Notices by Sally Strange (sallystrange@eldritch.cafe)

I have these two links sitting on two permanent tabs in my browser.

1. How Substack profits from promoting fascism and other bad stuff: https://www.thehandbasket.co/p/substack-announcement-bari-weiss-free-press

2. How former substack creators who moved to different online subscription platforms say they're making more money now: https://digiday.com/media/former-substack-creators-say-theyre-earning-more-on-new-platforms-that-offer-larger-shares-of-subscription-revenue/

I'm going to start posting them in replies to every post that contains a link to substack. Is that obnoxious? Yes, clearly, but in a good way. You can do it too.

Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords starting to look like a reasonable basis for a system of government

I'm tired of po tatoes. I want rich tatoes. I want my tatoes to be wealthy.

Sisko: ...it's just hard getting used to being a religious icon.

Dax: I think I'd like it.

#DS9

Jadzia Dax should be a religious icon.

Watching the "Rom unionizes Quark's" episode of DS9

:blobhaj_tiny_hearts:

I like Rom's reasoning. If the cops are coming after you for talking about a union, you may as well form a union.

Lmao of course Odo the cop is philosophically opposed to unions. Forgot that part.

OK Sisko's response is interesting. Since the Federation, a post scarcity society, has been giving Quark the space and power and water and air for his bar for free, Quark can either negotiate with the union or pay the Federation for the value of all those things.

Analogous to people suing Exxon for climate damages. The exploiters are the parasites. The freeloaders. They owe us everything they have.

A sex worker who killed her attempted rapist turns out to have stopped a serial killer.

https://morbidology.com/the-end-of-a-serial-killer-neal-falls/

AI is embraced by fascists. Of course. AI is the perfect metaphor for white "culture" such as it is. It sucks everything into it, mashes it up into a slurry, and regurgitates a statistically averaged facsimile of whatever once existed. The culture of colonization, domination, assimilation.

@HeavenlyPossum Can mockery change people's behavior? Absolutely! That's influence. Not coercion.

@transworld Archived version of the WaPo article, no paywall: https://archive.is/BSQxy

The fascists can be stopped, slowed, and even destroyed!

@ErgonWolf @DanMorgan It's been obvious for a decade, and true for a century.

CN: transphobia

Journalists, headline writers: the linked post is a good example of how NOT to talk about trans people in the media. Just because Musk deadnames his daughter doesn't mean you have to. I learned Vivian Wilson's deadname from this post and I wish I hadn't. Block that shit out. Weirdos say they wanna know? Fuck em. Let them look it up themselves. It's irrelevant to anything but prurience.

Also, Vivian's pronouns are she/her. Not they/them.

It's wonderful that whoever runs @newsthump is supportive of Vivian. These tips are simply meant to help your support show even better.

https://mastodon.online/@newsthump/114213745203472984

I love this yoga teacher for focusing on making yoga routines that are accessible to people with chronic illness and/or disability. Monetta Wilson is starting a 2-week bed yoga wellness challenge on April 1.

Check it out:

https://monettawilson.com/bedyoga

#yoga #disability #wellness #exercise #ChronicIllness

Unbelievable how well-versed I am at pretending to work while silently dying inside because of my society's descent into fascism

I trace the origins of this well-honed skill back to 1999 when I was literally the only person in my small town who knew that the Seattle police were rampaging, gassing protesters and civilians alike during the WTO protests.

It's a day. I'm going to get through it. You will too!

Hey so I don't know how many people might be seeking a relatively low-paid job* at a very inclusive library in a mildly welcoming town, but my local library is expanding its physical premises and is now also hiring a new library clerk. This position is full time, doesn't require advanced degrees, and comes with good benefits and, if it's like my civil service job, also comes with a guaranteed pay raise of 2-3% every year.

*a bit less than 35K per year

Anyway my upstate NY people please spread this around!

#Hiring #GetFediHired #FediJobs #Classifieds #NYS #UpstateNY

https://hmloneonta.org/

Damn. A struggling small town newspaper. In print for 150+ years. But tariffs on Canadian products meant their paper costs 25% more now. That was the final nail in the coffin. The Cortland Standard, one of the 5 oldest family-owned newspapers in the USA, is shuttering.

#news #breaking #NYS #upstateNY

https://www.cortlandstandard.com/stories/goodbye-cortland-and-godspeed,133575