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   AnarchoNinaWrites (anarchoninawrites@jorts.horse)'s status on Saturday, 16-Nov-2024 07:34:38 JST AnarchoNinaWrites

   in reply to

   You do what you have to do, what you think is best, what helps you sleep at night. Nobody has a right to ask you to do anything more than that, and lord knowns I have been you, I have lived in your mindset for decades of my life.

   I just can't anymore. I can't pretend, anymore.

   So don't expect me to. Because I no longer have the capacity to participate in the slaughter of billions and my own eventual murder. I just can't. I won't. You've been warned.

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   LukeAlmighty 🇨🇿 (lukealmighty@gameliberty.club)'s status on Friday, 19-Apr-2024 21:14:35 JST LukeAlmighty 🇨🇿

   in reply to

   @WashedOutGundamPilot @LouisConde @boburtle @yockeypuck @Morghur
   I was thinking about this post, and realized one thing.

   I have knows several Tomboys, and there is one thing, they have in common, that might not seem obvious, that with enough context, it might just make sense.

   I have heard several times that women are just "too scared to be kind" these days. I am still not sure, if I believe this, but I have noticed, that muscular girls are in fact always able to relax much more around "creeps like me" then normal girls. And when they relax, they can even show the kindness, that I almost didn't believe it existed in this society anymore.

   So, there come many benefits with this kind of extreme health. And this one is anything but surface level.

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   carl marks (tillshadeisgone@blackqueer.life)'s status on Sunday, 10-Mar-2024 04:01:19 JST carl marks

   https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/why-many-americans-feel-unhappy-about-the-economy-despite-indicators-of-improvement

   Articles like this one really irritate me. This is PBS, supposedly one of the news outlets least susceptible to propaganda and one of the most likely to do accurate reporting.

   And yet, the way this article is written is designed to leave you with an incorrect impression of our economic situation in the US.

   While they quote people with a number of opinions on the subject and don't outright say who is right or wrong, they repeatedly refer to our current situation in the economy as a "vibecession" and also keep talking about how people's feelings are at odds with the data on economic trends.

   But the article itself also mentions how prices for things like housing and food are still sky high compared to where they were just a few years ago and how people just can't afford basic necessities anymore.

   So how is that based in "feelings"?! That's economic data!! Why is the framing of this article premised on a lie? Why are we listening to the economists who are quoted saying things that are technically true according to their models but have no bearing on basic and fundamentally important things like buying power and affordability?

   Why does PBS parrot those economists' framing in the very fabric of the article while also mentioning data that proves that that framing is useless? If their goal is accuracy, it doesn't make any kind of sense.

   And of course, there is no mention of any kind of wages vs inflation growth. No mention of where young people are in terms of wealth, debt, affordability etc vs where their parents were at their age. No mention of the massive wealth transfer upwards that has been happening in our economy for decades now. A bare mention of the sky high profits companies have been reporting, but no mention of the huge increase in wealth of a handful of billionaires contrasted against the same decrease in the wealth of the vast majority of ordinary people.

   No, Americans are just sad about the economy because vibes. They don't understand economics, poor things. Obviously.

   Feel free to draw your own conclusions.

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   LibertyForward1 (libertyforward1@misfittoys.social)'s status on Friday, 10-Nov-2023 04:06:29 JST LibertyForward1

   I know this is a long-shot, but it occurred to me as I prepare for yet another shift at a retail store giving it literally everything I've got and then some (and ending up with a sleep deficit and feeling so exhausted I can barely crawl to bed) for a whopping $15/hr, I figured it wouldn't hurt to ask if anyone has any leads for a #DataAnalyst position.

   It turns out a great deal of my prior experience was of similar activities. I'm working on my "google certificate" as a data analyst but tbh progress has been incredibly slow as I deal with one life issue after another. This is also costly for me since there's a monthly fee through the 3rd-party provider hosting the google courses.

   Yes.. I'm asking to skip ahead to the part where I'm no longer earning starvation wages anymore.

   So.. if anyone knows of any sort of apprenticeships for a #DataAnalysis -related job, please DM me. #FediHired #FediJobs #IAmBrokePleaseHireMe

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   futon penguin ? (preeya@bigleaf.city)'s status on Tuesday, 27-Dec-2022 08:38:29 JST futon penguin ?

   RT @catvalente@twitter.com

   The slow destruction of Twitter means I don’t have to limit myself to 280 characters anymore.

   So this is a LONG-ASS post about having been online for decades & lost so many spaces to malfeasance and malice & what to do now.

   Because I need to scream.

   https://catvalente.substack.com/p/stop-talking-to-each-other-and-start

   ??: https://twitter.com/catvalente/status/1605862595193290752

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   Catherynne M. Valente (catvalente@mastodon.world)'s status on Friday, 23-Dec-2022 03:12:37 JST Catherynne M. Valente

   The slow destruction of Twitter means I don’t have to limit myself to 280 characters anymore.

   So this is a LONG-ASS post about having been online for decades & lost so many spaces to malfeasance and malice & what to do now, how angry I am & how hard this will never stop being.

   Because I need to SCREAM ABOUT THIS TRASH.

   https://catvalente.substack.com/p/stop-talking-to-each-other-and-start