New blog post: "This Isn’t About Social Media. This is About Control." https://medium.com/tootsuite/this-isnt-about-social-media-this-is-about-control-112dea8a21fd
In what is not news to anyone who hasn't already decided "fuck the poors", universal basic income doesn't entice people to quit their jobs and actually /increases/ part-time employment rates: https://futurism.com/basic-income-part-time-work/
I like todays #Oglaf. 💜
It's basically what I wish would happen more often in "Hard World, Hard Men"-Type postapocalypse stories.
@dartigen yes
also Generalismo Francisco Franco is still dead
#Metoo movement & the backlash to it
"The cure is not punishment, though a little fear of consequences can have a salutary effect on wrongdoing and increase safety and equality for those who were targeted. The cure is cultural transformation, and it is underway, as it has been for the past half century."
o-kay, time to go take down the birdfeeders before they get lost over the side of the porch. o____o
a #caturday offering! Pooka getting pets and lap-snuggles. not shown: tremendous amounts of purr, drool spots on my leg. pictures are selfie-ish and include near-eye-contact by a human, which is why I've marked them "sensitive." #cats @cats@kitty.town
https://awoo.space/media/Za-RUjv3pVcFWdxSt5o https://awoo.space/media/cM1O-9eQewYSORIuy5k
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pronouns: they/them
location: Seattle
phenotype: dracosaur
alignment: chaotic well-intentioned
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aka Sprackraptor, Rasha, elynne, Yahvahzensil, & etc.
40-something ace/aro
an identity under construction in a badly-fitting human suit.
~follows welcome; followbacks not guaranteed~