Things I like

“Because the truth is, tech doesn’t have an image problem. It doesn’t have a message problem. It has an intention problem. What’s wrong with the axe murderer who broke into my house is not that he hasn’t successfully persuaded me to buy into his narrative. What’s wrong is that he’s trying to kill me with an axe. Similarly, when you launch a product that’s designed to put millions of people out of work, block access to sources of verifiable truth, replace human creativity with slop, and lower the barriers to every sort of atrocity, the problem isn’t that you haven’t told the public a good story about those things. The problem is that you are trying to do them.”

[Image Description: first image: a two panel MS Paint-like doodle comic, titled "hey fellow white people, if you are white on tumblr". In the first panel, labeled "this is your job", a white doodle person is holding up their hand, supporting a Black doodle person as they stand on the white doodle person's raised hand. The white doodle person's gesturing to the Black doodle person and saying nothing as the Black doodle person says "white people need to stop doing [thing]". In the second panel, labeled "not this", the Black doodle person now stands alone in the background as they say "white people need to stop doing [thing]", only for the white doodle person to interrupt and jump in front of the Black doodle person and their speech bubble. The white doodle person takes up the majority of the frame, blocking the Black doodle person with their arm as they loudly say in all caps "Oh my god yes it pisses me off so much when white people do this".

One thing im uncomfortably woke about is bugs. And im actively trying to get more uncomfortably woke. By this i mean i DO believe the normalised fear of bugs stems from both government and business propaganda. The start of household pesticide sales coinciding with the boom in insect related horror movies. The promotion of anti intellectualism and anti enviromentalism. If you're scared of bugs, you wont care about saving them. If you dont care about saving them, you wont care about saving our home, since without bugs it cannot be saved. If you dont care about saving our home, the rich can do whatever they want with the chunks of it they continue to destroy.