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creekfiend

its so awkward when people ask me why i dropped out and i have to be like "inadequate disability support" bc no one wants to hear this. they're always like i thought they had to provide that though isn't it the law? girl you might want to sit down i have some bad news about the litigation-based enforcement of the americans with disabilities act

then if i do say that theyre like, couldnt you sue? well theoretically maybe but not without spending more money than i have and putting myself through absolute hell. so no. no i can't.

mabelsguidetolife

it’s just this

#this is a hill I'll die on #SO MANY PROTECTIONS rely on people in vulnerable positions to bring court cases if they're violated #and so many people are just like “that's against the law”#as if laws are magic spells and not rules that rely on enforcement

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transmechanicus

Revealing the ignorance of my youth here, but who is this and what is she known for?

boybeetles

Anita Sarkeesian, feminist who interpreted media under a feminist lens. She did a series about video games and she was the subject of targeted harassment. That was the start of gamergate

flurrin

Minor correction, the start of gamergate was based around a different reporter, Zoe Quinn, but they were both absolutely violently threatened over their involvement in video game criticism and development. A hate campaign was started by Quinn's ex-boyfriend when he wrote a post falsely accusing them of dating video game journalists in order to receive positive reviews on their own game, Depression Quest, which led other bad actors to accuse all women in the industry (Zoe identified as female at the time) of perceived sexual immorality. Anita Sarkeesian's brilliant Youtube series Tropes vs Women in Video Games (which everyone should watch, right now) sparked a particular nerve for criticizing popular games of killing and/or victimizing any important female character (there is a CHILLING bit that borders on ludicrous where she describes the plots of a seemingly endless parades of games as "In [title], [male player character's] wife dies, and you then have to rescue [his] daughter."). That series did actually make a huge change in the industry, especially when touted by progressive legacy developers like Tim Schafer (Monkey Island, Psychonauts), who went on to expand hiring in his company to front women and minority voices, but the shift didn't really show for a long time and echoes of the sexism that plagues the industry at its core are still rampant.

crazy-pages

In all seriousness, if you live in the US and you aren't familiar with the misogynistic harassment these people in the game industry faced during Gamergate, you need to watch this series right now.

This was the beggining of the current form of the US fascist movement and it underpins the entire thing about it to this day. If you live in the US and Gamergate isn't familiar to you, you're missing critical history to understanding US fascism. I'm not joking even a little bit here, you will understand modern United States fascism so much better if you are familiar with Gamergate.

cumaeansibyl

Not an exaggeration. Gamergate led directly to the redpill/incel movement, which white supremacists exploited and colonized. Not to say that most of the white men in those movements weren't already racist to some extent, but that wasn't an active part of their politics until white supremacist recruiters came along and convinced them that the women ruining their videogames were part of the conspiracy to destroy the white race.

That's a very brief summary but you can go back step by step over the past decade and see how they did it.

dinosaur-ears

FWIW, the action call at the end of the linked video series is basically:

Utilize your privilege (where you have it) to call out other people on their hateful bullshit, with a level head, in public. The point is not to convince them (you won't), but to prevent them from recruiting others to their hate campaigns.

#big gratitude for these videos coming across my dash #I have a lot more questions about the other/additional forces behind our current cultural moment #but appreciate the connection being made between Gamergate and where we are not #pragmatic resistance #important takes #how to resist

weepingwitch

i do wish the response to the ai water usage concern debate (umm actually the water and mineral usage is roughly equivalent to all of our other constantly growing massive distributed information systems that require enormous amounts of resource extraction etc etc etc) was less of a "haha checkmate luddites" and more of a "hmm maybe we should reevaluate our usage of constantly growing massive distributed information systems that require enormous amounts of resource extraction" but idk

#ai

samwisethewitch

Homemaking, gardening, and self-sufficiency resources that won't radicalize you into a hate group

It seems like self-sufficiency and homemaking skills are blowing up right now. With the COVID-19 pandemic and the current economic crisis, a lot of folks, especially young people, are looking to develop skills that will help them be a little bit less dependent on our consumerist economy. And I think that's generally a good thing. I think more of us should know how to cook a meal from scratch, grow our own vegetables, and mend our own clothes. Those are good skills to have.

