Tobasco da Gama @tobascodagama@witches.town

"Italian fascists supported women's suffrage" I don't even know if that's true but here's how the Italian Fascists approached "voting"

Olds:

- don't know the difference between emoji and emoticons
- don't know the difference between genderqueer and a gender
- think you can go get a job somewhere and send money back home
- remember hope for a better future

Reminder that unlike on Twitter, Mastodon allows for Content Warnings (CW). These let others decide if they have the mental energy to deal with certain topics (politics, current events, bigotry, etc.) rather than you deciding for them.

You don't have to refrain from talking about those subjects here, but please make frequent use of CWs for those of us who use Mastodon as a refuge.

They're also good for hiding spoilers, joke punchlines, and long rambles, but don't forget their primary usage.

So... I'm looking for work as a frontend developer... Anyone want to hire me or help me get hired? I have been a programmer (non professionally) for years and I'm very motivated. If anyone has connections, that'd be great. Maybe boost?

For indigenous people's day: tool for north americans to find out whose land they're living on, with links.

https://native-land.ca/

https://awoo.space/media/JnEBrdL2j50w_wjhLQc

Columbo: the one policeman in history who made his career by harassing rich white people

also he sent William Shatner to prison twice, so

tired: Columbus Day
wired: Columbo Day

(image source: proposal for a Columbo Lego set https://ideas.lego.com/projects/043e668b-ec20-49de-973e-134f523f1c1e)

https://cybre.space/media/P0hoPTJ2TPy7LA8ve8A

everyone in 2016: haha this year sucks, can't wait for the next one
meanwhile in 2017 we don't even bother joking about it because we all know how bad it is in our hearts

Why do so many sites- tumblr, Twitter ect struggle with the concept that I wanna see posts.

From people I follow.

When they post them, not ‘they posted this while you were gone’.

When they post them.

Not someone else’s posts who I don’t follow who is popular.

I wanna see the posts from people I follow at the time they posted them.

it’s that simple.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/06/business/fearless-girl-settlement.html?smid=tw-nytimes&smtyp=cur

The firm that commissioned the popular “Fearless Girl” statue in New York’s financial district has agreed to pay $5 million, mostly to settle claims that it discriminated against 305 top female employees by paying them less than men in the same positions.

this feels like too obvious a project for someone NOT to have done. I'm very slightly tempted to select some passages from the Congressional Record at various times and see what words get used.

does any congresscritter use "citizen" any more, I wonder, or has "voter" (or, worse, "taxpayer") taken its place completely

idly wondering if anyone's researched linguistic shifts in how American politicians have referred to the people, en masse, in speeches and advertisements and so forth. in particular I'm curious about whether there's been a trend towards referring to people in strictly economic terms (e.g. "consumers", "taxpayers"; see also that much-beloved phrase "the middle class")

Two important stories out yesterday:

• "The balance of power is me: 0, Harvey Weinstein: 10." At the NYT, Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey report on decades of sexual harassment suits and allegations against the Hollywood producer https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/05/us/harvey-weinstein-harassment-allegations.html

• On Buzzfeed, Joseph Bernstein reports on how Milo Y., Bannon, etc., pushed extremism into mainstream news and entertainment: https://www.buzzfeed.com/josephbernstein/heres-how-breitbart-and-milo-smuggled-white-nationalism