Balinares @balinares@awoo.space

We have layoffs for exactly the same reason we have homelessness. Both are expensive, harmful, and unnecessary. Both are sustained anyway because capitalism requires that work is compulsory. Both exist to be used as a threat to compel work and deference from workers.

So, I don't know. Keep writing papers and articles about the real effects of layoffs, I guess. But please understand that you'll never convince boards and CEOs to stop doing them, because the harm of layoffs is the desired outcome. So make your audience the people who've been taken in by their lies, and the people who should be protecting us from them.

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Imagine if we relied on “personal responsibility” instead of the law to combat other public health issues like drunk driving. No rules--just “you do you”. If you're comfortable driving drunk and wish to take the risk, go ahead and do it--why worry yourself with harming anyone else?

Wait, that doesn't work? Then why do maskless conferences, flights, and events work at a time when we know #COVID19 risks are rising. Don't take personal responsibility; take public responsibility. #WearAMask

Dear #2023,

Please be gentle. A bitch is tired.

Love,
- Everyone

Please, if you are not a person of African descent, reconsider creating 1st-level toots using the #BlackTwitter #BlackMastodon #BlackFedi or #BlackFediverse, etc, hashtags. In this moment of flux, a lot of Black folks are trying to find each other via these hashtags. It might be more considerate to use #BlackTwitterAllies and other such hashtags to show support for Black communities without co-opting them.

Thanks to a lazy press, too many people think Mastodon IS the Fediverse. It's just one microblogging software program running on independently owned servers that all support The ActivityPub Protocol.

TAPP is the tech allowing message federation between about 8 software programs that support it (including Mastodon). If you're using any of those programs, you're surfing the Fediverse via the TAPP network You're tapped-in.

TAPP may soon compete with BlueSky & other protocols.

With the holidays upon us, ‘tis the season to share a reminder that all of Santa’s reindeer are female.

Males drop their antlers after the Autumn mating season. So since the world’s most celebrated reindeer are always depicted with spectacular antlers, we must assume that the intrepid team pulling the sleigh, presents & Ol’ St. Nicholas himself, is entirely female. #science

So, friends: a holiday #sale — get our whole #ebook store for $44! Pass this around, please? Thanks! (As I've got some pricey scans—MRI, etc—to pay for just after the New Year...)

https://dduane.tumblr.com/post/704183035160084480/for-the-holidays-get-diane-duanes-whole-ebook

Anyone still on twitter please tell people to follow me here!! 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻 I didn’t have a chance to post about my Mostodon bc Musk was banning links to it #twitter #tech #technews #twitterexodus #TwitterMiragration