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tfw you realise you live in the times where "replacable battery" is listed as a feature and not something you take for granted

https://mastodon.sergal.org/media/rXV2oCweTGex5xAOPRw

https://witches.town/media/d0_X4C_HaJto3j4qrTc

InspiroBot™ is your best friend.

I think the measure of this current nascent youth-led gun control movement will be whether they join forces with Black Lives Matter.

It's one thing to say "disarm ordinary citizens", another thing to say "disarm cops". It's one thing to say "stop killing innocent students", another thing to say "stop killing all Black people, stop the death penalty, stop incarceration".

The role of white male supremacy in mass shootings is crucial.

A jouch. Jeans couch. https://anarchism.space/media/Pcmaaj9rsJH32wIAhys

THEY PLANET

I can't stop crying omg you're welcome

Wasabi with her nose mooshed into her tail, boost if you agree

#dailycatpic #cats #catsofmastodon #mastocats

"RAPTURE"

There aren't many lesbians in Rocheport, Missouri--
I was our town's only gay.
But this girl just came out, and she just asked me out,
And I know that it's super cliche,
But I'm hopeful as I make my way to the park--
I wear my red tie for good luck--
And she's funny and charming and so super cute,
And I'm hopelessly feelings-struck.

This doesn't seem real,
Something must be amiss,
But she's solid as solid ground.
So I do what I feel,
And I give her a kiss,
And that's when I hear the first trumpet sound.

It turns out the Rapture was scheduled for Sunday;
The end of the world is at hand.
We barely escape from the fiery hail,
And watch as it burns up the land.
And as the trees wither, the air fills with chanting
That seems to descend from the skies.
And we see an angel, or at least something covered
In wings that are covered in eyes.

This doesn't seem real,
Something must be amiss,
But she's solid as solid ground.
So I do what I feel,
And I give her a kiss,
And that's when I hear the next trumpet sound.

And we think we weren't raptured because we're such lezbos,
And it turns out we're totally wrong.
The probem is really our Protestantism:
The Catholics were right all along.
And we're here with the Jews and the Hindus and Muslims,
And many and so many more.
And the waters are bitter from a star they call Wormwood,
And there are still trials in tore.

This doesn't seem real,
The whole world is amiss,
But she is still sticking around.
So I do what I feel,
And I give her a kiss,
And wait for the final trumpet to sound.

And maybe we're bound for a lake full of fire,
And maybe we'll both wind up marked by The Beast,
But I'd rather have her than some heavenly choir,
I'd rather she bless me than some collared priest.
She's here and I'm here and that's all we need:
She's the Garden of Eden's most beautiful weed.

This doesn't seem real,
The whole world is amiss,
But she is still sticking around.
So I do what I feel,
And I give her a kiss,
And wait for the final trumpet to sound.

And we kiss,
And we kiss,
And we kiss,
And we kiss,
And we wait for the trumpet to sound.

#lesbians #ChristianApocalypse #LoveSongs #QueerLoveSongs #AmWriting

"Want to come in," the first dragon said, "and see my hoard of gold?"
"You still sleep on gold?" said the other.
"So what are you on, Bitcoin?"
"Hardly. I hoard pillows."
"Ooh!"
#MicroFiction #tootfic #smallstories

whiney, assholes: "people want everyone to be treated the same, but not everyone is the same so you shouldn't act like it"

👍 *treats marginalized groups better and stops coddling privileged people who don't need it*

"no not like that"

Anyway, Xhosa is a member of the Bantu language family. Members of that family are spoken in roughly the southern third of Africa. It's theorized that Bantu languages didn't evolve clicks on their own, but borrowed them from members of a smaller (in terms of speaking population and geographic coverage) language family: Khoisan.

Part of the reason for this is that Khoisan languages use clicks a lot more and in a lot more places, but Bantu languages use them less often and in places in words that are "easier" to pronounce. Where "easier" is about where the tongue and lips and such are already placed based on surrounding sounds.

#LinguisticsMinute

Looks like a lot of my contract work is ending this month. Time to do the thing I struggle with: network and hunt for more freelance work. 😅

If anyone is looking for a copy editor or writer for games or fiction, drop me a line!

hey

Hot Take: Lunch is good assert your right to eat lunch

All people deserve the time and resources to eat 3 meals a day.

@shel @gaditb I feel like solarpunk is really a reaction to the current void we have for a positive vision for the future.

Both solarpunk and nastalga for past social rebellions seems to me to be rooted in the fact that we feel like our current social paradigm has run its course, yet we don't have a roadmap to something new or better yet,

@benhamill @shel @kibi I personally like “kindcore” because it implies the opposite of “hardcore”: Rather than being fueled by the aggression and pain associated with a word like “hardcore”, “kindcore” is fueled by compassion and love. Whereas “hardcore” would be a TV show like, say, “Game of Thrones”, “kindcore” would be “The Joy of Painting”.

That’s my take, anyway.

@brook @shel for me vaporwave is nostalgic but like, in an intensely melancholic way that isn't so much about wanting to return to the past so much as demonstrating how all the good things in the past were actually built upon lies and like… consumerism and whitewashing that we now know would escalate out of control

so it's like “wow remember when things seemed so nice??” but not in a “let's go back” way but rather a “wow we were so naïve” one