Unfortunately, these "self-sufficiency" skills are often used as a recruiting tactic by white supremacists, TERFs, and other hate groups. They become a way to reconnect to or relive the "good old days," a romanticized (false) past before modern society and civil rights. And for a lot of people, these skills are inseparably connected to their politics and may even be used as a tool to indoctrinate new people.

In the spirit of building safe communities, here's a complete list of the safe resources I've found for learning homemaking, gardening, and related skills. Safe for me means queer- and trans-friendly, inclusive of different races and cultures, does not contain Christian preaching, and does not contain white supremacist or TERF dog whistles.

Homemaking/Housekeeping/Caring for your home:

Making It by Kelly Coyne and Erik Knutzen [book] (The big crunchy household DIY book; includes every level of self-sufficiency from making your own toothpaste and laundry soap to setting up raised beds to butchering a chicken. Authors are explicitly left-leaning.)

Safe and Sound: A Renter-Friendly Guide to Home Repair by Mercury Stardust [book] (A guide to simple home repair tasks, written with rentals in mind; very compassionate and accessible language.)

How To Keep House While Drowning by KC Davis [book] (The book about cleaning and housework for people who get overwhelmed by cleaning and housework, based on the premise that messiness is not a moral failing; disability and neurodivergence friendly; genuinely changed how I approach cleaning tasks.)

Gardening

Rebel Gardening by Alessandro Vitale [book] (Really great introduction to urban gardening; explicitly discusses renter-friendly garden designs in small spaces; lots of DIY solutions using recycled materials; note that the author lives in England, so check if plants are invasive in your area before putting them in the ground.)

Country/Rural Living:

Woodsqueer by Gretchen Legler [book] (Memoir of a lesbian who lives and works on a rural farm in Maine with her wife; does a good job of showing what it's like to be queer in a rural space; CW for mentions of domestic violence, infidelity/cheating, and internalized homophobia)

"Debunking the Off-Grid Fantasy" by Maggie Mae Fish [video essay] (Deconstructs the off-grid lifestyle and the myth of self-reliance)

Sewing/Mending:

Annika Victoria [YouTube channel] (No longer active, but their videos are still a great resource for anyone learning to sew; check out the beginner project playlist to start. This is where I learned a lot of what I know about sewing.)

Make, Sew, and Mend by Bernadette Banner [book] (A very thorough written introduction to hand-sewing, written by a clothing historian; lots of fun garment history facts; explicitly inclusive of BIPOC, queer, and trans sewists.)

Sustainability/Land Stewardship

Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer [book] (Most of you have probably already read this one or had it recommended to you, but it really is that good; excellent example of how traditional animist beliefs -- in this case, indigenous American beliefs -- can exist in healthy symbiosis with science; more philosophy than how-to, but a great foundational resource.)

Wild Witchcraft by Rebecca Beyer [book] (This one is for my fellow witches; one of my favorite witchcraft books, and an excellent example of a place-based practice deeply rooted in the land.)

Avoiding the "Crunchy to Alt Right Pipeline"

Note: the "crunchy to alt-right pipeline" is a term used to describe how white supremacists and other far right groups use "crunchy" spaces (i.e., spaces dedicated to farming, homemaking, alternative medicine, simple living/slow living, etc.) to recruit and indoctrinate people into their movements. Knowing how this recruitment works can help you recognize it when you do encounter it and avoid being influenced by it.

"The Crunchy-to-Alt-Right Pipeline" by Kathleen Belew [magazine article] (Good, short introduction to this issue and its history.)

Sisters in Hate by Seyward Darby (I feel like I need to give a content warning: this book contains explicit descriptions of racism, white supremacy, and Neo Nazis, and it's a very difficult read, but it really is a great, in-depth breakdown of the role women play in the alt-right; also explicitly addresses the crunchy to alt-right pipeline.)

