🐈 @lieke@witches.town

A lot of you might have seen confusing toots today about it being a sad day for the Mastodon community, suicide prevention stuff etc.

It's because an active Mastodon user, Natalie Nguyen (@tipsytentacle), decided that she didn't want to live anymore and has passed away.

We need to really talk about using content warnings properly, folks. Because people really ignored that part *a lot* with this and it doesn't just suck - it is plain dangerous.

Going forward I'm not going to be CWing frank discussion of my depression or anxiety (although I will try to CW negative self-talk, discussion of death, etc.).

No one is helped by hiding that stuff away; it just plays into the societal stigma against mental illness and its sufferers, and for too long Polite Society has told us "oh, we just don't /talk/ about that" to try to sweep us under the rug.

There is no shame in mental illness and there should be no proscription against discussing it.

Mich nervt dieses verbreitete Ostdeutschland-Bashing total. Ich bin derartig gegen die Nazis da, aber Herablassung und Verachtung hilft nicht, mit "höhö, wisstschon, Ostdeutschland" über die "Primitiven" in der Provinz lästern … ne ey.

Das hilft keinem, das ist reines "Wir-gegen-die", um sich geil zu fühlen, und mal auf wem rumzuhacken.

Bitte lassts. Das ist unproduktiv, unempathisch, fucking unsolidarisch, und vermeidet die Diskussion und Aufarbeitung tatsächlicher Probleme.

あさごはんはまだですか

I don't use the word "hero" very often. But you, customer support employee, are the greatest hero in American history. https://twitter.com/TwitterGov/status/926267806261407744

My cats love each other https://instagram.com/p/Ba-LCjuAXyM/

White cat wearing black mask and cape

#cats #猫 #chats https://toot.cat/media/6b0wU3YfRZakpGBqqCs

No matter what they've done, no matter how trivial or heinous it was, no matter what the effect on other people or the world was, no one in the entire recorded history of the world has ever been able to go back in time and prevent themselves from making a mistake.

We just have to learn and move forward and try to do better.

😺😸

Oh hey Ursula Le Guin's birthday is Oct 21. I'm about 1/2 way through "The Dispossessed", and it is astonishingly good.

Quote from her: "We live in capitalism, its power seems inescapable-but then, so did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings."

A lot of people are missing the point of the twitter boycott. Ok heres how twitter works, they sell your data to advertisers for money, any interactions, good or bad are data they can sell.

All that harassment women get? That makes them money. All the call outs, all the toxic shit, all the fights with bad people? Makes them money.

They have a vested interest in creating engagement and nothing does that better than anger. They keep the bad people around because they know you will fight them. Thats data, they can sell that and then market to people just like you.

While they market to the people who want to abuse you too.

*not using twitter* is literally the only way to hurt them.

https://mastodon.social/media/pMDikgcW048z82tuIPk

LETTERS TO OUR PARENTS

a #zine for coming out as #trans or #nonbinary

Now available here, shipping from the UK: https://folksy.com/items/7058532-Zine-Letters-to-Our-Parents-a-zine-for-coming-out-as-trans-or-nonbinary

Or you can see it for free here (Google Doc): http://bit.ly/letterstoourparents

https://cybre.space/media/-9jnzploY1FOsEAlXxY https://cybre.space/media/10zZpfm5cZO-ZiEMp8s https://cybre.space/media/az4GUftVu-OkzYrNTx0

because nobody then the richie richs needs the military for anything.
...and the argument for having it is always the same: to protect you.
...yeah shure, war is protecting me.
It's nothin then a political weapon.
And yes there have been selforganized defence corps which are just existing to defend.
The military operates different. It's a very static top down organisation with functionaries. No one needs that!

Go #LGBTQ

ハート
#もふテロ

Reminder, the US congress is literally trying to exempt Transgender people from Civil Rights Protections.

https://www.themarysue.com/hr-2796-anti-trans-bill/

If you're in the USA and can, you really need to make some noise about this, it's lead by the Republicans as usual phone and/or write them. So yeah, get onto your congress representative now, I would but in Australia so I can only help spread the word

Yeah, no MIT student would ever tolerate such things.