Notices by Everyone Deserves Nice Things (suzaneraslan@anticapitalist.party), page 10

look at where they put the quotations for kavanaugh and look at where they put the quotations for ford. cnn does so much work to undermine the voice of women in subtle ways while saying nothing of value

Remember when Trump tweeted “The world is laughing at us” and “We’re a laughing stock” because we had a Black man as president?

Yeah... that didn’t age well.

The entire General Assembly of the UN laughed at him today when he tried to say he’s achieved more in 2 years than anyone in the history of the US. It would feel so good if it didn’t mean that shit stain is running the country and will probably threaten the whole world now.

Maybe consider that the way you go about trying to get vengeance is actually re-traumatizing the people you are defending. Justice doesn't come just from believing victims, it comes from giving them back their agency and making them feel there are places and people who are safe.

They are the only ones who can decide how that happens and what that means.

(Boosts OK, but I'm really not interested in anyone defending the opposite point.)

Before you decide to go vigilante on someone who has traumatized a friend or acquaintance (or anyone), it's best to ask the victim what justice looks like to them.

After I was raped, the *worst* thing, and it happened over and over again, was when I told someone and they said, "I'm going to fucking kill him." It didn't make me feel taken care of-- it made me feel like even those I trusted were capable of horrible violence and unsafe.

Listen... if your instance is silenced or an instance you like is silenced for you, you’re not held there behind some insurmountable Berlin Wall.

Go to another instance that federates fully with the one that was blocked, or go sign up for that instance directly. If you’re the blocked instance, people who want to federate with you enough will move.

Once you understand that, all you’re doing fighting a silencing is demanding free eyeballs. Ask yourself why you need “impressions” so badly?

Gooooood morning, Mastodon! It’s Labor Day in the United States. I would like to bestow the gift of a second Labor Day to all and sundry in the rest of the world, and thank you for sharing yours with us back in May!

Is the ouroboros just practicing vore masturbation? :thaenkin:

Don't make jokes about marginalized people if you're not a member of that group.

Don't try to reclaim slurs directed at marginalized people if you're not a member of that group.

This is like anti-all-bad-isms 101, y'all. It's not hard.

@shel @benhamill The thing that always bothers me about that argument from obviously very privileged people of “Yeah, well, who will take out the trash under communism?!” is like… uh… I take out my trash. I clean my own kitchen. I scrub my home toilet and have no problem being one of the people in rotation who handles the communal filth cleaning on a daily basis.

And, fun fact, when we’re consuming less crap, we’ll make less garbage!

His mentions were not a trash fire at first—
people sincerely wanted to recommend he find somewhere other than counter social for his main account, and their reason was because the admin is a documented bigot.

The vitriol started and the info circulated about his block list use, when he refused to answer the gentler questions.

His experience is not evidence that the fediverse is a band of monsters; it’s evidence that we won’t be denied the ability to hold people accountable.

Petrichor, that fresh aroma you can smell after the rain, is caused by a little molecule called geosmin. The name literally means "earth smell." It's produced by soil bacteria and gives an earthy flavour to beets.

Humans are extremely sensitive to this scent – much, much more sensitive than sharks are to blood. Some think we evolved that way to find fresh drinking water after droughts.