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See, that’s what the app is perfect for.

Sounds perfect Wahhhh, I don’t wanna

Social media is an open space

I am so very exhausted of having to argue about the concept of arguing every single time I want to talk about anything here, so I’m just going to pin this so I have it on tap.

This website, and other social media websites, are open spaces. That means that any behavior not explicitly prohibited (by the TOS or by your own prior and explicit request) is fair game. Anything you post here can be viewed and responded to by anyone, and that includes disagreements. This is not a breach of social contract or a personal attack, it is the site functioning as intended.

If this isn’t a form of engagement you are comfortable with, Tumblr is not the site for you. You should look into other options, such as making your blog private, or using other blogging software such as Wordpress.

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ajoofsthered

Fuck this country and it’s Supreme Court and fuck biden and the cowardly and worthless dems for just letting the court legislate from the bench you wretched fucking scum

ajoofsthered

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This could have been fucking prevented.

ajoofsthered

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afriendlyirin

In regards to that first tweet, I remind everyone that if the choice in 2024 is between Biden and a fascist, you still have to vote for Biden.

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captainjonnitkessler

I like when people say things like “respect blue collar workers!” and then the same people turn around and completely dismiss the years of training it takes to be able to do that type of work safely and effectively.

“Telling people not to do their own electrical work because it’s dangerous is classist bc not everyone can afford an electrician” “I can’t believe that plumber charged me so much money for less than an hour of work, what a scam!” “In the post-capitalist utopia everyone will just take turns doing all types of blue-collar work, instead of years-long apprenticeships we’ll just give them a course in high school or something” “Building and safety codes are just pointless bureaucracy meant to stop the average citizen from being able to build their own structures” “I would love to be a farmer and just hang out tending to plants all day”

These are all things I have seen on this website by self-proclaimed worker’s rights advocates and I hope I don’t have to explain how incredibly insulting and dismissive it is when it’s not outright dangerous. There’s a LOT that needs to be fixed about our current labor system but “pretending like training and safety protocols aren’t important” and “pretending that those jobs are actually really easy and any layperson can do them” are uh. Not good solutions.

shetheycock

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libraford

I become exhausted when post-consumer/reuse ideas become trendy because I'll see someone on the community page asking where they can get 20 1-gallon milk jugs for their indoor gardening projects and the answer is obviously the waste bin, after drinking 20 gallons of milk. But they dont mean that, they mean where can they buy them new and already clean. But the point of using gallon jugs is to make clever use of things you already have, not to buy more.

Like when pallet gardening was a thing but people wanted brand new clean looking pallets instead of going to the hardware store loading dock and asking if they could take broken and used ones.

Like yes we get that ot looks cute and it's a solution to a problem but the point of it was to use things that would have been otherwise tossed.

politics environmentalism
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milfmarthawayne

The whole point of writing fascist characters as human beings is that real fascists are also human beings. If you think of fascists as somehow less than human you are falling into the trap of letting their mentality frame your worldview, thus legitimizing their course of action!

When you start looking at fascists as subhuman the debate becomes 'which group is actually subhuman and which is being unfairly maligned?' And personally I'm not fucking comfortable with that question being on the table ever.

milfmarthawayne

#ADDITIONALLY #it makes recognizing fascist ideology in the people around you so much harder #bc if you know someone as a person #and a fascist isn't a person #then clearly this person can't be a fascist #or have fascist views #they're your colleague or your neighbor or your family member #they are way too human to be fascist

DING DING DING ✅

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worsethanmanyfairies
soberscientistlife

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Excellent Point

kactusnz

Image description: "Reflecting on it, the reason I think the OceanGate situation has become such a flashpoint for anger is because it's such a perfect microcosm of the problem with everything right now. Decisions are not made based on safety, reasonable caution, or concern for human life. Every decision is instead made from a default assumption of what if the bad thing just DIDN'T happen?' We are given pie-in-the-sky promises and sizzle reels and an endless PR hype-cycle for every new innovation and inevitably it fails to work, harms people, and then is maybe barely apologized for before the next bad idea comes down the pike. OceanGate's underengineered, undercooked, doomed submarine isn't merely a metaphor for the hubris of the wealthy, it is a scale model of the way the wealthy dictate our reality. All consequences can be ignored, all blowback can be forestalled, let the end-user eat the cost. I am not angry because the submarine was badly-made. I am angry because I live in a vastly larger pressure vessel being managed and maintained by the exact same people.

trappedinavelociraptor

Source:
https://cohost.org/hystericempress/post/1731218-reflecting-on-it-th

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quasi-normalcy

Actually, cybernetics give you *more* of a soul.

animentality

To seek perfection is to seek divinity

raspberrykraken

Not according to Shadowrun. There’s also a limit on how much cybernetics you can have before turning into a zombie.

quasi-normalcy

Shadowrun is mistaken. More cybernetics = more human.

quasi-normalcy

The species that has to cook its meat and cut or tie its hair just in order to operate, that's wholly dependent on technological networks just to stay alive, has no business defaulting on naturalism now.

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