The implicit meaning of this argument is that one should not face responsibility for their actions unless everyone faces responsibility for their actions—which is, again, a childish way of attempting to dodge guilt while clumsily and unconsciously admitting it.
The EU sends this book for free to whomever wants it. It was cool pictures, lots of data and sweet maps in it.
You create a system that rewards exploitation and then wonder why the greediest bastards always seem to rise to the top.
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Corporate Pride
The thing about rainbow corporate logos during pride month isn't that I have strong feelings against seeing rainbows in June unless flown by the proletariat.
OK, I mean, its not just that.
Its that these companies spend 12 months a year underpaying their low level staff, in which includes LGBT workers. They lobby against minimum wage increases by giving money to right wing politicians who want to destroy us. That's nearly all of them.
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transphobia
just got a YT ad from the daily wire about "in California girls who identify as boys can have a double mastectomy at as young as 13 years old." something something "madness" something something "documentary", while they're mix-and-matching heads and bodies and legs with ominous children singing in the background. how much money does Google make from that shit having been shown to me? from having been shown to trans people? but happy pride month I guess
#TIL In 2019, NASA realized all the high-performance ferrite cores, used in the best fluxgate magnetometers by both US and European space missions worldwide, came from a single source. And nobody knows how to make them anymore. The process was developed in the 1960s by now-nonexistent military projects and defense contractors. https://science.nasa.gov/technology/technology-highlights/rediscovering-the-lost-art-of-fluxgate-magnetometer-cores #electronics
Queer pride, shame and mental health
This one is particularly important for me.
I struggle with my orientation. I'm genuinely ashamed of it, and I constantly feel like a square peg trying to fit in to a round hole when my peers in my community are invariably sapphic.
So pride month hits me hard, because suddenly my community starts taking pride in not being like me. And even though I know every queer person complaining or joking about "the straights" doesn't mean me, I still see that messaging. I still internalise it. I'm still ashamed of something I didn't choose and can't change. The messaging from my own community implying that I'm not a member of that community is like a slap every time I see it.
I know we don't really have commonly accepted alternative language, but fuck I wish we did. I want to be able to carry the same pride the rest of the community does, instead of feeling ashamed and different
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.