Notices by Snake Girl Ellie (noelle@elekk.xyz), page 12

@grainloom @InspectorCaracal Oh, "steampunk" at this point has largely been co-opted by people who think it means "Victorian nobility but with gears pasted on" and have completely lost sight of the "punk" part of it.

>_>

:dnd: Today I learned that I've misunderstood how the spell Thunderwave works since level 1. (We're now level 15.) I would have used it a LOT more if I'd known!

(Thunderwave creates a cube of force originating from the caster. I'd figured that meant I was at the center of the cube - but nope! "You select a cube's point of origin, which lies anywhere on a face of the cubic effect." So I can place the cube anywhere as long as it's touching me at some point.)

#DungeonsAndDragons #DnD

@eightbitsamurai aw, pobrecita

@InspectorCaracal It lets cishet white boys indulge their fantasy of running around with guns and trenchcoats and 80s nostalgia.

Which is to say, none at all.

@SoniEx2 @InspectorCaracal Um. I'm phoneposting so not offhand - it's brought up in the articles I linked yesterday - but the short version is that Amazon (probably illegally) counts time on strike against the hours workers have available for leave, and workers only get 20 hours of leave per quarter before they get fired.

I bring this up because we should frame this boycott not in terms of crossing a picket line, which is a simple, easy-to-communicate visual but does little to foster actual empathy - but in terms of solidarity with the striking workers. And in addition to just staying off Amazon sites, express your solidarity by reading up, for instance, on WHY the US strike is only 6 hours long and why not everyone is participating.

"Amazon workers are striking" doesn't tell the whole story.

Workers in Germany, Spain, and Poland are striking for two full days, beginning at 12:00 AM local time Monday and extending to 11:59PM local time Tuesday.

Additionally, workers in Minnesota, USA are striking from 2-8 PM on Monday. (This allows both day and evening shift to participate.)

Many Amazon workers are NOT striking, including some of the workers at the MN plant where the US strike is happening.

@cwebber "'Diversity' is a made-up word that some people use to attack other people and force everybody into little groups, and I'm going to refer to 'white cis-gendered men' in scare quotes to indicate that I don't believe it's actually a thing. But you don't know my political views!"

@socalledunitedstates The best praxis is actually listening to the workers instead of taking it on faith that they agree with your dogma.

...there was a science fiction convention in Hunt Valley this weekend. No WONDER the traffic was an unusual nightmare.

Mavis Bacon's Eggs and Beacon

@ben @InspectorCaracal Well, you could do it at a stoplight, for example.

@InspectorCaracal you should