Notices by neville park (nev@social.coop), page 33

@somarasu @RainierBeringer right! And if you're not sure about who you're speaking to...think about whether you need to be saying it

(I put "the proletariat" in quotes because anyone who knows the word is hopelessly bourgeois)

(But seriously, "class" as leftists use it doesn't really map well on to socioeconomic class, which is about culture as much as wealth; and neither map onto "income level" which is how too many people define "class" either because they are ignorant or so they can call themselves "working class")

There is an ever-simmering debate over whether expressing leftist theory in simple language is necessary to communicate ideas to "the proletariat", or whether it is elitist to assume "the proletariat" aren't (or can't get) familiar with theory on its own terms.

I am solidly on the Comic Sans side. Explain it to me like I'm five. I have naps to take and I'd rather read BuzzFeed listicles than Marx tbqh

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@RainierBeringer @somarasu from a(n albeit university-educated) non-academic: PLEASE I BEG OF YOU.

Think of how you would explain it to an absolute outsider, a completely clueless person who doesn't understand any references you are making. Then say that.

#Arachtober day 14: nothing says "autumn" like harvies (opilionids) in goldenrod! Second pic is the area I found it, the little stretch of shore between the Boulevard Club and the Legion.

@patience thank you for inviting me! I was just stressing because I procrastinated myself into a corner

Today was busy and stressful. But now I'm home and full of Thanksgiving food and in a clean freshly made bed

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TIL there's an app called "Squishr" that gamifies killing the destructive spotted lanternflies that have invaded Pennsylvania https://www.inquirer.com/news/pennsylvania/spotted-lanternfly-squishr-app-brad-line-20190925.html

@wmd @snowdusk_ I generally blur/pixelate/cover faces with a dot

@jimpjorps @interneteh Snouts. In. The. Dark.

CHIN SCRITCHES

#DailyCatPic #CatsOfMastodon #MastoCats #cats

@Kye …yes.

#Arachtober day 13: a snout mite (family Bdellidae) found under a fallen piece of willow bark. I liked the contrast between the bluish lichen and the red-orange mite glowing in the afternoon sun.