Notices by Alonealastalovedalongthe (alonealastalovedalongthe@toot.cafe), page 9

Today is bloomsday, the day Ulysses by James Joyce took place on (and the day of Joyce's first date with his wife.. in which she gave him a killer handjob and swooned him according to the erotica letters they sent back and forth)

Whether or not you care about Ulysses as a work of art it shouldn't be forgotten that many feminists, anarchists, lawyers and artists fought to make it legal to publish Ulysses and it paved the way to modern society's relative freedom of expression.

@tercean
@stephaniewalter

Oh yes nokia makes very good stuff too. They are owned by a chinese company now (after splitting from microsoft) that basically just hired up all the old staff of nokia and kept them I think.

I had a lot of nokia windows phones back when microsoft owned them and they were all very high quality.

@stephaniewalter

I guess I am saying check out newer LG phones, they still respect their customers enough to put headphone jacks in their phones

"The economic anarchy of capitalist society as it exists today is, in my opinion, the real source of the evil."

- Albert Einstein in the first issue of The Monthly Review in 1949

https://monthlyreview.org/2009/05/01/why-socialism

"If you glossed over it all, here’s what all this change boils down to: We’ll no longer need a government — the US, France, whoever — or an international governing body to tell us what a kilogram is. It will be a fundamental truth of the universe, available to anyone with the proper equipment to realize it."

https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2019/5/17/18627757/kilogram-redefined-world-metrology-day-explained

My usual strategy is not to engage but this shit keeps happening.

I dont know if its the fact that he smokes too much weed (I dont think he started drinking again), he has undiagnosed anxiety and severe depression and its just warping his perspective or what.

My brother freaked out on my girlfriend a year ago and sent her an incredibly hateful text because he was irrationally upset with me. He was obviously drunk and in a bad place mentally.

Now he just freaked out on my best friend who was living with him but just moved out because my brother went nutso and started calling him a sociopath and saying he needs to go to AA and all this shit.

It scares me and I dont know how to deal with it :(

@spacekookie

I feel like I have to go with Billiards here

@erosdiscordia

Also if someone is an asshole to you after you cw'd with something like "not sure if I am getting these words right" or something to the effect that you realize you maybe aren't an expert at the thing than the other person is just a butt

@erosdiscordia

Im cis gender so my opinion is (rightfully so) not worth much here but I think if you cw'd yourself with like "gender - not sure if using right words or what I am saying is right yet??" that would help alleviate any potential conflict.

I find cw's great for heading off conflict because the reader of your post is choosing to read your post and knows the cw context of it before they do.

@strypey

Yah the fediverse feels pretty healthy in that the people that use it really use it as a social media platform, not as an interesting diversion or gimmick

@garfiald

I split the difference and mostly knee post

@dietrich

What is that bass stick?

@syntaktis
@starwall

I wasnt really saying that, we are currently destroying the internet so it cant fulfill those potentials on our current track.

The internet/tech just has the potential to be used to make things better it by no means will unless we force it to through old fashioned disobedience and political resistance. I agree with you there.