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✨ A Sprinkle of JoyousJoyness ✨

So SMOL.

Have a JoyousJoyfulJoyness day!

#happy #kangaroo #australia #animal #smol #cute #joyousjoyness #repost

There's a lot of focus in neurodivergent advocacy spaces on emphasising the positives of monotropic thinking, but it's a build with notable downsides, made worse because so few people can naturally empathise with them, so they imagine it's a perverse stubborn choice & not a default setting

I think we're in a firework control zone, but in spite of that the random explosions are extremely close by. Fortunately (?) the cats seem less bothered by this than I am.

You want to democratize "going to therapy"? Make it "free" as in paid by socialized healthcare. You want to democratize "making art"? Give people money and free time to express themselves.

We keep seeing startups who want to replace something valuable (therapy, counseling, tutoring, artistic expression) with some tech bullshit under the banner of democratization. But why do we need to invest so much in bad tech that doesn't work instead of just giving people access to what they need?

Disabled people aren’t ignorant. We knew that the labour government could not suddenly make things better overnight after 14 years of shit.

But to attack the most vulnerable, when there are so many other more pressing priorities, is simple cruelty and should never be accepted.

A blue, green, purple sparkly resin fountain pen (made by Just Turnings) being held up on a desk by a tiny blue and white crab pen holder

I am finding an unreasonable amount of joy in my new fountain pen and new tiny pen holder and how earnestly she is doing her work.

Something I love about archival films is that when someone had a couple feet of film left on a roll they'd often use it to film their cat. So many films finish with a few seconds of cats

So, here's some cats from the 1950s and 60s. They were loved

Scanned from 8mm films

#Film #History #Cats

Have Disabled People Considered The First Solution Anyone Would Think Of? and Other Unhelpful Tips

a lot of the class reductionist analysis you get these days stems from people basically just wishing they had the working class of 40 years ago to work with, not that of a service-based economy. they want to win revolution from the factories and are embarrassed by call centre workers with weird hair

I think the thing for me about Labour and the Tories saying that the Greens 'wouldn't do things right' is that we've tried austerity, anti immigration approaches, brexit, ignoring the environment and not properly taxing wealth and THAT hasn't worked has it?

To be clear: deportations to increase cultural homogeneity is the text book definition of ethnic cleansing. Demands that come even close to this are so far outside any democratic norm and the rule of law. What has happened to a country when this is not condemned in the strongest possible terms?

To be absolutely clear, it is impossible to vote for a party that cannot bring itself to unequivocally defend the rights of people living and working legally in this country. Because arbitrary removal of legal rights, or sudden varying of terms, for some is ultimately a threat to everyone.

Each AWS outage is a chance for people to reevaluate whether billionaires should be allowed to exist, and each time this test is cut short when the entertainment comes back on.

A picture of a foggy street

Edinburgh castle failing to render, likely thanks to the AWS outage

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I would laugh if this wasn't so true 😭

I reserve my “good faith debate” energy for family and friends who I know are more likely to genuinely value our relationship over the debate, and therefore, we have a chance of actually learning something from each other. It’s always a bigger gamble with strangers online.

My most niche stance is a safety and ethics crossover, I think: The human need for sleep is way, WAY underprioritized. We know that it's dangerous for humans to do things when tired, but we still pretend that 24-hour shifts are okay, that everyone can naturally fall asleep and awaken around...

The ONS says it is a fact.

UK "job vacancies" have fallen for 39 consecutive quarters. There are c.10% fewer vacancies now than there were before Covid.

There are 2.4 *actually unemployed* people for every vacancy, never mind how many other people politicians would like to persecute.

It is remarkable to note how widely the position is being entrenched across UK party politics that millions of people need to be bullied "back to work" in jobs that don't exist.

The jobs. Don't exist.

This is a fact.

Just want to say that I happened to be at a hospital today and had to wait around to see someone. In that time a head nurse from a specialist unit mentioned having EIGHT nurses off sick right now. In case people are wondering who’s hurt by costly and inaccessible vaccines.

Did people really memorize phone numbers before cell phones, or is that just a movie thing? 2? Questions I was watching some old shows from the 90s and noticed people would just dial numbers from memory - like they'd call their friends or family without looking anything up. Made me wonder if that was actually normal back then? Did people genuinely have all their important numbers memorized, or did most folks keep a little address book or written list nearby?

If anyone needs me I will be in the museum, lying down next to the bog bodies.

it is more important to read books you actually enjoy reading than books that are Literature

We’re too smart and abortion rights are too embedded and socially accepted for the ADF to succeed here, say guys who’ve uncritically promoted anti-trans activists funded by the same people and using the same lawyers for a decade

A huge chonk of a fluffy cat sitting on a table near an open fire. The cat is cream and grey and appears to be shaped like a barrel in a fur coat. They are scowling fiercely with their moustache and bewhiskered ears apparently flowing back into the cold wind. There's a definite vibe that this villainous cat twirls their moustache as they evict orphans into the aforementioned blizzard and think Scrooge was an easy-going lightweight. They are magnificent.

I found a 19th century Cat Villain!

"Robin, language changes organically you can't prescribe it"
FINE. Here are some Organic Changes I'm gonna use till they stick:
- "net wealth" not "net worth". Nobody's worth more than you.
- "imitative" not "generative" "AI". It can't 'generate' shit. (It's not AI either, but the qualifier will do)

I think we really should stop using antifa and just fully say anti-fascist and get them saying they are against anti fascism. Using antifa is giving them some distance and I genuinely think some of their base don’t even know that’s what it stands for.

when someone says "my dice are cursed" you sort of have to agree with them because if you say "marius you are a grown man and I know you know that's not how probability works" they won't say anything but they'll treat you like you are in league with the cursed dice