leon @leonidas@sunbeam.city

I’ve wondered this same thing about photos of Japan for years, and he nailed it.

* the idea that a specific, prevalent language is a standard of communication
* that folks who don't use that language, or use a slightly different format of it (accent, dialect, slang, unvoiced) are not as worthy of being heard
* that any language has inherent and general-use value over others (rather than being a tool of communication with specific limits)
* that someone's using a 'wrong' language (or using a language 'wrong')

https://twitter.com/leahbarteldes/status/1521291323252350985

This thread lists the 13 states in which reproductive freedom will immediately become unavailable if the Supreme Court does a dookie on our reproductive freedoms, and where you can give to support abortion access in each of them.

The states affected are:
Arkansas, Idaho, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, and Wyoming

75% of Americans oppose overturning Roe. Someone telling you to “vote” is spitting in your fucking face

[doing various tai chi poses]
my haters aren't real people
my haters have no internality
my haters are npcs for me to grind for exp

"Technology is the active human interface with the material world.

But the word is consistently misused to mean only the enormously complex and specialised technologies of the past few decades, supported by massive exploitation both of natural and human resources.

This is not an acceptable use of the word. "Technology" and "hi tech" are not synonymous, and a technology that isn't "hi," isn't necessarily "low" in any meaningful sense.

We have been so desensitized by a hundred and fifty years of ceaselessly expanding technical prowess that we think nothing less complex and showy than a computer or a jet bomber deserves to be called "technology " at all. As if linen were the same thing as flax — as if paper, ink, wheels, knives, clocks, chairs, aspirin pills, were natural objects, born with us like our teeth and fingers -- as if steel saucepans with copper bottoms and fleece vests spun from recycled glass grew on trees, and we just picked them when they were ripe..."

http://ursulakleguinarchive.com/Note-Technology.html

"let queer stories be messy" let queer stories be fucking awesome and about ninja supersoldiers dueling over their political and philosophical convictions

title text: The projection's north pole is in a small lake on the island of Mahé in the Seychelles, which is off the top of the map and larger than the rest of the Earth's land area combined.

(https://xkcd.com/2613)
(https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/2613
)

Can't believe it takes an entire village to raise a child. With machine learning we could get that down to half a village or LESS

I, too, am worried about admins reading my DM’s, a feature of the website I use quite often, due to all of my friends who want to talk to me one here.