Heat Enby Jaycie @jaycie@vulpine.club

My partner's co-worker recommended 'Burnout' by Emily and Amelia Nagoski (fabulous book, btw). As I read the conclusion, one line really hit me;
"The cure for burnout is not 'self-care'; it is all of us caring for one another."

there's been quite a bit of research on the cognitive/health benefits of multilingualism, but I think the framing tends to be backwards. multilingualism isn't a bonus, but the default (historically, anthropologically, biologically). our species developed multilingual, and still is everywhere not too damaged by colonial steamrollers. monolingualism is a v recent development, an emergent artifact of a capitalist+racist society.

so we should be talking about the cognitive damage of monolingualism.

jackbox games but for transforming one of your friends

"There has yet to be a non blk artist that makes work about racism, specifically anti-black racism, that ever makes a lick of sense or lands the way the artist wants it to do. The lived experience, the care, the nuance just aren’t there. But also, and this is especially true in the case for white male artists, they’re the ones that get the fellowships, the residencies w the 5 figures, the big shows [sic] All at the continued appropriation, expense and mis/ab-use of Black bodies and history." AMX

@red One thing I really do appreciate about the fedi is that it makes it crystal clear is that the problems with social media are largely cultural and not technology based.

Masto proves simultaneously that the means to create better online experiences are within or grasp but are is only denied by the limitation of imagination of people dedicated to maintaining the status quo of privilege.

We can do better. We just don't.

That's the tragedy of the fedi.

Reminder that plants never sit still. All plants everywhere are always jostling about like this.

Is there a company that makes good Linux laptops that has a company culture that's pro-diversity and anti-harassment as opposed to "we're a bunch of straight white men who think free speech trumps everything"?

Asking for a friend

The friend is me the next time I upgrade my comp

Hey the creator of The Yawhg, one of the best multiplayer-party-sadness games I’ve ever played, is currently donating all proceeds to charity. If you haven’t tried this one I extremely, extremely recommend it. It’s good as fuck, and has amazing art by Emily carroll

https://twitter.com/damiansommer/status/1278723350207045632?s=21

I get very exhausted when people use their knowledge about how things are done in the big tech / surveillance capitalism (or maybe just "capitalist") world, and try and apply it in totally different domains, like community-focused volunteer projects.

Almost all the implicit assumptions don't hold.

Capitalist projects have a lot of resources to solve problems because they are willing to engage in destructive and extractive behaviours.

If we remove that part, the equation massively changes.

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