Oh you're using a computer? Would be a shame if I tried desperately to sit in the keyboard like the world depends on it and push the mouse around - Cats, everywhere
Was kept awake last night by a police helicopter circling above the house. There's more chance of pigs flying than me getting a decent night's sleep these days ๐
We're all preemptively defederating from Threads right? The three E's technique I like to call: Extinguish (fuck surveillance capitalism) Extinguish (fuck nurturing white supremacy) Extinguish (fuck snitches)
When punching a Nazi, or any other flavour of bigot, remember not to wrap your fingers around your thumb, strike with your first two knuckles first because the bones in your hands are important and you need them, and punch through rather than onto them with your whole body so they remember that nobody likes a punch in the face because when you get punched in the face it hurts. Thanks for coming to my TED Talk x
I came here to do two things: Come up with a joke about being here to do two things, and post a toot about it once I've decided what the toot should be, and now I'm all out of things #introduction#introductions
Been thinking recently there should be a soap opera that subtly demonstrates pathways towards community action, resolving/exploring social justice issues etc, and the drama comes in showing the pitfalls and challenges that can arise within those contexts, interpersonal conflicts within movements etc. As a soap, you'd be writing it around the drama, but really it's an instruction manual.
DfE has opened a consultation on draft guidance for schools and colleges about children questioning their gender. Speak up to say "this shit is *not* ok" on record regarding the government's proposal to require schools to tell parents their child is transgender/non-binary. If we don't fill out these forms, the transmisics, transphobes and TERFs will be. The consultation is open until 11.59pm on the 12th of March. https://consult.education.gov.uk/equalities-political-impartiality-anti-bullying-team/gender-questioning-children-proposed-guidance/
For 2024, I'd like us all here to learn deep within our souls that white silence is violence. If you want a future that "works" for all in theory (you're ~totally not racist~, right?), then put some of that "work" into practise and we might even get there? See something, do something.
@HauntedOwlbear@t54r4n1 they've been playing a bit of Lego Racers on my lil handheld emulation thing so more Lego games is probs a good idea! Yooka-Laylee looks good, maybe seeing how she is with some easier action adventure stuff might be a good fit x
I've got a 2011 27" i7/8GB/1TB iMac going spare if anyone in the midlands wants to come get it. Should be good still if you put some sort of Linux on it (can run up to macOS High Sierra)
My favourite thing about a lot of Dell AC/DC adapters is that sometimes if the DC jack on the laptop breaks it does so in just a way that it means the adapter still works but the chip that signals that it's a genuine adapter blows so it becomes e-waste for literally no reason at all because it refuses to charge the battery with it