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

This is a joke, right?

“Sometimes they say it’s illegal [for prisoners to unionize], but it’s not. It’s just frowned upon. But it works.”

New today from Michelle Pitcher: Texans are organizing inside and outside of prisons to empower incarcerated workers, who labor in dangerous conditions without pay. https://www.texasobserver.org/solidarity-prison-labor-union/

#politics #prison #WorkersRights #labor #HumanRights #Texas #USpol #news

you don't have to give your opinion on every bit of media that comes up in conversation, especially if your opinion is negative and *especially* if everyone else seems to like it. I'd much rather hear about things you enjoy.

concept: a sexy anthropomorphic iron encourages you and your fellow laborers to take coordinated action to secure a collective bargaining agreement, because you should strike while the iron is hot

Listen, this "only useless people wouldn't understand this" crap has kept me in work for a long time, but it still makes me incredibly angry. Folk happily preserving the opportunities for them and their pals like it's just the natural order of things.

To set aside the exclusionary shit and put my educator's hat on for a minute, the primary thing that makes mastodon complicated for people to get started with is not technical or practical, people know how to fill out forms - it's conceptual. Understanding how to choose an instance requires a significant amount of context, together with a clear sense of the implications of that choice. And we haven't done a great job of providing that context in an accessible way, so far anyway.

Okay this is a perfect example of what I was talking about earlier this week. You're building a web browser. One of those most sophisticated pieces of software you can imagine. But meanwhile you bolted this little firebase thing onto it that executes arbitrary code in everybody's tabs. And those folks weren't experienced enough with security practices to understand how potentially dangerous that was.
https://flipboard.com/@theverge/apps-tj3a91j8z/-/a-PE98y0ECTFOOTE0EgUjWSg%3Aa%3A43611565-%2F0
https://flipboard.com/@theverge/apps-tj3a91j8z/-/a-PE98y0ECTFOOTE0EgUjWSg%3Aa%3A43611565-%2F0

Cooking: Throw in a handful of x, a pinch of y, add z to taste, fuck it, just grab whatever leftovers you have in your fridge and use that too, who cares? It will probably be fine anyway.

Baking: You better have a milligram scale on hand because if you add 4 too many particles of x then it will start a violent reaction between y and z wasting 2 kilograms of ingredients! Also your oven will catch on fire and your family will be cursed for the next 7 generations.

If you are using that map of the wormhole network that everyone uses, it might appear that getting from Earth to Procyon involves taking the spur line to Gomiesa, but remember: that map distorts astrometry for two-dimensional comprehensibility. A space-native guide (like me!) will tell you it’s 40 parsecs cheaper to get off at Sirius and blast across N-space to join the Mirzam line via the one-way on-gate at Sirius-B.

I mean, if your patron race is still paying your gate-fares you might not care, but some of us had to evolve ourselves to sentience by remixing our own chromosomes.

#Tootfic #MicroFiction #PowerOnStoryToot