ND, poly, relationship anarchist, generally queer.
Sometimes horny on main (behind CW), very much into kink (bondage, freeuse, CNC, and other stuff), and believe it or not, very much a submissive bottom :p
Feel free to flirt, but if you want to actually meet up and/or do something with me, lewd or otherwise, please tell me explicitly or I won't realize :) I'm generally very open to that sort of thing!
Further boundaries: boosts are OK (including for lewd posts), DMs are open. But the devil doesn't need an advocate; I'm not interested in combative arguing in my mentions. I am however happy to explain things in-depth when asked non-combatively.
My spoons are limited, so I may not always have the energy to respond to messages.
Strong views about abolishing oppression, hierarchy, agency, and self-governance - but I also trust people by default and give them room to grow, unless they give me reason not to. That all also applies to technology and how it's built.