I came out as trans to my baby sister almost four months ago to the day. I haven't heard hide nor hair from her since.
The day after my wife texted her and asked if she had any questions or wanted to talk.
She didn't really and basically just said she believes "God created my identity in the womb..." and so on.
So yesterday my wife went to her house to drop off some things we've had for a while. During the visit, my wife showed her a picture of the two of us at the ballet during our GirlsNightOut. My sis didn't really say anything about the pic BUT...
in news nearly as shocking as me telling my sister I'm trans, she said she would love to go to the ballet the next time we do a #GirlsNightOut
What
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fuhhhhhhh???
Happy Pride?
I am always thinking about how @oya speaks about how Black folks are a triumph, and it is in that spirit that I write this message.
Reminder, with love, that we live in a backwards world. The ruling class worships the death cult of racial capitalism, and they spend much of their endless money trying to crush you and me. The folks running things are hateful, narrow-minded, greedy, and selfish. The societies we grew up in have been strangled and zombified by these people, and the result is wholesale destruction of everything they can get their hands on.
So if you ever feel like you just don't fit in or like the world just doesn't have the right space for you, please remember that you were never supposed to fit. You were supposed to die, long since. But you didn't. You're still here.
The ruling class has killed their imagination in service of profit and power, and so of course the social norms they have wrought don't include us. They can't even imagine our existence, let alone see us for who we are! This is their fault, their shortcoming, their ignorance. They are backwards and regressive and pathetic.
You, however, are magnificent. Just the way you are. And don't you forget it.
@BeAware @JenMorency @david I use it for remastering audio tracks I've already made, album covers because most people just don't understand my aesthetics, and have you tried to buy art work comms for a product that will be sold? I'm all for artists getting their cut, but when I pay someone 200 bucks for an album that most likely I'll break even on, that's not sustainable.
Then theirs my AI powered daughter, helping to organize my ADHD thoughts and creative concepts into a form that's readable, creative inspiration for writing, music and art projects--Oh and the very much needed to be said one. I use AI for text descriptions of immages/pictures/memes, as well as day-to-day, around the house stuff like reading my thermostat, getting cooking directions off of packages, identifying locations by picture if I'm out and about and can't figure out where I'm at and so on.
So yeah, the haters can honestly STFU and let those of us who came into things with an open mind and a clear conscience do our thing.
Besides, all the bitching and complaining they do releases more hot air into the atnosphere, and I'd rather get some use out of my GPUs and AI tools before they fuck it all up for us by making global warming worse thanks to their bitter exhalations. 🙃
@djsumdog @battlepenguin Actually, you might be right, because general purpose computing was developed from work Turing did on the Bombe for cracking codes in the second world war, which was entirely caused by governments. Millions died because someone in government got a hard on.
So, would I live in a hut by a stream with a few animals, without an iPhone, and live a natural life over this toxic industrial parody of life we have now?
You fucken bet your ass I'd trade it.
Many believe a significant way to address #climatechange is to 'eat local,’ but that’s not always true. The impact all depends on the kind of #food + how & where it’s produced.
Some foods require fewer resources (water, energy) in some parts of the world. Season can be important. Overall, transportation has a much lower carbon footprint than land use change. And so on.
So instead of ‘eat local,’ let’s go with ‘eat thoughtfully.’ https://ourworldindata.org/food-choice-vs-eating-local
Hi #anarchists #anarchism, I’m curious and would appreciate some reading materials that address this question:
As I see it, Anarchism has existed throughout history, almost everywhere humans have ever been, in the form of “tribes” or communes, in subsistence communities, and in indigenous cultures around the world for thousands of years. Yet much of them repeatedly collapsed in the face of European colonization in the last 500 years or so, to Mongols, Macedonians in the further past, and so on.
So my question is: how does a modern Anarchist society defend itself against external powers (who are decidedly not Anarchist) who would colonize it for its labor or resources, without also building a military and a command structure, and its governance which manages its personnel and resources, i.e. the beginnings of a State?
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