These are just the resources I've personally found helpful, so if anyone else has any they want to add, please, please do!

speranza-manor

Gonna chime in as the resident Vintage Kitchen Witch:

Go look up vintage kitchen planning and home economics resources. Subscribe to GRIT magazine. These are the Old Ways and the thing about the design principles and the canning tips is that they are not subject to needing much in the way of "updating". We still use our kitchen much the same way we did in the 1950s, we just have bigger fridges, bigger freezers, and more bulk purchasing we have to factor into our planning. But the calculations offered in this Westinghouse Kitchen Planning Manual are still a great jump-off point for planning your own kitchen, for example. Here's a planning manual from the U of Minnesota's Agricultural Extension Service.

Did you know that for many years, the US government had a home economics department, and that the research they did there was toward making housework easier by design? The design principles their test kitchens and researchers found out influence kitchen design to this day.

The USDA's guide to Step-Saving Kitchens (archive) is still relevant today. Here's a video version that shows how they researched and designed the modern kitchen we all have a better or worse version of today no matter where we live, unless we're in some kind of very old museum-kept Victorian or Colonial house:

Downloaded from US National Archives Youtube channel on 2025-02-06 04:55:59 https://youtube.com/watch?v=2N9RCQjPqh4 -------- Creator(s): Dep

Many universities particularly in agriculture centres put out "extensions" that were little guides on kitchen planning in the 30s, 40s, and into the postwar period. You can find many of these on archive.org, or check out your local agricultural school's archives!

Understand, also, that every appliance used to clean or make food is a labour-saving device that was either designed by a woman or to help homemakers and housewives do less backbreaking labour. Machines like dishwashers and washing machines are much more water-efficient than doing the same tasks by hand.

Solarpunk should not mean you picture everything being done by hand again, and that appliances should no longer exist. Do not assume that appliances are wasteful luxuries when they represent generations of women and those who cared about women trying to make the work assigned to them less arduous. Just because we consider (if we are feminist anyway, and I hope you reading this are) this work to be something all genders share in does not mean it should go back to being harder. Labour-saving devices are also something that makes disabled people's lives better by giving us the ability to do our own housework more easily.

Many older appliances waste energy, but many more actually use a lot less of it than modern versions--fridges in particular, as well as "smart" appliances, will sometimes waste a LOT of energy in comparison to that old tank of a fridge your mom's had since the sixties or seventies. Older fridges also sometimes have incredible features like swivelling pull-out shelves. Older ovens have built in stock pots, roasters, and guides to safe cooking temperatures or cooktimes for baked goods. While old fridges and dishwashers can be hard to find, old ranges/stoves are not--in fact, there's a guy in New Jersey who restores not just old ranges but a specific make of them, because he loves them so much. You can find vintage appliances by scavenging your local ebay and craigslist and sometimes there's junkyards that specialise in them. And this is recycling btw! Remember, it isn't just "recycle" it's also "reduce" and "re-use". If you can restore or buy a restored old appliance, you've saved a crapton of energy and materials that would have been used to make a new one. And the old one will last longer, because it was made to.

Your solarpunk kitchen shouldn't look very different than the most efficient kitchen designs from 1949. That's how GOOD those designs were. Don't believe me? Watch that video and pay attention to it. It's INCREDIBLE.

And while I have your attention--please think about disabled people when you're thinking about solarpunk. Keep 40" continuous pathways with texture blocks on sidewalks. Keep 40" doorways for all your fun bus stop/library/house/street designs, and make sure all your buildings have ramps or level entry from the street. Keep your bathrooms able to fit a wheelchair. Remember that plastics are extremely necessary for medical equipment and many medicines have to be derived from petrochemicals. Remember that many people living in any given community are under four feet tall, many people are bigger than 150lbs, many are taller than 5'5", many are blind, many are deaf, many are colourblind, many are sensitive to sounds you can't hear or flickering you can't see, many cannot eat foods you can eat, many need to walk slowly, many need others to mask all the time. Remember you will become disabled at some point. We all become disabled sooner or later. So imagine a world where being disabled is the default. Where accessibility is not an afterthought but integrated into design from the beginning.

