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   PacificNic (pacificnic@zeroes.ca)'s status on Tuesday, 26-Dec-2023 22:39:09 JST PacificNic

   When people ask me if I feel isolated because of my COVID precautions, I very truthfully tell them no.

   It's not the precautions that are isolating.

   It's the alienation that comes from realizing most people are willing to kill their neighbour for brunch that's isolating.

   And giving up precautions isn't going to change that problem.

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   AnarchoNinaWrites (anarchoninawrites@jorts.horse)'s status on Friday, 15-Sep-2023 23:08:43 JST AnarchoNinaWrites

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   "Leftism" being in big scare quotes because these ppl aren't leftists. And you will have no idea how many of my personal feuds and online disputes, some of which have run years, root ultimately in someone insisting on left jacketing this cracker reactionary nonsense just because these folks pushing crypto-fascist ideology/talking points present faux left. Like is Glenn fucking Greenwald an anticapitalist? Hell no.

   It's a sore point for me. Anti-racist, antifascist, AND anti-capitalist or GTFO.

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   Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Friday, 01-Sep-2023 16:34:43 JST Aral Balkan

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   @mez Sadly, no.

   It was always going to be a stopgap. All my energy is going into building the Small Web. That’s a real alternative instead of a bandaid.

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   mekka okereke :verified: (mekkaokereke@hachyderm.io)'s status on Tuesday, 22-Aug-2023 00:11:45 JST mekka okereke :verified:

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   The "abusing in plain sight" is the thing that men that do this rely on. They rely on women's fear of "making a big scene" or "distracting from the celebratory moment and killing the vibe" to stay silent/not complain.

   No, it doesn't even matter if they had dated previously. She didn't want him to kiss her at that moment, and on some level he knew that, and did it anyway, removing her ability to say no.

   It's also incredibly selfish. It makes her moment about him.

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   Casey Reeves (xogium@tech.lgbt)'s status on Thursday, 29-Jun-2023 18:24:32 JST Casey Reeves

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   From then on, it became sort of the routine. Try and search for some job to do later in life, get crushed every time for one reason or another, most often due to ableism and people being like, you won't be able to keep up despite not even letting me prove myself.

   I got desperate enough to try for typical jobs like getting to take food orders, or answering the phone in a store. Each and every single time, I got met with the equivalent to a no.

   It took various forms. From people teling me no outright, to the ones trying to play it more subtly and claiming they didn't hire anyone and the website was wrong, only to advertise they've hired someone not a week after I went there, I got it all.

   But the most awful thing was the constant ableism I was the victim of while I wasn't even present to defend myself. When my parents tried to help by asking for a job for me to various people, they'd often get comments such as, I doubt a blind person can do this or that. I got very tired of it all.