junø @juno@pixie.town

Once you realize you've heard about 'carbon capture' only being a few years away since you were a fucking child you really start to see how that idea is always deployed.

"A genius will invent a technology that will surely solve our mistakes faster than we can keep making them" is literally just "a wizard will save us" for STEM-bros. It's utter nonsense.

And it's always said in the same breath as "...so we don't need to fix our emissions now", too 😐

We all know the concern trolls who are "raising some concerns" when talking about protections for marginalized folks, and who already know that they're not problems, they're just trying to sow discord.

But another, more insidious form of this are the people - usually centrists or liberals - who legitimately believe that they are raising legitimate concerns, and are doing so in a harmful manner.

There's an obvious form of privilege here; those raising the concerns are typically not part of the affected group, and so unlike the affected group, they can afford to treat it like some hypothetical thought experiment, whereas the affected marginalized folks are living the consequences right here and now.

But that's not what I want to talk about. Because it goes much deeper than that.

For example, these "concerns" are usually the absolute most obvious things that you could think of - and somehow, the concern-raisers believe that they are specially qualified to have such a novel insight.

They don't stop to consider that maybe this concern was already raised hundreds of times before, and relitigated over and over again, and found to not be (sufficiently) relevant. They don't really take the time to research it - instead just assuming that they're the first.

That's privilege.

This usually combines with another problematic factor; when the concerns are raised, a response like "yeah we've thought of that" isn't considered enough. Instead, the concern-raiser will not stop pushing until *they, personally* are satisfied that it's addressed.

They are not merely raising a concern to help; they are considering themselves to be the arbiter of truth, as if their approval is required to go ahead with the plan. They are assuming authority.

That's privilege.

Those in the best position to understand the circumstances and needs of marginalized folks, are those marginalized folks themselves. Approval by the privileged is not required.

Listen to marginalized people. Yes, even if you have "concerns".

Regulatory Bodies: “ADHD medication is highly addictive”

#ADHD Folks: “Wait… did I take my pills?"

So.
Unless you do The Work, you are under the thrall of racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, and ableist ideas that have been bombarding your subconscious before you knew what your own name is.
You can't fake having done The Work.
A polite, genteel affect will not save you.
The Work is the Truth.

I'm developing a REAL PROBLEM with people who share voice notes or images instead of text.

Example 1) Dr's receptionist sends me a looooooooong voice note of office noise, and somebody reading her a number, which she then repeats to me, quickly followed by a text that says "that's the authorisation number".

Umm. OK. Why not just text me the number? Since you sent me a text anyway?

Example 2) Neighbourhood trustees share all their communications in the Whatsapp group as images of text on a pretty background, so we can't copy numbers or addresses, or easily search for a particular message.

When I query this, the head of the trustees tells me "just do an image search"

And when I query that he sends me a screenshot of how to access media posted in the group.

#WTAF #WhatTheHell #AmICrazy? #TimeForACupOfTea

cishet techbros think fedi is failing because nobody interacts with their posts

they don't know the secret:

clears throat

meow

If I can give one piece of life advice:

Whenever someone geeks about something in front of you, or admits an 'embarrassing' interest, just say:

"That sounds AMAZING. I don't know anything about that. Tell me about it."

Then just listen.

Not once in my life have I regretted it.

Hallo trans* und nicht-binäre Geeks und Nerds,
wir wollen am 16.06. abends in Bremen den Film TransGeek zeigen und sind auf der Suche nach einer neurodivergenten Person, die mit uns auf dem Podium über trans*, nicht-binär und Geek-/Nerdkultur reden möchte. Insbesondere würden wir gerne über Geek-/Nerdkultur und Spezialinteressen reden. Infos zum Film: https://transgeekmovie.net

PS: Wir haben natürlich ein Budget für Reisekosten, Übernachtung und Honorar.

being autistic is good actually

he she and they are your starter genders, you have to find the other ones in tall grass

anarchist whose pronouns are "may/hem"

It lets people opt-in to reading whatever you're discussing.
It allows people with traumas and triggers time to reflect before opening something.
You can use them to set up joke punchlines.
Instead of putting "🧵 2/??" or whatever at the bottom of your posts, you can put the post number in the subject field instead and it makes your thread easier to navigate.
Collapsed posts take up way less space on the timeline, making it easier to navigate.
People will still read your posts (I promise okay?), and opting in to reading something is more meaningful than being forced to read it anyway.
Subjects / Content Warnings are well supported across pretty much all fedi software.

Please add Subject / CW to your posts!

Twitter always sucked. Fuck Mastodon. Us queers need a tumblr clone