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they/them disabled. Wear an N95/KN95+. None of us are free until all of us are free. Land back.
Be kind to yourself, fellow pain friend.
31.08.2023 19:12 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Being told only people whose lives don't matter get badly affected by COVID hits a lil different when you're one of the people whose life doesn't matter.
31.08.2023 00:51 — 👍 337 🔁 94 💬 4 📌 5So I see everything here has been...a thing
30.08.2023 14:07 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Being chronically ill is a -10 out of 10. Do not recommend, do not pass go, you are denied benefits.
29.08.2023 23:50 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I've read, wrote, and thought more in the last year than all of my masters program. Not sure if this is a critique of the ivory towers or a result of it.
29.08.2023 17:07 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
One of the most important contributions of Amilcar Cabral is his entangled understanding of political, economic, cultural, & armed resistance. They aren't understood in stages where political power is taken & everything else follows. Anti-colonial resistance isn't linear.
29.08.2023 15:00 — 👍 10 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Today is WGA strike day 119, and SAG-AFTRA strike day 46.
Longest WGA strike: 154 days in 1988 (Oct 2, 2023)
2nd longest WGA strike: 148 days in 1960 (Sep 26, 2023)
Longest SAG strike: 182 days in 2000
1945 set decorators strike: 231 days
1942 musicians strike: 834 days
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A good cry makes everything better.
27.08.2023 21:55 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
In leaked recording, Amazon CEO Andy Jassy wouldn't share data for his controversial RTO mandate. Said it was a 'judgement' call, like launching AWS. Eugene Kim Aug 25, 2023
So you’re telling me there’s no data to support forcing people back to the office
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Or accept the chaos and start five more books
26.08.2023 00:00 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0No one.
Absolutely no one.
My brain: Abacuses are cool. I should get an abacus.
still of scully from xfiles. caption reads : “yes, but why, Mulder? Why intentionally create a populace that destroys itself?”
still of mulder from xfiles. caption reads: “it’s the oldest tool of power. if you’re distracted by fear of those around you,”
still of mulder from xfiles, caption reads “it keeps you from seeing the actions of those above.”
ok but he’s spitting
18.08.2023 03:28 — 👍 558 🔁 138 💬 17 📌 8
Today, South Carolina's all-male Supreme Court upheld the state's 6-week abortion ban.
We recently reported on how SC became the only state in the US with a men-only highest court:
It seems as if I must go back to grad school to have the credential and authority to speak and write about subjects "credibly," however, I don't want to be subject to the capitalist whims of the ivory tower. So what's the move?
23.08.2023 16:16 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Capitalism
22.08.2023 21:12 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0All the communication in the world don't mean a thing if the person you're trying to communicate with doesn't actually care about your well being.
21.08.2023 22:54 — 👍 58 🔁 10 💬 2 📌 0The to read book list is exponentially growing but the finished book list is simple addition. 💙📚
21.08.2023 19:33 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Short intro: emigrating from twitter like most, follower of Marx and Engels +, I spend most of my time reading, writing, thinking, and living with severe chronic pain and Crohn's, etc.
There's no war but class war and a simple act is wearing an N95+ mask. Be kind out there.
