Notices by Morgan ⚧️ (raphaelmorgan@disabled.social)

@Epic_Null @dalias @juliette IDT the goal is for kids not to exist. I think it's for them not to develop as people. For them not to grow into individuals who can realize that these systems are unfair and their parents are abusive. My generation grew up with internet-facilitated sex education, abuse education, and history education. The rich people who built the education systems to starve us of that information don't like that. Nor do groomers or abusive parents.

@codinghorror @Jumpmed @anildash @eff both terms are meaningless until someone looks it up and learns what it means. If they don't look up what it means, enshittification obviously means "making things shittier" and Saudification just looks like xenophobia

@codinghorror @Jumpmed @anildash @eff I don't understand this, and if I do I don't like it. Why should the word for "tech platforms trapping customers and then making their products worse and worse" be based off of Saudi Arabia? Seems like a recipe for racism to me

I've been trying all sorts of places with little luck, but in order for my wife and I to meet our new nephew and see our family for the first time since moving, we desperately need a cat-sitter! If you like cats and live in Portland, please DM me so we can test compatibility/locations/etc
If I haven't talked to you before, I'll have to get to know you a bit before trusting you with my cat (and potentially my apartment, depends on the situation)
@pdxfedi
#pdx

@xan I try to use CWs for topics that actually upset people, unless those people really need to be upset 🤷
If a cis person is uncomfortable because we're talking about being trans, they need to be uncomfortable. If an abled is uncomfortable when we talk about ableism, they need to be uncomfortable. If a white person is uncomfortable when a Black person is talking about racism, they/we need to be uncomfortable. Treating cognitive dissonance the same as a PTSD trigger only helps the oppressors

@arti @agnes @Fragglemuppet @carusb there was a post going around about LLM generated alt text the other day, and a lot of people see it as useless even if it's in the actual alt text field (because it doesn't describe the *purpose* of the image, just the visible details and those are frequently inaccurate anyway)
So yeah... Those bots aren't doing nearly as much as a person writing the alt text in the image they're posting. Whether they're completely useless is an individual opinion

@vapaad @jepyang idk if I'd go so far as to say forced vaccines don't improve public health. They sure improve the health of people who can't get vaccines for medical reasons, or in the cases of vaccines that aren't 100% effective (like COVID), the more people have the vaccine the less likely we *all* are to get infected
But I agree that forcing isn't the best way to do that. Education and encouragement/reward would be better

@vapaad that's fair, I didn't know that but it makes sense
I've seen how people drive in this country, I shouldn't expect that laws will make people do something lol

@foone neurotypicals will say autistic people are bad at following directions and then completely ignore most driving rules (especially the ones that even anarchists follow for safety reasons)
And wear masks under mask mandates, also under their chins

@Myotis_cuniculus @skeletor the revolution started a hot minute ago, most people just haven't committed to it or found our niche yet. The most obvious front lines I can think of right now in the US are Portland and Chicago. Any of us in or near these cities (and I imagine also LA and DC, although I haven't heard as much about them lately) have at least one concrete location we can go to if we feel the need to contribute more today

@inkorrupt said he muted the thread and I'm untagging the others because I'm *sure* they're aware, but for any non-Black bystanders, take note of this interaction:
- white guy says racist stuff
- white people say he's wrong
- white guy continues to say racist stuff
- Black people say they're tired of this
- white guy says "that escalated quickly"
When white people told him he was being racist, it was "civil" discussion. When Black people told him the same, it was "escalation" 😬

@tillshadeisgone I really thought once those articles about Blacksky and actual ATProto decentralization went around, maybe people would stop saying that fedi is better than BlueSky specifically because it's decentralized... That's on me, I guess, for forgetting the tendency among comfortable white people to just ignore any evidence countering their worldview. Of fucking course it just "doesn't count"

@karadoc @cwebber right, they're surveillance AND propaganda companies. Both huge threats right now

Ugghhhh the only thing worse than landlords is corporations as landlords. If every landlord was a person who owned an extra building or two, I'd still say ALAB but at least we'd all have someone to harass you know?

@beckett @OGjester @bmacDonald94 the average fash is absolutely convinced that previous fascists just weren't good enough at it and there's no way *they'll* ever be tried for their actions because they'll just do it right so their fascist regime stays in power forever!

Remembering when my family got kicked out of our apartment and when the landlord came over to check that me and my mom moved out right she said we should have informed her that I had transitioned (I signed the lease as Raphael ftr) because she heard a man was living with us and she wouldn't have kicked us out if she knew it was me. She thought it was a hilarious misunderstanding. At the end of which we were homeless and she still owned the damn building. So funny

@vaartis accessibility request: if you can't write alt text, could you leave it blank? And/or use the alt4me hashtag or literally anything other than deception?

@futurebird @cwebber I doubt they would, which is why I think we all *should* leave for about a week, maybe a few just in case, and then come back 😂 not that I can afford to do that either

Reposted for alt and CW

@alienghic @skeletor idk about questionable, but probably not very practical 😞 Reagan and Thatcher are both really far away for me, I can't even think of anyone I know is buried in my city