"I hate my life, that's a natural 20 on a gazebo check."
I think about this all the time!
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2019/09/10/i-wonder-about-this-all-the-time/
I recently learned that New Zealand have expanded the range of indicators for how they measure their country's success. It's not just about the economy any more.
It's about current wellbeing, future wellbeing and their impact on other countries. That covers a huge range of stuff, including biodiversity, life expectancy, literacy, greenhouse gas emissions...everything from fish stocks to child poverty.
I LOVE LOVE LOVE this. Feminists have long said that GDP is a patriarchal measure because it ignores the value of women's unpaid work. It's also useless in so many other ways. Well done to New Zealand for coming up with a better way of measuring how your country is doing.
They're not the only country doing this, but they're one of very few trailblazers.
"Don't go near the castle, it is cursed," the people in the village said.
"In what way?"
"It traps you."
"How?"
"Most of us were passing through, like you; now we can't leave."
"Why?"
They conferred, then an elder spoke. "It has an amazing, huge library."
"I must see it!"
"Noo!"
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The Matrix is such a subtle movie in its messaging that it contains a scene where a black man breaks the chains he has been bound in, after being cuffed and tortured by a white man in a suit.
A successful movement has many different kinds of activism
There are many many ways to be involved in a movement. Studies show that even posting to social media about an issue has a measurable impact. If you can post a hashtag to twitter (#stopTheCoup), talk to people you know, sign the petition ( https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/269157 ), go to a protest, but stand at the edges, or stand in the middle, or do a sit in - all of these actions are helpful. Do what you can and it's valid and valuable.
"Ah, Frxz?"
Our alien intern looked up from their workstation. "Yes, supervisor!"
"You added a 'Gender' field to our site."
Frxz beamed, literally. "Yes! Traditional!"
"And the options..."
"I researched. One differentiator!"
"I'm afraid we can't use 'pockets' and 'no pockets'."
#MicroFiction #TootFic #SmallStories
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