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submitted 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) by mononoke@lemmy.sdf.org to c/chapotraphouse@hexbear.net

Pitting the need for state and systemic change against individual and community change sets up a false binary. Both are necessary to get out of the pandemic mess we are in, just as both are necessary for any kind of liberation we are fighting for. If transformative justice teaches us anything, it is that systemic change alone is not enough. There are also many changes that must happen at the community and individual levels as well.

(personal note: most of you are here, and you are failing spectacularly.)

This pandemic will create millions more disabled people with chronic illnesses. Are we ready for what is coming next? Are we prepared for how many more disabled people with chronic health conditions there will be? Are we ready for how that will and should necessarily shift our movements and political work? Or are we going to continue to shut out disability and disabled people from movements and communities? Are we going to continue to not include ableism and abled supremacy in our liberation work?

Disabled people are not disposable. We are your feared present and your inevitable future. We are what age and time promise more than anything else, and this is one reason you fear us and why you have continually pushed us away and hidden us.

Nearly four years ago, which itself was two years into this pandemic, and nothing has changed. I'm beginning to think nothing will change. Well, that's wrong. There will be more and more death and maiming while the elephant trumpets on. I would say adapt or die, but my bets are on death winning if the last six (!!) years are any indication. Hope it's worth it.

[-] mononoke@lemmy.sdf.org 13 points 4 days ago

Last election was a choice between Palestinian genocide vs significantly more Palestinian genocide + Ukrainian genocide + it’s looking Venezuelan genocide is about to be kicking off + who the fuck knows, we’ve got three more years of this shitshow and that’s assuming we even have another election.

You are doing the thing right now. The other choice is "none of those things," actually, and you don't get that by voting harder because as you've just demonstrated you were not given the choice. Is any genocide acceptable to you? The line is never "less genocide," it is "no genocide."

[-] mononoke@lemmy.sdf.org 8 points 2 weeks ago

If saying I think you should be considerate of the people around you during a compulsory social situation in a confined space with strangers makes me a reactionary Facebook grandma, well...my bad, I guess! Enjoy the revolution!

[-] mononoke@lemmy.sdf.org 32 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Given the current world we live in I do not want anything that I create or contribute to itself contributed to an exploitative corporation's bottom line (at best) without my consent or their assuredly begrudging reciprocation. This should not be controversial. The GPL accomplishes this. Nothing more lax or permissive does or will. You are not a cool or chill guy because you don't care what someone does with the code you write. You are handing all of those who would sack you the keys to the castle, ushering them inside. That is not abstaining, it's letting your opponents win. No thanks.

[-] mononoke@lemmy.sdf.org 8 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

I use permissive licenses not because I’m a pushover, but because I really don’t care what you do with it.

The point of all of this is that you really should, no matter what it is. I'm sure there is something you would object to having been a part of; protecting your labor from contributing to that only makes sense. If you really have no problems with your labor potentially contributing to absolutely anything and everything, then that is simply terrifying.

[-] mononoke@lemmy.sdf.org 8 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

I literally just want people not to blast their fucking music or videos from their phone speakers on my 1.5 hour commute in a sardine tin on wheels that I have no choice but to take to get my medicine. It's really, really, really not a big ask. It's not. It certainly isn't worth whatever this meltdown is that you're having about...being asked to not be loud around strangers who are compelled to be around you? What in the world is this?

[-] mononoke@lemmy.sdf.org 16 points 3 weeks ago

Based on the responses in this thread I'm led to believe that "being in public" means you can do whatever you want without consideration for anyone else around you. News to me!

[-] mononoke@lemmy.sdf.org 38 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

GIMP is a very powerful and important piece of software that I wish they weren't so obstinate about giving the worst name ever. I know it's just an acronym, but it is in effect the name of the project. I've taken to calling it GNU IMP instead.

[-] mononoke@lemmy.sdf.org 8 points 3 weeks ago

Genuinely pretty cool stuff, and I don't like to compliment Valve very often. I knew another Steam controller would look like this, it was a no-brainer with the Steam Deck. I really enjoyed the first one, as someone with very bad nerve issues with my hands it was (still is?) the most ergonomic non-split controller, so I hope they've kept that sensibility with this one since the Deck itself is kind of a nightmare on my hands for long-term use. I guess we'll see. I hope you can use the split VR controllers with non-VR games. Their promotional video made it sound like you could, but I've never used the Valve Index so maybe that's always been supported. I think it's really funny they've brought back 'Steam Machines', that thing they tried back in 2012 or whatever and it totally flopped, but it's not going to flop now because computer software sucks so much and Linux is eating everyone's lunch.

[-] mononoke@lemmy.sdf.org 10 points 4 weeks ago

My heart dropped reading this. She died as her husband held her, and for absolutely nothing. What an utterly evil, sick place this pit of a country is.

[-] mononoke@lemmy.sdf.org 11 points 1 month ago

No one knew how to use computers at all until they learned. GUIs do not mean anything until you learn them, too.

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submitted 1 month ago by mononoke@lemmy.sdf.org to c/news@hexbear.net

Hooray...

[-] mononoke@lemmy.sdf.org 39 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Even that started as "abolish the police." That was too radical, so they went with "defund the police." That, too, was too radical, and turned into "fund them more, but include sensitivity training." The sensitivity training was not included; too radical.

[-] mononoke@lemmy.sdf.org 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

It is truly impossible to make any kind of prediction for what will happen in the US because of this. I think a lot of people not from here don't realize how bad it actually is. It's really, really bad.

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