Remember there is NO acceptable number of avoidable injuries or lost lives.

#helllll yeah #let's think communally about how to reclaim competencies and reduce reliance on corporations #use tech well and for good #while being as inclusive as possible #Solarpunk #resources #accessibility #sustainability #fiber resources

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existennialmemes

Hey remember last year?

When elon musk was running DOGE and dismantling a bunch of our social services and closing agencies that were investigating his own companies then getting those companies into various lucrative government contracts?

Anyways, so weird that he's a trillionaire now.

astriiformes

The polar opposite of corporate accounts trying to come across as hip and super friendly are the ones for libraries, aquariums, parks systems and the like, that are basically just trying to get people excited about learning and the wonder of history/science by posting things like this:

mangopatch

demonladytakkuri

You know how much I would lose my mind if I was at an aquarium and turned a corner to see a wild ass heron staring at a fish tank

#it's actually so nice to see someone articulate how corporate accounts make me see red and kitschy library accounts fill my heart with joy #it feels more honest

creekfiend

if you looked at how high the walls were, and you looked at the people who were being allowed through the gate, and you looked at who was being turned away, and you decided based on this information that it wasn't worth it to try entering the walled city, that was gatekeeping working as intended.

gatekeeping is so effective because it allows the people in charge of it to frame it as a passive and natural force. "ah well, you just don't meet our criteria because of some technicalities, it's not that we are screening specifically for Your Kind Of Person, you understand, it's just that all the requirements coincidentally happen to produce a result where Your Kind Of Person is unable to enter our walled city :) so i think you'll see that we are not discriminating!"

i think a LOT less people understand how much gatekeeping impacts their lives than are impacted by gatekeeping. if you were ever prevented from participating in something bc of your inability to meet technical requirements for reasons outside of your control, that is gatekeeoing. if you ever decided to not even fucking try because you understood that the walled city wasn't for People Like You, that is the natural and intended outcome of gatekeeping.

one of the big reasons that gatekeeping is effective is because it cedes control of the narrative to the institution that has erected high walls around their city to begin with. they say the walls are natural. they have the power to make those claims because in general, no one else has the resources to develop alternative models. due to the gatekeeping.

dinosaur-ears

This and! By framing the gatekeeping as passive, many institutions frame the actual moment of exclusion as personal choice by the excluded and themselves as helpless to fix it.

I work in STEM education, and the frequency with which I've heard some version of, "Well, what are we supposed to do if women/people of color/Disabled people/etc. just aren't that interested in the field? We can't force them into it." is infuriating.

As if there's some magic biological or cultural reason apart from historical and present exclusion that causes certain groups to self-select out. As if this shouldn't be a crisis for fields that imagine themselves objective.

So much of gatekeeping happens beyond "can't" and in the space of "it's not worth it, I just don't want to, I wouldn't fit in there".

thecryptkeeper

i know the way people talk about their pets now is probably how we’ve been doing it for all of history. a cat owner in ancient rome saw their cat lounging on the dining pillows and commented “he thinks himself to be the senator claudius 🤣”

library-seraph

The first attested cat in Japan was given to a young 9th century emperor and his diary about it includes such gems as 'I affixed a bow about its neck, but it did not remain for long.", "The color of the fur is peerless. None could find the words to describe it, although one said it was reminiscent of the deepest ink.", "When it lies down, it curls in a circle like a coin. You cannot see its feet. It’s as if it were circular Bi disk." and "I am convinced it is superior to all other cats.” Basically posting about how his void is the best little void and so good at getting really round

#humanity #family album

burninglights

fucking insane to be a person of colour in the uk right now

burninglights

When my family first moved to the UK, we faced a similar risk to our wellbeing & safety as many are facing now, albeit for different reasons. in light of everything happening in Ireland & the tensions increasing in Glasgow, and the perennial England, here’s a list of actionable things to do for people who may be targeted & anti racist allies.

