Daniel Sloss Appreciation

Little old Italian lady: Do you have zucchini?

They don't want us to call what's happening in Gaza a genocide not because there's not been an official ruling but because these things don't get set in people's minds via official ruling. Instead it is the oral history that sets an event into place in mass consciousness.

Denial and control of language is a powerful tool for genocide supporters, especially for soft supporters.

in our defense this is oil

Watched a great talk today about web/technology accessibility, and the speaker pointed out that yes, accessibility is important for people with permanent disabilities, and we should definitely care about that. But also accessibility helps EVERYBODY, because everybody will, at some point in their lives, find themselves in situations that accessible technology can help with. Here are permanent, temporary, and situational disabilities that accessible technology can help with:

We’re so terrified of how small and unimportant we are that we create gods and heavens and hells and stories of fantasy to make us feel like we matter when none of us do. We don’t matter to the universe. We don’t matter to Earth. I find comfort in that. Nothing in the universe matters, yet I matter to someone. People matter to me. We matter to one another. Sometimes more than we realize.

You owe the world nothing other than your best self.