Ariella @ellabellafull@librem.one

What I always hear: “We can’t afford to pay our workers $15 an hour.”

What I never hear: “We can’t afford to pay our CEO millions of dollars a year.”

Funny how that works, huh?

I don't know who needs to read or hear this today, but:

• You are NOT a burden.
• You are NOT a failure.
• You are MORE THAN the sum of your struggles.
• You ARE worthy of love.

“Trans women athletes have no unfair advantage under current rules, report finds”

“‘The performance advantages from social factors, training and access to equipment are far greater than testosterone,' paper concludes”

https://www.cyclingweekly.com/news/trans-women-athletes-have-no-unfair-advantage-under-current-rules-study-finds

A HS student to their TX school board, which is banning books:

“I’m not going to sit here and talk about the slippery slope that book banning leads to because I learned from a book, that I checked out from my school’s library, that I don’t need to resort to logical fallacy to make a point. I’m simply going to say that no government – and public school is an extension of government – has ever banned books, and banned information from its public, and been remembered in history as the good guys.”

Internet services owned by billionaires:

1. Twitter
2. Facebook
3. Instagram
4. TikTok
5. Snapchat

Internet services not owned by billionaires:

1. Email
2. IRC
3. BitTorrent
4. RSS
5. HTTP

So don’t tell me that walled gardens are inevitable and we should just accept surveillance capitalism as the price of doing business.

precisely me

Definition of ableism: “Ableism is systematic, institutional devaluing of bodies and minds deemed deviant, abnormal, defective, subhuman, less than. Ableism is violence.” - Lydia X. Z. Brown

https://www.autistichoya.com/p/ableist-words-and-terms-to-avoid.html

CW: ableist word and expressions that should be avoided (with non-ableist alternatives below):

* insane, crazy, nuts, psycho
Instead use: wild, confusing, reckless, dangerous, or even “amazing” or “awesome” instead of saying “what a [crazy] shot on goal!”

* stupid, dumb, idiot, retarded
Instead use: ignorant, silly, foolish, reckless, dangerous, “doesn’t make sense” etc.

* crippled by…
Instead use: “stopped by…”, “stuck in…”

* lame
Instead use: boring, uncool, etc

* tone deaf or deaf to…
Instead use: “willfully ignorant”, “had every reason to know…”, etc

* “she’s so OCD”
Instead use: “she’s so meticulous”, “she pays attention to every detail”, etc

The link above goes into more detail and offers alternatives