MY HOME IS ON THE LIST/LIKELY TO BE TARGETED, WHAT CAN I DO?

* it may bring you peace of mind to have a go-bag ready, just in case. A go-bag is a bag with everything in it that you need to get out a volatile situation quickly. Any bag that can be secured (buttoned or zipped) will do. In your go-bag, you should include;

- identifying documents; passport/driver’s license/asylum card/ILR certificate/British Residency permit card

- Wallet and/or banking books

- A spare charger & cable and/or a power bank

- any shelf-stable medication (tablets, inhalers etc.) if you are on medication that needs to be refrigerated, leave it in the fridge until you have to leave

- Sanitary items; toothbrush, toothpaste, sanitary pads & tampons, deodorant. If you have very young children with you, you may also want to take your nappy bag.

* If you have to leave, a go-bag is a convenient way to ensure you have everything of importance with you.

* If you are being supported by an asylum seekers or refugee charity, or are a member of a gurdwara/temple, mosque, synagogue or church, reach out to your religious leaders. They may be able to provide direct support, or put you in contact with organisations or other congregants who can help. If you are friendly with your neighbours, it may be worth contacting them too.

* IN THE EVENT THAT “PROTESTORS” DO COME TO YOUR HOUSE, CALL 999 IMMEDIATELY, AND FOLLOW ANY INSTRUCTIONS THEY GIVE YOU. MOVE AWAY FROM ANY WINDOWS. DO NOT OPEN YOUR DOOR UNLESS INSTRUCTED TO DO SO BY EMERGENCY SERVICES.

I’M AN INTERNATIONAL STUDENT/CARE WORKER/NHS WORKER, WHAT SHOULD I DO?

* Contact your student welfare office/NHS Trust/agency for advice, support and referral to organisations that may be able to provide assistance

* if you live in or commute through an area that is likely to be targeted, contact your lecturers and your faculty to find out whether remote study is possible; if you work in care or as part of the NHS, find out if it is possible to change shifts.

* If it would provide peace of mind, prepare a go-bag as listed above

* Reach out to your the uni society or student’s organisation for international students or students of specific ethnic origin; they may be able to provide you with direction to resources and peer support. If your university has a Marxist or Socialist society, reach out to them for mutual aid with a travel buddy etc., for getting to and from your place of study/work

* If you are a member of a gurdwara/temple, mosque, synagogue or church, reach out to your religious leaders. They may be able to provide direct support, or put you in contact with organisations or other congregants who can help.

* If you are friendly with your neighbours, it may be worth contacting them too for assistance with travel to & from work.

* Report any racism or racialised violence you are subjected to. NHS staff have a right to refuse to treat patients who harass, abuse, threaten or insult them; if a patient is racist to you, where possible, ask another member of staff to take over their care.

PERSONAL SAFETY:

* do not leave your home unless strictly necessary. If it is necessary to leave, don’t do it alone.

* use NextDoor, WhatsApp, social media and word of mouth to avoid commuting through “protestor” road blocks, areas of active conflict etc.,

* When travelling, use Share My Location or Life360, and keep at least two people aware of your expected time of arrival at your destination with instructions to contact the police if you do not let them know you’ve made it safely

* do not directly confront any individuals involved, or allow them to bait you into becoming confrontational

* only record if it is safe. Do not record individuals directly/from up close

* Do not directly intervene. If you see violence occurring, contact emergency services and if safe to do so, record what’s happening.

ALLYSHIP & HOW TO HELP:

* if you have neighbours, friends, coworkers or acquaintances form targeted communities, reach out to them. Ask them what you can do to help them feel safe.

