Drífa Jónsdóttir @[email protected]

I generally don't accept follows from accounts with no visible toots and no connection to people I know and trust.

One thing I really hate about my culture is its fetishization of competition. We create needless competition in business, sports, politics, etc. Why? It is destructive, it creates more losers than winners, and it wastes resources that could be better used to solve our collective problems. Proponents claim it spurs innovation and achievement. Bullshit: it spurs cheating and gaming the system. Competition of *ideas* is better served by *cooperation* to study them.

I should probably pin Britt's ref sheet.

If you're trans, remember: the point of changing your appearance and presentation is to feel better living in your own skin. Anyone who gives you grief for not meeting some arbitrary standard is welcome to go shag a cactus.

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To get software I need to do my job running on my new work machine, I need to buy a license to the updated version. This takes 5 minutes and a credit card. Unless you're my employer, who hasn't been able to manage it in over a fortnight and claims it might not be able to for another several weeks.

s/outa/pita/ thanx crapple

Lunch is outa with spinach, fried halloumi, tomatoes, and harissa mayo.

I did a birdsite thread on Biden's executive order regarding LGBTQ+ folks: https://twitter.com/drifa_j/status/1352249857629712388?s=20

Good birdsite thread on the power waste of bitcoin: https://twitter.com/smdiehl/status/1350869944888664064?s=21

Citations Needed has an excellent and quite timely episode up on on calls for healing and unity are often a con to perpetuate a status qui that can allow no true healing or unity: https://citationsneeded.libsyn.com/episode-128-the-healing-con-how-warm-and-fuzzy-appeals-for-unity-are-used-to-protect-power

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JoNina Abron-Ervin and Lorenzo Komboa Ervin have started the Black Autonomy Podcast with Black Rose / Rosa Negra folks, and their first episode is on "Black Politics and Elections": https://blackautonomy.libsyn.com/vote-for-me-ill-set-you-free-black-politics-and-elections

Also, the Marxist-Leninist podcast Red Menace has a good analysis of the fascist riot in D.C. up: https://redmenace.libsyn.com/jan-6th

(My politics might lean more toward anarchism than M-L formations, but the hosts' take is worth listening to.)

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It takes a solid minute of railed, laptop-fans-shrieking crunching on my current-generation MacBook Pro for Word to format a bibliography with about 100 entries. BibTeX and LaTeX will happily crunch ten times as many entries in less time. Why does anyone put up with Micorsuck's shitty software?

Yeah, I unboosted that. Reflecting, I think my laughter was the nervous laughter of someone watching something uncomfortable. And the thing that's making me uncomfortable is not just the afore-mentioned sex gag, but that the whole premise is making fun of someone for geeking out.

Be you, geek out about machine if you want. And get consent in advance for your lewd behavior.

If you really wanna see the thing I unboosted, searching on some combination of Eccleston and radiator should work.

CW for LB: The gag involves an intimation of lewd behavior in front of a non-consenting (female) witness.

Man, the Greeks had it easy. Stuck between Scylla and Charybdis? Try being stuck between the fascists and the neoliberals.

No matter which group of people control the government, they're gonna do *some* evil shit. While it's worth getting rid of the ones who deliberately hurt marginalized folk to secure consent, it's also worth remembering that the 'nice' ones who don't do that also fight the people who push back against the evil shit even they do. And that counterinsurgency is ignored or endorsed by centrist liberals who would demonize the same acts from a right-wing government.

Robert Evans' latest arc of Behind the Bastards, 'Behind the Insurrections,' is essential listening for this time in USA history.

https://www.iheart.com/podcast/105-behind-the-bastards-29236323/

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