* If you live in an area likely to be targeted, reach out to any vulnerable people you know. If safe and possible, offer to let them shelter with you in the event they need to leave home

* If you see any incitement to violence online screenshot it; it may prove useful in the event of individual “protesters” being prosecuted

* If you see any specific areas being discussed as targets, alert anyone you know at risk in the area

* Reach out to local refugee & asylum seekers’ organisations, to organisations supporting foreign national care & healthcare workers, and to churches, mosques, gurdwaras; they may be looking for short term assistance in helping to provide for vulnerable members of their community

CHARITABLE ORGANISATIONS FOR ASSISTANCE & TO SUPPORT:

* NASC Ireland; refugee & asylum seeker charity

* Doras.org; migrant, stateless persons, refugee and asylum seeker rights advocates

* Jesuit Refugee Service; religious refugee & asylum seekers charity

* Irish Refugee Council; supporting stateless displaced persons & refugees in NI & ROI

* International Student’s House (IE & UK WIDE): provides hardship funding and help to international students

* PathFinder (UK WIDE); supports international students

* Care International (GLOBAL); global carer’s charity

* Choose Love (IE & UK WIDE); charitable organisation supporting refugees and asylum seekers

* Praxis UK (UK WIDE); supporting refugees & asylum seekers

* The Runnymede Trust (IE & UK WIDE); antiracism education charity

* Migrant’s Rights Network (IE & UK WIDE); advocacy and support for migrants and refugees

* ShareTheMeal (GLOBAL); providing meals for refugees and those fleeing conflict globally

* Amnesty (IRELAND, UK & WORLDWIDE); human rights NGO

* UNHCR & UN Refugee Council (GLOBAL); UN refugee bodies supporting those seeking asylum, fleeing conflict & internally/internationally displaced worldwide

#resources #survive

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darkacademiaarchivist

I've had a class on solarpunk / utopian literature and although the structure of it killed me a little bit (this semester in general killed me idontwannatalkaboutit) it was really interesting because one of my main takeaways was:

THE REVOLUTION WILL BE VERY BORING, ACTUALLY (and that's okay)

so i'm saying this because we read both pacific edge and the lost cause and while the books themselves weren't "boring" they dealt a lot with communities making changes and somehow city council work was a theme in both books and like yeah. we might dream of the fall of all the opressive systems but if we're being realistic, there won't be one heroic person taking down the one villain. Real life isn't a superhero movie ore a ya dystopia. Real life is messy and tedious but there are REAL CHANGES that we can make and they start in our communities. We have to stick together in Thes Trying Times (tm) and not anything tear us apart

#pragmatic resistance #join your town council or historical association or park board #get friendly with your neighbors (yes even that one)#give AND accept help

revolutionary-optimism-now

Good news: you can make the world a better place but you have to actually go out and do it. Volunteering, helping your neighbor out, picking up a bit of trash in public, giving up your seat, carrying extra food, etc. even little things.

The other good news is that apparently when people witness acts of kindness, it inspires them to act as well.

#book rec:#HumanKind by Rutger Bregman

Pedagogy of the Oppressed, Paolo Freire

This is my first time reading (listening to) this classic and BOY HOWDY does it offer some gems. This is all within like a 5 page spread...

On the production of passivity in oppressed groups as a barrier to revolution:

[In the banking model of education] The teacher's task is to organize a process which already occurs spontaneously, to "fill" the students by making deposits of information which he or she considers to constitute true knowledge. And since people "receive" the world as passive entities, education should make them more passive still, and adapt them to the world. The educated individual is the adapted person, because she or he is better "fit" for the world. Translated into practice, this concept is well suited to the purposes of the oppressors, whose tranquility rests on how well people fit the world the oppressors have created, and how little they question it.

On the support of dominating leaders (*cough* Trump) by oppressed classes:

But the inability to act which causes people's anguish also causes them to reject their impotence, by attempting to restore their capacity to act. But can they, and how? One way is to submit to and identify with a person or group having power. By this symbolic participation in another person's life, men have the illusion of acting, when in reality they only submit to and become a part of those who act. Populist manifestations perhaps best exemplify this type of behavior by the oppressed, who, by identifying with charismatic leaders, come to feel that they themselves are active and effective. The rebellion they express as they emerge in the historical process is motivated by that desire to act effectively. The dominant elites consider the remedy to be more domination and repression, carried out in the name of freedom, order, and social peace (that is, the peace of the elites). Thus they can condemn—logically, from their point of view—the violence of a strike by workers, and can call upon the state in the same breath to use violence in putting down the strike.

On the need to engage authentically and horizontally in our movements rather than engage in top-down political education or sloganeering:

Authentic liberation—the process of humanization—is not another deposit to be made in men. Liberation is a praxis: the action and reflection of men and women upon their world in order to transform it. Those truly committed to the cause of liberation can accept neither the mechanistic concept of consciousness as an empty vessel to be filled, nor the use of banking methods of domination (propaganda, slogans—deposits) in the name of liberation.

#revolutionary reads #pedagogy of the oppressed #movement building

not-freyja

Can everyone who makes video content do a Deaf bitch a favor? Watch your shit with the captions on and the sound off, and then do another round of editing to fix things including but not limited to:

Captions cover the spot on the screen you put the information I need

The dialogue is captioned but not the song you have playing that the dialogue is responding to

You only captioned the person on the screen, not the person off screen who is also talking

No captioning of critical sound effects (alarms, bells, dogs barking, etc)

Speakers are not labelled at moments where it is not clear on the screen who is talking.

Captions cover the spot on the screen that you put the information I need!

Other d/Deaf people welcome to add.

This post brought to you by the fifth video tutorial I could not follow because the bad, auto-generated captions covered what I was trying to watch today.

#accessibility #reminders #resources for inclusion

queerspacepunk

i want to be asked to come over and help put my friend’s kids to bed as casually as they might text their spouse and ask them to pick up milk on the way home

i want to stop and pick up milk for another friend because i know their spouse hates the grocery store

i want to buy fruit that i dont like because it’s on special and i know people who do

i want to pass lemons over the fence and to take my neighbours bins out when the forget

i want group chats instead of rideshare apps, calls in the middle of the night because someone’s at the hospital, lonely or hungry or both

i want to do the dishes in other people’s houses, extra servings wrapped in tinfoil and tea towels so it’s still warm when you drop it off, a basket of other people’s mending by my couch

i want to be surrounded by reminders that ‘imposing’ on each other is what we were born to do

#we must build the world we wish to inhabit #mutual aid #hopepunk

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ilovecharts

A Tea Chart I made to remember how to make a cup of tea for everyone who comes by the house.

-navyvice

#humans #something Good

forgottenbones

notjusthespongenextdoor

Sorry to get serious on a joke but this is why using Unique passwords site-to-site is way more important than having complex passwords or changing them frequently. Chances are much lower that your, say, bank, is going to have a data breach that exposes your password. Never impossible, but pretty low. But if you sign up for some random retail site with the exact same login details, and that site has a data leak... People take those login details and try them on every higher-target site possible. Your best defense is to not have those login details match up. That's why it matters

dinosaur-ears

And that ^ is why you should use a password manager that works across devices. It's impossible to remember unique passwords for every site and not using a password manager or just saving passwords in your browser means you're much more likely to reuse passwords

qsatisfaction

Okay, so I use Firefox's built-in password manager. Can that get hacked?

dinosaur-ears

(disclaimer that I'm no expert on tech security)

As far as I'm aware, firefox's built-in password manager has perfectly wonderful security. The only issue I'd consider is accessibility: do you sign into Firefox on every device you use? Can Firefox autofill into your apps? I don't know the answers to these questions and I think for a lot of people, Firefox is a great password manager. Just don't fall into the trap of using a single, memorable password for a bunch of things because it's not trivial to paste a unique password in somewhere you need it.

(I pay for 1password and love it but don't think it's the best option for everyone)

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